Doctor Who Trivia
3: When tragedy struck
Tragedy befell the series during the Jon Pertwee era when Roger Delgado, who played the Master, died in a car crash in 1973.The character of the Master had actually been scheduled to die in a story called The Final Game (which would also have been Pertwee’s final appearance). Just before filming began, Delgado went to Turkey to shoot a comedy film; while there, he and two film technicians died when their car veered off a road and fell into a ravine.
This meant that the Master simply vanished rather than died, and the role was later taken over by the actor Anthony Ainley.
4: Do Time Lords Fall in Love?
There was much speculation at the time about whether the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) was romantically involved with his companion Romana II (Lalla Ward). In actual fact the actors had a whirlwind romance while filming the series, and ended up marrying in 1981.
Yet it wasn’t to last, and they divorced just 16 months later. Lalla explained that they "just irritated each other", although they remain close to this day. (Lalla, by the way, has since married the biologist and 'pope of atheism' Richard Dawkins.)
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