Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) as a Roman centurion in The Pandorica Opens (2010), Sutekh (Gabriel Woolf) in Pyramids of Mars (1975) and a cave-dwelling dinosaur from Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970).
History began with a bang, the creation of the universe in a spontaneous violent explosion some 13.8 billion years ago, hurling matter from a singularity to form stars, galaxies and planetary systems. Or so the scientific consensus tells us. Alternatively, we might choose to believe the Doctor’s theory, that the Big Bang was triggered by the explosion of unstable fuel jettisoned from a time-travelling space ship.
The TARDIS warns its crew that it’s heading for Event One in Castrovalva (1982).