12 October

Events

 * 1940 - The New Regency Theatre in London, which was owned by Henry Gordon Jago in the 1890s, is destroyed in the Blitz. (JAL: Swan Song)

Behind the scenes

 * 1940 - Gawn Grainger was born
 * 1968 - DW: The Mind Robber, Episode 5, was first broadcast.


 * 1965 - Dan Abnett was born.


 * 1987 - DW: Paradise Towers, Part 2, was first broadcast.


 * 1988 - DW: Remembrance of the Daleks, Part 2, was first broadcast.


 * 2007 - Noel Coleman died.
 * 2010 - Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures continued on the CBBC Channel with Part Two of The Nightmare Man.