Doctor Who Vs. Casualty, Series 17

Series regulars Derek Thompson, Simon

MacCorkindale, Cathy Shipton, Ian Bleasdale,

Kwame Kwei Armah, Louise Brealey, Kelly

Harrison, Martina Laird, Christine Stephen

Daly, Christopher Colquhoun, and Zita Sattar

all returned for the seventeenth season of

BBC1's long-running medical drama.

Joining the programme here were Russell 
Boulter (as Ryan Johnson), Sarah Manners
 (Bex Reynolds) and Matthew Walt (Luke 
Warren), whilst Adjoa Andoh, Dan Rymer

and Will Mellor all departed at the end of the

run.

A rerun of the forty-part series (originally

broadcast from September 2002 to June 2003)

began on U&Drama today - it featured Jane

Slavin, and a total of thirty-six Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Kiran Dadlani (Samera) was Kezzia in Smile
• Lisa Palfrey (Melanie) was the Mum in Attack of the Graske
• [Beverly] Victoria [Anne] Wicks (QC) was the High Priestess in The Fires of Pompeii
• Siwan Morris (Sabine) was Maebh's Mum for In the Forest of the Night
• Mark [Marcel] Monero (Gary) was Cleric Pedro in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Bernard [Frederic Bemrose] Kay (Elkins here; Shammes in Casualty 1909) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, DI Crossland for The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Big Finish's Night Thoughts (2006)
• Derek Elroy (Greg) voiced the Agent for The Excise Men, Caller for Harvest of the Krotons (both 2023), and Derek for The Eternity Club (2024)
• Julie Legrand (Jennifer) was the Partisan in The End of Time (2)
• Edward Phillips (Matt) was Parisian in (episode 3 of) The Massacre, and Bob Anders in The Moonbase
• Alun Raglan (Davis here; Chandler, 2004; Portman, 2010; Hills, 2015; Timpson, 2023) and Nia Roberts (Lizzie here; Susan/Jamie, Holby City) both appeared in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, as Mo and Ambrose Northover - Roberts also voiced Bragnar for Wrath of the Iceni (2012)
• Nick Malinowski (Fenton) and Tim Plester (Derek Moberley, named after character in The Seeds of Doom) both starred in A Christmas Carol, as Eric and Servant
• Andrew Havill (Goodwin here; Brennan, Holby City) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, then voiced Aleister Portillon/Squire Claude for The Witch in the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Colin Prockter (Williams) was the Chef in The Long Game, and the Air Raid Warden in Victory of the Daleks
• David [Edward] Walliams (Fielding) starred in the Doctor Who Night sketches, voiced Quincy Flowers/Ned Cotton for Phantasmagoria (1999), then was Gibbis in The God Complex
• Suzann [Marie] McLean [born Robinson] (Sara here; Lucy, 2008; Maria, 2012; Sian, 2019) was Veena Brady in Turn Left, and voiced Maxine Andrews for The Memory Bank, Diamon for The Last Fairy Tale, Lara Jansen for Repeat Offender, and Autumn for The Becoming (all 2016)
• Kevork Malikyan (Hussen) was Kemel Rudkin in The Wheel in Space
• Peter Cartwright (Coram) was Arnold Underwood in The Power of Three
• Ken Bones (Robbie here; Pitney, 2013) was the General (pictured) in The Day of the Doctor and Hell Bent, then reprised for Dreadshade (2020), The War Doctor Begins 4, War Room 1 (both 2022), War Room 2 and A Genius for War (both 2023) - he also voiced Dreislav/ Thomas Bloodchild for The Bloodchild Codex (2013), and David/ Anders Kristiansen for Battleground
• Alison Lintott (Helen here; Susie, Holby City) was the Nurse in World Enough and Time
• Aaron Neil (Broadstairs) was Dunlop in The Magician's Apprentice, and Varun Singh in Class, and voiced Tir Ram for All-Consuming Fire, Surene priest for The Boundless Sea, Sanukuma Master for The Rulers of the Universe (all 2015), Aramatz for The Very Dark Thing, Stephano/Klossi/Trink/Setbos for Maker of Demons, Mandrake for The Torchwood Archive, David for UNIT: Silenced, Steven Godbold for Five Twenty-Nine, Computer for World Enough and Time (all 2016), Gorky for The Year After I Died (2017), and Gobran for The Poison of Peladon (2022)
• Mark [Lee] Dexter (Lasky here; Andrew, 2008) was Dad in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, then Charles Babbage in Spyfall (2)
• Kai Owen [born Matthew Mark Stevens] (Danny here; Taylor, 2023) was Torchwood regular Rhys Williams
• Trevor Michael Georges (Cooper) was the Vicar in The Runaway Bride
• Gwynn Beech [Davies] (Laing) voiced Harman for Frozen Time (2007)
• Orlando Seale (Merlin Jameson) voiced Dylan Argent for Vortex Ice (2017)
• Kate McEwen (Marsha here; DS Evans, 2009) voiced Jessica Allaway for Scavenger (2014)
• Barry Aird (Butch here; Monchil, 2009; Grant, 2014; Marshall, 2023) was Time Lord in The Last Day
• Clare Corbett (Janie here; Midwife, 2007) voiced Ernestina Stott for The Dead Shoes, Nun for A Sting in the Tale (both 2009), Harriet/ Technician for The Rise of the New Humans, Lukaku for Stolen Goods (both 2018), Ravager for Cataclysm and Food Fight, Cherilyn Dankworth for The Unzal Incursion (all 2021), and Narrator of The Hounds of Artemis, Dead of Winter, The Way Through the Woods, Touched by an Angel (all 2011), Summer Falls (2013), The Drosten's Cross (2015), The Good Doctor (2018), The Fires of Pompeii (2022) and The Romans (2023)
• Raymond [Anthony] Coulthard (Edwards here; Matt Strong, 2010) voiced Loki/Edgar/Hawks for Cobwebs (2010), Ralph for Suburban Hell (2015), and Rabac/Servers/Dalmari for The Destination Wars (2017)
• Elizabeth Uter (Mrs. Finch) voiced Odessa Smith for The Last Party on Earth (2019)
• Sarah Paul (Brenda here; Claire/Grace in Holby City) was Miss Jerome in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift, then voiced Coleen for Jenny 3 (2024)
• Andy Goddard was director of The Next Doctor too
• Euros Lyn was also director of ten adventures (from The End of the World to The End of Time), Music of the Spheres and Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Catherine Tregenna was writer of The Woman Who Lived too