2 October

Behind the scenes

 * 1932 - Gabriel Woolf, who played Sutekh in Doctor Who and several other characters for Big Finish, was born.
 * 1941 - Sam Dastor, who played Professor Narayan in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story The Emerald Tiger, was born in Bombay, India.
 * 1950 - Ian McNeice (Winston Churchill in TV: Victory of the Daleks et al.) was born.
 * 1958 - Daniel Peacock (Nord in TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy) was born.
 * 1965 - "The Exploding Planet", Episode 4 of TV: Galaxy 4, was first broadcast.
 * 1965 - The first pat of COMIC: The Ordeals of Demeter was released.
 * 1976 - Part 1 of TV: The Hand of Fear was first broadcast.