9 April 1966: broadcast of “The Hall of Dolls”, second episode of the story we now call The Celestial Toymaker. Steven and Dodo, competing with the King and Queen of Hearts, must find the two safe chairs to sit in.
9 April 2005: broadcast of The Unquiet Dead. The Doctor and Rose, with the help of Charles Dickens, investigate reanimating corpses in Cardiff in 1869.
CSL got there first…
“It seems, then,” said Tirian, “that the stable seen from within and the stable seen from without are two different places.” “Yes,” said Digory. “Its inside is bigger than its outside.” “Yes,” said Queen Lucy. “In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.” The Last Battle