Doctor Who Vs. Law & Order: UK, Series 1

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented

by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who

investigate crime, and the Crown Prosecutors who prosecute

the offenders. These are their stories."

This long-running, London-based crime series from Kudos Films was

the first American television drama to be adapted for British TV, and

Chris Chibnall (writer and co-executive producer) based all seven

episodes here on scripts from the parent programme. Law & Order

(1990 to 2010), created by Dick Wolf, also spawned five further

spin-off shows, all from Universal productions.

Bradley Walsh (as DS Ronnie Brooks), Jamie Bamber (DS Matt

Devlin), and Dame Harriet Walter (DI Natalie Chandler) represented

the titular Law officers, whilst Ben Daniels (senior prosecutor James

Steel), Bill Paterson (CPS Director George Castle), and Freema

Agyeman (junior prosecutor Alesha Phillips) were the Order team.

Narration at the top of every episode was provided by Robert

Glenister (who later bemoaned his role in The Caves of Androzani).

A repeat run of these seven cases (originally shown in the spring

of 2009) began on ITV3 this week - they featured a total of fifty

other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Care (UK TX: February 23 2009/based on Cradle to Grave, 1992)

• Walter was Jo Patterson in Revolution of the Daleks, and voiced Beatrice Mapp for Big Finish's The Boy That Time Forgot (2008)
• Paterson was Professor Bracewell in Victory of the Daleks and The Pandorica Opens
• Glenister was also Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror, then voiced Eliot for Future Phantoms (2024)
• Michelle Asante (Leona) was Neighbour on In the Forest of the Night, then Abena in The Story and the Engine - she also voiced Princess Natalia Zicaria/Computer for Master! 2 (2023), and was Narrator of BBC Books' Spectral Scream and Firefall (both 2025)
• John MacKay (Lindford) portrayed John Logie Baird in The Giggle
• Alison Lintott (Rachel) was the Nurse in World Enough and Time
• Jamie Pearson was also film editor on nine episodes (from The Eleventh Hour to The Angels Take Manhattan)
• Adrian Rigby (prosthetic effects) was a make-up artist on The Sarah Jane Adventures, then hair technician on The God Complex
• series ADR mixer Nick Foley worked on The Snowmen too
• Alison Barnett (head of production) was floor assistant on Nightmare of Eden
• Malcolm Thornton was also production designer on Logopolis, Kinda, The Five Doctors and Planet of Fire

Unloved (UK TX: March 2/based on Born Bad, 1993)

• Rebekah Staton (Tracey) was Jenny in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
• Babatunde Aleshe (Jason) was Sean in The Lodger
• Tracy Wiles (Jenny) voiced Moira Brody for Masters of Earth (2014), Lilith Lovett for The Year of the Bat, Jacqui McGee for UNIT: Extinction (both 2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), Death on the Mile (2018), Narcissus, The Power of River Song (both 2019), UNIT: Between Two Worlds, Outback, Longshot (all 2021), UNIT: Agents of the Vulpreen, UNIT: Objective: Earth (both 2022), Commander Barnac for The Neverwhen (2016), Ground Control/Secretary for Their Finest Hour, Sharlan for The Invention of Death, Hadway/V75/ Salma for Escape from Kaldor (all 2018), Drones for The False Guardian and Time's Assassin, Announcer for State of Bliss, Comms for The Famished Lands, Servant for Fugitive in Time, Marzanna/ Engel for Nightmare Country, Various for The Robots 1 (all 2019), The Robots 2 and Dark Side of the Moon (2022), Tryana for Return to Skaro (both 2020), FELINE/Maria/Patricia for A Forever Home, Shira/ Draven/Sentinel for The Shadow Squad (both 2021), Shorak for Storm of the Sea Devils, and Peggy Cressler for Bad Apple Brigade (both 2024)
• Diveen Henry (Bernice here & Series 5: Safe) voiced Alozza for The Vault of Osiris (2015), Sarah for The Behemoth, and Sandra for A Kill to a View (both 2017)
• Nimmy [Anna] March (Dr. Rawls here, Buried & S8: Bad Romance) voiced Baroness Vance/the Telokni for In Memory Alone (2016), Rupa Maguire for The Time War 1 (2017), Ulla for The Moons of Vulpana (2019), Colonel Aesillor Zyre for Purgatory 12 (2020), Lupan for Stolen Futures, and Mada/Saskar/Alef for Maelstrom (2022)
• Dervla Kirwan (Beatrice McArdle, here & S2: Hidden), Andy Goddard (director here, Unsafe, S2: Samaritan, Honour Bound, S3: Broken, Survivor, S4: ID, Skeletons, S5: Deal, S6: Survivor's Guilt) and Richard Cox (film editor) all worked on The Next Doctor - Kirwan reprised the role of Miss Quill for Big Finish's Class 3, then voiced Mrs. Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Yosta McCormack for Lightspeed, Di Wright for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Anne Marie for Interlude, Representative for Echo Chamber, Agatha Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Professor Callis for Castle Hydra, Kelleher for Effect and Cause (all 2020), and Honour Bray for Redacted 1

Vice (UK TX: March 9/based on Working Mom, 1997)

• Tariq Jordan (Teddy here, Unsafe, Paradise, S2: Samaritan, Hidden, S5: Crush) was a Rep in Planet of the Ood
• Jessica Gunning (Angela) was Stacey Campbell in Partners in Crime
• Sean [Anthony] Blowers (Woodhouse) was Zed in Dragonfire
• Juliet Aubrey (Emma) voiced Vulpina for Voyage to Venus (2012), Esther Malkin for The Wrong Woman (2021), Prodigal for The Auton Infinity (2022), and Zyla Kalstein for Revolution in Space (2024)
• Stephen [George] Churchett (Rook) was Bill in (part 1 of) Attack of the Cybermen
• Lesley [Ann] Manville (Phyllis Gladstone here, Alesha & S5: Tick Tock) depicted Heather Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Polly Kemp (Annie) voiced Duchess Callys Flambo/Golp/Betty for Dining With Death (2019), and Calo/Quarks for Dominant Species (2024)
• Sean [Carl] Pertwee (Pritchard) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors
• Waleed Akhtar (Imran) voiced Mook Jayasundera for The Last Party on Earth (2019)

Unsafe (UK TX: March 16/based on American Dream, 1993)

• Iain [Alan Sutherland] Glen (Slade) was Father Octavian in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Michael Smiley (Doyle) voiced Seedleson for Creatures of Beauty (2003), and Colonel Morgan Blue in Into the Dalek
• Nicholas Beveney (Newman) was Dad in Attack of the Graske
• Paul [Valentine Birkby] Darrow (Judge Prentice here; S2: Community Service, S3: Defence, S5: Deal; S7: Mortal, S8: I Predict a Riot) was Captain Hawkins in The Silurians, Tekker in Timelash, then voiced Guidance for The Next Life (2004)
• Edmund Kente (McVeigh) was Scoones in The Next Doctor

Buried (UK TX: March 23/based on In Memory of, 1991)

• Keith Barron (Mortimer) was Captain Striker in Enlightenment, and voiced Isaac Barclay for Plague of the Daleks (2009), and Lord Tulip for The Bad Penny (2018)
• Colin Salmon (Greer here, S2: Community Service, S6: Survivor's Guilt, S8: Repeat to Fade) was Dr. Moon in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, then voiced Trooper Salway for Wirrn Dawn (2009)
• Christopher Fairbank (McFadden) voiced Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), Pierre Arronax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018), then appeared as Fenton in Flatline
• Simon Morris was also first assistant director (here & Paradise) on Love & Monsters, Turn Left, The Stolen Earth, Journey's End, Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Dark Water, Death in Heaven and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Catherine Tregenna (here, Alesha; S2: Community Service, S3: Hounded, S4: Denial, Skeletons) was also writer of The Woman Who Lived and Torchwood

Paradise (UK TX: March 30/based on Heaven, 1991)

• Charles Kay [born Piff] (Artemis, here & S2: Sacrifice) voiced the Curator for Excelis Rising (2002)
• Selva Rasalingam (Osman) was Ranjit in The Power of Three
• Frances Barber (Michaela Herman) was Madame Kovarian in Series 6 - a role reprised for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
• Ken Bones (Kilic) was the General in The Day of the Doctor and Hell Bent - a role reprised for Dreadshade (2020), War Room 1, The War Doctor Begins 4 (both 2022), War Room 2 and A Genius for War (both 2023) - he also voiced Thomas Bloodchild/Dreislav for The Bloodchild Codex (2013), David/Anders Kristiansen for Battlegrounds (2022), and Senidon for Shock and Awe (2026)
• Nabil Elouahabi (Kasaba) voiced Esteban Aribi for The Flames of Cadiz (2013), and High Korravin/Lomaz for Ancient History (2024)
• Joanna McCallum (Judge Hartop) voiced the Bursar for Night Thoughts (2006)
• Stewart Scudamore (Turgay) voiced Danvers for Hounded (2016), and Ashley Bassett for Traitors' Gate (2023)
• Souad Faress (Birsen) was Older Rani Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic
• Steve Hansell (Doctor) voiced PC Blackstock for The Condemned, Septal for Brotherhood of the Daleks, Bouncers for The Raincloud Man (all 2008), Grubb for Izzy's Story, Dane for Cyberman 2 (both 2009), and Doug/ Barbarius/Guard for The Iron Legion (2019)

Alesha (UK TX: April 6/based on Helpless, 1992)

• Derek Riddell (Dr. Merrick) was Sir Robert in Tooth and Claw, and voiced Lieut. Commander Sandy McNish also for The Oncoming Storm
• John Rowe (Silverton here, S2: Hidden, S8: Hard Stop) voiced Sir Hartley Harecourt for The Case of the Missing Gasogene (2015), and Sir Isiah Hardy for Entanglement (2018)
• Nicholas Khan (Hall) voiced Jimmy Lynch for The Sinestran Kill, Dalia for Collateral (both 2019), Jillix for The Sins of Captain John, Stubbs for Thin Time, Alexander Marfleet for The Flying Dutchman (both 2020), Vez/Kol for The Ark (2023), Shalvar for Coda, Androids/Kwest for Cass-cade (2024), Castor for Lost Amongst the Stars, and Davius for Cybergene (both 2025)

Doctor Who Vs. Trial & Retribution III

Grant first portrayed the
Doctor in Comic Relief's
The Curse of Fatal Death.
Following his return to
the role for Scream of
the Shalka, he depicted
the Great Intelligence
in The Snowmen, The
The Bells of Saint John
and The Name of the
Doctor.

Lynda La Plante's acclaimed crime drama
returned to ITV in October 1999 - again it
starred David Hayman, Dorian Lough, and Kate Buffery. Like La Plante's Prime Suspect, the thriller employed a distinctive split-screen

technique. A repeat run of this two-part case

began on ITV3 last night - it featured Richard

E Grant, Anthony Higgins, and fifteen Doctor

 Who cast and crew connections:

• Michael Simkins (CS Bradley) voiced Raxxil for Big Finish's The Planet of Witches (2020)
• Phil Cornwell (Levine) was a Stallholder in The Fires of Pompeii, and voiced Superintendent Galgo/Zaleb 5 for Serpent in the Silve Mask (2018), and Parsnip for Spinvasion (2020)
• TV presenter Angela [May] Rippon was the Newsreader for The Star Beast (2019)
• John MacKay (Forensics) portrayed John Logie Baird in The Giggle
• for Nicholas Blane see Series 1
• for George Asprey, Simon Callow, Stephen Critchlow, John D Collins and Nikki Wilson see Series 2
• clapper loader Jamie Southcott was focus puller on twelve episodes (from Human Nature to The End of Time), Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, then prop store- man/set dresser on fifteen other stories (from The Snowmen to Smile)
• Alf Tramontin was Steadicam operator on Attack of the Graske too
• Tony Gibson and Nigel Squibbs (sound department) both worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• Wayne Mansell was an electrician on Love & Monsters too

Doctor Who On This Day #343

1938 - Director Waris Hussein born

in Lucknow, India

1944 - Writer/Script Editor Eric

Saward born in Britain

1967 - The Ice Warriors, Episode 5

first screened on BBC1

1969 - The Evil of the Daleks, Episode

2 repeated on ABC

1974 - The Time Monster, Episode 3, The

Three Doctors, Episode 3 and Carnival of

Monsters, Episode 1 all repeated on ABC

1975 - The Time Warrior, Part 3 first

creened on TV2

1978 - The Androids of Tara, Part

3 first screened on BBC1

1981 - The Ark in Space, Part 1

repeated on KQED Plus

1982 - Image of the Fendahl, Part

2 repeated on KQED Plus

1983 - The Face of Evil, Part 4 repeated

on ABC; and Logopolis, Part 3 repeated

on KQED Plus

1984 - Enlightenment Omnibus

 repeated on KQED Plus

1985 - Attack of the Cybermen, Part

1 (of 4) first screened on KQED Plus

1986 - The Keys of Marinus, Episode 4: The

Snows of Terror repeated on KQED Plus; and

Planet of the Spiders, Part 2 repeated on TV1

1987 - The Seeds of Doom, Part 6 repeated

on KQED Plus; and The Ribos Operation,

Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on TV2

1988 - Arc of Infinity, Part 4 repeated

on TV2; and Delta and the Bannermen,

Part 1 repeated on KQED Plus

1989 - The Leisure Hive, Part 2

repeated on KQED Plus

1992 - The Space Museum, Episode

 3: The Search repeated on UK Gold

1993 - Genesis of the Daleks, Part 2

repeated on UK Gold; and Time Flight,

Part 1 repeated on ABC

1994 - Delta and the Bannermen, Part 1 repeated on UK Gold

1995 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Part 5 repeated on UK Gold
1996 - The Silurians, Episode 3 repeated on UKTV (Aus); and

The Ambassadors of Death Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus

1997 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode

5: The Waking Ally first screened on Space;

and The Creature from the Pit, Part 4

repeated on UKTV (Aus)

1998 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode

 6: Flashpoint repeated on Space; and

Resurrection of the Daleks, Part 1 repeated

on UKTV (Aus)

1999 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth,

Episode 6: Flashpoint repeated on

Space

2000 - Planet of the Spiders Omnibus

repeated on UKTV (Aus); and Kinda,

Part 4 repeated on BBC Prime

2001 - Day of the Daleks Omnibus repeated on MPT; The Deadly 
Assassin, Part 2 repeated on WILL; The Keeper of Traken, Parts

1 and 2 both repeated on KBTC; Logopolis, Parts 1 and 2 both

repeated on NHPTV; Enlightenment, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated

 on Iowa PTV; Revelation of the Daleks Omnibus repeated on UK 

Gold; and Survival, Parts 2 and 3 both repeated on MiND

2002 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Omnibus repeated on BBC Kids (Can)

2003 - The Web Planet, Episode 6: The Centre repeated on ABC;

 and The Horns of Nimon, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on BBC 

Kids (Can)
2004 - The Android Invasion, Part

2 repeated on ABC

2005 - Vengeance on Varos, Parts 3 and 4 (of 4) both repeated

 on ABC; Aliens of London first screened on Jimmy; and The 

Long Game repeated on UK Gold

2006 - The Green Death Omnibus, The Girl in the Fireplace and

Rise of the Cybermen all repeated on UK Gold; Dalek and The

Long Game both repeated on France 4; Boom Town repeated on

 UKTV (Aus) and Jimmy; The Age of Steel first screened on KBS2;

and Love & Monsters first screened on Syfy (US)
2007 - The Empty Child repeated on DR1; The Doctor Dances

and Doctor Who Confidential: Weird Science both repeated on

WGVU; The Parting of the Ways repeated on Idaho PTV; and

The Shakespeare Code and Doctor Who Confidential: Stage

Fright both repeated on BBC3

2008 - Kinda, Parts 2 and 3 both first screened on MTV3 SciFi 

and TV4; The Age of Steel and The Idiot's Lantern both repeated

 on France 4; and Last of the Time Lords first screened on Syfy 

(Ben)

2009 - Dalek repeated on Syfy (Spa); The Girl in the Fireplace 
repeated on Syfy (FRG); and The Unicorn and the Wasp repeated
on BBC3

2010 - Aliens of London repeated on Space; School Reunion

 repeated on UKTV (Aus); and The Fires of Pompeii repeated

on AXN SciFi

2011 - Doomsday repeated on BBC America;

Smith and Jones and Doctor Who Confidential

Cutdown: Meet Martha Jones both repeated

on UKTV (Aus); The Stolen Earth repeated on

Space; The Curse of the Black Spot first

screened on Canal 3XL; and Doctor Who

Confidential: When Time Froze repeated

on BBC HD

2012 - The Monster of Peladon, Episodes 5 and 6 both repeated on
KBTC; Journey's End and The Next Doctor both repeated on Fox (FRG);
Vincent and the Doctor and The Lodger both repeated on Watch; The 
Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon and The Curse of the Black Spot
all repeated on BBC America; Asylum of the Daleks first screened on
KBS2; and The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane 
Smith, Episode 1 repeated on CBBC

2013 - Warriors' Gate, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on Syfy (Aus);
Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways both repeated on France 4;
The Shakespeare Code repeated on Watch; Last of the Time Lords 
repeated on UKTV (Aus); Planet of the Ood repeated on BBC America;
The Beast Below repeated on BBC Nordic; The Vampires of Venice,
Amy's Choice and The Hungry Earth all repeated on Syfy (Port); and
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship repeated on BBC Entertainment LA
2014 - The Daleks, Episodes 5 and 6 both repeated on Horror; The 
Monster of Peladon, Parts 3 and 4 both first screened on Retro TV;
Resurrection of the Daleks, Part 2 repeated on Syfy (Aus); Journey's 

End and Dinosaurs on a Spaceship both repeated on Watch; The 
Beast Below repeated on UKTV (NZ); A Good Man Goes to War 
repeated on BBC America and Syfy (Ben); Let's Kill Hitler repeated 
on BBC America; and A Town Called Mercy repeated on Watch

2015 - Terror of the Zygons, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on Retro 

TV; The Android Invasion, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on Horror; 

The Robots of Death, Part 2, Earthshock, Part 3 and The Unicorn and

 the Wasp all repeated on Syfy (Aus); The Waters of Mars repeated

on TV Cultura; The Lodger repeated on BBC Entertainment AP;

Closing Time and The Wedding of River Song both repeated on BBC 

America; The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe repeated on BBC 

Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD; Nightmare in Silver repeated on Syfy 

(Port); Mummy on the Orient Express repeated on RAI4; Death in 

Heaven repeated on Karusel; and Face the Raven repeated on FX

India

2016 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Parts 2 and 3 both repeated on 

Retro TV; Father's Day, Turn Left, The Stolen Earth, Journey's End 

and The Next Doctor all repeated on Syfy (Aus); The Doctor's

Daughter repeated on BBC Polska HD; The Wedding of River Song 

and Death is the Only Answer both repeated on Syfy (LA); The 

Crimson Horror repeated on The Zone; and The Magician's

Apprentice, The Witch's Familiar and Under the Lake all

repeated on Syfy (Bra)

2017 - The Android Invasion, Part 4, The Masque of Mandragora, Part 

1 and Nightmare of Eden, Parts 3 and 4 all repeated on Retro TV; The 

Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky, The Doctor's Daughter and The 

Unicorn and the Wasp all repeated on BBC Polska HD; The Curse of 

the Black Spot, The Doctor's Wife and The Rebel Flesh all repeated on 

Syfy (Aus); Into the Dalek repeated on W; Listen and Time Heist both 

repeated on Space; Death in Heaven repeated on BBC Entertainment 

EU; and The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived both 

repeated on BBC First (RSA)

2018 - The Chase Omnibus repeated on Idaho PTV; The Ark

in Space, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on KBTC; The Awakening

Omnibus repeated on Iowa PTV; The Girl in the Fireplace, Rise

of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, The Idiot's Lantern, The

 Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit and Love & Monsters all 

repeated on W; The Big Bang and A Christmas Carol both

repeated on One ARD; The Almost People and Let's Kill Hitler

 both repeated on RAI4; The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon 

Inversion both repeated on Fox (FRG); The Witchfinders 

repeated on Sony SciFi; It Takes You Away repeated on

BBC America and Sony SciFi; and The Battle of Ranskoor

Av Kolos  first screened on BBC1, BBC HD and BBC First

 (ME)

2019 - Last of the Time Lords repeated on Syfy

(Fra); and Listen repeated on BBC Polska HD

2020 - The Web Planet, Episodes 3 and 4 both

repeated on Retro TV; The Sontaran Stratagem

repeated on ABC ME; and Spyfall, Part 1 repeated

on BBC Polska HD

2021 - Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Parts

1 and 2 both repeated on Retro TV; The

Girl Who Waited repeated on BBC Polska

HD; The Name of the Doctor and Survivors

of the Flux both repeated on BBC First

Turkey; Listen repeated on ABC2; The

Pilot repeated on BBC Entertainment EU;

Spyfall, Part 1 repeated on TV2; and The

Vanquishers repeated on ABC

2022 - The Shakespeare Code repeated

on Fox SciFi; and Flesh and Stone

repeated on ABC Family

2023 - The Poison Sky, The Doctor's

 Daughter, The Unicorn and the Wasp

and Silence in the Library all repeated

on Fox SciFi; The Giggle first screened

on BBC1, BBC iPlayer and Disney+; and

Doctor Who: Unleashed, Episode 3 first

screened on BBC3 and repeated on BBC1

2024 - Oxygen repeated on ABC Family

and ABC Entertains

2025 - The War Between the Land and

the Sea, Episode 1: Homo Aqua and

Episode 2: Plastic Apocalypse both

repeated on BBC3