Doctor Who Vs, Trial & Retribution, Series 1

Following Widows,

her 1983 break-

through drama for

Thames TV, then

the success of

Granada's Prime

Suspect in 1991,

Lynda La Plante

created, wrote and

produced this other

long-running crime

drama. Prolific

Northern novelist

and former actress La Plante formed her own TV production company

in 1993, and also conceived The Governor, The Commander, Above

Suspicion, and an American version of Prime Suspect.

This acclaimed series endured until 2009, and starred David Hayman
(as DCS Mike Walker), Dorian Lough (DS Satchell), Kate Buffery (DI

Pat North until 2002), and Victoria Smurfit (DCI Roison Connor from

2003). A repeat run of the two-part thriller (originally shown in

October 1997) began on Drama last night - it featured thirteen

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Helen [Elizabeth] McCrory (Anita) was Rosana Calvierri in The Vampires of Venice
• prolific Big Finish actor Stephen Critchlow (Officer) voiced Anthony Newley for Blue Veils and Golden Sands (2002), O'Keefe for The Nowhere Place (2006), Extra for The Eternity Clock (2012), the Earl of Wessex/Professor Foster for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Billy Flint for An Ordinary Life (2014), the titular alien for The Yes Men, Marvo for The Haunting (both 2015), Noni for Gallery of Ghouls, Narrator of Sound the Siren and I'll Come to You Comrade (both 2016), The Young Lions and Intuition, Leonard for The City and the Clock and The True Saviour of the Universe (all 2017), Charlie Lucas/Sir Humphrey Eagleton for Jago & Litefoot Forever, Narrator of A Home from Home, The Warren Legacy and The Horror at Bletchington Station (all 2018), Temmis for Partisans, Malcolm Wishart for The Creeping Death, Teddy Baxter/Michael Hart for The Vardan Invasion of Mirth (all 2019), Guard for The Enemy of My Enemy, Jimmy Garfield for The Vanity Trap (both 2020), General for Echoes of Extinction, and Dubontis/Bandoian for Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow (both 2021)
• John Abbott (Usher) was Vince Hawkins in Horror of Fang Rock
• Donald Gee (Vicar) was Major Ian Warne in The Space Pirates, and Eckersley in The Monster of Peladon
• Andrew Havill (Oxley) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, then voiced Aleister Portillon/Squire Claude for The Witch in the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Nicholas Blane (Waugh) was Millington in Survivors of the Flux
• Alec Linstead (Doctor) was Sergeant Osgood in The Daemons, Arnold Jellicoe in Robot, and Arthur Stengos in Revelation of the Daleks
• Daniel Ryan [born O'Brien] (PC Brown) was Biff Cane in Midnight
• Lee Ross (James) was the Boatswain in The Curse of the Black Spot
• David Telfer (Sergeant) was the Huntsman in The Creature from the Pit
• Polly Kemp (Juror) voiced Duchess Callys Flambo/Golp/Betty for Dining With Death (2019)
• Peter Kersey was a SFX technician on Doctor Who TV Movie too
• script supervisor Sian Prosser worked on continuity for Rose, Aliens of London and World War Three