Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 7

The seventh season

 of this long-running

crime drama was first
shown on BBC1 in the

autumn of 2003.
Amanda Burton
starred as Home
Office pathologist
Professor Sam Ryan
in her last full series,
whilst Tom Ward and
William Gaminara
returned as doctors Harry Cunningham and Leo Dalton.

A fifth Silent Witness novel, written by the programme's creator Nigel
McCrery, was planned to tie-in with this year but remains unpublished.

A repeat run of the eight-part series began on Drama last night, and

featured a total of twenty-nine Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Answering Fire (TX: October 11 & 12)

• Jo [Mary] Joyner (Cathy) was Lynda Moss in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, then voiced Fenice for Big Finish's Boundaries (2022)
• Robert Cavanah (Burwood here; DI Laing in Series 17: In a Lonely Place) voiced President Gilbert for Saltwater (2022)
• Leena Dhingra (Shaheen) was Miss Chandrakala in The Unicorn and the Wasp, and Nani Umbreen in Demons of the Punjab 
• David Mallinson (Bowman) voiced Brodlik for Creatures of Beauty (2003)
• for David Quilter (Coroner) and Nick Wilkinson (stuntman) see Series 5
• Peter Brayham was also stunt co-ordinator (here & Series 10: Schism) on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• Dani Biernat was also a stunt performer (here & Schism) on seven- teen stories (form the 2005 festive special to Kerblam!)
• for Ian Adrian (camera operator) see Series 6

Fatal Error (TX: October 18 & 19)

• Michael Bertenshaw (Whitaker) was Coles in The Next Doctor
• Nick Malinowski (Ricketts) and Tim Plester (Owen here & Beyond Guilt) both appeared in A Christmas Carol, as Eric and Servant
• Graham Padden (Father) was Pa in Gridlock
• Mark Frost (DS Baxter here; DCI Sullivan in Series 18: One of Our Own) voiced Shandar for Requiem for the Rocket Men (2015), and Niccolo Machiavelli for The Ravelli Conspiracy (2016)

Running On Empty (TX: October 25 & 26)

• Jaye Griffiths (DI Jayne Hurst here; Professor Janet Mander, series 12-15) was Jac in The Magician's Apprentice and The Zygon Invasion then reprised for The Turn of the Tides (2022), and voiced Daylin for The Neverwhen (2016), Til Rork for The Sentient (2019), Sister Ursula for Abbey of Heretics (2020), Hieronyma Friend for Meanwhile, Elsewhere (2022), and Lady Montague for Audacity (2023)
• Dona Croll (Diane) was Matron Casp in New Earth, and voiced Bella for Madquake (2020), and the Empress for The Sincerest Form of Flattery (2021) 
• Don [Samuel] Gilet (Johns) was Lance in The Runaway Bride, and voiced Streatham for The Hunting Season (2021)
• Jana Carpenter (Alice) was De Maggio in Dalek, then voiced Marion Stokes for Calamity Jenny (2021)
• Katherine Kelly (Tina) was Miss Quill in Class
• Sarah Paul (Kimberley) was Miss Jerome in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift, then voiced Coleen for Jenny 3 (2024)

Beyond Guilt (TX: November 1 & 2)

• Malcolm Terris (Goveror) was Etnin in (episode 1 of) The Dominators, and the Co-Pilot in The Horns of Nimon
• Joy Harrison (Sandra) was Jill Tarrant in Death to the Daleks
• Tony Lucken (Proctor here; Barlow in Series 14: The Prodigal) was stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways and The End of Time, then was De Florres in The Curse of the Black Spot
• James Weber Brown (Davidson) was the Minister in In The Forest of the Night
• Sorcha Cusack (Denise) voiced Mary Carter for Dark Eyes 4 (2015)
• for Paul Copley (Parkin) see Series 4
• Roger Cann was production designer on Nightmare of Eden too
• Terry Elms (sound recordist here, Series 7 & 8) was an assistant on The Masque of Mandragora (1)