May 8th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1928 - John Bennett (General Finch in Invasion of the Dinosaurs and Li H'Sen Chang in The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
1931 - Douglas Camfield (production assistant on An Unearthly Child and Marco Polo; director of Planet of Giants, The Crusade, The Time Meddler, The Daleks' Master Plan, The Web of Fear, The Invasion, Inferno, Terror of the Zygons and The Seeds of Doom; extra in The Brain of Morbius)
1932 - Phyllida Law (Bea Nelson-Stanley in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Eye of the Gorgon and Belldonia in the Big Finish audio The Bride of Peladon)
1975 - Joel Skinner (Doctor Who's visual effects editor [2009-2014])
1976 - Ian H. Watkins (Melville Trout in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Road Trip)
1981 - Ayesha Antoine (Dee Dee Blasco in Midnight and Ruth Leonidas in Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who spin-off Bernice Summerfield)
1982 - Christina Cole (Lilith in The Shakespeare Code)
Deaths
2014 - Paul Spragg (Big Finish's production assistant and podcast co-host) aged 38
2016 - Gareth Gwenlan (assistant floor manager on The Savages and The Underwater Menace and production assistant on The Web of Fear) aged 79
Episodes
1965 - The Space Museum, Episode Three ('The Search'): 8.5 million viewers
1971 - Colony in Space, Episode Five: 8.8 million viewers
2010 - The Vampires of Venice: 7.68 million viewers
Documentaries
2010 - Doctor Who Confidential: Death in Venice
Releases
1980 - Issue 31 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1986 - Issue 113 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1997 - Issue 252 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2008 - Pest Control (BBC Audio); issue 63 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - The Lady of Mercia, The Apocalypse Mirror, Phantoms of the Deep and Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 18 (Big Finish)
2014 - The Bog Warrior (BBC Digital); Charlotte Pollard, Series One (Big Finish)
2015 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 118 (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
1964 - The Warriors of Death, the second episode of The Aztecs, was the first Doctor Who episode to be recorded at BBC Television Centre
2008 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Kingdom of Silver took place
2010 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Dead Man's Switch took place
2013 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Masquerade and the fourth series of the Doctor Who spin-off Iris Wildthyme took place