Doctor Who Vs. Quiz

Produced by Left Bank Pictures,
this drama was based on the
West End play of the same

name, which premiered in late

2017 in Chicester. Playwright

James Graham was inspired by

 the 2015 book, Bad Show, the

Cough, the Millionaire Major,

which examined the trial of

Charles and Diana Ingram, and

Tecwen Whittock - all con-

testants of ITV's Who Wants

to be a Millionaire? in 2001.
The world's biggest quiz show
was created by David Briggs

of British production company
Celador, and launched in September 1998. Chris Tarrant (depicted here by Michael Sheen) presented thirty series of the programme until its cancellation in early 2014. Celador CEO Paul Smith was portrayed by Mark Bonnar, whilst the Ingrams were played by Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford. The couple were convicted of fraud in 2003, but have

always denied they cheated to win the top prize.
A repeat run of the series (originally shown over three consecutive

nights in April 2020) concluded on ITV3 last night - it featured twenty

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Sheen provided the voice of House in The Doctor's Wife
• Bonnar was Jimmy Wicks in The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People, then voiced Heath Porteus for The English Way of Death, Zoltan Frid for The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (2016), and the Eleven for Doom Coalition, Ravenous (2015 to present), Dark Universe (2020), The Eleven, UNIT: Nemesis 1 (both 2021) and Nemesis 2 (2022)
• Elliot Levey (Briggs) voiced Andrew Gobernar/Blank for Vampire of the Mind (2016), and Colonel Marsden for Red Planets (2018)
• Aisling Bea [born O'Sullivan] (Claudia) was Sarah in Eve of the Daleks
• Gracy Goldman (Receptionist) was Mrs. Woods in The Caretaker
• Helen [Elizabeth] McCrory (Woodley QC) was Rosana Calvierri in The Vampires of Venice
• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (Hilliard QC) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), then the Engineer for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Andrew Leung (Duff) was Dr. Chang in Dark Water 
• Michael Jibson (Whittock) voiced Corporal Gibbs for The Forsaken (2015)
• Michael [Emrys Jones] Elwyn (Judge) was Lt. Algernon Ffinch in The Highlanders
• Paul Bazely (Lionel) was Ven Garr in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, then voiced the Maharaja for Fortitude (2020), Elio/SV44/ SV72 for The Enhancement, the Duke of Hishtar for The Ribos Inheritance, and Mikhail for Black Friday (all 2022)
• Martin Alexander Colton (Quiz master) was Juliet in The Shakespeare Code
• James Pearse (Juror) was Graham in Death in Heaven
• Sarah Woodward (Maggie) voiced Theodora for Secret History (2015), Vesh Taralesh for Stolen Goods (2018), and Ania Jessik for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Maggie Service (Kerry) was Elsie in Deep Breath, then voiced Root/ Receptionist for Revenge of the Swarm (2014), Hilary Ratchett for The End of the Line (2015), Catherine Parr for Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (2019), Sorscha for The Curse of Lady Macbeth, Ava Drake for UNIT: Nemesis (both 2021), and Morag Stewart for Redacted
• Murray Gold was composer on the revived run (from 2005 to 2017) too
• Emma Butt was also ADR recordist on seven episodes (from The Witchfinders to Can You Hear Me?)
• Suzanne Cave was costume designer on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Howard Bargoff (re-recording mixer) was dubbing mixer on four- teen episodes (from The Woman Who Fell to Earth to The Timeless Children)
• Antony Bayman (sound FX editor) was ADR mixer on The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Vampires of Venice and The Sarah Jane Adventures