Doctor Who Vs. Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Season 1

Before Doctor Who was reimagined

for the twenty-first century, another

cult Sixties TV drama, Randall and

Hopkirk (Deceased) was deftly

brought back from the dead for BBC1

by Working Title Television. Writer and director Charlie Higson made Hitch-cockesque cameos in all thirteen stories.

A repeat run of the original twenty

-six part series (created by Dennis

Spooner) continued on Great! TV

last night - it was first shown on ITV

from September 1969 to March 1970.

Comic duo Vic Reeves (stage name of

James Moir) and Bob Mortimer reprised

the roles of detective partners Marty Hopkirk and Jeff Randall, whilst Emilia

Fox and Tom Baker played Jeannie

and Wyvern.

Murray Gold composed the show's

incidental music, whilst the theme tune was provided by David Arnold who

later arranged Ron Grainer's iconic theme tune for Big Finish's Eighth Doctor adventures.

The first, six-part series featured David Tennant, Mark Gatiss, Charles

Dance, Hugh Laurie, and a total of twenty-nine other Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

Drop Dead (UK TX: March 18 2000)

• Jessica Hynes [nee Stevenson] (Felia) was Joan Redfern in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then (that character's great grand-daughter) Verity Newman in The End of Time, and voiced Glory Bee for Big Finish's Invaders from Mars (2002)
• Steve Pemberton (DS Liddel) was Strackman Lux in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead
• Gemma Page (Woman) voiced an Agent for The Flood (2019)
• Paul Shearer (Man) voiced King Henry VIII for Recorded Time, and Cranston for A Most Excellent Match (both 2011)
• Laurie [Philip] Goode (Removal Man) was Mutt in The Mutants, Time Lord in The Invasion of Time, Bandit in The Creature from the Pit, Tigellan in Meglos, Sailor in Enlightenment, and UNIT Trooper in Battlefield
• series ADR editor Paul McFadden was sound supervisor on eighty-two stories (from Rose to The Power of Three), The Infinite Quest, Time Crash, Music of the Spheres, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood

Mental Apparition Disorder (UK TX: March 25)

• [Alexander] Martin Clunes (Nash) was Lon in Snakedance
• Richard [Andrew Palethorpe] Todd (Waterman) was Sanders in Kinda
• Wanda Ventham (Alice) was Jean Rook in The Faceless Ones, Thea Ransone in Image of the Fendahl, and Faroon in Time and the Rani
• [Leslie] Steven Berkoff [born Berks] (the Mouth) was the Shakri in The Power of Three
• Rachel Talalay was also director of seven episodes (from Dark Water to Twice Upon a Time) and The Star Beast

The Best Years of Your Death (UK TX: April 1)

• Rory Jennings (Daniel) was Tommy Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern, and voiced Davros for Innocence (2006)
• Peter [John] Bowles (Graves) was Lionel Carson in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Man Who Never Was
• Phyllis Logan (Harriet) was Andinio in The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Mark Straker (Dawkins) was a Trooper in Earthshock

Paranoia (UK TX: April 8)

• Arabella Weir (Judith) was Bilis in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, and voiced the Doctor for Exile (2003), then Angie Glazebrook for Prisoner of the Ood (2018)
• Tim Wallers (Lacey here & Series 2: Painkillers) was Childers in Victory of the Daleks, and voiced Justinian for The Secret History (2015), and Commander Roxita/Chief Raldon for Day of the Vashta Nerada (2017)
• Simon [John] Pegg [born Beckingham] (Pope) was the Editor in The Long Game, voiced Don Chaney for Invaders from Mars, and was Narrator of the first run of Doctor Who Confidential
• Paul Rhys (Milton) was Max Paul for The Scapegoat (2009)
• Joanna Kanska (Magda) voiced Rachel for Situation Vacant (2010)
• Tony Way (Hammer) was Alf in Deep Breath

Blast from the Past (UK TX: April 15)

• Mark Benton (Wallis) was Clive [Finch] in Rose (a role reprised by Big Finish for The Dimension Cannon), and voiced Ellis for Invaders from Mars, and Jack Coulson for Energy of the Daleks (2012)
• prolific Big Finish actor Susan [Elizabeth] Brown (Deirdre) was Bridget Spears in Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Patrick [Geoffrey] Ryecart (Posh Man) was Dr. Crozier in Mindwarp

A Man of Substance (UK TX: April 22)

• Elizabeth [Jean] Spriggs [born Williams] (Mrs. Glauneck) was Tabby in Paradise Towers
• Gareth [Daniel Noake] Thomas (Bechard) voiced Lord Tamworth for Storm Warning (2001), Kalendorf for Dalek Empire and Return of the Daleks (2006), and Astaroth Morax for Last of the Colophon (2014)
• Tony Bluto (Banks) was Driver Joe in Midnight
• Rachel Weaver (Mrs Banks) was Inga in Terminus
• Hugh [Lewis] Lloyd (Seth) was Garonwy in Delta and the Bannermen