October 29th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1884 - Bert Sims (extra in The Web of Fear)
1927 - Bernard Martin (Control Room Assistant in The Ambassadors of Death)
1935 - Michael Jayston (The Valeyard in The Trial of a Time Lord and the Big Finish audios He Jests at Scars, Trial of the Valeyard, The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure and the Bernice Summerfield story Every Dark Thought and the Tsar in the AudioGO story Serpent's Crest)
1937 - Hugh Futcher (Hickman in The Sea Devils)
1940 - Angela Douglas (Doris Lethbridge-Stewart in Battlefield)
1959 - Stephen Marzella (Police Constable in Fear Her and David Penn in the Torchwood story From Out of the Rain); Glen MacPherson (director of photography on the TV Movie)
Deaths
1999 - Cavan Kendall (Achilles in The Myth Makers) aged 57
2010 - Mervyn Haisman (writer, with Henry Lincoln, of The Abominable Snowmen, The Web of Fear and The Dominators [under the pseudonym Mervyn Haisman]; co-creator of the Yeti, the Great Intelligence, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and the Quarks) aged 82
2015 - Kenneth Gilbert (Richard Dunbar in The Seeds of Doom) aged 84
Episodes
1966 - The Tenth Planet, Episode Four: 7.5 million viewers
1977 - Image of the Fendahl, Part One: 6.7 million viewers
2006 - Torchwood: Ghost Machine (BBC Three): 1.77 million viewers
2007 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane Smith, Part One (CBBC): 1.61 million viewers
2009 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, Part One (CBBC): 1.59 million viewera
2016 - Class: Nightvisiting (BBC Three)
Introductions
1966 - First use of the concept of regeneration; Patrick Troughton's first appearance as the Second Doctor
Departures
1966 - William Hartnell's final regular appearance as the First Doctor
Releases
1992 - Issue 193 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2009 - Issue 139 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2010 - Evacuation Earth and Return to Earth (Nintendo)
2012 - Series 7: Part 2 (DVD and Blu-ray - region 2)
2013 - 1963: The Space Race and The Queen of Time (Big Finish Productions)
2015 - Lethbridge-Stewart: Beast of Fang Rock (Candy Jar Books); Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 144 (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
1963 - John Mair sent a memo to Joanna Spicer regarding the budget for Doctor Who's first stories
1994 - The first installment of the Doctor Who spin-off Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans premiered at Dreamwatch 94 at Earl's Court, London
2004 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Game took place
2008 - David Tennant won an award for Outstanding Drama Performance at the National Television Awards. During his acceptance speech via video link, he announced that he was to leave Doctor Who after the 2008-10 specials
2015 - Recording of the Big Finish audio And You Will Obey Me took place