Today,
Sydney Newman, one of the original creators of Doctor Who, would be 96 years old. He died on 30/10/97 of a heart attack in Toronto, Canada. He is responsible for the TARDIS' dimensional transcendentalism (it's bigger on the inside), the Doctor being called the Doctor and not a proper name, and the show's title. He was against the addition of the Daleks. Newman was a long-time lover of the science fiction genre.
"Up to the age of 40, I don't think there was a science fiction book I hadn't read. I love them because they're a marvelous way—and a safe way, I might add—of saying nasty things about our own society."
