Doctor Who Vs. Grantchester, Series 1

Launched by ITV Studios in October
2014, this 1950s-set crime drama was
based on The Grantchester Mysteries 
by novelist, playwright and film maker
James Runcie. The series was adapted

from the 2012 short story collection,

Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of

Death.

Here, Anglican vicar Chambers (played

by James Norton) and DI Geordie Keating

(Robson Green) join forces to solve crimes

in the titular Cambridgeshire village.

Morven Christie, Tess Peake-Jones, and

Al Weaver were cast as Amanda, Mrs.

Maguire, and Leonard Finch respectively.

 A repeat run of the six-part season

began on ITV3 last night - it featured

Jean Marsh, David Troughton, and a

total of twenty-six Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Norton was Onegin in Cold War
• Christie was O'Donnell in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Peake-Jones was Marta in The Time of the Doctor
• Kacey [Jane] Ainsworth (Cathy) voiced Beryl for Big Finish's Girl in a Bottle (2023)
• Nick Brimble (Chapman) 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)
• Andrew [Hugh] Woodhall (Morton) depicted Rex Tucker in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Michelle Duncan (Annabel) was Lady Isobel in Tooth and Claw
• Kevin Looseley (Policeman) made his TV debut as a Cyberman in Dead Ringers
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (Kendall) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022)
• Mark Bonnar (Dr. Robinson) was Jimmy Wicks in The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People, then voiced Heath Porteus for The English Way of Death (2015), Zoltan Frid for The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (2016), and the Eleven for Doom Coalition (2015-17), Ravenous (2018/19), Dark Universe (2020), UNIT: Nemesis 1 (2021/22) and The Eleven
• Isla Blair (Gladys) was Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, and voiced Paula for Exotron, Marge for Kidnapped!, Charn for Palindrome (both 2020), and Old Mary Mortimer for Friend of the Family (2023)
• Pippa Nixon (Daphne) voiced Joanna Nash for Static (2017), and Termiton Uden for Death in the New Forest (2018)
• Michael Simkins (Jarvis) voiced Raxxil for The Planet of Witches (2020)
• Brian Vernel (Tam) was Lucius in The Eaters of Light, and voiced Robert for Dethras (2017)
• Beth Lilly (Edna) voiced Jess Ellmore for Infamy of the Zaross (2017)
• Struan Rodger (Hall) provided the voice of the Face of Boe for New Earth and Gridlock, was Clayton in The Woman Who Lived, then voiced the Kasaavin in Syfall
• Peter Egan (Johnson) voiced Moloch for Protect and Survive, and Straxus for Dark Eyes 1 (both 2012)
• Mike Noble (Val) voiced Miklev for The Rani Elite (2014)
• Camilla [Marie] Beeput (Gloria) voiced Nova for Ravagers (2021)
• Fiona Button (Jennifer) voiced Bex for Echoes (2024)
• Adam James (Heath) was DI Macmillan in Planet of the Dead
• David Mason was also line producer on The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon and The Angels Take Manhattan
• Crispin Green was also film editor on Tooth and Claw, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Idiot's Lantern, Fear Her, Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead
• Will Willoughby was also stuntman on Rose, Smith and Jones, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens, A Good Man Goes to War, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy and Torchwood
• stuntman Rob Pavey also worked on Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Robot of Sherwood, Listen and The Witch's Familiar
• Katie Lee was also a make-up artist on The Snowmen and Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS