November 5th: Today in Who-story
Births
1918 - Alan Tilvern (Forester in Planet of Giants)
1927 - Kenneth Waller (Hedges in The Invisible Enemy)
1953 - Malcolm Kohll (Writer of Delta and the Bannermen)
1970 - Tamzin Outhwaite (Captain Alice Ferrin in Nightmare in Silver)
1983 - Andrew Hayden-Smith (Jake Simmonds in Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel and Doomsday and Morton Hardak in Big Finish Productions' Bernice Summerfield story Legion)
Deaths
1993 - Michael Bilton (Charles de Toligny in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, Collins in Pyramids of Mars and a Time Lord in The Deadly Assassin) aged 73
2003 - Brian McDermott (Sheard in Time-Flight) aged 69
2006 - R. J. Bell (The Garm in Terminus) aged 66
2016 - John Carson (Ambril in Snakedance) aged 89
2017 - John Bown (Antodus in the movie Dr. Who and the Daleks) aged 83
Episodes
1966 - The Power of the Daleks, Episode One: 7.9 million viewers
1977 - Image of the Fendahl, Part Two: 7.5 million viewers
2006 - Torchwood: Cyberwoman (BBC Three): 1.39 million viewers
2007 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, Part Two (CBBC): 1.73 million viewers
2009 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Eternity Trap, Part One (CBBC): 1.14 million viewers
2016 - Class: Co-owner of a Lonely Heart (BBC Three)
Introductions
1966 - Patrick Troughton's full debut as the Second Doctor
Releases
2001 - The Adventuress of Henrietta Street and Instruments of Darkness (BBC Books)
2007 - The Infinite Quest (DVD - region 2); The Glittering Storm and The Thirteenth Stone (BBC Audio - The Sarah Jane Adventures); Doctor Who Official Soundtracks: Series Three (Silva Screen Records)
2009 - Hornets' Nest, Part Three ('The Circus of Doom') (AudioGO); issue 140 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (Penguin Character Books)
2015 - Issue 8 of the relaunched Doctor Who Adventures (Panini Comics UK); Torchwood: Forgotten Lives (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
1998 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield stories Walking to Babylon and Birthright took place
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Magic Mousetrap took place
2009 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story Point of Entry took place