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On 30 March 1963, Susan picked up a six-year-old Malcolm from his mother's newsagent to babysit him. A soldier called Malcolm a "golliwog" and said that he should "go back where 'e came from". Susan complained to a sergeant, who was unsympathetic. (PROSE: Time and Relative)

Behind the scenes

• 1922 - Actor Peter Welch was born.
• 1950 - Actor Stephen Jenn was born.
• 1968 - Episode three of Fury from the Deep was first broadcast on BBC1.
• 1968 - Part one of TV Comic story The Cyber Empire was first released in issue eight hundred and fifty.
• 1974 - Part two of The Monster of Peladon was first broadcast on BBC1.
• 1979 - Part one of TV Comic story Size Control was re-released as a Fourth Doctor comic.
• 1978 - The novelisation of Horror of Fang Rock was first published by Target Books.
• 1982 - Part four of Time-Flight was first broadcast on BBC1, completing the nineteenth season of Doctor Who.
• 1984 - Part four of The Twin Dilemma was first broadcast on BBC1.
• 1985 - Part two of Revelation of the Daleks was first broadcast on BBC1.
• 2004 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Harvest began at The Moat Studios.
• 2005 - BBC Head of Drama Jane Tranter confirmed that Doctor Who would return for both A Christmas Special on 25 December and a second series in 2006. This was the first indication of any Who past series 1. Also announced, contrary to Russell T Davies's plans, was Christopher Eccleston's exit as the Ninth Doctor, which the BBC cited as being because of his wish not to be typecast. After Eccleston denied this reason, they eventually retracted it on 4 April.
• 2005 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Lost Museum completed.
• 2007 - Writer Dave Martin died.
• 2008 - The first reviews of TV: Partners in Crime appeared in UK newspapers.
• 2009 - Filming for The End of Time began.
• 2009 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Hollows of Time began.
• 2009 - Big Finish audio story The Chaos Pool was first released.
• 2010 - Head writer Steven Moffat revealed on the BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row that his son had supplied the title for TV: Flesh and Stone.
• 2010 - Recording for Big Finish audio stories Litefoot and Sanders, The Necropolis Express, The Theatre of Dreams and The Ruthven Inheritance completed.
• 2010 - Matt Smith and Karen Gillan visited Inverness and Sunderland as part of a promotional tour for the upcoming series 5.
• 2011 - DVD box set K9: Series 1: Volume 1, containing Regeneration, Liberation, The Korven, The Bounty Hunter, Sirens of Ceres, Fear Itself, The Fall of the House of Gryffen, Jaws of Orthrus, Dream-Eaters, Curse of Anubis, Oroborus and Alien Avatar, was released in Region 1.
• 2013 - The Bells of Saint John was first broadcast on BBC One.