23 November (releases)


 * 1963 - "An Unearthly Child," the first ever Doctor Who episode, was first broadcast at 5:16 p.m. (one minute after the scheduled 5:15) on BBC tv. Doctor Who was born.
 * Due to a power outage in certain areas of Great Britain and to the assassination of John F. Kennedy the day previous, "An Unearthly Child" drew minimal audience - only 4.4 million viewers.


 * 1968 - Episode four of The Invasion was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1968 - Part four of TV Comic story Ice Cap Terror was first published.
 * 1974 - Part seven of TV Comic story Lords of the Ether was first published.
 * 1983 - The Five Doctors was first broadcast on PBS, becoming the first Doctor Who television story ever to receive its initial screening outside the UK. It was broadcast in the UK two days later.
 * 1987 - Part one of Dragonfire was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1987 - Encyclopedia of The Worlds of Doctor Who: A-D was first published by Piccadilly Press.
 * 1988 - Part one of Silver Nemesis was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1996 - Part six of Radio Times comic story Ascendance was first published.
 * 2000 - Howe's Transcendental Toybox was first published by Telos Publishing.
 * 2001 - Time and Relative was first published by Telos Publishing.
 * 2002 - Foreign Devils was first published by Telos Publishing.