Illusion On-Demand

Thursday, 4 October 2007 - Reported by Jarrod Cooper

A new Video On Demand Channel dedicated to science fiction and fantasy,Illusion On-Demand, has launched in North America. Currently available in twenty states and is free to all digital subscribers. Illusion has announced that the Classic Doctor Who series is slated to be on the channel starting in January 2008. November sees the updated release ofThe Quatermass Experiment starring Mark Gatiss and David Tennant.

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On This Day: 19th April

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Demi Papaminas is 23 today - credited as School Girl in The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

Mark Greenstreet is 64 today - credited as Ikona in Time and the Rani

John Abbott is 79 today - credited as Vince in Horror of Fang Rock

Bernard Martin (died 1993 aged 66) would be 97 today - credited as Control Room Assistant in The Ambassadors of Death

Marcus Dods (died 1984 aged 66) would be 106 today - credited as Conductor for The Aztecs

Alan Wheatley (died 1991 aged 84) would be 117 today - credited as Temmosus in The Daleks

Deaths

Elisabeth Sladen (died 2011 aged 65) - 80 credits, including Sarah Jane Smith in The Time Warrior

Philip Locke (died 2004 aged 76) - credited as Bigon in Four To Doomsday

Tony Beckley (died 1980 aged 52) - credited as Harrison Chase in The Seeds of Doom

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