March 16th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1904 - Clive Morton (Colonel Trenchard in The Sea Devils)
1909 - Campbell Singer (Joey the Clown, the King of Hearts & Sergeant Rugg in The Celestial Toymaker)
1915 - Eric Hillyard (Doctor Reeves in The Dæmons)
1926 - Victor Maddern (Robson in Fury from the Deep)
1929 - John Breslin (Captain Munro in Spearhead from Space)
1935 - Tristan de Vere Cole (production assistant on The Gunfighters and director of The Wheel in Space)
1937 - Ben Aris (Lieutenant Shears in Invasion of the Dinosaurs); Peter Rutherford (Roth in The Sontaran Experiment)
1939 - Katherine Schofield (Sabetha in The Keys of Marinus)
1952 - Graham Cole OBE (extra in Shada, The Leisure Hive, Full Circle, The Keeper of Traken, Kinda, Earthshock, Time-Flight, The Five Doctors, Resurrection of the Daleks and The Twin Dilemma; Melkur & Autolycus Ebbko in the Big Finish audio The Guardians of Prophecy)
Episodes
1968 - Fury from the Deep, Episode One: 8.2 million viewers
1974 - Death to the Daleks, Part Four: 9.5 million viewers
1982 - Earthshock, Part Four: 9.6 million viewers
1983 - The King's Demons, Part Two: 7.2 million viewers
1984 - The Caves of Androzani, Part Four: 7.8 million viewers
1985 - Timelash, Part Two: 7.4 million viewers
Introductions
1968 - First appearance of the Sonic Screwdriver
1984 - Colin Baker's first appearance as the Sixth Doctor
1995 - First appearance of the Sixth Doctor's companion Grant Markham
Departures
1982 - Matthew Waterhouse's final regular appearance as Adric
1984 - Peter Davison's final regular appearance as the Fifth Doctor
Releases
1989 - Dragonfire (Target Books)
1995 - Infinite Requiem and Time of Your Life (Virgin Books); issue 224 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2006 - Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: Ninth Doctor Collected Comics (Panini UK)
2007 - The Completed Second Series (DVD box set - region 1)
2009 - Attack of the Cybermen (DVD - region 2)
2016 - The Paradox Planet (Big Finish Productions)
Behind-the-Scenes
2003 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Flip-Flop took place
2009 - Edinburgh's police department announced plans to relaunch TARDIS-style Police Boxes; recording of the Big Finish audio Patient Zero took place
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio A Town Called Fortune took place
2011 - Big Finish confirmed that Tom Baker was to reprise the role of the Fourth Doctor for their Doctor Who audio adventures; recording of the Big Finish audio anthology Recorded Time and Other Stories took place