Doctor Who Vs. Spooks, Series 4

Peter Firth, Nicola Walker,

Rupert Penry-Jones, Hugh Simon,

and Rory MacGregor all returned

for the fourth series of BBC1's

 acclaimed spy drama.

First shown in the autumn of

2005, the programme (awarded

the BAFTA Best Drama prize) saw

the debut of Miranda Raison and

Raza Jaffrey (as new MI5 agents

Jo Portman and Zafar Younis).

A repeat run of the ten-part

season began on Drama last night

- it featured Anna Chancellor, and

a total of twenty-one Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Corey [John] Johnson (Boyd) was Henry Van Statten in Dalek
• Jeff Rawle (Home Secretary) was Plantagenet in Frontios, Lionel Harding in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge, then depicted Mervyn Pinfield in An Adventure in Space and Time, and voiced Toby Brokesmith for Chapel of Night (2017), Chad Caramel for The Tyrants of Logic (2018), and Captain Miles Rozann for Here Lies Drax (2022)
• Peter Brooke (Peter) was a Man in Daleks in Manhattan
• [Peter] Nigel Terry (Curtis) and Paul Kennington both starred in The Doctor's Daughter, as General Cobb and stuntman
• Andrew Tiernan (Forster) was Jim Purcell in Night Terrors
• Rupert Graves (Sampson) was John Riddell in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Steven Pacey (Howell-Davis) voiced Trevor for The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (2008), and Narrator of The Kairos Ring (2021)
• Silas Carson (Prince) was Uvlavad for The Sarah Jane Adventures: Warriors of the Kudlak, and provided Alien voices for The End of the World, then voiced the Ood for The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood, The End of Time, Pond Life, Survivors of the Flux, The Vanquishers and Big Finish's Prisoner of the Ood and The War Master 2 - he also voiced Arbuckle for The Jabari Countdown (all 2018), the Sicari for Assassins, Commentator for Warzone (both 2019), Garlon Rosh for The Robots of War, Brian for He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not (both 2020), Dr. Winston Grange for Time Flies (2022), Drane for The Kicker, Narrator of An Ood Halloween (both 2023), and Ramesh Kamal for Storm of the Sea Devils (2024)
• Andrew Burt (McTaggart) was Valgard in Terminus
• Douglas [William] Hodge (Hicks) voiced Edge for Urban Myths, and Radu for Son of the Dragon (both 2007)
• Sam Dastor (Barzali) voiced Professor Narayan for The Emerald Tiger (2012)
• Janet Amsden (Madeline) voiced Imogen for The Haunter of the Shore (2024)
• George [Morris] Baker (Ross) was Decider Login in Full Circle
• Greg Bennett (Agent) went uncredited as UNIT Soldier and Sycorax Warrior in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
• Lindsay [Vere] Duncan (Angela) was Captain Adelaide Brooke in The Waters of Mars
• John [Simon Alexander Lyne] Pirkis (Meacham) provided a Sphere voice for The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
• Jamie Pearson was also film editor on The Eleventh Hour, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger, The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People
• Damian Bromley was also cinematographer on The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Julian Simpson was also director of Day of the Moon, The Curse of the Black Spot, The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People