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Whoniversaries 16 November: do watch the videos

i) births and deaths

16 November 1931: birth of Kenneth Watson, who played Craddock in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (Cushing movie, 1966) and engineer Duggan in The Wheel in Space (Second Doctor, 1968).

16 November 1956: birth of Karl Zwicky, who directed several episodes of the Australian K9 (2010).

16 November 1967: birth of Alexa Havins, who played CIA analyst Esther Drummond in Torchwood: Miracle Day (2008).

ii) broadcast anniversaries

16 November 1963: broadcast of the first ever trailer for Doctor Who, a week before the first episode.

16 November 1969: broadcast of third episode of The Invasion. Vaughn takes the Doctor and Jamie to meet Professor Watkins; they escape, and Jamie has an encounter with a sinister cocoon.

16 November 1987: broadcast of third episode of Delta and the Bannermen. The Chimeron child is growing and Billy opts to become one too; the Americans and the Doctor defeat the Bannermen.

16 November 1988: broadcast of third episode of The Happiness Patrol. The Doctor and Earl bring the blues back, and Helen A is defeated.

16 November 2007: broadcast of Time Crash. The Tenth Doctor and Fifth Doctor meet when their Tardises crash.
16 November 2010: broadcast of second episode of Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, ending the fourth series of Sarah Jane Adventures. This was the last episode to be broadcast during Elizabeth Sladen's lifetime. I have to say I found something in my eye at the end of it.
16 November 2012: broadcast of minisode The Great Detective, a prequel for that year's Christmas episode The Snowmen.

iii) date specified in-universe

16 November 1982: the date given by impostor Adam as his date of birth in the Adam episode of Torchwood (2008).
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