1960s

The 1960s were referred to by the Eleventh Doctor and the DJ of Tranquil Repose as the Swinging Sixties. (AUDIO: Hunters of Earth ^[+]Loading...["Hunters of Earth (audio story)"], TV: Revelation of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)"]) The Doctor associated "miniskirts, Telstars, Fireball XL5, flower power and Woodstock" with this decade. (AUDIO: Hunters of Earth ^[+]Loading...["Hunters of Earth (audio story)"]) Ace believed it had no "street cred". (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"])

The British Rocket Group and Intrusion Counter-Measures Group, the latter a precursor to UNIT, were active during the 1960s. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"], PROSE: Downtime ^[+]Loading...["Downtime (novelisation)"], Who Killed Kennedy ^[+]Loading...["Who Killed Kennedy (novel)"])

The Sixth Doctor considered the 1960s to be one of Earth's "most turbulent periods." (AUDIO: 1963: The Space Race ^[+]Loading...["1963: The Space Race (audio story)"])

George Woods worked in the field of radar development in the 1950s and 1960s. (TV: Lost in Time ^[+]Loading...["Lost in Time (TV story)"])

Near the end of the decade, a number of parents named their sons "Valentine" after the main character in Stranger in a Strange Land. (PROSE: Dead Romance ^[+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)"])

Minor events[[edit] | [edit source]]

"The Metaltron", a Dalek survivor of the Last Great Time War, fell through time and landed on the Ascension Islands (TV: Dalek ^[+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], The Secret Lives of Monsters ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Daleks","page":"52","chaptnum":"2","1":"The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"}) or the Ascension Island, located in the British Overseas Territory, near St Helena and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean sometime in the 1960s; (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"148","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) either in 1961 (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Daleks","page":"53","chaptnum":"2","1":"The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"}) or 1962. (AUDIO: The Dalek Transaction ^[+]Loading...["The Dalek Transaction (audio story)"]) It burnt within its crater for three days. (TV: Dalek ^[+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"148","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, The Secret Lives of Monsters ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Daleks","page":"53","chaptnum":"2","1":"The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"}) Insane and screaming, (TV: Dalek ^[+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"]) the Dalek was recovered by the military (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"148","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) before it was passed through several private collections in the 20th and 21st centuries. (TV: Dalek ^[+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"148","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})

Fitz Kreiner spent a few weeks working behind the bar at the Mother Black Cap in Camden Town. (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine ^[+]Loading...["The Fall of Yquatine (novel)"])

In the 1960s, Dr Fendelman was working on missile guidance systems, observing a "sonic shadow" during one test launch which led to his time scanner experiments in the 1970s. (TV: Image of the Fendahl ^[+]Loading...["Image of the Fendahl (TV story)"])

In this decade, John and Gillian Who met their grandfather, the First Doctor, and began travelling with him as his companions. (COMIC: The Klepton Parasites ^[+]Loading...["The Klepton Parasites (comic story)"])

Sometime in this decade, "lesbian novelist" Iris wrote a novel called The Nylon Jungle. (PROSE: Hospitality ^[+]Loading...["Hospitality (short story)"])

Dave Tonbridge's parents had their wedding over forty years prior to 2005. Marcus Butler's dad played in a skiffle band in which the Ninth Doctor sometimes joined in with. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? ^[+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Doctor Who debuted in 1963, with William Hartnell as the the original Doctor in "An Unearthly Child". Patrick Troughton succeeded him in 1966 as the Second Doctor in the closing moments of The Tenth Planet, and took over the role definitively in The Power of the Daleks, the story that followed.
• The second Doctor Who story, The Daleks introduced the creatures of the same name. Dalekmania swept Great Britain. The Daleks, who eclipsed the Doctor himself in popularity, would return several times during the '60s. The second-most popular Doctor Who monster race, the Cybermen, debuted in 1966's The Tenth Planet.
• The first Doctor Who tie-in book, David Whitaker's Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks was released. It adapted The Daleks in novel form.
• Two theatrical films starring Peter Cushing as "Dr. Who" were released: Dr. Who and the Daleks (based on The Daleks) and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. based on The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
• In 1964, The Klepton Parasites, the first Doctor Who comic, appeared in TV Comic. Doctor Who comics would, in one form or another, continue into the present.
• Patrick Troughton's run as the Doctor was concluded with The War Games in 1969. That year, Jon Pertwee was cast and began filming as the Third Doctor, though his first season would not be broadcast until 1970.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Cuttings Archive of Doctor Who-related print media published from 1963-9