Doctor Who Vs. The Last Crusade

The third instalment in the Indiana Jones saga

was released by Paramount Pictures in 1989 - it garnered another Oscar, and Hugo and

Saturn awards.

Following mixed reactions to The Temple of

 Doom, director Steven Spielberg and executive producer George Lucas wanted to evoke the

spirit of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).

Harrison Ford returned as Dr. Henry Indiana

Jones Jr. and was joined by Sean Connery as

Indy's father.

The trilogy even spawned a prequel in the

 form of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,

a spin-off series for American television.

After a gap of almost twenty years, a fourth production, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

(starring John Hurt) was unveiled. The Walt

Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, and The Dial of Destiny, the

fifth and final Indiana Jones adventure was released last summer. The Last

Crusade was shown on Film4 tonight - it featured twenty Doctor Who cast

and crew connections:

• Julian [Wyatt] Glover (Donovan) played King Richard in The Crusade, then Scaroth in City of Death
• Isla Blair (Mrs. Donovan) was Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons, then voiced Paula Taylor for Big Finish's Exotron (2007), Marge for Out of this World, Charn for Palindrome (both 2020), and Old Mary Mortimer for The Diary of River Song 11 (2023)
• Alexei [David] Sayle (Sultan) was the DJ in Revelation of the Daleks [he wrote Why I Should be the New Doctor Who: The Case for a Marxist in the TARDIS for the November 1984 edition of Foundation]
• Kevork Malikyan (Kazim) was Kemel Rudkin in The Wheel in Space
• Vernon [Alexandre] Dobtcheff (Butler) was an Alien Scientist in The War Games, and voiced Dadda Desaka for The Cradle of the Snake (2010), Sibelius Crow for The Necropolis Express, Shamur for The Children of Seth (both 2011), Heinrich Schuman for Threshold (2012), and Jorenzo Zorn for The Genesis Chamber (2016)
• Martin Gordon (Man) was a Prison Officer in The Mind of Evil
• Nina Armstrong (Girl) was a stunt performer on The Runaway Bride
• Lee Richards (Passenger) was the Buxom Romana in Destiny of the Daleks (1)
• [Manfred] Frederick Jaeger (WWI Ace in deleted scenes) was Jano in The Savages, Sorenson in Planet of Evil, and Professor Marius in The Invisible Enemy
• stuntman Jim Dowdall was Guerilla in Day of the Daleks, Guard in Genesis of the Daleks, and Warnsman in Frontios
• stuntman Lee Sheward was stunt co-ordinator on eleven stories (from The End of the World to The End of Time)
• stuntman Eddie Powell was Thompson in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• for Michael Sheard, Nick Gillard, Peter Diamond, Martin Grace, Billy Horrigan and Rocky Taylor see Raiders of the Lost Ark
• for Chris Webb and Tip Tipping see The Temple of Doom

Produced for the ABC network, the big budget TV series ran for three
seasons and won six Emmy awards. The childhood and teenage Indy
was portrayed by Corey Carrier then Sean Patrick Flanery. The series
was followed by four TV movies and was then re-edited in 1999 as

 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. A total of twenty-four TV

stories starred Colin Baker, Paul Freeman, Danny Webb, Tim

McInnerny, Kenneth Cranham, Anna Massey, Michael McShane,

Michael Maloney, Nickolas Grace, Patrick Ryecart, Ronald Fraser,

Sam Kelly, Jacqueline Pearce, Stevan Rimkus, Colin Jeavons, Jamie 

Glover, Frederick Treves, Alan Cox, David Sibley, Bernard Bresslaw,

 Jeananne Crowley, Elizabeth Spriggs, Terrence Hardiman, Pip 

Torrens, Paul Brooke, Andrew McCulloch, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, 

Ann Tirard, Vic Tablian, Jimmy Gardner, Keith Marsh, Alan Talbot,

Philip Davis, Stuart Milligan, Ed Bishop, Ben Miller, Peter Guinness,

Trevor Bannister, Harry Fowler, Kevin McNally, Ashley Walters, 

Joseph Long and Derek Lea.