Sunday 3 July 2022

On This Day... 3rd July

 
Today in 1965 Steven Taylor became the series' second male companion, following the departure of Ian in the previous story. Peter Purves' character had featured in that previous tale - The Chase - but had last been seen wandering around the jungles of Mechanus. It was only with Part One of The Time Meddler - The Watcher - that we learned that he had found his way aboard the TARDIS.


Today we remember one of the key figures in the origins of Doctor Who. Delia Derbyshire never composed the iconic theme music, but she did create it. Ron Grainer did the composing, but it was Derbyshire, assisted by her colleague Dick Mills at the Radiophonic Workshop, who undertook the laborious task of realising it, quite literally putting it together note by note. Her arrangement has never been bettered.
She passed away on this day in 2001, aged 64.
We also remember the actor Earl Cameron who played astronaut Williams in The Tenth Planet. He died in 2020 at the age of 102.

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