Doctor Who Vs. Bergerac, Series 8

The fourth Christmas special devoted to BBC1's
popular Jersey-based crime drama was followed by

another ten-part season, first shown in early 1990.

A repeat run of the eighth and penultimate series

began on Drama today, - it featured John Nettles

(as the titular detective), Louise Jameson, Sean

Arnold, Terence Alexander, and a total of thirty-seven Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Joseph Mydell (Tetteh) voiced Garius Moro for Big Finish's Memories of a Tyrant (2019)
• Julian [Neil Rohan] Wadham (Russell) voiced Augustus Scullop for The Fourth Wall (2012), Dr. Joseph Holman for The Darkness of Glass (2015) and The Crowmarsh Experiment (2018), and Judge Perigold Trent for The Doomsday Contract (2021)
• Louis [Felix Danner] Mahoney (Mensah) was a Newscaster in Frontier in Space, Ponti in Planet of Evil, and [the elder] Billy Shipton in Blink
• John [Edward] Cater (Skebbins) was Professor Krimpton in The War Machines 
• Ronald [John] Allen (Grey) was Rago in The Dominators, and Professor Ralph Cornish in The Ambassadors of Death
• Derren Nesbitt [born Horwitz] (Swain) was Tegana in Marco Polo, and voiced Thomas Dodd for Spare Parts (2002), and Quences for Auld Mortality (2003)
• Barry Jackson (DCI Kinsey) was Ascaris in The Romans, Jeff Garvey in Mission to the Unknown, and Drax in The Armageddon Factor
• Rod Arthur (Davies) was Parsons in School Reunion
• Susan Wooldridge (Carol) auditioned for the role of Leela in 1976
• Gordon [Massey] Gostelow (Thomas) was Milo Clancey in The Space Pirates
• Trevor Cooper (Sorel) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, and voiced Stenton Rull for Kaldor City (2001-4), Sir Ralph for The Doomwood Curse, Shanks for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (both 2008), Judah for The Beast of Orlok, Smithy for Castle of Fear (both 2009), Captain Maddox/ Stennan/Sentries for Army of Death (2011), Colonel Burroughs/Kimball for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Mr Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), Sir Joseph Eagleton/Jonathan Mayfly for The Ghosts of Greenwich, Smallpiece for Merry Christmas Mr Jago (both 2019), and Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witch (2022)
• Geoffrey [Dyson] Palmer (Carter) was Edward Masters in The Silurians, the Administrator in The Mutants, and Captain Hardaker in Voyage of the Damned
• Struan Rodger (Smith) provided the voice of the Face of Boe for New Earth and Gridlock, was Clayton in The Woman Who Lived, then voiced Kasaavin in Spyfall
• Peter Miles (Arranches) was Dr. Charles Lawrence in The Silurians, Professor Whitaker in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, then was Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks, a role he reprised for The Trial of Davros (2005) and Guilt (2006) - he also voiced Tragan for The Paradise of Death, Curator Gantman for Whispers of Terror, Christopher Shaw for BBV Productions' Absolution (both 1999), Dr. Brandt for Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre (2002), and Layly Landerchild for Kaldor City
• Clive [Robert] Merrison (Ackroyd) and Brenda Bruce (Karen) both appeared in Paradise Towers, as the Deputy Chief Caretaker and Tilda - Merrison was also Jim Callum in The Tomb of the Cybermen, and voiced Sir Frederick Maltravers for BBV's The Barnacled Baby (2001), and George Augustus for The Contingency Club (2017)
• Alfred [Cornelius] Lynch (Whittaker) was Commander A H Millington in The Curse of Fenric
• Leonard Trolley (Dennis) was Supt. Reynolds in The Faceless Ones 
• Alec Sabin (Lance) was Ringway in Earthshock
• Julian [Wyatt] Glover (Wermstrom) was King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
• [Timothy] Tip Tipping (Clandel here; stuntman in Series 9) was the stunt arranger on Remembrance of the Daleks, The Curse of Fenric and Survival
• Kenneth Cranham (Gascoigne) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Simon Chandler (Sumner) voiced Corporal Arthur Dimes for Churchill Victorious (2018)
• Rupert Holliday Evans (Baz) was Colonel [Alan] Mace in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, then voiced Celtic Warrior for The Relics of Time, Artist for The Demon of Paris, and Cop for Starfall (all 2010)
• [Jocelyn] Paula Topham (Mrs Hazelton) was the Vamp in The Feast of Steven
• Ken Grieve was director of Destiny of the Daleks too
• Gordon Flemyng also directed both Dalek films
• Steve Hudson was dubbing mixer on Doctor Who: A New Dimension too
• for Lawrence Davidson see Series 1
• for Rod Beacham and John Abineri see Series 3
• for Andrew Burt see Series 4
• for Geoffrey Sax, Tristan de Vere Cole and Sue Wallace see Series 6
• for Brian Finch and Jack Watling see Series 7