Doctor Who Vs. Inspector Morse, Series 5

Eccleston's role here
(only his third televison
appearance) led him to
being cast in his first film,
Let Him Have It, were he
depicted Derek Bentley

The BAFTA winning fifth season of
Zenith's acclaimed crime drama was
first screened in the winter of 1991.
John Thaw and Kevin Whately again

played the Oxford-based detectives,

Morse and Lewis.

Another repeat run of the series began on ITV3 today - the five cases (all

original screenplays) featured

 Christopher Eccleston (pictured as Terrence Mitchell in part one), and a

total of twenty-five Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

Second Time Around

(UK TX: February 20)

• Kenneth Colley (DCI Dawson) voiced Cristophe Zarodnix for Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008)
• Jenny Laird [born Phyllis Edith Mary Blythe] (Mrs. Keelan) was Neska in Planet of the Spiders
• Maurice [Edward] Bush (Hillian) was an Ogron in Day of the Daleks
• Ann [Forrest] Bell (Catherine) voiced Sylvia O'Donnell for A Thousand Tiny Wings (2010), Professor Gesima Cazalet for Night of the Stormcrow (2012), and Lisa Burrows for Five Twenty-Nine (2016)
• Sam Kelly (Majors) voiced Eugene Tacitus for The Holy Terror (2000), and Acheron in Return to the Web Planet (2007)
• Pamela [Margaret] Stirling (French woman) was a Louvre Guide in City of Death
• Simon Coady (Preacher) provided the Video Commentary for Paradise Towers
• for cinematographer Paul Wheeler see Series 4
• focus puller Bob Shipsey was a camera operator on The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors

Fat Chance (UK TX: February 27)

• [William] Maurice Denham (Mandeville) was Azmael in The Twin Dilemma, then voiced the President for The Paradise of Death 
• Zoe Wanamaker (Emma) was Lady Cassandra in The End of the World and New Earth
• [Margaret Rose] Peggy Mount (Nun) was the Stallslady in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Maggie O'Neill (Hilary) voiced Captain Lysandra Aristedes for Project: Destiny (2010), Protect and Serve, Black and White, Project: Nirvana, Goda and Monsters (all 2012) and The Last Day (2023)
• for Tina Simmons (Slimmer) see Series 2

Who Killed Harry Field? (UK TX: March 13)

• [Roy James] Philip Locke (Mortimer) was Bigon and the voice of Control in Four to Doomsday
• Ronald [Alfred] Pickup (Matthews here; Mancini in Lewis) was the Physician in (episode 4 of) The Reign of Terror, and voiced Kestorian for Time Works (2006), Elder Bones for Spaceport Fear (2013), and the Old One for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016)
• Dicken Ashworth (Drummond) was Sezon in Timelash
• [Michael Thomas] Jeremy Clyde (McMill) voiced George Sinclair for Absent Friends (2016), Lord Braye for Planet of the Drashigs (2019), and Tony Clare for Stranded (2020-22)
• John [Michael Frederick] Castle (Doyle) voiced Edmund Trevithick for Nightshade (2016)

Greeks Bearing Gifts (UK TX: March 20)

• Eileen [Mabel Elizabeth] Way (Mrs. Papas) was Old Mother (the first character to die in the programme) in 100,000 BC, and Karela in The Creature from the Pit
• Martin Jarvis (Rees here; Broom in Endeavour: Rocket) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler for Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Jubilee (2003)
• Eve Polycarpou (Maria) voiced Qel for Singularity (2005)
• Jonny Lee Miller (Student) made his TV debut as a titular Child in Kinda

Promised Land (UK TX: March 27)

• Philip Anthony [Johnson] (Editor) and Kevin Leslie (Barman) both appeared in The Daleks' Master Plan, as Roald (1) and Egyptian Warrior (9) - Leslie also had an uncredited part as Lynch Mobster in The Gunfighters