Monday, 30 March 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Whitechapel, Series 4

Carnival Films' dark crime drama returned
to ITV for a fourth and final season in the
autumn of 2013. Again scripted by series
creators Ben Court and Caroline Ip, the cast
was once more headed by Rupert Penry
Jones as Metropolitan Police inspector, Joe
Chandler (pictured right). Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton, Sam Stockman, Ben Bishop,
Hannah Walters, and Claire Rushbrook also
returned. The recurring motif of Whitechapel
the recreation of historic East End crimes
(again researched here by fictional Ripper-
ologist, Buchan) - focused on paranormal
cases, now linked with conspiracy theories
and espionage.
For the BBC America DVD release, the three stories were titled The Real Enemy, The
Force of Injustice and To This End respectively. A repeat run of the six-part
season began on U&Drama last night - it featured a total of twenty-six
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
  • [Daphne Anne] Angela Pleasence (Louise) was Mystic Mags in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Curse of Clyde Langer, and Queen Elizabeth I in The Shakespeare Code
  • Daisy [Roma] Beaumont (Stella) was Maisie Pitt in Mummy on the Orient Express
  • Georgine Anderson (Cecilia) and Natasha [Roselyn Agatha] Williams (Anne) both starred in Gridlock, as May Cassini and Pharmacist respectively
  • Brian Protheroe (Wingfield) voiced Bob Gell/Captain O'Brien for Eldrad Must Die(2013), Roger Baskerville for The Monstrous Menagerie (2014), Captain Hardwick for Static (2017), and General Ironicus/Milkman for The Iron Legion (2019)
  • Sophie Miller Sheen (Sophie) was Clara's friend in The Snowmen
  • Michael Fitzgerald (Dunn) was the Duke of Manhattan in New Earth
  • Joan Blackham (Lady Allsbridge) was the Woman in Dark Water
  • Ann [Cureton] Davies (Angela) was Jenny in The Dalek Invasion of Earth
  • Mandeep Dhillon (Sabima) was Shireen in Knock Knock
  • Remmie Milner (WPC) voiced Isabelda for The Death of Peladon, and the Castellan for The Key to Key to Time (2022)
  • stunt performers Danielle de Costa, Gary Hoptrough and Rob Hunt all worked on the revived series
  • series producer Patrick Schweitzer was the location manager on The Runaway Bride, the production manager on six stories (from Smith and Jones to Utopia), then produced another thirteen instal- ments (from The Eleventh Hour to The Big Bang)
  • Daniel Nettheim was also director of The Zygon InvasionThe Zygon InversionExtremis and The Pyramid at the End of the World
  • director Jon East was co-executive CBBC producer on The Infinite Quest
  • Owen McPolin was also the cinematographer on The Eleventh Hour, The Doctor's Wife, Night Terrors, The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex
  • Anthony Combes was the film editor on The Wedding of River Song too
  • series hair stylist/make-up artist Emma Cowen was make-up super- visor on eight adventures (from The Time of the Doctor to Last Christmas)
  • series special make-up effects artist Paul McGuinness was Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
  • Amy Pickwoad worked on a total of eighteen stories (from The Impossible Astronaut to Deep Breath), as art director then stand-by director
  • John Cooling was stand-by rigger on Turn Left too
  • Will Pope was also stand-by carpenter on sixty-one episodes (from Love & Monsters to The Name of the Doctor), Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
  • Neal Champion was the SFX supervisor on An Adventure in Space and Time too
  • Rory Herbert was also script supervisor on five episodes (from A Town Called Mercy to The Name of the Doctor)

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