31st August 1932: birth of Roy Castle, who played Ian in the Doctor Who and the Daleks movie with Peter Cushing (1965).
31st August 1991: death of Gerry Davis, script editor of Doctor Who from The Celestial Toymaker (1966) to part 3 of The Evil of the Daleks (1967), co-writer of The Tenth Planet (1966), The Highlanders (1967), and Tomb of the Cybermen (1966-67), and sole writer of Revenge of the Cybermen (1975)
31st August 2005: death of Michael Sheard, who played Rhos in The Ark (1966), Dr. Summers in The Mind of EvilPyramids of Mars (1975), Lowe in The Invisible Enemy (1977), the Mergrave in Castrovalva (1982), and the Headmaster in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
31st August 1968: broadcast of fourth episode of The Dominators. Jamie and Cully manage to destroy a Quark; the Dominators threaten to take revenge by killing the Doctor.
31st August 1990: John Nathan-Turner resigns as producer after a decade, and the Doctor Who production office is closed by the BBC.
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