Doctor Who Vs. Casualty @ 40: Series 7

Series regulars Derek Thompson,

Cathy Shipton, Ian Bleasdale,

Nigel Le Vaillant, Patrick Robinson,

Maureen Beattie, Caroline Webster

and Anne Kristen all returned for

the new season of BBC1's long

running medical drama.

Joining the programme here were

Joanna Foster (as manager Kate

Miller), Jason Riddington (SHO

Rob Khalefa), Emma Bird (Maxine

Price), Robert Daws (administrator Simon Eastman), Clive Mantle (Dr.

Mike Barrett), whilst William

Gaminara returned (to the role of Dr. Bower) for the last third of the run.

Also introduced for this season only were Imogen Boorman, Nicola

Jefferies and Ken Sharrock (Nikki Wyatt, Jenny and Kenny Price) - Foster,

Riddington, Bird and Daws all left the show by the end of the run, whilst

Le Vaillant and Beattie both chose to depart after two years service.

This series (with an increased quota of twenty-four episodes, originally

broadcast from September 1992 to February 1993) featured Geoffrey

Beevers, Michael Jayston, and a total of fifty-five Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• prolific Big Finish actor Christopher Benjamin (Lindall) was Sir Keith Gold in Inferno, then Colonel Hugh Curbishley in The Unicorn and the Wasp, but is best known as Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng Chiang - he reprised the role for The Mahogany Murders (2009), Jago and Litefoot (2010-21), Voyage to Venus, Voyage to the New World (both 2012), The Justice of Jalxar (2013), Mind Games (2014), Stage Fright, The Haunting (both 2015), The Beast of Kravenos, The Jago & Litefoot Revival (both 2017), Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018), The Talents of Greel (2019), Merry Christmas, Mr. Jago (2020) and A Command Performance (2021) - he also voiced Tardelli for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008)
• Daws (Eastman here; Blakely, 2012) voiced Anvar for The Sky Man (2017), Gaius Majorian for The Dalek Occupation of Winter (2018), Sir Basil Hexworthy for The Devil's Hoofprints (2021), Timble Feebis /Thug for The Tivolian Who Knew Too Much (2022), and Howard/ Quartermaster for You Only Die Twice (2024)
• Ron [Eaglesham] Donachie [born Porter] (PC Pewsey here; Sutcliffe, 1996; DI Hartley, 2015) was the Steward in Tooth and Claw
• [Alexander] Ian Hogg (Morgan here; Fenner, 1995) was Josiah Samuel Smith in Ghost Light, and voiced General Voshkar for The Sandman (2002), and Albert Marsden/General Petrov/Schumacher for Protect and Serve (2012)
• Nigel Humphreys (Davis, 1992; Poynton, 1995) was Bulic in Warriors of the Deep
• Paul Reynolds (Morgan here; Crowley, 2009; Scotton, 2011; Lewis, 2015) voiced Joey Carlisle for Casualties of War, Nobody No-One for The Word Lord (both 2008), Lyam Yce for Absolute Power (2016), and the Spore for Face of the Apocalypse (2024)
• Shane Rimmer (Rhinehart) was Seth Harper in The Gunfighters
• Susan [Elizabeth] Brown (Julie here; Joan, 1995; Pauline, 2014) was Bridget Spears in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced 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)
• Anne Reid (Barbara) was Nurse Crane in The Curse of Fenric, and Florence Finnegan in Smith and Jones
• John Normington (George here; Clarke, 2000; Sanderson, 2007) was Morgus in The Caves of Androzani, and Trevor Sigma in The Happiness Patrol
• Ann [Forrest] Bell (Lydia here; Celia, 1999; Matty, 2006) 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 (2016)
• Helen [Margaret] Lederer (Maria here; Dr. Oppe, 2011) voiced Patricia Ryder for Death in Blackpool (2009)
• [Walter] Tenniel Evans (Summers here; Sylvester, 1999) was Major Daly in Carnival of Monsters
• Simon Paisley Day (Extra) was the Steward in The End of the World, and Rump in Face the Raven
• Jonny Lee Miller (Matt) made his TV debut as a titular Child in Kinda
• Harry Towb (Kelvin here; Brook, 2006) was Osgood in (episode 1 of) The Seeds of Death, and McDermott in Terror of the Autons
• Lee Ross (Dave here; Ray, 1996) was the Boatswain in The Curse of the Black Spot
• Jon [Sleeman] Croft (Fred) was Tom Girton in The Daemons
• Martin Jarvis (Bart) and Rosalind Ayres (Sarah) both starred in Jubilee (2003) as Nigel and Miriam Rochester - Jarvis was also Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos
• Philip [Arvon] Madoc [born Jones] (Mike) was Brockley in the second Dalek film, Eelek in The Krotons, the War Lord in The War Games, Dr. Mehendri Solon in The Brain of Morbius, and Fenner in The Power of Kroll, then voiced Victor Schaeffer for Master (2003), the Commander for Magic Bullet's Storm Mine (2004), and Rag Cobden for Return of the Krotons (2009)
• Rula Lenska [born Roza Maria Leopoldyna Lubienska] (Circus Owner here; Vera, 2016) was Dr. [Elizabeth] Styles in Resurrection of the Daleks, then voiced the Swarm for AudioGo's A Sting in the Tale, and the Queen for Hive of Horror (both 2009)
• Susan Penhaligon (Hattie here; Leila, 2003; Anne, 2013) was Lakis in The Time Monster, and voiced Dorka for Circuit Breaker (2020), Mrs. Bevell for The Colour of Terror, Florence Harding for A Ghost of Alchemy (both 2023), and Sage for False Dawn and All Over (both 2026)
• David Sibley (Frank here; Parkes, 2015) was Pralix in The Pirate Planet, and voiced Kurt Schalk for Persuasion, The Eminence for The Seeds of War (both 2013), Dark Eyes 2, Dark Eyes 3 and Destroy the Infinite (all 2014) and Dark Eyes 4 (2015), Josiah Morton for The Morton Legacy (2017), Valerian for Time War 1 (2018), Uther Vargosh for Darker Purposes, Sigmund Freud for Conflict Theory (both 2020), and Henry Wotton for The Master of Dorian Gray (2022)
• Rebecca [Jayne] Callard [born Atkinson] (Suzie here; Connie, 1998) voiced Connie Winters for A Perfect World (2008), and Shadrak for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016)
• TP [Thomas Patrck] McKenna (Arthur here; Dr. Whitlock, 1997) and Christopher Guard (Hodges) both appeared in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy as Captain Cook and Bellboy respectively
• [John] Peter Gilmore (Lionel) and Jeff Rawle (Jackson) both starred in Frontios, as Brazen and Plantagenet - Rawle was also Lionel Harding in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge, and depicted Mervyn Pinfield in An Adventure in Space and Time, then voiced Toby Brokesmith for Chapel of Night (2017), Chad Caramel for The Tyrants of Logic (2018), Captain Miles Rozann/Valtrassi/Drax for Here Lies Drax (2022), and Rev, Robert Drummond for Sea Smoke (2025)
• Michael Melia (Brennan) was a Terileptil in The Visitation
• Chris [Peter John] Tranchell [born Small] (Registrar) was Roger Colbert in The Massacre, Steven Jenkins in The Faceless Ones, and Andred in The Invasion of Time
• Hywel [Thomas] Bennett (Lawson here; Wincott in Casualty@Holby City, 2005) was Rynian in The Chase
• Stephen [Vincent] Moore (Kevin) was Eldane in Cold Blood, and voiced Clark Goodman for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (both 2009)
• [Daphne Anne] Angela Pleasence (Sonia here; Catherine, 2009) was Queen Elizabeth in The Shakespeare Code
• Victor Winding (Billy) was Spencer in The Faceless Ones
• Michael [Maurice] Cashman (Paynter) and Keith Drinkel (Easton) both appeared in Time Flight as First Officer Bilton and Roger Scobie - Drinkel was also Bob Calhoun/Torlakh in BBV Productions' Zygon, and voiced Parker for Race Memory (2001) Moses for The Green Man (2002), Henry Hallam for Catch 1782 (2005), the Cinder for Frostfire (2017), and Oberon Fix for Audacity (2023)
• Julia Hills (Carole here; Caroline Miller/Joyner, 2004/5; Cathy, 2012) voiced Qureshi for The Bounty of Ceres (2014), Phillipa Gregson for Beachhead (2016), Sera Marvelle for Pretty Lies (2017), Sharon/ Rindle for The Lady in the Lake (2018), Madeline for The Cars That Ate London!, Ethel Pullman for A Photograph to Remember, and Margot Kinnear for The Dimension Cannon (all 2019)
• John [Arthur] Duttine (Howard here; Foster, 1995; Fletcher, 2001; Jennings, 2003) voiced Hector Taylor for Exotron (2007)
• René Zagger (Rick here; Smith, 2004; Durante, 2014) was Padra in Utopia
• Paul [Reginald] Bazely (Watson here; Brennan, 2006) was Ven-Garr in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, then voiced the Duke of Hishtar for The Ribos Inheritance, Mikhail for Black Friday, and Elio /SV44/SV72 for The Enhancement (all 2022)
• Andrew Burt (Locke) was Valgard in Terminus
• Daniel Hill (Clive here; Howatt, 2008; Barton, 2014) was Chris Parsons in Shada, and voiced Percy Noggins for AudioGo's The Stuff of Nightmares (2009)
• Julian [Robert Stanley] Holloway (Jim) was Sergeant Paterson in Survival
• Robert Duncan (Taylor here; Peter Hayes, 1995/6) voiced Borthwick for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), Pallister for The Entropy Plague, Thomas/Dr. James Greco for Damaged Goods (both 2015), and Krayl /Sternwood/Eldren for The Mind Runners and The Demon Rises (2018)
• Ian Shaw (Sean) was Newsreader in Lux
• Matt [Arthur] Bardock (Terry here; Jeff Collier, 2007-14) was Al in Flatline
• Ian Gelder (Jeremy here; Chambers, 1997; Swain, 2004) was Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then provided the Remnant voices in The Ghost Monument, was Zellin in Can You Hear Me?, and voiced the Commander for Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
• Kelly Hunter (Annabelle here; Helen, 1995; Chrissie, 2007) was the Shadow Architect in The Stolen Earth and The Magician's Apprentice 
• Julia Foster (Joyce) was Vilma in Orphan 55
• John [Edward] Cater (Bernard) was Professor Melvin Krimpton in The War Machines
• Charles [Laurence] De'Ath (Rosco here; Simon, 2001; Stanley, 2008; Crozier, 2010; Greer, 2011; Gooden, 2014) was Adelaide's Father in The Waters of Mars
• James Blackwell (PC Roberts here; Driver/Officer, 1993; Sergeant, 1994/AFM, 1996, 1998) was the first assistant director on Partners in Crime
• Alexandra Mathie (Helen) voiced Businesswoman for This Sleep of Death, and Mother McCracken for Tempest  (both 2019)
• Heather Tobias (Pam here; June in Series 13) was one of twenty-six actresses who auditioned for the role of Leela in 1976
• producer Michael Ferguson was the director of The War Machines, The Seeds of Death, The Ambassadors of Death and The Claws of Axos
• location manager Val McCrimmon was an AFM on fifty-one episodes (from The Sensorites to Remembrance of the Daleks)

Doctor Who Vs. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Series 1

Following Granada's The Return of Sherlock

Holmes, Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke

next portrayed the iconic duo in the West End

production of The Secret of Sherlock Holmes.

Specially written by TV screenwriter Jeremy 
Paul, the play was staged at the Wyndham 
Theatre in 1988 and 1989.

A repeat run of the fifth series of the acclaimed

period drama (bldramatised as The Casebook)

concluded on ITV4 today.

The final dozen (of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes

short stories were originally published as The

Case-Book in The Strand magazine between

1921 and 1927.

These six cases originally aired in the winter of

1991 - they featured Michael Jayston, and a

total of fourteen Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (UK TX: February 21 1991)

• Cheryl Campbell (Frances) was Ocean Waters in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Vault of Secrets

The Problem of Thor Bridge (UK TX: February 28)

• Philip Bretherton (Cummings) voiced Shenn for The Draconian Rage (2003), Plenipotentiary Suskind for Arrangements for War (2004), Elliot Payne for Jago & Litefoot 3, Darcy/Heathcliffe/D'Urberville for A Most Excellent Match, Scrivener for Recorded Time (all 2011), the Vituperon for The Devil's Armada (2014), and Sir Keith Kordel for Rise and Shine (2015)

Shoscombe Old Place (UK TX: March 7)

• [Robert] Michael Bilton (Stephens) was Charles de Teligny in The Massacre, Collins in Pyramids of Mars, and Time Lord in The Deadly Assassin
• Denise Black [born Nixon] (Carrie) voiced Eva Jericho for Damaged Goods, Control for Rise and Shine (both 2015), and Mrs. Mountford for The Haunting of Malkin Place (2017)

The Boscombe Valley Mystery (UK TX: March 14)

• Leslie Schofield (McCarthy) was Leroy in (episode 4 of) The War Games, and Calib in The Face of Evil
• James [Brian Mark] Purefoy (James) voiced Count Dracula for Son of the Dragon (2007)
• stunt arranger Greg Powell was the Knight in The Time Monster

The Illustrious Client (UK TX: March 21)

• Roy [Trevor] Holder (Johnson) was Krelper in The Caves of Androzani
• Carol Noakes (Baroness) voiced Olerik for The Acheron Pulse (2012)

The Creeping Man (UK TX: March 28)

• for Colin Jeavons (Lestrade) see Series 2
• Charles Kay [born Piff] (Presbury) was Julius Quilter in BBV Prod- uctions' Unnatural Selection (1996), then voiced the Curator for Excelis Rising (2002)
• Adrian Lukis (Bennett) 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), then was Sir Jonathan Hynes in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• Peter Guinness (Wilcox) voiced Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Baron Teufel/Zoff for The Beast of Orlok (2009), Rovus for The Star Men (2017), Garzan for The Dying Breed (2025), and Mr. Dread for Dreamland
• Sarah Woodward (Jenkins) voiced Theodora for Secret History (2015), Vesh Taralesh for Stolen Goods (2018), and Anla Jessick for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Steve Swinscoe (Wilcox) began his TV career as David S. in The Happiness Patrol

Doctor Who Vs. Law & Order: UK, Series 2

 

Bradley Walsh, Jamie Bamber, Harriet

Walter (who represented the titular Law

officers DS Brooks, DS Devlin, and DI

Chandler), Freema Agyeman, Ben

Daniels, and Bill Paterson (as Alesha

Phillips, James Steel, and George Castle

- the CPS Order team) all returned in the

British spin-off of Dick Wolf's long-running

Law & Order franchise. Kudos' co-executive

producer Chris Chibnall also adapted two

episodes, and all six cases here were based

on scripts from the parent programme. A

repeat run of the season (originally shown

in the winter of 2010) began on ITV3 last

night - it featured Anjli Mohindra, and a

total of forty-two Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

Samaritan (UK TX: January 11 2010/

based on Manhood, 1993)

• Zienia Merton (Judge) was Ping Cho (pictured) in Marco Polo, then the Registrar in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
• Jamie Foreman (PC Griffin) was Eddie Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern
• Camilla [Marie] Beeput (Maya) was Nova for Big Finish's Sphere of Freedom, Cataclysm and Food Fight (all 2021)
• for Jessica Gunning, Tariq Jordan, Andy Goddard, Malcolm Thornton, Simon Morris, Jamie Pearson and Nick Foley see Series 1

Hidden (TX: January 18/based on Bitter Fruit, 1995)

• David Gyasi (Lennie) was Harvey in Asylum of the Daleks
• Rene Zagger (Andreou) was Padra in Utopia
• Enzo Squillino Jr. (D'Agostino) voiced Aldo Deluca for The Gift, Juan Romero for Fiesta for the Damned (both 2016), and Chant for The Power of River Song (2019)
• Cyril [Ikechukwu] Nri (Judge) was the Shopkeeper in The Sarah Jane Adventures, then Chairman in Class, and voiced Maurice Vallan for The Movellan Manoeuvre and The Dalek Gambit (both 2020), and Khaset for The Mummy Speaks! (2022)
• Andrew Byron (Nikolajs) was Ilya Svyatoslavovich in The Pyramid at the End of the World
• for Dervla Kirwan and John Rowe see Series 1

Community Service (TX: January 25/based on Volunteers, 1993)

• Kevin [Robert] McNally (Morgan) was Lieutenant Hugo Lang in The Twin Dilemma, then Professor Eustacius Jericho in Flux, and voiced Henry for Spider's Shadow (2008), Vakrass for The End of the Beginning, and Merrick Kingdom for Dalek Universe (both 2021)
• Will Thorp (Butler) was Tobias Zed in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Gaius Julius Caesar for 100 BC, Jacob Williams for Bedtime Story, and Narrator of Sick Building, Forever Autumn, Peacemaker (all 2007) and The Krillitane Storm (2009)
• Sandra [Jane] Huggett (Sharon) voiced Dorada for The Scaramancer, The Castle of Kurnos 5 and The Cognition Shift (all 2020)
• Mary Healey (Dora) was a Killjoy in The Happiness Patrol
• Eloise Joseph (Kelly) was Beauty in Nightmare in Silver
• Alison Skilbeck (Rachel) was the Deputy in (part 3 of) Frontios
• Bhasker Patel (Dr. Singh) was Jival Chowdry in Turn Left
• Ken Grieve was directeor of Destiny of the Daleks too
• for Colin Salmon, Paul Darrow and Catherine Tregenna see Series 1 

Sacrifice (TX: February 1/based on Sonata for a Solo Organ, 1991)

• Michael Maloney (Reberty) voiced Simonsson for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008), Adam Farrow for AudioGo's The Circus of Doom, Fratalin for Patient Zero, the Viryans for Blue Forgotten Planet (all 2009) and Charlotte Pollard 1 (2014), Rennol for Kiss of Death, Narrator of BBC Books' The Silent Stars Go By (both 2011), Gregor Saraton for Zygon Hunt, Hilary Hammond for Enemy Aliens (both 2014), William Hogan for The Rockery (2019), and the Two for Two's Company and The Union (both 2023)
• Samuel Oatley (McKenzie) was Tzim Sha in The Woman Who Fell to Earth and The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Frances Ashman (Teresa) was Christine in The Big Bang
• Gemma Saunders (Nurse) voiced Eleanor Vale/Amanda Caulfield for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), and Ellen Byrne for The Eye of the Storm (2016)
• for Charles Kay see Series 1

Love and Loss (TX: February 8/based on Consultation, 1992)

• Mark Lewis Jones (Powell) voiced Professor Oliver Mortlake for The Darkness of Glass (2015)
• Shaun Dooley (Gilmore) was Epzo in The Ghost Monument 
• Roy Holder (Caretaker) was Krelper in The Caves of Androzani
• Eugene Washington (Valente) was Mr. Wagner in School Reunion

Honour Bound (TX: February 15/based on Corruption, 1996)

• Gabrielle Glaister (Liz) voiced Maggie Bishop for The Forsaken (2015), Cowley for The High Price of Parking (2017), and Veronica Bland for Braxiatel in Love (2018)
• Don Warrington [born Williams] (Commissioner here & Series 8: I Predict A Riot) was the President of Great Britain in Rise of the Cybermen, then voiced Rassilon for The Time of the Daleks, Neverland (all 2002), Zagreus (2003), Caerdroia and The Next Life (both 2004), and was Narrator of The Art of Destruction (2006)
• Jeremy Bulloch (Grant) was Tor in The Space Museum, and Hal in The Time Warrior
• Alan Bond (Juror here; Officer in S7: Fatherly Love) was UNIT Soldier in The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
• for Robert Glenister see Series 1

Doctor Who Vs. The Ruby in the Smoke

Published in 1985, the first book

in Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart

quartet, The Ruby in the Smoke

was dramatised for BBC1 and

originally broadcast at Christmas

2006.

This period drama is notable for

marking the television debut of

Matt Smith (pictured as Jim

Taylor), and is the first portrayal

of Victorian heroine Lockhart,

by Billie Piper. The pair also

starred in the sequel, The Shadow in the North, then reunited for ITV's

Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Pullman's next two novels in the series remain

unadapted for TV. The first of The Sally Lockhart Mysteries featured Julie

Walters, and fifteen further Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Big Finish actor Trevor Cooper (Higgs) was [Lancelot] Takis in Revelation of the Daleks, and Friar Tuck in Robot of Sherwood, and voiced Rull for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City, then 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), Jonathan Mayfly/Sir Joseph Eagleton for The Ghosts of Greenwich (2019), Smallpiece for Merry Christmas Mr. Jago (2020), Silas Keynes for The Ravencliff Witch (2022), and Captain Thaddeus Grey for Archipelago (2024)
• Robert Glenister (Selby) was Salateen in The Caves of Androzani, and played Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror - he also voiced Aboresh for Absolution (2007), and Eliot for Signal and I'll Come to You (2024)
• John Joseph Feild (Garland) voiced David McCallister for Blue Forgotten Planet (2009)
• Don [Samuel] Gilet (Hopkins) was Lance Bennett in The Runaway Bride, then voiced Streatham/Fleshkin for The Hunting Season (2022), and Herman Baker for Double (2023)
• David [Michael] Harewood (Bedwell twins) was Joshua Naismith in The End of Time, and voiced President Vallan for Army of Death
• Pik Sen Lim [born Lim Phaik Seng] (Sheng) was married to writer Don Houghton, and worked on his second story The Mind of Evil as Captain Chin Lee - a role reprised for Open the Box (2019) - she also voiced Dom-Ra for Neon Reign (2018)
• Hayley [Elizabeth] Atwell (Rosa) voiced Asha for Blood of the Daleks (2007), Eleanor for The Doomwood Curse, Seska for The Whispering Forest (2010), and President Moorkurk for The Sands of Life and War Against the Laan (both 2013)
• Julia Joyce (Young Sally) had previously doubled for Piper in Father's Day as young Rose, and was Holly Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Martin Jarvis (voice of Captain) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Jubilee (2003)
• Ramon Tikaram (Maharajah) voiced Wanchese for Voyage to the New World (2012), the Castellan for The Eleven, Marlock for Theatre of War, Colonel Vikram Shindi for UNIT: Extinction (all 2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), UNIT: Encounters (2017), UNIT: Cyber Reality and UNIT: Revisitations, Colin Colchester Price for Torchwood (all 2018), and President Dunn La for The World Traders (2021)
• Elliot [Aidan] Cowan (Van Eeden) voiced Gark for The Fifth Traveller (2016)
• Charles Jarman was stuntman on The Lazarus Experiment too
• Paul Bennett was also third assistant director on Blink, Turn Left and Torchwood
• script editor Caroline Skinner was co-executive producer on the revived series (from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe to The Name of the Doctor), The Doctors Revisited and An Adventure in Space and Time
• Cathy Cosgrove was property buyer on Delta and the Bannermen too

Doctor Who Vs. The Thirty Nine Steps

This British period drama starred Robert Powell (as fugitive Richard Hannay), John

Mills and Eric Porter. The third, and most

faithful cinematic version of John Buchan's

adventure novel did however deviate from

the original narrative with the famous

climax atop Big Ben.

Robert Donat played Hannay in the first

adaptation (directed by Alfred Hitchcock in

1935), then Kenneth More took the lead

role for the 1959 remake. A fourth, tele-

vision production aired on BBC1 in 2008,

with Hannay portrayed by Rupert Penry

Jones.

The Thirty Nine Steps (the first of five titles

to feature Hannay) originally appeared in

Blackwoods Magazine in 1915, and depicts

Europe on the edge of war. The book

quickly became popular reading both in the trenches and on the home front.

The story was first dramatised for radio by Orson Welles in 1939, and more

recently for theatre. Radio 4 first transmitted a two-part rendition in 2001,

which starred Tom Baker and David Robb.

Powell reprised his film role for Thames TV's spin-off series, Hannay,

launched in 1988. Released by Rank in 1978, the thriller was shown on

Talking Pictures TV last night - it featured David Warner, and these

thirty-one Doctor Who cast connections:

• Powell voiced the eponymous role for Big Finish's Time Lord Immemorial (2023)
• George [Morris] Baker (Bullivant) was Login in Full Circle
• Ronald [Alfred] Pickup (Bayliss) made his TV debut as Physician in (episode 4 of) The Reign of Terror, then voiced Kestorian for Time Works (2006), Elder Bones for Spaceport Fear (2013), the Old One for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016), and Jacob Harmer for The Wizard of Time (2023)
• Donald [Ellis] Pickering (Marshall here; McGillivray in The Three Hostages) was Eyesen in The Keys of Marinus, Blade in The Faceless Ones, and Beyus in Time and the Rani
• Timothy [Lancaster] West (Porton) voiced Kai Tobias for Phobos (2007), Turvey for Cuddlesome (2008), and Dr. Magnus Soames for House of Blue Fire (2011)
• Andrew Keir [born Buggy] (Rohan) was [Peter] Wyler in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• William [Arthur] Squire (Harkness) was the Shadow in The Armageddon Factor
• David [Cressy] Collings (Tillotson) was Vorus in Revenge of the Cybermen, [Ander] Poul in The Robots of Death [and reprised for Magic Bullet's Kaldor City (2002) and Big Finish's The Robots (2020/21)], the titular role in Mawdryn Undead, then voiced the Doctor for Full Fathom Five (2003), Gabriel Sanders for Jago & Litefoot (2010/11), Rosato for The King of Sontar (2014), and Narrator of BBC Books' Corpse Marker, The Witch Hunters and Scream of the Shalka
• Edward [James] de Souza (Woodville) was Marc Cory in Mission to the Unknown, then voiced Mortimer Davey for The Roof of the World (2004), and Sir Henry Irving for The Woman in White (2016)
• John Normington (Fletcher) was Morgus in The Caves of Androzani, and Trevor Sigma in The Happiness Patrol
• [Robert] Michael Bilton (Vicar) was Charles de Teligny in The Massacre, Collins in Pyramids of Mars (1), and Time Lord in The Deadly Assassin (1)
• Donald [Harold Gunn] Bisset (Renfrew) and Andrew [Fraser] Downie (Stewart) both appeared in The Highlanders - as Colin McLaren and Willie Mackay
• Harry Fielder (Policeman) was Guard (in PP, ZZZ, 4L, 4P, 5A, 5F, 5Z), Crewman (SS, 4T), Vogan (4D), Assassin (4Q), Tigellan (5Q), and Krarg in Shada 
• Paul [Graham] Jerricho [born Coulthard] (Scott) was the Castellan in Arc of Infinity and The Five Doctors, then Alfie in Lucky Day
• [Walter] Prentis Hancock (Perryman) was Reporter [Jimmy] in Spearhead from Space, Vaber in Planet of the Daleks, Controller Salamar in Planet of Evil, and Captain in The Ribos Operation
• James Garbutt (Miller) and Reg Turner (Policeman) were Ronson and Thal in Genesis of the Daleks
• Oliver Maguire (Martins) was a Shrieve in The Ribos Operation
• Leslie Adams (Man here; Guest in Hannay) was Passenger in Time Flight
• Lewis Alexander (Bystander) and [Alfred Harold] John Doye (Official) both starred in The War Machines, as Army Officer and Interviewer - Doye was also an Extra in The Romans (1), and Cowboy in The Gunfighters
• Peter Childs (Man) was Jack Ward in The Mark of the Rani
• Aileen [Mary] Lewis [born Halsey] (Lady) and Maureen Nelson (Guest) were both Extras on The Silurians (6) - Nelson was also the Bar Girl in The Gunfighters
• John [Ernest Clotworthy] Moore (Diner) was a Prisoner in Frontier in Space (3)
• Mike Reynell (Servant) was an Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, and Kaled Scientist in Genesis of the Daleks (6)
• Del Watson (Man) was an Alien Guard and Crimean Soldier in The War Games
• John [Kenneth] Tatham (Committee) was Villager/Coven member in The Daemons
• Jill Goldston (Nun) was an Extra in The Masque of Mandragora (4), and Peasant in State of Decay (1)
• Rita Tobin Weske (Nun) was the Cleaner in The Talons of Weng-Chiang (3)