Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 22

The twenty-second season of the popular

crime drama returned to BBC1 in early

2019, as it reached the milestone of two

-hundred instalments - it again starred

 Emilia Fox 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. Chamberlain,

played by Liz Carr and Richard Lintern.

A repeat run of the ten-part series began

on U&Drama last night - the five cases

featured Jo Martin, Ingrid Oliver, and

a total of thirty Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Two Spirits (UK TX: January 7 & 8)

• Kerry Fox (Susie) voiced Julia Hartley Price for Big Finish's UNIT: Cyber Reality (2018)
• Rochenda Sandall (Liz) was Azure in Flux
• Andrew Knott (Marlow) voiced James O'Meara for 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (2013), and Sean Casey for The White Room (2014)
• for Jemima Rooper see Series 10
• Helen Dickson was also dialogue editor on twenty stories (from The Eleventh Hour to World Enough and Time), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Class

Lift Up Your Hearts (UK TX: January 14 & 15)

• Radoslaw [Sebastian] Kaim (Rudi) was Worker in The Sontaran Stratagem
• for Colin Salmon see Series 1 and Richard Price see Series 21
• Dan Li (DS Lin) was Alexei in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Dokan for UNIT: Shutdown, Grillo Clavik for The Genesis Chamber (both 2016), Okada Shumei for The Barbarians and the Samurai (2018), and Mike Chaoxiang/Raptor for Master! 3 (2024)
• Alex Frost (Nurse) was Reverend Shaw in Village of the Angels
• for Kiaran Murray Smith and Timothy Wood see Series 19

To Brighton, To Brighton (UK TX: January 21 & 22)

• Sebastian [Felipe Xavier Fernández-Garcia] Armesto (DI Taramelli) was Broff in Bad Wolf, and voiced Anders for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008), and Garrison for Kidnapped! (2020)
• Samantha [Jane] Bond (DS Quicke) was Miss Wormwood in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane and Enemy of the Bane then reprised for The Revenge of Wormwood (2023), and voiced Mother Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009)
• for Carlyss Peer see Series 14 and Daniel Weyman see Series 20
• Nancy Baldwin (Audrey) was Joy in The Impossible Astronaut 
• Tomi May (Calvin) was Dowell in Thin Ice

Deathmaker (UK TX: January 28 & 29)

• Amanda Root (Olivia) voiced Madeleine Fairweather for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Lendek/Scientist for The Lords of Terror (2018)
• for Lucinda Dryzek see Series 6 and Des McAleer see Series 8
• Ray Fearon (DI Quint) voiced Barlow Teveler for The Seeds of War (2013)
• Ian McElhinney (Walsh) was Ko Sharmus in Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children
• Alex Jordan (Reporter) voiced Renk Van Magnastein for The Revolution (2014), Mandeville/Chief/Acolyte for The Library in the Body (2016), Heatcote for An Ideal World (2018), Computer for The Scaramancer, Bandit for The Cognition Shift (both 2020), Sergeant Jean Paul Savarin for Seabird One and Visitants (both 2022), Louis Marchand/Napoleon for Time Schisms! (2023), and Various for The Last Day (2024)
• Avita Jay (DC Anderton) voiced Zakia Akhtar for Stranded, Harper for The Unzal Incursion, Hera/Moran Kez for Cycle of Destruction, and Evo/Eleanor Pearce for The Evolving Dead (all 2021)
• Silas Carson (Harris) provided Alien voices for The End of the World, then Ood voices for The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood, The End of Time, Pond Life, Survivors of the Flux, The Vanquishers, Prisoner of the Ood, The War Master 2 and Oracle, and voiced Arbuckle for The Jabari Countdown (all 2018), Trave for Havoc, the Sicari for Collateral and Assassins, Commentator for Warzone (all 2019), Sir Thomas Pewsey/Pilot for The Sins of Captain John, Brian for He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not, Garlon Rosh for The Robots of War (all 2020), Dr. Winston Grange for Time Flies (2022), Drane for The Kicker, Narrator of An Ood Halloween (both 2023), and Ramesh Kamal for Storm of the Sea Devils (2024)
• Emily Taaffe (Orla) voiced Sasha Yan for Fond Farewell (2022)

Betrayal (UK TX: February 4 & 5)

• Emma Sullivan was also director of Can You Hear Me? and The Haunting of Villa Diodati
• Art [born Athar Ul-Haque] Malik (Pujari) was Ilin in The Ghost Monument, and voiced Abbot Absolute for The Skull of Sobek (2008)
• Dervla Kirwan (Amanda) was Miss Hartigan in The Next Doctor, then reprised Miss Quill for Big Finish's Class, and voiced Mrs. Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Di Wright for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Yost McComack for Lightspeed, Anne Marie for Interlude, Representative for Echo Chamber, Agatha Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Professor Callis for Castle Hydra, and Kelleher for Effect and Cause (all 2020)
• prolific Big Finish and BBV actor/writer/director/musician Nigel Fairs (Judge) was Policeman in Zygon, and voiced Gary Williams for The Shadow of the Scourge (2000), Joshua for Race Memory (2001), Osbert for The Green Man, Hall for In 2 Minds (both 2002), Rom for Nekromanteia (2003), Time Lord for Pandora (2005), Kalbez for Enemy Lines (2016), Cornelius Pinch for Inside Every Warrior (2019), Curtis/Crewman for The Flying Dutchman (2020), Rev. Samuel Claypole/the Snowart for The God of Phantoms, Faren/Trooper for Destroyer (both 2021), and Announcer for The Prints of Denmark (2022)