2010 (releases)

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the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

In 2010, a number of things set in or relevant to the Doctor Who universe were released or published.

• AUDIO: Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code was first released. While earlier instalments 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.
• The Australian-produced spin-off series K9 began airing in Scandinavia.
• 1 January - Part two of The End of Time was first broadcast, concluding the David Tennant era and marking the debut of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor.
• 1 - Doctor Who's Greatest Moments: The Doctor was rebroadcast on BBC3.
• 1 - Beginning at midnight New Year's Eve/Day, BBC America aired a forty-six-hour marathon of the entire David Tennant era, starting with The Christmas Invasion.
• 2 - The final David Tennant edition of Doctor Who Confidential was rebroadcast on BBC3.
• 7 January - AUDIO: The Last Voyage, an exclusive-to-audio adventure of the Tenth Doctor, was first released.
• 7 - The audio adaptation of Doctor Who - The Three Doctors was first released.
• 7 - The Keys of Marinus was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 8 January - Children of Earth debuted in Australia on ABC2. The five chapters of the mini-series were broadcast one per week.
• 8 - The British Academy of Film and Television Arts posted The Regeneration of Doctor Who, a twenty-five-minute discussion with Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner, to its YouTube channel.
• 11 January - The UK DVD/Blu-Ray release of the 2009 Specials box set occurred , including The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars and The End of Time. The Next Doctor became 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.
• 12 January - A box set compiling the 5-part BBC Audio story AUDIO: Hornets' Nest was first released.
• 14 January - 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 added more than 300 pages of new material to the previous book.
• 18 January - The UK release of The Peladon Tales DVD box set, consisting of The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon, occurred.
• 21 January - AUDIO: [[Doctor Who at the BBC: A Legend Reborn. However it was immediately recalled due to issues regarding clearance of some material on the disc and a new February release date was announced. A few copies of the unedited version, however, entered circulation.
• 21 - 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.
• 21 - Doctor Who Adventures published its hundred-fiftieth issue. To celebrate, the magazine came with a package of "Mars Slime".
• 22 January - The audio adaptation of Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors was first released.
• 25 January - The Korven was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• Late January - Vworp Vworp!, a fanzine dedicated to the history of Doctor Who Magazine and the Doctor Who comic strip, was launched.
• 29 January - 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.
• 31 January - AUDIO: Leviathan, part of Big Finish Productions' The Lost Stories series, was first released.
• 30 January - AUDIO: A Thousand Tiny Wings was first released. This audio reintroduced Elizabeth Klein, a character who last appeared in the 2001 release AUDIO: Colditz, as a new companion for the Seventh Doctor.
• 30 January - Look Who's Talking, a collection of columns written by Colin Baker for Bucks Free Press between 1995 and 2009, was first published.
• 30 January - Shooty Dog Thing, a collection of fanzine articles, was first published.
• February - AUDIO: The Suffering was first released.
• The online service SeeSaw began offering classic-series Doctor Who episodes for online viewing.
• 1 February - The animated story Dreamland was first released on DVD in the UK. The documentary series Doctor Who's Greatest Moments was included in the release.
• 2 February - The North American DVD/Blu-Ray release of The Waters of Mars and The End of Time occurred, and the five-disc 2009 Specials box set including The Next Doctor was up-converted to high definition for the Blu-Ray edition.
• 3 February - Doctor Who DVD Files moved beyond the 2005-present revival and began featuring classic-series stories on DVD, beginning with Remembrance of the Daleks.
• 4 February - The region 4 DVD/Blu-Ray release of The Waters of Mars and the Dalek War DVD box set featuring Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks occurred.
• 4 - The audio adaptation of Doctor Who - Logopolis was first released.
• 7 February - The New Zealand broadcast of The End of Time, Part One occurred.
• 8 February - UK DVD release of The Masque of Mandragora occurred.
• 8 - Sirens of Ceres was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 11 February - This was the reissue date for AUDIO: [[Doctor Who at the BBC: A Legend Reborn.
• 14 February - Australian broadcast of The End of Time, Part One on ABC1 occurred.
• 14 - New Zealand broadcast of The End of Time, Part Two occurred.
• 14 - The Sunday Times ran an article, "Doctor in War with Planet Maggie", that alleged 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. The Happiness Patrol and Paradise Towers and even the obscure novel Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma were cited as specific examples.
• 21 February - The Australian broadcast of The End of Time, Part Two on ABC1 occurred.
• 22 February - The Fall of the House of Gryffen was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 23 February - Multiple Doctor Who-related audios were released in North America, including AUDIO: The Last Voyage, and the audio adaptations of Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth, Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors, Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders and Beautiful Chaos.
• 24 February - A major auction of props from Doctor Who took place at Bonhams auction house.
• 28 February - AUDIO: The Hollows of Time (The Lost Stories) was first released.
• 28 - AUDIO: Survival of the Fittest was first released. This release included the twelfth and final chapter of the serialised story AUDIO: The Three Companions.
• March - AUDIO: The Emperor of Eternity was first released.
• 1 March - The Space Museum and The Chase were released as a single set in the UK.
• 2 March - The North American DVD release of the Dalek War box set, featuring Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks, occurred.
• 2 - The North American DVD release of Remembrance of the Daleks Special Edition occurred, more than two years after it was first announced.
• 4 March - Code of the Krillitanes, the fifth Quick Reads novella, was first published. This book featured the Tenth Doctor, despite it being published several months after 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.)
• 4 - The audio adaptation of Doctor Who - Castrovalva was first released.
• 4 - The The Peladon Tales DVD box set consisting of The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon was released in Region 4, along with the DVD/Blu-Ray release of The End of Time.
• 4 - Paul Magrs published the young adult novel The Diary of a Dr. Who Addict, about a youth growing up in 1980s Britain.
• 4 - The BBC announced it had purchased 2 entertain, the company that had co-produced many of its DVD releases, including Doctor Who, in recent years.
• 7 March - AUDIO: Dead Air, the final exclusive-to-audio story featuring the Tenth Doctor, was first released.
• 10 March - Fugitive, a graphic novel reprinting the first story arcs from COMIC: Doctor Who Ongoing, was published both in North America and in the UK, making it one of the first occasions of original IDW comic stories released in Britain.
• 11 March - It was reported that the upcoming Region 1 and 4 DVD release of The Chase would be edited to remove a sequence featuring a film clip of The Beatles. No release date for the DVD was announced. It was also reported that the North American release of Dreamland, originally scheduled for 4 May, had been delayed to October.
• 12 March - The Sun tabloid reported that BBC Worldwide had signed a £10-million deal with Nintendo for the development of a Doctor Who game for the Wii and DS gaming systems.[1]
• 15 March - 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 included Lisa Bowerman, Kate Orman, India Fisher, Sophie Aldred and Carole E. Barrowman (sister of John Barrowman and co-author of his autobiography).
• 20 March - Filming of Series 5 concluded (according to comments made at the 18 March press launch).
• 24 March - This was the 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 March - 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 March - This was the fifth anniversary of the return of Doctor Who to television.
• 26 - Matt Smith appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, during which a new trailer and a clip from The Vampires of Venice were unveiled.
• 27 - The BBC Radio 4 series Archive on Four aired the documentary Sculptress of Sound: The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire.
• 28 March - At approximately the same time, two BBC Radio programmes were interrupted by specially-recorded mini-skits featuring Matt Smith in character as Eleventh Doctor: on The Official Chart on BBC Radio 1 the Doctor interrupted ""Opposite Adults" by Chiddy Bang and joked 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 interrupted long enough to spot a mouse in the BBC studio.
• 28 - The BBC7 radio series 7th Dimension began broadcasting Barry Letts' audio book reading of his memoirs Who and Me, running over the course of the next seven weeks.
• 29 - UK release of the DVD box set Myths and Legends, including The Time Monster, Underworld and The Horns of Nimon, occurred.
• 29 - Doctor Who Classics Vol. 5, a graphic novel collecting more issues of the COMIC series Doctor Who Classics, was released in North America.
• 29 - This was the submission deadline for the first of Big Finish Productions' new Short Trips audio series.
• 31 - AUDIO: Paradise 5 (The Lost Stories) was first released.
• 31 - AUDIO: The Architects of History was first released.
• AUDIO: Shadow of the Past was released.
• 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 were Doctor Who and the Giant Robot, Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius, and Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit.
• 1 - The Masque of Mandragora was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 1 April - 3 April - Big screen showings of The Eleventh Hour were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Plymouth, and Swansea.
• 2 April - BBC Radio 4 aired Douglas and the Doctor, a documentary on Douglas Adams’s influence on Doctor Who, hosted by Jon Culshaw.
• 2 April - 5 April - The UK Sci Fi Channel broadcast a marathon of classic Doctor Who, beginning with The Ark in Space and ending with Warriors of the Deep.
• 3 April - 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.
• 3 - Doctor Who Confidential also returned for another season.
• 3 - Regeneration was broadcast on Network 10 in Australia, launching the first season of the spin-off series K9. The episode was also supposed to be broadcast on the same day on Disney XD in the UK. However, The Korven aired in its place.
• 3 - The Eleventh Hour received its North American premiere when it was shown during the 2010 WonderCon in San Francisco, two weeks ahead of broadcast.
• 3 April - 4 April - Space in Canada rebroadcast The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead and The Waters of Mars as a mini-marathon.
• 4 - The Eleventh Hour was rebroadcast on BBC Three.
• 8 April - The audio adaptation of Doctor Who - The Three Doctors was released.
• 10 April - The Beast Below was first broadcast.
• 12 April - Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Steven Moffat promoted 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.
• 12 - The Last Oak Tree was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 14 April - In New York City, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan attended a BBC America screening of The Eleventh Hour at the Village East Cinema.
• 16 April - The Eleventh Hour received a third pre-broadcast US screening at the C2E2 convention in Chicago.
• 17 April - Victory of the Daleks was first broadcast. It was followed by a trailer for Doctor Who: The Adventure Games.
• 17 - Jaws of Orthrus was first broadcast in the UK.
• 17 - The Korven was first broadcast in Australia.
• 17 - The BBC America and Space premieres were preceded by a documentary, The Ultimate Guide.
• 17 - The Eleventh Hour became available for viewing in Australia on the online iView service, ahead of the next day’s ABC1 broadcast.
• 18 April - Series 5 began in Australia with the broadcast of The Eleventh Hour on ABC1.
• 22 April - Apollo 23, Night of the Humans and The Forgotten Army, the first original novels featuring the Eleventh Doctor were published.
• 24 April - The Time of Angels was first broadcast.
• 24 - Curse of Anubis was first broadcast in the UK.
• 24 - The Bounty Hunter was first broadcast in Australia.
• 24 - AUDIO: The Runaway Train was scheduled for release as a promotional giveaway with copies of The Daily Telegraph (retail release, originally announced for June 2010, was pushed back to 2011). This launched a weeklong promotion in the Telegraph which saw several previously released BBC Audio issues (AUDIO: Pest Control, AUDIO: Slipback, the audio version of AUDIO: Genesis of the Daleks, AUDIO Exploration Earth and the audio soundtrack to Mission to the Unknown) made available again.
• 29 April - The Decide Your Destiny line continued with the scheduled release of Claws of the Macra and The Coldest War.
• 29 - This was the scheduled UK publication of the Doctor Who Classics Omnibus from IDW Publishing.
• 29 - This was the scheduled publication of the children's books Eleventh Doctor Regeneration Sticker Guide and Companion Activity Book.
• 30 April - AUDIO: City of Spires was scheduled for release. This was the first of three dramas pairing the Sixth Doctor with Jamie McCrimmon.
• 30 - AUDIO: Point of Entry (The Lost Stories) was scheduled for release.
• May - AUDIO: The Time Vampire and AUDIO: Night's Black Agents were first released.
• 1 May - Flesh and Stone was first broadcast.
• 1 - REF: Doctor Who Funfax (2nd edition) was scheduled for publication.
• 1 - REF: Time, Unincorporated 2 was scheduled for publication.
• 1 - REF: Timeless Adventures: How Doctor Who Conquered TV was scheduled for publication.
• 4 May - The Crimson Hand, the final omnibus of Tenth Doctor Doctor Who Magazine comic strips, was published.
• 4 - This was the North American DVD release of The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon (released separately instead of as a box set as in the UK), as well as The Masque of Mandragora.
• 6 May - This was the release of the audio adaptation of Doctor Who - Mission to the Unknown.
• 8 May - The Vampires of Venice was first broadcast.
• 15 May - Amy's Choice was first broadcast.
• 22 May - The Hungry Earth was first broadcast.
• 27 May - REF: The TARDIS Handbook was published.
• 28 May - REF: The Science of Doctor Who was published.
• 29 May - Cold Blood was first broadcast.
• 29 - This was the scheduled North American publication of the Doctor Who Classics Omnibus from IDW Publishing.
• 31 May - AUDIO: The Wreck of the Titan was released.
• 31 - AUDIO: The Song of Megaptera (The Lost Stories) was released.
• June - AUDIO: Solitaire was released, ending the range's forth series.
• Big Finish Productions released Jago and Litefoot Series One, a collection of four audio dramas featuring characters from The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Stories included 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.
• 3 June - AUDIO: The Hounds of Artemis, the first original audio story featuring the Eleventh Doctor, was released (delayed from 8 April 2010).
• 3 - The audio adaptation of Doctor Who - The Mutation of Time was released.
• 3 - REF: Intergalactic Survival Guide was published.
• 3 - 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 were published.
• 5 June - Vincent and the Doctor was first broadcast.
• 5 - The BBC released GAME: 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 featured the voices of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan.
• 5 - Curse of Anubis was first broadcast in Australia.
• 7 June - Doctor Who Series 5 - Volume 1, a "vanilla" DVD/Blu-Ray release featuring the first three Eleventh Doctor stories, The Eleventh Hour, The Beast Below,and Victory of the Daleks and a featurette, The Monster Diaries, was released in the UK.
• 7 - Mind Snap was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 12 June - The Lodger was first broadcast.
• 14 June This was the UK release of the Kamelion DVD box set featuring The King's Demons and Planet of Fire.
• 14 - Angel of the North was first broadcast in Scandinavia.
• 19 June - The Pandorica Opens was first broadcast.
• 24 June - REF: Doctor Who: The Episode Guide from Pocket Essentials was published.
• 26 June - The Big Bang was first broadcast on BBC One.
• 30 June - AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen was released, featuring the return of Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot.
• 30 - AUDIO: The Macros (The Lost Stories) was released.
• June - AUDIO: The Guardian of the Solar System was released, launching the range's fifth series.
• Situation Vacant was first released.
• 6 July - The region 1 DVD of The Space Museum/The Chase was released (three-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 were released individually rather than as the Myth & Legends box set as per the UK release.
• Region 2 DVD of The Dominators was released.
• 22 July - The Glamour Chase, Nuclear Time and The King's Dragon were published.
• 24 July-25 July - The second Doctor Who at the Proms concert, hosted by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 with later telecast on BBC Three.
• 31 July - AUDIO: 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.
• August - AUDIO: Echoes of Grey was released.
• Ring of Steel was released.
• Nevermore was released.
• Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011 was published.
• 5 August - AUDIO: Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes - Collection One audio box set was released in the UK. This collection compiled audio tracks for the missing stories Marco Polo, The Reign of Terror, The Crusade, Galaxy 4, and The Myth Makers.
• This was the region 2 DVD release of Revenge of the Cybermen and Silver Nemesis.
• 18 August - AUDIO: Trail of the White Worm and The Oseidon Adventure were recorded.
• 31 August - AUDIO: The Whispering Forest was released.
• September - AUDIO: Find and Replace was released.
• The Book of Kells was released.
• 13 September - Time and the Rani was released on DVD in the UK.
• 15 September - AUDIO: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure was recorded.
• 30 September - AUDIO: The Cradle of the Snake was released.
• 30 - AUDIO: Project: Destiny was released.
• October - AUDIO: The Invasion of E-Space was released. This was Andrew Smith's first Doctor Who story since Full Circle thirty years earlier.
• Deimos was released.
• 2 October - Taphony and the Time Loop was first broadcast in Britain.
• 4 October - The first Revisitations DVD set was released in Region 2. This contained new editions of televised stories released on DVD early in the range; they were now remastered or compiled with new extras. This first set contained The Talons of Weng-Chiang, The Caves of Androzani and The Movie.
• 5 October - This was the region 1 DVD release of Dreamland, delayed from an original announced release date of 4 May, including the Doctor Who Greatest Moments documentary.
• 7 October - The TV audio original Wraith World was released.
• 11 October- The Nightmare Man Part 1 aired, launching The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 4.
• 12 October- The Nightmare Man Part 2 was first broadcast.
• 16 October - Robot Gladiators was first broadcast in Britain.
• 18 October - The Vault of Secrets Part 1 was first broadcast.
• 19 October- The Vault of Secrets Part 2 aired.
• 23 October - Mind Snap was first broadcast in Britain.
• 25 October- Death of the Doctor Part 1 was first broadcast.
• 25 October - The Seeds of Doom was first released on Region 2 DVD.
• 26 October- Death of the Doctor Part 2 was first broadcast.
• 29 October - Two Doctor Who Nintendo Games, Evacuation Earth and Return to Earth, for the Nintendo Wii and DS respectively, were released.
• 31 October - AUDIO: A Death in the Family was released.
• 31 - REF: The Doctor's Monsters: Meanings of the Monstrous in Doctor Who was scheduled for publication.
• Autumn - Doctor Who: The Monsters Are Coming (informally Doctor Who Live) started and ended its original run.
• November - The Resurrection of Mars was released.
• AUDIO: A Town Called Fortune was released, featuring the return of audio companion Evelyn Smythe.
• The Lost Stories' second series began with a double release of First Doctor stories: Farewell, Great Macedon and The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance.
• Big Finish Productions relaunched the Short Trips series, with an audio release, Short Trips: Volume 1, featuring stories from the first eight Doctors.
• 1 November - The Empty Planet Part 1 was first broadcast.
• 1 - This was the UK DVD release of the Third Series of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• 2 November - The Empty Planet Part 2 was first broadcast.
• 8 November - Lost in Time Part 1 was first broadcast.
• 8 - Doctor Who - The Complete Fifth Series was released on Region 2 DVD.
• 9 November - Lost in Time Part 2 was first broadcast.
• 9 - Doctor Who - The Complete Fifth Series was released on Region 1 DVD.
• 15 November - Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith Part 1 was first broadcast.
• 16 November - Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith Part 2 was first broadcast.
• 30 November - AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge was released.
• The Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock was scheduled for publication before Christmas.
• December - AUDIO: Quinnis was released.
• AUDIO: The Four Doctors, a multi-Doctor adventure issued as an exclusive for Big Finish subscribers, was scheduled for release.
• AUDIO: The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories, an anthology of four stories featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa, was released.
• Relative Dimensions was released.
• 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.
• The second box set of The Lost Stories was released, containing audio adaptations of the unmade Second Doctor story Prison in Space and the unmade pilot for a Dalek TV spin-off The Destroyers.
• 1 December - K-9: Alien Avatar was released in Australia containing episodes 7-12 of Series 1.
• 2 December - Doctor Who - The Complete Fifth Series was released on Region 4 DVD.
• 18 December - Regeneration was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
• 25 December - A Christmas Carol was first broadcast.