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