1965 (releases)


 * 2 January - "The Powerful Enemy" debuted on BBC1. This was the first appearance of Maureen O'Brien as Vicki.
 * 9 January - "Desperate Measures" debuted on BBC1. With this episode, Vicki accepted the First Doctor's offer to travel in the TARDIS and established the tradition of the series periodically introducing new companions.
 * 16 January - "The Slave Traders" debuted on BBC1.
 * 16 - The final part of The Klepton Parasites was released.
 * 23 January - "All Roads Lead to Rome" debuted on BBC1.
 * 23 - The first part of The Therovian Quest was released.
 * 23 - This was the debut of The Daleks comic strip in TV Century 21.
 * 30 January - "Conspiracy" debuted on BBC1.
 * 6 February - "Inferno" debuted on BBC1.
 * 13 February - "The Web Planet" debuted on BBC1. Though it only got 53% in figures, this episode brought 13.5 million viewers, which as of Fall 2009 remains the highest single viewership of any Doctor Who episode ever.
 * 13 - The third Radio Times Doctor Who cover featured the upcoming The Web Planet with a photo of the Zarbi and the Vortis landscape.
 * 20 February - "The Zarbi", (The Web Planet Episode 2) was first broadcast.
 * 27 February - "Escape to Danger" debuted on BBC1.
 * 27 - The final part of The Therovian Quest was released.
 * The Earthlings released the single "Landing of the Daleks"/"March of the Robots" on Parlophone Records. The BBC banned the single due to the fact that "Landing of the Daleks" included a Morse code message – S.O.S., S.O.S., Daleks have landed – and it was felt the sound of the international distress signal S.O.S. might mislead shipping if radio operators should hear it. The record was reissued with the offending sound scrambled.
 * 6 March - "Crater of Needles" debuted on BBC1.
 * 7 March - Actor Victoria Alcock was born.
 * 7 March - The first part of COMIC: The Hijackers of Thrax was released.
 * 13 March - "Invasion" debuted on BBC1.
 * 20 March - "The Centre" debuted on BBC1.
 * 20 - The final part of COMIC: The Hijackers of Thrax was released.
 * 27 March - "The Lion" debuted on BBC1.
 * 27 - The first part of On the Web Planet was released.
 * 3 April - "The Knight of Jaffa" debuted on BBC1.
 * 10 April - "The Wheel of Fortune" debuted on BBC1.
 * 17 April - "The Warlords" debuted on BBC1.
 * 18 April - Actor Camille Coduri was born.
 * 24 April - "The Space Museum" debuted on BBC1.
 * 1 May - "The Dimensions of Time" debuted on BBC1.
 * 01 - The last part of COMIC: On the Web Planet was released.
 * 8 May - "The Search" debuted on BBC1.
 * 08 - The first part of COMIC: The Gyros Injustice was released.
 * 15 May - "The Final Phase" debuted on BBC1.
 * 22 May - "The Executioners" debuted on BBC1.
 * 22 May - Incidental music composer John Sponsler was born.
 * 29 May - "The Death of Time" debuted on BBC1.
 * 29 May - Dursley McLinden (Mike Smith in Remembrance of the Daleks) was born.
 * 5 June - "Flight Through Eternity" debuted on BBC1. Peter Purves appeared on the series for the first time, but not as Steven Taylor.
 * 12 June - "Journey Into Terror" debuted on BBC1.
 * 12 - The last part of COMIC: The Gyros Injustice was released.
 * 17 June - The Dalek Painting Book was published by Souvenir Press and Panther Books. A massive 350,000 copies were printed.
 * 19 June - "The Death of Doctor Who" debuted on BBC1. This was the first use of the name "Doctor Who" in an episode title.
 * 19 - The first part of COMIC: Challenge of the Piper was released.
 * 25 June - Dr. Who and the Daleks, a colour feature film loosely based upon The Daleks, was released, featuring the debut of Peter Cushing as Dr. Who.
 * 26 June - "The Planet of Decision" debuted on BBC1. Despite having appeared as a different character in the same serial only a few weeks earlier, Peter Purves joined the series playing Steven Taylor. Meanwhile, both William Russell and Jacqueline Hill left the series with this episode, leaving William Hartnell the sole original cast member from 1963.
 * The pop single "Who's Who", performed by Roberta Tovey, was released on Polydor. Tovey was a star of the recently released film Dr. Who and the Daleks.
 * Jack Dorsey and His Orchestra released the single "Dance of the Daleks" on Polydor.
 * 3 July - "The Watcher" debuted on BBC1.
 * 10 July - "The Meddling Monk" debuted on BBC1.
 * 17 July - "The Battle of Wits" debuted on BBC1.
 * 17 - The last part of COMIC: Challenge of the Piper was released.
 * 24 July - "Checkmate" (The Time Meddler Episode 4), the final episode of Season 2, was first broadcast. This was followed by the show's first substantial season break as it took the rest of the summer off.
 * 24 - The first part of COMIC: Moon Landing was released.
 * 24 July - Actor Julie Graham was born.
 * Paint and Draw the Film of Dr. Who and the Daleks was published by Souvenir Press. Again, some 350,000 copies were printed.
 * 7 August - The last part of COMIC: Moon Landing was released.
 * 10 August - Actor Claudia Christian was born.
 * 14 August - The first part of COMIC: Time in Reverse was released.
 * 28 August - The final part of COMIC: Time in Reverse was released.
 * 4 September - The first part of COMIC: Lizardworld was released.
 * 11 September - Season 3 commenced with the first broadcast of "Four Hundred Dawns" (Galaxy 4 Episode 1).
 * 13 September - Actor Eric Potts was born.
 * 16 September - PROSE: Doctor Who and the Zarbi by Bill Strutton, the second novelisation of a Doctor Who serial (The Web Planet), was first published by Frederick Muller.
 * 18 September - "Trap of Steel" debuted on BBC1.
 * 25 September - "Air Lock" debuted on BBC1.
 * 25 - The final part of COMIC: Lizardworld was released.
 * The first Doctor Who annual, Doctor Who Annual 1966, was published by World Distributors, Ltd.
 * 2 October - "The Exploding Planet" debuted on BBC1.
 * 02 - The first part of COMIC: The Ordeals of Demeter was released.
 * 7 October - The Dalek Pocketbook and Space Travellers Guide was first published.
 * 9 October - Mission to the Unknown was first broadcast. This was the only "serial" in which the Doctor or his companions did not appear (although for contractual reasons, William Hartnell was still credited on-screen), and was the only single-episode serial produced in the twenty-five-minute format. It was the last episode produced by original producer Verity Lambert.
 * 11 October - The Dalek World was first published.
 * 12 October - Writer Dan Abnett was born.
 * 16 October - "Temple of Secrets" debuted on BBC1. This was the first episode produced by John Wiles.
 * 21 October - The Avengers episode "Death at Bargain Prices" aired in the UK for the first time. This episode of the series created by Sydney Newman included a cameo appearance by several Daleks — in toy form in a department store.
 * 23 October - "Small Profit, Quick Return" debuted on BBC1.
 * 23 - The final part of COMIC: The Ordeals of Demeter was released.
 * 30 October - "Death of a Spy" debuted on BBC1.
 * 30 - The first part of COMIC: Enter: The Go-Ray was released.
 * 6 November - "Horse of Destruction" debuted on BBC1. Maureen O'Brien left the series with this episode, which introduced Adrienne Hill as short-lived companion Katarina.
 * 13 November - "The Nightmare Begins" debuted on BBC1. Nicholas Courtney made his first appearance on Doctor Who, playing Bret Vyon.
 * 16 November - Actor Mark Benton was born.
 * 20 November - "Day of Armageddon" debuted on BBC1.
 * 21 November - Actor Alexander Siddig was born.
 * 21 November - The final part of COMIC: Enter: The Go-Ray was released.
 * 24 November - Actor Shirley Henderson was born.
 * 27 November - "Devil's Planet" debuted on BBC1.
 * 4 December - "The Traitors" debuted on BBC1. Adrienne Hill made her final appearance as Katarina as her character became the first companion to be killed off. Jean Marsh, who previously appeared in The Crusade, made her debut as single-story companion Sara Kingdom.
 * 11 December - "Counter Plot" debuted on BBC1.
 * 18 December - "Coronas of the Sun" debuted on BBC1.
 * 21 December - The stage play The Curse of the Daleks premiered at Wyndham's Theatre in London. The play ran into 1966.
 * 25 December - "The Feast of Steven" debuted on BBC1. This was the first Christmas-themed episode of Doctor Who and was a standalone story not directly connected to the ongoing story arc. It concluded with an infamous moment where William Hartnell, in character as the First Doctor, broke the fourth wall to wish viewers a Merry Christmas. The next Christmas-themed Doctor Who episode did not air until The Unquiet Dead in 2005, while a tradition of Christmas Day special episodes began with The Christmas Invasion later in 2005.
 * 25 - The first part of COMIC: A Christmas Story was released.

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 * Armada Books published the first paperback edition of the first Doctor Who novelisation: PROSE: Dr. Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks.
 * PROSE: Doctor Who and the Crusaders was first published, adapting The Crusade. This was the third and last of a trilogy of novelisations published by Frederick Muller. The next new novelisation was not published until PROSE: Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion established the Target novelisation line in early 1974.
 * Actor Claire Skinner was born.
 * Actor Martin Ball was born.