2010

Events

Spring (March, April, May)

• At some point prior to Donna's wedding, Joshua Naismith and his daughter, Abigail Naismith, were put on trial. (DW: The End of Time)
• Wedding of Donna Noble and Shaun Temple. Among her guests are her mother Sylvia Noble, granddad Wilfred Mott, friend Nerys, and unbeknownst to her, the Doctor, who was in the midst of a prolonged regeneration. The Doctor (by way of Sylvia and Wilf) gifts Donna a winning triple rollover lottery ticket. (DW: The End of Time)

March

• Gwen Cooper and Rhys Williams met with Jack Harkness outside Cardiff, where Jack (still remorseful over the deaths of his grandson, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato and Suzie Costello) used his recovered vortex manipulator to send a signal to a cold fusion freighter just outside the Sol system. He was then beamed up into space. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Five)

April

• 4: The 200 bus travelled through a wormhole, leaving several passengers, and the Doctor stranded on the desert planet of San Helios. (DW: Planet of the Dead)
• 24: Wedding of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane, in Cheldon Bonniface, England, Earth. Many guests from throughout time and space attend. (NA: Happy Endings)
• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was restored to youth and health by the Fortean Flicker. (NA: Happy Endings)

June

• 25: The Eleventh Doctor returns to Amy Pond's house two years after the incident with the Atraxi and Prisoner Zero from 2008 and invites her to travel with him. (DW: The Eleventh Hour). They leave together, and return at 11:55 PM after the crash of the Byzantium.
• 26: The Doctor and Amy leave after picking up Rory. (DW: Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice). River Song arrived some time in the early morning before sunrise after the TARDIS landed there. She investigated Amy's house and finds a book on the Pandora's Box and a Roman Britain book beside her bed. She takes them for analysis in the TARDIS shortly before it explodes on this date, cracking all of time and space. (DW: The Pandorica Opens). Amy Pond and Rory Williams got married after restoring the universe to its original condition. (DW: The Big Bang)

August

• 19: Luke Smith received his A Level results all (four) A Stars. (SJA: The Nightmare Man)

September

• 10: Luke Smith defeated the Nightmare Man and leaves with K9 for Oxford University. (SJA: The Nightmare Man)
• Soon after Luke arrived at Oxford, Androvax returns to Earth in order to free the remains of the Veil species, with Sarah Jane and Mister Dread's help he was able to take the spaceship with the Veil safely off Earth out into space to search for a new home. (SJA: The Vault of Secrets)

October

• In a plot to steal the TARDIS, a rogue faction of Shansheeth declare that the Doctor was dead. The Doctor teams up with the Bannerman Road gang, Josephine Jones and her grandson Santiago Jones to defeat them and rogue Unified Intelligence Taskforce member Colonel Karim. (SJA: Death of the Doctor)

November

• Clyde and Rani are left as the only two humans on Earth until they find an alien prince, Gavin and deliver him to Royal robots so he can take his rightful place as king of his home planet. He happily teleported to his home planet after knighting both Clyde and Rani and ordering the return of the human race. (SJA: The Empty Planet)
• 23: The Shopkeeper requests the Bannerman Road gang's help to acquire Chronosteel at key points in time to save the Earth. The team are narrowly successful and The Shopkeeper and Captain teleport away. (SJA: Lost in Time)

Winter

• Sarah Jane encountered Ruby White who tries to kill her by draining her life force but she was defeated by Luke Smith, causing all of humanity to see simulations of meteors in the process. Mr Smith made a cover story, a 3D video game. (SJA: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith)

• The Eleventh Doctor travels to, and takes Amy Pond to see a Vincent van Gogh exhibit in a French museum, where they discover a monster peeping through a church window in one of his paintings and travel back to 1890 to discover the meaning of the painting. (DW: Vincent and the Doctor) Although the date in the year was not confirmed, the setting indicates that it was winter or nearing it.

Unknown dates

The following events are conjectured as taking place in 2010. None of them, however, include any on-screen indication as to whether they actually occurred this year, but the likeliness was that they do, with Martha and Mickey appearing recently married and having gotten married near September 2009 and Captain Jack appear to have not been away from Earth long since he left in March this year.

• Martha Jones and her husband Mickey Smith are saved from a Sontaran by The Doctor. (DW: The End of Time)
• At some point after March, The Doctor visits Jack Harkness, who was recovering from the 456 incident (TW: Children of Earth), and hints that he should start dating Alonso Frame before parting. (DW: The End of Time)
• Verity Newman, great-granddaughter of Joan Redfern (DW: Human Nature/The Family of Blood) published an autobiography of her great-grandmother, incorporating elements of the Doctor's Journal of Impossible Things. During a book-signing, the Doctor gets a copy of the book signed and asked if Joan lived a happy life. (DW: The End of Time)
• The Doctor and Amy go to New York City and find that the city has been invaded by Vykoids. (NSA: The Forgotten Army)

Other timelines

• Mickey Smith, Jake Simmonds and Pete travelled from a parallel world back to the Doctor's universe. They and Rose and Jackie Tyler are stuck in Pete's World after the tear through the Void closes. (DW: Doomsday)

Due to time differences between the two worlds, they appear in 2007 in the other world. See also Pete's World.

Behind the scenes

• Series 4 of Torchwood was anticipated to go into production this year. John Barrowman and Eve Myles will reprise their roles. Broadcast of the series will be in 2011. It will be a co-production between the BBC and the Starz network.
• A DVD box set entitled Revisitations was scheduled for UK release in 2010. The box set will include three stories previously released in bare-bones/"vanilla" DVD editions (early in the DVD line): DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, DW: The Caves of Androzani and the 1996 TV movie. A North American release of Revisitations was assumed, but it's not known if the TV movie will be included (due to complicated Region 1 rights issues).

Early 2010

• Big Finish Productions announces it was reviving its Short Trips line as a series of short audio dramas, with the first release expected in late 2010.

January

• CC: Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code was first released. While previous installments of The Companion Chronicles had featured former TV companions, this story featured Benny Summerfield, a companion created for the Virgin New Adventures novels.
• The Radio Times published a special retrospective magazine (available by mail order), entitled Doctor Who: David Tennant and the Regeneration Years 2005-2010.
• In Toronto, Ontario, the Bad Dog Theatre company mounts an improvisational comedy production parodying Doctor Who entitled Doctor Whom, with Anand Rajaram as the Doctor.
• The Australian-produced spin-off series K-9 begins airing in Scandinavia.
• 01 - DW: The End of Time, Part Two was first broadcast, concluding the David Tennant era and marking the debut of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor. This was expected to be the final on-screen use of the logo introduced in 2005 (and later modified slighly), as well as the arrangement of the Doctor Who theme introduced at the end of 2007. The final David Tennant edition of Doctor Who Confidential follows.
  • BBC One also rebroadcasts DW: The End of Time, Part One earlier in the day.
  • Rebroadcast of Doctor Who's Greatest Moments: The Doctor on BBC3.
  • Beginning at Midnight New Year's Eve/Day, BBC America begins airing a 46-hour marathon of the entire David Tennant era, beginning with DW: The Christmas Invasion.
  • TW: Children of Earth was rebroadcast in its entirety on the Canadian network Space.
  • A Dalek made a cameo appearance in an episode of the American sitcom Better Off Ted.
  • Almost immediately after the broadcast of the finale, BBC Online's Doctor Who website begins phasing in a new look featuring the new logo and material related to the Eleventh Doctor. Little of this, however, was made available to Internet users outside the UK.
• 02 - US broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part Two on BBC America, ending its 46-hour David Tennant marathon.
  • Space Channel in Canada airs both parts of DW: The End of Time for the first time as part of a daylong Doctor Who/Torchwood marathon that includes rebroadcasts of all the specials from DW: The Next Doctor to The Waters of Mars, and additional rebroadcasts of the complete TW: Children of Earth mini-series.
  • Rebroadcast of the final David Tennant edition of Doctor Who Confidential on BBC3.
  • Following its broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part Two, the BBC received more than 140 complaints from viewers alleging that the Eleventh Doctor's reference to not being ginger was a slight against redheaded people. See 6th January.
• 03 - DW: The End of Time was rebroadcast on Space in Canada.
• Week of 4th January - Production of Series 5 resumes in Cardiff after a Christmas break (and some international filming in late 2009).
• 05 - North American DVD release of DW: The Keys of Marinus and DW: The Twin Dilemma.
  • The arrival of Matt Smith as the new Doctor Who was the topic of a question on the internationally syndicated American game show Jeopardy.
• 06 - In response to complaints regarding widespread misinterpretation of the Eleventh Doctor's comment from the end of DW: The End of Time, Part Two about not being ginger, the BBC issues an official statement clarifying that the line references the Doctor's previously-stated desire to be ginger in DW: The Christmas Invasion, and also noting that both Donna Noble and Amy Pond are redheads.[1](dead link)
  • Filming for Series 5 takes place in Cardiff at Roald Dahl Plass which attracts media attention.
• 07 - BBCR: The Last Voyage, an exclusive-to-audio adventure of the Tenth Doctor, was first released.
  • Audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - The Three Doctors was first released.
  • Doctor Who Magazine debuts a new look incorporating the new Doctor Who logo.
  • DW: The Keys of Marinus was released to DVD in Region 4.
• Early January - production of David Tennant's American pilot, Rex was Not Your Lawyer, concludes in Hollywood. Soon after, US media reports that production of a full series by the NBC network may be fast-tracked due to the necessity of filling multiple timeslots left vacant as of March 2010 by the cancellation of the five-nights-a-week Jay Leno Show. It was later reported, however, that NBC has chosen not to follow through with a full series for now, though a fall 2010 broadcast was still a possibility.
  • It was also announced that Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Tish Jones in Series 3) had been cast in a lead role in another American series, Undercovers, from J.J. Abrams.
• 08 - Australian debut of TW: Children of Earth on ABC2. The five chapters of the mini-series will be broadcast one per week.
  • The British Academy of Film and Television Arts posts The Regeneration of Doctor Who, a 25-minute discussion with Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner, to its YouTube channel.[2] (YouTube video private)
• 11 - UK DVD/Blu-Ray release of the 2009 Specials box set, including DW: The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars and The End of Time. DW: The Next Doctor, becomes the first Doctor Who episode to be "upconverted" from standard definition to high definition. A three-disc Winter Specials set containing just Waters of Mars and End of Time, was also released.
  • K9TV: Regeneration, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 12 - A box set compiling the 5-part BBC Audio story, BBCR: Hornets' Nest was first released.
• 14 - The second edition of The Writer's Tale by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook, titled The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter, was first published in the UK. The new edition adds more than 300 pages of new material to the previous book.
  • Mark Jones (Keeler, DW: The Seeds of Doom), died in Shrewsbury, Shropshire at the age of 70.
• Mid January - Canadian broadcasts of Series 2 of The Sarah Jane Adventures begins in some parts of Canada on BBC Kids (a major national cable provider dropped the network in 2009).
  • The BBC begins scouting for a new producer to take on Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• 18 - UK release of The Peladon Tales DVD box set consisting of DW: The Curse of Peladon and DW: The Monster of Peladon.
  • K9TV: Liberation, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 19 - Reports surface in US media that BBC Worldwide, Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter are planning to mount a US version of Torchwood for the American Fox network. John Barrowman was a potential star, reprising Jack Harkness, but at this point it's not known if the show will be a standalone remake or part of the established Whoniverse. According to The Hollywood Reporter a US-based "reboot" of Doctor Who was a possibility as well.
• 20 - For the fourth consecutive ceremony, Doctor Who wins the Drama category at the National Television Awards. David Tennant also received the NTA award for Best Drama Performance.

Special effects technician Ian Scoones died in Bulgaria.

• 21 - BBCR: Doctor Who at the BBC: A Legend Reborn was first released (delayed from original release date of November 2009). However it was immediately recalled due to issues regarding clearance of some material on the disc and a new February release date announced. A few copies of the unedited version, however, enter circulation.
  • REF: The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter was scheduled to be published in North America, although availability through retailers such as Amazon was apparently delayed until March. Some smaller retailers might still have received the book.
  • Doctor Who Adventures published its 150th issue. To celebrate the magazine comes packaged with a package of "Mars Slime".
• 22 - The audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors was first released.
• 25th - K9TV: The Korven, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• Late January - Launch of Vworp Vworp!, a fanzine dedicated to the history of Doctor Who Magazine and the Doctor Who comic strip.
• 29 - Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral a piece of fan fiction written by an astronomer Dr. Megan Argo to commemorate a major discovery involving a supernova received notable press coverage in Scientific American. Argo also recorded and uploaded an audio version of the story, read by her.

• 30 - David Tennant and Catherine Tate once again guest-host the Jonathan Ross show on BBC Radio. Guests include Anthony Head and Ricky Gervais.
• 31 - BFA: Leviathan part of Big Finish Productions' The Lost Stories series was first released.
  • BFA: A Thousand Tiny Wings was first released. This audio reintroduced Elizabeth Klein, a character who last appeared in the 2001 release BFA: Colditz, as a new companion for the Seventh Doctor.
• Look Who's Talking, a collection of columns written by Colin Baker for Bucks Free Press between 1995 and 2009, was first published.
• Shooty Dog Thing, a collection of fanzine articles, was first published.

February

• CC: The Suffering was first released.
• The online service SeeSaw begins offering classic-series Doctor Who episodes for online viewing.
• 01 - The animated story DW: Dreamland was first released on DVD in the UK. The documentary series Doctor Who's Greatest Moments was included in the release.
  • K9TV: The Bounty Hunter, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 02 - North American DVD/Blu-Ray release of DW: The Waters of Mars and The End of Time, and the 5-disc 2009 Specials box set including DW: The Next Doctor, which has been up-converted to high definition for the Blu-Ray edition.
• 03 - Doctor Who DVD Files moves beyond the 2005-present revival and begins featuring classic-series stories on DVD, beginning with DW: Remembrance of the Daleks.
• 04 - Region 4 DVD/Blu-Ray release of DW: The Waters of Mars and the Dalek War DVD box set featuring DW: Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks.
  • The audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - Logopolis was first released.
• 06 - Noted fantasy writer Neil Gaiman announces via his blog that he will be writing an episode of Doctor Who for the 2011 season. This was also the first indication that the series was expected to continue beyond 2010.
• 07 - New Zealand broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part One.
• 08 - UK DVD release of DW: The Masque of Mandragora.
  • K9TV: Sirens of Ceres, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 11 - Reissue date for BBCR: Doctor Who at the BBC: A Legend Reborn, following two previous delays.
• 14 - Australian broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part One on ABC1
  • New Zealand broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part Two.
  • The Sunday Times runs an article "Doctor in War with Planet Maggie" that alleges that episodes of the fading original series in the late 1980s were crafted with an anti-Margaret Thatcher political agenda, a view apparently supported by Sylvester McCoy and his era's script editor, Andrew Cartmel. DW: The Happiness Patrol and Paradise Towers and even the obscure novel TC: Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma are cited as specific examples.
• 15 - The 20-years-warmed-over controversy as to whether late-period Doctor Who had an anti-Thatcher agenda was picked up by other media, and was the topic of a discussion with Andrew Cartmel, Terrance Dicks and others on BBC Two's Newsnight.
  • George Waring (Arden, DW: The Ice Warriors) died.
  • K9TV: Fear Itself, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 17 - The BBC, in advance of issuing a new trailer, releases a new Eleventh Doctor promotional image featuring the the Doctor, Amy Pond, a Dalek, a Weeping Angel, and the first glimpse of a new character, the Smiler.
  • Matt Smith chooses the winner in a "design a TARDIS console" contest conducted on Blue Peter. The console design was scheduled to be incorporated into an upcoming Series 5 episode in some way.
  • Around this same time, Broadcast magazine reports that a 40-second 3-D trailer has been produced for cinemas.
• 19 - Doctor Who and Torchwood receive several nominations for the 2010 Saturn Awards (scheduled to be awarded 24th June). DW: The End of Time and TW: Children of Earth was nominated for Best Television Presentation (competition includes the new versions of The Prisoner and V along, with, strangely, The Tudors; David Tennant was nominated for Best Actor in Television; Bernard Cribbins was nominated for Best Guest Starring Role in Television (his competition includes John Lithgow and Leonard Nimoy); and in the Best DVD Television Release category, the DVD of DW: Planet of the Dead and TW: Children of Earth were nominated against full-season sets of Lost, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the US version of Life on Mars, and another BBC series, Primeval.
• 20 - A 3-D trailer for the new series, featuring specially-shot footage, debuts on UK cinemas.
• 21 - Australian broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part Two on ABC1.
• 22 - K9TV: The Fall of the House of Gryffen, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 23 - Multiple Doctor Who-related audios are released in North America, including BBCR: The Last Voyage, and the audio adaptations of DWN: Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth, DWN: Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors, DWN: Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders and NSA: Beautiful Chaos.
  • Australian broadcasts of Series 3 of The Sarah Jane Adventures begin on Nickelodeon.
• 24 - A major auction of props from Doctor Who takes place at Bonhams auction house.
• 28 - BFA: The Hollows of Time (The Lost Stories) was first released.
  • BFA: Survival of the Fittest was first released. This release includes the 12th and final chapter of the serialized story CC: The Three Companions.

March

• CC: The Emperor of Eternity was first released.
• The Canadian cable network Space takes over the Canadian broadcast licence for Doctor Who seasons 1-4 and related Christmas Specials (save DW: Voyage of the Damned which does not become available until April) from the CBC.
• 01 - UK DVD release of DW: The Space Museum and The Chase as a single set.
  • K9TV: Jaws of Orthrus, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 02 - North American DVD release of the Dalek War box set featuring DW: Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks.
  • North American DVD release of DW: Remembrance of the Daleks Special Edition, more than two years after it was first announced.
• 04 - NSA: Code of the Krillitanes, the fifth Quick Reads novella, was first published. This book features the Tenth Doctor, despite it being published several months after DW: The End of Time. It was the final Tenth Doctor original novel under the BBC New Series Adventures line. (Although announced for 4th March, online retailers were shipping the book as early as mid-February.)
  • Audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - Castrovalva was first released.
  • The The Peladon Tales DVD box set consisting of DW: The Curse of Peladon and DW: The Monster of Peladon was released in Region 4, along with the DVD/Blu-Ray release of DW: The End of Time.
  • The BBC announces that it has not only commissioned a 4th series of The Sarah Jane Adventures for airing later in 2010, but also a 5th series to air in 2011. Brian Minchin was announced as the new producer for the series, although Russell T Davies stays on as executive producer.
  • Paul Magrs published the young adult novel The Diary of a Dr. Who Addict, about a youth growing up in 1980s Britain.
  • The BBC announces it has purchased 2 entertain, the company that has co-produced many of its DVD releases, including Doctor Who, in recent years.
• 07 - BBCR: Dead Air, the final exclusive-to-audio story featuring the Tenth Doctor, was first released.
• 08 - K9TV: Dream-Eaters, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 09 - The BBC Four documentary Sidekick Stories, narrated by Catherine Tate, includes a segment devoted to Doctor Who and includes interviews with David Tennant, Elisabeth Sladen and John Leeson.
  • Doctor Who wins Best TV Drama at the 2010 Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards. The award was accepted by Bernard Cribbins.
• 10 - Fugitive, a graphic novel reprinting the first story arcs from IDW: Doctor Who Ongoing, was published both in North America and in the UK, which will make it one of the first occasions of original IDW comic stories being released in Britain.
• 11 - It was reported that the upcoming Region 1 and 4 DVD release of DW: The Chase will be edited to remove a sequence featuring a film clip of The Beatles. No release date for the DVD has been announced. It's also reported that the North American release of DW: Dreamland, originally scheduled for 4 May, has been delayed to October.
• 12 - The Sun tabloid reports that BBC Worldwide has signed a £10-million deal with Nintendo for the development of a Doctor Who game for the Wii and DS gaming systems.[3]
• 15 - REF: Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It was first published. This was an essay collection by Mad Norwegian Press. Contributors include Lisa Bowerman, Kate Orman, India Fisher, Sophie Aldred and Carole E. Barrowman (sister of John Barrowman and co-author of his autobiography).
  • K9TV: Curse of Anubis, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 16 - The 20-26 March issue of Radio Times, available today, includes an interview with Steven Moffat.
• 17 - On his official website, Tom Baker indicates that he was in discussions with Big Finish Productions about possibly recording an audio drama.[4]
• 18 - A BBC press screening was held for DW: The Eleventh Hour, during which producer Piers Wenger officially announced that a 2010 Christmas special was planned, and production of Series 6 was set to begin in July.
  • Big Finish Productions issues a statement titled "Fourth Doctor Rumour Control" indicating that nothing official has been arranged regarding Tom Baker doing any recordings for the company, though Elisabeth Sladen, Louise Jameson and Nicholas Courtney are cited as being enthusiastic about possibly participating should such a project come together.
• 19 - UK media give extensive coverage to the previous night's press launch, with Steven Moffat, fresh from a dubbing edit of DW: Victory of the Daleks, appearing on BBC Breakfast to promote show.
  • American publication Entertainment Weekly's website reports on rumours that Jack Harkness might be rendered heterosexual for the proposed US version of Torchwood.
• 20 - Filming of Series 5 concludes (according to comments made at the 18 March press launch).
• 22 - K9TV: Oroborus, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 24 - Rescheduled release date for REF: The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter for North American retailers such as Amazon (originally announced for 21 January).
• 25 - Doctor Who Adventures published its final issue using the Doctor Who branding introduced in 2005. It was likely the last piece of merchandise to make the change to the new Eleventh Doctor-era branding.
• 26 - Fifth anniversary of the return of Doctor Who to television.
  • Matt Smith appears on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, during which a new trailer and a clip from DW: Vampires in Venice are unveiled.
• 27 - The first minute of DW: The Eleventh Hour becomes available as a special preview on the BBC's Red Button service in the UK.
  • The BBC Radio 4 series Archive on Four airs the documentary Sculptress of Sound: The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire.
• 28 - At approximately the same time, two BBC Radio programmes are interrupted by specially-recorded mini-skits featuring Matt Smith in character as Eleventh Doctor: on The Official Chart on BBC Radio 1 the Doctor interrupts ""Opposite Adults" by Chiddy Bang and jokes about knowing the No. 1 song before the listeners. Approximately two minutes later, BBC Radio 2's The Paul O'Grady Show was airing ABBA's "Super Trooper" when the Doctor again interrupts long enough to spot a mouse in the BBC studio.
  • The BBC7 radio series 7th Dimension begins broadcasting Barry Letts' audio book reading of his memoirs Who and Me, running over the course of the next seven weeks.
• 29 - For the first time since the original series ended, the stars of Doctor Who embark on a promotional tour for an upcoming season, with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan scheduled to make personal appearances in several cities accompanied by special screenings of DW: The Eleventh Hour. An appearance in Belfast occurs today.
  • K9TV: Alien Avatar, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
  • UK release of the DVD box set Myths and Legends, including DW: The Time Monster, Underworld and The Horns of Nimon.
  • Doctor Who Classics Vol. 5, a graphic novel collecting more issues of the IDW series Doctor Who Classics was released in North America.
  • Production of Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures begins under new series producer Brian Minchin; Russell T Davies and new Doctor Who producer Nikki Wilson are executive producers.
  • Submission deadline for the first of Big Finish Productions' new Short Trips audio series.
• 30 - The Series 5 promotional tour visits Inverness and Sunderland.
  • Steven Moffat was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.
• 31 - The Series 5 promotional tour concludes in Salford and Northampton.
  • Matt Smith appears on Blue Peter.
  • DW: The Waters of Mars was rebroadcast on BBC Three.
  • BFA: Paradise 5 (The Lost Stories) was first released.
  • BFA: The Architects of History was first released.

April

• The Canadian cable network Space was scheduled to take over the Canadian broadcast licence for the 2007 Christmas special DW: Voyage of the Damned from the CBC, officially ending the CBC's association with the Doctor Who franchise. According to a January 2010 posting by the Doctor Who Information Network, Space was expected to broadcast the episode soon after.
• CC: Shadow of the Past was scheduled for release.
• The BBC7 radio series 7th Dimension was scheduled to broadcast several of BBC Audio's audio-book versions of Target Books novelislations, read by Tom Baker. Scheduled to air in April: DWN: Doctor Who and the Giant Robot, DWN: Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius, and DWN: Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit.
• 01 - Doctor Who Adventures magazine was undergoes a relaunch to introduce the new Eleventh Doctor-era branding and new editorial features.
  • Guinness World Records recognises Doctor Who Magazine, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009, as the Longest Running Magazine Based on a Television Series.
  • Matt Smith appears on One Show on BBC One.
  • DW: The Masque of Mandragora was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 01 - 03 - Big screen showings of DW: The Eleventh Hour are held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Plymouth, and Swansea.
• 02 - BBC Radio 4 airs Douglas and the Doctor, a documentary on Douglas Adams’s influence on Doctor Who, hosted by Jon Culshaw.
  • Both parts of DW: The End of Time, along with the final David Tennant edition of Doctor Who Confidential, are rebroadcast on BBC Three.
  • The cast promote the new season: Karen Gillan appears on GMTV and CBBC, while Matt Smith was on BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles show.
• 02 - 05 - The UK Sci Fi Channel broadcasts a marathon of classic Doctor Who, beginning with DW: The Ark in Space and ending with DW: Warriors of the Deep.
• 03 - DW: The Eleventh Hour was first broadcast, beginning Series 5, launching the Eleventh Doctor era and introducing Karen Gillan as Amy Pond. A new Doctor Who theme arrangement was introduced -- an unprecedented third arrangement for Murray Gold, along with the first on-screen use of the new Doctor Who logo and a new title sequence.
  • Doctor Who Confidential also returns for another season.
  • K9TV: Regeneration, was broadcast on Network 10 in Australia, launching the first season of the spin-off series, K-9. The episode was also reported to be broadcast on the same day on Disney XD in the UK. However The Korven aired in it's place.
  • DW: The Eleventh Hour receives its North American premiere when it was shown during the 2010 WonderCon in San Francisco, two weeks ahead of broadcast.
• 03 - 04 - Space in Canada rebroadcasts DW: The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead and The Waters of Mars as a mini-marathon.
• 04 - K9TV: The Bounty Hunter was first broadcast in the UK, despite Liberation being reported to air.
  • DW: The Eleventh Hour was rebroadcast on BBC Three.
• 05 - For the fifth consecutive year, Doctor Who was nominated in the Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form category at the Hugo Awards. Nominated this year: DW: The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead and The Waters of Mars, with the competing nominees being the TV series Dollhouse and FlashForward.
  • K9TV: Aeolian, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 08 - The audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - The Three Doctors was released.
  • The Canadian press screening for DW: The Eleventh Hour was held in Toronto. Steven Moffat participates in a Q&A conducted via Skype.
• 10 - DW: The Beast Below was first broadcast..
  • K9TV: Sirens of Ceres was first broadcast in the UK.
  • K9TV: Liberation was first broadcast in Australia.
• 11 - K9TV - Fear Itself was first broadcast in the UK.
  • In Canada, Space rebroadcasts both parts of DW: The End of Time as a single three-hour programme.
• 12 - Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Steven Moffat promote the launch of Series 5 in America by attending a presentation entitled Who's Next? The New Era of Doctor Who in New York City.
  • K9TV: The Last Oak Tree, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 14 - In New York City, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan attend a BBC America screening of DW: The Eleventh Hour at the Village East Cinema.
  • In Canada, the cable network CBC Bold rebroadcasts DW: Journey's End. With the broadcast rights to the revival now resting with Space, this was expected to be the final CBC-related broadcast of Doctor Who, ending an association that began in 2005.
  • A volcanic eruption in Iceland proceeds to heavily disrupt air travel to, from, and within Europe. Among those later reported as "stranded" in the US was Karen Gillan, Matt Smith, and Steven Moffat, all of whom take the opportunity to attend events in the Los Angeles area after the conclusion of their East Coast press junket.
• 16 - DW: The Eleventh Hour was receives a third pre-broadcast US screening at the C2E2 convention in Chicago.
• 17 - DW: Victory of the Daleks was first broadcast. It was followed by a trailer for Doctor Who: The Adventure Games.
  • K9TV: Jaws of Orthrus was first broadcast in the UK.
  • K9TV: The Korven was first broadcast in Australia.
  • Series 5 begins airing on BBC America and Space in Canada . The BBC America broadcast sets a ratings record for the network.[5]
  • The BBC America and Space premieres are preceded by a documentary, Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide.
  • DW: The Eleventh Hour becomes available for viewing in Australia on the online iView service, ahead of the next day’s ABC1 broadcast.
• 18 - Series 5 begins in Australia with the broadcast of DW: The Eleventh Hour on ABC1.
  • K9TV: Dream-Eaters was first broadcast in the UK.
• 19 - The BBC Press Office announces that Katy Manning will be returning to the role of Jo Grant for a fourth season storyline of The Sarah Jane Adventures, an episode also to feature Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor.
  • The read-through for the aforementioned reunion episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures was held in Cardiff. Matt Smith was unable to attend due to being stranded in the US by the Iceland volcano.
  • K9TV: Black Hunger, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 21 - A press event attended by a number of new-design Daleks announces details of the upcoming Doctor Who: The Adventure Games video game releases.
  • The American FOX network announces it was dropping plans to produce a 13-episode, serialized series of Torchwood.
• 22 - Publication of NSA: Apollo 23, NSA: Night of the Humans and NSA: The Forgotten Army, the first original novels featuring the Eleventh Doctor.
• 24 - DW: The Time of Angels was first broadcast.
  • K9TV: Curse of Anubis was first broadcast in the UK.
  • K9TV: The Bounty Hunter was first broadcast in Australia.
  • BBCR: The Runaway Train was scheduled for release as a promotional giveaway with copies of The Daily Telegraph (retail release, originally announced for June 2010, has been pushed back to 2011). This launches a weeklong promotion in the Telegraph which will see several previously released BBC Audio issues (BBCR: Pest Control, Slipback, the audio version of Genesis of the Daleks, Exploration Earth and the audio soundtrack to DW: Mission to the Unknown) made available again.
• 25 - K9TV: Oroborus was first broadcast in the UK.
• 26 - K9TV: The Cambridge Spy, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 28 - Scheduled broadcast of the David Tennant version of Hamlet on PBS in the US.
• 29 - The Decide Your Destiny line continues with the scheduled release of Claws of the Macra and The Coldest War.
  • Scheduled UK publication of the Doctor Who Classics Omnibus from IDW Publishing.
  • Scheduled publication of the children's books Eleventh Doctor Regeneration Sticker Guide and Companion Activity Book.
• 30 - BFA: City of Spires was scheduled for release. This was the first of three dramas pairing the Sixth Doctor with Jamie McCrimmon.
  • BFA: Point of Entry (The Lost Stories) was scheduled for release.

May

• CC: The Time Vampire and CC: Night's Black Agents are scheduled for release.
• 01 - DW: Flesh and Stone was first broadcast.
  • K9TV - Alien Avatar was first broadcast in the UK.
  • K9TV - Sirens of Ceres was first broadcast in Australia.
  • REF: Doctor Who Funfax (2nd edition) was scheduled for publication.
  • REF: Time, Unincorporated 2 was scheduled for publication.
  • REF: Timeless Adventures: How Doctor Who Conquered TV was scheduled for publication.
• 02 - K9TV: Aeolian, was first broadcast in the UK.
• 03 - K9TV: Lost Library of Ukko, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 04 - The Crimson Hand, the final omnibus of Tenth Doctor Doctor Who Magazine comic strips, was scheduled for publication.
  • Scheduled North American DVD release of DW: The Curse of Peladon and DW: The Monster of Peladon (released separately instead of as a box set as in the UK), as well as DW: The Masque of Mandragora.
• 06 - Scheduled release of the audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - Mission to the Unknown.
• 08 - DW: The Vampires of Venice, was first broadcast.
  • K9TV: The Last Oak Tree, was first broadcast in the UK.
  • K9TV: Fear Itself, was first broadcast in Australia.
• 09 - K9TV: Black Hunger, was first broadcast in the UK.
• 10 - K9TV: Mutant Copper, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 15 - DW: Amy's Choice, was first broadcast.
  • K9TV: The Cambridge Spy was first broadcast in the UK.
  • K9TV: The Fall of the House of Gryffen was first broadcast in Australia.
• 15-16 - Scheduled publication of Deborah Watling's autobiography, Daddy's Girl (delayed from the original November 2009 publication date).
• 16 - K9TV: Lost Library of Ukko, was first broadcast in the UK.
• 17 - K9TV: The Custodians, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 22 - DW: The Hungry Earth, was first broadcast.
  • K9TV:Mutant Copper, was first broadcast in the UK.
  • K9TV: Jaws of Orthrus was first broadcast in Australia.
• 23 - K9TV: The Custodians was first broadcast in the UK.
• 24 - K9TV: Taphony and the Time Loop, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 27 - REF: The Tardis Handbook was scheduled for publication.
• 28 - REF: The Science of Doctor Who was scheduled for publication.
• 29 - DW: Cold Blood, was first broadcast.
  • Scheduled North American publication of the Doctor Who Classics Omnibus from IDW Publishing.
  • K9TV: Dream-Eaters was first broadcast in Australia.
• 31 - BFA: The Wreck of the Titan was scheduled for release.
  • K9TV: Robot Gladiators, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
  • BFA: The Song of Megaptera (The Lost Stories) was scheduled for release.

June

• CC: Solitaire was released.
• Big Finish Productions releases Jago and Litefoot Series One, a collection of four audio dramas featuring characters from DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Stories: The Bloodless Soldier by Justin Richards, The Bellova Devil by Alan Barnes, The Spirit Trap by Jonathan Morris, and The Similarity Engine by Andy Lane.
• 03 - BBCR: The Hounds of Artemis, the first original audio story featuring the Eleventh Doctor, was released (delayed from 8 April 2010).
  • The audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - The Mutation of Time was released.
  • REF: Doctor Who: Intergalactic Survival Guide was published.
  • The children's books Doctor Who: Battle Badges Activity Book, Doctor Who: Top Secret Stories, Activities and Stickers! and Doctor Who: 3-D Mask Activity Book was published.
• 05 - DW: Vincent and the Doctor, was first broadcast.
  • The BBC releases VG: City of the Daleks, the first of four computer games for PC and Mac under the umbrella title Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. These games feature the voices of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan.
  • K9TV: Curse of Anubis was first broadcast in Australia.
• 07 - Doctor Who Series 5 - Volume 1, a "vanilla" DVD/Blu-Ray release featuring the first three Eleventh Doctor stories, DW: The Eleventh Hour, The Beast Below, and Victory of the Daleks and a featurette, The Monster Diaries was released in the UK.
  • K9TV: Mind Snap, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 12 - DW: The Lodger, was first broadcast.
  • K9TV: - Oroborus, was first broadcast in Australia.
• 14 Scheduled UK release of the Kamelion DVD box set featuring DW: The King's Demons and Planet of Fire.
  • K9TV: Angel of the North, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 19 - DW: The Pandorica Opens, was first broadcast.
• 21 - K9TV: The Last Precinct, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 23 - K9TV: Alien Avatar, was first broadcast in Australia.
• 24 - REF: Doctor Who: The Episode Guide from Pocket Essentials was published.
• 26 - DW: The Big Bang, was first broadcast.
  • K9TV: Aeolian, was first broadcast in Australia.
• 28 - K9TV: Hound of the Korven, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 30 - BFA: Legend of the Cybermen was released, featuring the return of Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot.
  • BFA: The Macros (The Lost Stories) was released.

July

• Production of the 6th series of the revived Doctor Who begins.
• CC: The Guardian of the Solar System was released.
• 03 - K9TV: The Last Oak Tree was first broadcast in Australia.
• 05 - K9TV: The Eclipse of the Korven, the Series 1 finale, was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 06 - Region 1 DVD of DW: The Space Museum/The Chase was released (3-disc set, with The Chase edited to remove footage of The Beatles performing "Ticket to Ride"), along with The Time Monster, Underworld, and The Horns of Nimon which was released individually rather than as the Myth & Legends box set as per the UK release.
• 10 - K9TV: Black Hunger was first broadcast in Australia.
• 17 - K9TV: The Cambridge Spy was first broadcast in Australia.
• 22 - NSA: Adorable Illusion, NSA: Nuclear Time and NSA: The King's Dragon are published.
• 24-25 - The second Doctor Who at the Proms concert, to be hosted by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 with later telecast on BBC Three.
  • K9TV: Lost Library of Ukko was first broadcast in Australia.
• 31 - BFA: Cobwebs was released; this was the first of several audio dramas reuniting the 1983 cast of Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding and Mark Strickson.
  • K9TV: Mutant Copper was first broadcast in Australia.

August

• CC: Echoes of Grey was released.
• BBCR: Ring of Steel was released.
• Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011 was published.
• 07 - K9TV: The Custodians was first broadcast in Australia.
• 14 - K9TV: Taphony and the Time Loop was first broadcast in Australia.
• 21 - K9TV: Robot Gladiators was first broadcast in Australia.
• 28 - K9TV: Mind Snap was first broadcast in Australia.
• 31 - BFA: The Whispering Forest was released.

September

• CC: Find and Replace was scheduled for release. This Third Doctor story will feature both Jo Grant and Iris Wildthyme - both characters played by Katy Manning.
• 04 - K9TV: Angel of the North was first broadcast in Australia.
• 06 - DW: Time and the Rani was scheduled for DVD release in the UK.
• 11 - K9TV: The Last Precinct was first broadcast in Australia.
• 18 - K9TV: Hound of the Korven was first broadcast in Australia.
• 25 - K9TV: The Eclipse of the Korven was first broadcast in Australia.
• 30 - BFA: The Cradle of the Snake was scheduled for release.
  • BFA: Project: Destiny was scheduled for release.

October

• CC: The Invasion of E-Space was scheduled for release. This was Andrew Smith's first Doctor Who story since DW: Full Circle 30 years earlier.
• 02 - K9TV: Taphony and the Time Loop first broadcast in Britain.
• 05 - Scheduled Region 1 DVD release of DW: Dreamland (delayed from an original announced release date of 4 May), including the Doctor Who Greatest Moments documentary.
• 07 - SJA audio original Wraith World was scheduled for release.
• 09 - K9TV: Liberation first broadcast in Britain.
• 11- SJA: The Nightmare Man Part 1 airs launching The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 4.
• 12- SJA: The Nightmare Man Part 2 first broadcast.
• 16 - K9TV: Robot Gladiators first broadcast in Britain.
• 18 - SJA: The Vault of Secrets Part 1 first broadcast.
• 19- SJA: The Vault of Secrets Part 2 airs
  • Scheduled UK DVD release of the Third Series of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• 23 - K9TV: Mind Snap first broadcast in Britain.
• 25- SJA: Death of the Doctor Part 1 first broadcast
• 26- SJA: Death of the Doctor Part 2 first broadcast
• 29 - Two Doctor Who Nintendo Games, Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth and Doctor Who: Return to Earth for the Nintendo Wii and DS respectively are released.
• 31 - BFA: A Death in the Family Seventh Doctor story was scheduled for release.
  • REF: The Doctor's Monsters: Meanings of the Monstrous in Doctor Who was scheduled for publication.

Fall

• Doctor Who: The Monsters Are Coming (Informally Doctor Who Live) Starts and Ends Its Original Run

November

• CC: A Town Called Fortune was released, featuring the return of audio companion Evelyn Smythe.
• 1 - SJA: The Empty Planet Part 1 first broadcast
• 2 - SJA: The Empty Planet Part 2 first broadcast
• 8 - SJA: Lost in Time Part 1 first broadcast
• 9 - SJA: Lost in Time Part 2 first broadcast
• 15 - SJA: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith Part 1 first broadcast
• 16 - SJA: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith Part 2 first broadcast
• 30 - BFA: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge Seventh Doctor story was scheduled for release.

Late 2010

• The Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock was scheduled for publication before Christmas.
• Big Finish Productions was scheduled to release the first of its Short Trips audio drama collections.

December

• CC: Yet-to-be-titled First Doctor story was scheduled for release.
• BFA: The Four Doctors, a multi-Doctor adventure issued as an exclusive for Big Finish subscribers, was scheduled for release.
• According to an announcement made by IDW Publishing in February 2010, the final Tenth Doctor issue of its Doctor Who Ongoing series was scheduled to occur with issue #16 scheduled for publication this month.
• 09 - Coronation Street, long Doctor Who's biggest competitor, marks its 50th anniversary of broadcast. Since September it has been the longest-running English language drama series in the world.
• 18 - K9TV: Regeneration, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 19 - K9TV: Liberation, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 20 - K9TV: The Korven, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 21 - K9TV: The Bounty Hunter, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 22 - K9TV: Sirens of Ceres, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 23 - K9TV: Fear Itself, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 24 - K9TV: The Fall of the House of Gryffen, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 25 - A Christmas Carol was first broadcast.
  • K9TV: Jaws of Orthrus, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 26 - K9TV: Dream-Eaters, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 27 - K9TV: Curse of Anubis, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 28 - K9TV: Oroborus, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 29 - K9TV: Alien Avatar, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 30 - K9TV: Aeolian, was first broadcast on Five in the UK.