Doctor Who Vs. Sparkling Cyanide

Agatha Christie's thirty-fifth crime

novel was issued i 1945 - first in

America (as Remembered Death) then

in the UK.

Colonel Race's final case (of four)

expanded the plot of short story

Yellow Iris, published in Strand

Magazine in 1937.

Sparkling Cyanide was dramatised

twice for television - the CBS production

aired in 1983, whilst this Thames TV

version was broadcast in 2003.

Shown on Sky Arts tonight, the mystery

featured Lia Williams, Susan Hampshire,

and these eight Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Kenneth Cranham (Barton here; Fortescue in A Pocket Full of Rye, 2008) voiced Tom Cardwell for Big Finish's Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• [William Henry] Richard Clifford (Maitre D here & Murder on the Orient Express, 2017) voiced Novar for The Master's Dalek Plan, Pandak for Shockwave (both 2019), Merlin for The Lone Centurion 2, and Jessop for Mind of the Hodiac (both 2022)
• James Wilby (Farraday here; Kirkwood in The Sittaford Mystery, 2006; Restarick in Third Girl) voiced Tenebris for The Acheron Pulse and The Shadow Heart (2012), and Professor John Torrance for The Sontaran Project (2017)
• Pauline [Angela] Collins (Dr. Kendall here; Thyrza in The Pale Horse, 2010) was Samantha Briggs in The Faceless Ones, then Queen Victoria in Tooth and Claw
• Jonathan Firth (Drake here; Chapman in Hickory Dickory Dock; 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)
• Chloe [Naomi] Howman (Iris) voiced Mags for Litefoot and Sanders (2011)
• Peter Bennett was also first assistant director on fourteen stories (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time), production manager on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, then produced another twenty-one instalments (from The Beast Below to Twice Upon a Time) and Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Barbara Kidd was also costume designer on nine stories (from Frontier in Space to Kinda) then thirteen revived series episodes (from A Christmas Carol to The Wedding of River Song)

Doctor Who Vs. Inspector Morse: The Dead of Jericho

Central's acclaimed BAFTA winning crime

drama was produced by Zenith, and was

originally shown on ITV from 1987 to 2000.

Based on the thirteen police procedural
novels of Colin Dexter (written between
1975 and 1999), the programme sub-

sequently comprised thirty-three feature-

length murder mysteries.
The eponymous Oxford-based detective was

 portrayed by John Thaw (1942-2002), and

Kevin Whately played DS Robbie Lewis - a

role reprised for spin-off series Lewis (2006-

2015). Dexter (1930-2017) made Hitchcock-

esque cameos in all but three cases, and a

prequel drama Endeavour, starring Shaun

Evans as the younger Morse, began in 2012.

Dexter's works have also been dramatised

for BBC Radio 4 (broadcast from 1992 to 1996), and in 2010, Colin Baker

took the lead in a stage version, House of Ghosts.

Repeated on ITV3 today, the first Morse serial (based on Dexter's fifth

novel and published in 1981) aired in January 1987, and was adapted by

Anthony Minghella. Patrick Troughton starred here as George Jackson

(pictured) in one of his final roles for television, with Gemma Jones, and

fifteen other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• series producer Kenny McBain was director of The Horns of Nimon
• Norman Jones (CI Bell here & Service of All the Dead) was Khrisong in The Abominable Snowmen, Major [Norman] Baker in The Silurians, and Hieronymous in The Masque of Mandragora
• James [David] Grout (CS Strange) and Peter Woodthorpe (Dr. Max DeBryn) both provided voice roles for Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? - Grout was Ian Chesterton, the latter was Joey Oxford
• Philip [James] Voss (Coroner here & The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn) was Acomat in Marco Polo, and Wahed in (episode 1 of) The Dominators, then voiced Under Sergeant/Robot for Big Finish's Original Sin (2016)
• Rupert Holliday Evans (David) was Colonel [Alan] Mace in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, then voiced Celtic Warrior for The Relics of Time, Artist for The Demon of Paris, and Cop for Starfall (all 2010)
• Annie Lambert [born Hole] (Adele) was Enlightenment in Four to Doomsday
• Souad [Adel] Faress (Diomanda) was Older Rani Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic
• Gary Powell (PC) was Dev Ashton in 42
• Lee Richards (Barmaid) was Exotic Romana in Destiny of the Daleks (1)
• Peter Brayham was also stunt co-ordinator on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• stuntman Terry Forrestal was a Tractor Driver in K9 and Company
• series stuntman Valentino Musetti 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 and The Time Monster
• Michael Feinberg was also a sound editor on The Lazarus Experiment, and ten episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Peter Bennett was also first assistant director on fourteen stories (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time), production manager on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, then produced another twenty-one instalments (from The Beast Below to Twice Upon a Time) and Torchwood: Children of Earth

BBC Radio 4's treatment of Alma Cullen's original drama House

of Ghosts (first transmitted in March 2018) starred Neil Pearson

as the detective, and six further Doctor Who cast links:

• prolific Big Finish actor Stephen [Anthony] Critchlow (Woolf here; Martin in The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn) voiced Anthony Newley for Blue Veils and Golden Sands (2002), O'Keefe for The Nowhere Place (2006), Extra for The Eternity Clock (2012), Earl of Wessex/ Professor Fester for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Billy Flint for An Ordinary Life, Various for Mind Games, The Reesinger Process and Second Sight, Soldier for The Screaming Skull (all 2014), the titular alien for The Yes Men, Marvo for The Haunting (both 2015), Noni for Gallery of Ghouls, Narrator of Sound the Siren and I'll Come to You Comrade (both 2016), The Young Lions and Intuition, Leonard for Ruler of the Universe (all 2017), Sir Humphrey Eagleton/Charlie Lucas for Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018), Temmis for Partisans, Malcolm Wishart for The Creeping Death, Teddy Baxter/Michael Hart for The Vardan Invasion of Mirth (all 2019), Jimmy Garfield for The Vanity Trap (2020), and Dubontis/Bandolian for Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow (2021)
• Lee Ingleby (Lewis) voiced Samson Griffin for Terror Firma (2005)
• Pip [Dean] Torrens (Strange) was Headmaster [George] Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, and voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), Kenton for Into the Stars (2022), and Thomas Browne for 1901: The Unknown Mirror (2025)
• Isla Blair (Verity) was Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, and voiced Paula for Exotron (2007)
• Timothy Watson (Baxter) voiced the Z'Nai for The Catalyst (2008)
• Samantha [Jane] Bond (Ellen) was Miss Wormwood in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane and Enemy of the Bane, and voiced Mother Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009)

Doctor Who Vs. Wycliffe, Series 2

Jack Shepherd returned as WJ Burley's Cornish

detective for the second season of HTV's popular

crime drama, joined again by Helen Masters,

Jimmy Yuill, Aaron Harris, Adam Barker, and Tim

Wylton.

Unlike the mysteries in the first series (all based

on Burley's novels) original screenplays were

produced here. A repeat run of the eight-part

series (first shown in the summer of 1995) began

 on ITV3 last night - it featured Louise Jameson,

Geoffrey Bayldon, and a total of twenty-nine

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

All For Love (UK TX: June 18 1995)

• John [Frederick] Abineri (DCI Turner) was Pieter Van Lutyens in Fury from the Deep, General George Carrington in The Ambassadors of Death, Richard Railton in Death to the Daleks, and Ranquin in The Power of Kroll
• Kenneth Sharp was also production designer on The Macra Terror, The Claws of Axos and The Robots of Death, whilst John Bleasdale (Warder) was a titular Robot in the latter story

The Trojan Horse (UK TX: June 25)

• Peter Bennett was also first assistant director on fourteen stories (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time) and Attack of the Graske, production manager (PM) on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, then produced twenty-one episodes (from The Beast Below to Twice Upon a Time)

Charades (UK TX: July 2)

• David Haig [Collum Ward] (Miller) was Pangol in The Leisure Hive
• Andrew Bullivant (PC) was Milkman in The Stolen Earth, and PC Ferguson in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
• Nigel Peever (Treglowen) was Rassilon in Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?, BBC Executive in The Auton Diaries 2, McCutheon in Zygon, and Reporter in Boom Town, then voiced Jethro for BBV Productions' The Barnacled Baby (2001), Paul Wight for In 2 Minds (2002), and Quail/the Deputy for Big Finish's The Transcendence of Ephros (2016)
• Michael Fenton Stevens (Howell) voiced Shakespeare for The Kingmaker (2006), Brooks for The Raincloud Man (2008), Moorson/ Controller for Destroy the Infinite (2014), Douglas Bell for The Carrionite Curse (2017), and Charles Jamrach/Wombat Commodore for The Caged Assassin (2024)
• David [Henry] Neal (Thorne) was the President in The Caves of Androzani
• Tom Eastwood (Barman) voiced Requiem for The Last (2004)

Lost Contact (UK TX: July 9)

• Eleanor Bron (Edwina) was an Art Lover in City of Death, and Kara [Seddle] in Revelation of the Daleks, and voiced Ileana De Santos for Loups-Garoux (2001)
• Richard Dempsey (Coryn) was Tsar Nicholas II in The Power of the Doctor
• Simon Paisley Day (SOCO) was the Steward (pictured) in The End of the World, and Rump in Face the Raven

Four and Twenty Black Birds (UK TX: July 16)

• director Steve Goldie began his career as an AFM on (part 6 of) The Armageddon Factor, then was PM on Terminus
• Lennox Greaves (Rowland) voiced Brian Hughes for The Shadow of the Scourge (2000), Professor Patrick Trethui for Last of the Titans (2001), Edward the Confessor for Seasons of Fear, Shaughnessy for The Chimes of Midnight (both 2002), Dr. Joseph Aldrich for The Condemned (2008), and Anulf/Taker for The Whispering Forest (2010)
• Charles [Lawrence] De'ath (Ling) was Adelaide's Father in The Waters of Mars
• Christopher [Denis] Driscoll (DI Perry here; Owner in Close to Home) was Security Guard in The Idiot's Lantern
• René Zagger (Mills) was Padra in Utopia

Happy Families (UK TX: June 23)

• Dominic Guard (Brandon) was Olvir in Terminus
• David Schofield (Penrose) was Odin in The Girl Who Died, and voiced Billy for Death in Blackpool (2009), Nostradamus/Conclave Leader for The Doomsday Quatrain (2011), Narrator of The House of Winter (2015), Parval for The Sorcerer of Albion (2020), and Gostak for The End of the Beginning (2021)

Wild Oats (UK TX: July 30)

• Michael Owen Morris was a production assistant (PA) on The Pirate Planet, then director on The Awakening too
• Christian Rodska (Rawle) voiced Laan Carder for Faith Stealer (2004), and Reverend Small for AudioGo's The Dead Shoes (2011)
• Dido Miles (Tynk) voiced Arva for Living Darkness (2025)
• John [Edward Arthur] Woodnutt (Dr. Angwin) was George Hibbert in Spearhead from Space, the Draconian Emperor in Frontier in Space, the Duke of Forgill/Broton in Terror of the Zygons, and Seron in The Keeper of Traken
• Susie Liggat was also first assistant director on Love & Monsters, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, then producer on eight instalments (from Human Nature to The Next Doctor)

Breaking Point (UK TX: August 6)

• Leslie Schofield (Treen) was Leroy in The War Games (4), and Calib in The Face of Evil
• Linda Broughton (Mrs. Nankervis) was the Woman in Hell Bent
• for Steve Slocombe, Elaine Matthews and Barbara Southcott see Series 1

Doctor Who Vs. Mrs. Caldicot's Cabbage War

Collins as would-be companion,
Samantha Briggs in The Faceless
Ones

This independent British film
comedy premiered at German
then Moscow film festivals,

 before a UK cinema release in

2003. The story (based on the

book from Vernon Coleman)

centred on housewife Thelma

(played by Pauline Collins), who

finally becomes free of her

boorish husband when he's

killed by a cricket ball, only to be confined to a retirement home by her son Derek (Peter Capaldi).

Upset with the care she and the

other residents receive, Thelma

leads a revolt. Shown on 5 Star tonight, the drama also featured Camille Coduri, John Alderton, and

thirteen more Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Martin Jarvis (JB) and Sheila Reid (Joyce) both appeared in Vengeance on Varos, as the Governor and Etta - Jarvis was also Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Big Finish's Jubilee (2003), whilst Reid was also Clara's Gran in The Time of the Doctor and Dark Water, and voiced Claire Summerfield for Good Night, Sweet Ladies (2014), and Janaiya for The Middle (2017)
• [Albert] Frank Mills (Leslie) was the Telescope Director in (episode 1 of) Terror of the Autons
• Isla Blair (Matron) was Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, then voiced Paula Taylor for Exotron (2007), Marge for Kidnapped!, Charn for Palindrome (both 2020), and Old Mary Mortimer for Friend of the Family (2023)
• aul [John] Freeman (Jenkins) voiced Jalnik for The Foe from the Future (2012)
• Wanda Ventham (Victoria) was Jean Rook in The Faceless Ones, Thea Ransome in Image of the Fendahl, and Faroon in Time and the Rani
• Angela Bruce (Gina) was Brigadier Winifred Bambera in Battlefield, a role reprised for Animal (2011) then UNIT: Brave New World and The War Factory (both 2022) - she also voiced Mother for The Persistence of Dreams (2018), Herb for Conversion (2019), and Oya/Andarta for Consequences (2021)
• Annette Badland (Cook) was Margaret Blaine [Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer Day Slitheen] in Aliens of London, World War Three, Boom Town and Sync (2019), then voiced Queen Karlina for Equilibrium, Thelma 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), Mrs. Chinn for Mind of the Hodiac, the eponymous role for The Miniaturist, Eminent Sedanya for Blood of the Time Lords (all 2022), the Toymaker for Metamorphosis, Dorothy Stubbs for The Sitter (both 2024), and Aunt Lavinia Smith for Smith & Sullivan (2025)
• Nicholas McArdle (Dale) was De Vries in The Stones of Blood
• Jamie Bradley (Driver) was Strood in Bad Wolf
• Lisa Kay (Sally) voiced Beatrix Butcher for The Witch from the Well (2011), and Alayna for Empire of the Racnoss (2017)
• Rocky [Laurie] Taylor was an Egyptian Warrior in The Daleks' Master Plan (9), Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4), then stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern too
• unit manager Peter Bennett was first assistant director on fourteen stories (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time), production manager on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, then producer on twenty-eight other episodes (from The Beast Below to Twice Upon a Time)

Doctor Who Vs. James Bond, Part 11: Moonraker

ITV4's latest Bond season continued last

night with Roger Moore's fourth stint as

the eponumous spy. The eleventh entry in

the franchise, was based on the spy novel of 1955, itself adapted from Ian Fleming's

own potential film treatment.

Shot mainly in France, the production was

Eon's most expensive to date (the budget of $34 million was almost double that of

The Spy Who Love Me), but Moonraker

 became the highest-grossing title until

Goldeneye. 

Bernard Lee made his eleventh and final appearance here as M, whilst Richard Kiel

returned as Jaws. Shirley Bassey performed

her third title song in the series - the film

featured nine Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Peter Bennett (assistant director here & A View to a Kill; unit manager on For Your Eyes Only; location man- ager on Octopussy) was first assistant direcctor on fourteen revived series stories (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time) and Attack of the Graske, production manager on four others, then produced twenty-one further episodes (from The Beast Below to Twice Upon a Time) and Torchwood
• Jack Cooper (Fighter) was stuntman on (episode 1 of) The Claws of Axos
• for Ralph G Morse (Astronaut) see The Spy Who Loved Me
• Terry [Philip Julian] Forrestal (Space Fighter here; stunts on Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, A View to a Kill, Goldeneye) was Tractor Driver in K9 and Company
• for Dorothy Ford see Diamonds are Forever
• for Martin Grace see You Only Live Twice
• for Dinny Powell and Rick Lester see Dr. No
• for Derek Meddings see The Man With the Golden Gun

Doctor Who Vs. Agatha Christie's Poirot, Series 5

David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, and

Pauline Moran all returned (to their respective

roles as Hercule Poirot, Hastings, Japp, and

Miss Lemon) for eight new period crime dramas,

first broadcast on ITV in the winter of 1993.

Four of the serials were based on cases from

Poirot Investigates (issued in 1924), whilst the

others all derived from four separate short story collections (published between 1937 and 1974).

A repeat run of the fifth season began on ITV3

today - it featured David Troughton, and a total

of forty-five Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb 
(UK TX: January 17)

• Peter Bennett was also first assistant director on fourteen stories (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time) and Attack of the Graske, production manager on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, then producer on another twenty-eight episodes (from The Beast Below to Twice Upon a Time)
• Chris Wimble was also film editor on The Ambassadors of Death, The Daemons, The Invasion of Time and The Leisure Hive

The Underdog
(UK TX: January 24/from The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, 1960)

• director John Bruce was a production assistant on The Dominators
• [Frank] Denis Lill (Reuben) was Dr. Fendelman in The Image of Fendahl, and Sir George Hutchinson in The Awakening
• Ian [Denbigh] Gelder [born White (Astwell) was Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth, provided the voice of the Remnant for The Ghost Monument, was Zellin in Can You Hear Me?, and voiced Dracula/Long John Silver for Big Finish's Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
• Ann [Forrest] Bell (Lady Astwell) 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 (2017)
• Charles Armstrong (Receptionist) voiced Karl for Colony of Strangers (2020)

The Yellow Iris (UK TX: January 31/from The Regatta Mystery, 1939)

• Hugh Ross (Carter) voiced Reverend Merodach for Night's Black Agents (2010), Robert Stretton for Industrial Evolution (2011), Vepaja/Thraskin for Voyage to Venus (2012), Sir Toby Kinsella for Counter Measures (2012-20), 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), The Reesinger Process (2014) and Split Infinitive (2019), Kyle Inskip for Masters of Earth, Gethal for The Exxilons (2015), Charles Kirkland for The Trouble With Drax (2016), Narrator of Late Night Shopping, The Piltdown Men and Waiting for Gadot (2017), and Malcolm for The Keeper of Light (2022)
• Joseph Long (Luigi) was Rocco Colasanto in Turn Left, and the Pope in Extremis
• Leonard Maguire (Grove) was Draith in Full Circle

The Case of the Missing Will (UK TX: February 7)

• [Rosemary] Rowena Cooper (Sarah) was Angela Price in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then voiced La Concierge for Audio- Go's The Demon of Paris (2010), Emily Shaw for The Last Post (2012) and The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Mother Superior for The Unbound Universe (2016) and Ruler of the Universe (2017), Jean Bazemore for Jago & Son, and Queen Victoria for Torchwood (2016-18) and Jago & Litefoot Forever
• Terrence Hardiman (Siddaway) was Hawthorne in The Beast Below, then voiced King Sitirc Silkbeard for The Book of Kells (2010), Reverend Dobbs for The Broken Crown (2011), Lord Richard Pollard for The Fall of the House of Pollard (2014), Hepworth Stackhouse for The English Way of Death (2015), and President Rassilon for Time War 2 (2019)
• Jon [St. Alban] Laurimore [born Livemore] (Baker) replaced David Swift as Count Federico in The Masque of Mandragora
• Neil Stuke (Peter) was Lee Clayton in Fugitive of the Judoon, and voiced the titular role for The Crooked Man (2014)
• Beth [Jane] Goddard (Violet here; Sister in Appointment With Death) was Sister Helena in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon, then voiced Christine Colley for The Sontaran Project (2017), Ludina Braskell for Ravenous 1 (2018), Barton for The Moons of Vulpana, Vella for A Photograph to Remember (both 2019), Sally/Time Lady for Operation: Hellfire (2020), and Allerdyce Benexa/Pangladasha for Ice Heist! (2023)
• Stephen Oxley (Doctor) made his TV debut as PC Carter in K9 and Company
• for [William] Pat Gorman (London Man) see The ABC Murders

The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman (UK TX: February 14)

• David [Henry] Neal (Vizzini here; Osric in The Girl in the Train) was the President in The Caves of Androzani
• Arthur Cox (Hawker here & part 8; DI Marriott in Partners in Crime, 1983) was Cully in The Dominators, then Henderson in The Eleventh Hour
• David Verrey (Chef) was Joseph Green MP in Aliens of London and World War Three
• Paul Heasman was stunt co-ordinator on Survival too, and (uncredited) Nazi in Silver Nemesis
• Tip Tipping was a stunt arranger on Remembrance of the Daleks, The Curse of Fenric and Survival

The Chocolate Box (UK TX: February 21/from Poirot's Early Cases, 1974)

• Mark Eden [born Douglas John Malin] (Boucher here; Rogers in Go Back for Murder, 1960) was the titular explorer in Marco Polo, and depicted Donald Baverstock (pictured) in An Adventure in Space and Time
• [Rafael] David de Keyser (Baeujeu) provided the Atraxi voice in The Eleventh Hour
• James Coombes (Deroulard) provided the Krarg voices for Shada, and was Paroli in Warriors of the Deep
• Preston [born Reginald Herbert] Lockwood (Francois here; Pennyfather/Simmons in At Bertram's Hotel, 1987/1995) was Dojjen in Snakedance
• Richard Derrington (Henri) voiced Dr. Farrer for The Harvest, Landscar for The Last (both 2004), and Commander Burton for Storm of the Horofax (2017)
• Linda Broughton (Denise) was the Woman in Hell Bent
• for Jill Goldston (Patron) see The Adventure of the Western Star
• for Reg Thomason (Drinker) see The Plymouth Express

Dead Man's Mirror (UK TX: February 28/from Murder in the Mews, 1937)

• Iain Cuthbertson (Chevenix) was Garron in The Ribos Operation
• Emma [Georgina Annalies] Fielding (Ruth) provided the voice of Kisar for Demons of the Punjab
• Fiona Walker (Lingard) was Kala in The Keys of Marinus, and Lady Peinforte in Silver Nemesis
• James Greene (Snell) was the Abbott in The Bells of Saint John
• Jon [Sleeman] Croft (Lawrence) was Tom Girton in The Daemons
• John [Richard] Rolfe (Registrar) was the Captain in The War Machines, Sam Becket in The Moonbase, and Ralph Fell in The Green Death
• Derek [Ralph] Smee (Auctioneer) was John Ransome in Spearhead from Space
• Bill Weston began his TV career as a Militiaman in The Smugglers

Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan (UK TX: March 7)

• Trevor Cooper (Opalsen) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, and voiced Rull for Kaldor City (2001), Shanks for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster, Sir Ralph for The Doomwood Curse (both 2008), Judah for The Beast of Orlok, Smithy for Castle of Fear (both 2009), Captain Maddox/Stennan for Army of Death (20111), Colonel Burroughs/Kimball for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Jonathan Jaggers/Preddle for Judoon in Chains (2016), Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witch (2022), and Captain Thaddeus Grey for Archipelago (2024)
• Sorcha Cusack (Margaret) voiced Mary Carter for Dark Eyes 4 (2015)
• Hermione [Jane] Norris (Celestine) was Captian Lundvik in Kill the Moon
• Simon Shepherd (Hall here; Simmons in A Murder is Announced, 1985; Dr. Rendell in Mrs. McGinity's Dead) voiced Boolin for Tsar Wars, Bewley for The Broken Crown, the Magician for Aladdin Time, Pal Andrews for Into the Stars, and Hudson Sage for Time War 5 (both 2022)
• Andrew Carr (Devine) was the Senior Guard in Day of the Daleks
• Elizabeth Rider (Grace) was Ellen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, provided the ATMOS voice for The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, was Linda in The Time of the Doctor, and voiced Galatea for The Well-Mannered War
• for Terry Sartain (Audience) was an Alien Technician in The War Games (3), Warrior in The Mutants (1), UNIT Soldier in The Three Doctors (1), Prison Guard and Draconian in Frontier in Space, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, Brother in The Masque of Mandragora (3), Gundan in Warriors' Gate (3), and Market Man in Snakedance (1)

Doctor Who Vs. Young Sherlock Holmes

Shown on Sky Cinema Greats today, this period

adventure (subtitled The Pyramid of Fear in the

UK) depicted the first encounter between the

teenage Sherlock Holmes and John Watson -

portrayed by Nicholas Rowe and Alan Cox.

As students at London's Brompton Academy, the

friends soon become embroiled in typical Amblin

family fare - with Elizabeth (Sophie Ward), they

uncover the secret Egyptian cult of Rame Tep.

Based inside a wooden pyramid, hidden within

a Wapping warehouse, the cult is led by Eh-Tar

 (an anagram of Rathe, Holmes' school master).

A coda saw the Professor (Anthony Higgins) flee

England and adopt the alias of Moriarty (Higgins

 would later play the Great Detective in Sherlock Holmes Returns).

Released by Paramount in 1985, the film

(produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Chris Columbus) featured nineteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Rowe (Holmes here & The Lady in Grey segment of Mr. Holmes; Norton for Auk Studios' Sir Sherlock) voiced Rivesh Mantilax for Dreamland, then the Kandyman for Big Finish's Ravenous 1 (2018), Cato Kelgoth for The Passenger (2022), and Sebastian Hardcastle for Far From Home (2023)
• Cox (Watson here; Moriarty for The Final Problem; Agamemnon for The Sacrifice of Sherlock Holmes & The Prophet in the Rain) voiced John Matthews for The Roof of the World (2004), Mark Seven for The Destroyers (2010), Oscar Wilde for Beautiful Things (2012), Diggery/ Grenville for The Auntie Matter (2013), Dr. Gideon McDivett for The Ghosts of Gralstead (2014), the titular entity for Death and the Queen, Fanshawe for Who Killed Toby Kinsella?, Speravore for World Enough and Time, Robert Harley/Warder for The Eye of the Storm (all 2016), Eamon Orensky for The Skin of the Sleek and The Thief Who Stole Time (both 2017), Fabian Solak for The Cars That Ate London!, Tompino for Collision Course (both 2019), Ken Bright Thompson for Stranded 1 (2020) and Stranded 4 (2022), Sergeant Winston Price for The Doctor and Carnacki, Narrator of War Stories (both 2024), and Nallium/Necromantis for Ace and Tegan (2025)
• Ward (Elizabeth) voiced the Storyteller for AudioGo's Aladdin Time (2011)
• Nigel [Hector Munro] Stock (Waxflatter here; Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes, BBC) was Professor Hayter in Time Flight
• Roger Ashton-Griffiths (DS Lestrade) was Quayle in Robot of Sherwood
• Donald [Yarrow] Eccles (Nesbit) was Krasis in The Time Monster
• Patrick [David] Newell (Bobster here; PC Benson in A Study in Terror; Lestrade in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson; Blessington in The Resident Patient) was Colonel Faraday in The Android Invasion
• [David] Roger Brierley (Mr. Holmes) was Trevor in (episode 8 of) The Daleks' Master Plan, and provided the voice of Drathro in The Mysterious Planet
• Nadim [Joakim] Sawalha (Khasek) voiced Swapnil Khan for The Magic Mousetrap (2009), and the Old Man for 1001 Nights (2012)
• John Scott Martin (Caretaker here; Scientist in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes) appearanced in seventy-six episodes (usually as a Dalek operator, from The Web Planet to Remembrance of the Daleks)
• Gary Dean (Man) was Technician in The Ice Warriors (1), German Soldier in The War Games (3), and UNIT Soldier in The Silurians (3)
• Cathey Munroe (Lady) was Skonnan in The Horns of Nimon, Humanoid in Full Circle, and Maid in Ghost Light
• Henry Roberts (Master) was Jousting Judge in The King's Demons (1)
• Fred Wood (Patron here; Beggar in Study in Terror; Roadie in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother) was the Running Man in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• stunt performer Tracey Eddon doubled for Sophie Aldred
• stunt arranger Marc Boyle was stuntman on Terror of the Autons, fight arranger on The Time Warrior, Prisoner/UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, Kronos in The Time Monster, and Exxilon in Death to the Daleks
• fencing instructor Arthur Howell was Confederate Horseman in The War Games
• stuntman Steve Whyment was Extra in The Keeper of Traken and Snakedance
• Peter Bennett was also the first assistant director on The Hounds of Baskerville and fourteen revived series episodes (from Bad Wolf to The End of Time), Attack of the Graske and Torchwood, production manager (on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End), and producer of twenty-one stories (from The Beast Below to Twice Upon a Time)