With no new series in sight on TV, Virgin Publishing begins its long-awaited line of original print fiction with the first Doctor Who New Adventures novel, “Timewyrm: Genesys” by John Peel. The first book in a four-book cycle of linked stories, the novel picks up where the television series left off, featuring the seventh Doctor and Ace. Three further books are already in the works in the Timewyrm series, with other authors lining up for a chance to write later books in 1992 and beyond. 
Virgin Publishing releases the second novel in the Doctor Who New Adventures series, “Timewyrm: Exodus” by early ’70s Doctor Who script editor Terrance Dicks. This book continues the four-part Timewyrm cycle and revisits the War Lord last seen in the 1969 TV story The War Games, and long before the TV episode Let’s Kill Hitler, places the Doctor in the company of Hitler. This is Dicks’ first Doctor Who prose which is not a direct adaptation of a television story.
Virgin Publishing releases the fourth book in the Doctor Who New Adventures series, “Timewyrm: Revelation” by Paul Cornell. This is Cornell’s first professionally-published fiction, and is published over the objections of former Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner (acting as an advisor to the editors), who cites concerns over the book’s abstract attempts to establish an epic mythology involving Gallifreyan gods. The book also concludes the four-book Timewyrm cycle, which has proven to be enough of a sales success that Virgin opts to continue publishing original Doctor Who fiction.
In what is hailed as the biggest missing episode find in the history of fans’ attempts to recover lost segments of Doctor Who, the complete four-part story The Tomb Of The Cybermen, completely missing from the BBC’s archives, is located in near-pristine condition in the archives of a Hong Kong broadcaster. Since the tapes’ audio is the original English soundtrack and the video requires little significant clean-up or restoration, the BBC’s home video department fast-tracks Tomb for a VHS release in May 1992. As of this find, only 110 half-hour episodes of black & white Doctor Who remain missing.
Silva Screen Records releases Doctor Who: Earthshock – Classic Music From the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Volume 1, the first reprint on CD of the now-out-of-print ’80s soundtrack album Doctor Who: The Music. The album includes compositions dating back to the 1960s and as recent as 1984 from BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Delia Derbyshire, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke, and Peter Howell. Material is added that was not present on the original vinyl release.
Silva Screen Records releases Doctor Who: The Five Doctors – Classic Music From the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Volume 2, the first reprint on CD of the now-out-of-print ’80s soundtrack album Doctor Who: The Music II. Music is featured from BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Jonathan Gibbs, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke, and Peter Howell.
Silva Screen Records releases the soundtrack from the 1988 Doctor Who story The Greatest Show In The Galaxy, composed and performed by Mark Ayres.
Alternative Software releases the side-scrolling shoot-’em-up game Dalek Attack for PC-compatible computers, a game set in the universe of Doctor Who.
The ninth Doctor Who New Adventures novel, “Love And War” by Paul Cornell, is published. A pivotal point in the young book series, “Love And War” sees the exit of TV companion Ace and the introduction of an older companion, archaeologist Professor Bernice Sumemrfield, for the seventh Doctor. Using a non-sequitur mention of the “Hoothi and their great gas dirigibles” from the television story The Brain Of Morbius as a starting point for this book’s enemy, author Cornell crafts a novel that forces the series to grow into more mature territory, with a truly unsettling adversary for the Doctor to fight. An audio version will be produced by Big Finish Productions 20 years later.
Virgin Books publishes the non-fiction book Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Handbook by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, and Stephen James Walker, offering a detailed inside look at the tenure of Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor.
Silva Screen Records releases the Doctor Who soundtrack compilation Pyramids Of Mars, featuring synthesized recreations of highlights of numerous 1970s Tom Baker-era Dudley Simpson scores, performed by Heathcliff Blair.
Silva Screen Records releases the soundtrack from the 1989 Doctor Who story Ghost Light, composed and performed by Mark Ayres.
BBC Radio 5 broadcasts the first episode of the five-part Doctor Who audio drama The Paradise Of Death, reuniting the early ’70s cast of Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen, and Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier. Peter Miles, Maurice Denham, and Harold Innocent guest star in a story written by early ’70s Doctor Who showrunner Barry Letts. The heavily-promoted radio story marks 30 years of Doctor Who.
Virgin Books publishes the non-fiction book Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor Handbook by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, and Stephen James Walker, offering a detailed inside look at the tenure of Colin Baker as the sixth Doctor.
The Doctor Who adventure Dimensions In Time airs in two parts as part of the BBC’s Red Nose Day telethon, introduced by Noel Edmonds and featuring all five living Doctors and many of the surviving companions. Bizarrely, this story is also a crossover with the BBC’s primetime soap EastEnders, so many of that show’s cast appear as well, and it’s the closest the BBC gets to celebrating Doctor Who’s 30th anniversary.
Virgin Publishing releases the 23rd book in the Doctor Who New Adventures series, “No Future” by Paul Cornell. This book concludes a five-book cycle involving someone trying to ensnare the Doctor by making paradoxical major changes to the Time Lord’s established history. “No Future” also explains the somewhat cryptic “breakdown” suffered by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart during the 1970s, leading to his retirement from UNIT.
Star Trek VI co-writer Denny Martin Flinn completes a screenplay draft for Doctor Who: The Movie, which is at this stage a big-screen reboot of the original series stuck in development hell. A British studio, Lumiere Pictures, has assigned several writers to write successive drafts of a movie version of the BBC series, often choosing to reboot the story rather than pick up where it left off. Eventually the series’ revival falls to a one-night-only TV movie being developed seperately by producer Philip Segal.
Silva Screen releases the compilation album The Worlds Of Doctor Who, featuring soundtrack selections from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as a new rendition of the show’s main theme with Sylvester McCoy himself playing spoons (!).
Virgin Publishing releases the first Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, Goth Opera by Paul Cornell, featuring the TARDIS team of the fifth Doctor, Nyssa, and Tegan. This novel forms a duology with the New Adventures novel Blood Harvest.
Virgin Publishing releases the 32nd book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Daniel O’Mahony’s Falls The Shadow.
Virgin Books publishes the non-fiction book Doctor Who: The First Doctor Handbook by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, and Stephen James Walker, offering a detailed inside look at the development of Doctor Who both before it was ever broadcast and during the entire tenure of William Hartnell as the original Doctor.
Virgin Publishing releases the 33rd book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Parasite by Jim Mortimore.
The Doctor Who-related fan production Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans is released on VHS, starring Doctor Who alumni Carole Ann Ford and Sophie Aldred, and ex-Blake’s 7 cast members Jan Chappell and Brian Croucher, all as new characters in a story centered around the Sontarans (used by permission).
Virgin Publishing releases the 34th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Warlock by former Doctor Who TV script editor Andrew Cartmel.
Virgin Publishing releases the 35th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Set Piece by Kate Orman.
Virgin Publishing releases the 36th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Infinite Requiem by Daniel Blythe.
Virgin Publishing releases the 36th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Sanctuary by David A. McIntee.
Virgin Publishing releases the ninth Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, Dancing The Code by Paul Leonard, featuring the TARDIS team of the third Doctor, Jo Grant, and U.N.I.T.
Virgin Publishing releases the 38th book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, Human Nature by Paul Cornell. This book will be remade in the 21st century TV series as a heavily-reworked two-part story featuring the tenth Doctor rather than the seventh.
Virgin Publishing releases the tenth Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, The Menagerie by Martin Day, featuring the TARDIS team of the second Doctor, Zoe, and Jamie.