24 May

Behind the scenes

 * 1924 - Freddie Earlle, who played Aldo in TV: Warriors' Gate, was born.
 * 1936 - Robert Russell (a guard in TV: The Power of the Daleks and the Caber in TV: Terror of the Zygons) was born.
 * 1944 - Fiona Walker (Kala in TV: The Keys of Marinus and Lady Peinforte in TV: Silver Nemesis) was born.
 * 1945 - Graham Williams, a producer of Doctor Who, was born.
 * 1949 - Jim Broadbent, who played the non-canonical Eleventh Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death, was born.
 * Rob Edwards, Chub in TV: The Robots of Death and one of the voices of Xoanon in TV: The Face of Evil, was born.
 * 1969 - Episode 6 of TV: The War Games was first broadcast.
 * 1975 - William Sasso was born.
 * 1986 - Robert Holmes died.