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The birth of Doctor Who was celebrated in many forms, throughout its many anniversaries. While the precise date of these anniversaries is mostly undefined, they are usually in intervals of ten years, sometimes five, after 1963, the year when many things leading up to the creation of Doctor Who, including the first broadcast of its very first episode, "An Unearthly Child" on 23 November 1963.
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Anniversary | Medium | Distributor | Title | Doctor(s) | Release date(s) | Notes |
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10th | TV story | BBC1 | The Three Doctors | First through Third | 30 December 1972 - 20 January 1973 | First anniversary story and first multi-Doctor story |
20th | TV story | BBC1 | The Five Doctors | First through Fifth | 25 November 1983 | Multi-Doctor; Fifth Doctor taken from old footage |
25th | TV story | BBC1 | Silver Nemesis | Seventh | 23 November - 7 December 1988 | |
30th | Documentary | BBC | Thirty Years in the TARDIS | N/A | 1993 | |
Comic story | DWM | Time & Time Again | First through Seventh | 22 December 1993 | ||
35th | Comic story | DWM | Happy Deathday | First through Eighth | 16 December 1998 | |
38th | Novel | Telos | Time and Relative | First | 23 November 2001 | Set prior to "An Unearthly Child" |
40th | Audio story | Big Finish | Deadline | Doctor Who | October 2003 | |
45th | Audio anthology | Big Finish | Forty-Five | Seventh Doctor | November 2008 | |
50th | Ebook series | Puffin Books | Puffin Eshorts | First through Eleventh Doctor (in separate stories) |
The 23rd of every month in 2013 | Series of ebooks, each written by a different famous author and featuring different Doctors. |
Audio series | Big Finish | Destiny of the Doctor | First through Eleventh (in separate stories) |
Once a month in 2013 | ||
Documentary series | BBCA | The Doctors Revisited | First through Eleventh (as subjects in separate documentaries) |
Once a month in 2013 | Each documentary of different Doctors broadcast on BBCA, along with an episode from the Doctor's era. | |
Comic story | DWM | Hunters of the Burning Stone | Eleventh | 10 January - July 2013 | Featuring Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, first companions | |
Comic story | IDW | Prisoners of Time | First through Eleventh | 29 January - December 2013 |