Doctor Who Vs. Messiah, Series 1

When you search the shadows
for too long will you ever see the

light?

Produced by BBC Northern Ireland,
this dark crime drama was based on

Boris Starling's 1999 novel, and later

won the Outstanding Drama Series

prize at the 2002 Monte Carlo TV festival. Four sequels followed bet-ween 2003 and 2008 - all can be

regarded as a precursor to the

equally atmospheric Luther, whilst

the gruesome religiously motivated

murders depicted here are akin to

those seen in the film Seven.

The two feature-length thrillers

starred Edinburgh-born actor Ken Stott (pictured centre as DCI Red

Metcalfe, Frances Grey (DS Kate Beauchamp, right), Neil Dudgeon (DI

Duncan Warren, left), Jamie Draven (Jez Clifton), Michelle Forbes,

Kieran O'Brien, and Edward Woodward.

Messiah was first shown over the Whitsun bank holiday weekend in

May 2001 - it featured a total of twenty-three Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

The First Killings (UK TX: May 26 2001)

• Tony Lucken (Blake) was a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways and The End of Time
• Raymond Trickitt (DC Nixon) was the Ancient Haemovore in The Curse of Fenric
• Art [born Athar Ul-Haque] Malik (DCS Emerson) was Ilin in The Ghost Monument, and voiced Abbot Absolute for Big Finish's The Skull of Sobek (2008)
• Vincent Pickering (Lowe) made his TV debut as Sagan in Warriors' Gate
• Greg Bennett (Sergeant) went uncredited as UNIT Soldier/Sycorax Warrior in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
• stunt performers Jamie Edgell, Lee Sheward, Ray De Haan, Steve Griffin, Seon Rogers, Neil Finnighan and Sarah Franzl all worked on the revived series
• stuntmen Chris Webb, Paul Heasman, Jim Dowdall and Nick Hobbs all worked on the classic run
• second assistant director Scott Bates was first assistant on eleven episodes (from Listen to Hell Bent)

The Reckoning (UK TX: May 28)

• Tim Faulkner (Barker) voiced Highgate for The End of the Beginning, and Charles Hookham/Flindor/Wilbur Grits for The God of Phantoms (both 2021)
• Laurie [Philip] Goode (Porter) was Mutt in The Mutants, Time Lord in The Invasion of Time, Bandit in The Creature from the Pit, Tigellan in Meglos, Sailor in Enlightenment, and UNIT Trooper in Battlefield
• cinematographer Kevin Rowley was a film cameraman on Destiny of the Daleks and The Mark of the Rani
• Elaine Matthews was also script supervisor on The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex
• runner Natalie Street was production manager on seventeen instal- ments of Doctor Who Confidential
• art director Dave Arrowsmith was production designer on An Adventure in Space and Time
• Will Pope was also carpenter on sixty-one episodes (from Love & Monsters to The Name of the Doctor), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood