1965

Some time during 1965 the British government was contacted by an alien race dubbed the 456. They demanded a dozen children in exchange for an anti-virus to an influenza outbreak that would otherwise killed millions. Jack Harkness of the Torchwood Institute was ordered to deliver a busload of children from an orphanage in Scotland. One child, Clement MacDonald, escaped and ended up on the run, destined to spend the next forty-five years in asylums. With the children delivered, the anti-virus was provided and the flu outbreak was quelled. (TW: Children of Earth: Day One, Children of Earth: Day Four)

March

 * The Doctor's TARDIS materialised in Wimbledon Common, London so Steven Taylor could go on with his own life. He came across Dodo Chaplet, who said she had witnessed a road accident. (DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve) Immediately afterwards, the First Doctor, Dodo and Steven travelled to Manhattan, New York City where they met the alien Latter-Day Pantheon. (PDA: Salvation)

April

 * Further events in New York City concerning the Latter-Day Pantheon and TARDIS crew. (PDA: Salvation)

Summer

 * Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright arrived back in London aboard the Dalek time machine, which they set to self-destruct soon after. Boarding a bus, they contemplated how they would pick up their previous, "normal" lives again, having arrived at a point two years after joining the First Doctor on his travels. (DW: The Chase)

December

 * 25 - The Doctor's TARDIS materialised in the yard of a police station in Liverpool, its scanner malfunctioning. After some initial fears the polluted atmosphere of the 20th century might harm his companions Steven Taylor and Sara Kingdom, who had grown up in the purified atmospheres of the future, and some trouble with the local police, the First Doctor repaired the malfunctioning scanner and the TARDIS departed. (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan)
 * 31 - After leaving the Monk on Tigus, the TARDIS materialised in Trafalgar Square duing the New Year's Eve celebrations. (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan)

Alternative timeline

 * In a timeline in which Nazi Germany had won the Second World War, Elizabeth Klein used the Doctor's TARDIS to travel back to Colditz Castle in October 1944 intending to bring the Seventh Doctor back to her own time. She was assisted in making the TARDIS operational by Johann Schmidt, who was actually an alternative version of the Eighth Doctor. (BFA: Colditz, BFA: Klein's Story)

January

 * 02 - "The Powerful Enemy" (DW: The Rescue Episode 1) was first broadcast. First appearance of Maureen O'Brien as Vicki.
 * 09 - "Desperate Measures" (DW: The Rescue Episode 2) was first broadcast. With this episode, Vicki accepts the First Doctor's offer to travel in the TARDIS and establishes the tradition of the series periodically introducing new companions.
 * 16 - "The Slave Traders" (DW: The Romans Episode 1) was first broadcast.
 * The final issue of The Klepton Parasites'' is released.
 * 23 - "All Roads Lead to Rome" (DW: The Romans Episode 2) was first broadcast.
 * Debut of The Daleks comic strip in TV Century 21.
 * 30 - "Conspiracy" (DW: The Romans Episode 3) was first broadcast.

February

 * 06 - "Inferno" (DW: The Romans Episode 4) was first broadcast.
 * 13 - "The Web Planet" (DW: The Web Planet Episode 1) was first broadcast. Though it only got 53% in Audience Appreciation figures, this episode brought 13.5 million viewers, which as of Fall 2009 remains the highest single viewership of any Doctor Who episode ever.
 * The third Radio Times Doctor Who cover features the upcoming DW: The Web Planet with a photo of the Zarbi and the Vortis landscape.
 * 20 - "The Zarbi", (DW: The Web Planet Episode 2) was first broadcast.
 * 27 - "Escape to Danger" (DW: The Web Planet Episode 3) was first broadcast.
 * The Earthlings release the single "Landing of the Daleks"/"March of the Robots" on Parlophone Records. The BBC bans the single due to the fact that "Landing of the Daleks" includes a Morse code message – S.O.S., S.O.S., Daleks have landed – and it was felt the sound of the international distress signal S.O.S. might mislead shipping if radio operators should hear it. The record was reissued with the offending sound scrambled.
 * The Earthlings release the single "Landing of the Daleks"/"March of the Robots" on Parlophone Records. The BBC bans the single due to the fact that "Landing of the Daleks" includes a Morse code message – S.O.S., S.O.S., Daleks have landed – and it was felt the sound of the international distress signal S.O.S. might mislead shipping if radio operators should hear it. The record was reissued with the offending sound scrambled.

March

 * 06 - "Crater of Needles", (DW: The Web Planet Episode 4) was first broadcast.
 * 13 - "Invasion" (DW: The Web Planet Episode 5) was first broadcast.
 * 20 - "The Centre" (DW: The Web Planet Episode 6) was first broadcast.
 * 27 - "The Lion" (DW: The Crusade Episode 1) was first broadcast.

April

 * 03 - "The Knight of Jaffa" (DW: The Crusade Episode 2) was first broadcast.
 * 10 - "The Wheel of Fortune" (DW: The Crusade Episode 3) was first broadcast.
 * 17 - "The Warlords" (DW: The Crusade Episode 4) was first broadcast.
 * 24 - "The Space Museum" (DW: The Space Museum Episode 1) was first broadcast.

May

 * 01 - "The Dimensions of Time" (DW: The Space Museum Episode 2) was first broadcast.
 * 08 - "The Search" (DW: The Space Museum Episode 3) was first broadcast.
 * 15 - "The Final Phase" (DW: The Space Museum Episode 4) was first broadcast.
 * 22 - "The Executioners" (DW: The Chase Episode 1) was first broadcast.
 * 29 - "The Death of Time" (DW: The Chase Episode 2) was first broadcast.
 * Dursley McLinden was born.

June

 * 05 - "Flight Through Eternity" (DW: The Chase Episode 3) was first broadcast. Peter Purves appears on the series for the first time, but not as Steven Taylor.
 * 12 - "Journey Into Terror" (DW: The Chase Episode 4) was first broadcast.
 * 17 - Publication of The Dalek Painting Book by Souvenir Press and Panther Books. A massive 350,000 copies are printed.
 * 19 - "The Death of Doctor Who" (DW: The Chase Episode 5) was first broadcast. First use of the name "Doctor Who" in an episode title.
 * 25 - Dr. Who and the Daleks, a colour feature film loosely based upon DW: The Daleks, was released, featuring the debut of Peter Cushing as Dr. Who.
 * 26 - "The Planet of Decision" (DW: The Chase Episode 6) was first broadcast. Despite having appeared as a different character in the same serial only a few weeks earlier, Peter Purves joins the series playing Steven Taylor. Meanwhile, both William Russell and Jacqueline Hill leave the series with this episode, leaving William Hartnell the sole original cast member from 1963.

July

 * The pop single "Who's Who", performed by Roberta Tovey, was released on Polydor. Tovey was a star of the recently released film Dr. Who and the Daleks.
 * Jack Dorsey and His Orchestra releases the single "Dance of the Daleks" on Polydor.
 * 03 - "The Watcher" (DW: The Time Meddler Episode 1) was first broadcast.
 * 10 - "The Meddling Monk" (DW: The Time Meddler Episode 2) was first broadcast.
 * 17 - "The Battle of Wits" (DW: The Time Meddler Episode 3) was first broadcast.
 * 24 - "Checkmate" (DW: The Time Meddler Episode 4), the final episode of Season 2, was first broadcast. This was followed by the show's first substantial season break as it takes the rest of the summer off.

August

 * Publication of Paint and Draw the Film of Dr. Who and the Daleks by Souvenir Press. Again, some 350,000 copies are printed.

September

 * 11 - Season 3 commences with the first broadcast of "Four Hundred Dawns" (DW: Galaxy 4 Episode 1).
 * 13 - Eric Potts was born.
 * 16 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Zarbi by Bill Strutton, the second novelisation of a Doctor Who serial (DW: The Web Planet), was first published by Frederick Muller.
 * 18 - "Trap of Steel" (DW: Galaxy 4 Episode 2) was first broadcast.
 * 25 - "Air Lock" (DW: Galaxy 4 Episode 3) was first broadcast.
 * The first Doctor Who annual, Doctor Who Annual 1966, was published by World Distributors, Ltd.

October

 * 02 - "The Exploding Planet" (DW: Galaxy 4 Episode 4) was first broadcast.
 * 07 - The Dalek Pocketbook and Space Travellers Guide first published.
 * 09 - DW: Mission to the Unknown was first broadcast. This was the only "serial" in which the Doctor or his companions do not appear (although for contractual reasons, William Hartnell was still credited on-screen), and was the only single-episode serial produced in the twenty-five-minute format. It was the last episode produced by original producer Verity Lambert.
 * 11 - The Dalek World first published.
 * 16 - "Temple of Secrets" (DW: The Myth Makers, Episode 1) was first broadcast. This was the first episode produced by John Wiles.
 * 21 - The Avengers episode "Death at Bargain Prices" airs in the UK for the first time. This episode of the series created by Sydney Newman includes a cameo appearance by several Daleks -- in toy form in a department store.
 * 23 - "Small Profit, Quick Return" (DW: The Myth Makers Episode 2) was first broadcast.
 * 30 - "Death of a Spy", (DW: The Myth Makers Episode 3 was first broadcast.

November

 * 06 - "Horse of Destruction" (DW: The Myth Makers Episode 4) was first broadcast. Maureen O'Brien leaves the series with this episode, which introduces Adrienne Hill as short-lived companion Katarina.
 * 13 - "The Nightmare Begins" (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 1) was first broadcast. Nicholas Courtney makes his first appearance on Doctor Who as Bret Vyon.
 * 16 - Mark Benton was born.
 * 20 - "Day of Armageddon" (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 2) was first broadcast.
 * 27 - "Devil's Planet" (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 3) was first broadcast.

December

 * 04 - "The Traitors" (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 4) was first broadcast. Adrienne Hill makes her final appearance as Katarina as her character becomes the first companion to be killed off. Jean Marsh, who previously appeared in DW: The Crusade, makes her debut as single-story companion Sara Kingdom.
 * 11 - "Counter Plot" (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 5) was first broadcast.
 * 18 - "Coronas of the Sun" (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 6) was first broadcast.
 * 21 - Premiere of the stage play SP: The Curse of the Daleks at Wyndham's Theatre in London. The play runs into 1966.
 * 25 - "The Feast of Steven" (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan Episode 7) was first broadcast. This was the first Christmas-themed episode of Doctor Who and was a standalone story not directly connected to the ongoing story arc. It concludes with an infamous moment where William Hartnell, in character as the First Doctor, breaks the fourth wall to wish viewers a Merry Christmas. The next Christmas-themed Doctor Who episode would not air until DW: The Unquiet Dead in 2005, while a tradition of Christmas Day special episodes would begin with DW: The Christmas Invasion later in 2005.

Unknown dates

 * Armada Books publishes the first paperback edition of the first Doctor Who novelisation, DWN: Dr. Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks.
 * DWN: Doctor Who and the Crusaders was first published, adapting DW: The Crusade. This was the third and last of a trilogy of novelisations published by Frederick Muller. The next new novelisation would not be published until DWN: Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion established the Target novelisation line in early 1974.
 * Claire Skinner was born.
 * Martin Ball was born.