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Old 14th March 2018, 04:25 AM
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March 14th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1912 - Hamilton Dyce (Major-General Scobie in Spearhead from Space)
1920 - Pamela Stirling (Louvre Guide in City of Death)
1922 - Joe Greig (Sensorites [Second Sensorite, Second Scientist & Warrior] in The Sensorites)
1931 - Gordon Faith (Guard Captain in The Enemy of the World)
1932 - Carey Blyton (music composer for Doctor Who and the Silurians, Death to the Daleks and Revenge of the Cybermen)

1938 - Eleanor Bron (Art Gallery Visitor in City of Death, Kara in Revelation of the Daleks and Ileana de Santos in the Big Finish audio Loups-Garoux)
1955 - Helen Atkinson-Wood (Ms. Tevez in the Big Finish audio I.D.)
1972 - Ben Jones (Captain Pargrave in the Big Finish audio The Chaos Pool)

Deaths
2007 - Gareth Hunt (Arak in Planet of the Spiders) aged 65

2014 - Martin Friend (Styggron in The Android Invasion) aged 82

Episodes
1964 - Marco Polo, Episode Four ('The Wall of Lies'): 9.9 million viewers
1970 - Doctor Who and the Silurians, Episode Seven: 7.5 million viewers
1981 - Logopolis, Part Three: 5.8 million viewers

Releases
1985 - The Caves of Androzani (Target Books)
1996 - Issue 247 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2007 - Issue 25 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

2011 - The Gemini Contagion (AudioGO)
2013 - Issue 311 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 10 (Big Finish Productions)
2014 - Scavanger, The Crooked Man and Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 48 (Big Finish)
2016 - Erimem: Prime Imperative (Thebes Publishing)
2017 - Torchwood: Visiting Hours (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1973 - The role of Sarah Jane Smith was initially given to April Walker. However, Jon Pertwee stated he was unimpressed with the casting and Elisabeth Sladen was then offered

1999 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the Doctor Who novel Just War took place. As the story was adapted for the Bernice Summerfield spin-off range, the Doctor was edited out of the adaptation as the story was commissioned before Big Finish were granted a licence by the BBC to produce Doctor Who audio adventures
2012 - Big Finish announced in a podcast that they were to adapt the Doctor Who novel Love and War to commemorate 20 years of Bernice Summerfield
2013 - Recording of Big Finish's audio documentary Benjamin & Baxter took place, going behind-the-scenes of the Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot
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