January 6th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1919 - Raymond Westwell (Prison Governor in The Mind of Evil)
1934 - Sylvia Sims (Mrs. Pritchard in Ghost Light)
1955 - Rowan Atkinson (alternative Ninth Doctor in the Comic Relief special The Curse of Fatal Death); Arthur Bostrom (Earl Godfrey in the BBV audio The Green Man and Arken in the Big Finish audio Scaredy Cat)
1976 - Guy Adams (Big Finish Productions' actor and writer)
1986 - Elizabeth Tan (Anna Zhong in Journey's End)
Deaths
2009 - John Scott Martin (Dalek [1965-1988]; Zarbi in The Web Planet, Mechanoid in The Chase, IMC Robot in Colony in Space, Mutt in The Mutants and The Brain of Morbius, Ted Hughes in The Green Death, the Nucleus in The Invisible Enemy and an extra in The Dæmons and The Three Doctors) died aged 82
2015 - Tony Starr (Dalek [1973-1988]; extra in The Underwater Menace, The Macra Terror and The War Games) aged 82
Episodes
1968 - The Enemy of the World, Episode Three: 7.1 million viewers
1973 - The Three Doctors, Episode Two: 10.8 million viewers
1979 - The Power of Kroll, Part Three: 8.9 million viewers
1984 - Warriors of the Deep, Part Two: 7.5 million viewers
Introductions
1973 - First glimpse of Time Lord villain Omega
Releases
1997 - The Leisure Hive (VHS)
2005 - Issue 352 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini UK)
2009 - The War Machines and Four to Doomsday (DVD - region 1)
2011 - Issue 199 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
Behind-the-Scenes
1964 - Moris Farhi submitted a proposed story called The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance. It was ultimately never used and later adapted by Big Finish over 40 years later
2010 - The BBC responded to the so-called ginger controversy from The End of Time, stating that the Doctor wanted to be ginger, as were some past and future companions; recording of the Big Finish audio The Cradle of the Snake
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Voyage to Venus took place
2014 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the Doctor Who novel The Highest Science took
2015 - Recording of the Big Finish audio We Are the Daleks took place