i) births and deaths

2 October 1932: birth of Gabriel Woolf, who played Sutekh in Pyramids of Mars (1975) and voiced the Beast in The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit (2006). He also voiced Rossiter in the Big Finish Sixth Doctor audios Arrangements for War (2004) and Thicker Than Water (2005).

ii) broadcast anniversaries

2 October 1965: broadcast of “The Exploding Planet”, fourth episode of the story we now call Galaxy 4. The Doctor and friends manage to repair the Rills’ spaceship and escape the Drahvins, who are left behind on the planet as it explodes.

2 October 1976: broadcast of first episode of The Hand of Fear. The Tardis lands in a quaryy which is playing a quarry. Sarah and the Doctor are caught in an explosion and Sarah picks up this mysterious hand that starts to take over her mind…

There will be no Whoniversaries tomorrow, at least not from me – couldn’t find anything interesting enough.