She died two days later, but Hartnell survived to recount his tale to the press.

The Doctor clearly states that he has eight incarnations left after his present one, confirming that there were no earlier incarnations before the televised first, played by William Hartnell.

Hartnell played in all 23 games for the Flyers and scored eight goals ( including two in game six of the finals ) and nine assists, good enough for sixth on the Eastern Conference Champion Philadelphia Flyers with 17 points.

In June, the Flyers made a trade which sent the first round draft pick they had acquired in the Forsberg trade ( 23rd overall ) back to Nashville for the rights to negotiate with impending unrestricted free agents Kimmo Timonen and Scott Hartnell.

* Bryan Calvin Hartnell, 20, and Cecelia Ann Shepard, 22: stabbed on September 27, 1969, at Lake Berryessa in Napa County.

On September 27, 1969, Pacific Union College students Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard were picnicking at Lake Berryessa on a small island connected by a sand spit to Twin Oak Ridge.

He had brought precut lengths of plastic clothesline and told Shepard to tie up Hartnell, before he tied her up.

Hartnell and Shepard were taken to Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa by ambulance.

William Hartnell, the actor who originated the role, had died in 1975.

* The First Doctor was played by Richard Hurndall, replacing William Hartnell who died in 1975.

In 1983, actor Richard Hurndall played the part of the First Doctor in the 20th anniversary story The Five Doctors, as William Hartnell had died in 1975.

William Hartnell died on 23 April 1975, so for the 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors, the role of the First Doctor was played by Richard Hurndall, though a film insert of Hartnell's Doctor taken from The Dalek Invasion of Earth opened the programme.

Hartnell died on February 2, 1854, after a long illness.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Hartnell served in the Tank Corps, but was invalided out after eighteen months as the result of suffering a nervous breakdown, and he returned to acting.

Specifically, Hartnell was suspended for two games as a result of a hit on Andrew Alberts of the Boston Bruins.

A Catholic priest, Father Luis Martinez, helped him through these times, and as a result, Hartnell converted to Catholicism.

She explained that if the public came to see her they would wear their best clothes, so she should reciprocate in kind ; Norman Hartnell dressed her in gentle colours and avoided black to represent " the rainbow of hope ".

For example the character of shopkeeper Norman Hartnell ( not that one ) is abandoned by his wife yet is inexplicably reunited with her in later books.

Such had been the publicity surrounding her Norman Hartnell wedding dress, that the traffic in Knightsbridge was blocked for three hours.

For the rest of her life, she was associated with glamour and elegance, being a firm client of both Hartnell and Victor Stiebel in London before and after the war.

She reveals that little background information on Susan's character or history was provided to her by the production team, and so to inform her performance, she would often discuss and invent ideas about Susan with co-star William Hartnell.

Hartnell was known mostly for playing army sergeants and other tough characters in a variety of films, but Lambert had been impressed with his sensitive performance as a rugby league talent scout in the film version of This Sporting Life, which inspired her to offer him the role.

As very often happened, Wolfe did not keep her next date, but Sangret met her again by chance a few days later when she seemed to be on a date with another soldier named Hartnell.

Margaret's corsage was designed by Norman Hartnell, and the honeymoon was spent aboard the royal yacht Britannia on a six-week Caribbean cruise.

Hartnell never discovered the identity of his father ( whose particulars were left blank on the birth certificate ) despite efforts to trace him.

In 1948, Troughton made his cinema debut with small roles in Olivier's Hamlet, the TCF production " Escape " ( one of the stars of which was William Hartnell ), and a minor role as a pirate in Treasure Island appearing only during the attack on the heroes ' hut.

The continued survival of the show depended on audiences accepting another actor in the role, despite the bold decision that the replacement would not be a Hartnell lookalike or soundalike.

Notable among the supporting cast is William Hartnell, who would soon gain international fame as the First Doctor on Doctor Who.

* Original Doctor Who actor William Hartnell lived in a house on the island during the 1960s

Earlier, in June 1991, a version with the first half edited together with the other take of the second half of the pilot was released on the VHS compilation The Hartnell Years ; later, in 2000, the complete version ( including both takes ) was released in a remastered form on VHS, along with The Edge of Destruction.

The story was originally released on VHS in 1990, and the unaired pilot ( edited with the second take of the TARDIS scene ) was released as part of The Hartnell Years in 1991.

Hartnell acquired a clientele of young women and their mothers intent on fashionable originality in dress design for a busy social life centred on the London Season.

Hartnell became popular with younger stars of stage and screen, and went on to dress such names as Gladys Cooper and Elsie Randolph, later gaining as clients Gertrude Lawrence ( also a client of Edward Molyneux ), Jessie Matthews, Merle Oberon, Evelyn Laye, Anna Neagle and even Alice Delysia and Mistinguett, two French stars impressed by the young Englishman's genius.

Exactly why this was done is uncertain ; on the DVD, documentary designer Raymond Cusick guesses that it was written during rehearsals as a guide, and producer Verity Lambert surmises that it may have been written so that Hartnell could find the switch.

Carole Ann Ford states that she and William Hartnell labelled controls on the TARDIS control panel during rehearsal, and assumed they would be blotted out before production.

The commentary that accompanies the Loose Cannon recreation mentioned below also shows the wages of the people who worked on the original show ( fee per episode ): William Hartnell £ 210, William Russell £ 147, Jacqueline Hill £ 99. 15s, Carole Ann Ford £ 63, Mark Eden £ 68. 5s, Derren Nesbitt £ 84, Zienia Merton £ 36. 15s, Martin Miller £ 84, Claire Davenport £ 42, Tutte Lemkow £ 63, Peter Lawrence £ 42, Paul Carson £ 36. 15s.

According to commentary on the DVD release, the man carrying Hartnell down the saucer's ramp dropped him and he hit his head on the metal stand of the camera.

After actors Hugh David ( later a director on the series ) and Geoffrey Bayldon had both turned down approaches to star in the series, Verity Lambert and the first serial's director Waris Hussein managed to persuade 55-year-old character actor William Hartnell to take the part of the Doctor.

Lambert had moved on, to be replaced as producer by John Wiles, who did not have a good working relationship with Hartnell.

However, although the new format of the Doctor being stuck on Earth had proved popular enough to save the programme from cancellation, neither Letts nor his script editor Terrance Dicks were particularly keen on the idea, and from the eighth season onwards sought reasons for the Doctor to be able to travel in time and space again, eventually having the Time Lords grant him full freedom at the conclusion of the 1973 tenth anniversary story, The Three Doctors, a serial which also featured guest appearances from Troughton and Hartnell, the latter in a restricted role due to his poor health.

* October 29 – Actor William Hartnell makes his last regular appearance as the First Doctor in the concluding moments of Episode 4 of the Doctor Who serial The Tenth Planet.