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[Susan Foreman]

August 15th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1925 - Roma Woodnutt (Nola in The Underwater Menace)

1945 - Nigel Terry (General Cobb in The Doctor's Daughter); William Lindsay (Zargo in State of Decay)

1963 - Con O'Neill (Huw MacLean in the Class story Co-owner of a Lonely Heart/Brave-ish Heart)
1966 - Philip Meehan (dubbing editor on the Comic Relief special The Curse of Fatal Death)

Obituaries
2011 - Noel Collins (Pat Rowlinson in Battlefield) aged 74

Episodes
1964 - The Reign of Terror, Episode Two ('Guests of Madame Guillotine'): 6.9 million viewers

Releases
1991 - Timewyrm: Exodus (Virgin Books)

1996 - Return of the Living Dad and The Shadow of Weng-Chiang (Virgin Books)
2008 - Agent Provocateur (IDW Publishing)
2014 - Zygon Hunt and Revenge of the Swarm (Big Finish Productions)

Behind-the-Scenes
1963 - Carole Ann Ford visited BBC Television Centre to have costume fittings and make-up tests for Susan Foreman
2003 - Recording of Big Finish's 40th anniversary Doctor Who story Zagreus took place

[Susan Foreman]

Apparently, this years Children In Need thing is going to feature a specially recorded skit, rather than a clip from an upcoming episode or the Christmas special

Presumably this will have Bradley Walsh hosting a 'Doctor Who' episode of 'The Chase' (but NOT the one with the Daleks!)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Ice Warriors as seen in The Monster of Peladon (1974)

[Susan Foreman]

August 16th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1928 - Murphy Grumbar (Dalek [1963-1974]; a Mechanoid in The Chase, Arcturus in The Curse of Peladon and an extra in The Three Doctors and Carnival of Monsters)

1934 - John Standing (Big Finish Productions actor - Fenric in Gods and Monsters, and Professor Threadstone in Vampire of the Mind)

1935 - Janet Henfrey (Miss Hardaker in The Curse of Fenric and Mrs. Pitt in Mummy on the Orient Express; Big Finish actress - Mrs. Vanguard in the Jago & Litefoot story The Spirit Trap and Doctor Petherbridge in the audio anthology Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories)

1942 - John Challis (Scorby in The Seeds of Doom and the 'Rosser' incarnation of Drax in the Big Finish audio The Trouble with Drax)

Deaths
1997 - Robin Wentworth (Professor Gilbert Horner in The Daemons) aged 82

Episodes
2002 - Real Time, Episode Three (webcast)

Releases
2007 - Issue 36 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

2012 - The Wheel of Ice (BBC Books); issue 282 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); The Masters of Luxor (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2007 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Skull of Sobek took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Michelle Gomez as Missy (right) along with her companions Nardole and Bill in World Enough and Time (2017)

[Susan Foreman]

August 17th: Today in WHO-story:

Births
1953 - Stephen Flynn (Grigory in Revelation of the Daleks)

1960 - Karen Gledhill (Allison Williams in Remembrance of the Daleks and Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who spin-off Counter-Measures)
1968 - Helen McCrory (Rosanna Calvierri in The Vampires of Venice)

Deaths
1990 - Graham Williams (Producer [1977-1980]; co-writer of The Invasion of Time and City of Death [under the pseudonym David Agnew]; writer of the unmade TV story-turned-Big Finish audio The Nightmare Fair; director of Nightmare of Eden [uncredited]) aged 45

1993 - Bill Smith (extra in The Gunfighters)
2007 - George Giles (Guard Captain in The Curse of Peladon) aged 76

Episodes
1968 - The Dominators, Episode Two: 5.9 million viewers

Releases
1989 - The Ultimate Evil (Target Books)

1995 - Zamper and Invasion of the Cat-People (Virgin Books)
2006 - Issue 373 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)

2015 - The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure (Big Finish)
2017 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 213 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - The winning entry for Blue Peter's Design-a-Monster competition was confirmed as the Abzorbaloff, which would appear in Love & Monsters
2007 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Zygon Who Fell to Earth took place

2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Book of Kells took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Renaissance Man took place
2017 - Recording of Big Finish's audio anthology The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Master (Anthony Ainley) de-scarecrows himself in The Mark of the Rani (1985)

[Susan Foreman]

August 18th: Today in WHO-Story:

Births
1925 - Brian Aldiss (writer of the short story Umwelts for Hire)
1938 - Roy Boyd (Driscoll in The Hand of Fear)
1940 - Barry Justice (King Charles IX in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve)

1941 - David Bache (extra in Earthshock, Revelation of the Daleks and The Trial of a Time Lord)
1945 - Paul Alexander (Clockwork Soldier in The Mind Robber)
1948 - Joseph Marcell (John in Remembrance of the Daleks)

1956 - John Debney (music composer on the TV Movie)

1993 - Maia Mitchell (Taphony in the K9 story Taphony and the Time Loop)

Deaths
1985 - Reg Lever (Joker in The Celestial Toymaker) aged 81

1991 - Barbara Leake (Mrs. Farrel in Terror of the Autons) aged 88

1995 - James Maxwell (Jackson in Underworld) aged 66
2001 - Tom Watson (Ramo in The Underwater Menace) aged 69
2010 - Madeleine Mills (Vana in The Krotons) aged 69
2016 - Michael Napier-Brown (Arturo Villar in The War Games) aged 79

Releases
1994 - Strange England (Virgin Books)

1997 - The Bodysnatchers and The Ultimate Treasure (BBC Books); The Happiness Patrol (VHS)
2003 - Earthshock (DVD - region 2)
2005 - Issue 360 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)

2011 - Torchwood: The Men Who Sold the World (BBC Books); issue 231 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

Behind-the-Scenes
1995 - Matthew Jacobs submitted a draft script for the TV Movie
2011 - Recording of Big Finish Productions' audio adventure Trail of the White Worm took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Dalek zombies from Asylum of the Daleks (2012)

[Susan Foreman]

August 19th: Today in WHO-Story:

Births
1931 - Hilary Sesta (Fortune Teller in Snakedance)

1948 - Jim Carter (Brother Bernard in the Big Finish audio The Book of Kells)
1960 - David John (Derek in Survival; Big Finish Productions actor - Liam McShane in The Reaping, Bank Robber in the Sarah Jane Smith story Comeback and Pete Stepney in the Jago & Litefoot story The Flickermen)

1969 - S.P. Krause (writer of the K9 stories Regeneration, Liberation, The Fall of the House of Gryffen, The Custodians, The Last Precinct, Hound of the Korven and The Eclipse of the Korven)
1977 - Callum Blue (Lord James Marchwood in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Eternity Trap)
1979 - Joshua Hale Fialkov (writer of IDW Publishing's comic strips Run, Doctor, Run, As Time Goes By and Space Oddity)

Deaths
2017 - Brian Aldiss (writer of the short story Umwelts for Hire) died the day after his 92nd birthday

Episodes
2011 - Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode Seven ('Immortal Sins'): 4.48 million viewers

Releases
1993 - Birthright (Virgin Books)

2004 - Issue 347 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)

2010 - Issue 425 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini); issue 180 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2015 - Four Doctors, Part Two (Titan Comics)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 181 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Cryptobiosis took place
2009 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Deimos/The Resurrection of Mars took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Oseidon Adventure took place