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Last updated 02 January 2017

Broadcast: Saturday 9th April 1966
5:50pm-6:15pm BST (16:50 GMT) « » Premiere

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(actually broadcast at 17:50:20)
BBC One

Featuring: William Hartnell, Jackie Lane, Peter Purves, Michael Gough

The Doctor must solve the Trilogic puzzle whilst Dodo and Steven play a deadly game of musical chairs.

Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide

Broadcast Source: BBC

Ratings Information:

Consolidated figures: 8.000m viewers (+7 days) (49th place), AI 49

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Birthdays

David Maloney (died 2006 aged 72) would be 85 today - 15 credits, including Director for The Mind Robber

Alan Rowe (died 2000 aged 73) would be 92 today - 4 credits, including Edward of Wessex in The Time Warrior

Margaret John (died 2011 aged 84) would be 92 today - 2 credits, including Megan Jones in Fury From the Deep

John Franklyn-Robbins (died 2009 aged 84) would be 94 today - credited as Time Lord in Genesis of the Daleks

Michael Bilton (died 1993 aged 73) would be 99 today - 3 credits, including Teligny in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

Guy Middleton (died 1973 aged 65) would be 111 today - credited as Colonel Attwood in The Highlanders

Deaths

Kenneth Kendall (died 2012 aged 88) - credited as Television Newsreader in The War Machines

Stubby Kaye (died 1997 aged 79) - credited as Weismuller in Delta and the Bannermen

Dermot Tuohy (died 1986 aged 65) - credited as Brownrose in Terror of the Autons

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