17 June 1982: birth of Arthur Darvill, who plays Rory in New Who (2010-present).
ii) broadcast anniversaries
17 June 1967: broadcast of fifth episode of The Evil of the Daleks. The Doctor infects several Daleks with the ‘human factor’; the consequences gradually become apparent.
17 June 1972: broadcast of fifth episode of The Time Monster. The Master and the Doctor arrive in Atlantis and become embroiled in a power struggle between the king and queen.
17 June 2006: broadcast of Love and Monsters. A group dedicated to investigating the Doctor is infiltrated by Victor Kennedy, who turns out to be even more sinister than he looks.
Indeed. Neverwhere is an odd thing both as tv and book. It had fantastic atmosphere but almost cartoonishly flat characters and no plot. From tv I remember the Lady Door, local actor Laura Fraser who has gone on to have another curiously mixed career. In fact the cast grew up to be quite important – even if they were unknowns then.
But it has had huge cultural influence , on Mieville notably and recently in C4 !s Utopia the invincible and ghastly bad guys are clearly torn from straight from H and V.