Saturday, 20 July 2024

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 18

The eighteenth season of BBC1's ever-
green crime drama was first broadcast
in early 2015 - Emilia Fox and David
Caves both returned as doctors Nikki
Alexander and Jack Hodgson.
The Home Office forensic pathologists
were joined at London's Lyle Centre by
Clarissa Mullery and Dr. Thomas
Chamberlain, played by Liz Carr and
Richard Lintern.
A repeat run of the ten-part series
began on U&Drama last night - it
featured Shaun Dingwalland a total
 of twenty-one Doctor Who cast and
crew connections:

Snipers' Nest (UK TX: January 6 & 7)
  • Sean Gilder (Clout) was the Sycorax leader in The Christmas Invasion
  • Edmond Moulton (Luke here & Falling Angels) was Adam Wicks in The Almost People
  • Jayne McKenna (Julia here & A Special Relationship) voiced Audrey Mohinson for Big Finish's Ravagers (2021)
  • Ryan Stuart was stuntman on Nightmare in Silver too
  • series clapper loader Peter Lowden was a camera assistant on The Time of the Doctor
Falling Angels (UK TX: January 12 & 13)
  • Andrew Tiernan (DCI McLeod) was Jim Purcell in Night Terrors
  • Steven [William Thomas] Elder [born Lawrence] (Stone) voiced Siy Tarkov for Dalek Empire (2003/4), Commander Farrow for Jubilee, Eric Rawden for Something Inside (2006), Rudolph for Blood on Santa's Claw, and Lord Lycaon for I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day and Brightly Shone the Moon That Night (all 2019)
  • Ben Ashmore was also the SFX co-ordinator on thirty-six stories (from The Girl in the Fireplace to The Next Doctor), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
Protection (UK TX: January 19 & 20)
  • Daniel O'Hara was also director of Under the Lake and Before the Flood
  • Lorraine Burroughs (DI Conroy) was Thalina in The Fires of Pompeii
  • Micah Balfour (Garvey) was the Co-Pilot in A Christmas Carol, then voiced Yarven for Goth Opera (2024)
  • David Sibley (Judge) was Pralix in The Pirate Planet, then voiced Kurt Schalk for Persuasion, the Eminence for The Seeds of War (both 2013), Dark Eyes 2 and Destroy the Infinite, Professor Markus Schriver for Masterplan (all 2014) and Eye of Darkness (2015), Josiah Morton for The Morton Legacy, the Manager for The Dying Room, Vincent Parry for Orr (all 2017), Valerian for Time War 1 (2018), Uther Vargosh for Darker Purposes, Sigmund Freud for Conflict Theory (both 2020), and Henry Wotton for The Master of Dorian Gray (2022)
  • Amit [Kaushik] Shah (Dr. Dhillon) was Rahul in The Woman Who Fell to Earth
  • for Des McAleer see Series 8
  • Ross Adams was also the boom operator on thirteen adventures (from Asylum of the Daleks to Flatline)
  • series sound mixer Ronald Bailey was the recordist on Daleks in ManhattanEvolution of the Daleks, 42 and Utopia
Squaring the Circle (UK TX: January 26 & 27)
  • Pippa [Jane] Haywood (Justine) voiced the Prime Minister for Embankment Station (2017), Jaxa for Seizure, Teremon for The War Master 2 (both 2018), and Captain Graff for Genetics of the Daleks (2020)
One of Our Own (UK TX: February 2 & 3)
  • Jason Watkins (Hughes) was Webley in Nightmare in Silver, and voiced the Legate of the Caliph for The Destroyer of Delights, and the White Guardian for The Chaos Pool (both 2009)
  • Steven Pacey (CS Haynes) voiced Trevor for The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (2008), then was Narrator of The Secret Invasion (2020) and The Kairos Ring (2021)
  • Beth [Jane] Goddard (Trish) 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) and Rulers of Earth, Sally/Time Lady for Operation: Hellfire (both 2020), and Allerdyce Benexa/Pangladasha for Ice Heist! (2023)
  • for Mark Frost see Series 7

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