17 February

Behind the scenes

 * 1916 - Actor David Blake Kelly was born.
 * 1929 - Actor Philip Latham was born.
 * 1941 - Actor Julia McKenzie was born.
 * 1947 - Actor Dallas Adams was born.
 * 1949 - Actor Brian Darnley was born.
 * 1953 - Actor Norman Pace was born.
 * 1968 - Episode three of The Web of Fear was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1973 - Episode four of Carnival of Monsters was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1977 - The novelisation of The Seeds of Doom was first published by Target Books.
 * 1978 - Actor Rory Kinnear was born.
 * 1979 - Part five of TV: The Armageddon Factor was first broadcast.
 * 1992 - Actor Jack Montgomery was born.
 * 1994 - New Adventures novel No Future was first published by Virgin Books.
 * 1996 - Episode five of radio drama The Ghosts of N-Space was first broadcast on BBC Radio.
 * 2003 - The Seeds of Death was first released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 2010 - The BBC, before having a new trailer, released a new Eleventh Doctor promotional image featuring the the Doctor, Amy Pond, a Dalek, a Weeping Angel, and the first glimpse of a new enemy, the Smiler.
 * 2010 - Matt Smith chose the winner in a "design a TARDIS console" contest conducted on Blue Peter. The console design was later used in the series 6 episode The Doctor's Wife, fifteen months later.
 * 2011 - Doctor Who Adventures comic story If You Go Down to the Woods Today was first released by BBC Magazines in issue one hundred and five.
 * 2013 - An interview between Ed Stradling and show runner Steven Moffat was screened at the Gallifrey One 2013 convention. In it, Moffat confirmed that there would not only be one single episode to celebrate Doctor Who's fiftieth anniversary, that there will be a Christmas special, and that Mark Gatiss would be writing an episode featuring Ice Warriors. He also stated that, of all his scripts, The Big Bang was probably his personal favourite, and revealed that the title was actually a deliberate sexual innuendo, as it was the episode in which River Song was conceived.
 * 2013 - Actor Richard Briers died.