An Unearthly Child: Pilot premiered on BBC2 in 1991 at 2:19pm, watched by 1.60 million viewers.

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Doctor Who at the Proms premiered on BBC One in 2013 at 4:00pm, watched by 1.45 million viewers.
Phil Collinson is 49 today - 84 credits, including Producer for Rose

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Annette Badland is 69 today - 7 credits, including Margaret Blaine in Aliens of London / World War Three

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Stephen Greif is 75 today - 7 credits, including Gurney in The Infinite Quest

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Humphrey Searle (died 1982 aged 66) would be 104 today - credited as Incidental Music for The Myth Makers
Gerard Murphy (died 2013 aged 64) - credited as Richard in Silver Nemesis

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Tariq Yunus (died 1994 aged 47) - credited as Cass in The Robots of Death

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Martin Miller (died 1969 aged 69) - credited as Kublai Khan in Marco Polo

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Doctor Who Magazine: Issue 542
This month's Doctor Who Magazine sees today's Doctor Who writers paying tribute to the series pioneers.
21 Aug

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Sixth Doctor and Peri return in new audio adventures for 2020
Big Finish have announced four new adventures for the Sixth Doctor and Peri for August 2020, set after The Trial of a Time Lord and their audio adventure The Rani Elite.
20 Aug

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Candy Jar Books release online Lucy Wilson short-story by Sue Hampton
Candy Jar Books have released an online short story by Sue Hampton to tie in with their spin-off Lethbridge-Stewart series of books, The Lucy Wilson Mysteries:
18 Aug

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Black Archive #34: Battlefield
The latest in the series looking in detail at the making of Doctor Who, Black Archive, has been published by Obverse Books
15 Aug