re: #4 dr. klys

Ha! I can top that… I spent a night drinking with Tom Baker some years ago
(a friend tells me this is no biggie, a lot of people have spent a night drinking with Tom Baker)
He was gratifyingly as barking mad as I had hoped.

Just watched “an Adventure in Time and Space” (dramatised telling of the birth of Who) and it was proper time travel for me.
It took me back to BBC Television Centre as I remembered it - OK the actual time portrayed was mid-sixties and I joined the Beeb in the late eighties - but the look and feel resonated hugely from people smoking like chimneys to the gilded buttocks of the Ariel statue in the centre of the “doughnut”

The portrayal of Verity Lambert reminded me of how women and minorities still needed to be assertive to get noticed (and then tended to be seen as “difficult” as a consequence)