Saturday, 7 September 2024

Doctor Who Vs. Wycliffe, Series 3

Jack Shepherd returned as WJ Burley's Cornish
detective for the third season of HTV's popular
crime drama (first screened in the summer of
1996), and was again joined by Jimmy Yuill,
Helen Masters, Aaron Harris, and Tim Wylton.
A repeat run of the eight-part series (all original screenplays) concluded on ITV3 last night  - it featured David Bradley, and total of twenty
-three Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Dead On Arrival (UK TX: June 9)
  • Big Finish actor Charlie Hayes (Ruth) voiced Jade for Master (2003), Jenny for The Seven Keys to Doomsday (2008), Gatlin for Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code (2010), Cassandra for Annihilation, Jen for The Memory Cheats (both 2011) and The Uncertainty Principle, Death for Love and War (both 2012), Bel for A Handful of Dust, Veltreena for Lords of the Red Planet (both 2013), Cassie Burdock/Chloe Fothergill for Iris Wildthyme 5 (2015), and Lucilla Fredericks/Nellie for School of Blood (2016)
  • Stuart Organ (Sowden) was Bazin in Dragonfire, and voiced Helgert Teveler/Kenneth/Trooper/Docking for The Seeds of War (2013)
  • David Savile (Garforth) was Lieutenant Jeremy Carstairs in The War Games, Professor Winser in The Claws of Axos, and Colonel Charles Crichton in The Five Doctors
  • Pam Mullins was also a make-up artist on twenty-nine revived series adventures (from The Runaway Bride to The End of Time), then the supervisor on another twenty-seven (from The Eleventh Hour to The Wedding of River Song)
  • Mark Turner was SFX supervisor on The Long Game too
  • for Susie Liggat, Michael Owen Morris and Barbara Southcott see my blog for Series 2
Number of the Beast (UK TX: June 16)
  • Kenneth Colley (Peploe) voiced Cristophe Zarodnix for Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (2008)
  • Brian [Reginald] Miller (Venning) was Dugdale in Snakedance, and provided Dalek voices for Resurrection of the DaleksRemembrance of the Daleks and Time Streams, then was Harry Sowerby (opposite wife Elizabeth Sladen) in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the AtticBarney (pictured) in Deep Breath, and voiced Abbotly for Ghost Town (2002), and Surgeon Master Rexus for Reborn (2011)
  • [Walter] Tenniel Evans (Stafford) was Major Daly in Carnival of Monsters
Slave of Duty (UK TX: July 7)
  • Dione Inman (Sally) was Elena in (part 1 of) The Twin Dilemma
  • Martha [Esther J] Cope (Sarah) was the Controller in Bad Wolf, and voiced Captain Tanya Oswin for The Nowhere Place (2006), Talia for Bedtime Story (2007), and Commander Lind for The Sons of Kaldor (2018)
Total Loss (UK TX: July 14)
  • Michael [John] Goldie (Fisherman) was Jack Craddock in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and Elton Laleham in The Wheel in Space
Crazy For You (UK TX: July 21)
  • John [Morley] Shrapnel (Dr. Malvern) voiced Thomas Cromwell for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and Nigel Colloon for The False Guardian and Time's Assassin (both 2019)
  • Martin Ball (Harper) was Roger Davey in Partners in Crime
  • Jon [Sleeman] Croft (Ted) was Tom Girton in The Daemons
Faith (UK TX: July 28)
  • Nigel Humphreys (ACC Lyman) was Bulic in Warriors of the Deep
  • Sophie Turner (Jessica) was the Vicar in The Family of Blood
Last Judgement (UK TX: August 4)
  • Pam Ferris (Pat) voiced Lizzie Corrigan for The Eternal Summer (2009), and Amanda Steele for Night of the Vashta Nerada (2017)
  • Dominic Mafham (Mathers) voiced Moran for The Jigsaw War (2012), and Chidak for The Dalek Contract and The Final Phase (both 2013)
Old Habits (UK TX: August 11)
  • Steve Slocombe was also the electrician on sixty-five stories (from Army of Ghosts to Death in Heaven)
  • Simon Morris (series third assistant director here & season 4) was the second assistant on Love & Monsters, the first assistant on ten episodes (from Turn Left to The Eaters of Light) and The Sarah Jane Adventures, then production manager on another seven (from Robot of Sherwood to Flatline)

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