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TIL Peter Davidson who played the fifth Dr Who, and Sandra Dickinson who played Trillian in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy have a daughter, Georgia Tennant, who portrayed the daughter of the tenth Doctor Who, and later married the actor who played him.

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