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| === January to [[April]] ===
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| * The [[stage play]] ''[[Doctor Who and the Daleks in The Seven Keys to Doomsday]]'' toured the UK.
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| * [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon]]'' was first published.
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| * [[1 January]] - Actor [[Andrea Lowe]] was born.
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| * [[4 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[11 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[16 January]] - The BBC's Audience Research Dept. filed an Audience Research Report on [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' Episode 1. The episode received a Reaction Index of 53. Reaction to [[Fourth Doctor|new Doctor]] [[Tom Baker]] was mixed, with some respondents saying he would take some getting used to.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/changingwho/10316.shtml BBC - Archive - The Changing Face of Doctor Who - Audience Research Report: 'Robot']</ref>
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| * [[18 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast. Although there were two more [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] stories over the next year, this episode marked the end of the Doctor's continuous involvement with UNIT.
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| * [[24 January]] - Actor [[Neil Wilson]] died.
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| * [[25 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| * [[1 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[6 February]] - Actor [[Nabil Elouahabi]] was born.
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| * [[8 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[15 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast.
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| * [[20 February]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]'' was first published.
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| * [[22 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| * 22 - Writer [[Peter R. Newman]] died.
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| * [[1 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[8 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast. This was the first appearance of [[Davros]].
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| * [[10 March]] - Actor [[Yee Jee Tso]] was born.
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| * [[13 March]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Giant Robot]]'' was first published. It was the first novelisation of a [[Fourth Doctor]] serial and the first novelisation to be published during the same TV season in which the adapted serial ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'') was actually broadcast.
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| * [[15 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[22 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[29 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast.
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| * [[5 April]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 5 was first broadcast.
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| * [[12 April]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 6 was first broadcast.
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| * [[19 April]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| * [[23 April]] - Actor [[William Hartnell]] died in Marden, Kent, [[England]]. Hartnell has the sad distinction of being the first major, ongoing cast member of ''Doctor Who'' to pass away.
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| * [[26 April]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * 26 - Actor [[Kevin Lindsay]] died.
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| * [[3 May]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[10 May]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast, bringing [[Season 12]] to a premature end following the BBC's decision to reschedule the originally planned season finale, [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]'', to the start of [[Season 13]].
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| * [[15 May]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'' was first published.
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| * [[24 May]] - Actor [[William Sasso]] was born.
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| * [[16 June]] - Actor [[Fred Koehler]] was born.
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| * [[15 July]] - Actor [[Raf De La Torre]] died.
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| * [[21 August]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Green Death]]'' was first published.
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| * [[23 August]] - [[Tom Baker]] presented ''[[Disney Time]]'' in character as the [[Fourth Doctor]]
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| * [[30 August]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast, opening [[Season 13]] and marking the first autumn start for a ''Doctor Who'' season since 1968-69. The serial was originally intended to end Season 12, but was pushed back to make a fall season start feasible.
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| * ''[[Doctor Who Annual 1976]]'' was published.
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| * ''[[Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1976]]'' was published
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| * [[6 September]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[13 September]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[20 September]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast. [[Ian Marter]] left the series as a regular with this episode, although he returned a few weeks later for a guest appearance in [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion]]''. This was also [[Nicholas Courtney]]'s final regular appearance as Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]]; he next played the character in the 1983 serial [[TV]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]''. Although [[UNIT]] returned in ''The Android Invasion'' and the Doctor was on a UNIT mission in [[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]'', this was the last appearance of the Brigadier and marked as the official end of the UNIT era.
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| * [[24 September]] - Actor [[Clive Morton]] died.
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| * [[27 September]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| * [[4 October]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[11 October]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[16 October]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders]]'' was first published.
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| * [[18 October]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast.
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| * [[24 October]] - Actor [[Martin Boddey]] died.
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| * [[25 October]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| * [[1 November]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[8 November]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[15 November]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast.
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| * [[20 November]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Three Doctors]]'' was first published. It was the first novelisation not to use the title form ''Doctor Who and the ...''. This was also the first Target Books-commissioned novelisation to feature the [[First Doctor]].
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| * 20 - ''[[The Doctor Who Monster Book]]'' was first published.
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| * [[22 November]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| * [[29 November]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[6 December]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * 06 - Actor [[Noel Clarke]] was born.
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| * [[13 December]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast. It was the final appearances of [[Ian Marter]] as [[Harry Sullivan]], [[John Levene]] as [[John Benton]] and, as a regular part of the series, [[UNIT]]. After this episode the series went on a brief hiatus for Christmas.
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| * Actor [[Dean Lennox Kelly]] was born.
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| == Footnotes ==
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| {{reflist}}
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