September 19th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1925 - Dallas Cavell (Road Works Overseer in The Reign of Terror, Bors in The Daleks' Master Plan, Trask in The Highlanders, Sir James Quinlan in The Ambassadors of Death and the Head of Security in Castrovalva); Kenneth Thornett (Detective Inspector in The Daleks' Master Plan)
1939 - Charles Pemberton (Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen and the Alien Technician in The War Games; Big Finish Productions actor - Butler in Three's a Crowd and Gerber in the Gallifrey story Fragments)
1940 - Caroline John (Liz Shaw [Third Doctor companion]; Madame Salvadori in the Big Finish audio Dust Breeding)
1954 - David Bamber (Captain Quell in Mummy on the Orient Express; Big Finish actor - Emperor Constantine in The Council of Nicaea and Colonel Ulrik & Whitmore in The Four Doctors)
Deaths
1977 - Michael Godfrey (Captain Samuel Pike in The Smugglers) aged 59
1997 - Jack May (General Nikolai Hermack in The Space Pirates) aged 75
Episodes
2015 - The Magician's Apprentice (BBC One): 6.54 million viewers
Introductions
2015 - Launch of the ninth series of Nu-Who
Releases
1985 - The Doctor Who Illustrated A-Z [Hardback] (W. H. Allen)
1996 - The Death of Art and Twilight of the Gods (Virgin Books)
2002 - Issue 322 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2012 - Gods and Monsters, The Burning Prince, Project: Nirvana and The Rosemariners (Big Finish)
2013 - Issue 465 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
Behind-the-Scenes
1963 - Doctor Who's first filming session took place: the final scene of the first episode of An Unearthly Child, where the shadow of Kal approaches the TARDIS
2011 -
Episode two of The Underwater Menace was recovered
2012 - Recording of the sixth series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Gallifrey took place
2017 - Recording of Big Finish's Torchwood story Machines took place