Doctor Who Vs. Endeavour, Series 1

Produced by Mammoth and Masterpiece for ITV

Studios, this period crime drama was devised as

the prequel to the acclaimed series Inspector

Morse, which ran from 1987 to 2000 and earned

six BAFTA awards. Like Morse and its sequel

series, Lewis (2000 to 2015), Endeavour is set in

Oxford.

Shaun Evans now portrayed the young Endeavour

Morse (created by Colin Dexter), who began his

career as a Detective Constable with the City Police

CID at Cowley in 1965.

Following a successful pilot episode (renamed

Overture with the rebranding of ITVX), the first

full season was originally broadcast in the spring

of 2013 - a repeat run began on ITV3 today.

These five cases featured Roger Allam (as DI Fred

 Thursday), Jack Laskey (DS Jakes), Sean Rigby

(PC Strange), James Bradshaw (Dr. DeBryn),

Anton Lesser (CS Bright), Jamie Glover, and a

total of thirty-nine Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

Pilot (UK TX: January 2 2012)

• Ian Gelder (Tremlett) 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 Dracula/Long John Silver for Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
• Danny Webb (DS Lott here; Pollock in Lewis) was John Jefferson in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Byron for The Girl Who Never Was (2007) and Ori for The Dark Husband (2008)
• Abigail Thaw (Dorothea Frazil) voiced Dr. Phillippa Stone for The Lady of Mercia, Zaadur for Lords of the Red Planet (both 2013), High Vector Salaskin for The War Master 7 (2022), Zanna for 1922: The Black Cadre, and Elena Shishkin for 1974: The Caldwell Restitution (both 2026)
• Maggie Ollerenshaw (Mrs. Crabbin) voiced Audrey McShane for Love and War (2012), Allora for Gallifrey 6 (2013), and Dame Wilhelmina Gussett for The Woman in White (2016)
• Harry Kershaw (Percival) voiced Narthex for The Abyss (2022)
• David Monteath (PC) voiced Herald/Brother Marcus/Farmer Hennok for The Quin Dilemma, and was Narrator of The Ultimate Poe (both 2024)
• Daisy [May] Head (Jenny) voiced Renata for Reformation (2025)
• Colm McCarthy was director of The Bells of Saint John too
• Gavin Struthers was cinematographer on The Power of Three too
• ADR mixer Nick Roberts was sound recordist on The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice, Cold Blood and The Lodger
• SFX supervisor Chris Reynolds was a SFX technician on Terror of the Vervoids and Battlefield
• stunt co-ordinator Stuart Clark was a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways

Girl (UK TX: April 14 2013)

• Edward Bazalgette was also director of The Doctor's Meditation, The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived, The Return of Doctor Mysterio and Class
• Luke [William] Allen Gale (Clark) voiced Joe Carnaby for Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories (2019)
• Jonathan Guy Lewis (Monkford) voiced Marcus Bray for After the Daleks (2021)
• Albert Welling (Clark here; Stoneley in Morse: The Last Enemy) was the Fuhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
• Greg Bennett (Constable here & Lewis) was Guard in Dalek, UNIT Soldier/Sycorax Warrior in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
• John Flanagan (Greaves here; Mangold in Lewis) co-wrote Meglos
• Stephan Pehrsson was also the cinematographer on ten stories (from The Pandorica Opens to The Crimson Horror)
• Kiaran Murray-Smith was also first assistant director on Amy's Choice and The Lodger
• Tom Lucy was also the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen stories (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)

Fugue (UK TX: April 21)

• Joanna Horton (Linda here; Selina in Harvest) voiced Brooke 1 for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
• Lex [Alexander Carey] Shrapnel (Adamson) voiced Robin Marshall for Shadow of the Past, and Toby for The Spirit Trap (both 2010)
• Robin Soans (Straker here; McBryde in The Way Through the Woods) was Luvic in The Keeper of Traken, and the Chronolock Guy in Face the Raven
• Michelle Morris (Neighbour) was School Secretary in Into the Dalek, and voiced Brenna for The Invention of Death (2018)
• Laura Rees (Faye) voiced Kaymee Arnod for Dalek Empire 3 (2003), Tyrus for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016), and Deborah/Major Harris for The Bad Penny (2018)
• Kelly Price (Evelyn) voiced Queen Meta for Genesis of the Cybermen (2025)
• Claire Vousden (Miss Crane) voiced the First Elder/Investigator for Sphere of Influence (2020)

Rocket (UK TX: April 28)

• Martin Jarvis (Broom here; Rees in Greeks Bearing Gifts) 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)
• James Northcote (Broom) voiced Freddie Trewella for The Miracle of Pendour Cove (2025)
• Craige Els (Worker) was Karvanista in Flux, and Chief in Legend of the Sea Devils
• John Pardue was cinematographer on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Daniel Bishop (here & Ride) was steadicam operator on The Husbands of River Song too

Home (UK TX: May 5)

• Lloyd McGuire (Ayres) was Lugo in The Face of Evil
• Clive Wood (Kasper) was the Roman Commander in The Pandorica Opens, then voiced Commander Rugosa for The Rosemariners (2012), Dibbsworth for Peepshow (2019), Bird for Must See TV (2020) and Stranded 4, Daddy Dominus/Clubwell for For the Glory of Urth (both 2021), and Director Draaga for Dominant Species (2024)
• Poppy Miller (Millicent) voiced Vykane for The Conservitors, Madame La Chappelle for The Edge of the War (both 2023), Professor Veronica Hays for The Time You Never Had (2025), and Anne for Oil and Water (2026)
• Kelly Adams (Cynthia) voiced Vyx Leeson for Below There (2023)
• film editor Mark Davis edited The Bells of Saint John too

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 19

The nineteenth series of BBC1's

evergreen crime drama (first shown

in early 2016) starred Emilia Fox

and David Caves as doctors Nikki

Alexander and Jack Hodgson. The

 Home Office forensic pathologists

 (based in London's Lyell Centre)

were joined by Clarissa Mullery and

Dr. Thomas Chamberlain, played by

Liz Carr and Richard Lintern.

A repeat run of the ten-part series

began on U&Drama last night - it

featured a total of twenty-four

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

After The Fall (UK TX: January 4 & 5)

• Liza Tarbuck (DI Rankin) voiced Captain Kaliko for The Infinite Quest, and Lysette Barclay for Big Finish's Plague of the Daleks (2009)
• Ariyon [Debo] Bakare (Dawes) was Leandro in The Woman Who Lived, then voiced Father Mendica for The Poison of Peladon, and Cato for The Players (both 2022)
• Dean Lennox Kelly (Carmichael) was the eponymous Bard in The Shakespeare Code
• Joanna Horton (Suzie) voiced Brooke 1 for The Diary of River Song 2 (2018)
• Jonnie [Bernard] Broadbent (Rowland) voiced Various for The Quin Dilemma (2024)
• Sagar Arya (Shah) was a Newsreader in The Christmas Invasion and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Timothy Wood was second assistant director on K9 too
• for David Cann see Series 4

Flight (UK TX: January 11 & 12)

• Richard Senior was also director of Let's Kill Hitler, Space/Time, The Night of the Doctor and Doctor Who at the Proms (2013), then was second unit director on The Day of the Doctor
• Esther [Jane] Hall (DI Ryman) voiced Fortuna for The Galileo Trap (2015), Tazeena/Bauza/Mum for The Two Masters, Pheenan for Absolute Power (both 2016), and Viv/Commentator for The Iron Legion (2019)
• Richard Dillane (DCI Waite) was Captain Carter in Let's Kill Hitler and The Wedding of River Song
• Raji James (Rachid) was Dr. Rajesh Singh in Doomsday and Army of Ghosts
• Janie Booth (Woman) voiced System for The Harvest, Old Woman for Medicinal Purposes (both 2004), and Eve Morris for The Gathering (2006)
• Wanda Opalinska (Alma) voiced the Dockmaster for Magic Bullet's Storm Mine (2004), Nadia Vasney for The Night Witches (2017), Gudrun/Espen for Colony of Strangers, Irinda for Family Matters (both 2020), Dr. Lorna Holmes for Supernature (2023), and Mrs. Denison for Spoil of War (2025)
• series casting director Andy Brierley was casting associate on fifty-eight episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The Big Bang), Music of the Spheres, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Fay Selby was also first assistant director on Asylum of the Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan, Nightmare in Silver and The Day of the Doctor

Life Licence (UK TX: January 18 & 19)

• [Charles] Robert [William] Whitelock (Bright) was Mahler in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Professor Rickett/King Magus/Denyx for Psychodrome, Mulberry Gride for Jago & Litefoot & Patsy (both 2014), Sebastian/Provost Curtis for The Edge, Peter Andrews for The Hidden Realm (both 2016), Bruno Werner/Vagabond/Priest for Better Watch Out and Fairytale of Saltzburg, Artron/Cadrin for Day of the Master (2018), Garth/Thispus for One Mile Down, Machines for Ghost Machines, V12/Skellen/V48/V33 for The Robots 1 (all 2019), Stark/ Prosecutor for Barrister to the Stars, Grolk/Ogrons/Servant for Too Many Masters (both 2020), Bill Lester/Badenhorst for Return of the Cybermen, Kallure/Riggs for Twisted Folklore (both 2021), Jack/Jase Harper for Albie's Angels (2022), Stringer/Skoob for Ice Heist!, Dennis Ward/Commander for The Witching Tree (both 2023), Operator Goole for Revolution in Space, Lazar/Agent 2 for Last Words (both 2024), Typhon for Lost Amongst the Stars (2025), and Alan/Craig for The Second Death of the Daleks (2026)
• Tim Packham (Paaser-by) began his TV career as a Plasmaton in Dimensions in Time
• Niamh Cusack (Sylvie) voiced Clarimonde for Zaltys (2017), and the Oldest for The Eternity Club 2 (2024)
• for Shaun Parkes see Series 8
• Damian Bromley was also the cinematographer on The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone

In Plain Sight (UK TX: January 25 & 26)

• Keith Boak was also director of Rose, Aliens of London and World War Three
• Neil Stuke (DI Cooke here & Series 21: Family) voiced Geoff Corbett for The Crooked Man (2014), then was Lee Clayton in Fugitive of the Judoon

River's Edge (UK TX: February 2 & 3)

• Andrew Forbes (Consultant) was Omril in Full Circle
• Derek [Brian] Griffiths (DS Guillam) voiced Jason Taylor for Brave New World (2008), Xylem Maple Dorm for Death in the New Forest (2018), Annam Henic for Queen of the Mechonoids, Reverend Monty Woolsgrove for The Devil's Hoofprints (both 2021), Golas for Curiosity Shop (2023), and Mathryn for Slow Beasts (2024)

Doctor Who Vs. Coronation Street @ 65, Part 9: 1983-1989

The Street's longest-serving producer, Bill Podmore,

stood down in late 1982, just as

the new edgy, soap opera Brookside launched

on the fledgling Channel 4. Although the rival

show never matched Corrie in popularity or

ratings, the Liverpool-based series did make 

the Street appear dated again.

Mervyn Watson's producership would result

in much behind-the-scenes turmoil, but the

Deirdre Barlow and Mike Baldwin affair story-

line proved to be the most successful to date.

By 1985, many of the programme's core cast

had left, including all of the original cast (bar

William Roache), then the BBC launched its

own flagship serial drama, the twice-weekly

EastEnders. Despite retaining its audience,

Corrie was accused of being old fashioned

yet again, and another new producer, John

Temple, oversaw a makeover.

The return of Podmore for a third and final 

stint as producer in 1987 led to even more 

changes, and the most significant additions to the show came in 1989

with the introduction of a third episode then an omnibus edition. As

the decade ended, Corrie was back at its peak with viewers and critics

alike. The death of Alan Bradley (Mark Eden) in December 1989 was

seen by almost 27 million viewers, the highest ever figure for the

soap, and still the ninth most watched UK broadcast in TV history.

These seven years on the Street featured David Brierly, and a total

of thirty-three Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• [Robert] Micheal Bilton (Pearson) was Charles de Teligny in The Massacre, Collins in Pyramids of Mars, and Time Lord in The Deadly Assassin
• Rachel Laurence (Miss Weatherfield here; Maureen, 1989; DI Chambers, 1993) voiced the Ghost for The Wishing Beast, Bessy/ Barmaid for The Vanity Box (both 2007), and Feldwebel/Computer for The Architects of History (2010)
• Martyn [James] Read (Stanton here; Judge, 2001) was Security Guard in (part 1 of) Silver Nemesis
• Michael [John] Goldie (Statham) was Jack Craddock in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and Elton Laleham in The Wheel in Space 
• Sam [born Roger Michael] Kelly (Challis) voiced Eugene Tacitus for The Holy Terror (2000), and Acheron for Return to the Web Planet (2007)
• Cory Pulman (Mandy) was Kathleen Dudman in The Curse of Fenric
• Ron [Eaglesham] Donachie [born Porter] (Schofield) was a Steward in Tooth and Claw
• Nigel Gregory (Mills) was Sergeant Vince Wilson in K9 and Company
• David Ashton [born Scott] (Birchall) was Kendron in Timelash
• Susan [Elizabeth] Brown (Connie here; Maureen, 2006) was Bridget Spears in Torchwood: Children of Earth - she also voiced Midwife for 100,000 BC, Mary for Bedtime Story (both 2007), Alice Withers for The Eternal Summer, Maud for Castle of Fear, Mrs. Withers/Mrs. Sowerby/ Computer 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 the Death Match (2015)
• Don McCorkindale (Lester) voiced Don Fabrizio for The Ghosts of N-Space, and Porthintus for The Wreck of the World (2017)
• Susan Kyd (Samantha) voiced Emily/Ivy Cobham for The Demons of Red Lodge, and Governor Chaplin for Doing Time (both 2010)
• David Monteath (Knox) voiced Herald/Brother Marcus/Farmer Hennok for The Quin Dilemma (2024)
• Gerald [Maurice] Blake [born Shorts] was also director of The Abominable Snowmen and The Invasion of Time
• Sarah [Jane Abigail] Lancashire (Wendy here; Raquel Woolstenhulme Watts, 1991-96) was Miss Foster (pictured) in Partners in Crime
• [John] Simon Rouse (Farrell here; Woodson, 2013) was Hindle in Kinda, then voiced John Kincaid for The Witch from the Well (2011), Drang for The Paradox Planet and The Legacy of Death (2016), and Frank Kelsey for The Running Men (2024)
• Stephen MacKenna (Baker) was Dennis in The Woman Who Fell to Earth
• Kenneth Waller (Watts) was Hedges in The Invisible Enemy (2)
• Mona Hammond [born Mavis Chin] (Mrs. Armitage) was Rita-Anne in Rise of the Cybermen
• Rob Dixon (Roscoe) voiced Reggie Mead for Project: Twilight (2001), and Sergeant Wood for No Man's Land (2006)
• Jenny Funnell (WPC Morgan) voiced Veronica Buchman for Wirrn Isle (2012), and Reaver for The King of Sontar (2014)
• Michael Sheard [born Donald Marriot Perkins] (Dabner) 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 [Harvey Parson] in Remembrance of the Daleks, and Chief Baxter in Fury from the Deep (2002) - he also voiced Orsino for The Stones of Venice (2001)
• Ann [Margaret Nicholson] Rye (Mrs. Bingley here; Emiline, 2001; Joan, 2003; Wanda, 2004) voiced Lillian Dillane for Nocturne (2007)
• John Arthur (Consultant here; Judge, 2005; Minister, 2010) voiced Cosmo Devine for Invaders from Mars (2002) 
• Julia [Margaret] Deakin (Secretary here; Brenda, 2003) voiced Harriet Griffin for Terror Firma (2005), and Old Anita for Burrowed Time (2019)
• Margaret Ashley (Mrs. Kenworthy) voiced Ingrid for The Hunting Ground (2018)
• Eric Potts (Dearing here; Saxton, 1996; Council Official, 1998; Diggory Compton, 2005/06) was Oliver Charles in Aliens of London
• Rod Arthur (Foreman here; Blood Donor, 1991) was Parsons in School Reunion
• Joan Walker (WPC here; Louise, 2011) voiced Centuria/Ship for Paradoxicide (2011)
• Carol Noakes (WPC here; Sister, 1992) voiced Olerik for The Acheron Pulse (2012)
• James Gaddas (Prescott here; Vinny Sorrell, 1999/2000) voiced Jack Cartwright for The Black Cadre (2026)
• Ling Tai (Student) was an uncredited Tourist in The Leisure Hive (1), Crewmember in Warriors of the Deep, and Shou Yuing in Battlefield
• Siobhan [Margaret] Finneran (Josie here; Verity in Romanian Holiday) was Becka Savage in The Witchfinders

Doctor Who Vs. Single Father

Produced by BBC Scotland (and filmed in

Glasgow, Paisley and Edinburgh), this four-

part drama focused on Dave Tiler (played by

David Tennant), a photographer struggling

to care for his four children after the death 

of his partner, Rita (Laura Fraser) in a traffic

accident. 

Tennant debuted in Big Finish's Doctor Who

range in 2001 (for Colditz), and he recently

reprised the lead role for The Tenth Doctor 

Adventures.

The series was originally shown in October

2010 (and last repeated on the True Enter-

tainment Channel in 2015), and featured
Neve McIntosh, and thirteen further Doctor 
Who cast and crew connections:

• Suranne Jones (Sarah) was the titular antagonist in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge, then depicted Idris in The Doctor's Wife
• Isla Blair (Beatty) was Isabella in The King's Demons, and voiced Paula for Exotron (2007)
• Warren Brown (Matt) voiced Stephen Gibson for Industrial Evolution (2011), Rufus Stone and To'Koth for Signs and 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) and UNIT: Incursions (2019)
• Rupert Grave (Stuart) was John Riddell in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Mark Heap (Robin) voiced the Middleman for The Middle (2017)
• Sanjeev Kohli (Dad) voiced Brother Boyle/Vallot for The Quin Dilemma (2024)
• Sophie Kennedy Clark (Tanya) voiced Mhairi Campbell/the Slips for Wicked! (2025) 
• stunt co-ordinator Paul Heasman was a Nazi in Silver Nemesis, and the stunt arranger on Survival
• Belinda McGinley was also a stunt performer on Amy's Choice and The Girl Who Waited
• stuntman Lee Sheward was a stunt co-ordinator on eleven adventures (from The End of the World to The End of Time), and Torchwood: Miracle Day
• Steve Smith was also a make-up artist on forty-one episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The Waters of Mars), and Music of the Spheres
• sound mixer Brian Milliken was the sound recordist on The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• composer Murray Gold has worked on the revived run (from Rose to Twice Upon a Time)