Doctor Who Vs. Agatha Christie's Poirot, Series 5

David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, and

Pauline Moran all returned (to their respective

roles as Hercule Poirot, Hastings, Japp, and

Miss Lemon) for eight new period crime dramas,

first broadcast on ITV in the winter of 1993.

Four of the serials were based on cases from

Poirot Investigates (issued in 1924), whilst the

others all derived from four separate short story collections (published between 1937 and 1974).

A repeat run of the fifth season began on ITV3

today - it featured David Troughton, and a total

of forty-five Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb 
(UK TX: January 17)

• Peter Bennett was also first assistant director on fourteen stories (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time) and Attack of the Graske, production manager on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, then producer on another twenty-eight episodes (from The Beast Below to Twice Upon a Time)
• Chris Wimble was also film editor on The Ambassadors of Death, The Daemons, The Invasion of Time and The Leisure Hive

The Underdog
(UK TX: January 24/from The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, 1960)

• director John Bruce was a production assistant on The Dominators
• [Frank] Denis Lill (Reuben) was Dr. Fendelman in The Image of Fendahl, and Sir George Hutchinson in The Awakening
• Ian [Denbigh] Gelder [born White (Astwell) was Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth, provided the voice of the Remnant for The Ghost Monument, was Zellin in Can You Hear Me?, and voiced Dracula/Long John Silver for Big Finish's Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
• Ann [Forrest] Bell (Lady Astwell) voiced Sylvia O'Donnell for A Thousand Tiny Wings (2010), Professor Gesima Cazalet for Night of the Stormcrow (2013), and Lisa Burrows for Five Twenty-Nine (2017)
• Charles Armstrong (Receptionist) voiced Karl for Colony of Strangers (2020)

The Yellow Iris (UK TX: January 31/from The Regatta Mystery, 1939)

• Hugh Ross (Carter) voiced Reverend Merodach for Night's Black Agents (2010), Robert Stretton for Industrial Evolution (2011), Vepaja/Thraskin for Voyage to Venus (2012), Sir Toby Kinsella for Counter Measures (2012-20), 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), The Reesinger Process (2014) and Split Infinitive (2019), Kyle Inskip for Masters of Earth, Gethal for The Exxilons (2015), Charles Kirkland for The Trouble With Drax (2016), Narrator of Late Night Shopping, The Piltdown Men and Waiting for Gadot (2017), and Malcolm for The Keeper of Light (2022)
• Joseph Long (Luigi) was Rocco Colasanto in Turn Left, and the Pope in Extremis
• Leonard Maguire (Grove) was Draith in Full Circle

The Case of the Missing Will (UK TX: February 7)

• [Rosemary] Rowena Cooper (Sarah) was Angela Price in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then voiced La Concierge for Audio- Go's The Demon of Paris (2010), Emily Shaw for The Last Post (2012) and The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Mother Superior for The Unbound Universe (2016) and Ruler of the Universe (2017), Jean Bazemore for Jago & Son, and Queen Victoria for Torchwood (2016-18) and Jago & Litefoot Forever
• Terrence Hardiman (Siddaway) was Hawthorne in The Beast Below, then voiced King Sitirc Silkbeard for The Book of Kells (2010), Reverend Dobbs for The Broken Crown (2011), Lord Richard Pollard for The Fall of the House of Pollard (2014), Hepworth Stackhouse for The English Way of Death (2015), and President Rassilon for Time War 2 (2019)
• Jon [St. Alban] Laurimore [born Livemore] (Baker) replaced David Swift as Count Federico in The Masque of Mandragora
• Neil Stuke (Peter) was Lee Clayton in Fugitive of the Judoon, and voiced the titular role for The Crooked Man (2014)
• Beth [Jane] Goddard (Violet here; Sister in Appointment With Death) was Sister Helena in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon, then voiced Christine Colley for The Sontaran Project (2017), Ludina Braskell for Ravenous 1 (2018), Barton for The Moons of Vulpana, Vella for A Photograph to Remember (both 2019), Sally/Time Lady for Operation: Hellfire (2020), and Allerdyce Benexa/Pangladasha for Ice Heist! (2023)
• Stephen Oxley (Doctor) made his TV debut as PC Carter in K9 and Company
• for [William] Pat Gorman (London Man) see The ABC Murders

The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (UK TX: February 14)

• David [Henry] Neal (Vizzini here; Osric in The Girl in the Train) was the President in The Caves of Androzani
• Arthur Cox (Hawker here & part 8; DI Marriott in Partners in Crime, 1983) was Cully in The Dominators, then Henderson in The Eleventh Hour
• David Verrey (Chef) was Joseph Green MP in Aliens of London and World War Three
• Paul Heasman was stunt co-ordinator on Survival too, and (uncredited) Nazi in Silver Nemesis
• Tip Tipping was a stunt arranger on Remembrance of the Daleks, The Curse of Fenric and Survival

The Chocolate Box (UK TX: February 21/from Poirot's Early Cases, 1974)

• Mark Eden [born Douglas John Malin] (Boucher here; Rogers in Go Back for Murder, 1960) was the titular explorer in Marco Polo, and depicted Donald Baverstock (pictured) in An Adventure in Space and Time
• [Rafael] David de Keyser (Baeujeu) provided the Atraxi voice in The Eleventh Hour
• James Coombes (Deroulard) provided the Krarg voices for Shada, and was Paroli in Warriors of the Deep
• Preston [born Reginald Herbert] Lockwood (Francois here; Pennyfather/Simmons in At Bertram's Hotel, 1987/1995) was Dojjen in Snakedance
• Richard Derrington (Henri) voiced Dr. Farrer for The Harvest, Landscar for The Last (both 2004), and Commander Burton for Storm of the Horofax (2017)
• Linda Broughton (Denise) was the Woman in Hell Bent
• for Jill Goldston (Patron) see The Adventure of the Western Star
• for Reg Thomason (Drinker) see The Plymouth Express

Dead Man's Mirror (UK TX: February 28/from Murder in the Mews, 1937)

• Iain Cuthbertson (Chevenix) was Garron in The Ribos Operation
• Emma [Georgina Annalies] Fielding (Ruth) provided the voice of Kisar for Demons of the Punjab
• Fiona Walker (Lingard) was Kala in The Keys of Marinus, and Lady Peinforte in Silver Nemesis
• James Greene (Snell) was the Abbott in The Bells of Saint John
• Jon [Sleeman] Croft (Lawrence) was Tom Girton in The Daemons
• John [Richard] Rolfe (Registrar) was the Captain in The War Machines, Sam Becket in The Moonbase, and Ralph Fell in The Green Death
• Derek [Ralph] Smee (Auctioneer) was John Ransome in Spearhead from Space
• Bill Weston began his TV career as a Militiaman in The Smugglers

Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (UK TX: March 7)

• Trevor Cooper (Opalsen) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, and voiced Rull for Kaldor City (2001), Shanks for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster, Sir Ralph for The Doomwood Curse (both 2008), Judah for The Beast of Orlok, Smithy for Castle of Fear (both 2009), Captain Maddox/Stennan for Army of Death (20111), Colonel Burroughs/Kimball for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Jonathan Jaggers/Preddle for Judoon in Chains (2016), Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witch (2022), and Captain Thaddeus Grey for Archipelago (2024)
• Sorcha Cusack (Margaret) voiced Mary Carter for Dark Eyes 4 (2015)
• Hermione [Jane] Norris (Celestine) was Captian Lundvik in Kill the Moon
• Simon Shepherd (Hall here; Simmons in A Murder is Announced, 1985; Dr. Rendell in Mrs. McGinity's Dead) voiced Boolin for Tsar Wars, Bewley for The Broken Crown, the Magician for Aladdin Time, Pal Andrews for Into the Stars, and Hudson Sage for Time War 5 (both 2022)
• Andrew Carr (Devine) was the Senior Guard in Day of the Daleks
• Elizabeth Rider (Grace) was Ellen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, provided the ATMOS voice for The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, was Linda in The Time of the Doctor, and voiced Galatea for The Well-Mannered War
• for Terry Sartain (Audience) was an Alien Technician in The War Games (3), Warrior in The Mutants (1), UNIT Soldier in The Three Doctors (1), Prison Guard and Draconian in Frontier in Space, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, Brother in The Masque of Mandragora (3), Gundan in Warriors' Gate (3), and Market Man in Snakedance (1)