Whoniversaries 1 September: Burn Gorman, Destiny of the Daleks #1, Thorington, Roz’s funeral

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i) births and deaths

1st September 1974: birth of Burn Gorman, who played randy (and later undead) medic Owen Harper in the first two series of Torchwood (2007-2009).

ii) broadcast anniversary

1st September 1979: broadcast of episode 1 of Destiny of the Daleks, opening episode of Season 17. Romana regenerates; the Tardis lands on Skaro a radioactive planet; the Doctor is captured by the Movellans, and Romana threatened with extermination by the Daleks.

iii) dates specified in spinoff literature

1st September 1991: happens over and over again in the Suffolk town of Thorington. Incidentally, what happened to the sea? (as told in the 2008 Eighth Doctor audio play, Brave New Town)

1st September 2982: funeral of Eighth Doctor Adventure companion Roz Forrester (in Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman’s 1997 novel, So Vile a Sin).

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  1. This just in! I’ve read “The Kappa Child” and I started “Cloud and Ashes” but sadly found it too densely packed for me.
    I can’t believe I’ve read as many as 45 of these.

    We have copies of a few more, the main one I intend to read is “Redwood and Wildfire”.

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