Doctor Who Vs. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Gary Oldman as Sirius Black

"Messrs. Moony, Wormtail,

Padfoot and Prongs are proud

to present the Marauder's Map"

ITV1's latest Harry Potter film season
continued today with the third part in

the saga - released in late 2004.

Michael Gambon now portrayed

Dumbledore, whilst David Thewlis,

Emma Thompson, and Timothy Spall

were introduced here as Lupin,

Trelawney, and Pettigrew respectively.

Published in 1999, JK Rowling's third

novel was adapted by Warner Bros - it

featured David Bradley, and fifteen

Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

• Gambon played both Elliot and Kazran Sardick in A Christmas Carol
• Lee [David] Ingleby (Shunpike) voiced Samson Griffin for Big Finish's Terror Firma (2005)
• Pam Ferris (Marge) voiced Lizzie Corrigan for The Eternal Summer (2009), and Amanda Steele for Day of the Vashta Nerada (2017)
• Lenny [George] Henry (Shrunken Head) once depicted the Doctor in his sketch show in 1985, then was Daniel Barton in Spyfall
• Jimmy Gardner (Ernie) was Chenchu in Marco Polo, and Idmon in Underworld
• Genevieve [Wilhemina] Gaunt (Pansy) voiced Corporal Linda Maxwell for The Helliax Rift and Warlock's Cross, Commander/Anna for Red Planets (all 2018), Lady Sicura for The House of Masks (2022), Virginia Hancock/Professor Jennifer Dalton for The Incherton Incident (2023), Hedra for Fugitive of the Daleks, and Jessica Harker for The Silent City (both 2024)
• Spencer Wilding (Werewolf here; Knight in The Deathly Hallows) was the Creature in The God Complex, the Wooden King in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Skaldak in Cold War, and Goddess in Class
• Andy Merchant (stuntman here, The Half-Blood Prince & The Deathly Hallows) was stuntman on The Wedding of River Song and Into the Dalek, then stunt co-ordinator on The Pilot
• stunt drivers Rick English and Levan Doran both worked on Tooth and Claw too
• George Cottle was also a stuntman on Boom Town, The Runaway Bride and Smith and Jones
• Gordon Seed was also stuntman on twenty-one stories, and the stunt co-ordinator on another thirteen (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon)
• Andy Smart (stunts here & The Order of the Phoenix; Dragon Handler in The Goblet of Fire) was also stuntman on Evolution of the Daleks, Let's Kill Hitler, The Rings of Akhaten and The Zygon Inversion
• for Harry Melling, Warwick Davis, and Adrian Rawlins see The Philosopher's Stone
• for Mark Williams see The Chamber of Secrets