Doctor Who Vs. Trial & Retribution II

Lynda La Plante's acclaimed crime drama returned
to ITV in October 1998, and again starred David
Hayman (as DCS Mike Walker), Dorian Lough (DS
Satchell), and Kate Buffery (DI Pat North). Like La Plante's Prime Suspect, the programme employed

split-screen scenes, a distinctive technique later

emulated by the makers of 24, Spooks and The Bill.

A repeat run of this two-part case began on ITV3

last night - it featured seventeen Doctor Who cast

and crew connection:

• Iain [Alan Sutherland] Glen (Morton) was Father Octavian (pictured) in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Big Finish actor George Asprey (DC Hutchens) voiced Overseer Zim for The Hidden Realm, Balthasar Schrek for Nothing to See Here (both 2016), the Leader for Infamy of the Zaross (2017), General Melak for Time in a Bottle and Kings of Infinite Space (both 2018), the titular alien for Ravenous and Beyond (2021), and Superior Elite for The Good Samaritan (2023)
• Simon [Phillip Hugh] Callow (Halliday) was Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead and The Wedding of River Song, and provided the voice of Tree Blathereen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift
• Joseph Long (Bellini) was Rocco Colasanto in Turn Left, and the Pope in Extremis
• Danny Sapani (Burton) was Colonel Manton in A Good Man Goes to War
• [Rosemary] Rowena Cooper (Corinna) also appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures (she was Angela Price in Lost in Time), then voiced La Concierge for AudioGo's The Demon of Paris (2010), Emily Shaw for The Last Post (2012) and The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Jean Bazemore for Jago & Son, Mother Superior for The Unbound Universe (both 2016) and Ruler of the Universe (2017), and Queen Victoria for The Torchwood Archive, The Death of Captain Jack and Jago & Litefoor Forever (both 2018)
• Helen Anderson (Carol) was Rachel in Revolution of the Daleks
• Mona Hammond [born Mavis Chin] (Bibi) was Rita Anne in Rise of the Cybermen
• Madhav Sharma (Dr. Jaffrey) was Patel in Frontier in Space (3)
• Eric Carte (Slater) voiced Arak Varren for The Robots of Life (2019)
• Nicholas Beveney (Nailer) was Dad in Attack of the Graske
• John D Collins (Clerk) was Talor in Arc of Infinity
• for Daniel Ryan, Andrew Havill, Stephen Critchlow and John Abbott see Series 1
• Nikki Wilson was also script editor on The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, then producer of thirty-two stories (from The Waters of Mars to The Timeless Children) and The Sarah Jane Adventures