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== Events ==
== Events ==
* [[1 January|1]] - The [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] departed [[Trafalgar Square]], where it had arrived during the [[New Year's Eve]] celebrations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'')
* [[1 January]] - The [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] departed [[Trafalgar Square]], where it had arrived during the [[New Year's Eve]] celebrations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'')


* [[5 July|5]] - [[Ben Jackson]] began a five-month shore posting. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines]]'')
* [[5 July]] - [[Ben Jackson]] began a five-month shore posting. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines]]'')
* [[12 July|12]] through [[20 July|20]] - From its base in the [[Post Office Tower]] in [[London]], [[WOTAN]] directed [[mind control|mind-controlled]] [[human]] and [[robot]] [[War Machine]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines]]'')
* [[12 July|12]] through [[20 July|20]] - From its base in the [[Post Office Tower]] in [[London]], [[WOTAN]] directed [[mind control|mind-controlled]] [[human]] and [[robot]] [[War Machine]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines]]'')
* 20 - The [[First Doctor]] and [[Dodo Chaplet]] arrived in London and battled the [[War Machine]]s. The Doctor left with new companions [[Polly Wright]] and [[Ben Jackson]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines]]'') After defeating WOTAN, the Doctor checked to see if the [[Hand of Omega]] had been buried in [[Shoreditch|Shoreditch Cemetery]] as per his instructions in [[November]] [[1963]], only to discover that it has been removed. He determined that his [[Seventh Doctor|future self]] would arrive at an earlier point in order to deal with it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rag and Bone Man's Story (short story)|The Rage and Bone Man's Story]]'')
* 20 - The [[First Doctor]] and [[Dodo Chaplet]] arrived in London and battled the [[War Machine]]s. The Doctor left with new companions [[Polly Wright]] and [[Ben Jackson]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines]]'') After defeating WOTAN, the Doctor checked to see if the [[Hand of Omega]] had been buried in [[Shoreditch|Shoreditch Cemetery]] as per his instructions in [[November]] [[1963]], only to discover that it has been removed. He determined that his [[Seventh Doctor|future self]] would arrive at an earlier point in order to deal with it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rag and Bone Man's Story (short story)|The Rage and Bone Man's Story]]'')

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1966 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 1966
20th century | 1960s
1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969 • 1970 • 1971 • 1972
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In 1966, WOTAN attempted to control the human race.

In this year, a time machine crashed on Earth. It was found by Robert, who spent the next thirty years time travelling. The First Doctor returned him to this year at Christmas to take his dying brother Christopher's place. (PROSE: The Little Drummer Boy)

Events

Unknown dates

Early 1966

  • Exact date unknown - William Hartnell sent shockwaves through the Doctor Who production team by announcing his intention to leave the series. Over the following months, producers and writers developed the concept of regeneration to explain the change of lead actor and cast Patrick Troughton as the new Doctor; Hartnell eventually agreed to appear in the first two serials of the new season.
  • The Doctor Who production office circulated a memo to writers outlining the proposed character of the Second Doctor, as well as suggestions on handling the first regeneration, which was initially compared to an LSD trip gone bad.[1]
  • 07 - "Don't Shoot the Pianist" (TV: The Gunfighters Episode 2) was first broadcast.
  • 14 - "Johnny Ringo" (TV: The Gunfighters Episode 3) was first broadcast.
  • 20 - Mervyn Pinfield, a director and associate producer for Doctor Who, died.
  • 21 - "The OK Corral" (TV: The Gunfighters Episode 4) was first broadcast. This marked the final time individual episode titles would be used in the original series (the practice would resume in 2005).
  • 28 - TV: The Savages Episode 1 was first broadcast.
  • 02 - TV: The War Machines episode 2 was first broadcast. This was the final appearance of Jackie Lane as Dodo Chaplet.
  • 09 - TV: The War Machines Episode 3 was first broadcast.
  • 16 - TV: The War Machines Episode 4 was first broadcast, concluding the third season.
  • The film Dr. Who and the Daleks was released to theatres in the United States. For most audiences in America, this was their first exposure to the Doctor Who concept, as the TV series had not as of this date been broadcast in the US (although some communities bordering Canada were able to view the series on the CBC network).
  • 30 - Actor Jason Watkins was born.

Unknown dates

  • Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space was published by World Distributors. A hardcover novella, this was the first publication of an original long-form text story to feature the First Doctor. (It was presumably published prior to October as it featured the First Doctor.)
  • US comic book publisher Dell Comics issued a single-issue adaptation of the Dr. Who and the Daleks film. This was the first (and, until the early 1980s, only) appearance of a Doctor Who-related comic book in the US.

See also

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