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| * Child genius [[Luke Rattigan]] was born in the [[United States of America]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') | | * Child genius [[Luke Rattigan]] was born in the [[United States of America]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') |
| * [[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' was first released on video in the [[UK]].
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| * [[14 January]] - Actor [[John Witty]] died.
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| * [[18 January]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[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.
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| * [[20 January]] - Actor [[John Maxim]] died.
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| * [[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 [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the War Games|Doctor Who - The War Games]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child|Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child]]''.
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| * [[15 February]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Happiness Patrol]]'' was first published.
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| * [[15 March]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Space Pirates (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Space Pirates]]'' was first published. It was the final [[Target Books]] novelisation by [[Terrance Dicks]].
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| * Actor [[Brian Vaughan]] died.
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| * [[27 April]] - ''[[Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer (graphic novel)|Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer]]'' graphic novel was first published by [[Marvel Comics]].
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| * Writer [[Anthony Steven]] died.
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| * [[15 May]] - Writer and director [[Peter Grimwade]] died.
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| * [[16 May]] - Actor [[Thomas Sangster]] was born in South [[London]].
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| * [[15 June]] - Actor [[Leonard Sachs]] died.
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| * [[21 June]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' was first published.
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| * [[23 June]] - Actor [[Frank Gatliff]] died.
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| * [[REF]]: ''[[Encyclopedia of The Worlds of Doctor Who: L-R]]'' was first published. The series was abandoned after this release, and no paperback of this volume was issued.
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| * ''Pertwee in Person: Jon Pertwee Talks with David Banks'' was released on cassette by [[Silver Fist Productions]].
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| * [[12 July]] - [[PBS|WHYY]] aired ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' as the final PBS ''Doctor Who'' broadcast.
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| * [[19 July]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[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.
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| * With no plans for a twenty-seventh season in sight, the BBC closed the ''Doctor Who'' Production Office.
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| * [[2 August]] - Actor [[Edwin Richfield]] died.
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| * [[17 August]] - [[Graham Williams]], who produced Seasons 15-17 (1977-79), was killed in a shooting accident in Devon, England.
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| * [[20 September]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost Light (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Ghost Light]]'' was first published.
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| * [[20 September]] - The paperback edition of [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'' was published; the new edition was expanded from the 1988 original.
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| * Actor [[Bernard Finch]] died.
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| * [[18 October]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Survival (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Survival]]'' was first published, adapting the final serial of the original 1963-89 series.
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| * [[24 October]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]] made his TV acting debut in the TV movie ''Blood Rights''.
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| * [[10 November]] - Actor [[Dudley Jones]] died.
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| * [[15 December]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Curse of Fenric]]'' was first published.
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| * [[21 November]] - ''[[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 [[NOTDWU]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'' in 1993.
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| * [[23 November]] - Actor [[Mostyn Evans]] died.
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| * [[28 December]] - [[Edward Brayshaw]], who played [[Léon Colbert]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror]]'' and [[the War Chief]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games]]'', died.
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| * [[PROSE]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' was published in [[Germany]] under the title ''Doctor Who und das Kind von den Sternen''.
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| * 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 [[TV]]: ''[[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.
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