1965

Events

 * A few days after alien ships crashland outside New York City and London, Dodo Chaplet, sent to live with her great-aunt in Wimbledon, pays a visit to an elderly neighbor, only to find that he has been killed by an alien who has assumed the old man's form. Held hostage by the alien, Dodo manages to escape and finds a police box, - or so she thinks, - on the Common, and upon entering becomes the Doctor's newest companion. The Doctor pilots the TARDIS to New York a few days in the future, where the city has fallen under the thrall of associates of the alien Dodo just escaped from in Wimbledon. These beings are susceptible to the thoughts and feelings of humans, and assume the form of angelic beings who promise humans passage to Heaven, actually the aliens' homeworld transformed by the thoughts and desires of humans into their own visions of the afterlife. Disaster looms as the conflicting images each person has of God and Heaven threatens to destroy both Earth and the aliens' homeworld, until the Doctor and Steven succeed in weakening the aliens by placing doubt among the populace about their new gods' power and invincibility. Joseph, the alien who held Dodo prisoner, returns the humans who crossed over to his world back to Earth, while he returns home. Dodo joins the Doctor and Steven on their travels ("The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve," "Salvation").

April

 * 10th April - The Beatles perform their hit, Ticket to Ride at Riverside Studios. The performance is viewed by the First Doctor, Barbara, Ian, and Vicki on the Time-Space Visualizer ("The Chase").

December

 * Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright arrive back in 20th century London aboard the Daleks' time-space machine, which self-destructs soon after. Boarding a bus, they contemplate how they will pick up their previous, "normal" lives again, having arrived at a point two years after joining the Doctor on his travels ("The Chase").


 * 25th December - Pursued by the Daleks through time and space, the TARDIS materializes in the yard of a police station in Liverpool, its scanner malfunctioning. After some initial fears that the polluted atmosphere of the 20th century might harm his companions Steven Taylor and Sara Kingdom, who grew up in the purified atmospheres of the future, and some trouble with the local police, the Doctor manages to repair the malfunctioning scanner. The TARDIS departs ("The Daleks' Master Plan").


 * 31 December - Pursued by the Daleks through space and time, the TARDIS materializes in Trafalgar Square duing the New Year's Eve celebrations ("The Daleks' Master Plan").