Terror of the Zygons, Part One, which made its debut today in 1975, should have been screened the week following Revenge of the Cybermen Part Four. Concerned about Gerry Anderson's new sci-fi series Space:1999, however, a decision was made to hold it back and use it to launch Season 13 four months early.
In 1981 Season 18 also got underway with the first instalment of The Leisure Hive. This marked a noticeable change in the look and sound of the series, thanks to new producer John Nathan Turner. Try watching it immediately after The Horns of Nimon and you'll see what I mean.
2014's Into The Dalek saw Peter Capaldi's Doctor encounter the Daleks for the first time, in an episode directed by Ben Wheatley - so of course it had Michael Smiley in the cast.
Ben's namesake Alan Wheatley died today in 1991, aged 84. He became the series' first "guest star" when he took on the role of Temmosus in The Daleks, having already been a big TV star. He was known to millions as the Sheriff of Nottingham to Richard Greene's Robin in The Adventures of Robin Hood. He had previously featured opposite William Hartnell in Brighton Rock (1947).
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