Doctor Who Vs. Grantchester, Series 5

Tom Brittney, Robson Green, Al

Weaver, and Tess Peake Jones all

returned for the fifth season of

ITV Studios' period crime drama

- based on James Runcie's The Grantchester Mysteries.

A repeat run of the six-part series

(first shown in early 2020) began

on ITV3 last night - it featured Jemma Redgrave, and a total

of fifteen Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

• for Peake Jones, Nick Brimble and Oliver Dimsdale see Series 2
• Sandra [Jane] Huggett (Marie) voiced Dorada for Big Finish's The War Master 5 (2020)
• Siobhan Redmond (Andrea) voiced Talin for Revenge of the Swarm, then the eponymous Time Lord for The Rani Elite (both 2014) and Planet of the Rani (2015)
• David [James] Bamber (John) was Captain Quell in Mummy on the Orient Express, and voiced Emperor Constantine for The Council of Nicaea (2005), and Colonel Ulrik/Whitmore for The Four Doctors (2010)
• Dominic Mafham (Gurney-Clifford) voiced Moran for The Jigsaw War (2012), and Chidak for The Dalek Contract and The Final Phase (both 2013)
• Zoe Tapper (Betsy) voiced Collis for Legion of the Lost (2016)
• Bern Callaco (Suspect) was an Operator in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, and Soldier in Thin Ice
• Rupert Holliday Evans (Burrows) was Colonel [Alan] Mace in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, then voiced Celtic Warrior for The Relics of Time, Artist for The Demon of Paris, and Cop for Starfall (all 2010)
• Tracy Ann Oberman (Sister) was Yvonne Hartman in Army of Ghosts and Doomsday - a role reprised for Big Finish's Torchwood - she also voiced Temperance Finch/Mrs. Grenville for Deimos and The Resurection of Mars (both 2010), and the titular Tartarus (2019)
• Sean Gilder (Finch) was the Sycorax Leader in The Christmas Invasion
• stunt co-ordinator Stephanie Carey was a stunt performer on ten stories (from Voyage of the Damned to The Vanquishers)
• Tom Chapman was also the film editor on Spyfall (2) and Orphan 55
• for costume designer Louise Page see Series 4

Doctor Who Vs. Luther, Series 5

After an absence of three years,

the long-awaited fifth season of

Neil Cross' acclaimed thriller

debuted on BBC1 in January 2019.

Idris Elba returned as maverick

DCI John Luther in another dark

murder case, whilst newcomer

Wunmi Mosaku played DS Halliday.

Dermot Crowley, Michael Smiley,

and Ruth Wilson reprised their

respective roles as Schenk, Benny,

and Alice Morgan.

A film version of Luther, The

Fallen Sun, was finally unveiled

in cinemas this month, then is

launched on Netflix next month.

A repeat showing of the drama

(originally shown over four con-

secutive nights from New Year's

Day) began on Drama last night - it featured Paul McGann, Patrick Malahide, and a total of twenty-two Doctor Who cast/crew alumni:

• Marcus Wilson was also producer of twenty-eight episodes (from The Impossible Astronaut to The Day of the Doctor), and The Doctors Revisited
• Jamie Payne was also director of Hide and The Time of the Doctor
• Derek Ritchie was also producer of The Doctor's Meditation, Under the Lake, Before the Flood, The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived and Class, following script editing duties on the 2013 festive adventure, Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, The Caretaker and The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
• Hermione [Jane] Norris (Dr. Lake) Captian Lundvik in Kill the Moon
• Sonita Henry (Daria) was Colonel Meme in The Time of the Doctor
• Roberta [Alexandra Mary] Taylor [born Roberts] (Celia) voiced Berengaria for The Holy Terror (2000), Angela Wisher for Cuddlesome (2008), and Maid for I Was Churchill's Double (2018)
• for Michael Obiora (Minty) see Series 4
• Jami Reid Quarrell (Hauser) was Colony Sarff in The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar, the Veil in Heaven Sent, and the Wraith in Hell Bent
• Katie Brayben (Penny) was Ellie in Oxygen
• Julie Teal (Miriam) voiced Chancellor Vorena for Time in Office (2017), and the Royal Magnificat for Emancipation (2019)
• Anthony [Matthew] Howell (Palmer) voiced Edward Perkins for The Valley of Death (2011), Christopher Manners for The Renaissance Man, Meredid Roath for The First Sontarans (both 2012), Professor John Bleak for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Victor Bataille for Island of Death, Tim Hope for The End of the Line (both 2015), Volar Crick for The Robots 1 (2019), Adrian for Out of This World, Lord Morton/Donat/Devore for Plight of the Pimpernel (both 2020), Macbeth/Siward for The Curse of Lady Macbeth (2021), Volen Steasel/Thug for The Tivolian Who Knew Too Much (2022), Cornwell for Double (2023), and Alan Turing for Storm of the Sea Devils (2024)
• Delroy Atkinson (Hayes) voiced Dav Christos/Therian Leader for Animal Instinct, Wadmore for The Avenues of Possibility (both 2019), and Mike/Messingham/UNIT Soldier for Long Shot (2021)
• Nicholas Asbury (DCI Woodgate) voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Anthony Burmaster for UNIT: Assembled, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (both 2017), Visguard/Captain Morgan/SB Officer for Churchill Victorious, Dante for The Diary of River Song 4 (both 2018), Captain Zenna/Kivall for Out of Time, Shakespeare for The Hollow Crown, Tenebrae/ Franz Albrecht Stuart for Rulers of Earth (all 2020), Commander Stevenson/Pietersen for Return of the Cybermen, Mollis for Colony of Fear, Preacher Stem for The Melting Pot (all 2021), Hari Ventross for Kaldor Nights, Dr. Sturm for Shellshock, and Ivan for Suckers (all 2022), then was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion
• Lewis Young (Lucas) was a stuntman on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
• Andrew Burford (Emil) was a stuntman on The Eaters of Light, The Doctor Falls, Twice Upon a Time, Kerblam!, The Witchfinders, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos and Spyfall (2)
• Xavier Lake was stuntman on The Woman Who Fell to Earth too
• Crispin Layfield was also stunt co-ordinator on fifty stories (from Father's Day to The Day of the Doctor)
• John Pardue was cinematographer on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Ian Adrian was also camera operator on The Vampires of Venice, The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood and The Lodger, then DoP (director of photography) on Twice Upon a Time
• Liam Byrne was the armourer on The Wedding of River Song too
• Rory Herbert was also script supervisor on A Town Called Mercy, The Power of Three, The Rings of Akhaten, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS and The Name of the Doctor
• Christopher Reynolds (first assistant camera) was focus puller on The Eleventh Hour, The Rings of Akhaten, Nightmare in Silver and The Name of the Doctor

Doctor Who Vs. Agatha and the Midnight Murders

Christie was now portrayed
by Helen Baxendale - she
succeeded Ruth Bradley
& Lyndsey Marshal

This Channel 5 period crime drama (first shown in late 2020) was inspired by Agatha Christie's real-life antipathy towards her most famous creation. Tom Dalton's third screenplay to feature the Queen of Crime (following 2018's The Truth of Murder, and The Curse of Ishtar in 2019) was now set during the London Blitz of 1940. Christie (1890-1976) finally killed off Hercule Poirot in Curtain - only published in 1975, over thirty years after its inception. Repeated on 5 tonight, the feature length thriller featured seven Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

• Big Finish actor Alistair Petrie (Campbell here; Jones in Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, 2022) voiced Major Harris/German Lieutenant for Criss-Cross (2015), Julius Caesar for Living History (2016), John for Dethras, Richard Tipple for The Outliers (both 2017), Wallace Richards for Ghost Machines (2020), Magnus Drake for Master! (2021), and the Count for Conflicts of Interest (2023)
• Elizabeth Tan (Jun) was Anna Zhou in Journey's End
• Morgan Watkins (Vella) voiced Ruck for The Dispossessed (2018)
• Scott Chambers (Allen) voiced Andy Clover/Sergeant Webster for Static (2017)
• for Blake Harrison (pictured as Travis) see The Truth of Murder
• Line producer Mick Pantaleo was first assistant director on A Christmas Carol, The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors
• Blair Mowatt was also composer on Class and The Fan Show, after work as music researcher on Deep Breath

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 26

The latest run of BBC Studios' ever-

green crime drama concluded last

night - it starred Emilia Fox (now

the veteran of 182 episodes since

2004) and David Caves as doctors

Nikki Alexander and Jack Hodgson.

The Home Office forensic patho-

logists (based in London's Lyell

Centre) were joined by newcomers

Aki Omoshaybi and Alastair Michael

(as Dr. Folukoya and Velvy Schur).

The twenty-sixth, ten-part series

featured Jemma Redgrave, and a

total of eighteen Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

The Penitent (TX: January 2 & 3)

• Omoshaybi was Fred Gray in Rosa
• Sophia [Jane] Myles (Cassidy) played Reinette in The Girl in the Fireplace, then voiced Rania Chuma for Big Finish's Kill the Doctor! and The Age of Sutekh (both 2018)
• William [John] Willoughby [born Haynes] (Drinkwater) was stunt- man on nine stories (from Rose to A Town Called Mercy) and Torchwood
• Eve Polycarpou (Angela) voiced Qel for Singularity (2005)
• Joel Conlan was also stuntman on The Lie of the Land and Spyfall (1)
• Andy Godbold was stuntman on The Bells of Saint John too
• for Leo Woodruff see Series 19

Familiar Faces (TX: January 9 & 10)

• Nadine [Panchita] Marshall (DCI Torres) voiced Shepstay for Earth Aid (2011), Katrice for You are the Doctor, and Kordel for The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (both 2015)
• for Stephen Forrester see Series 12

Star (TX: January 16 & 18)

• Pooja Shah (Usha) voiced Navarch Al Hanin for Salvation Nine (2022)
• Anjela Lauren Smith (Maggie) voiced Genevieve for The Coney Island Chameleon (2019)

Hearts of Darkness (TX: January 23 & 24)

• Kirsty Hoiles (Hannah) was Moira Clark in Luck Day
• for Redgrave (DI Raymond) see Series 23
• for Ruth Clarson (Protester) see Series 21

Southbay (TX: January 30 & 31)

• Suzanne Packer [born Jackson] (Miriam) was Eve Cicero in The Tsuranga Conundrum
• Richard [Anthony] Cordery (Burnett) voiced Professor Rinxo Jabbery for Plague of the Daleks (2009), and Sam for A Town Called Fortune (2010)
• Luke Allen Gale (Laing) voiced Joe Carnaby for Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories (2019)
• Sarah Woodward (Commander) voiced Theodora for Secret History (2015), Vesh Taralesh for Stolen Goods (2018), and Ania Jessik for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)