Doctor Who Vs. Inspector Morse: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

Colin Dexter's third Morse novel (published in

1977) was adapted by Zenith and Central as the

second serial of their acclaimed crime drama -

it originally aired in January 1987. The Oxford

based detectives DI Endeavour Morse and

Sergeant Lewis were again portrayed by John

Thaw and Kevin Whately.

Radio 4's version of the mystery, transmitted in

1996, now starred John Shrapnel and Robert

Glenister as the duo.

This case (which remained faithful to the book)

was repeated on ITV3 today - it featured sixteen

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• [Francis] Michael Gough (Ogleby) and Elspet [Jean MacGregor] Gray (Mrs. Bartlett) both appeared in Arc of Infinity, as Councillor Hedin (pictured) and Chancellor Thalia respectively - Gough (1916 -2011) also played the titular role in The Celestial Toymaker
• Barbara [Jay] Flynn [born McMurray] (Monica here; Narrator of Morse and the Last Endeavour) voiced Croc Trooper/Sister Chalice and for Big Finish's The Skull of Sobek (2008), Anne Hartman for The Rockery (2019), and Professor Vansom for Secrets of Telos (2022), then was cast as Tecteun in Once, Upon Time and Survivors of the Flux
• Clive [Walter] Swift (Bartlett) was [Joshua] Jobel in Revelation of the Daleks, and [Bayldon] Copper in Voyage of the Damned 
• Frederick [William] Treves (the Dean) was Brotadac in Meglos
• Roger Lloyd Pack (Martin) was John Lumic in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel 
• Arthur Cox (Noakes) was Cully in The Dominators, then Henderson in The Eleventh Hour
• Stefan Schwartz (Richard) was the Knight Commander in Battlefield
• Phil Nice (Quinn) was Henry in Kill the Moon
• for Kenny McBain, Peter Woodthorpe, Philip Voss, Terry Forrestal, Valentino Musetti, Michael Feinberg and Peter Bennett see The Dead of Jericho

The BBC radio treatment of The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

 (repeated on Radio 7 in 2008 and Radio 4 Extra in 2012) starred

these Doctor Who cast alumni:

• for Glenister see The Dead of Jericho
• for Stephen Critchlow see House of Ghosts
• Roger May (Quinn here; Dr. Sheridan in Endeavour: Pylon) was Len in An Adventure in Space and Time