Doctor Who Vs. Endeavour, Series 5

Shaun Evans returned as Colin

Dexter's detective, Endeavour

Morse for a fifth season in early

2018, and was again joined by

Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Dakota

 Blue Richards, James Bradshaw,

and Anton Lesser.

Now set in 1968, the Inspector

Morse prequel drama (a Mammoth

 Screen and Masterpiece co-prod-

uction) began with Morse newly

promoted to Detective Sergeant,

and Oxford City Police about to

merge into Thames Valley Con-

stabulary. Meanwhile, CID's new-

est DC, George Fancy (Lewis Peek)

debuted here and Joan Thursday

(Sara Vickers) has returned home. Icarus then saw the murder of

Fancy and Truelove's subsequent transfer.

A repeat run of series five (now extended to six parts, again all

written by Russell Lewis) began on ITV3 last night, and featured

thirty Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Muse (TX: February 4)

• Emily Barber (Lucy) voiced Elidh for Big Finish's The Sky Man and The Heavenly Paradigm (both 2018)
• Rhys Isaac Jones (Bell) voiced Thomas Laneford for Gifted (2018), Aaron for Hostile Environment, and Allied Soldier for What Have I Done? (both 2019)
• Nathalie Buscombe (Cassie) voiced Jane Austen for False Coronets, and Garen/Galerayna/Queen for Someone I Once Knew (both 2018)
• [Pauline] Tanya Fear (Jasmine) was Dr. Jade McIntyre in Arachnids in the UK
• Mark Arden (Nero) was a Tharil in Warriors' Gate

Cartouche (TX: February 11)

• Donald Sumpter (Valdemar here; Taylor for Last Seen Wearing, 1994) was Enrico Casali in The Wheel in Space, Commander Ridgeway in The Sea Devils, Erasmus Darkening in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Eternity Trap, and President Rassilon in Hell Bent
• Phil Daniels (Charlie) voiced Geoffrey Plum for The Gunpowder Plot
• Alan David (Kegworth here; Davies in Twilight of the Gods) was Gabriel Sneed in The Unquiet Dead, then voiced Castellan Kanteer for The Enigma Dimension (2017), and Lord Macavoy/Old Lawrence for The Primeval Design (2021)
• Simon Dutton (De Vere) was Alistair in The Time of Angels
• Robin Weaver (Molly) voiced Edwige Ponzi for Nothing to See Here (2016), and Arianda for Storm of the Horofax (2017)
• David Shaw Parker (Commissionaire here; Sergeant in Deceived by Flight) voiced Generals Mikhail Leonov and Paterson for 1963: The Space Race (2013), David Walker for Eyes of the Master (2014), John Campbell/Dodgson for The Screaming Ceiling (2019), and Ron Winters for Stranded (2020/21)
• Steven Flynn (Curwen) voiced Filius for Deception (2021), and High Vector Goriant for The Last Line (2022)

Passenger (TX: February 18)

• Lizzy Watts (Heather) voiced Eve Pritchard/Mi'en Kalarash for House of Blue Fire (2011)
• Rosalie [Mae] Craig (Jilly) voiced Frances Drouet for Broadway Belongs to Me! (2023) 
• Tom Lucy was also the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen adventures (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)

Colours (TX: February 25)

• Greg [Paul] Austin (Hutchens) was Charlie Smith in Class, then voiced Perseus for The Wrath of Medusa (2022)
• Robert Portal (Major Coward) voiced Marshal Ney and Super- intendent Finch for The Curse of Davros (2012), Reggie Bassett for The Auntie Matter (2013), Dr. Poograss for Whatever Remains (2019), Jim/Midge for Lost Property, and Treadwell for Wild Animals (both 2020)
• Steven [William Thomas] Elder [born Lawrence] (Barker) voiced Siy Tarkov for Dalek Empire (2003/4), Commander Farrow for Jubilee, Eric Rawden for Something Inside (2006), Rudolph for Blood on Santa's Claw, and Lord Lycaon for I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day and Brightly Shone the Moon That Night (all 2019)
• Dominic Thorburn (Dr. Laidlaw) voiced Afrid for We Are the Daleks, Brejesh/Security Leader for Planet of the Rani (both 2015), Chip for Night Watch (2018), and Mandrake for The Missing Link and Darkness and Light (both 2019)
• Ray Sesay (Oswald) was Dr. [Martin Luther] King in Rosa
• Sam Marks (Farridge) was Wiggins in The Shakespeare Code

Quartet (TX: March 4)

• Brendan Patricks (Singleton) was Edmund/Jonas Thursday in The Crimson Horror
• Ellie Haddington (Bagshot) was Professor Alison Docherty in Last of the Time Lords
• Anthony Combes was film editor on The Wedding of River Song too
• for Geoffrey Sax see Series 2

Icarus (TX: March 11)

• Anson Boon (Brett) voiced Peter Dillard for Now You Know (2018)
• Michael Simkins (Mackenzie) voiced Raxxil for The Planet of Witches (2020)
• Richard Price (Mourner) was Guest in The Runaway Bride, Photo- grapher in The Lazarus Experiment, Passerby in Partners in Crime, Takran Soldier in The Doctor's Daughter, Cyberman in World Enough and Time, The Doctor Falls, Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children, Les in Kerblam!, Sniperbot in The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos, Dalek in Revolution of the Daleks, Visitor in The Vanquishers, and Shadow Kin in Class
• Simon Archer was cinematographer on The Lodger too
• Nicholas Brown was also first assistant director on eight episodes (from The Curse of the Black Spot to The Name of the Doctor)