Welcome to our daily round-up of the Doctor Who episodes which received their premiere broadcast on this day throughout the show's long history, along with anything else of note that may have taken place. You can click on any red text to read our full retrospectives/reviews for that episode, and note that all viewing figures listed are for UK broadcasts (unless otherwise stated).
February 19th
To get us started on this day in Doctor Who history we have the third part of the First Doctor adventure The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve which was broadcast this day in 1966. Entitled Priest Of Death, like the other three parts to the story, it is missing presumed wiped so only the 5.9 million people tuning in were lucky enough to see it in its entirety.
Moving on to 1972 and episode four of The Curse Of Peladon which saw an audience of 8.4 million transfixed whilst the dandiest of Classic Doctor's hypnotises Aggedor with a Venusian lullaby, which goes something along the lines of "Kokleda partha mennin klatch, aroon aroon aroon, Ablarka sheena teerinatch, aroon araan aroon." Apparently this roughly translates to "Close your eyes, my darling - well, three of them at least." That smooth charmer!
Finally, on this day in 1977 a huge 12.6 million scarf loving people tuned in to part four of The Robots Of Death.
Join us again tomorrow for another round-up of the episodes broadcast, the spin-offs aired, 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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