9 October 2009: death of Barry Letts, producer of Who from Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970) to Robot (1974-75), director of Enemy of the World (1967-68) and The Android Invasion (1975), writer of The Dæmons (1972).
9 October 1963: filming starts on the eventually broadcast version of the first ever episode, “An Unearthly Child”.
9 October 1965: broadcast of Mission to the Unknown, the only episode of Who where no member of the regular cast appears; Marc Cory discovers the Daleks’ plan and tries to send a message back to Earth before he is killed.
9 October 1976: broadcast of episode 2 of The Hand of Fear. Sarah is rescued from the nuclear reactor, but the mysterious stone hand has other people it can control…
Normally, especially with airlines where your feelings are very experience-based, I’d plump for not astroturfing, but several of the comments know way too many technical details not to be astroturf of the lowest kind.