Doctor Who Vs. Inspector Morse Specials

Central's final Morse mysteries
 were all based on Colin Dexter's
 last crime novels, and were first

screened from 1995 to 2000.

John Thaw and Kevin Whately
again portrayed the Oxford-based

detectives (although Lewis did not appear in the penultimate thriller,

which examined a real-life Victorian

murder).

Published in 1999, Dexter's final work, The Remorseful Day, con-

cluded the thirteen year saga with

Morse's death - the drama spawned

two spin-off series, Lewis (2006 to 2015) and Endeavour (2012-2024). Three-times BAFTA winner (twice for Morse) John Thaw died in 2002, aged 60, whilst Dexter's death at the age

of 86 was announced in March 2017.

A repeat run of the five cases concluded on ITV3 today - they featured a

total of twenty-eight Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

The Way Through the Woods

(Published 1992/UK TX: November 29 1995)

• Nicholas Le Prevost (Dr. Hardinge) voiced the Barber Surgeon for Big Finish's The War Doctor Begins 4 (2022)
• Christopher Fairbank (Daley) was Fenton in Flatline, and voiced Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), Pierre Arronax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), and Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018)
• Gary Powell (Parnell) was Dev Ashton in 42
• Robin Soans (McBryde here; Straker in Endeavour: Fugue) was Luvic in The Keeper of Traken, and Chronolock Guy in Face the Raven, then Narrator of BBC Audio's The Sins of Winter (2015)
• Damien Timmer (script editor here & Death is Now My Neighbour; executive producer on Lewis and Endeavour) was a Menoptera in An Adventure in Space and Time

The Daughters of Cain

(Published 1994/UK TX: November 27 1996)

• Phyllis Logan (Julia) was Andinio in The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Nadim [Joakim] Sawalha (Dr. Hassan) voiced Sapnil Khan for The Magic Mousetrap (2009), and the Old Man for 1001 Nights (2012)
• Nicky Goldie (WPC) voiced the Spillager Empress for Winter for the Adept, Valeria Hedone for The Fires of Vulcan (both 2000), Inquisitor Danby for Excelis Rising (2002), and Polk for The Moonrakers (2020)
• Andrew [James] Spooner (Technician) voiced Panpipe/Whydini/ Conductor/Ragnarok God for The Psychic Circus (2019), Professor Brooke for Genetics of the Daleks (2020), Tarlos/Fanza for Colony of Fear, Artie for Prey and Vengeance (all 2021), Kedge Ampston for Heart of Orion, Engineer Sabo for Power of the Dominators, Clutch Father for The Tides of the Moon (all 2022), Librarian/Herder/Helms- man for The Green Gift (2023), Dr. Erno Balthazar/Bartholomew for Last Words, Ogrons for Unknown Soldiers (both 2024), Bailiff/Eustace/ Norris for The Final Poblom, Chief Elect Tuldra for The Remains of Kaerula and The Ruins of Kaerula, and Dr. Varna/Marshal Duhrak for The Worst of All Evils (all 2025)
• hair stylist Lisa Pickering began her TV career as assistant make-up artist on (part 4 of) Warriors' Gate

Death is Now My Neighbour

(Published 1996/UK TX: November 19 1997)

• Richard [David] Briers (Bream) was the Chief Caretaker in Paradise Towers
• John [Morley] Shrapnel (Dr. Storrs here; Morse for BBC Radio 4) voiced Thomas Cromwell for The Eighth Piece and The Doomsday Chronometer (both 2016), and Nigel Colloon for The False Guardian and Time's Assassin (both 2019)
• Susan Engel (Dora) was Cessair in The Stones of Blood, then voiced Muriel Joy for A Blind Eye (2004)
• Maggie Steed [born Baker] (Angela) voiced Madamme Rana Zandusia for Mission to Magnus (2009)
• Candida Gubbins (Sarah) voiced Nimriel/May for London Orbital (2022)
• Julia Dalkin (Rachel) voiced Hannah Fry for Phantasmagoria (1999), then was Janet in Global Conspiracy?
• [John] Colin McCormack (Hargreaves) was the Commander in The Sun Makers

The Wench is Dead

(Published 1989/UK TX: November 11 1998)

• Alan [Grey] Mason (Greenaway) was Corporal Nutting in The Silurians
• Sara Carver (Fiona) voiced Andrea Winnington for UNIT (2004), the Khellian Queen for Three's a Crowd (2005), Kim Kronotska for Memory Lane (2006), and Sylvia for City of the Daleks
• Juliet Cowan (Joanna) was Chrissie Jackson in The Sarah Jane Adventures, then voiced Bryer in Come Die With Me, and Adriana Beauvais for Dead to the World (both 2015)
• Steve Robinson was also assistant director on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks

The Remorseful Day (UK TX: November 15 2000)

• writer Stephen Churchett was Bill in Attack of the Cybermen
• Paul [born Peter John] Freeman (Harrison) voiced Jalnik for The Foe from the Future (2011)
• TP [Thomas Patrick] McKenna (Phelps) was Captain Cook in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 
• Colin Spaull (Chas) was [August] Lilt in Revelation of the Daleks, Crane in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, then voiced Colonel Baxter for The Fearless (2007), and Henrik for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008)
• Aiden J David (Holmes) voiced Lish for The Raincloud Man (2008)
• Simon Hepworth (Harrison here; Tingwell in Endeavour: Pylon) voiced Miles McLellan/Pandora/Server/Orderly/Pilot for Open the Box (2018)
• film editor Jamie McCoan edited Blink too 

Doctor Who Vs. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Agatha Christie's fifteenth crime

novel was published in the UK in

1934, then issued in America a

year later as The Boomerang

Clue. The story was first drama-

tised by LWT in 1980, and co-

starred Joan Hickson before she

began her own definitive port-

rayal of Jane Marple for BBC1.

ITV Studios' version debuted on

PBS in July 2009, then only aired

in the UK two years later.

Written and directed by Hugh Laurie, this period drama (a Mammoth Screen co-production) debuted on Britbox in April 2022, and was shown on ITV1 a year later. All

three episodes were repeated on ITV3 today, and featured Will Poulter,

Lucy Boynton, Emma Thompson, Tim Treloar, and thirteen Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Jim Broadbent (Marcham) depicted the Doctor in Doctor Who and Crayola (a sketch for Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV in 1987) then for Comic Relief's The Curse of Fatal Death
• Alistair Petrie (Rev. Jones here; Campbell in Agatha and the Midnight Murders) voiced Major Harris/German 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! 1 (2021), the Count for The Edge of the War, and Albion Groves for The Silent Priest (both 2023)
• Miles Jupp (Bassington-ffrench) voiced Dominic for Power Play (2012), and Inquisitor Xavier for The Revolution (2014)
• Martyn Ellis (Albert) was Glune Fex Fize Sharlaveer Slam Slitheen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen, then voiced the Rotter/Delius for Last of the Zetacene (2022)
• Nicholas Asbury (Angel) voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Anthony Burmaster for Call to Arms and Tidal Wave, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (all 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 Shellshock, Hari Ventross for Kaldor Nights (both 2022), Belias for Never the End Is, and Inquisitor Robel for You Only Die Twice (both 2024), then was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion
• Richard Dixon (Cayman here; Rowlandson in A Murder is Announced, 2005; Henden in Dead Man's Folly) voiced DI Alan Probert for The Dreams of Avarice (2020)
• Christian Patterson (Ellis) voiced Captain Dickson/Corporal Bouvier for The Curse of Davros (2012)
• Maxine Evans (Mrs. Bowden here; Mrs. Buckle in Elephants Can Remember) voiced Renucha for Mother Tongue (2020), then was Lowri Palin in 73 Yards
• Trevor Cooper (Coroner here; Opalsen in The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan; Harrison in N or M?; Spymaster in Crooked House) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, then voiced Rull for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City, Sir Ralph for The Doomwood Curse, Shanks for The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (both 2008), Judah for The Beast of Orlok, Smithy for Castle of Fear (both 2009), Captain Maddox/Stennan for Army of Death (2011), Colonel Burroughs/Kimball for The Emerald Tiger (2012), Preddle/Jonathan Jaggers for Judoon in Chains (2016), Sir Joseph Eagleton/Jonathan Mayfly for The Ghosts of Greenwich (2019), Smallpiece for Merry Christmas Mr. Jago (2020), Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witches (2022), and Captain Thaddeus Grey for Archipelago (2024)
• Robert Edwards was also ADR mixer on seven stories (from Hide to Survivors of the Flux) and Space/Time
• Liz Pearson was post-production supervisor (here & Murder on the Orient Express, 2001) on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Peter Lowden (focus puller) was camera assistant on The Time of the Doctor
• Kellyanne Walker (graphic designer) was an illustrator on Human Nature and The Family of Blood

Doctor Who Vs. Inspector Morse: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

Colin Dexter's third Morse novel (published in

1977) was adapted by Zenith and Central as the

second serial of their acclaimed crime drama -

it originally aired in January 1987. The Oxford

based detectives DI Endeavour Morse and

Sergeant Lewis were again portrayed by John

Thaw and Kevin Whately.

Radio 4's version of the mystery, transmitted in

1996, now starred John Shrapnel and Robert

Glenister as the duo.

This case (which remained faithful to the book)

was repeated on ITV3 today - it featured these

eighteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• [Francis] Michael Gough (Ogleby) and Elspet [Jean MacGregor] Gray (Mrs. Bartlett) both appeared in Arc of Infinity, as Councillor Hedin (pictured) and Chancellor Thalia respectively - Gough (1916-2011) also played the titular role in The Celestial Toymaker
• Barbara [Jay] Flynn [born McMurray] (Monica here; Narrator of Morse and the Last Endeavour) voiced Croc Trooper/Sister Chalice for Big Finish's The Skull of Sobek (2008), Anne Hartman for The Rockery (2019), and Professor Vansom for Secrets of Telos (2022), then was cast as Tecteun in Once, Upon Time and Survivors of the Flux
• Clive [Walter] Swift (Bartlett) was [Joshua] Jobel in Revelation of the Daleks, and [Bayldon] Copper in Voyage of the Damned
• Frederick [William] Treves (the Dean) was Brotadac in Meglos
• Roger Lloyd Pack (Martin) was John Lumic in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel
• Arthur Cox (Noakes) was Cully in The Dominators, then Henderson in The Eleventh Hour
• Stefan Schwartz (Richard) was the Knight Commander in Battlefield
• Phil Nice (Quinn) was Henry in Kill the Moon
• Walter Henry [born Israel Nagelkop] (Examiner here; Officer in The Day of the Devil) was Extra in (episode 2 of) The Myth Makers and The Silurians (6), Primord in Inferno, and Brother in The Masque of Mandragora
• Reg [George] Thomason (Examiner) was Resistance Man in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• for Kenny McBain, Peter Woodthorpe, Philip Voss, Terry Forrestal, Valentino Musetti, Michael Feinberg and Peter Bennett see The Dead of Jericho

The BBC radio treatment of The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

 (repeated on Radio 7 in 2008 and Radio 4 Extra in 2012) starred

these Doctor Who cast alumni:

• for Glenister see The Dead of Jericho
• for Stephen Critchlow see House of Ghosts
• Roger May (Quinn here; Dr. Sheridan in Endeavour: Pylon) was Len in An Adventure in Space and Time

Doctor Who Vs. The Agatha Christie Hour, Part 2

Originally shown on ITV in the

autumn of 1982, this period

drama from Thames TV com-

prised ten, stand-alone plays

based on the Queen of Crime's

short stories.

The sixth mystery was adapted

from the Problem at Pollensa Bay volume (published post-

humously in 1991), the next two derived from The Witness

for the Prosecution and Other

Stories (1948), and the final

two were taken from The Listerdale Mystery (1934). A repeat run of the

series concluded on Sky Arts last night - it featured a total of twenty-

four Doctor Who cast connections:

Magnolia Blossom (TX: October 12)

• [Michael Thomas] Jeremy Clyde (Darrell here; Hastings for The Murder on the Links, 1989; Easterbrook for The Pale Horse, 1993) voiced George for Absent Friends (2016), Lord Braye for Planet of the Drashigs (2019), and Tony Clare for Stranded (2020-22)
• Jack [Wynne] May (Jaggers here; Ellwood in The Sittaford Mystery, 1990) was General Nicolai Hermack in The Space Pirates
• Graham Seed (Willerby here; Hawes in Murder at the Vicarage, 1982) voiced Bevan for The Forgotten Village (2014), Pyrepoint for The Romance of Crime (2015), Squire/Gramoryan/Taverner for Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (2019), and Sir Gordon Carmichael for Smith and Sullivan (2025)
• Keith Marsh (Inspector) was Conway in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD

The Mystery of the Blue Jar (TX: October 19)

• Derek Francis (George) was Nero in The Romans
• Hugh [Thornton] Walters (Dodds here; Prescott in The Body in the Library, 1984) was William Shakespeare in (episode 1 of) The Chase, Commentator Runcible (pictured) in The Deadly Assassin, [Justin] Vogel in Revelation of the Daleks, then voiced Roderick Allingham for The Fearmonger (2000)
• Ivor Roberts (Hubble here; Vicar in Murder is Easy, 1982) was Mogran in Genesis of the Daleks (3)
• Philip Bird (Marchaud) made his TV debut as a Swampie in The Power of Kroll, then voiced Shepton Rothwell for Big Dig (2013)
• Tara Ward (Portia) was Preston in Warriors of the Deep

The Red Signal (TX: November 2)

• Joanna David [born Hacking] (Claire here; Emma in 4.50 from Paddington, 1987; Miss Lawson for Dumb Witness, 2006; Grace in Greenshaw's Folly, 2013) voiced Mrs. Audley for AudioGo's The Broken Crown
• David Rolfe (Charlson) was Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, Guard in The Monster of Peladon (1) and The Masque of Mandragora (1), and Crewman in Planet of Evil 
• Bob Keegan (DI Verrall) was Sholakh in The Ribos Operation
• Andrew McCulloch (PC Cawley) co-wrote Meglos

Jane in Search of a Job (TX: November 9)

• [Patricia] Stephanie Cole (Anna here; Miss Casewell in The Mousetrap, 1968; Mildred in Spider's Web, 1979; Mrs. Lacey in The Theft of the Royal Ruby; Ariadne Oliver for Hallowe'en Party, The Pale Horse & Cards on the Table) voiced Lady Marianna for The Abandoned (2014), and the eponymous car for Bessie Come Home (2021)
• Richard Tate (Manfred) was Wilder in The Halloween Apocalypse
• Geoffrey Hinsliff (Kranin) was Jack Tyler in Image of the Fendahl, and Fisk in Nightmare of Eden
• George [Edward] Waring (Sergeant here; Coroner in One, Two, Buckle My Shoe) was Arden in The Ice Warriors
• Roy Macready (Bissell) was Cordo in The Sun Makers
• Tex Fuller [born Albert Charles Baseley] (Chauffeur) was an Exxilon in Death to the Daleks (3)

The Manhood of Edward Robinson (TX: November 16)

• Julian [Neil Rohan] Wadham (Champneys here; Carrington in The Plymouth Express; Halliday in Sleeping Murder, 2006) voiced Augustus Scullop for The Fourth Wall (2012), Joseph Holman for The Darkness of Glass (2015) and The Crowmarsh Experiment (2018), and Judge Perigold Trent for The Doomsday Contract (2021)
• Nicholas Farrell [born Frost] (Robinson here; Fraser in The ABC Murders, 1992; Knighton in The Mystery of the Blue Train; Metcalf in The Mousetrap, 2012) was Brian Green PM in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then voiced Gammades for Time Reef, Phil for A Perfect World (both 2008), Captain Frank for Last of the Cybermen (2015), and Browman for Strange Chemistry (2023)
• Cherie [Mary] Lunghi (Noreen here; Sadie in A Murder is Announced, 2005) voiced Lady Adela Forster for The Emerald Tiger (2012)
• Patrick [David] Newell (Major here; Cracknell in The Alphabet Murders) was Colonel Faraday in The Android Invasion (4)
• [James Arnold] Rio Fanning (Barman) was Harker in Horror of Fang Rock

Doctor Who Vs. Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

Agatha Christie's second Marple mystery (her

thirty-first novel) was published in 1942 - it was

the first story adapted for the BBC's acclaimed

Miss Marple TV series.

After appearing in the stage version of the

writer's Appointment With Death in 1945, Joan

Hickson (1906-1998) received a note from the

Queen of Crime that read "I hope one day you

will play my dear Miss Marple."

The thriller was first shown over consecutive nights at Christmas 1984, and introduced

Hickson's definitive portrayal of Jane Marple

 (she had starred opposite Margaret Rutherford's

Marple in Murder She Said in 1961). An ITV Studios version followed in

2004. The Hampshire village of Nether Wallop doubled as the fictional St.

Mary Mead, and the series endured until 1992. The complete three-

part drama was shown on BBC4 tonight - it featured David Horovitch

(as DI Slack), Trudie Styler, and these seventeen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Moray [Robin Philip Adrian] Watson (Bantry) was Sir Robert Muir in Black Orchid
• Valentine Dyall (Lorrimer) debuted as the Black Guardian in The Armageddon Factor, then voiced Slarn for Slipback
• [Manfred] Frederick Jaeger (Colonel Melchett here; the Count in The Fourth Man; DCI Davy in At Bertram's Hotel, 1995) was Jano in The Savages, Sorenson in Planet of Evil, and Professor Marius in The Invisible Enemy
• Hugh [Thornton] Walters (Prescott here; Dodds in The Mystery of the Blue Jar) was William Shakespeare in (episode 1 of) The Chase, Runcible in The Deadly Assassin, Vogel in Revelation of the Daleks, and voiced Roderick Allingham for Big Finish's The Fearmonger (2002)
• Keith Drinkel (Gaskell here; Policeman for Sad Cypress, 1992; Gorman for The Pale Horse, 1993; Harold for 4.50 from Paddington; Dr. Bessner for Death on the Nile, both 1997) was Roger Scobie in Time Flight, Torlakhl in Zygon, then voiced Henry Hallam for Catch 1782 (2005), and the Cinder for Frostfire (2007)
• Martyn Read (McLean) was a Security Guard in Silver Nemesis
• Stephen [George] Churchett (Reeve here; Coroner in The Murder at the Vicarage, The Moving Finger, Murder is Easy, Endless Night [all ITV]) was Bill in Attack of the Cybermen
• Astra Sheridan (Pamela) was a Yellow Kang in Paradise Towers
• Karen Seacombe (Florrie) was Sandra in The Lodger, and Meg in The Woman Who Lived
• Arthur Bostrom (Bartlett) voiced Arken for Scaredy Cat (2005)
• Mike Mungarvan (DS) was a Mutt in The Mutants (1), Guard in The Face of Evil (1) and The Androids of Tara (1), Time Lord in The Invasion of Time, Druid in The Stones of Blood (1), Dalek Operator in Destiny of the Daleks, Detective in City of Death (1), Argolin in The Leisure Hive (1), Citizen in Full Circle (1), Kilroy in Warriors' Gate (1), Hostage in Kinda, Knight in The King's Demons (1), Soldier in Resurrection of the Daleks, Jacondan in The Twin Dilemma (1), Extra in Mindwarp, Officer in Terror of the Vervoids, Lakertyan/Tet- rap/Genius in Time and the Rani, Policeman in Silver Nemesis, and Passerby in The Christmas Invasion
• John Evans (Inch) was a Saxon in The Time Meddler (2)
• John Walker (cinematographer) was film cameraman on nine stories (from Horror of Fang Rock to Revelation of the Daleks)
• Bill Chesneau (film recordist) was sound recordist on The Invasion, The Curse of Peladon, Death to the Daleks, and The Leisure Hive
• Bernard Ashby was also the editor on Arc of Infinity
• Austin Ruddy was production designer on The Face of Evil too
• Jan Wright was also costume designer on The Two Doctors

The cast of the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of The Body in the Library

 (May 1999) was again led by June Whitfield, with classic era co-stars:

• Ricahard [Andrew Palethorpe] Todd (Melchett here & The Murder at the Vicarage, 1993; Maitland for Murder in Mesopotamia, 1994) was Sanders in Kinda
• Graham Crowden (Clithering here & A Murder is Announced; Colonel in The Affair of the Pink Pearl; Blake for Five Little Pigs, 1994; Macarthur in And Then There Were None, 2005) was Soldeed in The Horns of Nimon
• Jack Watling (Bantry here; cast in Murder on the Nile, 1986) was Professor Travers in The Abominable Snowmen, The Web of Fear and Downtime

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. The Agatha Christie Hour, Part 1

Originally shown on ITV in the
autumn of 1982, this period
drama series from Thames TV
comprised ten, stand-alone
plays based on the Queen of
Crime's short stories. The first

and fifth serials were adapted

from the Paker Pyne Investigates

volume (published in 1934), the second derived from The Regatta

Mystery (1939), the third was

taken from The Listerdale Mystery

(1934), and the fourth originated

 from The Hound of Death collection (1933). A repeat showing of the first half

of the run began on Sky Arts last night - it featured a total of twenty-two

Doctor Who cast connections:

The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife (TX: September 7)

• [William] Maurice Denham (Parker Pyne here & The Case of the Discontented Soldier; Vladirovsky for The Man Who Was Number Sixteen; DI Japp in The Alphabet Murders; Poirot for The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1985; Crackenthorpe in 4.50 from Paddington, 1987; Pennyfather for At Bertram's Hotel, 1995) was Azmael in The Twin Dilemma, then voiced the President for The Paradise of Death
• Peter [Geoffrey Francis] Jones (Packington) was Narrator of Adventures in Space and Time

In a Glass Darkly (TX: September 14)

• Jonathon Morris (Alan) was Chela in Snakedance
• Elspet [Jean MacGregor] Gray (Mrs Carslake here; Miss Penn in Double Sin) was Chancellor Thalia in Arc of Infinity, and voiced Hera for Big Finish's Immortal Beloved (2007)
• Nicholas Le Prevost (Wainwright here; Porter in Taken at the Flood, 2006) voiced the Barber Surgeon for The War Doctor Begins 4 (2022)
• Leslie Adams (Guest here; Sergeant in 4.50 from Paddington, 1987) was Passenger in Time Flight
• Jim Delaney (Guest here) was Soldier in The War Games, UNIT Soldier in The Silurians, Passerby in (episode 2 of) The Mind of Evil, Guard in Frontier in Space (2), Time Lord in The Deadly Assassin, and Policeman in The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1)
• Walter Henry [born Israel Nagelkop] (Guest here; Patron in The Red Signal; Policeman in The Alphabet Murders; Juror in Witness for the Prosecution, 1982) was Extra in The Myth Makers (2) and The Silurians (6), Primord in Inferno, and Brother in The Masque of Mandragora

The Girl in the Train (TX: September 21)

• Sarah Berger (Elizabeth) was Rost in Attack of the Cybermen (2)
• James [David] Grout (Rowland here; Ralston in The Mousetrap, 1959; DI Craddock  for A Murder is Announced, 1977) voiced Ian Chesterton for Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?
• Ron [Henry] Pember (DI Jarrold here; Ferryman in Ordeal by Innocence, 1984) voiced Seedle for Slipback
• David [Henry] Neal (Osric here; Vizzini in The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman) was the President in The Caves of Androzani
• Arthur [James] Blake (Sturm) was Hrhoonda in The Web Planet (2)
• Harry Fielder (Guard here; Policeman in Agatha; Henchman in The Secret Adversary, 1983; Assistant in Thirteen at Dinner, 1985; Tombola Man in Dead Man's Folly, 1986) was Guard (in serials PP, ZZZ, 4L, 4P, 5A, 5F, 5Z), Crewman (5S, 4T), Vogan (4D), Assassin (4Q), Tigellan (5Q), and Krarg in Shada

The Fourth Man (TX: September 28)

• [Francis] Michael Gough (Durand here; Judge in Witness for the Prosecution, 1982) was the eponymous entity in The Celestial Toymaker, and Councillor Hedin in Arc of Infinity
• [Manfred] Frederick Jaeger (Count here; Melchett in The Body in the Library, 1984; DCI Davy for At Bertram's Hotel, 1995) was Jano in The Savages, Sorenson in Planet of Evil, and Professor Marius in The Invisible Enemy
• Stuart Fell (Juggler) was Stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1) and The Ribos Operation (1), then fight arranger on The Talons of Weng-Chiang and State of Decay, and had roles in thirty-three other episodes (from The Claws of Axos to The Invasion of Time)
• Cy Town (Porter here; Passenger in Nemesis, 1987; Spectator in The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim) was an uncredited Extra in thirty-five episodes (from The Silurians to The Curse of Fenric) and was Dalek operator in every Dalek story from Frontier in Space onwards

The Case of the Discontented Soldier (TX: October 5)

• William [Charles Anthony] Gaunt (Wilbraham) was Orcini in Revelation of the Daleks 
• Derek [Ralph] Smee (Waiter here; Auctioneer in Dead Man's Mirror) was Ransome in Spearhead from Space
• Lewis Fiander (Reid) was Tryst in Nightmare of Eden
• Peter Brayham was stunt co-ordinator on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion