Today in 1966, after 12 weeks, The Daleks' Master Plan finally reached its dramatic conclusion with The Destruction of Time. Mavic Chen and the Daleks were defeated, but at the cost of temporary companion Sara Kingdom's life.
1972 saw the opening instalment of The Curse of Peladon make its debut. One of its guest artists - Henry Gilbert, who played Chancellor Torbis - died a year to the day later, in 1973, at the age of 59.
Another story which launched today was The Robots of Death, in 1977.
Today we remember actor Bernard Horsfall, who made four appearances in Doctor Who. All were for director David Maloney. His first appearance was as the fictional character Gulliver in The Mind Robber (1968). This was followed at the end of the same season by a second outing, this time as one of the trio of Time Lords who put the Doctor on trial, in Part 10 of The War Games (1969).
Next up was Planet of the Daleks (1973), in which he played the lead Thal Taron. His final appearance was as another Time Lord (or perhaps the same Time Lord?) - Chancellor Goth - in The Deadly Assassin (1976). Horsfall passed away on this day in 2013, aged 82.
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