29 March

Behind the scenes

1925 - Actor Frederick Treves was born.
1928 - Actor Philip Locke was born.
1931 - Actor Peter Russell was born.
1936 - Composer Richard Rodney Bennett was born.
1947 - Actress Leslie Meadows was born.
1957 - Actress Yolande Palfrey was born.
1963 - BBC Head of Drama C. E. Webber, on orders from Sydney Newman, sent a report to Donald Wilson, in which he described a potential science fiction programme which would eventually become Doctor Who. The report described suitable characters for the "five-o’clock Saturday audience:" the handsome young man (later Ian Chesterton), the handsome well-dressed heroine aged about 30 (later Barbara Wright) and the mature man (later the First Doctor). The initial thought was of a laboratory-set programme with scientists for protagonists, although this was eventually scrapped in the next report. The complete report, with hand-written notes from Newman, can be found here.
1969 - Episode four of The Space Pirates was first broadcast on BBC1.
1975 - Part four of Genesis of the Daleks was first broadcast on BBC1.
1982 - Part three of Time-Flight was first broadcast on BBC1.
1984 - Part three of The Twin Dilemma was first broadcast on BBC1.
2000 - Actor John Baskcomb died.
2007 - Actor John Gill died.