births and deaths
20th September 1925: birth of John Wiles, innovative producer who succeeded
Verity Lambert but did not last long in 1965-66.
20th September 1969: birth of Mina Anwar who plays Rani’s mother Gita in the
Sarah Jane Adventures.
20th September 1986: death of Dennis Spooner, script editor in 1965 and
author of The Reign of Terror (1964), The Romans (1965),
The Time Meddler (1965), much of The Daleks’ Master Plan
(1965-6) and the first episode of The Power of the Daleks (1966).
20th September 2000: death of Mary Ridge, who directed Terminus
(1983)
20th September 1975: broadcast of fourth episode of Terror of the
Zygons. The Doctor foils the Zygons’ attempt to attack London with the
Loch Ness Monster, and Harry stays behind on Earth.
20th September 1980: broadcast of fourth episode of The Leisure Hive.
Pangol attempts to create an army of dupicates of himself, but the Doctor
and Romana regress him to infancy, and depart.
20th September 1986: broadcast of third episode of The Mysterious
Planet (ToaTL #3). The Doctor and Peri continue being chased
around the mysterious planet, now revealed to be Earth.
20th September 1989: broadcast of the third episode of Battlefield.
The grand battle between UNIT and Mordred’s forces, though this turns out to
have been a diversion.
The UK is perhaps better placed than Sweden to resist a forcible extra-legal abduction by the US armed forces, if that’s what Assange is actually afraid of.