Born, 1914
Died, 1999

Ric Felgate is credited as the creator of long running children's programme, Play School. But in the Doctor Who world he is known as the Mars exploration pilot Charles Van Lyden in the blue tinted scenes at the start of Ambassadors of Death, the third Doctor Who story to be in colour. Earlier he had been a journalist in the William Hartnell story The War Machines and T-Mat Technician Brent in Seeds of Death.