Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 19

The nineteenth series of BBC1's

evergreen crime drama (first

shown in early 2016) starred

Emilia Fox (veteran of over a

hundred episodes since 2004)

and David Caves as doctors

Nikki Alexander and Jack

Hodgson. The Home Office

forensic pathologists (based in

London's Lyell Centre) were

joined by Clarissa Mullery and

Dr. Thomas Chamberlain, played

by Liz Carr and Richard Lintern.

A repeat run of the ten-part

season concluded on U&Drama

last night - it featured a total of twenty-four Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

After The Fall (UK TX: January 4 & 5)

• Liza Tarbuck (DI Rankin) voiced Captain Kaliko for The Infinite Quest, and Lysette Barclay for Big Finish's Plague of the Daleks (2009)
• Ariyon [Debo] Bakare (Dawes) was Leandro in The Woman Who Lived, then voiced Father Mendica for The Poison of Peladon, and Cato for The Players (both 2022)
• Dean Lennox Kelly (Carmichael) was the eponymous Bard in The Shakespeare Code
• Joanna Horton (Suzie) voiced Brooke 1 for The Diary of River Song 2 (2018)
• Jonnie [Bernard] Broadbent (Rowland) voiced the Quins for The Quin Dilemma (2024)
• Sagar Arya (Shah) was a Newsreader in The Christmas Invasion and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Timothy Wood was second assistant director on K9 too
• for David Cann see Series 4

Flight (UK TX: January 11 & 12)

• Richard Senior was also director of Let's Kill Hitler, Space/Time, Night of the Doctor and Doctor Who at the Proms (2013), then was second unit director on The Day of the Doctor
• Esther [Jane] Hall (DI Ryman) voiced Fortuna for The Galileo Trap (2015), Tazeena/Bauza/Mum for The Two Masters, Pheenan for Absolute Power (both 2016), and Viv/Commentator for The Iron Legion (2019)
• Richard Dillane (DCI Waite) was Captain Carter in Let's Kill Hitler and The Wedding of River Song
• Raji James (Rachid) was Dr. Rajesh Singh in Doomsday and Army of Ghosts
• Janie Booth (Woman) voiced System for The Harvest, Old Woman for Medicinal Purposes (both 2004), and Eve Morris for The Gathering (2006)
• Wanda Opalinska (Alma) voiced the Dockmaster for Magic Bullet's Storm Mine (2004), Nadia Vasney for The Night Witches (2017), Gudrun/Espen for Colony of Strangers, Irinda for Family Matters (both 2020), and Dr. Lorna Holmes for Supernature (2023)
• series casting director Andy Brierley was casting associate on fifty-eight episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The Big Bang), Music of the Spheres, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Fay Selby was also first assistant director on Asylum of the Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan, Nightmare in Silver and The Day of the Doctor

Life Licence (UK TX: January 18 & 19)

• [Charles] Robert [William] Whitelock (Bright) was Mahler in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Professor Rickett/King Magus/Denyx for Psychodrome, Mulberry Gride for Jago & Litefoot & Patsy (both 2014), Sebastian/Provost Curtis for The Edge, Peter Andrews for The Hidden Realm (both 2016), Bruno Werner/Vagabond/Priest for Better Watch Out and Fairytale of Saltzburg, Artron/Cadrin for Day of the Master (2018), Garth/Thispus for One Mile Down, Machines for Ghost Machines, V12/Skellen/V48/V33 for The Robots 1 (all 2019), Stark/ Prosecutor for Barrister to the Stars, Grolk/Ogrons/Servant for Too Many Masters (both 2020), Bill Lester/Badenhorst for Return of the Cybermen, Kallure/Riggs for Twisted Folklore (both 2021), Jack/Jase Harper for Albie's Angels (2022), Stringer/Skoob for Ice Heist!, Dennis Ward/Commander for The Witching Tree (both 2023), Operator Goole for Revolution in Space, and Lazar/Agent 2 for Last Words (both 2024)
• Tim Packham (Paaser-by) began his TV career as a Plasmaton in Dimensions in Time
• Niamh Cusack (Sylvie) voiced Clarimonde for Zaltys (2017), and the Oldest for The Eternity Club 2 (2024)
• for Shaun Parkes see Series 8
• Damian Bromley was also the cinematographer on The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone

In Plain Sight (UK TX: January 25 & 26)

• Keith Boak was also director of Rose, Aliens of London and World War Three
• Neil Stuke (DI Cooke here & Series 21: Family) voiced Geoff Corbett for The Crooked Man (2014), then was Lee Clayton in Fugitive of the Judoon

River's Edge (UK TX: February 2 & 3)

• Andrew Forbes (Consultant) was Omril in Full Circle
• Derek [Brian] Griffiths (DS Guillam) voiced Jason Taylor for Brave New World (2008), Xylem Maple Dorm for Death in the New Forest (2018), Annam Henic for Queen of the Mechonoids, Rev. Monty Woolsgrove for The Devil's Hoofprints (both 2021), Golas for Curiosity Shop (2023), and Mathryn for Slow Beasts (2024)