Doctor Who Vs. A Study in Terror

Shown on Legend Extra today,

this cult British thriller chronicled

the first encounter between two

iconic Victorian figures - Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper.

John Neville (1925-2011) and
Donald Houston (1923-1991) 

portrayed Holmes and Watson in

an original narrative, where the

Great Detective exposed the

identity of the Ripper.

The film was novelised in 1966 by

Paul W Fairman and Ellery Queen,

and the Holmes versus the Ripper

sub-genre was later dramatised in Murder By Decree (1978) and

Holmes and the Ripper (2010),

and adapted into the novels The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978),

The Whitechapel Horrors (1992), and Dust and Shadows (2009).

Here, the Whitechapel Murders began with (the non-canonical slaying

of) Emma Smith in April 1888, and the Ripper is ultimately revealed

as Lord Carfax.

The production co-starred Robert Morley (as Mycroft Holmes), whilst

Frank Finlay (Lestrade) and Anthony Quayle (Dr. Murray) both later

appeared in Murder By Decree. Released by Colombia Pictures in

1965, the film also featured a young Judi Dench, and fifteen Doctor

 Who cast and crew connections:

• John [Alexander] Fraser (Carfax here; Uncle Gideon in Young Sherlock) was the Monitor in Logopolis
• Barbara [Ann] Windsor [born Deeks] (Annie Chapman) appeared in Army of Ghosts as Peggy Mitchell, her EastEnders character
• Adrienne Corri [born Riccoboni] (Angela) was Mena in The Leisure Hive
• [Frank] Dudley Foster (Home Secretary) was Maurice Caven in The Space Pirates
• Barbara Leake (Mrs. Hudson) was Mrs. Farrell in Terror of the Autons
• Patrick [David] Newell (PC Benson here; Lestrade in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson; Blessington in The Resident Patient; Bobster in Young Sherlock Holmes) was Colonel Faraday in The Android Invasion
• Richard Atherton (Butler) was Lama in The Abominable Snowmen, Inspector/Prison Officer in The Mind of Evil, Noble in The Androids of Tara, and Passenger in Time Flight
• Billy Cornelius (Ruffian here; Leary in The Illustrious Client, 1965) was stuntman on (episode 4 of) 100,000 BC, Man-at-arms in The Crusade (4), and Morok Guard in The Space Museum
• Eric Kent (Butcher here; Rough in The Blue Carbuncle, 1984) was Technician in The Seeds of Death, and Roundhead in The Time Monster (3)
• Michael Stevens (PC) was Soldier in The Myth Makers (1), Daffodil Man in Terror of the Autons (3), UNIT Motorcyclist/Prisoner in The Mind of Evil, and Guard in The Curse of Peladon (1)
• Walter Henry [born Israel W Nagelkop] (PC) was an Extra in The Myth Makers (2) and The Siluruans (6), Primord in Inferno, and Brother in The Masque of Mandragora
• Bill Brandon (Ruffian) was an uncredited Mongol Warrior in Marco Polo
• Peter Diamond (stuntman here, Jack the Ripper (1959), Sherlock Holmes (1965), Hands of the Ripper, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother) was a regular stunt double/fight arranger on the classic series (from The Daleks to The Daemons)
• Fred Wood (Beggar) was an Extra in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• John Cox was the sound supervisor on both Dalek films too