2023 (releases)

Timeline for 2023

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In 2023, a number of things set in or relevant to the Doctor Who universe were released or published.

January[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 1 January
  • VOR 167 was published by Big Finish Productions.
  • The Many Doctors Collection was published by Titan Comics.
• 5 January
  • The Ice Kings and the audiobook version of The Romans were released by BBC Audio.
  • The Dead Star was released by Big Finish.
  • DWM 586 was published by Panini Comics.
• 10 January - Double Part 1 was released by Big Finish.
• 12 January - Friend of the Family was released by Big Finish.
• 13 January - The CD version of Doctor Who - Series 13 - The Specials was released by Silva Screen Records.
• 15 January - A bundle of Curse of the Cyberons, The Weapon and the Warrior, and the bonus comic Before the Storm was released by BBV Productions.
• 18 January - Cass, the fifth anthology in the The Eighth Doctor: Time War series, was released by Big Finish.
• 19 January - Doctor Who at the BBC: The Collection was released by BBC Audio.
• 24 January - Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince was released by Big Finish.
• 26 January
  • Defenders of Earth was released on YouTube.
  • Double Part 2 was released by Big Finish.

February[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 1 February - VOR 168 was published by Big Finish.
• 2 February
  • DWM 587 was published by Panini Comics.
  • The Renegades Collection and the audiobook version of The Seeds of Death were released by BBC Audio.
  • Short Trips: Volume 12 was released by Big Finish.
• 8 February - Shades of Fear and Hall of Monsters were released by Big Finish.
• 10 February - The Black Archive reference book Flux was published by Obverse Books.
• 13 February - Doctor Who: The Collection Season 24 was re-released as a standard edition.
• 14 February - The Last Love Song of Suzie Costello was released by Big Finish.
• 16 February
  • The Demon Song was released by Big Finish.
  • Doctor Who Chronicles - 1988 was published by Panini Comics.
• 21 February - All of Time and Space was released by Big Finish.
• 23 February - The Return of Jo Jones was released by Big Finish.
• 24 February - Excelis Collected was re-released by Big Finish as a digital download.
• 27 February - Enter Wildthyme was released by Big Finish as a digital download.

March[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 1 March - VOR 169 was published by Big Finish.
• 2 March
  • New Frontiers was released by Big Finish.
  • DWM 588 was published by Panini Comics.
• 8 March
  • Strange Chemistry was released by Big Finish.
  • Lost in Time was launched worldwide.
• 14 March - Terror of the Master was reissued as a standalone download by Big Finish.
• 16 March
  • The audiobook version of The Time Monster was released by BBC Audio.
  • DWMSE 63 was published by Panini Comics.
• 17 March - Lenny Henry Regenerates into David Tennant and 2023: The Eurovision Audition Tapes were broadcast as part of Red Nose Day.
• 19 March - Tomorrow. Doom's Day is coming... was released on social media.
• 20 March
  • The Blu-ray box set The Collection: Season 9 was released by BBC Studios.
  • Meet Doom - the Universe's Greatest Assassin! was released on YouTube.
• 23 March - The Torchwood audio story Thirst Trap was released by Big Finish.
• 29 March
  • From the universe with love! was released on Twitter.
  • Wildthyme Beyond! was released by Big Finish as a digital download.
• 30 March - DWM 589 was published by Panini Comics.

April[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 1 April
  • The Girl Who Died was published by Obverse Books.
  • VOR 170 was published by Big Finish.
• 5 April - Conflicts of Interest and Gobbledegook were released by Big Finish.
• 6 April - The audiobook version of Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil was released by BBC Audio.
• 13 April - The Robots: Volume Six was released by Big Finish.
• 18 April - Launch Date was released by Big Finish.
• 20 April
  • Beyond Bannerman Road was released by Big Finish.
  • The Amazing World of Doctor Who was released by BBC Audio.
• 25 April - Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror was released by Big Finish as a digital download.
• 27 April - DWM 590 was published by Panini Comics.
• 29 April - Operation Fall-Out and Other Stories and The Benton Files 3 were published by Candy Jar Books.

May[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 3 May - Past Lives was released by Big Finish.
• 4 May - The audiobook anthology The Alt Reality Collection and the audiobook version of Warriors of the Deep were released by BBC Audio.
• 10 May - Pioneers was released by Big Finish.
• 11 May - Among Us 1 was released by Big Finish.
• 14 May - VOR 171 was published by Big Finish.
• 16 May - Comrades-in-Arms was released by Big Finish.
• 23 May - Purity Unleashed and The Doctor and His Amazing Technicolour Nightmare Coat were released by Big Finish.
• 24 May - The Analysis Bureau: Roseblood was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 25 May
  • DWM 591 was published by Panini Comics.
  • Daleks! Genesis of Terror was released by Big Finish.
• 29 May - It Came from the Isle of Man was published by Candy Jar Books.

June[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 1 June
  • The audiobook version of The Nightmare Fair was released by BBC Audio.
  • VOR 172 was published by Big Finish.
• 4 June - The reference book The Myth Makers was published by Obverse Books.
• 5 June - Hour One was published on the Doctor Who website.
• 6 June - Solitary Confinement was released by Big Finish.
• 8 June
  • The Ark was released by Big Finish.
  • Doctor Who Chronicles - 1963-64 was released by Panini Comics.
• 14 June - The Artist at the End of Time was released by Big Finish.
• 21 June - Angels and Demons was released by Big Finish.
• 22 June - DWM 592 was published by Panini Comics.
• 27 June - Far from Home and Frozen Worlds were released by Big Finish.
• 29 June - Among Us 2 was released by Big Finish.

July[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 3 July - VOR 173 was published by Big Finish.
• 4 July - The universe's greatest assassin has just 24 hours to escape Death and find the Doctor - where will Doom's Day take her next? was released by the BBC on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
• 5 July - Prisoners of London was released by Big Finish.
• 6 July - The audiobook version of Silver Nemesis was released by BBC Audio.
• 12 July
  • Masters of Time was released by Big Finish.
  • Come on TARDIS, let's go party ^[+]Loading...["Come on TARDIS, let's go party (exhibit)"] was opened.
• 13 July
  • The novelisations of Kerblam!, Planet of the Ood, The Zygon Invasion, and The Waters of Mars, and the three-story novelisation Warriors' Gate and Beyond, were published by Target Books.
  • Audiobooks of Planet of the Ood and The Waters of Mars were released by BBC Audio.
  • The Passenger was released on YouTube.
• 19 July - The Fourteenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver was released on YouTube.
• 20 July
  • A Genius for War was released by Big Finish.
  • DWM 593 was published by Panini Comics.
• 23 July - Mission update from Doom! was released online.
• 25 July
  • James Robert McCrimmon was released by Big Finish.
  • Doom's Day #2 was published by Titan Comics.
• 27 July - Among Us 3 was released by Big Finish.
• 29 July - 15 hours left to find the Doctor, and Doom receives an unexpected communication - from a very good boy! was released online.

August[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 1 August - VOR 174 was published by Big Finish.
• 3 August
  • The Teeth of Ice and the audiobook version of Kerblam! were released by BBC Audio.
  • Travel in Hope was released by Big Finish.
• 7 August
  • Pull To Open: 1962–1963: The Inside Story of How the BBC Created and Launched Doctor Who by Paul Hayes was published.
  • The reference book The Greatest Show in the Galaxy was published by Obverse Books.
• 10 August
  • Sigil was released by Big Finish.
  • Extraction Point was published by BBC Books.
• 13 August - A satellite over Earth with the number 5 on it... was released online.
• 16 August
  • Two's Company was released by Big Finish.
  • Sutekh the Heretic was released on YouTube.
• 18 August - Birds of Prey was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 22 August - The Orphan Quartet was released by Big Finish.
• 23 August - Time is counting down, Death is approaching, and the Doctor has yet to be found! was released online.
• 24 August
  • The Doom's Day anthology Four From Doom's Day was released by BBC Audio.
  • Josephine and the Argonauts was published by BBC Books.
• 30 August - Purity Unbound was released by Big Finish.
• 31 August - The Daily Doctor was published by Penguin Group.

September[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 1 September
  • VOR 175 was published by Big Finish.
  • Cybermen: The Ultimate Comic Strip Collection was published by Panini Comics.
• 5 September - In the Night was released by Big Finish.
• 7 September
  • The Beast of Scar Hill and the audiobook version of The Zygon Invasion were released by BBC Audio.
  • Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 was published by BBC Children's Books.
• 12 September - The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 was released by Big Finish.
• 14 September
  • DWM 595 was released by Panini Comics.
  • The Torchwood audio story Dog Hop was released by Big Finish.
• 15 September - Vinyl box set The Tom Baker Collection was released by Demon Music Group.
• 18 September
  • The Blu-ray box set The Collection: Season 20 was released by BBC Studios.
  • Redacted: Series 2 was released on BBC Sounds.
• 19 September - Trapped was released by Big Finish.
• 21 September - Dying Hours was released by Big Finish.
• 22 September - The next four hours in Doom's search for the Doctor involve an assassination on Venus, a war on a planet of wolves... and a run-in with Jackie Tyler?? was released online.
• 27 September - Living Memory and Dying to Forget were published by Arcbeatle Press.
• 28 September
  • Rebellion on Treasure Island was published by BBC Books.
  • Gallifrey: War Room audio anthology Manoeuvres was released by Big Finish.

October[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 1 October - The reference book The Edge of Destruction was published by Obverse Books.
• 2 October - VOR 176 was published by Big Finish.
• 3 October - Series 1 of The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller, a collection of the originally individually released stories from the first series in The Eighth Doctor Adventures, was released by Big Finish.
• 5 October
  • The Third Monsters Collection and The Lagoon Monsters were released by BBC Audio.
  • Time Lord Immemorial was released by Big Finish.
• 6 October - Out of Time was published on the Doctor Who website.
• 11 October - Intelligence for War was released by Big Finish.
• 12 October
  • DWM 596 was published by Panini Comics.
  • Ten Days of Christmas was published by Penguin Books.
• 13 October - Locked In Space was published by Obverse Books.
• 17 October
  • And Today, You was published by Arcbeatle Press.
  • Rogues Gallery was released by Big Finish.
• 19 October - The Torchwood audio story Odyssey was released by Big Finish.
• 25 October - The Union was released by Big Finish.
• 26 October
  • The Decades Collection of novels were published by Puffin Books.
  • The novelisation of The Evil of the Daleks and the audiobook reading were released by BBC Books and BBC Audio.
• 29 October - Horrors of Arcbeatle was published by Arcbeatle Press.
• 31 October
  • The Faction Paradox website was brought back online and a number of entries in The Spiral Politic Database were released.
  • The Whoniverse ident was released on social media platforms.

November[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 1 November
  • Tales of the TARDIS was released on BBC iPlayer.
  • The Whoniverse channel was launched on BBC iPlayer.
  • VOR 177 was published by Big Finish.
  • Talking Doctor Who and Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration were broadcast on BBC Four.
• 2 November
  • Audacity was released by Big Finish.
  • The Fourth Doctor Anthology was published by Panini Comics.
  • Night of the Yssgaroth was published by Arcbeatle Press.
• 7 November
  • The Torchwood audio story Oodunnit was released by Big Finish.
  • Once Upon a Time Lord was published by Titan Comics.
• 8 November - Mission: Find Lilith was released.
• 9 November
  • DWM 597 and 60 Moments in Time were published by Panini Comics.
  • The War Master audio anthology Rogue Encounters was released by Big Finish.
• 13 November - The animated recreation of The Underwater Menace was released on DVD and Blu-ray.
• 15 November - The Art of the Audio Adventures was published by Big Finish.
• 16 November - Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse was published by BBC Books.
• 17 November
  • United Nations was published by Candy Jar Books.
  • Destination: Skaro was broadcast on BBC One as part of the Children in Need telethon.
• 18 November - Doctor Who @ 60: The Classic Years and Doctor Who @ 60: The Modern Era were broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
• 19 November - Doctor Who: The Wilderness Years was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
• 21 November - Defender of the Earth was released by Big Finish.
• 22 November - Doctor Who Actors on Would I Lie to You? was released on YouTube.
• 23 November
  • The Box of Terrors was released by Big Finish.
  • The Daleks in Colour was broadcast on BBC Four.
  • A new version of the 2013 docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time was broadcast on BBC Four.
  • The graphic novel Liberation of the Daleks was published by Titan Comics.
  • The illustrated edition of Rose was published by BBC Books.
• 24 November
  • Revenge of the Cybermen and Time and the Rani were released by Silva Screen Records.
  • Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story was broadcast on CBBC as part of CBeebies Bedtime Stories.
• 25 November
  • The Star Beast was broadcast on BBC One.
  • Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets and Scandals was broadcast on Channel 5.
• 26 November - Uprising was published by Arcbeatle Press.
• 28 November - Broken Hearts was released by Big Finish.
• 30 November - The novelisation of The Star Beast was published as an e-book by BBC Books.

December[[edit] | [edit source]]

• 1 December - VOR 178 was published by Big Finish.
• 2 December - Wild Blue Yonder was broadcast on BBC One.
• 4 December - The Happiness Patrol was published by Obverse Books.
• 5 December - In the Bleak Midwinter was released by Big Finish.
• 7 December
  • The novelisation of Wild Blue Yonder was published as an e-book by BBC Books.
  • The Cuckoo and The Romanov Project were released by BBC Audio.
  • DWM 598 was published by Panini Comics.
  • The Torchwood audio story Oracle was released by Big Finish.
• 9 December - The Giggle was broadcast on BBC One.
• 13 December
  • Enemy Mine was released by Big Finish.
  • A Message from Janis Goblin was released on Twitter.
• 14 December
  • Children of the Circus was released by AUK Studios. Its novelisation was published by Oak Tree Books and Chinbeard Books.
  • The novelisation of The Giggle was published as an e-book by BBC Books.
  • Twelve Drummers Drumming was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 15 December - Eleven Pipers Piping was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 16 December - Ten Lords Are Leaping was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 17 December - Nine Ladies Dancing was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 18 December - Eight Maids Are Milking was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 19 December
  • Everywhere and Anywhere was released by Big Finish.
  • Seven Swans Are Swimming was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 20 December
  • The Revenge of Wormwood was released by Big Finish.
  • Six Geese Are Laying was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 21 December - Five Gold Rings was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 22 December - Four Calling Birds was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 23 December - Three French Hens was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 24 December - Two Turtle Doves was published by Candy Jar Books.
• 25 December
  • The Church on Ruby Road was broadcast on BBC One.
  • A Partridge in a Pear Tree was published by Candy Jar Books, completing the anthology The Twelve Days of Christmas.
• 26 December - The Book of the Snowstorm was published by Arcbeatle Press.
• 28 December - The Last Day 1 was released by Big Finish.
• 29 December - The Hoxteth Time Capsule was released by Big Finish.