Doctor Who Vs. Agatha Christie's Marple: Series 6

Julia McKenzie returned as Jane Marple for the last

season of ITV's period crime drama. The first case

was based on the Queen of Crime's fifty-fifth novel

(published in 1964), and was the third TV version of

A Caribbean Mystery.

Part two was adapted from a short-story that first

appeared in 1960's The Adventure of the Christmas

Pudding - it combined the plot of The Thumb Mark of St. Peter (from an earlier anthology of 1932) with the

original narrative of Greenshaw's Folly.

Repeated on ITV3 today, the final mystery did not

 originally feature Marple - the book (issued in 1967,

 and one of the author's favourites) was also drama-

tised for cinema (in 1972), and Radio 4 (2008).

When it was announced that the BBC had acquired

the rights for the production of further Christie

adaptations in 2014, ITV Studios effectively axed

Marple. The network's Poirot series also concluded in

late 2013 after fourteen years. The Corporation has subsequently shown new versions of Partners in

Crime, And Then There Were None, Witness for the

Prosecution, The ABC Murders, Ordeal by Innocence,

The Pale Horse, Murder is Easy, and latterly Towards

Zero. 2017 saw Channel 5's Crooked House, and the second film version of Murder on the Orient Express, whilst the reworked

Death on the Nile and Why Didn't They Ask Evans? soon followed.

A Haunting in Venice (2023) was based on Hallowe'en Party. Seven Dials

was released on Netflix last month, whilst Britbox's modern-day iteration

of Tommy & Tuppence is now in production.

This final run of Marple featured a total of twenty-seven Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

A Caribbean Mystery (UK TX: June 16 2013)

• for director Charles Palmer see The Murder at the Vicarage
• Big Finish actor Warren [Martin] Brown (Jackson) was Jake Willis in Praxeus - he voiced Stephen Gibson for Industrial Evolution, Johnny Skipton for Dead Men's Tales (both 2011), Rufus Stone/To'Koth for Signs & Wonders (2014), then Lieutenant Sam Bishop for UNIT: Extinction (2015), UNIT: Shutdown, UNIT: Silenced (both 2016), UNIT: Assembled (2017), UNIT: Cyber Reality, Lady Christina 1 (both 2018), UNIT: Incursions (2019), Lady Christina 2 (2021), Way of the Burryman and The Forth Generation (both 2022)
• Charity [Rose] Wakefield (Molly) was Lucy Fletcher in The Return of Doctor Mysterio
• Pippa Bennett Warner (Victoria) was Saibra in Time Heist, Narrator of Helena and the Beast (2015), Bill and the Three Jackets and Twelve Angels Weeping, then voiced the Deterrent for The Furies, Ruzalla for Ravenous 1, Livia Caralis for Gallifrey: Time War (all 2018), The War Master 4 (2019) and Time War 4, Fliss Keeley for The Trojan Daleks (both 2021), and Cleopatra for The Last Queen of the Nile (2025)
• Robert Webb (Kendall) provided the voice of Robot 2 for Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Alastair Mackenzie (Hillingdon here; Ferguson in Death on the Nile, 2004) voiced Julian St. Stephen for Counter Measures 1 (2012), and Adric Traken for Prisoners of Fate (2013) and The Entropy Plague (2015)
• Hermione [Jane] Norris (Evelyn here; Celestine in The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan; Hermia in The Pale Horse, 1997) was Captain Lundvik in Kill the Moon
• MyAnna [Margaretha] Buring [Rantapáá] (Lucky) was Scooti Manista in The Impossible Planet
• Matthew Tabern was also film editor on both 2007 seasons of the revived run and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Greenshaw's Folly (UK TX: June 23 2013)

• Julia Sawalha (Mrs. Cresswell) was Emma in The Curse of Fatal Death
• Joanna David [born Hacking] (Grace here; Emma in 4.50 From Paddington, 1987; Claire in The Red Signal; Wilhelmina for Dumb Witness, 2006) voiced Mrs. Audley for AudioGo's The Broken Crown (2011)
• Rbert Glenister (Brophy) was Salateen in The Caves of Androzani, then Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror, and voiced Aboresh for Absolution (2007), and Eliot for Signal and I'll Come to You (2024)
• Oscar Pearce (Oxley) voiced the Captain for Counter Measures 4 (2015), Captain Ted Mears for The Auton Infinity (2022), and Cicerone 1 for Worlds Beyond (2024)
• Sean Clayton was also the second assistant director on Dalek and Father's Day
• Paul Kennington was also a stuntman on Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday and The Doctor's Daughter 
• Tom Lucy was also the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen stories (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor) and Torchwood

Endless Night (UK TX: December 29 2013)

• Janet Henfrey (Mrs. Lee) was Miss Hardaker in The Curse of Fenric, Mrs. Pitt in Mummy on the Orient Express, the Adjudicator in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor, and voiced Mrs. Vangaurd for The Spirit Trap (2010), Dr. Petherbridge for An Eye for Murder, Mrs. Jefferies for The Concrete Cage (both 2014), Dorothy for The Screaming Ceiling (2019), Sister Magdalene for Abbey of Heretics (2020), Verkuvia for The Day of the Comet (2021), and Narrata for Morbius 1 (2024)
• Celyn Jones (DS Keene) voiced Geraint for The Lady of the Lake
• Aneurin Barnard (Hayman) voiced Antan/Taker for The Whispering Forest (2010), then was Roger ap Gwilliam in 73 Yards and Empire of Death
• Tamzin [Maria] Outhwaite (Mrs. Rogers) was the Captain in Nightmare in Silver, then voiced Morton for Secrets of Telos (2022), and Joan Stone for The Hellwood Inheritance (2025)
• William Hope (Lippincott) voiced General Tillington for Renaissance of the Daleks (2007)
• Glynis Barber [born van der Riet] (Cora here; Julia in A Murder is Announced, 1979; Unknown in And Then There Were None, 1987; Lola in The Mirrror Crack'd from Side to Side, 1992; Salome in Death on the Nile, 2025) voiced Kathy Blake for The Sinestran Kill (2019), and Nicholaa de la Haye for The Outlaws (2022)
• [Anne Gwendoline] Wendy Craig (Marjorie here; Mrs. Gardener in Evil Under the Sun, 1998) voiced Shonnath for Fugitive in Time (2019), Queen Elizabeth I for The Hollow Crown, Martha Malvani for The Gulf (both 2021), Bette for Auld Lang Syne (2022), and Older Maddie Mortimer for The Diary of River Song 11 (2023)
• Erick Hayden (Jayne) was Sorensson in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
• for Stephen Churchett see The Murder at the Vicarage
• Alan Bond (Guest) was a UNIT Soldier in The Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords and Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Balazs Bolygo was also cinematographer on The Rebel Flesh, The Almost People and Closing Time

Doctor Who Vs. The Alienist, Series 1

In the 19th century, persons suffering from mental illness were

thought to be alienated from their own natures. Experts who

studied them were therefore known as alienists.

Paramount Television and Anonymous Content announced plant to

adapt Caleb Carr's 1994 historical thriller of the same name in 2015,

but this subsequent period drama debuted on TNT in January 2018,

then was acquired by Netflix. A sequel, Angel of Darkness, followed

in 2020.

Daniel Bruhl was cast as the titular psychiatrist, Dr. Kreizler (pictured

right) - he was joined by Luke Evans (as John Moore), and Dakota

Fanning (Sara Howard).

The ten-part thriller (set in the New York of 1896) debuted on the

rebranded U (formerly UKTV) TV streaming platform this week - it

featured David Warner, Christopher Naylor, and twenty-eight

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Steven Pacey (Van Bergen) voiced Trevor for Big Finish's The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (2008), then was Narrator of The Secret Invasion (2020) and The Kairos Ring (2021)
• Ignatius Anthony (Graves) voiced Lee for The Blood Furnace, Gorrister for The Silurian Candidate (both 2017), and Pa Scarrity for Family Matters  (2020)
• Maria Teresa Creasey (Mother) voiced Dr. Abigail Crane for The House of Kingdom (2021), and Beatrice Stewart for Fallen Heroes (2025)
• Clare Calbraith (Mrs. Zweig) voiced Trooper for Urban Myths, Maria for Son of the Dragon (both 2007), Starling for The Phoenix Strain (2016), and Orla for The Blood Furnace
• Katie Brayben (Edith) was Ellie in Oxygen
• Tate Pitchie Cooper (Fatima) was the Young Landlord in Knock Knock
• William Gaminara (MacLeod) voiced Lord Alfred de Souza for Lady Christina 1 (2018), and Engineer Terson for Chase the Night (2020)
• Nicholas Asbury (Dr. Tuthill) voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Anthony Burmaster for UNIT: Assembled, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (both 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, and Hari Ventross for Kaldor Nights (both 2022), then was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion
• Gerald Tyler (Matchett) voiced Marco Fendelman for Night of the Fendahl (2019)
• Tim [born Michael John Leigh] Barlow (Knezler) was Tyssan in Destiny of the Daleks
• Richard Bremmer (Mortician) voiced General Hemmings/Valcon/Taxi driver for The Valley of Death (2011), and Old Beowulf for Black and White (2012)
• Corey [John] Johnson (Weaver) was Henry Van Statten in Dalek
• Jonathan Stones Fewings (Blunt) was the Male Programmer [Davitch Pavale] in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, and voiced Major Wheatley for Hounded (2016)
• Michael Jibson (Fuller) voiced Corporal Gibbs for Big Finish's The Forsaken (2015)
• Robert Gill (Hatter) voiced Lycurgus for The Big Blue Box (2019)
• Anson Boon (Hall Boy) voiced Peter Dillard for Class 2 (2018)
• Max Fincham (Thomas) was Lad in The Star Beast
• Ronan [David Jackson] Vibert (Murray) was Professor Skinner in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Last Sontaran, and voiced Ravener for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016), and Zaal for The Perfect Prisoners (2019)
• Ania Marson (Effie) voiced Victoria for Inseparable (2025)
• Lewis McGowan (Boot black) was Judy's brother in The Eaters of Light
• David Langham (Harper) was a Guard in Robot of Sherwood, then voiced Kramp/Tau Ceti for Run (2023)
• James Hawes was also director of The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• Jamie Payne was also director of Hide and The Time of the Doctor
• Gavin Struthers was cinematographer on The Power of Three too
• Philip Kloss was also film editor on The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The End of Time, Torch, Torchwood and An Adventure in Space and Time
• Nick Arthurs was film editor on Hide too
• Karl Probert was also supervising art director on The Doctor's Wife, Night Terrors and The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• set decorator Holly Thurman was production buyer on fourteen stories (from A Town Called Mercy to Time Heist)