1967
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[edit] Events
[edit] Doctor Who Universe
[edit] January
- The Doctor, Ben and Polly visit San Francisco and battle the Goblin. (TN: Wonderland)
[edit] February
- 1: Jackie Tyler is born. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen)
- Assuming the Pete's World version of Jackie and the Jackie from the Doctor's universe have the same birthday.
[edit] Dates unknown
- Brendan Richards is born.
- Date approximate.
[edit] Real World
[edit] January
- 07 - DW: The Highlanders Episode 4 is first broadcast. This is the last purely historical Doctor Who episode until the broadcast of DW: Black Orchid in 1982.
- 13 - Jack Cunningham, who played the jailer in The Reign of Terror, dies in London.
- 14 - DW: The Underwater Menace Episode 1 is first broadcast.
- Final instalment of The Daleks comic strip in TV Century 21.
- 21 - DW: The Underwater Menace Episode 2 is first broadcast.
- The Daleks make their first appearance in the Doctor Who comic strip appearing in TV Comic.
- 28 - DW: The Underwater Menace Episode 3 is first broadcast.
[edit] February
- 04 - DW: The Underwater Menace Episode 4 is first broadcast.
- 11 - DW: The Moonbase Episode 1 is first broadcast.
- 18 - DW: The Moonbase Episode 2 is first broadcast.
- 25 - DW: The Moonbase Episode 3 is first broadcast.
[edit] March
- 04 - DW: The Moonbase Episode 4 is first broadcast. Last use of the original 1963 opening credits sequence and theme arrangement.
- 11 - DW: The Macra Terror Episode 1 is first broadcast. A new title sequence and updated logo and a new arrangement of the theme with added echo are added; with some adjustments, this theme arrangement would remain in use until 1980. First appearance of the lead actor's face in the opening credits, a practice remaining in use until 1989.
- - John Barrowman is born in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 18 - DW: The Macra Terror Episode 2 is first broadcast.
- 25 - DW: The Macra Terror Episode 3 is first broadcast.
[edit] April
- 01 - DW: The Macra Terror Episode 4 is first broadcast.
- 08 - DW: The Faceless Ones Episode 1 is first broadcast.
- 15 - DW: The Faceless Ones Episode 2 is first broadcast.
- 22 - DW: The Faceless Ones Episode 3 is first broadcast.
- 29 - DW: The Faceless Ones Episode 4 is first broadcast.
[edit] May
- 06 - DW: The Faceless Ones Episode 5 is first broadcast.
- 13 - DW: The Faceless Ones Episode 6 is first broadcast. Final appearance of Michael Craze and Anneke Wills.
- 20 - DW: The Evil of the Daleks Episode 1 is first broadcast.
- 27 - DW: The Evil of the Daleks Episode 2 is first broadcast. First appearance of Deborah Watling as new companion Victoria Waterfield.
[edit] June
- 03 - DW: The Evil of the Daleks Episode 3 is first broadcast.
- 10 - DW: The Evil of the Daleks Episode 4 is first broadcast.
- 17 - DW: The Evil of the Daleks Episode 5 is first broadcast.
- 24 - DW: The Evil of the Daleks Episode 6 is first broadcast.
- Unknown date: The Doctor Who and the Daleks comic strip in TV Comic reverts to Doctor Who after Terry Nation withdraws the rights to the Daleks.
[edit] July
- 01 - DW: The Evil of the Daleks Episode 7 is first broadcast, ending the fourth season. According to REF: The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book, Terry Nation withdraws the rights to use to the Daleks from the BBC in order to attempt launching a spinoff series; as a result, except for a couple of references, the Daleks do not properly appear again until 1972's DW: Day of the Daleks.
- DWN: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks receives its first American paperback publication by Avon Books. This is the first Doctor Who novel to be published in the US and the only American edition published until the late 1970s.
- 18 - Paul Cornell born.
- 22 - The monster movie Kingu Kongu no gyakushû is released in Japan. In 1968 the film is renamed King Kong Escapes and is released in the US. The English-language version of the film is notable for the name given to the villain of the piece -- Dr. Who.
[edit] September
- Publication of the third Doctor Who Annual.
- 02 - DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 1 is first broadcast, marking the start of Season 5.
- 09 - DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 2 is first broadcast.
- 16 - DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 3 is first broadcast.
- 23 - DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 4 is first broadcast.
- 30 - DW: The Abominable Snowmen Episode 1 is first broadcast.
[edit] October
- 01 - The Prisoner debuts on British television. The theme music for the series is composed by Ron Grainer and is arguably his best-known work outside of the "Doctor Who theme".
- 07 - DW: The Abominable Snowmen Episode 2 is first broadcast.
- 14 - DW: The Abominable Snowmen Episode 3 is first broadcast.
- 21 - DW: The Abominable Snowmen Episode 4 is first broadcast.
- 28 - DW: The Abominable Snowmen Episode 5 is first broadcast.
[edit] November
- 04 - DW: The Abominable Snowmen Episode 6 is first broadcast.
- 11 - DW: The Ice Warriors Episode 1 is first broadcast.
- 18 - DW: The Ice Warriors Episode 2 is first broadcast.
- 25 - DW: The Ice Warriors Episode 3 is first broadcast.
[edit] December
- 02 - DW: The Ice Warriors Episode 4 is first broadcast.
- 09 - DW: The Ice Warriors Episode 5 is first broadcast.
- 16 - DW: The Ice Warriors Episode 6 is first broadcast.
- 23 - DW: The Enemy of the World Episode 1 is first broadcast.
- 30 - DW: The Enemy of the World Episode 2 is first broadcast.
[edit] Unknown date
- Jack Bligh, who played Gaptooth in DW: The Smugglers dies.
- First UK paperback edition of DWN: Doctor Who and the Crusaders released by Green Dragon Books.
[edit] Footnotes
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