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[Susan Foreman]

1st February: Today in WHO-story

Births
1900 - Joan Young (Catherine de Medici in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve)
1921 - Peter Sallis (Elric Penley in The Ice Warriors)

1928 - Robert Rowland (extra in The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
1946 - Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith; Big Finish Productions actress - Miss Lime in Zagreus and Ninan-ashtammu in the Bernice Summerfield story Walking to Babylon)

Deaths
2000 - Reginald Jessup (Servant in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve and Savar in The Invasion of Time) died aged 79
2013 - Robin Sachs (British Professor in the Torchwood story Miracle Day; son of The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve and Arc of Infinity guest actor Leonard Sachs; former husband of Big Finish actress Siân Phillips) died aged 61

Episodes
1964 - The Daleks, Episode Seven ('The Rescue'): 10.4 million viewers
1969 - The Seeds of Death, Episode Two: 6.8 million viewers
1975 - The Ark in Space, Part Two: 13.6 million viewers
1982 - Kinda, Part One: 8.4 million viewers
1983 - Mawdryn Undead, Part One: 6.5 million viewers

Introductions
1982 - First appearance of the Mara
1983 - First appearance of Mark Strickson as Visor Turlough

1999 - First appearance of the Eighth Doctor's companion Fitz Kreiner

Releases
1988 - Spearhead from Space (VHS - omnibus edition)
1999 - The Taint and The Wages of Sin (BBC Books); The Mary-Sue Extrusion (Virgin Books)
2007 - Issue 379 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini UK)
2013 - Shadow of Death (Big Finish and AudioGO)
2017 - Issue 14 of Twelfth Doctor Year Two (Titan Comics)

Behind-the-Scenes
2013 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story Lords of the Red Planet took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Sontarans from the 2008 story The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky.

[Susan Foreman]

February 2nd: Today in WHO-story

Births
1930 - Don Houghton (writer of Inferno and The Mind of Evil)
1944 - Geoffrey Hughes (Mr. Popplewick in The Trial of a Time Lord)

1971 - Brad McMurray (Ahab in the K9 OFFICIAL PAGE episode The Bounty Hunter)
1993 - Ryan Watson (Nathan Goss in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Lost Boy)

Deaths
1986 - Donald Eccles (Krasis in The Time Monster) aged 77
1995 - Edwin Finn (Landlord in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve) aged 84
2011 - Margaret John (Megan Jones in Fury from the Deep and Grandma Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern and the mini-episode Tardisode 7) aged 84
2015 - Bob Appleby (Nimon in The Horns of Nimon and a Vervoid in The Trial of a Time Lord)

Episodes
1974 - Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Episode Four: 9.0 million viewers
1982 - Kinda, Part Two: 9.4 million viewers
1983 - Mawdryn Undead, Part Two: 7.5 million viewers
1984 - Frontios, Part Three: 7.8 million viewers
1985 - The Mark of the Rani, Part One: 6.3 million viewers

Introductions
1985 - First appearance of Kate O'Mara as new Gallifreyan villain the Rani

Releases
1998 - Option Lock and Eye of Heaven (BBC Books)
2006 - Issue 366 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini UK)

2010 - The Waters of Mars and The End of Time (DVD - region 1
2012 - The Lost TV Episodes: Collection 4 (BBC Audiobooks); Magic of the Angels (BBC Books); issue 254 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)
2015 - Gallifrey: Intervention Earth (Big Finish Productions)

Behind-the-Scenes
2002 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story The Mirror Effect took place
2016 - Recording of the Big Finish audio A Life of Crime took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Tythonian Ambassador from The Creature from the Pit (1979)

[Susan Foreman]

February 3rd - Today in WHO-story

Births
1964 - Ellen Thomas (Clockwork Droid in The Girl in the Fireplace and Carmen in Planet of the Dead)
1970 - Warwick Davis (Porridge in Nightmare in Silver)

1975 - Mat King (director of Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)
1980 - Ben Turner (Louis XV in The Girl in the Fireplace)

Deaths
1977 - Martin Lisemore (production assistant on The Enemy of the World) aged 37
2013 - Peter Gilmore (Brazen in Frontios) aged 81

Episodes
1968 - The Web of Fear, Episode One: 7.2 million viewers
1973 - Carnival of Monsters, Episode Two: 9.0 million viewers
1979 - The Armageddon Factor, Part Three: 7.8 million viewers
1984 - Frontios, Part Four: 5.6 million viewers
1996 - The Ghosts of N-Space, Episode Three (BBC Radio 2)

Releases
1998 - Walking to Babylon (Virgin Books)
2003 - The Domino Effect (BBC Books); Resurrection of the Daleks (DVD - region 4)

2005 - Ghost Light (DVD - region 4); issue 353 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini UK)
2011 - Issue 203 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); The Good, the Bad and the Alien, System Wipe, Heart of Stone and Death Riders (BBC Books)
2013 - Vince Rocks: Glam Rock Detective (Bafflegab Productions)

Behind-the-Scenes
1995 - Robert deLaurentis submitted a second draft of his proposed script for the TV Movie
2016 - Recording for Big Finish Productions' audio adventure A Life of Crime took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Silurians from the 1984 story Warriors of the Deep.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A new drama from Reeltime Productions.

Kate Lethbridge-Stewart is dead!

Gordon Gordy Lethbridge-Stewart thought he had left the world of his grandfather behind him. As a research scientist, all he was interested in was developing new technologies.

Unfortunately, what he doesn’t know is that retired UNIT operative Captain Douglas Cavendish has given him alien technology to develop his ideas with … and that leads to a great deal of trouble indeed! Trouble that forces Kate Lethbridge-Stewart to make a life or death choice!

In this fast paced sequel to both DAEMOS RISING and the DOCTOR WHO story THE TIME MONSTER, it s difficult to tell if reality is … well …real! Time itself it being manipulated and it s already run out more than once!

[Susan Foreman]

Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Mary Peach and Patrick Troughton filming an exterior scene for The Enemy of the World

[Susan Foreman]

February 4h - Today in WHO-story

Births
1919 - Peter Butterworth (the Monk in The Time Meddler and The Daleks' Master Plan)

1928 - Vincent Wong (Ho in The Talons of Weng-Chiang and an extra in Day of the Daleks and Englishment)
1933 - James Mellor (Sean Flanagan in The Wheel in Space and Varan in The Mutants)
1944 - Paula Topham (Vamp in The Daleks' Master Plan)
1948 - Stephen Wyatt (writer of Paradise Towers and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)

Deaths
1980 - David Whitaker (script editor [1963-1964]; writer of The Edge of Destruction, The Rescue, The Crusade, The Power of the Daleks, The Evil of the Daleks, The Enemy of the World, The Wheel in Space, The Ambassadors of Death and several Doctor Who books, comic strips, movies and stage shows) aged 51

Episode
1967 - The Underwater Menace, Episode Four: 7.0 million viewers
1978 - The Invasion of Time, Part One: 11.2 million viewers

Releases
1985 - Pyramids of Mars (VHS - omnibus edition)

1991 - The Krotons and The Curse of Fenric (VHS)
2002 - Hope and Drift (BBC Books); The Faceless Ones (BBC Audio)
2008 - Hidden and Everyone Says Hello (BBC Audio - Torchwood)
2010 - Issue 254 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); Dalek War (DVD box set - region 4); issue 418 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini UK)
2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 40 (Big Finish Productions)
2016 - Issue 496 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)

Behind-the-Scenes
1964 - Robert Gould met with David Whitaker regarding script ideas living vegetation (unaware that Terry Nation was later to include it in episode three of The Keys of Marinus) and the storyline which eventually became Planet of Giants
1985 - Studio recording of Revelation of the Daleks concluded. As a result of Doctor Who's 18-month hiatus, this was the last episode of Doctor Who to be recorded until a year later
2003 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Omega took place
2007 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story The Judas Gift took place
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Find and Replace took place

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Heather, from 2017's The Pilot.