2016 (production)

2016 in

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the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

2016 was largely dominated by the production of series 10 of Doctor Who, and series 1 of Class.

Known key events were:

January

• 7 and 23 January - Big Finish's The Companion Chronicles audio anthology The Second Doctor: Volume One took place at the Moat Studios.
• 7 January - Big Finish confirmed the Multi-Master trilogy, consisting of And You Will Obey Me, Vampire of the Mind and The Two Masters.
• 19 January - The Big Finish audio stories A Full Life and The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 28 January - The Big Finish audio story The Curse of the Fugue was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 29 January - The Big Finish audiobook Flashpoint was recorded at the Moat Studios.

February

• 2 February - The Big Finish audio story The Devil's Footprints was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 2 and 3 February - The Big Finish audio story A Life of Crime was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 8-9 February - The Big Finish audio story Fiesta of the Damned was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 26 February - The Big Finish audio stories Rulebook and The Authentic Experience were recorded at the Moat Studios.

March

• 11 March - Big Finish's The Companion Chronicles audio anthology The Second Doctor: Volume One and the Short Trips audiobook The British Invasion took place at the Moat Studios.
• 24 March - The Big Finish audio stories Damascus and Gardeners' Worlds were recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 29-31 March - The Big Finish audio story The Genesis Chamber took place at Audio Sorcery.

April

• 4 April - For Tonight We Might Die began filming.
• 11 April - The Big Finish audiobook How to Win Planets and Influence People was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 13 and 14 April - The Big Finish audio story Order of the Daleks was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 17-18 April - The Big Finish audio story The Morton Legacy was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 20 April - The Big Finish audiobook The Hesitation Deviation was recorded at the Moat Studios.

May

• 6 May - Big Finish's Torchwood audio story Made You Look was recorded at Bang Post Production.
• 16-18 May - Big Finish's Torchwood audio story Outbreak was recorded.
• 17 May - The Big Finish audio story The World Beyond the Trees took place at the Soundhouse.
• 24-26 May - Big Finish's audio adaptation of the novel Cold Fusion was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 26 and 27 May - The Big Finish audio anthology The Memory Bank and Other Stories was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 31 May - The Big Finish audio story Absolute Power was recorded at the Moat Studios.

June

• 1 June - The Big Finish audio story Absolute Power was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 1, 2, 20 and 21 June - Big Finish's audio anthology The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume 2 was recorded at the Soundhouse and the Moat Studios.
• 2 June - Big Finish confirmed the second and third series of The Third Doctor Adventures.
• 9 and 10 June - The Big Finish audio story The Star Men took place at the Moat Studios.
• 13 and 14 June - The Big Finish audio story The Contingency Club was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 14 June - The readthrough of The Pilot took place.
• 16-17 June - The Big Finish audio story Zaltys was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 17 June - Big Finish's audio anthology The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 8: Volume 2 was recorded at Audio Sorcery.
• 20 June - Filming on The Pilot and Smile began.
• 26 June - Big Finish confirmed the audio box set The Unbound Universe.
• 30 June - Big Finish confirmed an audio adaptation of the Doctor Who novel Cold Fusion.

July

• 18 July - The readthrough of Knock Knock took place.
• 28 July - Filming on The Pilot and Smile wrapped.

August

• 1 August - Thin Ice and Knock Knock started filming.
• 3-4 August - The Big Finish audio story The Outliers was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 30 August - Big Finish's Torchwood audio story Before the Fall was recorded at the Moat Studios.

September

• September - The Return of Doctor Mysterio was filmed.
• 2 September - The Lost wrapped filming.
• 9-10 September - Big Finish's Torchwood audio story Before the Fall was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 10 September - Big Finish confirmed the first series of The Lives of Captain Jack.
• 12 and 14 September - The Big Finish audio story The World Traders was recorded at Audio Sorcery.
• 16 September - Big Finish's audio anthology Classic Doctors, New Monsters: Volume Two was recorded.
• 19 and 21 September - The Big Finish The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook was recorded at Audio Sorcery.
• 20-21 September - The Big Finish audio story The Wreck of the World was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 22 September - Big Finish's audiobook anthology The Ninth Doctor Chronicles was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 27 September - The second series of Big Finish's audio series Charlotte Pollard was recorded at the Soundhouse.

October

• 4, 6 and 17 October - Big Finish's audio anthology The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 8: Volume 2 was recorded at Audio Sorcery.
• 4-5 October - The Big Finish audio story Entanglement was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 7 October - Big Finish's The Companion Chronicles audio anthology The First Doctor: Volume Two was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 11 October - The Big Finish audio stories All Hands on Deck and A Small Semblance of Home were recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 12 October - The readthrough of Oxygen took place.
• 12-13 October - The Big Finish audio story The Crash of the UK-201 was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 27 October - The Big Finish audio story Forever Fallen was recorded at the Moat Studios.

November

• 7 November - Big Finish confirmed the Short Trips story Forever Fallen, the first story of the annual The Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity.
• 8-9 November - Big Finish's audio anthology The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Three took place at the Soundhouse.
• 16 November - Big Finish's audio anthology Classic Doctors, New Monsters: Volume Two was recorded.
• 19 November - The Big Finish audio story O Tannenbaum was recorded at Ladbroke Audio.
• 22 November - The Big Finish audio stories A Heart on Both Sides and The Mistpuddle Murders were recorded at Ladbroke Audio.
• 23 November - Filming on Extremis began.
• 28 November - Big Finish's audio anthology The Comic Strip Adaptations: Volume One was recorded at Audio Sorcery.

December

• December - Filming on the fifth production block, which included the Extremis two-parter, took a break for the holidays in December, and continued into 2017, followed by the next two blocks and the 2017 Christmas special.
• 2 December - Big Finish's audio anthology Classic Doctors, New Monsters: Volume Two was recorded.
• 5 December - Big Finish's audio anthology The Comic Strip Adaptations: Volume One was recorded at Audio Sorcery.
• 15 December - Big Finish's The Companion Chronicles audio anthology The First Doctor: Volume Two was recorded at the Moat Studios.