Doctor Who Vs. Inspector Morse, Series 2

John Thaw and Kevin Whateley returned as

Oxford-based detectives, Morse and Lewis, for

the second run of Central's iconic crime drama -

first shown at Christmas 1987 then in the winter

of 1988. 

The first thriller was later novelised as The Jewel

That Was Ours in 1991. Parts two and four were

based on original Morse mysteries - Last Bus to Woodstock (published in 1975) and Last Seen Wearing (1976) were Colin Dexter's first novels

(the screenplay for the third story was provided

by Charles Wood).

A repeat run of the season concluded on ITV3

today - it featured a total of twenty-seven Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

The Wolvercote Tongue 
(UK TX: Christmas Day 1987)

• Simon [Phillip Hugh] Callow (Kemp here; Oxe in Lewis) reprised his role of Charles Dickens (pictured in The Unquiet Dead) for The Wedding of River Song, and provided the voice of Tree Lorn Acre Slitheen Blathereen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift
• Kenneth Cranham (Downes) voiced Tom Cardwell for Big Finish's Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Roberta [Alexandra Mary] Taylor (Sheila) voiced Berengaria for The Holy Terror (2000), Angela Wisher for Cuddlesome (2008), and Maid for I Was Churchill's Double (2018)
• Christine [Mary] Kavanagh (Lucy) was Aram in Timelash, then voiced Patience for Cold Fusion (2016), Dora Muse for Muse of Fire (2018), and Magog/Juno for The Iron Legion (2019)
• Tim Faulkner (Manager) voiced Charles Hookham/Flindor/Wilbur Grits for The God of Phantoms, and Highgate for The End of the Beginning (both 2021)
• John Bloomfield (Aldrich) was the costume designer for The Face of Evil and The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• Maureen Morris (Nurse) provided the voice of the Great One for Planet of the Spiders
• [William] Pat Gorman (Guard) made appearances in eighty-three episodes (from The Dalek Invasion of Earth to Attack of the Cybermen)
• for Peter Woodthorpe, Michael Feinberg, Valentino Musetti and Terry Forrestal and see The Dead of Jericho

Last Seen Wearing (UK TX: March 8 1988)

• Glyn [born Glyndwr Desmond] Houston (Craven) was Professor [Owen] Watson in The Hand of Fear, and Colonel Ben Wolsey in The Awakening
• Philip Bretherton (Acum) voiced Plenipotentiary Suskind for Arrangements for War (2004), Elliot Payne for Jago & Litefoot 3, Scrivener for Recorded Time, Darcy/D'Urberville/Heathcliffe for A Most Excellent Match (all 2011), Vituperon for The Devil's Armada (2014), and Sir Keith Kordel for Rise and Shine (2015)
• Suzanne Bertish (Cheryl) voiced Aldis for Nevernor (2020)
• Julia Sawalha (Rachel) was Emma in The Curse of Fatal Death
• for James Grout (CS Strange) see The Dead of Jericho

The Settling of the Sun (UK TX: March 15)

• Anna Calder Marshall (Jane) voiced Mathilda Pierce for Scream of the Shalka
• Eiji Kusuhara (Li) was a Chinaman in Four to Doomsday, and voiced Professor Toshio Shimura for Enemy of the Daleks (2010)
• Tim Barker (Thomas) was Harold V in The Happiness Patrol
• [Walter] Llewellyn Rees (Robson) was the President in The Deadly Assassin
• Michael [John] Goldie (Tramp) was Craddock in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and Elton Laleham in The Wheel in Space
• Derek [James] Fowlds (Friedman) voiced Claude for The Elixir of Doom (2014)
• Tina Simmons (Guest here; Slimmer in Fat Chance) began her career as an Inferno Customer in (episode 1 of) The War Machines

Last Bus to Woodstock (UK TX: March 22)

• Terrence Hardiman (Palmer) was Hawthorne in The Beast Below, and voiced Sitirc Silkbeard for The Book of Kells (2010), Reverend Dobbs for AudioGo's The Broken Crown (2011), Hepworth Stackhouse for The English Way of Death, Richard Pollard for The Fall of the House of Pollard (both 2014), and Rassilon for Gallifrey: Time War 2 (2019)
• Shirley Dixon (Margaret) provided the voice of Skagra's Ship for Shada
• Ian Sears (Sanders) was Brendan Richards in K9 and Company