1977

Timeline for 1977

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Events

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• Professor Amelia Rumford takes a policeman's truncheon with her on a lecture tour to New York City in case she gets mugged. Instead she is arrested for carrying an offensive weapon. (DW: The Stones of Blood)
• The Doctor arrives briefly in Lewisham as he hunts the Timewyrm. (NA: Timewyrm: Revelation)

May

• 25 - The Doctor and Frobisher attend the opening of Star Wars in Hollywood. (PDA: Mission: Impractical)

June

• 1 - Queen Elizabeth II's silver jubilee is celebrated in the United Kingdom. (DW: Mawdryn Undead)
  • Tegan and Nyssa find themselves at Brendon Public School, where they meet retired UNIT Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart. In the course of events, the Brigadier meets a future version of himself from 1983, causing a paradox and leading to him suffering partial amnesia. (DW: Mawdryn Undead)

July

• 30 - 31 - Dr Fendelman conducts temporal experiments utilising a Time fissure. (DW: Image of the Fendahl)

Real world

January

• 1 - DW: The Face of Evil Episode 1 is first broadcast, returning Doctor Who to the air after a 6-week break. Louise Jameson debuts as new companion, Leela.
• 8 - DW: The Face of Evil Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 15 - DW: The Face of Evil Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 20 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters is first published.
• 22 - DW: The Face of Evil Episode 4 is first broadcast.
• 26 - Tom Baker is interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 program Woman's Hour.
• 29 - DW: The Robots of Death Episode 1 is first broadcast.

February

• 5 - DW: The Robots of Death Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 12 - DW: The Robots of Death Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 17 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom is first published.
• 19 - DW: The Robots of Death Episode 4 is first broadcast.
• 26 - DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Episode 1 is first broadcast.

March

• 5 - DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 12 - DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 19 - DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Episode 4 is first broadcast.
• 24 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth is first published.
• 26 - DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Episode 5 is first broadcast.

April

• 2 - DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang Episode 6 is first broadcast, concluding Season 14.
• 21 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos is first published.
• To tie in with a certain broadcast, the Blue Peter series issues a Doctor Who Theatre Leaflet which allowed children to create their own theatre with cut-outs of the Fourth Doctor, Leela and two Daleks.

May

• 10 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Ark in Space is first published. Written by Ian Marter, this was the first time an actor involved with the series had composed a novel based upon it; Marter would write several more novelisations before his death less than a decade later.
• 25 - The first Star Wars film is released. This movie would revolutionize the presentation of science fiction in movies and television, including Doctor Who. Peter Cushing plays Grand Moff Tarkin in the film, and Dave Prowse performs as the body (but not voice) of Darth Vader.
• Tom Baker and Louise Jameson appear on Pebble Mill at One on BBC One.

June

• 23 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius is first published.

July

• 22 - Erik Chitty (Charles Preslin in DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve and Coordinator Engin in DW: The Deadly Assassin) dies.

August

• 18 - DWN:Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil first published.

September

• Doctor Who Annual 1978 published.
• Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1978 published.
• 3 - DW: Horror of Fang Rock Episode 1 is first broadcast, starting Season 15.
• 10 - DW: Horror of Fang Rock Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 17 - DW: Horror of Fang Rock Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 19 - Michael Godfrey, who played Captain Pike in DW: The Smugglers, dies.
• 24 - DW: Horror of Fang Rock Episode 4 is first broadcast.
• 29 - DWN:Doctor Who and the Mutants is first published.

October

• 1 - DW: The Invisible Enemy Episode 1 is first broadcast. Debut of K-9, as voiced by John Leeson.
• 8 - DW: The Invisible Enemy Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 10 - Angelo Muscat, who played one of the Chumblies in DW: Galaxy 4, dies.
• 15 - DW: The Invisible Enemy Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 20 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin is first published.
  • The Second Doctor Who Monster Book first published
• 22 - DW: The Invisible Enemy Episode 4 is first broadcast. K-9 becomes the Doctor's first non-human companion.
• 29 - DW: Image of the Fendahl Episode 1 is first broadcast.

November

• 5 - DW: Image of the Fendahl Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 8 - Graham Williams commissions Moris Farhi to write a four-episode script entitled The Divided. It is never produced.
• 12 - DW: Image of the Fendahl Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 15 - DWN:Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang is first published.
• 17 - Target Books launches a series of educational books under the banner Doctor Who Discovers. The first three books, published this date, are Doctor Who Discovers: Early Man, Doctor Who Discovers: Prehistoric Animals and Doctor Who Discovers: Space Travel. At this point as many as 24 books are planned for this series (ultimately only two more see print).
• 19 - DW: Image of the Fendahl Episode 4 is first broadcast.
• 26 - DW: The Sun Makers Episode 1 is first broadcast.

December

• 3 - DW: The Sun Makers Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 8 - DWN:Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora is first published.
• 10 - DW:The Sun Makers Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 17 - DW:The Sun Makers Episode 4 is first broadcast.
• 24 - The first two episodes of DW:The Robots of Death are edited together to form a special and rebroadcast by the BBC.
• 31 - Part 2 of the BBC's edited rebroadcast of DW: The Robots of Death airs.

Unknown Dates

• Writer and designer Clayton Hickman, who has designed numerous Big Finish Productions audio and Doctor Who DVD covers and is a former editor of Doctor Who Magazine, is born in Bristol.