16 March

Behind the scenes

 * 1904 - Actor Clive Morton was born.
 * 1909 - Actor Campbell Singer was born.
 * 1915 - Actor Eric Hillyard was born.
 * 1926 - Actor Victor Maddern was born.
 * 1929 - Actor John Breslin was born.
 * 1935 - Director Tristan de Vere Cole was born.
 * 1937 - Actor Ben Aris was born.
 * 1937 - Actor Peter Rutherford was born.
 * 1939 - Actress Katherine Schofield was born.
 * 1952 - Actor Graham Cole was born.
 * 1968 - Episode one of Fury from the Deep was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1974 - Part four of Death to the Daleks was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1982 - Part four of Earthshock was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1983 - Part two of The King's Demons was first broadcast on BBC1, ending the 20th season of Doctor Who.
 * 1984 - Part four of The Caves of Androzani was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1985 - Part two of Timelash was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1987 - The novelisation of Dragonfire was first published by Target Books. The novelisation of The Dæmons, of The Time Monster, of The Mind of Evil and of The Claws of Axos were also republished.
 * 1995 - New Adventures novel Infinite Requiem and Missing Adventures Time of Your Life were first published by Virgin Books.
 * 2003 - Recording for Big Finish audio story Flip-Flop began.
 * 2007 - A Comic Relief skit featuring David Tennant and Catherine Tate was first broadcast. In it, Tate reprised one of her famous  characters,, while Tennant played Tate's new English teacher, a "Mr Logan."
 * 2007 - DVD box set Doctor Who: the Complete Second Series was first released in Region 1.
 * 2009 - A quarter-century after their use was phased out across the UK, Edinburgh's police department announced plans to reintroduce "TARDIS-style" police boxes.
 * 2009 - Recording for Big Finish audio story Patient Zero began at The Moat Studios.
 * 2009 - Attack of the Cybermen was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 2010 - Recording for Big Finish audio story A Town Called Fortune took place.
 * 2011 - Almost exactly a year after Tom Baker indicated that he might possibly be recording a Big Finish audio drama, Big Finish confirmed that Baker would be portraying the Fourth Doctor in both the monthly series and lost stories, beginning in 2012.
 * 2011 - Issue twenty-seven of Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition was first published by Panini Comics.
 * 2011 - Recording for Big Finish audio anthology Recorded Time and Other Stories began.