It is with deep regret that I report that on this day of happiness - LuLu's 21st birthday - some sadness has crept in. William Russell, who starred in the debut episode of Doctor Who in 1963 as Ian, one half of the pair of Earth teachers who were the Doctor's first companions - has died just shy of his 100th birthday.
Russell resumed playing Ian - after almost a sixty year gap - in Jodi Whitaker's final episode.
He was a great companion, a man of action when the Doctor himself was a stodgy old man. His role helped make DW what it is, and we are eternally in his debt.
RIP
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