Doctor Who Vs. Grantchester, Series 2

ITV Studios' period drama (a

Masterpiece, Lovely Day and

Shine Group co-production)

was based on James Runcie's

The Grantchester Mysteries.

Vicar Sidney Chambers (played by James Norton) again joined

forces with DI Geordie Keating

(Robson Green) to solve crimes

in the Cambridgeshire village

of Grantchester in the 1950s.

Morven Christie, Tess Peake-
Jones, and Al Weaver also
returned as Amanda, Sylvia,

and Leonard respectively.

The six-part season (followed by

a festive special) debuted in the

spring of 2016, then was shown on the now defunct ITV Encore channel in March 2018 - a repeat run began on ITV3 last night - it featured David Troughton, and a total of twenty-seven Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Big Finish actor John Voce (Clark) was Fanshawe in The Woman Who Lived, and voiced Chief Surveyor Hardwick for Last of the Colophon (2014), Branarack for The Entropy Plague, Professor Garland/Albert Kennedy for The Red Lady, Jenkins for I Went to a Marvellous Party (all 2015), Toban for The Age of Endurance (2016), and Rako for Devil in the Mist (2019)
• Lorne [Alasdair] MacFadyen (Wilkinson) voiced Alan Stubbs for The War Master 11 (2024)
• Andrew Knott (Milburn) voiced James O'Meara for 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (2013), and Sean Casey for The White Room (2014)
• Oliver Dimsdale (Marlowe) voiced Morecombe Unwise for Come Die With Me, Mervyn Garvey for Dead to the World, Archie Ferrers for The Boundless Sea (all 2015), Commander Trelon for A Thing of Guile (2016), and Rebben Tace/V52 for The Sons of Kaldor (2018)
• Alfie Field (Chapman) was Timmy in The Beast Below
• Nigel [George] Planer (Montgomery) was Vorgenson for The Monsters are Coming, and voiced Alex Marlowe for Hothouse (2009), and Herrax/Old Emperor for Empire of the Racnoss (2017)
• Nicky [Victor Leslie] Henson (Archer) voiced Pieter Stubbe for Loups-Garoux (2001), Dick Turpin for The Doomwood Curse (2008), and Gregson Gren ville for Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars (2010)
• Tim McMullan (Raban) voiced the Eight for Doom Coalition 3 (2016)
• Josh [Ryan] Bolt (Crompton) voiced Kalan for The War Doctor 3 (2016), Philip for Dethras (2017), and Spod for The Diary of River Song 4 (2018)
• Liz White (Vivian) was Alice in The Snowmen, and voiced Genestra for The Brink of Death (2015), and Helais for The Death of Peladon (2022)
• Elliot Levey (Herzl) voiced Gobernar/Blank for Vampire of the Mind (2016), and Colonel Marsden for Red Planets (2018)
• Rosie Day (Joan) voiced Arn for Lost in Translation (2020)
• Ian Conningham (Greaves) was Chuckles in The Girl Who Died, and voiced Ronson/Lieutenant for Storm of the Horofax (2017), Kevin/ Rindle for The Lady in the Lake (2018), Maximov/Konis for Nightmare Country (2019), V11/Kaden Olson for Toos and Poul (2020), Dr. Richard Numan/Corfield for The Primeval Design, Robert Devereaux/ Lord Cecil for The Hollow Crown (both 2021), Kade for Previously, Next Time, Fridtjof Nansen for Northern Lights (both 2023), and Fletcher Hart for Planet Krynoid 1 (2025)
• Lisa Diveney (Rollinson) voiced Dr. Norma Vine for Time of the Intelligence (2017)
• Kit Connor (Charlie) was Charlie in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Olivia Darnley (Esther) was Kourtney in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, and voiced Emily Cole for Prisoner of the Ood (2018)
• Steve Toussaint (Evans) was Feekat in Ascension of the Cybermen
• Richard Dixon (Barrister) voiced DI Alan Probert for The Dreams of Avarice (2020)
• David Mason was also line producer on The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon and The Angels Take Manhattan
• George Atkins (ADR mixer) and Sam Biggs (recordist) both worked on The Time of the Doctor and Flatline
• Crispin Layfield was also the stunt co-ordinator on the revived series (from Smith and Jones to the present)
• Belinda McGinley was also a stunt performer on Amy's Choice, The Girl Who Waited, Deep Breath and The Husbands of River Song
• Xavier Russell was also film editor on Extremis and The Pyramid at the End of the World

Christmas Special (TX: Christmas Eve 2016/Repeated April 25 2017)

• Julian Glover (Tannen) was King Richard in The Crusade, and Count [Carlos] Scarlioni/Scaroth in City of Death
• Mariah Gale (Gail) was Eliza in Knock Knock
• for Pip Torrens see Series 1