Thursday 23 June 2022

On This Day... 23rd June


Season 10 drew to a close today in 1973 with the sixth episode of The Green Death. There wasn't a dry eye in the house as Katy Manning's Jo Grant left the series, and the Doctor drove off alone into the sunset.
In 2007 the third series was nearing its conclusion as the two part finale got underway. The Sound of Drums saw the Master, posing as Harold Saxon, become Prime Minister of the UK. There are those who say this is the middle episode of a three part finale, but it has a totally different director / production team to Utopia, and RTD himself at the time did not see it as a trilogy.


Today we remember Jackie Lane on the first anniversary of her death, at the age of 79. She played companion Dodo Chaplet from the fourth episode of The Massacre through to the second episode of The War Machines.
Others we lost on this date include Nigel Stock (Prof. Hayter in Time-Flight), aged 66 in 1986; Frank Gatliff (Ortron in The Monster of Peladon), aged 62 in 1990; and Peter Birrell (the Draconian Prince in Frontier in Space) aged 68 in 2004.

Today's birthdays include Colin Ryan (Harry in Knock Knock) who turns 36; pop singer Leee John (Mansell in Enlightenment) who is 65; James Marcus (Rask in Underworld) who is 80; and Caitlin Blackwood - young Amelia Pond - who turns 22.

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