Apparently it was incoming Script Editor Robert Holmes who chose to call the story which opened today in 1974 Death to the Daleks - because he really didn't like them.
We had two Davison stories conclude today, and one commence. The Visitation arrived at its fourth episode in 1982, and Terminus its fourth in 1983.
The opening instalment of Planet of Fire debuted in 1984, introducing Nicola Bryant's Peri as the new companion-to-be.
In 1985, The Two Doctors reached its midpoint, with Part Two today. One of its guest stars, Laurence Payne, passed away on this day in 2009, aged 89. He had previously portrayed Johnny Ringo in The Gunfighters in 1966, and the Argolin leader Morix in The Leisure Hive in 1981.
On the same evening that The Two Doctors Part Two was shown, Jim'll Fix It delivered the mini-episode A Fix With Sontarans, in which Colin Baker read his lines off the set, and Tegan inexplicably rejoined the TARDIS crew in the uniform of the job she had lost two years before. There was also a miniature version of the Sixth Doctor, so I'd avoid trying to make this canon if I were you.
It was also around now that the news broke that Doctor Who was being put on hiatus.
More recently, in 2020, the penultimate episode of Series 12 was first shown - Ascension of the Cybermen.
A technical hitch meant that the channel kept switching back and forth to a costume drama about a young man joining the Garda in 1950's Ireland. I think.
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