Fury From The Deep reached its mid point today in 1968 with its third episode.
In 1974 The Monster of Peladon moved onto its second instalment.
Season 19 concluded with the fourth part of Time-Flight in 1982; Season 21 concluded with the fourth part of The Twin Dilemma in 1984: and Season 22 concluded with Part Two of Revelation of the Daleks in 1985.
Meanwhile, in 2013, the second half of Series 7 got underway with The Bells of Saint John. This was the episode which introduced Clara (the 21st Century companion one).
In yesterday's "Inspirations" post I mentioned that there had been a Weakest Link Doctor Who Special in 2007. Well, today is its anniversary.
Today we remember Kate O'Mara, who portrayed the Rani in two stories - Mark of the Rani and Time and the Rani. She passed away on this day in 2014 aged 74. Not so much an evil Time Lord as an amoral one, the Rani was the creation of writers Pip and Jane Baker. O'Mara found international fame thanks to the US soap Dynasty, in which she played Joan Collins' sister. After her first appearance in Doctor Who, she wrote to producer JNT and asked him if he had any work going back in cold and wet England as she was fed up with Californian sunshine. She bagged a quarry, and a Bonnie Langford impression.
She had been earmarked for the series much earlier - in 1970 to be exact. Douglas Camfield wanted her for the part of Petra Williams in Inferno. O'Mara went with a Hammer film instead (The Vampire Lovers), and the Inferno role went to Camfield's wife.
O'Mara's first love was theatre work, especially Shakespeare.
We also lost Dave Martin on this day, in 2007 aged 72. With his writing partner Bob Baker he was responsible for the creation of K-9. Known collectively as "the Bristol Boys" they wrote The Claws of Axos, The Mutants, The Three Doctors, The Sontaran Experiment, The Hand of Fear, The Invisible Enemy, Underworld and The Armageddon Factor. The partnership ended when Martin decided he wanted to concentrate on novels rather than TV scripts.
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