March 17th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1937 - Michael Napier-Brown (Arturo Villar in The War Games; husband of The Doctor Dances guest actress Vilma Hollingbery)
1942 - Ken Grieve (director of Destiny of the Daleks)
1947 - Petra Markham (Safiya in The Crusade and Annie in the fourth series of Big Finish Productions's Doctor Who spin-off Graceless; sister of Doctor Who make-up artist Sonia Markham)
1963 - Jane Tranter (BBC Head of Fiction who was instrumental in Doctor Who's 2005 TV comeback)
1976 - Stephen Gately Official (Tommy Tomorrow in the Big Finish audio Horror of Glam Rock)
Deaths
1984 - John Dearth (BOSS in The Green Death and Lupton in Planet of the Spiders) aged 63
2011 - Michael Gough (Toymaker in The Celestial Toymaker and Hedin in Arc of Infinity; former husband of Polly Wright actress Anneke Wills Official) aged 94
Episodes
1973 - Frontier in Space, Episode Four: 7.1 million viewers
Releases
1994 - Tragedy Day and Decalog (Virgin Books); issue 211 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2011 - Issue 209 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 112 (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
2003 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Flip-Flop took place
2006 - Rewrites to The Impossible Astronaut were made
2008 - Russell T. Davies completed his script for The Next Doctor; recording of the Big Finish audio The Death Collectors took place
2010 - Via his website, Tom Baker declared an interest in reprising the role of the Fourth Doctor for Big Finish's Doctor Who audio adventures; recording of the first series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Graceless took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology Recorded Time and Other Stories took place