Doctor Who Vs. Inspector Morse, Series 7

The seventh and final full season of Central's

acclaimed crime drama originally aired on ITV

in the winter of 1993. John Thaw and Kevin

Whately again portrayed Thames Valley CID's

Oxford-based detectives, Morse and Lewis.

This series earned a second Best Drama award

from BAFTA, and Thaw won his third Best Actor

prize.

Five feature-length specials followed, and the programme concluded in 2000 with the death

of Morse, but the character endured for the

prequel series, Endeavour. Shaun Evans played

the younger Morse from 2012, whilst Whately

continued to play Lewis in the long-running

spin-off show.

A repeat run of the three mysteries (all

original screenplays) concluded on ITV3

today, and featured a total of twenty-five

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Deadly Slumber (UK TX: January 6 1993)

• Brian [Denis] Cox (Steppings) provided the voice of the Elder Ood in The End of Time, and depicted Sydney Newman (pictured) in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Ian McNeice (Pathologist here; King in Lewis) was Winston Churchill in The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens and The Wedding of River Song - a role reprised by Big Finish for The Churchill Years, Their Finest Hour (2018), Subterfuge and Operation: Hellfire (both 2020) - he also voiced Zeus for Immortal Beloved (2007), and Reginald Harcourt for The Renaissance Man (2012)
• Patrick [Lindesay Archibald] Godfrey (Dr. Greer) was Tor in The Savages, and Major Cosworth in The Mind of Evil
• Carol Starks (Jane) voiced Captain Odessa Grey for The Crash of the UK-201 (2018)
• art director Stephen Scott was production designer on Mawdryn Undead

The Day of the Devil (UK TX: January 13)

• director Stephen Whittaker was Craftsman Weams in The Web of Fear
• Harriet [Mary] Walter (Dr. Martin) voiced Beatrice Mapp for The Boy That Time Forgot (2008), then was Jo Patterson in Revolution of the Daleks
• Patrick O'Connell (Vaizey) was Ashton in (episode 4 of) The Dalek Invasion of Earth
• Lloyd McGuire (Clough here; Ayres in Endeavour: Home) was Lugo in The Face of Evil, and voiced Lieutenant Tendexter for The Architects of History (2010)
• John Bleasdale (Sergeant) was one of the titular The Robots of Death
• Rob Dixon (Press Man) voiced Reggie Mead for Project: Twilight (2001), and Sergeant Wood for No Man's Land (2006)
• Martyn Read (Brenner) was a Security Guard in Silver Nemesis
• Nick Hobbs (Night Hawk) made uncredited appearances in The Ambassadors of Death, Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Day of the Daleks, The Time Monster, both Peladon stories (as Aggedor), The Ark in Space, then Mr. Nainby in Amy's Choice
• [Thomas] Kevin [Harvest] Stoney (St. John) was Mavic Chen in The Daleks' Master Plan, Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion, and Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen
• [John] Anthony Carrick (Granger) was Captain Rossini in The Masque of Mandragora
• Martin Gower (Officer) was Tyheer/Bandril Ambassador in Timelash
• Patrick Drury (McTeer) voiced Major Fanshaw for Murder at Moorsey Manor, and Tom Carlton for The Wax Princess (both 2014)

Twilight of the Gods (UK TX: January 20)

• Alan David (Davies here; Kegworth in Cartouche) was Gabriel Sneed in The Unquiet Dead, then voiced Castellan Kanteer for The Enigma Dimension (2017), and Lord Macavoy/Old Lawrence for The Primeval Design (2021)
• Caroline Berry (Mari) was a Dinner Lady in School Reunion
• Julie Legrand (Brigitte) was the Partisan in The End of Time
• Iain Rattray (Director) was Habris in State of Decay
• Joan Blackham (Helen) was a Woman in Dark Water
• Harry Ditson (Vavasseur) voiced General Grant Avary for Death in Geneva (2016)
• Philip Childs (Constable) voiced Chris for Mission of the Viyrans (2007), Foreman for The Bride of Peladon (2008), and Giles for Ghost Walk (2018)
• Doug Bradley (Williams) voiced Professor Talbot for Pier Pressure (2006)