October 2nd: Today in WHO-story
Births
1932 - Gabriel Woolfe (Sutekh in Pyramids of Mars, the Big Finish audios The Triumph of Sutekh and Kill the Doctor!/The Age of Sutekh and Magic Bullet Productions' Faction Paradox audio series, the Beast in The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit and Rossiter in the Big Finish audios Arrangements for War and Thicker Than Water)
1938 - Bruce Purchase (Captain in The Pirate Planet)
1941 - Sam Dastor (Professor Narayan in the Big Finish audio The Emerald Tiger)
1950 - Ian McNeice (Winston Churchill in The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens, The Wedding of River Song, the Big Finish audio Ravenous 1 and Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who spin-off The Churchill Years; Big Finish actor - Zeus in Immortal Sins and Reginald Harcourt in The Renaissance Man)
1954 - Belinda Mayne (Delta in Delta and the Bannermen)
1958 - Daniel Peacock (Nord in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
1965 - Richard Ashton (Friday in Empress of Mars)
Episodes
1965 - Galaxy 4, Episode Four ('The Exploding Planet'): 9.9 million viewers
1976 - The Hand of Fear, Part One: 10.5 million viewers
Releases
1995 - Paradise Towers and Survival (VHS)
1997 - Deadfall (Virgin Books)
2000 - The Turing Test and Independence Day (BBC Books)
2006 - The Glorious Dead (Panini Comics UK)
2008 - Issue 84 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Books)
2013 - Prisoners of Time, Part Nine (IDW Publishing)
Behind-the-Scenes
2002 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Bang-Bang-a-Boom! took place
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Orbis took place
2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Suffering took place
2017 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Red Planets took place