May 27th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1926 - Peter Ling (writer of The Mind Robber and the unmade TV story-turned-Big Finish audio Hexagora)
1972 - Fraser Purfit (costume designer [2012-2013])
Deaths
1981 - Kit Pedler (writer of The Tenth Planet, The Moonbase, The Tomb of the Cybermen and the storyline for The War Machines, The Wheel in Space and The Invasion; co-creator of the Cybermen) aged 53
1999 - Donald Morley (Jules Renan in The Reign of Terror) died aged 75
Episodes
1967 - The Evil of the Daleks, Episode Two: 7.5 million viewers
1972 - The Time Monster, Episode Two: 7.4 million viewers
1996 - The TV Movie (UK premiere - BBC One): 9.08 million viewers
2006 - The Idiot's Lantern: 7.78 million viewers
2017 - The Pyramid at the End of the World: 5.79 million viewers
Introductions
1967 - First appearance of Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield
Documentaries
2006 - Doctor Who Confidential: The Writer's Tale
Releases
2004 - Issue 344 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2010 - Issue 168 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); The TARDIS Handbook (BBC Books)
2013 - Inferno: Special Edition (DVD), Series 7: Part 2 (DVD and Blu-Ray) and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD (DVD and Blu-Ray)
Behind-the-Scenes
1969 - Nicholas Courtney was contracted to reprise the role of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart for Jon Pertwee's first series as the Third Doctor
1996 - The UK transmission of the TV Movie was dedicated to the memory of Jon Pertwee, who passed away a week before. Some scenes early on in the movie were heavily edited due to pre-watershed (such as the Seventh Doctor's death scene) and as a result of the Dunblane school massacre (the death of Chang Lee's friends). Both reinstated for the 1999 UK repeat and DVD releases
2001 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Colditz took place
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Perpetual Bond took place
2016 - Recording of Big Finish Productions' audio anthology The Memory Bank and Other Stories took place