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September 19th
Do you know what? I'll tell you what. Until 2015 not a single episode of Doctor Who had received its debut broadcast on this day throughout the show's long history. And then Series Nine of Doctor Who came along and changed all that, because on Saturday September 19th 2015 the quite magnificent The Magician's Apprentice debuted and received almost universal praise from critics around the world.
Sadly it wasn't all good news the following morning as the overnight viewing figures indicated the episode was watched by just 4.58 million viewers on BBC1, the lowest overnight figure for a series opener since the show returned in 2005. The consolidated figures, which take into account those people who either recorded and watched the episode later or who streamed it on the BBC iPlayer within 7 days, would take that number up to 6.54 million. Still the lowest consolidated rating for the programme since the Matt Smith episode The Crimson Horror.
On the same night 10 million people would tune into The X-Factor on ITV1. Is that proof that the British public are largely idiots? We'll let you decide.
Birthdays
You know what else September 19th brings us? Well I shall tell you - it would've been Caroline John's birthday. The actress who magnificently portrayed Third Doctor companion Liz Shaw was born this day in 1940 and sadly passed away in 2012 at the age of 71.
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.
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