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Impossible Astronaut Day 2023: Date, History, Facts about Impossible Astronaut Day

"The Impossible Astronaut" was the first episode of the sixth season of "Doctor Who" to broadcast on television on April 23, 2011. This science fiction programme debuted on television in 1963.

Impossible Astronaut Day is on April 23 and is a day when all the biggest fans of the hit science fiction television series “Doctor Who” commemorate the premiere of the first episode of season six. Did you know “Doctor Who” was partially influenced by “Sherlock Holmes”? In 1963, the first episode of the series’ sixth season debuted on the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The Background of Impossible Astronaut Day

“The Impossible Astronaut” was the first episode of the sixth season of “Doctor Who” to broadcast on television on April 23, 2011. This science fiction programme debuted on television in 1963.

The programme follows the adventures of the Doctor, who is a time-traveling ‘alien.’ It has attracted fans from various generations. The Doctor travels through time and space in the Tardis, a time machine that is also a spaceship. The Tardis resembles an inconspicuous 1960s London police station.

The episode “The Impossible Astronaut” became one of the most-watched and admired episodes of the series very rapidly. In this episode, alien creatures known as the Silence were introduced. Once the characters removed their eyes from the extraterrestrial monsters, they were unable to recall having seen them. To remind themselves that they had encountered creatures, the characters began marking their skin with tally marks.

To commemorate this day, all Whovians mark their epidermis or other body parts with tally marks. As a joke among themselves, the fans act normally and appear not to know why the tally marks are present.

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5 INCREDIBLE FACTS ABOUT IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT DAY

In total, twelve different actors have portrayed the Doctor in the series.

According to the director of the pilot episode, the purpose of the series was to educate children about the human condition.

The health issues of the first actor to portray the Doctor inspired the concept of regeneration.

In one episode, it is revealed that the Tardis could blend into the time and place it visited, but because one of its circuits was broken, it remained permanently in the guise of a 1960s police phone box.

The author of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” Douglas Adams, was commissioned to write numerous episodes of the popular science fiction series.

IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT DAY DATES

Year Date Day
2023 April 23 Sunday
2024 April 23 Tuesday
2025 April 23 Wednesday
2026 April 23 Thursday
2027 April 23 Friday
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