Sunday 6 October 2024

Doctor Who Vs. Wycliffe, Series 5

Jack Shepherd returned as WJ Burley's Cornish
detective for the fifth and final season of HTV's
popular crime drama, originally shown in the
spring of 1998. Shepherd also directed two
episodes, and was again joined by Jimmy Yuill,
Helen Masters, Tim Wylton, Michael Attwell,
Lynne Farleigh, and Charlie Hayes.
A repeat run of the six-part series concluded
on ITV3 tonight it featured a total of twenty-
six Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

On Offer (UK TX: May 17)
  • Sally Faulkner (Sian) played Isobel Watkins (pictured left) in The Invasion, then voiced Miss Tremayne for Big Finish's Winter for the Adept (2000)
  • John Abbott (Farthing) was Vince Hawkins in Horror of Fang Rock
  • Glenn Marks (Oaksey) was the stunt co-ordinator on Human NatureThe Family of Blood and Blink
  • John Joyce (Hardie) was Garvin in The Daemons
  • third assistant director Steffan Morris was second assistant on thirty-four episodes (from Rose to Let's Kill Hitler) and Torchwood, production manager (PM) on twenty-four stories (from Planet of the Dead to Heaven Sent), then line producer on another thirty-seven (from The Husbands of River Song to The Power of the Doctor)
  • for Elaine Matthews and Steve Slocombe see Series 1, for Barbara Southcott see Series 2 and for Pam Mullins and Mark Turner see Series 3
Time Out (UK TX: May 24)
  • Gerard [James Pertwee] Horan (DS Caplin) was Clark/Father of Mine in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
  • Johnn Flanagan (Lassiter) was co-writer of Meglos
Standing Stone (UK TX: May 31)
  • Ralph Watson (Combes) was the Overseer in The Underwater Menace, Captain [Ben] Knight in The Web of Fear (a role reprised in 2019 for Big Finish's The Web of Time), Ettis in The Monster of Peladon, and Ben Travers in Horror of Fang Rock
  • Helen Griffin (Jenny) was Angela Price in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, then voiced Director Cardell for Cobwebs (2010)
  • Lucy [Anne] Cohu (Sophie) was Alice Carter in Torchwood: Children of Earth
  • for Michael Attwell see Series 4
Feeding the Rat (UK TX: June 7)
  • Chris Jury (Penwarren) was Deadbeat in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - a role reprised for The Psychic Circus (2020) and AUK Studios' Children of the Circus (2023)
  • for Alan Wareing see Series 4
Scope (UK TX: June 21)
    • Donald [Ellis] Pickering (Cook) was Eyesen in The Keys of Marinus, Captain Blade in The Faceless Ones, and Beyus in Time and the Rani
    • PM Gareth Skelding was location manager on forty-four episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The Big Bang)
    Land's End (UK TX: July 5)
    • Brian [Henry] Croucher (DS Healey) was Borg in The Robots of Death, and Kurt in Reeltime Picture's Shakedown, then voiced Cotton for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City
    • John [Michael Frederick] Castle (Selby) voiced Edmund Trevithick for Nightshade (2016)
    • Albert Welling (Technician) was the Fuhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
    • Ann Beach (Mrs. Wimble) voiced the Deacon for Night Thoughts (2006)
    • for Kevin Clarke see Series 4 and for Steve Slocombe see Series 1

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