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[iank]

I have that companions book.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

I have that companions book.

Me too.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The decaying Master finds himself a new body in Tremas (Anthony Ainley) in The Keeper of Traken (1981)

[Susan Foreman]

October 20th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1916 - Anton Diffring (De Flores in Silver Nemesis)

1920 - Leon Maybank (Scientist in The Moonbase and an extra in The Highlanders, Day of the Doctor, Robot and City of Death)
1929 - Colin Jeavons (Damon in The Underwater Menace and George Tracey in the one-off Doctor Who spin-off K9 & Company)

1934 - Mary Peach (Astrid Ferrier in The Enemy of the World); Timothy West (Big Finish Productions actor - Ronald Turvey in Cuddlesome, Doctor Magnus Soames in House of Blue Fire and Kai Tobias in Phobos; father of BBC Children in Need's Dimensions in Time and fellow Big Finish actor Samuel West)

1939 - Ian Cullen (Ixta in The Aztecs and Nadeyan in the Big Finish audio Dark Eyes)
1941 - Anneke Wills (Polly Wright [First & Second Doctors' companion]; herself in the 50th anniversary spoof The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot; Big Finish actress - Director Nrosha in The Sandman, Louisa Pollard in Zagreus, The Next Life, Memory Lane and the Charlotte Pollard story The Fall of the House of Pollard and Doctor Kitzinger in the Bernice Summerfield story Beyond the Sun)

1948 - Sandra Dickinson (Maggie in the BBC Radio 2 story The Ghosts of N-Space; former wife of Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison, mother of Jenny actress Georgia Tennant [née Moffett] and mother-in-law to Tenth Doctor actor David Tennant)
1959 - Christopher Bowen (Mordred in Battlefield)
1997 - John Bell (Creet in Utopia)

Deaths
1992 - Brian Badcoe (Adam in Invasion of the Dinosaurs) aged 67
2008 - John Ringham (Tlotoxl in The Aztecs, Josiah Blake in The Smugglers and Robert Ashe in Colony in Space) aged 80

2009 - Hubert Rees (Chief Engineer in Fury from the Deep, Captain Ransome in The War Games and John Stevenson in The Seeds of Doom) aged 81

Episodes
1979 - City of Death, Part Four: 16.1 million viewers
2008 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Secrets of the Stars, Part One (CBBC): 1.42 million viewers

Releases
1980 - The Adventures of K9 (Sparrow Books)

1994 - St. Anthony's Fire and Venusian Lullaby (Virgin Books)

2003 - Invasion of the Dinosaurs (VHS)

2007 - The Target Book (Telos Publishing)

2011 - Issue 240 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); issue 440 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2016 - Issue 505 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)

Behind-the-Scenes
1964 - Malcolm Hulke's proposed story The Hidden Planet was rejected
1977 - Douglas Adams was commissioned to write The Pirate Planet
2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Legend of the Cybermen took place
2011 - Recording of the first series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Counter-Measures took place
2016 - The first episode of the Doctor Who spin-off Class, For Tonight We Might Die, was previewed at the Class World Premiere in Shoreditch

[Susan Foreman]

The Avengers episode 'Death At Bargain Prices'

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Judoon as seen in Face the Raven (2015)

[Susan Foreman]

October 21st: Today in WHO-story

Births
1938 - Barbara Bermel (extra in Planet of the Spiders, The Android Invasion, The Masque of Mandragora, The Face of Evil, The Sun Makers, The Keeper of Traken and Terminus)

1945 - Adam Kurakin (Guard in The Pirate Planet)

Deaths
2000 - Alan Rowe (Doctor Evans & Space Control voice in The Moonbase, Edward of Wessex in The Time Warrior, James Skinsale in Horror of Fang Rock and Garif in Full Circle; partner of The Creature from the Pit guest actor and Big Finish Productions' alternative First Doctor actor Geoffrey Bayldon) aged 74

2006 - Peter Barkworth (Leader Clent in The Ice Warriors) aged 77

2007 - Peter Moffatt (director of State of Decay, The Visitation, Mawdryn Undead, The Five Doctors, The Twin Dilemma and The Two Doctors; extra in The Two Doctors and Silver Nemesis) aged 84

2009 - Chris D'Oyly-John (assistant floor manager on The Ark; production assistant on The Macra Terror, The Invasion, Doctor Who and the Silurians, Inferno, The Curse of Peladon, The Mutants, Carnival of Monsters and Death to the Daleks; production unit manager on The Masque of Mandragora to The Talons of Weng-Chiang)

Episodes
1967 - The Abominable Snowmen, Episode Four: 7.1 million viewers
1978 - The Pirate Planet, Part Four: 8.4 million viewers

Releases
1989 - Hunger from the Ends of Time!, Part Two (Marvel's The Incredible Hulk Presents)
1993 - Blood Heat and Timeframe: The Illustrated History (Virgin Books)

1999 - Issue 284 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2002 - The Aztecs (DVD - region 2)

2010 - Issue 189 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 71 (Big Finish)
2015 - Jago & Litefoot, Series 10 (Big Finish); issue 2 of Tenth Doctor Year 2 (Titan Comics)
2016 - The Torchwood Archive and Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 190 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Scapegoat took place
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Selachian Gambit took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The ape like Ogrons lead an assault in the 1972 story Day of the Daleks.

[Rob4]

i wasn't really looking forward to tonight's episode of DW as i'm not a fan of the show delivering heavy handed political messages over science fiction/adventure, but i have to say i really enjoyed that one. it was just well written drama. best so far this season.

one criticism though - couldn't the writers have come up with one sympathetic white person in Alabama 1955? they surely weren't all monsters!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I didn't see any point to that episode. What motivation did the villain have? Why was he doing it?

The episode was really good for about 25 mins then it began to drag horribly as the lack of story really hit home. Then there was that terrible wailing song at the end and again instead of the end title music.

Jodie, Bradley and co were decent and again it looked splendid, but the poor stories, or should i say lack of story, and non-existent villains and monsters is ruining it all.