The first ever Doctor Who Prom was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 today in 2008. As with the later ones we have recently mentioned, Murray Gold's music was joined by some sci-fi related classical pieces - e.g. Mars, Bringer of War from Holst's Planet Suite, which was used as the theme to Quatermass and the Pit, or Also Sprach Zarathustra, from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Prom (or Promenade Concert) was hosted by Freema Agyeman but David Tennant was busy that night. He contributed by appearing in a pre-filmed item called The Music of the Spheres, recorded on the TARDIS set and featuring Jimmy Vee as a Graske.
Davros seemed to enjoyed it, if no-one else.
Today we remember actor Geoffrey Hughes, who died in 2012 aged 68.
Best known for long-running roles in soap Coronation Street and sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, he portrayed the Dickensian office clerk Mr Popplewick in the final section of Trial of a Time Lord - a character who proved to be the disguised Valeyard.
We also wish a happy birthday to director Matthew Robinson (Resurrection of the Daleks and Attack of the Cybermen) who turns 78, and actor Nigel Plaskitt, who played Unstoffe in The Ribos Operation. He is 72 today.
Graham Simpson, who was the hitchhiker in Image of the Fendahl, is 76, and stuntman Dinny Powell (The Ambassadors of Death, Colony in Space, The Curse of Peladon and Creature from the Pit, is 90.
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