17 January

Behind the scenes

 * 1932 - Actor John Cater was born.
 * 1943 - Composer Malcolm Clarke was born.
 * 1947 - Actor John Alkin was born.
 * 1950 - Actress Sharon Duce was born.
 * 1970 - Episode three of Spearhead from Space was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1970 - Part three of TV Comic story The Arkwood Experiments was first released.
 * 1974 - Target Books followed its successful 1973 reprintings of novelisations from the 1960s with the publications of its first newly commissioned adaptations, PROSE: Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion by Terrance Dicks, based upon the Third Doctor serial TV: Spearhead from Space, and PROSE: Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters by Malcolm Hulke, adapting TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians. Auton Invasion was the first of many Doctor Who novels written by Dicks over the next thirty-plus years and Target continued to novelise Doctor Who adventures for the next twenty years. The practice of giving novelisations titles differing from the broadcast versions continued off-and-on into the 1980s, though it occurred less frequently from the late 1970s.
 * 1976 - Part three of The Brain of Morbius was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1981 - Part three of Warriors' Gate was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 2001 - Actor Robert Robertson died.
 * 2001 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Chimes of Midnight began.
 * 2001 - Recording for Big Finish audio story Invaders from Mars completed.
 * 2003 - Recording for Big Finish audio story Project Lazarus began.
 * 2004 - Actor Andrew Tourell died.
 * 2005 - Horror of Fang Rock was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 2007 - Recording for Big Finish audio story Renaissance of the Daleks completed.
 * 2008 - With issue forty-seven, Doctor Who Adventures switched from a fortnightly magazine to a weekly.
 * 2009 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Angel of Scutari completed at The Moat Studios.
 * 2010 - Doctor Who Adventures comic story The Highest Stake was first released by BBC Magazines.
 * 2012 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Jupiter Conjunction began.
 * 2013 - Doctor Who Adventures comic story An Ill Wind was first released by BBC Magazines.