Tuesday, 30 July 2024

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 20

The twentieth season 
of the popular crime

drama originally aired
in January 2017, and
 again starred Emilia 
Fox anDavid Caves as doctors Nikki
Alexander and Jack
Hodgson. Based in
London's Lyell Centre,
the Home Office
forensic pathologists
were again joined by
Clarissa Mullery and Dr. Thomas Chamberlain,
played by Liz Carr and
Richard Lintern. The programme, which began in 1996, has now been broad-
cast in over 200 territories. A repeat run of the five thrillers began on
U&Drama last night - it featured a total of twenty-eight Doctor Who cast
and crew connections:

Identity (UK TX: January 2 & 3 2017)
  • Kevork Malikyan (Khoury) was Kemel Rudkin in The Wheel in Space
  • Cristina Barreiro (Elia) voiced Flavia Santos/Operative for Big Finish's It Takes a Thief (2018)
  • Gerald Kyd [born Gerasimos Awkoumides] (Hamed) voiced Martin Regan/Sir Robert Devere/Stephen Mulryne for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), and Lt. Maurizio Savinio for Aquitaine (2016) - he was also General Logan in War of the Sontarans
  • Hamza Jeetooa (Aziz) was Manish in Demons of the Punjab 
  • Louise Page was also the costume designer on forty-six episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The End of Time) and Music of the Spheres
  • for Anthony Coombes see Series 2
  • for Tim Palmer see Series 13
  • for Owen Charnley see Series 19
Discovery (UK TX: January 9 & 10)
  • Darren Morfitt (DCI Steemson) was Brother Marco in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
  • Nathalie Buscombe (Lucy) voiced Jane Austen for False Coronets, and Garen/Galerayna for Someone I Once Knew (both 2018)
  • Saskia Reeves (DS Steele) vocied Carmen Rega for Emissary of the Daleks (2019)
  • Struan Rodger (Liston) provided the voice of the Face of Boe in New Earth and Gridlockwas Clayton in The Woman Who Lived, then voiced the Kasaavin in Spyfall
  • for Dominic Rowan see Series 6
Remembrance (UK TX: January 16 & 18)
  • Eva Pope (DI Ashton) voiced Nia Brusk for Army of Death (2011), and Sendaya for The Kicker (2023)
  • Sarah Smart (Ali) was Jennifer Lucas in The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People, then voiced Laura Corbett for The Crooked Man (2014)
  • Jonathan Stone Fewings (Tresize) was the Male Programmer [Davitch Pavale] in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, and voiced Major Wheatley for Hounded (2016)
  • Morgan Watkins (Logan) voiced Ruck for The Dispossessed (2018)
  • Rhoda Ofori Attah (Stella) voiced Jodi/Lifeguard for Altered Status (2021), Tarper for Eclipse, and Alicantis for The Slaying of the Writhing Mass (both 2022)
Covenant (UK TX: January 23 & 24)
  • Daniel Weyman (Max Thorndyke here & Series 21) voiced Ragan Crezzen for The Butcher of Brisbane (2012)
  • Lee Ross (McAteer) was the Boatswain in The Curse of the Black Spot
  • Lisa Kay (Carol) voiced Beatrix Butcher for The Witch from the Well (2011), and Alayna for Empire of the Racnoss (2017)
  • Jamie [Amin] Zubairi (Bradwell) voiced Dorje Lingpa for The Secrets of Det Sen (2021), Three/Petko for The Love Vampires (2022), and Peevy/Com Tech 2 for Last Words (2024)
  • Camilla Arfwedson (Officer) voiced Isla Johansen for Defender of the Earth (2023)
Awakening (UK TX: January 30 & 31)
  • Raquel [Josephine] Cassidy (Dr. Vasquez) was Miranda Cleaves in The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People, and voiced Mesca for The Judgement of Isskar (2009), Inquisa for Paradoxicide, Destiny Gray for Question Marks (both 2011), Dr. Alison Foster for Destination: Nerva (2012), and Guinevere Godiva for Jago & Litefoot 5 (2013)
  • Drew Armstrong (co-ordinator) and Alice Jowitt (data transfer operator) both worked on Series 10
  • for crew Matthew Burlem see Series 18 and for Kiaran Murray Smith and Timothy Wood see Series 19

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