10 Doctor Who Behind The Scenes Secrets You Need To Know
5. Actor Reuse Goes Deeper Than You Realise
We all know that Doctor Who likes reusing actors. Freema Agyeman in Army of Ghosts, David Bradley in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. Hell, Fires of Pompeii has both a future Doctor and companion in it!
Big names aside though, this happens way more than you think, and it's so sneaky that you probably didn't even realise they were doing it.
Remember All Ears Allan from Fugitive of the Judoon? The nosy barista who fancies Ruth? Michael Begley, the actor who plays him, had previously portrayed the pirate Mulligan in The Curse of the Black Spot.
Mark Dexter, who played CAL's dad in the Library two-parter, turned up 12 years later in Spyfall Part Two as Victorian inventor Charles Babbage.
Both Prem from Demons of the Punjab and the PE Teacher from The God Complex previously appeared in TARDISODE 12 (remember those?), a prelude to Army of Ghosts. And then, there's the curious case of Lara Phillipart.
The young Lara not only played a member of the extended Connolly family in The Idiot's Lantern, but she appeared in a main role in the Torchwood episode Small Worlds, as a girl obsessed with fairies.
Serious brownie points if you spotted that one.