In the second episode of 1969's The War Games, it was starting to appear increasingly unlikely that the TARDIS had landed in the middle of the First World War. Not only had Jamie encountered a Redcoat soldier from 1745, but a trip through a fog bank would bring the Doctor and friends face to face with a contingent of Roman soldiers.
In 1975 the Cybermen invaded Nerva Beacon in the second instalment of Revenge of the Cybermen. A black helmeted Cyber Leader had featured in Doctor Who and the Cybermen by Gerry Davis, a novelisation of The Moonbase, but they had never been seen on the screen before this story.
In 2008, the Sontarans made their debut in the revived series in the first episode of a two part story. This was The Sontaran Stratagem. Christopher Ryan featured as the Sontaran commander. He had previously portrayed another alien back in 1986 - the Mentor Kiv in Trial of a Time Lord / Mindwarp.
The original Sontaran was Linx, played by Kevin Lindsay. He passed away on this date in 1975, aged only 51. Lindsay portrayed Field Major Styre in The Sontaran Experiment as well as Linx in The Time Warrior. In between he was seen in Planet of the Spiders as the Tibetan monk Cho-Je, who turned out to be a future projection of the Time Lord K'anpo.
Lindsay suffered from a heart condition, and sadly died within a short time of his last episode being broadcast.
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