Today In DOCTOR WHO History: April 4th

Bye Tosh. Bye Owen. It was good knowing you.

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).

April 4th
On this day in 1964 the seventh and final part of Marco Polo (titled Assassin at Peking) prepared at 5.30pm with a huge audience of 10.4 million history loving viewers tuning in. The only other actual Doctor Who episode broadcast on this day so far came six years after that First Doctor missing adventure when episode 3 of The Ambassadors of Death was broadcast to an audience of 8 million viewers.

However, that's not quite it for today in Doctor Who history as spin-off wise we have series 2 of Torchwood coming to an end with Exit Wounds, broadcast on this day in 2008 at 8:59pm and watched by 3.13 million viewers.
 
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.