Re: Doctor Who (Related) Spoting

On 2025-04-11 13:58:23 +0000, Daniel70 said:

On 1/04/2025 10:51 pm, Daniel70 wrote:

Currently watching Sean Pertwee
 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675730/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1
 in Agatha Christie's "The Pale Horse"
 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10485750/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_9
 and, (Obj Doctor Who) Sean is a son of Jon Pertwee ....whom IMDB says "who was mainly a comedy actor and was known for his starring roles in Doctor Who (1963),".
 "A Comedy Actor" ..... really?? Who would have thought??
 "1963"?? .... Really??

 One of our Commercial stations is/was showing a series called "Mrs Sidhu Investigates" in which a Woman who is a Caterer by profession assists the local Police in investigating various murders.

It's an okay, light-hearted, series, but there are so mny of these amateur detectives "help" (i.e they solve the crimes) the police shows now that it's all becoming too samey. Most of the time I can solve them before the first ad break.

The Woman who plays Mrs Sidhu,

Meera Syal. She has plaued *lots* of roles and is married to Sanjeev Bhaskar (the male detective in the "Unforgotten" series and has been in Doctor Who three times, although two of those were voice-acting roles).

appeared as "Nasreen Chaudhry" in the Eleventh Doctor "Doctor Who" episode, The Hungry Earth, where some group or other of Scientists were drilling through Earth's Crust ..... until The Silurians start abducting people.

Clips of the same character also appeared in "The Destinations of Doctor Who" show.
She was also in the Doctor Who audio drama "Peladon" playing Arla Decanto, and was the narrator in the audio drama "Doctor Who: New Series Adventures". Plus of course appeared as herself in an episode of the documentary "Doctor Who Confidential".