i) births and deaths

30 June 1978: death of David Ellis, who co-wrote The Faceless Ones (1967)

30 June 2015: death of Edward Burnham, who played Professor Watkins in The Invasion (1968) and Professor Kettlewell in Robot (1974-75)

30 June 2019: death of Glyn Houston, who played Professor Watson in The Hand of Fear (Fourth Doctor, 1976) and Colonel Ben Wolsey in The Awakening (Fifth Doctor, 1984).

ii) broadcast anniversaries

30 June 2007: broadcast of Last of the Time Lords, the 200th story and 750th episode (depending how you count) of Doctor Who.

And so I reach the end of this project, again. I am glad that I did it. It was an interesting challenge to hunt down photographs to illustrate each day, particularly when it came to lost episodes.

And as ever, we've lost some people who were involved with Doctor Who during the year. Those who qualified for inclusion here were:

John Rolfe (died 12 August 2020), who played the Captain in The War Machines (First Doctor, 1966), Sam Becket in The Moonbase (Second Doctor, 1967) and Ralph Fell in The Green Death (Third Doctor, 1973).

Frank Windsor (died 30 September 2020), who played Ranulf Fitzwilliam in The King's Demons (Fifth Doctor, 1983) and Inspector Mackenzie, who ends up in the soup in Ghost Light (Seventh Doctor, 1989).

Geoffrey Palmer (died 5 November 2020), who played Masters in Doctor Who and the Silurians (Third Doctor, 1970), the Administrator in The Mutants (Third Doctor, 1972), and Hardaker in Voyage of the Damned (Tenth Doctor, 2007). His son Charles Palmer directed four episodes of Doctor Who in 2007.

Philip Martin (died 13 December 2020), who wrote Vengeance on Varos (Sixth Doctor, 1985) and Mindwarp (Sixth Doctor, 1986).

Jeremy Bulloch (died 17 December 2020), who played Tor in The Space Museum (1965), Hal in The Time Warrior (1973-74), and is best known as Boba Fett in the first two Star Wars films.

Peter Craze (died 30 December 2020), brother of Michael 'Ben Jackson' Craze, who played Dako in The Space Museum (First Doctor, 1965), Du Pont in The War Games (Second Doctor, 1969), and Costa in Nightmare of Eden (Fourth Doctor, 1979).

Mark Eden (died 1 January 2021), who played Marco Polo in the story we now call Marco Polo (First Doctor, 1974) and half a century later played BBC One Controller Donald Baverstock in An Adventure in Space and Time.

Arthur Cox (died 9 April 2021, two days after his 87th birthday), who played Cully in The Dominators (Second Doctor, 1968) and Mr Henderson in The Eleventh Hour (Eleventh Doctor, 2010), one of the longest gaps between first and second appearances on the show.

Frank Cox (died 27 April 2021; unrelated to Arthur Cox, as far as I know), who directed part 2 of the story we now call The Edge of Destruction (First Doctor, 1964) and parts 5 and 6 of the story we now call The Sensorites (also First Doctor, 1964).

Christopher Coll (died 29 May 2021), who played lunar technician Phipps in The Seeds of Death (Second Doctor, 1969) and the Marshal's aide Stubbs in The Mutants (Third Doctor, 1972).

And last but very definitely not least, Jackie Lane (died 24 June 2021), who played companion Dodo Chaplet in early 1966.

Of all the former companions who lived into this century, Jackie Lane had by far the lowest profile, but here she is in Paris in 2010: