It was only one month and one week after the 9th anniversary of the programme that the 10th anniversary story commenced broadcast with Part One of The Three Doctors. The actual date of the first transmission wasn't that important back then - more that this was the launch of the tenth season. The Three Doctors didn't even start broadcast during the anniversary year, which would have been 1973. This opening episode carried a copyright date of MCMLXXIII, despite it still being MCMLXXII.
Back in 1967 The Enemy of the World gave us its second episode, as did The Power of Kroll in 1978.
Also on this day, in 2003, the first instalment of the on-line animated adventure Scream of the Shalka was released. It had been hoped that this would be the official continuation of the series with tales of a Ninth Doctor, played by Richard E Grant. However, by the time it arrived, the BBC had already announced that the series would be coming back to TV in 2005, under the auspices of Russell T Davies.
It is now regarded as something akin to the Peter Cushing movies, or TV Comic strips. Just because something is officially BBC sanctioned, doesn't make it canon.
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