Doctor Who Vs. The World's End

This British comedy sci-fi film was released

by Universal in 2013, and was co-written

by lead actor Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright. The production began life as

the screenplay Crawl (penned by Wright in

1995) and was the final instalment in the

Cornetto trilogy which opened with Shaun

of the Dead in 2004, followed by Hot Fuzz

(2007) - all co-starred Nick Frost, and the

actors later collaborated in Paul, The

 Adventures of Tintin, Truth Seekers and

Slaughterhouse Rulez.

Shown on Film4 last night, The World's

End also featured Martin Freeman, Eddie

Marsan, Rosamund Pike, Paddy Considine,

Pierce Brosnan, David Bradley, and forty-

five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• for Pegg, Frost, Peter Serafinowicz, Michael Smiley, Julia Deakin, Bill Nighy, Mark Donovan and Reece Shearsmith see Shaun of the Dead
• Mark [Samuel] Kempner (Landlord) was the Cabbie in Deep Breath
• Darren [John] Boyd (Hawkins) voiced Hemmings for The Shadow of London (2018)
• Steve Oram (Officer) was Joseph Williamson in Flux
• Nicholas Burns (Collaborator) was Lord Sutcliffe in Thin Ice
• Scott Stevenson (Blank) was Man in The Rings of Akhaten, The Crimson Horror and The Name of the Doctor, Submariner in Cold War, and Chef in Mummy on the Orient Express
• Jenny Bede (Instructor) voiced Florrie/Doctor for Absolute Power (2016)
• Mark Heap (Publican) voiced the Middleman for The Middle (2017)
• Teddy Kempner (Publican) voiced Grakk/Clerkie/Robot for Izzy's Story, Macrinus/Crusher for The Cannibalists, Yavuz/Mummer/Yokel/ Demon for Castle of Fear (all 2009), Gelter/Bliss/Elohim for Paradise 5 (2010), Nazar/Gantha for 1001 Nights, Miaxa for My Brother's Keeper (both 2012), Donal Dineen for Iterations of I (2014), and Viktor/Mozart/Apothecary/Stefan for A Requiem for the Doctor (2018)
• Ken Bones (Publican) was the General in The Day of the Doctor and Hell Bent - a role reprised for Dreadshade (2020), Allegiance, The Mission, The Horror (all 2022), A Genius for War, Manoeuvres (2023) and Loyalties - he also voiced Thomas Bloodchild/Dreislav for The Bloodchild Codex (2013), David Anders/Kristiansen for Battlegrounds (2022), and Senidon for March of the Colossus (2026)
• Paul Kennington (Publican) was a stuntman on Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday and The Doctor's Daughter
• Alex Austin (Man) was Yedlarmi in Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children, then voiced Kevin for Snare (2025)
• Alex Kaye-Besley was assistant director on The Shakespeare Code too
• Richard Glass was the optician on The Time of the Doctor too
• Oliver Benson, Julian Nix and Phoebe Arnstein all worked on An Adventure in Space and Time (as art department assistant, graphic designer and second assistant camera operator respectively) too
• Simon Diggins was also the ADR mixer on fifteen stories (from The Day of the Doctor to The Husbands of River Song)
• ADR recordist Rob Humpage was an assistant on Space and Time
• Peter Gleaves was also ADR mixer on The Magician's Apprentice, The Witch's Familiar and Under the Lake
• Vanessa Bastyan (key fabricator) was make-up FX technician on Cold Blood
• Mike Crowley was also SFX supervisor on eight stories, from The Girl in the Fireplace to Doomsday
• Jeremy Braben was director of aerial photography on The Day of the Doctor too
• prosthetics designer Waldo Mason was a SFX assistant on Aliens of London
• Peter Hawkins also worked on prosthetic FX for seventeen instal- ments (from The Girl in the Fireplace to Last Christmas)
• Gustav Hoegen (model designer) was a prosthetics technician on The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
• Ivan Manzella was a sculptor on Dinosaurs on a Spaceship too
• Justin Pitkethly (key sculptor) was a prosthetics technician on Planet of the Dead
• Chris Reynolds was also SFX technician on Terror of the Vervoids and Battlefield
• Lucia Smith was fabricator on The God Complex too
• Vince McGahon was also the Steadicam operator on The Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor
• Jake Polonsky was the cinematographer on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS too
• stunt performers Rob Cooper, Nic Goodey, Belinda McGinley, Cristian Knight, David Newton, and Chris Pollard all worked on the revived series too