Some sad Six-era news...

[thisbluespirit]

Apparently Maggie Stables who played Evelyn Smythe, Six's lovely and awesome audio companion, has just died.


And just to be really cheerful on the subject of Six-era ladies, also in the news this weekend, was Lynda Bellingham, who is dying of cancer. (She's stopping her chemotherapy in November, and the timing should give her one last Christmas.) In addition to being known here as "the OXO lady", she was the Inquisitor at Six's Trial (and I believe has since also been in the Gallifrey audio series, so make this a particularly bad weekend for Big Finish fans.


*is very sad*


Probably, in honour of the one companion who could really keep Six in order, a sort of final salute of chocolate cake is required...


Following on from Kate O'Mara earlier in the year, it seems an exceptionally bad year for awesome ladies who knew the Sixth Doctor. :-/

Comments

[vilakins]

Lynda Bellingham was also in B7 as Vena in Headhunter.

[thisbluespirit]

Indeed, though, like most S4 guests, she didn't survive all that long! ;-)

[st_aurafina]

Oh, that's so sad - Evelyn, no! And about Lynda Bellingham.

[thisbluespirit]

I know! I read about Lynda Bellingham yesterday and then woke up to see the other news this morning. "Evelyn, no!" is about the size of it. <3

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Lynda's been great as Inquisitor Darkel in the Gallifrey audios... And I was really upset to hear the news about her health yesterday, then to wake up to the news of Maggie's passing this morning. Well, let's just say I've been through a lot of tissues in the last 24 hours.

*bigsquishyPershugs*

[thisbluespirit]

Awww. It is very sad; I was not quite ready to believe in BF actors dying this morning! Not evelyn!!

*hugs back and passes you some more tissues*

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

No more am I. I am going to listen to Maggie being Evelyn-tastic in an audio shortly...

Thanks. *squishes*

[eve11]

Sad news indeed :(

[thisbluespirit]

It really is! :-/

[luckweaver.livejournal.com]

Oh, this just gets sadder and sadder the more Classic Who actors we lose ):

[thisbluespirit]

It does!

[paranoidangel]

That is so sad. I'm going to have to go and re-listen to some Evelyn audios.

[thisbluespirit]

I know. I think I might need to see about relistening to something too. :-/

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Oh no :( RIP…

[thisbluespirit]

Yes. :-(

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Dammit!! I loved the Inquistor!! And this is doubly sad, because I have not had the pleasure of meeting Evelyn yet...

D:

[thisbluespirit]

*pets* And I'm sure one day you'll get to meet Evelyn. She is rather great. :-/

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I was already aware of the very sad news as regards Lynda Bellingham, but didn't know about Maggie Stables until reading it here. That is sad - I'm not by any means fully up to speed with the audios, but those that I have heard with Evelyn always made me think that she was a companion who could have held her own in the TV series. Very sad. :(

[thisbluespirit]

Evelyn was an awesome companion & it was such a sad thing to see, & Lynda Bellingham, too. :-/

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

She was in B7's Headhunter too, I loved her there...

Brave, but sad...

[thisbluespirit]

*nods*

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

I was so sorry to read this news on Tumblr. When I read about Maggie Stables, I just gave this wee little "ohh" sound, and didn't exactly cry, certainly not the way BF's "A Death in the Family" got me tearful, but... *sigh* Too sad.

[thisbluespirit]

*nods* Yes, I think I was pretty much the same - it was your reblog on Tumblr I saw.

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

I was sorry to read about Lynda Bellingham yesterday. Cancer is a horrible disease. I wish there was more that could be done to help her. :o(

I loved her in Faith in the Future. It was such a fun, joyful sitcom with things always ending up okay.

[thisbluespirit]

*nods*