5 March

On 5 March 2005, Ellie Oswald, future companion Clara Oswald's mother, died. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)

Behind the scenes

 * 1932 - Actor Gertan Klauber and designer Stuart Walker were born.
 * 1934 - Actor Nicholas Smith was born.
 * 1966 - "The Steel Sky" was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1977 - Part two of The Talons of Weng-Chiang was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 2005 - The first episode of the revived series, Rose, was leaked.
 * 2007 - Issue thirty-nine of Doctor Who: Battles in Time, including comic story Cold Assassin, was first released by GE Fabbri Ltd.
 * 2008 - Something Borrowed was first broadcast on BBC Three.
 * 2012 - Special editions of The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Three Doctors and The Robots of Death were released on Region 2 DVD, originally as part of the Revisitations 3 box set.
 * 2012 - Actor Philip Madoc died.