i) births and deaths

8 February 1962: birth of Malorie Blackman, co-writer of Rosa (Thirteenth Doctor, 2018). It is sometimes claimed that she was the first non-white writer of a TV Doctor Who story; however, I have checked directly with Glen McCoy, who wrote Timelash (Sixth Doctor, 1985), and he tells me that he is Anglo-Indian.

ii) broadcast anniversaries

8 February 1964: broadcast of "The Edge of Destruction", first episode of the story we now also call The Edge of Destruction. The Tardis behaves strangely after an explosion; so does Susan who attacks Ian with scissors.

8 February 1969: broadcast of third episode of The Seeds of Death. The Doctor is captured by the Ice Warriors; Jamie and Zoe turn up the heating in the Moonbase.

8 February 1973: broadcast of third episode of The Ark in Space. The Doctor helps the humans to fight back against the Wirrn, but is confronted by the completely transformed Noah.

8 February 1982: broadcast of third episode of Kinda. Todd and the Doctor escape the deluded Hindle and Sanders, and join forces with Panna to try and hold back the Mara.

8 February 1983: broadcast of third episode of Mawdryn Undead. Mawdryn begs the Doctor to give him and his colleagues his remaining regenerations.

8 February 1984: broadcast of first part of Resurrection of the Daleks. The Daleks are attempting to rescue Davros, in a plan involving a time tunnel and the London Docklands.

8 February 2010: broadcast of Sirens of Ceres, the fifth episode of the Australian K9 series. Drake uses a strange alien substance on a group of school children in an experiment to get control of the population. Jorjie stumbles across the plan, and K9 and Starkey have to find and destroy the control devices.

This is the third of seven dates of the year on which six episodes of Old Who were broadcast (the previous two, which I forgot to note last month, were 5 January and 12 January). Today week, 15 February, is the fourth such date.