Doctor Who Vs. Broadchurch, Series 1

This multi-award winning crime drama from Kudos

and Shine production companies was chosen to

launch the ITV Encore channel in June 2014, and

a repeat run began on ITV3 last night.

Chris Chibnall devised Broadchurch after his

work on ITV1's long-running legal drama, Law &

Order: UK (2009 to 2014) motivated him to

expand his storytelling by asking what happens

"to [the victim's families after] they left the

screen?" Chibnall also scripted two sequel series

for ITV then Gracepoint, the ten-part American

remake which premiered on Fox in October 2014.

Here, newly promoted DI Alec Hardy (played by

David Tennant) and DS Ellie Miller (Olivia

Colman) investigate the discovery of 11 year old

Danny Latimer's body at the foot of cliffs on the

beach at Broadchurch - a death that profoundly

affects the small seaside community in Dorset.

This eight-part series first aired over consecutive

Monday nights in March and April 2013 (averaging

almost ten million viewers) - it also featured Jodie

Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Arthur Darvill, David Bradley, Jacob Anderson, Vicky McClure, Alfred Enoch (son of William Russell), Will

Mellor, Pauline Quirke, and a total of twenty-six other Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Euros Lyn was also director of a dozen episodes (from The End of the World to The Beast Below), Music of the Spheres and Torchwood: Children of Earth
• James [Christian] Strong was also director of seven stories (from The Impossible Planet to Planet of the Dead)
• Colman was Mother in The Eleventh Hour, then appeared in The Five (ish) Doctors Reboot, and was Narrator of BBC Audio's The Forgotten Army (2010)
• Tracey Childs (CS Jenkinson) was Metella in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Dr. Elizabeth Klein for ten Big Finish releases (from Colditz to Warlock's Cross) - she also voiced the Figurehead for Time Works (2006)
• Susan [Elizabeth] Brown (Liz) was Bridget Spears in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Midwife for 100 BC, Mary for Bedtime Story (2007), Alice Withers for The Eternal Summer, Maud for Castle of Fear, Mrs. Withers/Mrs. Sowerby for Plague of the Daleks (all 2009), Margaret for Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars, Eleanor Harvey for Return of the Krotons, Chief Engineer/Chanel for The Song of the Megaptera, Babs for Prison in Space (all 2010), and Kastrella for Death Match (2015)
• Joe Sims (Carter) and Sanchia McCormack (Nicky) both starred in The Power of the Doctor, as Deputy Marshal Arnhost and Train Marshal Halaz - Sims also voiced Chief Orderly/Jumper/Wilde for The Rise of the New Humans (2018), Sergeant Grout/Jack/Arthur for Spring Heeled Jack (2019), Abe Porter/Chauncey/Pat for Precious Annihilation (2020), Jim Berenger for The Primeval Design, Mark Seven for Queen of the Mechonoids, The Dalek Protocol and Dalek Universe (all 2021), and Tench for Stone Cold (2023) - whilst McCormack was also Housing Officer in Turn Left
• Matthew Gravelle (Joe Miller) voiced Klinus for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro (both 2014), then provided the titular voice of Kerblam!
• Peter De Jersey (Young) and Michael Houghton (CID) both appeared in The Day of the Doctor, as Androgar and Chancellery Guard - Houghton was also Des in The Five(ish) Doctors
• Jonathan [Stuart] Bailey (Stevens) was Psi in Time Heist, and voiced Lakis for Truant, and Computer for The Heavenly Paradigm (both 2017)
• Simon Ludders (Smith) was a Patient in New Earth, and Overseer in Thin Ice, then voiced Magister Feris for The Angel of History, Elliot King for The War Master 2 (both 2018), Monty/Ogron for The Uncertainty Shore (2020), and Control/Dr. Andrews/Colin Carter for Seabird One (2022)
• Carolyn Pickles (Maggie) voiced Lady Meera Darone for Army of Death (2011), Dr. Hilary Standish for The Stuff of Nightmares, Cardinal Ollistra for The Side of the Angels (both 2017), Dark Universe (2020), Allegiance (2022) and Manoeuvres (2023), Professor Marian Schaeffer for The Tyrants of Logic, and Traherne for An Ideal World (both 2018)
• [John] Simon Rouse (Danvers) was Hindle in Kinda, then voiced John Kincaid for The Witch from the Well (2011), Drang for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016), and Frank Kelsey for The Running Men (2024)
• David Sibley (Lovegood) was Pralix in The Pirate Planet, and voiced Kurt Schalk for Persuasion,  the Eminence for The Seeds of War (both 2013), Dark Eyes 2, Dark Eyes 3, Destroy the Infinite (all 2014) and Dark Eyes 4 (2015), Josiah Morton for The Morton Legacy (2017), Admiral Valerian for Time War 1 (2018), Uther Vargosh for Darker Purposes, Dr. Sigmund Freud for Conflict Theory (both 2020), and Henry Wotton for The Master of Dorian Gray (2022)
• Marcus Garvey (Lawson) voiced Frank Spiggot for The Romance of Crime (2015)
• Amanda Drew (Cate) provided the voice of the Mouri in Once, Upon Time
• Julian Seager (Local) was Big Red in Nightmare in Silver, and Viking in The Girl Who Died 
• Scott Stevenson (Driver) was a Man in The Ring of Akhaten and The Name of the Doctor, Submariner in Cold War, and Dipped Man in The Crimson Horror
• Clem So (Driver) was Mongolian in Asylum of the Daleks, Artisan in The Angels Take Manhattan, Tourist in The Day of the Doctor, Clockwork Droid in Deep Breath, Bank Client in Time Heist, Alien in Face the Raven and The Husbands of River Song, Gent in Thin Ice, Corpse in Oxygen, Guard in Extremis, and Pirate in Legend of the Sea Devils
• Ani Rogers (CID) was Woman in The Magician's Apprentice
• line producer Catrin Lewis Defis was associate producer on The Next Doctor, The End of Time, and Torchwood, and producer of Music of the Spheres 
• film editors Mike Jones and Tim Porter also edited a total of sixteen stories (from Rose to the present)
• Ray Holman was also costume designer on fifty adventures (from Blink to The Timeless Children and Torchwood)
• Andrea Mear was also costume assistant on The End of Time, and The Sarah Jane Adventures