Doctor Who Vs. Agatha Christie's Poirot, Series 13

The thirteenth and final series of ITV's
acclaimed period crime drama concluded
with Curtain - based on the Queen of
Crime's last novel. Written in the early
1940's (but only published in 1975 just
before the author's death), Poirot's Last 
Case returned the detective and Captain
Hastings to Styles, the setting of the

writer's debut novel.

David Suchet reprised his definitive port-

rayal of Hercule Poirot, whilst Hugh Fraser (Hastings), Philip Jackson (Japp), Pauline

Moran (Miss Lemon), and Zoe Wanamaker

(Ariadne Oliver) all returned.

A repeat run of the five cases began on

ITV3 last night - the complete run featured

Shaun Dingwall, and a total of forty-four

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Elephants Can Remember
(TX: June 9 2013/Published 1972)

• Iain [Alan Sutherland] Glen (Willoughby here; Redfern for Evil Under the Sun, 1998; Trotter in The Mousetrap, 2012) was Father Octavian in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Annabel Mullion (Lady Ravenscroft) voiced Julia for Big Finish's The English Way of Death (2015)
• Ferdinand Kingsley (Burton-Cox) was Captain Neville Catchlove in Empress of Mars
• Adrian Lukis (Ravenscroft here; Kendal in A Caribbean Mystery, 1989) 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), and Ansillon for Blood of the Time Lords (2022)
• Maxine Evans (Mrs. Buckle) voiced Renucha for Mother Tongue (2020), then was Lowri Palin in 73 Yards  
• Sophie Holt (Extra) depicted actress Jackie Lane in An Adventure in Space and Time
• for Danny Webb see The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
• Stephanie Carey was also stunt performer on ten stories (from Voyage of the Damned to The Vanquishers)
• for Marcus Catlin see Taken at the Flood

The Big Four (TX: October 23/Published 1927)

• for writers Mark Gatiss and Ian Hallard see Series 11
• Sarah Parish (Flossie here; Evie in Sleeping Murder, 2006) was the Empress of the Racnoss in The Runaway Bride
• Peter Symonds (Whalley here; Hurstall in Towards Zero) was a Soldier in (part 3 of) Terror of the Zygons
• Steven Pacey (Paynter) voiced Trevor for The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (2008), and was Narrator of BBC Audio's The Secret Invasion (2020) and The Kairos Ring (2021)
• Teresa Banham (Diana) was the Prison Governor in The End of Time, then voiced Mrs. Bartholomew/Angelica for Jago and Litefoot 13 (2017)
• James Carroll Jordan (Ryland) voiced Major Vincent Da Costa/Herger for Shield of the Jotunn (2015), and Charles Virgil McLean for The Gift (2016) 
• Nicholas Burns (DI Meadows here; Britten in At Bertram's Hotel, 2007) was Lord Sutcliffe in Thin Ice
• for David Yelland see Murder in the Mews

Dead Man's Folly (TX: October 30/Published 1956)

• Martin Jarvis (Warburton here; Narrator of The Moving Finger, 2007 and Harley Quin, 2009-11; Hogg in The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, 2010) and Rosalind Ayres (Mrs. Warburton) 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
• Tom [John] Ellis (DI Bland) was Dr. Thomas Mulligan in Last of the Time Lords 
• Sam [born Roger Michael] Kelly (Merdell) voiced Eugene Tacitus for The Holy Terror (2000), and Acheron for Return to the Web Planet (2007)
• Sean [Carl] Pertwee (Stubbs here; Oglander in The King of Clubs; Griffith in The Moving Finger, 2006; DI Lejeune in The Pale Horse, 2020) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors
• Rebecca [Louise] Front (Miss Brewis here; Marcia for The £199 Adventure; Narrator of The Man in the Brown Suit) was Colonel Walsh in The Zygon Invasion, and voiced Major Takol for The Mind's Eye (2007), Patricia Walton for The Jupiter Conjunction (2012), and Tara for Together in Electric Dreams (2022)
• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (DS Hoskins) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the titular role for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Daniel Weyman TV (Legge) voiced Ragan Crezzen for The Butcher of Brisbane (2012)
• Richard Dixon (Henden here; Rowlandson in A Murder is Announced, 2005; Cayman in Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, 2022) voiced DI Alan Probert for The Dreams of Avarice (2022)
• Francesca Zoutewelle (Hiker) voiced H-One/H-Two/Mission Captain for The Furies (2018)
• Kevin Hudson (Policeman) was a Cyberman in thirteen episodes (from The Long Game to Ascension of the Cybermen), Technician in Bad Wolf, Escort in New Earth, Delivery Man in The Idiot's Lantern, Ood in The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood and The End of Time, Surgeon in Smith and Jones, Pigman in Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks, UNIT Soldier in Last of the Time Lords and The Day of the Doctor, Dalek in The Magician's Apprentice, and Apple Bill in The Witchfinders

The Labours of Hercules (TX: November 6/Published 1947)

• Morven Christie (Elsie here; Kirsten in Ordeal by Innocence, 2018) was O'Donnell in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Simon [Phillip Hugh] Callow (Dr. Lutz here; Melchett in The Body in the Library, 2004; cast in The Hollow, 2020) was Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead and The Wedding of River Song, and provided the voice of Tree Lorn Acre Blathereen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift, then voiced Don Quixote for The Ingenious Gentlemen (2025)
• Rupert Evans (Waring) voiced Jack Maddocks for The Forgotten Village (2014)
• Stephen Frost (Chief Inspector) began his TV career as a Tharil in Warriors' Gate, then voiced Rondig/Pod for Saviour (2021)
• Tom Chadbon (Dr. Burton) was Duggan in City of Death, and Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet, then voiced Forrest for BBV Productions' Conduct Unbecoming (2000), Will Sullivan for Sarah Jane Smith (2006), Gordon Davidson for No More Lies (2007), and Embery for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016)
• Eleanor Tomlinson (Alice here; Mary in Ordeal by Innocence, 2018) was Eve in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic
• Orla Brady (Countess) was Tasha Lem in The Time of the Doctor
• Isobel Middleton (WPC) provided the voice of Almak for Demons of the Punjab
• for Patrick Ryecart see Dumb Witness

Curtain (TX: November 13)

• Hettie Macdonald was also director of Blink, The Doctor's Meditation, The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar
• John [Ronald Leon] Standing (Luttrell) voiced Fenric for Gods and Monsters (2012), and Professor Threadstone for Vampire of the Mind (2016)
• Anne Reid (Daisy here; Sister Agnes in Nemesis, 2009) was Nurse Crane in The Curse of Fenric, and Florence Finnegan in Smith and Jones
• Matthew McNulty (Allerton) was Adam Lang in Praxeus
• Anna Madeley (Barbara here; Adele in A Pocket Full of Rye, 2008) voiced Laura Lyons for The Monstrous Menagerie (2014)
• for Sean Clayton see Murder on the Links

Doctor Who On This Day #211

1965 - The Daleks, Episode 4: The Ambush

and The Aztecs, Episodes 2 and 3 all

epeated on ABC

1968 - The Faceless Ones, Episode

6 repeated on ABC

1971 - Spearhead from Space, Episode

4 repeated on BBC1

1978 - Genesis of the Daleks, Part 2

repeated on ABC

1979 - The Monster of Peladon, Parts 5 and 6 and

Planet of the Spiders, Part 2 all repeated on ABC

1980 - Genesis of the Daleks, Part 6 repeated on

WTTW 11; and The Power of Kroll, Part 3 and The

Armageddon Factor, Part 1 both repeated on ABC

1981 - Horror of Fang Rock, Part 2 repeated on

KQED Plus

1982 Logopolis, Part 4 repeated on

KQED Plus

1983 - Horror of Fang Rock, Part 4

repeated on KQED Plus 

1984 - The Creature from the Pit Omnibus

repeatd on WTTW 11

1985 - Frontier in Space, Episode 4

repeated on KQED Plus

1986 - Warriors of the Deep, Part 1

repeated on KQED Plus

1987 - Revenge of the Cybermen, Part

4 repeated on Super Channel (UK)

1988 - The Seeds of Doom, Part 1 repeated on Super 

Channel; The Visitation, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated

on ABC; and Enlightenment, Part 4 repeated on KQED

Plus

1989 - Spearhead from Space Omnibus repeated on

KQED Plus; and Horror of Fang Rock, Parts 1 and 2

both repeated on Super Channel

1990 - The Armageddon Factor, Part

4 repeated on ABC

1991 - The Brain of Morbius, Part 1 repeated

on TV de Galicia; and Four to Doomsday, Part

4 repeated on  KQED Plus

1992 - Death to the Daleks, Part 3

repeated on KQED Plus

1993 - The Daemons, Episode 2 repeated

on UK Gold; and The Curse of Fenric, Part 

1 repeated on RTL TV

1994 - The Armageddon Factor Omnibus

repeated on KQED Plus

1995 - The Time Warrior Omnibus

repeated on UK Gold

1997 - The Seeds of Doom, Part 3 repeated on UK Gold; 

and The Hand of Fear, Part 1 repeated on UKTV (Aus)

1998 - The War Machines, Episode 2 repeated on Space;

and Ghost Light, Part 2 repeated on UKTV (Aus)

1999 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode 4 repeated

on Space and Omnibus repeated on BBC Choice; Genesis

of the Daleks, Part 6, The Curse of Fenric, Part 4 and The

Antique Doctor Who Show all repeated on BBC Choice;

andThe Twin Dilemma, Part 2 repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2000 - The Time Meddler, Episode 4: Checkmate

repeated on Prime; The Curse of Peladon, Episode 

2 repeated on TG4; Terror of the Zygons, 

Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on KBTC; Pyramids

of Mars, Part 2 repeated on KUED; The Android

Invasion, Part 4 and The Brain of Morbius, Part

1 both repeated on WCET; The Seeds of Doom,

Parts 3 and 4 both repeated 

on NHPTV; The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Part 2 repeated on Twin Cities 

PTV and Part 6 repeated on WQED; Horror of Fang Rock, Part 2 repeated 

on Lakeshore PTV; The Invisible Enemy, Part 1 repeated on WQED; The 

Invasion of Time, Parts 5 and 6 both repeated on Colorado PTV; Full 

Circle, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on MiND; The Keeper of Traken, 

Part 2 repeated on BBC Prime; Arc of Infinity Omnibus repeated on 

MPT; Revelation of the Daleks, Part 4 (of 4) repeated on WUSF; and 

Ghost Light Omnibus repeated on UK Gold

2001 - The Silurians, Episodes 5 and 6 both repeated

on KQED Plus; and State of Decay, Part 4 repeated on

UKTV (Aus)

2002 - Robot, Part 2 repeated on BBC Kids (Can)

2003 - Revenge of the Cybermen, Part 2 repeated

on Tele 5; and The Stones of Blood, Parts 1 and 2

both repeated on BBC Kids (Can)

2005 - The Mysterious Planet Omnibus repeated on

UK Gold; and Boom Town first screened on ABC1

2006 - The War Games, Episodes 1 to 5 all repeated

on MPT; and Frontier in Space, Episodes 3 and 4

both repeated on KBTC

2007 - The Unquiet Dead and Doctor Who Confidential:

TARDIS Tales both repeated on BBC3; Dalek and New

Earth both repeated on UK Gold; and Bad Wolf first

screened on WTTW 11;

2008 - Death to the Daleks, Part 4 and The Monster

of Peladon, Part 1 both first screened on MTV3; Boom 

Town repeated on UK Gold; and Turn Left and Doctor

Who Confidential: Here Come The Girls both repeated 

on BBC3

2009 - Bad Wolf and Doctor Who Confidential:

The World of Who both repeated on BBC3

2010 - The Empty Child repeated on Syfy (Rus); Boom Town repeated
on UKTV (Aus); The Shakespeare Code and Doctor Who Confidential: 
Stage Fright both repeated on WGVU; The Family of Blood first screened
on Space; The Lodger repeated on Prime; and The Eleventh Hour and
Doctor Who Confidential: Call Me the Doctor both repeated on BBC3

2011 - The Unicorn and the Wasp repeated on ABC1;

and The Big Bang and Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown:

Out of Time both repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2012 - The Mysterious Planet, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated

on Syfy (Aus); Aliens of London repeated on UKTV (Aus);

Dalek repeated on Watch; Forest of the Dead and Midnight

both repeated on BBC America; Victory of the Daleks and

Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown: War Games both

repeated on ABC2; and Greatest Moments: The

Doctor repeated on BBC3
2013 - The Unquiet Dead repeated on France

4; Rise of the Cybermen repeated on ABC2;

The Satan Pit repeated on RAI4; The Lazarus 

Experiment repeated on Watch; Human Nature

 repeated on BBC Entertainment LA; The

Eleventh Hour and The Beast Below both 

repeated on Syfy (Port); Amy's Choice first

screened on Karusel; The Lodger repeated on

Syfy (Ben); The Big Bang repeated on Syfy

(Spa); and Doctor Who Confidential: Monsters

Inc. and 'Ello 'Ello 'Ello both repeated on UKTV

(Aus)

2014 - 100,000 BC, Episodes 1 and 2 both

repeated on Horror; The Robots of Death, Part

2 and The Idiot's Lantern both repeated on Syfy
(Aus); Rise of the Cybermen repeated on YLE TV2; Blink repeated on
Watch; Silence in the Library repeated on RAI4; Turn Left repeated on
TV3 (Spa); Victory of the Daleks repeated on BBC America and Karusel;
The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone both repeated on BBC America;
Amy's Choice repeated on KCPT2; The Hungry Earth repeated on KLRU;
Vincent and the Doctor repeated on Syfy (Port); Dinosaurs

on a Spaceship repeated on WSIU; Hide repeated on Syfy

(Spa); and The Time of the Doctor repeated on BBC

Entertainment LA  HD

2015 - The Sensorites, Episodes 4 and 5 both repeated on Retro TV; 

Horror of Fang Rock, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on Horror; Earthshock,

 Part 2, The End of Time, Parts 1 and 2 all repeated on Syfy (Aus); 

Rise of the Cybermen repeated on Disney XD (US); Smith and Jones 

repeated on Watch; Gridlock and Doctor Who Confidential: Are We There Yet? both repeated on UNC-MX; Journey's End, Part 1 (of 2) first 

screened on FX (Ind); Planet of the Dead repeated on KCPT2; The Girl Who Waited repeated on TV Cultura; The God Complex, Closing 

Time, The Wedding of River Song and Cold War all repeated on BBC 

America, BBC Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD; The Doctor, the Widow 

and the Wardrobe repeated on BBC America; Asylum of the Daleks 

repeated on BBC America, BBC Nordic HD, BBC Polska HD, ABC2 and 

Jeem TV (ME); Hide repeated on BBC Nordic HD; The Crimson Horror

and Doctor Who Confidential: Heartbreak Hotel both repeated 

on BBC Entertainment AP; and Mummy on the Orient Express 

repeated on TLC TV

2016 - The Gunfighters, Episode 1: A Holiday

for the Doctor, Planet of Fire, Parts 3 and 4

and The Caves of Androzani, Parts 1 and 2 all

repeated on Retro TV; The Eleventh Hour, The

Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Time of

Angels, Flesh and Stone and The Husbands of

River Song all repeated on BBC Entertainment

AP; Closing Time, The Wedding of River Song,

The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Asylum

 of the Daleks and Dinosaurs on a Spaceship all

repeated on Syfy (Aus); Day of the Moon The

Curse of the Black Spot, The Doctor's Wife and

The Rebel Flesh all repeated on Syfy (Bra); The

Almost People repeated on BBC Polska HD and

Syfy (Bra); A Good Man Goes to War, Let's Kill

 Hitler, Night Terror and The Girl Who Waited all

repeated on BBC Polska HD; The Angels Take

 Manhattan and The Bells of Saint John both

repeated on BBC Entertainment EU; and Under

the Lake, Before the Flood and The Girl Who

Died all repeated on BBC First (ME)

2017 - The Krotons, Episodes 1 and 2 both repeated on

KBTC; Frontier in Space Omnibus repeated on MPTV; The

Sontaran Experiment Omnibus repeated on WILL; Genesis

of the Daleks, Parts 4 to 6 all repeated on Iowa PTV; The 

Seeds of Doom, Part 1 repeated on KRWG 

and WFWA and Parts 2 to 4 all repeated on WFWA; The Ribos Operation Omnibus repeated on Idaho PTV; The Pirate Planet, 

Part 1 repeated on KPTS; The Stones of Blood repeated on 

WYCC; The Keeper of Traken, Parts 3 and 3 both repeated on

Retro TV and Omnibus repeated on WXXI; Logopolis Omnibus

 and Resurrection of the Daleks, Parts 1 and 2 (of 4) all

repeated on Retro TV; Frontios Omnibus repeated on WSRE;

World War Three repeated on The Box; 42 and Under the

Lake both repeated on Syfy (Aus); Blink, Utopia and The

Sound of Drums repeated on One ARD; Cold War repeated 

on W; Mummy on the Orient Express repeated on TLC

TV; The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived both

 repeated on BBC Entertainment EU; Hell Bent repeated

on BBC Polska HD; The Eaters of Light and World 

Enough and Time both repeated on Syfy (LA); and 

The Return of Doctor Mysterio repeated on BBC First (ME)

2018 - The Twin Dilemma, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated

on 

Retro 

TV; Journey's End and The Next Doctor both

repeated on BBC Polska HD; Extremis repeated on BBC

First (ME); and World Enough and Time repeated on Star

World Premiere

2019 - The Deadly Assassin, Parts 3 and 4 both

r

epeated

 on Retro TV; Kill the Moon repeated on

BBC Polska HD; and The Eaters of Light and World

 Enough and Time both repeated on One ARD

2020 - The Armageddon Factor, Parts 2 and 3 both

repeated on Retro TV; The Beast Below repeated

on BBC Polska HD; The Girl Who Waited repeated

on NRJ12; The Day of the Doctor repeated on BBC

First Turkey; and Spyfall, Part 2 first screened on

Fox (FRG)

2021 - Kerblam! repeated on ABC2

2022 - The Empty Child repeated on ABC2;

and The Big Bang and A Christmas Carol

both repeated on Fox SciFi

2023 - Frontier in Space, Episodes

1 and 2 both repeated on KBTC

2024 - Voyage of the Damned repeated

on ABC Family and ABC Entertains

2025 - Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD

screened on Film4