Doctor Who Vs. Endeavour, Series 8

Shaun Evans returned as Colin
Dexter's Oxford-based detective,

Endeavour Morse in Septemeber

2021 - he was reunited with Roger

Allam, Anton Lesser, Sean Rigby,

James Bradshaw, and Abigail Thaw.

ITV's acclaimed Inspector Morse

prequel drama (a Masterpiece and

Mammoth Screen co-production),

was now set in 1971.

A repeat run of the eighth, three-

part season (all written by Russell

Lewis) concluded on ITV3 last night -

it featured Ruth Bradley, and a total

of nineteen Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

Striker (UK TX: September 12)

• Andrew Havill (Stamfield) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, then voiced Aleister Portillon/Squire Claude for The Witch in the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Elliot Levey (Jubba) voiced Gobernar/Blank for Vampire of the Mind (2016), and Colonel Marsden for Red Planets (2018)
• Joseph Millson (Fenner) was Alan Jackson in The Sarah Jane Adventures, then voiced Colonel Keelan for Dalek Universe 3 (2021), Peter Kelly for Splinters, Peetom for Paradox of the Daleks (both 2022), Jory Hopkins/Teacher/Co-Pilot for The Diary of River Song 12, and Ignatius Montague for The Devouring (both 2023)
• Harriet [Amelia] Thorpe (Miss Newell) voiced Amelia/Tomek for Kingdom of Lies (2018)
• Gary Hoptrough was also stuntman on The Runaway Bride and Let's Kill Hitler
• for Tom Lucy see Series 1
• for Stephen Longstaff see Series 5, for Nick Kray see Series 6 and for Joshua Davies see Series 7

Scherzo (UK TX: September 19)

• Ian Hallard (Frussell) and Andrew [Hugh] Woodall (Jones) both appeared in An Adventure in Space and Time (they depicted Richard Martin and Rex Tucker), whilst Hallard voiced Sabian for Primeval (2001), Mouse/Winkler/Luigi/Heavy for Invaders from Mars, the Matrix for Neverland (both 2002), Zeuro for A Storm of Angels, Castellan Wynter for Gallifrey 2 (both 2005), Joseph Banks for The Transit of Venus, Captain Cannibal for Izzy's Story, John Polidori for Mary's Story, Chessman for Cyberman 2 (all 2009), Duncan for An Earthly Child (2010), Comtech Bron Kell for Time's Horizon, and Davent for Destroy the Infinite (both 2014) - he was also Alan-a-Dale in Robot of Sherwood, and Gary Talbot in Global Conspiracy?
• Issy Van Randwyck (Laurel) voiced Giulia for A Requiem for the Doctor, Miss Quirk for Carnival of Angels (both 2018), Koreelya for The Ultimate Evil (2019), Ma Scarrity for Family Matters (2020) and Till Death Us Do Part (2023), Jesko for The Gulf, the Grand Widow for Conspiracy in Space (both 2021), the Seeker/Baladin Smith for The Ribos Inheritance, Ingrid/Sylvie for Auf Wiedersehen (both 2022), and Merla for Hooklight 1 (2025)
• Catherine Cusack (Roisin) made her acting debut as the Blue Kang Leader [Drinking Fountain] in Paradise Towers - a role reprised for 24 Carat 
• Stephanie Carey was also a stunt performer 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
• for Nick Kray see Series 2

Terminus (UK TX: September 26)

• Anthony Flanagan (Creech) was Orin Scannell in 42
• Ben Bishop (Hobbs) voiced Johnny Stone for The Justice of Jalxar (2013), and Kenny White for Changing of the Guard (2014)
• Ray Emmet Brown (Peckett) voiced No. 16 for House of Blue Fire (2011)
• for Richard Price see Series 5

Doctor Who Vs. Agatha and the Truth of Murder

In December 1926, Agatha

Christie went missing for eleven

days. The circumstances

surrounding her disapperance

have never been revealed. This

film imagines what might have

happened...

This channel 5 thriller is another
fictionalised account of Christie's unexplained vanishing. It is revealed

that Christie (portrayed here by Ruth

Bradley) staged her disappearance

and evaded the ensuing nationwide hunt to investigate the real-life unsolved murder of Florence

Nightingale Shore (goddaughter of the Crimean war nurse) who was bludgeoned to death on a Sussex

bound train in 1920. The Queen of Crime (1890-1976) had writer's block

and posed here as Mary Westmacott, her later pen-name.

The thriller spawned two sequels for 5 - The Curse of Ishtar (in 2019), and

The Midnight Murders (2020). The channel later broadcast documentaries

Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie and Agatha Christie's England.

First shown at Christmas 2018 (then rerun on Boxing Day and New Year's

Day 2019) the film was repeated on U&Drama today - it featured Ralph

Ineson, Dean Andrews, Michael McElhatton, and these six Doctor Who

cast connections: 

• Tim McInnerny (Randolph here; Rev. Clement in The Murder at the Vicarage, 2004) was Klineman Halpen in Planet of the Ood, and voiced Admiral Dolne for Big Finish's The Well-Mannered War (2015), and the eponymous role for Puccini and the Doctor (2024)
• Pippa Haywood (Mabel here; Mrs. Price in Ordeal by Innocence, 2007; Mrs. Upjohn in Cat Among the Pigeons, 2008) voiced the Prime Minister for Seed of Chaos and The Destructive Quality of Life (both 2017), Jaxa for Seizure, Teremon for The War Master 2 (both 2018), and Captain Graff for Genetics of the Daleks (2020)
• Blake Harrison (Travis here & Agatha and the Midnight Murders) voiced Lieutenant Daniel Hopkins for The Helliax Rift, Hour of the Cybermen and Warlock's Cross (all 2018), then starred in Village of the Angels as Namaca Ost Parvess Po
• Brian McCardie (Persimmion here; Gould in Ordeal by Innocence, 2018) voiced Alan Weir for Masters of Earth (2014)
• Samantha Spiro (Pamela) was Hazran in The Doctor Falls
• Joshua Silver (Franklin) voiced Charlie Nisbett for The Romance of Crime (2015)

Doctor Who Vs. Titanic (2012)

The centenary of the loss of RMS Titanic was marked by
ITV's big-budget costume drama, written by Downton
 Abbey creator, Julian Fellowes. Titanic set out to paint
a picture of Edwardian society, telling the stories of 
almost a hundred characters, both real and fictional,
from every social level.

Their narratives were developed and interwoven over the first three parts, each of which ended in a cliff-
hanger as the disaster unfolds. The final episode drew
all these separate strands together and revealed who survived the sinking.

The series first aired over four Sunday nights in March
and April 2012 (and two consecutive nights on
American TV), and concluded another repeat run on
ITV Encore last night.
The star-studded cast of Titanic, headed by Geraldine Somerville and Linus Roache, featured Jenna Louise
Coleman (pictured as Annie Desmond), Ruth Bradley
 (Mary Maloney), and seventeen other Doctor Who cast connections:

• Toby Jones (Batley) played the Dream Lord in Amy's Choice, and voiced renegade Time Lord Kotris for Big Finish's Dark Eyes (2012)
• Linus [William] Roache (Manton) was Reginald Pye in Lux
• Celia Immrie (Grace) was Miss Kizlet in The Bells of Saint John, and voiced Dr. Elizabeth Bradley for Counter Measures (BF, 2013), Madame Tissot for Gallery of Ghouls, and Livia for Gallifrey: Enemy Lives (both 2016)
• James Wilby (Bruce Ismay) voiced Tenebris for both The Acheron Pulse and The Shadow Heart (2012)
• Lee Ross (Barnes) was the Boatswain in The Curse of the Black Spot
• Sophie Winkleman (Dorothy) voiced Kelly Westwood for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (BF, both 2009)
• Christine Kavanagh (Mrs. Thayer) was Aram in Timelash
• Sylvestra Le Touzel (Lady Duff Gordon) made her TV debut, aged 10, in The Mind Robber, as a Child
• Simon Paisley Day (Duff Gordon) was a Steward in The End of the World, and Rump in Face the Raven
• Big Finish actor Miles Richardson (JJ Astor) was Captain Douglas Cavendish in both video spin-off dramas Downtime (1995) and Daemos Rising (2004), and voiced Charles Darwin for Bloodtide (2001), Irving Braxiatel for Zagreus (2003), Theatre of War (2015) and Gallifrey: Enemy Lines, and Black Rod for The Gunpowder Plot
• Brian McCardie (First Officer Murdoch) voiced Alan Weir for Masters of Earth (BF, 2014)
• Ben Bishop (Lyons) voiced Stone for The Justice of Jalxar (BF, 2013)
• Pandora Colin (Countess of Rothes) voiced Fash for Prisoner of the Sun (BF, 2010)
• Timothy West (Lord Pirie) voiced Kai Tobias for Phobos (2007), Ronald Turvey for Cuddlesome (2008), and Dr. Magnus Soames for House of Blue Fire (2011)
• Jeff Mash (Valet) was Grant in Day of the Moon
• Mark Lewis Jones (Evans) voiced Professor Oliver Mortlake for The Darkness of Glass (BF, 2015)
• Olivia Darnley (Bessie) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors as Kourtney