Thursday, 25 June 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Sea of Souls, Series 2

The second run of this BAFTA
winning supernatural drama also
 won the Best TV Teleplay gong
for Ed Whitmore, the writer of
Amulet, at the Edgar Allan Poe
awards.
Bill Paterson reprised the role of
Dr. Monaghan, and was now
joined at Clyde University's parapsychology department by
Justine McManus and Craig
Stevenson, played by Dawn
Steele and Iain Robertson.
The six-part season returned to BBC1 in the winter of 2005 - it
featured a total of nineteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Amulet (UK TX: January 8 & 9)
  • BAFTA Scotland nominee Michelle Duncan (Claire) was Lady Isobel MacLeish in Tooth and Claw
  • Big Finish actor Amanda Symonds (Lilian) voiced Lily Finnegan for Afterlife, Erica MacMillan for Night of the Stormcrow, Bridget for The Fifth Citadel, Nurse for Sins of the Fathers (all 2013), One for The Abandoned, Shafira for Revenge of the Swarm, Mrs. Targate for The Ghosts of Gralstead (all 2014), Alitha for The Lost Fairy Tale, Jill Sveinsdottir for Repeat Offender (both 2016), Captain for Relative Time, Maude for The Web of Time (both 2019), Mary Seacole for The Charge of the Night Brigade (2020), Vengis for The Day of the Comet, Mary Claypole/Time Lord Emissary for The God of Phantoms (both 2021), Sky Bennett for The Rotting DeepPatricia Lockwood for The Inheritance and Spirit of the Season (all 2022), Gina's mum for Vampire Weekend, and Briany Betty for The Last Days of the Powell Estate (both 2025)
  • [Peter] Nigel Terry (Holloway) was General Cobb in The Doctor's Daughter
  • James [Edward] Fleet (Morrison) voiced O'Reilley for Max Warp (2008), Geoff Cooper for The Entropy Composition, and Martin Ashcroft and Sir Jack Merrivale for Special Features (both 2010)
  • Kim McGarrity was also a stunt performer on The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Boom Town, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and The Day of the Doctor
  • new series producer Stephen Garwood had been an Assistant Floor Manager (AFM) on Ghost Light
  • series composer Edmund Butt and music engineer Toby Wood both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
  • Pam Mullins was also a make-up artist on fifty-six instalments of the revived series (from The Runaway Bride to The Wedding of River Song)
  • series make-up designer Barbara Southcott held that post on Time Crash, Music of the Spheres, and seventy-three adventures, from the 2006 Christmas special to The Name of the Doctor
  • electrician Scott Napier was the gaffer on 50th anniversary special
Omen (UK TX: January 15 & 16)
  • Barbara [Jay] Flynn [born McMurray] (Summers) was Tecteun in Once, Upon Time and Survivors of the Flux, and voiced Sister Chalice for The Skull of Sobek (2008), Anne Hartman for The Rockery (2019), and Professor Vansom for Secrets of Telos (2022)
  • David Gyasi (Hegarty) was Harvey in Asylum of the Daleks
  • Mark Springer (Paramedic) was Christian in The Time of Angels
  • Graham [Reginald] Frake was also cinematographer on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks
  • Jonathan Farmer was the first assistant director on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS too
Empty Promise (UK TX: January 22 & 23)
  • Peter Guinness (Dr. Duncan here & Series 3: Rebound) voiced Mr. Dread for Dreamland, Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Baron Teufel for The Beast of Orlok (2009), Rovus for The Star Men (2017), and Garzan for The Dying Breed (2025)
  • Colin [Roy] Salmon (Locke) was Dr. Moon in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, and voiced Trooper Salway for Wirrn Dawn (2009)
  • script supervisor Sheila Johnston worked on continuity for Voyage of the Damned, Partners in Crime, The Fires of Pompeii, Planet of the Ood and The Unicorn and the Wasp

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