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 twenty 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)
• Naoko Mori (Madame Yamauchi) was Dr. Toshiko Sato in Aliens of London, World War Three and Torchwood
• Michael Simkins (Von Bode) voiced Raxxil for The Planet of Witches (2020)
• for Walker, Levey, Harrison, Nadia Albina, Rosie Cavaliero, Gerard Horan and Chris Roebuck see Series 1

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 22

The twenty-second season of the popular

crime drama returned to BBC1 in early

2019, as it reached the milestone of two

-hundred instalments - it again starred

 Emilia Fox and David Caves as doctors Nikki Alexander and Jack Hodgson. The

Home Office forensic pathologists (based

in London's Lyell Centre) were joined by

Clarissa Mullery and Dr. Chamberlain,

played by Liz Carr and Richard Lintern.

A repeat run of the ten-part series

continued on U&Drama last night - the

five cases featured Jo Martin, Ingrid

Oliver, and a total of thirty Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

Two Spirits (UK TX: January 7 & 8)

• Kerry Fox (Susie) voiced Julia Hartley Price for Big Finish's UNIT: Cyber Reality (2018)
• Rochenda Sandall (Liz) was Azure in Flux
• Andrew Knott (Marlow) voiced James O'Meara for 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (2013), and Sean Casey for The White Room (2014)
• for Jemima Rooper see Series 10
• Helen Dickson was also dialogue editor on twenty stories (from The Eleventh Hour to World Enough and Time), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Class

Lift Up Your Hearts (UK TX: January 14 & 15)

• Radoslaw [Sebastian] Kaim (Rudi) was Worker in The Sontaran Stratagem
• for Colin Salmon see Series 1 and Richard Price see Series 21
• Dan Li (DS Lin) was Alexei in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Dokan for UNIT: Shutdown, Grillo Clavik for The Genesis Chamber (both 2016), Okada Shumei for The Barbarians and the Samurai (2018), Mike Chaoxiang/Raptor for Master! 3 (2024), Lee Hoi Sang/Stall holder/KC Chen for The Final Cut, and Chesney for The Greatest Train Robbery (both 2026)
• Alex Frost (Nurse) was Reverend Shaw in Village of the Angels
• for Kiaran Murray Smith and Timothy Wood see Series 19

To Brighton, To Brighton (UK TX: January 21 & 22)

• Sebastian [Felipe Xavier Fernández-Garcia] Armesto (DI Taramelli) was Broff in Bad Wolf, and voiced Anders for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008), and Garrison for Kidnapped! (2020)
• Samantha [Jane] Bond (DS Quicke) was Miss Wormwood in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane and Enemy of the Bane then reprised for The Revenge of Wormwood (2023), and voiced Mother Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009)
• for Carlyss Peer see Series 14 and Daniel Weyman see Series 20
• Nancy Baldwin (Audrey) was Joy in The Impossible Astronaut 
• Tomi May (Calvin) was Dowell in Thin Ice

Deathmaker (UK TX: January 28 & 29)

• Amanda Root (Olivia) voiced Madeleine Fairweather for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Lendek/Scientist for The Lords of Terror (2018)
• for Lucinda Dryzek see Series 6 and Des McAleer see Series 8
• Ray Fearon (DI Quint) voiced Barlow Teveler for The Seeds of War (2013)
• Ian McElhinney (Walsh) was Ko Sharmus in Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children
• Alex Jordan (Reporter) voiced Renk Van Magnastein for The Revolution (2014), Mandeville/Chief/Acolyte for The Library in the Body (2016), Heatcote for An Ideal World (2018), Computer for The Scaramancer, Bandit for The Cognition Shift (both 2020), Sergeant Jean Paul Savarin for Seabird One and Visitants (both 2022), Louis Marchand/Napoleon for Time Schisms! (2023), and Various for The Last Day (2024)
• Avita Jay (DC Anderton) voiced Zakia Akhtar for Stranded 2020-22), Harper for The Unzal Incursion, Hera/Moran Kez for Cycle of Destruction, and Evo/Eleanor Pearce for The Evolving Dead (all 2021)
• Silas Carson (Harris) provided Alien voices for The End of the World, then Ood voices for The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood, The End of Time, Pond Life, Survivors of the Flux, The Vanquishers, Prisoner of the Ood, The War Master 2 and Oracle, and voiced Arbuckle for The Jabari Countdown (all 2018), Trave for Havoc, the Sicari for Collateral and Assassins, Commentator for Warzone (all 2019), Sir Thomas Pewsey/Pilot for The Sins of Captain John, Brian for He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not, Garlon Rosh for The Robots of War (all 2020), Dr. Winston Grange for Time Flies (2022), Drane for The Kicker, Narrator of An Ood Halloween (both 2023), and Ramesh Kamal for Storm of the Sea Devils (2024)
• Emily Taaffe (Orla) voiced Sasha Yan for Fond Farewell (2022)

Betrayal (UK TX: February 4 & 5)

• Emma Sullivan was also director of Can You Hear Me? and The Haunting of Villa Diodati
• Art [born Athar Ul-Haque] Malik (Pujari) was Ilin in The Ghost Monument, and voiced Abbot Absolute for The Skull of Sobek (2008)
• Dervla Kirwan (Amanda) was Miss Hartigan in The Next Doctor, then reprised Miss Quill for Big Finish's Class, and voiced Mrs. Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Di Wright for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Yost McComack for Lightspeed, Anne Marie for Interlude, Representative for Echo Chamber, Agatha Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Professor Callis for Castle Hydra, and Kelleher for Effect and Cause (all 2020)
• prolific Big Finish and BBV contributor Nigel Fairs (Judge) was Police- man in Zygon, and voiced Gary Williams for The Shadow of the Scourge (2000), Joshua for Race Memory (2001), Osbert for The Green Man, Hall for In 2 Minds (both 2002), Rom for Nekromanteia (2003), Time Lord for Pandora (2005), Kalbez for Enemy Lines (2016), Cornelius Pinch for Inside Every Warrior (2019), Curtis/ Crewman for The Flying Dutchman (2020), Rev. Samuel Claypole/the Snowart for The God of Phantoms, Faren/Trooper for Destroyer (both 2021), and Announcer for The Prints of Denmark (2022)

Doctor Who Vs. Last Christmas

This London-set romantic comedy

was named after Wham!'s iconic

festive song of 1984 (which finally topped the singles chart in 2023),

and was inspired by the music of

George Michael. Here, Emilia Clarke is Christmas shop worker Kate, who

falls in love with mysterious charity volunteer, Tom, played by Henry

Golding.

Released by Universal in late 2019,

the film (shown on BBC1 last night)

featured  Michelle Yeoh, Emma

Thompson, Boris Isakovic, Lydia

Leonard, Ingrid Oliver, Angela

Wynter, and nineteen Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Maxim [Alexander] Baldry (Ed) was Dr. John Polidori in The Haunting of Villa Diodati 
• Margaret Clunie (Sarah) voiced Fred for Big Finish's Planet of the End (2021)
• Peter [Szymon] Serafinowicz (Producer) provided the voice of the Fisher King for Before the Flood
• Sara Powell (Director) voiced Audrey Newman for An Ordinary Life (2014), PA for World Enough and Time (2015), Jacklyn Karna for The Dalek Occupation of Winter, Contessa for Vanguard (both 2018), Emma Fremantle for The World Traders, Andros Fax for Inside the Maldovarium (both 2021), Queen Minaris for The Death of Peladon, Blythe for The Forest of Penitence, Official for The Players (all 2022), and Moira Tenaka for The Wizard of Time (2023), then appeared in War of the Sontarans as Mary Seacole
• Ritu Arya (Jenna) was Gat in Fugitive of the Judoon
• Rebecca Root (Dr. Addis) voiced Sable for Zaltys (2017), Cantico for Time War 2 (2019), and Tania Bell for Stranded (2020-22), Flatpack and The Chaos Cascade (2024)
• Laura Evelyn (PC Churchill) was Polly in Resolution
• Anna Calder Marshall (Dora) voiced Mathilda Pierce for Scream of the Shalka
• Jade Anouka (Alba) was the Waitress in The Bells of Saint John, and voiced Danuta for The Blood Furnace (2017)
• Amit Shah (Andy) was Rahul in The Woman Who Fell to Earth
• Claire Ashton (Pub goer) and Ruth Clarson (Shopper) both appeared in Revolution of the Daleks, as Passenger and Tourist
• Martyn Mayger (Man) was a UNIT Soldier in The Day of the Doctor
• Anna [Victoria] Stephenson was stunt performer on Empire of Death too
• Kim McGarrity was also a stunt performer on The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Boom Town, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, The Day of the Doctor and Wild Blue Yonder
• Nikita Mitchell was stunt performer on The Church on Ruby Road too
• stuntman Greg Powell was the Knight in The Time Monster
• Leo Woodruff was also stuntman on Heaven Sent and 73 Yards
• André Layne was stuntman on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS too