20 August

Events

 * 1970 - Dorothy McShane, companion of the Seventh Doctor, was born. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation, Falls the Shadow, Set Piece, PROSE: Relative Dementias)

Behind the scenes

 * 1909 - André Morell (Marshal Tavannes in TV: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve) was born.
 * 1916 - Bernard Archard (Bragen in TV: The Power of the Daleks and Marcus Scarman in TV: Pyramids of Mars) was born.
 * 1932 - Anthony Ainley ( from 1981 to 1989) was born.
 * 1934 - John Davies, the director of TV: The Macra Terror, was born.
 * 1943 - Sylvester McCoy (the Seventh Doctor) was born.
 * 1962 - Sophie Aldred was born.
 * 1962 - James Marsters was born.
 * 1970 - Adrian Bower, who voiced Steffen in AUDIO: Survival of the Fittest, was born.
 * 1971 - David Walliams (Gibbis in TV: The God Complex) was born.
 * 1991 - Betty Bowden (Meg Seeley in TV: Spearhead from Space) died at the age of 86.
 * 1993 - Sydney Arnold (Perkins in TV: The Highlanders) died.
 * 1997 - Bill Mitchell (the Newscaster in TV: Frontier in Space) died.