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WIt Cult TV Blog, John's season of posts about the villainous Doctor Who Autons continues with "Spearhead from Space," the inauguaral eposide from the great Jon Pertwee's run as the good Doctor.There were a lot of celebrity deaths announced this week, and by the time you read this, there might even have been more, but we'll begin at Comfort TV, where David remembers Michael Gray, whom people of our age remember from Shazam!At A Shroud of Thoughts, Terence looks back at the career of Walter Koenig, whom we all know as the wonderful Ensign Chekov from the original (and best) Star Trek, who died at the ripe old age of 90.And speaking of Star Trek, undoubtedly we'll be reading more in next week's blogs on the death of Patrick Stewart. Stewart was never one of my favorite actors and I didn't care for his Captain Picard, but that's no reflection on the man, or his obvious talent.We'd also be remiss if we didn't comment on the death of Elke Sommer, whose wonderful career stretched for…