Doctor Who Vs. Inspector Morse, Series 6

The sixth season of Central's classic crime 

drama was first screened in the winter of

1992 - it won another BAFTA Best Drama

prize. BAFTA Best Actor nominee John Thaw,

Kevin Whately, and James Grout returned as

the Oxford-based detectives, Morse and Lewis,

and their boss Superintendent Strange. Morse

creator, Colin Dexter again made cameo

appearances here.

A repeat run of the five-part series (all original screenplays) began on ITV3 today - it featured

a total of thirty-two Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Dead On Time (TX: February 26)

• Samantha [Jane] Bond (Helen here; Ellen for House of Ghosts) was Miss Wormwood in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane and Enemy of the Bane, and voiced Mother Baroque for Big Finish's The Scapegoat (2009)
• David Haig [Collum Ward] (Rhodes) was Pangol in The Leisure Hive
• Joanna David (Susan) voiced Mrs. Audley for AudioGo's The Broken Crown (2011)
• Christopher Owen (Solicitor) was the Earthling in Meglos
• Richard Hampton (Coroner) was a Villager in The Visitation
• Adrian Dunbar (Marriat) voiced McCarthy for Brave New Town (2008)
• Vincent Pickering (Exchange Man) began his TV career as Sagan in Warriors' Gate

Happy Families (TX: March 11)

• [Alexander] Martin Clunes (Balcombe) was Lon in Snakedance
• Anna [Raymond] Massey (Emily here; Gold in Lewis) voiced Miss Pollard for The Girl Who Never Was (2007)
• George Raistrick (Sir John) made his TV debut as a Guard in Day of the Daleks
• Rupert Graves (Billy here; Pickman in Lewis) was John Riddell in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Jamie Foreman (Chas) was Eddie Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern
• Robert Demeger (Scientist) was the Preacher in The Shakespeare Code
• Richard Ireson (Pathologist) was a Soldier in The Mind Robber and Axus in The Krotons
• assistant editor Michael Feinberg was the sound editor on The Lazarus Experiment and The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Death of the Self (TX: March 25)

• Frances Barber (Nicole) was Madame Kovarian throughout the Series 6 story arc - a role reprised for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
• Alan Rowe (Haines) was Dr. Evans/Space Control Voice in The Moonbase, Edward of Wessex in The Time Warrior, James Skinsale in Horror of Fang Rock, and Garif in Full Circle
• Allan Mitchell (Coroner) was Wagstaffe in Spearhead from Space

Absolute Conviction (TX: April 8)

• Diana [Marilyn] Quick (Hilary here; Gwen in Lewis) voiced Prime for Scream of the Shalka
• Richard [Ian Carmichael] Wilson (Thornton) was Dr. Constantine in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances
• Robert Pugh (Harris) was Tony Mack in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, and voiced Emmett Burrows for Five Twenty-Nine (2016)
• Cheryl Hall (Laura) was Shirna in Carnival of Monsters
• Steven Mackintosh (DS Cheetham) was Gazak in Timelash
• Jim Broadbent (Bennett) had twice depicted the Doctor - in Doctor Who and Crayola (a sketch for Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV in 1987) then for Comic Relief's The Curse of Fatal Death
• Pete Lee Wilson (Paul) was Tommo in The End of Time
• Jonathan Firth (Peter) voiced John for The Doomwood Curse (2008), Cadwallader for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016), and Sebastian Duke of Cardenas for Kingdom of Lies (2018)
• Phil Davis (Sherman) was Lucius Petrus Dextrus in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Titus for The Cannibalists (2009)
• [Reginald Herbert] Preston Lockwood (Chaplain) was Dojjen in Snakedance

Cherubim & Seraphim (TX: April 15)

• Isla Blair (Janey) was Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, then voiced Paula for Exotron (2007), Margerie Hopshaw for Out of this World and The Chiswick Cuckoos, Charn for Palindrome (all 2020), Old Mary Mortimer for Friend of the Family (2023), and Pars for Unknown Soldiers (2024)
• Ian Reddington (Oakley) was the Chief Clown (pictured) in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (a role reprised for 2020's The Psychic Circus), and voiced Nobody No-One the Word Lord for A Death in the Family (2010)
• Sorcha Cusack (Joyce here; Pinnock in Lewis) voiced Mary Carter for Master of the Daleks and Eye of Darkness (both 2015)
• Christopher Benjamin (Furlong) was Sir Keith Gold in Inferno, then Colonel Hugh Curbishley in The Unicorn and the Wasp, but is best known as Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng-Chiang - a role reprised for The Mahogany Murders (2009) then Big Finish's Jago & Litefoot (2010-2018), Voyage to Venus, Voyage to the New World (both 2012), The Justice of Jalxar (2013), Mind Games (2014), Stage Fright, The Haunting (both 2015), The Jago & Litefoot Revival, The Beast of Kravenos (both 2017), The Talents of Greel (2019) and Merry Christmas Mr. Jago (2020) - he also voiced Tardelli for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008)