Doctor Who Vs. The Empire Strikes Back

The Star Wars franchise continued

in 1980 with this adventure (known

canonically as Episode V), and was

followed by Return of the Jedi

(1983). A prequel trilogy (Episodes

I-III) was then released from 1999.

After the saga's creator, George

Lucas, sold Lucasfilm production

 company to Disney in 2012, a

sequel trilogy began with Episode

VII in 2015.

Here, the large ensemble cast was

again led by Mark Hamill, Harrison

Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and

Alec Guinness.

Shown on ITV2 tonight, the film also featured Frank Oz (the voice of Yoda), Billy Dee Williams, and another twenty-nine Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• for David Prowse, Burnell Tucker, Peter Diamond, Alan Harris, Jim Dowdall and Richard Hammatt see A New Hope
• Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett) was Tor in (episode 4 of) The Space Museum, and Hal in The Time Warrior
• John [born Bertie Wyn] Hollis (Lobot) was Sondergaard in The Mutants
• Michael [Lawson] Sheard [born Perkins] (Ozzel) was Rhos in The Ark (2), Dr. Roland Summers in The Mind of Evil, Laurence Scarman in Pyramids of Mars, Supervisor Lowe in The Invisible Enemy, Mergrave in Castrovalva, the Headmaster [Harvey Parson] in Remembrance of the Daleks, Chief Baxter in Fury from the Deep (2002), then voiced Duke Orsino for Big Finish's The Stones of Venice (2001)
• Kenneth Colley (Piett) voiced Cristophe Zarodnix for Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008)
• Julian [Wyatt] Glover (Veers) was King Richard in The Crusade, and Scaroth in City of Death
• Deep Roy [born Mohinder Purba] (Yoda) is possiby the only actor to appear in Star Wars, Star Trek, The X Files and Doctor Who - he was the Possican Delegate in Mindwarp but is best known as Mr. Sin in The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• Milton Johns [born John Robert Milton] (Officer) was Theodore Benik in The Enemy of the World, Guy Crayford in The Android Invasion, and Castellan Kelner in The Invasion of Time
• Ian [Stuart] Liston (Gunner) was the Hero in The Armageddon Factor (1)
• Mark Jones (Officer) was Arnold Keeler in The Seeds of Doom
• Oliver Maguire (Officer) was the Shrieve in The Ribos Operation
• Richard Bonehill (Various) and Alan Austen (Stormtrooper) were both Guards in Revelation of the Daleks -Bonehill was also Flight Engineer in Time Flight, First Officer in Enlightenment, Guardolier in Timelash, and Guard in Revelation of the Daleks and Terror of the Vervoids
• Bob [James Gilbert] Anderson (Officer) was Guard in The Enemy of the World (4)
• Maurice [Edward] Bush (Dengar) was an Ogron in Day of the Daleks and Frontier in Space
• John Cannon (Hologram) was Miner in The Monster of Peladon, Elgin in The Hand of Fear, Passerby in The Talons of Weng Chiang, Trog in Underworld, Technician in The Pirate Planet, Guard in The Armageddon Factor and The Creature from the Pit, Extra in Time Flight, Helmsman in Enlightenment, and Servant in The King's Demons
• Stuart Fell (Stormtrooper) was stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1) and The Ribos Operation (1), then fight arranger on The Talons of Weng-Chiang and State of Decay, and had roles in thirty-three other episodes (from The Claws of Axos to The Invasion of Time)
• Les Conrad (Rebel) was Patron in The Massacre (1), UNIT Soldier in The Invasion, The Silurians (3) The Ambassadors of Death (3), Terror of the Autons (4) and The Time Monster, Pirate in The Space Pirates, Union Soldier/Alien Guard in The War Games, RSF Soldier in Inferno, Prisoner in The Mind of Evil, Colonist in Colony in Space, Thal in Genesis of the Daleks (6), Extra in The Pirate Planet, Policeman in Time Flight, Teacher in Mawdryn Undead, Gunrunner in The Caves of Androzani, and Guard in The Twin Dilemma and Vengeance on Varos
• Walter Henry [born Israel Nagelkop] (Technician) was an Extra in The Myth Makers (2), The Highlanders, The Macra Terror, The Silurians (6), The Masque of Mandragora, The Deadly Assassin and City of Death, and Primord in Inferno
• Paul [Graham] Jerricho [born Coulthard] (Driver) was the Castellan in Arc of Infinity and The Five Doctors
• Michael Leader (Crewman) was Clone in The Leisure Hive (4), Terileptil in The Visitation (4), Mutant in Mawdryn Undead (4), and Soldier in The King's Demons (1)
• Cathy Munroe (Zuckuss) was an Extra on The Horns of Nimon and Full Circle, and Mid in Ghost Light
• Peter Roy (Stormtrooper) was Greek Soldier in The Myth Makers, Extra in The Highlanders (1), The Silurians (6), The Sun Makers (1) and Resurrection of the Daleks (1), Sergeant in The Faceless Ones (1), UNIT Soldier in The Invasion (1), Guard in The Seeds of Death (1), The Space Pirates (1), The Face of Evil (1), The Invasion of Time (1), The Androids of Tara (1) and The Armageddon Factor (1), Technic Obarl in The Hand of Fear (1), Policeman in Logopolis (1), Ambulance Man in Castrovalva (1), and Market Man in Snakedance (1)
• Ian Durrant and Peter Ross Murray (Stormtroopers) both starred in Time and the Rani, as Tetrap/Genii and Lakertyan
• Ralph Morse (Various) was a Foster in The Keeper of Traken
• Martin Dew (Guard) was Russian Commando in The Curse of Fenric
• Mike [Carew] Reynell (Officer) was an Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, and Kaled Scientist in Genesis of the Daleks (6)