Today In DOCTOR WHO History: May 23rd

Much to William Hartnell's upset, Jacqueline Hill couldn't quite get the concept of 'Dress Down Fridays'.

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).

May 23rd
It's another day in Doctor Who history, and the TARDIS crew are heading back to ancient Mexico for the first part of The Aztecs, titled The Temple of Evil, where old Firsty will eventually seek solace with a young lass called Cameca and give Barbara a reminder that you can't rewrite history... This particular episode, though, premiered on May 23rd 1964 from 5:16pm with 7.4 million viewers watching it.

Also today, we have the Third Doctor 1970 adventure Inferno. Episode three of which was watched by 4.8 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.