Monday 11 March 2024

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 13

The thirteenth season of the acclaimed BBC crime drama was first broadcast in the winter of 2010,
and starred William Gaminara, Tom Ward, and
Emilia Fox as Home Office pathologists, Professor
Leo Dalton, and doctors Harry Cunningham and Nikki Alexander. Professor Mander (played by Jaye Griffiths) also returned here, then the next
two seasons.
A repeat run of the ten-part series began on
Drama last night - it featured Tim Treloar, and
a total of twenty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Intent (UK TX: January 7 & 8)
  • Paul Broughton (Byfield) was Neville Lewis in War of the Sontarans
  • Jonty Stephens (Alan) voiced Paravatar/Barman /Waiter/Policeman for Big Finish's 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (2013)
  • series costume designer Suzanne Cave and her assistant Becky Brown both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
  • film editor Jamie McCoan edited Blink too
  • prosthetics designer Waldo Mason was a SFX assistant on Aliens of London
  • Tom Lucy was also the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen adventures (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)
  • Gordon Seed was also a stuntman on twenty-one stories, and the stunt co-ordinator on another thirteen (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon)
  • for Griffiths see Series 12
Voids (UK TX: January 14 & 15)
  • Nikki Amuka Bird (DS Jenkins) was the Glass Woman [Helen Clay] in Twice Upon a Time, and voiced Major Tamasan for The Time War 2 (2018)
  • Emily Joyce (Muriel) voiced a Clockwork Droid in The Girl in the Fireplace
  • Stephane Cornicard (Dupont) voiced Daqar Keep for The Next Life (2004)
  • Jessica Regan (PC Gould) voiced Patricia/Daisy for The Hollow King (2019)
  • Tim Palmer was also the cinematographer on Let's Kill HitlerThe Wedding of River Song and Nightmare in Silver
Run (UK TX: January 21 & 22)
  • [Mark] Alec Newman (Carmody) voiced Ed Driscoll for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009), Dr. Julius for The Silent Scream (2017), and Dr. James Breck for James Robert McCrimmon (2023)
  • Clive Hayward (DI Gaunt here & Series 14) voiced the Judge/Markus for Daybreak (2019), Emperor/Duke of Ferrox/Last of the Unnatural Children for Barrister to the Stars, Marty Stone for Carnival of Angels, Rupert Brock/Frasi/Roboman for Poison of the Daleks (all 2020), Balthazar Drix for A Forever Home, Steven/General for Long Shot (both 2021), Dax for Wink (2022), and Birkett/Wycombe Bassett for The Blooming Menace (2023)
Shadows (UK TX: January 28 & 29)
  • Farren Blackburn was also director of The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe and The Rings of Akhaten
  • for Phyllis Logan see Series 8
  • Madeleine Rakic-Platt (Girl) and Ian Gelder (Dr. Jacobs) both appeared in Torchwood: Children of Earth, as Lilly Frobisher and Dekker - the former was also Ella in Forest of the Dead, whilst Gelder provided the Remnant voices in The Ghost Monument, then played Zellin in Can You Hear Me?, and voiced the Commander for Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
  • Stephen Pehrsson was also the cinematographer on eleven episodes from (The Pandorica Opens to The Crimson Horror)
  • stunt co-ordinator Steve Griffin was a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern
  • Annabelle Dowler (Paramedic) was Walter's Mother in The Snowmen
Home (UK TX: February 4 & 5)
  • Paul Wilmshurst was also director of Kill the MoonMummy on the Orient Express and Last Christmas
  • for Gaminara and Ward see Series 6

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