16 October

Behind the scenes

 * 1920 - John Dearth, who provided the voice of BOSS in TV: The Green Death and portrayed Lupton in Planet of the Spiders, was born.
 * 1941 - David Ashford (Dad in TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy) was born.
 * 1946 - Tariq Yunus (Cass in TV: The Robots of Death) was born.
 * 1947 - Guy Siner (Ravon in TV: Genesis of the Daleks) was born.
 * 1965 - "Temple of Secrets", Episode 1 of TV: The Myth Makers, was first broadcast.
 * 1967 - Davina McCall was born.
 * 1976 - Part 3 of TV: The Hand of Fear was first broadcast.
 * 2009 - Denys Hawthorne (Rudge in TV: Terror of the Vervoids) died.
 * 2010 - Doctor Who Live: The Monsters Are Coming! was performed twice at the SECC in Glasgow: once at 11:00am in a performance open only to readers of the Scottish Sun who collected tokens for free tickets, and again in the evening.