Doctor Who Vs. Hands of a Murderer

This British period drama, a

Yorkshire TV co-production,

premiered on American channel

CBS in May 1990 - it starred

Edward Woodward (1930-2009)

and John Hillerman (1932-2017)

as the latest incarnations of

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Shown on Drama last night, the

TV movie also featured Anthony

Andrews (as Moriarty),Terence

Lodge (Lestrade), Peter Jeffrey

(Mycroft Holmes), and thirteen

Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Jeffrey (also played Holmes' creator for Radio 4's Conan Doyle's Strangest Case, 1995) was the Pilot in The Macra Terror, and Count Grendel in The Androids of Tara
• Faith Kent [born Heaslip] (Mrs. Hudson) voiced Maven for Big Finish's Omega (2003)
• Christopher Fairbank (Stubb) voiced Pierre Aronnax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), and Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018), then starred as Fenton in Flatline
• David Sibley (Finch) was Pralix in The Pirate Planet, then voiced Kurt Schalk for Persuasion, the Eminence for The Seeds of War (both 2013), Dark Eyes 2 and Destroy the Infinite, Professor Markus Schriver for Masterplan (all 2014) and Eye of Darkness (2015), Josiah Morton for The Morton Legacy, the Manager for The Dying Room, Vincent Parry for Orr (all 2017), Valerian for Time War 1 (2018), Uther Vargosh for Darker Purposes, Sigmund Freud for Conflict Theory (both 2020), and Henry Wotton for The Master of Dorian Gray (2022)
• John Tordoff (Berton here; Andrews in Without a Clue) was Alec Leeson in (episode 4 of) Colony in Space
• David [Henry] Neal (Minister) was the President in The Caves of Androzani
• Nickolas Grace (Oberstein here; Bertrand in The Master Blackmailer) made a brief TV appearance as Albert Einstein in Death is the Only Answer, and voiced Loozly for Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (2002), Straxus for Human Resorces (2007), Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008), Balancer/Viktor Skaarsgard for Equilibrium (2015), Goole for The Gallery of Ghouls (2016), Professor Grove for Shadow Planet, Chevalier D'Eon for Sword of the Chevalier (both 2017), Kellman for Return of the Cybermen (2021), and Elridge Brinkwood for The Empty Man (2023)
• David Arlen [born Sydney Bough] (Driver) was Warrior Guard in The Mutants
• Ronald [Raymond] Nunnery (Drunk) was a Kaled Councillor in Genesis of the Daleks (1)
• Peter Brace (Hangman) was Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4), Sailor in The Sea Devils, and Soldier in The Android Invasion (2)
• cinematographer [Albert] Ken Westbury was film cameraman on The Gunfighters, The Abominable Snowmen, Fury from the Deep and The Invasion of Time
• Malcolm Middleton was production designer on The Abominable Snowmen too
• Arthur Wicks was also stand-by props on Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD