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[Susan Foreman]

April 8th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1919 - David Dodimead (Doctor Barclay in The Tenth Planet)
1920 - Brian Hawksley (Brewster in Black Orchid)
1936 - David Cole (Billy Clanton in The Gunfighters)
1942 - Lovett Bickford (Assistant Floor Manager on The War Machines and The Moonbase and director of The Leisure Hive)

1944 - Hywel Bennett (Rhynian in The Chase)

Deaths
1989 - Adam Kurakin (Guard in The Pirate Planet) aged 43

Episodes
1967 - The Faceless Ones, Episode One: 8.0 million viewers
1972 - The Mutants, Episode One: 9.1 million viewers

Releases
1982 - Issue 64 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1991 - Planet of the Spiders and City of Death (VHS)
1999 - Issue 277 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2002 - Trading Futures and Amorality Tale (BBC Books); The Ark in Space (DVD - region 2)
2004 - The Audio Scripts: Volume 3 (Big Finish Productions); The Visitation (DVD - region 4)
2010 - Issue 161 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - Plague of the Cybermen, The Dalek Generation and Shroud of Sorrow (BBC Books)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 164 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1970 - Nicholas Courtney signed up for another year as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

2000 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story The Skymimes of Karthos took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Army of Death took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Richard Briers as the Chief Caretaker in the Sylvester McCoy story Paradise Towers.

[Susan Foreman]

April 9th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1925 - Derek Murcott (Crito in The Time Monster)
1928 - Aubrey Woods (Controller in Day of the Daleks)
1931 - Jon Rollason (Harold Chorley in The Web of Fear)
1941 - Hannah Gordon (Kirsty McLaren in The Highlanders and the Ship in Big Finish Productions' audio adaptation of Shada)
1944 - Peter Messaline (Dalek voices in Day of the Daleks)
1969 - Neil Cross (Writer of The Rings of Akhaten and Hide)
1972 - Neve McIntosh (Silurian actress - Alaya & Restac in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, Vastra from 2011-2014 and the second series of Big Finish's The Churchill Years story Young Winston and Tryska & Kalana in Big Finish's UNIT: The New Series story Assembled; Lara Zannis in the Big Finish audio Agents of Chaos)

1979 - Ben Silverstone (Drew in the Big Finish audio Phobos)
1993 - Will Merrick (Brains of Nightmare in Silver)

Deaths
2011 - Yolande Palfrey (Janet in The Trial of a Time Lord) aged 54

Episodes
1966 - The Celestial Toymaker, Episode Two ('The Hall of Dolls'): 8.0 million viewers
2005 - The Unquiet Dead: 8.86 million viewers
2013 - Strax Field Report: Trafalgar Square (online mini-episode)

Documentaries
2005 - Doctor Who Confidential: TARDIS Tales

Releases
1981 - Issue 52 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1987 - Issue 124 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1998 - Issue 264 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2009 - Issue 110 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

2014 - Issue 343 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); The Way to End All Wars (Big Finish)
2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 115 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2008 - The BBC confirmed that there would be a Doctor Who at the Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor faces a more Earthly threat in 2014's In the Forest of the Night

[Susan Foreman]

April 10th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1899 - Oswald Hafenrichter (editor on the movie Dr. Who and the Daleks)

1916 - John Alderson (Wyatt Earp in The Gunfighters)
1945 - James Bate (Amyand in Planet of Fire)
1948 - Stephen Churchett (Bill in Attack of the Cybermen)
1954 - Glen McCoy (writer of Timelash)

1976 - Clare Buckfield (Big Finish Productions​ actress - Sally-Anne Stubbins in The One Doctor, Trisha Tomorrow in Horror of Glam Rock, Spring-Heeled Sophie in Dead London and Ann & Darl in The Warehouse); Julie Buckfield (Hedyla in the Big Finish audio Return to the Web Planet; twin sister of fellow Big Finish actress Clare Buckfield)

Episodes
1965 - The Crusade, Episode Three ('The Wheel of Fortune'): 9.0 million viewers
1971 - Colony in Space, Episode One: 7.6 million viewers
2010 - The Beast Below: 8.42 million viewers

Documentaries
2010 - Doctor Who Confidential​: All About the Girl

Introductions
2010 - First appearance of Sophie Okonedo as Liz 10 and Ian McNeice as Winston Churchill

Releases
1980 - Issue 27 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1986 - Issue 112 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1997 - Issue 251 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2008 - Martha in the Mirror, Snowglobe 7 and The Many Hands (BBC Books); issue 59 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Tenth Doctor - Collected Comics (Panini UK)
2013 - Eldrad Must Die! and The Library of Alexandria (Big Finish)
2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 55 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2012 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story The Dark Planet took place

[Susan Foreman]

Colin Baker in the BBC's 1971 adaptation of Balzac's 'Cousin Bette'

Looks like he is in the mid stage of a transformation into a perfectly coiffed werewolf!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Master in the guise of an Earth Adjudicator in Colony in Space (1971)

[gag]

Thought I put this here instead of what I bought since its a Dalek

Dave he called Dave because that what previous owner called him come 7:30 this morn, he not set up yet because we haven't found him a homely spot yet

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by gag

Thought I put this here instead of what I bought since its a Dalek

Dave he called Dave because that what previous owner called him come 7:30 this morn, he not set up yet because we haven't found him a homely spot yet

What's up with the eye?

It's also a bit too big - the smaller a Dalek is, the more threatening it is. In the original novelisation of 'Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With The Daleks' they are described as being 3foot tall. In the televised stories, they should be just below shoulder height. If the people in the picture are 'normal' height, the Dalsk should be a good 18 inches smaller

[gag]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

What's up with the eye?

It's also a bit too big - the smaller a Dalek is, the more threatening it is. In the original novelisation of 'Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With The Daleks' they are described as being 3foot tall. In the televised stories, they should be just below shoulder height. If the people in the picture are 'normal' height, the Dalsk should be a good 18 inches smaller

I haven't attached his bits yet sounds rude
He 5ft 5 inch 18 inch smaller I've got a friend who almost 7ft I have him stood next to it might look right then.