Alice (TV miniseries)/Trivia


 * Nick Willing, the writer and director, had previously done a direct adaptation of Alice in Wonderland in 1999, starring Miranda Richardson, Martin Short, Christopher Lloyd, and Tina Majorino as Alice.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: A cavalcade. Tim Curry appears for three minutes as The Dodo, a resistance leader, and yet managed to get top billing. Harry Dean Stanton as the Caterpillar, also a resistance leader. Kathy Bates as the Queen of Hearts. Colm Meaney as the King of Hearts. Matt Frewer as the White Knight. Even Alessandro Juliani shows up as the 9 of Clubs. The only relative unknowns are the leads, and even they have a few series each under their belts.
 * This troper never saw anything that had Tim Curry in it, yet she still recognised him...
 * Taggart is the White Knight!
 * You mean no one noticed that Hatter is Connor from Primeval?
 * Perhaps it was the fact that Hatter was capable of handling a gun that threw them off.
 * This troper noticed. Her brain promptly went boom.
 * Hatter is the only reason I began watching Primeval!
 * This troper recognized him from Band of Brothers ...
 * Wanda was the Dormouse.
 * The Duchess was Harriet the Spy's nemesis Marion Hawthorne.
 * Alice's mother Carol is Teryl Rothery who played Dr. Janet Fraiser on Stargate SG-1
 * Alice herself is Dr. Amelia Shepherd.
 * This troper will admit to not knowing who Dr. Amelia Shepherd is, but recognized Alice from One Eight Hundred Missing.
 * Jack Chase is Fauxlivia Dunham's boyfriend.
 * What Could Have Been: An early scene filmed but that only partly made the final cut revealed that the connection between Hatter and Mad March, only vaguely hinted at in the series, was that