Doctor Who Vs. Casualty, Series 6

Series regulars Derek Thompson,

Cathy Shipton, Ian Bleasdale, Nigel

Le Vaillant, Robson Green, Mamta Kaash, Patrick Robinson and Caroline

Webster returned for the fifth season

of BBC One's long-running medical

drama.

Joining the programme here were
Maureen Beattie (as staff nurse
Sandra Nicholl), Adie Allen (student
nurse Kelly Liddle), Anne Kristen (receptionist Norma Sullivan), and
Maria Friedman (social worker Trish
Baynes).

Both Allen and Friedman had left

the show by the series' conclusion,

whilst Green and Kaash chose to

depart after three and two years

service respectively.

A repeat run of the series (originally

broadcast from September to December 1991, with the final instalment

only shown in February 1992) continued on Drama today - it featured a total of sixty Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Kenneth Colley (Paddy) voiced Cristophe Zarodnix for Big Finish's Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008)
• Marc Warren (Nick) played Elton Pope in Love & Monsters
• Karl Collins [born Myers] (Roy) was Shaun Temple in The End of Time and The Star Beast
• Christien [Alexis] Anholt (Jude) was Perkins in The Curse of Fenric
• Roderick Smith (DS Spalding) was Cruikshank in The Invisible Enemy
• Sophie Okonedo (Gina) was Queen Liz 10 in The Beast Below and The Pandorica Opens, and voiced Alison Cheney for Scream of the Shalka
• Tom Georgeson (Talbot) was Kavell in Genesis of the Daleks, and an Inspector in Logopolis
• Richard [Dyas Beverley] Hampton (Pathologist) was Villager in The Visitation
• Debra Gillett (Reporter) was Rita Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern
• Jim [Edward] Carter (Charlton) voiced Brother Bernard for The Book of Kells (2010)
• David [John] Quilter (Dr. Graves) was Greeves in The Unicorn and the Wasp
• Jo Stone-Fewings (Sutton) was the Male Programmer [Davitch Pavale] in The Parting of the Ways, and voiced Major Wheatley for Hounded (2016)
• Rob [Charlton] Edwards (McBride here; Drake, 1995) provided the Male Voice of Xoanon for The Face of Evil, and was Chub in The Robots of Death (1)
• William [Denys] Hoyland (Adamson) voiced Premier Jaeger for LIVE 34 (2005)
• Roger Griffiths (Philip) was Commander Kess in Planet of the Ood
• Polly James [born Pauline Devaney] (Sylvia) and Jack [Stewart] Galloway (Dryden) both appeared in The Awakening, as Jane Hampden and Captain Joseph Willow
• Ian [Clive] Talbot (Vaughan) was Travis in The Silurians (4), and Klout in The Leisure Hive
• Vincent Brimble (PC Devonshire) was Tarpok in Warriors of the Deep
• Philip Anthony [Johnson] (Dr. Phillips) was Roald in The Daleks' Master Plan (1)
• Duncan Duff (Policeman) was Newsreader in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, and voiced Joe Hartley for Night Thoughts (2006)
• Iain Rattray (Sergeant) was Habris in State of Decay
• Gillian Kearney (Mandy here; Jessica Harrison, 2008-10) voiced Mina Challis for Zygon Hunt ( 2014)
• Rupert Holliday Evans (Cook here; Tom, 1995; Harkins, 2006; Frank, 2009; Healey, 2015) was Colonel [Alan] Mace in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, then voiced Celtic Warrior for The Relics of Time, Artist for The Demon of Paris, and Cop for Starfall (all 2010)
• Geoffrey Toone (Bridges) was Hepesh in The Curse of Peladon
• Julia Sawalha (Nikki) was Emma in The Curse of Fatal Death
• Janet Henfrey (Sister) was Miss Hardaker in The Curse of Fenric, Mrs. Pitt in Mummy on the Orient Express, and the Adjudicator in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor - she then voiced Mrs. Vanguard for The Spirit Trap (2010), Dr. Petherbridge for An Eye for Murder, Mrs. Jefferies for The Concrete Cage, Woman for The Forgotten Village (all 2014), Dorothy for The Screaming Ceiling (2019), Sister Magdalene for Abbey of Heretics (2020), Verkuvia for The Day of the Comet (2021), and was cast in Morbius (2024)
• Timothy Walker (Burrows) made his TV debut as Grell in The Mysterious Planet
• Maureen [Jane] Beattie (Sandra Nicholl, 1991-93) was Rona Bellows in Last Christmas
• Hermione [Jane] Norris (Abby, 1991; Bobbie, 1994) was Captain Lundvik in Kill the Moon
• Gerard [James Pertwee] Horan (Wilkinson here; Mark, 1994; Denning, 2007; O'Connor, 2010) was Clark/Father of Mine in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
• Christian Rodska (Dr. Bailer here; Carver, 1995; Coyne, 2015) voiced Laan Carder for Faith Stealer (2004) and Reverand Small for AudioGo's The Dead Shoes (2011)
• Siobhan Redmond (Betty) voiced Talin for Revenge of the Swarm, the the titular renegade for The Rani Elite (both 2014), and Planet of the Rani (2015)
• Wendy Gifford [born Thompson] (Mrs. Cox) and Michael [John] Attwell (Jones here; Reed, 1997) both starred in The Ice Warriors, as Miss Garrett and Isbur - Attwell was also Bates in Attack of the Cybermen
• Daniel Peacock (Leathers) and Peggy [Margaret Rose] Mount (Eliza) both appeared in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, as Nord and the Stallslady
• Dominic Guard (Turner here; Hall, 1995) and Kathy [Lucy Bridget] Burke (Lorraine) both starred in Terminus, as Olvir and Lazar
• Mary [Veronica] Healey (Doreen) and Annie Hulley (Jan here; Lorna, 1995) both appeared in The Happiness Patrol, as Killjoy and Newsreader (3)
• Nicholas Farrell [born Frost] (Byron) was Brian Green PM in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Gammades for Time Reef, Phil for A Perfect World (both 2008), Captain Frank for Last of the Cybermen (2015), and Browman for Strange Chemistry (2023)
• David [John] Ryall (Gash here; Harley, 1993; Dr. Baker, 1998) voiced Carthok for Phantasmagoria (1999)
• [Albert] Geoffrey Bayldon (Frain here; Ellington, 1997; Michaels, 2004; Simpson, 2006) was Organon in The Creature from the Pit, then voiced the Doctor for Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005)
• Frank Windsor [Higgins] (Smith here; Samuels, 2003/4) was Sir Ranulf Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, and Inspector Mackenzie in Ghost Light
• Peter [Francis Gabain] Copley (Woods here; Phipps, 1993; Ellis, 1999) was Dr. Warlock in Pyramids of Mars
• Christine Kavanagh (Helen) was Aram in Timelash, and voiced Patience for Cold Fusion (2017)
• Brian Hibbard (Cadell here; Wolf, 1999; Robert, 2009) was Kellor in Delta and the Bannermen
• Simon Shepherd (Ferris) voiced Boolin for Tsar Wars, Bewley for The Broken Crown, and the Magician for Aladdin Time (all 2011), Pal Andrews for Break the Ice (2022), and Hudson Sage for Vespertine (2023)
• Louis [Felix Danner] Mahoney (Olu Ajayi here; Cavanagh, 2007) was Newscaster in Frontier in Space, Ponti in Planet of Evil, and Older Billy Shipton in Blink
• Tim Preece (Gilchrist) was Codal in Planet of the Daleks, and voiced the President for He Jests at Scars (2003)
• Davyd Harries (Felton here; Hoyle, 1993; Leyland, 1998; Frey, 2002) was Shapp in The Armageddon Factor
• Mandi Symonds (Dr. Fuller here; Mrs. Marriott, 2001; Avis, 2018) voiced Erica MacMillan for Night of the Stormcrow (2012), Bridget for The Fifth Citadel, Lily Finnegan for Afterlife (both 2013), Shafira for Revenge of the Swarm, One for The Abandoned, Mrs. Targate for The Ghosts of Gralstead (all 2014), Alitha for The Lost Fairy Tale, Inspector Jill Sveinsdóttir for Repeat Offender (both 2016), Captain for Relative Time, Maude for The Web of Time (both 2019), Mary Seacole for The Charge of the Night Brigade (2020), Vengis for The Day of the Comet, Mary Claypole/Time Lord Emissary for The God of Phantoms (both 2021), Sky Bennett for The Rotting Deep, and Patricia Lockwood for The Inheritance (both 2022)
• Patricia Maynard (Brenda) was Hilda Winters in Robot, a role reprised for Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith (2002)
• Robert James [born McAllister] (Mitchell) was Lesterson in The Power of the Daleks, and the High Priest in The Masque of Mandragora
• James Saxon [born William James Smyth] (Marcus) was Oscar Botcherby in The Two Doctors
• stunt arranger Gareth Milne was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos, and doubled for Peter Davison on Warriors of the Deep
• Edwina Craze was also production associate on The Tenth Planet, The Krotons, The War Games (10) and Terror of the Zygons, and AFM on The Enemy of the World and The Mind Robber
• production manager Pennie Bloomfield was AFM on Attack of the Cybermen
• Mike Tucker was also VFX assistant on ten stories (from The Mysterious Planet to Survival) and Dimensions in Time, and model unit supervisor on fourteen episodes of the revived series (from Rose to The Time of the Doctor)