Month | Old Who episodes | New Who episodes | Others (1996, | Total |
January | 107 | 1 | 6 | 114 |
February | 95 | 0 | 5 | 100 |
March | 90 | 2 | 5 | 97 |
April | 52 | 21 | 1 | 74 |
May | 51 | 20 | 1 | 72 |
June | 36 | 20 | 1 | 56 |
July | 11 | 2 | 6 | 19 |
August | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
September | 55 | 0 | 2 | 57 |
October | 61 | 0 | 18 | 79 |
November | 69 | 1 | 19 | 89 |
December | 56 | 5 | 6 | 67 |
Total | 693 | 72 | 70 | 835 |
For Old Who, there are seven dates which saw the original broadcasts of Doctor Who episodes in six different years:
5th January | The Time Warrior #4 (1974) | The Horns of Nimon #3 (1980) | Castrovalva #2 (1982) | Arc of Infinity #1 (1983) | Warriors of the Deep #1 (1984) | Attack of the Cybermen #1 (1985) |
12th January | Invasion of the Dinosaurs #1 (1974) | The Horns of Nimon #4 (1980) | Castrovalva #4 (1982) | Arc of Infinity #4 (1983) | Warriors of the Deep #3 (1984) | Attack of the Cybermen #2 (1985) |
8th February | "The Edge of Destruction" / The Edge of Destruction #1 (1964) | The Seeds of Death #3 (1969) | The Ark in Space #3 (1975) | Kinda #3 (1982) | Mawdryn Undead #3 (1983) | Resurrection of the Daleks #1 (1984) |
15th February | "The Brink of Disaster" / The Edge of Destruction #1 (1964) | The Seeds of Death #4 (1969) | The Ark in Space #4 (1975) | The Visitation #1 (1982) | Terminus #1 (1983) | Resurrection of the Daleks #1 (1984) |
2nd March | The Web of Fear #5 (1968) | Death to the Daleks #2 (1974) | Black Orchid #2 (1982) | Enlightenment #2 (1983) | Planet of Fire #4 (1984) | The Two Doctors #3 (1985) |
9th March | The Web of Fear #6 (1968) | Death to the Daleks #3 (1974) | Earthshock #2 (1982) | Enlightenment #4 (1983) | The Caves of Androzani #2 (1984) | Timelash #1 (1985) |
16th March | Fury from the Deep #1 (1968) | Death to the Daleks #4 (1974) | Earthshock #4 (1982) | The King’s Demons #2 (1983) | The Caves of Androzani #4 (1984) | Timelash #2 (1985) |
I had forgotten that the demises of Adric and the Fifth Doctor were precisely two years apart.
For New Who, the winning date is 25th December, Christmas Day, which has seen five specials (The Christmas Invasion in 2005, The Runaway Bride in 2006, Voyage of the Damned in 2007, The Next Doctor in 2008 and The End of Time #1 in 2009). Add to that "The Feast of Steven" / The Daleks' Master Plan #7, and it gets up to six as well.
If you add together all incarnations of Who including Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures, 22nd October also joins the list of dates which have had six episodes first broadcast over the years: The Tenth Planet #3 (1966); The Invisible Enemy #4 (1977); the first two episodes of Torchwood, Everything Changes and Day One (2006); Warriors of Kudlak #2 (Sarah Jane Adventures, 2007); and The Mad Woman in the Attic #1 (Sarah Jane Adventures, 2009).
But that also gives you one day of the year which on which seven episodes of Doctor Who and the spinoffs have been broadcast for the first time. That day is 1st January, and the episodes are "Volcano" / The Daleks' Master Plan #8 (1966); Day of the Daleks #1 (1972); The Face of Evil #1 (1977); the Sarah Jane Adventures pilot, Invasion of the Bane (2007); the two last episodes of the first series of Torchwood, Captain Jack Harkness and End of Days (also 2007), and of course The End of Time #2 (2010) where we bade farewell to David Tennant and heard Matt Smith say 'Geronimo!'
Well, I hope you appreciate that. It amused me on a wet Sunday afternoon.