October 31st: Today in WHO-story
Births
1919 - Daphne Oxenford (Archivist in Dragonfire and the older Agatha Christie in the deleted scenes from The Unicorn and the Wasp)
1922 - Talfryn Thomas (Mullins in Spearhead from Space and Dave in The Green Death)
1934 - Steve Emerson (Guard in The Macra Terror and an extra & stuntman on The War Games, The Claws of Axos, Frontios and Revelation of the Daleks)
1963 - Sanjeev Bhaskar (Colonel Ahmed in Death in Heaven and Doctor Avishkar Sangakkara in the Big Finish audio The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web)
1970 - Craig Kelly (Joe in the webcast Scream of the Shalka)
1974 - Joshua Wanisko (writer of the Big Finish audio Forever Fallen)
1982 - Justin Chatwin (Grant/The Ghost in The Return of Doctor Mysterio)
Deaths
2001 - Jenny Laird (Neska in Planet of the Spiders) aged 89
2005 - Mary Wimbush (Lavinia Smith in the one-off Doctor Who spin-off K9 & Company) aged 81
2007 - Howard Attfield (Geoff Noble in The Runaway Bride and deleted scenes from Partners in Crime) aged 60
2012 - Brian Cobby (Oroog in the Big Finish audio The Creed of the Kromon) aged 83
2015 - Byrd Wilkins (Preacher in A Town Called Mercy) aged 50
Episodes
1964 - Planet of Giants, Episode One ('Planet of Giants'): 8.4 million viewers
2009 - K-9: Regeneration (Disney XD)
2015 - The Zygon Invasion: 5.76 million viewers
Introductions
1964 - Launch of the second series of classic Who
Releases
1991 - Issue 180 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2011 - The Gunpowder Plot (BBC Cymru Wales Interactive); The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Complete Fourth Series (DVD and Blu-ray - region 2)
2014 - The Widow's Assassin (Big Finish Productions)
Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Rewrites to The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, The Age of Steel and Doomsday took place
2007 - Following the death of Howard Attfield, an agreement was made for his scenes from Partners in Crime not to be transmitted out of respect. Bernard Cribbins' Wilfred Mott character from Voyage of the Damned was promoted from one-off character to semi-regular and to be a relation to the Noble family, allowing Howard's scenes to be re-recorded with Bernard instead
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology The Company of Friends took place
2013 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the Doctor Who novel The Romance of Crime took place
2017 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Helliax Rift took place