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* [[Liz Shaw]] died of the [[Agent Yellow]] virus on [[the Moon]]. By the time of her viral-related death, she had become Chief of Operations at [[Tranquility Base]] on [[the Moon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps]]'')
* [[Liz Shaw]] died of the [[Agent Yellow]] virus on [[the Moon]]. By the time of her viral-related death, she had become Chief of Operations at [[Tranquility Base]] on [[the Moon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home]]'' was first released as an exclusive CD with ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. The CD also included Episode 1 of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek War: Chapter One]]''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home]]'' was first released as an exclusive CD with ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. The CD also included Episode 1 of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek War: Chapter One]]''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jubilee]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jubilee]]'' was first released.

Revision as of 22:47, 5 July 2013

2003 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 2003
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Likely the most significant event of 2003 was the deaths of millions of people on the planet Earth caused by Agent Yellow virus and the subsequent sterilisation of the Earth's surface to rid the planet of the virus by the Seventh Doctor. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps)

The new US state of Malebolgia was granted provisional statehood in 2003, with TV evangelist Brigham Elisha Dashwood III announcing his candidacy for first state governor. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell)

On 23 August, the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield arrived at the Pinehill Crest Hotel in time for a demonstration of spiritual channelling, a demonstration of a temporal accelerator, a cross stitch convention and an attempt by the Scourge to manifest in the Doctor's reality. (AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge)

The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe arrived at the Tower of London in an alternate timeline in which the British Empire had conquered Earth with the aid of Dalek technology acquired from their invasion attempt one hundred years earlier. This timeline was negated by the last surviving Dalek. (AUDIO: Jubilee)

Individuals

  • PROSE: Deadly Reunion was first published.
  • AUDIO: Zagreus was first released. Considered a milestone for Doctor Who audio dramas, this story was the first to feature not only the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors, but thanks to the availability of some recorded dialogue from an unreleased fan film, Devious, the late Jon Pertwee was also featured. This was Big Finish Productions' fiftieth Doctor Who audio drama, and was also marketed as a fortieth anniversary story.
  • AUDIO: The Wormery was first released. It was the first regular-series Doctor Who Big Finish story to feature Iris Wildthyme.
  • AUDIO: Living Legend was first published; this was a single-episode story released exclusively with Doctor Who Magazine. The disc also included a documentary featurette on the making of AUDIO: Zagreus.
  • PROSE: The Eye of the Tyger was first published.
  • BBC Wales announced that it would produce a new series of Doctor Who for broadcast in 2005, returning the series to weekly television after a sixteen-year hiatus. Named executive producer was Russell T Davies, best known as the creator of the controversial Queer as Folk series, but who also was a longtime fan of the franchise; he wrote a novel for the Virgin New Adventures book series, PROSE: Damaged Goods. Julie Gardner was also named an executive producer on the series. Little was revealed about the proposed series at this point except that it would be a continuation of the 1963-89 series and not a remake. The immediate impact on Richard Grant's status as the recently unveiled "Ninth Doctor" was not known.
  • 05 - Actor Brian McDermott died.
  • 12 - TV: The Three Doctors was released to DVD in Region 4. This was the first time a Doctor Who story was released to DVD in Region 4 before being issued in the UK.
  • 13 - The BBC website launched a new webcast serial, WC: Scream of the Shalka, introducing Richard E. Grant as what would come to be known as the Shalka Doctor. At the time of its production and promotion, publicity held that Grant was the official Ninth Doctor, with future Doctor Who adventures expected in the webcast format. By the time the first episode was uploaded, however, the BBC had already announced the return of Doctor Who to television, with another actor in the lead role of the Ninth Doctor. Episode 1 featured the first appearance of Derek Jacobi as the Master (although a different incarnation than he would later play in TV: Utopia). Sophie Okonedo was introduced as Alison Cheney, who was intended to be an ongoing companion for Grant's Doctor. David Tennant, more than a year before his appointment as the Tenth Doctor, voiced a supporting character.
  • 20 - WC: Scream of the Shalka episode 2 was released.
  • 20 - PROSE: The Winning Side was first published. This was the first in a series of novellas published by Telos Publishing in the Time Hunter series, a spin-off from from the Doctor Who novella, PROSE: The Cabinet of Light.
  • 22 - Doctor Who's fortieth anniversary was marked by a cover feature in the Radio Times. This was the last Radio Times cover produced before the series returned in 2005.
  • 23 - This was the fortieth anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.
  • Writer Bill Strutton died.
  • 24 - TV: The Three Doctors was released to DVD in the UK.
  • 26 - Actor Gordon Reid died.
  • 27 - WC: Scream of the Shalka episode 3 was released.

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