Doctor Who Vs. Messiah, Series 3

This dark thriller, from BBC Northern

Ireland, was another original screenplay

from Lizzie Mickery - her second sequel

to Messiah was based on Boris Starling's

1999 crime novel.

The drama saw the return of Ken Stott,

Neil Dudgeon, and Frances Grey.

First shown over two consecutive nights

in August 2004, the two-part case (sub-

titled The Promise) featured twenty-one

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Liam Cunningham (Tierney) was Captain Zhukov in Cold War
• Tom [John] Ellis (Dr. Ryder) was Dr. Thomas Mulligan in Last of the Time Lords
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (DCI Walmsley) was Headmaster [George] Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), Kenton for Break the Ice (2022), and Thomas Browne for 1901: The Unknown Mirror (2025)
• Joanne Pearce (Gina) voiced Lton/Gyra for Last of the Zetacene (2022), and Sergeant Marina Vakova/Rega for Missy and the Time Assassin (2024)
• Michael Maloney (Henderson) voiced Frederick Simonsson for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008), Adam Farrow for AudioGo's The Circus of Doom, Fratalin for Patient Zero, the Viryans for Blue Forgotten Planet (all 2009) and Charlotte Pollard 1 (2014), Rennol for Kiss of Death, Narrator of The Silent Stars Go By (both 2011), Hilary Hammond for Enemy Aliens (2013), Gregor Saraton for Zygon Hunt (2014), William Hogan for The Rockery (2019), and the Two for Two's Company and The Union (2023)
• Michael Bertenshaw (Houseman) was Coles in The Next Doctor
• Leo Bill (White) was the Pilot in A Christmas Carol
• Paul [Mackriell] Copley (Fleet) was Clem McDonald in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Dad for Spare Parts (2002), Jimmy Deel for Big Dig (2013), Mick Huff for The Miniaturist (2022), and Wendell for The Conservitors (2023)
• George Potts (Officer) voiced Ruben for The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (2015)
• Sanne Wohlenberg was also producer of A Christmas Carol, The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors
• SFX designer Neil Gorton of Millennium FX worked on seventy-five instalments of the revived run (from The Christmas Invasion to Last Christmas), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• special make-up effects artist Stuart Conran worked on prosthetics make-up for New Earth and The Idiot's Lantern
• Nicholas Hopkins was also third assistant director on Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
• Rosalind Ebbut was also costume designer on Black Orchid and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Nigel Squibbs and Roger Dobson both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time
• Steve Scotton was also a SFX technician on Rose, The End of the World, Aliens of London, The Christmas Invasion and Rise of the Cybermen
• Levan Doran was a stuntman on Tooth and Claw too
• stunt co-ordinator Gareth Milne was George Cranleigh in Black Orchid, Mortuary Attendant in Vengeance on Varos, and doubled for Peter Davison on Warriors of the Deep
• 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 Mr. Nainby in Amy's Choice
• for Lesley Smith see Messiah 2

Doctor Who Vs. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Agatha Christie's fifteenth crime

novel was published in the UK in

1934, then issued in America a

year later as The Boomerang

Clue. The story was first drama-

tised by LWT in 1980, and co-

starred Joan Hickson before she

began her own definitive port-

rayal of Jane Marple for BBC1.

ITV Studios' version debuted on

PBS in July 2009, then only aired

in the UK two years later.

Written and directed by Hugh Laurie, this period drama (a Mammoth Screen co-production) debuted on Britbox in April 2022, and was shown on ITV1 a year later. All

three episodes were repeated on ITV3 today, and featured Will Poulter,

Lucy Boynton, Emma Thompson, Tim Treloar, and thirteen Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Jim Broadbent (Marcham) depicted the Doctor in Doctor Who and Crayola (a sketch for Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV in 1987) then for Comic Relief's The Curse of Fatal Death
• Alistair Petrie (Rev. Jones here; Campbell in Agatha and the Midnight Murders) voiced Major Harris/German Lieutenant for Criss-Cross (2015), Julius Caesar for Living History (2016), John for Dethras, Richard Tipple for The Outliers (both 2017), Wallace Richards for Ghost Machines (2019), Magnus Drake for Master! 1 (2021), the Count for The Edge of the War, and Albion Groves for The Silent Priest (both 2023)
• Miles Jupp (Bassington-ffrench) voiced Dominic for Power Play (2012), and Inquisitor Xavier for The Revolution (2014)
• Martyn Ellis (Albert) was 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)
• Nicholas Asbury (Angel) voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Anthony Burmaster for Call to Arms and Tidal Wave, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (all 2017), Captain Morgan/Visguard/SB Officer for Churchill Victorious, Dante for The Diary of River Song 4 (both 2018), Captain Zenna/Kivall for Out of Time 1, Shakespeare for The Hollow Crown, Tenebrae/Franz Albrecht Stuart for Rulers of Earth (all 2020), Commander Stevenson/ Pietersen for Return of the Cybermen, Mollis for Colony of Fear, Preacher Stem for The Melting Pot (all 2021), Dr. Sturm/German Colonel for Shellshock, Hari Ventross for Kaldor Nights (both 2022), Belias for Never the End Is, and Inquisitor Robel for You Only Die Twice (both 2024), then was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion
• Richard Dixon (Cayman here; Rowlandson in A Murder is Announced, 2005; Henden in Dead Man's Folly) voiced DI Alan Probert for The Dreams of Avarice (2020)
• Christian Patterson (Ellis) voiced Captain Dickson/Corporal Bouvier for The Curse of Davros (2012)
• Maxine Evans (Mrs. Bowden here; Mrs. Buckle in Elephants Can Remember) voiced Renucha for Mother Tongue (2020), then was Lowri Palin in 73 Yards
• Trevor Cooper (Coroner here; Opalsen in The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan; Harrison in N or M?; Spymaster in Crooked House) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, then voiced Rull for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City, Sir Ralph for The Doomwood Curse, Shanks for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (both 2008), Judah for The Beast of Orlok, Smithy for Castle of Fear (both 2009), Captain Maddox/Stennan for Army of Death (2011), Colonel Burroughs/Kimball for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), Sir Joseph Eagleton/Jonathan Mayfly for The Ghosts of Greenwich (2019), Smallpiece for Merry Christmas Mr. Jago (2020), Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witches (2022), and Captain Thaddeus Grey for Archipelago (2024)
• Robert Edwards was also ADR mixer on seven stories (from Hide to Survivors of the Flux) and Space/Time
• Liz Pearson was post-production supervisor (here & Murder on the Orient Express, 2001) on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Peter Lowden (focus puller) was camera assistant on The Time of the Doctor
• Kellyanne Walker (graphic designer) was an illustrator on Human Nature and The Family of Blood

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 4

First shown in the spring of 1999, the fourth
season of this crime drama again starred
Amanda Burton as Home Office pathologist
Professor Sam Ryan, and was now set in
London after her move from Cambridge.

A repeat run of the six-part series began on

 Drama last night - it featured a total of twenty

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Gone Tomorrow (TX: May 30 & 31)

• John Flanagan (Kittrick) co-wrote Meglos
• [Peter] Nigel Terry (Thorn) was General Cobb in The Doctor's Daughter
• Robert Pugh (Peterson here; Harrington in Series 12: Finding Rachel; Wilde in Series 23: Close to Home) was Tony Mack in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, and voiced Emmett Burrows for Big Finish's Five Twenty-Nine (2016)
• Paul [Mackriell] Copley (Tillson here; Parkin in Series 7: Beyond Guilt) was Clem McDonald in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Dad for Spare Parts (2002), Jimmy Deel for Missing Persons (2013), Mick Huff for The Miniaturist (2022), and Wendell for The Conservitors (2023)
• Rod Arthur (Controller) was Mr. Parsons in School Reunion
• Howard Lee (Davies) was Dr. Gachet in The Pandorica Opens
• SFX artist Paul McGuinness was Drathro in The Mysterious Planet 
• stunt performer Abbi Collins was the stunt co-ordinator on eleven stories (from Rise of the Cybermen to The Waters of Mars), and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• for Rod Woodruff (stunt arranger), John McGlashan (cinema- tographer) and Jan Nethercot (make-up designer) see Series 2

A Kind of Justice (TX: June 8 & 9)

• Tom Georgeson (McNally) was Kavell in Genesis of the Daleks, and Police Inspector in Logopolis
• George Russo (Danny here; Bond in Series 17: Coup de Grace) was Cleric Philip in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• David Cann (Commander here; DI Porter in S19: After the Fall) was Narrator of Hello Sailor!, then voiced Albert for Jenny 3 (2024)
• Michael Darbon was production manager on Warriors of the Deep too

A Good Body (TX: June 15 & 16)

• Cheryl Hall (Sheryl here; Series 5: The World Cruise) was Shirna in Carnival of Monsters
• Joanne Pearce (Jill) voiced Luton/Gyra for Last of the Zetacene (2022)
• for Alec Linstead (Cross) see Series 1: Buried Lies
• for Philip Kloss (film editor) see Series 3