On this day (#OTD) in 1963, the British science fiction television show Doctor Who first aired. Doctor Who is about a time-traveling alien (named “The Doctor”) who lives in a spaceship shaped like a British telephone box, a familiar sight on the streets of Britain in 1963. In 2015, the team behind NASA's New Horizons mission unofficially nicknamed a macula (dark spot) on the surface of Pluto “Gallifrey”, a reference to The Doctor’s home planet, and an homage to the influence the science fiction

Happy 62nd birthday, Doctor Who! 🌟 #OnThisDay in 1963, the legendary television show first hit our screens. It’s no secret we’re BIG fans of the timelord here at the museum, we’ve even got two daleks for you to get up close and personal with! If you’ve stepped into our Sound and Vision galleries though, you’ll see one of the real gems in our collection - items from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. These strange objects may not look like much, but they actually had a hand in creating some pretty ic