Doctor Who Vs. Bergerac, Series 1

Produced by the BBC in association
with the Australian Seven Network,
this popular crime drama began in
October 1981 and endured for nine
seasons.
Set on the Channel Island of Jersey,
the cast was led by John Nettles as
DS Jim Bergerac (pictured left) of
the Bureau des Étrangers within the

State Police.
The programme was created, written

and produced by Robert Banks

Stewart (1931-2016) when his

previous drama Shoestring ended.

Bob Baker and Dennis Spooner

also provided screenplays here.

A repeat run of the first, ten-part

season began on Drama this week - it featured Sean Arnold, Annette Badland, Terence Alexander (right), Maureen O'Brien, and a total of

forty-seven Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Badland was Margaret Blaine [alias Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen] in Aliens of London, World War Three and Boom Town (and reprised in 2019 for Big Finish's Sync), then voiced Queen Karlina for Equilibrium, Thelma for Suburban Hell (both 2015), Guilana for Asking for a Friend (2017), Judge/Computer for Barrister to the Stars, Mrs Slinger/Batraxus for Whatever Remains, and Maude Polwart/Mermaid for The Ghost Writers (all 2020)
• Alexander was Lord Ravensworth in The Mark of the Rani
• [Albert] Geoffrey Bayldon (Bernard)
• David Savile (Gurney) was Lieutenant Jeremy Carstairs in The War Games, Professor Winser in The Claws of Axos, and Colonel Charles Crichton for The Five Doctors
• James Greene (Alcoholic) was the Abbott in The Bells of Saint John
• Judith Byfield (Mary) and Peter Dahlsen (Morton) both starred in Time Flight, as Angela Clifford/Tannoy Voice and Horton
• Roland Oliver (Instructor) was Neman in The Keeper of Traken
• Graeme Eton (Sergeant) was Preba in The Monster of Peladon
• Jim [Derek Christopher] Dowdall (DC Draycott here; stuntman in Series 7) was Guerilla in Day of the Daleks, Guard in Genesis of the Daleks, and Warnsman in (part 1 of) Frontios
• Leon Eagles (Moellendorff) and Lloyd McGuire (Officer) both appeared in The Face of Evil - as Lugo and Jabel
• George [Villiers] Little (Owner) was Haroun ed-Din in The Crusade
• Jack [Stewart] Galloway (Carnegie) was Captain Joseph Willow in The Awakening
• David Arlen [born Sydney Bough] (Detective) was Warrior Guard in The Mutants
• John Gillett (Kinthly) was the Gravis in Frontios
• Neil Hallett [born John Neill] (Colonel) was Maylin Renis in Timelash
• Julian Fox (Manager) was Peter Hamilton in Death to the Daleks
• John Moore (Joe) and James Duggan (Officer) were Trojan Guards in The Myth Makers - Moore was also Prisoner in Frontier in Space (3) with Nancy [Honor] Gabrielle [born Lankshear] (Dressmaker here)
• Jay [Joseph] Neill (Waiter) was Guard in The Enemy of the World (6), Policeman in The Silurians (3), Pikeman in The Masque of Mandragora (2), Silvey in The Invisible Enemy (1), and Klimt in Underworld
• Anthony [Stewart] Head (Bill) voiced Valentine for Death Comes to Time, and Grayvorn for Excelis saga (2002), before his TV role as Brother Lassar in School Reunion, then voiced Baltazar for The Infinite Quest 
• Michael Osbourne (Collins) was an Extra in The Myth Makers (2), Guardian in The Ark, and Sorak in The Horns of Nimon
• Harry Waters (Doctor) and Freddie Earlle (Official) both starred in Warriors' Gate - as Royce and Aldo
• Charles Kay [born Piff] (Westgate) voiced the Curator for Excelis Rising
• [Walter] Tenniel Evans (Jeffrey) was Major Daly in Carnival of Monsters
• Graham Seed (Reardon) voiced Bevan for The Forgotten Village (2014), Pyerpoint for The Romance of Crime (2015), and Squire/ Gramoryan/Taverner for Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (2019)
• Christopher Villiers (Cowley) was Hugh Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, Professor Moorhouse in Mummy on the Orient Express, and voiced Cacothis for Absolution (2007)
• David Webb (Pathologist) was Leeson in Colony in Space (1)
• Sarah Douglas (Anne) voiced Professor Elizabeth Meadows for Blood of the Cybermen, the Entity for TARDIS, Jones for Shadows of the Vashta Nerada, Gillen for Masters of War (2008), Chancellor Dondequest for Reborn (2010), Sibar for Prisoners of Fate (2013), Vortia Trear for The Year After I Died (2017), Drah for Mother Tongue, Myrna Kendal for The Vanity Trap (both 2020), Mrs Mevel for A Quiet Night In, and Quartermistress for Unfinished Business (both 2021)
• [James] Sean Caffrey (Grant here; Renwick in Series 7) was Lord Palmerdale in Horror of Fang Rock
• Alan David (Gidleigh) 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)
• [Thomas] Kevin [Harvest] Stoney (Nelson) was Mavic Chen in The Daleks' Master Plan, Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion, and Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen
• George Roubicek (Vance) was Captain Hopper in The Tomb of the Cybermen
• Geoffrey Leesley (DC Wilson) voiced Paramount Minister Mortund for Arrangements for War (2004), and Harold for AudioGo's The Broken Crown (2011)
• Ian Bartholomew (Gibbins) voiced the Grimminy Grue/Gordon for Back to Earth (2022)
• Gary [Garrowby Cawthorne] Watson (Bishop) was Arthur Terrall in The Evil of the Daleks
• Anne [Mabel] Tirard (Ilse) was Locusta in The Romans (3), and the Seeker in The Ribos Operation
• Eric Mason (Helmsman) was Smedley in The Sea Devils, and Green in The Mind of Evil
• Glen Murphy (Scheringer) was a titular Tribesman in Kinda, and Dibber in The Mysterious Planet
• Marc [Raymond] Boyle (Ribot) was stuntman on Terror of the Autons, fight arranger on The Time Warrior, and had roles as Prisoner/UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, Kronos in The Time Monster, and Exxilon in Death to the Daleks
• [William] Pat Gorman (Policeman) had roles in eighty-three instal- ments of the classic run (from The Dalek Invasion of Earth to Attack of the Cybermen)
• Lawrence Davidson (Inspector) was Draconian First Secretary in Frontier in Space (2)
• Bernard Ashby was film editor on Arc of Infinity too
• production manager Steve Goldie was assistant floor manager on The Armageddon Factor (6), and PA on Terminus too
• after serving as AFM on Colony in Space and Planet of the Spiders, and PA on The Seeds of Doom and Warriors' Gate, production manager Graeme Harper was director of The Caves of Androzani, Revelation of the Daleks, then thirteen episodes of the revived series (from Rise of the Cybermen to The Waters of Mars), Time Crash and The Sarah Jane Adventures