Whoniversaries 24 May

i) births and deaths

24 May 1944: birth of Fiona Walker, who played Kala in The Keys of Marinus (1964) and Lady Peinforte in Silver Nemesis (1988).

24 May 1945: birth of Graham Williams, producer of the 15th to 17th seasons of Doctor Who (the fourth to sixth Fourth Doctor seasons, from Horror of Fang Rock to ShadaThe Invasion of Time and City of Death, and author of the unbroadcast story The Nightmare Fair which brought back the Celestial Toymaker (and was released in audio format by Big Finish in 2009).

24 May 1986: death of the great Robert Holmes, script editor from Robot (1974-75) to Image of the Fendahl (1977), and author of The Krotons (1968-69), The Space Pirates (1969), Spearhead from Space (1970), Terror of the Autons (1971), Carnival of Monsters (1973), The Time Warrior (1973-74), The Ark in Space (1975), Pyramids of Mars (1975), The Brain of Morbius (co-author, 1976), The Deadly Assassin (1976), The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977), The Sun Makers (1977), The Ribos Operation (1978), The Power of Kroll (1978-79), The Caves of Androzani (1984), The Two Doctors (1985), The Mysterious Planet (1986), and the first episode of The Ultimate Foe (1986).

ii) broadcast anniversary

24 May 1969: broadcast of fourth episode of The War Games. the Doctor tries to outmanoeuvre the Security Chief, but is trapped in a shrinking SIDRAT.

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  1. Mine comes out like this:

    Some people die because bad things grow inside their bodies and stop them working. Sometimes doctors can help them. Pictures of their insides help doctors tell if they are getting better. I make the pictures better.

    which actually wouldn’t be a bad way of describing what I do to a child. I am actually happy to learn that ‘cancer’ isn’t in the thousand most common words; given my job I can’t go ten minutes without thinking about it, which can lead you to a rather morbid mindset.

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