Doctor Wo Vs. Spooks, Series 2

Peter Firth, Matthew Macfayden,

Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Hugh

 Simon, Rory MacGregor, Esther Hall,

and Megan Dodds all returned for the

RTS award-winning second series of

BBC1's spy drama, which first aired

in the summer of 2003.

Nicola Walker and Shauna Macdonald

both joined the programme here, as

new MI5 officers, Ruth Evershed and

Sam Buxton.

A repeat run of season two (extended

to ten parts) began on Drama last night

- it featured a total of twenty-four

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Benedict [Timothy Carlton] Cumberbatch (North) voiced Howard Carter for Big Finish's Fake Gods (2008)
• Gary Bakewell (PC) voiced Taylor for Insurgency, and Christian Griswold for Other Lives (both 2005) 
• Alexander [born Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi] Siddig (Khalduin) voiced Rosto for Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008), Captain Nemo for The Wreck of the Titan and Legend of the Cybermen (both 2010), the Sultan for 1001 Nights (2012), and Marcus Gifford for I Went to a Marvellous Party (2015)
• John Hopkins (Anton) voiced Fairfield for The Great Beyond (2024)
• Wiilliam Gaminara (Gleeson) voiced Lord Alfred de Souza for Skin Deep (2018), The Wreck and Long Shot (both 2021), and Engineer Terson for Chase the Night (2020)
• Lucy O'Connell (Doctor) was the Olive Woman in The Lazarus Experiment
• Christopher Fairbank (Blaney) was Fenton in Flatline, and voiced Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), the Professor for The Wreck of the Titan, and Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018)
• Steve Robinson was also first assistant director on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks
• Julie Cox (Maxi) voiced Mary Shelley for Mary's Story (2009), The Silver Turk, The Witch from the Well and Army of Death (all 2011)
• Sophie Okonedo (Amanda) was Queen Liz 10 in The Beast Below and The Pandorica Opens, and voiced Alison Cheney for Scream of the Shalka
• Jo [Mary] Joyner (Stephanie) was Lynda Moss in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, then voiced Fenice for Boundaries (2022)
• Richard Braine (Phil) voiced Percy Closed for The English Way of Death (2015), Professor Linus Woolf for Entanglement (2018), and Father Meitinger for You Only Die Twice (2024)
• Mark Lewis Jones (Wooley) voiced Professor Oliver Mortlake for The Darkness of Glass (2015)
• prolific Big Finish actor Tim [Charles Robert Noel] Bentinck (RAF Voice) voiced a Monk for Extremis and The Pyramid at the End of the World, and voiced Giles Moreau/Jenkins for Destination: Nerva, Roger Buchman for Wirrn Isle (both 2012), Williams/Comrade/Kavurshkin/ Curtis for The Forgotten Village, Nathaniel Whitlock for Moonflesh, Ned Bones/Lord Burghley for The Devil's Armada (all 2014), Colonel George Radlett for The English Way of Death, Chowdras/Governor for Planet of the Rani (both 2015), General Kallix for The Neverwhen (2016), Cabby /Wakefield/Stonegood for The Contingency Club, Edward Travers/the Great Intelligence for Time of the Intelligence (both 2017), Lord Crozion for Kingdom of Lies, Franz Kafka for Whodunnit? (both 2018), Alfie/Computer for Ghosts (2020), Karlos/Guard/Reveller for The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook (2021), Older Henry Mortimer for Friend of the Family (2023), and Tommy Pierce for Torchwood One
• Steve Kirby (Trevor) was Pirate/Villager in (episode 1 of) The Smugglers
• Kieran Bew (Bryant) was Ivan in Oxygen, and voiced Barry/Arthur Kettleson for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Murdo Jamieson for The Helm of Awe, Krim Pollensa for Month 25 (both 2017), Richard Cooper for The Creeping Death (2019), Lunk/V97 for Do No Harm (2020) Dwayne Pherber for The End of the Beginning (2021), and Grannus Drek for The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook
• Leo Bill (Woods) was the Pilot in A Christmas Carol
• Roger Brierley (Getty) was Trevor in The Daleks' Master Plan (8), then provided the voice of Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
• Michael Cochrane (Vaughan) was Charles Cranleigh in Black Orchid, Redvers Fenn-Cooper in Ghost Light, and voiced Lieut. Col. Brook for No Man's Land (2006), Murgat for Brotherhood of the Daleks (2008), Colonel Spindleton for The Trail of the White Worm and The Oseidon Adventure (2012), the Creevix for The Time Machine (2013), and Geralk for The Fate of Krelos and Return to Telos (2015)
• for Jenny Agutter and Alastair Parker see Series 1
• Matthew Graham was also writer of Fear Her, The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People
• costume supervisor Fiona McCann was an assistant on Love & Monsters
• Neal Champion was the SFX supervisor on An Adventure in Space and Time too