Doctor Who Vs. Luther, Series 2

Idris Elba returned as the eponymous DCI

John Luther for the second season of BBC Studios' dark, psychological crime drama,

first shown the summer of 2011.

A repeat run of the four-part series began

on Drama last night - it earned a RTS Best

Drama award for show creator/writer Neil Cross, and Elba won a Golden Globe award

for Best Actor.

Ruth Wilson, Dermot Crowley and Paul

McGann reprised their respective roles

(as Alice Morgan, Martin Schenk and Mark

North), and were joined here by Aimee

Ffion-Edwards, and these eleven Doctor

Who cast/crew connections:

• for Warren Brown (Ripley) and Michael Smiley (Benny) see Series 1
• Nikki Amuka Bird (DS Erin Gray) was the Glass Woman [Helen Clay] in Twice Upon a Time, then voiced Tamasan for Big Finish's The Time War 2 (2018)
• Lee [David] Ingleby (Pell) voiced Samson Griffin for Terror Firma (2005)
• John Albasiny (Kolchak) was Guy Dean in BBV's Homeland, then voiced Lev Tolstoy/Preston for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Maxim Felnikov for Thin Ice (2011) and Crime of the Century, Chris Fleming for Phantoms of the Deep (both 2013), Jesper for Equilibrium (2015), and Makerenkov for Last of the Romanovs (2020)
• Pam Ferris (Baba) voiced Lizzie Corrigan for The Eternal Summer (2009), and Amanda Steele for Day of the Vashta Nerada (2017)
• Steven Robertson (Millberry) was Pritchard in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Ellie Haddington (DCS Carroway) was Professor Alison Docherty in Last of the Time Lords
• Hamza Jeetooa (Depak) was Manish in Demons of the Punjab
• Nick Foley was the ADR mixer on The Snowmen too
• production sound mixer Brian Milliken was sound recordist on The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and The Sarah Jane Adventures