1999

Events

Doctor Who Universe

December

• 30/31 December - The Doctor lands in San Francisco and is caught in a gangland shooting. As the result of exploratory heart surgery meant to save him, he regenerates into his eighth incarnation, and prevents the Master from using the Eye of Harmony to destroy Earth. (DW: Doctor Who (1996))
• During the above period, natural phenomenon are reported in the San Francisco Bay area, including unusual tides, flood warnings. Meanwhile, snow is reported in Hawaii. Scientists link this to fluctuations in Earth's gravitational pull that occur only once every 1,000 years (though the real reason involves The Master opening the Eye of Harmony). (DW: Doctor Who (1996))
• 31 - The Doctor and Mel crash a party hosted by the Auton Alisha Hammersmith, and defeat another invasion by the Nestene Consciousness. (DWM: Plastic Millenium)
• 31 - To ring in the new year, the Institute for Technological Advancement & Research in San Francisco establishes "San Francisco Mean Time" by unveiling the world's most accurate atomic clock. The Eighth Doctor and Grace Holloway crash (and disrupt) the party in order to obtain components needed to defeat the Master. The Master causes the death of Grace Holloway and Chang Lee, but they are soon brought back to life by the Doctor. Later, just before the clock strikes midnight, Grace declines an invitation to travel with the Doctor. (DW: Doctor Who (1996))
• 31 - The Doctor also comes and stops the bug (probably with a little help from his sixth incarnation) just as the New Year arrives. (PDA: Millennium Shock)
• 31 - While Jack Harkness fights a "Millennium Bug", Alex Hopkins kills the rest of his Torchwood 3 team, then kills himself after Jack returns, just as the New Year arrives.(TW: Fragments)

As a result, Jack took over Torchwood 3.

• Late December - The Doctor saves Earth from both a software house and an entity older than the universe. (MA: Millennial Rites)

Real World

January

• The Face-Eater published.
• Salvation published.

February

• The Taint published.
• The Wages of Sin published.
• The Mary-Sue Extrusion published.
• 9 - Buddy Windrush, aka Bryan Mosley, who played the prop man in The Daleks' Master Plan and a pirate in The Smugglers, dies in Shipley, England.

March

• 6 - Graham Armitage, who played Barney in "The Macra Terror," dies in South Africa.

• Demontage First Published

• Deep Blue First Published

• More Short Trips First Published

April

• Revolution Man First Published

• Players First Published

• Dead Romance First Published

May

• Dominion First Published

• Millennium Shock First Published

• 27 - Donald Morley, who played Jules Renan in "The Reign of Terror," dies.

June

• Unnatural History First Published

• Storm Harvest First Published

• Tears of the Oracle First Published

July

• Autumn Mist First Published

• The Final Sanction First Published

• The Sirens of Time First Released. This audio drama is the first release by Big Finish Productions under its new licence with the BBC, allowing them to produce officially sanctioned audio productions featuring concepts and cast members from the original series. The Big Finish line would prosper over the next decade and help fill the void left by the lack of a television series prior to 2005 (and would continue after the return of the series).

August

• Interference: Book One First Published

• Interference: Book Two First Published

• Return to the Fractured Planet First Published

September

• The Blue Angel First Published

• City at World's End First Published

October

• The Taking of Planet 5 First Published

• Divided Loyalties First Published

• The Joy Device First Published

• Phantasmagoria First Released

• 1 - Noel Johnson, who played King Thous in "The Underwater Menace" and Charles Grover in "Invasion of the Dinosaurs," dies.

• 30 - Cavan Kendall, who played Achilles in "The Myth Makers," dies.

• 31 - "Treehouse of Horror X", an episode of the American series The Simpsons is broadcast. The episode includes a cameo appearance by the Fourth Doctor, who is kidnapped along with other TV icons such as Xena, by the Comic Book Guy. To date this is the last on-screen appearance by the Doctor (albeit a caricature); further dialogue references would be made in future episodes, however.

November

• Frontier Worlds First Published

• Corpse Marker First Published

• Whispers of Terror First Released

December

• Twilight of the Gods is published, bringing to a close the Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures series of books, which began as the Doctor Who-expanding Virgin New Adventures series in 1991. The publication of this book ends an era, concluding the book-publishing relationship between the Doctor Who franchise and Virgin/W.H. Allen/Target that had begun in 1973.

• 21 - Jack Le White, who went uncredited in The Reign of Terror and The Daleks' Master Plan, dies.

• 25 - Peter Jeffrey, who played the pilot in "The Macra Terror" and Count Grendel in "The Androids of Tara," dies at Stratford-upon-Avon from prostate cancer.

Unknown date

• Leonard Grahame, who played Darcy Tranton in "The Daleks' Master Plan," dies.

1998

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