The Sylvester McCoy era got underway today in 1987 in truly deplorable fashion. Time and the Rani really was terrible - especially today's first episode. From having him wearing a Harpo Marx type wig pretending to be Colin Baker, to the unfunny pratfalls and spoon-playing to Kate O'Mara having to pretend to be Bonnie Langford, it was painful to watch at the time (and still is on Blu-ray today).
Luckily Andrew Cartmel had just joined the series, and things would eventually get better.
Back in 1968 The Dominators reached its conclusion with its fifth instalment, after having been edited down from being a six-parter at the scripting stage.
Today we wish Toby Jones a happy 56th birthday. Son of actor Freddie Jones, he portrayed the Dream Lord in Amy's Choice, who proved to be a representation of the Doctor's darker side (so not like the Valeyard at all then).
He shares his birthday with Christopher Villiers who featured in The King's Demons and, more recently, in Mummy on the Orient Express. He is 62.
Rona Munro - writer of Survival and Eaters of Light - is 63.
Reginald Tsiboe, who played bus passenger Lou in Planet of the Dead, is 67.
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