November 8th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1927 - Lennie Mayne (director of The Curse of Peladon, The Three Doctors, The Monster of Peladon and The Hand of Fear); Ken Dodd (Tollmaster in Delta and the Bannermen)
1937 - Malcolm Taylor (Walters in The Ice Warriors)
1941 - Nerys Hughes (Todd in Kinda, Brenda Williams in the Torchwood story Something Borrowed and Big Finish Productions' Torchwood story Visiting Hours and Deidre in the AudioGO story Serpent's Crest; Big Finish actress - Eris in Phobos and Mrs. Wilson in the War Master story The Heavenly Paradigm)
1956 - Richard Curtis (writer of Vincent and the Doctor; executive producer of Comic Relief's Doctor Who spoof The Curse of Fatal Death)
1958 - John Gillett (Gravis in Frontios)
Episodes
1975 - Pyramids of Mars, Part Three: 9.4 million viewers
1980 - Full Circle, Part Three: 5.9 million viewers
1986 - The Trial of a Time Lord, Part Ten [Terror Of The Vervoids, Part Two]: 4.6 million viewers
1989 - The Curse of Fenric, Part Three: 4.0 million viewers
2010 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, Part One (CBBC): 0.98 million viewers
2014 - Death in Heaven: 7.60 million viewers
Departures
2014 - Conclusion to the eighth series of Nu-Who
Releases
1979 - Issue 5 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1984 - Issue 95 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2005 - The Claws of Axos (DVD - region 1)
2007 - Issue 42 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2010 - The Complete Fifth Series (DVD and Blu-ray box set - region 2)
2012 - Issue 294 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)
Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Rewrites to The Christmas Invasion were made; recording of the Big Finish audio Night Thoughts took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Emerald Tiger took place
2017 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Lure of the Nomad took place