Doctor Who Vs. Casualty, Series 8

Regular series actors Derek Thompson, Cathy Shipton, Ian Bleasdale,

Clive Mantle, Patrick Robinson, Caroline Webster, Anne Kristen and

William Gaminara all returned for the eighth season of BBC1's long-

running medical drama.

Joining the programme here were Jo Unwin (as paramedic Lucy Cooper), 

David Ryall (Dr. Tom Harley), Oliver Parker (manager Mark Calder),

Suzanna Hamilton (SHO Karen Goodliffe), Dona Croll (nurse Adele Beckford), Christopher Guard (nurse Ken Hodges), Samantha Edwards

(nurse Helen Chatsworth), Naoko Mori (receptionist Mie Nishikawa),

Steven O'Donnell (porter Frankie Drummer), Brendan O'Hea (paramedic

Brian Crawford), Tara Moran (trainee nurse Mary Skillett), Martin Ball

(SHO Dave Masters) and Jane Gurnett (nurse Rachel Longworth).

Webster, Kristen, Gaminara, Ryall, Parker, Hamilton, Croll, Guard,

Edwards, Mori, O'Donnell, O'Hea, Moran and Ball had all left the show

 by the series' conclusion, whilst Shipton chose to depart after eight

years service - she would return regularly between 1998 and 2020.

A repeat run of the twenty-four part series (originally broadcast from

September 1993 to February 1994) continued on Drama today - it

featured Adjoa Andoh, and thirty-six Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Mori was Dr. Toshiko Sato in Aliens of London, then Torchwood
• Amelda Brown (Linda) voiced Margaret for The Gunpowder Plot
• Peter Ferdinando (Policeman) and Brian [Reginald] Miller (Sullivan here; Warburn, 1999; Piper, 2002; Hearn, 2012) both appeared in Deep Breath, as Half-Face Man and Barney - Miller was also Dugdale in Snakedance, provided a Dalek voice for Resurrection of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks, was Harry Sowersby in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic - he also voiced Abbotly for Ghost Town (2002), and Rexus for Reborn (2011)
• Brenda Bruce (Carrie) was Tilda in Paradise Towers
• Clive [Mark] Rowe (Speight) was Morvin Van Hoff in Voyage of the Damned
• Craig Kelly (Wheater here; Daniel Perryman, 1995/6) and Anna Calder Marshall (Yvonne here; Peggy, 2015) both starred in Scream of the Shalka, as Joe Latham and Mathilda Pierce respectively
• prolific Big Finish actor Toby Longworth (PC) voiced Professor Morgan /Sancreda/UNIT Sentry for The Spectre of Lanyon Moor, the Monan Host for The Apocalypse Element, Priest for The Fires of Vulcan (all 2000), Kelsey for Sword of Orion, Hauptmann Julius Schafer for Colditz (both 2001), Beep the Meep for The Ratings War, Wong Chu for The Tao Connection, Driver for Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre, Josiah W Dogbolter for The Maltese Penguin (all 2002) and The Quantum Possibility Engine (2018), Badger/Gaulish/Winston Churchill/Tribes- man for Auld Mortality, Broke for The Dark Flame, Time Lord for Exile (all 2003), Goran for Snake Head, Cabbie for Unregenerate! (both 2005), Various for Cyberman 1, Controller for Dreamland (both 2006), Redklaw for Spring, Jack for Autumn, Colonel Heinrich Konrad /Major Schrader for Old Soldiers, the titular villain for The Wishing Beast, Coiffure for The Vanity Box (all 2007), Commander Hectocot for The Chaos Pool, Yatsumoto/Truscott/Manager for The Nightmare Fair (both 2009), Stafel/Guard for The Song of Megaptera, Dr. Tulp for Jago & Litefoot 1 (both 2010), Thaddeus P Winklemeyer/Berman Labazeen for Freakshow (2011), Workers for The Concrete Cage, Klaus Werner for Unto the Breach (both 2014), Min for Intervention Earth (2015), Vesuvius/Grubb for The Iron Legion (2019), Squawk/ Caw for The Infinite Quest, and Narrator of Battlefield, Paris in the Springtime and Cheques, Lies and Videotape
• Jaye Griffiths (Sheena here; Elle Gardner, 2016) was Jac in The Magician's Apprentice and The Zygon Invasion, and reprised for The Turn of the Tides (2022), and voiced Daylin for The Neverwhen (2016), Til Rork for The Sentient (2019), Sister Ursula for Abbey of Heretics (2020), Hieronymous Friend for Meanwhile, Elsewhere, Narrator of The Martian Dilemma, and Lady Audacity Montague for Audacity and In the Bleak Midwinter (all 2023)
• Martin Cochrane (Dinning) was General Chellak in The Caves of Androzani
• Terrence [Edward] Hardiman (Carlisle) was Hawthorne in The Beast Below, and voiced King Sitric for The Book of Kells (2010), Reverend Dobbs for AudioGo's The Broken Crown (2011), Hepworth Stackhouse for The English Way of Death, Lord Richard Pollard for The Fall of the House of Pollard (both 2014), and Rassilon for Time War 2 (2019)
• Andrée Bernard (Ricky here; Sandra, 1997) was Dolly Bailey in The Shakespeare Code, and voiced Ellen Green for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009), Erisi for The Entropy Composition, Lorelei for Paradise 5 (both 2010), Joanna Slade for The Feast of Axos (2011), Dr. Paignton/ Constable for The Red House, Susie/Sylvie for Stage Fright, Tethneka/ Carter/Thing for Terror of the Sontarans (all 2015), Mary Sissinghurst for The Carrionite Curse, and Lulu Hammerstein for The Silent Scream (both 2017)
• Jim [Michael] McManus (Harry here; Davis, 1996) was Opthalmol- ogist in The Invisible Enemy
• Frances White (Harriet) was Cassandra in The Myth Makers
• Sean Carlsen (Mac here; Mick, 1994; Bard, 1998) was Policeman in The Christmas Invasion, then voiced Sub-editor/Board Member/ Citizen/Censor for The Natural History of Fear (2004), Caius for The Council of Nicaea (2005), Ned Davey for The Ghosts of Gralstead, and Co-ordinator Narvin for Dark Eyes 3 (both 2014), Gallifrey (2004-16), The War Master (2018-20), Time War (2018-21), Erasure, The Quantum Possibility Engine, Dust Devil, Aftershocks, War Room (2022/23) and The Last Day 2 (2024)
• Amanda Root (Joyce here; Evelyn, 2013) voiced Madeleine Fairweather for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Lendek/Scientist for The Lords of Terror (2018)
• Sarah Berger (Gemma here; Helen, 2013) was Rost in Attack of the Cybermen (2)
• Vilma [Jean] Hollingbery (Ada) was Mrs. Harcourt in The Doctor Dances
• Leslie Schofield (Jenson) was Leroy in (episode 4 of) The War Games, and Calib in The Face of Evil
• Ball was Roger Davey in Partners in Crime
• Mark Williams (Jones) voiced Max Edison for The Eternal Summer (2009), then played Brian Williams in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and The Power of Three
• Gracy Goldman (Rosie) was Mrs. Woods in The Caretaker
• Patrick O'Connell (White) was Ashton in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (4)
• Michael Bertenshaw (PC Vaughan here; Granger, 2003; Murray, 2008) was  Cole in The Next Doctor
• Peter Guinness (Becket here; Elliot Matthews, 1997/8) voiced Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Baron Teufel for The Beast of Orlok (2009), Rovus for The Star Men (2017), and Mr. Dread for Dreamland
• Derek [James] Fowlds (Croft here; Cothern, 2013) voiced Claude for The Elixir of Doom (2014)
• Sean [Campbell] Gallagher (Truman) was Chip in New Earth
• Martyn Whitby (Pascoe here; Stanbridge, 2005) was the Drayman in The Mark of the Rani (1)
• Bryonie Pritchard (Nicola) was Dr. Sally Arnold in the Auton trilogy
• Heather Emmanuel (Rabya) was Tessa in The Android Invasion (4)
• Norman Mitchell [Driver] (Jenkins) was Policeman in The Daleks' Master Plan (7)
• Paterson [Davis] Joseph (Michael here; Mark Grace, 1997/8) was Roderick in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, then voiced Victor Espinosa for Earth Aid (2011), and was cast in Broken Memories (2024) 
• Colin McFarlane (Ray here; Duheney, 2015) provided the voice of the Heavenly Host for Voyage of the Damned, was Jonathan Moran in Under the Lake and Before the Flood, General Pierce in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Vince Foster for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro (both 2014), Narrator of The Blood Cell (all 2014) and Farewll to Peteer Capaldi, the Identical Men for Charlotte Pollard 2 (2017), and Captain Morski for The War Master 5 (2020)
• Karen Archer (Carly here; Norma, 2004) voiced Professor Allen for Never Alone (2021), and DCI Denise Walker for The Annihilators (2022)
• AFM Catrin Lewis Defis was the associate producer on The Next Doctor, The End of Time and Torchwood, and produced Music of the Spheres