8 December

Events

 * 1926 - The Doctor and Donna Noble meet Agatha Christie. Agatha goes missing for the next ten days. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
 * 1980 - John Lennon is assassinated by Mark David Chapman. (NA: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)

Behind the scenes

 * 1933 - Hugh Martin (Munro in DW: Terror of the Zygons) was born.
 * 1939 - Jennie Linden was born in Worthing, Sussex. She would play Barbara in Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965).
 * 1979 - DW: Nightmare of Eden, Part 3, was first broadcast