1998 (releases)

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1998 in

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the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

In 1998, a number of things set in or relevant to the Doctor Who universe were released or published.

• HOMEVID: Auton 2: Sentinel was released by BBV Productions
• 2 January - PROSE: Tempest was first published.
• 5 January - PROSE: Kursaal was first published.
• 5 January - PROSE: The Face of the Enemy was first published.
• 1 February - BBC Choice ident was first broadcast on BBC One.
• 2 February - PROSE: Option Lock was first published.
• 2 February - PROSE: Eye of Heaven was first published.
• 3 February - PROSE: Walking to Babylon was first published.
• 14 February - The Red Dwarf special was first broadcast on BBC Two.
• 2 March - PROSE: Longest Day was first published.
• 2 March - PROSE: The Witch Hunters was first published.
• 2 March - PROSE: Oblivion was first published.
• 3 March - PROSE: Short Trips was first published.
• 2 April - PROSE: The Medusa Effect was first published.
• 6 April - PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks was first published.
• 6 April - PROSE: The Hollow Men was first published.
• 3 May - PROSE: Dry Pilgrimage was first published.
• 4 May - PROSE: Dreamstone Moon was first published.
• 4 May - PROSE: Catastrophea was first published.
• Dance instrumentalist Jack Mackrel released a 3-track EP on Template Records called Tardis. The three tracks were built around, or suggested by, the TARDIS dematerialisation sound effect.
• 1 June - PROSE: Seeing I was first published.
• 1 June - PROSE: Mission: Impractical was first published.
• 2 June - PROSE: The Sword of Forever was first published.
• The Left Hand of Darkness was first released.
• 6 July - PROSE: Placebo Effect was first published.
• 6 July - PROSE: Zeta Major was first published.
• 3 August - PROSE: Vanderdeken's Children was first published.
• 3 August - PROSE: Dreams of Empire was first published.
• 20 August - PROSE: Another Girl, Another Planet was first published.
• The Other Side was first released.
• September - AUDIO: Oh No it Isn't, a dramatised audio adaptation of the 1997 novel of the same title and the first audio by Big Finish Productions was released.
• September - AUDIO: Beyond the Sun, a dramatised audio adaptation of the 1997 novel of the same title, was released by Big Finish Productions.
• 7 September - PROSE: The Scarlet Empress was first published.
• 7 September - PROSE: Last Man Running was first published.
• 5 October - PROSE: The Janus Conjunction was first published.
• 5 October - PROSE: Matrix was first published.
• 5 October - REF: Doctor Who: The Television Companion was first published.
• 6 October - Tom Baker's autobiography, REF: Who on Earth was Tom Baker?, was published in paperback .
• 15 October - PROSE: Beige Planet Mars was first published.
• Guests for the Night was first released.
• 16 November - PROSE: Beltempest was first published.
• 16 November - PROSE: The Infinity Doctors was first published.
• 16 November - REF: Doctor Who From A to Z was first published.
• 19 November - REF: Five Rounds Rapid! was first published.
• 19 November - REF: Doctor Who - The Handbook: The Seventh Doctor was first published.
• 23 November - This date was the thirty-fifth anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who being broadcast.
• 2 December - PROSE: Where Angels Fear was first published.
• 20 December - "Mayored to the Mob," an episode of the American series The Simpsons, was broadcast. The episode included a cameo appearance by a caricature of the Fourth Doctor in a scene set at a science fiction convention.