Doctor Who - Kate O' Mara Who Played The Rani Has Passed Away

Kate O'Mara who played the Rani in two Doctor Who stories with two different Doctors has passed away at the age of 74 after a short illness.  She first appeared in the Colin Baker story the Mark of the Rani where along with Anthony Ainley's Master tried to disrupt the Luddite Rites by taking the power of sleep from the miners.  She would later return 2 seasons later in Sylvester McCoy's debut story Time of The Rani.  There she shoots down the TARDIS and triggers The Doctor's regeneration making him become the 7th Doctor.  She is most famously known for her role in Dynasty and also had a reoccurring role in Absolutely Fabulous.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/467714/Kate-O-Mara-Dynasty-and-Doctor-Who-actress-dies-aged-74

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2014-03-30/dynasty-and-triangle-star-kate-omara-dies-aged-74/

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2014-03-30/dynasty-and-triangle-star-kate-omara-dies-aged-74/

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/dynastys-kate-omara-dead-live-3301850

Kate O'Mara The Rani From Doctor Who To Be A Guest At Chiller Theatre Expo Con

In a rare US convention appearance Kate O'Mara who played The Rani in Doctor Who battling both the 6th and 7th Doctors.  The appearance will be at the Sheraton Parsippany in Parsippany, New Jeresy on October 25th to the 27th.  Other guests include Terry Farrel and Marina Sirtis from Star Trek among many others.  Here is a link to the guest page for more info.
http://www.chillertheatre.com/gt/gtc4.htm 

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: The Mark of the Rani

Doctor Who: 

The Mark of the Rani 

By Pip and Jane Baker

“You disappoint me. A scientist and you're not thinking objectively. Davy, Faraday, Telford and others. Over twenty men of genius. Have you no conception of what we could achieve if we control them? Harness their genius, and this planet could become the platform for the most devastating power in the universe.”

Promising to take Peri to Kew Gardens the seem to have landed anywhere but.  It appears they have landed in Killingworth in the 19^th Century at the beginning of the industrial revolution.  The problem there is that some of the miners have become extremely violent and those that are have a strange mark behind their ear.  This string of violence has George Stevenson worried about his industrial meeting with a bunch of that era’s genius’s. 

That is the least of The Doctor’s problem as it appears that The Master is also in Killingworth also.  It appears he survived the events from “Planet of Fire” and is up to his menacing deeds trying to change the course of Earth’s history yet again. The Master is not the only Time Lord around Killingworth either. The evil female Time Lady The Rani is around also taking the chemical in the brain that induces sleep.  She is stealing that from humans to give to her slaves on Miasimia Goria.  That’s double the trouble for The Doctor and Peri as they must contend with both renegade Time Lords and rid them from causing havoc on Earth.