Doctor Who Vs. The Last Detective, Series 2

Accident prone detective Dangerous

Davies appeared in four comic crime

novels by Leslie Thomas, published

between 1976 and 1998.

Bernard Cribbins starred as the

eponymous policeman in The Last

Detective, adapted by ITC in 1981,

followed by Granada's TV version in

2003 - DC Davies was now played by

Peter Davison.

A repeat run of this four-part comedy

drama series (originally shown from

February 2004) concluded on U&Drama

last night - it featured Sean Hughes (as

Mod), Emma Amos, Rob Spendlove,

and a total of thirty Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• for Charles De'Ath and Elizabeth Bennett see Series 1
• Anita Dobson (Ruth) voiced Eileen Klint for Big Finish's Blood of the Daleks (2006), then was Mrs Flood in The Church on Ruby Road, 73 Yards, The Legend of Ruby Sunday and Empire of Death
• Susan Vidler (Christine) was Aunt Susan in The Big Bang, and voiced Krige for Bernice Summerfield 5 (2013)
• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (Hennessy) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the title role for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Ian Midlane (Fire Officer) was Tim Jeffery/Kist Magg Thek Lutiven Day Slitheen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen
• Bhasker Patel (Lal) was Jival Chowdry in Turn Left
• Hilary [Sophia] Sesta (Mrs Brady) was the Fortune Teller in Snakedance
• William [Michael] Ilkley [born Brown] (SOCO) was Tim Bass in The Mark of the Rani
• Natasha [born Roselyn Agatha] Williams (WPC) was Pharmacist in Gridlock
• Lynda Bellingham [born Meredith Lee Hughes] (pictured as Marjorie) was Inquisitor [Darkel] during The Trial of a Time Lord - a role reprised for Gallifrey (2004-06) then Trial of the Valeyard (2014)
• Tracy Ann Oberman (Mandy) was Yvonne Hartman in Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, a role reprised for Big Finish's Torchwood - she also voiced Temperance Finch/Mrs Grenville for Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars (both 2010), and the titular role for Tartarus (2019)
• Ifan Huw Dafydd (Bevis) voiced Bishop Parrash for Faith Stealer (2004)
• Jerome [Barry] Willis (Parish) was [Jocelyn] Stevens in The Green Death and Global Conspiracy?
• Michael [John] Attwell (Clemens) was Isbur in The Ice Warriors, and Bates in Attack of the Cybermen
• Donald Sumpter (Alfie) was Enrico Casali in The Wheel in Space, Commander Ridgeway in The Sea Devils, Erasmus Darkening in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Eternity Trap, and President Rassilon in Hell Bent
• Richard Dixon (Pathologist) voiced DI Alan Probert for The Dreams of Avarice (2020)
• Michael Maloney (Swannee) voiced Frederick Simonsson for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008), Adam Farrow for AudioGo's The Circus of Doom, Fratalin for Patient Zero, the Viryans for Blue Forgotten Planet (all 2009) and Charlotte Pollard 1 (2014), Rennol for Kiss of Death, Narrator of The Silent Stars Go By (both 2011), Hilary Hammond for Enemy Aliens (2013), Gregor Saraton for Zygon Hunt (2014), William Hogan for The Rockery (2019), and the Two for Two's Company and The Union (both 2023)
• [Colin] David Daker (Beauchamp) was Irongron in The Time Warrior
• Steve Speirs [born Roberts] (Caradoc) was AC Strickland in Aliens of London and World War Three
• Alan David (Hughes) was Gabriel Sneed in The Unquiet Dead, then voiced Castellan Kanteer for The Enigma Dimension (2017), and Lord Macavoy/Old Lawrence for The Primeval Design (2021)
• Ronald [Alfred] Pickup (Tapscott)  made his TV debut as the Physician in (episode 4 of) The Reign of Terror, and voiced Kestorian for Time Works (2006), Elder Bones for Spaceport Fear (2013), the Old One for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016), and Jacob Harmer for The Wizard of Time (2023)
• Yasmin Paige (Katy) was Maria Jackson in The Sarah Jane Adventures
• [Rafael] David de Keyser (Green) provided the Atraxi voice in The Eleventh Hour
• Trevor Laird (Jones) was Frax in Mindwarp, then played Clive Jones in Smith and Jones, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
• Colin Spaull (Chas) was [August] Lilt in Revelation of the Daleks, Crane in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, then voiced Colonel Baxter for The Fearless (2007), and Henrik for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008)
• Susan Wooldridge (Sestrina) auditioned for the role of Leela in 1976
• script editor Caroline Skinner was co-executive producer on the revived run (from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe to The Name of the Doctor), An Adventure in Space and Time and The Doctors Revisited
• David Mason was also line producer on The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon and The Angels Take Manhattan
• Jon Older was also first assistant on The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion