The Wheel in Space reached its conclusion today in 1968 with its sixth instalment. This also brought Season 5 to a close - a season which had begun with another Cyberman story.
The episode ended with the Doctor finding Zoe trying to stow away, and he used a thought channel in the TARDIS to show her the sort of thing she might face if she came with them - leading into a summer repeat screening of The Evil of the Daleks. This was the only time a complete story was repeated throughout the whole of the 1960's, but they did manage to make it part of the on-going story.
Jon Pertwee's penultimate episode was also broadcast today, in 1974 - Part Five of Planet of the Spiders.
The other day we had a brace of female guest star birthdays, and today it's the boys' turn.
Brian Cox, who played Sydney Newman in An Adventure in Space and Time, as well as voicing the Ood Elder in The End of Time, turns 76.
Also in AAISAT was Andrew Woodall, playing Rex Tucker. He is 59.
The Comic Relief Master, Jonathan Pryce, is 75 today.
Adam Garcia - Alex in The Christmas Invasion - turns 49, as does Rene Zagger, who played Padra in Utopia.
Glenn Beck, who was the TV announcer in The Tenth Planet is 87.
Today we also remember two people associated with the Peter Cushing Dalek movies, which are big news at the moment.
Producer Milton Subotsky passed away on this date in 1991, aged 69.
And Geoffrey Toone who played Temmosus in the first film (as well as the High Priest Hepesh in The Curse of Peladon) died in 2005, aged 94.
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