* The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] defeated rogue [[Annarene]]s. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Relative Dementias]]'')
In [[June]], the [[United Kingdom]] took the [[Falklands]] from [[Argentina]] by [[Falklands War|military force]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Infinite Astronaut (comic story)}})
=== [[July]] ===
On [[11 July]], [[Italy]] beat [[West Germany]] 3-1 in the [[World Cup]] [[1982 World Cup Final|final]]. During the celebrations in the Italian village of [[Ferrara]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] stopped the [[Threllip]] from invading [[Earth]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Living Legend (audio story)}})
* [[11 July|11]] - The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charley Pollard]] stopped the [[Threllip]] from invading [[Earth]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Living Legend]]'')
=== Unknown Date ===
On [[1 October]], [[Golf Victor Foxtrot|Concorde]] broke the [[time barrier]] and ended up in the [[year]] [[BC|140 million BC]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Traveller's Diary (novel)}})
* [[Pete Tyler]] married [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie Prentice]]. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac]]'')
* On [[Pete's World]], [[Cybus Industries]] was founded. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac]]'')
* The [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Nyssa]] visited [[Trafalgar Square]] in [[London]]. On a subsequent visit to the area in [[October]] [[1843]], Tegan commented that it was more "tourist friendly" in 1982. ([[ST]]: ''[[The Lions of Trafalgar]]'')
* [[Anthony Chambers]] found a [[Cyber-conversion unit]] in a [[Baltimore]] cemetery. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Reaping]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
It was one of the years visited by the [[First Doctor]], [[Steven Taylor]] and [[Sara Kingdom]] at [[Christmas]] as they unknowingly followed [[Robert (The Little Drummer Boy)|Robert]]'s distress signal. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Little Drummer Boy (short story)}})
=== [[January]] ===
=== Undated ===
* [[4 January|4]] - [[DW]]: ''[[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 2 parts a week. This format continues throughout the Davison era.
An environmental group of which [[Robert Wilkins]] was a key member had numerous violent protests at government research departments across the [[United Kingdom]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Project Valhalla (novel)|Project: Valhalla}})
* [[5 January|5]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[11 January|11]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[12 January|12]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
* [[14 January|14]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the State of Decay]]'' was first published.
* [[18 January|18]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[19 January|19]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[25 January|25]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[26 January|26]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
=== [[February]] ===
The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] defeated rogue [[Annarene]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Relative Dementias (novel)}})
* ''Doctor Who: A Marvel Monthly'' magazine changes its title to ''[[Doctor Who Magazine|Doctor Who Monthly]]'' this month.
* [[1 February|01]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[2 February|02]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[8 February|08]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[9 February|09]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
* [[15 February|15]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Visitation]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[16 February|16]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Visitation]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[22 February|22]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Visitation]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[23 February|23]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Visitation]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
=== [[March]] ===
[[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and [[Kylex-12|Kyle]] met in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]]. They later began a relationship. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Waters of Amsterdam (audio story)}})
* [[1 March|01]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. This was the first purely historical story since ''[[The Highlanders]]''.
* [[2 March|02]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[8 March|08]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[9 March|09]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[15 March|15]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[16 March|16]] - [[DW]]: ''[[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.
* [[22 March|22]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. Part 1 featured the first mention of [[UNIT]] since [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]''.
* [[23 March|23]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[29 March|29]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[30 March|30]] - [[DW]]: ''[[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).
=== [[April]] ===
[[Anthony Chambers]] found a [[Cyber-conversion unit]] in the [[Fell's Point]] cemetery in [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})
* [[6 April|06]] - [[Paul McGann]] made his TV acting debut on "Whistling Wall", an episode of ''Play for Today''.
* [[15 April|15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate]]'' was first published.
=== [[May]] ===
The [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Nyssa]] and Tegan visited [[London]]. However, their destination was the [[2012 Olympics]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The King of the Dead (audio story)}})
* [[18 May|18]] - 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>
* [[20 May|20]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken]]'' was first published.
=== [[July]] ===
== Births and deaths ==
* [[REF]]: [[Doctor Who: The Making of a Television Series]] was first published.
[[Lysandra Aristedes]] was born. She would grow up to become the director of [[the Forge]] and a companion of the [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Gods and Monsters (audio story)}})
* [[22 July|22]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive]]'' was first published.
=== [[August]] ===
In a [[Parallel universe (The Last Party on Earth)|parallel universe]], [[Jackson Smith (The Last Party on Earth)|Jackson Smith]] was run over and killed in this year. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Last Party on Earth (audio story)}})
* [[Doctor Who Annual 1983]] was published.
* [[K9 Annual|K9 Annual 1983]] was published, the first and only annual to be based upon the aborted ''[[K9 and Company]]'' spinoff.
* [[19 August|19]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Visitation]]'' was first published. First [[Fifth Doctor]] story novelisation was 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 adapations of previous Doctors' stories, however.
=== [[September]] ===
[[Alice Wake]] broke her hip and later died under general anaesthetic. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Hopes and Fears of All the Years (short story)}})
* [[2 September|02]] - An American actor named Tom Baker died in New York City. Although unrelated to [[Tom Baker]], the [[Fourth Doctor]], at least one (possibly more) reference books later erroneously indicated that it was the ''Doctor Who'' Tom Baker who had died on this date.
* [[16 September|16]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Full Circle (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Full Circle]]'' was first published.
* [[22 September|22]] - [[Billie Piper]] ([[Rose Tyler]]) was born at [[Wikipedia:Swindon |Swindon]], [[Wikipedia:Wiltshire |Wiltshire]], [[England]].
=== Fall ===
[[Philip Withers]] was born to [[Harold Withers|Harold]] and [[Alice Withers]] in [[Stockbridge]], [[England]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Eternal Summer (audio story)}}, {{cs|Plague of the Daleks (audio story)}})
* [[John Nathan-Turner]] received approval to produce a 90-minute 20th anniversary special Part 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.
=== [[October]] ===
== References ==
* [[10 October|10]] - [[Laidlaw Dalling]], who played [[Rouvray]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror]]'', died.
A twenty pence coin from 1982 was included in the envelope of British notes and coins which the [[First Doctor]] gave [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] when they left [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Travellers (novel)}})
* [[21 October|21]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Logopolis (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Logopolis]]'' was first published.
* [[28 October|28]] - [[Matt Smith]] was born. In January 2009, Smith was announced as the actor cast to play the [[Eleventh Doctor]].
=== [[November]] ===
On a visit to [[Trafalgar Square]] on [[23 October]] [[1843]] with the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka]] commented that it was "more [[tourist]] friendly in 1982". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Lions of Trafalgar (audio story)}})
* [[7 November|7]] - [[John Bay]], who played the [[Earl of Leicester]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Crusade]]'', died from brain cancer in [[London]].
* [[18 November|18]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Sunmakers]]'' was first published. This was the final [[Target Books]] novelisation release to use the title form ''Doctor Who and...''.
=== [[December]] ===
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* [[1 December|1]] - [[Eric Thompson]], who played Viscount [[Gaston de Leran]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve]]'', died from a heart attack in [[London]].
* [[6 December|6]] - [[Ryan Carnes]], who played [[Laszlo]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'' / ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'' was born in [[Pittsfield]], [[Illinois]].
* [[24 December|24]] - [[KAC]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend]]'' was rebroadcast on BBC2.
=== Unknown dates ===
* [[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 (Magnet)|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 would be published in [[1983]].
* The first edition of ''[[The Doctor and the Enterprise]]'' by [[Jean Airey]] was published; this unauthorised crossover between Doctor Who, [[Star Trek]] and <span style="font-style: italic;">Darkover</span> 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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