December 21st: Today in WHO-story
Births
1915 - James Cairncross (Lemaitre in The Reign of Terror and Beta in The Krotons)
1937 - Sheila Reid (Etta in Vengeance on Varos, Clara's grandmother in The Time of the Doctor and Dark Water and Claire Summerfield in the Big Finish audio The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield)
1945 - Alibe Parsons (Matrona Kani in The Trial of a Time Lord)
1950 - Jane How (Rebec in Planet of the Daleks)
1968 - Catherine Cusack (Blue Kang Leader in Paradise Towers)
1972 - Chris Porter (voices of the Smilers and Winders in The Beast Below; Big Finish Productions actor - Selachian Leader in The Architects of History, Vincol in The Acheron Pulse, Degooer & Montain in Planet of the Rani, Jason Corey in The Destroyers, Prince Sayf Unteen & Valentin in Crime of the Century, Carna in Dark Eyes 2, Skaul & Freel in Casualties of War, Nardos in The Helm of Awe and Gormune in the Bernice Summerfield story Year Zero)
Deaths
1982 - Edmund Bailey (Madame Tassauds Attendant in Spearhead from Space and an extra in The Time Monster) aged 78
1989 - Edmund Warwick (Darrius in The Keys of Marinus, the Robot Doctor in The Chase and William Hartnell's stand-in in The Dalek Invasion of Earth) aged 82
1991 - Colin Douglas (Donald Bruce in The Enemy of the World and Reuben & Rutan voices in Horror of Fang Rock) aged 79
1998 - Roger Avon (Saphadin in The Crusade, Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan and Wells in the movie Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150AD) aged 84
1999 - Jack le White (extra in The Reign of Terror and The Daleks' Master Plan) aged 87; John Arnatt (Borusa in The Invasion of Time) aged 82
2000 - John Lee (Alydon in The Daleks) aged 72
2001 - Kevin Manser (Dalek [1963-1966]; Zarbi in The Web Planet) aged 72
2012 - Daphne Oxenford (Archivist in Dragonfire and the older Agatha Christie in the deleted scenes from The Unicorn and the Wasp) aged 93
Episodes
1963 - The Daleks, Episode One ('The Dead Planet'): 6.9 million viewers
1968 - The Invasion, Episode Eight: 7.0 million viewers
1988 - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Part Two: 5.3 million viewers
2012 - Songtaran Carols (online mini-episode)
Introductions
1963 - First-ever glimpse of a Dalek
Releases
1989 - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (Target Books)
1995 - Issue 234 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2011 - Attack of the Snowmen, Part Two (online short story)
2014 - Behind You, Part Three (online short story); Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 98 (Big Finish)
2015 -
Haunted, Part One (online short story)
2017 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 231 (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
1965 - First performance of the first-ever official Doctor Who-related stage show The Curse of the Daleks
2007 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Dark Husband took place
2008 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story Absence took place
2009 - Recording of the first series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot took place