Doctor Who Vs. Jonathan Creek, Series 5

BAFTA award-winning screenwriter
David Renwick's first new series of
mysteries in ten years was shown on

BBC1 in 2014, following an Easter

special in 2013. Comedian Alan

Davies returned as reluctant sleuth

Jonathan Creek (now married to

Polly, played by Sarah Alexander), a role created in 1997. A final feature-

length episode, Daemons' Roost,

marked the programme's twentieth

anniversary, shown at Christmas

2016. A repeat run of the three-part

season began on Drama last night -

it featured Michael Troughton, and

a total of seventeen Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

The Letters of Septimus Noone (UK TX: February 28 2014)

• Big Finish actor Kieran Hodgson (Ridley) voiced Findel for Last of the Cybermen, Arin/Dennis for The Red House, Alam/Hilsee for The Isos Network, Bennus for The War Doctor 1 (all 2015), Woking for Charlotte Pollard 2, Klick Chervain for The Skin of the Sleek and The Thief Who Stole Time (all 2017), Devon Pryce for Tales From New Earth (2018), and Dr. Oliver Morgenstern for BBC Sounds' Redacted
• Raquel [Josephine] Cassidy (Sharon) was Miranda Cleaves in The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People, and voiced Mesca for The Judgement of Isskar (2009), Inquisa for Paradoxicide, Destiny Gray for Question Marks (both 2011), Dr. Alison Foster for Destination: Nerva (2012), and Guinevere Godiva for Jago & Litefoot 5 (2013)
• Simon Thomas (Holtz) was Danes in The End of Time
• Alice O'Connell (Rachel) was Laura in The Power of Three
• James Bachman (Chater) voiced Hugh Bainbridge for Situation Vacant (2010)
• Roger Dobson (series dialogue editor) and Des Murray (series online editor) both edited An Adventure in Space and Time too
• series colourist Gareth Spensley also worked on twenty-one stories (from The God Complex to The Husbands of River Song)
• Belinda McGinley was also a stunt performer on Amy's Choice and The Girl Who Waited

The Sinner and the Sandman (UK TX: March 7)

• Marc Danbury (Burglar) voiced Tog for The Axis of Insanity (2004)
• Tim Faraday (Gilpin) was Tom's Dad in Fear Her
• John Voce (Amery-Cooper) was Fanshawe in The Woman Who Lived, then voiced Chief Surveyor Hardwick for Last of the Colophon, Branarack for The Entropy Plague, Albert Kennedy/ Professor Garland for The Red Lady, Jenkins for I Went to a Marvellous Party (all 2015), Toban for The Age of Endurance (2016), and Rako for Devil in the Mist (2019)

The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (UK TX: March 14)

• June [Rosemary] Whitfield (Heidi/Laurel) was Minnie Hooper in The End of Time
• Josie [born Wendy] Lawrence (Denise) voiced Gaznak for Salvation Nine (202
• stunt co-ordinator Crispin Layfield has held that post on sixty-nine instalments of the revived series (from Smith and Jones to Eve of the Daleks)
• series director David Sant (a former actor) was an Auton in Rose
• for John Asbridge see Series 1