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