It might have been an even bigger surprise when the Sontarans appeared on the Panopticon steps at the cliff-hanger to Part Four of The Invasion of Time, today in 1978, had the BBC not used a photo of Kelner and Stor to advertise the episode.
Back in 1967, the Cybermen had come out of hiding and taken over The Moonbase in its third instalment.
Today we remember designer Barry Newbery, who passed away on this date in 2015, aged 88.
He was called upon to design the very first story - An Unearthly Child - after its original designer Peter Brachacki fell ill after handling the pilot version. Newbery then worked on the first two seasons, mostly alternating with Ray Cusick. Whilst Cusick tended to get the Sci-Fi stories, Newbery got the historical ones - Marco Polo, The Aztecs, The Crusade and The Time Meddler.
He shared work with Cusick for the last time on the same story - The Daleks' Master Plan.
Other Season 3 stories included The Ark, and The Gunfighters.
From the fourth season onwards his work on the show was more intermittent. Later stories included The Dominators, The Silurians, The Brain of Morbius, The Masque of Mandragora and The Awakening in 1984, his final contribution to the series.
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