16 October (releases)


 * 1965 - "Temple of Secrets" was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1971 - Part three of Backtime was first published in Countdown.
 * 1976 - Part three of The Hand of Fear was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 2010 - The Monsters Are Coming! was performed twice at the SECC in Glasgow. (once at 11:00am in a performance open only to readers of the Scottish Sun who collected tokens for free tickets, and again in the evening.