Doctor Who Vs. Endeavour, Series 4

Shaun Evans returned as Colin Dexter's

Oxford City detective, Endeavour Morse - again joined by Roger Allam, Anton

Lesser, Sean Rigby, James Bradshaw,

Dakota Blue Richards, Sarah Vickers,

and Abigail Thaw.

The Inspector Morse prequel drama,

a Mammoth Screen and Masterpiece

co-production (now set in the summer

of 1967, and twenty years before the

events of The Dead of Jericho), was

scheduled against the new series of

Sherlock in January 2017.

A repeat run of the fourth, four-part

season (again written by Russell Lewis)

began on ITV3 last night - it featured

a total of twenty-two Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

Game (UK TX: January 8 2017)

• Geff Francis (Smalls) was George [Maitland] in The Bells of Saint John
• Adam James (Finn) was DI Macmillan in Planet of the Dead
• Jamie Pearson was also film editor on The Eleventh Hour, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger, The Rebel Flesh, The Almost People, Asylum of the Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan and The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
• for Tom Lucy (stunt co-ordinator) see Series 1
• Richard Turner was also the focus puller on Let's Kill Hitler and The Time of the Doctor

Canticle (UK TX: January 15)

• Sagar Arya (Dr. Bakshi) was the Newsreader on The Christmas Invasion and The Sarah Jane Adventures: Secrets of the Stars
• William [Michael] Ilkley [born Brown] (Randall) was Tim Bass in The Mark of the Rani
• Sylvestra Le Touzel (Pettybon) made her TV debut (aged 10) in The Mind Robber as a Child
• Matthew Needham (Jessop) was Old Swarm in The Halloween Apocalypse and Once, Upon Time
• for Tim Packham (Film crew) see Series 3

Lazaretto (UK TX: January 22)

• Sarah Winter (Jo) depicted Delia Derbyshire in An Adventure in Space and Time
• David [William] Yelland (West) voiced Walter Pritchett for The Red Lady (2015)
• for Shvorne Marks (Monica) see Series 2

Harvest (UK TX: January 29)

• John Thaw's widow Sheila [Cameron] Hancock (Dowsable) was Helen A in The Happiness Patrol
• Natalie Burt (Alison) voiced Dr. Sally Armstrong for Dark Eyes
• Sam [Patrick Douro] Hoare (Dr. Berger) portrayed Douglas Camfield, also in the 2013 docu-drama, and voiced Lucius for AudioGo's Tsar Wars (2011)
• [Stephen] Alex Wyndham (Dr. Levin) voiced Christian Favreau for The Monster of Montmarte, Seratrix for The War Doctor 1 (both 2015), Linnis Skaldson for The Skin of the Sleek and The Thief Who Stole Time (both 2017), and Raphael for The Mind Runners and The Demon Rises (both 2018)
• Philip Edgerley (Quizmaster) voiced Collis for Time Works (2006)
• for Joanna Horton see Series 1
• Jonathan Farmer was first assistant director on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS too
• Adam Sculthorpe (aerial camera operator) was the stereo super- visor on The Day of the Doctor
• Richard Rowntree also provided additional greens for forty-one stories (from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe to The Husbands of River Song)