2004

History of Doctor Who

January

• Sometime Never... First Published

• The Creed of the Kromon First Released

• Andrew Tourell, who appeared as Constable Cummings in Black Orchid, dies.

February

• Scream of the Shalka First Published. This is a novelisation of the Scream of the Shalka webcast, and is the first novelization to be published by BBC Books (or by anyone else) since the novelisation of Doctor Who: The TV Movie in 1996.

• Blood and Hope First Published

• The Natural History of Fear First Released

• 26 - Russell Hunter, who played Uvanov in The Robots of Death dies from lung cancer in Edinburgh, Scotland.

March

• Empire of Death First Published

• The Dalek Factor First Published. This is the final release in the Telos Publishing series of Doctor Who novellas, although the company would continue publishing books set in the expanded Whoniverse with its Time Hunter spin-off line.

• The Twilight Kingdom First Released

• The Tunnel at the End of the Light First Published

• 3 - Sheila Dunn, who played Blossom Lefavre in "The Daleks' Master Plan," the telephone operator in "The Invasion," and Petra Williams in "Inferno," dies.

• 27 - Peter Diamond, who played numerous roles and many of the stunts on the original Doctor Who television series, dies from a stroke in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England.

April

• Halflife First Published

• Short Trips: Past Tense First Published

• The Axis of Insanity First Released

• 19 - Philip Locke (Bigon in Four to Doomsday) dies.

May

• The Eleventh Tiger First Published

• Arrangements for War First Released

• The Big Hunt First Published. This is first full-length novel in the Big Finish - Bernice Summerfield Series to be published in more than 2 years.

• 3rd - Anthony Ainley, who plays the Master in various storys from 1981 to 1985 and in Destiny of the Doctors dies at Harrow in London.

June

• The Tomorrow Windows First Published

• Short Trips: Life Science First Published

• The Harvest First Released

• The Clockwork Woman First Published

• 18 - Frederick Jaeger, who played Jano in "The Savages," Professor Sorenson in "Planet of Evil," and Professor Marius in "The Invisible Enemy," dies in Majorca, Spain.

• 19 - Colin McCormack, who portrayed the Commander in The Sun Makers dies in Middlesex, England following a battle with cancer.

• 23 - Peter Birrel, who appeared as the Draconian Prince in Frontier in Space dies in Bath, England after losing a battle with cancer.

July

• Synthespians™ First Published

• The Roof of the World First Released

• A Life Worth Living First Published

• 31 - Robert James, who played Lesterson in "The Power of the Daleks" and the High Priest in "The Masque of Mandragora," dies from complications of Alzheimer's Disease.

August

• The Sleep of Reason First Published

• Short Trips: Repercussions First Published

• Medicinal Purposes First Released

September

• The Algebra of Ice First Published

• Faith Stealer First Released

• Kitsune First Published

• 10 - Glyn Owen (Rohm-Dutt in The Power of Kroll) dies from a cancer-related illness in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales, UK.

October

• The Deadstone Memorial First Published

• Short Trips: Monsters First Published

• The Last First Released

• Geoffrey Cheshire, who played numerous roles on the original Doctor Who series and also played a Roboman in "Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD," dies.

November

• The Indestructible Man First Published

• Short Trips: 2040 First Published

• Caerdroia First Released

December

• Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury First Published

• The Next Life First Released

• Her Final Flight First Released

• A Life in Pieces First Published - Last Benny Summerfield short story collection until 2006

• The Severed Man First Published

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• Alec Wallis, who was used by director Michael E. Briant as Ldg. Telegraphist Bowman in The Sea Devils and Warner in Revenge of the Cybermen dies.

• John Slavid, who had small roles in "The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve" and "The War Machines," dies.

• William Marlowe, who played Harry Mailer in The Mind of Evil and Lester in Revenge of the Cybermen dies.

• Daemos Rising released

• Throughout the year there is considerable media coverage and fan speculation surrounding the announced return of Doctor Who to television, especially as production of the first season begins. It is announced that Christopher Eccleston, a noted actor best known for appearances in films such as Elizabeth, Jude and Gone in 60 Seconds, will play the Ninth Doctor. Eyebrows are raised when it is announced that Billie Piper, a well-known pop star of the late 90s/early 2000s, would play the Doctor's new companion, Rose Tyler. It is announced that no crossover with Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor is planned at this point, nor are any other past companions expected to appear in the new series; word soon leaks out that the Daleks would be returning, however. A surprisingly controversial aspect of the new series is the unveiling of a new series logo, which provokes extremely negative response from some fans, with BBC News even reporting that some behind-the-scenes personal had received threats over it.

• The announced series revival results in Richard E. Grant's version of the Ninth Doctor being deemed non-canonical by the BBC and future "Shalka Doctor" projects are shelved, including a planned DVD release of Scream of the Shalka.

2003

21st century 2000s

2005