March 23rd: Today in WHO-story
Births
1909 - Charles Morgan (Songsten in The Abominable Snowmen and the Gold Usher in The Invasion of Time)
1918 - Anthony Jacobs (Doc Holliday in The Gunfighters; father of the TV Movie writer Matthew Jacobs)
1928 - Louis Marks (writer of Planet of Giants, Day of the Daleks, Planet of Evil and The Masque of Mandragora)
1929 - James Maxwell (Jackson in Underworld)
1958 - Chris Blatchford (post-production supervisor on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures)
Deaths
1988 - Reg Lye (Griffin in The Enemy of the World) aged 76
2002 - James Culliford (Stewart in Frontier in Space) aged 74
Episodes
1968 - Fury from the Deep, Episode Two: 7.9 million viewers
1974 - The Monster of Peladon, Part One: 9.2 million viewers
1982 - Time-Flight, Part Two: 8.5 million viewers
1984 - The Twin Dilemma, Part Two: 7.4 million viewers
1985 - Revelation of the Daleks, Part One: 7.4 million viewers
2013 - The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel (online mini-episode)
Introductions
1989 - Launch of the stage show The Ultimate Adventure at New Wimbledon Theatre; debut of companions Jason, Crystal and Zog
Releases
1998 - Battlefield (VHS)
2013 - The Spear of Destiny (Puffin Books)
2016 - Issue 7 of Tenth Doctor Year Two (Titan Comics)
Behind-the-Scenes
2008 - Following correspondence with Doctor Who Magazine's Benjamin Cook, Russell T. Davies rewrote the final scene of Journey's End. The originally planned ending, featuring the Cybermen inside the TARDIS, was recorded but cut from the transmitted version and replaced by the Tenth Doctor upset about being once again
2009 - Recording of the Big Finish Productions audio adventure Paper Cuts took place
2013 - BBC One transmitted a Doctor Who edition of Pointless Celebrities. Playing for their nominated charities are former Doctor Who regular actors Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Bernard Cribbins, Jacqueline King, Nicola Bryant, Andrew Hayden-Smith, Frazer Hines and Louise Jameson Official