1964

Events

Doctor Who Universe

• The Doctor visits St. Cedd's College at Cambridge. (DW: Shada)

July

• 13 - Maria Jackson breaks free of the Trickster's Graske servant and arrives in this date. A few minutes after, school-aged Sarah Jane Smith's best friend Andrea Yates falls off a pier and drowns. (SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?).

In a timeline changed by the Trickster, Sarah drowns and Andrea lives.

November

• 15 - According to her passport, the birthdate of Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown companion to the Doctor in his fifth and sixth incarnations. (DW: Planet of Fire)

See also

• Stories set in 1964

Real World

January

• 04 - First broadcast of "The Escape" (The Daleks Episode 3).
• 11 - First broadcast of "The Ambush" (The Daleks Episode 4).
• 18 - First broadcast of "The Expedition" (The Daleks Episode 5).
• 25 - First broadcast of "The Ordal" (The Daleks Episode 6).

February

• 01 - First broadcast of "The Rescue" (The Daleks Episode 7).
• 08 - First broadcast of "The Edge of Destruction", the first episode of the story of the same name.
• 15 - First broadcast of "The Brink of Disaster" (The Edge of Destruction Episode 2).
• 15 - Radio Times has its first-ever Doctor Who cover to promote the first episode of Marco Polo.
• 16 - Christopher Eccleston (the Ninth Doctor) is born in Salford, Lancashire, England. He is the first actor to play the Doctor born after the series debuted on television.
• 22 - First broadcast of "The Roof of the World" (Marco Polo Episode 1).
• 29 - First episode of "The Singing Sands" (Marco Polo Episode 2).

March

• 07 - Broadcast of "Five Hundred Eyes"(Marco Polo Episode 3).
• 14 - Broadcast of "The Wall of Lies" (Marco Polo Episode 4).
• 21 - Broadcast of "Rider From Shang-Tu" First Broadcast (Marco Polo Episode 5).
• 28 - Broadcast of "Mighty Kublai Khan" (Marco Polo Episode 6).

April

• 04 - Broadcast of "Assassin at Peking" (Marco Polo Episode 7).
• 11 - First broadcast of "The Sea of Death" (The Keys of Marinus Episode 1).
• 18 - First broadcast of "The Velvet Web" First Broadcast (The Keys of Marinus Episode 2).
• 25 - First broadcast of "The Screaming Jungle" (The Keys of Marinus Episode 3).

May

• 02 - First broadcast of "The Snows of Terror" (The Keys of Marinus Episode 4).
• 09 - First broadcast of "Sentence of Death" (The Keys of Marinus Episode 5).
• 16 - First broadcast of "The Keys of Marinus" First Broadcast (The Keys of Marinus Episode 6).
• 23 - First broadcast of "The Temple of Evil" First Broadcast (The Aztecs Episode 1).
• 30 - First broadcast of "The Warriors of Death" (The Aztecs Episode 2).

June

• 06 - First broadcast of "The Bride of Sacrifice" (The Aztecs Episode 3).
• 13 - First broadcast of "The Day of Darkness" (The Aztecs Episode 4).
• 20 - First broadcast of "Strangers in Space" (The Sensorites Episode 1).
• 27 - First broadcast of "The Unwilling Warriors" (The Sensorites Episode 2).

July

• 11 - First broadcast of "Hidden Danger" (The Sensorites Episode 3).
• 18 - First broadcast of "A Race Against Death" (The Sensorites Episode 4).
• 22 - Bonnie Langford, who would play Melanie Bush, is born in Hampton Court, Surrey, England. She is the first companion actor to be born after the start of the original series.
• 25 - First broadcast of "Kidnap" (The Sensorites Episode 5).

August

• 01 - First broadcast of "A Desperate Venture" (The Sensorites Episode 6).
• 08 - First broadcsat of "A Land of Fear" (The Reign of Terror Episode 1).
• 15 - First broadcast of "Guests of Madame Guillotine" (The Reign of Terror Episode 2).
• 22 - First broadcast of "A Change of Identity" (The Reign of Terror Episode 3).
• 29 - First broadcast of "The Tyrant of France" (The Reign of Terror Episode 4).

September

• 05 - First broadcast of "A Bargain of Necessity" (The Reign of Terror Episode 5).
• 05 - Stephen Greenhorn, writer of The Lazarus Experiment and The Doctor's Daughter, is born in West Lothian, Scotland.
• 12 - First broadcast of "Prisoners of Concergerie" (The Reign of Terror Episode 6). The airing of this episode concludes the broadcast of Season 1 of Doctor Who, although only a few weeks will pass before the start of Season 2.

October

• 31 - "Planet of Giants", the first episode of Season 2 and of the story Planet of Giants is first broadcast.

November

• 07 - First broadcast of "Dangerous Journey" (Planet of Giants Episode 2).
• 12 - Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, a hardback novelisation by David Whitaker of The Daleks and the first-ever Doctor Who tie-in book, is published in hardcover by Frederick Muller. In 1973, it would be reprinted by Target Books as Doctor Who and the Daleks.
• 14 - First broadcast of "Crisis" (Planet of Giants Episode 3).
• 14 - Radio Times again features a cover story on Doctor Who, this time announcing the much-anticipated return of the Daleks.
• 21 - First broadcast of "World's End" (The Dalek Invasion of Earth Episode 1). For the first time, a Doctor Who features extensive location filming and brings back a previous seen monster.
• 28 - First broadcast of "The Daleks" (The Dalek Invasion of Earth Episode 2).

December

• 05 - First broadcast of "Day of Reckoning" (The Dalek Invasion of Earth Episode 3).
• 12 - First broadcast of "The End of Tomorrow" (The Dalek Invasion of Earth Episode 4).
• 19 - First broadcast of "The Waking Ally" (The Dalek Invasion of Earth Episode 5).
• 26 - First broadcast of "Flashpoint" (The Dalek Invasion of Earth Episode 6). The episode sees the first major cast change, as Susan Foreman leaves.

1963

20th century 1960s

1965