17 February

Behind the scenes

 * 1916 - Actor David Blake Kelly was born.
 * 1929 - Actor Philip Latham was born.
 * 1941 - Actress Julia McKenzie was born.
 * 1947 - Actor Dallas Adams was born.
 * 1953 - Actor Norman Pace was born.
 * 1968 - Episode three of The Web of Fear was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1973 - Episode four of Carnival of Monsters was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1978 - Actor Rory Kinnear was born.
 * 1979 - Part five of TV: The Armageddon Factor was first broadcast.
 * 1992 - Actor Jack Montgomery was born.
 * 2013 - An interview between Ed Stradling and show runner Steven Moffat was screened at the Gallifrey One 2013 convention. In it, Moffat confirmed that there would not only be one single episode to celebrate Doctor Who's fiftieth anniversary, that there will be a Christmas special, and that Mark Gatiss would be writing an episode featuring Ice Warriors. He also stated that, of all his scripts. TV: The Big Bang was probably his personal favourite, and revealed that the title was actually a deliberate sexual innuendo, as it was the episode in which River Song was conceived.