Season 24 (1987)

Dragonfire

Last Updated 06 May 2013 by Harry Ward

Dragonfire

Story Number: 147 (7G)

Writer: Ian Briggs
Director: Chris Clough

Starring: : Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Bonnie Langford, Edward Peel, Patricia Quinn, Tony Selby

No of Episodes: 3
First Broadcast: Mon 23 Nov 1987 - Mon 07 Dec 1987
Running Time: 73 minutes 7 seconds

Average Audience: 4.73 Million Average AI: 62

The TARDIS materialises in Iceworld, a space trading colony on the dark side of the planet Svartos.

Delta and the Bannermen

Remembrance of the Daleks

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On This Day: 24th May

The War Games: Episode Six was broadcast in 1969 at 5:15pm, watched by 4.20 million viewers.

Good as Gold was broadcast in 2012 at 6:11pm, watched by 0.27 million viewers.

Birthdays

Jo Joyner is 35 today - credited as Lynda Moss in Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways

Naomi Ryan is 36 today - credited as Cassandra in Asylum of the Daleks

William Sasso is 38 today - credited as Pete in The TV Movie

Jim Broadbent is 64 today - credited as The Eleventh Doctor in The Curse Of Fatal Death(Misc)

Rob Edwards is 64 today - 2 credits, including Xoanon in The Face of Evil

Graham Williams (died 1990 aged 45) would be 68 today - 18 credits, including Producer for Horror of Fang Rock

Fiona Walker is 69 today - 2 credits, including Lady Peinforte in Silver Nemesis

Robert Russell (died 2008 aged 71) would be 77 today - 2 credits, including The Caber in Terror of the Zygons

Freddie Earlle (died 2007 aged 83) would be 89 today - credited as Aldo in Warriors' Gate

Deaths

Robert Holmes (died 1986 aged 60) - 34 credits, including Script Editor for Robot

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