Instructions for {{ProductionYearLead}}
{{ProductionYearLead}} is a template that puts an automatic lead on every year page that has a dab term of (production). It's necessary to ensure that every date page fully complies with T:LEADS and T:BOLD TEXT, but also to make sure that the individual page can be transcluded elsewhere on the wiki without the lead.
Usage[[edit source]]
To see this phenomenon in action, note what happens when 1983 (production) is transcluded here, using the following markup:
{{:1983 (production)}}
January[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 16 January - A remount of TARDIS scenes for The King's Demons was staged at TV Centre.[1]
- 17-18 and 30-31 January - Studio filming for Enlightenment took place at BBC Television Centre studio 1. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
February[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 1-2 February - Studio filming for Enlightenment took place at BBC Television Centre studio 1. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
March[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 5, 7-11, 13-15 and 17 March - Location filming for The Five Doctors took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 18 March - Pre-filming for The Five Doctors took place at Ealing Studios. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 29-31 March - Studio filming for The Five Doctors took place at BBC Television Centre studio 6. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
June[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 23-24 June - Studio filming for Warriors of the Deep took place at BBC Television Centre studio 6. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 28 June - OB filming for Warriors of the Deep took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 29-30 June - OB filming for Warriors of the Deep took place at Shepperton Studios. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
July[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 13-15 July - Studio filming for Warriors of the Deep took place at BBC Television Centre studio 6. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 19-22 July - Location filming for The Awakening took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
August[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 4-6 August - Studio filming for The Awakening took place at BBC Television Centre studio 6. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 24-26 August - Studio filming for Frontios took place at BBC Television Centre studio 6. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
September[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 7-9 September - Studio filming for Frontios took place at BBC Television Centre studio 6. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 11-12 September - Location filming Resurrection of the Daleks took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 21-23 September - Studio filming Resurrection of the Daleks took place at BBC Television Centre studio 1. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
October[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 5-7 October - Studio filming Resurrection of the Daleks took place at BBC Television Centre studio 8. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 14-19 October - Filming for Planet of Fire took place in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, marking the first time Doctor Who was filmed outside the European continent.[1]
November[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 15-17 November - Location filming for The Caves of Androzani took place. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 19 November - For the first time in nearly ten years, Doctor Who made the cover of the Radio Times. It was another decade before this happened again, making this the last Radio Times cover to be published during the original series' run.
December[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 1-2 December - Studio filming for The Caves of Androzani were planned for these date, but was cancelled due to a strike. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
- 15-17 December - Studio filming for The Caves of Androzani took place at BBC Television Centre studio 6. (REF: Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor)
Undated items[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Sylvester McCoy put his name forward in consideration for the Sixth Doctor.[2]
- The BBC announced that Colin Baker - no relation to Tom Baker - had been cast as the Sixth Doctor.
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Current text[[edit source]]
The current value of this template is:
- ProductionYearLead was a year in which a number of events important to the production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs occurred.
where ProductionYearLead will be substituted by whatever the date is of the current page. So if you put it on 1983 (production), it'll read 1983.