2018 (releases)

2018 in

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Timeline for 2018

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In 2018, a number of things set in or relevant to the Doctor Who universe were released or published.

January

January - VOR 107 was published by Big Finish Productions.
January - A Very Private Haunting was first published by Candy Jar Books.
2 January - The Note was first published by Candy Jar Books.
3 January - Full Circle was first released by Obverse Books.
3 January - 12DY3 11 was released.
4 January - The audio reading for The Ambassadors of Death was first released by BBC Audio.
4 January - DWMSE 48 was first published by Panini Comics.
4 January - Return of the Queen and Out Among the Stars were first published by Thebes Publishing.
9 January - Titan Comics published another edition of graphic novel Official Secrets with reprints of stories Official Secrets and Slaver's Song.
10 January - The Facing Fate: Vortex Butterflies graphic novel was first published.
10 January - 11DY3 13 was released.
11 January - DWM 521 was published by the Panini Comics.
17 January - The Main Range audio story Kingdom of Lies was first released by Big Finish.
18 January - The Fourth Doctor Adventures audio stories The Sons of Kaldor, The Crowmarsh Experiment, The Mind Runners and The Demon Rises were first released by Big Finish.
18 January - Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen was first published by BBC Books.
22 January - Twice Upon a Time was first released on DVD.
23 January - The audio anthology The Diary of River Song: Series Three was first released by Big Finish.
25 January - The Book of the Enemy was first released by Obverse Books.
30 January - The Short Trips audio story The Authentic Experience was first released by Big Finish.
30 January - Titan Comics published the softcover edition of graphic novel Sonic Boom with reprints of stories Terror of the Cabinet Noir and Invasion of the Mindmorphs.
31 January - 10DY3 13 was released.

February

1 February - Carnival of Monsters was first released by Obverse Books.
February - VOR 108 was published by Big Finish Productions.
6 February - The Torchwood: The Story Continues audio anthology Aliens Among Us 3 was first released by Big Finish.
6 February - Dr. Third, Dr. Fifth, Dr. Sixth, and Dr. Tenth were first published by BBC Children's Books.
8 February - DWM 522 was published by Panini Comics.
9 February - First three series of Big Finish Gallifrey audio series were released as digital downloads.
13 February - The Main Range audio story Ghost Walk was first released by Big Finish.
14 February - 12DY3 12 was released.
15 February - The audio anthology The Churchill Years: Volume Two was first released by Big Finish.
22 February - The Missy Chronicles was first published by BBC Books.
22 February - The Gallifrey audio anthology Time War: Volume One was first released by Big Finish.
28 February - The Short Trips audio story Mel-evolent was first released by Big Finish.

March

March - The Subscriber Short Trips audio story Mission Improbable was made available for Big Finish Main Range subscribers.
March - VOR 109 was published by Big Finish Productions.
March - The Man from Yesterday was first published by Candy Jar Books.
March - The HAVOC Files 4 was first published by Candy Jar Books.
4 March - The Impossible Planet & The Satan Pit was first released by Obverse Books.
6 March - The audio anthology Tales from New Earth was first released by Big Finish.
7 March - 10DY3 14 was released.
8 March - DWM 523 was published by Panini Comics.
12 March - Stranger Tales of the City was first published
14 March - 12DY3 13 was released.
20 March - The Main Range audio story Serpent in the Silver Mask was first released by Big Finish.
21 March - The audio anthology The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Four was first released by Big Finish.
22 March - DWFC 120 and DWFC RD 11 was first released by Eaglemoss Collections.
27 March - The Short Trips audio story The Turn of the Screw was first released by Big Finish.
28 March - The Torchwood audio story The Death of Captain Jack was first released by Big Finish.

April

April - VOR 110 was published by Big Finish Productions.
4 April - The The Sapling: Branches graphic novel was first published.
5 April - - The novelisations of Rose, The Christmas Invasion, The Day of the Doctor, Twice Upon a Time and an abridged version of City of Death were released by Target Books.
5 April - DWM 524 was published by Panini Comics.
7 April - Marco Polo was first released by Obverse Books.
10 April - The audio anthology Ravenous 1 was first released by Big Finish.
17 April - The Main Range audio story The Helliax Rift was first released by Big Finish.
18 April - The audio anthology The Tenth Doctor Chronicles was first released by Big Finish.
19 April - DWMSE 49 was first published by Panini Comics.
24 April - The Torchwood audio story The Last Beacon was first released by Big Finish.
25 April - The Torchwood audio story Believe was first released by Big Finish.
25 April - The The Culling graphic novel was first published.
27 April - Doctor Who - Series 9 soundtrack was made available on iTunes/Apple Music and Spotify in the UK and Australia.
30 April - The Short Trips audio story Erasure was first released by Big Finish.

May

May - The New Unusual was first published by Candy Jar Books.
1 May - The Eleventh Hour was first released by Obverse Books.
3 May - DWM 525 was published by Panini Comics.
5 May - Scorpio's Sting was released by Lucky Comics for Free Comic Book Day.
5 May - The Free Comic Book Day 2018 comic was released by Titan Comics.
10 May - The audio anthology UNIT: Cyber-Reality was first released by Big Finish.
15 May - The Main Range audio story The Lure of the Nomad was first released by Big Finish.
16 May - The Fourth Doctor Adventures audio stories The Shadow of London, The Bad Penny, Kill the Doctor! and The Age of Sutekh were first released by Big Finish.
22 May - The Torchwood audio story We Always Get Out Alive was first released by Big Finish.
24 May - The Jago & Litefoot audio anthology Jago & Litefoot Forever was first released by Big Finish.
30 May - The Short Trips audio story Trap For Fools was first released by Big Finish.
30 May - The mobile game Battle of Time soft launched in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Thailand by Bandai Namco Entertainment.
31 May - DWM 526 was published by Panini Comics.
31 May - Face the Raven was first released by Obverse Books.

June

June - The Subscriber Short Trips audio story Taken For Granted was made available for Big Finish Main Range subscribers.
4 June - The audio anthology The First Doctor Adventures: Volume Two was first released by Big Finish.
5 June - The audio anthology Jenny: The Doctor's Daughter was first released by Big Finish.
6 June - 7D 1 & 7D 2 were released.
19 June - The Main Range audio story Iron Bright was first released by Big Finish.
20 June - The Companion Chronicles audio anthology The Second Doctor: Volume Two was first released by Big Finish.
27 June - The Torchwood audio story Goodbye Piccadilly was first released by Big Finish.
28 June - DWM 527 was published by Panini Comics.
29 June - The Short Trips audio story The Siege of Big Ben was first released by Big Finish.

July

July - The Lost Skin was first published by Candy Jar Books
2 July - The Blu-ray season box set The Collection: Season 12 was first released by BBC Studios.
3 July - Heaven Sent was first released by Obverse Books.
10 July - The audio anthology The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Two was first released by Big Finish.
11 July - The First issue of The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor (TRTTTD 1) was released.
12 July - The Main Range audio story Hour of the Cybermen was first released by Big Finish.
17 July - The Torchwood audio story Instant Karma was first released by Big Finish.
18 July - The Land of the Blind graphic novel was first published by Panini Comics.
18 July - The Torchwood One audio anthology Machines was first released by Big Finish.
26 July - The Lethbridge-Stewart Quiz Book was first published by Candy Jar Books.
26 July - DWM 528 was published by Panini Comics.
30 July - The Short Trips audio story The Darkened Earth was first released by Big Finish.

August

1 August - 7D 3 was released.
1 August - Hell Bent was first released by Obverse Books.
2 August - The Short Trips audio story Flight Into Hull! was first released by Big Finish.
2 August - Horrors of War and the audio reading of The Invisible Enemy were released by BBC Audio.
2 August - One Doctor, Two Hearts was first published by Penguin Character Books.
7 August - The Bernice Summerfield audio anthology Treasury was first released by Big Finish.
8 August - TRTTTD 2 was released.
9 August - The Torchwood audio story Deadbeat Escape was first released by Big Finish.
9 August - DWMSE 50 was first published by Panini Comics.
9 August - DWFC 130 and DWFC RD 12 were first released by Eaglemoss Collections.
14 August - The Main Range audio story Red Planets was first released by Big Finish.
15 August - The audio anthology The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles was first released by Big Finish.
21 August - The first two volumes of Class: The Audio Adventures were first released by Big Finish.
23 August - The audio anthology Lady Christina: Series One was first released by Big Finish.
23 August - DWM 529 was published by Panini Comics.

September

September - The Subscriber Short Trips audio story The Smallest Battle was made available for Big Finish Main Range subscribers.
September - Scary Monsters was first published by Candy Jar Books.
September - The Curse of Fenric was first published by Obverse Books.
4 September - The audio anthology The Diary of River Song: Series Four was first released by Big Finish.
7 September - The promotional video Breaking the Glass Ceiling was first broadcast on BBC One.
11 September - The Main Range audio story The Dispossessed was first released by Big Finish.
12 September - The Early Adventures audio story The Dalek Occupation of Winter was first released by Big Finish.
12 September - TRTTTD 3 was released.
17 September - Unsent Letter was published Online by Obverse Books
20 September - DWM 530 was published by Panini Comics.
25 September - Two volumes of Bernice Summerfield anthologies The Story So Far were first released by Big Finish.
26 September - The Many Lives of Doctor Who was released by Titan Comics.
27 September - The Short Trips audio story A Small Semblance of Home was first released by Big Finish.

October

October - Fear of the Web was first published by Candy Jar Books.
October - Lineage was first published by Candy Jar Books.
October - The Time Warrior was first published by Obverse Books.
2 October - The Story So Far... was published Online by Obverse Books
4 October - The Story of Doctor Who was first released by panini comics.
7 October - The Woman Who Fell to Earth was first broadcast on BBC One.
9 October - The audio anthology Ravenous 2 was first released by Big Finish.
11 October - Twelve Angels Weeping was first published by BBC Books.
13 October - The Egyptian Falcon was first published by Thebes Publishing.
14 October - The Ghost Monument was first broadcast on BBC One.
16 October - The Main Range audio story The Quantum Possibility Engine was first released by Big Finish.
17 October - The Early Adventures audio story An Ideal World was first released by Big Finish.
17 October - 13D 1 was released.
18 October - DWM 531 was published by Panini Comics.
21 October - Rosa was first broadcast on BBC One.
23 October - The Torchwood audio anthology God Among Us 1 was first released by Big Finish.
25 October - The novel The Good Doctor was first published by BBC Books.
26 October - Doctor Who The Official Annual 2019 was first released by Penguin Character Books.
27 October - The Short Trips audio story I Am The Master was first released by Big Finish.
28 October - Arachnids in the UK was first broadcast on BBC One.

November

November - Doctor Who (1996) was first published by Obverse Books.
1 November - The novel The Secret in Vault 13 was first published by BBC Children's Books.
1 November - Doctor Who The Official Annual 2019 was Published by Penguin Character Books.
1 November - Daring Initiation was published Online by Obverse Books
4 November - The Tsuranga Conundrum was first broadcast on BBC One.
6 November - Dr. Thirteenth was first published by BBC Children's Books.
8 November - The novel Molten Heart was first published by BBC Books.
11 November - Demons of the Punjab was first broadcast on BBC One.
13 November - The Main Range audio story Warlock's Cross was first released by Big Finish.
14 November - The Early Adventures audio story Entanglement was first released by Big Finish.
14 November - Wild Thymes on the 22 was first published.
15 November - The audio anthology The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures: Volume One was first released by Big Finish.
15 November - DWM 532 was published by Panini Comics.
16 November - Anna's Doctor Who Surprise aired on BBC One, as part of the Children in Need telethon.
18 November - Kerblam! was first broadcast on BBC One.
21 November - The audio anthology UNIT: Revisitations was first released by Big Finish.
21 November - 13D 2 was released.
22 November - The novel Combat Magicks was first published by BBC Books.
25 November - The Witchfinders was first broadcast on BBC One.
25 November - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing was published Online by Obverse Books
29 November - The Short Trips audio story The Mistpuddle Murders was first released by Big Finish.

December

December - The Subscriber Short Trips audio story Tuesday was made available for Big Finish Main Range subscribers.
December - The Danger Men was first published by Candy Jar Books.
2 December - It Takes You Away was first broadcast on BBC One.
5 December - The War Master audio anthology The Master of Callous was first released by Big Finish.
5 December - The Dæmons was first published by Obverse Books.
6 December - Choose Your Future Journal was first published by BBC Children's Books.
7 December - The Class Original Soundtrack & Class Bonus Soundtrack CDs were released by Silva Screen.
9 December - The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos was first broadcast on BBC One.
10 December - The Blu-ray season box set The Collection: Season 19 was first released by BBC Studios.
11 December - The Main Range audio stories Muse of Fire and The Hunting Ground were first released by Big Finish.
12 December - The Early Adventures audio story The Crash of the UK-201 was first released by Big Finish.
13 December - DWM 533 was published by Panini Comics.
16 December - The Death of Empire and That's What Friends Do were first published by Thebes Publishing.
18 December - the webcast story 'Twas the Night Before Christmas was released.
19 December - The Bernice Summerfield prose anthology In Time was first published by Big Finish.
21 December - The Short Trips audio story The Devil's Footprints was first released by Big Finish.
23 December - The Book of the Peace was first published.
27 December - DWFC 140 and DWFC RD 13 was first released by Eaglemoss Collections.
29 December - The Short Trips audio story The Last Day at Work was first released by Big Finish.

Unknown dates

Unknown - Race to the TARDIS board game was released by BBC International.
Either 16, 18 or 19 October - The waxwork exhibit Doctor Who ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (MTB exhibit)"] was opened publicly at Madame Tussauds Blackpool.