26 March

In a letter dated 26 March 1865, Captain Will Johnson noted that the women of Gable had become quite taken with the young "English" Dr Smith, and were "rather disconsolate" to understand that the companions with whom Smith was anxious to reunite were, in fact, female. (PROSE: Blood and Hope)

Behind the scenes

 * 1925 - Producer Barry Letts was born.
 * 1927 - Actor Geoffrey Cheshire was born.
 * 1931 - Actor George Raistrick was born.
 * 1934 - Actor Kenneth Ives was born.
 * 1941 - Scientist Richard Dawkins was born.
 * 1964 - Script editor David Whitaker defended himself in a memo to Head of Serials Donald Wilson after Robert Gould accused him of stealing his idea in "The Screaming Jungle." In it, he flatly stated that writer Terry Nation had independently arrived at using vegetation in the third episode of The Keys of Marinus, and that Gould's vaguely-defined idea has itself been derivative, anyway. According to Whitaker, Gould's 4 February story conference had yielded no specifics about the potential storyline, and that Gould's notion of a planet where "plants treat people as people treat plants", had immediately reminded both him and Verity Lambert of The Day of the Triffids. (REF: The First Doctor Handbook)
 * 1966 - "The Bomb" was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1966 - Part four of TV Century 21 comic story The Rogue Planet was first released by BBC Magazines in issue sixty-two.
 * 1977 - Part five of The Talons of Weng-Chiang was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1980 - Issue twenty-four of Doctor Who Weekly was first published.
 * 2002 - Recording for Big Finish audio story Spare Parts began at The Moat Studios.
 * 2005 -  A New Dimension, sometimes considered to be the first episode of Doctor Who Confidential, aired on BBC One. Rose followed, and was first broadcast on BBC One, beginning series one of Doctor Who, and recommencing regular transmission of new Doctor Who on the network for the first time since 6 December 1989. Later, Bringing Back the Doctor, the first regular episode of Confidential, aired on BBC Three.
 * 2007 - DVD box set Torchwood: Series 1, part 3, including Out of Time, Combat and Captain Jack Harkness, was first released in Region 2.
 * 2008 - Final correspondence between Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook in terms of material included in the first edition of the book The Writer's Tale took place, but correspondence incorporated into the second edition began immediately.
 * 2009 - The Darksmith Legacy novels The Depths of Despair and The Colour of Darkness were first published by BBC Children's Books.
 * 2009 - Doctor Who Adventures comic story Good Old Days was first released in issue one hundred and eight.
 * 2009 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Drowned World took place.
 * 2010 - Recording for Big Finish audio stories Litefoot and Sanders, The Necropolis Express, The Theatre of Dreams and The Ruthven Inheritance continued.
 * 2013 - Actor Rashid Karapiet died.