The Long Game

A short-lived TARDIS team: Adam
(Bruno Langley), the Doctor
(Christopher Eccleston)
and Rose (Billie Piper)

One episode (The Long Game)
First broadcast May 7 2005
Average audience for story: 8.01m

REGULAR CAST

Christopher Eccleston (The Doctor) Born Feb 16 1964 Click here for Christopher Eccleston's entry on Rose

Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) Born Sep 22 1982 Click here for Billie Piper's entry on Rose

GUEST CAST

Christine Adams (Cathica) Born Aug 15 1974
Career highlights
Debuted in Noel's House Party (1998), then Where There's Smoke (2000), EastEnders (2001), In Deep (2002), Murder in Mind (2003), Stargate SG-1 (2003), NY-LON (2004), Batman Begins (2005), Hustle (2006), Journeyman (2007), Lie to Me (2009), Heroes (2009), CSI: Miami (2010), Nip/Tuck (2010), Tron Legacy (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Americana (2012), Legends (2014), The Mentalist (2014-15), Castle (2015), Pure Genius (2016), Spare Room (2018), Counterpart (2018) and Lover, Death & Robots (2019). Christine has also had several recurring roles, including Simone Hundin in Pushing Daisies (2007-09), Lena Boudreaux in The Whole Truth (2010-11), Mira in Terra Nova (2011), Agent Weaver in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD (2014-15), Rie Moran in Feed the Beast (2016) and Lynn Pierce in Black Lightning (2018-20).

Tamsin Greig (Nurse) Born Jul 12 1966
Career highlights
Tamsin debuted in Blue Heaven (1994), then Neverwhere (1996), Faith in the Future (1996), The Great Egyptians (1998), Blind Men (1997-98), Happiness (2001), Miranda (2002), Jonathan Creek (2003), Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Diary of Anne Frank (2009), Emma (2009), Tamara Drewe (2010), Going Postal (2010), White Heat (2012), Inside No.9 (2014), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), Diana and I (2017), Official Secrets (2019), Elementary (2019), Belgravia (2020) and Alan Bennett's Talking Heads 3 (2020). She has also enjoyed a number of recurring roles, such as Fran in Black Books (2000-04), Dr Caroline Todd in Green Wing (2004-06), Alice Chenery in Love Soup (2005-08), Jackie in Friday Night Dinner (2011-20) and Beverly Lincoln in Episodes (2011-17). She has also been the voice of Debbie Aldridge in radio soap The Archers since 1991, and narrated Love Monster (2020).
Awards
2005: Royal Television Society Award for Best Comedy Performance (The Green Wing)

2006: Critics' Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance (Much Ado About Nothing)

2007: Olivier Award for Best Actress (Much Ado About Nothing)
Facts
Tamsin is married to actor Richard Leaf. She started her working life as an administrator for the Family Planning Association.

Judy Holt (Adam's mum [Sandra Mitchell]) Born Aug 15 1960
Career highlights
Judy debuted in My Father's House (1981), followed by Love is Old, Love is New (1982), Brookside (1983), The Practice (1984), The Contract (1988), Old Flames (1990), Emmerdale (1995/2008), And the Beat Goes On (1996), Verdict (1998), Queer as Folk (2000), Always and Everyone (2002), Fat Friends (2004), Bodies (2005), New Street Law (2006), Moving On (2013), Aka Nadia (2015), Cold Feet (2016) and Hollyoaks (2004/09/11/19). Regular roles have included Staff Nurse Sandra Mitchell in Children's Ward (1990-94), Elaine Fishwick in At Home with the Braithwaites (2000-03), Alzheimer's sufferer Lesley Kershaw in Coronation Street (2011-12) and Scary Mary Jackson in Scott and bailey (2013-16).

Facts
In 1989 she appeared in a TV commercial for the now defunct Kraft Cheddarie spread ("very cheddary").

Bruno Langley (Adam Mitchell) Born Mar 21 1983
Doctor Who credits
Played: Adam Mitchell in Dalek, The Long Game (2005)
Career highlights
Bruno's stand-out role was playing Todd Grimshaw in over 730 episodes of soap Coronation Street between 2000-17. Other work includes Linda Green (2001-02), The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005), Dalziel and Pascoe (2006) and Halal Harry (2006). In 2003, he appeared on Star in Their Eyes to impersonate Robbie Williams.
Facts
Bruno is also very musical, having grown up playing the cello and piano. In 2010, he formed his own band, Bruno Langley and the Wonderland Band. In 2016 he released an EP called Jump, and in 2020 a track called Collide. In 2017, Bruno pleaded guilty to two sexual assaults on two women in a Manchester nightclub, and was sentenced to a 12-month community order, including 40 days of rehabilitation activity, and was ordered to wear an electronic tag, observe a curfew and pay £250 compensation to his victims. He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders' register until 2022. Bruno's contract with Coronation Street was terminated following an internal inquiry before the case reached court. He has more recently been working as a portrait photographer.

Anna Maxwell Martin (Suki) Born May 27 1977

Career highlights
Anna incredibly made her television debut aged just nine months when she appeared in a 1978 edition of Everyday Maths. As an adult she has made appearances in Midsomer Murders (2002), Enduring Love (2004), North and South (2004), Bleak House (2005), Becoming Jane (2007), Free Agents (2009), Freefall (2009), Moonshot (2009), South Riding (2011), The Night Watch (2011), Philomena (2013), Death Comes to Pemberley (2013), The Bletchley Circle (2012-14), The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (2014), The Life of Rock with Brian Pern (2014), The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015), Midwinter of the Spirit (2015), Line of Duty (2019), Good Omens (2019), The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), Code 404 (2020), The Duke (2020) and Say Your Prayers (2020). She has regularly played Julia in Motherland (2016-20).

Awards

2006: BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress (Bleak House)

2009: BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress (Poppy Shakespeare)
Facts
Anna played the part of Lyra Belacqua in the original stage production of His Dark Materials at the Royal National Theatre in 2003. Her husband is director Roger Michell. Here's her Twitter feed.

Simon Pegg (The Editor) Born Feb 14 1970
Career highlights
Simon started out in the comedy sketch show Six Pairs of Pants (1995), after which he appeared in Asylum (1996), We Know Where You Live (1997), I'm Alan Partridge (1997), Is It Bill Bailey? (1998), Tube Tales (1999), Guest House Paradiso (1999), Hippies (1999), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000), The Parole Officer (2001), Band of Brothers (2001), Dr Terrible's House of Horrible (2001), 24 Hour Party People (2002), Black Books (2004), Shaun of the Dead (2004), The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005), Hot Fuzz (2007), How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2008), Burke and Hare (2010), Paul (2011), The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2012), The World's End (2013), Mob City (2013), Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014), Absolutely Anything (2015), Man Up (2015), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Ready Player One (2018), Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018), The Boys (2019), Inheritance (2020), Truth Seekers (2020, which he also created and wrote) and Staged (2021). As far as regular roles go, he played Jools in the sitcom Faith in the Future (1996-98), Tim Bisley in the comedy Spaced (1999-2001), various roles in the sketch show Big Train (1998-2002), Benji Dunn in the Mission Impossible film franchise since 2006, and Scotty in the rebooted Star Trek film franchise since 2009. Simon also writes much of his own material, with credits on Six Pairs of Pants, Asylum, Spaced, Big Train, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Run, Fatboy, Run (2007), Paul (2011) and The World's End (2013).

Awards

2004: British Independent Film Award (BIFA) for Best Screenplay (Shaun of the Dead) - shared with Edgar Wright
Facts
Many of Simon's collaborators in his own TV and film work are also Doctor Who alumni - Nick Frost, Penelope Wilton, Jessica Hynes etc. He is the godfather to Coldplay singer Chris Martin and actress Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple (and Martin is godfather to Simon's daughter Matilda), while the best man at his wedding to music publicist Maureen was Nick Frost (Santa in Last Christmas). Simon was originally going to play the role of Rose's father Pete Tyler in Doctor Who, but scheduling caused a shift in roles. Here's his official Twitter account.

Colin Prockter (Head chef) Born Jun 4 1946
Doctor Who credits
Played: Head chef in The Long Game (2005)
Played: Air raid warden in Victory of the Daleks (2010)
Career highlights
Colin debuted in Z Cars (1969), followed by Parkin's Patch (1969), A Family at War (1970), The Terrorists (1974), The Sweeney (1975), Justine (1976), Moonfleet (1984), Albion Market (1986), Hannay (1989), Feast of July (1995), In Suspicious Circumstances (1996), Grange Hill (1999), The Infinite Worlds of H G Wells (2001), Trial and Retribution (2002), Teachers (2004), Afterlife (2005), Hex (2005), Coronation Street (1992-93/1995/2005/2008), Rock and Chips (2010), Toast (2010), Mount Pleasant (2012), Doctors (2001/06/08/19) and Mister Winner (2020). In 1983-84, he co-wrote the futuristic sitcom Luna.
Facts
Before going into acting, Colin worked as a reporter for the Croydon Advertiser.

CREW

Russell T Davies (writer) Born Apr 27 1963 Click here for Russell T Davies' entry on Rose

Brian Grant (director)
Career highlights
Brian started out as a cameraman on series such as The Strauss Family (1972), Edward the King (1975), Clayhanger (1976), The Muppet Show (1976-77) and Will Shakespeare (1978) before he got his big break directing music videos when the medium was in its infancy. His first was one of the earliest videos, 1979's Pop Muzik by M, followed by videos for Queen (Play the Game, Back Chat, Calling All Girls), Sparks (Beat the Clock), Human League (Open Your Heart), Kim Wilde (Kids in America), Peter Gabriel (Shock the Monkey), XTV (Senses Working Overtime), Duran Duran (Hungry Like the Wolf, New Moon on Monday), Donna Summer (She Works Hard for the Money, Unconditional Love), Meat Loaf (Modern Girl), Whitney Houston (How Will I Know, I Wanna Dance with Somebody), Tina Turner (Private Dancer), T'Pau (China in Your Hand, Secrety Garden, Only the Lonely) and many, many more. An episode of Sky's Video Killed the Radio Star was dedicated to some of his work in 2012 (here's a compilation of just some of the videos Brian's company MGMM Productions produced in the 1980s).

Brian directed over 200 music videos and TV commercials in the 1980s, before securing a deal with Universal in the 1990s, where he worked on series such as She-Wolf of London (1990-91), Red Shoe Diaries (1994) and Highlander: The Raven (1999), before returning to the UK to work on programmes such as Bugs (1998-99), Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married (1999-2000), As If (2001-02, which he also produced), Clocking Off (2003), Gladiatress (2004), Hex (2004-05), Sinchronicity (2006), Party Animals (2007), Britannia High (2008, which he also produced), Sinbad (2012), New Tricks (2013-15), Waterloo Road (2015), The Worst Witch (2017) and Our Girl (2018).

Awards

1983: Grammy Award for Video of the Year (Olivia Newton-John's Physical)

Phil Collinson (producer) Born Aug 26 1970 Click here for Phil Collinson's entry on Rose

Helen Vallis (associate producer) Click here for Helen Vallis's entry on Rose

Elwen Rowlands (script editor) Click here for Elwen Rowlands' entry on Rose