August 6th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1926 - Frank Finlay (Old Jacob in Big Finish Productions' audio anthology 100)
1937 - Barbara Windsor (BBC EastEnders' Peggy Mitchell in Army of Ghosts)
1945 - Ron Jones (director of Black Orchid, Time-Flight, Arc of Infinity, Frontios, Vengeance on Varos and episodes 5-8 of The Trial of a Time Lord)
1952 - James Murray (Camper in The Stones of Blood)
1958 - Keith Barnfather (Producer & director of Reeltime Pictures' Doctor Who spin-offs)
1970 - Alan Cox (Big Finish actor - John Matthews in The Roof of the World, Mark Seven in The Destroyers, Oscar Wild in the Jago & Litefoot story Beautiful Things, Grenville & Diggery in The Auntie Matter, Gideon McDivett in The Ghosts of Gralstead, Death in Death and the Queen, and Fanshawe in the New Counter-Measures story Who Killed Toby Kinsella?)
Deaths
1976 - William Mervyn (Sir Charles Summer in The War Machines; father of 'revived era' production designer Michael Pickwoad) aged 63
1980 - Barry Justice (King Charles IX in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve) aged 39
2002 - Katherine Schofield (Sabetha in The Keys of Marinus) aged 63
2013 - Ian Rawnsley (designer on Robot)
2014 - Dave Baumber (sound recorder on the first series of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood)
Releases
1992 - Issue 190 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2001 - Dark Progeny and Bullet Time (BBC Books)
2002 - The Tomb of the Cybermen (DVD - region 1)
2007 - Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity (DVD - region 2)
2009 - Issue 127 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); Delta and the Bannermen (DVD - region 4)
2015 - Iris Wildthyme: Wildthyme Reloaded (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
1966 - The BBC announced that William Hartnell was to leave Doctor Who. Patrick Troughton was contracted to appear in at least 22 episodes as the Second Doctor
1998 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Beyond the Sun took place
2000 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Holy Terror took place
2004 - Recording of Big Finish's UNIT story Snake Head took place
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories took place
2015 - Recording of Big Finish's Jago & Litefoot & Strax story The Haunting took place