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[Susan Foreman]

She is probably best remembered as Sandra Benes in the ITV programme 'Space 1999' [1975 - 1977], where she appeared in 37 out of the 48 episodes

[Demoncrat]

RIP then ...

[Susan Foreman]

September 15th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1913 - Jack Woolgar (Staff Sergeant Arnold & Great Intelligence in The Web of Fear)

1922 - Bob Anderson (Fighting Guard in The Enemy of the World)
1934 - David Myerscough-Jones (designer on The Web of Fear, The Ambassadors of Death and Day of the Daleks)

1942 - Max Harvey (Zorac in Arc of Infinity)
1944 - Pik-Sen Lim (Captain Chin Lee in The Mind of Evil and Doctor Samantha Madigan in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Curse of Clyde Langer; wife of Inferno and The Mind of Evil writer Don Houghton)

1945 - Clive Merrison (Jim Callum in The Tomb of the Cybermen, Deputy Chief Caretaker in Paradise Towers, Sir Frederick Matravers in the BBV audio The Barnacled Baby and George Augustus in the Big Finish audio The Contingency Club)
1954 - Sabina Franklyn (Big Finish Productions actress - Doctor Eleanor Harcourt in Bang-Bang-a-Boom!, Wanda Rothman in Situation Vacant and Aetius & Herculania in Judoon in Chains)

1957 - Dorota Rae (Flight Lieutenant Lavel in Battlefield)
1986 - Christian Cooke (Ross Jenkins in The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky)
1993 - Fayd Elsayed (Ram Singh in the Doctor Who spin-off Class)

Deaths
2002 - Dwight Whylie (Radio Announcer in The War Machines) aged 66

2009 - John Joyce (Garvin in The Dæmons) aged 70
2010 - Frank Jarvis (Corporal in The War Machines, Ankh in Underworld and Skart in The Power of Kroll) aged 69

Episodes
1979 - Destiny of the Daleks, Episode Three (BBC One): 13.8 million viewers
2012 - A Town Called Mercy (BBC One): 8.42 million viewers
2015 - The Doctor's Meditation (webcast)

Releases
1991 - The Pescatons (Target Books)

1994 - First Frontier and Evolution (Virgin Books)
2008 - Four to Doomsday (DVD - region 2); Kingdom of Silver (Big Finish)
2011 - Issue 235 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

2015 - Criss-Cross (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Recording of Big Finish's Iris Wildthyme story The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme took place

2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Beyond the Ultimate Adventure took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Autons on the attack in the 1971 story Terror of the Autons.

[Susan Foreman]

September 16th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1932 - Bill Meilen (Froyn in The Daleks' Master Plan)
1934 - Andre Boulay (Perfect Victim in The Aztecs)

1937 - Bella Emberg (Mrs Croot in Love & Monsters and a deleted scene from The Runaway Bride and an extra in Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Time Warrior)

1947 - Russ Abbott (Martin Trueman in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Secret of the Stars)

1955 - Janet Ellis (Teka in The Horns of Nimon)

Deaths
1987 - Simon Gipps-Kent (Seth in The Horns of Nimon) aged 28
2005 - David Wolliscroft (Xeron in The Space Museum and an extra in The Time Warrior, The Monster of Peladon, Genesis of the Daleks, The Hand of Fear, The Sun Makers and Meglos) aged 63

2009 - Timothy Bateson (Binro in The Ribos Operation) aged 83
2014 - Michael Hayes (director of The Androids of Tara, The Armageddon Factor and City of Death) aged 75

2016 - Andrew Staines (Sergeant to Benik in The Enemy of the World, Goodge in Terror of the Autons, Captain in Carnival of Monsters and Keaver in Planet of the Spiders; nephew to Jon Pertwee-era producer Barry Letts) aged 79

Episodes
1967 - The Tomb of the Cybermen, Episode Three: 7.2 million viewers
1978 - The Ribos Operation, Part Three: 7.9 million viewers

Releases
1965 - The Zarbi (Frederick Muller)

1982 - Full Circle (Target Books)
1993 - Iceberg and The Sixties [Paperback edition] (Virgin Books)

2004 - Issue 348 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2010 - The Only Good Dalek (BBC Books); issue 184 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - Scream of the Shalka (DVD - region 2)

2015 - The Yes Men (Big Finish Productions); issue 1 of Tenth Doctor Year Two (Titan Comics)
2016 - Lethbridge-Stewart: The HAVOC Files (Candy Jar Books); Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 185 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2004 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Her Final Flight took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Ice Lord, Slaar, from the 1969 story The Seeds of Death.

[Susan Foreman]

September 17th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1915 - John Witty (Computer voice in The Seeds of Death)
1917 - Peter Glaze (City Administrator in The Sensorites)

1920 - Dinah Sheridan (Flavia in The Five Doctors)

1931 - Ian Fairbairn (Questa in The Macra Terror, Gregory in The Invasion, Bromley in Inferno and Doctor Chester in The Seeds of Doom)
1938 - Richard Kane (Valmar in The Power of the Daleks)
1941 - Maureen Morris (Great One voice in Planet of the Spiders and an extra in The Macra Terror)

1952 - Tomek Bork (Captain Sorin in The Curse of Fenric)

Deaths
1972 - Peter Stephens (Cyril, Kitchen Boy & Knave of Hearts in The Celestial Toymaker and Lolem in The Underwater Menace) aged 52

1987 - Stephen Jack (John Farrel in Terror of the Autons) aged 85

2010 - Louis Marks (writer of Planet of Giants, Day of the Daleks, Planet Of Evil and The Masque of Mandragora) aged 82

Episodes
1966 - The Smugglers, Episode Two (BBC One): 4.9 million viewers
1977 - Horror of Fang Rock, Part Three (BBC One): 9.8 million viewers
1993 - The Paradise of Death, Episode Four (BBC Radio 5 live)
2011 - The God Complex (BBC One): 6.77 million viewers

Documentaries
2011 - Doctor Who Confidential: Heartbreak Hotel (BBC Three)

Releases
1987 - The Time-Travellers' Guide [Hardback edition] (W. H. Allen & Co)

1992 - The Monsters (Virgin Books)

2009 - Issue 133 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 32 (Big Finish Productions)
2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 70 (Big Finish)
2015 - Issue 491 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Mummy from The Rings of Akhaten (2013)

[Demoncrat]

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