March 26th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1925 - Barry Letts (Doctor Who Producer [1970-1975]; Executive Producer [1980-1981]; uncredited co-writer of The Dæmons [under the pseudonym Guy Leopold], The Time Monster, The Green Death and Planet of the Spiders; director of The Enemy of the World, Inferno [uncredited], Terror of the Autons, Carnival of Monsters, Planet of the Spiders and The Android Invasion; script consultant on Reeltime Pictures' Doctor Who spin-off Dæmos Rising; writer of several Doctor Who-related books and audio adventures)
1927 - Geoffrey Cheshire (Viking Leader in The Time Meddler, Garge in The Daleks' Master Plan, Tracy in The Invasion and a Roboman in the movie Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD)
1931 - George Raistrick (Guard at Work Centre in Day of the Daleks)
1934 - Kenneth Ives (Toba in The Dominators)
1941 - Richard Dawkins (Himself in The Stolen Earth/Journey's End; husband of Romana actress Lalla Ward)
Deaths
2002 - Michael Wolf (Nils in The Moonbase) died aged 67
2013 - Rashid Karapiet (Rita's Father in The God Complex) died aged 84
Episodes
1966 - The Ark, Episode Four ('The Bomb'): 7.3 million viewers
1977 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Part Five: 10.1 million viewers
2005 - Rose: 10.5 million viewers
Introductions
2005 - 16 years after the last series of Doctor Who, and 9 years since the last official episode, Doctor Who returned to the TV screens. As well as the Autons and the Nestene Consciousness returning to TV Doctor Who for the first time since 1971, this also introduced Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, Billie Piper and noel Clarke as new companions Rose Tyler and Jackie Tyler and Camille Coduri as semi-regular Jackie Tyler. This was also the first transmitted episode featuring life-long fan Russell T. Davies as the show's lead writer and executive producer; launch of the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential
Documentaries
2005 - A New Dimension; Doctor Who Confidential: Bringing Back the Doctor
Releases
2007 - Torchwood: Series 1: Part 3 (DVD - region 2)
2009 - The Depths of Despair (BBC Children's Books); issue 108 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2014 - Issue 342 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)
2017 - The Jago & Litefoot Revival, Act One (Big Finish Productions)
Behind-the-Scenes
1964 - David Whitaker defended himself and Terry Nation when Robert Gould accused them of stealing his idea regarding living vegetation for the third episode of The Keys of Marinus ('The Screaming Jungle'). David reassured that this was not intentional and was purely coincidental
2002 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Spare Parts took place
2008 - Final correspondence between Russell T. Davies and Doctor Who Magazine's Benjamin Cook took place via email regarding the production of the fourth series of the 'revived era' of Doctor Who. Many of these email exchanges featured in Russell's book The Writer's Tale
2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Drowned World took place