October 5th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1902 - Eric Elliot (Commander in The Ark)
1920 - Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Commander Radnor in The Seeds of Death and Commander Stevenson in Revenge of the Cybermen)
1923 - Malcolm Lockyer (music writer & conductor on the movie Dr. Who and the Daleks)
1957 - Phil Cornwall (Stallholder in The Fires of Pompeii and Superintendent Gaglo & Zaleb 5 in the Big Finish audio Serpent in the Silver Mask)
1967 - Jenna Russell (Floor Manager in Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways and Porcelain Polly & Missus in Big Finish Productions' Jago & Litefoot story Encore of the Scorchies)
1974 - Marshall Lancaster (Buzzer in The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People)
Deaths
1978 - May Warden (older Sara Kingdom in The Daleks' Master Plan) aged 87
1997 - Andrew Keir (Wyler in the movie Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD) aged 71
1999 - Dennis Bowen (Prison Governor in Frontier in Space) aged 82
2001 - Jim Francis (visual effects assistant on The Armageddon Factor and visual effects designer on The Caves of Androzani) aged 47
2004 - Geoffrey Cheshire (Viking Leader in The Time Meddler, Garge in The Daleks' Master Plan, Tracy in The Invasion and a Roboman in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD) aged 77
2017 - Trevor Martin (Time Lord in The War Games, the alternative Fourth Doctor in the stage show/Big Finish audio Seven Keys to Doomsday, Kaido, Guard 2, Ungar, Custodian of the Data Store & Jenhegger in the BBC Radio 5 live story The Paradise of Death and Professor Capra in the Big Finish audio Flip-Flop) aged 87
Episodes
1968 - The Mind Robber, Episode Four: 7.3 million viewers
1987 - Paradise Towers, Part One: 4.5 million viewers
1988 - Remembrance of the Daleks, Part One: 5.5 million viewers
Introductions
1988 - Launch of the twenty-fifth series of classic Who
Releases
1998 - The Janus Conjunction and Matrix (BBC Books); The Ark (VHS)
2005 - Model-Making Kit (Penguin Character Books)
2006 - Doctor Who Files 5-8 and Quiz Book (BBC Children's Books)
Behind-the-Scenes
2010 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story Earth Aid took place