Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 19

The nineteenth series of BBC1's

evergreen crime drama (first shown

in early 2016) starred Emilia Fox

and David Caves as doctors Nikki

Alexander and Jack Hodgson. The

 Home Office forensic pathologists

 (based in London's Lyell Centre)

were joined by Clarissa Mullery and

Dr. Thomas Chamberlain, played by

Liz Carr and Richard Lintern.

A repeat run of the ten-part series

began on U&Drama last night - it

featured a total of twenty-four

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

After The Fall (UK TX: January 4 & 5)

• Liza Tarbuck (DI Rankin) voiced Captain Kaliko for The Infinite Quest, and Lysette Barclay for Big Finish's Plague of the Daleks (2009)
• Ariyon [Debo] Bakare (Dawes) was Leandro in The Woman Who Lived, then voiced Father Mendica for The Poison of Peladon, and Cato for The Players (both 2022)
• Dean Lennox Kelly (Carmichael) was the eponymous Bard in The Shakespeare Code
• Joanna Horton (Suzie) voiced Brooke 1 for The Diary of River Song 2 (2018)
• Jonnie [Bernard] Broadbent (Rowland) voiced Various for The Quin Dilemma (2024)
• Sagar Arya (Shah) was a Newsreader in The Christmas Invasion and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Timothy Wood was second assistant director on K9 too
• for David Cann see Series 4

Flight (UK TX: January 11 & 12)

• Richard Senior was also director of Let's Kill Hitler, Space/Time, The Night of the Doctor and Doctor Who at the Proms (2013), then was second unit director on The Day of the Doctor
• Esther [Jane] Hall (DI Ryman) voiced Fortuna for The Galileo Trap (2015), Tazeena/Bauza/Mum for The Two Masters, Pheenan for Absolute Power (both 2016), and Viv/Commentator for The Iron Legion (2019)
• Richard Dillane (DCI Waite) was Captain Carter in Let's Kill Hitler and The Wedding of River Song
• Raji James (Rachid) was Dr. Rajesh Singh in Doomsday and Army of Ghosts
• Janie Booth (Woman) voiced System for The Harvest, Old Woman for Medicinal Purposes (both 2004), and Eve Morris for The Gathering (2006)
• Wanda Opalinska (Alma) voiced the Dockmaster for Magic Bullet's Storm Mine (2004), Nadia Vasney for The Night Witches (2017), Gudrun/Espen for Colony of Strangers, Irinda for Family Matters (both 2020), Dr. Lorna Holmes for Supernature (2023), and Mrs. Denison for Spoil of War (2025)
• series casting director Andy Brierley was casting associate on fifty-eight episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The Big Bang), Music of the Spheres, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Fay Selby was also first assistant director on Asylum of the Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan, Nightmare in Silver and The Day of the Doctor

Life Licence (UK TX: January 18 & 19)

• [Charles] Robert [William] Whitelock (Bright) was Mahler in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Professor Rickett/King Magus/Denyx for Psychodrome, Mulberry Gride for Jago & Litefoot & Patsy (both 2014), Sebastian/Provost Curtis for The Edge, Peter Andrews for The Hidden Realm (both 2016), Bruno Werner/Vagabond/Priest for Better Watch Out and Fairytale of Saltzburg, Artron/Cadrin for Day of the Master (2018), Garth/Thispus for One Mile Down, Machines for Ghost Machines, V12/Skellen/V48/V33 for The Robots 1 (all 2019), Stark/ Prosecutor for Barrister to the Stars, Grolk/Ogrons/Servant for Too Many Masters (both 2020), Bill Lester/Badenhorst for Return of the Cybermen, Kallure/Riggs for Twisted Folklore (both 2021), Jack/Jase Harper for Albie's Angels (2022), Stringer/Skoob for Ice Heist!, Dennis Ward/Commander for The Witching Tree (both 2023), Operator Goole for Revolution in Space, Lazar/Agent 2 for Last Words (both 2024), Typhon for Lost Amongst the Stars (2025), and Alan/Craig for The Second Death of the Daleks (2026)
• Tim Packham (Paaser-by) began his TV career as a Plasmaton in Dimensions in Time
• Niamh Cusack (Sylvie) voiced Clarimonde for Zaltys (2017), and the Oldest for The Eternity Club 2 (2024)
• for Shaun Parkes see Series 8
• Damian Bromley was also the cinematographer on The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone

In Plain Sight (UK TX: January 25 & 26)

• Keith Boak was also director of Rose, Aliens of London and World War Three
• Neil Stuke (DI Cooke here & Series 21: Family) voiced Geoff Corbett for The Crooked Man (2014), then was Lee Clayton in Fugitive of the Judoon

River's Edge (UK TX: February 2 & 3)

• Andrew Forbes (Consultant) was Omril in Full Circle
• Derek [Brian] Griffiths (DS Guillam) voiced Jason Taylor for Brave New World (2008), Xylem Maple Dorm for Death in the New Forest (2018), Annam Henic for Queen of the Mechonoids, Reverend Monty Woolsgrove for The Devil's Hoofprints (both 2021), Golas for Curiosity Shop (2023), and Mathryn for Slow Beasts (2024)

Doctor Who Vs. Hard Sun

This co-production from Euston

Films and American streaming

service Hulu debuted on BBC1

(then iPlayer) in January 2018.

The thriller (a pre-apocalyptic

conspiracy, set in contemporary

London) starred Jim Sturgess and

former model Agyness Deyn as

DCI Charlie Hicks and DI Elaine

Renko.

Series creator and writer Neil

Cross (Luther) devised a potential

five-year story arc, but a sequel

remains unmade. The six-part

drama featured Varada Sethu, and

seventeen Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

• Nikki Amuka Bird (Grace) was the Glass Woman [Helen Clay] in Twice Upon a Time, then voiced Tamasan for Big Finish's The Time War 2 (2018)
• Derek Riddell (DCS Bell) and Jamie Sives (Chapel) both appeared in Tooth and Claw, as Sir Robert MacLeish and Captain Reynolds - Riddell also voiced Lt. Comm. Sandy McNish for The Oncoming Storm (2016)
• Joplin [Chook] Sibtain (DS Sarafian) was Mark Grantham in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Warriors of Kudlak, and Tarak Ital in The Waters of Mars, then voiced David Brock for The Feast of Axos (2011), Athrid for The Acheron Pulse (2012), Sanjaya Starr for The Case of the Gluttonous Guru (2013), and Brian and Koggnossenti for Technophobia (2016)
• Adrian Rawlins (DS Mooney) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood, then voiced Abberline for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014)
• Lorraine Burroughs (Simone) was Thalina in The Fires of Pompeii
• Robin Weaver (Fran) voiced Edwige Ponzi for Nothing to See Here (2016), and Arianda for Storm of the Horofax (2017)
• David Seddon (Buckley) voiced Irving, Garm, Mercenary and Tashan for The King of Sontar (2014), Quisling and Tarn 2 for The Lady in the Lake (2018), and Lendrik for The Day of the Comet (2021)
• Kae Alexander (Angie) voiced Waywalker for The Becoming (2016), and Mia Chan for Solitary Confinement (2023)
• Caroline Lawrie (Moira) voiced Queen Jabule for Cry of the Vultriss (2020)
• Teri Ann Bobb Baxter (Lily) voiced Passion for Master! 2 (2022), and Esther for Redacted
• Aisling Bea [born O'Sullivan] (Mari) was Sarah in Eve of the Daleks
• Martin Mayger (Man) was UNIT Soldier in The Day of the Doctor
• Richard Senior was also director of Let's Kill Hitler, Meanwhile in the TARDIS, Space and Time, Night and the Doctor, and Doctor Who at the Proms (2013), then second unit director on The Day of the Doctor
• line producer Debbi Slater was production manager on Blink, Planet of the Ood, The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky, The Unicorn and the Wasp, Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, then associate producer on Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Matthew Tabern was also film editor on Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Human Nature, The Family of Blood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Andy Pryor has also worked as casting director on the revived run since 2005, as well as The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood