10 August

Behind the scenes

 * 1929 - Actor and stunt performer Peter Diamond was born.
 * 1939 - Actor Kate O'Mara was born.
 * 1965 - Actor Claudia Christian was born.
 * 1968 - Episode one of The Dominators was first broadcast on BBC1, and was the first episode to be written under a pseudonym: 'Norman Ashby', who was in reality Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln.
 * 1995 - Actor Donald Bisset died.
 * 1996 - Director Rex Tucker died.
 * 2002 - Film editor Colin Eggleston died.