Katy Manning's final story got underway today in 1973, with the opening instalment of The Green Death. She was featuring opposite her real life boyfriend at the time - the late Stewart Bevan.
In 2007, the Doctor and Martha Jones found themselves trapped on a crashing spaceship in 42.
His older brother Martin appeared in The Caves of Androzani as General Chellak.
He shares his birthday with Lily Cole, who was the Siren in Curse of the Black Spot. She is 34.
Today we also remember Peter Bryant, who passed away on this date in 2006, aged 82.
He took over as Producer of Doctor Who from Innes Lloyd, after being offered a trial run on Tomb of the Cybermen. Prior to this he had been the Story Editor, a role which he took over from Gerry Davis.
Bryant was then married to actress Shirley Cooklin, who played Kaftan in Tomb.
One of his last acts on the programme was to hire Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor. He left the series to salvage the ailing Paul Temple series, taking his ex-script editor Derrick Sherwin with him. Sherwin had temporarily replaced him as Producer.
Before getting into production Bryant had been an actor, including a regular role in the very first TV soap, The Grove Family. He then moved into radio, where he was a Script Editor.
He later became a literary agent. One of his clients was Eric Pringle and he was able to get him commissioned for Doctor Who with The Awakening.
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