Doctor Who Vs. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

"You're a wizard Harry!"
Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma
Watson as Ron, Harry and Hermione

A Harry Potter film season began on

ITV1 tonight. Released by Warner

Bros in 2001, the first entry in the

eight-part saga starred a stellar

British cast led by Richard Harris

(as Dumbledore), Alan Rickman

(Snape), Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid),

Maggie Smith (McGonagall), Julie

Walters (Molly), Richard Griffiths,

and Fiona Shaw (the Dursleys).

Based on Joanne Rowling's first

published work, the adventure

(marketed in America as The

Sorcerer's Stone) also featured

David Bradley (Filch), John Hurt

(Ollivander), Ian Hart (Quirrell),

Geraldine Somerville (Lily), and

a total of twenty-six Doctor Who

cast connections:

• Harry [Edward] Melling (Dudley) voiced Harvey Taker/Demi-Taker for Big Finish's The Whispering Forest (2010)
• Warwick [Ashley] Davis (Flitwick/Goblin here; Wizard in The Prisoner of Azkaban; Griphook in The Deathly Hallows) was Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI (known as Porridge) in Nightmare in Silver
• Coltrane was offered the role of Takis in November 1984, but Trevor Cooper was cast in Revelation of the Daleks
• Derek Deadman (Tom) was Stor in The Invasion of Time
• Sean Biggerstaff (Wood) voiced Chris Parsons for Shada (2002), Snabb/Brother Tangent for The Skull of Sobek, the Ruhk for Time Reef (both 2008), Ross Nicholson for Masters of Earth (2014), Moros for Enemy Lines (2016), Callum Volta for Cold Vengeance (2017), Noah for Jenny 1 (2018), Jenny 2 (2021), Prism (2022) and Jenny 3 (2024), and David Campbell for After the Daleks
• Leslie [Samuel] Phillips (voice of the Sorting Hat) voiced Robert Knox for Medicinal Purposes (2004) and Assassin in the Limelight (2008)
• Richard Bremmer (Voldemort) voiced General Hemmings/Valcon/Taxi Driver for The Valley of Death (2011), and Old Beowulf for Black and White (2012)
• John [Marwood] Cleese (Nearly Headless Nick) was an Art Lover in (part 4 of) City of Death
• Simon Fisher-Becker (Fat Friar) was Doriam Maldovar in The Pandorica Opens, Brain Trafficking, A Good Man Goes to War and The Wedding of River Song, then reprised for The Light Keepers, Inside the Maldovarium (both 2018) and Jenny 3 (2024), and voiced Kavil for Gallifrey 5 (2013)
• Terence Bayler (Bloody Baron) was Yendom in The Ark (3), and Major Barrington in The War Games (1)
• Zoe Wanamaker (Hooch) was Lady Cassandra in The End of the World and New Earth
• Elizabeth [Jean] Spriggs [born Williams] (Fat Lady) was Tabby in Paradise Towers
• Adrian Rawlins (James Potter) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood, and voiced Frederick Abbeline for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014), and Gilman Hari for Antillia the Lost (2023) 
• Jimmy Vee (Goblin here, The Forbidden Journey, The Hogwarts Express, The Escape from Gringotts) was the Moxx of Balhoon in The End of the World, Pig in Aliens of London, Bannakaffalatta in Voyage of the Damned, the Skovox Blitzer in The Caretaker, and the Graske in Attack of the Graske, Music of the Spheres, The Proms and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Rusty Goffe (Goblin here, The Order of the Phoenix, The Half-Blood Prince & The Deathly Hallows) was Little John in Robot of Sherwood
• Ray Fearon (voice of Firenze) voiced Barlow Teveler for The Seeds of War (2013)
• Peter Burroughs (Goblin here & The Deathly Hallows) was the Jester in The King's Demons (1)
• Lisa Osmond and Jo Osmond (Goblins here; Supporters in The Goblet of Fire) were both Autons in Rose, and Aliens in The Long Game
• Paul Marc Davies (Ghost) was the Chieftain in Utopia, the Trickster in The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Corakinus in Class, then voiced Pepé Gonzalez for The Gift (2016), and General Trave for Time War 1 (2018)
• Kiran Shah (Goblin) was the Figure in Listen, and Emojibot in Smile
• Miles Richardson (Portrait) was Captain Douglas Cavendish in Reel- time Pictures' Downtime and Daemos Rising, Draconian in Mindgame, and Soldier in White Witch of Devil's End, then voiced Charles Darwin for Bloodtide, Irving Braxiatel for Gallifrey (2001 to 2013), Bernice Summerfield (2001 to 2018), Zagreus (2003), Dead and Buried (2010), Intervention Earth, Theatre of War (both 2015), Enemy Lines, Time War 1 (2018) and Time War 4 (2021), and Black Rod for The Gunpowder Plot
• Leila Hoffman (Augusta) was Mrs. Rossiter in Night Terrors
• Paul Herbert was stuntman on The End of Time too
• Abbi Collins (stunt performer here; Pedestrian in The Half-Blood Prince) was the stunt co-ordinator on eleven stories (from Rise of the Cybermen to The Waters of Mars) and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• stunt co-ordinator Greg Powell was a Knight in The Time Monster (3)