Doctor Who Vs. Luther, Series 1

This British psychological drama series
was created and scripted by Booker Prize
nominee, and Emmy award winner Neil

Cross, and starred London-born actor

Idris Elba as the eponymous detective,

maverick DCI John Luther.

Elba received Golden Globe and Emmy

Awards nominations for his role here, and

was joined by Indira Varma (Zoe Luther),

Saskia Reeves (DSU Teller), Dermot

Crowley (DCI Schenk), and Ruth Wilson

(Alice Morgan).

The initial run first aired on BBC1 in the

summer of 2010, followed by four-part

seasons in 2011, 2013 and 2019. A two-

part story was shown in late 2015.

Also written by Cross, a prequel novel,

The Calling was published in 2011, and

The Fallen Sun, the long mooted cinema version, launched in February last year

ahead of a Netflix release.

A repeat run of this six-part series began on U& Drama last night - it

featured Paul McGann, Nicola Walker, Matthew Marsh, and a total

of twenty-one other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Varma reprised Suzie Costello, her Torchwood role, for Big Finish, then was cast as the Duchess of Pemberton in Rogue
• Warren [Martin] Brown (DS Justin Ripley) voiced Stephen Gibson for Industrial Evolution, Johnny Skipton for Dead Men's Tales (both 2011), Rufus Stone/To'Koth for Signs and Wonders (2014), Lieu- tenant Sam Bishop for UNIT: Extinction (2015), UNIT: Shutdown, UNIT: Silenced (both 2016), UNIT: Assembled (2017), UNIT: Cyber Reality, Lady Christina 1 (both 2018), UNIT: Incursions (2019), Lady Christina 2 (2021), Way of the Burryman and The Forth Generation (both 2022), then was Jake Willis in Praxeus
• Reeves voiced Carmen Rega for Emissary of the Daleks (2019), then was Maddelena Fagandini and Mary Wollstonecraft in Delia: The Myths and Legendary Tapes
• Steven Mackintosh (DCI Reed) was Gazak in Timelash
• Michael Smiley (Benny Silver) was Colonel Morgan Blue in Into the Dalek, and voiced Seedleson for Creatures of Beauty (2003)
• Sam Spruell (Lynch) was Swarm in Flux
• Diveen Henry (PC Hanson) voiced Alozza for The Vault of Osiris (2015), Sarah for The Behemoth, Sandra for A Kill to a View (both 2017), and Amanda for Ashenden (2021)
• Sean [Carl] Pertwee (Lynch) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors
• Paul Rhys (Burgess) voiced Max Paul for The Scapegoat (2009)
• stunt co-ordinator Derek Lea was a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways, The Age of Steel and Partners in Crime
• Stephanie Carey was also a stunt performer on ten stories (from Voyage of the Damned to The Vanquishers)
• Andrew Tiernan (Henley) was [Jim] Purcell in Night Terrors
• Rob Jarvis (Shand) was Abramal in The Time of the Doctor
• Graham Turner (Holguin) was Amos in The Crimson Horror
• Okorie Chukwu (PC Fulford) voiced Mike/Cyborg Auditor/Henry for Her Own Worst Enemy (2021)
• director Stefan Schwartz played the Knight Commander in Battlefield
• Neal Champion was the SFX supervisor on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• series stand-by art director Adrian Greenwood was the production buyer on twelve installments, from Asylum of the Daleks to The Name of the Doctor
• Nick Foley was ADR mixer on The Snowmen too
• series production buyer Pauline Seager was the assistant floor manager (AFM) on The Five Doctors
• Elliott Gilhooly was sound assistant on part two of The End of Time too