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[Susan Foreman]

November 29th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1942 - Michael Craze (Ben Jackson [First & Second Doctors' companion])

1971 - Naoko Mori (Toshiko Sato in Aliens of London and the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood)

1974 - Max Bollinger (Mikhail Kerenski in Waters of Mars; Big Finish Productions actor - Pavel Fedorin in Singularity and Sokolov in Red Planets)

1982 - Gemma Chan (Mia Bennett in The Waters of Mars)

Deaths
2005 - Joseph Furst (Professor Zaroff in The Underwater Menace) aged 89

Episodes
1975 - The Android Invasion, Part Two: 11.3 million viewers
1980 - State of Decay, Part Two: 5.3 million viewers
1986 - The Trial of a Time Lord, Part Thirteen [The Ultimate Foe, Part One]: 4.4 million viewers
1989 - Survival, Part Two: 4.8 million viewers

Documentaries
1993 - 30 Years in the TARDIS (BBC One)

Releases
1979 - Issue 8 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1990 - Issue 168 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1999 - Frontier Worlds and Corpse Marker (BBC Books)

2006 - Issue 18 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2012 - Issue 297 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)

2017 - UNIT: Encounters (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2008 - Inside the World of Doctor Who event took place at Barbican Centre; recording of the Big Finish audio The Condemned took place
2014 - Recording of the Big Finish audios Sound the Siren and I'll Come to You Comrade, Intuition and A Home from Home took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Ice Warriors awaken in 2017's Empress of Mars

[Susan Foreman]

November 30th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1922 - Graham Crowden (Soldeed in The Horns of Nimon; originally considered for the role of the Fourth Doctor)

1928 - John Bay (Earl of Leicester in The Crusade)

1929 - Alan Haywood (Hector in The Myth Makers)

1949 - Nicholas Woodeson (Clocksmith in the Big Finish audio Doom Coalition 3)

1960 - Martyn Ellis (Greg Blakeman and Glune Fex Fize Sharlaveer-Slam Slitheen in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Revenge of the Slitheen)

1965 - Andrew Tiernan (Mr. Purcell in Night Terrors)

1991 - Sydney White (Bubbleshock Girl in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Invasion of the Bane)

Deaths
1982 - Eric Thompson (Gaston in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve) aged 53

2012 - Robert Luckham (Guard in The Power of the Daleks; son of White Guardian actor Cyril Luckham) aged 70

Episodes
1963 - An Unearthly Child, Episode Two ('The Cave of Skulls'): 5.9 million viewers
1968 - The Invasion, Episode Five: 6.7 million viewers
1987 - Dragonfire, Part Two: 5.0 million viewers
1988 - Silver Nemesis, Part Two: 5.2 million viewers

Releases
2012 - Bernice Summerfield: Many Happy Returns (Big Finish Productions)

2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 79 (Big Finish)
2016 - The Man Who Wasn't There (Big Finish)
2017 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 228 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2007 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Condemned took place

[Susan Foreman]

Silver Nemesis: Behind the scenes

The Cyber Spaceship

Another angle of the Cyber Spaceship

Third angle

KABLOOEY!

Abandoned concepts for a 'communications Cyberman'

Shooting a Cyber death [Note the line coming off the end of the arrow in order to pull it free. The shot would then be reversed to show the arrow impacting into its target]

[Mojo]

Top 5 companions :
Lalla Ward
Katy Manning
Wendy Padbury
Elisabeth Sladen
Nicola Bryant

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A large spider from Arachnids in the UK (2018)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Sexiest companions.

Jackie Tyler (Camille Coduri)*
Peri Brown (Nicola Bryant)
Polly (Anneke Wills)
Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling)
Leela (Louise Jameson)

[Susan Foreman]

December 1st: Today in WHO-story

Births
1890 - Bart Allison (Maximus Pettulian in The Romans)

1920 - Eric Dobson (Headman in The Visitation)

1924 - Desmond Cullum-Jones (Worker in The War Machines and an extra in The Keys of Marinus)

1932 - Dennis Spooner (Script editor from The Rescue to The Chase and writer of The Reign of Terror, The Romans, The Time Meddler, The Daleks' Master Plan [episodes 6 & 8-12] and The Power of the Daleks [uncredited])

1946 - Maggie Steed (Madame Rana Zandusia in the Big Finish audio Mission to Magnus)

1952 - Jonathan Battersby (Winder in The Beast Below)

1955 - Kelly A. Manners (Producer of the Torchwood story Miracle Day)
1971 - Simon Reglar (editor on The Curse of the Black Spot)
1981 - Kathryn Drysdale (Bliss in Love & Monsters)

Deaths
2008 - James Bree (Security Chief in The War Games, Nefred in Full Circle, the Keeper of the Matrix in The Trial of a Time Lord and the Lama in Reeltime Pictures' Doctor Who spin-off Downtime) aged 85

Episodes
1979 - Nightmare of Eden, Part Two: 9.6 million viewers
2001 - Regenerations (BBC Radio 3)
2008 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Enemy of the Bane, Part One (CBBC): 1.36 million viewers

Introductions
2008 - First appearance of UNIT's Black Archive

Releases
1983 - The Unfolding Text (Macmillan Publishers Limited)

1994 - Parasite and State of Change (Virgin Books); Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans (VHS)

1997 - Mean Streets (Virgin Books)
2011 - Issue 246 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)

2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 80 (Big Finish Productions)

Behind-the-Scenes
1972 - The BBC tv Special Effects Exhibition opened in Kensington, London

2007 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story The Adolescence of Time took place
2015 - The BBC Christmas Ident 2015 launched, featuring elements of Doctor Who, BBC EastEnders, Sherlock, The Great British Bake Off, The Graham Norton Show, LUTHER, BBC Strictly Come Dancing and The Voice UK

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Dalek's Masterplan takes shape as the closing seconds of Mission to the Unknown (1965) lead into The Myth Makers.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who / Marvel comics crossover

From 'The Uncanny X-Men', issue 218