Doctor Who Vs. Van Der Valk, Series 2

ITV's classic crime drama (based 
on characters created by Nicolas 
Freeling for his Van Der Valk novels
in 1962) again starred Barry Foster
as the eponymous Dutch detective.
Produced at Thames Television's
studios in London, with location
scenes shot in the books'
Amsterdam setting, the series
first aired in the autumn of 1973.

Viewers then had to wait four years

for the next series, and the show 
was revived in 1991. Marc Warren
was cast in the modern remake.

Another repeat run of the second,
seven part season (including
episodes directed by Douglas 
Camfield, whilst Robert Banks Stewart acted as story editor) began
on the Talking Pictures TV channel last night, and featured Lalla Ward,
and twenty-three Doctor Who cast connections:

• Lisa Daniely (Margo here; Mrs. Visser in Series 3) and Jack May (Minister) both starred in The Space Pirates, as Madeleine Issigri and General Nicolai Hermack
• Mark Jones (Martin) was Arnold Keeler in The Seeds of Doom
• Kevin Stoney (Kemeling) and Ian Fairbairn (Grenech) both appeared in The Invasion, as Tobias Vaughn and Gregory - Stoney was also Mavic Chen in The Daleks' Master Plan, Tobias and Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen, whilst Fairbairn was Questa in (episode 1 of) The Macra Terror, Bromley in Inferno, and Dr. Chester in The Seeds of Doom (3)
• John Gill (Man) was Mr. Oak in Fury from the Deep
• Donald Pelmear (Vierman) was Professor Rubeish in The Time Warrior
• Richardson Morgan (Bargee) and Rod Beacham (Technician) both starred  in The Web of Fear, as Corporal Blake and Corporal Lane - Morgan was also Rogin in The Ark in Space
• Wanda Moore (Irene) was Dr. Ruth Ingram in The Time Monster
• Dennis Lill (Van Houten here; Roberts in Series 3) was Dr. Fendelman in Image of Fendahl, and Sir George Hutchinson in The Awakening
• Arne Gordon (Reinhart) began his TV career as Hrostar in The Web Planet, and was Guide in The Chase (3)
• Lois Baxter (Emma) was Lamia in The Androids of Tara, and voiced Carrion for Circular Time: Spring (2007)
• Roy Evans (Caretaker) was Trantis in The Daleks' Master Plan, Bert in The Green Death, and Miner in The Monster of Peladon
• John Quarmby (Zondag) was Henry Tobias in K9 & Company
• John Bailey (Huisman) was the Commander in The Sensorites (6), Edward Waterfield in The Evil of the Daleks, and Sezom in The Horns of Nimon (4)
• Ronald Leigh Hunt (Bekker) was Commanders, Julian Radnor in The Seeds of Death, and Stevenson in Revenge of the Cybermen
• Donald Morley (Dr. Stapper) was Jules Renan in The Reign of Terror
• Roy Boyd (Anton) was Driscoll in The Hand of Fear
• prolific Big Finish actor Christopher Benjamin (Mulder) was Sir Keith Gold in Inferno, then Colonel Hugh Curbishley in The Unicorn and the Wasp, but is best known as Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng-Chiang - a role he reprised for The Mahogany Murders (2009) then the Jago and Litefoot series (from 2010), Voyage to Venus, Voyage to the New World (both 2012), The Justice of Jalxar (2013), Mind Games, The Screaming Skull (both 2014), Stage Fright, The Haunting (both 2015), The Beast of Kravenos, Jago & Litefoot Revival (both 2017), Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018), The Talents of Greel (2019) and Merry Christmas, Mr. Jago (2020) - he also voiced Tardelli for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008)
• David Webb (Leo) was Leeson in Colony in Space (1)
• Jim Norton (Linden here; Hanson in Series 3) voiced Major Thomas Kennet for Scream of the Shalka
• for Dave Carter (Stribos) see Series 1