1964 (releases)

1964 was dominated by the release of seasons 1 and 2 on television. By September, the show was also running in New Zealand.

At some point in the year, the first licensed tie-in food was released: Dr Who and the Daleks sweet cigarettes. The product also was associated with Doctor Who's first collectible card set. When completely collected, the set formed the first piece of licensed, original, prose fiction, a two-part short story called Doctor Who and the Daleks.

Other 1964 releases included:
 * 4 January - "The Escape" debuted on the BBC.
 * 11 January - "The Ambush" debuted on the BBC.
 * 18 January - "The Expedition" debuted on the BBC.
 * 25 January - "The Ordeal" debuted on the BBC.
 * A recording of the Doctor Who theme by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was released on a 45 rpm single. This was the earliest noted release of any soundtrack music from the series.
 * Another recording of the Doctor Who theme, this time by Eric Winstone and his Orchestra, was also released on Pye Records, and was probably the first non-BBC recording of the theme to be issued.
 * 1 February - "The Rescue" debuted on the BBC.
 * 8 February - "The Edge of Destruction" debuted on the BBC.
 * 15 February - "The Brink of Disaster" debuted on the BBC.
 * 15 February - Radio Times printed its first-ever Doctor Who-related cover (dated February 22-28) to promote the first episode of Marco Polo.
 * 22 February - "The Roof of the World" debuted on the BBC.
 * 29 February - "The Singing Sands" debuted on the BBC.
 * 7 March - "Five Hundred Eyes" debuted on the BBC.
 * 14 March - "The Wall of Lies" debuted on the BBC.
 * 21 March - "Rider from Shang-Tu" debuted on the BBC.
 * 28 March - "Mighty Kublai Khan" debuted on the BBC.
 * 4 April - "Assassin at Peking" debuted on the BBC.
 * 11 April - "The Sea of Death" debuted on the BBC.
 * 18 April - "The Velvet Web" debuted on the BBC.
 * 25 April - "The Screaming Jungle" debuted on BBC1.
 * 2 May - "The Snows of Terror" debuted on BBC1.
 * 9 May - "Sentence of Death" debuted on BBC1.
 * 16 May - "The Keys of Marinus" debuted on BBC1.
 * 23 May - "The Temple of Evil" debuted on BBC1.
 * 30 May - "The Warriors of Death" debuted on BBC1.
 * 6 June - "The Bride of Sacrifice" debuted on BBC1.
 * 13 June - "The Day of Darkness" debuted on BBC1.
 * 20 June - "Strangers in Space" debuted on BBC1.
 * 27 June - "The Unwilling Warriors" debuted on BBC1.
 * 30 June - The Dalek Book was published, possibly the first book tie-in with Doctor Who featuring original material.
 * 11 July - "Hidden Danger" debuted on BBC1.
 * 18 July - "A Race Against Death" debuted on BBC1.
 * 25 July - "Kidnap" debuted on BBC1.
 * 1 August - "A Desperate Venture" debuted on BBC1.
 * 8 August - "A Land of Fear" debuted on BBC1.
 * 15 August - "Guests of Madame Guillotine" debuted on BBC1.
 * 22 August - "A Change of Identity" debuted on BBC1.
 * 29 August - "The Tyrant of France" debuted on BBC1.
 * 5 September - "A Bargain of Necessity" debuted on BBC1.
 * 12 September - "Prisoners of Conciergerie" debuted on BBC1. The airing of this episode concluded season 1 of Doctor Who.
 * 31 October - "Planet of Giants", debuted on BBC1, kicking off season 2.
 * 7 November - "Dangerous Journey" debuted on BBC1.
 * 12 November - Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, a hardback novelisation by David Whitaker of The Daleks and the first-ever Doctor Who tie-in novel, was published in hardcover by Frederick Muller. In 1973, it was reprinted by Target Books as Doctor Who and the Daleks.
 * 14 November - "Crisis" debuted on BBC1.
 * 14 November - Radio Times again featured a cover story on Doctor Who, this time announcing the much-anticipated return of the Daleks in The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
 * 14 - The Doctor Who comic strip made its debut in the 674th issue of TV Comic, with the comic The Klepton Parasites.
 * 21 November - "World's End" debuted on BBC1. For the first time, a Doctor Who episode featured extensive location filming and brought back a previously seen monster. It was also the first story to incorporate widely known London landmarks (despite being set in the future).
 * 28 November - "The Daleks" debuted on BBC1, kicking off the Daleks' publicly-anticpated return.
 * Its original 20,000-copy print run already sold out, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks went into a second printing.
 * The Go-Go's released their pop parody single "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek".
 * 5 December - "Day of Reckoning" debuted on BBC1.
 * 12 December - "The End of Tomorrow" debuted on BBC1.
 * 19 December - "The Waking Ally" debuted on BBC1.
 * 26 December - "Flashpoint" debuted on BBC1. The episode saw the first major cast change as Carole Ann Ford left the series.