Doctor Who Vs. Ashes to Ashes, Series 3

This month marks fifteen years

since Kudos' Life On Mars saga

concluded on BBC1. A repeat run

of the cult show's sequel series

began on That's TV last night.

Keeley Hawes, Philip Glenister,
 Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster,

and Montserrat Lombard reprised

their respective roles (as DI Alex

 Drake, DCI Gene Hunt, DS Ray

Carling, DC Chris Skelton, and WPC

Shaz Granger) for the third season

of Ashes to Ashes, now set in 1983.

Originally shown in April and May

2010, the final, eight-part series

featured Camille Coduri, and a total of nineteen other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• co-executive producer Piers Wenger held that post on twenty-nine adventures (from The End of Time to The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe), Dreamland, The Adventure Games, Space and Time, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Doctor Who Confidential and Doctor Who Proms (2010)
• BBC newsreader Matthew Amroliwala appeared on The Power of Three too
• Roy Hudd (Hardwick) voiced Max Miller for Big Finish's Pier Pressure (2009)
• Beth [Jane] Goddard (Violet) was Sister Helena in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon, then voiced Christine Colley for The Sontaran Project (2017), Ludina Braskell for Ravenous 1 (2018), Barton for The Moons of Vulpana, Vella for A Photograph to Remember (both 2019) and Rulers of Earth, Sally/Time Lady for Operation: Hellfire (2020), and Allerdyce Benexa/Pangladasha for Ice Heist! (2023)
• Frog Stone (Woman) voiced Riva for Hour of the Cybermen (2018), and Waitress for A Date With Destiny (2023)
• Charles Walters (DC Romeo) was Robert Sleigh in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Daniel [Alan] Mays (Jim Keats) was Alex Thompson in Night Terrors
• Bryan Dick (Stafford) voiced the Exec for Theatre of War (2015), Finnian Valentine for The Devil You Know (2018), and Major Thomas Langhorn/Berno Redcraw for The God of Phantoms (2021)
• Peter Guinness (Stafford) voiced Mr. Dread for Dreamland, Childeric for The Holy Terror (2000), Baron Teufel for The Beast of Orlok (2009), and Rovus for The Star Men (2017)
• Lee Ross (DCI Litton here & Life On Mars) was the Boatswain in The Curse of the Black Spot
• Steven Robertson (Thordy) was Richard Pritchard in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Lucian [Gabriel Wiina] Msamati (Ndbele) was Guido in The Vampires of Venice
• Matthew Stirling was also a stuntman on The Angels Take Manhattan and The Name of the Doctor
• Jamie Payne was also director of Hide and The Time of the Doctor
• for Joseph Long, Geff Francis and Simon Archer see Series 1
• Balazs Bolygo was also cinematographer on The Rebel Flesh, The Almost People and Closing Time
• Matthew Cannings was assistant editor on The Snowmen too, then was editor on The Crimson Horror and The Name of the Doctor