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| | '''1975''' was a [[year]]. |
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| == Events == | | == Events == |
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| * [[24 December|24]] - The [[Seventh Doctor]] and his companions [[Ace]] and [[Hex]] defeated the [[Kellenian]] invasion of [[Earth]] in [[New York City]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Presence (short story)|Presence]]'')
| | On [[24 December]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] and his companions [[Ace]] and [[Hex]] defeated the [[Kellenian]] invasion of [[Earth]] in [[New York City]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Presence (short story)|Presence]]'') |
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| * [[Toshiko Sato]] was born. ([[TV]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'')
| | The [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka]] visited [[London]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sands of Time (novel)|The Sands of Time]]'') |
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| == Behind the scenes ==
| | When she was fifteen, Tegan broke her toe during track and gym and [[Mike Bretherton]] carried her books home for her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hexagora (audio story)|Hexagora]]'') |
| === 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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| === January ===
| | The heads of two [[Cybermen]] left over from the [[International Electromatics]] invasion were found beneath London in this year. One was found in the sewers and eventually ended up in [[Henry van Statten]]'s [[The Vault (Dalek)|Vault]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') The other was found at [[Deffry Vale station]] and was stored at the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Security Bot (video game)|Security Bot]]'') |
| * [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon]]'' was first published.
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| * [[4 January|4]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[11 January|11]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[16 January|16]] - 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|18]] - [[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|24]] - [[Neil Wilson]] ([[Sam Seeley]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'') died.
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| * [[25 January|25]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| === February ===
| | The conspiracy theory magazine ''[[Plexus]]'' was established in [[Patchogue]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conspiracy (audio story)|The Conspiracy]]'') |
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| * [[1 February|01]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
| | A young woman was abducted by the [[Sisters of St Matilda]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cloisters of Terror (audio story)|The Cloisters of Terror]]'') |
| * [[8 February|08]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[15 February|15]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast.
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| * [[20 February|20]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]'' was first published.
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| * [[22 February|22]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| === March ===
| | [[Highgate Cemetery]] was "reclaimed" by the [[Friends of Highgate Cemetery]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Highgate Horror (comic story)|The Highgate Horror]]'') |
| * [[1 March|01]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[8 March|08]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast. This was the first appearance of [[Davros]].
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| * [[10 March|10]] - [[Yee Jee Tso]], who portrayed [[Chang Lee]] in the [[1996]] [[Doctor Who (1996)|''Doctor Who'' television movie]], was born.
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| * [[13 March|13]] - [[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|15]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[22 March|22]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[29 March|29]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast.
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| === April ===
| | [[Andrew Wooding]] and [[school (Have You Seen This Man?)|his class]] were visited by the [[Ninth Doctor]], who got them to [[paint]] pictures of their [[dream]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Have You Seen This Man? (short story)|Have You Seen This Man?]]'') |
| * [[5 April|05]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 5 was first broadcast.
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| * [[12 April|12]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' Episode 6 was first broadcast.
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| * [[19 April|19]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| * [[23 April|23]] - [[William Hartnell]], the first actor to portray [[the Doctor]], 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|26]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * 26 - [[Kevin Lindsay]], who guested several times on ''Doctor Who'', died.
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| === May === | | == Births and deaths == |
| * [[3 May|03]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[10 May|10]] - [[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]].
| | [[Toshiko Sato]] was born in [[July]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'') Her official [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] records once stated her [[Birthdate|date of birth]] was [[19 September]] [[1981]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'') due to an incident Toshiko had whilst trying to stop a torrent file from corrupting the world. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Torchwood cascade CDRIP.tor (audio story)|torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor]]'') |
| * [[15 May|15]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'' was first published.
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| === June === | | === Undated === |
| * [[16 June|16]] - [[Fred Koehler]] ([[Ralph Coltrane]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Categories of Life]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Middle Men]]'') was born.
| | [[Francisco Franco]] died. He had ruled [[Spain]] since [[1939]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fiesta of the Damned (audio story)|Fiesta of the Damned]]'') |
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| === July ===
| | [[Jonah Summerfield I]] died in an industrial accident. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') |
| * [[15 July|15]] - [[Raf De La Torre]], who played the [[Senior judge (The Keys of Marinus)|senior judge]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus]]'', died.
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| * [[21 August|21]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Green Death]]'' was first published.
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| * [[23 August|23]] - [[Tom Baker]] presented ''[[Disney Time]]'' in character as the [[Fourth Doctor]]
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| * [[30 August|30]] - [[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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| === September === | |
| * ''[[Doctor Who Annual 1976]]'' was published.
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| * ''[[Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1976]]'' was published
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| * [[6 September|06]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[13 September|13]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[20 September|20]] - [[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 in [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion]]'' in a guest appearance. 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, the last appearance of the Brigadier, marked this as the official end of the UNIT era.
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| * [[24 September|24]] - [[Clive Morton]] ([[George Trenchard]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') died.
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| * [[27 September|27]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| === October === | |
| * [[4 October|04]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[11 October|11]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[16 October|16]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders]]'' was first published.
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| * [[18 October|18]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast.
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| * [[24 October|24]] - [[Martin Boddey]] ([[Walker (The Sea Devils)|Walker]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') died.
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| * [[25 October|25]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| === November === | |
| * [[1 November|01]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[8 November|08]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[15 November|15]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast.
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| * [[20 November|20]] - [[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|22]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast.
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| * [[29 November|29]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast.
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| === December ===
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| * [[6 December|06]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast.
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| * 06 - [[Noel Clarke]], who played [[Mickey Smith]] in the revived ''[[Doctor Who]]'', was born.
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| * [[13 December|13]] - [[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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| * [[Anna-Louise Plowman]], who played [[Diana Goddard]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', was born.
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| * [[Dean Lennox Kelly]], who played [[William Shakespeare]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'', was born.
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| == Footnotes ==
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