Whoniversaries 7 August: Kenneth Kendall, Alexei Sayle, Ric Felgate

births and deaths

7th August 1924: birth of Kenneth Kendall, who appeared as a newsreader in The War Machines (1966), the first celebrity to portray himself on Doctor Who (unless you count the Beatles).

7th August 1952: birth of Alexei Sayle, who plays the DJ in Revelation of the Daleks (1986). ‘Allo John, got a new motor? Is there life on Mars? Is there life in Peckham?

7th August 1999: death of Ric Felgate who played Roy Stone (the American reporter) in The War Machines (1966), Brent (Ms Kelly’s assistant) in The Seeds of Death (1969) and Van Lyden (the astronaut sent to look for the others) in The Ambassadors of Death (1970)

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  1. All of them look right for me (on a Mac, using Firefox) except the M, for which the cedilla is so far to the right that it looks like “M,”.

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