2008 (releases)

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In 2008, a number of things set in or relevant to the Doctor Who universe were released or published.

• January - Big Finish Doctor Who audio story The Bride of Peladon was first released.
• January - The Companion Chronicles audio story The Catalyst was first released.
• January - AUDIO: Dalek Empire IV: The Fearless: Part 4 was first released, concluding Big Finish Productions' fourth Dalek Empire mini-series.
• January - AUDIO: The Wake was first released.
• January - Series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures debuted in Canada on the BBC Kids cable network.
• January - AUDIO: Dead London was first released.
• 14 January - The DVD set Beneath the Surface was released in the UK, featuring Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Sea Devils and Warriors of the Deep.
• 16 January - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang debuted on BBC One, launching the second series of Torchwood.
• 16 January - Torchwood Declassified also began its second season.
• 17 January - With issue 47, Doctor Who Adventures switched from a fortnightly magazine to a weekly.
• 19 January - BBC Radio Wales broadcast the documentary Torchwood: All Access, released later in the year on the CD of AUDIO: Lost Souls.
• 22 January - The complete First Series of Torchwood was released in a DVD box set in North America.
• 23 January - Sleeper debuted on BBC One.
• 24 January - The first issue of Torchwood Magazine was published. According to an article on the making of the crossover episode The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, published in issue 7, the existence of the magazine caught cast members by surprise.
• 24 January - John Barrowman published his autobiography, Anything Goes.
• 27 January - HOMEVID: Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough was released by BBV Productions.
• 30 January - To the Last Man debuted on BBC One.
• February - AUDIO: The Condemned was first released.
• February - IDW, an American comic book company, launched a new original Doctor Who monthly comic book series. Written and edited by Gary Russell, the six-issue series featured the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. The storyline was untitled in the comic book, but later given the title COMIC: Agent Provocateur when IDW published a graphic novel edition of the storyline in the summer of 2008.
• February - AUDIO: Max Warp was first released.
• 4 February - AUDIO: Everyone Says Hello and AUDIO: Hidden were first released. These were the first made-for-audio adventures by BBC Audio based upon Torchwood.
• 4 February - Audio adaptations of Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius and Doctor Who and the Space War were first released.
• 6 February - Meat debuted on BBC One.
• 6 February - Destiny of the Daleks and the box set The Complete Davros Collection were released to DVD in Region 4.
• 11 February - The Time Meddler was released to DVD in the UK.
• 13 February - Adam and Reset were both first broadcast. In Reset, Freema Agyeman temporarily joined the series as Martha Jones.
• 20 February - Dead Man Walking debuted on BBC One.
• 27 February - A Day in the Death debuted on BBC One.
• 28 February - Revenge of the Judoon, the third novella in the BBC Books Quick Reads series, was first published.
• March - AUDIO: The Dark Husband was first released.
• March - Short Trips: Defining Patterns was first published.
• March - AUDIO: Brave New Town was first released.
• 3 March - A new DVD edition of The Five Doctors was released in the UK. This version included the remastered version previously issued on VHS and DVD and the first DVD release of the original 1983 version of the story. A commentary by David Tennant was included as an Easter Egg in the set - the first time a Doctor other than the one featured in the story provided commentary.
• 4 March - The North American DVD release of Destiny of the Daleks and Planet of Evil took place.
• 5 March - Something Borrowed debuted on BBC One.
• 5 March - The DVD set Beneath the Surface was released in Region 4, featuring Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Sea Devils and Warriors of the Deep.
• 6 March - The Twilight Streets, Trace Memory and Something in the Water were first published.
• 6 March - AUDIO: Cuddlesome was first released.
• 6 March - PROSE: Lost Luggage, Second Skin, The Dragon King and The Horror of Howling Hill were first published.
• 10 March - Voyage of the Damned was released to DVD in the UK. Also included in the set was the mini-episode Time Crash.
• 12 March - From Out of the Rain debuted on BBC One.
• 19 March - Adrift debuted on BBC One.
• 21 March - Fragments debuted on BBC One.
• 22 March - Dalek, I Love You Too was first broadcast on BBC Radio 7.
• April - AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster was first released.
• April- AUDIO: The Skull of Sobek was first released.
• 1 April - Timelash and The Time Warrior were released to DVD in Region 1.
• 2 April - The Time Meddler was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 4 April - Exit Wounds debuted on BBC One, ending Torchwood's second series. Burn Gorman and Naoko Mori left the series with this episode.
• 4 April - Torchwood Declassified also ended its second season.
• 5 April - Partners in Crime debuted on BBC One, launching the fourth season of the revived series. Catherine Tate rejoined the series full-time as companion Donna Noble. Billie Piper made her first newly-filmed appearance in the series since Doomsday in 2006; despite media leaks regarding her filming new episodes, her cameo in this particular episode was a secret until initial broadcast.
• 5 April - After the episode was broadcast, the first series 4 episode of Doctor Who Confidential aired.
• 7 April - Audio adaptations of Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit and Doctor Who - The Myth Makers were first released.
• 10 April - Martha in the Mirror, Snowglobe 7 and The Many Hands were first published. Despite Donna Noble being the current companion, BBC Books continued to feature Martha Jones as companion in the novels.
• 12 April - The Fires of Pompeii debuted on BBC One. Included in the cast was future companion actor Karen Gillan and future Doctor Peter Capaldi.
• 14 April - Black Orchid was released to DVD in the UK.
• 18 April - The American Sci-Fi Channel ended its broadcasts of Series 3 with Voyage of the Damned.
• 19 April - Planet of the Ood debuted on BBC One.
• 26 April - The Sontaran Stratagem debuted on BBC One. Freema Agyeman returned to the series (temporarily) as Martha Jones, her first Doctor Who appearance since Last of the Time Lords. The Sontarans appeared for the first time since The Two Doctors.
• May - AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight was first released.
• May - AUDIO: Grand Theft Cosmos was first released.
• May - The World Shapers graphic novel was first published.
• 1 May - The BBC's official Doctor Who website began posting a series of exclusive comic strip stories dubbed BBC Writers' Comics. Over the next few months, strips written by writers of Doctor Who novels and TV stories created using the Comic Maker application were featured. This week was COMIC: In-Flight Entertainment.
• 3 May - The Poison Sky debuted on BBC One. The episode included a very brief cameo by Billie Piper, lasting approximately one second in length; despite the brevity, she still received screen credit. As with Partners in Crime, advance review copies of the episode did not include this cameo. In an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, Russell T Davies stated that the decision to add Piper's cameo was made shortly before broadcast; the scene was shot for the upcoming episode, Midnight.
• 5 May - The Invasion of Time was released to DVD in the UK.
• 5 May - Also released in the UK was the DVD box set Bred for War containing the previously released stories The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Experiment, The Invasion of Time and The Two Doctors. The release coincided with the recent Sontaran two-parter on television.
• 8 May - AUDIO: Pest Control, the first original Doctor Who audio adventure produced by BBC Audiobooks, was released. Considered a spin-off of the BBC Books New Series Adventures line, this marked Donna Noble's debut in such spin-off fiction and was the first officially licenced audio drama not to be produced by Big Finish Productions since the BBC Radio Jon Pertwee radio plays of the mid-1990s. It was read by David Tennant.
• 8 May - The special edition of The Five Doctors was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 9 May - COMIC: Mind Shadows (BBC Writers' Comics) was uploaded.
• 10 May - The Doctor's Daughter debuted on BBC One, introducing the character of Jenny, played by Georgia Moffett, the daughter of Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison, and who once had auditioned for the role of Rose Tyler. Freema Agyeman departed for a second time after this episode.
• 10 May - Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership was first published.
• 15 May - COMIC: Destiny's Door and COMIC: Fuel (BBC Writers' Comics) were uploaded.
• 17 May - The Unicorn and the Wasp debuted on BBC One.
• 29 May - WC: The Beast Is Back In Town (BBC Writers' Comics) was uploaded.
• 31 May - Silence in the Library debuted on BBC One, introducing River Song.
• June - AUDIO: The Death Collectors was first released.
• June - AUDIO: Beyond the Sea was first published.
• June - AUDIO: The Zygon Who Fell to Earth was first released.
• 2 June - The Doctor Who Series 4 Volume 1 DVD, featuring the episodes Partners in Crime, The Fires of Pompeii and Planet of the Ood, was released in the UK.
• 3 June - The Beneath the Surface DVD collection featuring Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Sea Devils and Warriors of the Deep was released in North America.
• 5 June - COMIC: Mad Martha (BBC Writers' Comics) was uploaded.
• 5 June - Black Orchid was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 7 June - Forest of the Dead debuted on BBC One.
• 12 June - Audio adaptations of Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion and Doctor Who - Black Orchid were first released.
• 12 June - Holding out until the last possible moment, the BBC finally announced the title of Episode 12 of Series 4 would be The Stolen Earth.
• 12 June - COMIC: Escape to Penhaxico (BBC Writers' Comics) was uploaded.
• 13 June - Buckingham Palace announced that Russell T Davies would be awarded an OBE.
• 14 June - Midnight debuted on BBC One. It included the third and last surprise cameo by Billie Piper prior to her proper return to the series. This was the first "companion-lite" episode of the series, as it was filmed simultaneously with the "Doctor-lite" episode Turn Left. David Troughton, son of Patrick Troughton, guest starred.
• 16 June - The DVD box set K9 Tales, featuring The Invisible Enemy and the first DVD release of A Girl's Best Friend, the pilot episode of K9 and Company, was released in the UK.
• 19 June - WC: Just Another Thursday (BBC Writers' Comics) was uploaded.
• 21 June - TV: Turn Left debuted on BBC One, marking the official return of Billie Piper as Rose Tyler after her previous cameo appearances. This was the annual "Doctor-lite" episode.
• 26 June - WC: Who Ate All the Biscuits? (BBC Writers' Comics) was uploaded.
• 28 June - The Stolen Earth debuted on BBC One. This historic episode marked the first, and following The Sarah Jane Adventures' cancellation in 2011, only three-way crossover between Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Returning to Doctor Who were John Barrowman, Elisabeth Sladen, and Freema Agyeman. The episode received an Appreciation Index (AI) rating of 91, the highest in the series' history and a feat considered rare if not unprecedented for a mainstream network series.[1]
• 30 June - The complete Second Series of Torchwood was released in a DVD box set in the UK.
• 30 June - Voyage of the Damned (with Time Crash) was released to DVD in Region 4.
• July - AUDIO: The Boy That Time Forgot was first released.
• July - AUDIO: Here There Be Monsters was first released, marking the first appearance of Carole Ann Ford as the "true universe" version of Susan Foreman since The Five Doctors.
• July - AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame was first released.
• 1 July - The Doctor Who Series 4 Volume 2 DVD, with the episodes The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky, The Doctor's Daughter and The Unicorn and the Wasp, was released.
• 1 July - Short Trips: Transmissions was first published.
• 3 July - The Invasion of Time was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 3 July - Blind Terror and Disappearing Act were released.
• 4 July - COMIC: The Baktek Illusion was uploaded, concluding the BBC Writers' Comics special series.
• 5 July - Journey's End debuted on BBC One, bringing to a close the fourth series of the revived Doctor Who. It was the last episode to be produced by Phil Collinson, the first of the revived series' original producers to depart. The episode featured the one-time returns of Noel Clarke, Camille Coduri and K9 to the series; Catherine Tate left the series as a regular with this episode. This was the last regular weekly episode of Doctor Who scheduled until Series 5 in 2010. Like the previous season finales, the broadcast of Journey's End sparked a frenzy of Internet discussion, both pro and con. The episode featured the greatest concentration of active companions (as opposed to illusions and images) in the series' history (not including the invalid Dimensions in Time). The episode was viewed by 10.57 million people and became the No. 1 program for the week -- the first time this had occurred for any episode in the forty-five-year history of Doctor Who -- despite competition from the Wimbledon finals; it also repeated the previous week's feat and scored an Appreciation Index figure of 91, again unheard of for both Doctor Who and for a mainstream television production.[2][3]. The episode concluded with a teaser for the 2008 Christmas special, at the time of broadcast left untitled but later announced as The Next Doctor. As K9 did not appear in Series 2 of The Sarah Jane Adventures, this marked his final appearance until the post-season mini-episode From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love aired in March 2009.
• 5 July - Afterwards, the final Series 4 episode of Doctor Who Confidential was broadcast.
• 6 July - Partners in Crime was broadcast on ABC in Australia.
• 8 July - The Bred for War DVD box set (The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Experiment, The Invasion of Time, The Two Doctors) was released in Region 4.
• 21 July - The Brain of Morbius was released to DVD in the UK.
• 23 July - Copies of issue No. 397 of Doctor Who Magazine came polybagged with randomly chosen original Target Books editions (from a selection of twenty-seven books), giving the Target novelisations widespread exposure for the first time in years; also included in the mix were a few non-novelisation releases such as REF: The Making of Doctor Who. The issue also included a second surprise: when the polybag was removed, all text on the front cover (except around the UPC symbol) was revealed to be "BAD WOLF", including the title banner for the magazine itself. This was a tie-in with the ending of Turn Left.
• 23 July - Publication of COMIC: Doctor Who Classics Volume 1, a graphic novel-style release reprinting the first few issues of COMIC: Doctor Who Classics by IDW Publishing, took place.
• 27 July - The first Doctor Who Proms concert was held at Royal Albert Hall in London, featuring music from Doctor Who. An interactive mini-episode, Music of the Spheres, was shown as part of this event, which was initially broadcast on BBC Radio. The concert was hosted by Freema Agyeman, with Catherine Tate appearing to introduce a segment as well. Singer Tim Phillips, who performed "Song for Ten" in The Christmas Invasion, performed the extended version of the song introduced on the Series 1 & 2 soundtrack CD. Davros, the Graske and other monsters made cameo appearances as well. As a tribute to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Delia Derbyshire, Music of the Spheres ended with the original 1963 arrangement of the "Doctor Who theme". The BBC later announced that an edited version of the broadcast -- including Music of the Spheres -- would air on 1 January 2009.
• August - AUDIO: The Doomwood Curse was first released.
• August - AUDIO: The Great Space Elevator was first released.
• August - AUDIO: The Adolescence of Time was first released.
• August - Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009 was first released.
• August - AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius was first released.
• 1 August - The American Sci-Fi Channel broadcasted Journey's End in a special ninety-minute time slot, concluding its broadcasts of Series 4.
• 4 August - The DVD Doctor Who Series 4 Volume 3, featuring the episodes Silence in the Library, Forest of the Dead and Midnight, was released in the UK.
• 5 August - The Time Meddler, Black Orchid and the special edition of The Five Doctors were released to DVD in Region 1.
• 6 August - The DVD Doctor Who Series 4 Volume 1 was released in Region 4 featuring the episodes Partners in Crime, The Fires of Pompeii and Planet of the Ood. This was the first time Region 4 had seen a release of this nature.
• 8 August - The Canadian premiere of Torchwood Series 2 took place on the Space network, marking a new beginning for Space's association with the Doctor Who franchise; it had previously aired the original Doctor Who series in the late 1990s.
• 9 August - Blink, by Steven Moffat, won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. This was the third consecutive win for both Moffat and the series.
• 14 August - Audio adaptations of Doctor Who and the Dæmons and Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars were first released.
• 20 August - The first issue of The Forgotten was first released.
• 22 August - Torchwood The Official Magazine Yearbook 2008 was released.
• 25 August - The War Machines was released to DVD in the UK.
• 29 August - IDW Publishing issued COMIC: Agent Provocateur, a graphic novel compilation of the first six-issue storyline of its original Doctor Who monthly comic book and COMIC: Doctor Who Classics Volume 1, collecting the first several issues of reprints originally published by IDW as the monthly title COMIC: Doctor Who Classics. This edition featured the run from The Iron Legion to The Star Beast.
• 31 August - Doctor Who: Battles in Time published its fiftieth issue.
• September - AUDIO: Kingdom of Silver was first released.
• September - AUDIO: Time Reef was first released.
• September - AUDIO: The Doll of Death was first released.
• September - AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel was first released.
• 1 September - The DVD Doctor Who Series 4 Volume 4, featuring the episodes Turn Left, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, was released in the UK.
• 2 September - The Invasion of Time and the K9 Tales box set featuring The Invisible Enemy and A Girl's Best Friend were released to DVD in Region 1.
• 4 September - The K9 Tales DVD box set featuring The Invisible Enemy and A Girl's Best Friend was released in Region 4.
• 4 September - Region 4 also saw the release of Doctor Who Series 4 Volume 2 with the episodes The Sontaran Stratagem, The Poison Sky, The Doctor's Daughter and The Unicorn and the Wasp.
• 4 September - Ghosts of India, Shining Darkness and The Doctor Trap were first published. These were the first full-length novels featuring Donna Noble as companion.
• 8 September - David Tennant: A Life in Time and Space, a biography of the actor, was first published.
• 10 September - The first Torchwood radio drama, AUDIO: Lost Souls, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Although there had been exclusive-to-audio books released previously, this was the first full-cast audio drama based upon the series. The story was based upon the activation of the Large Hadron Collider, a real-life event that took place around the time of the broadcast. The current cast of the series reprised their TV roles, along with Freema Agyeman, returning as Martha Jones.
• 11 September - Audio adaptation of Doctor Who and the Green Death was first released.
• 15 September - Four to Doomsday was released to DVD in the UK.
• 16 September - Torchwood series 2 was released on standard DVD in the United States (the Canadian release was delayed until November 11).
• 18 September - BBC Audio released the Torchwood radio play AUDIO: Lost Souls on CD and for download. The CD version included a documentary featurette, Torchwood: All Access.
• 19 September - The belated broadcast of Series 4 of Doctor Who began on the CBC in Canada. The CBC began the season with Partners in Crime, omitting Voyage of the Damned and, as a result, leaving the Series 3 cliffhanger unresolved for Canadian viewers. In some parts of Canada the broadcasts overlapped those of Torchwood on Space Channel.
• 20 September - Merlin debuted on BBC One. The popular series shared numerous behind-the-scenes personnel with Doctor Who as it was also a BBC Wales production. The Mill, which provided special effects for Doctor Who and Torchwood, also provided SFX for the series. Colin Morgan, who had guest-starred in Midnight, played the lead role, with School Reunion guest star and frequent voiceover contributor Anthony Stewart Head as King Uther. Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper on Torchwood) played a villain in this first episode, while Michelle Ryan (Planet of the Dead) had a recurring role as another villain.
• 25 September - Publication of the first edition of Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, a collection of e-mails between Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook between February 2007 and March 2008 discussing the production of series 4, took place.
• 29 September - The Last Sontaran parts 1 and 2 were first broadcast, launching Series 2 of The Sarah Jane Adventures. The story was a follow-up to The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky.
• 29 September - The Trial of a Time Lord - the complete Season 23 - was released to DVD in the UK as a single set.
• 30 September - AUDIO: Doctor Who: the Stageplays - The Ultimate Adventure was first released. This was the first in a series of Big Finish Productions' audio productions adapting Doctor Who-based stage plays, in this case the Colin Baker version of the stage play The Ultimate Adventure.
• 30 September - The anthology Short Trips: How the Doctor Changed My Life was first published by Big Finish.
• October - AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks was first released.
• October - AUDIO: Empathy Games was first released.
• October - Doctor Who Magazine published its four hundredth issue, cover-dated 15 October but available in stores as early as 1 October. This issue featured the start of the comic strip COMIC: Thinktwice, which introduced Majenta Pryce as the Doctor's new comic-strip companion; this was the first time since the departure of Destrii in 2005's COMIC: The Flood that the DWM strip had introduced an original companion.
• October - IDW Publishing launched its fourth Doctor Who comic book title, the two-issue COMIC: Grant Morrison's Doctor Who, reprinting the 1980s-era Doctor Who Magazine strips by Grant Morrison: The World Shapers, Changes and Culture Shock!.
• 2 October - The Brain of Morbius was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 2 October - Also released in Region 4 was Doctor Who Series 4 Volume 3 featuring the episodes Silence in the Library, Forest of the Dead and Midnight.
• 6 October - The Day of the Clown part 1 debuted on BBC One.
• 6 October - The Betrothal of Sontar graphic novel was first published.
• 7 October - Series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures was released to DVD in North America. This predated the UK release of the series by a full month.
• 7 October - Also released to DVD in North America were The Brain of Morbius and the The Trial of a Time Lord box set.
• 9 October - AUDIO: The Forever Trap, the second exclusive-to-audio Doctor Who story by BBC Audio/BBC Books, was first released. It was read by Catherine Tate.
• 13 October - The Day of the Clown part 2 debuted on BBC One.
• 15 October - The second issue of The Forgotten was first released.
• 20 October - Secrets of the Stars part 1 debuted on BBC One.
• 24 October - Torchwood Series 2 concluded in Canada.
• 27 October - Secrets of the Stars part 2 debuted on BBC One.
• 27 October - Almost Perfect, Pack Animals and SkyPoint were first published. Pack Animals and SkyPoint were the last novels to feature Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato as the series moved into post-Series 2 continuity with Almost Perfect.
• 30 October - AUDIO: Doctor Who: the Stageplays - Seven Keys to Doomsday was first released, adapting the stage play Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday and returning Trevor Martin to the role of the Doctor.
• 31 October - AUDIO: The Diet of Worms was first released.
• November - AUDIO: Forty-Five was first released. The title was a reference to Doctor Who's forty-fifth anniversary.
• November - AUDIO: Home Truths was first released.
• 3 November - The Mark of the Berserker part 1 debuted on BBC One.
• 3 November - The Lost Boy and Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? were first published; the complete first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures had now been novelised.
• 5 November: The Last Sontaran and Day of the Clown were first published.
• 10 November - The Mark of the Berserker part 2 debuted on BBC One.
• 11 November - The complete First Series of The Sarah Jane Adventures was released to DVD in the UK, one month after it was released in North America.
• 11 November - Torchwood Season 1 was released on high-definition Blu-Ray in North America, the first Doctor Who-related release in this format. Also, the release of Torchwood Season 2 on DVD in Canada was delayed (due to the season still being transmitted by a Canadian network at the time of the North American release).
• 11 November - The War Machines and Doctor Who Series 4 Volume 4, featuring the episodes Turn Left, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, were released in Region 4.
• 13 November - AUDIO: The Time Capsule was first released by BBC Audio.
• 13 November - Audio adaptation of Doctor Who and the Time Warrior was first released.
• 13 November - REF: Doctor Who: The Time Traveller's Almanac was first published.
• 14 November - The opening pre-credits sequence of the upcoming Christmas special The Next Doctor was broadcast as part of the BBC's annual Children in Need Appeal. Other than brief snippets seen in a previously released trailer, this showing marked the first broadcast of footage of David Morrissey as "the Other Doctor" and Velile Tshabalala as Rosita, as well as a possible new form of Cyberman.
• 17 November - The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith part 1 debuted on BBC One.
• 17 November - The complete Series Four of Doctor Who was released in a DVD box set in the UK.
• 17 November - The Series 4 soundtrack was released.
• 18 November - The Series 4 DVD box set was released in North America - only one day after the UK release. The Infinite Quest was released in North America (a full year after the UK release for the latter). As The Infinite Quest was never broadcast in North America, this marked the first time that a Doctor Who serial has been released to DVD in North America without first having been broadcast there, discounting prior releases of incomplete and restored serials from the 1960s. Series 4 was released in Canada even though the CBC was only midway through its broadcast of the season.
• 19 November - The third issue of The Forgotten was first released.
• 23 November - This was the forty-fifth anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.
• 24 November - The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith part 2 debuted on BBC One.
• 30 November - AUDIO: Doctor Who: The Stageplays - The Curse of the Daleks was first released, the third and last in a series of audio adaptations of Doctor Who-based stage plays by Big Finish Productions, adapting The Curse of the Daleks.
• December - AUDIO: The Raincloud Man was first released.
• December - AUDIO: The Darkening Eye was first released.
• December - AUDIO: Return of the Krotons was first released.
• 1 December - Enemy of the Bane part 1 debuted on BBC One. It was the first television appearance of Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart since 1989's Battlefield.
• 2 December - The Vampire Curse was first released.
• 4 December - Four to Doomsday and the Complete Series 4 of Doctor Who were released to DVD in Region 4.
• 4 December - The fourth issue of The Forgotten was first released.
• 8 December - Enemy of the Bane part 2 debuted on BBC One, concluding the second season of The Sarah Jane Adventures. This was the final television appearance of Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart prior to Courtney's death in 2011.
• 15 December - Short Trips: Christmas Around the World was first published.
• 25 December - The Next Doctor debuted on BBC One.
• 25 December - An edition of Doctor Who Confidential followed the broadcast.
• 26 December - Beautiful Chaos, The Eyeless and The Story of Martha were first published. The Eyeless was the first New Series Adventures release in which the Doctor travelled without a companion; The Story of Martha was an anthology focusing on the activities of Martha Jones during the Year That Never Was between The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords and was the first New Adventures release to tie in directly with a televised story in this fashion.
• 29 December - COMIC: Doctor Who Classics Volume 2, a graphic novel-style release reprinting issues of COMIC: Doctor Who Classics by IDW Publishing, was published.
• 29 December - Battlefield was released to DVD in the UK.
• Unknown - Silva Screen Records reissued Doctor Who - Series 1 and 2, a CD featuring music from the 2005 and 2006 series. Due to licensing changes, the reissue featured a new cover photograph of David Tennant by himself, with Billie Piper's image removed.
• Unknown - Breakout was first released by the BBC on the SJA Website.
• Unknown - Kaagh Quest was first released by the BBC on the SJA Website.
• Unknown - Odd Bob's Balloon Blaster was first released by the BBC on the SJA Website.
• Unknown - Zodiac Zap was first released by the BBC on the SJA Website.
• Unknown - UNIT Code Hacker was first released by the BBC on the SJA Website.
• Unknown - Memory Mayhem! was first released by the BBC on the SJA Website.