Doctor Who Vs. Return of the Jedi

The Star Wars franchise continued

in 1983 with this sci-fi adventure

(known canonically as Episode VI),

and was subsequently followed by the prequel trilogy (Episodes I to III), 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, Alec Guinness, James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, and Frank Oz.

Shown on ITV2 tonight, the film also featured Ian McDiarmid, Denis

Lawson, Dermot Crowley, and another twenty-seven Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• for Prowse, Marc Boyle and Norton Clarke see A New Hope
• for Kenneth Colley, Jeremy Bulloch, Walter Henry, Bob Anderson, Richard Bonehill, Maurice Bush, Les Conrad, Peter Diamond, Ian Durrant and Alan Harris see The Empire Strikes Back
• Peter Brace (Chewbacca double) was Guard in (episode 4 of) The Curse of Peladon, Sailor in The Sea Devils, and Soldier in The Android Invasion (2)
• Warwick [Ashley] Davis (Wicket) was Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI (known as Porridge) in Nightmare in Silver
• Michael [Alexander] Carter (Bib Fortuna) made his TV debut as an uncredited Prisoner and UNIT Soldier in The Mind of Evil
• Claire [Bernice] Davenport (Dancer) was the Empress in Marco Polo
• Peter Burroughs (Ewok) was the Jester in The King's Demons (1)
• Kiran Shah (Ewok) was the Figure in Listen, and Emojibot in Smile
• Paul Brooke (Malakili) voiced Toby for Big Finish's Year of the Pig (2006)
• Darrell Brook (Rebel pilot) was Man-at-arms in The King's Demons, Lakertyan/Genius in Time and the Rani, and Navarino in Delta and the Bannermen (1)
• Russell Brook (Pilot) was Schoolboy in Mawdryn Undead (2), Crewman in Warriors of the Deep, Attendant in Revelation of the Daleks (1), and Chimeron in Delta and the Bannermen (1)
• Rodney Cardiff (Grond) and John [Ernest Clotworthy] Moore (Man) both appeared in Frontier in Space, as Draconian Emperor/Prisoner - Cardiff was also Guard in The Androids of Tara and The Mysterious Planet, and Gendarme in City of Death
• Billy Horrigan (Gailid) was stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1) and The Masque of Mandragora (1), and had uncredited roles in Spearhead from Space (4), Inferno (1), The Mind of Evil, The Curse of Peladon (4), and The Green Death (1)
• Tina Simmons (Technician) began her career as Inferno Patron in The War Machines (1), then Passenger in The Faceless Ones (1)
• Hugh Spight (Actor) was Dalek operator in Remembrance of the Daleks, and Robot Clown in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (2)
• Michael Stevens (Cracken/Soldier) was a Soldier in The Myth Makers (1), Daffodil Man in Terror of the Autons (3), UNIT Motorcyclist/ Prisoner in The Mind of Evil, and Guard in The Curse of Peladon (1)
• Alf [Charles Richard] Joint (Snitkin) was stunt arranger on Battlefield
• Jules Walter (Rennek) was a Sea Devil in Warriors of the Deep
• stunt performer Tracey Eddon doubled for Sophie Aldred