February 18th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1925 - Russell Hunter (Uvanov in The Robots of Death and Magic Bullet Productions' Doctor Who spin-off Kaldor City)
1934 - Geraldine Newman (Big Finish Productions actress - Lady Sybil in The Doomwood Curse and Eliza Applewhite in The Wishing Beast)
1943 - Graeme Garden (the Monk [Big Finish, 2010-2015]; Big Finish actor - Professor Ivor Fassbinder in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story Bang-Bang-a-Boom! and Geoffrey Vantage in Max Warp)
1953 - Giles Watling (Big Finish actor - Old Prince in The Skull of Sobek, Flavius Belisarius in The Secret History and the Sycorax Chief in Harvest of the Sycorax; brother of Victoria Waterfield actress Deborah Watling and son of Professor Travers actor Jack Watling)
1965 - Sean Connolly (Big Finish actor - Ghost & Mildew in The Wishing Beast, Bard in The Dark Husband, Lucor in Time Reef, Trev in A Perfect World, Tag Menkin & Ensign Stipe in The Sontaran Ordeal, Alydon & Cus in The Davros Mission, Councillor Quested in the I, Davros story Innocence, Felterby in the Bernice Summerfield story Venus Mantrap and various roles in the Dalek Empire story The Fearless)
1966 - Guy Ferland (director of the Torchwood story Miracle Day)
2002 - Joseph Darcey-Alden (Digby Latimer in The Snowmen; brother of The Snowmen guest actress Ellie Darcey-Alden)
Deaths
1989 - John Bailey (Commander in The Sensorites, Edward Waterfied in The Evil of the Daleks and Sezom in The Horns of Nimon) aged 76
1993 - Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright [companion]; Lexa in Meglos) aged 63
2012 - Peter Halliday (Packer in The Invasion, Pletrac in Carnival of Monsters, Soldier in City of Death, Vicar in Remembrance of the Daleks and Derhaven in the Kaldor City story Checkmate) aged 87
2013 - Elspet Gray (Thalia in Arc of Infinity and Hera in the Big Finish audio Immortal Beloved) aged 83
2014 - Malcolm Tierney (Doland in The Trial of a Time Lord and Gantha & Miana in the Big Finish audio anthology 1001 Nights) aged 75
Episodes
1967 - The Moonbase, Episode Two: 8.9 million viewers
1978 - The Invasion of Time, Part Three: 9.5 million viewers
2007 - Human Resources, Part Two (BBC7)
Releases
1988 - Terror of the Vervoids (Target Books); The Early Years (W.H. Allen & Co)
1993 - The Highest Science (Virgin Books); issue 192 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2010 - Issue 154 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - The Ark in Space: Special Edition (DVD - region 2)
2016 - The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
2007 - Russell T. Davies and Doctor Who Magazine journalist Benjamin Cook began exchanging emails on the production of Doctor Who, many of which appeared in Russell's book The Writer's Tale
2009 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story Mission to Magnus took place