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[[Evelyn Smythe]] had a heart attack shortly before meeting the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'') | [[Evelyn Smythe]] had a heart attack shortly before meeting the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'') | ||
[[Don]] had a heart attack after finishing his last game of [[cricket]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Autumn (audio story)|Autumn]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Revision as of 13:00, 27 September 2013
A heart attack was a condition affecting certain individuals of humanoid species.
In the 1840s, when a tenant farmer tried to flatten the tumulus on Lanyon Moor, he dropped dead of a heart attack. (AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor)
The Seventh Doctor, who, being Gallifreyan, had a binary vascular system, once had a "one-sided" heart attack. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)
Geraint Cooper suffered from a series of heart attacks. (TV: The New World, The Categories of Life)
Evelyn Smythe had a heart attack shortly before meeting the Doctor. (AUDIO: Project: Lazarus)
Don had a heart attack after finishing his last game of cricket. (AUDIO: Autumn)
Behind the scenes
Several Doctor Who contributors have suffered from heart attacks:
- Patrick Troughton had three major heart attacks, in 1978, 1984, and 1987. He died from the last one.
- Ian Marter died of a heart attack in 1986.
- Jon Pertwee died of a heart attack in 1996.
