Doctor Who Vs. Life On Mars, Series 2

The second and final season of BBC One's BAFTA and Emmy

award winning cult fantasy drama originally aired from February

to April 2007 - a repeat run began on That's TV last night.

John Simm reprised his role as the lost-in-time cop, DI Sam

Tyler (pictured left), and would debut as the Master at the end

of Utopia, just two months later. 

Philip Glenister (as DCI Gene Hunt, centre), Dean Andrews (Ray

Carling), Marshall Lancaster (Chris Skelton), Liz White (Annie

Cartwright), and Tony Marshall (Nelson) also returned for the

eight part series. 

The programme's co-creator Matthew Graham, producer 

Marcus Wilson, writer Chris Chibnall, and directors Richard 

Clark and Andrew Gunn would all later work on the revived

series of Doctor Who - thirty further cast and crew connections

featured here are:

• Marc Warren (Crane, right) was Elton Pope in Love & Monsters
• Big Finish actor Yasmin Bannerman (Eve) was Jabe in The End of the World, then voiced Pandora for The Bride of Peladon (2008), Dr. Helen Shepherd for The Fourth Wall (2012), Roz Forrester for Damaged Goods (2015), Original Sin, Cold Fusion (both 2016) and The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures 1, Sapling Vale for The Skies of New Earth (both 2018), and Destiny for Dying Hours (2023)
• Kevin [Robert] McNally (Woolf) was Lieutenant Hugo Lang in The Twin Dilemma, and Professor Eustacius Jericho in Flux - he also voiced Henry for Spider's Shadow (2008), Vakrass for The End of the Beginning, and Merrick Kingdom for Dalek Universe 2 (both 2021)
• Gemma Wardle (Nurse) voiced Alys for Point of Entry (2010)
• Ray Emmet Brown (DC Fletcher) voiced No. 16 for House of Blue Fire (2011)
• Jonty Stephens (Witham) voiced Paravatar for 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (2013)
• Eva Pope (Carol) voiced Nia Brusk for Army of Death (2011)
• Tim Plester (Rocket) was a Servant in A Christmas Carol
• Jason Watkins (Merrick) was Webley in Nightmare in Silver, voiced the Legate of the Caliph for The Destroyer of Delights, and the White Guardian for The Chaos Pool (both 2009)
• Ian Hanmore (Wilkes) was Father Angelo in Tooth and Claw
• Ian Puleston-Davies (Toolbox Terry) voiced Angus Selwyn for Absent Friends (2016)
• Katherine Kelly (Heather) played Miss Quill in Class
• Warren [Martin] Brown (Trotman) was Jake Willis in Praxeus - he voiced Stephen Gibson for Industrial Evolution, Johnny Skipton for Dead Men's Tales (both 2011), Rufus Stone/To'Koth for Signs and Wonders (2014), then Lieutenant Sam Bishop for UNIT: Extinction (2015), UNIT: Shutdown, UNIT: Silenced (both 2016), UNIT: Assembled (2017), UNIT: Cyber Reality, Lady Christina 1 (both 2018), UNIT: Incursions (2019), Lady Christina 2 (2021), Way of the Burryman and The Forth Generation (2022)
• Sean Gilder (Johns) was the Sycorax Leader in The Christmas Invasion
• Matthew Rohman (Pedestrian) was Reporter in Partners in Crime, Saved in Forest of the Dead, stunt double on A Christmas Carol, Policeman in Deep Breath, Axe Fighter in The Magician's Apprentice, Gun-runner in Smile, Monk in The Pyramid at the End of the World and The Lie of the Land, Soldier in Empress of Mars and Twice Upon a Time, Patient in World Enough and Time, Cyberman in The Doctor Falls, Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children, Sniperbot in The Ghost Monument and The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos, Postman/Team-mate in Kerblam!, Kasaavin in Spyfall, and Judoon in Fugitive of the Judoon
• Peter Brayham was also a stunt co-ordinator on the first festive special, New Earth and School Reunion
• stunt performers Tracey Caudle, Dani Biernat, Derek Lea, Crispin Layfield, Guy List and Gordon Seed all worked on the revived series too
• stuntman Mike Lambert doubled for Mark Williams in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Matt Wood and Simon Blackledge were both VFX supervisors on A Town Called Mercy and The Power of Three - Wood also worked on The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Liana Del Giudice was also film editor on The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, School Reunion and The Day of the Doctor
• for Balazs Bolygo, Tim Palmer and Edmund Butt see my blog for Series 1
• Martin Curry was also the first assistant director on The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon