Doctor Who Vs. The Long Shadow

Based on extensive research,

personal accounts and the

book 'Wicked Beyond Belief:

The Hunt for the Yorkshire

Ripper' by Michael Bilton

  

 ITV Studios' long awaited true-

crime drama (originally broadcast

in the autumn of 2023) was des-

cribed as "the definitive depiction

of the five-year hunt for serial

killer Peter Sutcliffe (portrayed

here by Mark Stobbart), sen-

sitively focussing on the lives of

the victims who crossed his path and those of the officers at the heart

of the police investigation - the victims, their families and the survivors

[are] at the heart of this well-documented story."

A repeat run of the seven-part thriller, produced by New Pictures, began

on ITV3 last night - it featured Toby Jones, David Morrissey, Lee Ingleby,

 Katherine Kelly, Michael McElhatton, Steven Waddington, Jack Deam,

Jill Halfpenny, Stephen Tompkinson, Ruth Madeley, and twenty-nine

Doctor Who cast connections:

• Morrissey (ACC George Oldfield) was Jackson Lake in The Next Doctor
• Jones (DCS Dennis Hoban) was the Dream Lord in Amy's Choice, then voiced Kotris for Big Finish's Dark Eyes 1 (2012)
• Ingleby (DCS Jim Hobson) voiced Samson Griffin for Terror Firma (2005)
• Kelly ((pictured as Emily Jackson), Sophie [Lisa] Hopkins (Patricia) and Nigel [Patrick] Betts (Caplin) all appeared in Class - as Andrea Quill, April MacLean and Frank Armitage respectively - Hopkins also voiced Hayat for Piece of Mind (2019)
• Mays (Jackson) and Emma Cunniffe (Margaret) both starred in Night Terrors, as Alex and Claire Thompson - Cunniffe also voiced Caleera for Scenes from Her Life, The Gift, The Sonomancer (all 2016), Songs of Love, The Side of the Angels and Stop the Clocks (all 2017)
• Liz White (Meg) was Alice in The Snowmen, and voiced Genestra for The Brink of Death (2015), and Helais for The Death of Peladon (2022)
• Shaun Dooley (Gregg) was Epzo in The Ghost Monument
• Christopher [John] Hatherall (Domaille) voiced George Newman for Fiesta of the Damned (2016), and Guy Fawkes for Treason and Plot (2020)
• Jamie Parker (Nevill) voiced Wulfric/Edgar for Leviathan, Major Richter for The Architects of History (both 2010), Douglas for Aimed at the Body, Monsignor Plummer for Lightspeed, Frank Reichenbach for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Virgilio Pancaldi for Interlude, Brian for Echo Chamber, Jasper Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Torrence for Castle Hydra, Sandar for Effect and Cause, Sir Percy Blakeney/ Terrance for Plight of the Pimpernel (all 2020), Captain Hallorin for Ravagers (2021), Anthony/Ed for Quantum of Axos, Trinity/Tsar Alexander for Lay Down Your Arms (both 2022), and Samael Avner/ Sam Spendlove for Last Words (2024) 
• [Sarah] Melanie [Jean] Kilburn (Win) voiced Hooley for The Dread of Night (2018)
• Ian Conningham (Byford) was Chuckles in The Girl Who Died, and voiced Ronson/Lieutenant for Storm of the Horofax (2017), Kevin/ Rindle for The Lady in the Lake (2018), Maximov/Konis for Nightmare Country (2019), V11/Kaden Olson for Toos and Poul (2020), Corfield/ Dr. Richard Numan for The Primeval Design, Robert Devereaux/Lord Cecil for The Hollow Crown (both 2021), Kade for Previously, Next Time, Fridtjof Nansen for Northern Lights (both 2023), Fletcher Hart for Planet Krynoid 1, and Jerome Shaw for Fallen Heroes (both 2025)
• Brian McCardie (Rawton) voiced Alan Weir for Masters of Earth (2014)
• Adam James (Wilcox) was DI Macmillan in Planet of the Dead
• Andrew Knott (Brownley) voiced James O'Meara for 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (2013), and Sean Casey for The White Room (2014)
• Mark Frost (Clarke) voiced Shandar for Requiem for the Rocket Men (2015), and Niccolo Machiavelli for The Ravelli Conspiracy (2016)
• Jonathan Coy (Cohen) voiced Fowler for The Flying Frenchmen and Return of the Nightmare (both 2015)
• Roger Ringrose (MacDonald) voiced Dawson for 1957: Double Agent (2025)
• Asif Khan (Jafari) was Sergeant Ramesh Sundur for The Woman Who Fell to Earth and Spyfall, and voiced Jay Roy for Power Cell (2016)
• Andy Milligan (Sergeant) was Worker in The Star Beast
• Mike Noble (McCann) voiced Miklev for The Rani Elite (2014)
• Rakhee Sharma (Beverley) voiced Dr. Hazel Wayward for Fractures (2025)
• Terri Ann Brumby was Woman in Turn Left
• Andy Merchant was also stuntman on The Wedding of River Song and Into the Dalek, then stunt co-ordinator on The Pilot
• Dean Forster was also stuntman on nine stories (from The Christmas Invasion to Robot of Sherwood)
• Gordon Seed was also stunt co-ordinator on thirty-six episodes (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon)
• Stephanie Carey was also stunt co-ordinator on Voyage of the Damned, The Beast Below, The Curse of the Black Spot, Let's Kill Hitler, The Girl Who Waited, The Angels Take Manhattan and The Crimson Horror

Doctor Who Vs. Manhunt, Series 2

This drama is based on the true story

of the police investigation of a series of

rapes, sexual assaults and burglaries

that took place in South East London

between 1992 and 2009.

Martin Clunes again portrayed DCI Colin

Sutton, now assigned to review Operation

Minstead - the seventeen year hunt for a

serial sex offender, dubbed the Night Stalker.

Delroy Grant (suspected of over a hundred

offences) was finally apprehended and

convicted in March 2011.

A repeat run of the thriller (originally shown

over four consecutive nights in September

2021) began on ITV3 last night - it featured eighteen Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

• Stephen Wight [born Gray] (DC Grace) voiced Unsworth for Big Finish's The Flying Dutchman (2020)
• Ian Conningham (Moore) was Chuckles in The Girl Who Died, then voiced Sinko/Ronson/Lieutenant for Storm of the Horofax (2017), Kevin/Rindle for The Lady in the Lake (2018), Konis/Maximov for Nightmare Country (2019), V11/Kaden Olson for Toos and Poul (2020), Robert Devereaux/Lord Cecil for The Hollow Crown, Dr. Richard Newman/Corfield for The Primeval Design (both 2021), Kade for Previously, Next Time, Fridtjof Nansen for Northern Lights (both 2023), and Fletcher Hart for Planet Krynoid 1 (2025)
• Matthew Gravelle (DI Eason) voiced Klinus for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro (both 2014), then provided the titular voice of Kerblam!
• Matt Bardock (Supt. Morgan) was Al in Flatline
• Diveen Henry (DC Henry) voiced Alozza for The Vault of Osiris (2015), Sarah for The Behemoth, and Sandra for A Kill to a View (both 2017)
• Beth [Jane] Goddard (DS Rook) was Sister Helena for The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon, then voiced Christine Colley for The Sontaran Project (2017), Ludina Braskell for World of Damnation and Sweet Salvation (both 2018), Barton for The Moons of Vulpana, Vella for A Photograph to Remember and Rulers of Earth (all 2019), Sally/ Time Lady for Operation: Hellfire (2020), and Allerdyce Benexa/ Pangladasha for Ice Heist! (2023)
• Sule Rimi (DS Hylton) was Omo Esosa in The Story and the Engine
• John Albasiny (Forbes) voiced Guy Dean for BBV Productions' Homeland (1999), Lev Tolstoy/Preston for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Major Maxim Felnikov for Thin Ice and Crime of the Century (both 2011), Chris Fleming for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), Jesper for Equilibrium (2015), and Makerenkov for Last of the Romanovs (2020)
• Brian [Henry] Croucher (Royce) was Borg in The Robots of Death, and Kurt in Shakedown, then voiced Cotton for Kaldor City (2001-03)
• Nicholas Asbury (DI Adler) voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Anthony Burmaster for UNIT: Assembled, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (both 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 The Nine, Hari Ventross for The Robots 5 (both 2022), and Belias/Inquisitor Robel for You Only Die Twice (2024), then was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion
• Stephen Perring (Inspector) voiced Horemshep for The Eye of the Scorpion (2001), Sebastian Grayle for Seasons of Fear (2002), Receptionist for Zagreus, Vengorr for Living Legend (both 2003), Kro'ka for The Creed of the Cromon, The Twilight Kingdom, Faith Stealer, The Last, Caerdroia and The Next Life (all 2004), and Matthias for Gallifrey (2006-13)
• Judith Roddy (Michelle) voiced Commander Lorne for The Wreck of the World (2017), and Stralla Cushing for How to Make a Killing in Time Travel (2018)
• Robert Hands (Wooller) was Algy in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, then voiced Daniel Defoe for The Eye of the Storm (2015), Solex for Legion of the Lost and A Thing of Guile, Pope Leo X for The Ravelli Conspiracy (all 2016), Major Hardy for Storm of the Horofax, and Lagrange for Fields of Terror (2017)
• Jamie Talbutt was also foley editor on eighty-two episodes (from A Christmas Carol to Revolution of the Daleks)
• Tim Hodges was film editor on Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror too
• Louise Brown was also foley artist on eight stories (from The Woman Who Fell to Earth to Ascension of the Cybermen)
• Victoria Nugent was make-up designer on Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes too
• James Scott (first assistant camera) was focus puller on sixteen episodes (from Closing Time to The Day of the Doctor)
• David J Bremner was also grip on Into the Dalek, Listen and Time Heist