After watching “Victoria Wood with all the Trimmings” last night, I wondered how many actors had been in Doctor Who, Eastenders and Coronation Street (three extremely popular UK TV shows) and therefore, being the geek I am, decided to find out.
It turns out (according to the IMDB and a Google Spreadsheet: where the formula “=CONCATENATE((ROW()-1)-COUNTBLANK(F2:F54),”/”,ROW()-1)” came in handy), that out of the 54 credited actors, 14 (25.92%) were in Dr Who, 11 (20.37%) in Coronation Street and 6 (11.11%) were in Eastenders (with some in two of the three shows). Quite a hefty overlap!
| Actor | Dr Who | Eastenders | Coronation Street |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria Wood | |||
| Caroline Aherne | |||
| Bruce Alexander | Mr Burgess | ||
| Susie Blake | Bev Unwin | ||
| James Bolam | Sir Achibald Flint (audio book: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor | ||
| Betty Boothroyd | |||
| June Brown | Eleanor (The Time Warrior) | Dot Cotton | |
| Richenda Carey | |||
| Craig Cash | |||
| Helen Coker | |||
| Roger Cook | |||
| Lindsay Duncan | Adelaide Brooke (The Waters of Mars) | ||
| Andrew Dunn | Max (Scream of the Shalka) | Roger Stiles / Laurie Dyson | |
| Richard E. Grant | “The Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death) The Doctor (Scream of the Shalka) Doctor Simeon (The Snowmen)” |
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| Hannah Gordon | Kirsty McClaren (The Highlanders) | ||
| Shobna Gulati | Ameena | Sunita Alahan / Parekh | |
| Charlie Hicks | |||
| Nichola Holt | |||
| Adrian Hood | |||
| Celia Imrie | |||
| Philip Jackson | Smitty | ||
| Derek Jacobi | Professor Yana (Utopia) | ||
| Hugh Laurie | |||
| Robert Lindsay | |||
| Geraldine McEwan | |||
| Bob Monkhouse | |||
| Deborah Moore | |||
| Roger Moore | |||
| Michael Parkinson | |||
| Bill Paterson | Bracewell (Victory of the Daleks / Pandorica Opens) | ||
| Maxine Peake | Belinda Peach | ||
| Billie Piper | Rose Tyler (2005-2010) | ||
| Pete Postlethwaite | Detective Sergeant Cross | ||
| Anne Reid | Florence Finnegan (Smith and Jones) | Valerie Barlow / Tatlock | |
| Alan Rickman | |||
| Paul Rider | Howard | ||
| Angela Rippon | |||
| Amy Robbins | |||
| Emma Robbins | |||
| Kate Robbins | |||
| Ted Robbins | Officer McAlister / DJ | ||
| Delia Smith | |||
| Kathy Staff | Vera Hopkins / Customer | ||
| Joe Starrs | |||
| Imelda Staunton | Interface (The Girl Who Waited) | ||
| Alan Titchmarsh | |||
| Julie Walters | |||
| Ian “H” Watkins | |||
| Jim Watson | |||
| Honeysuckle Weeks | |||
| Penelope Wilton | Harriet Jones (2005-2008) | ||
| Anna Wing | Anatta (Kinda: Part One) | Lou Beale | |
| Bernard Wrigley | Chauffeur / Comedian | ||
| Totals | 14/54 | 6/54 | 11/54 |