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== Behind the scenes ==
* [[3 January|03]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast, launching ''Doctor Who's'' [[Season 20|20th season]]. Future [[Sixth Doctor]] [[Colin Baker]] made his first appearance on the series, but as a different character.
* [[3 January|03]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast, launching ''Doctor Who's'' [[Season 20|20th season]]. Future [[Sixth Doctor]] [[Colin Baker]] made his first appearance on the series, but as a different character.
* [[5 January|05]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[5 January|05]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.

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1983 in

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1983 was the year the Ice Warrior Skaldak was found frozen underneath the North Pole by a Soviet submarine. He awoke and threatened to launch a nuclear missile, allowing the superpowers to launch missiles at one another, ending humanity. He was stopped once an Ice Warrior ship rescued him. (TV: Cold War)

Events

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  • After the Fifth Doctor departed, the Brigadier reactivated his relationship with UNIT (TV: The Five Doctors), eventually returning to active duty (TV: Battlefield).


  • REF: Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text, one of the first widely published scholarly works on the franchise, was first published in both the UK and US.
  • 02 - Actor Michael Spice died.
  • 17 - Actor Harry Lloyd was born.
  • 19 - For the first time in nearly ten years, Doctor Who made the cover of the Radio Times. It was another decade before this happened again, making this the last Radio Times cover to be published during the original series' run.
  • 23 - This was the twentieth anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.
  • 23 - TV: The Five Doctors was broadcast for the first time. However, PBS affiliates in the United States (which are also received on cable television in Canada) broadcast it before the BBC, the first time America saw a Doctor Who story before the UK. This version was slightly truncated from the version shown two days later in the UK. This was the first "feature-length" regular part of Doctor Who produced. The special featured the return of Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee (with Tom Baker represented by footage from the unbroadcast HOMEVID: Shada). Richard Hurndall made his first and only appearance as the First Doctor. Numerous companions from all eras of the series appeared. Although broadcast closer to the start of Season 21, it was considered part of the anniversary Season 20 and, thus, its belated finale.
  • 24 - PROSE: Doctor Who - The Five Doctors was first published. This was the first time a Target Books novelisation was published before the UK broadcast premiere of an episode. According to the 2008 DVD release of TV: The Five Doctors, this was widely believed to have been an error.
  • 25 - TV: The Five Doctors was first broadcast in the UK, as part of that year's Children in Need fund-raising drive.

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