20 February

Behind the scenes

 * 1912 - Actor Gerald Cross was born.
 * 1913 - Director Rex Tucker was born.
 * 1925 - Actor George Waring was born.
 * 1939 - Actor Elroy Josephs was born.
 * 1940 - Visual effects designer Ian Scoones was born.
 * 1954 - Actor Anthony Stewart Head was born.
 * 1958 - Actor James Wilby was born.
 * 1965 - "The Zarbi" was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1971 - Episode four of The Mind of Evil was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1971 - Part one of TV Comic story Gemini Plan was first released in its very first issue. This was the first in a long line of comic stories in that range that would last for another decade or so.
 * 1975 - The novelisation of The Moonbase was first published by Target Books.
 * 1978 - Actress Lauren Ambrose was born.
 * 1983 - Actor Peter Glaze died.
 * 1990 - Actress Anjli Mohindra was born.
 * 1992 - New Adventures novel Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible was first published by Virgin Books.
 * 1997 - New Adventures novel The Room With No Doors and Missing Adventures novel A Device of Death were first published by Virgin Books.
 * 2004 - Recording for Big Finish audio story Arrangements for War completed at The Moat Studios.
 * 2007 - Actor Derek Waring died.
 * 2008 - Dead Man Walking was first broadcast on BBC Three.
 * 2009 - The Time Squad action figure range was first released by Character Options.
 * 2010 - A 3-D trailer for the Matt Smith era of Doctor Who, featuring specially-shot footage, debuted in UK cinemas.
 * 2011 - The London branch of Doctor Who Experience opened.
 * 2012 - The London branch of Doctor Who Experience closed, exactly one year after having opened.
 * 2012 - Filming for the seventh series of Doctor Who began with TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.