Day of Armageddon - the second instalment of The Daleks' Master Plan - was first broadcast today in 1966. This is one of only three episodes from this story which we can still fully enjoy.
In 1976, The Deadly Assassin reached its conclusion. Instead of proceeding to the next story the following week, the BBC decided to have a break and show The Face of Evil in the New Year, when the tabloids would present it as the start of a new series.
Series 3 of The Sarah Jane Adventures came to an end with Part Two of The Gift in 2009.
The run-up to the 50th Anniversary continued in 2013 with a special edition of The One Show on BBC 1. John Hurt and Jenna Coleman were in the studio, whilst Steven Moffat was interviewed on the TARDIS set.
An event of significance which occurred on today's date in 1994 was the death of writer John Lucarotti, at the age of 68. He wrote two of the better historical stories - Marco Polo and The Aztecs - for the series' first season. A third story for Season 3 was far less successful as far as Lucarotti was concerned. Unlike his earlier efforts, he had not chosen the subject matter himself - the massacre of the Parisian Huguenots on Saint Bartholomew's Day in 1572. After he had submitted his story, it was heavily reworked by Donald Tosh, the script editor. Tosh was given co-writer credit on the fourth episode of The Massacre, but Lucarotti held the overall credit.
A fourth story was even more unsuccessful, in that another script editor, Robert Holmes, entirely rewrote it. Lucarotti had been approached for a science fiction story set on a space station. Instead, Holmes gave us The Ark in Space.
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