Doctor Who Vs. Waking the Dead, Series 1

Following a successful

pilot episode, this popular

Emmy award winning BBC

crime drama began a full,

 eight-part series in 2000, 

endured for another ten 

years, and even spawned
 a spin-off programme,
The Body Farm in 2011.

Created by Casualty writer
Barbara Machin, the show
centred on a fictional
London-based Cold Case

unit, comprised of CID officers, a psychological profiler, and forensic team. Only three regulars

appeared in all nine seasons - Trevor Eve (as DCI, then Superintendent

Peter Boyd), Sue Johnston (Dr. Grace Foley), and Will Johnson (DS

Spence Jordan), whilst Claire Goose (DC Mel Silver) and Holly Aird (Dr.

 Frankie Wharton) both stayed with the show for four years.

The first, standalone case was repeated on Talking Pictures TV last

night - the full season featured Noel Clarke, and a total of twenty-eight Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Pilot (UK TX: September 4 & 5 2000)

• Mal Young was also executive producer on the first seasons of the revived series and Doctor Who Confidential
• David Sterne (Harvey) voiced Lord Arthur Greyston/John/Guard for Big Finish's Peake Season (2022)
• Steven [William Thomas] Elder (Pearson) voiced Farrow for Jubilee (2003), Siy Tarkov for Dalek Empire (2004), Eric Rawden for Something Inside (2006), Lord Lycaon for I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day and Brightly Shone the Moon That Night, and Rudolph for Blood on Santa's Claw (all 2019)
• associate producer Margot Hayhoe was assistant floor manager (AFM) on The War Machines, Fury from the Deep and The Ambassadors of Death, then production manager on Logopolis, Castrovalva and Snakedance
• first assistant director Debbi Slater was production manager on Blink, Planet of the Ood, The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky, The Unicorn and the Wasp, Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, then associate producer on Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• sound recordist John Taylor was boom operator on The Five Doctors
• dubbing mixer Dave Humphries was foley recordist on The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
• Vince McGahon was also the Steadicam operator on The Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor
• script supervisor Juley Harding was production assistant on Black Orchid and The Caves of Androzani
• Fran Needham was the make-up artist on Full Circle and Arc of Infinity

Burn Out (UK TX: June 18 & 19 2001)

• series associate producer Matthew Patnick was the line producer on An Adventure in Space and Time
• Simon Morris was also first assistant director on Turn Left, The Stolen Earth, Journey's End and The Sarah Jane Adventures (and second assistant on Love & Monsters)
• Graham Frake (cinematographer) and Steve Robinson (first assistant director) also held those posts on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks
• Michael Feinberg was also sound editor on The Lazarus Experiment and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• stunt co-ordinator Richard Hammatt was a stuntman on The Runaway Bride
• following uncredited appearances as Warrior in (episode 9 of) The Daleks' Master Plan, and Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4), Rocky Taylor was stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern too 

Blind Beggar (UK TX: June 25 & 26)

• Annette [Ross Mcleod] Crosbie (Moira) was Mrs Angelo in The Eleventh Hour
• Heather Bleasdale (Bridget) was Wilma in The Halloween Apocalypse, and voiced President for I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day, Cordelia for Blood on Santa's Claw (both 2019), and Priestess Vesselina for Susan's War 2 (2024)
• Tom Lucy was also stunt co-ordinator on sixteen adventures (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)

A Simple Sacrifice (UK TX: July 2 & 3)

• Harriet [Mary] Walter (Annie) voiced Beatrice Mapp for The Boy That Time Forgot (2008), and was Jo Patterson in Revolution of the Daleks
• Lynda Bellingham [born Meredith Lee Hughes] (Mary) was Inquisitor [Darkel] during The Trial of a Time Lord, a role reprised for Big Finish's Gallifrey (2004-06) then Trial of the Valeyard (2014)
• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (Dickson) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the titular role for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Rakie Ayola (Pauline) was the Hostess in Midnight, then voiced Pollia for The Lords of Terror, Lambda Epsilon for In the Garden of Death (both 2018), Andrea for One Mile Down (2019), Violet Hardaker for The Blazing Hour, Profssor Victoria Wilks for Twisted Folklore (both 2021), and Dakota Bly for Heart of Orion (2022)

Every Breath You Take (UK TX: July 9 & 10)

• Robert Demeger (Pathologist) was the Preacher in The Shakespeare Code
• Janet Ellis (TV Reporter) was Teka in The Horns of Nimon
• Lee Ross (Redford) was the Boatswain in The Curse of the Black Spot
• Tessa Peake-Jones (Fiona) was Marta in The Time of the Doctor
• William Hartley was also first assistant director on The Waters of Mars, The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex, after acting as AFM on Horror of Fang Rock