Outnumbered (series)
Outnumbered was a BBC sitcom created by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkins, which ran from 2007 to 2016.
The series follows the lives of the Brockmans, a middle-class family living in Chiswick, whose two parents, Pete and Sue, are "outnumbered" by their three unruly children, Jake, Ben, and Karen. The show is perhaps best known for its semi-improvised style in which, whilst the adult actors learn scripts, the child actors are given last-minute instructions by the directors immediately before scenes are filmed.
The series was broadcast on BBC One, concurrently with Series 4 through Series 9 of Doctor Who. A number of cast members were shared between Outnumbered and the Doctor Who universe, as well as two loose crossovers.
Crossover
Outnumbered had four Christmas specials throughout its run, the middle two of which were promoted by BBC One's annual Christmas idents alongside those of Doctor Who.
In the 2011, Consider Yourself One Of Us... featured Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche, and Ramona Marquez - who played the Brockman children in the series - appeared as themselves, in attendance at a Christmas party alongside other BBC stars, including the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, and a Cyberman.
The following year's ident, It's Showtime, once again featured, alongside an appearance by the Eleventh Doctor and the TARDIS, Drew-Honey, Roche and Marquez, this time as, evidently[1], their respective characters. During the ident, which revolves around the BBC studio preparing for Christmas, a scene shows the children accidentally knocking over a backdrop as Rob Brydon and Sarah Alexander walk past, after which Ben tells his siblings to "leg it".
References to the DWU on Outnumbered
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Connections
Main and recurring cast
Most prominently, the mother, Sue Brockman, was played by Claire Skinner, who appeared as Madge Arwell in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.
Samantha Bond, who played recurring The Sarah Jane Adventures antagonist Mrs Wormwood, played Sue's new age sister with whom she doesn't get along, Angela.
David Ryall, who voiced Carthok in the Big Finish audio story, Phantasmagoria, played Frank, Sue's elderly father.
Hattie Morahan, the voice of Eighth Doctor companion Helen Sinclair in various Big Finish audios, played Jane, the mother of one of Karen's playmates.
Rosalind Ayres, another Big Finish voice actor behind such characters as Miriam Rochester in Jubilee and Mrs Wintergreen in The House of the Dead, played Pete's mother, Sandra.
David Troughton, who has played various roles in both televised and audio stories, played Ben's teacher, Mr. Hunslett.
Guest cast
The series 1 episode, The Quiet Night In, featured Matilda Ziegler as Kate, Sagar Arya as Mark, and Ellen Thomas as a Jehovah's witness.
The series 1 episode, The Dinner Party, featured Vineeta Rishi as Kuj, and Silas Carson as Ravi.
The series 2 episode, The Wedding, featured Olivia Poulet as Julie, and Heather Bleasdale as Paula.
The series 2 episode, The Airport, featured Liz Crowther as Alice, and David Ricardo-Pearce as a passport official.
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Footnotes
- ↑ The three actors are assumed to be playing themselves in Consider Yourself as the majority of the stars featured can also only be assumed as playing themselves, with the exceptions of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, who share their scene with a Cyberman, and Brendan O'Carroll, who is in costume as his Mrs. Brown's Boys character. It's Showtime, meanwhile, has the majority of its stars explicitly in-character, such as Matt Smith as the Doctor, David Walliams as the Prime Minister from Mr Stink, and the Call the Midwife cast. Ergo, Drew-Honey, Roche and Marquez can be interpreted as playing their characters here rather than themselves.
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