After three full seasons, Granada's Cracker returned to ITV in 1996 for a feature-length
thriller written by Paul Abbot. Robbie Coltrane
again played the titular criminal psychologist,
Fitz (here on a lecture tour of Hong Kong), and
was joined by Ricky Tomlinson (as DCI Wise).
An American version launched in late 1997, and
was shown in the UK as Fitz. In 2000, the series
was ranked 39th in the BFI's 100 Greatest British Television Programmes poll.
Coltrane reprised his most famous TV role ten years
later in a final special, set in Manchester again, and
scripted by series creator, Jimmy McGovern. The
two cases featured David Bradley, and a total of eleven Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
White Ghost (UK TX: October 28 1996)
- prolific Big Finish director Barnaby Kay (Philby) was Heidi in The Girl Who Died, and voiced Martin Donaldson for A Life in the Day (2015), Commander Thrakken for The Neverwhen (2016), Gerrard Pulman/ Foreman for Precious Annihilation (2020), Chilton for The Devil's Hoofprints (2021), and Axos for Master! 3 (2024)
- Pik Sen Lim (Wei Wei) was Captain Chin Lee in The Mind of Evil - a role reprised for Open the Box (2019) - she also voiced Dom-Ra for Neon Reign (2018)
- for Barbara Flynn see Series 1
- Anthony Flanagan (Archer) was Orin Scannell in 42
- Nisha Nayar (DS Saleh) made her TV debut as Red Kang in Paradise Towers, was a Programmer in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, then voiced Zanzibar Hashtag for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016), Guleraana Arbid for Torchwood One (2017), Coleridge for Spinvision (2020), Kindred for Runtime (2023), and Emily Barnfather for The Stuff of Legend (2024)
- Stephen MacKenna (Robert) was Dennis in The Woman Who Fell to Earth
- effects editor Peter Baldock was an Acolyte in The Face of Evil
- Steve Griffin and Kai Martin were stuntmen on The Idiot's Lantern and Tooth and Claw
- Andy Pryor was also casting director on the revived run, from 2004 to the present
- Andy Brierley was also casting associate on fifty-eight episodes (from The Christmas Invasion to The Big Bang), Music of the Spheres, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
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