Despite telling prospective writers that the character was "The Doctor" and not "Doctor Who / Dr Who" the production team let through an episode entitled The Death of Doctor Who today in 1965. This was the penultimate instalment of The Chase. Maybe "Doctor Who" was the name of the Daleks' android duplicate...
Season 8 drew to a close with the fifth episode of The Daemons. After causing all manner of problems throughout the year, the Master was finally captured by UNIT. Five was a strange number of episodes for a story at this time, and so a few years ago there was an April Fool's joke that the missing sixth episode had been found.
In 2010 we had the first real monster team-up when The Pandorica Opens. The recycling-bin Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans and Autons were all present and correct - but where were the Terileptils, Drahvins and Zygons who were also supposed to be there? What we got was a motley collection of whatever costumes they happened to find in stock - meaning the ranks of the Alliance comprised such "greats" as the Hoix, Roboforms and Uvodni...
Today we wish Derren Nesbitt a happy 87th birthday. If you've been following my "Episodes" posts he'll be a familiar face by now, having played the villainous Tegana in Marco Polo back in 1964.
He shares his birthday with Thelma Barlow, who played Lady Thaw in The Lazarus Experiment. Best know for her long-running role as Mavis in Coronation Street, she turns 93 today.
Sam West, who featured as the Rani's assistant in the Dimensions In Time Children in Need adventure turns 56. His character was dubbed Cyrian by fans, as apparently Sir Ian McKellen had been offered the role first.
We also remember Brian Cant, a hero to generations of children in the UK for his TV appearances in Play School and Play Away, and for voicing Camberwick Green and Trumpton. He passed away on this date in 2017, aged 83. He did some serious acting as well, and featured as space agent Kert Gantry in The Daleks' Master Plan, and as Chairman Tensa in The Dominators.
His son Richard played Kathy Nightingale's grandson Malcolm in Blink.
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