April 17th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1920 - Arnold Yarrow (Bellal in Death to the Daleks)
1924 - Kevin Lindsay (Sontaran actor - Linx in The Time Warrior and Styre & the Marshal in The Sontaran Experiment; 'Cho-Je' incarnation of K'Anpo in Planet of the Spiders); Clyde Pollitt (Time Lord actor - Time Lord in The War Games and the Chancellor in The Three Doctors [two characters are possibly the same character])
1929 - Eve Pearce (Estelle Cole in the Torchwood story Small Worlds)
1941 - Brian Miller (Dalek voices [1984-1988]; Dugdale in Snakedance, Barney in Deep Breath and Harry Sowersby in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Mad Woman in the Attic; Big Finish Productions actor - Abbotly in the Sarah Jane Smith story Ghost Town and Rexus in the Gallifrey story Reborn; husband to Sarah Jane Smith actress Elisabeth Sladen and father to fellow Big Finish actor Sadie Miller)
1942 - David Bradley (First Doctor [The Doctor Falls, Twice Upon a Time and Big Finish audios]; Solomon in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, voice of the Shansheeth in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Death of the Doctor and William Hartnell in the 50th anniversary docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time)
1944 - Diane Fletcher (Autumn Wit in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story The Tub Full of Cats)
1950 - Peter Mantle (Kaled Guard in Genesis of the Daleks)
1963 - Terry Weaver (Props master on the TV Movie)
Deaths
2001 - Terry Scully (Fewsham in The Seeds of Death) aged 68
2002 - James Copeland (Selris in The Krotons) aged 83
2017 - Michael Ladkin (RAF Pilot in The Faceless Ones) aged 72
Episodes
1965 - The Crusade, Episode Four ('The Warlords'): 9.5 million viewers
1971 - Colony in Space, Episode Two: 8.5 million viewers
2010 - Victory of the Daleks: 8.2 million viewers
Documentaries
2010 - Doctor Who Confidential: End Games
Releases
1980 - Issue 28 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1997 - The Well-Mannered War (Virgin Books)
2008 - Issue 60 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2012 - The Emerald Tiger (Big Finish)
2013 - Prisoners of Time (IDW Publishing)
2014 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 57 (Big Finish); Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Official Guide to the 2013 series (Panini)
2015 - Tony Hadoke's Who's Round 116 (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
2007 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Valhalla took place
2009 - Big Finish announced that it was bringing the book version of Short Trips range was coming to an end. It would later continue in audio range