The second instalment of Tomb of the Cybermen, broadcast today in 1967, introduced the Cyber-Controller. Michael Kilgarriff was a little annoyed that he was selected purely for his physical presence, and the voice was going to be provided by someone else (Peter Hawkins).
In 1978 The Ribos Operation was also on its second episode.
Real name Janet Claire Mahoney, she played Bolshie Australian / Mouth On Legs Tegan Jovanka from Logopolis through to Resurrection of the Daleks. She is due to reprise the role in the Centenary Special in October.
Apart from appearing in the series, she has had other connections with Doctor Who. Like Sylvester McCoy she was a member of the Ken Campbell Roadshow troupe. Ken was also in the running for the Seventh Doctor. She was called in by JNT to act opposite the potential Seventh Doctor actors at their auditions.
She later became an agent, numbering Paul McGann amongst her clients at the time he was made the Eighth Doctor.
She shares her birthday with Goran Visnjic, who played Nikola Tesla in the Series 12 story which bore his name. He is 50 today.
Hugh Grant, often mooted as a potential Doctor and who did play the role briefly in The Curse of Fatal Death, is 62. Julia Sawalha, who played opposite Grant in that Comic Relief skit, is 54.
Richard Gauntlett - Tetrap leader Urak in Time and the Rani - is 59.
Gretchen Egolf, who played Norlander in The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion, is 49.
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