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== Behind the scenes connections == | == Behind the scenes connections == | ||
=== Cast | === Crew === | ||
''to | ''Doctor Who''{{'}}s connections to ''EastEnders'' are so great that they stretch right back to the two minds who created the soap, [[Julia Smith]] and [[Tony Holland]]; Smith directed the [[1960s]] television serials, ''[[The Smugglers (TV story)|The Smugglers]]'', and ''[[The Underwater Menace (TV story)|The Underwater Menace]]'', being the second ever female director of a ''Who'' serial for the former. | ||
Holland, meanwhile, acted on screen in ''[[The Savages (TV story)|The Savages]]'', playing the [[Third Assistant]]. | |||
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Among the ''EastEnders'' actors to appear as their characters in ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]'', [[Letitia Dean]], [[Gillian Taylforth]], and [[Steve McFadden]] are the only three who still appear in the show today, as [[Sharon Watts]], [[Kathy Beale]], and [[Phil Mitchell]], respectively. | |||
[[Davood Ghadami]], who played [[Jim (Let's Kill Hitler)|Jim]], one of the crew aboard the [[Teselecta]] in ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'', played Kush Kazemi from 2014 to 2021. | |||
Twelve years after previously appearing as her ''Doctor Who'' character, [[Melanie Bush]], in ''Dimensions in Time'', Bonnie Langford joined the ''EastEnders'' cast in 2015 as Carmel Kazemi, mother to the afoemtioned Kush. She left the role in 2018. | |||
The Kazemi family was expanded once again in 2016 with the addition of Carmel's other son, and Kush's brother, Shakil Kazemi, played by [[Shaheen Jafargholi]], who previously appeared in the ''[[Torchwood (series)|Torchwood]]'' episode, ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'', as [[Danny (Greeks Bearing Gifts)|Danny]]. | |||
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