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| * The [[Tenth Doctor]]'s companion [[Wolfgang Ryter]] was born in [[Austria]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flight of the Giurgeax (comic story)|Flight of the Giurgeax]]'') | | * The [[Tenth Doctor]]'s companion [[Wolfgang Ryter]] was born in [[Austria]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flight of the Giurgeax (comic story)|Flight of the Giurgeax]]'') |
| * [[Sally Sparrow (What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow)|Sally Sparrow]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow (short story)|What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow]]'') | | * [[Sally Sparrow (What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow)|Sally Sparrow]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow (short story)|What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow]]'') |
| * [[3 January]] - Actor [[Dennis Tate]] died.
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| * {{wi|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine}} premiered. Actor [[Nana Visitor]] played {{w|Kira Nerys}} in the series.
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| * [[21 January]] - Actor [[David Blake Kelly]] died.
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| * [[22 January]] - Actor [[Tommy Knight]] was born in {{w|Chatham, Medway|Chatham}}, [[Kent]].
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| * [[2 February]] - Actor [[Ryan Watson]] was born.
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| * [[5 February]] - Stuntman [[Tip Tipping]] was killed in a parachuting accident while filming a segment of the BBC series ''999''.
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| * [[15 February]] - Actor [[Dallas Cavell]] died.
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| * [[18 February]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Highest Science]]'' was first published.
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| * 18 - Actor [[Jacqueline Hill]] died.
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| * [[18 March]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit]]'' was first published.
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| * 18 - [[Titan Books]], under its [[Doctor Who: The Scripts]] line, published the script book for [[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks]]'', predating the release of the [[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|novelisation]] later in the year.
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| * [[15 April]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit]]'' was first published. [[Ace]] returned to the series with this novel.
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| * 15 - ''[[The Mark of Mandragora]]'', a [[Virgin Publishing]] graphic novel collecting several story arcs from ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', was first published.
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| * [[18 April]] - Actor [[Alan Wells]] died.
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| * Writer [[William Emms]] died.
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| * [[2 May]] - The [[Target Books]] line of ''Doctor Who'' novelisations marked its twentieth anniversary. Three final books were left to be published over the next year.
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| * [[20 May]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising]]'' was first published.
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| * [[7 June]] - [[BBC Audio]] released an audio recording of [[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]''. Initially intended to be part of a "Missing Stories" series of releases, the packaging was modified when the story was recovered prior to the release of the cassette.
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| * [[9 June]] - ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' published its two-hundredth issue.
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| * [[11 June]] - Actor [[Bernard Bresslaw]] died.
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| * [[17 June]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness]]'' was first published.
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| * [[22 June]] - Actor [[Victor Maddern]] died.
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| * [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks]]'' was first published. After a one-year hiatus, [[Virgin Publishing]] briefly revived the [[Target Books]] novelisation line with the first of three "deluxe" novelisations. These were longer works than the Target novelisations, with higher word count and greater complexity.
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| * Director [[Ron Jones]] died.
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| * [[15 July]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Shadowmind]]'' was first published.
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| * [[22 July]] - Actor [[Amber Beattie]] was born.
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| * [[29 July]] - [[Doctor Who: The Scripts]] release of [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who The Scripts: Ghost Light|Ghost Light]]'' was first published. It was the last release in this series for a year.
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| * [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Evil of the Daleks]]'' was first published, completing the adaptations of the [[Second Doctor]] era. This was the last novelisation of a televised story to be released under the [[Target Books]] banner (the final Target release was based upon a radio play).
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| * [[2 August]] - [[BBC Audio]] released an audio recording of [[TV]]: ''[[Fury from the Deep]]''. It was the final release of this nature until 1999.
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| * [[19 August]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'' was published. In an experimental move, ''Birthright'' and the following novel, [[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'', were said to occur at the same time. ''Birthright'' was one of the earliest examples of a "Doctor lite" story (a format used for occasional episodes of the TV series beginning in 2006), with the [[Seventh Doctor]] absent for much of the book; ''Iceberg'' revealed his activities during this story.
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| * [[20 August]] - Actor [[Sydney Arnold]] died. He was the last surviving ''Doctor Who'' actor to have been born in the [[19th century]].
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| * [[27 August]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Paradise of Death]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast on [[BBC Radio]]. This was the first made-for-radio ''Doctor Who'' adventure since [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Slipback]]'' in 1985. [[Jon Pertwee]] returned as the [[Third Doctor]], along with [[Nicholas Courtney]] as [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] and [[Elisabeth Sladen]] as [[Sarah Jane Smith]], all playing their roles for the first time since [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' a decade earlier.
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| * ''[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1994]]'' was published.
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| * ''[[Drabble Who]]'' was published. This was a charity publication featuring short pieces written by ''Doctor Who'' writers, cast, and fans.
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| * ''[[Evening's Empire]]'', a ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip arc that was abandoned in 1991 before it could be concluded, was published in graphic novel format as a special issue of ''[[Doctor Who Classic Comics]]''.
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| * [[3 September]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Paradise of Death]]'' Episode 2 was first broadcast on [[BBC Radio]].
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| * [[10 September]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Paradise of Death]]'' Episode 3 was first broadcast on [[BBC Radio]].
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| * [[12 September]] - Actor [[Harold Innocent]] died.
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| * [[16 September]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'' was first published, concluding the "duology" launched the previous month. [[David Banks]] became the second former ''Doctor Who'' actor (after [[Ian Marter]]) to write a ''Doctor Who'' novel.
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| * 16 - [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Sixties]]'' was published in paperback.
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| * [[17 September]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Paradise of Death]]'' Episode 4 was first broadcast on [[BBC Radio]].
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| * [[20 September]] - Actor [[Salvin Stewart]] died.
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| * [[24 September]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Paradise of Death]]'' Episode 5 was first broadcast on [[BBC Radio]].
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| * [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Timeframe]]'' was first published.
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| * [[21 October]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat]]'' was first published. This was the first of a five-part Alternate Universe arc.
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| * [[25 October]] - Actor [[Bernard Martin]] died.
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| * Actor [[Jocelyn Birdsall]] died.
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| * [[5 November]] - Actor [[Michael Bilton]] died.
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| * [[18 November]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Dimension Riders]]'' was first published.
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| * 18 - [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who - The Handbook: The Sixth Doctor]]'' was first published.
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| * [[20 November]] - ''Doctor Who's'' thirtieth anniversary was marked with a cover appearance on the ''[[Radio Times]]''. This was the show's first appearance on the cover in ten years and one of the few occasions in which a series not currently being broadcast received the cover treatment (although the cover promoted the upcoming ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'').
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| * [[23 November]] - This date marked the thirtieth anniversary of the first broadcast of ''Doctor Who''.
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| * [[26 November]] and [[27 November]] - A two-part special episode, [[NOTDWU]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'', was broadcast to mark the thirtieth anniversary of ''Doctor Who''. Presented as part of the Children in Need campaign, the episodes were produced in 3-D and featured all surviving Doctor actors (plus representations of the two deceased Doctors) and many surviving companions, as well. The special marked the final on-screen appearance of [[Jon Pertwee]] as the Doctor, was the only ''Doctor Who'' story written by [[John Nathan-Turner]] and was also Turner's final involvement with the franchise. The special was produced in lieu of an abandoned movie project, ''[[The Dark Dimension]]''. The special episodes featured a new, sped-up arrangement of the ''Doctor Who'' theme and used a variation of the opening credits sequence introduced in [[1987]], along with the series logo also from '87; it was the final on-screen use of both. ''Dimensions in Time'' is considered canonically questionable.
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| * [[2 December]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'' was first published.
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| * [[22 December]] - Actor [[Henry McCarthy]] died.
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| * [[29 December]] - Actor [[Robert Lankesheer]] died.
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| == Footnotes ==
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| {{reflist}}
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| [[Category:DWU years]] | | [[Category:DWU years]] |
| [[Category:Years]] | | [[Category:Years]] |
