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. Silent Witness, Series 15

The fifteenth season of BBC1's perennial crime drama

first aired in the spring of 2012, with the finale only

broadcast after a break that August.

William Gaminara, Tom Ward, and Emilia Fox returned

as Home Office pathologists, doctors Leo Dalton, Harry Cunningham, and Nikki Alexander, whilst Jaye Griffiths reprised her role as Janet.

Ward left the show after ten years service, then next

 appeared on the channel as Captain Latimer (pictured)

in The Snowmen.

A repeat run of the twelve-part series began on

U&Drama last night - it featured a total of forty-one

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Death Has No Dominion (UK TX: April 1 & 2)

• Jacob [Basil] Anderson [aka Raleigh Ritchie] (Dave) was Inston Vee Vinder in Flux and The Power of the Doctor
• Shelley Conn (DI James) voiced Asha Qureshi for Big Finish's Situation Vacant (2010), and Tina Drake for The Gates of Hell (2021)
• Adrian Lukis (Avery) voiced Officer Bragg for Cobwebs (2010), Byzan for The Children of Seth (2011), Professor Jeffrey Broderick for Counter Measures 1 (2012), Harvey Marsh for The Justice of Jalxar, Sigmund Freud for Return of the Repressed (both 2013), Ansillon for Blood of the Time Lords (2022), and Secretary Pym for The Dalek Eternity 1 (2025) - he was then Sir Jonathan Hynes in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• [Beverly] Victoria [Anne] Wicks (Lizzie) was the High Priestess in The Fires of Pompeii
• Annabel Canaven (Mary) was a stunt performer on eight episodes (from The Almost People to Kill the Moon)
• Nick Hobbs (Mick) made uncredited appearances in The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Day of the Daleks, The Time Monster, both Peladon stories (as Aggedor), The Ark in Space, then Mr. Nainby in Amy's Choice
• Shobu Kapoor (Raani) reprised her EastEnders role of Gita Kapoor for Dimensions in Time, then was Scared Woman in Journey's End, and voiced Sai Chopra for Vortex Ice (2017)
• Nigel Squibbs (series dubbing mixer since 2006) held the same post on An Adventure in Space and Time
• series score mixer Jake Jackson was the music mixer on seventy-four instalments (from The Runaway Bride to The Husbands of River Song) and Torchwood

Domestic (UK TX: April 8 & 9)

• Anthony Flanagan (Ronson) was Orin Scannell in 42
• Nancy Carroll (Gill) voiced Mulkris for Eldrad Must Die!, and Agatha Worthing for Jago & Litefoot 6 (both 2013)
• Percelle Ascott (Joel) was Delph in The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Glenn Doherty (Thompson) was Sergeant Dennison in Planet of the Dead
• Steve Robinson was also the first assistant director on The Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks

Paradise Lost (UK TX: April 15 & 16)

• Susan [Elizabeth] Brown (Judge) was Bridget Spears in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then voiced the Midwife for 100 BC, Mary for Bedtime Story (both 2007), Alice Withers for The Eternal Summer, Maud for Castle of Fear, Mrs. Withers/Mrs. Sowerby for Plague of the Daleks (all 2009), Margaret for Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars, Eleanor Harvey for Return of the Krotons, Chief Engineer/Chanel for The Song of the Megaptera, Babs for Prison in Space (all 2010), and Kastrella for Death Match (2015)
• Pooky [born Joanna] Quesnel (Helen) was the Captain in A Christmas Carol, and Dorothea Ames in Class, then voiced Annalise Avenley for The Running Men (2024)
• Rakie Ayola (Annie) was the Hostess in Midnight, and voiced Pollia for The Lords of Terror, Lambda Epsilon for In the Garden of Death (both 2018), Andrea for One Mile Down, Andrea Davenport for Another Man's Shoes (both 2019), Violet Hardaker for The Blazing Hour, Professor Victoria Wilks for Twisted Folklore (both 2021), Dakota Bly for Heart of Orion (2022), Clarissa Hodan/Juliet for Planet Krynoid 1, and Mara for The Ruins of Kaerula (both 2025)
• John [Derek] Carson [Parker] (Father) was Ambril in Snakedance
• Rita Davies (Mother) voiced Janneus for Primeval (2001), and Tashek for Innocence (2006)
• Duncan Duff (Counsel) was a Newsreader in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, and voiced Joe Hartley for Night Thoughts (2006)
• Claire Dean (Victim) voiced Malike for Cutaway Comics' Omega (2022)

Redhill (UK TX: April 22 & 23)

• Stephen Greif (Cairns) voiced Kwundaar for Primeval (2001), Sir Donald Wakefield for Sarah Jane Smith 2 (2006), Gurney for The Infinite Quest, Ken Temple for The Pelage Project (2012), and Sabaoth for Ghost Walk (2018)
• Juliet Aubrey (Miriam) voiced Vulpina for Voyage to Venus (2012), Esther Malkin for The Wrong Woman (2021), Prodigal for The Auton Infinity (2022), Zyla Kalstein for Revolution in Space, and Lina Kalpar for Invasion of the Body Stealers (both 2024)
• Maurice Lee (Owen) was a stuntman on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, Tooth and Claw, School Reunion and The Next Doctor
• Ewan Bailey (DS Tudor) provided Alien voices for Voyage of the Damned, then voiced Count Licori for The Galileo Trap, Father Locke /Orbs for The Satanic Mill, Various for Jago & Litefoot 10 (all 2015) and Kings of Infinite Space (2018), Davy McTavit for The Helm of Awe, Blazzard/Copeland for The Morton Legacy, Dimitri Papkin for The Ship of the Sleepwalkers, Duncan for Aliens Among Us 2 (all 2017), Sir Edward Scott Cameron/Slitheen/Biggs for Death on the Mile (both 2018), Hugo Blake for The Sinestran Kill (2019), and Galavaunt/ Mallory/Baravoar for Past Lives (2023)
• Gillian Kearney (DI Bridges) voiced Mina Challis for Zygon Hunt (2014)
• Nila Aalia (Phoebe) and Sam Lawton (Julie) both starred in Wish World, as Lakshmi Chandra and Winnie Petheridge
• Eloise Barnes (Liesel) was Annabel in In The Forest of the Night
• Rachelle Beinart (stunt double here & Fear) was Goblin in The Church on Ruby Road
• David Barrett was also film editor on Cold Blood and The Hungry Earth

Fear (UK TX: April 29 & 30)

• Tamzin [Maria] Outhwaite (Beth here; Sally, 2025) was the Captain in Nightmare in Silver, then voiced Morton for Secrets of Telos (2022)
• Tom [John] Ellis (Jacobs) was Dr. Thomas Mulligan in Last of the Time Lords
• Adrian Dunbar (Delaney) voiced McCarthy for Brave New Town (2008)
• [Oluwakemi] Nina Sosanya (DS Brooks) was Trish Webber in Fear Her, and voiced Captain Anna Maynard for Aquitaine (2016)

And Then I Fell in Love (UK TX: August 19 & 20)

• Keith Boak was also director of Rose, Aliens of London and World War Three
• Sanjeev Bhaskar (Aziz) was Colonel Ahmed in Death in Heaven, and voiced Dr. Avishka Sangakkara for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (2009), and Borusa for The Difference Office (2022)
• Juliet Cowan (Claire) was Chrissie Jackson in The Sarah Jane Adventures, then voiced Bryer for Come Die With Me, and Adriana Beauvais for Dead to the World (both 2015)
• Joseph Long (Costas) was Rocco Colasanto in Turn Left, and the Pope in Extremis
• Sue Kelvin (Cheryl) was Suzette Chambers in Partners in Crime
• Madeline [Elizabeth] Duggan (Amy) voiced Sash for The Revolution Game (2019)
• Lizzie Roper (Sandra) voiced Hoss for Kiss of Death (2011), Leandra Roath for The First Sontarans, Dr. Nadia Cervenka/Margaret for Artificial Intelligence (both 2012), Krakenmother Banarra for Starlight Robbery (2013), Celia Turner/Leslie King for The Crooked Man, Various for Jago & Litefoot 7 (both 2014), Bella for Stage Fright, Shari for We are the Daleks (both 2015), Rosata Laxter/High Minister for The Lady of Obsidian (2017), Trencher for Planet of the Drashigs, and Eira Hughes for Black Thursday (both 2019)

Doctor Who Vs. Cracker, Series 1

Produced by Granada for ITV, this gritty Northern crime drama began in

1993 and ran for three full seasons. Two feature-length specials followed

in 1996 and 2006, and even spawned an American version in 1997

 (broadcast in the UK as Fitz).

The show centred on the work of Manchester-based criminal psycho-

logist - the titular cracker, Dr. Edward 'Fitz' Fitzgerald (pictured centre)

portrayed by Robbie Coltrane (born McMillan). He was joined by

Christopher Eccleston (as DCI David Bilborough, left), Geraldine

Somerville (DS Jane Penhaligon), and Lorcan Cranitch (DS Jimmy Beck,

right).

 The eleven thrillers earned Coltrane three consecutive Best Actor awards

from BAFTA, and Liverpool-born Jimmy McGovern (the programme's

creator and lead writer) won a total of five writing prizes. Following

Coltrane's death in 2022, BritBox released the series, whilst a repeat run

 of this season began on ITV3 last night - it featured a total of twenty-

five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

The Mad Woman in the Attic (UK TX: September 27 & October 4 1993)

• Barbara [Jay] Flynn [born McMurray] (Judith) voiced Sister Chalice/ Croc Trooper for Big Finish's The Skull of Sobek (2008), Anne Hartman for The Rockery (2019), Professor Vansom for Secrets of Telos (2022), then played Tecteun in Once, Upon Time and Survivors of the Flux
• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (Hennessy) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the title role for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Paul [Mackriell] Copley (Pathologist) was Clem McDonald in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Dad for Spare Parts (2002/2017), Jimmy Deel for Big Dig (2013), Mick Huff for The Miniaturist (2022), and Wendell for The Conservitors (2023)
• Kerry Shale (CSO) was Dr. Renfrew in Day of the Moon, then Narrator of The Lost Angel (2017)
• Adrian Dunbar (Kelly) voiced McCarthy for Brave New Town (2008)
• Andy [born Peter] Devine (Guard) was a Draconian in Frontier in Space
• Alan David (Hanrahan) was Gabriel Sneed in The Unquiet Dead, then voiced Castellan Kanteer for The Enigma Dimension (2017), and Lord Macavoy/Old Lawrence for The Primeval Design (2021)
• Sunetra Sarker (Receptionist) was Indira in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Edward Peel (Chief Superintendent) was Kane in Dragonfire (and reprised for The Last Day in 2023), and Visitor for 24 Carat
• Don [Francis] Hederson (Hennessey) was Gavrok in Delta and the Bannermen
• Peter Brayham was also stunt co-ordinator on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• stuntman Chris Webb was a Monoid in The Ark

To Say I Love You (TX: October 11 to 25)

• Susan Lynch (Tina) was Angstrom in The Ghost Monument
• Andrew Tiernan (Sean) was Jim Purcell in Night Terrors
• David Haig [Collum Ward] (Graham) was Pangol in The Leisure Hive
• Susan Vidler (Sammy) was Aunt Susan in The Big Bang, and voiced Krige for Bernice Summerfield 5 (2013)
• Tim [born Michael John Leigh] Barlow (Father) was Tyssan in Destiny of the Daleks
• Beryl [Elizabeth] Reid (Mum) was Captain Briggs in Earthshock
• Owen Brenman (Haig) voiced Jerry Cooper for Human Resources (2007)
• Alf Tramontin was the steadicam operator on Attack of the Graske too

One Day a Lemming Will Fly (TX: November 1 & 8)

• James Quinn (Bouncer) was Bill in Flatline
• Nicholas Blane (Technician) was Millington in Survivors of the Flux
• series production manager Liam Foster began his television career as an uncredited AFM on (episode 6 of) The Space Pirates and Spearhead from Space
• Andy Pryor (series casting) has worked as casting director on the revived run since 2005, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Dorothy Friend worked on the continuity for Boom Town too

Doctor Who Vs. All Creatures Great and Small, Series 1

A repeat run of this much-loved

period drama began on BBC4 last night. Set in 1930s Yorkshire, the

programme was based on the

works of Northern vet, Alf Wight

(1916-1995) - he wrote under the

pen-name of James Herriot, port-

rayed here by Christopher Timothy

(pictured, centre).

The first, thirteen part series

(originally shown from January

to April 1978) featured Robert

Hardy (left), Peter Davison (as brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon), Carol Drinkwater

(Helen), and a total of thirty-one Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Timothy was cast as Professor Parry for Big Finish's Secrets of Telos (2022)
• producer Bill Sellars was director of The Celestial Toymaker
• Terence Dudley was also writer of Four to Doomsday, Black Orchid, The King's Demons and K9 and Company
• Peter Moffatt was also director of State of Decay, The Visitation, Mawdryn Undead, The Five Doctors, The Twin Dilemma and The Two Doctors
• [Henry] Peter Grimwade was also PA (production assistant) on Spearhead from Space, The Daemons, Robot, Pyramids of Mars, The Robots of Death and Horror of Fang Rock, then was director of Full Circle, Logopolis, Kinda and Earthshock, then writer of Time Flight, Mawdryn Undead and Planet of Fire
• production unit manager John Nathan Turner became producer of the classic run in late 1979
• Johnny [Christopher] Byrne was also the writer of The Keeper of Traken, Arc of Infinity and Warriors of the Deep
• Anthony Steven was writer of The Twin Dilemma too
• [Henry] George Selway (Soames) was George and Frank Meadows in The Faceless Ones
• Terry Pearson (Pianist/Racegoer here, Barman in Series 2) was a Miner in The Mark of the Rani
• George A[lphonsus] Cooper (Crump) was Cherub in The Smugglers
• James [Rutherford Worsfold] Bree [born Thomson] (Plenderleith) was the Security Chief in The War Games, Nefred in Full Circle, and the Keeper of the Matrix in The Ultimate Foe
• Nicholas McArdle (Worley) was Leonard De Vries in The Stones of Blood
• Colin Fay (PC Blenkiron) was Condo in The Brain of Morbius
• Ivor [Charley] Salter (Newhouse) was the Morok Commander in The Space Museum, Odyysseus in The Myth Makers, and Sergeant Markham in Black Orchid
• John Collin [born Smith] (Alderson here & film, 1975) was Brock in The Leisure Hive
• [James Arnold] Rio Fanning (Mulligan) was Harker in Horror of Fang Rock
• John Hallet (PC Smith) was a PC in (episode 6 of) Shada
• Geoffrey Toone (Ransom) was Hepesh in The Curse of Peladon
• Gordon Reid (Lad) was Phillips in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1)
• Michael [Lawson] Sheard [born Perkins] (Adderley) was Rhos in The Ark (2), Dr. Roland Summers in The Mind of Evil, Laurence Scarman in Pyramids of Mars, Lowe in The Invisible Enemy, Mergrave in Castrovalva, the Headmaster in Remembrance of the Daleks, then voiced Orsino for The Stones of Venice (2001)   
• Christopher Brown (Carmody) was Marriner in Enlightenment
• Rachel Davies (Mary) was Camilla in State of Decay
• Sheila Reid (Mrs. Donovan) was Etta in Vengeance on Varos, Clara's Gran in The Time of the Doctor and Dark Water, then voiced Claire for Good Night, Sweet Ladies (2014), and Janaiya for The Middle (2017)
• John [Kenneth] Alkin [born Foinquinos] (Flaxton) was Lomand in Planet of Fire (4)
• Edwin [Donald] Finn (Skipton) was the Landlord in The Massacre
• [James] Brian Finch's unmade script Leviathan was adapted by Big Finish in 2010
• Marilyn Gold was PA on Meglos too
• David Hughes also worked studio sound on The War Machines, Fury from the Deep, The Space Pirates (6), Colony in Space, Horror of Fang Rock and K9 and Company
• Bob Gell worked on studio lighting for Horror of Fang Rock too
• Thea Murray was PA on The Masque of Mandragora too

Doctor Who Vs. Murder is Easy

This period crime drama was based

on Agatha Christie's twenty-fifth

novel (known in America as Easy

to Kill), published in 1939. A US

TV version was shown in 1982,

followed by ITV's treatment in

2009, and was now adapted by

Mammoth Screen and BritBox for

BBC1. The two-part mystery con-

cluded last night - it featured

Douglas Henshall, Mark Bonnar,

and nine Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• David Jonsson [Fray] (Fitzwilliam) voiced Corporal James Morley for Big Finish's Invocation (2017)
• Penelope [Alice] Wilton (Lavinia here; Louise in They Do It With Mirrors, 2009) played Harriet Jones MP in Aliens of London, World War Three, The Christmas Invasion and The Stolen Earth
• Tom Riley (Whitfield here; Argyle in Ordeal by Innocence, 2007; Boynton in Appointment With Death, 2008) was Robin Hood in Robot of Sherwood
• Tamzin [Maria] Outhwaite (Mrs Pierce here; Mrs Rogers in Endless Night, 2013) was the Captain in Nightmare in Silver, then voiced Morton for Secrets of Telos (2022)
• Brian McCardie (Bull here; Gould in Ordeal by Innocence, 2018; Persimmon in Agatha and the Truth of Murder) voiced Alan Weir for Masters of Earth (2014)
• Ron [Eaglesham] Donachie [born Porter] (Coroner) was the Steward in Tooth and Claw
• Christina Low was also stunt performer Spyfall and Flux
• Lloyd Bass (stunt co-ordinator) was stuntman on The Time of the Doctor and Twice Upon a Tim
• Segun Akinola was also composer of thirty-one Doctor Who adventures