Thursday, 13 July 2023

Doctor Who Vs. Casualty, Series 3

Geraint Morris (1941-1997) continued to produce BBC1's popular medical drama, and the majority of the regular cast remained unchanged. Joining
the programme here were Paul Lacoux (as Dr. David Rowe),
Susan Franklyn (administrator Valerie Sinclair), Julie Graham, Shaheen Khan (student nurses Alison McGrellis and Kiran Joghill), and Carol Leader (receptionist Sandie Timkins). 
With the exception of Franklyn, 
all of the incoming actors left
this series at its conclusion. Bernard Gallagher chose to leave the show,
so his character Ewart Plimmer was killed off in Burn OutElla Wilder
(paramedic Shirley Franklin) and Christopher Rozycki (porter Kuba
Trzcinski) both departed in the finale.
A repeat run of the third season (now with a reduced run of ten
episodes and originally broadcast from September to November
1988) continued on Drama today - it featured Caroline John,
Mark Strickson, and a total of thirty Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:

  • Michael Owen Morris was director of The Awakening too
  • Lacoux voiced Dr. Mathias for Big Finish's The Harvest (2004)
  • Franklyn voiced Jarmaya and Tace for Mission to Magnus (2009), and Hypatia for The Library of Alexandria (2013)
  • Khan was Hasna in Demons of the Punjab
  • Graham was Ruby White in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, and Ravio in Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children - she also voiced Prime Minister 470 for Planet X (2016), Carolyn for The Blood Furnace (2017), and Miss Beecham/Sovari for The Year of Martha Jones (2021)
  • Bernard [Arthur Gordon] Horsfall (Baxter here; Dr. Upchurch, 1991; Lassiter, 1995) was Lemual Gulliver in The Mind Robber, Time Lord in (episode 10 of) The War Games, Taron in Planet of the Daleks, Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin, then voiced Arnold Baynes for Davros (2003)
  • Julia [Margaret] Deakin (Jill) voiced Harriet Griffin for Terror Firma (2005), and Old Anita for Burrowed Time (2019)
  • Kenneth [Charles] Cope (Higgs) was Packard in Warriors' Gate
  • Stewart [John Llewellyn] Bevan (Pollard) was Professor Clifford Jones in The Green DeathGlobal ConspiracyHello Boys! and Return of the Autons - he also voiced BOSS for The Green Life (2019)
  • Julian [Neil Rohan] Wadham (Vassar) voiced Augustus Scullop for The Fourth Wall (2012)Joseph Holman for The Darkness of Glass (2015) and The Crowmarsh Experiment (2018), and Judge Perigord Trent for The Doomsday Contract (2021)
  • John [Henry] Ringham (Cunningham) was Tlotoxl in The Aztecs, Josiah Blake in The Smugglers, and Robert Ashe in Colony in Space
  • Daphne Oxenford (Mrs. Johnson) was the Archivist in Dragonfire
  • Gabrielle Glaister (Beverley) voiced Maggie Bishop for The Forsaken (2015), Cowley for The High Price of Parking (2017), and Veronica Bland for Braxiatel in Love (2018)
  • Rob Jarvis (Philip here; Mike, 1998; Cheadle, 2008) was Abramal in The Time of the Doctor
  • David Garfield (Lockhart here; Meyrick, 2007) was Von Weich in The War Games, and Neeva in The Face of Evil
  • Rita Davies (Dr. Wilson here; Sheila, 1999; Florence, 2004; Helen, 2013) voiced Janneus for Primeval (2001), and Tashek for Innocence (2006)
  • Brian Capron (Peter) voiced Lesley Kulcade for Subterfuge (2020)
  • Simon Slater (Rupert) was Edwardes in Terror of the Vervoids, then voiced Carvil for The Lords of Terror (2018), Nustanu for Devil in the Mist, Montague Davis/Moses Walker/Coachman for A Spoonful of Mayhem (both 2019), and the title role for The Murder of Oliver Akkron (2021)
  • John [Spurley] Challis (Harry) was Scorby in The Seeds of Doom, and voiced Rosser for The Trouble With Drax (2016)
  • [Edward Charles] Jimmy Gardner (Joshua) was Chenchu in Marco Polo, and Idmon in Underworld
  • Sharon Duce (Thea here; Isabel, 1996; Alesia, 2004; Sheila, 2008; Meg, 2016) was Control in Ghost Light
  • Paul Alexander (Howard) made his TV debut as a Soldier in The Mind Robber
  • Albert Welling (Terence) portrayed the titular Fúhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
  • Clive Mantle (Forbes here; Dr. Mike Barratt, 1992-1998) voiced Oliver Cromwell for The Settling (2006), Tuvold for The Burning Prince (2012), Tillegat/Lieutenant Treeves for Destroy the Infinite (2014), and Chuke for Genetics of the Daleks (2020)
  • Veronica Roberts (Terri here; Nicola, 1998; Sheila, 2005) voiced Relly for The Fate of Krelos and Return to Telos (both 2015), and Ohila for Light the Flame (2021)
  • [Harold] Tony Rohr (Brown here; Humphries, 1996; Talbot, 2009) was an uncredited Colonist in (episode 6 of) The Power of the Daleks
  • Andrew Morgan was also director of Time and the Rani and Remembrance of the Daleks
  • first assistant director Kevan Van Thompson was the production manager on Mindwarp
  • Mat Irvine (an assistant on The Curse of Peladon, 1 and Planet of the Spiders, 1) was also VFX designer on The Face of Evil, The Invisible Enemy (1), The Stones of Blood, The Creature from the Pit, Warriors' Gate, Warriors of the Deep and K9 and Company

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