Doctor Who Vs. Strike: Troubled Blood

This thriller from Bronte Films
was based on the fifth crime
novel from JK Rowling, written

under the pen-name Robert Galbraith. Plans to adapt the Cormoran Strike books were

announced in late 2014, and

Harry Potter author Rowling

acted as an executive producer.

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger

were cast as Strike and Robin

Ellacott in 2016.

 Troubled Blood followed adapt-

ations of The Cuckoo's Calling,

The Silkworm, Career of Evil, and Lethal White. Strike's sixth

case, The Ink Black Heart, was published in September.

This four-part thriller concluded on BBC1 last night - it featured

twenty Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

• Sophie Ward (Anna) voiced the Storyteller for AudioGo's Aladdin Time (2011)
• Sutara Gayle (Kim) voiced Nan for Big Finish's Mind of the Hodiac (2022)
• Syrus Lowe (Max) voiced Patrice Okereke for The Last Party on Earth (2019)
• Sam Woolf (Roy) voiced Kim for Entanglement (2018)
• Calvin Dean (Ted) was Chris in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift, and Ha-Ha in Nightmare in Silver
• Anna Calder Marshall (Janice) voiced Mathilda Pierce for Scream of the Shalka
• Madhav Sharma (Gupta) was Patel in (episode 3 of) Frontier in Space
• Flaminia Cinque (Trudy) voiced Patsy for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014)
• Cherie [Mary] Lunghi (Gloria) voiced Lady Adela Forster for The Emerald Tiger (2012)
• Daniel Peacock (Luca) was Nord in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Kenneth Cranham (Creed) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Phil Cornwell (Oakden) was a Stallholder in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Superintendent Galgo/Zaleb 5 for Serpent in the Silver Mask (2018), and Parsnip for Spinvasion (2020)
• prolific Big Finish actor Tracy Wiles (Donna) voiced Moira Brody for Masters of Earth (2014), Lilith Lovett for The Year of the Bat, Jacqui McGee for UNIT: Extinction (both 2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), Death on the Mile (2018), Narcissus, The Power of River Song (both 2019), Outback, Longshot (both 2021) and UNIT: Nemesis (2022), Commander Barnac for The Neverwhen (2016), Ground Control/Secretary for Their Finest Hour, Sharlan for The Invention of Death, Hadway/Salma/V75 for Escape from Kaldor (all 2018), Drones for The False Guardian and Time's Assassin, Announcer/Coms for State of Bliss, Marzanna/Engel for Nightmare Country, Various for The Robots 1 (all 2019) and The Robots 2, Tryana for Return to Skaro (both 2020), FELINE, Maria/Patricia for A Forever Home, Draven/Shira/Sentinel for The Shadow Squad (both 2021), and Various for Dark Side of the Moon (2022)
• Jonny Green (Jonathan) voiced Tyler Steele for Beyond Bannerman Road (2023)
• for Ben Crompton and Nigel Squibbs see The Cuckoo's Calling
• for Samuel Oatley and Christina Cole see Lethal White
• Harry Barnes was also sound FX editor on seventy-one episodes (from Deep Breath to The Power of the Doctor)
• Rebecca Mayled was SFX co-ordinator on The Halloween Apocalypse too