Sunday, 22 September 2024

Doctor Who Vs. Waking the Dead, Series 6

Series regulars Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil
Johnson, and Félicité Du Jeu all returned for
BBC1's award-winning crime drama, originally
shown in the winter of 2007.
Tara Fitzgerald joined the cast here as new
Home Office pathologist, Dr. Eve Lockhart - she
stayed with the programme until 2011, then
starred in short-lived spin-off series, The Body
Farm.
A repeat run of the twelve-part series began
on U&Drama last night - it featured Peter
CapaldiJemma RedgraveHelen
Goldwyn, and a total of thirty-three further
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Wren Boys (TX: January 7 & 8)
  • Big Finish actor Ann [Forrest] Bell (Mother Superior) voiced Sylvia O'Donnell for A Thousand Tiny Wings (2010), Professor Gesima Cazalet for Night of the Stormcrow (2013), and Lisa Burrows for Five Twenty-Nine (2016)
  • Carey Mulligan (Bridgid) played Sally Sparrow (pictured) in Blink
  • [Harold] Tony Rohr (Ryan) was an uncredited Colonist in (episode 6 of) The Power of the Daleks
  • series SFX supervisor Graham Brown was VFX assistant on Full Circle, The Five DoctorsResurrection of the DaleksThe Caves of AndrozaniAttack of the CybermenRevelation of the Daleks and The Curse of Fenric
  • for Tom Lucy (stunt co-ordinator here & The Body Farm) see Series 1
  • prosthetics artist Waldo Mason was SFX assistant on Aliens of London
Deus Ex Machina (TX: January 14 & 15)
  • Graham Crowden (Barrett) was Soldeed in The Horns of Nimon
  • Adam James (Leonard) was DI Macmillan in Planet of the Dead
  • Polly [Alexandra] Walker (Catherine) voiced Commander Narina for The Movellan Grave (2017)
The Fall (TX: January 21 & 22)
  • Nigel Whitmey (Simmel) was [Danny] Simmons in Dalek
  • David Yelland (Taggart) voiced Walter Pritchett for The Red Lady (2015)
  • Michelle Newell (Administrator) was one of twenty-six actresses who auditioned for the role of Leela in 1976
  • for Paul Kennington (stunt double) see Series 4
Mask of Sanity (TX: January 28 & 29)
  • James Fox (Rivelli) voiced Professor Chronotis for Shada
  • Karen Bryson (Dr. Vincent) voiced Commander Esk for Aftershocks (2022)
  • Nicholas Beveney (Jenson) was Dad in Attack of the Graske
  • Richard Dillane (Ricardo) was Captain Carter in Let's Kill Hitler and The Wedding of River Song
  • Dominic Letts (Valentine) voiced Nobby/Marak Kitson/Wilkins/Soldier for The Paradise of Death
  • Helen Blatch (Mrs. Jenson) provided the Computer voice for The Deadly Assassin, and was Commander Fabian in The Twin Dilemma
  • Roy Holder (Flynn) was Krelper in The Caves of Androzani
  • Julia Joyce (Kate) was the Young Rose Tyler in Father's Day, and Holly Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth
  • George Asprey (Bruno) voiced Overseer Zim for The Hidden Realm, Balthasar Schrek for Nothing to See Here (both 2016), the Leader for Infamy of the Zaross (2017), General Melak for Time in a Bottle and Kings of Infinite Space (both 2018), the eponymous role for Ravenous and Beyond (2021), and Superior Elite for The Good Samaritan (2023)
  • for Gareth Milne (stunt co-ordinator) and Crispin Green (film editor) see Series 5
  • script editor Muirinn Lane Kelly was producer of Scream of the Shalka
Double Bind (TX: February 4 & 5)
  • Alisdair Simpson (Young Raymond) voiced Sir Francis White for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), Cleon for The Mask of Tragedy (2014), Colonel Freeman Lifford for The Boundless Sea (2015), Sidney Wheeler/Field Marshal Brooke for Churchill Victorious (2018), Damadus for Return to Skaro (2020), Andor/Manning for Who Am I?, and Lord Varliss for UNIT: Nemesis (2022/23)
  • Ray De Haan (Drug dealer) was a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern, and for Lee Sherward (stunt co-ordinator) see Series 5
Yahrzeit (TX: February 18 & 19)
  • Pip [Dean] Torrens (Holland) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022)
  • Radoslaw Kaim (Cyrak) was Trepper in The Sontaran Stratagem
  • Jim Norton (Dusniak) voiced Major Thomas Kennet for Scream of the Shalka
  • Hollie Sullivan (Frieda) voiced Olivia York for The Middle (2017)
  • Rupert [Makepeace] Wickham (Young Heiss) voiced Captain Dudgeon for No Man's Land (2006), Jonas Faber for Klein's Story, and Butterfly for Survival of the Fittest (both 2010)

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