Doctor Who Vs. Spooks, Series 5

Series regulars Peter Firth, Rupert Penry-Jones,

Miranda Raison, Raza Jaffrey, and Hugh Simon

all returned for the fifth season of the award-

winning BBC spy drama - originally shown in the

autumn of 2006. The run saw the introduction of

Hermione Norris (as MI6 officer Ros Myers), and

the departure of Nicola Walker and Rory

McGregor.

A repeat showing of the ten-part series (known

as MI5 in some countries) begn on Drama last

night - it featured Gugu Mbatha Raw (pictured

 in Smith and Jones), Shaun Dingwall, and a

total of twenty-nine other Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

• Norris later played Captain Lundvik in Kill the Moon
• Lindsay [Vere] Duncan (Angela Wells) was Captain Adelaide Brooke in The Waters of Mars
• Robert Glenister (Home Secretary) was Salateen in The Caves of Androzani, and Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
• Helen Anderson (Woman) was Rachel in Revolution of the Daleks
• Mark Straker (Manager) and Michael [Alexander] Carter (Clark) were Trooper in Earthshock, and Prisoner/UNIT Soldier in The Mind of Evil
• Colin Stinton (Styles) was President Arthur Winters in The Sound of Drums
• Lucian [Gabriel Wiina] Msamati (Bufong) was Guido in The Vampires of Venice
• David Fynn and Gary Milner (Policemen) were Marcellus in The Pandorica Opens, and Scared Man in The Stolen Earth
• Davood Ghadami (Prince) was Jim in Let's Kill Hitler
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (Lee) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022)
• [Mark] Alec Newman (Dempsey) and Michael Maloney (Russell) both starred in Big Finish's Blue Forgotten Planet (2009) - Maloney also voiced Frederick Simonsson for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008), Fratalin for Patient Zero, Adam Farrow for The Circus of Doom (both 2009), Rennol for Kiss of Death (2011), Hilary Hammond for Enemy Aliens (2013), Gregor Saraton for Zygon Hunt, the Viryans for Charlotte Pollard 1 (both 2014), William Hogan for The Rockery (2019), and the Two for Two's Company and The Union (both 2023), whilst Newman then voiced Dr. Julius for The Silent Scream (2017), and Dr. James Beck for Jamie (2023)
• James Greene (Holland) was the Abbott in The Bells of Saint John
• Anthony Flanagan (Fletcher here; Tom in Spooks: Code 9) was Orin Scannell in 42
• Aaron Neil (Ibraham) was Dunlop in The Magician's Apprentice, and Varun Singh in Class, then voiced Tir Ram for All-Consuming Fire, Sanukuma Master for The Rulers of the Universe, Priest for The Boundless Sea (all 2015), Aramatz for The Very Dark Thing, Klossi/ Stephano/Trink/Setebos for Maker of Demons, David for UNIT: Silenced, Steven Godbold for Five Twenty-Nine, Computer for World Enough and Time, Mandrake for The Torchwood Archive (all 2016), Gorky Sax for The Year After I Died (2017), and Gobran for The Poison of Peladon (2022)
• Peter Barrett (Officer) voiced Simon Jenkins for Damaged Goods (2015), and Guard Major Priskin for The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (2016)
• Derek Hutchinson (Cash) voiced Altus for The Burning Prince (2012), Usher for A Life in a Day, Brother Callis for Eye of Darkness (both 2015), and Geoff Evans for Black Thursday (2019)
• Joanna Horton (Leigh) voiced Brooke for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
• Tim McInnerny (Mace) was Klineman Halpen in Planet of the Ood, and Admiral Dolne for The Well-Mannered War (2015)
• Sam Woodward (Ellis) voiced Lord Raffles/Captain Sanderson/Charlie for Iron Bright (2018)
• Raad Rawi (Ambassador) voiced Prince Hassan Al-Nadyr for Who Killed Toby Kinsella? (2016), St. Nicholas for Better Watch Out and Fairytale of Salzburg (both 2018), and Tuba/Maygo/Hiarbus for The Phoenicians (2019)
• Saskia Reeves (Sally) voiced Carmen Rega for Emissary of the Daleks (2019)
• director of photography Michael Costelloe was camera operator on the first five episodes of the revived series
• Julian Simpson was also director of The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People
• Neil Cross was also writer of The Rings of Akhaten and Hide
• Tony Slater Ling was also cinematographer on The Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor
• Andy Merchant was also stuntman on The Wedding of River Song and Into the Dalek