March 3rd: Today in WHO-story
Births
1924 - John Woodutt (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)
1930 - Shirley Cooklin (Kaftan in The Tomb of the Cybermen)
1945 - Michael Ladkin (RAF Pilot in The Faceless Ones)
1968 - Professor Brian Cox (Himself in The Power of Three)
1977 - Sarah Smart (Jennifer Lucas in The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People and Laura Corbett in the Big Finish audio The Crooked Man)
1985 - Toby Turner (Urchin in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Epoch)
Deaths
1992 - Robert Beatty (General Cutler in The Tenth Planet) aged 82
2004 - Sheila Dunn (Blossom Lefavre in The Daleks' Master Plan, I.E. Computer voice in The Invasion and Petra Williams in Inferno; wife of Doctor Who director Douglas Camfield) aged 63
Episodes
1973 - Frontier in Space, Episode Two: 7.8 million viewers
Releases
1997 - The Awakening and Frontios (VHS)
2003 - The Aztecs (DVD - region 1)
2005 - Issue 354 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini UK)
2008 - The Five Doctors: 25th Anniversary Edition (DVD - region 2)
2009 - The Key to Time: Special Edition (DVD - region 1)
2011 - Issue 207 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); The Ark (DVD - region 1)
2016 - Doom Coalition 2 (Big Finish Productions); issue 497 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Recording of two Doctor Who-related audio adventures, Three's a Crowd and the UNIT story The Wasting, took place
2009 - The BBC announced that outgoing executive producer Julie Gardner would join the Los Angeles branch of BBC Worldwide as executive producer of American-market projects
2010 - The BBC confirmed the DVD release of the upcoming Matt Smith debut series as the Eleventh Doctor
2016 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Doomsday Quatrain took place