January 30th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1926 - Peter Brachacki (designer on An Unearthly Child; designer of the original TARDIS interior)
1929 - Victor Wilding (Spencer in The Faceless Ones)
1947 - Paddy Kingsland (music composer for Meglos to State of Decay, Logopolis, Castrovalva, The Visitation, Mawdryn Undead and Frontios)
1956 - Jeremy Gittens (Lazlo in Warriors' Gate)
1963 - Daphne Ashbrook (Grace Holloway in the TV Movie; Big Finish Productions - Perfection in The Next Life and Captain Ruth Matherson in Tales from the Vault, Mastermind and The Worlds of Doctor Who)
1974 - Olivia Colman (Mother in The Eleventh Hour and Herself in the 50th anniversary spoof The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot)
Deaths
1997 - Nicholas Mallett (director of The Trial of a Time Lord [episodes 1-4], Paradise Towers and The Curse of Fenric) aged 51
2012 - Frederick Treves (Lieutenant Brotadac in Meglos) aged 86
2016 - Frank Finlay (Old Jacob Williams in the Big Finish audio anthology 100) aged 89
Episodes
1965 - The Romans, Episode Three ('Conspiracy'): 10.0 million viewers
1971 - The Mind of Evil, Episode One: 6.1 million viewers
2008 - Torchwood: To the Last Man: 3.5 million viewers
Releases
2006 - The Beginning (DVD box set - region 2)
2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 105 (Big Finish)
2017 - Ghost Stories, Part Three (Titan Comics)
Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Recording of Big Finish's UNIT story The Longest Night took place
2013 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story Lords of the Red Planet took place