20 March

Behind the scenes

 * 1911 - Actor Howard Lang was born.
 * 1948 - Actor John de Lancie was born.
 * 1959 - Actor Steve McFadden was born.
 * 1965 - "The Centre" was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1965 - Part one of TV Comic story The Hijackers of Thrax was first released.
 * 1967 - Actor Marc Warren was born.
 * 1971 - Episode two of The Claws of Axos was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1971 - Part five of TV Action comic story Gemini Plan was first released in issue five.
 * 1976 - Part one of TV Comic story Treasure Trail was first released in issue 1266.
 * 1979 - Actress Freema Agyeman was born.
 * 1980 - The novelisation of The Stones of Blood was first published by Target Books.
 * 1980 - Target Books reissued the 1976 REF: The Making of Doctor Who.
 * 1997 - New Adventures novel Lungbarrow, the last of the range to feature the Seventh Doctor, and Missing Adventures novel The Dark Path, the last to feature the Second, were first published by Virgin Books.
 * 2000 - Recording for Big Finish audio story Winter for the Adept completed at The Moat Studios.
 * 2002 - Several years after the initial filing, the matter of the London Metropolitan Police District's 1998 opposition to the BBC's 1996 application for trademark status on the police box design was heard in court.
 * 2004 - The BBC announced that Christopher Eccleston had been cast as the Ninth Doctor in the new series. The same day, the  ran an erroneous story indicating that Bill Nighy has been cast as the Doctor.
 * 2006 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Reaping began.
 * 2008 - Issue three of Torchwood Magazine, including comic story Jetsam, was first published by Titan Magazines.
 * 2010 - Filming for the fifth series of Doctor Who concluded, most likely with Amy's Choice.
 * 2012 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Burning Prince completed.
 * 2013 - Issue three of 50th anniversary comic story Prisoners of Time was first released by IDW Publishing.