1963

November 1963 was one of the most important months in (fairly) recent history. On Friday the 22nd of November, John F Kennedy, President of America was assassinated while travelling though Dallas, Texas.
But overshadowing that completely was the fact that the following day, the first ever episode of Doctor Who was released, which of course completely changed the world; Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction series in history, putting anything those yanks have produced to shame. Doctor Who put Britain back on the map, turning many actors into stars and creating any number of iconic images, a big, blue box not the least of them.

Strangely enough, not everyone seemed to agree that this momentous occasion completely overshadowed anything less important that may have happened the day before (Time, after all, is relative) and so the BBC decided to air the first episode a second time the following weekend, by which point no one could remember how to spell Kennedy and subsequently lost all interest in his cessation (as is the way with Mass Media). This reduced the mother of my best friend to tears because she'd waited in terror all week to find out what had happened to the noble TARDIS crew, only to have to watch the first episode a second time.

And from there, the Daleks were only four weeks away...