1960s

The British Rocket Group and Intrusion Countermeasures Group, the latter a precursor to UNIT, were active during the 1960s. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks, PROSE: Downtime, PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)

The Sixth Doctor considered the 1960s to be one of Earth's "most turbulent periods." (AUDIO: 1963: The Space Race)

Near the end of the decade, a number of parents named their sons "Valentine" after the main character in Stranger in a Strange Land. (PROSE: Dead Romance)

Minor events

 * Forester hoped to market DN6, a super-lethal pesticide and murdered Arnold Farrow, a scientist who would have informed the authorities of the dangers. The First Doctor, miniaturised to one inch tall by an accident in the TARDIS, helped to expose Forester. (TV: Planet of Giants)
 * The Doctor's TARDIS and the Dalek time machine materialised on an observation deck of the Empire State Building. (TV: The Chase)
 * Dr. Fendelman was working on missile guidance systems, observing a "sonic shadow" during one test launch which lead to his time scanner experiments in the 1970s. (TV: Image of the Fendahl)
 * While stationed in Sierra Leone, Lt. Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart meets and fathered a son; Mariama, with Mariatu, eldest daughter of Chief Yembe of the Rokoye village. (PROSE: Transit, The Also People)
 * John and Gillian met their grandfather, the First Doctor. (COMIC: The Klepton Parasites)


 * For events in specific dates, see below.

Behind the scenes

 * Doctor Who debuts in 1963, with William Hartnell as the the original Doctor in An Unearthly Child. Patrick Troughton succeeds him in 1966 as the Second Doctor in the closing moments of The Tenth Planet, and takes over the role definitively in The Power of the Daleks, the story that follows.
 * The second Doctor Who story, The Daleks introduces the creatures of the same name. Dalekmania sweeps Great Britain. The Daleks, who eclipsed the Doctor himself in popularity, would return several times during the '60's, would arguably never reach the height of popularity as during this time. The second-most popular Doctor Who monster race, the Cybermen, debut in 1966's The Tenth Planet.
 * The first Doctor Who tie-in book, David Whitaker's Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks comes out. It adapts The Daleks in novel form.
 * Two theatrical films starring Peter Cushing as "Dr. Who" come out: Dr. Who and the Daleks (based on The Daleks) and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. based on The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
 * In 1964, The Klepton Parasites, the first Doctor Who comic, appeared in TV Comic. Doctor Who comics would, in one form or another, continue into the present.

Real world
In the 1960s James Bond was nicknamed "Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" by European and Asian press. This was later used as the title for first episode of the second series of Torchwood.