2013

The year 2013 was a year that was often visited by the Doctor, especially in his eleventh incarnation.

Events

December

• 25 - Amy Pond and Rory Williams set a place for the Eleventh Doctor at Christmas for the third consecutive year. He finally showed up after leaving them in 2011. From the Doctor's perspective, he had just left the home of Madge Arwell on Christmas Day 1941. (TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)

Dates unknown

• The Tenth Doctor foiled an Auton invasion in the Hyperville shopping complex. (PROSE: Autonomy)
• After discovering another version of Clara Oswald, the Eleventh Doctor sent a Spoonhead to the Shard in London to upload Miss Kizlet to the Great Intelligence's data cloud. Kizlet ordered her men to save her, which meant downloading all the minds in the cloud back to the people with bodies, including Kizlet and Clara. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)

Behind the scenes

Non-Valid sources

• In the 30th Anniversary film Dimensions in Time, the Rani trapped the Doctor's third through seventh incarnations in backstreet Eastend. This story is considered not-valid on Tardis Data Core.

Real-world events

January

• AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors was released.
• AUDIO: The Flames of Cadiz was released.
• The second series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures started, with the release of AUDIO: The Auntie Matter.
• 7 - HOMEVID: Shada and More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS were released in a DVD boxset, The Legacy.
• 23 - PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor, the first in a series of Puffin eShorts, was released.
• 27 - TV: The Aztecs had its BBC America premiere, shortly after a new special, DOC: The Doctors Revisited - The First Doctor.
• 28 - TV: The Reign of Terror was released on DVD. The release included animated reconstructions of the missing episodes.
• 29 - COMIC: Prisoners of Time issue 1 was released on iTunes.
• 29 - Bernard Horsfall, who has made several guest appearances in Doctor Who, most notably Chancellor Goth in TV: The Deadly Assassin, died.

February

• AUDIO: Spaceport Fear was released.
• 1 - Actor Robin Sachs died.
• 3 - Actor Peter Gilmore died.
• 14 - Actor Reg Pritchard died.
• 28 - COMIC: Prisoners of Time issue 2 was released on iTunes.

March

• 23 - The third episode of series 4 of Pointless Celebrities, a special edition of the BBC game show hosted by Alexander Armstrong, featuring Doctor Who actors as contestants, as well as an appearance by John Leeson as K9, was broadcast on BBC1.
• 30 - TV: The Bells of Saint John was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC America.

April

• 6 - TV: The Rings of Akhaten was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC America.
• 8 - The BBC New Series Adventure novels Plague of the Cybermen, The Dalek Generation and Shroud of Sorrow were released.
• 13 - TV: Cold War was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC America.
• 20 - TV: Hide was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC America.
• 27 - TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC America.

May

• 4 - TV: The Crimson Horror was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC America.
• 11 - TV: Nightmare in Silver was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC America.
• 18 - TV: The Name of the Doctor was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC America.

November

• 23 - 50th anniversary of the broadcast of the first episode of Doctor Who, "An Unearthly Child".