December 7th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1916 - Dennis Bowen (Prison Governor in Frontier in Space)
1937 - Kenneth Colley (Cristophe Zarodnix in the Big Finish audio Sisters of the Flame/The Vengeance of Morbius)
1946 - Rosalind Ayers (Miriam Rochester in the Big Finish audio Jubilee and Mrs. Wintergreen in BBC Radio 4's Torchwood story The Devil and Miss Carew; married to Doctor Who guest actor Martin Jarvis)
1947 - Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot [Second Doctor companion]; Jenny Wilson in the stage show Seven Keys to Doomsday and Lorraine Baynes in the Big Finish audio Davros; former wife of Big Finish actor Melvyn Hayes and mother of Big Finish actress Charlie Hayes)
1966 - C. Thomas Howell (Gentleman in the Torchwood story Miracle Day)
Deaths
1995 - Peter Forbes-Robertson (Guard in The Power of the Daleks, Time Lord in Colony in Space and the Chief Sea Devil in The Sea Devils) aged 68
1998 - Michael Craze (Ben Jackson [First & Second Doctors' companion]) aged 56
2006 - Peter Brayham (stunt coordinater in The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion) aged 70
Episodes
1963 - An Unearthly Child, Episode Three ('The Forest of Fear'): 6.9 million viewers
1968 - The Invasion, Episode Six: 6.5 million viewers
1987 - Dragonfire, Part Three: 4.7 million viewers
1988 - Silver Nemesis, Part Three: 5.2 million viewers
Departures
1987 - Conclusion to the twenty-fourth series of classic Who; final regular appearance of Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush
Releases
1995 - Shakedown and The Fifth Doctor Handbook (Virgin Books)
2006 - Issue 377 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 86 (Big Finish Productions)
2015 - Torchwood: One Rule (Big Finish)
2017 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 229 (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Rewrites to Army of Ghosts/Doomsday were made
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Rocket Men took place