2021 (releases)

2021 in

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the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

In 2021, a number of things set in or relevant to the Doctor Who universe were released or published.

January

• 1 January - Resurrection of the Author was published by Goblin Studios.
• 1 January - Revolution of the Daleks was first broadcast on BBC One.
• 1 January - Welcome to the TARDIS... was broadcast immediately after Revolution of the Daleks.
• 1 January - VOR 143 was first published by Big Finish Productions.
• 2 January - Masterful was first released by Big Finish.
• 6 January - The audiobook version of The Big Hunt was first released by Big Finish.
• 7 January - DWM 560 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 7 January - The audiobook version of Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear was first released by BBC Audio.
• 13 January - The Torchwood audio story Coffee was first released by Big Finish.
• 14 January - Doctor Who and Science: Essays on Ideas, Identities and Ideologies in the Series was first published by McFarland.
• 19 January - Colony of Fear was first released by Big Finish.
• 20 January - The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 10: Volume 1 was first released by Big Finish.
• 21 January - 24 Carat was first released on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel.
• 21 January - The Italian paperback edition of Time Trials: The Wolves of Winter was first released by Titan Comics.
• 22 January - Hunky Dory was released on Amazon.
• 22 January - Kklak! - The Doctor Who Art of Chris Achilléos was released as a limited edition hardback by Candy Jar Books.
• 22 January - The soundtrack to The Edge of Time was released by Demon Records.
• 22 January - Stacey Facade was released on YouTube by BBV Productions.
• 25 January - Revolution of the Daleks was first released on DVD and Blu-ray by the BBC.
• 26 January - The Science of Doctor Who: The Scientific Facts Behind the Time Warps and Space Travels of the Doctor was first published by Skyhorse Publishing.
• 27 January - The Diary of River Song: Series Eight was first released by Big Finish.
• 28 January - The Second Monsters Collection was first released by BBC Audio.

February

• 2 February - The audiobook version of The Tree of Life was first released by Big Finish.
• 4 February - DWM 561 and Doctor Who and the Library of Time were first released by Panini Comics.
• 4 February - The Kairos Ring and the audiobook version of The Savages were first released by BBC Audio.
• 4 February - Time War: Volume Four was first released by Big Finish.
• 4 February - Earthshock was first published by Obverse Books.
• 9 February - The Blazing Hour was first released by Big Finish.
• 10 February - The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 10: Volume 2 was first released by Big Finish.
• 14 February - The Genuine Article was first released on the Doctor Who: Lockdown! YouTube channel.
• 14 February - Will you be the Master's valentine...? was first released via the Big Finish Twitter account.
• 16 February - Drive was first released by Big Finish.
• 18 February - Dalek Combat Training Manual was first released by BBC Books.
• 19 February - The vinyl version of Horror of Fang Rock was first released by Demon Music Group.
• 24 February - Doctor Who Chronicles - 1965 was first released by Panini Comics.

March

• 4 March - DWM 562 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 4 March - Ghost Town and Paper Moon were first released by BBC Books.
• 8 March - The Collection: Season 8 was released in a Blu-ray box set.
• 10 March - Stranded 2 was first released by Big Finish.
• 10 March - The Battle of Ranskoor av Kolos was first published by Obverse Books.
• 11 March - The novelisations of Dalek, The TV Movie, The Witchfinders, The Crimson Horror and abridged versions of Resurrection of the Daleks, The Pirate Planet and Revelation of the Daleks were released by Target Books.
• 16 March - The End of the Beginning and Soul Music were first released by Big Finish.
• 17 March - Return of the Cybermen and The Doomsday Contract were first released by Big Finish.
• 18 March - The Voice of Many Angels was published on the Into The Unknown tie-in website.
• 19 March - The Lonely Assassins was first released by BBC Studios.
• 19 March - 2020: The Movie was first transmitted during BBC One's Comic Relief night.
• 24 March - The Torchwood audio story Lease of Life was first released by Big Finish.
• 30 March - Master! was first released by Big Finish.

April

• 1 April - DWM 563 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 1 April - The Planet of Dust & Other Stories and the audiobook version of Time-Flight were first released by BBC Audio.
• 8 April - The Lone Centurion: Volume One was first released by Big Finish.
• 13 April - The Dalek Protocol was first released by Big Finish.
• 14 April - Dalek Universe 1 was first released by Big Finish.
• 14 April - Part one of the Missy comic story The Master Plan was first released by Titan Comics.
• 16 April - Echoes of Extinction was first released by Big Finish.
• 19 April - Series 8 was released in a Steelbook Blu-ray box set.
• 21 April - The Torchwood audio story Gooseberry was first released by Big Finish.
• 27 April - The First Doctor Adventures: Volume Five was first released by Big Finish.
• 29 April - DWMSE 57 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 29 April - DWM 564 was first released by Panini Comics.

May

• 1 May - VOR 147 was first published by Big Finish.
• 5 May - The audiobook version of Fellowship of Ink was first released by Big Finish.
• 6 May - The audiobook version of Doctor Who and the Underworld and the re-issue of The Lost TV Episodes - Collection Five were first released by BBC Audio.
• 11 May - Alternating Current was first released by Titan Comics.
• 12 May - MISSY 2 was first released by Titan Comics.
• 13 May - Ravagers was first released by Big Finish.
• 18 May - The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Seven was first released by Big Finish.
• 20 May - The Ruby's Curse was first released by BBC Books.
• 21 May - The audiobook version of 666 Charing Cross Road was first released by Big Finish.
• 27 May - DWM 565 was released by Panini Comics.
• 31 May - The Collection Blu-ray box sets Season 12 and Season 19 were re-released as standard editions.

June

• June - Lytton 4 was released by cutaway comics.
• June - Orcini was first released.
• 1 June - VOR 148 was first published by Big Finish.
• 2 June - The Gates of Hell was first released by Big Finish.
• 3 June - The audiobook version of Arc of Infinity and The Nightmare Realm were first released by BBC Audio.
• 3 June - A paperback edition of Now We Are Six Hundred was first published by BBC Books.
• 4 June - The vinyl version of The Ice Warriors was first released by Demon Music Group.
• 6 June - The Faction Paradox audio story Eternal Escape was first released by BBV Productions.
• 8 June - The Robots: Volume Four was first released by Big Finish.
• 10 June - The Wonderful Doctor of Oz and Legends of Camelot were released by BBC Children's Books.
• 13 June - The vinyl version of The Ice Warriors was released by Demon Music Group.
• 16 June - Doctor Who Chronicles - 1975 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 21 June - The Hand of Fear was first published by Obverse Books.
• 22 June - Forged in Fire was first released by Big Finish.
• 24 June - The Torchwood audio story The Five People You Kill in Middlesbrough was first released by Big Finish.
• 24 June - DWM 566 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 24 June - Call Me Ishmael was first released by BBV Productions.
• 28 June - The Collection: Season 24 was released in a Blu-ray box set.
• 29 June - Jago & Litefoot: Series Fourteen was first released by Big Finish Productions.

July

• 1 July - The Second Master Collection and the audiobook version of Meglos were released by BBC Audio.
• 1 July - VOR 149 was first published by Big Finish.
• 1 July - The Age of Chaos was first released by panini comics.
• 2 July - Scourge of the Cybermen was first released by Big Finish Productions.
• 5 July - The Collection: Season 10 and Season 18 were re-issued as standard box sets.
• 5 July - The P.R.O.B.E. minisode Ichor was first released by BBV Productions.
• 6 July - The P.R.O.B.E. minisode Fog was first released by BBV Productions.
• 7 July - The P.R.O.B.E. minisode Lauren Anderson was first released by BBV Productions.
• 8 July - Lady Christina: Series Two was first released by Big Finish.
• 8 July - The P.R.O.B.E. minisode Living Fiction was first released by BBV Productions.
• 14 July - Dalek Universe 2 was first released by Big Finish.
• 22 July - DWM 567 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 24 July - The Healer's Sin was first released by BBV Productions.
• 27 July - The Torchwood audio story Madam, I'm was first released by Big Finish.
• 30 July - The Roleplaying Game: Second Edition was first released by Cubicle Seven.
• 30 July - Dalek was first published by Obverse Books.

August

• 1 August - VOR 150 was first published by Big Finish.
• 4 August - The War Master audio anthology Killing Time was first released by Big Finish.
• 5 August - Bessie Come Home and the audiobook version of The Wheel in Space were first released by BBC Audio.
• 9 August - Lockdown: The Doctor Who Fans' Survival Guide was first released by Time Travel TV.
• 11 August - Respond to All Calls was first released by Big Finish.
• 12 August - The Einstein Engine, a free adventure for The Roleplaying Game: Second Edition, was first released by Cubicle Seven.
• 16 August - The Web of Fear: Special Edition was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Steelbook.
• 17 August - After the Daleks and The Secrets of Det-Sen were both first released by Big Finish.
• 19 August - The God of Phantoms was first released by Big Finish.
• 19 August - DWM 568 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 24 August - The Torchwood audio story Empire of Shadows was first released by Big Finish.
• 27 August - The vinyl version of The Myth Makers was released by Demon Records.

September

• 2 September - Doctor Who The Official Annual 2022 was released by BBC Children's Books.
• 2 September - Doctor Who: Atlas was first released by BBC Books.
• 2 September - The TV Episodes - Collection Six was re-released by BBC Audio.
• 2 September - The Eleven was first released by Big Finish.
• 8 September - The Lost Resort and Other Stories was first released by Big Finish.
• 14 September - Curios was first released by Big Finish.
• 16 September - DWM 569 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 16 September - The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: Volume Two was first released by Big Finish.
• 22 September - Missy and the Monk was first released by Big Finish.
• 27 September - The Evil of the Daleks was released on Region 2 DVD and Blu-ray.
• 30 September - Doctor Who Chronicles - 1983 was first released by panini comics.

October

• 1 October - Me & My Ghost was first released by BBV Productions.
• 4 October - The Collection: Season 23 was re-released as a Standard Edition Blu-ray box set.
• 4 October - The P.R.O.B.E. audiobook Broken Bonds was first released by BBV Productions.
• 7 October - The Ashes of Eternity and the audiobook version of Doctor Who and the Power of Kroll were released by BBC Audio.
• 7 October - The audiobook version of The Two Jasons and an audio reading of the short story Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants were released by Big Finish.
• 7 October - Risen was first released on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel.
• 9 October - The Flux is Coming... was released on BBC One and the official Doctor Who YouTube channel.
• 9 October - Invasion of the Dinosaurs was first published by Obverse Books.
• 13 October - Dalek Universe 3 was first released by Big Finish.
• 14 October - DWM 570 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 14 October - The Wintertime Paradox was reissued by BBC Books, containing a bonus story from the Time Lord Victorious series.
• 14 October - The Edge of Reality was first released by Maze Theory.
• 19 October - The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Eight was first released by Big Finish.
• 20 October - Build High for Happiness was first released by Cutaway Comics.
• 20 October - The Confession of Brother Signet was first released by BBV Productions.
• 21 October - Ashenden was first released by Big Finish.
• 22 October - The Great Sontaran War was first released by Big Finish.
• 27 October - New Recruit was first released by Big Finish.
• 31 October - The Halloween Apocalypse was first broadcast on BBC One, launching Doctor Who: Flux.

November

• 3 November - Timejacked! was first released by Big Finish.
• 4 November - The audio anthologies K9 Audio Annual and The Time Travel Collection were released by BBC Audio.
• 7 November - War of the Sontarans was first broadcast on BBC One.
• 11 November - DWM 571 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 11 November - Jenny: The Doctor's Daughter audio anthology Still Running was first released by Big Finish.
• 14 November - Once, Upon Time was first broadcast on BBC One.
• 15 November - The animated recreation of Galaxy 4 was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Steelbook.
• 16 November - Between Two Worlds was first released by Big Finish.
• 18 November - The Red List was first released by Big Finish.
• 21 November - Village of the Angels was first broadcast on BBC One.
• 23 November - Lost Warriors was first released by Big Finish.
• 25 November - The Edge of Reality was first released on Nintendo Switch.
• 25 November - Build High for Happiness was first released by Obverse Books.
• 26 November - The Haunting of Villa Diodati was first published by Obverse Books.
• 28 November - Survivors of the Flux was first broadcast on BBC One.
• 30 November - Short Story Collection 3 was first released by Candy Jar Books.

December

• 2 December - The audio anthology Twelfth Doctor Tales were released by BBC Audio.
• 2 December - Stranded 3 was first released by Big Finish.
• 5 December - The Vanquishers was first transmitted on BBC One, concluding Doctor Who: Flux.
• 8 December - Warbringer was first released by Big Finish.
• 9 December - The audiobook version of The Underwater Menace was first released by BBC Audio.
• 9 December - DWM 572 was first released by Panini Comics.
• 14 December - The Grey Mare was first released by Big Finish.
• 16 December - The Year of Martha Jones was first released by Big Finish.
• 20 December - The Blu-ray box set The Collection: Season 17 was first released by BBC Studios.
• 23 December - The animated versions of The Faceless Ones and Fury from the Deep as well as Episode 2 of The Evil of the Daleks and The Abominable Snowmen were released on BritBox.
• 29 December - The Lichyrwick Abomination was first released by Big Finish.