Doctor Who Vs. Grantchester, Series 1

Launched by ITV Studios in October 2014,

this 1950s-set crime drama was based on

 The Grantchester Mysteries by novelist,

playwright and film maker James Runcie.

The series was adapted from the 2012

short story collection, Sidney Chambers

and the Shadow of Death.

Here, Anglican vicar Chambers (played

by James Norton) and DI Geordie Keating

(Robson Green) join forces to solve crimes

in the titular Cambridgeshire village.

Morven Christie, Tess Peake-Jones, and Al

Weaver were cast as Amanda, Sylvia and

Leonard Finch respectively.

 A repeat run of the six-part season began

 on ITV3 last night - it featured Jean Marsh,

 David Troughton, Mark Bonnar, and a

total of twenty-five Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

• Norton was Onegin in Cold War
• Christie was Alice O'Donnell in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Peake-Jones was Marta in The Time of the Doctor
• Kacey [Jane] Ainsworth (Cathy) voiced Beryl for Big Finish's Girl in a Bottle (2023)
• Nick Brimble (Chapman) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Kith for Max Warp (2008), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Olaf Eriksson for The Book of Kells (2010), and Commander Harlan for The Conscript (2017)
• Andrew [Hugh] Woodhall (Morton) depicted Rex Tucker in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Michelle Duncan (Annabel) was Lady Isobel MacLeish in Tooth and Claw
• Kevin Looseley (Policeman) made his TV debut as a Cyberman in Dead Ringers
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (Kendall) was Headmaster [George] Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), Kenton for Break the Ice (2022), and Thomas Browne for 1901: The Unknown Mirror (2025)
• Isla Blair (Gladys) was Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, and voiced Paula for Exotron, Marge for Out of this World and The Chiswick Cuckoos, Charn for Palindrome (all 2020), Old Mary Mortimer for Friend of the Family (2023), and Pars for Unknown Soldiers (2024)
• Pippa Nixon (Daphne) voiced Joanna Nash for Static (2017), and Termiton Uden for Death in the New Forest (2018)
• Michael Simkins (Jarvis) voiced Raxxil for The Planet of Witches (2020)
• Brian Vernel (Tam) was Lucius in The Eaters of Light, and voiced Robert for Dethras (2017)
• Beth Lilly (Edna) voiced Jess Ellmore for Infamy of the Zaross (2017), and Harriet/Jorost for 1957: Double Agent (2025)
• Struan Rodger (Hall) provided the voice of the Face of Boe for New Earth and Gridlock, was Clayton in The Woman Who Lived, then voiced the Kasaavin in Syfall
• Peter Egan (Johnson) voiced Moloch for Protect and Survive, and Straxus for Dark Eyes 1 (both 2012)
• Mike Noble (Val) voiced Miklev for The Rani Elite (2014)
• Camilla [Marie] Beeput (Gloria) voiced Nova for Ravagers (2021)
• Fiona Button (Jennifer) voiced Bex for Birdsong (2024)
• Adam James (Heath) was DI Macmillan in Planet of the Dead
• David Mason was also line producer on The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon and The Angels Take Manhattan
• Crispin Green was also film editor on Tooth and Claw, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Idiot's Lantern, Fear Her, Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead
• Will Willoughby was also stuntman on Rose, Smith and Jones, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens, A Good Man Goes to War, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy and Torchwood
• stuntman Rob Pavey also worked on Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Robot of Sherwood, Listen and The Witch's Familiar
• Katie Lee was also a make-up artist on The Snowmen and Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS