January 2nd: Today in WHO-story
Births
1947 - Eiji Kusuhara (Professor Toshio Shimura in the Big Finish audio Enemy of the Daleks and an extra in Four to Doomsday)
1948 - Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield [Second Doctor companion]; Queen Victoria in the BBV audio The Barnacled Baby and the Auntie in the Big Finish audio Three's a Crowd)
1974 - Toby Hadoke (host of DVD audio commentaries and Big Finish Productions' podcast series Toby Hadoke's Who's Round; Cyril in the 50th anniversary docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time; Big Finish actor - Farel & Robot in Robophobia, Mike Bretherton in Hexagora, Mr. Dorrick in The Sands of Life, War Against the Laan, The Dalek Contract, The Final Phase, The Pursuit of History and Casualties of Time, V26 in the upcoming story The Sons of Kaldor, Louis Richter in the second series of the Doctor Who spin-off Cyberman and Carruthers Summerton in the tenth series of the Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot)
1979 - Suranne Jones (Idris in The Doctor's Wife and Mona Lisa in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Mona Lisa's Revenge)
1980 - Catherine Bailey (Miss Wyckham in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Lost in Time); David Gyasi (Harvey in Asylum of the Daleks and the Hospital Patient in the Torchwood story Combat)
Deaths
1981 - Victor Carin (Virgin Earp in The Gunfighters) aged 48
2006 - John Woodnutt (George Hibbert in Spearhead from Space, the Draconian Emperor in Frontier in Space, Broton & the Duke of Forgill in Terror of the Zygons and Seron in The Keeper of Traken) aged 81
Episodes
1965 - The Rescue, Episode One ('The Powerful Enemy'): 12.0 Million Viewers
1971 - Terror of the Autons, Episode One: 7.3 Million Viewers
Introductions
1965 - Maureen O'Brien's debut as Vicki
1971 - Launch of the eighth series of the 'classic era' of Doctor Who; first appearance of regular Time Lord villain the Master; Katy Manning, Richard Franklin and Roger Delgado's debut as companion Jo Grant, semi-regular Captain Mike Yates and the Master
Releases
1998 - Tempest (Virgin Books)
2006 - Parallel Lives (Big Finish)
2014 - Issue 10 of Doctor Who Figurine Collection (Eaglemoss)
2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 101 (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
2009 - BBC 2W ceased transmission
2011 - Land End's Doctor Who exhibition closed