Doctor Who Vs. Law & Order: UK, Series 1

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented

by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who

investigate crime, and the Crown Prosecutors who prosecute

the offenders. These are their stories."

This long-running, London-based crime series from Kudos Films was

the first American television drama to be adapted for British TV, and

Chris Chibnall (writer and co-executive producer) based all seven

episodes here on scripts from the parent programme. Law & Order

(1990 to 2010), created by Dick Wolf, also spawned five further

spin-off shows, all from Universal productions.

Bradley Walsh (as DS Ronnie Brooks), Jamie Bamber (DS Matt

Devlin), and Dame Harriet Walter (DI Natalie Chandler) represented

the titular Law officers, whilst Ben Daniels (senior prosecutor James

Steel), Bill Paterson (CPS Director George Castle), and Freema

Agyeman (junior prosecutor Alesha Phillips) were the Order team.

Narration at the top of every episode was provided by Robert

Glenister (who later bemoaned his role in The Caves of Androzani).

A repeat run of these seven cases (originally shown in the spring

of 2009) began on ITV3 this week - they featured a total of forty-

nine other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Care (UK TX: February 23 2009/based on Cradle to Grave, 1992)

• Walter played Jo Patterson in Revolution of the Daleks, and voiced Beatrice Mapp for Big Finish's The Boy That Time Forgot (2008)
• Paterson was Professor Bracewell in Victory of the Daleks
• Glenister was also Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
• Michelle Asante (Leona) was Neighbour on In the Forest of the Night, then voiced Kairos Computer/Princess Natalia Zicaria for Master! 2 (2022)
• John Mackay (Lindford) portrayed John Logie Baird in The Giggle
• Alison Lintott (Rachel) was the Nurse in World Enough and Time
• Jamie Pearson was also film editor on nine episodes (from The Eleventh Hour to The Angels Take Manhattan)
• Adrian Rigby (prosthetic effects) was a make-up artist on The Sarah Jane Adventures, then hair technician on The God Complex
• series ADR mixer Nick Foley worked on The Snowmen too
• Alison Barnett (head of production) was floor assistant on Nightmare of Eden
• Malcolm Thornton was also production designer on Logopolis, Kinda, The Five Doctors and Planet of Fire

Unloved (UK TX: March 2/based on Born Bad, 1993)

• Rebekah Staton (Tracey) was Jenny in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
• Babatunde Aleshe (Jason) was Sean in The Lodger
• Tracy Wiles (Jenny) voiced Moira Brody for Masters of Earth (2014), Lilith Lovett for The Year of the Bat, Jacqui McGee for UNIT: Extinction (both 2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), Death on the Mile (2018), Narcissus, The Power of River Song (both 2019), UNIT: Between Two Worlds, Outback, Longshot (all 2021), UNIT: Agents of the Vulpreen, UNIT: Objective: Earth (both 2022), Commander Barnac for The Neverwhen (2016), Ground Control/Secretary for Their Finest Hour, Sharlan for The Invention of Death, Hadway/Salma /V75 for Escape from Kaldor (all 2018), Drones for The False Guardian and Time's Assassin, Announcer for State of Bliss, Engel/ Marzanna for Nightmare Country, Various for The Robots 1 (all 2019), The Robots 2 and Dark Side of the Moon (2022), Tryana for Return to Skaro (both 2020), FELINE/ Maria/Patricia for A Forever Home, and Draven/ Shira/Sentinel for The Shadow Squad (both 2021)
• Diveen Henry (Bernice here & Series 5: Safe) voiced Alozza for The Vault of Osiris (2015), Sarah for The Behemoth, and Sandra for A Kill to a View (both 2017)
• Nimmy [Anna] March (Dr. Rawls here, Buried & Series 8: Bad Romance) voiced Baroness Vance/the Telokni for In Memory Alone (2016), Rupa Maguire for The Time War 1 (2017), Ulla for The Moons of Vulpana (2019), Colonel Aesillor Zyre for Purgatory 12 (2020), Lupan for Stolen Futures, and Mada/Saskar/Alef for Maelstrom (2022)
• Dervla Kirwan (Beatrice McArdle, here & Series 2: Hidden), Andy Goddard (director here, Unsafe, Series 2: Samaritan, Honour Bound, Series 3: Broken, Survivor, Series 4: ID, Skeletons, Series 5: Deal, Series 6: Survivor's Guilt), Richard Cox (film editor) and all worked on The Next Doctor - Kirwan reprised the role of Miss Quill for Big Finish's Class 3, then voiced Mrs. Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Yosta McCormack for Lightspeed, Di Wright for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Anne Marie for Interlude, Representative for Echo Chamber, Agatha Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Professor Callis for Castle Hydra, and Kelleher for Effect and Cause (all 2020)

Vice (UK TX: March 9/based on Working Mom, 1997)

• Tariq Jordan (Teddy here, Unsafe, Paradise, Series 2: Samaritan, Hidden, Series 5: Crush) was a Rep in Planet of the Ood
• Jessica Gunning (Angela) was Stacey Campbell in Partners in Crime
• Sean [Anthony] Blowers (Woodhouse) was Zed in Dragonfire
• Juliet Aubrey (Emma) voiced Vulpina for Voyage to Venus (2012), Esther Malkin for The Wrong Woman (2021), Prodigal for The Auton Infinity (2022), and Zyla Kalstein for Revolution in Space (2024)
• Stephen [George] Churchett (Rook) was Bill in (part 1 of) Attack of the Cybermen
• Lesley [Ann] Manville (Phyllis Gladstone here, Alesha & Series 5: Tick Tock) depicted Heather Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Polly Kemp (Annie) voiced Duchess Callys Flambo/Golp/Betty for Dining With Death (2019)
• Sean [Carl] Pertwee (Pritchard) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors
• Waleed Akhtar (Imran) voiced Mook Jayasundera for The Last Party on Earth (2019)

Unsafe (UK TX: March 16/based on American Dream, 1993)

• Iain [Alan Sutherland] Glen (Slade) was Father Octavian in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Michael Smiley (Doyle) voiced Seedleson for Creatures of Beauty (2003), and Colonel Morgan Blue in Into the Dalek
• Nicholas Beveney (Newman) was Dad in Attack of the Graske
• Paul [Valentine Birkby] Darrow (Judge Prentice here; Series 2: Community Service, Series 3: Defence, Series 5: Deal; Series 7: Mortal, Series 8: I Predict A Riot) was Captain Hawkins in The Silurians, Tekker in Timelash, then voiced Guidance for The Next Life (2004)
• Edmund Kente (McVeigh) was Scoones in The Next Doctor

Buried (UK TX: March 23/based on In Memory of, 1991)

• Keith Barron (Mortimer) was Captain Striker in Enlightenment, and voiced Isaac Barclay for Plague of the Daleks (2009), and Lord Tulip for The Bad Penny (2018)
• Colin Salmon (Greer here, Series 2: Community Service, Series 6: Survivor's Guilt, Series 8: Repeat to Fade) was Dr. Moon in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, then voiced Trooper Salway for Wirrn Dawn (2009)
• Christopher Fairbank (McFadden) voiced Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), Pierre Arronax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018), then appeared as Fenton in Flatline
• Simon Morris was also first assistant director (here & Paradise) on Love & Monsters, Turn Left, The Stolen Earth, Journey's End, Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Dark Water, Death in Heaven and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Catherine Tregenna (here, Alesha; Series 2: Community Service, Series 3: Hounded, Series 4: Denial, Skeletons) was also writer of The Woman Who Lived and Torchwood

Paradise (UK TX: March 30/based on Heaven, 1991)

• Charles Kay [born Piff] (Artemis, here & Series 2: Sacrifice) voiced the Curator for Excelis Rising (2002)
• Selva Rasalingam (Osman) was Ranjit in The Power of Three
• Frances Barber (Michaela Herman) was Madame Kovarian in Series 6 - a role reprised for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
• Ken Bones (Kilic) was the General in The Day of the Doctor and Hell Bent - a role reprised for Dreadshade (2020), The War Room 1, The War Doctor 4 (both 2022) and A Genius for War (2023) - he also voiced Thomas Bloodchild/Dreislav for The Bloodchild Codex (2013), and David/ Anders Kristiansen for Battlegrounds (2022)
• Nabil Elouahabi (Kasaba) voiced Esteban for The Flames of Cadiz (2013), and High Korravin/Lomaz for Ancient History (2024)
• Joanna McCallum (Judge Hartop) voiced the Bursar for Night Thoughts (2006)
• Stewart Scudamore (Turgay) voiced Danvers for Hounded (2016), and Ashley Bassett for Masters of Time (2023)
• Steve Hansell (Doctor) voiced PC Blackstock for The Condemned, Septal for Brotherhood of the Daleks, Bouncers for The Raincloud Man (all 2008), Grubb for Izzy's Story, Dane for Cyberman 2 (both 2009), and Doug/Barbarius/Guard for The Iron Legion (2019)

Alesha (UK TX: April 6/based on Helpless, 1992)

• Derek Riddell (Dr. Merrick) was Sir Robert in Tooth and Claw, and voiced Lieut. Commander Sandy McNish also for The Oncoming Storm
• John Rowe (Silverton here, Series 2: Hidden, Series 8: Hard Stop) voiced Sir Hartley Harecourt for The Case of the Missing Gasogene (2015), and Sir Isiah Hardy for Entanglement (2018)
• Nicholas Khan (Hall) voiced Jimmy Lynch for The Sinestran Kill, Dalia for Collateral (both 2019), Jillix for The Sins of Captain John, Stubbs for Thin Time, Alexander Marfleet for The Flying Dutchman (both 2020), and Vez/Kol for The Ark (2023)