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[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi reveals musical episode idea that never got made - Radio Times

Must admit I'm surprised the show hasn't done a backward music masking episode yet. I've been thinking that since the latter Tom Baker years

[Susan Foreman]

March 28th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1924 - Robert James (Lesterson in The Power of the Daleks and the High Priest in The Masque of Mandragora)
1925 - Morris Perry (Captain Dent in Colony in Space)
1948 - Matthew Corbett (Jones in The Dæmons)
1981 - Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones in Torchwood)

Deaths
1987 - Patrick Troughton (Second Doctor; Salamander in The Enemy of the World; father to Doctor Who guest actors David Troughton and Michael Troughton; grandfather to Big Finish Productions' The Whispering Forest guest actor Harry Melling) aged 67

2015 - Edmund Coulter (Monoid in The Ark) aged 78

Episodes
1964 - Marco Polo, Episode Six ('Mighty Kublai Khan'): 8.4 million viewers
1970 - The Ambassadors of Death, Episode Two: 7.6 million viewers

Documentaries
2008 - Torchwood Declassified: Clean Slate (BBC Three)

Releases
2002 - Citadel of Dreams (Telos Publishing)
2006 - The Beginning (DVD box set - religion 1)

2013 - Issue 313 of Doctor Who Magazine (Immediate Media Co.)
2017 - Charlotte Pollard: Series Two (Big Finish); Doctor Who and the micro:bit (online interactive episode)

Behind-the-Scenes
2006 - Recording of the Big Finish audios The Nowhere Place and Year of the Pig took place
2010 - In-character as the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith deliberately interrupted programmes on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Many Deaths of Jo Grant took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor encounters the Elders in 1966's The Savages.

[Demoncrat]

That Licence Denied is interesting. A rag bag of musings on the whole, but there's a really honest Tom Baker interview which makes up for people slagging off The Happiness Patrol

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

March 28th: Today in WHO-story


Releases

2006 - The Beginning (DVD box set - religion 1)

I demand one in religion 2 as well.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I demand one in religion 2 as well.

*sigh*

Religion 1

Religion 2

Happy now?

Mind you, I think I am going to get into trouble with the MODS now for using religion imagery (and we all know that is naughty!)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

*sigh*



Mind you, I think I am going to get into trouble with the MODS now for using religion imagery (and we all know that is naughty!)

Just for that unfunny and seemingly really long cartoon.

[Susan Foreman]

March 29th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1925 - Frederick Treves (Lieutenant Brotodac in Meglos)
1928 - Philip Locke (Bigon in Four to Doomsday)
1931 - Peter Russell (Eldred in The Time Meddler)
1936 - Richard Rodney Bennett (music composer for The Aztecs)

1947 - Leslie Meadows (Adlon in Delta and the Bannermen, the Creature in Dragonfire and an extra in Survival)
1957 - Yolande Palfrey (Janet in The Trial of a Time Lord)

Obituaries
2000 - John Baskcomb (Luigi Rossini in Terror of the Autons) aged 84
2007 - John Gill (Quill in Fury from the Deep) aged 95

Episodes
1969 - The Space Pirates, Episode Four: 5.8 million viewers
1975 - Genesis of the Daleks, Part Four: 8.8 million viewers
1982 - Time-Flight, Part Three: 8.9 million viewers
1984 - The Twin Dilemma, Part Three: 7.0 million viewers
2002 - Death Comes to Time, Episode Four ('No Child of Earth' - first installment)

Documentaries
2005 - Reverse the Polarity (BBC Radio 2)

Releases
2007 - Issue 26 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2010 - Myths and Legends (DVD box set - region 2)

2012 - Issue 262 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)
2017 - Issue 11 of Ninth Doctor and Torchwood: World Without End (Titan Comics)

Behind-the-Scenes
1963 - On orders from Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber sent a report to Donald Wilson regarding a potential science fiction series called Doctor Who

1998 - BBC America launched
2007 - Scripts were issues for Tardisodes 12 & 13
2010 - Matt Smith and Karen Gillan began their tour to promote their first episode as the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond, The Eleventh Hour
2016 - Recording of the Big Finish Productions audio adventure The Genesis Chamber

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Sontaran Field Major, Styre, from the 1975 story The Sontaran Experiment.

[Susan Foreman]

March 30th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1922 - Peter Welch (Sergeant in The Highlanders and Morgan in The Android Invasion)
1942 - Michael Burdle (costume designer on Colony in Space and The Armageddon Factor)
1950 - Stephen Jenn (Secker in Nightmare of Eden)
1965 - Juliet Landau (Romana's third incarnation in Big Finish Productions' audio adventures)

Deaths
1983 - Lionel Sansby (Passenger in Nightmare of Eden and Krarg in Shada; extra in Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Hand of Fear, Time-Flight, Snakedance and Terminus) aged 44
2014 - Kate O'Mara (the Rani in The Mark of the Rani, Time and the Rani, the BBC Children in Need special Dimensions in Time and the BBV audio The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind) aged 74

Episodes
1968 - Fury from the Deep, Episode Three: 7.7 million viewers
1974 - The Monster of Peladon, Part Four: 6.8 million viewers
1982 - Time-Flight, Part Four: 8.1 million viewers
1984 - The Twin Dilemma, Part Four: 6.3 million viewers
1985 - Revelation of the Daleks, Part Two: 7.7 million viewers
2013 - The Bells of Saint John: 6.68 million viewers

Departures
1982 - Conclusion to the nineteenth series of the 'classic era' of Doctor Who
1984 - Conclusion to the twenty-first series of the 'classic era' of Doctor Who
1985 - Conclusion to the twenty-second series of the 'classic era' of Doctor Who

Releases
1978 - Horror of Fang Rock (Target Books)

1989 - Encyclopedia of the Worlds of Doctor Who (Piccadilly Press)
2006 - Issue 268 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini UK)
2011 - K9: Series 1, Part 1 (DVD - region 1)


Behind-the-Scenes
2004 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Harvest took place
2005 - The BBC confirmed a Christmas special and a 2006 series of Doctor Who. They also confirmed that Christopher Eccleston would not be returning as the Ninth Doctor after the first series of the relaunch; recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story The Lost Museum took place
2009 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story The Hollows of Time took place
2010 - During an interview for the BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row, Steven Moffat confirmed that the title for Flesh and Stone was his son's idea; Matt Smith and Karen Gillan continued their tour to promote The Eleventh Hour

2016 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Genesis Chamber took place