Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace, Part 4
The 148th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace, Part 3
The 147th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC, embroiling the new Doctor, Jamie, Ben and Polly in a plot involving an underwater city and the Fish People.
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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace, Part 2
The 146th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This episode, previously missing from the BBC’s archives, was rediscovered intact in 2011.
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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace, Part 1
The 145th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: The Highlanders, Part 4
The 144th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The second Doctor’s longest-running companion, Jamie McCrimmon, leaves Scotland by way of the TARDIS at the end of this episode. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: The Highlanders, Part 3
The 143rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The second Doctor’s longest-running companion, Jamie McCrimmon, is introduced in this story. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: The Highlanders, Part 2
The 142nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The second Doctor’s longest-running companion, Jamie McCrimmon, is introduced in this story. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: The Highlanders, Part 1
The 141st episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. The second Doctor’s longest-running companion, Jamie McCrimmon, is introduced in this story. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: Power Of The Daleks, Part 6
The 140th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC, continuing the first adventure of the second Doctor. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: Power Of The Daleks, Part 5
The 139th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC, continuing the first adventure of the second Doctor. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: Power Of The Daleks, Part 4
The 138th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC, continuing the first adventure of the second Doctor. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: Power Of The Daleks, Part 3
The 137th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC, continuing the first adventure of the second Doctor. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: Power Of The Daleks, Part 2
The 136th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC, continuing the first adventure of the second Doctor. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: Power Of The Daleks, Part 1
The 135th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the first episode of the series to introduce a new incarnation of the Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton. To ensure that audiences don’t defect from the series due to the change of lead actor, producer Innes Lloyd brings back the Daleks for the second Doctor’s first outing. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Part 4
The 134th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This concludes the first story to feature the Cybermen, and is the first episode in the show’s history in which the Doctor regenerates. The new Doctor, Patrick Troughton, is glimpsed briefly at the end of the episode.
In perhaps the most painful example of episode wiping in the show’s history, this episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives, though the scene of the Doctor’s first regeneration has since been recovered.
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Part 3
The 133rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the first story to feature the Cybermen, and is the final story of William Hartnell’s tenure as the first Doctor. 
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Part 2
The 132nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the first story to feature the Cybermen, and is the final story of William Hartnell’s tenure as the first Doctor.
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Part 1
The 131st episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the first story to feature the Cybermen, and is the final story of William Hartnell’s tenure as the first Doctor.
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Doctor Who: The Smugglers, Part 4
The 130th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: The Smugglers, Part 3
The 129th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: The Smugglers, Part 2
The 128th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who: The Smugglers, Part 1
The 127th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This story opens the series’ fourth season. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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Doctor Who v2.0
The BBC announces, for the first time in the show’s history, that Doctor Who will have a new Doctor, in the form of actor Patrick Troughton. There are hints that the new Doctor will have a “new personality” and be “tougher,” though this concept is not elaborated upon any further. (Indeed, the BBC remains tight-lipped on how two actors with such different appearances could play the same part.) Studio taping of the swan song story for the first Doctor, William Hartnell, begins mere days later.
The Doctor’s fate revealed
The BBC informs the press that major changes are afoot for the popular science fiction series Doctor Who – namely, that the last remaining original cast member, William Hartnell, will be leaving the show, and that producers are already searching for a new actor to take on the role (though, in reality, they have already hired Hartnell’s replacement and are scrambling to reformat the series to allow for the unprecedented swap of its main star). When contacted by British newspapers for a reaction, Hartnell confirms the news.
The changing face of Doctor Who
With the series’ two most recent producers reporting that actor William Hartnell has become nearly impossible to work with, the first steps are taken to regenerate Doctor Who by hiring a new actor to play the part: Patrick Troughton. In closed-door meetings at the BBC, producer Innes Lloyd and BBC Head of Drama Sydney Newman (who also happens to be Doctor Who’s creator) offer Hartnell the chance to leave, and – having already taken the liberty of contacting him to gauge his interest in the part – contract actor Patrick Troughton to replace Hartnell as the Doctor. Hartnell, suffering from arteriosclerosis, accepts the escape hatch and agrees to leave the series. Lloyd and Newman begin brainstorming ideas to explain the radical change in the Doctor’s look, agreeing that the time has finally come to firmly establish that the Doctor is not human at all. Lloyd envisions a tough “pirate captain” persona for the new Doctor, a notion ultimately rejected by Newman, who instead proposes that the character be played as a “cosmic hobo,” an idea which Troughton likes much better. None of this activity is revealed to the press or the public for some time.
Doctor Who: The War Machines, Part 4
The 126th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. TARDIS traveler Dodo remains in modern day London at the end of the story, which also concludes the series’ third season.
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Doctor Who: The War Machines, Part 3
The 125th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the first complete story to take place in modern day England since An Unearthly Child.
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Doctor Who: The War Machines, Part 2
The 124th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is the first complete story to take place in modern day England since An Unearthly Child.
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Doctor Who: The War Machines, Part 1
The 123rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Michael Craze and Anneke Wills are introduces as the Doctor’s new companions, Ben and Polly.
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Doctor Who: The Savages, Part 4
The 122nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Frederick Jaegar guest stars. This marks the final appearance of Peter Purves as TARDIS traveler Steven, who stays behind to help guide an alien civilization. This episode is now missing from the BBC’s archives.
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