Showing posts with label flux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flux. Show all posts

Thursday, 6 August 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Bookish, Series 1

"Mark Gatiss here. Join
me as Gabriel Book, a bookseller who's also
rather good at solving
baffling cases and the
knottiest of crimes, as
postwar London can be
a dangerous place.
Bookish, new and
exclusive to U&Alibi."



UKTV's newest in-house period crime drama (a co-production form Eagle
Eye Drama and Happy Duck Films) was created and written by Mark
Gatiss, and was filmed in Belgium in 2024 - Antwerp doubled for
Archangel Lane, WC2.
A repeat run of the six-part series began on U&Alibi last night - the
cast was led by Gatiss (as the titular antiquarian), Polly Walker
(Trottie), Elliot Levey (DI Bliss), Connor Finch (Jack), Buket Komar
(Nora), and Blake Harrison (Morris), and also featured Paul McGann,
 Joely Richardson, and a total of fourteen Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:
  • Walker voiced Commander Narina for Big Finish's The Movellan Grave (2017)
  • Levey voiced Andrew Gobernar/Blank for Vampire of the Mind (2016), and Colonel Marsden for Red Planets (2018)
  • Harrison voiced Lieutenant Daniel Hopkins for The Helliax Rift, Hour of the Cybermen and Warlock's Cross (all 2018), then appeared in Village of the Angels as Namaca Ost Parvess Po
  • Tim McInnerny (D) was Klineman Halpen in Planet of the Ood, and voiced Admiral Dolne for The Well-Mannered War (2015), and the eponymous role for Puccini and the Doctor (2024)
  • Rosie [Cecilia] Cavaliero (Mrs Dredge) voiced Cassie Schofield for Project: Twilight (2001) and Project: Lazarus (2003), Marge Ellmore for Infamy of the Zaross (2017), and Audrey Gale for Homecoming (2027)
  • Amanda Drew (Nerina) provided the voice of the Mouri in Once, Upon Time, then voiced Commander Jane Wardie for Way of the Burryman and The Forth Generation (both 2022), and was Narrator of The Seven Year Hitch
  • Gerard [James Pertwee] Horan (Baseheart) was Clark/Father of Mine in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
  • Daniel [Alan] Mays (Wellbeloved) was Alex Thompson in Night Terrors
  • Elizabeth Berrington (Sylvia) was Auntie in The Doctor's Wife
  • Nadia Albina (Dr. Calder) was Diane [Curtis] in Flux and Legend of the Sea Devils, then voiced Oshia for Previously, Next Time (2022), and Keetree for Face of the Apocalypse (2024)
  • Mark Benton (Gash) was Clive [Finch] in Rose (a role reprised by Big Finish for The Dimension Cannon and Other Worlds), and voiced Ellis for Invaders from Mars (2002), and Jack Coulson for Energy of the Daleks (2012)
  • George Harris was also stuntman on Lucky Day and Wish World
  • Chris Roebuck was also film editor on four episodes (from The Devil's Chord to Rogue)
  • Jay Price was also sound editor on four storeis (from Kill the Moon to Dark Water)

Tuesday, 4 August 2026

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 WalkerMatthew Marsh, and 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

Wednesday, 15 July 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Law & Order: UK, Series 8

Campbell Jones (pictured as
Cass [Fermazzi] in Night of the
Doctor
) was also Dr. Kent in
The Wedding of River Song
Bradley Walsh, Georgia Taylor, Dominic
Rowan, and Peter Davison all returned for
the eighth and final series of the British spin
off of Dick Wolf's Law & Order.
Ben Bailey Smith (better known as rapper
Doc Brown) joined the drama here as newly
promoted DS Joe Hawkins, whilst DI Wes
Leyton (played by Paterson Joseph) was
killed off in Hard Stop. All eight cases here
were again based on scripts from the
American parent programme.
Originally shown in the spring of 2014, the
latest repeat run began on ITV3 last night
it featured Big Finish actors Emma
Campbell Jones, Hattie Morahan,
Mark Bonnar, and a total of forty-eight
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Flaw (UK TX: March 12/based on
Refuge, 1999)
  • Smith was Durkas Cicero in The Tsuranga Conundrum 
  • Nikesh Patel (Tom) was Mitch in Resolution, and voiced Mo for Maze Theory's The Lonely Assassins
  • Ian Fowler was also costume assistant on fourteen episodes (from Into the Dalek to The Husbands of River Song)
  • prosthetics artist Waldo Mason was a SFX assistant on Aliens of London
  • for Robert Glenister and Diana Quick see Series 1 and 4 and for Mat King see Series 5
Safe From Harm (UK TX: March 19/based on Betrayal, 2008)
  • Holly Earl (Lisa) was Lily Arwell in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe - a role she reprised for Big Finish's The Chartwell Metamorphosis (2016)
  • Carolyn Pickles (Maureen) voiced Lady Meera Darone for Army of Death (2011), Dr. Hilary Standish for The Stuff of Nightmares, Cardinal Ollistra for The Side of the Angels (both 2017), Dark Universe (2020), Allegiance (2022), Manoeuvres (2023) and Loyalties (2026), Professor Marian Schaeffer for The Tyrants of Logic, and Traherne for An Ideal World (both 2018)
  • Damian Kell (Farmer) was Dominicus in A Good Man Goes to War
  • Mark Frost (Brad) voiced Shandar for Requiem for the Rocket Men (2015), and Niccolo Machiavelli for The Ravelli Conspiracy (2016)
  • Clive Hayward (Shale) voiced the Judge/Markus for Daybreak (2019), Emperor/Duke of Ferrox/Last of the Unnatural Children for Barrister to the Stars, Marty Stone for Carnival of Angels, Rupert Brock/Frasi/ Roboman for Poison of the Daleks (all 2020), Balthazar Drix for A Forever Home, Steven/General/Announcer for Long Shot (both 2021), Dax for Wink (2022), Birkett/Wycombe Bassett for The Blooming Menace (2023), Overseer Valtor/Trell for Dominant Species, Reg Adams for Doppelgangers and The Houseguest (all 2024), Pilot for See-Saw, Vokol for Cybergene (both 2025), Glen for Pandemonium, and Owen for Green and Pleasant Planet (both 2026)
  • for Ramon Tikaram see Series 7
I Predict A Riot (UK TX: March 26/based on Ramparts, 1999)
  • Ellen [Dorothy] Thomas (Rebecca) was a Clockwork Droid in The Girl in the Fireplace and A Celebration, then Carmen in Planet of the Dead
  • Roger [Anthony] Lloyd Pack (Greene) was John Lumic in Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel
  • Graham Cole [Coleman Smith] (Wilson) was a Krarg in Shada, Player in (part 1 of) The Leisure Hive, Marshman in Full Circle, the Melkur in The Keeper of Traken and Time Flight (2), titular Kinda, Cyberman in Earthshock and The Five Doctors, Crewman in Resurrection of the Daleks (1), and Jacondan in The Twin Dilemma (1), then voiced the Melkur/Ebbko/for The Guardians of Prophecy (2012)
  • Craige Els (Simmons) was Karvanista in Flux
  • for Jessica Gunning and Paul Darrow see Series 1
  • for Don Warrington see Series 2
  • for Pip Torrens and Annabel Mullion see Series 5
  • Selina Macarthur was also the film editor on Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, Time Heist, The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar
Pride (UK TX: April 2/based on Identity, 2003)
  • Roy Hudd (Hargreaves) voiced Max Miller for Pier Pressure (2006)
  • Laura Rogers (Sally) was Isabella in A Christmas Carol, and voiced Queen Tristahna for Living History (2016)
  • Leila Hoffman [born Rothstein] (Florence) was Elsie Rossiter in Night Terrors
  • Martin Jarvis (Stewart) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Jubilee (2003)
  • Ella Kenion (Cashier) was Harriet in Let's Kill Hitler, and voiced Boudica for The Wrath of the Iceni (2012), Romy for Equilibrium (2015), and Lucia for The Players (2022)
  • [Sarah] Melanie [Jean] Kilburn (Julie) voiced Hooley for The Dread of Night (2018)
  • Tina Simmons (Dancer) began her career as Inferno Customer in The War Machines (1)
  • for Harriet Walter see Series 1
Customs (UK TX: April 9/based on Ritual, 1997)
  • Akin Gazi (Dr. Elsayed) was Carter in The Doctor's Daughter
  • Glyn Pritchard (Graham) was Eddie Jones in 73 Yards
  • Jo Lea was also first assistant director on Robot of Sherwood, The Caretaker, Flatline and In the Forest of the Night
Bad Romance (UK TX: April 16/based on Denial, 1997)
  • Janet Dibley (Karen) voiced Commander Flail for The Black Hole (2015)
  • Lacey Bond (Linda) was a Serving Woman in The End of Time
  • Joseph Millson (Cosby) was Alan Jackson in The Sarah Jane Adventures, then voiced Colonel Keelan for The Dalek Defence and The Triumph of Davros (both 2021), Peter Kelly for Splinters, Peetom for Paradox of the Daleks (both 2022), Jory Hopkins for The Excise Men, Yoga Teacher for Harvest of the Krotons, Co-Pilot for The Wife of River Song, Ignatius Montague for The Devouring (all 2023), and Simon de Montford for Knights of the Round TARDIS (2025)
  • James Wilby (Hutton) voiced Tenebris for The Acheron Pulse and The Shadow Heart (2012), and Professor John Torrance for The Sontaran Project (2017)
  • Greg [Paul] Austin (Rufus) was Charlie Smith in Class, then voiced Perseus for The Wrath of Medusa (2022)
  • for Nimmy March and Adjoa Andoh see Series 1 and 5
Hard Stop (UK TX: April 23/based on Criminal Law, 2005)
  • Rachel Atkins (Cleo) voiced Dr. Angeline Duchamp/Queen Aethelfrid for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Lieutenant Jane Lucas for The Screaming Skull (2014), Sol for Intervention Earth, Susannah for The Tears of Isis (both 2015), Juno for Maker of Dreams, Myla for The Age of Endurance, Bishop for Maurice, Mde Sosotris for Masterpiece (all 2016), Major Desra for The Good Master, Minister for Embankment Station (both 2017), Zarda/V225 for Do No Harm, Sarathin for The Enemy of My Enemy, Governor Crompton for Like (all 2020), Dresha for Colony of Fear, Cathrin Travers for Faustian (both 2021), Captain Argento for Morbius (2024), and Lady Saxifrage for Rictus (2025)
  • Julia Hills (Hayley) voiced Qureshi for The Bounty of Ceres (2014), Phillipa Gregson for Beachhead (2016), Sera Marvelle for Pretty Lies (2017), Sharon/Rindle for The Lady in the Lake (2018), Madeline for The Cars That Ate London!, Ethel Pullman for A Photograph to Remember, and Margo Kinnear for The Endless Night and The Flood (all 2019)
Repeat to Fade (UK TX: June 11/based on Marathon, 1999)
  • Pippa Bennett-Warner (Zana) was Saibra in Time Heist, Narrator of Helena and the Beast (2015), Bill and the Three Jackets and Twelve Angels Weeping, then voiced the Deterrent for The Furies, Ruzalla for Ravenous 1, Livia Caralis for Time War (all 2018) and The War Master 4 (2019), Fliss Keeley for The Trojan Dalek (2021)  and Cleopatra for The Last Queen of the Nile (2025)
  • Tony Gardner (Stone) voiced Stapleton Petherbridge for The Wrong Doctors (2013), then was Douglas in The Pyramid at the End of the World
  • Fady Elsayed (Jamal) was Ram in Class
  • Nisha Nayar (Namita) was a Red Kang in Paradise Towers, then Programmer in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, and voiced Zanzibar Hashtag for Harvest of the Sycorax (2016), Coleridge for Spinvision (2020), Kindred for Runtime, Waitress for Manhunt (both 2023), Emily Barnfather for The Stuff of Legend (2024), and Dr. Ulster for Lethal Progress (2026)
  • Sharon Small (DI Flynn) voiced Jeannie/Janet for The Revenants (2012)
  • Raffaello Degruttola (Niccolo) voiced Philippe Foiret for Operationn Werewolf (2024)
  • for Colin Salmon and Dominic Rowan see Series 1 and 5

Saturday, 11 July 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Endeavour, Series 1

Produced by Mammoth and Masterpiece for ITV
Studios, this period crime drama was devised as
the prequel to the acclaimed series Inspector
Morse, which ran from 1987 to 2000 and earned
six BAFTA awards. Like Morse and its sequel
series, Lewis (2000 to 2015), Endeavour is set in
Oxford.
Shaun Evans now portrayed the young Endeavour
Morse (created by Colin Dexter), who began his
career as a Detective Constable with the City Police
CID at Cowley in 1965.
Following a successful pilot episode (renamed
Overture with the rebranding of ITVX), the first
full season was originally broadcast in the spring
of 2013 - a repeat run began on ITV3 today.
These five cases featured Roger Allam (as DI Fred
 Thursday), Jack Laskey (DS Jakes), Sean Rigby
(PC Strange), James Bradshaw (Dr. DeBryn),
Anton Lesser (CS Bright), Jamie Glover, and a
total of thirty-nine Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:
Pilot (UK TX: January 2 2012)
  • Ian Gelder (Tremlett) was Dekker in Torchwood: Children of Earth, then provided the Remnant voices in The Ghost Monument, was Zellin in Can You Hear Me?, and voiced Dracula/Long John Silver for Legend of the Cybermen (2010)
  • Danny Webb (DS Lott here; Pollock in Lewis) was John Jefferson in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Byron for The Girl Who Never Was (2007) and Ori for The Dark Husband (2008)
  • Abigail Thaw (Dorothea Frazil) voiced Dr. Phillippa Stone for The Lady of Mercia, Zaadur for Lords of the Red Planet (both 2013), High Vector Salaskin for The War Master 7 (2022), Zanna for 1922: The Black Cadre, and Elena Shishkin for 1974: The Caldwell Restitution (both 2026)
  • Maggie Ollerenshaw (Mrs. Crabbin) voiced Audrey McShane for Love and War (2012), Allora for Gallifrey 6 (2013), and Dame Wilhelmina Gussett for The Woman in White (2016)
  • Harry Kershaw (Percival) voiced Narthex for The Abyss (2022)
  • David Monteath (PC) voiced Herald/Brother Marcus/Farmer Hennok for The Quin Dilemma, and was Narrator of The Ultimate Poe (both 2024)
  • Daisy [May] Head (Jenny) voiced Renata for Reformation (2025)
  • Colm McCarthy was director of The Bells of Saint John too
  • Gavin Struthers was cinematographer on The Power of Three too
  • ADR mixer Nick Roberts was sound recordist on The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice, Cold Blood and The Lodger
  • SFX supervisor Chris Reynolds was a SFX technician on Terror of the Vervoids and Battlefield
  • stunt co-ordinator Stuart Clark was a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
Girl (UK TX: April 14 2013)
  • Edward Bazalgette was also director of The Doctor's Meditation, The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived, The Return of Doctor Mysterio and Class
  • Luke [William] Allen Gale (Clark) voiced Joe Carnaby for Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories (2019)
  • Jonathan Guy Lewis (Monkford) voiced Marcus Bray for After the Daleks (2021)
  • Albert Welling (Clark here; Stoneley in Morse: The Last Enemy) was the Fuhrer in Let's Kill Hitler
  • Greg Bennett (Constable here & Lewis) was Guard in Dalek, UNIT Soldier/Sycorax Warrior in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
  • John Flanagan (Greaves here; Mangold in Lewis) co-wrote Meglos
  • Stephan Pehrsson was also the cinematographer on ten stories (from The Pandorica Opens to The Crimson Horror)
  • Kiaran Murray-Smith was also first assistant director on Amy's Choice and The Lodger
  • Tom Lucy was also the stunt co-ordinator on sixteen stories (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor)
Fugue (UK TX: April 21)
  • Joanna Horton (Linda here; Selina in Harvest) voiced Brooke 1 for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
  • Lex [Alexander Carey] Shrapnel (Adamson) voiced Robin Marshall for Shadow of the Past, and Toby for The Spirit Trap (both 2010)
  • Robin Soans (Straker here; McBryde in The Way Through the Woods) was Luvic in The Keeper of Traken, and the Chronolock Guy in Face the Raven
  • Michelle Morris (Neighbour) was School Secretary in Into the Dalek, and voiced Brenna for The Invention of Death (2018)
  • Laura Rees (Faye) voiced Kaymee Arnod for Dalek Empire 3 (2003), Tyrus for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016), and Deborah/Major Harris for The Bad Penny (2018)
  • Kelly Price (Evelyn) voiced Queen Meta for Genesis of the Cybermen (2025)
  • Claire Vousden (Miss Crane) voiced the First Elder/Investigator for Sphere of Influence (2020)
Rocket (UK TX: April 28)
  • Martin Jarvis (Broom here; Rees in Greeks Bearing Gifts) was Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos, then voiced Nigel Rochester for Jubilee (2003)
  • James Northcote (Broom) voiced Freddie Trewella for The Miracle of Pendour Cove (2025)
  • Craige Els (Worker) was Karvanista in Flux, and Chief in Legend of the Sea Devils
  • John Pardue was cinematographer on An Adventure in Space and Time too
  • Daniel Bishop (here & Ride) was steadicam operator on The Husbands of River Song too
Home (UK TX: May 5)
  • Lloyd McGuire (Ayres) was Lugo in The Face of Evil
  • Clive Wood (Kasper) was the Roman Commander in The Pandorica Opens, then voiced Commander Rugosa for The Rosemariners (2012), Dibbsworth for Peepshow (2019), Bird for Must See TV (2020) and Stranded 4, Daddy Dominus/Clubwell for For the Glory of Urth (both 2021), and Director Draaga for Dominant Species (2024)
  • Poppy Miller (Millicent) voiced Vykane for The Conservitors, Madame La Chappelle for The Edge of the War (both 2023), Professor Veronica Hays for The Time You Never Had (2025), and Anne for Oil and Water (2026)
  • Kelly Adams (Cynthia) voiced Vyx Leeson for Below There (2023)
  • film editor Mark Davis edited The Bells of Saint John too

Monday, 6 July 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Silent Witness, Series 22

The twenty-second season of the popular
crime drama returned to BBC1 in early
2019, as it reached the milestone of two
-hundred instalments - it again starred
 Emilia Fox and David Caves as doctors Nikki Alexander and Jack Hodgson. The
Home Office forensic pathologists (based
in London's Lyell Centre) were joined by
Clarissa Mullery and Dr. Chamberlain,
played by Liz Carr and Richard Lintern.
A repeat run of the ten-part series
continued on U&Drama last night - the
five cases featured Jo Martin, Ingrid
Oliver, and a total of thirty Doctor Who
cast and crew connections:

Two Spirits (UK TX: January 7 & 8)
  • Kerry Fox (Susie) voiced Julia Hartley Price for Big Finish's UNIT: Cyber Reality (2018)
  • Rochenda Sandall (Liz) was Azure in Flux
  • Andrew Knott (Marlow) voiced James O'Meara for 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (2013), and Sean Casey for The White Room (2014)
  • for Jemima Rooper see Series 10
  • Helen Dickson was also dialogue editor on twenty stories (from The Eleventh Hour to World Enough and Time), The Sarah Jane Adventures and Class
Lift Up Your Hearts (UK TX: January 14 & 15)
  • Radoslaw [Sebastian] Kaim (Rudi) was Worker in The Sontaran Stratagem
  • for Colin Salmon see Series 1 and Richard Price see Series 21
  • Dan Li (DS Lin) was Alexei in The Bells of Saint John, then voiced Dokan for UNIT: Shutdown, Grillo Clavik for The Genesis Chamber (both 2016), Okada Shumei for The Barbarians and the Samurai (2018), Mike Chaoxiang/Raptor for Master! 3 (2024), Lee Hoi Sang/Stall holder/KC Chen for The Final Cut, and Chesney for The Greatest Train Robbery (both 2026)
  • Alex Frost (Nurse) was Reverend Shaw in Village of the Angels
  • for Kiaran Murray Smith and Timothy Wood see Series 19
To Brighton, To Brighton (UK TX: January 21 & 22)
  • Sebastian [Felipe Xavier Fernández-Garcia] Armesto (DI Taramelli) was Broff in Bad Wolf, and voiced Anders for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008), and Garrison for Kidnapped! (2020)
  • Samantha [Jane] Bond (DS Quicke) was Miss Wormwood in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane and Enemy of the Bane then reprised for The Revenge of Wormwood (2023), and voiced Mother Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009)
  • for Carlyss Peer see Series 14 and Daniel Weyman see Series 20
  • Nancy Baldwin (Audrey) was Joy in The Impossible Astronaut 
  • Tomi May (Calvin) was Dowell in Thin Ice
Deathmaker (UK TX: January 28 & 29)
  • Amanda Root (Olivia) voiced Madeleine Fairweather for The Girl Who Never Was (2007), and Lendek/Scientist for The Lords of Terror (2018)
  • for Lucinda Dryzek see Series 6 and Des McAleer see Series 8
  • Ray Fearon (DI Quint) voiced Barlow Teveler for The Seeds of War (2013)
  • Ian McElhinney (Walsh) was Ko Sharmus in Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children
  • Alex Jordan (Reporter) voiced Renk Van Magnastein for The Revolution (2014), Mandeville/Chief/Acolyte for The Library in the Body (2016), Heatcote for An Ideal World (2018), Computer for The Scaramancer, Bandit for The Cognition Shift (both 2020), Sergeant Jean Paul Savarin for Seabird One and Visitants (both 2022), Louis Marchand/Napoleon for Time Schisms! (2023), and Various for The Last Day (2024)
  • Avita Jay (DC Anderton) voiced Zakia Akhtar for Stranded 2020-22), Harper for The Unzal Incursion, Hera/Moran Kez for Cycle of Destruction, and Evo/Eleanor Pearce for The Evolving Dead (all 2021)
  • Silas Carson (Harris) provided Alien voices for The End of the World, then Ood voices for The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood, The End of Time, Pond Life, Survivors of the Flux, The Vanquishers, Prisoner of the Ood, The War Master 2 and Oracle, and voiced Arbuckle for The Jabari Countdown (all 2018), Trave for Havoc, the Sicari for Collateral and Assassins, Commentator for Warzone (all 2019), Sir Thomas Pewsey/Pilot for The Sins of Captain John, Brian for He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not, Garlon Rosh for The Robots of War (all 2020), Dr. Winston Grange for Time Flies (2022), Drane for The Kicker, Narrator of An Ood Halloween (both 2023), and Ramesh Kamal for Storm of the Sea Devils (2024)
  • Emily Taaffe (Orla) voiced Sasha Yan for Fond Farewell (2022)
Betrayal (UK TX: February 4 & 5)
  • Emma Sullivan was also director of Can You Hear Me? and The Haunting of Villa Diodati
  • Art [born Athar Ul-Haque] Malik (Pujari) was Ilin in The Ghost Monument, and voiced Abbot Absolute for The Skull of Sobek (2008)
  • Dervla Kirwan (Amanda) was Miss Hartigan in The Next Doctor, then reprised Miss Quill for Big Finish's Class, and voiced Mrs. Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Di Wright for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Yost McComack for Lightspeed, Anne Marie for Interlude, Representative for Echo Chamber, Agatha Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Professor Callis for Castle Hydra, and Kelleher for Effect and Cause (all 2020)
  • prolific Big Finish and BBV contributor Nigel Fairs (Judge) was Police- man in Zygon, and voiced Gary Williams for The Shadow of the Scourge (2000), Joshua for Race Memory (2001), Osbert for The Green Man, Hall for In 2 Minds (both 2002), Rom for Nekromanteia (2003), Time Lord for Pandora (2005), Kalbez for Enemy Lines (2016), Cornelius Pinch for Inside Every Warrior (2019), Curtis/ Crewman for The Flying Dutchman (2020), Rev. Samuel Claypole/the Snowart for The God of Phantoms, Faren/Trooper for Destroyer (both 2021), and Announcer for The Prints of Denmark (2022)

Friday, 12 June 2026

Doctor Who Vs. Law & Order: UK, Series 2

 

Bradley Walsh, Jamie Bamber, Harriet
Walter (who represented the titular Law
officers DS Brooks, DS Devlin, and DI
Chandler), Freema Agyeman, Ben
Daniels, and Bill Paterson (as Alesha
Phillips, James Steel, and George Castle
- the CPS Order team) all returned in the
British spin-off of Dick Wolf's long-running
Law & Order franchise. Kudos' co-executive
producer Chris Chibnall also adapted two
episodes, and all six cases here were based
on scripts from the parent programme. A
repeat run of the season (originally shown
in the winter of 2010) began on ITV3 last
night - it featured Anjli Mohindra, and a
total of forty-two Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:

Samaritan (UK TX: January 11 2010/
based on Manhood, 1993)
  • Zienia Merton (Judge) was Ping Cho (pictured) in Marco Polo, then the Registrar in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
  • Jamie Foreman (PC Griffin) was Eddie Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern
  • Camilla [Marie] Beeput (Maya) was Nova for Big Finish's Sphere of Freedom, Cataclysm and Food Fight (all 2021)
  • for Jessica Gunning, Tariq Jordan, Andy Goddard, Malcolm Thornton, Simon Morris, Jamie Pearson and Nick Foley see Series 1
Hidden (TX: January 18/based on Bitter Fruit, 1995)
  • David Gyasi (Lennie) was Harvey in Asylum of the Daleks
  • Rene Zagger (Andreou) was Padra in Utopia
  • Enzo Squillino Jr. (D'Agostino) voiced Aldo Deluca for The Gift, Juan Romero for Fiesta for the Damned (both 2016), and Chant for The Power of River Song (2019)
  • Cyril [Ikechukwu] Nri (Judge) was the Shopkeeper in The Sarah Jane Adventures, then Chairman in Class, and voiced Maurice Vallan for The Movellan Manoeuvre and The Dalek Gambit (both 2020), and Khaset for The Mummy Speaks! (2022)
  • Andrew Byron (Nikolajs) was Ilya Svyatoslavovich in The Pyramid at the End of the World
  • for Dervla Kirwan and John Rowe see Series 1
Community Service (TX: January 25/based on Volunteers, 1993)
  • Kevin [Robert] McNally (Morgan) was Lieutenant Hugo Lang in The Twin Dilemma, then Professor Eustacius Jericho in Flux, and voiced Henry for Spider's Shadow (2008), Vakrass for The End of the Beginning, and Merrick Kingdom for Dalek Universe (both 2021)
  • Will Thorp (Butler) was Tobias Zed in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, then voiced Gaius Julius Caesar for 100 BC, Jacob Williams for Bedtime Story, and Narrator of Sick Building, Forever Autumn, Peacemaker (all 2007) and The Krillitane Storm (2009)
  • Sandra [Jane] Huggett (Sharon) voiced Dorada for The Scaramancer, The Castle of Kurnos 5 and The Cognition Shift (all 2020)
  • Mary Healey (Dora) was a Killjoy in The Happiness Patrol
  • Eloise Joseph (Kelly) was Beauty in Nightmare in Silver
  • Alison Skilbeck (Rachel) was the Deputy in (part 3 of) Frontios
  • Bhasker Patel (Dr. Singh) was Jival Chowdry in Turn Left
  • Ken Grieve was directeor of Destiny of the Daleks too
  • for Colin Salmon, Paul Darrow and Catherine Tregenna see Series 1 
Sacrifice (TX: February 1/based on Sonata for a Solo Organ, 1991)
  • Michael Maloney (Reberty) voiced Simonsson for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008), Adam Farrow for AudioGo's The Circus of Doom, Fratalin for Patient Zero, the Viryans for Blue Forgotten Planet (all 2009) and Charlotte Pollard 1 (2014), Rennol for Kiss of Death, Narrator of BBC Books' The Silent Stars Go By (both 2011), Gregor Saraton for Zygon Hunt, Hilary Hammond for Enemy Aliens (both 2014), William Hogan for The Rockery (2019), and the Two for Two's Company and The Union (both 2023)
  • Samuel Oatley (McKenzie) was Tzim Sha in The Woman Who Fell to Earth and The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
  • Frances Ashman (Teresa) was Christine in The Big Bang
  • Gemma Saunders (Nurse) voiced Eleanor Vale/Amanda Caulfield for 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), and Ellen Byrne for The Eye of the Storm (2016)
  • for Charles Kay see Series 1
Love and Loss (TX: February 8/based on Consultation, 1992)
  • Mark Lewis Jones (Powell) voiced Professor Oliver Mortlake for The Darkness of Glass (2015)
  • Shaun Dooley (Gilmore) was Epzo in The Ghost Monument 
  • Roy Holder (Caretaker) was Krelper in The Caves of Androzani
  • Eugene Washington (Valente) was Mr. Wagner in School Reunion
Honour Bound (TX: February 15/based on Corruption, 1996)
  • Gabrielle Glaister (Liz) voiced Maggie Bishop for The Forsaken (2015), Cowley for The High Price of Parking (2017), and Veronica Bland for Braxiatel in Love (2018)
  • Don Warrington [born Williams] (Commissioner here & Series 8: I Predict A Riot) was the President of Great Britain in Rise of the Cybermen, then voiced Rassilon for The Time of the Daleks, Neverland (all 2002), Zagreus (2003), Caerdroia and The Next Life (both 2004), and was Narrator of The Art of Destruction (2006)
  • Jeremy Bulloch (Grant) was Tor in The Space Museum, and Hal in The Time Warrior
  • Alan Bond (Juror here; Officer in S7: Fatherly Love) was UNIT Soldier in The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords
  • for Robert Glenister see Series 1