Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 11

The eleventh season of BBC1's award-

winning crime drama (first shown in the

summer of 2007) saw the return of William

Gaminara, Tom Ward, and Emilia Fox, as

 Home Office pathologists, doctors Leo

Dalton, Harry Cunningham, and Nikki

Alexander.

A repeat run of the ten-part series began

on Drama last night - it featured Adjoa

Andoh, Archie Panjabi, and a total of

 thirty-three Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

Apocalypse (TX: August 28 & 29)

• Julian [Wyatt] Glover (Henry Markham here; Istvan Sandor in Series 14: Bloodlines) played King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
• for Adrian Schiller (Colvin) see Series 1
• David Gyasi (DS Cross) was Harvey in Asylum of the Daleks
• Elizabeth Rider (Laura) was Ellen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then provided the ATMOS voice for The Sontaran Stratagem, was Linda in The Time of the Doctor, and voiced Galatea for Big Finish's The Well-Mannered War (2015)
• Joy Elias Rilwan (Adela) voiced Lula for Live 34 (2005)
• Lucy [Jane] Briers (Patricia) voiced Jenny Chaplin for After the Daleks (2021)
• Heather Bleasdale (Moderator) voiced Cordelia for Blood on Santa's Claw, and President for I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day (both 2019), the was Wilma in The Halloween Apocalypse
• Stephanie Carey was also a stunt performer on Voyage of the Damned, The Beast Below, The Curse of the Black Spot, Let's Kill Hitler and The Girl Who Waited
• stuntman Tom Lucy was the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen episodes (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)

Suffer The Children (TX: September 3 & 4)

• Joe Dixon (DI Rush) was the Chancellor in The End of Time
• Mark Anthony Brighton (Angry Man) was Colonel Albero in The Time of the Doctor
• Robert Gill (Jogger) voiced Lycurgus for The Big Blue Box (2019)
• stuntman Bill Davey was stunt co-ordinator on The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Love & Monsters and Turn Left
• Paul Kennington was also a stuntman on Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday and The Doctor's Daughter
• Glenn Marks was also the co-ordinator on Human Nature, The Family of Blood and Blink

Hippocratic Oath (TX: September 10 & 11)

• Niky [Petra] Wardley (DC Dickerson) voiced Tamsin Drew for seven audio adventures (from Situation Vacant until To the Death), Bex for Technophobia, Hannah Bennett School of Blood (both 2016), Stacey for 9 to 5 (2018), Natalie Morrison for Kidnapped! (2020), and Iza for In the Night (2023) - she was also a Receptionist in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
• Jamie Parker (Peters) voiced Wulfric/Edgar for Leviathan, Major Richter for The Architects of History (both 2010), Douglas for Aimed at the Body, Plummer for Lightspeed, Frank Reichenbach for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Virgilio Pancaldi for Interlude, Brian for Echo Chamber, Jasper Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Torrence for Castle Hydra, Sandar for Effect and Cause, Sir Percy Blakeney/Terrance for Plight of the Pimpernel (all 2020), Captain Halloran for Ravagers (2021), Anthony/Ed for Quantum of Axos, and Tsar Alexander/Trinity for Lay Down Your Arms (2022)
• Tanya Moodie (DI Lawlor) voiced Kilda for The Castle of Kurnos 5, and Marathanga/Martha for L.E.G.E.N.D. (both 2019)
• Steve Griffin and Rob Hunt were also stunt performers on The Idiot's Lantern and The Runaway Bride respectively
• stuntman Nick Hobbs made uncredited appearances in The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Day of the Daleks, The Time Monster, both Peladon stories (as Aggedor), The Ark in Space, then was Mr. Nainby in Amy's Choice

Double Dare (TX: September 17 & 18)

• Anna [Eva Lydia Catherine] Wing (Mrs. Binefa) was Anatta in Kinda
• Lizzie McInnerney (Francesca) voiced Harriet Quilp for The Yes Men (2015)

Peripheral Vision (UK TX: September 24 & 25)

• Jim [Edward] Carter (Young) voiced Brother Bernard for The Book of Kells (2010)
• Adrian Rawlins (Eckhert) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood, then voiced Frederick Abberline for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014), and Gilman Hari for Antillia the Lost (2023)
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (Tate) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022)
• Ian Puleston-Davies (DI Mays) voiced Angus Selwyn for Absent Friends (2016)
• Jeanie Gold (Gypsy) was a Neighbour in The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and The End of Time
• Paul Anderson (DS Leeson) was Jason in The Christmas Invasion
• Ben Smith (Sean) was Luke in School Reunion
• Renu Setna (Joshi) was an Intern in The Hand of Fear
• Nick Brimble (Lambert) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Kith for Max Warp (2008), and Olaf Eriksson for The Book of Kells
• Andy Merchant was also a stuntman on The Wedding of River Song

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 10

The tenth season of BBC1's
award-winning crime drama
(first shown in the summer of
2006) again starred William

Gaminara, Tom Ward, and Emilia

Fox as Home Office pathologists,

doctors Leo Dalton, Harry

Cunningham, and Nikki

Alexander. Ward later appeared

in The Snowmen, whilst Fox

voiced roles for The Gunpowder

Plot and Nevermore.

A repeat run of the ten-part series continued on Drama last night - it featured a total of thirty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Cargo (UK TX: July 16 & 17)

• Burt [Tsangtse] Kwouk (Han) was Lin Futu in Four to Doomsday, and voiced Dr. Hayashi for Loups-Garoux (2001)
• Raad Rawi (Orhan) voiced Prince Hassan Al-Nadyr for Who Killed Toby Kinsella? (2016), Bishop Nicholas for Better Watch Out and Fairytale of Salzburg (both 2018), and Tubal/Maygo/Hiarbus for The Phoenicians (2019)
• Elizabeth Bower (DCI Radley) voiced Margosia/Customer/Police/Café Owner for Jenny 3 (2024)
• for James Weber Brown (Kallis) see Series 7
• series cinematographer Kevin Rowley was a film cameraman on Destiny of the Daleks and The Mark of the Rani
• series assistant editor Selina Macarthur edited Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS too
• Martin Curry was also first assistant director on The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon
• Liz Pearson (post-production supervisor) and Nigel Squibbs (dubbing mixer) both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Derek Lea was also a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways, The Age of Steel and Partners in Crime
• Kim McGarrity was also a stunt performer on The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Boom Town, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and The Day of the Doctor
• for Tom Lucy (stunt co-ordinator) see Series 6

Terminus (UK TX: July 23 & 24)

• Paul Chequer (Doe) voiced Servo Robot for AudioGo's Tsar Wars (2011)
• Nigel [Patrick] Betts (DI De Rohan) was Mr. Armitage in Into the Dalek, The Caretaker, Dark Water and Class, then voiced Glynn for Corpse Day (2017)
• Ray De Haan was a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern too
• for Steve Whyment (stuntman) see Series 9
• Anthony Combes was film editor on The Wedding of River Song too

Body of Work (UK TX: July 30 & 31)

• Robert Ashby [born Rashid Suhrawardy] (Bickley) was the Borad in Timelash
• Jim Findley (DCI Ambrose) was Mercer in Resurrection of the Daleks
• Rebecca Oldfield (Miranda) was Erina Lessak in 42
• Sarah Franzl was also a stunt performer on The End of the World, The Idiot's Lantern and The End of Time
• Gordon Seed was a stuntman (here & Series 13: Intent) and stunt co-ordinator on thirty-six stories (from The Idiot's Lantern to The Time of the Doctor)

Supernova (UK TX: August 6 & 7)

• Albert Welling (Gibbs) was the titular Fuhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
• Amerjit Deu (Wetherby) voiced the Swami for Hounded (2016), the Governor for World of Damnation (2018), Roni for The Dimension Cannon 1 (2019), and Jom for Maelstrom (2022)
• Jonathan Keeble (Owen) voiced Roberto for The Ghosts of N-Space, and Clegg for The Revolution Game (2019)
• James Blackwell was first assistant director on Partners in Crime too
• for stuntman Rod Woodruff see Series 2 

Schism (UK TX: August 13 & 14)

• [Rafael] David de Keyser (Greenfield) provided the voice of the Atraxi for The Eleventh Hour, and voiced the Cybermen for The Eternity Clock
• Andrew Havill (Garnett) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, then voiced Aleister Portillon/Squire Claude for The Witch in the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Jemima Rooper (Claire here; Amy in Series 22: Two Spirits) voiced Izzy Sinclair for Izzy's Story (2009), Mithia for Restoration of the Daleks (2020), and Mary Mortimer for Friend of the Family (2022)
• Sam Spruell (Sharpe) was Swarm in Flux
• Jonathan Guy Lewis (Interragtor) voiced Marcus Bray for After the Daleks (2021)
• Dido Miles (Lydia) voiced Arva for Living Darkness (2025)
• for Paul Panting (DCI Mumford) see Series 3
• for Peter Brayham (stunt co-ordinator) see Series 7

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 9

The ninth season of what is

now the longest running crime drama on British TV was first

shown on BBC1 in the summer

of 2005 - William Gaminara,

Tom Ward, and Emilia Fox again

starred as London-based Home

Office pathologists, doctors Leo

Dalton, Harry Cunningham, and

Nikki Alexander.

A repeat run of the eight-part

series concluded on Drama last

night - it featured Freema

Agyeman, and a total of

twenty-three other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Ghosts (TX: July 25 & 26)

• Noma Dumezweni (DS Jacobs) was Captain Erisa Magambo in Turn Left and Planet of the Dead, then voiced Rodekka for Big Finish's The First Son (2021)
• Tom Lawrence (Gilmore) voiced Hans for AudioGo's A Shard of Ice (2010)
• series cinematographer Kevin Rowley was a film cameraman on Destiny of the Daleks and The Mark of the Rani
• Martin Curry was also the first assistant director on The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon
• Liz Pearson (post-production supervisor) and Tony Gibson (series sound FX editor) both worked on An Adventure in Space in Time too
• SFX designer Tony Harding was VFX designer on The Invisible Enemy, The Power of Kroll, State of Decay, The King's Demons and The Awakening
• James Moss was also camera operator on The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and Torchwood
• for Tom Lucy see Series 6

Choices (TX: August 1 & 2)

• Nikki Amuka Bird (Simone here; DS Jenkins in Series 13: Voids) was the Glass Woman [Helen Clay] in Twice Upon a Time, then voiced Tamasan for The Time War 2 (2018)
• Andrew Brooke (Bannard) was Kahler Tek in A Town Called Mercy and The Making of the Gunslinger, then Narrator of Sirgwain and the Green Knight (2015)
• Marc Danbury (Surgeon) voiced Tog for The Axis of Insanity (2004)
• Craig Kelly (Connelly) voiced Joe for Scream of the Shalka
• Niall MacGregor (Wright) voiced Robert for Home Truths (2008), The Drowned World (2009) and The Guardian of the Solar System (2010)
• Alice O'Connell (Emma) was Laura in The Power of Three
• David Barrett was also film editor on The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood 

The Meaning of Death (TX: August 8 & 9)

• Leo Bill (Richard) was the Pilot in A Christmas Carol
• Rory [Stewart] Kinnear (Paul) voiced Samuel Belfrage for Industrial Evolution (2011)
• Paul Panting (DCI Mumford here & Series 10: Schism) voiced Professor Maylon for Of Chaos Time The, Llanragen/Geoffrey Jennings/ for The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time, Brabbeko for Revenge of the Swarm (all 2014), Drell/Marshleader for Mistfall (2015), Fyrax for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016), Freddie for Island of the Fendahl, Ravlos for The Ultimate Evil (2019), Smilax for The Doomsday Contract, Ilyani/Bailiff for A Tragical History, Karl Lamb for The First Son (all 2021), Vega for The End (2022), and Nate Duffy/Fennec for The Wizard of Time (2023)
• stunt co-ordinator Steve Whyment was an extra in The Keeper of Traken and Snakedance

Mind and Body (TX: August 15 & 16)

• Tim [Charles Robert Noel] Bentinck (Guy) voiced a Monk in Extremis and The Pyramid at the End of the World, and voiced Giles Moreau/Jenkins/Worker for Destination: Nerva, Roger Buchman for Wirrn Isle (both 2012), Williams/Curtis/Kavurshkin for The Forgotten Village, Nathaniel Whitlock for Moonflesh, Ned Bones/Lord Burghley for The Devil's Armada (all 2014), Colonel George Radlett for The English Way of Death, Chowdras/Governor for Planet of the Rani (both 2015), General Kallix for The Neverwhen (2016), Stonegood/Wakefield/Cabby for The Contingency Club, Professor Edward Travers/the Great Intelligence for Time of the Intelligence (both 2017), Lord Crozion for Kingdom of Lies, Tommy Pierce for Torchwood, Franz Kafka/Samsa for Whodunnit? (all 2018), Alfie/Computer for Ghosts (2020), Karlos/ Guard/Reveller for The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook (2021), and Henry Mortimer for Friend of the Family (2023)
• Richard [John] Hope [Walker] (Sanders) was Malokeh in The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood and The Wedding of River Song, and Bleytal in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, then voiced William Heaton for Changing of the Guard and Rise and Shine, Morleand for The Bounty of Ceres (all 2014), Harry Harvey for Damaged Goods (2015), Philip Cook/Kal for Absent Friends (2016), Jastrok/Terry Waring for UNIT: Assembled (2017), General Reinhardt for Shellshock (2022), and Darling for All of Time and Space (2023)
• Stuart Clark (Perry) was a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways

Doctor Who Vs. Casualty, Series 2

While the inaugural series of

BBC1's medical drama had

been filmed in London, a

permanent base for the set 

had been located in Bristol.

However, publicity for the

start of the next season was accompanied by comments

from producer Geraint Morris

 that there would be no further instalments, stating that the

programme "should end on

a high after thirty episodes."

Following the events of Cry 

For Help (in which paramedic 

Sandra Mute was stabbed), the show regularly gained more than ten

million viewers and subsequently, a secure future - Casualty has now endured for thirty-seven years.

The majority of the regular cast remained unchanged - joining the

show here were Maureen O'Brien (as administrator Elizabeth

Straker), Helena Little (Dr. Mary Tomlinson), Kate Hardie, Eddie

Nestor (student nurses Karen O'Malley and Cyril James), Ella

Wilder and Geoffrey Leesley (paramedics Shirley Franklin and

Keith Cotterill).

A repeat run of the fifteen part series (originally broadcast from

September to December 1987) continued on Drama today - it

featured a total of fifty-two Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

• Leesley voiced Paramount Minister Mortund for Big Finish's Arrangements for War (2004), and Harold for AudioGo's The Broken Crown
• [John] Colin McCormack (Newman) was the Commander in The Sun Makers
• Stephanie Fayerman (Carole here; Wendy, 1996; Mother Gabriel, 2006) was McLuhan in Dragonfire
• [Timothy] Tip Tipping (Driver here; Wayne, 1989) was stunt arranger on Remembrance of the Daleks, The Curse of Fenric and Survival
• Steve Whyment (Passenger) was an uncredited extra on The Keeper of Traken and Snakedance
• Richard Braine (Peter) voiced Percy Closed for The English Way of Death (2015), and Professor Linus Woolf for Entanglement (2018)
• Christopher Fairbank (Bryant) voiced Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), Pierre Arronax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018), then appeared as Fenton in Flatline
• Patrick [David] Newell (Goldman) was Colonel Faraday in The Android Invasion
• writer David Ashton [born Scott], David Chandler (Mike) and Eric [Cecil] Deacon (Tranter here; Sambrook, 2006) all starred in Timelash, as Kendron, HG Wells and Mykros respectively
• James Beckett (Drunk) and Stephen [George] Churchett (PC Geary) both appeared in Attack of the Cybermen, as Payne and Bill
• Tony [Samuel] Selby (Leon here; Kavanagh, 1995; Hazeldene, 2005) was Sabalom Glitz in The Mysterious Planet, The Ultimate Foe and Dragonfire
• Aimée [Margaret] Delamain (Eugenie) was Dona Arana in The Two Doctors
• Graham Turner (DC Lennox here; O'Keefe, 1995; Bainbridge, 2010; Trenton, 2013/14) was Amos in The Crimson Horror
• Harry Fielder (Bains) was a Guard (PP, ZZZ, 4L, 4P, 5A, 5F, 5Z), Crewman (SS, 4T), Vogan (4D), Assassin (4Q), Tigellan (5Q), and Krarg in Shada 
• Jared Morgan (Ambulanceman) was one of the titular mercenaries in Delta and the Bannermen (1)
• Dee Sadler (Maggie here; Irene, 1990), Ian Reddington (Dancer), David Ashford (Registrar) and Dean Hollingsworth (Jason) all starred in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, as Flowerchild, the Chief Clown (reprised for The Psychic Circus), Dad/Bus Conductor respectively - the latter was also an Android in Timelash
• Hubert [Thomas Morgan] Rees (Huggins) was Chief Engineer in Fury from the Deep, Captain Ransom in The War Games, and John Stevenson in The Seeds of Doom
• Pam Ferris (Linda) voiced Lizzie Corrigan for The Eternal Summer (2009), and Amanda Steele for Night of the Vashta Nerada (2017)
• Josh Elwell (Man) was a Lakertyan in Time and the Rani (4)
• Lloyd McGuire (Harry) was Lugo in The Face of Evil, and voiced Lieutenant Tendexter for The Architects of History (2010)
• [Albert] Frank Mills (Philips) was the Telescope Director in Terror of the Autons
• Anthony Donovan (Jeweller) was Guard in The Space Pirates (1)
• Stacy Davies (Craig) was Private Perkins in The Invasion (6), and Veros in State of Decay
• Edna [Lillian] Doré [born Gorring] (Mrs. Whiting here; Grace, 1991; Joan, 1997) was Maeve in Fear Her
• David John Pope (Malik) was the Kandyman in The Happiness Patrol
• Jon [St. Alban] Laurimore [born Livermore] (Ken here; Bevins, 2001; Thirlwell, 2004) was Count Federico in The Masque of Mandragora
• [John] Roger Hammond (Man) was Francis Bacon in The Chase (1), Dr. Runciman in Mawdryn Undead, and voiced Harold Withers for The Eternal Summer (2009)
• Chris Chering (Biker) was Tetrap in Time and the Rani, and Skinhead in Silver Nemesis
• Pete Lee Wilson (Mullett here; Newton, 1995; Reed, 1999; Foster, 2002; Warwick, 2011; Stenwood, 2015) was Tommo in The End of Time (1)
• Sakuntala Ramanee (Chitra here; Shaheera, 1996) made her TV debut in Survival as Shreela Govindia, then was Erica Larnier in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor, and voiced Hatshepsut for The Eye of Horus (2015), and Athena for The Wrath of Medusa (2022)
• John [William Francis] Hallam (Big Ted) was Light in Ghost Light
• Roy [Douglas] Purcell (Healey) was CPO Powers in The Mind of Evil, and the President in The Three Doctors
• [Thomas] Declan Mulholland (O'Grady) was Clark in The Sea Devils, and Till in The Androids of Tara
• Dadina Sagger (Leila) was an Alphan in Mindwarp (5)
• Edward [Harry] Kelsey (Pogson) was a Slave Buyer in The Romans (1), Resno in The Power of the Daleks, and Edu in The Creature from the Pit
• RJ Bell (Fat Man) made his TV debut as the Garm in Terminus
• Kevin [Robert] McNally (Bennod) and Barry Stanton (Slim here; Waller, 1995) both starred in The Twin Dilemma, as Hugo Lang and Noma - McNally was also Professor Eustacius Jericho in Flux, and voiced Henry for Spider's Shadow (2008), Vakrass for The End of the Beginning, and Merrick Kingdom for The House of Kingdom and e of Kingdom and The Lost (all 2021)
• Judy Norman (Bingo player) was Ma in Gridlock
• [Christine] Janine Duvitski [born Drzewicki] (Joyce) voiced Alpha Wheeler for The Jabari Countdown (2018)
• Tim Faulkner (Registrar) voiced Highgate for The End of the Beginning, and Charles Hookham/Flindor/Wilbur Grits for The God of Phantoms (2021)
• Frank Rozelaar Green (Neighbour here; Bobo, 2003) was Sonny Hoskins in Father's Day
• [David] Roger Brierley (Coroner) was Trevor in The Daleks' Master Plan (8), and provided the voice of Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
• Robert Demeger (Statham) was the Preacher in The Shakespeare Code
• script editor Susan Box was a production assistant on Full Circle
• Alan Wareing was also director of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ghost Light and Survival

Doctor Who Vs. Casualty, Series 1

Derek Thompson

(the longest-

serving cast 

member on

Casualty) 

recently 

announced

his retirement

from the drama

after 37 years

service. He has

portrayed

Charlie Fairhead

since the opening

episode, Gas. The

role was based on

real-life nurse,

Peter Salt.

BBC One's Saturday night flagship drama has

now endured for more than thirteen-hundred

instalments over thirty-seven seasons.

The programme, now stylised as CASUAL+Y,

was created by socialist screenwriters Jeremy

Brock and Paul Unwin as a direct response to

Thatcherism, and launched on September 6

1986.

Set in the fictional Bristol suburb of Holby,

Casualty is both the world's longest-running

show of its genre, and the most enduring

medical drama on prime time television. The

acclaimed franchise has earned many accolades

(including six BAFTA and five RTS awards), and

spawned four spin-off series - Holby City (1999

to 2022), Casualty@Holby City (2004/05),

Casualty 1900s (2006-09), and Holby Blues

(2007/08).

According to a Radio Times survey, the programme

has seen more guest roles for future stars than any

other UK soap or drama - Christopher Eccleston,

Alfred Molina, Kate Winslet, Orlando Bloom, Martin Freeman, Minnie Driver, Tom Hiddleston, Johnny

Lee Miller, Ray Winstone, David Walliams, Robson

Green, Pam Ferris, Caroline Quentin, Marc Warren,

Pete Postlethwaite, David Harewood, Honor

Blackman, and Norman Wisdom have all appeared on Casualty.

The original leading characters were Ewart Plimmer

 (played by Bernard Gallagher), Dr. Baz Samuels

(Julia Wason), Clive King (George Harris), Megan

Roach (Brenda Fricker), Lisa Duffin (Cathy Shipton),

and Sandra Mute (Lisa Bowerman. In 1989, Fricker

became the first Irish actress to win an Oscar for her

role in My Left Foot.

A repeat run of the first, fifteen-part season concluded on Drama this

week - it featured Roberta Tovey, and a total of forty-two Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

• Watson was Hilda Flockhart in Joy to the World
• Robert Pugh (Andrew Ponting, 1986/87; Gethin, 2023) was Tony Mack in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, then voiced Emmett Burrows for Big Finish's Five Twenty-Nine (2017)
• Trevor Cooper (Ralph here; Eddie, 1995) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, then voiced Rull for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City, 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)
• Roy Evans (Relative) was Trantis in The Daleks' Master Plan, Bert in The Green Death, and Miner in The Monster of Peladon
• Graham Cole[man Smith] (Junior Doctor) was a Krarg in Shada, Player in The Leisure Hive (1), Marshman in Full Circle, the Melkur in The Keeper of Traken and Time Flight (2), a titular Kinda, Cyberman in Earthshock and The Five Doctors, Crewman in Resurrection of the Daleks (1), and Jacondan in The Twin Dilemma (1)
• David [John] Simeon [born Townsend] (Bates) and James Snell (Thalton) both starred in The Daemons, as Alastair Fergus and Harry - Simeon was also Private Latimer in Inferno
• John Flanagan (DS Fox here; Keach, 1999) and Andrew McCulloch (Northover here; Ewart, 1995; Dean, 2002) wrote Meglos
• Patsy [Doris] Smart (Winnie) was the Ghoul in The Talons of Weng -Chiang
• Vincent Pickering (Gary here; Strudwick, 1999) made his TV debut in Warriors' Gate as Sagan
• [James Arnold] Rio Fanning (David) was Harker in Horror of Fang Rock
• James Marcus [born Brian T James] (Bill) was Peasant in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (2), and Rask in Underworld
• Adrian Fletcher (Nurse here; Fan, 1990) was Coven Member in K9 & Company
• Christine Pollon (Mrs. Ferguson here; Dr. Jacobs, 1995) provided the Voice of the Oracle in Underworld
• Timothy Block (Blair) was Tanner in Black Orchid
• Mona Hammond [Mavis Chin] (Millie) was Rita Anne in Rise of the Cybermen
• Derek Benfield (Davies here; Hogarth, 1990) voiced Dr. John Hallam for Catch 1782 (2005)
• Mark Jones (Tom) was Arnold Keeler in The Seeds of Doom
• Jonathan Evans (Dougie) was a Kinda (1), and Marshall in Earthshock
• John Bloomfield (Mike) was the costume designer on The Face of Evil and The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• [Robert] Michael Bilton (Arthur) was Charles de Teligny in The Massacre, Collins in Pyramids of Mars, and Time Lord in The Deadly Assassin
• Eric Francis (Mal) was the First Elder in The Sensorites
• [William Reginald] Bruce Purchase (Spiderman) was the Captain in The Pirate Planet
• Harry [James] Fowler (Terry) was Harry in Remembrance of the Daleks
• Keith Jayne (Luke) was Will Chandler in The Awakening
• Tom Lucy (Beck) was the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen stories (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor) and Torchwood
• Jon Glover (Commentator/Jeremy) voiced Shellingborne Grant for Slipback, then voiced the Shansheeth for The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor, Creodot for False Gods, Dr. Verryman for Order of Simplicity (both 2008), Father Christmas for Death in Blackpool (2009), and Jafrid for The Well-Mannered War (2015), Sir James for Infidel Places, and Dr. Gommen for The Stuntman (both 2022)
• Peter [George Haywood] Halliday (Piet) was Packer (and provided the Cyber Director Voice) in The Invasion, voiced the titular Silurians in their debut story and the Aliens in The Ambassadors of Death, then was Pletrac in Carnival of Monsters, Soldier in City of Death, and the Vicar in Remembrance of the Daleks (2)
• Zienia Merton (Receptionist here; Dr. Billington, 1991/92; Manson, 2002) was Ping-Cho in Marco Polo, and the Registrar in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
• Susan Jameson (Harriet) was originally cast as Morgan for Colony in Space but was replaced by Tony Caunter - she voiced Mrs. Moynihan for The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (2000), and Fennella Wibbsey for AudioGo's Hornets' Nest (2009), Demon Quest (2010), Serpent Crest (2011), The Thing from the Sea (2018), The Winged Coven (2019) and The Penumbra Affair (2022)
• Andrew [James] Hall (Richard here; Wilkinson, 2015) voiced Alonso/ Gonzalo for Maker of Demons (2016)
• Keith Marsh (Arthur) was Conway in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Tony Van Silva (stunts here; Attendant, 1997) was a stuntman on Tooth and Claw
• writer Wally Kevin Daly submitted the unused script The Ultimate Evil
• Martin Ridout was also sound supervisor on Time Flight, Snakedance, Mawdryn Undead, Enlightenment, The King's Demons, The Five Doctors, Warriors of the Deep, The Awakening and Frontios
• John Mooney was also sound assistant on Remembrance of the Daleks, Silver Nemesis (3), The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Battlefield and Ghost Light
• production manager Marcus DF White was an AFM on The Awakening
• Patricia Greenland was also production assistant on Full Circle
• technical co-ordinator Ray Hider began his career as lighting technician on The Power of the Daleks (6), and was technical manager on Terror of the Autons (1)
• Julie Mann was vision mixer on The Greatest Show in the Galaxy too
• camera supervisor Rodney Taylor was the senior cameraman on The Creature from the Pit
• props buyer Pauline Seager was an AFM on The Five Doctors

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 8

The eighth season of

BBC1's popular crime

drama was first shown

in the autumn of 2004,

and starred Amanda

Burton's final appear-

ance as Home Office

pathologist, Professor

Sam Ryan. Following

the series opener, Ryan

returned home to

Northern Ireland.

William Gaminara and 
Tom Ward (as doctors Leo Dalton and Harry Cunningham) were then
joined by newcomer, Emilia Fox as Dr. Nikki Alexander.

A repeat run of the series began on Drama channel last night - it

featured a total of twenty-eight Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

A Time to Heal (UK TX: September 5 & 6)

• Des McAleer (Nevin here, Patrick in Series 18: Protection, Lawson in S22: Deathmaker) voiced Lefty Lonnigan for A Life of Crime (2016), and Blujaw Skaldson for The Skin of the Sleek and The Thief Who Stole Time (both 2017)
• Anne Bird (Nurse) voiced Caitriona and Shazza for The Rapture (2002), and Ambassador Egopolis for Appropriation (2006)
• Patrick Drury (Gaghan) voiced Major Fanshaw for Murder at Moorsey Manor, and Tom Carlton for The Wax Princess (both 2014)
• SFX supervisor Graham Brown was SFX assistant on Resurrection of the Daleks and (part 1 of) Attack of the Cybermen
• Charlie Bluett was also prosthetics technician on thirty-nine episodes (from Rose to Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• for Michael Darbon, Philip Kloss, Debbi Slater, Terry Elms, Neil Gorton, Ian Adrian and Rod Woodruff see my other series blogs

Death by Water (UK TX: September 12 & 13)

• Philip Bird (DCI Tennant) made his TV debut as a Swampie in The Power of Kroll, then voiced Shepton Rothwell for Big Dig (2013)
• Phyllis Logan (Helen here, Jennifer in S13: Shadows) was Andinio in The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Kate Fleetwood (Sienna) was the voice of Ship for The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic
• David [Michael] Harewood (Stuart) was Joshua Naismith in The End of Time, and voiced President Vallan for Army of Death (2011)
• Ozzie Yue (Micky) was the Foreman in The Angels Take Manhattan

Nowhere Fast (UK TX: September 19 & 20)

• Ramon Tikaram (Bhandari) voiced Wanchese for Voyage to the New World (2012), the Castellan for The Eleven, Marlock for Theatre of War, 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)
• James Wilby (Gibb) voiced Tenebris for The Acheron Pulse and The Shadow Heart (both 2012), Professor John Torrance for The Sontaran Project, and Pascal for Blind Summit (2018)
• Sylvestra Le Touzel (Birley) also made her TV debut on the classic era, as a Child in The Mind Robber
• Ken Bradshaw (DS Gaskell) voiced Colonel Fischer for Human Conflict (2018)

Body 21 (UK TX: September 26 & 27)

• Douglas Mackinnon was also director of eight stories (from The Sontaran Stratagem to The Husbands of River Song)
• Tony Bluto (Delivery Man) was Driver Joe in Midnight
• Shaun Parkes (DI Freeman here, Walker in S19: Life Licence) and Danny Webb (DS Bradley) both appeared in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit as Captain Zachary Cross Flane and John Jefferson respectively - Webb also voiced Byron for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Ori for The Dark Husband (2008)
• Emma Cunniffe (Rosa) was Claire in Night Terrors, and voiced Caleera for Doom Coalition 2 (2016) and Doom Coalition 4, and Madame Berber for The Dying Room (both 2017)
• Kieran Bew (Wiltshire here, Lockford in S14: First Casualty) was Ivan in Oxygen, and voiced Arthur Kettleson/Barry for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Murdo Jamieson for The Helm of Awe, Krim Pollensa for Month 25 (both 2017), Richard Cooper for The Creeping Death (2019), Lunk/ V97 for Do No Harm (2020), Grannis Drek for The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook, Dwayne Pherber for The End of the Beginning (both 2021), and Davlin Crux for Hooklight 1 (2024)
• Stewart James was a stuntman on Victory of the Daleks too