17 March

Events

 * 1898 - Mary Eliza Millington died. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)

Behind the scenes

 * 1937 - Michael Napier-Brown (Arturo Villar in the Doctor Who serial The War Games) was born.
 * 1947 - Petra Markham, who played Safiya in TV: The Crusade, was born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England.
 * 1973 - Episode 4 of TV: Frontier in Space was first broadcast.
 * 1976 - Stephen Gately (Tommy Tomorrow in AUDIO: Horror of Glam Rock) was born.
 * 1984 - John Dearth, who provided the voice of BOSS in TV: The Green Death and portrayed Lupton in TV: Planet of the Spiders, died.
 * 2011 - Michael Gough, who played the Celestial Toymaker in TV: The Celestial Toymaker and Councilor Hedin in TV: Arc of Infinity, died. He was once married to Anneke Wills.