Doctor Who Vs. Ashes to Ashes, Series 3

This month marks a decade
since Kudos' five-year Life On
Mars saga concluded on BBC1.
Another repeat run of the cult
show's sequel series began on
the Drama channel last night.

Keeley Hawes, Philip Glenister,
 Dean Andrews, Marshall
Lancaster, and Montserrat
Lombard all reprised their
respective roles (as DI Alex
 Drake, DCI Gene Hunt, DS
 Ray Carling, DC Chris Skelton,
and WPC Shaz Granger) for
the third season of Ashes to
Ashes, now set in 1983.
The final, eight-part series was originally shown in April and May

2010 - it featured Camille Coduri, and a total of nineteen other

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• co-executive producer Piers Wenger held that post on twenty-nine adventures (from The End of Time to The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe), Dreamland, The Adventure Games, Space and Time, Doctor Who Confidential, Doctor Who Proms (2010), and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• BBC newsreader Matthew Amroliwala appeared on The Power of Three too
• Roy Hudd (Hardwick) voiced Max Miller for Big Finish's Pier Pressure (2009)
• Beth [Jane] Goddard (Violet) voiced Christine Colley for for The Sontaran Project (2017), Ludina Braskell for Ravenous 1 (2018), Barton for The Moons of Vulpana, Vella for A Photograph to Remember (both 2019), and Sally and Time Lady for Operation Hellfire (2020)
• Frog Stone (Woman) voiced Riva for Hour of the Cybermen (2018), and Waitress for Dying Hours (2023)
• Charles Walters (DC Romeo) was Robert Sleigh in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Daniel [Alan] Mays (Jim Keats) was Alex in Night Terrors
• Bryan Dick (Stafford) voiced the Exec for Theatre of War (2015), and Finnian Valentine for The Devil You Know (2018)
• Peter Guinness (Stafford) voiced Mr. Dread for Dreamland, Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Baron Teufel for The Beast of Orlok (2009), and Rovus for The Star Men (2017)
• Lee Ross (DCI Litton here & Life On Mars) was the Boatswain in The Curse of the Black Spot
• Steven Robertson (Thordy) was Pritchard in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Lucian [Gabriel Wiina] Msamati (Ndbele) was Guido in The Vampires of Venice
• Matthew Stirling was also a stuntman on The Angels Take Manhattan and The Name of the Doctor
• Jamie Payne was also director of Hide and The Time of the Doctor
• for Joseph Long (Luigi), Geff Francis (Viv), and Simon Archer (cinematographer) see Series 1
• Balazs Bolygo was also cinematographer on The Rebel Flesh, The Almost People and Closing Time
• Matthew Cannings was assistant editor on The Snowmen too, then was editor on The Crimson Horror and The Name of the Doctor