November 23rd: Today in WHO-story
Births
1914 - Roger Avon (Saphadin in The Crusade, Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan and Wells in the movie Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD)
1916 - Michael Gough (Toymaker in The Celestial Toymaker and Hedin in Arc of Infinity; former husband to Polly Wright actress Anneke Wills)
1943 - Roger Nott (Prisoner in The Twin Dilemma and the Prisoner in the interactive game Attack of the Graske)
1963 - Joe Ahearne (director of Dalek, Father's Day, Boom Town and Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways)
1966 - Michelle Gomez ('Missy' incarnation of the Master [2014-2017 and upcoming audio adventures from Big Finish Productions]; Jevvan in the Big Finish audio Valhalla)
1978 - Kayvan Novak (Handles in The Time of the Doctor)
Deaths
1982 - Raymond Westwell (Prison Governor in The Mind of Evil) aged 63
1990 - Mostyn Evans (Dai Evans in The Green Death, the High Priest in Death to the Daleks and an extra in Doctor Who and the Silurians) aged 67
2003 - Bill Strutton (writer of The Web Planet and the unmade TV story-turned-Big Finish audio The Mega) aged 85
2010 - Ingrid Pitt (Queen Galleia in The Time Monster, Doctor Solow in Warriors of the Deep and writer of the unmade TV story-turned-Big Finish audio The Macro Men [retitled The Macros]) aged 73
2016 - Andrew Sachs (the Doctor's Scarf in the AudioGO story Serpent Crest; Big Finish actor - Skagra in Shada, an older, alternative version of Adric in The Boy That Time Forgot and Crassostrea in Orbis) aged 86
Episodes
1963 - An Unearthly Child, Episode One ('An Unearthly Child'): 4.4 million viewers
1968 - The Invasion, Episode Four: 6.4 million viewers
1983 - The Five Doctors (PBS)
1987 - Dragonfire, Part One: 5.5 million viewers
1988 - Silver Nemesis, Part One: 6.1 million viewers
2013 - The Day of the Doctor;
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (BBC Red Button service): 12.8 million viewers
Documentaries
2003 - Doctor Who @ 40 Weekend (UK Gold Channel - second and final day of repeats and mini-documentaries commemorating Doctor Who's 40th anniversary)
2013 - Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty (BBC Three)
Introductions
1963 - Launch of the very-first series of Doctor Who; first appearance of William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill and Carole Ann Ford as the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman respectively
1987 - Sophie Aldred's debut as Ace
2013 - John Hurt's first full debut as the War Doctor; Ingrid Oliver's debut as Osgood
Releases
1987 - Encyclopedia of the Worlds of Doctor Who: A-D (Piccadilly Press)
1995 - Issue 233 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2000 - Howe's Transcendental Toybox (Telos Publishing)
2001 - Time and Relative (Telos Publishing)
2002 - Foreign Devils (Telos Publishing)
2016 - UNIT: Silenced (Big Finish)
2017 - The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Volume Two and Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 277 (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
1989 - Sylvester McCoy recorded the closing monologue to Survival. This would be the final major recording session on Doctor Who until 1996
2005 - Recording of Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith story Fatal Consequences took place
2006 - The read-through for Human Nature/The Family of Blood took place
2010 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story The Elite took place
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Moonflesh took place