Doctor Who Vs. Bergerac, Series 4

Series creator and producer 
Robert Banks Stewart also 
provided a script for this season
 (which first aired from October
to December 1985), whilst 

Graeme Harper was assigned
to direct an instalment and
Chris Boucher returned as 
script editor.

A repeat run of the nine-part

series continued on Drama today,

and again featured John Nettles

(as Jim Bergerac), Sean Arnold,

Terence Alexander, Jolyon Baker, Louise Jameson, Mark Strickson,

Ian Marter, Terry Molloy, and a total of thirty-six Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• John [Richard] Rolfe (Manager) and Jerome [Barry] Willis (Imison) both starred in The Green Death, as Fell and [Jocelyn] Stevens
• Eileen Helsby (Housekeeper) was Venussa in The Ark
• Gareth Milne (Caulfield) and Ian McCulloch (Mitchell) both appeared in Warriors of the Deep, as Nilson and stunt double - Milne was also George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, and Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos
• Bernard [Joseph] Archard (Dr. Rogers) was Bragen in The Power of the Daleks, and Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars
• Gilbert Wynne (Customs Man) was Thara in The Krotons
• Arthur [James] Blake (Beavis) was Hrhoonda in (episode 2 of) The Web Planet
• Jon [Sleeman] Croft (Fisherman) was Tom Girton in The Daemons
• Hubert [Thomas Morgan] Rees (Barton) was the Chief Engineer in Fury  from the Deep, Captain Ransom in The War Games, and John Stevenson in The Seeds of Doom 
• Malcolm Tierney (Dudley) was Dolland in Terror of the Vervoids
• John [Henry] Ringham (Editor) was Tlotoxl in The Aztecs, Josiah Blake in The Smugglers, and Robert Ashe in Colony in Space
• John Abbott (Bruce) was Vince Hawkins in Horror of Fang Rock
• Beryl [Elizabeth] Reid (Miss Broome) and Clare Clifford (Inter- viewer) both starred in Earthshock, as Captain Briggs and Professor Kyle 
• Lois Baxter (Marie) was Lamia in The Androids of Tara
• Martin Fisk (Tony) was Vargos in The Leisure Hive
• Bill Weston (Causebrook/Greg) was a Militiaman in The Smugglers
• Elizabeth [Jean] Spriggs [born Williams] (Mary Lou) was Tabby in Paradise Towers
• John [Freeman] Baker (Butler) was a Time Lord in Colony in Space (1), Meditator in Planet of the Spiders (1), and Ralph in The Visitation (1)
• Duncan Preston (Paul) voiced the titular alien in the Doctor Who and Crayola sketch for Victoria Wood as Seen on TV
• Arthur Cox (Carpenter) was Cully in The Dominators, then Henderson in The Eleventh Hour
• Michelle [Daniella] Collins (Trace) was Captain Kath McDonnell in 42, and voiced Winnie Tyler for Big Finish's Damaged Goods (2015)
• Andrew Burt (McKennan) was Valgard in Terminus
• Jonathan Stratt (Monty) was the Taxi Driver in Partners in Crime
• Ivor Roberts (Fouchet) was Mogran in Genesis of the Daleks
• [John] Maurice Roeves (Vaccarro) was Stotz in The Caves of Androzani
• Petra Markham (Suzie) was Safiya in The Crusade (3)
• Andrew McCulloch (Tim) co-wrote Meglos
• Dennis Edwards (du Bois) was a Centurion in The Romans (1), and Lord Gomer in The Invasion of Time
• Terrence [Edward] Hardiman (Ripley) was Hawthorne in The Beast Below, then voiced Sitric Silkbeard for The Book of Kells (2010), Reverend Dobbs for AudioGo's The Broken Crown (2011), Lord Richard for The Fall of the House of Pollard (2014), Hepworth Stackhouse for The English Way of Death (2015), and Rassilon for Time War 2 (2019)
• Ian McNeice (Fowler) portrayed Winston Churchill in The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens and The Wedding of River Song then reprised for Big Finish's The Churchill Years, Their Finest Hour (2018), Subterfuge and Operation: Hellfire (both 2020) - he also voiced Zeus for Immortal Beloved (2007), and Reginald Harcourt for Renaissance Man (2012)
• Shane Ritchie (Bodyguard) voiced Drax for Connections (2022)
• Ken Trew was also costume designer on Terror of the Autons, Snakedance, The Mysterious Planet, Time and the Rani, Remembrance of the Daleks, Ghost Light, The Curse of Fenric, Survival and Dimensions in Time
• Linda McInnes was make-up designer on Attack of the Cybermen too
• Margot Hayhoe was also production manager on Logopolis, Castrovalva and Snakedance following work as AFM on The War Machines, Fury from the Deep and The Ambassadors of Death
• Rosalind Ebbutt was also costume designer on Black Orchid and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy