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. Strike: Lethal White

This Bronte Films thriller was based on the

fourth crime novel from JK Rowling, written

under the pen-name Robert Galbraith.

Plans to adapt the Cormoran Strike books

were announced in late 2014, and Harry

Potter author Rowling acted as executive

producer. Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger

were cast as Strike and Robin Ellacott in

2016. 

 Lethal White followed adaptations of The

Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and Career

of Evil, and Troubled Blood (based on book five) debuted in December 2022. Production on The Ink Black Heart is currently under-

way, whilst Strike's seventh case, The

Running Grave was published last year.

A repeat run of the four-part mystery

(which debuted on BBC1 in August 2020) began on Drama last night - it featured Kerr Logan, Natasha O'Keeffe, and twenty-seven Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Robert Glenister (Chiswell here & Narrator of Strike audiobooks) was Salateen in The Caves of Androzani, then Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror - he also voiced Aboresh for Big Finish's Absolution (2007), and Eliot for Future Phantoms (2024)
• Robert Pugh (Winn) was Tony Mack in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, and voiced Emmett Burrows for Five Twenty-Nine (2017)
• Sophie Winkleman (Kinvara) voiced Kelly Westwood for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (2009), Sofia Cozzi for Serpent in the Silver Mask (2016), and Rachel Allan for Torchwood One (2017)
• Christina Cole (Izzy) was Lilith in The Shakespeare Code
• Natalie [Sithokozile] Gumede (Lorelei) was Ashley Carter in Last Christmas, and voiced Aeronwen for The Famished Lands (2019), Isobel/Neighbour for Twenty-Four Doors in December (2023), and Ruath for Goth Opera (2024)
• Sophie Colquhoun (Sarah) voiced Madrigal for Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy (2017)
• Silas Carson (Drummond) provided Alien voices for The End of the World, and voiced Uvlavad for The Sarah Jane Adventures: Warriors of the Kudlak, then voiced the Ood for The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood, The End of Time, Pond Life, Prisoner of the Ood, The War Master 2 and Torchwood (2023), Arbuckle for The Jabari Countdown (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)
• Robyn Holdaway (Hayley) voiced Calypso Jonze for The Lovecraft Invasion (2020) and The End of the Beginning, and Decima/Citizen for The Lone Centurion 1 (both 2021)
• Lucy [Jane] Briers (DCI McMurran) voiced Jenny Chaplin for After the Daleks (2021)
• Saffron [Marni] Coomber (Flick) voiced Elidir/Byrne for London Orbital (2022)
• Ruth Lass (Dr. Curtis Lacey) voiced Elodie Kendall for Future Phantoms (2024)
• Natalie Walter (Fizzy) was Alice Coltrane in Turn Left
• Nicholas Burns (Torks) and Bern Collaco (Officer) both appeared in Thin Ice, as Lord Sutcliffe and Soldier, whilst Collaco was also an Operator in The Return of Doctor Mysterio
• Bart Suavek (Barman) was Pavel in Knock Knock
• Samuel Oatley (DI Layborn) was T'zim Sha in The Woman Who Fell to Earth and The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Annette Badland (Cab driver) was Margaret Blaine [aka Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen] in Aliens of London, World War Three, Boom Town and reprised for Sync (2019), then voiced Queen Karlina for Equilibrium, Thelms for Suburban Hell (both 2015), Guilana for Asking for a Friend (2017), Judge/Computer 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), Eminent Sedanya for Blood of the Time Lords, the titular entity for The Miniaturist, Mrs. Chinn for Mind of the Hodiac (all 2022), the Toymaker for Metamorphosis (2024), and Dorothy Stubbs for Future Phantoms
• Sarah Lochlan (stunt performer) and Ruth Horrocks (Guest) both worked on Revolution of the Daleks too
• Richard Price (Passerby) was Guest in The Runaway Bride and The Lazarus Experiment, Passerby in Partners in Crime and The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mark of the Berserker, Takran Soldier in The Doctor's Daughter, Cyberman in World Enough and Time, The Doctor Falls, Ascension of the Cybermen, The Timeless Children, Once, Upon Time and The Power of the Doctor, Teammate in Kerblam!, Sniperbot in The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos, Judoon in Fugitive of the Judoon, Dalek operator in Revolution of the Daleks, Tourist in The Halloween Apocalypse and The Vanquishers, titular reptile in Legend of the Sea Devils, and Shadow Kin in Class
• Liam Lau Fernandez (Porter) voiced Thomas for Jenny 3 (2024)
• Paul Bailey and Christina Low were stunt drivers on Spyfall (1) too - Bailey also worked on It Takes You Away, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos and Resolution
• George Atkins was also ADR mixer on six adventures (from The Time of the Doctor to The Timeless Children)
• James Gregory was also ADR mixer on The Haunting of Villa Diodati and Ascension of the Cybermen
• for Nigel Squibbs, Richard Roundtree and Dan Rees see The Cuckoo's Calling