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| * [[Lysandra Aristedes]] was born. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'') | | * [[Lysandra Aristedes]] was born. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'') |
| * [[4 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast, launching [[Season 19]] and properly introducing [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Fifth Doctor]]. Beginning with this story and continuing until [[1989]], the lead actor was credited as "The Doctor", not "Doctor Who" or "Dr. Who". Also, beginning with this story, the series moved to a new broadcast schedule, with the series beginning in January rather than the autumn, and airing two episodes a week. This format continued throughout the Davison era.
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| * [[5 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[11 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[12 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
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| * [[14 January]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the State of Decay]]'' was first published.
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| * [[18 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
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| * 18 - Actor [[Rik Makarem]] was born.
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| * [[19 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[25 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[26 January]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
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| * ''Doctor Who: A Marvel Monthly'' magazine changed its title to ''[[Doctor Who Magazine|Doctor Who Monthly]]'' this month.
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| * [[1 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
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| * [[2 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[8 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[9 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
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| * [[15 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
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| * [[16 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[22 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[23 February]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
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| * [[1 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. This was the first purely historical story since ''[[The Highlanders]]''.
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| * [[2 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[8 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
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| * [[9 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[15 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[16 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast. [[Matthew Waterhouse]] left the series, with his character, [[Adric]], becoming the first [[companion]] to be killed off since [[Sara Kingdom]]. Part 4 ended with the series' first and only silent credit scroll.
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| * [[22 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. Part 1 featured the first mention of [[UNIT]] since [[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]''.
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| * [[23 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
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| * [[29 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
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| * [[30 March]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast. Part 4 concluded Season 19 (which, thanks to the two-a-week broadcast schedule, had begun only three months earlier). The ending left viewers wondering whether [[Janet Fielding]] had left the series (she hadn't).
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| * [[6 April]] - [[Paul McGann]] made his TV acting debut on "Whistling Wall", an episode of ''Play for Today''.
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| * [[15 April]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate]]'' was first published.
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| * [[22 April]] - Actor [[Harold Goldblatt]] died.
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| * [[12 May]] - [[Incidental music]] composer [[Humphrey Searle]] died.
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| * [[18 May]] - BBC Broadcasting Research issued a Viewing Panel Report gauging response to [[Season 19]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', which had seen the show change its broadcast scheduled to twice a week, as well as introduce a new [[Fifth Doctor|Doctor]], [[Peter Davison]]. As a whole, the season received a Reaction Index of 66, with the new Doctor and the timeslot change generally accepted.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/changingwho/10320.shtml BBC - Archive - The Changing Face of Doctor Who - Audience Research Report on 'Doctor Who' for 1982]</ref>
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| * [[19 May]] - Writer [[Elwyn Jones]] died.
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| * [[20 May]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken]]'' was first published.
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| * [[29 May]] - Actor [[Anita Briem]] was born.
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| * [[3 June]] - Actor [[Sebastian Armesto]] was born.
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| * [[17 June]] - Actor [[Arthur Darvill]] was born.
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| * [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Making of a Television Series]]'' was first published.
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| * [[19 July]] - Actor [[John Harvey]] died.
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| * [[22 July]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive]]'' was first published.
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| * [[29 July]] - Actor [[Dominic Burgess]] was born.
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| * The ''[[Doctor Who Annual 1983]]'' was published.
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| * The ''[[K9 Annual|K9 Annual 1983]]'' was published, the first and only annual to be based upon the aborted ''[[K9 and Company]]'' spinoff.
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| * [[19 August]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Visitation]]'' was first published. This was the first [[Fifth Doctor]] story novelisation to be published. Beginning with this release, [[Target Books]] established the controversial practice of using photographic covers for stories featuring the Fifth Doctor rather than commissioning artistic covers as had been the practices to this point. Artistic covers continued for adaptations of previous Doctors' stories.
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| * [[2 September]] - An American named Tom Baker died. Although unrelated to [[Tom Baker]], the [[Fourth Doctor]], at least one reference book later erroneously indicated that it was the ''Doctor Who'' Tom Baker who had died on this date.
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| * [[16 September]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Full Circle (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Full Circle]]'' was first published.
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| * [[22 September]] - Actor [[Billie Piper]] was born.
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| * [[John Nathan-Turner]] received approval to produce a ninety-minute twentieth anniversary special episode for broadcast in 1983 and began feeling out the interest of ''Doctor Who'' actors, including [[Tom Baker]]. At the time, the special carried the working title ''The Six Doctors'', and [[Robert Holmes]] was commissioned to write the script; he subsequently left the project and [[Terrance Dicks]] wrote the script.
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| * [[10 October]] - Actor [[Laidlaw Dalling]] died.
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| * [[21 October]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Logopolis (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Logopolis]]'' was first published.
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| * [[28 October]] - Actor [[Matt Smith]] was born.
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| * [[4 November]] - Actor [[Talfryn Thomas]] died.
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| * [[7 November]] - Actor [[John Bay]] died.
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| * [[18 November]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Sunmakers]]'' was first published. This was the final [[Target Books]] novelisation release to use the title form ''Doctor Who and...''.
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| * [[23 November]] - Actor [[Raymond Westwell]] died.
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| * [[29 November]] - Actor [[Gemma Chan]] was born.
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| * [[30 November]] - Actor [[Eric Thompson]] died.
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| * [[REF]]: ''[[The Second Doctor Who Quiz Book]]'' was published.
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| * [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who Crossword Book|The Doctor Who Crossword Book]]'' was published.
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| * [[4 December]] - Actor [[George Tovey]] died.
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| * [[6 December]] - Actor [[Ryan Carnes]] was born.
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| * [[21 December]] - Actor [[Edmund Bailey]] died.
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| * [[24 December]] - [[TV]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend]]'' was rebroadcast on BBC2.
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| * [[Magnet Books]], a subsidiary of Methuen Children's Books, published ''[[Doctor Who Quiz Book of Dinosaurs]]'' by [[Michael Holt]], the first of a series of four in the ''[[Doctor Who Quiz Book (series)|Doctor Who Quiz Book]]'' series (not to be confused with [[The Doctor Who Quiz Book|a similarly titled]], concurrent series by [[Nigel Robinson]]). These illustrated paperback books (published in the same format as [[Target Books]] novelisations) contained original short stories featuring the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka]] that set up short quizzes related to the subject matter of the book. The remaining three books in the series were published in [[1983]].
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| * The first edition of ''[[The Doctor and the Enterprise]]'' by [[Jean Airey]] was published; this unauthorised crossover between ''Doctor Who'', ''[[Star Trek]]'' and ''Darkover'' became a cult classic in this initial small-press publication and an edited version was published in [[1989]] by Pioneer Books.
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| == Footnotes ==
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