1960s: Misc

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the anabolic steroid Methandrostenolone was prescribed to women in the 1960s as a tonic, until its masculinising effects were discovered?
the 1960s singing duo Paul & Paula inspired such pairings as Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell?
the U.S. movement toward small claims courts began in the early 1960s, as Justice of the Peace courts became increasingly archaic?
the field of island restoration is usually credited with having been started in New Zealand in the 1960s?
while Aleksandra Pakhmutova composed pieces for the symphony orchestra and a ballet, her fame in the former Soviet Union rests primarily on 400 songs she composed back in the 1960s and 1970s?
the first film to take advantage of the relaxation of communism in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s was The Sun in a Net?
in the 1950s and 1960s, some residents of mid-rise apartment buildings would sleep outside on their fire escapes during hot summers?
during the 1960s, Texas lawyer John Ben Shepperd worked to obtain the land for the creation of Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site along the Pedernales River?
Edgar Buchanan was a dentist before becoming an American actor with a long career in both movies and television, and is probably best remembered as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction and Green Acres television sitcoms of the 1960s?
earthquake lights, although described in 373 BC, were not convincingly documented until the 1960s?
Harvey Littleton, a former professor at the University of Wisconsin, pioneered the American studio glass movement in the 1960s and is responsible for training many prominent glass artists?
The Brady Bunch actress Maureen McCormick was one of the many people who voiced the 1960s toy Chatty Cathy?
The Patty Duke Show challenged the scope of special effects on television in the 1960s, with Patty Duke playing two roles?
American educator Septima Poinsette Clark, known as the "Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement," worked for educational and civil rights for African-Americans decades before the rise of national awareness of inequality in the 1960s?

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1 Doctor Who Universe
- 1.1 Major events
- 1.2 Minor events
2 Real World
3 Years
4 Stories
5 External links

Doctor Who Universe

Major events

A secret bunker is built under Whitehall (DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs).
The British Rocket Group and Intrusion Countermeasures Group, the latter being a precursor to UNIT, are active (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks, MA: Downtime, MA: Who Killed Kennedy).

Minor events

Forester hopes to market DN6, a super-lethal pesticide and murders Arnold Farrow, a scientist who would have informed the authorities of the dangers. The Doctor, miniaturized to one inch tall by an accident in the TARDIS, helps expose Forester. (DW: Planet of Giants)
The Doctor's TARDIS and the DARDIS materialise on an observation deck of the Empire State Building. (DW: The Chase)
Dr. Fendleman is working on missile guidance systems, observing a "sonic shadow" during one test launch which leads to his time scanner experiments in the 1970s. (DW: Image of the Fendahl)
While stationed in Sierra Leone, Lt. Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart meets and fathers a son, Mariamma, with Mariatu, eldest daughter of Chief Yembe of the Rokoye village. (NA: Transit, The Also People)

For events in specific dates, see below.

Real World

Doctor Who debuts in 1963 with William Hartnell as the the original Doctor in An Unearthly Child. Patrick Troughton succeeds him in 1966 as the Second Doctor in 1966 in the closing moments of The Tenth Planet, and takes over the role definitively in The Power of the Daleks, the story that follows.
The second Doctor Who story, The Daleks introduces the creatures of the same name. Dalekmania sweeps Great Britain. The Daleks, who eclipsed the Doctor himself in popularity, would return several times during the '60's, would arguably never reach the height of popularity as during this time. The second-most popular Doctor Who monster race, the Cybermen, debut 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 comes out. It adapts The Daleks in novel form.
Two theatrical films starring Peter Cushing as "Dr. Who" come out: Dr. Who and the Daleks (based on The Daleks) and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD 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, run on into the present.

Years

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Stories

Time and Relative
The Pilot Episode
An Unearthly Child
Nothing at the End of the Lane
Planet of Giants
A Long Night
The Chase - Episode 3, "Flight Through Eternity"
The Little Drummer Boy (select scenes)
The Daleks' Master Plan (select scenes)
The Massacre (conclusion)
Salvation
The War Machines
Wonderland
The Faceless Ones
Face-Painter
One Small Step...
Reunion
The Zombies
The Monsters from the Past
Who Killed Kennedy (climax)
Remembrance of the Daleks
Nightshade
The Left-Handed Hummingbird (select scenes)
Revolution Man
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (select scenes)
The Love Invasion

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

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