2006 (releases)

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2006 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 2006

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In 2006, a number of things set in or relevant to the Doctor Who universe were released or published.

January - AUDIO: Pier Pressure was first released by Big Finish Productions.
2 January - Parallel Lives, the sixth Big Finish Bernice Summerfield story anthology, was first released.
3 January - Something Changed, seventh Big Finish Bernice Summerfield story anthology, was first released.
10 January - The Dream was released online.
16 January - The interactive mini-episode NOTVALID: Attack of the Graske was made available on the BBC's Doctor Who website, after it was available exclusively on BBC Red Button.
30 January - The DVD box set The Beginning, which featured the first three Doctor Who stories An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and The Edge of Destruction, was released.
February - Night Thoughts, the seventy-ninth Main Range story, was first released.
February - AUDIO: Telos was first released.
February - AUDIO: Buried Secrets and AUDIO: Snow Blind were first released.
February - AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Goddess Quandary was first released.
6 February - Bullies was released online.
11 February - Dalek, I Love You was first broadcast on BBC Radio 7.
14 February - Doctor Who: The Complete First Series, the DVD box set featuring the complete 2005 seasons, was released to Region 1.
March - AUDIO: Time Works was first released.
1 March - AUDIO: Fatal Consequences was first released.
1 March - Short Trips: Farewells was first published.
1 March - AUDIO: Dreamland was first released.
2 March - The DVD set The Beginning featuring An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and The Edge of Destruction was released in Region 4.
2 March - AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard was first released.
28 March - The Beginning DVD box set featuring An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and The Edge of Destruction was released in North America.
April - AUDIO: The Kingmaker was first released.
Approximately one week prior to the broadcast of New Earth, the BBC released the first Tardisode.
5 April - BBC Magazines launched Doctor Who Adventures, a weekly magazine promoting the Doctor Who franchise aimed at younger readers.
10 April - Genesis of the Daleks was released to DVD in the UK.
13 April - The first episode of Totally Doctor Who aired in the UK.
13 April - The Stone Rose, The Feast of the Drowned and The Resurrection Casket were first published.
15 April - New Earth debuted on BBC One.
15 April - The Ship of a Billion Years was first released by Magic Bullet Productions.
22 April - Tooth and Claw debuted on BBC One.
29 April - School Reunion debuted on BBC One.
29 April - Back in Time - Adventures in Sound was broadcast on BBC Radio Wales.
May - AUDIO: The Settling was first released.
May - AUDIO: Fractures was first released.
1 May - AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests was first released.
1 May - BBC Video released Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 1 featuring The Christmas Invasion and New Earth.
4 May - Genesis of the Daleks was released to DVD in Region 4.
6 May - The Girl in the Fireplace debuted on BBC One.
13 May - Rise of the Cybermen debuted on BBC One.
18 May - I Am a Dalek was first published by BBC Books.
20 May - The Age of Steel debuted on BBC One.
27 May - The Idiot's Lantern debuted on BBC One.
June - AUDIO: Something Inside was first released.
June - AUDIO: Warfare was first released.
June - AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus was first released
3 June - The Impossible Planet debuted on BBC One.
5 June - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 2 featuring Tooth and Claw, School Reunion and The Girl in the Fireplace.
6 June -Genesis of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks were released in North America.
8 June - The Hero Factor, Stamp of Approval, No Fun at the Fair and The Final Darkness were released as part of the Doctor Who Files series.
10 June - The Satan Pit debuted on BBC One.
15 June - The Albino's Dancer was first published.
17 June - Love & Monsters debuted on BBC One.
19 June - Inferno was released to DVD in the UK.
19 June - Genius Loci was first published.
24 June - Fear Her debuted on BBC One.
July - AUDIO: The Nowhere Place was first released.
July - AUDIO: Appropriation and AUDIO: Mindbomb were first released.
July - AUDIO: The Tartarus Gate was first released.
1 July - Army of Ghosts debuted on BBC One.
Approximately a week prior to the broadcast of Doomsday, the final Tardisode was released online and to mobile phones.
4 July - The release in the United States of the Doctor Who: The Complete First Series DVD box set took place.
6 July - Inferno was released to DVD in Region 4.
6 July - The final episode of the first season of Totally Doctor Who aired in the UK.
8 July - Doomsday debuted on BBC One.
10 July - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 3 featuring Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel and The Idiot's Lantern.
24 July - The Hand of Fear was released to DVD in the UK.
August - AUDIO: Red was first released.
August - AUDIO: Panacea was first released.
August - AUDIO: Timeless Passages was first released.
1 August - Short Trips: The Centenarian was first published.
7 August - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 4 featuring The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit and Love & Monsters.
17 August - The Sideways Door was first published.
September - AUDIO: The Reaping was first released.
September - AUDIO: The Gathering was first released.
September - Innocence was first released.
September - AUDIO: The Worst Thing in the World was first released.
September - Doctor Who The Official Annual 2007 was first released.
GE Fabbri Ltd launched Battles in Time.
1 September - Short Trips: Time Signature was first published.
1 September - PROSE: Collected Works was first published.
4 September - AUDIO: Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays was first released.
4 September - The Mark of the Rani was released to DVD in the UK.
5 September - The Web Planet and Inferno were released in North America.
7 September - The Hand of Fear was released to DVD in Region 4.
20 September - The first issue of Doctor Who: Battles in Time magazine was published in the UK.
21 September - The Nightmare of Black Island, The Art of Destruction and The Price of Paradise were first published.
25 September - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 5 featuring Fear Her, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, completing the "vanilla" releases of Series 2.
October - AUDIO: Memory Lane was first released.
October - AUDIO: Purity was first released.
October - AUDIO: Summer of Love was first released.
2 October - The Glorious Dead graphic novel was first published.
5 October - Taking Mickey, A Dog's Life, Mission to Galacton and Going Off the Rails were released as part of the Doctor Who Files series.
9 October - The Sontaran Experiment was released to DVD in the UK.
12 October - The Oblivion graphic novel was first published.
22 October - The Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood debuted with the broadcast of Everything Changes and Day One.
22 October - Torchwood Declassified debuted.
26 October - REF: Doctor Who: The Inside Story was first published.
29 October - Ghost Machine debuted on BBC One.
November - Corruption was first released.
November - AUDIO: No Man's Land was first released.
November - AUDIO: The Oracle of Delphi was first released.
November - REF: Howe's Transcendental Toybox Update No. 2 was first published.
November - AUDIO: The Empire State was first released.
2 November - The Mark of the Rani was released to DVD in Region 4.
2 November - PROSE: Old Friends was first published.
5 November - Cyberwoman debuted on BBC One.
6 November - The Invasion was released to DVD in the UK.
6 November - Also issued this date in the UK were two compilation box sets released exclusively through the British arm of Amazon. The Cybermen Collection consisted of The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Invasion and Earthshock, while the larger Third Doctor Collection featured Spearhead from Space, Inferno, The Claws of Axos, The Three Doctors, Carnival of Monsters and The Green Death.
7 November - The Hand of Fear, The Web Planet and The Mark of the Rani were released in North America.
7 November - In Region 1 (North America), BBC Video redistributed the episodes of Series 1 in the same four-volume "vanilla" (no-extras) sets the company had issued in the UK in mid-2005.
12 November - Small Worlds debuted on BBC One.
19 November - Countrycide debuted on BBC One.
19 November - Doctor Who: A Celebration took place at the Wales Millennium Centre.
20 November - BBC Video released the Doctor Who: The Complete Second Series DVD box set in the UK.
26 November - Greeks Bearing Gifts debuted on BBC One.
26 November - BBC Video began issuing Torchwood episodes in "vanilla" (no-extras) DVD editions, similar in format to the Doctor Who releases over the previous two years. Torchwood: Series 1 Part 1 was released.
December - AUDIO: Year of the Pig was first released.
December - AUDIO: Guilt was first released.
December - AUDIO: Return of the Daleks was first released.
3 December - They Keep Killing Suzie debuted on BBC One.
4 December - The Series 1 and 2 soundtrack was released.
7 December - The Sontaran Experiment was released to DVD in Region 4.
10 December - Random Shoes debuted on BBC One.
11 December - Elisabeth Sladen appeared on Blue Peter to promote The Sarah Jane Adventures.
17 December - Out of Time debuted on BBC One.
22 December - Short Trips: Dalek Empire was first published.
24 December - Combat debuted on BBC One.
24 December - A Christmas-themed Doctor Who short story, WC: Deep and Dreamless Sleep, was published on the TimesOnline website.
25 December - The Runaway Bride debuted on BBC One.
25 December - BBC Radio broadcast Jo Whiley Meets Doctor Who.
26 December - The Torchwood: Series 1, Part 1 DVD was released.
31 December - BBC Radio 7 released AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks.