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Old 20th August 2018, 06:18 AM
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August 20th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1909 - André Morell (Marshal Tavannes in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve)

1916 - Bernard Archard (Bragen in The Power of the Daleks and Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars)

1918 - Michael Godfrey (Captain Pike in The Smugglers)
1921 - Roy Godfrey (Tramp in The War Machines)
1932 - Anthony Ainley (The Master [1981-1989]; Tremas in The Keeper of Traken)

1943 - Sylvester McCoy (Seventh Doctor; Himself in the 50th anniversary spoof The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, Walton Winkie in the Big Finish audio Zagreus, the Foot Doctor in Do You Have a Licence to Save This Planet? and Doctor Colin Dove in the PROBE story The Zero Imperative)

1955 - Hilary Ryan (Rodan in The Invasion of Time)
1962 - Sophie Aldred (Ace [Seventh Doctor companion]; Big Finish Productions actress - Captain Duck in Zagreus, Miranda in the Bernice Summerfield story Beyond the Sun, Dave Stone in the Bernice Summerfield story Many Happy Returns and Lady Bow'n in the Iris Wildthyme story Iris at the Oche; Mari in Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans and the P.R.O. in the PROBE story The Zero Imperative); James Marsters (Captain John Hart [Torchwood villain])

1968 - Matthew Chambers (Hal Korwin in 42)
1969 - Barnaby Edwards (Dalek [2005-TBC]; writer, director & actor of Doctor Who audio adventures from Big Finish and the Adventure Games series)
1970 - Adrian Bower (Steffan in the Big Finish audio Survival of the Fittest)
1971 - David Walliams (Gibbis in The God Complex and Quincy Flowers & Ned Cotton in the Big Finish audio Phantasmagoria)
1983 - Andrew Garfield (Frank in Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks)

Deaths
1991 - Betty Bowden (Meg Seeley in Spearhead from Space) aged 86
1993 - Sydney Arnold (Perkins in The Highlanders) aged 93
1997 - Bill Mitchell (Newsreader in Frontier in Space and Zor in the Argo Records story Doctor Who and the Pescatons) aged 62
2010 - Robert Rowland (extra in The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

Documentaries
2009 - Doctor Who Greatest Moments: The Doctor (BBC Three)
2011 - Best of the Companions and Best of the Monsters (BBC America)

Releases
1992 - Nightshade (Virgin Books)

1998 - Another Girl, Another Planet (Virgin Books)
2009 - Issue 129 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); issue 412 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2012 - Planet of Giants (DVD - region 2)
2015 - Issue 490 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
2016 - Erimem: Buccaneer (Thebes Publishing)

Behind-the-Scenes
1963 - Work began on the first Doctor Who title sequence
2007 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Sisters of the Flame took place
2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Deimos/The Resurrection of Mars took place
2015 - Recording of Big Finish's Torchwood story Uncanny Valley took place
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