Today In DOCTOR WHO History: June 3rd

Hairdressers, cat owners, people with limbs, and those with an a in their name will be celebrating too....

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 3rd
As Peter Capaldi entertains the crew between takes with his Mystic Meg impression we go back to 1967 for episode 3 of The Evil of the Daleks which began at 5:44pm and was watched by 6.1 million viewers. Then on this day in 1972, it's another episode three, this time for the Third Doctor. The Time Monster drawing an audience of 8.1 million viewers. New-Who time, and it's the Tenth Doctor's debut season from 2006, with The Impossible Planet watched by 6.32 million viewers.

The award for most recent episode this week goes to 2017's The Lie Of The Land. No, it's nothing to do with Boris Johnson, although there are a lot of fake news involved with both, rather it's the eighth episode of series ten of Doctor Who. The Twelfth Doctor adventure was the third and final of three loosely connected episodes called "The Monks Trilogy" and was watched by 4.82 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.