Today In DOCTOR WHO History: June 20th

A tear, Liz Shaw? Oh no, hang on. Not that yet...

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).

June 20th
The opening episode of the 1964 6-part serial The Sensorites (titled Strangers in Space) was broadcast on this day in 1964 at 5:14pm and watched by 7.9 million viewers. Also we close out another week in Doctor Who history with the seventh and final episode of Inferno which was broadcast in 1970 at 5:15pm, with the Third Doctor's debut season signing off to a respectable 5.5 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.