Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 15

The fifteenth season of BBC1's perennial crime

drama first aired in the spring of 2012, with the

finale only broadcast after a break that August.

William Gaminara, Tom Ward, and Emilia Fox

returned as Home Office pathologists, doctors Leo

Dalton, Harry Cunningham, and Nikki Alexander,

whilst Jaye Griffiths reprised her role as Janet.

Ward left the show after ten years service, then

next appeared on the channel as Captain Latimer

(pictured) in The Snowmen.

A repeat run of the twelve-part series began on

Drama last night - it featured a total of thirty

-nine Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Death Has No Dominion (UK TX: April 1 & 2)

• Jacob [Basil] Anderson [aka Raleigh Ritchie] (Dave) was Inston Vee Vinder in Flux and The Power of the Doctor
• Shelley Conn (DI James) voiced Asha Qureshi for Big Finish's Situation Vacant (2010), and Tina Drake for The Gates of Hell (2021)
• Adrian Lukis (Avery) voiced Officer Bragg for Cobwebs (2010), Byzan for The Children of Seth (2011), Professor Jeffrey Broderick for Counter Measures 1 (2012), Harvey Marsh for The Justice of Jalxar, Sigmund Freud for Return of the Repressed (both 2013), and Ansillon for Blood of the Time Lords (2022)
• [Beverly] Victoria [Anne] Wicks (Lizzie) was the High Priestess in The Fires of Pompeii
• Annabel Canaven (Mary) was a stunt performer on eight episodes (from The Almost People to Kill the Moon)
• Nick Hobbs (Mick) made uncredited appearances in The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Day of the Daleks, The Time Monster, both Peladon stories (as Aggedor), The Ark in Space, then Mr. Nainby in Amy's Choice
• Shobu Kapoor (Raani) reprised her EastEnders role of Gita Kapoor for Dimensions in Time, then was Scared Woman in Journey's End, and voiced Sai Chopra for Vortex Ice (2017)
• Nigel Squibbs (series dubbing mixer since 2006) held the same post on An Adventure in Space and Time
• series score mixer Jake Jackson was the music mixer on seventy-four instalments (from The Runaway Bride to The Husbands of River Song) and Torchwood

Domestic (UK TX: April 8 & 9)

• Anthony Flanagan (Ronson) was Orin Scannell in 42
• Nancy Carroll (Gill) voiced Mulkris for Eldrad Must Die!, and Agatha Worthing for Jago & Litefoot 6 (both 2013)
• Percelle Ascott (Joel) was Delph in The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Glenn Doherty (Thompson) was Sergeant Dennison in Planet of the Dead
• Steve Robinson was also the first assistant director on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks

Paradise Lost (UK TX: April 15 & 16)

• prolific Big Finish actor Susan [Elizabeth] Brown (Judge) was Bridget Spears in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then voiced the Midwife for 100 BC, Mary for Bedtime Story (both 2007), Alice Withers for The Eternal Summer, Maud for Castle of Fear, Mrs. Withers/Mrs. Sowerby for Plague of the Daleks (all 2009), Margaret for Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars, Eleanor Harvey for Return of the Krotons, Chief Engineer/Chanel for The Song of the Megaptera, Babs for Prison in Space (all 2010), and Kastrella for Death Match (2015)
• Pooky [born Joanna] Quesnel (Helen) was the Captain in A Christmas Carol, and Dorothea Ames in Class, then voiced Annalise Avenley for The Running Men (2024)
• Rakie Ayola (Annie) was the Hostess in Midnight, and voiced Pollia for The Lords of Terror, Lambda Epsilon for In the Garden of Death (both 2018), Andrea for One Mile Down, Andrea Davenport for Another Man's Shoes (both 2019), Violet Hardaker for The Blazing Hour, Professor Victoria Wilks for Twisted Folklore (both 2021), and Dakota Bly for Heart of Orion (2022)
• John [Derek] Carson [Parker] (Father) was Ambril in Snakedance
• Rita Davies (Mother) voiced Janneus for Primeval (2001), and Tashek for Innocence (2006)
• Duncan Duff (Counsel) was a Newsreader in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, and voiced Joe Hartley for Night Thoughts (2006)
• Claire Dean (Victim) voiced Malike for Cutaway Comics' Omega (2022)

Redhill (UK TX: April 22 & 23)

• Stephen Greif (Cairns) voiced Kwundaar for Primeval (2001), Sir Donald Wakefield for Sarah Jane Smith 2 (2006), Gurney for The Infinite Quest, Ken Temple for The Pelage Project (2012), and Sabaoth for Ghost Walk (2018)
• Juliet Aubrey (Miriam) voiced Vulpina for Voyage to Venus (2012), Esther Malkin for The Wrong Woman (2021), Prodigal for The Auton Infinity (2022), Zyla Kalstein for Revolution in Space, and Lina Kalpar for Invasion of the Body Stealers (both 2024)
• Maurice Lee (Owen) was a stuntman on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, Tooth and Claw, School Reunion and The Next Doctor
• Ewan Bailey (DS Tudor) provided Alien voices for Voyage of the Damned, then voiced Count Licori for The Galileo Trap, Father Locke /Orbs for The Satanic Mill, Various for Jago & Litefoot 10 (all 2015) and Kings of Infinite Space (2018), Davy McTavit for The Helm of Awe, Blazzard/Copeland for The Morton Legacy, Dimitri Papkin for The Ship of the Sleepwalkers, Duncan for Aliens Among Us 2 (all 2017), Sir Edward Scott Cameron/Slitheen/Biggs for Death on the Mile (both 2018), Hugo Blake for The Sinestran Kill (2019), and Mallory/ Galavaunt/Baravoar for Past Lives (2023)
• Gillian Kearney (DI Bridges) voiced Mina Challis for Zygon Hunt (2014)
• Eloise Barnes (Liesel) was Annabel in In The Forest of the Night
• Rachelle Beinart (stunt double here & Fear) was Goblin in The Church on Ruby Road
• David Barrett was also film editor on Cold Blood and The Hungry Earth

Fear (UK TX: April 29 & 30)

• Tamzin [Maria] Outhwaite (Beth) was the Captain in Nightmare in Silver, then voiced Morton for Secrets of Telos (2022)
• Tom [John] Ellis (Jacobs) was Dr. Thomas Mulligan in Last of the Time Lords
• Adrian Dunbar (Delaney) voiced McCarthy for Brave New Town (2008)
• [Oluwakemi] Nina Sosanya (DS Brooks) was Trish Webber in Fear Her, and voiced Captain Anna Maynard for Aquitaine (2016)

And Then I Fell in Love (UK TX: August 19 & 20)

• Keith Boak was also director of Rose, Aliens of London and World War Three
• Sanjeev Bhaskar (Aziz) was Colonel Ahmed in Death in Heaven, and voiced Dr. Avishka Sangakkara for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (2009), and Borusa for The Difference Office (2022)
• Juliet Cowan (Claire) was Chrissie Jackson in The Sarah Jane Adventures, then voiced Bryer for Come Die With Me, and Adriana Beauvais for Dead to the World (both 2015)
• Joseph Long (Costas) was Rocco Colasanto in Turn Left, and the Pope in Extremis
• Sue Kelvin (Cheryl) was Suzette Chambers in Partners in Crime
• Madeline [Elizabeth] Duggan (Amy) voiced Sash for The Revolution Game (2019)
• Lizzie Roper (Sandra) voiced Hoss for Kiss of Death (2011), Leandra Roath for The First Sontarans, Dr. Nadia Cervenka/Margaret for Artificial Intelligence (both 2012), Krakenmother Banarra for Starlight Robbery (2013), Celia Turner/Leslie King for The Crooked Man, Various for Jago & Litefoot 7 (both 2014), Bella for Stage Fright, Shari for We are the Daleks (both 2015), Rosata Laxter/High Minister for The Lady of Obsidian (2017), Trencher for Planet of the Drashigs, and Eira Hughes for Black Thursday (both 2019)