Jon Pertwee debuted his Season 7 costume today in 1970, in the second episode of Spearhead From Space. He had only appeared in a hospital gown the week before. The episode also afforded us our first look at one of the crude, unfinished Autons.
Two other stories reached their second instalments today - The Brain of Morbius, in 1976, and Warriors' Gate in 1981.
Today we remember the writer David Fisher. He provided two consecutive scripts apiece for Seasons 16 and 17, and one for Season 18. Only one of the Season 17 stories bore his name however.
For the Key to Time season he wrote The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara. The Season 17 story which bears his name is The Creature from the Pit - but he also contributed "A Gamble With Time", which formed the basis for City of Death. A lot of elements of the David Agnew story (actually Douglas Adams and Graham Williams, but mostly Adams) are to be found in Fisher's earlier version.
His last work for the series was The Leisure Hive, which opened Season 18. He was unhappy that a lot of the humour he had been encouraged to put into the script was then taken out.
Fisher liked to have strong female characters in his stories, including the main villains like Lady Adrasta and Cessair of Diplos. He based these on his aunts, whom he disliked.
Fisher passed away on this day in 2018, aged 88.
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