1964 (releases)


 * 4 January - "The Escape" debuted on the BBC.
 * 11 January - "The Ambush" debuted on the BBC.
 * 13 January - Actor Bill Bailey was born.
 * 18 January - "The Expedition" debuted on the BBC.
 * 25 January - "The Ordeal" debuted on the BBC.

Early 1964

 * Moris Farhi submitted a six-episode script entitled Farewell Great Macedon and a single-episode script entitled The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance. Neither were produced, but both would be published in 2009 and were adapted for Big Finish Productions' The Lost Stories range in 2010.
 * A recording of the Doctor Who theme by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was released on a 45 rpm single. This was the earliest noted release of any soundtrack music from the series.
 * Another recording of the Doctor Who theme, this time by Eric Winstone and his Orchestra, was also released on Pye Records, and was probably the first non-BBC recording of the theme to be issued.
 * 1 February - "The Rescue" debuted on the BBC.
 * 8 February - "The Edge of Destruction" debuted on the BBC.
 * 8 February - Actor Trinny Woodall was born.
 * 15 February - "The Brink of Disaster" debuted on the BBC.
 * 15 February - Radio Times printed its first-ever Doctor Who-related cover (dated February 22-28) to promote the first episode of Marco Polo.
 * 16 February - Actor Christopher Eccleston was born.
 * 21 February - Actor Huw Higginson was born.
 * 22 February - "The Roof of the World" debuted on the BBC.
 * 25 February - Actor Lee Evans was born.
 * 29 February - "The Singing Sands" debuted on the BBC.
 * 7 March - "Five Hundred Eyes"(Marco Polo Episode 3) was first broadcast.
 * 14 March - "The Wall of Lies" debuted on the BBC.
 * 21 March - "Rider From Shang-Tu" debuted on the BBC.
 * 27 March - Actor Clive Rowe was born.
 * 28 March - "Mighty Kublai Khan" debuted on the BBC.
 * 1 April - Actor Marcus Hutton was born.
 * 4 April - "Assassin at Peking" debuted on the BBC.
 * 11 April - "The Sea of Death" debuted on the BBC.
 * 18 April - "The Velvet Web" debuted on the BBC.
 * 20 April - BBC Two, the United Kingdom's third TV network, was launched. Henceforth the main BBC network, which aired Doctor Who, would be known as BBC1.
 * 25 April - "The Screaming Jungle" debuted on BBC1.
 * 2 May - "The Snows of Terror" debuted on BBC1.
 * 7 May - Writer Craig Hinton was born.
 * 9 May - "Sentence of Death" debuted on BBC1.
 * 16 May - "The Keys of Marinus" debuted on BBC1.
 * 23 May - "The Temple of Evil" debuted on BBC1.
 * 29 May - Actor David Kinder was born.
 * 30 May - "The Warriors of Death" debuted on BBC1.
 * 30 May - Actor Mark Sheppard was born.
 * 4 June - Actor Ralph Salmins was born.
 * 6 June - "The Bride of Sacrifice" debuted on BBC1.
 * 13 June - "The Day of Darkness" debuted on BBC1.
 * 20 June - "Strangers in Space" debuted on BBC1.
 * 22 June - Actor Paterson Joseph was born.
 * 27 June - "The Unwilling Warriors" debuted on BBC1.
 * 30 June - The Dalek Book was published, possibly the first book tie-in with Doctor Who featuring original material.
 * 11 July - "Hidden Danger" debuted on BBC1.
 * 18 July - "A Race Against Death" debuted on BBC1.
 * 21 July - Actor Ross Kemp was born.
 * 22 July - Actor Bonnie Langford was born.
 * 25 July - "Kidnap" debuted on BBC1.
 * Carole Ann Ford appeared on Juke Box Jury.
 * 1 August - "A Desperate Venture" debuted on BBC1.
 * 2 August - Actor Rupert Holliday Evans was born.
 * 8 August - "A Land of Fear" debuted on BBC1.
 * 15 August - "Guests of Madame Guillotine" debuted on BBC1.
 * 22 August - "A Change of Identity" debuted on BBC1.
 * 29 August - "The Tyrant of France" debuted on BBC1.
 * 31 August - Actor Jodie Wilson was born.
 * 5 September - "A Bargain of Necessity" debuted on BBC1.
 * 5 September - Writer Stephen Greenhorn was born.
 * 12 September - "Prisoners of Concergerie" debuted on BBC1. The airing of this episode concluded Season 1 of Doctor Who, although only a few weeks passed before the start of Season 2.
 * 31 October - "Planet of Giants", the first episode of Season 2 and of the story Planet of Giants, was first broadcast.
 * 2 November - Actor Loraine Velez was born.
 * 7 November - "Dangerous Journey" debuted on BBC1.
 * 12 November - Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, a hardback novelisation by David Whitaker of The Daleks and the first-ever Doctor Who tie-in novel, was published in hardcover by Frederick Muller. In 1973, it was reprinted by Target Books as Doctor Who and the Daleks.
 * 14 November - "Crisis" debuted on BBC1.
 * 14 November - Radio Times again featured a cover story on Doctor Who, this time announcing the much-anticipated return of the Daleks in The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
 * 14 - The Doctor Who comic strip made its debut in the 674th issue of TV Comic, with the comic The Klepton Parasites.
 * 21 November - "World's End" debuted on BBC1. For the first time, a Doctor Who episode featured extensive location filming and brought back a previously seen monster. It was also the first story to incorporate widely known London landmarks (despite being set in the future).
 * 28 November - "The Daleks" debuted on BBC1.
 * Its original 20,000-copy print run already sold out, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks went into a second printing.
 * Doctor Who entered the pop music leagues when a Newcastle girl group called The Go-Go's (no relation to the American group of the 1980s) released the single "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek". Perhaps coincidentally, the Dalek story underway at this time would run through Christmas.
 * 5 December - "Day of Reckoning" debuted on BBC1.
 * 12 December - "The End of Tomorrow" debuted on BBC1.
 * 19 December - "The Waking Ally" debuted on BBC1.
 * 26 December - "Flashpoint" debuted on BBC1. The episode saw the first major cast change as Carole Ann Ford left the series.

Unknown dates

 * Doctor Who began airing on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network in Canada, making its North American debut.