Doctor Who Vs. Luther, Series 3

Smiley appeared as
Colonel Blue in Into
the Dalek

Idris Elba returned as DCI John Luther for the

third, full season of BBC1's psychological crime

drama, originally shown in the summer of 2013.

Warren Brown, Michael Smiley, Dermot Crowley

and Nikki Amuka Bird also reprised their res-

pective roles as DS Justin Ripley, Benny Silver,

DSU Schenk and DS Gray.

A two-part sequel aired in December 2015, and

the final series aired at New Year 2019. A film

version of Luther, The Fallen Sun, was finally

 unveiled in cinemas in February, then launched

on Netflix in March. This run earned more Golden

Globe and Emmy award nominations for series creator/writer Neil Cross, and Elba won a RTS

award for Best Actor.

A repeat run of the four-part series began on

U&Drama last night - it featured David O'Hara,

and a total of twenty-two Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

• for Brown and Smiley see Series 1, for Amuka Bird see Series 2
• prolific Big Finish actor/writer Lizzie Hopley (Dr. Harris) voiced the Mantasphid Queen for The Infinite Quest, Alice Flowers for The Gunpowder Plot, Gemma Griffin for Terror Firma (2005), Lady Lillian Hawthorne for The Veiled Leopard, Sue for Night Thoughts, Yarvell for I, Davros (all 2006), Brinna/Secretary/ Comp for Cyberman, Sister Christie for The Emporium at the End (both 2016), Miss Steel for The Creeper (2020), Camper for Silver Medal (2021), Narrator of I, TARDIS (2024), Mind Shield for Master!, and Hieronyma Friend for See-Saw (both 2025)
• Sienna [Tiggy] Guillory (Mary) voiced Idara Beckett for Fond Farewell (2022)
• Lucian [Gabriel Wiina] Msamati (Barnaby) was Guido in The Vampires of Venice
• Selva Rasalingam (Lane) was Ranjit in The Power of Three
• Sasha Behar (Dani) was Spurrina in The Fires of Pompeii, then voiced Presidential Aide for Songs of Love, Tessno/Ladonne for Stop the Clock (both 2017), Admiral Eno for The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (2019), Talarn/Bullet 2/Thayla for Dust Devil, and Diana Hendry for The Seas of Titan (both 2022)
• Alexandra Moen (Eve) was Lucy Saxon in The Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords and The End of Time
• Michelle Duncan (Kiera) was Lady Isobel in Tooth and Claw
• Elliot Cowan (Marwood) voiced Gark for The Fifth Traveller (2016)
• Golda Rosheuvel (Sally) was Jocelyn Sancerre in Space Babies
• Georgina French (Natalie) was a motion capture actor on The Eternity Clock video game
• Shaun Mason (Beamish) was the Foreman in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
• Dan Euston was a stuntman on The Crimson Horror too
• Farren Blackburn was also director of The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe and The Rings of Akhaten - the latter story was edited by Sam Williams, the film editor here too
• Simon Maloney was the first assistant director on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Stephen Pehrsson was also the cinematographer on eleven stories (from The Pandorica Opens to The Crimson Horror)
• Matthew Scrivener was the first assistant director on the 2011 Christmas special too
• Sam Smithard was also the camera assistant on fourteen episodes (from Asylum of the Daleks to The Name of the Doctor)
• Tom Williams was camera assistant on Let's Kill Hitler too