12 October

Events

 * 1940 - At 8:47 p.m., the New Regency Theatre in London, which was owned and operated by the late Henry Gordon Jago in the 1890s, was destroyed in the Blitz. (AUDIO: Swan Song)
 * 1998 - Thomas Hector Schofield, who later became a companion of the Seventh Doctor, was born to Cassandra Schofield in the Royal Bolton Hospital. (AUDIO: The Harvest, AUDIO: Thicker than Water, AUDIO: Project: Destiny)

Behind the scenes

 * 1940 - Gawn Grainger (George Stephenson in TV: The Mark of the Rani) was born
 * 1965 - Dan Abnett, a writer of Doctor Who prose, was born.
 * 1968 - TV: The Mind Robber Episode 5 was first broadcast.
 * 1987 - TV: Paradise Towers Part Two was first broadcast.
 * 1988 - TV: Remembrance of the Daleks Part Two 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.