Doctor Who Vs. Law & Order: UK, Series 8

Campbell Jones (pictured as
Cass [Fermazzi] in Night of the
Doctor) was also Dr. Kent in
The Wedding of River Song

Bradley Walsh, Georgia Taylor, Dominic

Rowan, and Peter Davison all returned for

the eighth and final series of the British spin

off of Dick Wolf's Law & Order.

Ben Bailey Smith (better known as rapper

Doc Brown) joined the drama here as newly

promoted DS Joe Hawkins, whilst DI Wes

Leyton (played by Paterson Joseph) was

killed off in Hard Stop. All eight cases here

were again based on scripts from the

American parent programme.

Originally shown in the spring of 2014, the

latest repeat run began on ITV3 last night

- it featured Big Finish actors Emma

Campbell Jones, Hattie Morahan,

Mark Bonnar, and a total of forty-eight

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Flaw (UK TX: March 12/based on

Refuge, 1999)

• Smith was Durkas Cicero in The Tsuranga Conundrum 
• Nikesh Patel (Tom) was Mitch in Resolution, and voiced Mo for Maze Theory's The Lonely Assassins
• Ian Fowler was also costume assistant on fourteen episodes (from Into the Dalek to The Husbands of River Song)
• prosthetics artist Waldo Mason was a SFX assistant on Aliens of London
• for Robert Glenister and Diana Quick see Series 1 and 4 and for Mat King see Series 5

Safe From Harm (UK TX: March 19/based on Betrayal, 2008)

• Holly Earl (Lisa) was Lily Arwell in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe - a role she reprised for Big Finish's The Chartwell Metamorphosis (2016)
• Carolyn Pickles (Maureen) voiced Lady Meera Darone for Army of Death (2011), Dr. Hilary Standish for The Stuff of Nightmares, Cardinal Ollistra for The Side of the Angels (both 2017), Dark Universe (2020), Allegiance (2022), Manoeuvres (2023) and Loyalties (2026), Professor Marian Schaeffer for The Tyrants of Logic, and Traherne for An Ideal World (both 2018)
• Damian Kell (Farmer) was Dominicus in A Good Man Goes to War
• Mark Frost (Brad) voiced Shandar for Requiem for the Rocket Men (2015), and Niccolo Machiavelli for The Ravelli Conspiracy (2016)
• Clive Hayward (Shale) voiced the Judge/Markus for Daybreak (2019), Emperor/Duke of Ferrox/Last of the Unnatural Children for Barrister to the Stars, Marty Stone for Carnival of Angels, Rupert Brock/Frasi/ Roboman for Poison of the Daleks (all 2020), Balthazar Drix for A Forever Home, Steven/General/Announcer for Long Shot (both 2021), Dax for Wink (2022), Birkett/Wycombe Bassett for The Blooming Menace (2023), Overseer Valtor/Trell for Dominant Species, Reg Adams for Doppelgangers and The Houseguest (all 2024), Pilot for See-Saw, Vokol for Cybergene (both 2025), Glen for Pandemonium, and Owen for Green and Pleasant Planet (both 2026)
• for Ramon Tikaram see Series 7

I Predict A Riot (UK TX: March 26/based on Ramparts, 1999)

• Ellen [Dorothy] Thomas (Rebecca) was a Clockwork Droid in The Girl in the Fireplace and A Celebration, then Carmen in Planet of the Dead
• Roger [Anthony] Lloyd Pack (Greene) was John Lumic in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel
• Graham Cole [Coleman Smith] (Wilson) was a Krarg in Shada, Player in (part 1 of) The Leisure Hive, Marshman in Full Circle, the Melkur in The Keeper of Traken and Time Flight (2), titular Kinda, Cyberman in Earthshock and The Five Doctors, Crewman in Resurrection of the Daleks (1), and Jacondan in The Twin Dilemma (1), then voiced the Melkur/Ebbko/for The Guardians of Prophecy (2012)
• Craige Els (Simmons) was Karvanista in Flux
• for Jessica Gunning and Paul Darrow see Series 1
• for Don Warrington see Series 2
• for Pip Torrens and Annabel Mullion see Series 5
• Selina Macarthur was also the film editor on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, Time Heist, The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar

Pride (UK TX: April 2/based on Identity, 2003)

• Roy Hudd (Hargreaves) voiced Max Miller for Pier Pressure (2006)
• Laura Rogers (Sally) was Isabella in A Christmas Carol, and voiced Queen Tristahna for Living History (2016)
• Leila Hoffman [born Rothstein] (Florence) was Elsie Rossiter in Night Terrors
• Martin Jarvis (Stewart) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Jubilee (2003)
• Ella Kenion (Cashier) was Harriet in Let's Kill Hitler, and voiced Boudica for The Wrath of the Iceni (2012), Romy for Equilibrium (2015), and Lucia for The Players (2022)
• [Sarah] Melanie [Jean] Kilburn (Julie) voiced Hooley for The Dread of Night (2018)
• Tina Simmons (Dancer) began her career as Inferno Customer in The War Machines (1)
• for Harriet Walter see Series 1

Customs (UK TX: April 9/based on Ritual, 1997)

• Akin Gazi (Dr. Elsayed) was Carter in The Doctor's Daughter
• Glyn Pritchard (Graham) was Eddie Jones in 73 Yards
• Jo Lea was also first assistant director on Robot of Sherwood, The Caretaker, Flatline and In the Forest of the Night

Bad Romance (UK TX: April 16/based on Denial, 1997)

• Janet Dibley (Karen) voiced Commander Flail for The Black Hole (2015)
• Lacey Bond (Linda) was a Serving Woman in The End of Time
• Joseph Millson (Cosby) was Alan Jackson in The Sarah Jane Adventures, then voiced Colonel Keelan for The Dalek Defence and The Triumph of Davros (both 2021), Peter Kelly for Splinters, Peetom for Paradox of the Daleks (both 2022), Jory Hopkins for The Excise Men, Yoga Teacher for Harvest of the Krotons, Co-Pilot for The Wife of River Song, Ignatius Montague for The Devouring (all 2023), and Simon de Montford for Knights of the Round TARDIS (2025)
• James Wilby (Hutton) voiced Tenebris for The Acheron Pulse and The Shadow Heart (2012), and Professor John Torrance for The Sontaran Project (2017)
• Greg [Paul] Austin (Rufus) was Charlie Smith in Class, then voiced Perseus for The Wrath of Medusa (2022)
• for Nimmy March and Adjoa Andoh see Series 1 and 5

Hard Stop (UK TX: April 23/based on Criminal Law, 2005)

• Rachel Atkins (Cleo) voiced Dr. Angeline Duchamp/Queen Aethelfrid for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Lieutenant Jane Lucas for The Screaming Skull (2014), Sol for Intervention Earth, Susannah for The Tears of Isis (both 2015), Juno for Maker of Dreams, Myla for The Age of Endurance, Bishop for Maurice, Mde Sosotris for Masterpiece (all 2016), Major Desra for The Good Master, Minister for Embankment Station (both 2017), Zarda/V225 for Do No Harm, Sarathin for The Enemy of My Enemy, Governor Crompton for Like (all 2020), Dresha for Colony of Fear, Cathrin Travers for Faustian (both 2021), Captain Argento for Morbius (2024), and Lady Saxifrage for Rictus (2025)
• Julia Hills (Hayley) voiced Qureshi for The Bounty of Ceres (2014), Phillipa Gregson for Beachhead (2016), Sera Marvelle for Pretty Lies (2017), Sharon/Rindle for The Lady in the Lake (2018), Madeline for The Cars That Ate London!, Ethel Pullman for A Photograph to Remember, and Margo Kinnear for The Endless Night and The Flood (all 2019)

Repeat to Fade (UK TX: June 11/based on Marathon, 1999)

• Pippa Bennett-Warner (Zana) was Saibra in Time Heist, Narrator of Helena and the Beast (2015), Bill and the Three Jackets and Twelve Angels Weeping, then voiced the Deterrent for The Furies, Ruzalla for Ravenous 1, Livia Caralis for Time War (all 2018) and The War Master 4 (2019), Fliss Keeley for The Trojan Dalek (2021)  and Cleopatra for The Last Queen of the Nile (2025)
• Tony Gardner (Stone) voiced Stapleton Petherbridge for The Wrong Doctors (2013), then was Douglas in The Pyramid at the End of the World
• Fady Elsayed (Jamal) was Ram in Class
• Nisha Nayar (Namita) was a Red Kang in Paradise Towers, then Programmer in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, and voiced Zanzibar Hashtag for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016), Coleridge for Spinvision (2020), Kindred for Runtime, Waitress for Manhunt (both 2023), Emily Barnfather for The Stuff of Legend (2024), and Dr. Ulster for Lethal Progress (2026)
• Sharon Small (DI Flynn) voiced Jeannie/Janet for The Revenants (2012)
• Raffaello Degruttola (Niccolo) voiced Philippe Foiret for Operationn Werewolf (2024)
• for Colin Salmon and Dominic Rowan see Series 1 and 5

Doctor Who Vs. Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye

 

Julia McKenzie (born 1941) made her debut as Jane Marple in the

fourth season of ITV's popular period drama, succeeding Geraldine

 McEwan in the title role. McKenzie had previously portrayed another

of Agatha Christie's female sleuths, Ariadne Oliver (for BBC Radio 4's

 versions of Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly and Elephants

Can Remember).

The Queen of Crime's fifty-sixth crime novel (Marple's sixth case)

was published in 1953, and this adaptation was shown on ITV3

today. The mystery first aired in September 2009 - it featured

Matthew MacFayden, Helen Baxendale, Hattie Morahan, and

seventeen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Big Finish actor McKenzie voiced Rachel Zimmerman for No More Lies (2007), Florence Wickham/Lady Florence Bassett for The Auntie Matter (2013), and the Twelve for Planet of the Ogrons, In the Garden of Death (both 2018), Jonah and Dreadshade (both 2020)
• Charles Palmer and Matthew Tabern (film editor) both worked on Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Human Nature and The Family of Blood - Palmer was also director of Oxygen and The Eaters of Light
• Rupert Graves (Lance Fortescue) was John Riddell in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• Liz White (Jennifer) was Alice in The Snowmen, then voiced Genesta for The Brink of Death (2015), and Helais for The Death of Peladon (2022)
• Anna Madeley (Adele here; Barbara in Curtain) voiced Laura Lyons for The Monstrous Menagerie (2014)
• Kenneth Cranham (Rex Fortescue here; DI Bland in Dead Man's Folly, 1986; Barton in Sparkling Cyanide) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Ralf [Alastair John] Little (DS Pickford) voiced Guy Fawkes for The Gunpowder Plot, then was Steadfast in Smile
• Chris Larkin [born Stephens] (Wright) was Lynley in The Shakespeare Code, then voiced Arthur Pepperdine for The Quintessence (2024)
• Paul Brooke (Billingsley here; Foster in Agatha) voiced Toby for Year of the Pig (2006)
• Rachel Atkins (Sister here; Mrs. Reynolds for Hallowe'en Party; Lettice for The Murder at the Vicarage, both 1993) voiced Queen Aethelfrid/Dr. Angeline Duchamp for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Lieutenant Jane Lucas for The Screaming Skull (2014), Sol for Intervention Earth, Susannah for The Tears of Isis (both 2015), Bishop for Maurice, Madame Sosostris for Masterpiece, Juno for Maker of Demons, Myla for The Age of Endurance (all 2016), Minister for Embankment Station, Major Destra for The Good Master (both 2017), Margot for Goodbye Piccadilly (2018), Ro-Jedda for Torchwood (2019), Zarda for Do No Harm, Governor Crompton for Like, Sarathin for The Enemy of My Enemy (all 2020), Cathrin Travers for Faustian, Dresha for Colony of Fear (both 2021), Captain Argento for Morbius (2024), and Vargeth for Cybergene (2025)
• Wendy Richard [born Emerton] (Mrs. Crump) reprised her EastEnders role of Pauline Fowler for Dimensions in Time 
• for Greg Bennett, Damian Timmer, Sean Clayton and Nigel Squibbs see The Body in the Library
• for Tom Lucy see At Bertram's Hotel
• Gavin Walters (series gaffer here & Poirot) was an electrician on Love & Monsters

Doctor Who Vs. Trial & Retribution XI

Lynda La Plante's acclaimed crime

drama returned to ITV in January

2008 - David Hayman, Dorian

Lough, Victoria Smurfit, and Vince

Leigh reprised their respective

roles (as DCS Walker, DS Satchell,

DCI Connor, and DS Palmer).

Like La Plante's earlier hit series

Prime Suspect, the programme

employed a distinctive split

screen technique. A repeat run

of the penultimate, ten-part

season began on ITV3 last night

- the five cases featured Gemma

Jones, Jamie Glover, Hattie

Morahan, Gugu Mbatha Raw, and a total of fifteen other Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

The Rules of the Game

• Simon Hepworth (Billington) voiced Miles McLellan/Pandora/Server/ Orderly/Pilot for Big Finish's Open the Box (2018)
• Adrian Rawlins (Plaskett) was Dr. Ryder in Planet of the Ood, then voiced Abberline/Fox for Jago & Litefoot 7 (2014), and Gilman Hari for Antillia the Lost 2023)
• Nigel Pilkington was a voice artist on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Damian Bromley was also cinematographer on The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, Thin Ice and Knock Knock

Kill the King

• Shelley Conn (Neelah) voiced Asha Qureshi for Situation Vacant (2010), and Tina Drake for The Gates of Hell (2021)

Conviction

• Paul Wilmhurst was also director of Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express and Last Christmas
• Tom [John] Ellis (Fisher) was Dr. Thomas Mulligan in Last of the Time Lords 
• [John] Maurice Roeves (Randle) was Stotz in The Caves of Androzani
• Nigel [Patrick] Betts (Barrister) was Headmaster Frank Armitage in Into the Dalek, The Caretaker, Dark Water and Class
• Eleanor Matsuura (Angela) was Jo Nakashima in The Sontaran Stratagem, and voiced Dana Tanaka for Shadows of the Vashta Nerada
• Sakuntala Ramanee (Barrister) made her TV debut in Survival as Shreela Govindia, then was Erica Larnier in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor, and voiced Hatshepsut for The Eye of Horus (2015), and Athena for The Wrath of Medusa (2022)

The Box

• Jamie Sives (Reid) was Captain Reynolds in Tooth and Claw

Tracks

• Roy [Anthony] Marsden [born Mould] (Harper) was [Bryan] Stoker in Smith and Jones, and voiced Todd Hulbert for Human Resources (2007)
• Bob Shipsey was also camera operator on The Doctor's Wife and Night Terrors
• for Clare Mahoney see Series 6

Doctor Who Vs. Beauty and the Beast

The eighteenth century French fairytale, La

 Belle et la Béte, has been retold many times.

Disney Pictures and Mandeville Films' live-

action reworking of their animated classic of

1991 was shown on BBC1 today.

Emma Watson played Belle, and Dan Stevens

was the Prince (imprisoned as the eponymous

Beast) who can only be freed by true love.

Released in 2017, the production also featured

Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Kevin Kline, Ewan

McGregor, Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci,

Hattie Morahan, and seventeen Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• Ray Fearon (Robert) voiced Barlow Teveler for Big Finish's The Seeds of War (2013)
• Rita Davies (Old Woman) voiced Janneus for Primeval (2001), and Taskek for Innocence (2006)
• Gugu [born Gugulethu Sophia] Mbatha-Raw (Plumette) was Tish Jones in Smith and Jones, The Lazarus Experiment, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords, and was cast in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• Sir Ian [Murray] McKellen (Cogsworth) provided the voice of the Great Intelligence for The Snowmen
• Clive [Mark] Rowe (Cuisinier) was Morvin Van Hoff in Voyage of the Damned
• Gerard [James Pertwee] Horan (Jean) was Clark/Father of Mine in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
• Adrian Schiller (D'arque) was Uncle in The Doctor's Wife, and voiced Zanith for Time Works (2006), and Maurice Le Bon for Fright Motif (2021)
• Michael Jibson (Innkeeper) voiced Corporal Gibbs for The Forsaken (2015)
• Vivien Parry (Mother) voiced Captain Tysus for The Twilight Kingdom (2004)
• Adam Basil (Beast) was stuntman on Spyfall
• Obioma Ugoala (Farmer) voiced Sparky for Causeway (2025)
• Ellen O'Grady (Villager) voiced Ulnar for Wings of Steel (2026)
• Clem So (Parent) was a Mongolian in Asylum of the Daleks, Artisan in The Angels Take Manhattan, Tourist in The Day of the Doctor, Clockwork Droid in Deep Breath, Bank Client in Time Heist, Alien in Face the Raven and The Husbands of River Song, Gent in Thin Ice, Corpse in Oxygen, and Guard in Extremis
• Joel Conlan was a stuntman on The Lie of the Land too
• Andy Merchant was also a stuntman on The Wedding of River Song, Into the Dalek and The Pilot
• Sarah Lochlan was a stunt performer on Revolution of the Daleks too
• Jenny Shircore (hair/make-up designer) was make-up artist on Planet of Evil

Doctor Who Vs. Mr. Holmes

This Anglo-American period

drama was based on Mitch

Cullin's 2005 novel, A Slight

Trick of the Mind.

Ian McKellen portrayed the

titular literary icon, and Milo

Parker was Roger.

Set mainly in 1947 during his

retirement in Sussex, the story

recounts 93-year-old Sherlock

Holmes' struggle to recall his

final case, The Adventure of the

Dove Grey Glove. The mystery

is even dramatised within the

film as Hollywood movie, The

Lady in Grey which the detective watches at the cinema. Mr. Holmes premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in

early 2015, then was released by Miramax later that year. Shown on BBC2

tonight, the See Saw and BBC Films co-production also featured Hattie

Morahan, Laura Linney, Roger Allam, and sixteen Doctor Who cast and

crew connections:

• McKellen provided the voice of the Great Intelligence for The Snowmen, and had a cameo in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
• Parker voiced the Master for Big Finish's Masterful (2021)
• Phil Davis (DI Gilbert here; Jeff Hope in A Study in Pink) was Lucius Petrus Dextrus in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Titus for The Cannibalists (2009)
• John [Gibb] Sessions [bon Marshall] (Mycroft Holmes here; Rutherford in Murder Rooms; Bell in Reichenbach Falls; Kenny Price in Sherlock: The Great Game; Conan Doyle in Mr. Selfridge) voiced General Tannis for Death Comes to Time, Mozart for My Own Private Wolfgang (2007), Roland for Castle of Fear (2009), then provided the voice of Gus for Mummy on the Orient Express
• Nicholas [James Sebastian] Rowe (Matinee Holmes here; Sherlock in Young Sherlock Holmes; Norton for Auk Studios' Sir Sherlock) voiced Rivesh Mantilax for Dreamland, then the Kandyman for Ravenous 1 (2018), Cato Kelgoth for War Room 1 (2022), and Sebastian Hardcastle for Operation Dusk (2023)
• Frances Barber (Matinee Madame) was Madame Kovarian through- out the Series 6 story arc, a role reprised by Big Finish for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018) - she was also Narrator of AudioGo's Snake Bite (2012)
• Shaun Lucas (Passerby here; Man in Elementary) was a Monk in The Bells of Saint John
• Clem So (Customer here; Raver in The Sign of Three; Chinaman in The Abominable Bride) was Mongolian in Asylum of the Daleks, Artisan in The Angels Take Manhattan, Tourist in The Day of the Doctor, Clockwork Droid in Deep Breath, Bank Client in Time Heist, Alien in Face the Raven and The Husbands of River Song, Gent in Thin Ice, Corpse in Oxygen, and Guard in Extremis
• Kit Connor (Boy), Claire Ashton (Customer) and SFX supervisor Neal Champion all worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Matt Jennings (third assistant director) was first AD on Demons of the Punjab and The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
• Christine Walmesley-Cotham (stylist) was make-up designer on The Ribos Operation and The Horns of Nimon
• Leon Harris was also SFX technician on five episodes (from The Snowmen to The Day of the Doctor)
• Lou Elsey (prosthetics tech supervisor) was costume fabricator on Cold War
• Richard Rowntree was also greensman on forty-one stories (from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe to The Husbands of River Song)