17 March

On 17 March 1898, Mary Eliza Millington died. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)

Behind the scenes

 * 1937 - Actor Michael Napier-Brown was born.
 * 1947 - Actress Petra Markham was born.
 * 1963 - BBC Head of Fiction Jane Tranter, who was responsible for commissioning the very first series of the BBC Wales version of Doctor Who, was born.
 * 1973 - Episode four of Frontier in Space was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1976 - Actor Stephen Gately was born.
 * 1984 - Actor John Dearth died.
 * 1994 - New Adventures novel Tragedy Day was first published by Virgin Books. Short story Decalog was also first published by Virgin, starting the first professionally published and licensed Doctor Who short story collection.
 * 2008 - Russell T Davies completed his script for TV: The Next Doctor. (REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter)
 * 2008 - Recording for Big Finish audio story The Death Collectors began at The Moat Studios.
 * 2008 - Revenge of the Slitheen and Eye of the Gorgon had a planned DVD release. That release was cancelled.
 * 2010 - On his official website, Tom Baker indicated that he was in discussions with Big Finish Productions about possibly recording an audio drama. It was later confirmed that he would be a regular almost exactly a year later.
 * 2010 - Part one of comic story Don't Step on the Grass was intended to be released. However, due to distribution problems, only readers in midwestern and western America received it on this date; readers on the east coast only got it on 24 March.
 * 2010 - Recording for Big Finish audio stories The Sphere, The Fog and The End began.
 * 2011 - Doctor Who Adventures audio story Golden Slumbers was first released in issue two hundred and nine.
 * 2011 - Actor Michael Gough died.