Doctor Who Vs. Trial & Retribution XI

Lynda La Plante's acclaimed crime

drama returned to ITV in January

2008 - David Hayman, Dorian

Lough, Victoria Smurfit, and Vince

Leigh reprised their respective

roles (as DCS Walker, DS Satchell,

DCI Connor, and DS Palmer).

Like La Plante's earlier hit series

Prime Suspect, the programme

employed a distinctive split

screen technique. A repeat run

of the penultimate, ten-part

season began on ITV3 last night

- the five cases featured Gemma

Jones, Jamie Glover, Hattie

Morahan, Gugu Mbatha Raw, and a total of fifteen other Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

The Rules of the Game

• Simon Hepworth (Billington) voiced Miles McLellan/Pandora/Server/ Orderly/Pilot for Big Finish's Open the Box (2018)
• Adrian Rawlins (Plaskett) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood, then voiced Abberline/Fox for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014), and Gilman Hari for Antillia the Lost 2023)
• Nigel Pilkington was a voice artist on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Damian Bromley was also cinematographer on The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, Thin Ice and Knock Knock

Kill the King

• Shelley Conn (Neelah) voiced Asha Qureshi for Situation Vacant (2010), and Tina Drake for The Gates of Hell (2021)

Conviction

• Paul Wilmhurst was also director of Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express and Last Christmas
• Tom [John] Ellis (Fisher) was Dr. Thomas Mulligan in Last of the Time Lords 
• [John] Maurice Roeves (Randle) was Stotz in The Caves of Androzani
• Nigel [Patrick] Betts (Barrister) was Headmaster Frank Armitage in Into the Dalek, The Caretaker, Dark Water and Class
• Eleanor Matsuura (Angela) was Jo Nakashima in The Sontaran Stratagem, and voiced Dana Tanaka for Shadows of the Vashta Nerada
• Sakuntala Ramanee (Barrister) made her TV debut in Survival as Shreela Govindia, then was Erica Larnier in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor, and voiced Hatshepsut for The Eye of Horus (2015), and Athena for The Wrath of Medusa (2022)

The Box

• Jamie Sives (Reid) was Captain Reynolds in Tooth and Claw

Tracks

• Roy [Anthony] Marsden [born Mould] (Harper) was [Bryan] Stoker in Smith and Jones, and voiced Todd Hulbert for Human Resources (2007)
• Bob Shipsey was also camera operator on The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors
• for Clare Mahoney see Series 6

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 24

The twenty-fourth season of BBC1's

evergreen crime drama was origin-

ally shown in the autumn of 2021 -

it again starred Emilia Fox (now the

 veteran of 166 episodes since

2004) and David Caves as doctors

Nikki Alexander and Jack Hodgson.

The Home Office forensic patholo-

gists (based in London's Lyell

Centre) were now joined by Jason

Wong (Adam Yuen) and Genesis

Lynea (Simone Tyler).

The programme's 25th anniversary series saw the return of Amanda Burton as Sam Ryan, and was teased here.

A repeat run of these five cases began on U&Drama last night - they featured a total of eighteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Redemption (UK TX: September 6 & 7)

• Lynea was Harriet Arbinger in The Legend of Ruby Sunday and Empire of Death, and was Narrator of BBC Books' Sting of the Sasquatch and Eden Rebellion (both 2024)
• Kevin Eldon (DI Mason) voiced Antimony for Death Comes to Time, and was Ribbons in It Takes You Away
• Richard Lumsden (Lawson) voiced Professor Landren for Burrowed Time (2019), and Dr. Vance for Antillia the Lost (2023)
• Nigel Harrison (Pete) vocied Higgins for The Great Sontaran War (2021)
• for stuntman Paul Kennington see Series 11

Bad Love (UK TX: September 13 & 14)

• Patrick [Bashir] Baladi (Radford) was cast in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• Bern Collaco (Officer) see Series 23
• Rob Pavey was also stuntman on Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Robot of Sherwood, Listen and The Witch's Familiar

Reputations (UK TX: September 20 & 21)

• Annette Badland (Linda) was Margaret Blaine [alias Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen] in Aliens of London, World War Three, Boom Town and reprised for Big Finish's Sync (2019), then voiced Queen Karlina for Equilibrium, Thelma for Suburban Hell (both 2015), Guilana for Asking for a Friend (2017), Computer/Judge for Barrister to the Stars, Mrs. Slinger/Batraxus for Whatever Remains, Maude Polwart/Mermaid for The Ghost Writers (all 2020), Mrs. Goose/ Fleshkin for The Hunting Season (2021), Mrs. Chinn for Mind of the Hodiac, the eponymous role for The Miniaturist, Eminent Sedanya for Blood of the Time Lords (all 2022), the Toymaker for Matryoshka, Dorothy Stubbs for The Sitter (both 2024), and Aunt Lavinia Smith for Smith & Sullivan (2025)
• Nicholas Farrell [born Frost] (Cowley) was Brian Green PM in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Gammades for Time Reef, Phil for A Perfect World (both 2008), Captain Frank for Last of the Cybermen (2015), and Browman for A Ghost of Alchemy (2023)
• Sagar Arya (Rahul) was a Newsreader in The Christmas Invasion, and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Tobias James Samuels (Officer) was Waiter in Voyage of the Damned

Brother's Keeper (UK TX: September 27 & 28)

• Sutara Gayle (Gloria) voiced Nan for Mind of the Hodiac
• Nicki Ballantyne was first assistant director on Resolution too
• for Amir Nazempour see Series 23

Matters of Life and Death (UK TX: October 4 & 5)

• Sian [born Jane Elizabeth Ailwên] Phillips (Beattie) voiced COLT-5000 for Jenny 1, Pilgrim for Ravenous 2 (both 2018), the Inquisitor for Gallifrey (2020), the Director for The World Traders, Lady Eugenia de Souza for Outback (both 2021), and Mendrix for The Walls of Absence (2023), then was Enid Meadows in 73 Yards
• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (Galton) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the title role for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Pauline McLynn (Mary) was Mary in Eve of the Daleks

Doctor Who Vs. Marple: Nemesis

Following an appearance in
The Curse of Fatal Death,
Grant depicted an iteration
of the Ninth Doctor for
Scream of the Shalka

The third season of ITV Studio's period crime

drama concluded on New Year's Day 2009 with

this mystery, loosely based on Agatha Christie's

final Miss Marple novel (published in 1971 after

serialisation in Woman's Realm).

Geraldine McEwan's final appearance in the title

role originally aired in the Mystery! strand for PBS

in July 2007. McEwan (1932-2015) was succeeded

by Julia McKenzie (born 1941) for the next eleven

cases. The whodunnit was repeated on ITV3 today

- it featured Richard E Grant, Ruth Wilson, George

Cole, Amanda Burton, and twelve Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Lee [David] Ingleby (DC Hards) voiced Samson Griffin for Big Finish's Terror Firma (2005)
• Dan [Jonathan] Stevens (Faber) voiced Rick AusGarten for The Cradle of the Snake (2010)
• Anne Reid (Sister Agnes here; Daisy in Poirot: Curtain) was Nurse Crane in The Curse of Fenric, and Florence Finnegan in Smith and Jones
• Dr. [David] Graeme Garden (Broadribb) voiced Professor Ivor Fassbinder for Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (2002), Geoffrey Vantage for Max Warp (2008), then the Monk for The Book of Kells, The Resurrection of Mars (both 2010), Lucie Miller, To the Death (both 2011) and The Secret History (2015)
• Adrian Rawlins (Turnbull) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood, and voiced DI Frederick Abberline for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014), and Gilman Hari for Antillia the Lost (2023)
• Ronni Ancona (Amanda) voiced Joanie Carrington for The Side of the Angels (2017), and Thana for Relative Time (2019) and The Dreams of Avarice (2022)
• for writer Stephen Churchett see The Murder at the Vicarage
• for Damien Timmer and Nigel Squibbs see The Body in the Library
• for Michael Pickwoad and for Jason Gill see At Bertram's Hotel
• Matthew Newman was also the film editor on The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang

Doctor Who Vs. Casualty, Series 4

Regular series actors Derek Thompson, Brenda Fricker, Cathy Shipton, Eddie Nestor, Geoffrey Leesley and Susan Franklyn all returned for the fourth season of BBC One's long-running medical drama.
Joining the programme here
were William Gaminara (as Dr. Andrew Bower), Tam

Hoskyns (SHO Lucy Perry),

Belinda Davison (student

nurse Alex Spencer), Ian

 Bleasdale (paramedic Josh Griffiths), Vivienne McKone (receptionist Julie Stevens) and Robson Green (porter Jimmy Powell). Gaminara appeared

in just four episodes (then became a regular cast member on The Bill

and Silent Witness), whilst Nestor, Franklyn, Hoskyns, Davidson, and McKone all left at the series' conclusion.

A repeat run of the series (now with a slightly increased run of twelve

episodes, and originally broadcast from September to December 1989)

began on Drama this week - it featured Colin Baker, Mary Tamm,

Sarah Sutton, and a total of twenty-eight other Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Sean [Carl] Pertwee (PC Johns) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors
• Christopher [Denis] Driscoll (Rulton) was the Security Guard in The Idiot's Lantern
• Maggie Ollerenshaw (Beverley) voiced Audrey McShane for Big Finish's Love and War (2012), Allora for Gallifrey 6 (2013), and Dame Wilhelmina Gussett for The Woman in White (2016)
• Russell Hunter [born Ellis] (Crew) was Commander [Kiy] Uvanov in The Robots of Death
• David Kinder (Cumming) made his TV debut as Billy in Delta and the Bannermen
• Shirin Taylor (Helen here; Joan, 1993; Sharon, 1995; Michelle, 2005) was Camper in (part 3 of) The Stones of Blood, and Customer in Dragonfire
• Mark Straker (PC Rogers) and Christopher Whittingham (Dr. Grimes here; Dr. Clifton, 2005) both made their TV debuts in Earthshock as Second Trooper (1) and Second Crewman (2) respectively
• Chris Jury (DC Monahan here; Skinner, 1994 & writer 2000/01) was Deadbeat in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - a role reprised for The Psychic Circus (2020)
• Christopher Villiers (Lewis here; Major, 2005) was Hugh Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, Professor Moorhouse in Mummy on the Orient Express, and voiced Cacothis for Absolution (2007)
• Jonathan Caplan (Registrar) was Roskal in Planet of Fire
• Andrew Robertson (Offenbach here; Harkness, 1999) was Mr. Fibuli in The Pirate Planet
• June Page (Jean) was Keara in Full Circle
• Ivor Roberts (Davies) was Mogran in Genesis of the Daleks (3)
• Richard Lumsden (Phil here; Scott, 2002; Hawley, 2007; Philip, 2015) voiced Professor Landren for Buried Time (2019), and Dr. Vance for Antillia the Lost (2023)
• Marilyn Le Conte (Sgt. Pilton here; Surgeon, 1993) voiced the titular woman for The Lady of the Lake
• Jeremy Bulloch (Cunningham) was Hal in The Time Warrior
• David Savile (Stevens) was Lieutenant Jeremy Carstairs in The War Games, Professor Winser in The Claws of Axos, and Colonel Charles Crichton in The Five Doctors
• Paul Lowther (Mike) was Knight in The King's Demons (1), and Orderly in Frontios (1)
• Martyn Ellis (Vaughn) was Greg Blakeman/Glune Fex Fize Sharlaveer Slam Slitheen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen, then voiced the Rotter/Delius for Last of the Zetacene (2022)
• Julian [Wyatt] Glover (Richardson here; Farrow, 2011) was King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
• script editor Jane Tranter was made Head of Drama at the BBC in 2000, then was responsible for commissioning the revived run of Doctor Who in 2003 with Lorraine Heggessey
• director Steve Goldie began his career as the AFM on The Armageddon Factor (6), and worked on Termius as production manager
• Rita Dunn was the PA on Snakedance too
• location manager Diana Barton was the line producer on twenty-two stories (from A Christmas Carol to The Crimson Horror)
• Joanna Newbery was the AFM on Time and the Rani too
• PA Carole Bisset was the director's assistant on The Leisure Hive
• Alexandra Todd was the PA on The Greatest Show in the Galaxy too

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 11

The eleventh season of BBC1's award-

winning crime drama (first shown in the

summer of 2007) saw the return of William

Gaminara, Tom Ward, and Emilia Fox, as

 Home Office pathologists, doctors Leo

Dalton, Harry Cunningham, and Nikki

Alexander.

A repeat run of the ten-part series began

on Drama last night - it featured Adjoa

Andoh, Archie Panjabi, and a total of

 thirty-three Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

Apocalypse (TX: August 28 & 29)

• Julian [Wyatt] Glover (Henry Markham here; Istvan Sandor in Series 14: Bloodlines) played King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
• for Adrian Schiller (Colvin) see Series 1
• David Gyasi (DS Cross) was Harvey in Asylum of the Daleks
• Elizabeth Rider (Laura) was Ellen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then provided the ATMOS voice for The Sontaran Stratagem, was Linda in The Time of the Doctor, and voiced Galatea for Big Finish's The Well-Mannered War (2015)
• Joy Elias Rilwan (Adela) voiced Lula for Live 34 (2005)
• Lucy [Jane] Briers (Patricia) voiced Jenny Chaplin for After the Daleks (2021)
• Heather Bleasdale (Moderator) voiced Cordelia for Blood on Santa's Claw, and President for I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day (both 2019), the was Wilma in The Halloween Apocalypse
• Stephanie Carey was also a stunt performer on Voyage of the Damned, The Beast Below, The Curse of the Black Spot, Let's Kill Hitler and The Girl Who Waited
• stuntman Tom Lucy was the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen episodes (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)

Suffer The Children (TX: September 3 & 4)

• Joe Dixon (DI Rush) was the Chancellor in The End of Time
• Mark Anthony Brighton (Angry Man) was Colonel Albero in The Time of the Doctor
• Robert Gill (Jogger) voiced Lycurgus for The Big Blue Box (2019)
• stuntman Bill Davey was stunt co-ordinator on The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Love & Monsters and Turn Left
• Paul Kennington was also a stuntman on Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday and The Doctor's Daughter
• Glenn Marks was also the co-ordinator on Human Nature, The Family of Blood and Blink

Hippocratic Oath (TX: September 10 & 11)

• Niky [Petra] Wardley (DC Dickerson) voiced Tamsin Drew for seven audio adventures (from Situation Vacant until To the Death), Bex for Technophobia, Hannah Bennett School of Blood (both 2016), Stacey for 9 to 5 (2018), Natalie Morrison for Kidnapped! (2020), and Iza for In the Night (2023) - she was also a Receptionist in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
• Jamie Parker (Peters) voiced Wulfric/Edgar for Leviathan, Major Richter for The Architects of History (both 2010), Douglas for Aimed at the Body, Plummer for Lightspeed, Frank Reichenbach for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Virgilio Pancaldi for Interlude, Brian for Echo Chamber, Jasper Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Torrence for Castle Hydra, Sandar for Effect and Cause, Sir Percy Blakeney/Terrance for Plight of the Pimpernel (all 2020), Captain Halloran for Ravagers (2021), Anthony/Ed for Quantum of Axos, and Tsar Alexander/Trinity for Lay Down Your Arms (2022)
• Tanya Moodie (DI Lawlor) voiced Kilda for The Castle of Kurnos 5, and Marathanga/Martha for L.E.G.E.N.D. (both 2019)
• Steve Griffin and Rob Hunt were also stunt performers on The Idiot's Lantern and The Runaway Bride respectively
• stuntman Nick Hobbs made uncredited appearances in The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Day of the Daleks, The Time Monster, both Peladon stories (as Aggedor), The Ark in Space, then was Mr. Nainby in Amy's Choice

Double Dare (TX: September 17 & 18)

• Anna [Eva Lydia Catherine] Wing (Mrs. Binefa) was Anatta in Kinda
• Lizzie McInnerney (Francesca) voiced Harriet Quilp for The Yes Men (2015)

Peripheral Vision (UK TX: September 24 & 25)

• Jim [Edward] Carter (Young) voiced Brother Bernard for The Book of Kells (2010)
• Adrian Rawlins (Eckhert) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood, then voiced Frederick Abberline for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014), and Gilman Hari for Antillia the Lost (2023)
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (Tate) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022)
• Ian Puleston-Davies (DI Mays) voiced Angus Selwyn for Absent Friends (2016)
• Jeanie Gold (Gypsy) was a Neighbour in The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and The End of Time
• Paul Anderson (DS Leeson) was Jason in The Christmas Invasion
• Ben Smith (Sean) was Luke in School Reunion
• Renu Setna (Joshi) was an Intern in The Hand of Fear
• Nick Brimble (Lambert) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Kith for Max Warp (2008), and Olaf Eriksson for The Book of Kells
• Andy Merchant was also a stuntman on The Wedding of River Song