The Wheel in Space got underway today in 1968. The opening seconds featured Victoria Waterfield on the beach as the TARDIS departed - earning Debbie Watling a credit for the episode. Wendy Padbury's Zoe would not appear until the following week.
The Monster of Peladon reached its conclusion with Part Six in 1974. Little did we know it then, but the Ice Warriors would not be back for a very long time.
In 2013, the Doctor and Clara embarked on a Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS. They needn't have bothered, really.
A lot of birthdays to mention today, starting with Russell T Davies, who turns 59. He brought the series back in triumphant style in 2005, and we are all hoping he can salvage it in 2023.
Jenna Coleman, who played the aforementioned Clara, is 36.
Kevin McNally, who played Lt Lang in The Twin Dilemma, and was one of the better things about Flux as Professor Jericho, turns 66.
Joseph Millson, who was Maria's dad throughout the first season of The Sarah Jane Adventures, is 48.
In my recent post on the Marco Polo episode Five Hundred Eyes I mentioned Zohra Sehgal, who lived to be over 100. Today would have been her birthday. She passed away in 2014 at 102.
Someone else we lost whose birthday it would have been today is Glyn Jones - the first person to both write for the series as well as act in it. He died in 2014 at the age of 82.
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