Doctor Who Vs. Trial & Retribution IV

Lynda La Plante's acclaimed crime drama returned

to ITV in October 2000, and again starred David

Hayman (as DCS Walker), Kate Buffery (DI North), and Dorian Lough (DS Satchell).

Like La Plante's Prime Suspect, the programme

employed its distinctive split-screen technique.

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

and featured Rosamund Pike, Corin Redgrave, and

sixteen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Big Finish actor James Wilby (McCready) voiced Tenebris for The Acheron Pulse and The Shadow Heart (2012), Professor John Torrance for The Sontaran Project
• Christopher Neame (Duffield) was Skagra (pictured) in Shada
• Peter De Jersey (DI Pilling) was Androgar in The Day of the Doctor
• Kathryn Drysdale (Pregnant girl) was Bliss in Love & Monsters, then voiced Erin Harris for The Web of Time (2019), Jora for Out of Time 1 (2020), and Jasmine for Echoes of Extinction (2021)
• Philip Voss (Bradpiece) was Acomat in Marco Polo, and Wahed in (episode 1 of) The Dominators, and voiced Under Sergeant/Robot for Original Sin (2016)
• Don Warrington (Pembroke) was the President of Great Britain in Rise of the Cybermen, and voiced Rassilon for Seasons of Faer, The Time of the Daleks, Neverland (all 2002), Zagreus (2003), Caerdroia and The Next Life (both 2004)
• Ruth Lass (Melanie) voiced Elodie Kendall for Future Phantoms (2024)
• Janet Hargreaves (Neighbour) was Mum in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Tom Aitken was a stuntman on Cold War too
• for Michael Simkins see Series 3
• Sarah Franzl also a stunt performer on The End of the World, The Idiot's Lantern and The End of Time
• Andy Godbold was a stuntman on The Bells of Saint John too
• Peter Brayham was also stunt co-ordinator on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion
• Sophia Stapleton was stand-by art director on The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe too
• clapper loader Penny Shipton was assistant camera on eighteen stories (from The Christmas Invasion to The Lazarus Experiment), then focus puller on Turn Leftt
• props buyer Leanda Bowden Smith began her career on The Two Doctors (2)