1990: Difference between revisions

* [[14 February|14]] - On [[Owen Harper]]'s tenth birthday, his mother declared that she did not have to like him, only love him. ([[TW]]: ''[[Adam (TV story)|Adam]]'')

* [[24 December|24]] - [[Linda Grainger]] was dumped by her boyfriend in the [[White Rabbit]] in [[London]]. ([[ST]]: ''[[She Won't Be Home (short story)|She Won't Be Home]]'')

* Child genius [[Luke Rattigan]] was born in the [[United States of America]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')

* [[DW]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' was first released on video in the [[UK]].

* [[14 January|14]] - [[John Witty]] (the voice of the Computer in [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death]]'') died in [[Bristol]] aged 74.

* [[18 January|18]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Planet of Giants (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Planet of Giants]]'' was first published. With this release, all serials of the [[First Doctor]] era were now novelised.

* [[20 January|20]] - [[John Maxim]], who played [[Frankenstein's Monster]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Chase]]'', as well as a [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'' (under the name John Wills), died in [[Brighton]].

* [[Target Books]] began republishing selected novelisations with new cover designs by [[Alister Pearson]]. Other than the covers, these reprints were identical to earlier editions. A number of the reprints were issued to coincide with video releases (which often used the same cover art) and rebroadcasts. The reissues were also in most cases retitled from their original publication, either with the "Doctor Who and the ..." title format being dropped, or the book's title being changed to reflect the original broadcast title. The first two novelisations republished in the new format were [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the War Games|Doctor Who - The War Games]]'' and [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child|Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child]]''.

* [[15 February|15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Happiness Patrol]]'' was first published.

* [[15 March|15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Space Pirates (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Space Pirates]]'' was first published. It was the final [[Target Books]] novelisation by [[Terrance Dicks]].

* [[Brian Vaughan]], who played [[Watts|Lt. Commander Watts]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'', died.

* [[Anthony Steven]], who wrote [[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'', died.

* [[16 May|16]] - [[Thomas Sangster]], who played [[Tim Latimer]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]'', was born in South [[London]].

* [[15 June|15]] - [[Leonard Sachs]], who played Admiral [[Gaspard de Coligny]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve]]'' and [[Lord President]] [[Borusa]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'', died in [[London]].

* [[21 June|21]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' was first published.

* [[23 June|23]] - [[Frank Gatliff]] ([[Ortron]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon]]'') died.

* [[19 July|19]] - [[TME]]: ''[[Mission to Magnus (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Mission to Magnus]]'' was first published. It was the third and final release in the "Missing Episodes" line, and the last "original" ''Doctor Who'' novel until the [[Virgin New Adventures]] line launched a year later.

* [[2 August|2]] - [[Edwin Richfield]], who appeared as Captain [[John Hart (The Sea Devils)|John Hart]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'' and [[Mestor]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'', died from [[cancer]] in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK.

* [[20 September|20]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Ghost Light (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Ghost Light]]'' was first published.

* [[Bernard Finch]] (a [[Mentiad]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'') died.

* [[18 October|18]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Survival (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Survival]]'' was first published, adapting the final serial of the original 1963-89 series.

* [[10 November|10]] - [[Dudley Jones]], who played [[John Dyson]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'', died.

* [[15 December|15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Curse of Fenric]]'' was first published.

* [[21 November|21]] - ''[[Search Out Space]]'', an episode of ''Search Out Science'' in which [[Sylvester McCoy]] and [[Sophie Aldred]] appeared as the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] and [[John Leeson]] provided the voice of [[K9 Mark II]], was first broadcast. Not generally considered part of continuity, this was McCoy and Aldred's last official appearances as the Doctor and Ace until [[DW]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'' in 1993.

* [[23 November|23]] - [[Mostyn Evans]] ([[Dai Evans]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Green Death]]'' and the [[High Priest (Death to the Daleks)|High Priest]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'') died.

* [[28 December|28]] - [[Edward Brayshaw]], who played [[Léon Colbert]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror]]'' and [[the War Chief]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]'', died.

* [[DWN]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' was published in [[Germany]] under the title ''Doctor Who und das Kind von den Sternen''.

* Around the time of the BBC's announcement that no twenty-seventh season would be commissioned, [[Virgin Books]], which had purchased [[Target Books]], announced plans to launch a [[Virgin New Adventures|series of original novels]] continuing ''Doctor Who'' from the events of [[DW]]: ''[[Survival]]''; the line was scheduled to launch in [[1991]]. It was also announced that the traditional Target novelisation format would also come to an end in 1991, with all but a few stories left to be adapted.