The film The Rainbow stars Paul McGann, Christopher Gable (Shirez Jek) & Judith Paris (Eldrad)
Boy, where do I start?
William Hartnell was in "The Mouse That Roared." He had a couple of good scenes with Peter Sellers.
Patrick Troughton was in the awful move "The Omen." I think he gets killed.
Jon Pertwee was in the film version of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." He was supposed to take over Phil Silvers role when Silvers backed out, but Silvers changed his mind at the last minute. It's a shame; Pertwee had played the role on the London stage.
T. Baker, as we probably all know, was in "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad", playing the bad guy. Great flick.
P. Davisson was in the series "All Things Great and Small" for many years. He reminds me very much of Niles from "Frazier" (retroactively, any way).
Sylvester McCoy has a small but juicy role in the recent BBC/A&E coproduction of "Tom Jones."
Nicola Bryant was hilarious in "Blackadder's Christmas Carol", playing Ebeneezer Blackadder's obnoxious neice.
Louise Jameson's been seen recently on "EastEnders", playing Rosa DiMarco. She's off the air in England, but we're just starting to see these episodes in the US.
If you look hard, you can see William "Ian" Russell as the 8th Elder in "Superman."
I believe Wendy "Zoe" Padbury shows a bit of skin in the horror film "Satan's Skin." Anthony "Master" Ainley is in there, too (clothed, I hope).
How's this for an odd combo--Caroline "Liz Shaw" Johns was in the 1982 mini-series version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles. This version starred none other than Tom Baker as Holmes!
Carole Ann "Susan" Ford has a small roles in 1962's "The Day of the Triffids."
The series with Peter Davison in was actually called All Creatures Great and Small.
Colin Baker made an excellent OTT villain in the Blake's 7 episode City at the Edge of the World. Valentine Dyall (the Black Guardian) and John J Carney (Bloodaxe from The Time Warrior) were also in it alongside Blake regulars Paul Darrow (The Silurians, Timelash) and Michael Keating (The Sunmakers). Rumour has it that Paul Darrow's over acting in Timelash was his way of 'paying back' Colin Baker for his over acting in this episode. There are lots of other actors who appeared in both series
Good feedback, DWM recently has had a quiz where it names a few characters from differnt stories & asks you to work out the link between them. The answer has often been that the actors playing them have appeared together in another production.
Tom Baker played a legless, large-bottom obsessed sailor in Blackadder II
I bought Olivier's Hamlet on tape in the late 80s, but only now that I've replaced it on DVD do I discover that Troughton's in it.
The Official reference books such as Doctor Who:The Sixties along with the various Handbooks on the Doctors are great sources for additional
filmography and background of the actors.
The Companions includes THAT pic of Katey and the
Dalek!
'My life as a Dalek'
It's 40 years since the Daleks first menaced Doctor Who. Here, actor John Scott Martin recalls his time as an arch-enemy of the Time Lord.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2780177.stm
Ken Russell's film of DH Lawrence's The Rainbow (1988) features a young Paul McGann alongside Christopher 'Shirez Jek' Gable & Judith 'Eldrad' Paris. I could compare the whole cast list with the actors directory in the Terrestial Index but don't have time.
A good place to see people who've been in Doctor Who is probably the dole office, haw haw haw!
Nah, but seriously. I've noticed lately that Derek Deadman (Stor from 'Invasion of Time') seems to pop up in some fairly big films in tiny, mostly missable parts... 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves', 'Brazil', 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', 'National Lampoon's European Vacation', etc, etc.
Tom Baker's now appearing in a "Crystal Maze" type show called "Fort Boyard", playing a character called "The Professor" !
(He replaced Geffory Bayldon).
Currently, the series is only available on Digital Satellite/Cable in the U.K, on the Challenge Channel (At The Moment), but will turn up on Channel 5 eventually!
>> but will turn up on Channel 5 eventually! >>
Don't be so sure - this is a Challenge TV-made production, as opposed to the previous series, which was a production C5 bought.
Time for some updating. Christopher Eccleston starred in the RTD-penned Second Coming which was very good. He also appeared in early episodes of Cracker with so much hair he's hard to recognize until he speaks. Of course, Tennent shared title billing with Peter O'Toole in RTD's Casanova. I know he was in one of the Harry Potter movies too but I'll need to let someone else say which one.
And I forgot Tennant in Bright Young Things, an adaptation of Waugh's Vile Young Bodies. The movie was enjoyable though the book was better.
Old episodes of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes are running on ITV3 in the UK at present. In the opening credits, about 16 seconds in, isn't that Ian Marter as the right-hand of the two newspaper vendors?
Looks similar but, from the youtube quality at least, a bit too young.
Two quick things here:
First: no one has mentioned that Patrick Troughton was in "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger"--he palyed a wise man(wizard?) named something like Melantheus(?)-who was Tyreen(?) Powers daughter.
Second:am I the first to notice that this is a section where our dear Emily has yet to post????
Ive done it-at last I've beaten Emily somewhere!!!!
Congratulations. Yeah, this isn't exactly my kinda section. I disapprove of watching anything but Who. I disapprove even more of Who actors prostituting themselves in lesser programmes. (Obviously it's different if RTG happened to be responsible for Casanova or Second Coming, as they count as Who auditions...)
Geez, Emily, did your TV set just gather dust and cobwebs in the sixteen years the Doctor was off the air?
Not once I'd discovered the Living Miracle that was the video machine...
Just finished watching the 1963 version of The Haunting on TCM (Turner Classic Movies). One of the stars of this horror classic is Clair Bloom, who played the Doctor's mother (according to RTD) in The End Of Time).
Elizabeth White, who played Alica, the maid who fainted when she saw Lady Vastra and Strax, played the Woman In Black in the movie of the same name (starring Daniel Ratcliffe of Harry Potter fame). The WIB is a character very different from Alice, it's a good and scary movie. Check it out.
I Claudius has a lot of actors in it that have appeared in Doctor Who over the years.
Channel 4's Teachers has had at least three main cast members who've appeared in new Who (one per Doctor in fact), but it also has the most annoying line where the Simon character returns to series and meets the character who replaced him, which he likens to every time the Doctor changes, he comes back and confronts his replacement.
WTF??
Julian Glover turned up on an episode of the British series Atlantis that aired in Canada last night (Alexander Siddig, who played Dr. Bashir on DS9, played Midos, King of Atlantis, on this show).
Pffft- Julian Glover has been a supporting actor on Game of Thrones for three seasons now...
Since I've never seen Game Of Thrones, I had no idea?
Good start, but keep working on your Emily impression. Try something like 'What is this Game of Thrones thing?
Hey! A Game of Thrones (or, to be more accurate, A Song of Ice and Fire) are my favourite books! For over a decade before they decided to cover 'em with naked prostitutes and wave a camera at 'em...
Wait wait wait!!! Is Emily watching a show CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION that ISN'T Doctor Who??!!!
I am, strangely I admit, not all that surprised.
I'm almost crying tears of happiness that not only has Emily ventured outside of the Whoniverse but to a show as awesome as Game of Thrones.
Now to convince her to watch "Breaking Bad" (even though that just wrapped up)
Good start, but keep working on your Emily impression. Try something like 'What is this Game of Thrones thing?
I HAVE heard of GOT, I've just never bothered watching it.
Is Emily watching a show CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION that ISN'T Doctor Who??!!!
Satan: Brrrrrrrr! It's gotten cold here in Hell for some reason
King Ralph has both the War Doctor and Jackie Tyler, IIRC.
King Ralph has both the War Doctor and Jackie Tyler
When I first saw Jackie, I recognized the actress from King Ralph.
Like... at some point during 'Robot', did the fourth Doctor ( still suffering from post-regeneration trauma ) head off in the TARDIS and become corrupted by his darker side, growing himself a beard and then facing off against Sinbad?
Or did the second Doctor, during the hypothetical season 6B, become a priest and end up getting skewered by a falling cross, somehow crawling back to The TARDIS and then regenerating into Pertwee?
Or perhaps the second Doctor went back to ancient Greece and grew old and blind, eventually meeting Jason during his quest for the Golden Fleece.
Flash Gordon (1980) has Brian Blessed (Gordon's Alive!), Timothy Dalton, Peter Wyngard & Deep Roy.
There might be 1 or 2 others.
The Granada series Crown Court is full of Doctor Who actors. Ian Marter, Milton Johns, Cyril Shaps and even Peter Calpaldi have all appeared in it.
One Foot In The Grave has a lot of actors in it who have been in Dr Who over the years.
While we won't actually see her, Catherine Tate will be voicing evil sorceress Magica De Spell in the new Ducktales.
Look, I get that Life After Who must be hard (YOU SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT SOONER, PEOPLE!) but what's with this insatiable desire to become cartoon ducks...?
Saw the movie Get Santa.
Released in 2014, this stars Comic Relief Eleventh Doctor Jim Broadbent and the now Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker.
Nine Network Australia showed this movie on Christmas 2018 and finished it just as the ABC began rerunning the Doctor Who 2017 Christmas Special Twice Upon A Time in which of course Jodie turns up briefly at the end in the regeneration scene.
With Jodie in these two Christmas-themed narratives it kind of makes up to Australian audience that the Thirteenth Doctor did not get her own Christmas Special, notwithstanding the animated short ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas in which the Thirteenth Doctor met Santa and Jodie is in the said Get Santa.
Given that Broadbent was the Comic Relief Eleventh Doctor, Get Santa has two cast members who had guest starred in Doctor Who episodes that guest starred official Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith with Warwick Davis (Nightmare In Silver) and Perry Benson (The Eleventh Hour).
Get Santa has Broadbent playing Santa Claus and this is not the first time that he has been Santa as he played him in the animated movie Arthur Christmas (2011).
Get Santa was released on December 5 2014, twenty days before Christmas Day which saw the 2014 Doctor Who Christmas Special Last Christmas which also has Santa (Nick Frost) in this adventure starring Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi.
Curiously enough another Get Santa cast member Nonso Anozie would be in the next Capaldi Doctor Who Christmas Special in 2015, The Husbands of River Song as the Voice of Hydroflax.
In addition to this yet another Get Santa cast member would be in a later Capaldi Doctor Who episode with Craig Garner in Smile.
Saw the TV movie Agatha and the Truth of Murder starring Ruth Bradley as Agatha Christie and came on December 23 2018
The Eighth Doctor had claimed in Terror Firma from Big Finish that Agatha Christie had at one time travelled with him.
Funnily enough Ruth Bradley did play an Eighth Doctor companion in Molly O'Sullivan in Dark Eyes.
Agatha Christie herself had turned up in TV Doctor Who in The Unicorn and the Wasp and played here by Fenella Woolgar.
At the same time that I saw Agatha and the Truth of Murder, I coincidentally saw Woolgar in the 2018 Call The Midwife Christmas Special marking her debut in that series and it came on Christmas Night itself just two nights after Agatha and the Truth of Murder.
Like the Call The Midwife Christmas Special, Agatha and the Truth of Murder was shown as part of the festive season in the UK.
Like The Unicorn and the Wasp, Agatha and the Truth of Murder touch upon her infamous disappearance in 1926.
However whereas The Unicorn and the Wasp is a fictional portrayal of what she was doing just prior to her disappearance, Agatha and the Truth of Murder is a fictional portrayal of what she doing during her disappearance.
Also featuring Tim McInnerny and Joshua Silver.
McInnerny was in Doctor Who in Planet of the Ood which is just four episodes before The Unicorn and the Wasp and therefore he narrowly missed Agatha Christie.
He finally got to meet Agatha Christie in Agatha and the Truth of Murder.
Not long after Agatha and the Truth of Murder, Tim McInnerny’s sister Lizzy McInnerny was in the first and last episodes of the three-part The ABC Murders mini-series aired on December 26 and 28 2018 respectively and based on the novel of the same name by coincidentally Agatha Christie.
Silver had done a Big Finish called The Romance of Crime. While this title makes it curious for him to be in Agatha and the Truth of Murder as it also makes reference to a crime not to mention that it was a romance for Agatha Christie to be writing about crime, what is particularly curious about this is that The Romance of Crime is the Big Finish adaption of the book of the same name by Gareth Roberts and Roberts had also written the aforementioned The Unicorn and the Wasp.
Saw The Party’s Just Beginning starring, written and directed by Karen Gillan.
As director Karen cast fellow redhead Siobhan Redmond as her aunt. Redmond played the Rani on Big Finish meaning this has the Rani as Amy Pond’s aunt.
Curiously enough when we first see Amelia Pond (played by Caitlin Blackwood before cousin Karen played the adult Amy) she tells the newly regenerated Eleventh Doctor that she lives with her aunt and the Doctor that he is worst than everybody’s aunt.
The producer of The Party’s Just Beginning is Claire Mundell through her production company Synchronicity Films.
Mundell had previously cast Karen in the movie Not Another Happy Ending, another Synchronicity production, which is Karen’s first post-Who work in fact Mundell says in the interview on the Not Another Happy Ending that they had patiently waited for Karen to finished her work on Doctor Who as she is the one they wanted for Not Another Happy Ending.
Also recent to The Party’s Just Beginning, Mundell with Synchronicity produced The Cry mini-series starring Jenna Coleman.
The Party’s Just Beginning mentioned an unseen character called Dr Smith and at a Q & A, Karen was asked if this was a reference to her Doctor Matt Smith but she says that this was a coincidence.
Saw the movie Hysteria (2011) featuring Jonathan Pryce and Sheridan Smith.
In one scene Maggie Gyllenhaal wears a black dress which I thought looked kind of similar to one Billie Piper wore in The Unquiet Dead. In fact both are set in Victorian Britain.
And were Jonathan Pryce, Sheridan Smith, or Maggie Gyllenhaal ever in Doctor Who?
Jonathan Pryce was the bizarre hybrid of Soldeed and Roger Delgado in "Doctor Who and The Curse of Fatal Death"
He made an EXCELLENT Master!
Sheridan Smith plays Eighth Doctor audio Companion Lucie Miller.
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators season 2 opener Outrageous Fortune guest stars Paul Clayton.
Funny seeing Clayton's face on-screen as I have gotten used to hearing his voice as Mr Colchester in Torchwood seasons 5 and 6.
Afterwards I looked him up on IMDb and found that he was in TV Doctor Who.
He was in the teaser of Planet of the Ood playing the ill-fated Mr Bartle.
The Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators episode also guest stars Michael Maloney and Colin Ryan.
Saw the mini-series Good Omens starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen and based on the novel of the same name by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Sheen was the voice of House in The Doctor's Wife written by none other than Gaiman. Another person from The Doctor's Wife in Good Omens is Elizabeth Berrington.
Good Omens was directed by Douglas Mackinnon who had directed Tennant in Doctor Who in The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky.
Also from The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky in Good Omens were Kirsty Wark and Dan Starkey.
Wark was the newsreader in The The Poison Sky as she is a real life journalist and does some newsreading in Good Omens as well.
In The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky, Starkey played Sontarans and then another Sontaran in the Tennant swansong The End of Time before playing the more familiar Sontaran Strax alongside Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi.
Good Omens featured two people that Mackinnon had directed on The Husbands of River Song that of Rowan Polonski and Nicolle Smartt.
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch has a small role in Good Omens and Mackinnon had earlier directed Cumberbatch on Sherlock.
As well as Tennant there are other actors who had played Doctors in Good Omens with Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss, David Morrissey, Derek Jacobi and Tim Bentinck.
Shearsmith and Gatiss are among the League of Gentlemen and fellow League of Gentleman Steve Pemberton had worked with Tennant in Silence In The Library/Forest of the Dead.
Gatiss wrote the Tennant Who episode The Idiot's Lantern before appearing with him in The Lazarus Experiment.
Coincidentally I am now seeing on DVD, Doctor Who: Sleep No More written by Gatiss and guest stars Shearsmith.
Morrissey was the Next Doctor alongside Tennant's Tenth Doctor.
Jacobi had played the Doctor in Doctor Who Unbound: Deadline from Big Finish before playing the Master when he encountered Tennant in Utopia.
Bentinck had doubled for the Fourth Doctor for the completion of Shada.
Another noteworthy casting in Good Omens is Brian Cox.
Cox had been Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman in An Adventure In Space and Time and like Starkey was also in The End of Time.
In The End of Time Cox was the voice of Elder Ood.
In Good Omens, he also does voice work as he voices Death.
Good Omens had Phil Collinson and Caroline Skinner as executive producers.
Phil Collinson had produced Doctor Who including during Tennant's time.
Other Good Omens actors who were in the Who episodes that starred Tennant and/or produced by Collinson were Anna Maxwell Martin (The Long Game), Nina Sosanya (Fear Her), Suzann McLean (Turn Left) and Richard Price (The Runaway Bride, The Lazarus Experiment [also with Gatiss], Partners In Crime & The Doctor's Daughters).
Skinner was executive producer of Doctor Who including for The Power of Three directed by Mackinnon and Nightmare In Silver written by Gaiman.
Although he did not appear with Tennant in Doctor Who, Good Omens has Bill Paterson who curiously played a character named R.P. Tyler!
Paterson was in Victory of the Daleks and Good Omens has another Victory of the Daleks cast member in Tim Wallers.
Victory of the Daleks incidentally was written by Gatiss.
Other cast members of Good Omens includes Daniel Mays, Paul Chahidi, Doon Mackichan,
Ariyon Bakare, Jill Winternitz, Konnie Huq, Stewart Scudamore, Scott Arthur, Susan Brown,
Paul Kaye, Maggie Service, Jasmine Hyde, Caitlin Thorburn, Laura Evelyn, Ben Willbond, Akira Koieyama, Niall Greig Fulton (The Wedding of River Song also featuring Gatiss), Sanjeev Bhaskar and Nicolas Parsons.
The music for Good Omens was composed by David Arnold.
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators 2.7 Nothing Will Come of Nothing guest stars Annette Badland.
Incidentally Badland was in Doctor Who in close proximity to Shakespeare & Hathaway stars Jo Joyner and Mark Benton.
Badland was Margaret Slitheen in Aliens of London/World War Three, just three episodes after Benton was in Rose playing Clive.
Badland then returned as Margaret in Boom Town which came just before Joyner was in Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways playing Lynda with a Y.
Curiously in the Shakespeare & Hathaway episode, Badland plays a character named Rose and Badland, Benton and Joyner all met Doctor Who companion Rose.
Father Brown 7.6 The Sacrifice of Tantalus guest stars Samuel Anderson.
Another guest star worthy of note is Sean Gallagher.
Gallagher was in New Earth playing Chip, Cassandra’s servant.
In the Father Brown episode Gallagher presented a contrasting performance as he played a top cop and villain.
Hard to believe that this is the same person who played Chip.
The penultimate episode of For The People, Who Are We Now? guest starred Philippa Coulthard.
Philippa Coulthard was Jorjie in K9 and in the For The People episode she played Betty Baker sharing the same surname with Tom Baker, the Doctor that K9 had travelled with.
How odd, it never occurred to me that the K9 guys might actually carry on acting...
Corruption starring Peter Cushing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OHpzYbLiOA
Released in 1968, Cushing was Dr. Who just some years earlier and in Corruption he is a plastic surgeon.
I was delighted that this movie also has the beautiful (but sadly late) Sue Lloyd in it.
Sue plays Cushing’s wife and playing her sister here is future Rani Kate O’Mara and at one point the latter acts as Cushing’s nurse.
Imagine that the Doctor and the Rani as in-laws and the Rani as the Doctor’s nurse.
In a scene at a party, Sue says “the party’s just beginning” it made me think of the movie The Party’s Just Beginning starring, written and directed by my beloved Karen Gillan.
The Party’s Just Beginning coincidentally also featured Siobhan Redmond, O’Mara’s successor as the Rani.
The penultimate episode of Years and Years by Russell T. Davies guest starred Dan Starkey.
Long before he became well known as the Sontaran Strax in Doctor Who, Starkey played different Sontarans in the Davies-era Doctor Who stories The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky & The End of Time. (The latter also featured future Years and Years siblings Russell Tovey and Jessica Hynes.)
After the Davies era of Doctor Who, Starkey played Strax but his last appearance in TV Doctor Who is not as Strax but as Ian the Elf in Last Christmas.
Coincidentally months after Years and Years came the release of the movie also called Last Christmas and in another coincidence it was produced, co-written and featured Emma Thompson (Viv Rook).
This episode came on June 11 2019 and it was on the same day that saw the world debut in New York City of Men In Black: International which also featured Emma Thompson.
Men In Black is not unlike Torchwood and Years and Years was originally an idea for Torchwood.
Years and Years was originally an idea for Torchwood.
It WHAT!
Years and Years - the missing chapter of Children of Earth:
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-06-05/torchwood-years-and-years-russell-t-davies/
Hmm. Having a dystopian despotic anarchist future-Britain isn't particularly Children-of-Earth-ish and even if it was I still wouldn't call it a Torchwood idea, I'd call it our bleedin' obvious probable-near-future.
The Sarah Jane Adventures story Death of the Doctor had Finn Jones playing Jo's grandson Santiago Jones.
Jones later starred in Iron Fist playing the title character Danny Rand and had an enemy in Davos and Davos was played by Sacha Dhawan.
So it was Jo's grandson vs the Master!
In fact like the Doctor and the Master, Danny and Davos were best friends before turning into enemies.
Weird.
Saw the movie The Current War and was surprised in reading the cast list that it included Robert Jezek.
Jezek had played Sgt. Zbrigniev in Battlefield and later got to be a companion in Frobisher in two stories for Big Finish as well as playing other characters in other stories for them.
The Current War which was released to a general audience in the US in October 2019 has portrayals of Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult).
Doctor Who would have its own portrayals of Tesla (Goran Višnjić) and Edison (Robert Glenister) in Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror on January 19 2020.
Watching The Current War felt like I was seeing an unintentional prequel to the Doctor Who episode especially with one particular scene.
The Current War curiously featured Corey Johnson (playing here real life US President Chester A Arthur), Nigel Whitmey and John Schwab, all of whom were in Dalek.
Matt Lucas along with Tom Baker as narrator are back for Little Britain for the Big Night In:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-njb_RJLEM
Iain Glen including what he has done in the ten years since The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone and that of course includes Game of Thrones:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322513/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
David Atkins (Sacred/Angel Bob in The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone):
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3542719/?ref_=tt_cl_t5
Read from someone in a facebook group that according to Google there are over 25 actors who appeared in both Doctor Who and Broadchurch.
The A Word season 3 opener marked the series debut by Nigel Betts.
Having first played him in Doctor Who, Betts played Coal Hill head Frank Armitage in Class.
After Armitage was killed, he was replaced as head by Dorothea Ames played by Pooky Quesnel and Quesnel is also in The A Word.
What is very curious about this casting is that in the said season opener, the son of the Quesnel character got engaged to the daughter of the Betts character!
Saw the movie The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017).
Directed by Bharat Nalluri, it tells the story of how Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) came up with the idea of writing A Christmas Carol.
Curiously this featured Simon Callow and he himself had played Dickens including the Doctor Who episodes The Unquiet Dead & The Wedding of River Song.
With his guest stint The Unquiet Dead, Callow had narrowly missed Annette Badland who played Margaret Slitheen in the next story Aliens of London/World War Three and then in Boom Town.
Badland is also in The Man Who Invented Christmas.
Another curious piece of Doctor Who guest star casting in The Man Who Invented Christmas is that of Ian McNeice and Bill Paterson. Both were in Doctor Who in 2010.
McNeice played Winston Churchill in The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks & The Pandorica Opens, the latter two with Paterson as Bracewell.
The Pandorica Opens incidentally is two episodes before Doctor Who's own A Christmas Carol, the 2010 Christmas Special.
McNeice and Paterson appeared separately in The Man Who Invented Christmas but curiously their names are the only ones credited together in one shot of the end credits.
McNeice played Churchill one more time in The Wedding of River Song which as stated before also had his future The Man Who Invented Christmas co-star Simon Callow as Dickens.
The Man Who Invented Christmas had Comic Relief Master Jonathan Pryce as Dickens' father John.
Saw the mini-series The Pale Horse featuring Sean Pertwee and Claire Skinner.
Riverdale 3.6 Chapter Forty-One: Manhunter was directed by Rachel Talalay.
This came on November 28 2018 exactly three years after Doctor Who: Heaven Sent which coincidentally was also directed by Talalay.
November 28 incidentally is also my beloved Karen Gillan's birthday.
Anthony Ainley was the evil submarine XO in The Land That Time Forgot.
Highlander: The Raven 1.19 The Manipulator guest stars Miles Richardson.
Three episodes earlier Inferno guest stars Michelle Gomez and both she and Richardson played Immortals with their guest stints and both later played Time Lords, Missy and Irving Braxiatel respectively and Time Lords live just as long as Immortals.
Notwithstanding that Missy and Braxiatel were each introduced in a different medium the one thing that both Gomez and Richardson have in common is that both played their Time Lords on Big Finish.
The upcoming movie The Suicide Squad has Peter Capaldi playing the Flash supervillain The Thinker.
How big a part he plays in the film or if the character even survives is currently unknown.
Interesting
Father Brown 8.6 The Numbers of the Beast guest stars Niamh Cusack and Nigel Betts.
Niamh Cusack is the sister of series regular Sorcha Cusack (Mrs McCarthy) and they played sisters with their characters in this episode.
As this is Father Brown 8.6, NuWho's own 8.6 The Caretaker marked Betts' last physical appearance as Coal Hill headteacher Mr Armitage, although his voice would be heard in Dark Water, before turning up in Class.
Rab C Nesbitt managed to have Sylvester McCoy, David Tennent & Peter Capaldi in it over the years along with a few others.
The middle episode of Des marked the only apperances by Silas Carson and Gerard Horan and both were in Doctor Who when Des star David Tennant was the Doctor.
During the Tennant era of Doctor Who, Carson did the voices of the Ood in The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood and as Ood Sigma in the Tennant swansong The End of Time.
Horan played Mr Clark in Human Nature/The Family of Blood.
Cursed 1.3 Alone marked the series directorial debut by Daniel Nettheim.
This has Nettheim reuniting with Jaye Griffiths also making her series debut.
Nettheim had previously directed Griffiths in Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion.
Incidentally this Cursed episode has a character named Bors (Sean Gilder).
There is also a character named Bors (Daniel Hoffmann-Gill) in Doctor Who: The Magician's Apprentice which is the same episode in which Griffiths made her first appearance as her Doctor Who character Jac.
I Hate Suzie 1.5 Bargaining guest stars Shobu Kapoor.
Kapoor had guest starred in Journey's End as the scared woman who was comforted by Jackie on the Dalek ship and Journey's End is one with Billie Piper (Suzie) as Rose.
The final episode of Des featured Pip Torrens and Ken Bones both of whom worked with Des star David Tennant in Doctor Who.
Torrens played Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature/The Family of Blood and Bones played The General in The Day of the Doctor and then without Tennant in Hell Bent.
Staged 1.2 Up To No Good marked the first appearance by Nina Sosanya. She has worked with David Tennant before including in Doctor Who: Fear Her.
However unlike the others Sosanya is not playing herself but a character named Jo.
The penultimate episode of Roadkill marked the second and last appearance by Teresa Banham.
Banham had played the governor of the prison that had Lucy Saxon as one of its prisoners in The End of Time.
There is a prison in Roadkill but Banham had nothing to do with it.
The middle episode of Dracula (2020), Blood Vessel, saw Catherine Schell playing Duchess Valeria:
https://i0.wp.com/www.blogtorwho.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/19003673-high_res-dracula-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1
This marks her first acting role since 1996.
Of course, I know her as Maya, the Spock knock off, ah, character, on the second season of Space: 1999.
I Hate Suzie series/season finale Acceptance guest stars Caroline Boulton and Alastair Parker.
Boulton and Parker made their only appearance in I Hate Suzie in Acceptance and both guest starred in Doctor Who but neither with I Hate Suzie star Billie Piper.
However the one thing that both Boulton and Parker have in common with their Doctor Who guest stints is that it is in Peter Capaldi's second season as the Doctor.
Boulton was a Habrian woman in Face the Raven and Parker was Limpy in The Girl Who Died.
What is this I hate Suzie show anyway? I've never heard of it.
I Hate Suzie is a recent show that starred Bille (and of course I don't hate Billie).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Hate_Suzie
Queen's Gambit, while not actually featuring anybody who appears in Who to my knowledge, has a prominent role for Troughton's grandson.
Saw the movie Enola Holmes (2020), the title character being the sister of Sherlock Holmes and it has a Torchwood operative and a Doctor Who companion in Burn Gorman and Hattie Morahan (Eighth Doctor Big Finish companion Helen Sinclair).
Also featuring David Bamber and at one point he was near a train. Although he wasn't in charge of that train he had earlier been Captain Quell of another train, albeit one in outer space, the Orient Express in Mummy On The Orient Express.
Saw the Lightfields (2013) mini-series featuring Lucy Cohu.
It is a follow-up series to Marchlands (2011) starring Jodie Whittaker and Alex Kingston.
Saw the animated movie Stick Man (2015) narrated by Jennifer Saunders.
Also featuring Rob Brydon, Russell Tovey and Hugh Bonneville.
Started The Serpent with Jenna Coleman.
The first episode featured Lucy Newman-Williams and she was in one of Jenna's episodes as Clara in The Magician's Apprentice where she played a newsreader.
Saw the movie The Holiday (2006).
There is one scene in which Little Britain showing future companion Matt Lucas briefly turning up on TV.
In fact it was because of another future companion Karen Gillan that I watched The Holiday.
The Holiday featured Karen's future Jumanji co-star Jack Black.
In an interview with the Jumanji stars including Karen and Black to promote Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), The Holiday was brought up in relation to Black's past work and Karen said that had seen that and enjoyed it.
Started The Watch.
One of the executive producers is Richard Stokes.
Coincidentally at the same time that I saw the first episode A Near Vimes Experience, I rewatched (no pun intended) the first Torchwood episode Everything Changes produced by Stokes.
Started the 2009 series Hope Springs starring Alex Kingston.
Kingston played Ellie Lagden the leader of four female ex-cons who are hiding out in the said village of Hope Springs.
Ellie uses as her fake surname Williams and Williams is the same surname of Rory Williams, River Song's father and River is of course played by Alex Kingston.
This is somewhat prescient as the revelation of River's parentage would not be made until A Good Man Goes To War in 2011.
The other female ex-cons includes one played by future Rosa Parks, Vinette Robinson.
Also featuring Annette Crosbie just less than a year before she appeared as Mrs Angelo in The Eleventh Hour.
Saw the antepenultimate episode of Thriller (1973), In the Steps of a Dead Man and it featured Christopher Benjamin as Medical Officer.
This came on in June 1974 almost three years before Benjamin played Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng-Chiang but Jago did not have any medical knowledge however the other half of the duo introduced here, Professor George Litefoot (Trevor Baxter) does have.
The 1996 adaptation of Moll Flanders stars Alex Kingston.
Diana Rigg, Maureen O'Brien & Milton Johns appear in supporting roles. There might be some more in smaller parts.
A bonus pre-Bond Daniel Craig, around the time he was in Our Friends In The North with Christopher Eccleston.
Whoa.
A Discovery of Witches 2.3 guest stars Struan Rodger as Dr John Dee.
Who?
Face of Boe.
Death In Paradise 10.7 guest stars Colin Ryan.
Just as this is an episode, its penultimate in fact, of Death In Paradise season 10, Ryan had also been in NuWho's own tenth season but not in its own seventh episode The Pyramid At The End of the World as he was instead in three episodes earlier Knock Knock playing Harry.
Ryan is not the only person to appeared in the tenth seasons of both NuWho and Death In Paradise as Death In Paradise lead Ralf Little had appeared in Smile, the second episode of that Doctor Who season playing Steadfast.
Another Doctor Who guest star in the Death In Paradise episode is Buom Tihngang.
I was surprised to see Tihngang as I saw him mere hours earlier when I rewatched Doctor Who: Can You Hear Me? as that had him playing Ryan's friend Tibo.
Additional note: This isn't strictly about Doctor Who but the Death In Paradise episode featured a boat and fishing.
In between rewatching Can You Hear? and watching the Death In Paradise episode, I rewatched the antepenultimate episode of The Avengers season 2, A Chorus of Frogs and that too had a boat as well as reference to fishing.
Yup.
The movie Yesterday (2019) has a scene in which Jack
Malik (Himesh Patel) got the attention of his friend Ellie (Lily James), a schoolteacher at her school by turning up at the window whilst she was having her class with her students present.
This is similar in sight to when Clara saw the Doctor as The Caretaker by the window when she was having her own class of students.
Also in Yesterday, Ellie mentioned having to attend a parent-teacher evening. In The Caretaker, Clara is at such an event.
Yesterday deals with the premise of what if the Beatles had never existed which of course made me think of Turn Left.
Coincidentally Peter Capaldi, the said Caretaker was one of the Beatles, George Harrison in the TV movie John and Yoko: A Love Story (1985).
Whilst as the Doctor, Capaldi revisited Beatles territory when he, Jenna Coleman (Clara) and a couple of Daleks recreated the Beatles Abbey Road cover.
Yesterday was written by Richard Curtis and also had a brief appearance by James Corden.
Hard Quiz (Australia) on Wednesday March 17 2021 included Gavin & Stacey, the specialist subject from contestant Trish and during this programme it show pictures of that series regulars James Corden and Ruth Jones and guest star Matt Lucas.
Started Bridgerton starring Adjoa Andoh.
Also features Jonathan Bailey, Sabrina Bartlett and Ben Miller all of whom were in Peter Capaldi's first season as the Doctor as the latter two were both in Robot of Sherwood with Bartlett as Maid Marian and Miller the Sheriff while Bailey played Psi in Time Heist which came two episodes after Robot of Sherwood.
Bridgerton is a Shondaland show and Shonda Rhimes is a Doctor Who fan.
Lily Cole (Siren in The Curse of the Black Spot):
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2178959/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Rewatched Demons of the Punjab which had Team TARDIS meeting Yaz's grandmother Umbreen when she was a young woman in 1947.
Young Umbreen was played by Amita Suman.
Fortuitously I saw Suman afterwards as a principal cast member of new series Shadow and Bone in its first episode A Searing Burst of Light.
Also in Shadow and Bone are Dean Lennox Kelly, Elizabeth Rider, Sean Gilder, Caroline Boulton and Lucy Sheen.
Saw the movie Una (2016) which featured a very brief appearance by Indira Varma.
Also appearing very briefly is Sydney Wade who had played the Little Girl in The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon, who would become River Song.
In Una, Sydney Wade played a character called Amy which of course is also the name of her Doctor Who mother.
Shadow and Bone 1.3 The Making at the Heart of the World marked the series debut by Kevin Eldon.
It was also the series debut by Zoe Wanamaker and David Verrey and they narrowly missed each other for the Chris Eccleston season of Doctor Who as Wanamaker made her debut as Cassandra in The End of the World while Verrey appeared as Joseph Green two episodes later in Aliens of London/World War Three.
The Box of Delights | Abner's Study | Mark Gatiss and Louise Jameson - from Big Finish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWZyiWI65-U
The Box of Delights | The Desert Island | David Warner - from Big Finish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfJ9F_vBVw
Blink and you'll miss her, but Billie Piper is an extra in the Evita movie.
Saw Marvel Studios: Assembled: The Making of Loki which includes interviews with Loki cast members Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Richard E. Grant.
Recently saw There's Something About Mary (1998), having never seen it before.
I was surprised that playing one of the said Mary's suitors, Tucker is Lee Evans, later Malcolm Taylor in Planet of the Dead(!)
Blimey, Malcolm will appear ANYWHERE except another UNIT story...
The Rookie 3.8 Bad Blood guest stars Claudia Christian (Peri's mother Janine in Big Finish's The Reaping. Also a Babylon 5 alum.)
Ernie Hudson:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001368/
Well known as a Ghostbuster.
Marking ten years since his stint as Stuart Owens in Torchwood: Miracle Day: The Middle Men.
Off-topic: Freema Agyeman is in a hospital show called New Amsterdam.
Saw the movie In The Earth (2021) written and directed by Ben Wheatley.
Wheatley had directed Deep Breath & Into The Dalek, the first two episodes of Peter Capaldi's first season as the Doctor and Wheatley had said in an interview that 1970s Doctor Who had influenced In The Earth.
In The Earth features Reece Shearsmith.
Ernie Hudson:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001368/
Well known as a Ghostbuster.
Marking ten years since his stint as Stuart Owens in Torchwood: Miracle Day: The Middle Men.
Who you gonna call
Inside No. 9 season 6 finale Last Night of the Proms guest stars Debra Gillett, Julian Glover and Sarah Parish.
Gillett had played Rita Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern and this Inside No. 9 presents a similar kind of backdrop to it.
Whereas the Inside No. 9 episode is what it says in the episode title, The Idiot's Lantern has the Queen Elizabeth II's coronation as its backdrop.
Daniele Favilli (Angelo in Torchwood: Miracle Day: Immortal Sins):
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2573930/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t9
Marking ten years since he played Angelo.
Nana Visitor:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000684/
Well known for Kira Nerys in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and in 2011 was in two episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day in Immortal Sins & End of the Road.
Marking ten years since she made her entrance at the end of Immortal Sins.
DS9 alum Nana Visitor was in two episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day in Immortal Sins & End of the Road.
One of her DS9 episodes is Battle Lines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Lines_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine)
This had the DS9 crew including Major Kira (Visitor) coming to a planet where none of its inhabitants dies permanently pretty much like the situation in Miracle Day.
However like Miracle Day, immortality in the DS9 episode is not as simple as it seems.
Marking ten years since she made her entrance at the end of Immortal Sins.
Again, Matthew, the software of this site doesn't recognize brackets as part of a link. The link you posted won't take you the place you want it to.
There we go.
Just remember to use that Tiny URL thing whenever a link includes brackets
Thanks.
I will remember that.
Nina Toussaint-White (Mels):
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2804975/
Marking ten years since she was Mels in Let's Kill Hitler.
Benito Martinez (Captain Santos in Torchwood: Miracle Day: The Blood Line):
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0553468/
When I rewatched The Blood Line recently I was surprised to see him as I seen him plenty places elsewhere.
Incidentally he is an actor who has been in both the Doctor Who and Star Trek universes.
In Star Trek, he was in the TNG episode Decent Part II.
Marking ten years since The Blood Line.
Peter Bowles:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101248/
This legendary actor finally made his way into the Whoniverse in 2011 when he was a guest star in the final Sarah Jane Adventures story The Man Who Never Was.
Marking ten years since The Man Who Never Was.
He'll always be Balor, stalking the corridors of Moonbase Alpha*, to me.
*the Space: 1999 episode, End Of Eternity.
The Power of Three had a cameo by Professor Brian Cox.
Professor Cox shares the same name with the actor who played Sydney Newman in An Adventure In Space and Time.
Given actor Cox in An Adventure In Space and Time, Professor Cox later in 2021 presented the similarly named series Brian Cox's Adventures In Space and Time.
The final episode of Brian Cox's Adventures In Space and Time is called Time as the professor looked into the concept of time including the the theory of time travel.
It even included clips of Professor Cox's story with the Eleventh Doctor (the same Doctor in the said The Power of Three) in The Science of Doctor Who presented by the professor in 2013.
Saw the Thriller (1973) season 4 finale Where The Action Is? and it featured Trevor Baxter.
This came on February 8 1975 and seven and half months earlier on June 22 1974 the season 3 episode
In the Steps of a Dead Man featured Christopher Benjamin.
Of course Benjamin and Baxter would go on to be Jago and Litefoot in Talons of Weng-Chiang in 1977.
And a bunch of Litefoot & Jago Audios, decades later.
Tony Curran, who played Vincent Van Gogh in Vincent And The Doctor, is now playing the current antagonist, Despero, on the current season of The Flash.
I wonder if the Doctor knew Vincent was a Kalanorian? ;-)
That's a good question!
Saw the 2001 mini-series of Love In A Cold Climate with Frances Barber.
Here Barber says the word sweetie and that very word is what Amy says to her as Madame Kovarian just before she killed her in The Wedding of River Song.
This version of Love In A Cold Climate also featured two actors who got to be one-off companions for Big Finish that of Christian Coulson and Jemima Rooper.
Saw the movie The First Great Train Robbery (1978) with Pamela Salem and Peter Butterworth.
Was changing channels and came across an old movie called Odd Man Out, and a character is talking to a bartender that I thought looked and sounded like Hartnell. (I thought I had come across an old American western, at first, so I thought it was a lookalike.) Watching a little longer I realized it was a younger version of Hartnell (with dark hair). IMDB says the film came out in 1947.
Saw the 2020 movie version of Black Beauty with Iain Glen, Matt Rippy and David Dukas.
Saw Hammer House of Horror 1.7 starring Peter Cushing and Brian Cox.
Cox later played Sydney Newman in An Adventure In Space and Time.
Curiously the previous episode of Hammer House of Horror, Charlie Boy featured Jeff Rawle and he too would be in An Adventure In Space and Time playing Mervyn Pinfeld.
The second season of Back To Life created and starring Daisy Haggard included appearances by Meera Syal.
The curious thing about this is Syal and Haggard had narrowly missed each other in Matt Smith's first season as the Doctor as Syal was Nasreen in The Hungry Earth/Cold War and two stories later Haggard made her first appearance as Sophie in The Lodger.
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts is a 2022 retrospective marking the 20th anniversary reunion with many of the cast and filmmakers of the Harry Potter movies.
Narrated by Stephen Fry, the attendees of this reunion included Mark Williams, Toby Jones and William Russell's son Alfred Enoch.
This special included a tribute to the actors of the Harry Potter movies who have since passed including John Hurt and Helen McCrory.
Outlander season 6 finale is I Am Not Alone.
Given the episode title, the similar words of "You Are Not Alone" is a key plot point in Doctor Who: Utopia and the Outlander season 6 finale is an episode with John Bell as Young Ian and Bell was in Utopia playing Creet who had described the said Utopia as having skies made of diamonds.
Started the series Cobra with Lucy Cohu.
Cobra has Cohu being married to Robert Carlyle and Carlyle was at one time Dr Nicholas Rush in Stargate Universe.
So therefore Cobra has Dr Nicholas Rush and Captain Jack's daughter as a married couple.
Saw the antepenultimate episode of Hammer House of Horror episode and it featured Gareth Thomas.
Curiously the previous episode Guardian of the Abyss featured Paul Darrow, Thomas' Blake's 7 co-star.
The Darrow and Thomas episodes of Hammer House of Horror came on November 15 and 22 1980 respectively which was during an 18-month gap between the third and fourth seasons of Blake's 7.
I don't often see the Blake's 7 stars these days as I haven't watched Blake's 7 in a long while and coincidentally I saw another Blake's 7 star Glynis Barber in the penultimate episode of Monsters season 1, Mannikins of Horror.
The Time Traveler's Wife, Steven Moffat adaptation, trailer: (and not unlike what he wrote for River Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoYXtKF_g1Y&t=153s
It has just been pointed out to me Josh O'Connor was in Cold War:
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Josh_O%27Connor
He had played Piotr in Cold War and later he would play Prince Charles in The Crown.
Cold War has two actors who later play Charles' father Prince Philip in The Crown that of Matt Smith and Tobias Menzies.
So Cold War has two fathers and a son!
Started the TV version of The Time Traveler's Wife adapted by former Doctor Who showrunner Steve Moffat and it is not unlike what he wrote for River Song.
For the first episode along it has a female redhead first meeting the said time traveler when she was a little girl not unlike how Moffat wrote Amelia Pond's first meeting with the Doctor in The Eleventh Hour.
The first episode of The Time Traveler's Wife had the said time traveler Henry meeting his boyhood self in a museum and Moffat previously had Amy meeting Amelia in a museum in The Big Bang.
Saw The Equalizer (Edward Woodward) 4.9 which is called The Visitation.
This came on February 1 1989, seven years to the month after Doctor Who's own The Visitation and both Visitations involves a virus in its plotlines.
Incidentally The Equalizer episode guest stars Jenny Agutter and Doctor Who's The Visitation is a Fifth Doctor story and Agutter later guest starred in a Fifth Doctor Big Finish The Bride of Peladon.
The Equalizer episode has the Agutter character having lost faith in prayers.
Somewhere along the way she recover her faith in prayers as she is now Sister Julienne in Call The Midwife.
Watched the 1962 movie, Day Of The Triffids, on YouTube last night.
Playing Bettina, a minor character, was Carole Ann Ford, just one year away from her role as Susan Foreman on the first season of Doctor Who.
Sadly, Bettina does not survive the events of the movie (she becomes triffid chow).
Funnily enough I just saw a picture of Carole Ann in The Five Doctors.
When I saw Bettina, I knew she looked familiar, but I couldn't place her.
It was not until the closing credits that I saw it was Carole Ann Ford.
Saw the movie Me and Orson Welles (2008) which included the depiction of real-life actors who were also depicted in the Whoniverse, played by actors who also have been in the Whoniverse and even one of these depicted actors got to be in Doctor Who.
Orson Welles himself and John Houseman depicted in Me and Orson Welles were earlier depicted in the Eighth Doctor Big Finish story Invaders from Mars in 2002.
In Me and Orson Welles, Houseman was played by Eddie Marsan. Marsan would later play Mr White in The Sarah Jane Adventures story Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
Along with Houseman, Me and Orson Welles also featured four other depicted real-life actors who were played by Whoniverse actors.
The real-life actors who got depicted in this case were John Hoyt, Norman Lloyd, Les Tremayne and Barbara Luddy.
Hoyt was played by Travis Oliver.
Hoyt was the original doctor on the Enterprise before Dr McCoy when he played Dr Philip Boyce in the original Star Trek pilot The Cage.
Oliver represents the opposite side of the Doctor Who-Star Trek spectrum because not only did he guest star in Gridlock playing Milo but later on played Seventh Doctor novel companion Chris Cwej on Big Finish.
Lloyd was played by Leo Bill (A Christmas Carol), Tremayne by Michael Brandon (The Stolen Earth) and Luddy by Saskia Reeves (Big Finish story Emissary of the Daleks).
OI all the real-life actors depicted in Me and Orson Welles, there is one who actually got to be in Doctor Who and that is George Coulouris.
Coloulris had played Arbitan in The Keys of Marinus.
The said Invaders from Mars made note of Coloulris' association with Welles.
Although Invaders from Mars didn't have an actor playing Coloulris, it however have Houseman telling him:
"Coulouris, what are you doing with those keys?"
The keys being an obvious in-joke to Coluloris' guest stint in Doctor Who.
Sister Boniface Mysteries 1.4 My Brother's Keeper guest stars Naoko Mori.
The series has Miranda Raison (Sixth Doctor Big Finish companion Constance Clarke) as a series regular and Sister Boniface Mysteries is a spin-off of Father Brown.
In fact this episode has a crossover cameo from Father Brown himself Mark Williams and he had earlier played Rory's father Brian Williams.
So this Sister Boniface Mysteries episode has a Doctor Who companion, a Torchwood operative and a father of a companion in it.
Started We Hunt Together season 2 with Eve Myles with the first episode guest stars Rik Makarem.
Makarem had worked with Eve before in Torchwood: Children of Earth where he played Rupesh Patanjali.
The season 2 opener of We Hunt Together also marked the series debut of Colin Morgan.
Morgan had narrowly missed Eve in Doctor Who when the former was in Midnight just two stories before Eve as Gwen was in The Stolen Earth/Journey's End.
However when Morgan later became the title character Merlin, Eve guest starred in its first episode The Dragon's Call.
In Torchwood: Meat, the character of Dale was played by Matt Ryan and this is the same Matt Ryan who would play Constantine in his self-titled series and then playing him in the Arrowverse mostly in Legends of Tomorrow:
https://tinyurl.com/43ad7z47
Started The Sandman TV series based on the DC comic book by Neil Gaiman with Gaiman as executive producer and with Jenna Coleman as a principal cast member.
The first chapter is called Sleep of the Just and Jenna incidentally was in a somewhat similar Doctor Who-named episode Sleep No More which featured a different kind of Sandmen and both having a reference to Morpheus the mythical god of dreams.
However somewhat ironically Jenna isn't in the said first chapter of The Sandman apart from the trailer of the next chapter at the end.
Sleep of the Just also featured Nina Wadia and Bill Paterson both of whom were in Matt Smith's first season as the Doctor with Wadia in his full debut The Eleventh Hour and Paterson two episodes later Victory of the Daleks and then briefly in The Pandorica Opens.
The Sandman Chapter 2: Imperfect Hosts marked the series debut by Jenna Coleman.
Also featuring Joely Richardson, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Souad Faress and Crystal Yu.
Joely Richardson is the cousin of Jemma Redgrave whom Jenna had worked with in Doctor Who in The Day of the Doctor, Death In Heaven, The Magician's Apprentice and The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion.
Bhaskar worked with Jemma Redgrave in Death In Heaven but did not interact with Jenna.
Ironically Bhaskar and Jenna again do not meet in this Sandman episode.
This Sandman episode is a case of having both Clara and Sarah Jane Adventures' Rani Chandra in it as Faress played the older Rani, the said The Mad Woman In The Attic.
Yu was in Doctor Who months earlier in Legend of the Sea Devils.
Started the Halo TV series with Burn Gorman and Julian Bleach and not the first time they were in the same TV series at the same time with Bleach having been a guest star in Torchwood in From Out of the Rain playing Ghostmaker with Gorman as series regular Owen.
Not long after From Out of the Rain, Gorman made his swansong as Owen in Exit Wounds in April 2008.
Months after that Bleach made his debut as Davros in Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End which also featured what remained of Owen's Torchwood colleagues.
No doubt if Owen hadn't been killed off (for the final time) in Exit Wounds he would have been in The Stolen Earth/Journey's End but instead got a brief mention signifying how recent the loss of Owen had been.
House of the Dragon 1.3 Second of His Name with Matt Smith and it guest starred Chris Jarman.
Jarman had played Dancer in The Curse of the Black Spot, a Matt Smith episode of Doctor Who.
Aside from the prominent presence of Billie Piper and David Bradley, the film 'Catherine Called Birdy' now on Amazon Prime is replete with Doctor Who folk, as well as Moriarty and Lyanna Mormont in leading roles.
Saw the movie A Christmas Gift from Bob with Nina Wadia and Tim Plester.
Wadia and Plester were both in Doctor Who in 2010 with the former in The Eleventh Hour and the latter in A Christmas Carol.
Saw the movie Games Girls Play (1974) (aka The Bunny Caper).
It featured Glenn Beck and Steve Plytas who had both been in Doctor Who in The Tenth Planet.
Games Girls Play also featured Peter Forbes-Robertson who narrowly missed Beck and Plytas in Doctor Who as he was in The Power of the Daleks which came straight after The Tenth Planet.
Games Girls Play has a couple of other people who narrowly missed each other in Doctor Who that of Kristopher Kum (The Mind of Evil) and James Snell (The Daemons).
The 1971 Hammer horror film, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde.
From Wikipedia:
quote:Dr. Henry Jekyll dedicates his life to the curing of all known illnesses; however, his lecherous friend Professor Robertson remarks that Jekyll's experiments take so long to actually be discovered, he will no doubt be dead by the time he is able to achieve anything. Haunted by this remark, Jekyll abandons his studies and obsessively begins searching for an elixir of life, using female hormones taken from fresh cadavers supplied by murderers Burke and Hare, reasoning that these hormones will help him to extend his life since women traditionally live longer than men and have stronger systems. In the apartment above Jekyll's lives a family: an elderly mother, her daughter Susan Spencer, and Susan's brother Howard. Susan is attracted to Jekyll, and he returns her affections, but is too obsessed with his work to make advances. Mixing the female hormones into a serum and drinking it not only has the effect of changing Jekyll's character (for the worse) but also of changing his sex, transforming him into a beautiful but evil woman. Susan becomes jealous when she discovers this mysterious woman, but when she confronts Jekyll, to explain the sudden appearance of his female alter ego, he calls her Mrs. Edwina Hyde, saying she is his widowed sister who has come to live with him. Howard, on the other hand, develops a lust for Mrs. Hyde.
Jekyll soon finds that his serum requires a regular supply of female hormones to maintain its effect, necessitating the killing of young girls. Burke and Hare supply his needs, but their criminal activities are uncovered. Burke is lynched by a mob and Hare blinded by lime. The doctor decides to take matters into his own hands and commits the murders attributed to Jack the Ripper. Jekyll abhors this, but Mrs. Hyde relishes the killings as she begins to take control, even seducing and then killing Professor Robertson when he attempts to question her about the murders.
As Mrs. Hyde grows more powerful, the two personalities begin to struggle for dominance. Jekyll asks Susan to the opera; however, when he is getting dressed to go out, he unconsciously takes Mrs. Hyde's gown from the wardrobe instead of his own clothes, realizing that he no longer needs to drink the serum in order to transform. Susan is heartbroken when Jekyll fails to take her out to the opera, and she decides to go alone. However, the evil Mrs. Hyde decides that innocent, pure Susan's blood is just what she needs to finally take over Jekyll's body. She stalks Susan through the dark streets, but Jekyll's will only just manages to thwart Mrs. Hyde's attempt to kill Susan. He then commits one last murder to find a way to stabilize his condition, but he is interrupted by the police after a comment by Hare leads them to realize the similarity between Jekyll's earlier experiments on cadavers and the Ripper murders. As Jekyll tries to escape by climbing along the outside of a building, he transforms into Mrs. Hyde who, lacking his strength, falls to the ground — dying as a twisted amalgamation of both male and female.
Started The Devil's Hour starring Jessica Raine and Peter Capaldi.
A case of the Twelfth Doctor (Capaldi) meeting Verity Lambert (Raine playing her in An Adventure In Space and Time).
Raine was also in the Matt Smith Doctor Who episode Hide.
The Twelfth Doctor episodes, An Adventure In Space and Time and Hide all had Steven Moffat as Executive Producer and he is also Executive Producer of The Devil's Hour.
Another The Devil's Hour cast member who was in Doctor Who episodes with Moffat as Executive Producer is that of Meera Syal (The Hungry Earth/Cold War).
In The Rings of Akhaten, Merry Gejelh was played by Emilia Jones.
I just discovered to my surprise that her work subsequent to The Rings of Akhaten included playing Kinsey Locke in the Locke & Key (2020-22) TV series.
I have seen her in Locke & Key but without being aware that is the same person who had played Merry in The Rings of Akaten.
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Emilia_Jones
Now rewatching The Sontaran Stratagem which in the teaser had the ill-fated journalist Jo Nakashima.
She was played by Eleanor Matsuura and in more recent years she had a regular role in The Walking Dead.
Saw Manifest 4.8 Full Upright and Locked Position and Manifest has Josh Dallas as a principal cast member.
Just as this is is Manifest 4.8, Dallas was in NuWho's own 4.8 Silence In The Library playing Node 2.
Started the Quantum Leap sequel series with Ernie Hudson.
Hudson had been a guest star in the Torchwood: The Miracle Day episode The Middle Men and like Torchwood's parent Doctor Who, Quantum Leap is a time travel series.
Been watching the Willow TV series starring Warwick Davis as the title character as he reprises the character he originally played in the 1988 movie of the same name.
It was during seeing an end credits that I noticed one of the producers is Stephen Woolfenden and he had directed Davis for his Doctor Who guest stint in Nightmare in Silver.
In fact looking it up, Woolfenden got to direct Davis again as Woolfenden directed the first two episodes of Willow.
Liam Cunningham (Captain Zhukov in Cold War):
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192377/?ref_=nm_mv_close
Cunningham had auditioned for the Eighth Doctor before it went to Paul McGann.
Coincidentally I recently saw Cunningham in the movie Perrier's Bounty (2009) which also featured future Doctor Jodie Whittaker.
Like his Cold War co-stars Jenna-Louise Coleman and David Warner, Cunningham had been in narratives about the Titanic, in his case in Saving the Titanic & Titanic: Blood and Steel.
Cunningham had narrowly missed David Bradley from Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, seven episodes earlier on Doctor Who as both were in the movie Harry Brown (2009).
His other work included The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005) (of course Cold War writer Mark Gatiss is one these Gentlemen), The Catherine Tate Show, the lead role in the short-lived BBC sci fi series Outcasts in 2011 and a principal role in Game of Thrones.
Marking ten years since he was in Cold War.
Cunningham had narrowly missed David Bradley from Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, seven episodes earlier
Seven episodes earlier isn't a NARROW miss, sure in the Good Old Days it would be a matter of mere weeks but these days it can be YEARS AND YEARS...
It was still in the same season.
Tobias Menzies (Lieutenant Stepashin in Cold War):
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580014/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_2_q_Tobias%2520Menzies
Prior to seeing Menzies in a submarine in Cold War I had seen him in another undersea vehicle in the mini-series The Deep.
Menzies and Matt Smith would both play Prince Philip in The Crown with Smith playing the prince first before being succeeded by Menzies.
A role of Menzies that I am consistently reminded of is the movie Forget Me Not (2010) due to the trailer of it being included in the DVD of Not Another Happy Ending starring my beloved Karen Gillan and he narrowly missed Karen on Doctor Who as Cold War came four episodes after her Doctor Who swansong The Angels of Manhattan.
Incidentally I did eventually see Forget Me Not.
His other included Casino Royale, Spooks, The Thick of It (with future Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi as a series regular), Black Mirror, Star Wars: Rebels, Outlander and like his Cold War co-star Liam Cunnigham was also in Game of Thrones.
Marking ten years since he was in Cold War.
Josh O'Connor (Piotr in Cold War):
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4853066/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_8_q_Josh%2520O%27Connor
He later played Prince Charles (the now King Charles III) in The Crown at the same time that Cold War co-star Tobias Menzies played Prince Philip.
However O'Connor only had one scene in Cold War and did not share any scenes with his future Crown father Menzies.
Marking ten years since he was in Cold War.
Dougray Scott (Alec Palmer in Hide):
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0779084/
The first time I saw Scott was as the villain in Mission: Impossible 2.
In more recent years he played Jacob Kane in the first two seasons of Batwoman.
Jacob Kane is the father of the original Batwoman on the series and is also the uncle of Batman.
Curiously to DC fans, many years earlier Scott was in Desperate Housewives in which his character was in a relationship with Susan Mayer played by Teri Hatcher and Hatcher had played Lois Lane in Lois & Clark.
So Lois and Batman's uncle together!
Among Douray's other work included a 2005 movie called Dark Water which coincidentally would also be the name of the penultimate episode of the 2014 season of Doctor Who and like Hide, Doctor Who's Dark Water is a Clara episode.
Another movie of his that is a notable mention is New Town Killers (2008) and for his guest stint in Hide he narrowly missed two people who were also in that movie that of my beloved Karen Gillan and Liz White.
Karen sang her Doctor Who swansong as Amy in The Angels Take Manhattan, five episodes previously and White was in the episode after that The Snowmen.
Just as Smith as the Doctor got married to Marilyn Monroe in the 2010 Christmas Special A Christmas Carol, Scott too got to be a husband of Marilyn's when he played Arthur Miller almost a year later in 2011 in the movie My Week with Marilyn.
Marking ten years since he was in Hide.
A few days ago, I watched the 1975 TV adaptation of the short horror story, The Ash Tree.
Lalla Ward was in it. This was three years prior to her first Doctor Who appearance.
Started Traitors (2019) with Keeley Hawes, Tom Ashley and Albert Welling, Jack Holden and Martyn Mayger.
Traitors is a spy series and Hawes and Ashely had been in familiar territory before as Hawes was a principal cast member in Spooks and Ashley played an Airport Worker in Spyfall.
Welling had played Hitler in Let's Kill Hitler set in the year before the outbreak of World War II.
In Traitors has Welling at the opposite end and side of World War II as this starts with the ending of that war and him playing a British brigadier.
Just watched The Devil's Hour on Prime and found it really good. In addition to staring Peter Capaldi, it has (all in staring roles):
* the person who played Variety Lambert in Adventure in Time and Space and who was also in Hide;
* the person who played Mitch in Resolution;
* the person who played Nasreen Chaudhry in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood.
I think the actors may have their own names.
And if you notice a Moffat-era cluster of actors, you can also guess who did some executive producing.
Very good series all around. Recommended.
I think the actors may have their own names.
[as Emily] Blasphemy!!!
;-)
[as Emily] Blasphemy!!!
No, she would say "Burn the blasphemer!"
It's great, one day I won't even have to SAY anything, I can just sit back and let the rest of you say it for me...
...Come to think of it, we'll ALL probably have an AI doing our Nitcentrally duty for us in a year or two, I assume they can listen to audios...?
Can I just point out that i didn't waste anybody's time or bandwidth with their actual names..?
:-)
https://www.tiktok.com/@robin_soans?_t=8ealF4YOzCa&_r=1
Who has turned Luvic/Chronolock Guy/Shadrak Winter into two girls who Stan “the North Face”?
Though maybe he always was. That’d explain everything!
Went to see Meg 2: The Trench today and found out at the end credits that it was directed by Ben Wheatley.
I saw this movie on this day August 15 2023, almost nine years since the debut of Deep Breath on August 23 2014 and Into the Dalek on August 30 2014 both of which were also directed by Wheatley.
Suddenly by chance, Clara in Deep Breath came to my mind whilst watching Meg 2 not knowing I would eventually be seeing the said Wheatley credit.
The penultimate episode of Shakespeare & Hathaway season 4, Time Decays guest stars Paul Courtenay Hyu.
Hyu had guest starred in Sleep No More playing Haruka Deep-Ando.
Given the name Shakespeare in the series title, each episode of the series including Time Decays are quotes from the works of William Shakespeare.
For Hyu this is not the first time he has been in a TV episode being named in such a manner as Sleep No More itself is from a Shakespeare quote in this case from Macbeth.
"Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more...'"
And the phrase is repeated twice in Macbeth's next speech.
But there is also this from Hamlet:
"To die: to sleep;
No more"
...although in that case it's split by a semicolon.
Orla Brady (Tasha Lem):
http://tinyurl.com/3tcjrp6t
Brady was one of the four female principal cast members of the UK series Mistresses (2008-10) and the other three said female cast members were Sarah Parish, Sharon Small and Shelley Conn and they had performed in Doctor Who stories.
Parish was in a previous Christmas Special The Runaway Bride playing the Empress of the Racnoss while Small and Conn did Big Finishes.
While The Time of the Doctor is the only Doctor Who Christmas Special that she has been in, it is not the first time that she has been in a Christmas episode.
In fact it is not the first time that she and Peter Capaldi were in the same Christmas episode as they were both in the Vicar of Dibley Christmas episode The Christmas Lunch Incident in which they played an engaged couple.
However The Time of the Doctor provides no on-screen reunion between Brady and Capaldi as the latter appears briefly at the end after regenerating from Matt Smith.
Subsequent to playing Tasha Lem, Brady joined the club of actors who has been in both Doctor Who and Star Trek with her having a recurring role in Star Trek: Picard.
Marking (a little over) ten years since she was Tasha Lem in The Time of the Doctor.
Tiny url for an IMDB page?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0103699/ isn't that much longer. Just ignore/delete any extra garbage from a question mark onward, that's just referral junk that isn't necessary.
(I've done that adding IMDB links to creator pages at the Grand Comics Database.)
Thanks for the tip.
I remember that next time.
Kayvan Novak (Handles):
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1315378/
Novak later voiced Brains in the animated series Thunderbirds Are Go and his The Time of the Doctor co-star Jenna Coleman guest stars in its season 2 opener Earthbreaker.
Novak's live action work includes currently the TV series What We Do in the Shadows in which he plays Nandor the Relentless.
Just as The Time of the Doctor marked the swansong for Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Novak's other work included Paddington featuring Comic Relief Eleventh Doctor Jim Broadbent.
Sheila Reid (Clara's Gran):
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715693/
Long before she was Clara's Gran, Reid was in the 1985 Doctor Who story Vengeance on Varos playing Etta.
Unlike Vengeance on Varos, The Time of the Doctor came in close proximity to her birthday as it was her birthday four days earlier on December 21.
December 21 is also the birthday of the Daleks and whether this fact is coincidental or not when she played the Dalek duplicate of Benny Summerfield's mother Claire in the Bernice Summerfield episode Good Night, Sweet Ladies from Big Finish.
Reid later reprised Clara's Gran briefly in Dark Water.
Reid's subsequent work after being Clara's Gran included being Freema Agyeman's Nan in Dreamland (2023 to present).
Marking ten years since her introduction as Clara's Gran in The Time of the Doctor.
The antepenultimate episode of Good Omens season 2, The Hitchhiker guest stars the League of Gentlemen - Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith.
This is not the first time that the League of Gentlemen has been in a narrative with Hitchhiker in the title as they were in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie.
Pemberton and Gatiss had worked with David Tennant (Crowley) in Doctor Who while Tennant, Gatiss and Shearsmith all played Doctors.
Death In Paradise 2023 Christmas Special guest stars Doon Mackichan as Neville Parker's mum Melanie.
Mackichan had played Madame Vastra in Doctor Who: Redacted.
Death In Paradise 2023 Christmas Special also guest stars Freddy Carter who had also been in Doctor Who: Redacted but he was in series 2 where he played Apex Costa whereas Mackichan was in series 1.
Long before playing Madame Vastra in Doctor Who: Redacted, Mackichan guest starred in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Nightmare Man.
The Nightmare Man came three stories after The Eternity Trap which guest starred Amelia Clarkson and Clarkson too is in the Death In Paradise 2023 Christmas Special.
Mackichan had played Madame Vastra in Doctor Who: Redacted.
And I've heard some pretty-inadequate substitutes in my time but her blasphemously-godawful attempts at pretending to be our beloved Madame Vastra really take the biscuit, she might at least have attempted to sound vaguely Scottish...
Saw my beloved Karen as Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
Playing the villain here the High Evolutionary is Chukwudi Iwuji.
Iwuji had guest starred in the Doctor Who story The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon as Agent Carl Petersen, a story with Karen as Amy.
Chukwudi Iwuji
Say that ten times fast!
Death In Paradise 13.2 guest stars Juliet Cowan and Ellie Haddington.
Cowan had played Maria's mum Chrissie in The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Haddington played Professor Alison Docherty in Last of the Time Lords in 2007 the same year Cowan made her debut as Chrissie.
Andor 1.4 marked the series debut by Varada Sethu.
Sethu has just recently been announced as a new Doctor Who companion in the 2025 season.
It is also the second episode in the series for Rupert Vansittart.
As this is the fourth episode of Andor's first season, Vansittart was in NuWho's own fourth episode of its first season, Aliens of London playing General Asquith.
Random thought. As anyone attempted to count or estimate how many actors have appeared on Doctor Who?
Obviously, this should read "Has anyone.."
Someone should start counting immediately.
I am not volunteering.
(Though I s'pose I could do the BF actors sometime. Count up how many characters there are and then half the number cos half of 'em are Beth Chalmers.)
"Random thought. As anyone attempted to count or estimate how many actors have appeared on Doctor Who?"
"Obviously, this should read "Has anyone.."
Or were you subconsciously trying to make it sound more British, in which case it should read,
"Oy! 'as anyone attempted to count or estimate 'ow many actors 'ave appeared on Doctor 'oo, Guvna?"
Started The Winter King with Sagar Arya and Gwïon Morris Jones.
The Winter King is a Bad Wolf production with Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner.
Arya was in The Christmas Invasion which also involved Tranter and Gardner and Jones is an upcoming guest star in Doctor Who also produced by Bad Wolf.
Started Queen Charlotte: A Bridgeton Story with Adjoa Andoh.
It is a prequel spin-off to Bridgerton also with Andoh.
The said Queen Charlotte is the real-life Queen Charlotte who was the queen consort of George III of England but this is a fictionalised story about her.
Queen Charlotte here is played by two people, younger and older versions of her and they were India Amarteifio and Golda Rosheuvel respectively and they have both been in the Whoniverse.
Amarteifio played Alison, one of Clara's students in The Magician's Apprentice and Rosheuvel played Dr Angela Connolly in the Torchwood episodes Dead Man Walking & Exit Wounds.
Andor 1.5 The Axe Forgets is the second episode with Ben Bailey Smith and as this is the fifth episode of the first season Bailey Smith had earlier been in the fifth episode of Jodie Whittaker's first season as the Doctor, The Tsuranga Conundrum playing Durkas Circero.
Me on May 8:
Started Queen Charlotte: A Bridgeton Story...
It is a prequel spin-off to Bridgerton....
The said Queen Charlotte is the real-life Queen Charlotte who was the queen consort of George III of England but this is a fictionalised story about her.
Queen Charlotte here is played by two people, younger and older versions of her and they were India Amarteifio and Golda Rosheuvel respectively and they have both been in the Whoniverse.
.....Rosheuvel played Dr Angela Connolly in the Torchwood episodes Dead Man Walking & Exit Wounds."
I had no idea when I wrote that back then that I would be seeing Rosheuvel as Jocelyn in Space Babies.