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|image= Dido people.jpg | {{Infobox Species | ||
|type= [[Humanoid]] | |image = Dido people.jpg | ||
|aka = Native of Dido | |||
|origin= [[Dido]] | |type = [[Humanoid]] | ||
|only= The Rescue (TV story) | |origin = [[Dido]] | ||
|only = The Rescue (TV story) | |||
}} | |||
The '''Dido people''' were a peaceful [[humanoid]] race native to [[Dido]]. | |||
}}The '''Dido people''' were a peaceful [[humanoid]] race native to [[Dido]]. | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
When the spaceship ''[[UK-201]]'' crashed on the planet in [[2493]], the Dido people met with the surviving passengers, but were killed along with them in an explosion engineered by [[Bennett (The Rescue)|Bennett]] to cover up a murder he had earlier committed aboard the ship. At least two of the Dido people survived, and when they confronted him, he backed away in fear and fell from a rock ledge to his death. | When the spaceship ''[[UK-201]]'' crashed on the planet in [[2493]], the Dido people met with the surviving passengers, but were killed along with them in an explosion engineered by [[Bennett (The Rescue)|Bennett]] to cover up a murder he had earlier committed aboard the ship. At least two of the Dido people survived, and when they confronted him, he backed away in fear and fell from a rock ledge to his death. | ||
After the [[First Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] left Dido, the Dido people wrecked the spaceship's communications system so that the approaching Earth rescue ship would never find the planet. ([[TV]]: "[[ | After the [[First Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] left Dido, the Dido people wrecked the spaceship's communications system so that the approaching Earth rescue ship would never find the planet. ([[TV]]: "[[The Rescue (TV story)|The Rescue]]") | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* ''[[The Rescue]]'' doesn't give us a clear, one-word {{w|demonym}} for "a being from the planet Dido". The name ''Dido people'' is what the [[First Doctor]] directly called them in "[[Desperate Measures]]". ''[[The Time-Travellers' Guide]]'' refers to them as ''Didoi''. | * ''[[The Rescue (TV story)|The Rescue]]'' doesn't give us a clear, one-word {{w|demonym}} for "a being from the planet Dido". The name ''Dido people'' is what the [[First Doctor]] directly called them in "[[Desperate Measures]]". ''[[The Time-Travellers' Guide]]'' refers to them as ''Didoi''. | ||
* The appearance of the two Dido people in "Desperate Measures" is never explained. | * The appearance of the two Dido people in "Desperate Measures" is never explained. | ||
* The two Dido people were played by [[John Stuart]] and [[Colin Hughes]], who remained uncredited both on-screen and in ''[[Radio Times]]''. ([[DWM 325]]) | * The two Dido people were played by [[John Stuart]] and [[Colin Hughes]], who remained uncredited both on-screen and in ''[[Radio Times]]''. ([[DWM 325]]) | ||
[[Category:Humanoid species]] | [[Category:Humanoid species]] | ||
