Doctor Who Vs. Bookish, Series 2

"Mark Gatiss here. Join me as

Gabriel Book, a bookseller who's

also rather good at solving baff-

ling cases and the knottiest of

crimes, as postwar London can

be a dangerous place. Bookish,

new and exclusive to U&Alibi."

UKTV's in-house period crime

drama (a co-production from ITV

Studios' Eagle Eye Drama and

Happy Duck Films) was created

and written by Gatiss. Interiors

were again filmed in Brussels, whilst Antwerp doubled for the

London of 1946.

The second, six-part series began on U&Alibi last night - the cast was

led by Gatiss (as the titular antiquarian), Polly Walker (Trottie), Elliot

Levey (DI Bliss), Connor Finch (Jack), Buket Komar (Nora), and Blake

Harrison (Morris), and also featured Ingrid Oliver, Miranda

Richardson, and a total of eighteen Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Sara Crowe (Clara) voiced the Tombkeeper/Queen Mother for Big Finish's Paper Cuts (2009)
• Saffron [Marni] Coomber (Ayesha) voiced Elidir/Byrne for London Orbital (2022), and Annika for Party Favours (2025)
• Amanda Lawrence [born Jones] (Emelia) was Doomfinger in The Shakespeare Code
• Jason Watkins (Sneed) was Webley in Nightmare in Silver, and voiced the Legate of the Caliph for The Destroyer of Delights, the White Guardian for The Chaos Pool (both 2009), and Al Norton for Twenty-Four Doors in December (2023)
• Sid Sagar (Chopra) voiced Anson for Rictus (2025), and Hari/ Desolate for The Second Death (2026)
• Simon [Phillip Hugh] Callow (E) was Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead and The Wedding of River Song, and provided the voice of Tree Lorn Acre Slitheen Blathereen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift - he then voiced Don Quixote for The Ingenious Gentlemen (2025)
• Rupert Graves (Winters) was John Riddell in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Claire Skinner (Mrs. Calthrop) was Madge Arwell in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Youssef Kerkour (Yusuf) voiced Dakeem for Cortex Fire (2017), T'Harr for The Cats of New Cairo (2018), Bitias for The Phoenicians, Giuseppe Sabatini for The Coney Island Chameleon (both 2019), Thaddeus Kanner/Tom for The Grey Man of the Mountain (2020), Ibrahim for The End of the Beginning (2021), and Agrandir for London Orbital
• Liza Sadovy (Ruth) was Phyllis Trupp in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge
• John Hopkins (Windjammer) voiced Fairfield for The Great Beyond (2024)
• for Walker, Levey, Harrison, Nadia Albina, Rosie Cavaliero, Gerard Horan and Chris Roebuck see Series 1