Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 29

The latest run of BBC Studios' evergreen crime drama concluded last

night - it starred Emilia

Fox (now the veteran of 212 episodes since

2004) and David Caves,

as doctors Nikki

Alexander and Jack

Hodgson. The Home

Office forensic path-

ologists (now based at

the Bowman Centre in

Birmingham) were again

joined by Maggie Steed

and Francesca Mills, as

Harriet Maven and Kit

Brooks. Silent Witness has been recommissioned for an anniversary season.

This ten part series featured Jane Slavin, and a total of twenty-three Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

The Disappearance of Alice Hill (UK TX: February 2/3)

• for Fox see Series 8 and for Steed see Series 28
• Sophie [Lisa] Hopkins (Alice) was April MacLean in Class
• Adam Rayner (Booth) was Roger Curbishley in The Unicorn and the Wasp
• Tony Gardner (Hill) voiced Stapleton Petherbridge for Big Finish's The Wrong Doctors (2013), then was Douglas in The Pyramid at the End of the World

Creekwood (TX: February 9/10)

• Lydia Wilson (DI Moss) voiced Maddy for Goth Opera (2024)
• Rachel Atkins (Barbara) voiced Queen Aethelfrid/Dr. Angeline Duchamp for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Lieutenant Jane Lucas for The Screaming Skull (2014), Sol for Intervention Earth, Susannah for The Tears of Isis (both 2015), Bishop for Maurice, Madame Sosostris for Masterpiece, Juno for Maker of Demons, Myla for The Age of Endurance (all 2016), Minister for Embankment Station, Major Destra for The Good Master (both 2017), Margot for Goodbye Piccadilly (2018), Ro-Jedda for Torchwood (2019), Zarda for Do No Harm, Governor Crompton for Like, Sarathin for The Enemy of My Enemy (all 2020), Cathrin Travers for Faustian, Dresha for Colony of Fear (both 2021), and Captain Argento for Morbius (2024)
• for Joseph Long see Series 6 and for Bern Colllaco see Series 23
• for Steven Forrester see Series 16

The Enemy Within (TX: February 17/18)

• Gerard Kearns (DC Magath) voiced William Hurley for The Peterloo Massacre (2016), and Hjalmar Johansen for Northern Lights (2023)
• George Harris (Nelson) was a stuntman on Lucky Day and Wish World
• Bhasker Patel (Imran) was Jival Chowdry in Turn Left

Grace of God (TX: February 23/24)

• Vinette [Sharon] Robinson (DI Mahler) was Abi Lerner in 42, Rosa Parks in Rosa, and voiced Cynthia Quince for Dead to the World (2015)
• Joplin [Chook] Sibtain (Retford) was Mark Grantham in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Warriors of Kudlak, and Tarak Ital in The Waters of Mars, then voiced David Brock for The Feast of Axos (2011), Athrid for The Acheron Pulse (2012), Sanjaya Starr for The Case of the Gluttonous Guru (2013), and Brian/Koggnossenti for Technophobia (2016)
• Anthony Lewis (Altman) voiced Raymond Scobie for Animal (2011)
• Barry Aird (Jarvis) was a Time Lord Soldier in The Last Day, then voiced Operator Rellak for Revolution in Space (2024)
• Caroline Berry (Brenda) was a Dinner Lady in School Reunion

Shame (TX: March 2/3)

• John Heffernan (Burns) voiced Vonchef for Revenge of the Swarm (2004), Honos for The Trial of a Time Machine (2018), the Nine for The Crucible of Souls (2016), Companion Piece, The Odds Against, Relative Time (both 2019) and The Dreams of Avarice (2022), and Carson Baylis for The Ministry of Death (2026)
• Lucy [Anne] Cohu (Helen) was Alice Carter in Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Harry Kershaw (Pike) voiced Narthex for The Abyss (2022)
• Ayesha Dharker (Banerjee) was Solana Mercurio in Planet of the Ood
• Quanna Luo Masterson ( ) voiced Carla Zheng for The Worst of All Evils (2025), and was Reporter in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• for Sean Gilder see Series 18