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Saturday, 11 July 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Endeavour, Series 1

Produced by Mammoth and Masterpiece for ITV
Studios, this period crime drama was devised as
the prequel to the acclaimed series Inspector
Morse, which ran from 1987 to 2000 and earned
six BAFTA awards. Like Morse and its sequel
series, Lewis (2000 to 2015), Endeavour is set in
Oxford.
Shaun Evans now portrayed the young Endeavour
Morse (created by Colin Dexter), who began his
career as a Detective Constable with the City Police
CID at Cowley in 1965.
Following a successful pilot episode (renamed
Overture with the rebranding of ITVX), the first
full season was originally broadcast in the spring
of 2013 - a repeat run began on ITV3 today.
These five cases featured Roger Allam (as DI Fred
 Thursday), Jack Laskey (DS Jakes), Sean Rigby
(PC Strange), James Bradshaw (Dr. DeBryn),
Anton Lesser (CS Bright), Jamie Glover, and a
total of thirty-nine Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:
Pilot (UK TX: January 2 2012)
  • Ian Gelder (Tremlett) was Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then provided the Remnant voices in The Ghost Monument, was Zellin in Can You Hear Me?, and voiced Dracula/Long John Silver for Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
  • Danny Webb (DS Lott here; Pollock in Lewis) was John Jefferson in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Byron for The Girl Who Never Was (2007) and Ori for The Dark Husband (2008)
  • Abigail Thaw (Dorothea Frazil) voiced Dr. Phillippa Stone for The Lady of Mercia, Zaadur for Lords of the Red Planet (both 2013), High Vector Salaskin for The War Master 7 (2022), Zanna for 1922: The Black Cadre, and Elena Shishkin for 1974: The Caldwell Restitution (both 2026)
  • Maggie Ollerenshaw (Mrs. Crabbin) voiced Audrey McShane for Love and War (2012), Allora for Gallifrey 6 (2013), and Dame Wilhelmina Gussett for The Woman in White (2016)
  • Harry Kershaw (Percival) voiced Narthex for The Abyss (2022)
  • David Monteath (PC) voiced Herald/Brother Marcus/Farmer Hennok for The Quin Dilemma, and was Narrator of The Ultimate Poe (both 2024)
  • Daisy [May] Head (Jenny) voiced Renata for Reformation (2025)
  • Colm McCarthy was director of The Bells of Saint John too
  • Gavin Struthers was cinematographer on The Power of Three too
  • ADR mixer Nick Roberts was sound recordist on The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice, Cold Blood and The Lodger
  • SFX supervisor Chris Reynolds was a SFX technician on Terror of the Vervoids and Battlefield
  • stunt co-ordinator Stuart Clark was a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
Girl (UK TX: April 14 2013)
  • Edward Bazalgette was also director of The Doctor's Meditation, The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived, The Return of Doctor Mysterio and Class
  • Luke [William] Allen Gale (Clark) voiced Joe Carnaby for Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories (2019)
  • Jonathan Guy Lewis (Monkford) voiced Marcus Bray for After the Daleks (2021)
  • Albert Welling (Clark here; Stoneley in Morse: The Last Enemy) was the Fuhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
  • Greg Bennett (Constable here & Lewis) was Guard in Dalek, UNIT Soldier/Sycorax Warrior in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
  • John Flanagan (Greaves here; Mangold in Lewis) co-wrote Meglos
  • Stephan Pehrsson was also the cinematographer on ten stories (from The Pandorica Opens to The Crimson Horror)
  • Kiaran Murray-Smith was also first assistant director on Amy's Choice and The Lodger
  • Tom Lucy was also the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen stories (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)
Fugue (UK TX: April 21)
  • Joanna Horton (Linda here; Selina in Harvest) voiced Brooke 1 for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
  • Lex [Alexander Carey] Shrapnel (Adamson) voiced Robin Marshall for Shadow of the Past, and Toby for The Spirit Trap (both 2010)
  • Robin Soans (Straker here; McBryde in The Way Through the Woods) was Luvic in The Keeper of Traken, and the Chronolock Guy in Face the Raven
  • Michelle Morris (Neighbour) was School Secretary in Into the Dalek, and voiced Brenna for The Invention of Death (2018)
  • Laura Rees (Faye) voiced Kaymee Arnod for Dalek Empire 3 (2003), Tyrus for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016), and Deborah/Major Harris for The Bad Penny (2018)
  • Kelly Price (Evelyn) voiced Queen Meta for Genesis of the Cybermen (2025)
  • Claire Vousden (Miss Crane) voiced the First Elder/Investigator for Sphere of Influence (2020)
Rocket (UK TX: April 28)
  • Martin Jarvis (Broom here; Rees in Greeks Bearing Gifts) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Jubilee (2003)
  • James Northcote (Broom) voiced Freddie Trewella for The Miracle of Pendour Cove (2025)
  • Craige Els (Worker) was Karvanista in Flux, and Chief in Legend of the Sea Devils
  • John Pardue was cinematographer on An Adventure in Space and Time too
  • Daniel Bishop (here & Ride) was steadicam operator on The Husbands of River Song too
Home (UK TX: May 5)
  • Lloyd McGuire (Ayres) was Lugo in The Face of Evil
  • Clive Wood (Kasper) was the Roman Commander in The Pandorica Opens, then voiced Commander Rugosa for The Rosemariners (2012), Dibbsworth for Peepshow (2019), Bird for Must See TV (2020) and Stranded 4, Daddy Dominus/Clubwell for For the Glory of Urth (both 2021), and Director Draaga for Dominant Species (2024)
  • Poppy Miller (Millicent) voiced Vykane for The Conservitors, Madame La Chappelle for The Edge of the War (both 2023), Professor Veronica Hays for The Time You Never Had (2025), and Anne for Oil and Water (2026)
  • Kelly Adams (Cynthia) voiced Vyx Leeson for Below There (2023)
  • film editor Mark Davis edited The Bells of Saint John too

Monday, 16 March 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 19

The nineteenth series of BBC1's
evergreen crime drama (first shown
in early 2016) 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. Thomas Chamberlain, played by
Liz Carr and Richard Lintern.
repeat run of the ten-part series
began on U&Drama last night - it
featured a total of twenty-four
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

After The Fall (UK TX: January 4 & 5)
  • Liza Tarbuck (DI Rankin) voiced Captain Kaliko for The Infinite Quest, and Lysette Barclay for Big Finish's Plague of the Daleks (2009)
  • Ariyon [Debo] Bakare (Dawes) was Leandro in The Woman Who Lived, then voiced Father Mendica for The Poison of Peladon, and Cato for The Players (both 2022)
  • Dean Lennox Kelly (Carmichael) was the eponymous Bard in The Shakespeare Code
  • Joanna Horton (Suzie) voiced Brooke 1 for The Diary of River Song 2 (2018)
  • Jonnie [Bernard] Broadbent (Rowland) voiced Various for The Quin Dilemma (2024)
  • Sagar Arya (Shah) was a Newsreader in The Christmas Invasion and The Sarah Jane Adventures
  • Timothy Wood was second assistant director on K9 too
  • for David Cann see Series 4
Flight (UK TX: January 11 & 12)
  • Richard Senior was also director of Let's Kill Hitler, Space/Time, The Night of the Doctor and Doctor Who at the Proms (2013), then was second unit director on The Day of the Doctor
  • Esther [Jane] Hall (DI Ryman) voiced Fortuna for The Galileo Trap (2015), Tazeena/Bauza/Mum for The Two Masters, Pheenan for Absolute Power (both 2016), and Viv/Commentator for The Iron Legion (2019)
  • Richard Dillane (DCI Waite) was Captain Carter in Let's Kill Hitler and The Wedding of River Song
  • Raji James (Rachid) was Dr. Rajesh Singh in Doomsday and Army of Ghosts
  • Janie Booth (Woman) voiced System for The Harvest, Old Woman for Medicinal Purposes (both 2004), and Eve Morris for The Gathering (2006)
  • Wanda Opalinska (Alma) voiced the Dockmaster for Magic Bullet's Storm Mine (2004), Nadia Vasney for The Night Witches (2017), Gudrun/Espen for Colony of Strangers, Irinda for Family Matters (both 2020), Dr. Lorna Holmes for Supernature (2023), and Mrs. Denison for Spoil of War (2025)
  • series casting director Andy Brierley was casting associate on fifty-eight episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The Big Bang), Music of the Spheres, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
  • Fay Selby was also first assistant director on Asylum of the Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan, Nightmare in Silver and The Day of the Doctor
Life Licence (UK TX: January 18 & 19)
  • [Charles] Robert [William] Whitelock (Bright) was Mahler in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Professor Rickett/King Magus/Denyx for Psychodrome, Mulberry Gride for Jago & Litefoot & Patsy (both 2014), Sebastian/Provost Curtis for The Edge, Peter Andrews for The Hidden Realm (both 2016), Bruno Werner/Vagabond/Priest for Better Watch Out and Fairytale of Saltzburg, Artron/Cadrin for Day of the Master (2018), Garth/Thispus for One Mile Down, Machines for Ghost Machines, V12/Skellen/V48/V33 for The Robots 1 (all 2019), Stark/ Prosecutor for Barrister to the Stars, Grolk/Ogrons/Servant for Too Many Masters (both 2020), Bill Lester/Badenhorst for Return of the Cybermen, Kallure/Riggs for Twisted Folklore (both 2021), Jack/Jase Harper for Albie's Angels (2022), Stringer/Skoob for Ice Heist!, Dennis Ward/Commander for The Witching Tree (both 2023), Operator Goole for Revolution in Space, Lazar/Agent 2 for Last Words (both 2024), Typhon for Lost Amongst the Stars (2025), and Alan/Craig for The Second Death of the Daleks (2026)
  • Tim Packham (Paaser-by) began his TV career as a Plasmaton in Dimensions in Time
  • Niamh Cusack (Sylvie) voiced Clarimonde for Zaltys (2017), and the Oldest for The Eternity Club 2 (2024)
  • for Shaun Parkes see Series 8
  • Damian Bromley was also the cinematographer on The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
In Plain Sight (UK TX: January 25 & 26)
    • Keith Boak was also director of RoseAliens of London and World War Three
    • Neil Stuke (DI Cooke here & Series 21: Family) voiced Geoff Corbett for The Crooked Man (2014), then was Lee Clayton in Fugitive of the Judoon
    River's Edge (UK TX: February 2 & 3)
    • Andrew Forbes (Consultant) was Omril in Full Circle
    • Derek [Brian] Griffiths (DS Guillam) voiced Jason Taylor for Brave New World (2008), Xylem Maple Dorm for Death in the New Forest (2018), Annam Henic for Queen of the Mechonoids, Reverend Monty Woolsgrove for The Devil's Hoofprints (both 2021), Golas for Curiosity Shop (2023), and Mathryn for Slow Beasts (2024)

    Monday, 16 February 2026

    Doctor Who Vs. Whitechapel, Series 3

    Carnival Films' dark crime drama
    returned to ITV1 for a third and pen-
    ultimate season in the winter of 2012.
    Now extended to six episodes (again
    written by Caroline Ip and Ben Court),
    the show's cast was headed by Rupert
    Penry-Jones as DI Chandler. Phil Davis,
    Steve Pemberton, Sam Stockman, and
    Claire Rushbrook also reprised their
    regular roles, whilst Hannah Walters
    joined the programme as new DC Megan
    Riley.
    The recurring motif of Whitechapel (the
    recreation of historic East End crimes still
    researched here by Ripperologist Buchan)
    now centred on the famous Ratcliffe High-
    way Murders of 1811, the Thames Torso
     mysteries of Victorian London (1873/74
    and 1887-89), and even the urban legend
    of the 'bogeyman'. Previous series drama-
    tised (with varying success) both a modern
    day Jack the Ripper, then even new Kray twins.
    A repeat run of the series began on U&Drama last night - the three cases
    featured Endeavour actor Shaun Evans, and a total of thirty Doctor Who
    cast and crew connections:

    Case One (UK TX: January 30 & February 6)
    • Christina Chong (Lizzie) was Lorna Bucket in A Good Man Goes to War
    • Mona Hammond [born Mavis Chin] (Voodoo Lady) was Rita Anne Smith in Rise of the Cybermen
    • David Schneider (Salter) voiced Ernst Bratfisch for Big Finish's The Silver Turk (2011)
    • Ben Smith (Wilke) was Luke in School Reunion
    • Nina Toussaint-White (Tish) was Mels in Let's Kill Hitler, and voiced Brooke 2 for The Diary of River Song 3, Loba Christata for The Skies of New Earth (both 2018), Swann for Genetics of the Daleks (2020), and Mariah Six for Cycle of Destruction (2021)
    • Richard [Anthony] Cordery (Collier) voiced Professor Rinxo Jabbery for Plague of the Daleks (2009) and Sam for A Town Called Fortune (2010)
    • Simon Manyonda (Pinchin) was Kabel in Face the Raven
    • Sheena Bhattessa (Preeti) voiced Annie for And You Will Obey Me (2016), Francesca for Two Monks, One Mistress (2021), and Rio for The Turn of the Tides (2022)
    • Justin Avoth (Hipster) voiced Mikhail for Who Killed Toby Kinsella? and The Dead Don't Rise, Robert Murphy for The Unknown (all 2016), Cain for The Demon Rises (2018), and the Shimmering Man for Morbius (2024)
    • James [Louis de Zogheb] Dreyfus (Cross) was John Harrison in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Man Who Never Was, then voiced the High Persian for The Cats of New Cairo (2018), and the Master for The Destination Wars (2017), The Home Guard (2019), The Psychic Circus (2020) and Blood of the Time Lords (2022)
    • John Flanagan (Landlord) wrote Meglos
    • Lindsay Grant was also script supervisor on A Good Man Goes to War, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and A Town Called Mercy
    • film editor Anthony Combes edited The Wedding of River Song too
    • David Mason was also line producer on The Impossible AstronautDay of the Moon and The Angels Take Manhattan
    • Simon Fitzpatrick (dialogue editor) began his career as the sound FX editor on Destiny of the Doctors
    • John Cooling was stand-by rigger on Turn Left too
    Case Two (UK TX: February 13 & 20)
    • Richard Clark was also director of GridlockThe Lazarus Experiment, The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors
    • Paul Chequer (Merceron) voiced a Servo Robot for AudioGo's Tsar Wars (2011)
    • Camilla Power (DI Norroy) voiced Councillor Kostal for The Foe from the Future (2011), Perditia/Jenessa/Zaria for Psychodrome (2014), Mademoiselle for The Monster of Montmarte, Adella for The Mourning After (both 2015), and Carrie Pierce for The Movellan Grave (2017)
    • Pip [Dean] Torrens (Underwood) was Headmaster [George] Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Bloodand voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), Kenton for Break the Ice (2022), and Thomas Browne for 1901: The Unknown Mirror (2025)
    • Deirdre Mullins (Heather) voiced Admiral Effenish for The Very Dark Thing (2016), Osen for Beneath the ViscoidNaomi Davies for Charlotte Pollard 2 (both 2017), Mab for Gifted (2018), Roisin/Spae Wife for Feast of Fear (2019), Amanda Latimer for The Headless Ones (2020), Dalfin for The Forest of Penitence, and Dissident for The Players (both 2022)
    • Aruhan Galieva (Ana) was Tahira in Can You Hear Me?
    • Stephanie Carey was also a stunt performer on ten episodes (from Voyage of the Damned to The Vanquishers)
    Case Three (UK TX: February 27 & March 5)
    • Holli Dempsey (Elsa) was Kelly in Closing Time
    • Victoria Alcock (Cindy) was Angela Whittaker in Planet of the Dead, then voiced Marion Tudor for Power Playand Winnie O'Connor for The Lonely Clock (both 2012)
    • Alistair Petrie (Dr. Mortlake) voiced Major Harris/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! (2021), the Count for The Edge of the War (2023), and Albion Graves for The Silent Priest (2024)
    • Kieran Bew (Driffield) voiced Arthur Kettleson/Barry for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Murdo Jamieson for The Helm of Awe, Krim Pollensa for Month 25 (both 2017), Richard Cooper for The Creeping Death (2019), Lunk/V97 for Do No Harm (2020), Grannus Drek for The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook, Dwayne Pherber for The End of the Beginning (both 2021, and Davlin Crux for Hooklight (2025) - he was also Ivan in Oxygen
    • Owen McPolin was also the cinematographer on The Eleventh Hour, The Doctor's Wife, Night Terrors, The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex
    • series SFX make-up artist Paul McGuinness was Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
    • series props master Garry Dawson worked on stand-by props on Cold War and The Crimson Horror

    Friday, 2 January 2026

    Doctor Who Vs. Waking the Dead, Series 6

    Series regulars Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil
    Johnson, and Félicité Du Jeu all returned for
    BBC1's award-winning crime drama, originally
    shown in the winter of 2007.
    Tara Fitzgerald joined the cast here as new
    Home Office pathologist, Dr. Eve Lockhart - she
    stayed with the programme until 2011, then
    starred in short-lived spin-off series, The Body
    Farm.
    A repeat run of the twelve-part series began
    on U&Drama last night - it featured Peter
    CapaldiJemma RedgraveHelen
    Goldwyn, and a total of thirty-three further
    Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

    Wren Boys (TX: January 7 & 8)
    • Big Finish actor Ann [Forrest] Bell (Mother Superior) voiced Sylvia O'Donnell for A Thousand Tiny Wings (2010), Professor Gesima Cazalet for Night of the Stormcrow (2013), and Lisa Burrows for Five Twenty-Nine (2016)
    • Carey Mulligan (Bridgid) was Sally Sparrow (pictured) in Blink
    • [Harold] Tony Rohr (Ryan) was an uncredited Colonist in (episode 6 of) The Power of the Daleks
    • series SFX supervisor Graham Brown was VFX assistant on Full CircleThe Five DoctorsResurrection of the DaleksThe Caves of AndrozaniAttack of the CybermenRevelation of the Daleks and The Curse of Fenric
    • for Tom Lucy (stunt co-ordinator here & The Body Farm) see Series 1
    • prosthetics artist Waldo Mason was SFX assistant on Aliens of London
    Deus Ex Machina (TX: January 14 & 15)
    • Graham Crowden (Barrett) was Soldeed in The Horns of Nimon
    • Adam James (Leonard) was DI Macmillan in Planet of the Dead
    • Polly [Alexandra] Walker (Catherine) voiced Commander Narina for The Movellan Grave (2017)
    The Fall (TX: January 21 & 22)
    • Nigel Whitmey (Simmel) was [Danny] Simmons in Dalek
    • David Yelland (Taggart) voiced Walter Pritchett for The Red Lady (2015)
    • Michelle Newell (Administrator) was one of twenty-six actresses who auditioned for the role of Leela in 1976
    • for Paul Kennington (stunt double) see Series 4
    Mask of Sanity (TX: January 28 & 29)
    • James Fox (Rivelli) voiced Professor Chronotis for Shada
    • Karen Bryson (Dr. Vincent) voiced Commander Esk for Aftershocks (2022)
    • Nicholas Beveney (Jenson) was Dad in Attack of the Graske
    • Richard Dillane (Ricardo) was Captain Carter in Let's Kill Hitler and The Wedding of River Song
    • Dominic Letts (Valentine) voiced Nobby/Marak Kitson/Wilkins/Soldier for The Paradise of Death
    • Helen Blatch (Mrs. Jenson) provided the Computer voice for The Deadly Assassin, and was Commander Fabian in The Twin Dilemma
    • Roy Holder (Flynn) was Krelper in The Caves of Androzani
    • Julia Joyce (Kate) was the Young Rose Tyler in Father's Day, and Holly Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth
    • George Asprey (Bruno) voiced Overseer Zim for The Hidden Realm, Balthasar Schrek for Nothing to See Here (both 2016), the Leader for Infamy of the Zaross (2017), General Melak for Time in a Bottle and Kings of Infinite Space (both 2018), the eponymous role for Ravenous and Beyond (2021), and Superior Elite for The Good Samaritan (2023)
    • for Gareth Milne (stunt co-ordinator) and Crispin Green (film editor) see Series 5
    • script editor Muirinn Lane Kelly was producer of Scream of the Shalka
    Double Bind (TX: February 4 & 5)
    • Alisdair Simpson (Young Raymond) voiced Sir Francis White for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), Cleon for The Mask of Tragedy (2014), Colonel Freeman Lifford for The Boundless Sea (2015), Sidney Wheeler/Field Marshal Brooke for Churchill Victorious (2018), Damadus for Return to Skaro (2020), Andor/Manning for Who Am I?, and Lord Varliss for UNIT: Nemesis (2022/23)
    • Ray De Haan (Drug dealer) was a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern, and for Lee Sherward (stunt co-ordinator) see Series 5
    Yahrzeit (TX: February 18 & 19)
    • Pip [Dean] Torrens (Holland) 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)
    • Radoslaw Kaim (Cyrak) was Trepper in The Sontaran Stratagem
    • Jim Norton (Dusniak) voiced Major Thomas Kennet for Scream of the Shalka
    • Hollie Sullivan (Frieda) voiced Olivia York for The Middle (2017)
    • Rupert [Makepeace] Wickham (Young Heiss) voiced Captain Dudgeon for No Man's Land (2006), Jonas Faber for Klein's Story, and Butterfly for Survival of the Fittest (both 2010)

    Thursday, 20 November 2025

    Doctor Who Vs. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    "Cedric Diggory will not have
    died in vain. You remember
    that and we'll celebrate a boy
     who was kind, honest, brave
    and true. Right to the very
    end."

    ITV2's latest Harry Potter film
    season continued tonight with the
    fourth entry in the saga, released
    in late 2005. Ralph Fiennes,
     Brendan Gleeson, Katie Leung,
    and Miranda Richardson were
     introduced here - as Voldemort, Moody, Cho Chang, and Rita Skeeter.
    Published in 2000, JK Rowling's fourth volume was adapted by Warner
    Bros - it featured David Tennant (Barty Crouch Jr.), David Bradley,
    Robert Pattinson (pictured as Cedric), and twenty-three Doctor Who
    cast and crew connections:
    • Jeff Rawle (Amos) was Plantagenet in Frontios, Lionel Harding in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge, then depicted Mervyn Pinfield in An Adventure in Space and Time, and voiced Toby Brokesmith for Chapel of Night (2017), Chad Caramel for The Tyrants of Logic (2018), Captain Miles Rozann for Here Lies Drax (2022), and Reverend Robert Drummond for Sea Smoke (2025)
    • Roger [Anthony] Lloyd Pack (Crouch Sr.) was John Lumic in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel
    • Christopher Whittingham (Wizard) made his acting debut as Crew- man in (part 2 of) Earthshock
    • Philip Rham (Death Eater) was Erich Zimmerman in Let's Kill Hitler
    • Martin Alexander Colton (Quidditch Player here; Commuter in The Order of the Phoenix) was Juliet in The Shakespeare Code
    • Big Finish actor Phil Mulryne (Troy) voiced Hologram/Rek for Tomb Ship, Trobe/Warma for Of Chaos Time The, Prince Erdos/Magpie/ Calcula for Pyschodrome (all 2014), Shom/Hogan/Ogron 6 for The Romance of Crime (2015), Barnaby Miller for Wave of Destruction (2016), and Brubble Medicius/Guard for For the Glory of Urth (2021) - he also wrote The Oncoming StormA Thing of GuileFallen Angels (all 2016), The Contingency ClubThe Haunting of Malkin Place (both 2017), Planet of the Drashigs (2019), The Keeper of Light, Memnos, Machines Like Us (all 2022), and Antillia the Lost (2023)
    • David Sterne [born Stone] (Wizard) voiced Lord Arthur Greyston/John /Guard for Peake Season (2022)
    • Kevin Hudson (Fan here; Prophecy in The Order of the Phoenix) starred in twenty-nine episodes (from The Long Game to The Timeless Children)
    • Charlotte [Anne] Ritchie (Student) was Lin in Resolution
    • Peter Roy (Wizard here, The Order of the Phoenix, The Deathly Hallows) was Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, Sergeant [Erskine]/ Chauffeur in The Faceless Ones (1), UNIT Soldier in The Invasion (1), Guard in The Seeds of Death (1), The Space Pirates (1), The Face of Evil (1), The Invasion of Time (1), The Androids of Tara (1) and The Armageddon Factor (1), Technic Obarl in The Hand of Fear (1), Policeman in Logopolis (1), Ambulance Man in Castrovalva (1), Market Man in Snakedance (1), and Extra in The Highlanders (1), The Silurians (6), The Sun Makers (1) and Resurrection of the Daleks (1)
    • Amanda Foster was a stunt performer on The Doctor's Daughter too
    • for Warwick Davis, Adrian Rawlins, Lisa Osmond, Jo Osmond and Greg Powell see The Philosopher's Stone
    • for Mark Williams, Shirley Henderson, Paul Bateman and Eddie Howards see The Chamber of Secrets
    • for Michael Gambon and Andy Smart see The Prisoner of Azkaban

    Friday, 29 August 2025

    Doctor Who Vs. Spooks, Series 6

    Peter Firth, Rupert Penry-JonesMiranda Raison,
    Hermione Norris, and Hugh Simon all returned for
    the sixth season of BBC1's award-winning spy drama,
    first shown in the autumn of 2007.
    This ten-part series saw the introduction of Alex
    Lanipekun as journalist Ben Kaplan (later recruited
     as a junior officer) and Gemma Jones as analyst
    Connie James, then the  departure of Raza Jaffrey
    (MI5 agent Zaf Younis).
    A repeat run of the season began on U&Drama last
    night - it featured Lisa Bowerman, and a total of
    twenty-two Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
    • Angela Bruce (Chambers) and director Stefan Schwartz both starred in Battlefield, as Brigadier Winifred Bambera and Knight Commander - Bambera was reprised by Big Finish for Animal (2011), Seabird One, Visitants, Fractures and The War Factory (2022) - Bruce also voiced Mother for The Persistence of Dreams (2018), Herb for Conversion (2019), and Oya/Andarta for Consequences (2021)
    • Matthew Cottle (Smith) voiced Paine for The Satanic Mill (2015), Hargreaves for Aquitaine, Henry Clarke for Quicksilver, James Leith for The Shadow Vortex (all 2016), Maxwell Wilberforce Bell for Subterranea (2017), Ben Donelly for Invocation, and Overseer for The Sontaran Project (both 2017)
    • Lanipekun voiced DS Joseph for The Hidden Realm (2016)
    • Pete Lee-Wilson (Ronson) was Tommo in The End of Time, Part 1
    • Selva Rasalingam (Maruti) was Ranjit in The Power of Three
    • Simon Slater (Caldwell) was Edwardes in Terror of the Vervoids, then voiced Carvil for The Lords of Terror (2018), Nustanu for Devil in the Mist, Montague Davis/Moses Walker/Coachman for A Spoonful of Mayhem (both 2019), and the title role for The Murder of Oliver Akkron (2021)
    • Richard Dillane (Richardson) was Captain Carter in Let's Kill Hitler and The Wedding of River Song
    • Joe Montana (Millar) was a Worker in Daleks in Manhattan
    • Sam Graham (Rolfe) voiced Guthrie for City of Spires (2010), and Henry McMullan/Pilot for Destination: Nerva (2012)
    • David [William] Yelland (Castledine) voiced Walter Pritchett for The Red Lady (2015)
    • Richard Hansell (Doctor) voiced Robin/Slitheen for Death on the Mile (2018), John Fielding for The Avenues of Possibility (2019), and Enforcers/Captain for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
    • Paul Grunert (Faures) voiced Elbon for Gallifrey 3, and Henning Brauer for The Juggernauts (both 2005)
    • Martin McDougall (Agent) voiced Craddock for He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not (2020)
    • for Norris, Raison, Robert Glenister and Neil Cross see Series 5
    • for cinematographer Damian Bromley and editor Jamie Pearson see Series 4
    • Toby Ford was the first assistant director on A Good Man Goes to War too
    • Simon Morris was also second assistant director on Love & Monsters, then third assistant on Turn LeftThe Stolen EarthJourney's End and The Sarah Jane Adventures
    • Lucienne Suren was art director on Asylum of the DaleksThe Angels Take Manhattan, and An Adventure in Space and Time too 
    • Marcus Catlin was also first assistant director on The Hungry EarthCold BloodThe Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang
    • Robert Edwards was ADR mixer on Space and Time too