Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 29

The latest run of BBC Studios' evergreen crime drama concluded last

night - it starred Emilia

Fox (now the veteran of 212 episodes since

2004) and David Caves,

as doctors Nikki

Alexander and Jack

Hodgson. The Home

Office forensic path-

ologists (now based at

the Bowman Centre in

Birmingham) were again

joined by Maggie Steed

and Francesca Mills, as

Harriet Maven and Kit

Brooks. Silent Witness has been recommissioned for an anniversary season.

This ten part series featured Jane Slavin, and a total of twenty-three Doctor

Who cast and crew connections:

The Disappearance of Alice Hill (UK TX: February 2/3)

• for Fox see Series 8 and for Steed see Series 28
• Sophie [Lisa] Hopkins (Alice) was April MacLean in Class
• Adam Rayner (Booth) was Roger Curbishley in The Unicorn and the Wasp
• Tony Gardner (Hill) voiced Stapleton Petherbridge for Big Finish's The Wrong Doctors (2013), then was Douglas in The Pyramid at the End of the World

Creekwood (TX: February 9/10)

• Lydia Wilson (DI Moss) voiced Maddy for Goth Opera (2024)
• Rachel Atkins (Barbara) voiced Queen Aethelfrid/Dr. Angeline Duchamp for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Lieutenant Jane Lucas for The Screaming Skull (2014), Sol for Intervention Earth, Susannah for The Tears of Isis (both 2015), Bishop for Maurice, Madame Sosostris for Masterpiece, Juno for Maker of Demons, Myla for The Age of Endurance (all 2016), Minister for Embankment Station, Major Destra for The Good Master (both 2017), Margot for Goodbye Piccadilly (2018), Ro-Jedda for Torchwood (2019), Zarda for Do No Harm, Governor Crompton for Like, Sarathin for The Enemy of My Enemy (all 2020), Cathrin Travers for Faustian, Dresha for Colony of Fear (both 2021), and Captain Argento for Morbius (2024)
• for Joseph Long see Series 6 and for Bern Colllaco see Series 23
• for Steven Forrester see Series 16

The Enemy Within (TX: February 17/18)

• Gerard Kearns (DC Magath) voiced William Hurley for The Peterloo Massacre (2016), and Hjalmar Johansen for Northern Lights (2023)
• George Harris (Nelson) was a stuntman on Lucky Day and Wish World
• Bhasker Patel (Imran) was Jival Chowdry in Turn Left

Grace of God (TX: February 23/24)

• Vinette [Sharon] Robinson (DI Mahler) was Abi Lerner in 42, Rosa Parks in Rosa, and voiced Cynthia Quince for Dead to the World (2015)
• Joplin [Chook] Sibtain (Retford) 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/Koggnossenti for Technophobia (2016)
• Anthony Lewis (Altman) voiced Raymond Scobie for Animal (2011)
• Barry Aird (Jarvis) was a Time Lord Soldier in The Last Day, then voiced Operator Rellak for Revolution in Space (2024)
• Caroline Berry (Brenda) was a Dinner Lady in School Reunion

Shame (TX: March 2/3)

• John Heffernan (Burns) voiced Vonchef for Revenge of the Swarm (2004), Honos for The Trial of a Time Machine (2018), the Nine for The Crucible of Souls (2016), Companion Piece, The Odds Against, Relative Time (both 2019) and The Dreams of Avarice (2022), and Carson Baylis for The Ministry of Death (2026)
• Lucy [Anne] Cohu (Helen) was Alice Carter in Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Harry Kershaw (Pike) voiced Narthex for The Abyss (2022)
• Ayesha Dharker (Banerjee) was Solana Mercurio in Planet of the Ood
• Quanna Luo Masterson ( ) voiced Carla Zheng for The Worst of All Evils (2025), and was Reporter in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• for Sean Gilder see Series 18

Doctor Who Vs. Spooks: Code 9

David Wolstencroft, the American-born TV writer
and creator of the long-running Spooks (2002
to 2011), conceived this spin-off drama series
for BBC Three.
Again produced by Kudos, the six-part thriller
was intended to offer a new, "more maverick
perspective" for a younger audience.

Despite it's origins, the new series held no
character or plot connections to the parent 
programme, and instead focused on the story
of six young MI5 recruits. 

Set in 2012, the show opened in the after-
math of a nuclear attack on the London
Olympics. The subsequent evacuation of the
capital and the South East of England meant
that the government had relocated to
Manchester, and new MI5 agents were now
tasked with preventing further terror
attacks.

Spooks: Code 9 originally aired from August
2008, then was repeated on BBC HD in June
2009, and latterly on Forces TV in February 2018 - it featured Georgia
Moffett (pictured as Kylie), and a total of sixteen other Doctor Who cast
and crew connections:

• Anthony Flanagan (Tom) was Orin Scannell in 42
• Big Finish actor Warren Brown (Luke) voiced Stephen Gibson for Industrial Evolution (2011), Rufus Stone and To'Koth for Signs and Wonders (2014), and Lieutenant Sam Bishop for UNIT: Extinction (2015), UNIT: Shutdown, UNIT: Silenced (both 2016), UNIT: Assembled (2017), UNIT: Cyber Reality and Lady Christina (both 2018) - he was also Jake Willis in Praxeus
• Andrew Knott (Rob) voiced James O'Meara for 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (2013), and Sean Casey for The White Room (2014)
• Lorraine Burroughs (Simone) was Thalina in The Fires of Pompeii
• Lucinda Dryzek (Alice) was Melissa in School Reunion
• Chris Finch (Conlan) was a Time Lord Soldier in The Day of the Doctor and the Prequel: The Last Day
• Eva Pope (Hamilton) voiced Nia Brusk for Army of Death (2011)
• Darryl Clark (Norris) was Officer Will in Resolution
• Dean Forster was also a stuntman on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, Smith and Jones, Voyage of the Damned, The Next Doctor, Cold Blood, A Good Man Goes to War, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Crispin Layfield was also the stunt co-ordinator on the revived series (from Smith and Jones to the present)
• sound editor Helen Dickson was foley editor on all thirteen episodes of Series 5, and twelve instalments of The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Matt Wood (VFX supervisor) and Gary Kelly (digital compositor) were both tasked with The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe and The Power of Three - Wood also worked on A Town Called Mercy
• line producer Patrick Schweitzer first worked on the revived series as location manager on The Runaway Bride, then was production manager on six stories for Series 3, and produced all of Series 5
• James Moran was writer of The Fires of Pompeii too
• Toby Haynes was also director of The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang, A Christmas Carol, The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon