Doctor Who Vs. Spooks, Series 10

Peter Firth, Nicola Walker, and Max Brown all returned (as Harry

Pearce, Ruth Evershed and Dimitri Levendis) for the tenth and final

season of the BAFTA and TRIC award-winning spy drama, which was

first broadcast in the autumn of 2011.

This six-part series saw the debut of Lara Pulver (as Erin Watts),

the departure of Sharad Latif (Tariq Masood), and a cameo role

for Matthew Macfadyen (ex-MI5 officer Tom Quinn) in the finale.

Firth reprised his role of MI5 chief for the 2015 spin-off film Spooks:

The Greater Good, a co-production from Kudos and Shine Pictures.

A repeat run of Spooks began on Drama last night - it featured a

total of eighteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Asif Khan (Mohali) was Ramesh Sunder in The Woman Who Fell to Earth and Spyfall (1), then voiced Jay Roy for Big Finish's Power Cell (2016)
• Alice [Maud] Krige (Elena) voiced Dr. Patricia Sawyer for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), the Queen Mum for Death and the Queen, Felicity Lym for UNIT: Shutdown (both 2016), and Reno for Friendly Fire (2023)
• William Hope (Coaver) voiced General Tillington for Renaissance of the Daleks (2007)
• [Patricia] Josette Simon (Julia) voiced Sarana Teel for The Sontaran Ordeal (2016), and Taraneh for The Mind Runners (2018)
• Chu Omambala (Rashaida) was Major Blake in The Christmas Invasion
• Ben Smith (Jones) was Luke in School Reunion
• Tommy Campbell (Marine) and Jeff Mash (Glenn) both appeared in Day of the Moon, as Sergeant Ishem and Grant
• Jeffry Wickham (Levrov) was Webster in (episode 2 of) The Reign of Terror
• Andrew Byron (Zykov) was Ilya Svyatoslavovich in The Pyramid at the End of the World
• Bern Callaco (Minder) was an Operator in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, and Soldier in Thin Ice
• Ray De Haan was a stuntman on The Idiot's Lantern too
• Paul Kennington was also a stuntman on Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday and The Doctor's Daughter
• sound mixer Brian Milliken was recordist on The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky
• Jamie Pearson was also film editor on nine adventures (from The Eleventh Hour to The Angels Take Manhattan)
• Karl Probert (art director) and James Metcalf (floor runner) both held those posts on An Adventure in Space and Time - Probert also worked on The Doctor's Wife, Night Terrors and The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Robert Edwards was also an ADR mixer on Hide, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, The Crimson Horror, Nightmare in Silver and The Name of the Doctor