Doctor Who Vs. Bergerac, Series 5

The first festive special devoted
to BBC1's Jersey-based crime
drama (shown on Boxing Day
1986) was followed by another
eight-part season which aired 
in early 1987.
Chris Boucher and Robert Holmes both provided screen-

plays here, whilst Graeme 

Harper was assigned to direct 

his second instalment.

A repeat run of the fifth series

continued on Drama today - it

featured John Nettles (as Jim Bergerac), Sean Arnold, Terence Alexander,

Jolyon Baker, Louise Jameson, and a total of thirty-one Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Barrie [Stanton] Ingham (Barnaby) was Alydon in Dr. Who and the Daleks, then Prince Paris in The Myth Makers
• Paul Brooke (Croxted) voiced Toby for Big Finish's Year of the Pig (2006)
• Ron [Henry] Pember (Plemont) voiced Seedle for Slipback
• Jim [Michael] McManus (Clerk) was an Opthalmologist in The Invisible Enemy
• Nicholas McArdle (Doctor) was Leonard De Vries in The Stones of Blood
• [Michael Thomas] Jeremy Clyde (Smythe) voiced George Sinclair for Absent Friends (2016), Lord Braye for Planet of the Drashigs (2019), and Tony Clare for Stranded (2020-22)
• Judy [Valerie] Cornwell (Belle) was Maddy in Paradise Towers
• Nigel [Richard] Lambert (Stevens) was Hardin in The Leisure Hive, then voiced the Triangles for War of the Sontarans and Once, Upon Time - he also voiced Domitian/Diode for The Cannibalists (2009), Michael Faraday/Magran for The Four Doctors (2010), Adjudicator for Thin Ice (2011), and Auga for The Guardians of Prophecy (2012)
• Philip Hurd Wood (Lewis) provided the voiced of the Graske for The Sarah Jane Adventures, Attack of the Graske and Music of the Spheres, then voiced Jabel/Sole for Who Am I? (2022), and Ivan for The Great Beyond (2024)
• Michael [John] Gambon (McLeod) portrayed Elliot and Kazran Sardick in A Christmas Carol
• David Schofield (Logan) voiced Billy for Death in Blackpool (2009), and Nostradamus/Conclave Leader for The Doomsday Quatrain (2011), Narrator of The House of Winter, Parval for The Sorcerer of Albion (2020), and Gostak for The End of the Beginning (2021), then appeared in The Girl Who Died as Odin
• Nick Brimble (Putnam) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Kith for Max Warp (2008), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Olaf Eriksson for The Book of Kells (2010), and Commander Harlan for The Conscript (2017)
• Christopher Fairbank (Sterrat) voiced Pierre Aronnax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), and Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018), then starred as Fenton in Flatline
• Milton Johns [born John Robert Milton] (Rice) was [Theodore] Benik in The Enemy of the World, Guy Crayford in The Android Invasion, and Castellan Kelner in The Invasion of Time
• Ian Thompson (Gaines) was Hetra in The Web Planet, and Malsan in (episode 2 of) The Chase
• Michael [Harold] Lomax (Workman) was a Technician in The Silurians (1)
• Daniel Hill (Alan) was Chris Parsons in Shada, and voiced Percy Noggins for AudioGo's The Stuff of Nightmares (2009)
• Mary[Veronica] Healey (Elsie) was a Killjoy in The Happiness Patrol
• Dinny [Dennis] Powell (Minder) was stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1), and Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4) and Genesis of the Daleks (3)
• [Rosemary] Rowena Cooper (Mrs. Hughes) was Angela Price in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then voiced La Concierge for AudioGo's The Demon of Paris (2010), Emily Shaw for The Last Post (2012) and The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Mother Superior for The Unbound Universe (2016) and Ruler of the Universe (2017), and Queen Victoria for The Torchwood Archive, The Victorian Age and Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018)
• Geoffrey Bateman (Webb) was Dymond in Nightmare of Eden
• Davyd Harries (Black) was Shapp in The Armageddon Factor
• Christian Rodska (Bernard) voiced Laan Carder for Faith Stealer (2004), and Reverand Small for The Dead Shoes (2011)
• Bernard[Joseph] Archard (Rodgers) was Bragen in The Power of the Daleks, and Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars
• Philip Bond (Temperley) was Ganatus in The Daleks
• Peter Tuddenham (Minister) was a voice artiste on The Ark in Space (1), The Masque of Mandragora and Time and the Rani
• Philip Anthony [Johnson] (Price) was Roald in The Daleks' Master Plan (1)
• Marilyn Le Conte (Clerk) voiced the titular woman for The Lady of the Lake
• Gerry Mill was director of The Faceless Ones too
• Ken Ledsham was also the production designer on The Ribos Operation, Destiny of the Daleks and The King's Demons
• Simon Wilson was also film recordist on The Green Death and The King's Demons