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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Land of the Dead]]'' was first released.
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| * [[3 January]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallel 59 (novel)|Parallel 59]]'' was first published.
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| * 3 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene]]'' was first published.
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| * [[13 January]] - Actor [[Eric Dodson]] died.
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fearmonger]]'' was first released. This was the first solo [[Seventh Doctor]] audio adventure.
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| * ''Punchline'' was first released. With [[Big Finish Productions]] having now signed [[Sylvester McCoy]] to play the official [[Seventh Doctor]], BBV retired ''The Time Travellers'' series after this release, with McCoy playing "the Dominie" for the last time.
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| * [[1 February]] - Actor [[Reginald Jessup]] died.
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| * [[7 February]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon]]'' was first published. This novel introduced the [[Romana III|third incarnation]] of [[Romana]].
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| * 7 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]'' was first published.
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| * Actor [[Charles Morgan]] died.
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Marian Conspiracy]]'' was first released. This [[Sixth Doctor]] adventure featured the introduction of [[Evelyn Smythe]], the first companion to be created exclusively for audio.
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| * [[6 March]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Fall of Yquatine]]'' was first published.
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| * 6 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Short Trips and Side Steps]]'' anthology was first published. This was the third and last ''Short Trips'' release by [[BBC Books]]; [[Big Finish Productions]] later continued the series.
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| * 6 - [[BBC Audio]] released an audio recording of [[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear]]''.
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| * [[29 March]] - Actor [[John Baskcomb]] died.
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Genocide Machine]]'' was first released. This was the first Daleks story produced by Big Finish.
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| * [[3 April]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Coldheart (novel)|Coldheart]]'' was first published.
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| * 3 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Verdigris (novel)|Verdigris]]'' was first published.
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Red Dawn]]'' was first released.
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| * [[1 May]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Space Age]]'' was first published.
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| * 1 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Grave Matter]]'' was first published.
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| * [[15 May]] - ''Jon Pertwee: The Biography'' by [[Bernard Bale]] was published.
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| * [[29 May]] - Actor [[Aubrey Richards]] died.
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Spectre of Lanyon Moor]]'' was first released.
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| * [[REF]]: ''[[The Pocket Essential Doctor Who]]'' was first published.
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| * [[5 June]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Banquo Legacy]]'' was first published.
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| * 5 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Heart of TARDIS]]'' was first published.
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| * 5 - [[BBC Audio]] released an audio recording of [[TV]]: ''[[Galaxy 4 (TV story)|Galaxy 4]]''.
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| * [[18 June]] - Actor [[Derek Sydney]] died.
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| * 18 - Actor [[John Caesar]] died.
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| * [[28 June]] - Actor [[David Neal]] died.
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| * [[29 June]] - Actor [[John Abineri]] died.
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Winter for the Adept]]'' was first released.
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| * [[3 July]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'' was first published. It featured the return of [[Romana III]] and the final appearance of [[Compassion]] as a companion.
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| * 3 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prime Time]]'' was first published.
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| * [[11 July]] - Actor [[Roy Purcell]] died.
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element]]'' was first released. [[Lalla Ward]] returned as [[Romana II]] and made many more Big Finish audio dramas in the years ahead.
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| * [[BBC Audio]] released an audio recording of [[TV]]: ''[[The Highlanders]]'' and a new edition of the 1993 release [[TV]]: ''[[The Macra Terror]]''.
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| * [[7 August]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Burning]]'' was first published, launching a six-book story arc entitled the Earth Arc. For the next four books, the Doctor had no companions (although this book contains a reference to [[Compassion]]).
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| * 9 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Imperial Moon]]'' was first published.
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| * [[11 August]] - Actor [[Eddie Powell]] died.
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fires of Vulcan]]'' was first released. [[Muriel Frost]] appeared, becoming the first character from the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip to appear in a [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama.
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| * [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dead Men Diaries|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dead Men Diaries]]'' was first published, returning [[Bernice Summerfield]] to the literary arena and launching the [[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series]] of books. This was the first of numerous Summerfield short story collections.
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| * ''[[Enlightenment (fanzine)|Enlightenment]]'', the magazine published by the Canadian fan club, the ''Doctor Who'' Information Network, published its hundredth issue.
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| * [[4 September]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Casualties of War (novel)|Casualties of War]]'' was first published.
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| * 4 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Festival of Death (novel)|Festival of Death]]'' was first published.
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| * 4 - [[UK]] released a remastered and unedited version of [[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' on home video.
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| * [[10 September]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4, becoming the first non-UK DVD release from the series.
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| * [[12 September]] - Actor [[Stephen Flynn]] died.
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| * [[20 September]] - Director [[Mary Ridge]] died.
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow of the Scourge]]'' was first released.
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| * [[2 October]] - Future ''Doctor Who'' co-star [[Billie Piper]] released her second and final album, ''Walk of Life''. After the release of this album, Piper decided to concentrate on her acting career.
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| * [[12 October]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turing Test]]'' was first published.
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| * 12 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Independence Day (novel)|Independence Day]]'' was first published.
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| * [[14 October]] - Actor [[Lawrence Davidson]] died.
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| * [[21 October]] - Actor [[Alan Rowe]] died.
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| * [[25 October]] - [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Regeneration]]'' was first published.
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| * The dance group Dizzy released a dance track called "Dr. Who" on Doubledown Recordings.
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| * ''Who was Dr. Who'', a compilation CD produced by [[Mark Ayres]], was released on the Cherry Red/RPM label. The CD compiled assorted singles and other recordings based on or inspired by ''Doctor Who'' dating back to the 1960s. Included was a previously unissued [[Frazer Hines]] recording, "Time Traveller".
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Holy Terror]]'' was first released. [[Frobisher]] appeared, becoming the first [[companion]] from the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip to appear in a [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama.
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| * [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Doomsday Manuscript|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript]]'' was first published, the first full-length novel in the [[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series]] of books.
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind (audio story)|The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind]]'' was first released.
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| * Actor [[Victor Lucas]] died.
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| * [[5 November]] - Director [[Morris Barry]] died.
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| * [[6 November]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'' was first published.
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| * 6 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The King of Terror]]'' was first published.
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| * [[13 November]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Robots of Death]]'' became the second ''Doctor Who'' story (and the first solo [[Fourth Doctor]] story) to be released to DVD in the UK (a year after the previous release).
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| * [[23 November]] - [[REF]]: ''[[Howe's Transcendental Toybox]]'' was first published.
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| * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mutant Phase]]'' was first released.
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| * [[17 December]] - Actor [[Maurice Quick]] died.
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| * [[21 December]] - Actor [[John Lee (actor)|John Lee]] died.
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| * Actor [[Caitlin Blackwood]] was born.
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| [[Category:Years]] | | [[Category:Years]] |
