1993

History of the Doctor Who Universe

Dates unknown

• The Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield visit Oxford. (NA: The Dimension Riders)
• The Doctor, Nyssa, and Tegan Jovanka visit Manchester. (MA: Goth Opera)
• Joel Mintz is somehow transported to 1983. (NA:Return of the Living Dad)
• In a possible alternate future or parallel timeline, the Seventh Doctor and Ace arrive in London where a ploy by the Rani results in various incarnations of the Doctor and assorted companions experiencing time-slipping between this year, 1973 and 2013. (DW: Dimensions in Time)

Summer

• The Doctor, Benny, and Ace visit the Glatonsbury Festival of the Performing Arts. (NA: No Future)

July

• 14 - The Doctor meets Ace at a cafe in Sydney, Australia. She is 37 years old. (NA: Set Piece)

History of Doctor Who

January

• 3 - Dennis Tate, who played Technix in "The Daleks' Master Plan," dies in Los Angeles, California.

• 21 - David Blake Kelly, who played Captain Benjamin Briggs in "The Chase," dies.

• 22 - Tommy Knight who plays Luke Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures and the Doctor Who episodes The Stolen Earth and Journeys End is born in Chatham, Kent.

February

• The Highest Science First Published

• 5 - Stuntman Tip Tipping (during the Sylvester McCoy era) is killed in a parachuting accident.

• 15 - Dallas Cavell, who played various roles in numerous stories on Doctor Who, dies.

• 18 - Jacqueline Hill, who portrayed companion Barbara Wright and Tigellan high priestess Lexa in "Meglos," dies from cancer.

March

• The Pit First Published

• The Doctor Who: The Scripts release of The Power of the Daleks first published, predating the release of the novelisation later in the year.

April

• Deceit First Published

May

• Lucifer Rising First Published

June

• White Darkness First Published

• 11 - Bernard Bresslaw, known for his appearance as Varga in The Ice Warriors dies from a heart attack.

July

• Shadowmind First Published

• Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks First Published. After a one-year hiatus, Virgin Publishing briefly revives the Target Books novelisation line with the first of what would be three "deluxe" novelisations. Unlike past Target Books releases, these would be longer works with higher word count and more complex than the novelisations of the past.

• The Doctor Who: The Scripts release of Ghost Light first published. Last release in this series for a year.

August

• Birthright First Published

• Doctor Who - The Evil of the Daleks First Published, completing the adaptations of the Second Doctor era. This is the last novelisation of a televised story to be released under the Target Books banner (the final Target release would be based upon a radio play). A half-dozen televised stories from the 1970s and 1980s would remain (officially) unnovelised.

• 20 - Sydney Arnold, who played Perkins in "The Highlanders," dies.

September

• Iceberg First Published

• 20 - Salvin Stewart, who was a Morok Guard and Messenger in The Space Museum, dies.

October

• Blood Heat First Published

• 25 - Bernard Martin, who played a technician in The Ambassadors of Death dies.

November

• The Dimension Riders First Published
• 5 - Michael Bilton, who played Charles de Teligny in "The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve," Collins in "Pyramids of Mars," and a Time Lord in "The Deadly Assassin," dies in Berkhamsted, England.
• 23 - 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.
• 26 and 27 - A two-part special episode, Dimensions in Time, is broadcast to mark the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who. Presented as part of the Children in Need campaign, the episodes were produced in 3-D and featured all surviving Doctor actors and many surviving companions, as well. The special marked the final on-screen appearance of Jon Pertwee as the Doctor, was the only Doctor Who story written by John Nathan Turner, and it was also Turner's final involvement with the franchise. Rejected as canon by Who fandom, the special was produced in lieu of an abandoned movie project, The Dark Dimension. The special episodes feature a new, sped-up arrangement of the Doctor Who theme, and use a variation of the opening credits sequence introduced in 1987, along with the series logo also from '87; it is the final on-screen use of both.

December

• The Left-Handed Hummingbird First Published

• 22 - Henry McCarthy (Dr. Beavis in Spearhead from Space) dies.

• 29 - Robert Lankesheer, who played the Chamberlain in "The Crusade," dies.

Unknown date

• William Emms, who wrote Galaxy Four, dies in Sussex, England.
• Richard Mathews, who played Borusa in The Five Doctors dies.

Footnotes

1992

20th Century 1990s

1994