Doctor Who Vs. Van Der Valk, Series 4

ITV's classic crime drama again 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 was revived in early 1991, thirteen years after the previous run.
A repeat run of the fourth, four-part

season concluded on Talking Pictures

TV last night, and featured Geoffrey

Beevers, and a total of twenty-one

Doctor Who cast connections:

• Philip [born Roy James] Locke (Molenaar) was Bigon and the voice of Control in Four to Doomsday
• Denica Fairman (Barbara) voiced Receptionist for Redacted 2
• Judy [Valerie] Cornwell (Harriet) was Maddy in Paradise Towers
• Brian [Parry] Badcoe (Dominee) was Adam in Invasion of the Dinosaurs
• Stephen [Mark] Marcus [born Scott] (Man) was the Jailer in The Shakespeare Code
• Ian Gelder (Basten) was Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then provided the Remnant voices in The Ghost Monument, was Zellin in Can You Hear Me?, and voiced the Commander for Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
• Ronan [David Jackson] Vibert (Lepweg) was Professor Skinner in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Last Sontaran, and voiced Ravener for Jago & Litefoot 12 (2016), and Zaal for The Perfect Prisoners (2019)
• Peter Guinness (Koop) voiced Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Mr. Dread for Dreamland, Baron Teufel for The Beast of Orlok (2009), and Rovus for The Star Men (2017)
• Kenneth Cranham (Boutsen) voiced Tom Cardwell for Blood of the Daleks (2007)
• Shane Rimmer (Wallace) was Seth Harper in The Gunfighters
• Jonathan Firth (Michael) voiced John for The Doomwood Curse (2008), Cadwallader for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016), and the Duke of Cardenas for Kingdom of Lies (2018)
• Sara Griffiths (Anna) was Ray in Delta and the Bannermen
• Derek [James] Fowlds (Kieft) voiced Claude for The Elixir of Doom (2014)
• David Schofield (Rosendaal) voiced Billy for Death in Blackpool (2009), Nostradamus/Conclave Leader for The Doomsday Quatrain (2011), Parval for The Sorcerer of Albion (2020), and Gostak for The End of the Beginning (2021), then was Odin in The Girl Who Died, and Narrator of The House of Winter
• Philip McGough (Bertus) was Sergeant [Graham] Calder in Resurrection of the Daleks 
• Lizzie McInnerny (Bea) voiced Harriet Quilp for The Yes Men (2015)
• Nicolas Chagrin (Jongkind) was Quillam in Vengeance on Varos
• Steven Mackintosh (Koos) was Gazak in Timelash
• Rupert Holliday Evans (Albert) was Colonel [Alan] Mace in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, and voiced Celtic Warrior for The Relics of Time, Artist for The Demon of Paris, and Cop for Starfall (all 2010)
• Derek Crewe (Waiter) was Synge in The Sun Makers
• for Geoffrey Bayldon see Series 1