The War Machines Episode 2, shown today in 1966, marked the end of the road for the character of Dodo Chaplet. After being hypnotised by WOTAN in the previous instalment, the Doctor broke the mental conditioning then packed her off to the countryside to recuperate - and that was the last we saw of her.
We also remember writer Don Houghton who passed away on this date in 1991, aged 61. He wrote Inferno and The Mind of Evil, the latter of which featured his wife Pik-Sen Lim as Captain Chin Lee. His was a very varied career - from writing latter Hammer Horrors like Dracula AD 1972 and The Satanic Rites of Dracula, to creating the Scottish soap opera Take the High Road. It was his work with Hammer which prevented him from writing any more Doctor Who.
Two actors with links to The Two Doctors also passed away on this date. James Saxon played Oscar in the story. He died in 2003 aged only 48. Elizabeth Spriggs was cast as Chessene, but was sacked when she refused to attend rehearsals for the overseas filming. She was later cast as Tabby in Paradise Towers. She died in 2008, aged 78.
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