28 May (production)


 * 1964 - The BBC's Director of Television, Kenneth Adam, sends a memo to his Controller of Programmes for Television, which soon goes down the chain through Sydney Newman to Donald Wilson and ends up on the desks of producer Verity Lambert and story editor David Whitaker. The concern from on high? Even Adam's 3½-year-old granddaughter knows it's "stupid" that the First Doctor and his companions separated in a dangerous situation in last Saturday's episode. Adam wants the production team to "exercise more discipline" in the writing so that the programme's stars don't act like idiots. Otherwise, he fears that the programme's longevity will be at risk.