1969 (releases)

January

 * 4 January - The Krotons Episode 2 debuted on BBC1.
 * 11 January - The Krotons Episode 3 debuted on BBC1.
 * 18 January - The Krotons Episode 4 debuted on BBC1.
 * 25 January - The Seeds of Death Episode 1 debuted on BBC1.

February

 * 1 February - The Seeds of Death Episode 2 debuted on BBC1.
 * 8 February - The Seeds of Death Episode 3 debuted on BBC1.
 * 15 February - The Seeds of Death Episode 4 debuted on BBC1.
 * 22 February - The Seeds of Death Episode 5 debuted on BBC1.

March

 * 1 March - The Seeds of Death Episode 6 debuted on BBC1.
 * 8 March - The Space Pirates Episode 1 debuted on BBC1.
 * 15 March - The Space Pirates Episode 2 debuted on BBC1.
 * 22 March - The Space Pirates Episode 3 debuted on BBC1.
 * 29 March - The Space Pirates Episode 4 debuted on BBC1.

April

 * 5 April - The Space Pirates Episode 5 debuted on BBC1.
 * 12 April - The Space Pirates Episode 6 debuted on BBC1. This is the most recent episode for which no copy in any form other than audio is known to survive.
 * 19 April - The War Games Episode 1 debuted on BBC1.
 * 26 April - The War Games Episode 2 debuted on BBC1.

May

 * 3 May - The War Games Episode 3 debuted on BBC1.
 * 3 - Actor Mark Siney was born.
 * 10 May - The War Games Episode 4 debuted on BBC1.
 * 17 May - The War Games Episode 5 debuted on BBC1.
 * 21 May - The final episode of The Avengers (created by Sydney Newman) aired in the UK.
 * 24 May - The War Games Episode 6 debuted on BBC1.
 * 31 May - The War Games Episode 7 debuted on BBC1.

June

 * 3 June - The final new episode of the original Star Trek series was broadcast in America.
 * 4 June - Executive producer Julie Gardner was born.
 * 7 June - The War Games Episode 8 debuted on BBC1.
 * 12 June - Final taping session for The War Gamestook place, marking the end of Patrick Troughton's regular involvement with the programme. It was also the last black and white taping session before the conversion to colour production.
 * 14 June - The War Games Episode 9 debuted on BBC1.
 * 21 June - The War Games Episode 10, concluding Season 6, debuted on BBC1, ending in Patrick Troughton's regeneration (Jon Pertwee, however, did not appear). Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury also left the series with this episode. The Time Lords and Gallifrey were officially introduced to the series (although the planet's name wasn't revealed for several more years). This was the final episode of the series to be produced in black and white. This end of the series also marked the end of the show's long seasons; beginning in 1970 the number of episodes per season was reduced considerably. The hiatus of more than five months that followed before the start of Season 7 was the longest break for the show to date, although longer intervals are still to come.

July

 * 20 July - The Apollo 11 moon landing took place.
 * 29 July - Actor Simon Chadwick was born.

August

 * 26 August - Actor Martin Miller died.

September

 * The fifth Doctor Who Annual was published.
 * 6 September - Millennium FX CEO Neill Gorton was born.
 * 13 September - Filming began on Spearhead from Space, the first story to feature Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor. This launched colour production for Doctor Who, although in a one-off occurrence, the entirety of Spearhead from Space was shot on film, rather than the standard film/videotape mix which resumed with the second Pertwee story, Doctor Who and the Silurians.
 * 13 December - Actor Tony Curran was born.