16 December

Behind the scenes

 * 1929 - Actor Nicholas Courtney was born.
 * 1930 - Actor Ronald Allen was born.
 * 1946 - Actor Richard Ireson was born.
 * 1967 - Episode six of The Ice Warriors was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1974 - The stage play Doctor Who and the Daleks in The Seven Keys to Doomsday premièred at the Adelphi Theatre and Setsuji Satō who did the Japanese dubbing Mickey Smith was born.
 * 1978 - Episode four of The Androids of Tara was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1995 - Actor Tony Then died.
 * 2003 - Actor Alfred Lynch died from cancer.