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On This Day (USA) - 10 January



Spearhead From Space: Episode 2 premiered on BBC One in 1970 at 5:15pm BST, watched by 8.10 million viewers.

A recovered Doctor escapes the hospital and joins UNIT in their investigation. Meanwhile, Channing directs one of his Auton servants to recover a meteorite.


The Brain of Morbius: Part Two premiered on BBC One in 1976 at 5:47pm GMT, watched by 9.30 million viewers.

Warriors' Gate: Part Two premiered on BBC One in 1981 at 5:09pm GMT, watched by 6.70 million viewers.

When Rorvik learns that Romana is a time sensitive, he takes her prisoner, forcing her to find a way out of the void. The Doctor attempts to discover what lies beyond the mirror.


Mastermind: 1993 Episode 1 premiered on BBC One in 1993 at 10:00pm GMT

Returning for the 21st series, Magnus Magnusson puts more general knowledge questions to this year's first four contenders whose specialist subjects are: the life of Tiberius; the life of Admiral Lord Jellicoe; Clarice Cliff and English art deco ceramics, 1928-36; and Doctor Who.


 Birthdays
Maya Woolfe (died 2025 aged 72) would have been 73 - credited as Hotel Receptionist in Arc of Infinity

Known for Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983) and The Professionals (1977)


Roy Evans was 96 - 3 credits, including Trantis in The Daleks' Master Plan

Roy Evans is an actor who has appeared in British Television from 1960s onwards appearing in a wide range of productions including Doctor Who (The Daleks' Master Plan as Trantis, The Green Death as Bert & The Monster of Peladon as a miner), Blake's 7 (Redemption as a Slave) and Porterhouse Blue (as Arthur).

Also appeared in Global ConspiracyLife Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley FletcherFortysomethingThe GatheringChildren of the New ForestKeep the Aspidistra FlyingThe Bill , Ain't Misbehavin'Loved by YouRestorationJohnny and the DeadMurder Most HorridThe Hour of the PigForever GreenAdam BedeFurther Up PompeiiHamletOnly Fools and Horses.... , Around the World in 80 DaysShadow of the NooseCampionScreen TwoJack the RipperMr. MajeikaWish Me LuckKnights of GodPorterhouse BlueDramaramaForeign BodyCasualtySilas Marner: The Weaver of RaveloeLost in LondonThe Doctor and the DevilsDempsey and MakepeaceTangiersThe Day the Universe ChangedReturn to WaterlooThe Company of WolvesFunny MoneyThe Black AdderJuryOliver TwistBaalPrisoners of ConscienceThe Little World of Don CamilloM*A*S*HThe Elephant ManRaise the TitanicCribbWorzel GummidgeSchalcken the PainterMinderThe Onedin LineCrime and PunishmentPlay for TodayDick TurpinBlakes 7 , Les MiserablesSecret ArmyReturn of the SainThe Big SleepTerrorTreasure IslandMidnight Is a PlaceThe Prince and the PauperJabberwockyHazlitt in LoveNo Hard FeelingsEscape from the DarkThe Bawdy Adventures of Tom JonesPoldarkA LegacyThe ChangesChurchill's PeopleSex PlayDoctor at SeaVan der ValkWarshipThe Song of SongsThe Vault of HorrorPsychomaniaDark PlacesThe ProtectorsStage 2FlyawayLoving MemoryDr Jekyll & Sister HydeDoctor at LargeBudgieOut of the UnknownThe House That Dripped BloodSay Hello to YesterdayDixon of Dock GreenFrom a Bird's Eye ViewThe Mating MachineHere Come the Double Deckers!The TroubleshootersPaul TempleMoon Zero TwoWhere's Jack?Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin HoodOliver! , Decline and Fall... of a BirdwatcherGazetteChampion HouseTheatre 625The Magnificent Six and �: Kontiki KidsThe Magnificent Six and �: It's Not CricketA Ghost of a ChanceThe Blood Beast TerrorHalf a SixpenceAfter Many a SummerDance of the VampiresAdam Adamant Lives!, Mr. AitchThe Wednesday PlaySoftly SoftlyThirty-Minute Theatre


Frederick Schrecker (died 1976 aged 84) would have been 134 - credited as Julius Silverstein in The Web of Fear

Played Julius Silverstein in the Doctor Who serial The Web of Fear.


 Deaths
Derek Martin (died 2026 aged 92) - 8 credits, including Stunt Man in The Ambassadors of Death

Derek Martin was born in Bow East London, he enjoyed his education and left school with good grades. At the age of 15 his first job was as an apprentice to an Estate Agents and Surveyors, after this he worked in the construction industry, soft drinks advertising. Having found little fullfillment in any of these careers he joined the RAF at 18, becomming a 'snow drop' or RAF military police. He eventually left the RAF with the rank of corporal, he then worked in a wood veneer facility and a brewery - which being a teetotaller he found somewhat unfullfilling. He started working at Smithfield Meat Market and left for a very short lived career as a proffesional gambler, he returned to work at Smithfield and married for the first time. Derek then started a career in motor-racing, his ambition was to be world champion. He gave up on this career due to personal pressures and eventually divorced his first wife. It was also during this period he fell foul of the law and found himself in Court No 1 of the Old Baily. He was on charges of Recieving and Larceny, but was found to be not guilty by a Jury of his peers. After this he decided to turn his hand to acting (after the strength of his recent performance).

He went to a small coffee house in Old Compton Street Soho, which was frequented by a number of actors, he asked some of the actors who their agent was and after receiving a telephone number Derek rang them. He asked for an appointment and informed the agency that he had performed repertory theatre in a number of obscure towns, close to where he had been stationed in the RAF. His first job was as a walk on in a TV production. He caught the bug, left Smithfield and decided on the life of an actor. After a large number of small TV parts he then decided to become a Stuntman and worked on many different techniques, including horses, car crashing, fencing, fights and arranging action scenes.

During his career as a Stuntmen he avoided serious injuries and with the exception of a broken collar bone doing a horse fall in Elizabeth R. Three weeks after this accident he was back in the studio shooting another scene with his arm still in a Sling. He remarried and eventually had twin sons, David and Jonathan. By now Derek had recieved many offers of acting work he then decided to stop doing stuntwork and move into acting full time. He moved into acting and recieved his first big break in 1977 playing a leading character in the controversial drama series Law and Order, this put his name and face on the map.


Christopher Benjamin (died 2025 aged 90) - 26 credits, including Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Christopher Benjamin is a British actor, born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England.

He is best known in Doctor Who for his role as Henry Gordon Jago, seen originally  in the Tom Baker serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang. The character was recreated by Benjamin for Big Finish in four series of Jago and Litefoot audio plays.

Benjamin has appeared in some of the UK's biggest cult television programmes. This included playing the same character ("Potter"} in two Patrick McGoohan dramas, Danger Man and The Prisoner. He was also a regular in The Avengers.

He played recurring roles in several period dramas. He was Sir John Glutton, the regular adversary in the period family adventure series Dick Turpin, Channing in several episodes of the third series of When The Boat Comes In, and Prosper Profound in the acclaimed 1967 adaptation of The Forsyte Saga .

He has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared at Shakespeare's Globe from 17 June to 5 October 2008 as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor.


David Fisher (died 2018 aged 88) - 5 credits, including Writer for The Stones of Blood

David Fisher wrote several television scripts and novelised two of his stories as Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit and Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive. 

Fisher wrote another script for Doctor Who called The Gamble With Time. He was unable to revise it, so it was altered by others. It became City of Death and was produced under the pseudonym David Agnew.

Also worked on Hammer House of Mystery and SuspenseHammer House of HorrorThe MackinnonsGeneral HospitalCrown CourtSutherland's LawThe Lotus EatersCrime of PassionThe TroubleshootersDixon of Dock GreenThis Man CraigOrlando