River Phoenix

River Phoenix was an actor who had a promising future, but died very young. He was born after Polly Wright and Ben Jackson started to travel with the Doctor.

In 1994, Ben and Polly read the biography River Phoenix: A Short Life by Brian J. Robb at W H Smith. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)

When Space Pilot 692 7896 was going to die in a solo spacecraft after a total systems failure, she thought of River Phoenix. Dying that way was not the glorious exit that she had expected, but she had an in-flight recorder on board of the spacecraft. She thought that she would be immortalised on camera like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and River Phoenix. (HOMEVID: Scout Ship)