Doctor Who Vs. The Ruby in the Smoke

Published in 1985, the first book

in Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart

quartet, The Ruby in the Smoke

was dramatised for BBC1 and

originally broadcast at Christmas

2006.

This period drama is notable for

marking the television debut of

Matt Smith (pictured as Jim

Taylor), and is the first portrayal

of Victorian heroine Lockhart,

by Billie Piper. The pair also

starred in the sequel, The Shadow in the North, then reunited for ITV's

Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Pullman's next two novels in the series remain

unadapted for TV.

The first of The Sally Lockhart Mysteries is available to watch on UKTV's

Play - it featured Julie Walters, and fifteen further Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

• Big Finish actor Trevor Cooper (Higgs) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, and voiced Rull for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City, then Sir Ralph for The Doomwood Curse, Shanks for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (both 2008), Judah for The Beast of Orlok, Smithy for Castle of Fear (both 2009), Captain Maddox/Stennan for Army of Death (2011), Colonel Burroughs/Kimball for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), Jonathan Mayfly/Sir Joseph Eagleton for The Ghosts of Greenwich (2019), Smallpiece for Merry Christmas Mr. Jago (2020), and Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witches (2022)
• Robert Glenister (Selby) was Salateen in The Caves of Androzani, and played Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror - he also voiced Aboresh for Big Finish's Absolution (2007)
• John Joseph Feild (Garland) voiced David McCallister for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009)
• Don Gilet (Hopkins) was Lance Bennett in The Runaway Bride, then voiced Streatham/Fleshkin for The Hunting Season (2022), and Herman Baker for Double (2023)
• David Harewood (Bedwell twins) was Joshua Naismith in The End of Time, and voiced President Vallan for Army of Death
• Pik Sen Lim (Sheng) was married to Don Houghton, and worked on his second story The Mind of Evil as Captain Chin Lee - a role reprised for Open the Box (2019), and also voiced Dom-Ra for Neon Reign (2018)
• Hayley Atwell (Rosa) voiced Asha for Blood of the Daleks (2007), Eleanor for The Doomwood Curse, Seska for The Whispering Forest (2010), and President Moorkurk for The Sands of Life and War Against the Laan (both 2013)
• Julia Joyce (Young Sally) had previously doubled for Piper in Father's Day as young Rose, and was Holly Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Martin Jarvis (voice of Captain Lockhart) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Jubilee (2003)
• Ramon Tikaram (Maharajah) voiced Wanchese for Voyage to the New World (2012), the Castellan for The Eleven, Marlock for Theatre of War, and Colonel Vikram Shindi for UNIT: Extinction (all 2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), UNIT: Encounters (2017), UNIT: Cyber Reality and UNIT: Revisitations, Colin Colchester Price for Torchwood (all 2018), and President Dunn La for The World Traders (2021)
• Elliot [Aidan] Cowan (Van Eeden) voiced Gark for The Fifth Traveller (2016)
• Charles Jarman was stuntman on The Lazarus Experiment too
• Paul Bennett was also third assistant director on Blink, Turn Left and Torchwood
• script editor Caroline Skinner was co-executive producer on the revived series (from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe to The Name of the Doctor), The Doctors Revisited and An Adventure in Space and Time
• Cathy Cosgrove was property buyer on Delta and the Bannermen too