Wednesday 23 March 2022

On This Day... 23rd March


Yesterday we highlighted Colin Baker's first story as the Doctor - and it is one of his worst. Today we highlight the first episode of Revelation of the Daleks, first broadcast today in 1985 - which is one of his best.
The second part of that not-so-good story - The Twin Dilemma - went out today in 1984.
Further back in time, Fury From The Deep moved on to its second episode in 1968.
The Monster of Peladon - one of only a couple of true sequels in the classic era - got underway with its first instalment in 1974.
Time-Flight continued with its second episode in 1982.


Also on this day, in 1989, the Terrance Dicks Third Doctor stage play The Ultimate Adventure had its debut performance at the Wimbledon Theatre in South London. Later in the run, Pertwee stepped aside and Colin Baker took over. On the occasion that Pertwee was too ill to appear, Cyber-Leader actor David Banks stepped into the breach as a hitherto unknown incarnation of the Doctor.


Today we remember the actor David Collings, who passed away on this date in 2020, aged 79. He appeared in the series on three occasions, the first of which was under a latex mask as Vorus, leader of the Vogan Militia in Revenge of the Cybermen. He was back not long after, unmasked this time, as Chief Mover Poul in The Robots of Death. He would later reprise this role in audio spin-offs.
His final appearance was as the mutated alien scientist Mawdryn in Mawdryn Undead.

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