27 January

Behind the scenes

 * 1928 - Actor Michael Craig was born.
 * 1947 - Actor Peter Burroughs was born.
 * 1951 - Actress Susan Skipper was born.
 * 1959 - Actor Glenn Taranto was born.
 * 1968 - Episode six of The Enemy of the World was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1973 - Episode one of Carnival of Monsters was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1979 - Part two of The Armageddon Factor was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1984 - Part two of Frontios was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1984 - Director Douglas Camfield died.
 * 1996 - Episode two of BBC Radio drama The Ghosts of N-Space was first broadcast.
 * 2013 - The Aztecs premièred on BBC America, shortly after the première of a new documentary, The Doctors Revisited - The First Doctor.