Monday, 20 March 2023

Doctor Who Vs. The Shadow in the North

Philip Pullman's second Sally 
Lockhart adventure (published
in 1986) was dramatised for
BBC1, and first aired at
Christmas 2007.
The next two Lockhart stories
were also intended to be adapted, but The Tiger in the Well (1991) and The Tin Princess (1994) remain unmade for television.
Billie Piper, Matt Smith, JJ
Feild, David Harewood, and
Hayley Atwell reprised their
roles from The Ruby in the Smoke, whilst Caroline Skinner again
acted as script editor. The Sally Lockhart Mysteries sequel is available
on UKTV Play - it featured Jared Harris, Adjoa Andoh, and eight other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

  • Dona Croll (Nellie) appeared in New Earth as Matron Casp, and voiced Bella for Madquake (2020), and the Empress for The Sincerest Form of Flattery (2021)
  • Sir John Standing (Garland) voiced Fenric for Gods and Monsters (2012), and Professor Threadstone for Vampire of the Mind (2016)
  • Julian [Alistair] Rhind-Tutt (MacKinnon) voiced Lexhan for The Paradise of Death, and Berkhoff for The Skies of New Earth (2018)
  • Phil Cornwell (Harris) was Stallholder in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced uperintendent Galgo/Zaleb 5 for Serpent in the Silver Mask (2018), and Parsnip for Spinvasion (2020)
  • Paul [Mackriell] Copley (Paton) was Clem McDonald in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Dad for Spare Parts (2002), Jimmy Deel for Missing Persons (2013), Mick Huff for The Miniaturist (2022), and Wendell for The Conservitors (2023)
  • Nicholas Blane (Harkness) was Millington in Survivors of the Flux
  • Paul Kennington (Nordenfels) was stuntman on Rise of the CybermenThe Age of Steel, Army of GhostsDoomsday and The Doctor's Daughter
  • Fran Needham was also make-up artist on Full Circle and Arc of Infinity

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