Today In DOCTOR WHO History: August 24th

Don't you just hate it when you go on 3, 2, 1 and you win Dusty Bin?

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August 24th
Just the one episode of Doctor Who has received its UK premiere broadcast on August 24th at any time throughout the show's long history, and that's episode 3 of The Dominators which was broadcast on August 24th 1968 at 5:15pm and watched by 5.4 million viewers.



Related Programming
Although available online the day before, the BBC Red Button service premiered Doctor Who Extra: Deep Breath on your televisual set on this day in 2014. With a new series, a new costume and a new Doctor, there was a lot to explore as the show went behind the scenes of Deep Breath, the first episode starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor.

Join us again tomorrow for another round-up of the episodes broadcast, the spin-offs, the special events, the birthday's celebrated and anything else of note that went down on this day in Doctor Who history.