Happy
Birthday Mickie & Dr Owen Harper
Did you know on this day
in 1970, episode 3 of Doctor Who and the
Silurians was broadcast? It was Season 7. It starred Jon Pertwee as the Doctor with
Caroline John and Nicholas Courtney as his regular companions. It also featured Paul Darrow (Blake 7) as
Hawkins and Geoffrey Palmer as Masters.
It was written by Malcolm Hulke and directed by Timothy Combe.
This was the first time
we saw Bessie, the Edwardian car that Jon Pertwee drove around in when he wasn’t
using the Tardis.
The story tells of the
Silurians causing trouble at an underground atomic research station when it
keeps losing power and causes many of the staff to have mental breakdowns. There
is a higher order at work in the caves.
In 1976 Episode 3 of The Seeds of Doom was broadcast. It was Season
13 and Tom Baker was the Doctor with Elisabeth Sladen and Ian Marter his
companions. This episode also featured
John Challis (Boycie) as Scorby. The
writer was Robert Banks Stewart and Director was Douglas Camfield.
A flesh eating Krynoid
pod has been stolen by a mad man hell bent on wiping out all animal kind.
In 1981 Episode 3 of The Keeper of Traken broadcast. It was Season
18 and Tom Baker was the Doctor this time with Matthew Waterhouse as his
companion with Sarah Sutton playing Nyssa.
The episode also featured Graham Cole (The Bill) as Melkur and Anthony
Ainley as Tremas/The Master. Writer was Johnny Byrne and Director was John
Black.
The Master still in his
hideous form as seen in The Deadly Assassin features again in this story. The Doctor arrives back on N-Space with Adric
to an area known as Traken Union. It’s a
quiet and peaceful place until Melkur arrives to take power and become the new
Keeper.
Your birthday is even
more special in that today is also St
Valentine’s Day.
Someone else who
celebrates their birthday today and who means a lot to us at Torchwood, is Dr.
Owen Harper, although there’s a little discrepancy as to what year he was born (either 1980/1981) we all remember
when he left us in 2009. We all miss him
greatly. Owen Harper was loved by women
all over and had a string of sexual partners from Megan Tegg to fiancée Katie, to pick ups in bars, to Suzie, Gwen, Diane and
finally Toshiko who although they hadn’t been on a date, Tosh had loved him from
that very first kiss under the mistletoe and was there for him right at the
very end.
Another birthday boy is
Simon Pegg 44 today. Simon appeared in
Doctor Who as The Editor on Satellite 5 in the year 200,000, on Floor 500 in
the episode The Long Game.
The Editor worked for
the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe. It was a massive gelatinous sentient creature
similar to that of a giant slug that clung to the ceiling of the Floor
500. It communicated through a series of
screams and growls. It had a mass of
savage teeth and had to be kept in minus degrees temperature to survive. The Editor controlled the newsfeed that was
sent to the Earth below, manipulating the news giving the humans only what he
deemed important, controlling everything that was sent and hunting out
information against anyone likely to overthrow him and Max.
Others celebrating their
birthday today are Zach Galligan 50, who played Billy Peltzer in the Gremlins films,
and Freddie Highmore, 22 who as a child actor has appeared in many films including
The Spiderwick Chronicles, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was the voice of
the Pantalaimon in The Golden Compass, and is now currently playing Norman
Bates in the TV series Bates Motel.
Picture
source and referencing
Doctor Who Episode Guide
Pocket Essential by Mark Campbell
Aww thank you Jack/DJ that's brilliant mate x
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