Doctor Who Vs. Van Der Valk, Series 4

ITV's classic crime drama again starred

Barry Foster as the eponymous Dutch

detective, was based on characters

created by Nicolas Freeling for his Van

Der Valk novels in 1962. Produced at

Thames Television's studios in London,

with location scenes shot in the books'

 Amsterdam setting, the series was revived in early 1991, thirteen years after the previous run.
A repeat run of the fourth, four-part

season concluded on Talking Pictures

TV last night, and featured Geoffrey

Beevers, and a total of twenty-one

Doctor Who cast connections:

• Philip [born Roy James] Locke (Molenaar) was Bigon and the voice of Control in Four to Doomsday
• Denica Fairman (Barbara) voiced Receptionist for Redacted 2
• Judy [Valerie] Cornwell (Harriet) was Maddy in Paradise Towers
• Brian [Parry] Badcoe (Dominee) was Adam in Invasion of the Dinosaurs
• Stephen [Mark] Marcus [born Scott] (Man) was the Jailer in The Shakespeare Code
• Ian Gelder (Basten) was Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then provided the Remnant voices in The Ghost Monument, was Zellin in Can You Hear Me?, and voiced the Commander for Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
• Ronan [David Jackson] Vibert (Lepweg) was Professor Skinner in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Last Sontaran, and voiced Ravener for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016), and Zaal for The Perfect Prisoners (2019)
• Peter Guinness (Koop) voiced Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Mr. Dread for Dreamland, Baron Teufel for The Beast of Orlok (2009), and Rovus for The Star Men (2017)
• Kenneth Cranham (Boutsen) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Shane Rimmer (Wallace) was Seth Harper in The Gunfighters
• Jonathan Firth (Michael) voiced John for The Doomwood Curse (2008), Cadwallader for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016), and the Duke of Cardenas for Kingdom of Lies (2018)
• Sara Griffiths (Anna) was Ray in Delta and the Bannermen
• Derek [James] Fowlds (Kieft) voiced Claude for The Elixir of Doom (2014)
• David Schofield (Rosendaal) voiced Billy for Death in Blackpool (2009), Nostradamus/Conclave Leader for The Doomsday Quatrain (2011), Parval for The Sorcerer of Albion (2020), and Gostak for The End of the Beginning (2021), then was Odin in The Girl Who Died, and Narrator of The House of Winter
• Philip McGough (Bertus) was Sergeant [Graham] Calder in Resurrection of the Daleks 
• Lizzie McInnerny (Bea) voiced Harriet Quilp for The Yes Men (2015)
• Nicolas Chagrin (Jongkind) was Quillam in Vengeance on Varos
• Steven Mackintosh (Koos) was Gazak in Timelash
• Rupert Holliday Evans (Albert) was Colonel [Alan] Mace in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, and voiced Celtic Warrior for The Relics of Time, Artist for The Demon of Paris, and Cop for Starfall (all 2010)
• Derek Crewe (Waiter) was Synge in The Sun Makers
• for Geoffrey Bayldon see Series 1

Doctor Who Vs. Casualty, Series 7

Series regulars Derek Thompson,

 Cathy Shipton, Ian Bleasdale,

Nigel Le Vaillant, Patrick Robinson,

Maureen Beattie, Caroline Webster and Anne Kristen all returned for

the seventh season of BBC1's

long-running medical drama.

Joining the programme here were

Joanna Foster (as manager Kate Miller), Jason Riddington (SHO

Rob Khalefa), Emma Bird (Maxine

Price), Robert Daws (administrator Simon Eastman), Clive Mantle (Dr.

Mike Barrett), whilst William Gaminara returned (to the role of Dr. Bower) for the last third of the run.

Also introduced for this season only were Imogen Boorman, Nicola Jefferies and Ken Sharrock (as recurring characters Nikki Wyatt, Jenny and Kenny

Price) - Foster, Riddington, Bird and Daws all left the show by the series' conclusion, whilst Le Vaillant and Beattie both chose to depart after two

years service.

A repeat run of the series (now with an increased quota of twenty-four

 episodes and originally broadcast from September 1992 to February 1993)

began on Drama today - it featured Geoffrey Beevers, Michael Jayston,

and a total of fifty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• prolific Big Finish actor Christopher Benjamin (Lindall) was Sir Keith Gold in Inferno, then Colonel Hugh Curbishley in The Unicorn and the Wasp, but is best known as Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng Chiang - he reprised the role for The Mahogany Murders (2009), Jago and Litefoot (2010-21), Voyage to Venus, Voyage to the New World (both 2012), The Justice of Jalxar (2013), Mind Games (2014), Stage Fright, The Haunting (both 2015), The Beast of Kravenos, The Jago & Litefoot Revival (both 2017), Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018), The Talents of Greel (2019), Merry Christmas, Mr. Jago (2020) and A Command Performance (2021) - he also voiced Tardelli for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008)
• Daws (Eastman here; Blakely, 2012) voiced Anvar for The Sky Man (2017), Gaius Majorian for The Dalek Occupation of Winter (2018), Sir Basil Hexworthy for The Devil's Hoofprints (2021), Timble Feebis /Thug for The Tivolian Who Knew Too Much (2022), and Howard/ Quartermaster for You Only Die Twice (2024)
• Ron [Eaglesham] Donachie [born Porter] (PC Pewsey here; Sutcliffe, 1996; DI Hartley, 2015) was the Steward in Tooth and Claw
• [Alexander] Ian Hogg (Morgan here; Fenner, 1995) was Josiah Samuel Smith in Ghost Light, and voiced General Voshkar for The Sandman (2002), and Albert Marsden/General Petrov/Schumacher for Protect and Serve (2012)
• Nigel Humphreys (Davis, 1992; Poynton, 1995) was Bulic in Warriors of the Deep
• Paul Reynolds (Morgan here; Crowley, 2009; Scotton, 2011; Lewis, 2015) voiced Joey Carlisle for Casualties of War, Nobody No-One for The Word Lord (both 2008), and Lyam Yce for Absolute Power (2016)
• Shane Rimmer (Rhinehart) was Seth Harper in The Gunfighters
• Susan [Elizabeth] Brown (Julie here; Joan, 1995; Pauline, 2014) was Bridget Spears in Torchwood: Children of Earth, and voiced Midwife for 100 BC, Mary for Bedtime Story (both 2007), Alice Withers for The Eternal Summer, Maud for Castle of Fear, Mrs Withers/Mrs Sowerby for Plague of the Daleks (all 2009), Margaret for Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars, Eleanor Harvey for Return of the Krotons, Chief Engineer/Chanel for The Song of the Megaptera, Babs for Prison in Space (all 2010), and Kastrella for Death Match (2015)
• Anne Reid (Barbara) was Nurse Crane in The Curse of Fenric, and Florence Finnegan in Smith and Jones
• John Normington (George here; Clarke, 2000; Sanderson, 2007) was Morgus in The Caves of Androzani, and Trevor Sigma in The Happiness Patrol
• Ann [Forrest] Bell (Lydia here; Celia, 1999; Matty, 2006) voiced Sylvia O'Donnell for A Thousand Tiny Wings (2010), Professor Gesima Cazalet for Night of the Stormcrow (2013), and Lisa Burrows for Five Twenty-Nine (2016)
• [John] Peter Gilmore (Lionel) was Brazen in Frontios
• Helen [Margaret] Lederer (Maria here; Dr. Oppe, 2011) voiced Patricia Ryder for Death in Blackpool (2009)
• [Walter] Tenniel Evans (Summers here; Sylvester, 1999) was Major Daly in Carnival of Monsters
• Simon Paisley Day (Extra) was the Steward in The End of the World, and Rump in Face the Raven
• Jonny Lee Miller (Matt) made his TV debut as a titular Child in Kinda
• Harry Towb (Kelvin here; Brook, 2006) was Osgood in (episode 1 of) The Seeds of Death, and McDermott in Terror of the Autons
• Lee Ross (Dave here; Ray, 1996) was the Boatswain in The Curse of the Black Spot
• Jon [Sleeman] Croft (Fred) was Tom Girton in The Daemons
• Martin Jarvis (Bart) and Rosalind Ayres (Sarah) both starred in Jubilee (2003) as Nigel and Miriam Rochester - Jarvis was also Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos
• Philip [Arvon] Madoc [born Jones] (Mike) was Brockley in the second Dalek film, Eelek in The Krotons, the War Lord in The War Games, Dr. Mehendri Solon in The Brain of Morbius, and Fenner in The Power of Kroll, then voiced Victor Schaeffer for Master (2003), the Commander for Magic Bullet's Storm Mine (2004), and Rag Cobden for Return of the Krotons (2009)
• Rula Lenska [born Roza Maria Leopoldyna Lubienska] (Circus Owner here; Vera, 2016) was Dr. [Elizabeth] Styles in Resurrection of the Daleks, then voiced the Queen for AudioGo's Hornets' Nest (2009)
• Susan Penhaligon (Hattie here; Leila, 2003; Anne, 2013) was Lakis in The Time Monster
• David Sibley (Frank here; Parkes, 2015) was Pralix in The Pirate Planet, and voiced Kurt Schalk for Persuasion, The Eminence for The Seeds of War (both 2013), Dark Eyes 2, Dark Eyes 3 and Destroy the Infinite (all 2014) and Dark Eyes 4 (2015), Josiah Morton for The Morton Legacy (2017), Valerian for Time War 1 (2018), Uther Vargosh for Darker Purposes, Sigmund Freud for Conflict Theory (both 2020), and Henry Wotton for The Master of Dorian Gray (2022)
• Rebecca [Jayne] Callard [born Atkinson] (Suzie here; Connie, 1998) voiced Connie Winters for A Perfect World (2008), and Shadrak for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016)
• TP [Thomas Patrck] McKenna (Arthur here; Dr. Whitlock, 1997) and Christopher Guard (Hodges) both appeared in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy as Captain Cook and Bellboy respectively
• Jeff Rawle (Jackson) was Plantagenet in Frontios, Lionel Harding in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge, and depicted Mervyn Pinfield in An Adventure in Space and Time, then voiced Toby Brokesmith for Chapel of Night (2017), Chad Caramel for The Tyrants of Logic (2018), and Captain Miles Rozann for Here Lies Drax (2022)
• Michael Melia (Brennan) was a Terileptil in The Visitation
• Chris [Peter John] Tranchell [born Small] (Registrar) was Roger Colbert in The Massacre, Steven Jenkins in The Faceless Ones, and Andred in The Invasion of Time
• Hywel [Thomas] Bennett (Lawson here; Wincott in Casualty@Holby City, 2005) was Rynian in The Chase
• Stephen [Vincent] Moore (Kevin) was Eldane in Cold Blood, and voiced Clark Goodman for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (both 2009)
• [Daphne Anne] Angela Pleasence (Sonia here; Catherine, 2009) was Queen Elizabeth in The Shakespeare Code
• Victor Winding (Billy) was Spencer in The Faceless Ones
• Michael [Maurice] Cashman (Paynter) and Keith Drinkel (Easton) both appeared in Time Flight as First Officer Bilton and Roger Scobie - Drinkel was also Bob Calhoun/Torlakh in BBV Productions' Zygon, and voiced Parker for Race Memory (2001) Moses for The Green Man (2002), Henry Hallam for Catch 1782 (2005), the Cinder for Frostfire (2017), and Oberon Fix for Audacity (2023)
• Julia Hills (Carole here; Caroline Miller/Joyner, 2004/5; Cathy, 2012) voiced Qureshi for The Bounty of Ceres (2014), Phillipa Gregson for Beachhead (2016), Sera Marvelle for Pretty Lies (2017), Sharon/ Rindle for The Lady in the Lake (2018), Madeline for The Cars That Ate London!, Ethel Pullman for A Photograph to Remember, and Margot Kinnear for The Dimension Cannonn (all 2019)
• John [Arthur] Duttine (Howard here; Foster, 1995; Fletcher, 2001; Jennings, 2003) voiced Hector Taylor for Exotron (2007)
• René Zagger (Rick here; Smith, 2004; Durante, 2014) was Padra in Utopia
• Paul Bazely (Watson here; Brennan, 2006) was Ven-Garr in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, then voiced the Duke of Hishtar for The Ribos Inheritance, Mikhail for Black Friday, and Elio /SV44/SV72 for The Enhancement (all 2022)
• Andrew Burt (Locke) was Valgard in Terminus
• Daniel Hill (Clive here; Howatt, 2008; Barton, 2014) was Chris Parsons in Shada, and voiced Percy Noggins for AudioGo's The Stuff of Nightmares (2009)
• Julian [Robert Stanley] Holloway (Jim) was Sergeant Paterson in Survival
• Robert Duncan (Taylor here; Peter Hayes, 1995/6) voiced Borthwick for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), Pallister for The Entropy Plague, Thomas/Dr. James Greco for Damaged Goods (both 2015), and Krayl /Sternwood/Eldren for The Mind Runners and The Demon Rises (2018)
• Ian Shaw (Sean) was Newsreader in Lux
• Matt [Arthur] Bardock (Terry here; Jeff Collier, 2007-14) was Al in Flatline
• Ian Gelder (Jeremy here; Chambers, 1997; Swain, 2004) was Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then provided the Remnant voices in The Ghost Monument, was Zellin in Can You Hear Me?, and voiced the Commander for Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
• Kelly Hunter (Annabelle here; Helen, 1995; Chrissie, 2007) was the Shadow Architect in The Stolen Earth and The Magician's Apprentice 
• Julia Foster (Joyce) was Vilma in Orphan 55
• John [Edward] Cater (Bernard) was Professor Melvin Krimpton in The War Machines
• Charles [Laurence] De'Ath (Rosco here; Simon, 2001; Stanley, 2008; Crozier, 2010; Greer, 2011; Gooden, 2014) was Adelaide's Father in The Waters of Mars
• James Blackwell (PC Roberts here; Driver/Officer, 1993; Sergeant, 1994/AFM, 1996, 1998) was the first assistant director on Partners in Crime
• Alexandra Mathie (Helen) voiced Businesswoman for This Sleep of Death, and Mother McCracken for Tempest  (both 2019)
• Heather Tobias (Pam here; June in Series 13) was one of twenty-six actresses who auditioned for the role of Leela in 1976
• producer Michael Ferguson was the director of The War Machines, The Seeds of Death, The Ambassadors of Death and The Claws of Axos
• location manager Val McCrimmon was an AFM on fifty-one episodes (from The Sensorites to Remembrance of the Daleks)

Doctor Who Vs. Manhunt, Series 2

This drama is based on the true story

of the police investigation of a series of

rapes, sexual assaults and burglaries

that took place in South East London

between 1992 and 2009.

Martin Clunes again portrayed DCI Colin

Sutton, now assigned to review Operation

Minstead - the seventeen year hunt for a

serial sex offender, dubbed the Night Stalker.

Delroy Grant (suspected of over a hundred

offences) was finally apprehended and

convicted in March 2011.

A repeat run of the thriller (originally shown

over four consecutive nights in September

2021) began on ITV3 last night - it featured eighteen Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

• Stephen Wight [born Gray] (DC Grace) voiced Unsworth for Big Finish's The Flying Dutchman (2020)
• Ian Conningham (Moore) was Chuckles in The Girl Who Died, then voiced Sinko/Ronson/Lieutenant for Storm of the Horofax (2017), Kevin/Rindle for The Lady in the Lake (2018), Konis/Maximov for Nightmare Country (2019), V11/Kaden Olson for Toos and Poul (2020), Robert Devereaux/Lord Cecil for The Hollow Crown, Dr. Richard Newman/Corfield for The Primeval Design (both 2021), Kade for Previously, Next Time, Fridtjof Nansen for Northern Lights (both 2023), and Fletcher Hart for Planet Krynoid 1 (2025)
• Matthew Gravelle (DI Eason) voiced Klinus for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro (both 2014), then provided the titular voice of Kerblam!
• Matt Bardock (Supt. Morgan) was Al in Flatline
• Diveen Henry (DC Henry) voiced Alozza for The Vault of Osiris (2015), Sarah for The Behemoth, and Sandra for A Kill to a View (both 2017)
• Beth [Jane] Goddard (DS Rook) was Sister Helena for The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon, then voiced Christine Colley for The Sontaran Project (2017), Ludina Braskell for World of Damnation and Sweet Salvation (both 2018), Barton for The Moons of Vulpana, Vella for A Photograph to Remember and Rulers of Earth (all 2019), Sally/ Time Lady for Operation: Hellfire (2020), and Allerdyce Benexa/ Pangladasha for Ice Heist! (2023)
• Sule Rimi (DS Hylton) was Omo Esosa in The Story and the Engine
• John Albasiny (Forbes) voiced Guy Dean for BBV Productions' Homeland (1999), Lev Tolstoy/Preston for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Major Maxim Felnikov for Thin Ice and Crime of the Century (both 2011), Chris Fleming for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), Jesper for Equilibrium (2015), and Makerenkov for Last of the Romanovs (2020)
• Brian [Henry] Croucher (Royce) was Borg in The Robots of Death, and Kurt in Shakedown, then voiced Cotton for Kaldor City (2001-03)
• Nicholas Asbury (DI Adler) voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Anthony Burmaster for UNIT: Assembled, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (both 2017), Captain Morgan /Visguard/SB Officer for Churchill Victorious, Dante for The Diary of River Song 4 (both 2018), Captain Zenna/Kivall for Out of Time 1, Shakespeare for The Hollow Crown, Tenebrae/Franz Albrecht Stuart for Rulers of Earth (all 2020), Commander Stevenson/ Pietersen for Return of the Cybermen, Mollis for Colony of Fear, Preacher Stem for The Melting Pot (all 2021), Dr. Sturm/German Colonel for The Nine, Hari Ventross for The Robots 5 (both 2022), and Belias/Inquisitor Robel for You Only Die Twice (2024), then was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion
• Stephen Perring (Inspector) voiced Horemshep for The Eye of the Scorpion (2001), Sebastian Grayle for Seasons of Fear (2002), Receptionist for Zagreus, Vengorr for Living Legend (both 2003), Kro'ka for The Creed of the Cromon, The Twilight Kingdom, Faith Stealer, The Last, Caerdroia and The Next Life (all 2004), and Matthias for Gallifrey (2006-13)
• Judith Roddy (Michelle) voiced Commander Lorne for The Wreck of the World (2017), and Stralla Cushing for How to Make a Killing in Time Travel (2018)
• Robert Hands (Wooller) was Algy in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, then voiced Daniel Defoe for The Eye of the Storm (2015), Solex for Legion of the Lost and A Thing of Guile, Pope Leo X for The Ravelli Conspiracy (all 2016), Major Hardy for Storm of the Horofax, and Lagrange for Fields of Terror (2017)
• Jamie Talbutt was also foley editor on eighty-two episodes (from A Christmas Carol to Revolution of the Daleks)
• Tim Hodges was film editor on Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror too
• Louise Brown was also foley artist on eight stories (from The Woman Who Fell to Earth to Ascension of the Cybermen)
• Victoria Nugent was make-up designer on Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes too
• James Scott (first assistant camera) was focus puller on sixteen episodes (from Closing Time to The Day of the Doctor)
• David J Bremner was also grip on Into the Dalek, Listen and Time Heist