Yes thankfully some kind of DW, and if you click on that ref at the end of the post it brings up an interview with Moff & Capaldi talking about the Doctor making appearances
Now - have you seen adds on the ABC for this -
"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.
He's gentle, old-fashioned, and decent; nice even when he's drunk. But these qualities only earn Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies the scorn of his fellow detectives in a small London police station. His boss tells him straight out that he's the last detective he would assign to a major crime-solving mission. Unlucky in love, rumpled, and accident prone, Dangerous muddles on and, with the help of his eccentric friend Mod, he proves the merits of his dogged, unglamorous method. He likes being a detective and, occasionally, he gets to do some good.
[looking at a suicide victim in the mortuary]
Dangerous Davies: Are you sure that he's dead?
Pathologist: Well I do have his brain in a jar here. So I presume he's dead... or he could be a detective constable working in North London.
[Mod Lewis has just joked that Dangerous Davies is starting to lose his hair]
Dangerous Davies: What do you call a row of rabbits marching backwards?
Mod Lewis: Dunno.
Dangerous Davies: A receding hare-line!
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ABC must be either showing repeats or they made more, his nutcase side kick looks like James Matheson.
I adore this show, it is quirky, sweet and utterly wonderful - Davison is divinely sweet.
Did anyone else watch it before???