December 31st [New Years Eve] - Today in WHO-story
Births
1927 - Frank Gatliff (Ortron in The Monster of Peladon)
Deaths
2015 - Helen Blatch (Computer voice in The Deadly Assassin and Fabian in The Twin Dilemma) aged 82
Episodes
1966 - The Highlanders, Episode Three: 7.4 million viewers
2007 - Blood of the Daleks, Part One (BBC7)
Introductions
2007 - First appearance of Sheridan Smith as the Eighth Doctor's companion Lucie Miller
Releases
2013 - Issue 336 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)
**NOTE
This is the last entry for the 'Today in WHO-story' feature. After a years worth of postings, if I was to carry on into 2019, I feel that 95% of what I put will just be repeating what was done a year ago. Therefore I will take a break for the time being. Maybe it will return in a decade when there will be ten years worth of updates and new information to be posted - that is if a) the programme is still running in 2029; b) the forum is still running in 2029; and c) I am still running in 2029!
In hindsight, I should have made these entries in a separate thread for ease of reference, but I didn't. I should have included more pictures in the earlier posts, but again I didn't. I am also kicking myself for not taking more notice during the information text segments of the classic DVD releases, and taking notes of the dates when episodes were filmed because they would have fitted in perfectly with what I did achieve
No doubt there have been many omissions and errors included which will hopefully be rectified if I ever get round to doing an updated version
There were a couple of websites which were invaluable for my research. The
TARDIS Wiki contains all the information (and more) that any fan of 'Doctor Who', 'Torchwood', 'The Sarah-Jane Adventures', 'K-9' and even 'Class' could ever want. So extensive is this site, that it is very easy to lose yourself for a couple of days just cross-referencing stories and features
Also very useful were the
Movie-Dude 'Doctor Who' Character Identification pages, which covers the first 8 series - 'An Unearthly Child' to 'The Daemons' - and includes pictures of pretty much anyone who appears on screen, which was great when putting a face to a character named as 'third guard by the spaceship'! [Note - to use these pages, click on the above link, then chose the 'TV' tab at the top of the displayed page and just look for the 'Doctor Who' entry.] In a similar vein, the
Aveleyman site is a handy pictorial database of people who have 'appeared on the silver screen'