Nikki
played Beth Halloran in ‘Sleeper’ episode.
On
this day in 2008 Episode 8 A Day in The Death was broadcast. It
was Season 2 of Torchwood. It starred John Barrowman, Naoko Mori, Eve
Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd, Burn Gorman and Martha Jones, featuring Richard
Briers as Henry Parker and Christine Bottomley as Maggie Hopley.
Writer was Joseph
Lidster, Director was Andy Goddard.
Up on the roof of a
building a woman contemplates suicide, she has no reason to live, her husband
of a few hours is dead, it’s been a year since their marriage and she’s still
not coping. Owen Harper, dead man
walking, feels no pain, sets off no alarm sensors, isn’t affected by much but
if he breaks he will remain broken.
When an alien artefact
is giving off a series of energy spikes at a reclusive mans property, Torchwood
have to intervene, but who can they use.
Owen shares his day with Maggie but will she still want to jump when she
discovers Owen is already dead?
In
1965 The Web Planet’s 3rd
Episode Escape to Danger
was broadcast. It was Season 2 and starred William Hartnell
as the Doctor with William Russell, Jacqueline Hill and Maureen O’Brien as his
companions. Writer was Bill Strutton and
Director was Richard Martin.
The winged Menoptra are
locked in battle with the ant like Zarbi on the planet Vortis.
In
1971 Episode 5 of The Mind of Evil
was broadcast. It was Season 8. Jon Pertwee was the Doctor with Katy Manning,
Nicholas Courtney, John Levene and Richard Franklin are his companions. Roger Delgado appears in this story as The
Master.
The Master plans on
destroying peace talks by using the Thunderbolt Missile, containing a deadly
nerve gas, by using prisoners from Stangmoor Prison.
Although no other
Torchwood or Who cast or crew celebrate their birthday today that we’ve been
able to locate, here are some other people celebrating today: Theo Stevenson 16
(played Horrid Henry, and Ethan in All Stars), John Steinbeck (1902-1968),
Derren Brown 43, Timothy Spall 57
Picture
and research source
Mark Campbell (2000)
Doctor Who Pocket Essential
Wikipedia
Amazon
©BBC Doctor Who 1963
©BBC Torchwood 2006
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