Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 9

The ninth season of what is now

the longest running crime drama

on British TV was first shown on

BBC1 in the summer of 2005 -

William Gaminara, Tom Ward, and

Emilia Fox again starred as London

-based Home Office pathologists,

doctors Leo Dalton, Harry Cunningham, and Nikki Alexander.

A repeat run of the eight-part

series began on BBC3 last night

- it featured Freema Agyeman,

and a total of twenty-three Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

Ghosts (TX: July 25 & 26)

• Noma Dumezweni (DS Jacobs) was Captain Erisa Magambo in Turn Left and Planet of the Dead, then voiced Rodekka for Big Finish's The First Son (2021)
• Tom Lawrence (Gilmore) voiced Hans for AudioGo's A Shard of Ice (2010)
• series cinematographer Kevin Rowley was a film cameraman on Destiny of the Daleks and The Mark of the Rani
• Martin Curry was also the first assistant director on The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon
• Liz Pearson (post-production supervisor) and Tony Gibson (series sound FX editor) both worked on An Adventure in Space in Time too
• SFX designer Tony Harding was VFX designer on The Invisible Enemy, The Power of Kroll, State of Decay, The King's Demons and The Awakening
• James Moss was also camera operator on The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and Torchwood
• for Tom Lucy see Series 6

Choices (TX: August 1 & 2)

• Nikki Amuka Bird (Simone here; DS Jenkins in Voids, 2010) was the Glass Woman [Helen Clay] in Twice Upon a Time, then voiced Tamasan for The Time War 2 (2018)
• Andrew Brooke (Bannard) was Kahler Tek in A Town Called Mercy and The Making of the Gunslinger, then Narrator of Sirgwain and the Green Knight (2015)
• Marc Danbury (Surgeon) voiced Tog for The Axis of Insanity (2004)
• Craig Kelly (Connelly) voiced Joe for Scream of the Shalka
• Niall MacGregor (Wright) voiced Robert for Home Truths (2008), The Drowned World (2009) and The Guardian of the Solar System (2010)
• Alice O'Connell (Emma) was Laura in The Power of Three
• David Barrett was also film editor on The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood 

The Meaning of Death (TX: August 8 & 9)

• Leo Bill (Richard) was the Pilot in A Christmas Carol
• Rory [Stewart] Kinnear (Paul) voiced Samuel Belfrage for Industrial Evolution (2011)
• Paul Panting (DCI Mumford) voiced Professor Maylon for Of Chaos Time The, Llanragen/Geoffrey Jennings for The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time, Brabbeko for Revenge of the Swarm (all 2014), Drell/Marshleader for Mistfall (2015), Fyrax for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016), Freddie for Island of the Fendahl, Ravlos for The Ultimate Evil (both 2019), Smilax for The Doomsday Contract, Ilyani/Bailiff for A Tragical History, Karl Lamb for The First Son (all 2021), Vega for The End (2022), Nate Duffy/Fennec for The Wizard of Time (2023), Division/Oppenheimer for Fast Time, Horsemen for The Legend of Baba Yaga, and Mortimer Stewart for The War Doctor Rises (all 2025)
• stunt co-ordinator Steve Whyment was an extra in The Keeper of Traken and Snakedance

Mind and Body (TX: August 15 & 16)

• Tim [Charles Robert Noel] Bentinck (Guy) voiced a Monk in Extremis and The Pyramid at the End of the World, and voiced Giles Moreau/ Jenkins/Worker for Destination: Nerva, Roger Buchman for Wirrn Isle (both 2012), Williams/Curtis/Kavurshkin for The Forgotten Village, Nathaniel Whitlock for Moonflesh, Ned Bones/Lord Burghley for The Devil's Armada (all 2014), Colonel George Radlett for The English Way of Death, Chowdras/Governor for Planet of the Rani (both 2015), General Kallix for The Neverwhen (2016), Stonegood/Wakefield/Cabby for The Contingency Club, Professor Edward Travers/the Great Intelligence for Time of the Intelligence (both 2017), Lord Crozion for Kingdom of Lies, Tommy Pierce for Torchwood, Franz Kafka/Samsa for Whodunnit? (all 2018), Alfie/Computer for Ghosts (2020), Karlos/Guard /Reveller for The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook (2021), Henry Mortimer for Friend of the Family (2023), Professor Alistair Grey for Lost Hearts, Lucas Welland for Invasion of the Body Stealers (both 2024), the Monks for Five Hundred Ways to Leave Your Lover, and Garf/the Great Zenith for Self-Help (both 2025)
• Richard [John] Hope [Walker] (Sanders) was Malokeh in The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood and The Wedding of River Song, and Bleytal in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, then voiced William Heaton for Changing of the Guard and Rise and Shine, Morleand for The Bounty of Ceres (all 2014), Harry Harvey for Damaged Goods (2015), Philip Cook/Kal for Absent Friends (2016), Jastrok/Terry Waring for UNIT: Assembled (2017), General Reinhardt for Shellshock (2022), Darling for All of Time and Space (2023), and Barabbas for The Time You Never Had (2025)
• Stuart Clark (Perry) was a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways