2003 (production)

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2003 in

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the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

2003 was a year in which a number of events important to the production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs occurred.

January

• 17 and 19 January - The Big Finish audio story Project: Lazarus was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 22, 23 and 24 January - The Big Finish audio story Doctor Who and the Pirates took place at the Moat Studios.
• 26 and 27 January - The Big Finish audio story The Dark Flame was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 27 and 28 January - The Big Finish audio story Davros was recorded at the Moat Studios.

February

• 4 and 5 February - The Big Finish audio story Omega was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 7 February - The audio commentary for The Curse of Fenric was recorded. (The Collection: Season 26)
• 9 February
  • BBC Three was launched — something Doctor Who had predicted decades earlier. The channel would later broadcast the first series of Torchwood as well as Torchwood Declassified's entire run.
  • The Big Finish audio story Auld Mortality was recorded at the Moat Studios.

March

• 16 and 17 March - The Big Finish audio story Flip-Flop was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 22 and 24 March The Big Finish audio story Creatures of Beauty was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 24 March - Sympathy for the Devil was recorded at the Moat Studios.

May

• 11 and 12 May - The Big Finish audio story The Natural History of Fear was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 13 and 14 May - The Big Finish audio story The Creed of the Kromon was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 14 and 15 May - The Big Finish audio story The Twilight Kingdom was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 16 May - The Big Finish audio stories Scherzo and Living Legend were recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 19 May - The Big Finish audio story Full Fathom Five was recorded at the Moat Studios.

June

• 12-13 June - The Big Finish audio story Deadline was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 26 June - The Big Finish audio story He Jests at Scars... was recorded at the Moat Studios.

August

• 15, 22, 26 and 28 August - The Big Finish audio story Zagerus was recorded at the Moat Studios.

September

• 1 September - The Big Finish audio story Exile was recorded at the Moat Studios.
• 2 and 5 September - The Big Finish audio story Zagreus was recorded at the Moat Studios.

November

• November - BBC Wales announced that it would produce a new series of Doctor Who for broadcast in 2005, returning the series to weekly television after a sixteen-year hiatus. Named executive producer was Russell T Davies, best known as the creator of the controversial Queer as Folk series, but who also was a long-time fan of the franchise; he wrote a novel for the Virgin New Adventures book series, Damaged Goods. Julie Gardner was also named an executive producer on the series. Little was revealed about the proposed series at this point except that it would be a continuation of the 1963-89 series and not a remake. The immediate impact on Richard Grant's status as the recently unveiled "Ninth Doctor" was not known.

December

• 14 December - Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield audio story Death and the Daleks was recorded.