Saturday, 27 January 2024

Doctor Who Vs. Dorothy L Sayers Mystery: Gaudy Night

The last television adaptations
of the crime novels of Dorothy
L Sayers (1893-1957) were
originally shown on BBC1 in
1987, and starred Edward
Petherbridge and Harriet
Walter as Lord Peter Wimsey
and Harriet Vane.
The ten-part series followed
the Corporation's two live TV versions of Sayers' stage play
Busman's Honeymoon (in 1947
and 1957), and five serials pro-
duced between 1972 and 1975 starred Ian Carmichael (who
then reprised Wimsey for Radio 4 in 1981). This three-part case (based
 on Sayers' tenth Wimsey novel, published in 1935) featured Caroline
John, Richard Morant, and fifteen Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

  • Clare Clifford (Graduate) was Professor Kyle in Earthshock
  • Charmian [Rosemary] May (Miss Hillyard) was Barbara Taploe in The Devil of Winterborne, and Margaret Wyndham in Ghosts of Winterborne
  • make-up designer Jennifer Hughes was an artist on Warriors of the Deep
  • Jennie Osborn was production manager on Enlightenment too
  • John Brace was also VFX designer on Full CircleThe Five Doctors and Revelation of the Daleks
  • Bill Wild was the film editor on Arc of Infinity too
  • Elmer Cossey was also film cameraman on (episode 5 of) Planet of the DaleksGenesis of the DaleksRevenge of the CybermenImage of the Fendahl and The Pirate Planet
  • Geraldine Stephenson was choreographer on The Brain of Morbius too
  • Jane Wellesley was also production assistant on City of Death, State of DecayTerror of the VervoidsThe Ultimate FoeThe Happiness Patrol and Silver Nemesis 
  • for Alan Machin, Clive Thomas, Shirley Coward, Bob Warman and Robin Lobb see Strong Poison
  • for John Mooney see Have His Carcase

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