Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 14

The fourteenth season

of BBC1's long-running

crime drama was first

shown in the winter of

2011.
William Gaminara, Tom
Ward, and Emilia Fox
again starred as Home
Office pathologists,
doctors Leo Dalton,
Harry Cunningham,
and Nikki Alexander.
Arsher Ali joined the
cast for this run as

forensic apprentice,

Dr. Zak Khan. A repeat run of this ten-part series began on Drama last

night - it featured a total of forty-two Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

A Guilty Mind (TX: January 3 & 4 2011)

• Ali was Mason Bennett in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Mark Lewis Jones (DI Skipper) and Sinead Keenan (Naomi) voiced Professor Oliver Mortlake and Mary Summersby for Big Finish's The Darkness of Glass (2015) - whilst Keenan was Addams in The End of Time, then voiced Margery Phipps for Council of War (2013), Aoife Dineen for Iterations of I, Woman for Mind Games, Stephanie Wilton for The Reesinger Process, Terravore for The Screaming Skull, and Rosheen for The Highest Science (all 2014)
• Roy [Anthony] Marsden [born Mould] (Silverdale) was [Bryan] Stoker in Smith and Jones, and voiced Todd Hulbert for Human Resources (2007)
• Sorcha Cusack (Miranda) voiced Mary Carter for Master of the Daleks and Eye of Darkness (both 2015)
• Mark [Lee] Dexter (Leith) was Dad in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, and Charles Babbage in Spyfall (2)
• Vilma Hollingbery (Volunteer) was Mrs. Harcourt in The Doctor Dances
• Tania [Maria] Rodrigues (Administrator) voiced Anarkali/Melissa/Isra Tech 2 for Scavenger (2014), Chief Panath for Jonah (2018), Visteron for Deeptime Frontier (2019), Laker for Chase the Night (2020), and VAD Prime for Body and Soulless (2021)
• Carlyss Peer (Assistant) voiced Diane Howard for Island of the Fendahl (2018), Knyla for Collateral (2019), and Marion Jones for The Perils of Nellir Bly (2021)
• for Clive Hayward see Series 13
• Stephen Pehrsson was also the cinematographer on eleven stories (from The Pandorica Opens to The Crimson Horror)
• Suzanne Cave (costume designer), assistant Becky Brown, dubbing mixer Nigel Squibbs, third assistant director Thomas Alibone and ADR mixer Stefano Marchetti all worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too 
• Rob Arrowsmith was also a camera operator on The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang and A Christmas Carol
• prosthetics artist Waldo Mason was a SFX assistant on Aliens of London
• Dan Martin was also design assistant on twelve stories (from The Impossible Astronaut to The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)
• Elliott Gilhooly was sound assistant on The End of Time (2) too
• Gary Norman was also the grip on twenty-five episodes (from the 2010 Christmas special to The Day of the Doctor)
• costume supervisor Fiona McCann was an assistant on Love & Monsters

Lost (TX: January 10 & 11)

• Barbara [Jay] Flynn [born McMurray] (Carol) voiced Sister Chalice for The Skull of Sobek (2008), and Professor Vansom for Secrets of Telos (2022), then played Tecteun in Flux
• Mark Benton (Cain) was Clive [Finch] in Rose (a role reprised for Big Finish's The Dimension Cannon and Other Worlds), and voiced Ellis for Invaders from Mars (2002), and Jack Coulson for Energy of the Daleks (2012)
• for Jaye Griffiths see Series 7
• Tony Gibson was sound designer on An Adventure in Space and Time too

First Casualty (TX: January 17 & 18)

• Keith Boak was also director of Rose, Aliens of London and World War Three
• Darren Morfitt (DS McDermott here; DCI Steemson in Series 20) was Brother Marco in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• David Ajala (Blakefield) was Peter in The Beast Below
• Josette [Patricia] Simon (Mrs. Ferris) voiced Sarana Teel for The Sontaran Ordeal (2016), and Taraneh for The Mind Runners (2018)
• Emma Lowndes (Claire) voiced Phelan for Night of the Vashta Nerada (2017), and Patty for Double (2023)
• for Kieran Bew see Series 8
• Julius Ogden was also focus puller on nine episodes (from Closing Time to The Day of the Doctor)
• Sarah Bartles-Smith was cinematographer on Let's Kill Hitler too

Bloodlines (TX: January 24 & 25)

• for Julian Glover see Series 11

The Prodigal (TX: January 31 & February 1)

• James [Christian] Strong was also director of The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, Voyage of the Damned, Partners in Crime and Planet of the Dead
• Kate Ashfield (DCI Woods) voiced Lieutenant Beth Stokes for Enemy of the Daleks (2009)
• Matthew [Anthony] McNulty (Whitehead) was Adam Lang in Praxeus
• Anna Andresen (Reporter here; Woman in Series 21) was the Tsarina in The Power of the Doctor, and voiced Lithea/Elementals for Light the Flame (2021)
• Gary Marriott (Paramedic) had the same role in The Lazarus Experiment
• for Tony Lucken and Stephenie Carey see Series 7