Doctor Who Vs. Luther, Series 1

This British psychological drama series was

conceived 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 thriller debuted on BBC1 in the summer

 of 2010, followed by four-part seasons in

2011, 2013 and 2019. A two-part case 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 2023 ahead of a Netflix release.

A repeat run of this six-part season began

on U& Drama last night - it featured Paul

McGann, Nicola Walker, Matthew Marsh, and a total of twenty-one

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