1958

Events

October

• The Seventh Doctor and Chris Cwej visited Soho. (PROSE: Bad Therapy)

Unknown dates

• The Doctor visited Professor Chronotis at St. Cedd's College, Cambridge. (HOMEVID: Shada; WC: Shada)
• The BBC science fiction television series Nightshade starring Edmund Trevithick as the title character came to an end after five years. It was rebroadcast on BBC2 in December 1968. (PROSE: Nightshade, PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)
• The Tenth Doctor took Martha Jones to Wisconsin in order to sample milkshakes. The stop was part of a larger hunt for the greatest milkshakes in the universe. (COMIC: Agent Provocateur)
• The Tenth Doctor travelled to Dry Springs, and later to Area 51, where he helped ward off an invasion of Earth by the Viperox. Along the way he met Cassie Rice and Jimmy Stalkingwolf and arranged freedom for two of the grey aliens connected to the famous Roswell crash. (TV: Dreamland)
• The Sixth Doctor was sent to Earth to "save the universe." (PROSE: Spiral Scratch)
• The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams stopped Sir Reginald Troupe from seizing the British throne. (COMIC: Tuesday)
• Dr. Nadia Červenka defected from the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom. (AUDIO: Artificial Intelligence)
• Edmund Trevithick's wife Margaret died. (PROSE: Nightshade)
• Jo Grant's grandfather died. (AUDIO: The Mists of Time)

Behind the scenes

February

• 10 - Actress Bridget Lynch-Blosse was born.
• 13 - Stunt arranger Tip Tipping was born.

March

• 27 - Actor Adrian Rawlins was born.

April

• 6 - Actor Richard Willis was born.
• 20 - Actor William Ilkley was born.
• 27 - Actor Peter Czajkowski was born.

May

• 13 - Actress Frances Barber was born.
• 25 - Actor Jamie Foreman was born.

June

• 22 - An episode of Armchair Theatre entitled "The House of Bernarda Alba" aired in the UK. This was the earliest UK television credit listed on the Internet Movie Database for Sydney Newman as the former Canadian TV producer established a new career in the UK, one that would lead him to launch The Avengers and Doctor Who in the following five years.

July

• 29 - Actor Marcus Gilbert was born.

August

• 6 - Producer and director Keith Barnfather was born.

September

• 07 - Actor Christopher Villiers was born.
• 18 - Actress Linda Lusardi was born.

October

• 02 - Actor Daniel Peacock was born.
• 18 - Actor Ian Reddington was born.
• 24 - Actress Sarah Greene was born.
• 25 - Actor Simon Gipps-Kent was born.
• 25 - Actor Phil Daniels was born.

November

• 08 - Actor John Gillett was born.

December

• 22 - Actress Tracy Louise Ward was born.
• 23 - Actor Nej Adamson was born.