Doctor Who Vs. Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Series 2

Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Emilia Fox,

and Tom Baker all returned for the

 second, and final series of Working

Title TV's remake of ITC's late Sixties

cult crime drama. Lead writer Charlie

Higson collaborated on screenplays with

Gareth Roberts and Mark Gatiss.

The second serial featured a vocal

version of David Arnold's theme sung

by The Cardigans, and was included on

the soundtrack CD. A tie-in book and

 two novelisations were published too.

The seven-part season oiginally aired

on BBC1 in the autumn of 2001 - it

starred Derek Jacobi, Matt Lucas,

Mark Williams, and a total of twenty

six Doctor Who cast and crew links:

Whatever Possessed You? (UK TX: September 29 2001)

• Hywel [Thomas] Bennett (Whale) was Rynian in The Chase
• Big Finish actor/writer Lizzie Hopley (Ruth) voiced Gemma Griffin for Terror Firma, Various for Cyberman 1 (both 2005), Lady Lillian Hawthorne for The Veiled Leopard, Sue for Night Thoughts, Yarvell for I, Davros (all 2006), the Mantasphid Queen for The Infinite Quest, Alice Flowers for The Gunpowder Plot, Sister Christie for The Emporium at the End (both 2016), Camper for Silver Medal (2021), Hieronyma Friend for See Saw, and Mind Shield for Master! (both 2025)
• Nichola [Teresa Mary] McAuliffe (Virginia) was Vivien Rock in The Sound of Drums, then voiced Otia/Guide for Time Killers (2022)
• David [Edward] Walliams (Browning) appeared in the Doctor Who Night sketches (opposite Gatiss), then voiced Quincy Flowers/Ned Cotton for Phantasmagoria (1999), and was Gibbis in The God Complex
• Janet Henfrey (Hettie) was Miss Hardaker in The Curse of Fenric, Mrs. Pitt in Mummy on the Orient Express, and the Adjudicator in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor - she then voiced Mrs. Vanguard for The Spirit Trap (2010), Dr. Petherbridge for An Eye for Murder, Mrs. Jefferies for The Concrete Cage, Woman for The Forgotten Village (all 2014), Dorothy for The Screaming Ceiling (2019), Sister Magdalene for Abbey of Heretics (2020), Verkuvia for The Day of the Comet (2021), and Narrats for Morbius 1 (2024)
• Mona Hammond [born Mavis Chin] (Margaret) was Rita Anne in Rise of the Cybermen
• electrician Colin Price was best boy on The Day of the Doctor

Revenge of the Bog People (UK TX: October 6)

• Celia [Diana Savile] Imrie (McKern) was [Rosemary] Kizlet in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Dr. Elizabeth Bradley for The Fifth Citadel (2013), Madame Tissot for Gallery of Ghouls, Livia for Enemy Lines (both 2016), Dr. Kessica Myles for Hooklight 1 (2025), and Peg/Mrs. Peel for The Executor (2026)
• Adam [Offord] Buxton (Barry) voiced an Assembler for The One Doctor (2001)

O Happy Isle (UK TX: October 13)

• George [Morris] Baker (Pomeroy) was Decider Login in Full Circle
• John [Gibb] Sessions [born Marshall] (Fishacre) voiced General Tannis for Death Comes to Time, Mozart for My Own Private Wolfgang (2007), Roland for Castle of Fear (2009), then provided the voice of Gus for Mummy on the Orient Express
• Rupert [Nicholas] Vansittart (Babbacombe) was General R Asquith in Aliens of London and World War Three, then voiced Sepulchre/George Jeffries/Jack Kletch for Dead London (2008), Darius Horton for The House on the Edge of Chaos (2019), and Baron Rufus for The Baron Robbers (2024)
• Elji Kusuhara (Goto) was a Chinese Man in Four to Doomsday

Painkillers (UK TX: October 20)

• Dervla Kirwan (Petra) was Mercy Hartigan in The Next Doctor, then reprised Miss Quill for Big Finish's Class, and voiced Mrs. Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Yosta McCormack for Lightspeed, Di Wright for The Bookshop at the End of the World, 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)
• Duncan Preston (Dr. Hickman) voiced the titular alien in the Doctor Who and Crayola sketch for Victoria Wood as Seen on TV
• Alibe Parsons (Receptionist) was Matrona Kani in Mindwarp, and voiced Nora for The Lost Resort (2021)
• for Tim Wallers see Series 1

Marshall and Snellgrove (UK TX: October 27)

• Shaun Parkes (Marshall) was Zachary Cross Flane in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, a role reprised for Big Finish's Empire of Shadows (2021) and Oodunnit (2023)
• Colin McFarlane (Snellgrove) provided the voice of the Heavenly Host for Voyage of the Damned, was General Austin Pierce in Torchwood: Children of Earth and The War Between the Land and the Sea, and Jonathan Moran in Under the Lake and Before the Flood, then voiced Vince Foster for Randon Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro, Narrator of The Blood Cell (all 2014) and Farewell to Peter Capaldi, the Identical Man for Charlotte Pollard 2 (2017), Captain Morski for The War Master 5 (2020), and John Sloan for The Krillitane Relic (2025)

The Glorious Butranekh (UK TX: November 3)

• Joe Montana (Butranekh) was Worker in Daleks in Manhattan
• Ben Griffiths was also an electrician on thirty-eight stories (from Daleks in Manhattan to The Wedding of River Song), Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Class

Two Can Play That Game (UK TX: November 10)

• Eleanor Bron (Mrs. Applegarth) was an Art Lover in City of Death, and Kara [Seddle] in Revelation of the Daleks, then voiced Ileana De Santos for Loups-Garoux (2001)
• Roy Hudd (Dickie Klein) voiced Max Miller for Pier Pressure (2006)
• Reece [Wayne] Shearsmith (Harry) was Andrew Powell in The Devil of Winterborne and Ghosts of Winterborne, Dr. Dan Matthews in Auton, then depicted Patrick Troughton in An Adventure in Space and Time, and was Gagan Rassmussen in Sleep No More - he also voiced Governor Robert Hodan for Sunlight and Sunset (both 2025)

Doctor Who Vs. Space 1999, Series 2

ITC Entertainment's sci-fi drama returned

 to ITV in September 1976. A repeat run

of the second and final, twenty-four part

 season (which included scripts from

Terrance Dicks and Pip and Jane Baker) continued on Rewind TV today - it featured

Patrick Troughton, Bernard Cribbins,

Geoffrey Bayldon, and a total of forty-one other Doctor Who cast onnections:

• for Johnny Byrne, Zienia Merton, Catherine Schell, Isla Blair, Brian Blessed, Annie Lambert, Alf Joint, Robert Rietty, Shane Rimmer and Alan Harris see Series 1
• Nick Brimble (Torens) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Kith for Max Warp (2008), Olaf Eriksson for The Book of Kells (2010), and Commander Harlan for The Conscript (2017)
• Roy Stewart (Alien) was Toberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen, and Tony in Terror of the Autons
• Laurence Harrington (Jackson/Stewart) was Lunar Guard in (episode 3 of) Frontier in Space
• Tim Condren (Clansman) was Saxon Warrior in The Time Meddler (4), Soldier in The Web of Fear (4), and Guerilla in Day of the Daleks (1)
• Peter Brayham (Clansman/Garth/Guard) was stunt co-ordinator on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• Terry [Anthony] Walsh (Guard/Pilot/Technician) was a stunt/fight arranger, stunt double and uncredited extra on a total of seventy instalments of the original run (from The Smugglers to The Creature from the Pit)
• Bernard [Frederic Bemrose] Kay (Humanoid) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, DI Crossland in The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Night Thoughts (2006)
• John [Ronald] Standing [born Leon] (Pasc) voiced Fenric for Gods and Monsters (2012), and Professor Threadstone for Vampire of the Mind (2016)
• John [Kenneth] Alkin [born Foinquinos] (Johnson) and Dallas Adams (Sam) both appeared in Planet of Fire, as Lomand (1) and Professor Howard Foster
• Roy [Anthony] Marsden [born Mould] (Alien/Crael) was [Bryan] Stoker in Smith and Jones
• Godfrey James (Transporter) was Tarn in Underworld
• Sarah Douglas (B) voiced Gillen for Masters of War (2008), Professor Elizabeth Meadows for Blood of the Cybermen, the Entity for TARDIS, Jones for Shadows of the Vashta Nerada, Chancellor Dondequest for Reborn (2011), Sibor for Prisoners of Fate (2013), Vortia Trear for The Lives of Captain Jack (2017), Drah for Mother Tongue, Myrna Kendal for The Vanity Trap (both 2020), Mrs. Mevel for A Quiet Night In, and Quartermistress for Unfinished Business (both 2021)
• Harry Fielder (Medic/Guard/Gerry/George/Surveyor) was Guard (in serials PP, ZZZ, 4L, 4P, 5A, 5F, 5Z), Crewman (SS, 4T), Vogan (4D), Assassin (4Q), Tigellan (5Q), and Krarg for Shada
• Lloyd McGuire (Engineer) and Brendan Price (Guard) both starred in The Face of Evil, as Lugo and Tomas
• Tony Osoba (Guard) was Lan in Destiny of the Daleks, Kracauer in Dragonfire, and Duke in Kill the Moon
• Trevor Thomas (Pilot) made his TV debut as a Child in The Cave of Skulls
• Andrew Lodge (Grasshopper) was an Assistant in The Savages
• Nick Hobbs (Guard) 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
• David [Charles] Prowse (Cloud Creature) was the Minotaur in The Time Monster
• Gregory [Peter] de Polnay (Garforth) was D84 in The Robots of Death (and reprised for Closed Loop), and voiced V23 for Storm Mine (2004)
• Jeremy Young (Bartlett) was Kal in 100,000 BC, and Gordon Lowery in Mission to the Unknown
• Carolyn Seymour [born Von Benckendorff] (Eva) voiced Mordrega for The Ghosts of Gralstead (2014), Freda Mattingly for Prisoners of the Lake, Mrs. Multravers for The Haunting, the Slave for The War Doctor 1 (all 2015), Mrs. Whitaker for The Chartwell Metamorphosis, Lady Suzanne Clare for The New Counter Measures 1 (both 2016), Mrs. Stubbs for Ghost Walk (2018), the Commodore/Mrs. Kidd for Fever Island (2019), Ullmann for Circuit Breaker (2020) and Closed Loop, Mrs. Plymtree for The Devil's Hoofprints (both 2021), and Diana Stravius for The Ministry of Death (2026)
• James Snell (Stevens) was Harry in The Daemons
• Caroline [Jane ]Munro (Girl) voiced Sentia for Omega (2003)
• Paul Jerricho (Guard) was the Castellan in Arc of Infinity and The Five Doctors, then Alfie in Lucky Day
• Alibe Parsons (Alibe) was Matroni Kani in Mindwarp, then voiced Nora for The Lost Resort and Other Stories (2021)
• Nadim [Joakim] Sawalha (Zoran) voiced Swapnil Khan for The Magic Mousetrap (2009), and the Old Man for 1001 Nights (2012)
• Roy Boyd (Lustig) was Driscoll in The Hand of Fear
• Roy [Edwin] Scammell (Animal) was UNIT Soldier/Technician in The Ambassadors of Death, RSF Soldier in Inferno, stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1), Prison Officer/UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, and stunt arranger on Delta and the Bannermen (1)

Doctor Who Vs. Waking the Dead, Series 8

Series regulars Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, and Tara

Fitzgerald all returned (as Superintendent Boyd, Dr. Foley, DI Jordan,

and Dr. Lockhart) for season eight of this award-winning BBC crime

drama.

Magdalene 26 saw the departure of French actress Félicité Du Jeu

(DC Stella Goodman) after three years service, when the Cold Case

detective was shot and killed. Newcomer Stacey Roca joined the

programme in the same case, although her role (as DS Katrina

Howard) only lasted for this eight-part series.

A repeat run of the penultimate season (first shown in the autumn

of 2009) began on U&Drama last night - it featured a total of seventeen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Magdalene 26 (UK TX: September 6 & 7 2009)

• Sharon [Patricia] Maughan (Elizabeth) voiced Juno Whitfield for Big Finish's Cold Fusion (2016)
• Daniel Pirrie (Muller) was Joe Buchanan in The God Complex
• Jason Hunjan (Topal) was a stuntman on Voyage of the Damned and The Next Doctor
• for Simon Clark see Series 1 and for Waldo Mason see Series 5

End of the Night (UK TX: September 13 & 14)

• Rory [Michael] Kinnear (Mitcham) voiced Samuel Belfrage for Industrial Evolution (2011)
• Trevor Laird (DI Vedder) was Frax in Mindwarp, then played Clive Jones in Smith and Jones, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
• Elizabeth Rider (DI Smith) provided the ATMOS voice for The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, and was Ellen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, and Linda in The Time of the Doctor, then voiced Galatea for The Well-Mannered War (2015)

Substitute (UK TX: September 20 & 21)

• Ariyon [Debo] Bakare (Victor) was Leandro in The Woman Who Lived
• Andrew Byron (Georg) was Ilya in The Pyramid at the End of the World
• for Graham Brown and Lee Sherward see Series 6

End Game (UK TX: September 27 & 28)

• Alexander Siddig [born Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi] (Mohammed) voiced Rosto for Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008), the Captain for The Wreck of the Titan, Nemo for Legend of the Cybermen (both 2010), the Sultan for 1001 Nights (2012), and Marcus Gifford for I Went to a Marvellous Party (2016)
• Gina McKee (Jackie) voiced the Lumiat for Missy 2 (2020), Masterful (2021) and Time Lord Immemorial (2023) 
• [Robert] Bertie Carvel (Dench) was the Mysterious Man in The Lazarus Experiment
• Michelle Tate (Ellen) was Abigail in The Crimson Horror
• for Adam Trotman see Series 3

Doctor Who Vs. Coronation Street @ 65, Part 10: 1990-1995

The biggest change to the soap's schedule
since 1961 came in October 1989 with the
addition of a third weekly instalment.

Granada then decided to give the show a

dedicated production base, and the sets

were moved from the main TV studios

building to a refurbished warehouse near

the outdoor set. The new complex, com-

plete with individual dressing rooms, now

allowed the cast to rehearse on the actual

sets. Throughout 1990, new houses and

businesses (including the Kabin) began to

be integrated into storylines. A new title

sequence and videotape recording were also introduced.

By 1992 however (just a year after Carolyn

Reynolds replaced Mervyn Watson as

producer), Lord Rees Mogg of the Broadcasting Standards Council saw the Street's all-white cast as out of touch (the Desai family, the first

regular ethic characters, only appeared in 1999). Then another prime-

time rival launched on BBC1 that July, but Eldorado was a flop and was

 cancelled after just a year on air. The Street was victorious again in the

next ratings battle, then EastEnders debuted its own third weekly

episode in 1994. Corrie celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary with its

first one-hour special and spin-off video release, both marking the

wedding of Curly Watts and Racquel (Kevin Kennedy and Sarah

Lancashire).

These six years on the Street featured William Russell (pictured as

Ted Sullivan, from April to September 1992), and a total of twenty-eight Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Patricia Maynard (Veronica) was Hilda Winters in Robot - a role reprised for Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith in 2002
• Tania Rodrigues (Joanne Khan) voiced Anarkali/Melissa/Isra Tech #2 for Scavenger (2014), Chief Panath for Jonah (2018), Visteron for Deeptime Frontier (2019), Laker for Chase the Night (2020), VAD Prime for Body and Soulless (2021), Andolar for The Golden Child, and Princess Tura for Puccini and the Doctor (both 2024)
• Shirin Taylor (Jackie Ingram) was a Camper [Pat] in (part 3 of) The Stones of Blood, and Customer in Dragonfire
• Andrew McCulloch (Travers) co-wrote Meglos
• Judy Holt (Mrs. Grice here; Lesley Kershaw, 2011/12) was Sandra Mitchell  in The Long Game
• Milton Johns [born John Robert Milton] (Brendan Scott, 1991, 1993) was Benik in The Enemy of the World, Guy Crayford in The Android Invasion, and Kelner in The Invasion of Time
• Carl Forgione (Barrett) was Land in Planet of the Spiders, and Nimrod in Ghost Light
• Sally [Roberta] Faulkner (Mrs. Maxwell-Glover) was Isobel Watkins in The Invasion, and voiced Miss Tremayne for Winter for the Adept (2000)
• Tyrone Huggins (Dr. Bannerman) voiced Dr. Kenton Eastwood for Power Cell (2016)
• [Terence] Dicken Ashworth (Horton) was Sezon in Timelash
• Catherine Cusack (Carmel) made her acting debut as the Blue Kang Leader [Drinking Fountain] in Paradise Towers - reprised for 24 Carat
• Leslie Schofield (Brookes) was Leroy in The War Games (4), and Calib in The Face of Evil
• Colin Prockter (Halpern, 1992; Bostock, 1995; Maddocks, 2005; Clarky, 2008) was the Chef in The Long Game, and Air Raid Warden in Victory of the Daleks
• Nigel Carrington (Brooks here; Waiter, 1989) voiced Emissary Godrin/ Dr. Summersby/Announcer for The Valley of Death (2011), Sir Robert Harney for The Devil's Armada (2014), Pik Solus for Mistfall, Graham Finlay for New Horizons (both 2015), and Sir Peter Latcham for UNIT: Shutdown (2016)
• Esther Coles (Gemma) voiced Scott for Lethal Progress (2026)
• Brian Hibbard (Murray) was Kellor in Delta and the Bannermen
• Freddie Earlle (Owens) was Aldo in Warriors' Gate
• Alibe Parsons (Kathy) was Matroni Kani in Mindwarp
• Malcolm Terris (Firman) was Etnin in The Dominators (1), and the Co-Pilot in The Horns of Nimon
• Bernard [Frederic Bemrose] Kay (Phillips) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, Inspector Crossland in The Faceless Ones, Caldwell in Colony in Space, and voiced Major Dickens for Night Thoughts (2006)
• Nicholas Blane (Stapleton here; Green, 1998; Judge, 2010) was Millington in Survivors of the Flux
• John [Frederick Joseph] Savident (Fred Elliott, 1994-2006) was the Squire in The Visitation (1)
• Owen Aaronovitch (Estate Agent here; Jon Lindsay, 1997/8) voiced Antonio Ferrando and Control Unit for Fiesta of the Damned (2016)
• Michael Owen Morris was director of The Awakening too, following a stint on The Pirate Planet as production assistant
• Michael Kerrigan was also director of Battlefield and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Ellie Haddington (Josie) was Professor Docherty in Last of the Time Lords
• [Albert] Frank Mills (Billy Williams, 1995-97) was the Telescope Director in Terror of the Autons (1)
• Andy Devine (Photographer here; Jason, 2000) made his TV debut as an uncredited Draconian in Frontier in Space

Doctor Who Vs. Agatha Christie's Poirot, Series 6

David Suchet, Hugh Fraser,

Philip Jackson, and Pauline

Moran returned for four new

period crime dramas from

Carnival Films, first show in the

winters of 1995 then 1996.

Known in America as A Holiday For Murder, the festive mystery

was published in 1938. BBC

Radio 4 dramatised the case in

2005, with Peter Sallis as Poirot.

Hickory Dickory Dock was issued

in 1955 (Hickory Dickory Death

in the US). Murder on the Links,

Christie's third novel, appeared

in 1923 and was also adapted for

radio in 1980, starring John Moffat as the Belgian. Dumb Witness

(issued in 1937) was based on The Incident of the Dog's Bell, a lost

short story only released in 2009 - a radio version was broadcast in

2006. A repeat run of the feature-length mysteries began on ITV3

today - they featured a total of eighteen Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

Hercule Poirot's Christmas (UK TX: New Year's Day 1995)

• Eric Carte (George here; Mackenzie in And Then There Were None, 2015) voiced Arak Varren for Big Finish's The Robots of Life (2019)
• Andrée Bernard (Magdalene) was Dolly Bailey in The Shakespeare Code, then voiced Ellen Green for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009), Erisi for The Entropy Composition, Lorelei for Paradise 5 (both 2010), Joanna Slade for The Feast of Axos (2011), Dr. Paignton for The Red House, Susie/Sylvie for Stage Fright, Tethneka/Carter/Thing for Terror of the Sontarans (all 2015), Lulu Hammerstein for Silent Scream, and Mary Sissinghurst for The Carrionite Curse (both 2017)
• Vernon [Alexandre] Dobtcheff (Lee here; Concierge in Murder on the Orient Express, 1974) was the [Chief] Scientist in The War Games, then voiced Dadda Desaka for The Cradle of the Snake (2010), Sibelius Crow for The Necropolis Express, Shamur for The Children of Seth (both 2011), Heinrich Schuman for Threshold (2012), and Jorenzo Zorn for The Genesis Chamber (2016)
• Sasha Behar (Pilar) was Sister Spurrina in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Presidential Aide for Songs of Love, Tessno/Ladonne for Stop the Clock (2017), Admiral Eno for The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (2019), Talarn/Bullet/Thayla for Dust Devil, and Diana Hendry for The Seas of Titan (both 2022)
• Christopher Webber (Steward) voiced Harding Wellman for Winter for the Adept (2000)
• for George Little see Series 1

Hickory Dickory Dock (UK TX: February 12 1995)

• Jonathan Firth (Chapman here; Drake in Sparkling Cyanide; Robarts in Witness for the Prosecution, 2021) voiced John for The Doomwood Curse (2008), Cadwallader for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016), and the Duke of Cardenas for Kingdom of Lies (2018)
• Granville Saxton (Casterman here; Dr. Burton in The House of Lurking Death) voiced the Duke of Wellington for The Curse of Davros (2012)
• Rachel [born Linda] Bell (Mrs. Nicoletis here; Jennifer in A Pocketful of Rye, 1985) was Priscilla P in The Happiness Patrol
• Alec Linstead (Pharmacist) was Sergeant [Tom] Osgood in The Daemons, Arnold Jellicoe in Robot, and Arthur Stengos in Revelation of the Daleks
• Brian McDermott (Inspector here; Metcalf/Trotter in The Mousetrap, 1962/1976) was Sheard in Time Flight
• Polly Kemp (Patricia) voiced Duchess Callys Flambo/Brummagem Betty/Golp for Dining With Death (2019), and Calo/Quarks for Dominant Species (2024)

Murder On The Links (UK TX: February 11 1996)

• Howard Lee (Golfer) was Dr. Gachet in The Pandorica Opens
• Belinda Stewart Wilson (Secretary) voiced Overton for Who Killed Toby Kinsella? (2016), and Vashir for The Return of the Doctor (2025)
• Sean Clayton was also assistant director of Dalek and Father's Day

Dumb Witness (UK TX: March 16 1996)

• Patrick [Geoffrey] Ryecart (Charles here; Morgan in The Labours of Hercules) was Dr. Crozier in Mindwarp
• Jonathan Newth (Grainger here; Hailsham-Brown in Spider's Web, 1982; Stavansson in The Case of the Missing Lady) was Orfe in Underworld
• Paul Herzberg (Jacob) voiced Dr. Suleiman Zorn for Shadow of the Sun (2020), and Betterment for The Mindless Ones (2022)

Doctor Who Vs. Flash Gordon

This cult science fiction action film was

based on the King Features comic strip

created in 1934 by Alex Raymond. After

a long development process, Universal released the film in late 1980. Although

a box office success in the UK, the

Anglo-US production performed poorly abroad, and is notable for the sound-

track composed and sung by Queen.

The planned sequel was never made,

and several television adaptations have

appeared before and since.

Sam Jones, Melody Anderson and

Topol portrayed Steven Gordon, Dale Arden and Professor Zarkov, whilst Max

Von Sydow was Ming.

Shown on ITV4 today, the adventure

featured these thirty-six Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Timothy [Peter] Dalton (Barin) was Lord President Rassilon in The End of Time
• Brian Blessed (Vultan) and Deep Roy [born Mohinder Purba] (Pet) both starred in Mindwarp - as King Yrcanos and Possican Delegate - Blessed also voiced the titular role for Cutaway Comics' Omega (2022),  whilst Roy was also Mr. Sin in The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• Peter Wyngarde [born Cyril Louis Goldberg] (Klytus) was Timanov in Planet of Fire
• John [William Francis] Hallam (Luro) was Light in Ghost Light
• John [born Bertie Wyn] Hollis (Observer) was Sondergaard in The Mutants
• [Donald] Burnell Tucker (Co-Pilot) was Old Garner in The Angels Take Manhattan
• David [Henry] Neal (Captain) was the President in The Caves of Androzani
• Rusty Goffe and Peter Burroughs (Dwarves) were Little John in Robot of Sherwood; and the Jester in (part 1 of) The King's Demons respectively
• Terry [Philip Julian] Forrestal (Hawkman) was Tractor Driver in K9 and Company
• Leonard Hay and Glen Whitter (Ardentians) were an Aboriginal Man in Four to Doomsday; and Slave in The Daleks' Master Plan (10), and Aide in Day of the Daleks (4)
• Roy [Edwin] Scammell (Hawkman) was UNIT Soldier/Technician in The Ambassadors of Death, RSF Soldier in Inferno, Prison Officer/ UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, and stunt arranger on Delta and the Bannermen (1)
• Stephen Calcutt (Azurian) was Muto in Genesis of the Daleks, Mute in The Armageddon Factor, Marshman in Full Circle, and titular Man in Kinda
• Stuart Blake [born Bruce Gore Stewart] (Azurian) was Zoldaz in State of Decay (3), Commander in The Five Doctors, and Scibus in Warriors of the Deep
• Jim [Edward] Carter (Azurian) voiced Brother Bernard for Big Finish's The Book of Kells (2010)
• Paul Barton (Fishman) was UNIT Soldier/Silurian in The Silurians, Roundhead in The Time Monster (3), Courtier in The Masque of Mandragora (1), Guard in The Face of Evil and The Horns of Nimon, Attendant in The Sun Makers, Rebel in State of Decay (1), Citizen in Planet of Fire (2), and Pallbearer in Remembrance of the Daleks (4)
• Chris [John] Webb and Peter Brace (Brutes) both appeared as Guards in The Curse of Peladon - Webb was also Monoid in The Ark, and Brace a Soldier in The Android Invasion
• Eddie Powell (Brute) was Thompson in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Alan Austen (Man) was Kara's Guard in Revelation of the Daleks
• Sean Barry Weske (Rabbi) was Paramilitary in Silver Nemesis
• [Rafael] David de Keyser (Colonel) was the voice of the Atraxi for The Eleventh Hour, and provided the Cybermen voices for The Eternity Clock
• Ralph G Morse (Arborian) was Foster Guardian in The Keeper of Traken
• Suzanne Danielle [born Morris] (Serving Girl) was Agella in Destiny of the Daleks
• Derek Chafer (Guard) appeared in forty episodes (from The Time Meddler to Warriors' Gate)
• Kevin Hudson (Hawkman) had uncredited roles in twenty-nine stories (from The Long Game to The Timeless Children)
• Jill Goldston (Friend) was Extra in The Masque of Mandragora (4), and Peasant in State of Decay (1)
• Alan Harris (General) was a Sevateem in The Face of Evil, and titular alien in Terror of the Vervoids
• Peter Ross Murray (Police) was Lakertyan in Time and the Rani (4)
• Maurice Connor (Treeman) was Gundan in Warriors' Gate (3)
• Richard Bonehill (Extra) was the Flight Engineer in Time Flight, First Officer in Enlightenment, Guardolier in Timelash, and Guard in Revelation of the Daleks and Terror of the Vervoids
• stuntman Jim [Derek Christopher] Dowdall was Guerilla in Day of the Daleks, Guard in Genesis of the Daleks, and Warnsman in Frontios (1)
• stuntman Royston [Michael John] Farrell was Guardian in The Ark, Elder in The Savages (1), Technician in The Seeds of Death and The Claws of Axos (4), and Guard in The Curse of Peladon (1)
• Richard [Adrian] Hammatt was stuntman on The Runaway Bride too 

Doctor Who Vs. Space 1999, Series 1

This Anglo-Italian production was the final science-fiction TV series

 from the prolific Gerry and Sylvia Anderson partnership, and owed

much of its visual design to pre-production for the unrealised second

run of Century 21's UFO (shown from 1970 to 1973). The Andersons

reworked the UFO: 1999 premise, and the project (the most

expensive made for British television up to then) was picked up by 

Group Three Productions, ITC and RAI.

The American married couple Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were

cast as leads John Koenig and Helena Russell, and shooting began

in late 1973. The drama premiered on ITV fifty years ago today, in

September 1975 - but wasn't broadcast in all UK regions until 1998

when repeated on BBC2.

The first, twenty-four part season also featured Nick Tate (as Alan

Carter), Prentis Hancock (Paul Morrow), Zienia Merton (Sandra

Benes), Louise Jameson, Peter Cushing, and a total of forty-

one Doctor Who cast connections:

• Johnny [Christopher] Byrne was also writer of The Keeper of Traken, Arc of Infinity and Warriors of the Deep
• Hancock was a Reporter in (episode 1 of) Spearhead from Space, Vaber in Planet of the Daleks, Salamar in Planet of Evil, and the Captain in The Ribos Operation
• Merton was Ping Cho in Marco Polo, and the Registrar in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
• Catherine Schell [born Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott] (Servant here; Maya in Series 2) was Countess Scarlioni in City of Death
• Philip [Arvon] Madoc (Gorski) was Brockley in Daleks' Invasion 2150 AD, Eelek in The Krotons, the War Lord in The War Games, Dr. Mehendri Solon in The Brain of Morbius, Fenner in The Power of Kroll, then voiced Rag Cobden for Big Finish's Return of the Krotons (2009), and Victor Schaeffer for Master (2003)
• Shane Rimmer (Pilot/Voice of Bannion/Kelly here; Section Voice in Series 2) was Seth Harper in The Gunfighters
• Alan Harris (Alphan/Operative here; Prisoner in Series 2) was a Sevateem in The Face of Evil, and a titular alien in Terror of the Vervoids
• Alf [Charles Richard] Joint (Steiner/Alphan/Guard) was a Heavy in The Ambassadors of Death (1), and stunt arranger on Battlefield
• Roy [Edwin] Scammell (Nordstrom) was UNIT Soldier/Peterson/ Technician in The Ambassadors of Death, RSF Soldier/Sentry in Inferno, Technician in Terror of the Autons (4), Prison Officer, UNIT Motorcyclist/Soldier in The Mind of Evil, and stunt arranger on Delta and the Bannermen (1)
• Christopher Matthews (Operative) was Radar Technician in The Tenth Planet
• Maxwell Craig (Guard/Operative/Astronaut) was Fighter in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• John Hamill (Dominix) was Shrieve in The Ribos Operation
• Andy [George] Dempsey (Operative) was Atlantean Guard in The Time Monster, and Lugo's Warrior in The Face of Evil
• Vincent Wong [born Vivian Warren Chen] (Medic/Fujita) was Ho in The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Chinese Delegate in Day of the Daleks, and Captain in Enlightenment
• Annie Lambert (Operative) was Enlightenment in Four to Doomsday
• Michael Stevens (Operative) was a Soldier in The Myth Makers (1), Daffodil Man in Terror of the Autons (3), UNIT Motorcyclist/Prisoner in The Mind of Evil, and Guard in The Curse of Peladon (1)
• Isla Blair (Alien here; Carla in Series 2) was Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, and voiced Paula for Exotron (2007)
• Brian Blessed (Dr. Rowland here; Mentor in Series 2) was King Yrcanos in Mindwarp
• John [Morley] Shrapnel (Captain Tanner) voiced Thomas Cromwell for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and Nigel Colloon for The False Guardian and Time's Assassin (both 2019)
• Barbara [Rosalind] Bermel (Thulian) was Villager in Planet of the Spiders (1) and The Android Invasion (1), Masquer in The Masque of Mandragora (4), Sevateem in The Face of Evil (1), Rebel in The Sun Makers (1), Court Lady in The Androids of Tara (1), and Lazar in Terminus (1)
• Adrienne Burgess (Revered One) was Veet in The Sun Makers
• Dave Murphy (Thulian) was a studio engineer on Warriors' Gate (1)
• Julian Glover (Jarak) was King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
• Rula Lenska [born Roza Maria Leopoldyna Lubienska] (Joan) was [Dr. Elizabeth] Styles in Resurrection of the Daleks
• Susan Jameson (Mackie) was cast as Morgan in Colony in Space but was replaced by Tony Caunter - she voiced Mrs. Moynihan for The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (2000), then Mrs. Wibsey for AudioGo's Hornets' Nest (2009), Demon Quest (2010) and Serpent Crest (2011)
• Michael [Lawson] Sheard [born Perkins] (Dr. King) was Rhos in The Ark (2), Dr. Roland Summers in The Mind of Evil, Laurence Scarman in Pyramids of Mars, Lowe in The Invisible Enemy, Mergrave in Castrovalva, the Headmaster in Remembrance of the Daleks, Chief Baxter in Fury from the Deep (2002), then voiced Orsino for The Stones of Venice (2001)
• Robert Rietty [born Lucio Herbert Rietti] (Voice of Cellini/Voice of Mateo/Voice of Ferro here; Sphere Voice in Series 2) voiced Bedloe for Death Comes to Time
• Robert Russell (Hadin) was a Guard in The Power of the Daleks, and the Caber in Terror of the Zygons
• Ron Tarr (Survivor) was a Prisoner in Destiny of the Daleks
• Jon [St. Alban] Laurimore [born Livermore] (Smitty) was Count Federico in The Masque of Mandragora
• Gareth [born Alan Leonard] Hunt (Pilot) was Arak in Planet of the Spiders
• John Gleeson [born Quatermaine] (Voice of Davis) was a Thal Soldier in Genesis of the Daleks (6), and Charles Winlett in The Seeds of Doom
• Martin [Ryan] Grace (Guard) was a Thal in Dr. Who and the Daleks
• Joy Harrison (Operative) was Jill Tarrant in Death to the Daleks
• Oliver Cotton (Spearman) voiced Sir Gideon Hale for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), and Major Callahan for Quicksilver (2017)
• [Frederick] Alan Meacham (Sandos) was Servant in The Massacre (4), and Technician in The Silurians (1)
• [Cathal] Max [Parnell Macaulay Lloyd] Faulkner (Clifford) was a UNIT Soldier in The Ambassadors of Death, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (1), Miner in The Monster of Peladon (6), Guard Captain in Planet of the Spiders (4), Thal Guard in Genesis of the Daleks (3), Crewman in Planet of Evil (1), Corporal Adams in The Android Invasion, and Nesbin in The Invasion of Time
• James Snell (Cousteau) was Harry in The Daemons
• Valentino Musetti (Mateo) was Mongol Bandit in Marco Polo (5), Saracen Warrior in The Crusade (1), Egyptian in The Daleks' Master Plan, Prisoner in The Mind of Evil, and Extra in Colony in Space (1) and The Time Monster (1)
• [Thomas] Kevin [Harvest] Stoney (Talos) was Mavic Chen in The Daleks' Master Plan, Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion, and Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen
• stuntman Rick Lester stunts was an Ogron in Day of the Daleks, Carnival of Monsters (2) and Frontier in Space