Doctor Who Vs. Law & Order: UK, Series 7

 

Bradley Walsh, Peter Davison, Dominic Rowan, Adjoa Andoh,

and Jessica Gunning all returned for the seventh and penultimate

series of the British spin-off of Dick Wolf's Law & Order.

Paterson Joseph and Georgia Taylor both joined the programme here
 (as new DI Wes Leyton and CPS prosecutor Kate Barker), whilst Paul 
Nicholls left the series after two years as DS Sam Casey.

All six cases were again based on scripts from the parent American

show, and were originally shown in the summer of 2013. A repeat run

of the season concluded on ITV3 last night - it featured a total of

thirty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Tracks

(UK TX: July 14/US TX: August 7/based on Locomotion, 2005)

• Adam James (Gennis) was DI Macmillan in Planet of the Dead
• Fraser James (Dr. Marsh) voiced Gerium for Big Finish's Valhalla (2007)
• Belinda McGinley (Marnie) was a stunt performer then co-ordinator on nine stories (from Amy's Choice to Eve of the Daleks)
• Catherine Grose (DC Smart) voiced Princess Aelfwynn/Molly Wright for The Lady of Mercia (2013)
• Karen Archer (O'Neill here & Series 8: Bad Romance) voiced Professor Allen for Never Alone (2021), DCI Denise Walker for The Annihilators (2022), Vrull Peregrine for The Great Cyber War (2023), and Countess of Warminster for Anne of a Thousand Light Years (2024)
• Raffiella Chapman (Ellie) voiced Sky/Bot for The Beautiful and the Damned (2026)
• Greg Bennett (PC) was Sycorax Warrior/UNIT Soldier in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
• Paul Kennington was also stuntman on Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts, Doomsday and The Doctor's Daughter
• William [John] Willoughby [born Haynes] was also a stuntman on nine episodes (from Rose to A Town Called Mercy)
• Simon Diggins was also ADR mixer on fourteen stories (from The Day of the Doctor to Last Christmas)
• Julie Ankerson was also the foley artist on every revived episodes (from Rose to Twice Upon a Time), Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• James Leigh was also a camera operator on Planet of the Dead and The Girl Who Waited
•  Rob Carter was also the steadicam operator on The Bells of Saint John, The Rings of Akhaten and Last Christmas

Tremors

(UK TX: July 21/US TX: August 14/based on Aftershock, 1996)

• Joseph was Roderick in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, then voiced Victor Espinosa for Earth Aid (2011), Harbolt for The Queen of Clocks, and James Blakelock for Missy and the Time Assassin (both 2024)
• David Ajala (Dale) was Peter in The Beast Below

Paternal

(UK TX: July 28/US TX: August 21/based on Deadbeat, 1996)

• Davood Ghadami (Russell) was Jim in Let's Kill Hitler
• Amerjit Deu (Judge Patham here & Fatherly Love) voiced the Swami for Hounded (2016), the Governor for World of Damnation (2018), Roni for The Dimension Cannon 1 (2019), Jom for Maelstrom (2022), and Voltaire for Missy (2025)
• Branko Tomovic (Kopecky) voiced Professor Hans Richter for Operation Werewolf (2024), Board member for 1922: The Black Cadre, and Alexsandr for 1974: The Caldwell Restitution (both 2026)

Fatherly Love

(UK TX: August 4/US TX: August 28/based on Family Values, 1994)

• Rory Keenan (Harte) voiced Captain Gormley for Signs and Wonders, PC Jenkins for Mind Games, James Wilton/Harry for The Reesinger Process, Soldier for The Screaming Skull (all 2014), David Lacey for The Darkness of Glass, Ugo for The Red House (both 2015), and Kevin for Technophobia (2016)
• Patrick [Bashir] Baladi (McGrath) was Sir Keith Spears in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• Eleanor Matsuura (Sophie) was Jo Nakashima in The Sontaran Stratagem, and voiced Dana Tanaka for Shadows of the Vashta Nerada
• Raji James (Alforth) was Dr. Rajesh Singh in Army of Ghosts and Doomsday
• for Pip Torrens see Series 5 and Alan Bond see Series 2

Mortal
(UK TX: August 11/US TX: September 11/based on Golden Years, 1994)

• Ramon Tikaram (Prasad here & Series 8: Safe From Home) voiced Wanchese for Voyage to the New World (2012), the Castellan for The Eleven, Marlock for Theatre of War, Colonel Vikram Shindi for UNIT: Extinction (all 2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), UNIT: Encounters (2017), UNIT: Cyber Reality and UNIT: Revisitations (both 2018), Colin Colchester Price for Torchwood, and President Dunn La for The World Traders (2021)
• Sandra Voe [born Williamson] (Harriet) voiced Miss Barnett for The Hidden Realm (2016)
• Ony Uhiara (Vanessa) voiced Sisrella Teveler for The Seeds of War (2013), Alice Lloyd for The End of the Line (2015), Ronica for Planet of Dust (2019), Rita Cooper for Treason and Plot (2020), Donya for The Shroud (2023), and Vaylen V for Fear of the Light (2026)
• Nick Brimble (Dr. Hastings) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Kith for Max Warp (2008), Olaf Ericksson for The Book of Kells (2010), and Commander Harlan for The Conscript (2017)
• Jan [Stephanie] Francis (Caroline) voiced the Ice Queen for AudioGo's A Shard of Ice (2010), and First Incorporation for Planet of the End (2021)
• Ann Akinjirin (Cecile) was Barbara Pierre Dupont in The War Between the Land and the Sea
• for Paul Darrow see Series 1

Dependent

(UK TX: August 18/US TX: September 18/based on Phobia, 2001)

• Josh O'Connor (Fellows) was Piotr in Cold War
• Stuart Organ (Walker) was Bazin in Dragonfire, and voiced Helgert Teveler/Kenneth/Trooper/Docking for The Seeds of War
• Glynis [born van der Riet] Barber (Sue) voiced Kathy Blake for The Sinestran Kill (2019), and Nicholaa de la Haye for The Outlaws (2022)
• Raquel [Josephine] Cassidy (Lydia) was Miranda Cleaves in The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People, and voiced Mesca for The Judgement of Isskar (2009), Inquisa for Paradoxicide, Destiny Gray for Question Marks (both 2011), Dr. Alison Foster for Destination: Nerva, Audio- Go's Narrator of The Art of Death, The Nu-Humans and The Empty House (all 2012), and Guinevere Godiva for Jago & Litefoot 5 (2013)

Doctor Who Vs. Trial & Retribution II

Lynda La Plante's acclaimed crime drama returned
to ITV in October 1998, and again starred David
Hayman (as DCS Mike Walker), Dorian Lough (DS
Satchell), and Kate Buffery (DI Pat North). Like La Plante's Prime Suspect, the programme employed

split-screen scenes, a distinctive technique later

emulated by the makers of 24, Spooks and The Bill.

A repeat run of this two-part case began on ITV3

last night - it featured seventeen Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Iain [Alan Sutherland] Glen (Morton) was Father Octavian (pictured) in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Big Finish actor George Asprey (DC Hutchens) voiced Overseer Zim for The Hidden Realm, Balthasar Schrek for Nothing to See Here (both 2016), the Leader for Infamy of the Zaross (2017), General Melak for Time in a Bottle and Kings of Infinite Space, the Ravenous for Seizure (all 2018), Deeptime Frontier, The Odds Against, Planet of Dust, Day of the Master (all 2019) and Beyond (2021), and Superior Elite for The Good Samaritan (2023)
• Simon [Phillip Hugh] Callow (Halliday) was Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead and The Wedding of River Song, and provided the voice of Tree Lorn Acre Slitheen Blathereen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift - he then voiced Don Quixote for The Ingenious Gentlemen (2025)
• Joseph Long (Bellini) was Rocco Colasanto in Turn Left, and the Pope in Extremis
• Danny Sapani (Burton) was Colonel Manton in A Good Man Goes to War
• [Rosemary] Rowena Cooper (Corinna) also appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures (she was Angela Price in Lost in Time), then voiced La Concierge for AudioGo's The Demon of Paris (2010), Emily Shaw for The Last Post (2012) and The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Jean Bazemore for Jago & Son, Mother Superior for The Unbound Universe (both 2016) and Ruler of the Universe (2017), and Queen Victoria for The Torchwood Archive, The Death of Captain Jack and Jago & Litefoor Forever (both 2018)
• Helen Anderson (Carol) was Rachel in Revolution of the Daleks
• Mona Hammond [born Mavis Chin] (Bibi) was Rita Anne in Rise of the Cybermen
• Madhav Sharma (Dr. Jaffrey) was Patel in Frontier in Space (3)
• Eric Carte (Slater) voiced Arak Varren for The Robots of Life (2019)
• Nicholas Beveney (Nailer) was Dad in Attack of the Graske
• John D Collins (Clerk) was Talor in Arc of Infinity
• for Daniel Ryan, Andrew Havill, Stephen Critchlow and John Abbott see Series 1
• Nikki Wilson was also script editor on The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, then producer of thirty-two stories (from The Waters of Mars to The Timeless Children) and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Doctor Who Vs. Spooks, Series 6

Peter Firth, Rupert Penry-Jones, Miranda Raison,

Hermione Norris, and Hugh Simon all returned for

the sixth season of BBC1's award-winning spy drama,

first shown in the autumn of 2007.

This ten-part series saw the introduction of Alex

Lanipekun as journalist Ben Kaplan (later recruited

 as a junior officer) and Gemma Jones as analyst

Connie James, then the  departure of Raza Jaffrey

(MI5 agent Zaf Younis).

A repeat run of the season began on U&Drama last

night - it featured Lisa Bowerman, and a total of

twenty-two Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Angela Bruce (Chambers) and director Stefan Schwartz both starred in Battlefield, as Brigadier Winifred Bambera and Knight Commander - Bambera was reprised by Big Finish for Animal (2011), Seabird One, Visitants, Fractures and The War Factory (2022) - Bruce also voiced Mother for The Persistence of Dreams (2018), Herb for Conversion (2019), and Oya/Andarta for Consequences (2021)
• Matthew Cottle (Smith) voiced Paine for The Satanic Mill (2015), Hargreaves for Aquitaine, Henry Clarke for Quicksilver, James Leith for The Shadow Vortex (all 2016), Maxwell Wilberforce Bell for Subterranea (2017), Ben Donelly for Invocation, and Overseer for The Sontaran Project (both 2017)
• Lanipekun voiced DS Joseph for The Hidden Realm (2016)
• Pete Lee-Wilson (Ronson) was Tommo in The End of Time, Part 1
• Selva Rasalingam (Maruti) was Ranjit in The Power of Three
• Simon Slater (Caldwell) was Edwardes in Terror of the Vervoids, then voiced Carvil for The Lords of Terror (2018), Nustanu for Devil in the Mist, Montague Davis/Moses Walker/Coachman for A Spoonful of Mayhem (both 2019), and the title role for The Murder of Oliver Akkron (2021)
• Richard Dillane (Richardson) was Captain Carter in Let's Kill Hitler and The Wedding of River Song
• Joe Montana (Millar) was a Worker in Daleks in Manhattan
• Sam Graham (Rolfe) voiced Guthrie for City of Spires (2010), and Henry McMullan/Pilot for Destination: Nerva (2012)
• David [William] Yelland (Castledine) voiced Walter Pritchett for The Red Lady (2015)
• Richard Hansell (Doctor) voiced Robin/Slitheen for Death on the Mile (2018), John Fielding for The Avenues of Possibility (2019), and Enforcers/Captain for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Paul Grunert (Faures) voiced Elbon for Gallifrey 3, and Henning Brauer for The Juggernauts (both 2005)
• Martin McDougall (Agent) voiced Craddock for He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not (2020)
• for Norris, Raison, Robert Glenister and Neil Cross see Series 5
• for cinematographer Damian Bromley and editor Jamie Pearson see Series 4
• Toby Ford was the first assistant director on A Good Man Goes to War too
• Simon Morris was also second assistant director on Love & Monsters, then third assistant on Turn Left, The Stolen Earth, Journey's End and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Lucienne Suren was art director on Asylum of the Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan, and An Adventure in Space and Time too 
• Marcus Catlin was also first assistant director on The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang
• Robert Edwards was ADR mixer on Space and Time too

Doctor Who Vs. Four Lives

ITV Studios' latest crime drama

was based on the true story of

the four young gay men who

lost their lives to serial rapist

Stephen Port (portrayed here

by Stephen Merchant).

Dubbed the Grindr Killer by the

press, Port was convicted in

2016, and will never be freed

from prison. 

Shown over three consecutive

nights, the drama concluded on

BBC1 last night - it featured

Sheridan Smith, and twelve

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Samuel Barnett (Edwards) voiced Hans Tod for The Beast of Orlok (2009), Robin Yeadon for Nightshade, Norton Folgate for Torchwood (2016 to present), and Cicero in Tartarus (2019)
• Leo Flanagan (Daniel) was Charlie Duffy in Kerblam!, and Rex in The Eternal Mystery
• Michael Jibson (DC Slaymaker) voiced Corporal Gibbs for The Forsaken (2015)
• Daniel Ryan [born O'Brien] (Whitworth) was Biff Cane in Midnight
• Ella Kenion (Mandy) was Harriet in Let's Kill Hitler, then voiced Boudica for The Wrath of the Iceni (2012), and Romy for Equilibrium (2015)
• George Asprey (Rees) voiced Overseer Zim for The Hidden Realm, Balthasar Schrek for Nothing to See Here (both 2016), the Leader for Infamy of the Zaross (2017), General Melak for Time in a Bottle and Kings of Infinite Space (both 2018), and the titular alien for the Ravenous series and Beyond (2021)
• Ian Puleston Davies (MP) voiced Angus Selwyn for Absent Friends (2016)
• Milo Twomey (Detective) voiced Jorvik for Theatre of War (2015)
• Steve Walker was also script supervisor on twenty-four episodes (from Let's Kill Hitler to The Zygon Inversion)
• Ben Ashmore was also SFX supervisor on thirty-six stories (from The Girl in the Fireplace to The Next Doctor), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood
• Chris Lyons was also SFX technician (teeth) on Empress of Mars, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos, The Haunting of Villa Diodati, Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children
• Nick Roberts (ADR mixer) was recordist on The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice, Cold Blood and The Lodger