The action moved away from Victorian Kent to the planet Skaro, and the Doctor came face to face with the Emperor at the conclusion of The Evil of the Daleks Episode 6 today in 1967.
The Time Monster was also on its sixth instalment in 1972, bringing Season 9 to its conclusion. The final image was of a naked Sergeant Benton...
In 2006 Fear Her proved to be a huge disappointment. Devoid of atmosphere, it proved to be the lowest rated story of the revived series in the DWM 50th Anniversary poll (and therefore the worst David Tennant story, and the worst story of the RTD era).
An episode from 2017 which should feature at the opposite end of any 60th Anniversary poll was World Enough And Time, which featured two incarnations of the Master, plus the return of the Mondasian Cybermen - not seen since The Tenth Planet.
This was supposed to be the first half of Peter Capaldi's swansong, but things had to be rejigged when it transpired that Chris Chibnall wasn't going to provide a Christmas Special that year.
Today we remember actor Valentine Dyall, who passed away on this date in 1985, aged 77.
He portrayed the Black Guardian in The Armageddon Factor in 1978, then reprised the character for a trilogy of stories in 1983 - Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment.
His final involvement with the series was a role in the radio story Slipback, made during the series' enforced hiatus. He died two weeks after recording it, and it was broadcast posthumously.
A few birthdays of note also today:
Yasmin Paige (Maria in The Sarah Jane Adventures) is 31,
Iain Glenn (Father Octavian in The Time of the Angels / Flesh and Stone) is 61,
Simon Rouse (Hindle in Kinda) is 71, as is David Rodigan (Broken Tooth in Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet).
Brendan Price (Tomas in The Face of Evil) is 75.
And Julian Holloway (Sgt. Paterson in Survival) turns 78.
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