23 November

Events

 * 1638 - The Doctor launched the Nemesis statue into orbit after battling Lady Peinforte with the help of Roundheads in a meadow in Windsor. The Doctor calculated that the statue would pass Earth every twenty-five years before returning in 1988, and set his watch to remind himself. (TV: Silver Nemesis)
 * 1863 - Victoria Waterfield's mother Edith Waterfield died of pneumonia at the age of 37. (PROSE: Downtime, PROSE: The Age of Ambition)
 * Unknown year- Barbara Wright's aunt Cecilia was born. (AUDIO: 1963)
 * 1945 - James Stevens was born. He was technically born on 22 November G.M.T. time. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
 * 1948 - Debbie was born. (PROSE: Those Left Behind)
 * 1962 - James Stevens turned seventeen. His foster parents told him that he was adopted. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
 * 1963 - A new science fiction television series, Doctor..., began broadcasting on the BBC. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
 * 1963 - Jorjie Turner was sent from 2050 to 1963. She was retrieved by K9 Mark 2 and Starkey. They also saved William Pike from being arrested by Barker in 1963. These actions resulted in preventing Darius Pike from being erased from history. (TV: The Cambridge Spy)
 * 1988 - The Nemesis statue returned to Earth, crash landing in the spot in Windsor from which it was launched. The Seventh Doctor battled Lady Peinforte, Cybermen, and Neo-Nazis to prevent the statue from falling into the wrong hands. (TV: Silver Nemesis)
 * 1997 - The re-coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom took place. (PROSE: The Dying Days)
 * 2006 - Former Torchwood agent Lucia Moretti died of heart disease. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three)
 * 2010 - Sarah Jane Smith, Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra arrived at the Shopkeeper's shop after the day's issue of the Ealing Echo had the main story featuring him claiming that an alien was in his shop. He revealed that it was a ploy to get them there and sent them through a time window to a different time period for each of them so they could find three special objects. (TV: Lost in Time)

Behind the scenes

 * 1887 - Boris Karloff, who played Frankenstein's Monster in Frankenstein, was born. Stock footage from the film was used in Doctor Who.
 * 1914 - Roger Avon, who played Saphadin in TV: The Crusade and Daxtar in TV: The Daleks' Master Plan, as well as Wells in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., was born in Jarrow, England.
 * 1916 - Michael Gough, who played the Celestial Toymaker in TV: The Celestial Toymaker and Councilor Hedin in TV: Arc of Infinity, and was once married to Anneke Wills, was born in Malaya (now Malaysia).
 * 1963 - The first episode of TV: An Unearthly Child was first broadcast and Doctor Who was born.
 * 1968 - Episode 4 of TV: The Invasion was first broadcast.
 * 1982 - Raymond Westwell (the prison governor in TV: The Mind of Evil) died.
 * 1988 - Part One of TV: Silver Nemesis was first broadcast.
 * 1990 - Mostyn Evans (Dai Evans in TV: The Green Death and the High Priest in TV: Death to the Daleks) died.
 * 2001 - PROSE: Time and Relative was published, serving as a prequel to An Unearthly Child.
 * 2001 - Mary Whitehouse, a vehement critic of Doctor Who, died.
 * 2003 - Bill Strutton, who wrote TV: The Web Planet, died.
 * 2010 - AUDIO: The Elite finished recording.
 * 2010 - Ingrid Pitt (Galleia in TV: The Time Monster and Solow in TV: Warriors of the Deep) died.
 * 2013 - This date is the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who.