Doctor Who Vs. Law and Order: UK, Series 4

Bradley Walsh, Jamie

Bamber, Freema Agyeman,

and Harriet Walter returned

for the fourth series of the

British spin-off of Dick Wolf's

 Law & Order. Bill Paterson

and Ben Daniels left the pro-

gramme in Skeletons, when

their characters (CPS Director

Castle and Senior Prosecutor

James Steel) both resigned

from the Crown Prosecution Service.

All six cases were again based on scripts from the parent American drama.

A repeat run of the season (originally shown in the winter of 2011) began

on ITV3 last night - it featured Nicola Walker, Jemma Redgrave, and a

total of twenty-five Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

ID (UK TX: March 21 2011/based on Promises to Keep, 1993)

• Geraldine Alexander (Ellen) was Areta in Vengeance in Varos
• Matthew [Anthony] McNulty (Nash) was Adam Lang in Praxeus
• for Robert Glenister see Series 1 and for Isla Blair see Series 3: Broken

Denial (UK TX: March 14/based on DNR, 1999)

• for Catherine Tregenna and Jessica Gunning see Series 1
• Juliet [Anne Virginia] Stevenson (Rachel) voiced Winifred Whitby for Fond Farewell (2022)
• Diana [Marilyn] Quick (Judge Hall here, Duty of Care & Series 8: Flaw) voiced Prime for Scream of the Shalka, then Sophie Kinzky for Lay Down Your Arms (2022)
• Duane Henry (Flynn) was Mechanic Claude in Midnight

Shaken (UK TX: April 4/based on Homesick, 1996)

• Paul Wilmshurst was also director of Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express and Last Christmas
• Adetomiwa Edun (Benson) was Brock in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, then voiced Corvell for The Forest of Penitence, and Block for The Players (borh 2022)
• Rebecca Night [born Hardwick] (Leila) voiced Helene for Masquerade (2014), Matilda Gregson for Beachhead (2016), and Romana for The Difference Office (2022)
• Pooky [born Joanna] Quesnel (Andrea) was the Captain in A Christmas Carol, and Dorothea Ames in Class, and voiced Annalise Avenley for The Running Men (2024)

Duty of Care (UK TX: March 28/based on Endurance, 2000)

• Geoffrey Leesley (Harris) voiced Paramount Minister Mortund for Arrangements for War (2004), and Harold for AudioGo's The Broken Crown (2011)
• Ashley McGuire (Simone) voiced the Sergeant for The Red House (2015)
• Oliver Dimsdale (Peck) voiced Morecombe Unwise for Come Die With Me, Mervyn Garvey for Dead to the World, Archie Ferrers for The Boundless Sea (all 2015), Commander Trelon for A Thing of Guile (2016), and Rebben Tace/V52 for The Sons of Kaldor (2018)

Help (UK TX: March 7/based on We Like Mike, 1997)

• for James Strong see Series 3
• Michael Cochrane (Burchville) was Charles Cranleigh in Black Orchid, Redvers Fenn-Cooper in Ghost Light, then voiced Lt. Col. Brook for No Man's Land (2006), Murgat for Brotherhood of the Daleks (2008), Colonel Spindleton for Trail of the White Worm and The Oseidon Adventure (both 2012), Cedric Chivers for The Time Machine (2013), and Geralk for The Fate of Krelos and Return to Telos (2015)
• Elizabeth Rider (Fiona) was Ellen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then provided the ATMOS voice for The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, and was Linda in The Time of the Doctor - she also voiced Galatea for The Well-Mannered War (2015)
• Andrew Havill (Morris) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, and voiced Aleister Portillon/Squire Claude for The Witch from the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Jamie Cho (Young) was Colonel Chan in The Star Beast

Skeletons (UK TX: April 11/based on Trophy, 1996)

• Tobias Menzies (Cain) was Lieutenant Stepashin in Cold War 
• Mark [Lee] Dexter (Hareton) was Dad in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, then Charles Babbage in Spyfall
• Jade Anouka (Carla) was the Waitress in The Bells of Saint John, and voiced Danuta for The Blood Furnace (2017)
• Ian Adrian was also a camera operator on The Vampires of Venice, The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger and An Adventure in Space and Time