Season 15 got underway with the opening episode of Horror of Fang Rock today in 1977. We should have been getting something else. Graham Williams wanted to do the Key to Time but the season was already too far advanced in development, so it had to wait until the following year. Instead, Terrance Dicks had a vampire story - but that got pulled due to conflict with a big new adaptation of Dracula which was planned. For the first time ever, studio production moved way from London to Birmingham, due to lack of studio space in the capital.
In 2011 Mark Gatiss delivered Night Terrors.
Back in 1993, the Third Doctor audio adventure The Paradise of Death moved on to its second instalment on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Today we wish Pauline Collins a happy 82nd birthday. She appeared in The Faceless Ones as Samantha Briggs, and the production team attempted to talk her into staying on as the new female companion. She declined, preferring to pursue an Oscar-winning film career, but they tried again when Debbie Watling left the series. She did eventually make a return in 2006, playing Queen Victoria in Tooth and Claw. A portrait of her as Victoria featured in 2017's Empress of Mars.
We also remember Jacqueline Pearce, who played Chessene in The Two Doctors. Best known for her role as Servalan in Blake's 7, she passed away today in 2018 aged 74.
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