Doctor Who Vs. Wycliffe, Series 2

Jack Shepherd returned as WJ Burley's Cornish

detective for the second season of HTV's popular

crime drama, joined again by Helen Masters,

Jimmy Yuill, Aaron Harris, Adam Barker, and Tim

Wylton.

Unlike the mysteries in the first series (all based

on Burley's novels) original screenplays were

produced here. A repeat run of the eight-part

series (first shown in the summer of 1995) began

 on ITV3 last night - it featured Louise Jameson,

and a total of thirty Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

All For Love (UK TX: June 18 1995)

• John [Frederick] Abineri (DCI Turner) was Van Lutyens in Fury from the Deep, General Carrington in The Ambassadors of Death, Richard Railton in Death to the Daleks, and Ranquin in The Power of Kroll
• Kenneth Sharp was also production designer on The Macra Terror, The Claws of Axos and The Robots of Death, whilst John Bleasdale (Warder) was a titular Robot in the latter story

The Trojan Horse (UK TX: June 25)

• Peter Bennett was also the first assistant director on fourteen stories (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time) and Attack of the Graske, production manager (PM) on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, then produced twenty-one episodes (from The Beast Below to Twice Upon a Time)

Charades (UK TX: July 2)

• David Haig [Collum Ward] (Miller) was Pangol in The Leisure Hive
• Andrew Bullivant (PC) was Milkman in The Stolen Earth, and PC Ferguson in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
• Nigel Peever (Treglowen) was Rassilon in BBV's Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?, BBC Executive in The Auton Diaries 2, McCutheon in Zygon, then voiced Quail/the Deputy for Big Finish's The Transcendence of Ephros (2016)
• Michael Fenton Stevens (Howell) voiced Shakespeare for The Kingmaker (2006), Brooks for The Raincloud Man (2008), Moorson/ Controller for Destroy the Infinite (2014), Douglas Bell for The Carrionite Curse (2017), and Charles Jamrach/Wombat Commodore for The Caged Assassin (2024)
• David [Henry] Neal (Thorne) was the President in The Caves of Androzani
• Tom Eastwood (Barman) voiced Requiem for The Last (2004)

Lost Contact (UK TX: July 9)

• Eleanor Bron (Edwina) was an Art Lover in City of Death, and Kara [Seddle] in Revelation of the Daleks, and voiced Ileana De Santos for Loups-Garoux (2001)
• Richard Dempsey (Coryn) was Tsar Nicholas II in The Power of the Doctor
• Simon Paisley Day (SOCO) was the Steward (pictured) in The End of the World, and Rump in Face the Raven

Four and Twenty Black Birds (UK TX: July 16)

• director Steve Goldie began his career as an AFM on (part 6 of) The Armageddon Factor, then was PM on Terminus
• Lennox Greaves (Rowland) voiced Brian Hughes for The Shadow of the Scourge (2000), Professor Patrick Trethui for Last of the Titans (2001), Edward the Confessor for Seasons of Fear, Shaughnessy for The Chimes of Midnight (both 2002), Dr. Joseph Aldrich for The Condemned (2008), and Anulf/Taker for The Whispering Forest (2010)
• Charles [Lawrence] De'ath (Ling) was Adelaide's Father in The Waters of Mars
• Christopher [Denis] Driscoll (DI Perry here; Owner in Close to Home) was Security Guard in The Idiot's Lantern
• René Zagger (Mills) was Padra in Utopia

Happy Families (UK TX: June 23)

• Dominic Guard (Brandon) was Olvir in Terminus
• David Schofield (Penrose) was Odin in The Girl Who Died, and voiced Billy for Death in Blackpool (2009), Nostradamus/Conclave Leader for The Doomsday Quatrain (2011), Narrator of The House of Winter (2015), Parval for The Sorcerer of Albion (2020), and Gostak for The End of the Beginning (2021)

Wild Oats (UK TX: July 30)

• Michael Owen Morris was a production assistant (PA) on The Pirate Planet, then director on The Awakening too
• Christian Rodska (Rawle) voiced Laan Carder for Faith Stealer (2004), and Reverend Small for AudioGo's The Dead Shoes (2011)
• [Albert] Geoffrey Bayldon (Gilbert here; Judge in Old Crimes, New Times) was Organon in The Creature from the Pit, then voiced the Doctor for Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005)
• Dido Miles (Tynk) voiced Arva for Living Darkness (2025)
• John [Edward Arthur] Woodnutt (Dr. Angwin) was George Hibbert in Spearhead from Space, the Draconian Emperor in Frontier in Space, the Duke of Forgill/Broton in Terror of the Zygons, and Seron in The Keeper of Traken
• Susie Liggat was also the first assistant director on Love & Monsters, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, then producer on eight instalments (from Human Nature to The Next Doctor)

Breaking Point (UK TX: August 6)

• Leslie Schofield (Treen) was Leroy in The War Games (4), and Calib in The Face of Evil
• Linda Broughton (Mrs. Nankervis) was the Woman in Hell Bent
• for Steve Slocombe, Elaine Matthews and Barbara Southcott see Series 1