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

Doctor Who Vs. Law & Order: UK, Series 4

Bradley Walsh, Jamie

Bamber, Freema Agyeman,

and Harriet Walter returned

for the fourth series of the

British spin-off of Dick Wolf's

 Law & Order. Bill Paterson

and Ben Daniels left the pro-

gramme in Skeletons, when

their characters (CPS Director

Castle and Senior Prosecutor

James Steel) both resigned

from the Crown Prosecution Service.

All six cases were again based on scripts from the parent American drama.

A repeat run of the season (originally shown in the winter of 2011) began

on ITV3 last night - it featured Nicola Walker, Jemma Redgrave, and a

total of thirty Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

ID (UK TX: March 21 2011/based on Promises to Keep, 1993)

• Geraldine Alexander (Ellen) was Areta in Vengeance in Varos
• Matthew [Anthony] McNulty (Nash) was Adam Lang in Praxeus
• Andy Godbold (stunts here, Series 5: Crush, S8: I Predict a Riot) was stuntman on The Bells of Saint John, and co-ordinator on four stories (from Boom to Joy to the World)
• for Andy Goddard, Malcolm Thornton, Nick Foley and Robert Glenister see Series 1
• for Mike Jones and Isla Blair see Series 3

Denial (U K TX: March 14/based on DNR, 1999)

• for Catherine Tregenna and Jessica Gunning see Series 1
• Juliet [Anne Virginia] Stevenson (Rachel) voiced Winifred Whitby for Fond Farewell (2022)
• Diana [Marilyn] Quick (Judge Hall here, Duty of Care & S8: Flaw) voiced Prime for Scream of the Shalka, then Sophie Kinzky for Lay Down Your Arms (2022)
• Duane Henry (Flynn) was Mechanic Claude in Midnight

Shaken (UK TX: April 4/based on Homesick, 1996)

• Paul Wilmshurst was also director of Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express and Last Christmas
• Adetomiwa Edun (Benson) was Brock in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, then voiced Corvell for The Forest of Penitence, and Block for The Players (borh 2022)
• Rebecca Night [born Hardwick] (Leila) voiced Helene for Masquerade (2014), Matilda Gregson for Beachhead (2016), and Romana for The Difference Office (2022)
• Pooky [born Joanna] Quesnel (Andrea) was the Captain in A Christmas Carol, and Dorothea Ames in Class, and voiced Annalise Avenley for The Running Men (2024)

Duty of Care (UK TX: March 28/based on Endurance, 2000)

• Geoffrey Leesley (Harris) voiced Paramount Minister Mortund for Arrangements for War (2004), and Harold for AudioGo's The Broken Crown (2011)
• Ashley McGuire (Simone) voiced the Sergeant for The Red House (2015)
• Oliver Dimsdale (Peck) voiced Morecombe Unwise for Come Die With Me, Mervyn Garvey for Dead to the World, Archie Ferrers for The Boundless Sea (all 2015), Commander Trelon for A Thing of Guile (2016), and Rebben Tace/V52 for The Sons of Kaldor (2018)

Help (UK TX: March 7/based on We Like Mike, 1997)

• for James Strong see Series 3
• Michael Cochrane (Burchville) was Charles Cranleigh in Black Orchid, Redvers Fenn-Cooper in Ghost Light, then voiced Lt. Col. Brook for No Man's Land (2006), Murgat for Brotherhood of the Daleks (2008), Colonel Spindleton for Trail of the White Worm and The Oseidon Adventure (both 2012), Cedric Chivers for The Time Machine (2013), and Geralk for The Fate of Krelos and Return to Telos (2015)
• Elizabeth Rider (Fiona) was Ellen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then provided the ATMOS voice for The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, and was Linda in The Time of the Doctor - she also voiced Galatea for The Well-Mannered War (2015)
• Andrew Havill (Morris) was the Chief Steward in Voyage of the Damned, and voiced Aleister Portillon/Squire Claude for The Witch from the Well (2011), and Colonel Wildman for The Enchantress of Numbers (2019)
• Jamie Cho (Young) was Colonel Chan in The Star Beast

Skeletons (UK TX: April 11/based on Trophy, 1996)

• Tobias Menzies (Cain) was Lieutenant Stepashin in Cold War 
• Mark [Lee] Dexter (Hareton) was Dad in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, then Charles Babbage in Spyfall
• Jade Anouka (Carla) was the Waitress in The Bells of Saint John, and voiced Danuta for The Blood Furnace (2017)
• Ian Adrian was also a camera operator on The Vampires of Venice, The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger and An Adventure in Space and Time