39 years ago today, Tom Baker stopped being the Doctor. True - but only to a small extent - as strictly speaking Tom Baker has never stopped being the Doctor.
Logopolis Part Four saw the Doctor plummet from a radio-telescope after saving the entire universe from an entropy field. A bit like the Flux, only better.
Back in 1964, Marco Polo encountered the Rider From Shang-Tu. This was the story's fifth instalment.
In 1970 The Ambassadors of Death came a-calling in their first episode. This was the final story credited to David Whitaker, the series' original story editor, but unfortunately it was entirely rewritten by Trevor Ray (this episode) and the remainder by Malcolm Hulke.
Finally, in 2008, Torchwood's second series approached its conclusion with Fragments, in which we saw flashbacks to how Jack, Tosh and Owen had come to join the organisation.
Today we wish Timothy Dalton a happy 76th birthday. The former James Bond appeared as Time Lord President Rassilon in The End of Time Parts 1 & 2. He was too busy working on the final season of Penny Dreadful when they required the character to return for Hell Bent.
He shares his birthday with outgoing show-runner Chris Chibnall (52), as well as Bruno Langley, who played short-lived companion Adam Mitchell in 2005 (he turns 39).
Also born on this date, but sadly no longer with us, are the writer Ian Stuart Black (The Savages, The War Machines and The Macra Terror), Roger Hammond (Francis Bacon in The Chase and Dr Runciman in Mawdryn Undead), Tom Watson (Ramo in The Underwater Menace) and Peter Pratt (the Master in The Deadly Assassin).
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