Doctor Who Vs. Van Der Valk, Series 3

ITV's classic crime drama starred Barry Foster as

the eponymous Dutch detective, was based on

characters created by Nicolas Freeling for his Van

Der Valk novels in 1962. 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 1977, four years after

the previous run. The show was revived in 1991,

and Marc Warren was cast in Company Pictures'

remake.

A repeat run of the third, twelve-part began on

Talking Pictures TV last night - it featured Patrick

Troughton, William Russell, Richard Hurndall,

and a total of thirty-four Doctor Who cast alumni:

• Nigel [Hector Munro] Stock (Samson) was Professor Hayter in Time Flight
• Donald Gee (Tahlen) was Major Ian Warne in The Space Pirates, and Eckersley in The Monster of Peladon
• Hubert [Thomas Morgan] Rees (Berger) was the Chief Engineer in Fury from the Deep, Captain Ransom in The War Games, and John Stevenson in The Seeds of Doom
• Mary [Veronica] Healey (Berte) was a Killjoy in The Happiness Patrol
• James [David] Grout (Kolmaar) voiced Ian Chesterton for Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?
• Harry Waters (Policeman) was Royce in Warriors' Gate
• [Frank] Morris Perry (Pastor) was Captain Dent in Colony in Space
• Edward [Noel] Burnham (Mertens) was Professors Watkins in The Invasion, and Kettlewell in Robot
• Alec Linstead (De Jong) was Sergeant Osgood in The Daemons, Arnold Jellicoe in Robot, and Arthur Stengos in Revelation of the Daleks
• Eric Francis (Gardener) was the First Elder in The Sensorites
• Michelle Newell (Dina) was one of twenty-six actresses who auditioned for the role of Leela in 1976, along with Pamela Salem (Sanger) who then provided a Xoanon voice for (part 3 of) The Face of Evil, was Toos in The Robots of Death (a role reprised for Big Finish's The Robots), and Professor Rachel Jensen in Remembrance of the Daleks (also reprised for Counter Measures) - she also voiced Loretta Waldorf for The Silent Scream (2017)
• John [Ronald Leon] Standing (Ehrlich) voiced Fenric for Gods and Monsters (2012), and Professor Threadstone for Vampire of the Mind (2016)
• Maurice Colbourne (Scholtz) was [Gustave] Lytton in Resurrection of the Daleks and Attack of the Cybermen
• Anna [Eva Lydia Catherine] Wing (Concierge) was Anatta in Kinda
• Kenton [born Kenneth Thomas] Moore (Officer) was a Roboman in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1), and Noah in The Ark in Space
• Richard [born Dennis Wilfred] Davies (Lloyd) and Don [Francis] Henderson (Ullman) both starred in Delta and the Bannermen, as Burton and Gavrok
• Jeremy [born John] Young (Palmer) was Kal in 100,000 BC, and Gordon Lowery in Mission to the Unknown
• Peter Cartwright (Captain) was Arnold Underwood in The Power of Three
• Maurice O'Connell (Kurt) and Jeff Rawle (Diedrick) both starred in Frontios, as Cockerill and Plantagenet - Rawle was also Lionel Harding in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Mona Lisa's Revenge, then depicted Mervyn Pinfield in An Adventure in Space and Time, and voiced Toby Brokesmith for Chapel of Night (2017), Chad Caramel for The Tyrants of Logic (2018), and Captain Miles Rozann for Here Lies Drax (2022)
• John [Edward Arthur] Woodnutt (Dr. Roest) was George Hibbert in Spearhead from Space, the Draconian Emperor in Frontier in Space (5), the Duke of Forgill/Broton in Terror of the Zygons, and Seron in The Keeper of Traken
• Geoffrey [Dyson] Palmer (Head) was Edward Masters in The Silurians, the Administrator in The Mutants, and Captain Hardaker in Voyage of the Damned
• Laurence Harrington (Keyser) was Lunar Guard in Frontier in Space (3)
• Jon [Sleeman] Croft (Johannes) was Tom Girton in The Daemons
• David McKail (Evert) was Sergeant Kyle in The Talons of Weng Chiang
• Derek Smith (Jaap) was the Doorman in Human Nature
• [William] Pat Gorman (Policeman) appeared in eighty-three instalments of the classic series (from The Dalek Invasion of Earth to Attack of the Cybermen)
• for Clifford Rose and Michael Sheard see Series 1
• for Lisa Daniely, Jim Norton and Denis Lill see Series 2