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KOCH MEDIA RRP £9.99 each DIRECTED BY Keith Barnfather INTERVIEWER Nicholas Briggs
There’s little like the deaths of an era’s primary players to put into sharp focus how long ago a period in Doctor Who was. It seems only yesterday that we were popping the corks for the 50th anniversary of the first episode and now here we are in 2017 looking at the 50th birthday of The Tomb of the Cybermen. The era of the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, is half a century old now; if Troughton himself were still alive, he’d have blown out 97 candles this year. And 2017 has seen two of his era’s biggest names – actress Deborah Watling (who played Victoria) and writer Victor Pemberton – pass on to that giant TARDIS in the sky.