Doctor Who Vs. Luther, Series 2

Idris Elba returned as the titular detective

for the second season of BBC Studios' dark, psychological crime drama, first shown in

the summer of 2011.

A repeat run of the four-part series began on

U&Drama last night - it earned a RTS Best

Drama award for show creator/writer Neil

Cross, and Elba won a Golden Globe award

for Best Actor.

Warren Brown, Michael Smiley, Ruth Wilson,

Dermot Crowley and Paul McGann reprised

their respective roles (as Ripley, Benny, Alice,

Schenk and Mark), and were joined by Aimee

Ffion-Edwards, and these eleven Doctor Who

cast and crew connections:

• for Brown and Smiley see Series 1
• Nikki Amuka Bird (DS Erin Gray) was the Glass Woman [Helen Clay] in Twice Upon a Time, then voiced Major Tamasan for Big Finish's The Time War 2 (2018)
• Lee [David] Ingleby (Pell) voiced Samson Griffin for Terror Firma (2005)
• John Albasiny (Kolchak) was Guy Dean in BBV Productions' Homeland, then voiced Lev Tolstoy/Preston for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Maxim Felnikov for Thin Ice (2011) and Crime of the Century, Chris Fleming for Phantoms of the Deep (both 2013), Jesper for Equilibrium (2015), and Makerenkov for Last of the Romanovs (2020)
• Pam Ferris (Baba) voiced Lizzie Corrigan for The Eternal Summer (2009), and Amanda Steele for Day of the Vashta Nerada (2017)
• Steven Robertson (Millberry) was Richard Pritchard in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
• Ellie Haddington (DCS Carroway) was Professor Alison Docherty in Last of the Time Lords
• Hamza Jeetooa (Depak) was Manish in Demons of the Punjab
• Nick Foley was the ADR mixer on The Snowmen too
• production sound mixer Brian Milliken was sound recordist on The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky and The Sarah Jane Adventures

Doctor Who Vs. Manhunt, Series 2

This drama is based on the true story

of the police investigation of a series of

rapes, sexual assaults and burglaries

that took place in South East London

between 1992 and 2009.

Martin Clunes again portrayed DCI Colin

Sutton, now assigned to review Operation

Minstead - the seventeen year hunt for a

serial sex offender, dubbed the Night Stalker.

Delroy Grant (suspected of over a hundred

offences) was finally apprehended and

convicted in March 2011.

A repeat run of the thriller (originally shown

over four consecutive nights in September

2021) began on ITV3 last night - it featured eighteen Doctor Who cast/crew connections:

• Stephen Wight [born Gray] (DC Grace) voiced Unsworth for Big Finish's The Flying Dutchman (2020)
• Ian Conningham (Moore) was Chuckles in The Girl Who Died, then voiced Sinko/Ronson/Lieutenant for Storm of the Horofax (2017), Kevin/Rindle for The Lady in the Lake (2018), Konis/Maximov for Nightmare Country (2019), V11/Kaden Olson for Toos and Poul (2020), Robert Devereaux/Lord Cecil for The Hollow Crown, Dr. Richard Newman/Corfield for The Primeval Design (both 2021), Kade for Previously, Next Time, Fridtjof Nansen for Northern Lights (both 2023), and Fletcher Hart for Planet Krynoid 1 (2025)
• Matthew Gravelle (DI Eason) voiced Klinus for Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro (both 2014), then provided the titular voice of Kerblam!
• Matt Bardock (Supt. Morgan) was Al in Flatline
• Diveen Henry (DC Henry) voiced Alozza for The Vault of Osiris (2015), Sarah for The Behemoth, and Sandra for A Kill to a View (both 2017)
• Beth [Jane] Goddard (DS Rook) was Sister Helena for The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon, then voiced Christine Colley for The Sontaran Project (2017), Ludina Braskell for World of Damnation and Sweet Salvation (both 2018), Barton for The Moons of Vulpana, Vella for A Photograph to Remember and Rulers of Earth (all 2019), Sally/ Time Lady for Operation: Hellfire (2020), and Allerdyce Benexa/ Pangladasha for Ice Heist! (2023)
• Sule Rimi (DS Hylton) was Omo Esosa in The Story and the Engine
• John Albasiny (Forbes) voiced Guy Dean for BBV Productions' Homeland (1999), Lev Tolstoy/Preston for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Major Maxim Felnikov for Thin Ice and Crime of the Century (both 2011), Chris Fleming for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), Jesper for Equilibrium (2015), and Makerenkov for Last of the Romanovs (2020)
• Brian [Henry] Croucher (Royce) was Borg in The Robots of Death, and Kurt in Shakedown, then voiced Cotton for Kaldor City (2001-03)
• Nicholas Asbury (DI Adler) voiced Rowe for The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (2011), Anthony Burmaster for UNIT: Assembled, Chairman Bart Falco for The Silurian Candidate (both 2017), Captain Morgan /Visguard/SB Officer for Churchill Victorious, Dante for The Diary of River Song 4 (both 2018), Captain Zenna/Kivall for Out of Time 1, Shakespeare for The Hollow Crown, Tenebrae/Franz Albrecht Stuart for Rulers of Earth (all 2020), Commander Stevenson/ Pietersen for Return of the Cybermen, Mollis for Colony of Fear, Preacher Stem for The Melting Pot (all 2021), Dr. Sturm/German Colonel for The Nine, Hari Ventross for The Robots 5 (both 2022), and Belias/Inquisitor Robel for You Only Die Twice (2024), then was Etoine in The Zygon Inversion
• Stephen Perring (Inspector) voiced Horemshep for The Eye of the Scorpion (2001), Sebastian Grayle for Seasons of Fear (2002), Receptionist for Zagreus, Vengorr for Living Legend (both 2003), Kro'ka for The Creed of the Cromon, The Twilight Kingdom, Faith Stealer, The Last, Caerdroia and The Next Life (all 2004), and Matthias for Gallifrey (2006-13)
• Judith Roddy (Michelle) voiced Commander Lorne for The Wreck of the World (2017), and Stralla Cushing for How to Make a Killing in Time Travel (2018)
• Robert Hands (Wooller) was Algy in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, then voiced Daniel Defoe for The Eye of the Storm (2015), Solex for Legion of the Lost and A Thing of Guile, Pope Leo X for The Ravelli Conspiracy (all 2016), Major Hardy for Storm of the Horofax, and Lagrange for Fields of Terror (2017)
• Jamie Talbutt was also foley editor on eighty-two episodes (from A Christmas Carol to Revolution of the Daleks)
• Tim Hodges was film editor on Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror too
• Louise Brown was also foley artist on eight stories (from The Woman Who Fell to Earth to Ascension of the Cybermen)
• Victoria Nugent was make-up designer on Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes too
• James Scott (first assistant camera) was focus puller on sixteen episodes (from Closing Time to The Day of the Doctor)
• David J Bremner was also grip on Into the Dalek, Listen and Time Heist

Doctor Who Vs. Strike, Series 1

Bronte Films' five-part drama was

based on the crime novels of JK

Rowling, written under the pseud-

onym of Robert Galbraith.

Plans to adapt the Cormoran Strike

books were announced in late 2014, and Harry Potter author Rowling

acted as an executive producer.

Londoner Tom Burke and Manchester

born Holliday Grainger were cast as

Strike and Robin Ellacott in 2016.

Adaptations of Career of Evil and Lethal White followed in 2018 and

2020.

The first serial premiered at BFI

Southbank in August 2017, and a

repeat run of the next mystery concluded on Alibi last night - they featured

a total of twenty-nine Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

The Cuckoo's Calling 
(Published 2013/BBC1 TX: August 27/28 & September 3 2017/BBC4 TX:

February 13 to 15 2018/Alibi TX: December 9 to 11 2019, July 13 to 15, 

December 22, 24/25 2020, February 17 to March 3, July 14 to 28 2021/

Drama TX: November 9 to 23 2020, January 25 to February 8, July 8 to 22

2023, January 27 to February 10 2024/U&Drama TX: August 20 to 22,

October 2 to 16 2024)

• Leo Bill (Bristow) was the Pilot in A Christmas Carol
• Alisha Bailey (Jenny) was Isabella in The Vampires of Venice
• David Avery (Kolovas-Jones) was Fabian in The Name of the Doctor
• Steve Healey (Passerby) was director and co-writer of (fan short) Tale of a Time Lord
• Big Finish actor John Albasiny (Enright) voiced Guy Dean for BBV's Homeland (1999), Lev Tlostoy and Preston for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Maxim Felnikov for Thin Ice and Crime of the Century (2011), Chris Fleming for Phantoms of the Deep (2013), Jesper for Equilibrium (2015), and Makerenkov for Last of the Romanovs (2021)
• Genevieve [Wilhemina] Gaunt (Tricia) voiced Corporal Linda Maxwell for The Helliax Rift and Warlock's Cross, and Anna and Commander for Red Planets (all 2018)
• Ben Crompton (Shanker) was Ross in Into the Dalek
• Sian [Jane Elizabeth Ailwen] Phillips (Lady Bristow) voiced COLT-5000 for Jenny, Pilgrim for Ravenous 2 (both 2018), the Inquisitor for Gallifrey (2020), and the Director for The World Traders (2021)
• Suzanne Cave (costume designer), Nigel Squibbs (mixer) and Dan Rees (grip) all worked on An Adventure in Space and Time too
• James Gregory was also ADR mixer on The Haunting of Villa Diodati and Ascension of the Cybermen
• Richard Rowntree also provided additional greens for forty-one stories (from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe to The Husbands of River Song)
• stuntman Gordon Seed was stunt co-ordinator on thirty-six episodes (from The Idiot's Lantern to Kill the Moon)
• stunt performers Claire Lawrence, Matt Hermiston and Levan Doran all worked on the revived run
• John Mooney was also sound assistant on Remembrance of the Daleks, (part 3 of) Silver Nemesis, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Battlefield and Ghost Light

The Silkworm 
(Published 2014/BBC1 TX: September 10 & 17/BBC4 TX: February 16

2018/Alibi TX: December 12/13 2019, July 16/17, December 26/27 2020,

March 10 & 17, August 4 & 11 2021/Drama TX: November 30 & December

7 2020, February 15 & 22, July 29 2023, February 17 & 24 2024/U&Drama

TX: August 23 & 24, October 22 & 23 2024)

• Tim McInnerny (Chard) was Klineman Halpen in Planet of the Ood, and voiced Admiral Dolne for The Well-Mannered War (2015)
• Dominic Mafham (Waldergrave) voiced Moran for The Jigsaw War (2012), and Chidak for The Dalek Contract and The Final Phase (both 2013)
• Catherine Bailey (Jess) was Miss Wyckham in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then voiced Maddox for The Shadow of London, and Tan for Iron Bright (both 2018)
• Jack Monaghan (Analyst) voiced Dunne and Selfdrive for The High Price of Parking (2017)
• Rachel [Linda] Bell (Edna) was Priscilla P in The Happiness Patrol
• Lloyd Bass (stunt driver here & Lethal White) was stuntman on The Time of the Doctor and Twice Upon a Time
• Dani Biernat was also stunt co-ordinator on seventeen stories (from The Christmas Invasion to Kerblam!)
• Stephanie Carey was also a stunt performer on eight stories (from Voyage of the Damned to The Haunting of Villa Diodati)
• Abbi Collins was also stunt co-ordinator on eleven stories (from Rise of the Cybermen to The Waters of Mars) and The Sarah Jane Adventures
• Sam Williams was film editor on The Rings of Akhaten too
• Daniel Bishop was steadicam operator on The Husbands of River Song too

Career of Evil (BBC1 TX: February 25 & March 4 2018/Alibi TX: August

18 & 25 2021/Drama TX: March 1 & 8, August 5 2023, March 2 & 9 2024/

U&Drama TX: August 27 & 28, October 23 & 24 2024)