Doctor Who Vs. Law & Order: UK, Series 1

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented

by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who

investigate crime, and the Crown Prosecutors who prosecute

the offenders. These are their stories."

This long-running, London-based crime series from Kudos Films was

the first American television drama to be adapted for British TV, and

Chris Chibnall (writer and co-executive producer) based all seven

episodes here on scripts from the parent programme. Law & Order

(1990 to 2010), created by Dick Wolf, also spawned five further

spin-off shows, all from Universal productions.

Bradley Walsh (as DS Ronnie Brooks), Jamie Bamber (DS Matt

Devlin), and Dame Harriet Walter (DI Natalie Chandler) represented

the titular Law officers, whilst Ben Daniels (senior prosecutor James

Steel), Bill Paterson (CPS Director George Castle), and Freema

Agyeman (junior prosecutor Alesha Phillips) were the Order team.

Narration at the top of every episode was provided by Robert

Glenister (who later bemoaned his role in The Caves of Androzani).

A repeat run of these seven cases (originally shown in the spring

of 2009) began on ITV3 this week - they featured a total of forty-

nine other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Care (UK TX: February 23 2009/based on Cradle to Grave, 1992)

• Walter was Jo Patterson in Revolution of the Daleks, and voiced Beatrice Mapp for Big Finish's The Boy That Time Forgot (2008)
• Paterson was Professor Bracewell in Victory of the Daleks and The Pandorica Opens
• Glenister was also Thomas Edison in Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror, then voiced Eliot for Future Phantoms (2024)
• Michelle Asante (Leona) was Neighbour on In the Forest of the Night, then Abena in The Story and the Engine - she also voiced Princess Natalia Zicaria/Computer for Master! 2 (2023), and was Narrator of BBC Books' Spectral Scream and Firefall (both 2025)
• John MacKay (Lindford) portrayed John Logie Baird in The Giggle
• Alison Lintott (Rachel) was the Nurse in World Enough and Time
• Jamie Pearson was also film editor on nine episodes (from The Eleventh Hour to The Angels Take Manhattan)
• Adrian Rigby (prosthetic effects) was a make-up artist on The Sarah Jane Adventures, then hair technician on The God Complex
• series ADR mixer Nick Foley worked on The Snowmen too
• Alison Barnett (head of production) was floor assistant on Nightmare of Eden
• Malcolm Thornton was also production designer on Logopolis, Kinda, The Five Doctors and Planet of Fire

Unloved (UK TX: March 2/based on Born Bad, 1993)

• Rebekah Staton (Tracey) was Jenny in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
• Babatunde Aleshe (Jason) was Sean in The Lodger
• Tracy Wiles (Jenny) voiced Moira Brody for Masters of Earth (2014), Lilith Lovett for The Year of the Bat, Jacqui McGee for UNIT: Extinction (both 2015), UNIT: Silenced (2016), Death on the Mile (2018), Narcissus, The Power of River Song (both 2019), UNIT: Between Two Worlds, Outback, Longshot (all 2021), UNIT: Agents of the Vulpreen, UNIT: Objective: Earth (both 2022), Commander Barnac for The Neverwhen (2016), Ground Control/Secretary for Their Finest Hour, Sharlan for The Invention of Death, Hadway/V75/ Salma for Escape from Kaldor (all 2018), Drones for The False Guardian and Time's Assassin, Announcer for State of Bliss, Comms for The Famished Lands, Servant for Fugitive in Time, Marzanna/ Engel for Nightmare Country, Various for The Robots 1 (all 2019), The Robots 2 and Dark Side of the Moon (2022), Tryana for Return to Skaro (both 2020), FELINE/Maria/Patricia for A Forever Home, Shira/ Draven/Sentinel for The Shadow Squad (both 2021), Shorak for Storm of the Sea Devils, and Peggy Cressler for Bad Apple Brigade (both 2024)
• Diveen Henry (Bernice here & Series 5: Safe) voiced Alozza for The Vault of Osiris (2015), Sarah for The Behemoth, and Sandra for A Kill to a View (both 2017)
• Nimmy [Anna] March (Dr. Rawls here, Buried & Series 8: Bad Romance) voiced Baroness Vance/the Telokni for In Memory Alone (2016), Rupa Maguire for The Time War 1 (2017), Ulla for The Moons of Vulpana (2019), Colonel Aesillor Zyre for Purgatory 12 (2020), Lupan for Stolen Futures, and Mada/Saskar/Alef for Maelstrom (2022)
• Dervla Kirwan (Beatrice McArdle, here & Series 2: Hidden), Andy Goddard (director here, Unsafe, Series 2: Samaritan, Honour Bound, Series 3: Broken, Survivor, Series 4: ID, Skeletons, Series 5: Deal, Series 6: Survivor's Guilt), Richard Cox (film editor) and all worked on The Next Doctor - Kirwan reprised the role of Miss Quill for Big Finish's Class 3, then voiced Mrs. Calderwood for Aimed at the Body, Yosta McCormack for Lightspeed, Di Wright for The Bookshop at the End of the World, Anne Marie for Interlude, Representative for Echo Chamber, Agatha Fernbridge for Towards Zero, Professor Callis for Castle Hydra, Kelleher for Effect and Cause (all 2020), and Honour Bray for Redacted 1

Vice (UK TX: March 9/based on Working Mom, 1997)

• Tariq Jordan (Teddy here, Unsafe, Paradise, Series 2: Samaritan, Hidden, Series 5: Crush) was a Rep in Planet of the Ood
• Jessica Gunning (Angela) was Stacey Campbell in Partners in Crime
• Sean [Anthony] Blowers (Woodhouse) was Zed in Dragonfire
• Juliet Aubrey (Emma) voiced Vulpina for Voyage to Venus (2012), Esther Malkin for The Wrong Woman (2021), Prodigal for The Auton Infinity (2022), and Zyla Kalstein for Revolution in Space (2024)
• Stephen [George] Churchett (Rook) was Bill in (part 1 of) Attack of the Cybermen
• Lesley [Ann] Manville (Phyllis Gladstone here, Alesha & Series 5: Tick Tock) depicted Heather Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time
• Polly Kemp (Annie) voiced Duchess Callys Flambo/Golp/Betty for Dining With Death (2019), and Calo/Quarks for Dominant Species (2024)
• Sean [Carl] Pertwee (Pritchard) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors
• Waleed Akhtar (Imran) voiced Mook Jayasundera for The Last Party on Earth (2019)

Unsafe (UK TX: March 16/based on American Dream, 1993)

• Iain [Alan Sutherland] Glen (Slade) was Father Octavian in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
• Michael Smiley (Doyle) voiced Seedleson for Creatures of Beauty (2003), and Colonel Morgan Blue in Into the Dalek
• Nicholas Beveney (Newman) was Dad in Attack of the Graske
• Paul [Valentine Birkby] Darrow (Judge Prentice here; Series 2: Community Service, Series 3: Defence, Series 5: Deal; Series 7: Mortal, Series 8: I Predict a Riot) was Captain Hawkins in The Silurians, Tekker in Timelash, then voiced Guidance for The Next Life (2004)
• Edmund Kente (McVeigh) was Scoones in The Next Doctor

Buried (UK TX: March 23/based on In Memory of, 1991)

• Keith Barron (Mortimer) was Captain Striker in Enlightenment, and voiced Isaac Barclay for Plague of the Daleks (2009), and Lord Tulip for The Bad Penny (2018)
• Colin Salmon (Greer here, Series 2: Community Service, Series 6: Survivor's Guilt, Series 8: Repeat to Fade) was Dr. Moon in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, then voiced Trooper Salway for Wirrn Dawn (2009)
• Christopher Fairbank (McFadden) voiced Doc Baroque for The Scapegoat (2009), Pierre Arronax for The Wreck of the Titan (2010), Marc Brunel for Iron Bright (2018), then appeared as Fenton in Flatline
• Simon Morris was also first assistant director (here & Paradise) on Love & Monsters, Turn Left, The Stolen Earth, Journey's End, Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Dark Water, Death in Heaven and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Catherine Tregenna (here, Alesha; Series 2: Community Service, Series 3: Hounded, Series 4: Denial, Skeletons) was also writer of The Woman Who Lived and Torchwood

Paradise (UK TX: March 30/based on Heaven, 1991)

• Charles Kay [born Piff] (Artemis, here & Series 2: Sacrifice) voiced the Curator for Excelis Rising (2002)
• Selva Rasalingam (Osman) was Ranjit in The Power of Three
• Frances Barber (Michaela Herman) was Madame Kovarian in Series 6 - a role reprised for The Diary of River Song 3 (2018)
• Ken Bones (Kilic) was the General in The Day of the Doctor and Hell Bent - a role reprised for Dreadshade (2020), War Room 1, The War Doctor Begins 4 (both 2022, War Room 2 and A Genius for War (both 2023) - he also voiced Thomas Bloodchild/Dreislav for The Bloodchild Codex (2013), and David/Anders Kristiansen for Battlegrounds (2022)
• Nabil Elouahabi (Kasaba) voiced Esteban for The Flames of Cadiz (2013), and High Korravin/Lomaz for Ancient History (2024)
• Joanna McCallum (Judge Hartop) voiced the Bursar for Night Thoughts (2006)
• Stewart Scudamore (Turgay) voiced Danvers for Hounded (2016), and Ashley Bassett for Traitors' Gate (2023)
• Steve Hansell (Doctor) voiced PC Blackstock for The Condemned, Septal for Brotherhood of the Daleks, Bouncers for The Raincloud Man (all 2008), Grubb for Izzy's Story, Dane for Cyberman 2 (both 2009), and Doug/ Barbarius/Guard for The Iron Legion (2019)

Alesha (UK TX: April 6/based on Helpless, 1992)

• Derek Riddell (Dr. Merrick) was Sir Robert in Tooth and Claw, and voiced Lieut. Commander Sandy McNish also for The Oncoming Storm
• John Rowe (Silverton here, Series 2: Hidden, Series 8: Hard Stop) voiced Sir Hartley Harecourt for The Case of the Missing Gasogene (2015), and Sir Isiah Hardy for Entanglement (2018)
• Nicholas Khan (Hall) voiced Jimmy Lynch for The Sinestran Kill, Dalia for Collateral (both 2019), Jillix for The Sins of Captain John, Stubbs for Thin Time, Alexander Marfleet for The Flying Dutchman (both 2020), Vez/Kol for The Ark (2023), Shalvar for Coda, Androids/Kwest for Reflections (2024), and Castor for Causeway (2025)

Doctor Who On This Day #79

 

1965 - The Daleks, Episode 1: The

Dead Planet repeated on ABC and

Episode 5: The Expedition first

screened on CBC; and The Web

Planet, Episode 6: The Centre first

screened on BBC1

1966 - Marco Polo, Episode 1: The

Roof of the World repeated on TV1

1968 - The Chase, Episode 3: Flight Through Eternity,
The Time Meddler, Episode 1: The Watcher, Galaxy

4, Episode 1: Four Hundred Dawns, The Myth Makers,

Episode 1: Temple of Secrets, The Massacre, Episode

1: War of God and The Ark, Episode 1: The Steel Sky

all repeated on ABC

1971 - The Claws of Axos, Episode

2 first screened on BBC1

1977 - The Monster of Peladon, Part

1 first screened on TV2; and Genesis of

the Daleks, Part 1 first screened on ABC

1979 - Actress Freema Agyeman born

in London; and The Sun Makers, Part 4

repeated and Underworld, Part 2 first

screened, both on ABC

1980 - Revenge of the Cybermen, Part 

2 first screened on WTTW 11; and The 

Horns of Nimon, Part 4 first screened 

on ABC
1982 - Horror of Fang Rock, Part 2

repeated on KQED Plus
1984 - Terror of the Zygons, Part 3 repeated on KQED
Plus; and Enlightenment, Part 2 repeated on ABC
1985 - Colony in Space, Episode 5 repeated

on KQED Plus; and The Time Monster,

Episodes 1 to 3 all repeated on WTTW 11

1986 - Inferno, Episode 3 first screened on ABC;

and City of Death, Part 1 repeated on KQED Plus

1987 - The Krotons, Episode 4 repeated on KQED Plus

1988 - The War Games, Episodes 6 to 10 all repeated

on KQED Plus; and Revenge of the Cybermen, Part 1

repeated on Super Channel (UK)
1989 - Pyramids of Mars, Part 3 repeated on ABC; and
Silver Nemesis Omnibus and The Making of Doctor Who 
both first screened on WTTW 11
1990 - Enlightenment, Part 3 repeated on KQED Plus

1991 - Underworld, Part 4 repeated on KQED Plus
1992 - Terror of the Autons, Episode 3 repeated on KQED
 Plus; and The Sea Devils, Episode 3 repeated on BBC2
1993 - Colony in Space, Episode 5 repeated on TV2; and 
The King's Demons Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus
1994 - Pyramids of Mars, Part 3 repeated on BBC2;

and The Sun Makers Omnibus repeated on UK Gold
1995 - The Silurians, Episode 6 repeated on UK Gold;

The Stones of Blood Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus;

 and The Mark of the Rani, Part 2 first screened on VOX

1997 - The Green Death, Episode 4 repeated on UKTV (Aus)
1998 - The War Games, Episode 10 first screened on

Space; and Terminus, Part 4 repeated on UKTV (Aus)

1999 - The Ark Omnibus repeated on UK Gold; The Silurians 
Omnibus repeated on MPT; The Sontaran Experiment Omnibus
repeated on BBC America; Revenge of the Cybermen and
Earthshock Omnibuses both repeated on UKTV (Aus); Terror 
of the Zygons, Part 1 first screened on Prairie PTV; and The 
Invasion of Time, Parts 2 and 3 both repeated on BBC Prime
2000 - The Web Planet, Episode 4: Crater of Needles repeated
on Space; and Kinda Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus

2001 - The Ark in Space, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated on BBC
America; and The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Parts 1 and 2 both
repeated on Prime and Part 3 repeated on UKTV (Aus)

2002 - Planet of Evil, Part 1 repeated on BBC Kids (Can);

and The Ultimate Foe, Part 13 repeated on BBC Prime
2003 - Underworld, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on BBC Kids
2004 - The Brain of Morbius Omnibus repeated on UK Gold;

and Planet of Fire, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on BBC Kids

(Can)
2005 - City of Death Omnibus repeated on UK Gold;

and Four to Doomsday, Part 2 repeated on KUED

2007 - Doomsday repeated on NHK BS2
2008 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episodes

 2 and 3 both first screened on MTV3 SciFi and TV4

2009 - 100,000 BC, Episodes 2 and 3 both repeated on

MTV3 SciFi and TV4; World War Three repeated on TV3

(RI); The Age of Steel repeated on WVPB; Partners in

Crime repeated on BBC3; and Silence in the Library

repeated on Syfy (US)
2010 - The End of the World repeated on Syfy (Rus);

Turn Left repeated on France 4 and Syfy (Spa); 

The Stolen Earth, Journey's End and The Next Doctor

all repeated on Syfy (Spa); and The End of Time, Part

 1 first screened on KBS2

2011 - The Stolen Earth repeated on Idaho PTV; The Hungry

Earth repeated on BBC HD; and Cold Blood repeated on ABC1

2012 - Castrovalva, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on Syfy (Aus);

Snakedance, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on MTV3 SciFi and

TV4; Daleks in Manhattan repeated on Watch; Planet of the

Dead repeated on ABC2; and The Waters of Mars and Greatest
Moments: The Companions both repeated on UKTV

2013 - Last of the Time Lords, Partners in Crime, The Fires

of Pompeii and Planet of the Ood all repeated on France 4;

The Next Doctor repeated on UKTV (NZ); The Lodger

repeated on Watch; Night Terrors and The Girl Who Waited 

both repeated on Fox (FRG); and The God Complex repeated

on Syfy (Ben)

2014 - The Androids of Tara, Parts 3 and 4 and Enlightenment,
Parts 1 and 2 all repeated on Syfy (Aus); Boom Town repeated

on Watch; The Next Doctor and Planet of the Dead both

repeated on BBC America; The End of Time, Parts 1 and 2

both repeated on TV3 (Spa); Vincent and the Doctor repeated

 on France 4; The Almost People repeated on Syfy (Port);

The Bells of Saint John repeated on Really Scary TV; The

Name of the Doctor repeated on WTTW Prime; Doctor Who

Prom (2010) repeated on BBC Entertainment LA HD; and

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor, Episode

2 repeated on CBBC

2015 - The Green Death, Episodes 1 and 2 both repeated on

Retro TV; City of Death, Part 4 and The Keeper of Traken,

Part 1 both repeated on Horror; The Horns of Nimon, Parts

1 and 2 both first screened on Retro TV; Smith and Jones

repeated on Watch and KCPT2; The Unicorn and the Wasp,

Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead all repeated

on BBC America; The Stolen Earth, Amy's Choice, The

Hungry Earth and The Lodger all repeated on Syfy (Aus);

Cold Blood and Vincent and the Doctor both repeated
on Syfy (Aus) and Jeem TV (ME); The Big Bang and A 
Christmas Carol both repeated on UKTV (NZ); The Almost 

People and A Good Man Goes to War both repeated on BBC

 Nordic HD and BBC Polska HD; Asylum of the Daleks

repeated on Syfy (Spa); The Angels Take Manhattan

repeated on Syfy (Ben) and KLRU; and Flatline repeated

on BBC3 and BBC Entertainment LA

2016 - The Chase, Episodes 1 to 4 all repeated on Retro

TV; The Face of Evil, Part 1 repeated on KPTS; Mindwarp,

Parts 7 and 8 both repeated on KBTC; Aliens of London

and Dinosaurs on a Spaceship both repeated on Syfy

(Aus); The Long Game, Father's Day, Tooth and Claw,

The End Time, Part 2, The Angels Take Manhattan,

The Doctors Revisited: The Fourth Doctor and The 

Fifth Doctor all repeated on Watch; The Empty Child repeated on 
Watch and UNC-EX; The Doctor Dances, Boom Town, Bad Wolf, 
Doctor Who Confidential: Special Effects, Weird Science, Unsung 
Heroes and Violent Death and The World of Who all repeated on
UNC-EX; Army of Ghosts repeated on BBC Entertainment Asia
Pacific; Partners in Crime and The Fires of Pompeii both repeated 
on EBRU; The Eleventh Hour and The Beast Below both repeated
on France 4; The Almost People repeated on BBC First (ME);

A Town Called Mercy and The Power of Three both 
repeated on Fox (FRG); Listen repeated on MPTV; Death

 in Heaven repeated on BBC Entertainment EU; The Witch's 
Familiar repeated on Syfy (Bra); Sleep No More and Face

the Raven both repeated on BBC First (Ben); and Dr.

Who and the Daleks and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150

AD both screened on Moviemix (UK)

2017 - The Daemons, Episode 1 repeated on The Zone; Black 
Orchid Omnibus repeated on WETA-UK; The King's Demons, Part
2 and Warriors of the Deep, Part 1 both repeated on Retro TV; 
Aliens of London and World War Three both repeated on BBC
Polska HD; School Reunion, The Girl in the Fireplace, Rise of the 
Cybermen, The Age of Steel, The Idiot's Lantern, The Impossible 
Planet and The Satan Pit all repeated on BBC America; Voyage 
of the Damned, Part 2 (of 2) repeated on FX (Ind); Flesh and 
Stone, The Vampires of Venice, The God Complex, Closing Time, 
Face the Raven and Hell Bent all repeated on Syfy (Bra);

The Doctor's Wife repeated on Syfy (Aus); A Good Man

Goes to War and Let's Kill Hitler both repeated on DR3;

and In the Forest of the Night repeated on BBC First (ME)

2018 - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Parts 1 and 2 both
repeated on Retro TV; The Christmas Invasion, The Eaters

of Light and World Enough and Time all repeated on BBC

America; Love & Monsters and Fear Her both repeated on

W and W HD; 42 repeated on Syfy (Aus); Let's Kill Hitler

repeated on ABC and ABC ME; Under the Lake repeated

on BBC Polska HD; The Zygon Invasion, The Zygon

Inversion and Sleep No More all repeated on Hell Bent

repeated on BBC First (ME); and The Pyramid at the

End of the World repeated on Syfy (Bra)

2019 - The Chase, Episodes 3 and 4

both repeated on Retro TV; and Death

in Heaven repeated on BBC Polska HD

2020 - The Silurians, Episodes 4 and 5

both repeated on Retro TV; Dark Water

repeated on Syfy (Fra); and Nikola

Tesla's Night of Terror first screened on

Sony SciFi

2021 - The War Machines Omnibus

and The Monster of Peladon, Parts 5

and 6 all repeated on Retro TV; The War

Games, Episode 2 repeated on ONS;

Smile repeated on BBC Entertainment

EU; and The Witch's Familiar, Under the

 Lake and The Woman Who Lived all

repeated on BBC Polska HD

2022 - The Web Planet, Episodes 1

and 2 both repeated on KBTC; The

Deadly Assassin Omnibus repeated

on Iowa PTV; Earthshock, Parts 2 to 4

and The Caves of Androzani, Part 1 all

repeated on Forces TV; Enlightenment

Omnibus all repeated on Retro TV; Rise

of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, The

Idiot's Lantern, The Impossible Planet,

The Satan Pit, Love & Monsters and Fear

Her all repeated on Syfy (Fra); The

Woman Who Fell to Earth repeated on

BBC America; Kerblam! repeated on BBC

Polska HD; Can You Hear Me?, The

Haunting of Villa Diodati, Ascension of

the Cybermen, The Timeless Children

and Revolution of the Daleks all repeated

on Fox SciFi; and Village of the Angels,

Survivors of the Flux, The Vanquishers

and Eve of the Daleks all repeated on

BBC First Turkey

2023 - The Time of the Doctor repeated

on Fox SciFi

2025 - The Doctor's Daughter repeated

on ABC Entertains