January 15: Today in WHO-story
Births
1936 - Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates [semi-regular]; Big Finish Productions actor - Romolo Nusek in the Bernice Summerfield story Dragons' Wrath and Colonel Nasgard in the I, Davros story Innocence; writer of the spin-off novel The Killing Stone; writer & director of the spin-off stage show Recall UNIT; cousin of The Wedding of River Song guest actress Emma Campbell-Jones)
1948 - David Warwick (Kimus in The Pirate Planet and a Police Commissioner in Army of Ghosts; Big Finish actor - David Garnier in The Harvest, Matthew Dysart in Power Play, Erich in the Gallifrey story A Blind Eye and Willem van der Heever in the Bernice Summerfield story Missing Persons)
1953 - Gareth Hale (Len in Survival)
Deaths
2011 - Susannah York (Registry & Our Mother in the Big Finish audio Valhalla) died aged 76
2014 - Roger Lloyd-Pack (John Lumic in Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel) died aged 69
Episodes
1966 - The Daleks' Master Plan, Episode Ten ('Escape Switch'): 9.5 million viewers
1972 - Day of the Daleks, Episode Three: 9.1 million viewers
1977 - The Face of Evil, Part Three: 11.3 million viewers
Releases
1981 - The Creature from the Pit (Target Books)
1987 - Slipback (Target Books)
1998 - Issue 261 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2004 - Short Trips: Steel Skies (Big Finish)
2009 - Issue 98 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2014 - Issue 337 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); The King of Sontar (Big Finish)
2015 - The Crawling Terror and Full Circle (BBC Audio); The Exxilons (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
1996 - Location filming began on the TV Movie
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Solitaire took place
2015 - Recording of Big Finish's The Young Lions and the Iris Wildthyme box set Wildthyme Reloaded took place