July 18th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1898 - John Stuart (extra in The Rescue)
1908 - Barry Gray (music composer on the two Dalek movies from the 1960s)
1919 - Maurice Selwyn (Custodian in The Krotons and an extra in The Reign of Terror)
1926 - Robert Sloman (writer of The Dæmons [under the pseudonym Guy Leopold], The Time Monster, The Green Death and Planet of the Spiders [all co-written with Barry Letts])
1930 - Burt Kwouk (Lin Futu in Four to Doomsday and Doctor Hayashi in the Big Finish audio Loups-Garoux)
1939 - Eric Mival (film editor on The War Machines)
1946 - Dicken Ashworth (Sezon in Timelash)
1967 - Paul Cornell (writer of Father's Day, Human Nature/The Family of Blood and Doctor Who-related books, audio adventures and comic strips)
1971 - Natasha Williams (Pharmacist in Gridlock)
Deaths
2006 - David Maloney (production assistant on The Rescue, The Romans and The Ark and director of The Mind Robber, The War Games, The War Games, Frontier in Space [uncredited], Planet of the Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks, Planet of Evil, The Deadly Assassin and The Talons of Weng-Chiang) aged 72
Episodes
1964 - The Sensorites, Episode Four ('A Race Against Death'): 5.5 million viewers
Releases
1996 - Decalog 3: Consequences, Christmas on a Rational Planet and The Scales of Injustice (Virgin Books)
Behind-the-Scenes
1995 - Matthew Jacobs submitted a draft script for the TV Movie
1999 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Whispers of Terror took place
2004 - Recording of Nu-Who began
2005 - Rehearsals of the second series of Nu-Who began
2006 - Recording of Big Finish Productions' Bernice Summerfield story Summer of Love took place
2007 - Recording of Big Finish's Dalek Empire story The Fearless took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Auntie Matter took place
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The King of Sontar took place