September 20th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1921 - Jack Kine (visual effects designer on The Mind Robber; extra in Inferno)
1925 - John Wiles (Producer [1965-1966]); Christopher Barry (director of The Daleks, The Rescue, The Romans, The Savages, The Power of the Daleks, The Daemons, The Mutants, Robot, The Brain of Morbius, The Creature from the Pit and Reeltime Pictures' Doctor Who spin-off Downtime; extra in The Brain of Morbius)
1955 - David Haig (Pangol in The Leisure Hive)
1969 - Mina Anwar (Goodthing in Smile and Gita Chandra in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures)
Deaths
1986 - Dennis Spooner (Script editor [1965]; writer of The Reign of Terror, The Romans, The Time Meddler, episodes 6 & 8-12 of The Daleks' Master Plan and uncredited rewrites to The Power of the Daleks) aged 53
1993 - Salvin Stewart (Morok Guard & Messenger in The Space Museum) aged 69
1997 - Roy Pattison (Draconian Space Pilot in Frontier in Space and Zazzka in The Hand of Fear) aged 70
2000 - Mary Ridge (director of Terminus) aged 75
2009 - Kenneth Seeger (Cyberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen) aged 78
Episodes
1975 - Terror of the Zygons, Part Four: 7.2 million viewers
1980 - The Leisure Hive, Part Four: 4.5 million viewers
1986 - The Trial of a Time Lord, Part Three [The Mysterious Planet, Part Three]: 3.9 million viewers
1989 - Battlefield, Part Three: 3.6 million viewers
2014 - Time Heist: 6.99 million viewers
Departures
1975 - Last regular appearance of both Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier) and Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan)
Releases
1984 - The Key to Time: A Year by Year Record [Hardback. Also limited deluxe edition] (W. H. Allen)
2001 - Issue 309 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2004 - Ghost Light (DVD - region 2)
2007 - Issue 387 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
2012 - Issue 287 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.); issue 352 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini)
Behind-the-Scenes
1963 - Along with producer Verity Lambert, the first four Doctor Who regulars (William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill and Carole Ann Ford) met for the first time
2006 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Return of the Daleks took place
2012 - Recording of the sixth series of Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who spin-off Gallifrey took place
2015 - Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and two Daleks participated in an Abbey Road photoshoot inspired by The Beatles
2017 - Recording of Big Finish's Torchwood story Machines took place