Big Finish Productions releases the sixth Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and introducing Maggie Stables as the first original-to-audio companion in Big Finish’s Doctor Who range, history professor Dr. Evelyn Smythe. 
Big Finish Productions releases the seventh Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. Nicholas Briggs, future voice of Doctor Who’s 21st century TV Daleks, makes his first appearance as the voice of the Daleks.
Big Finish Productions releases the eighth Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Nicola Bryant. Georgia Moffatt, Davison’s daughter (and future Doctor Who TV guest star), makes an early career appearance.
Big Finish Productions releases the ninth Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables. Nicholas Courtney reprises his role as the Brigadier, finally giving the sixth Doctor a full-length adventure alongside the beloved character.
Big Finish Productions releases the tenth Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. Peter Jurasik (Babylon 5) guest stars.
Welsh toy company Dapol announces the release of a box set of “early” Daleks depicted in various 1960s Doctor Who episodes. The set, containing four uniquely modified Dalek action figures, is a limited run of 2,000 units.
BBC Music releases Doctor Who At The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Volume 1: The Early Years – 1963-1969, collecting early music cues and sound effects created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during Doctor Who’s early black & white years.
BBC Music releases Doctor Who At The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Volume 2: New Beginnings – 1970-1979, collecting early music cues and sound effects created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker years of Doctor Who.
Big Finish Productions releases the 11th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables, with Lalla Ward reprising her role of Romana from Tom Baker’s era of the TV series.
Big Finish Productions releases the 12th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford.
Big Finish Productions releases the 13th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy, Shopie Aldred, and Lisa Bowerman as Professor Bernice Summerfield, the character’s first appearance in official Doctor Who media other than books and comics.
Ochre Records releases the soundtrack album Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, a compilation of production library tracks frequently used in 1960s Doctor Who.
RPM Records releases the album Who Is Dr. Who?, a compilation of 1960s and early ’70s novelty singles (and their B-sides) related to the TV series Doctor Who.
Big Finish Productions releases the 14th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker with Robert Jezek as Frobisher, a character originated in Doctor Who Magazine’s comics.
Welsh toy company Dapol announces the release of a Doctor Who Transmat Dalek action figure. Essentially the same mold and tooling as with their existing Dalek action figures, these toys are to be molded in clear plastic with a colorful “mutant” inside.
Big Finish Productions releases the 15th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. Mark Gatiss guest stars.
Big Finish releases a free CD with two audio dramas, one of them a preview episode of the upcoming Paul McGann audio debut Storm Warning, and the other a stand-alone Doctor Who audio story starring Sylvester McCoy, attached to the cover of Doctor Who Magazine issue #300. Both audio stories are later made available on the Big Finish website.
Big Finish Productions releases the 16th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7) guest stars.
Big Finish Productions releases the 17th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher.
Big Finish Productions releases the 18th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. Michael Sheard (The Empire Strikes Back) and Mark Gatiss guest star.
Big Finish Productions releases the 19th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. Nicholas Courtney appears as the Brigadier in a story closing out Big Finish’s first “season” of eighth Doctor adventures.
Douglas Adams, the creator of the insanely popular (and maniacally funny) Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy franchise – spanning two seasons of BBC radio series, five novels, a game and a brief TV series – dies suddenly of a heart attack in his California home at the age of 49. Adams created the Guide in 1978 as a radio series, and the subsequent “trilogy” of five books sold over 14 million copies worldwide. Recently, Adams had been working on H2G2, a cyberspace version of the Guide (to which visitors could add their own entries), as well as collaborating with Austin Powers director Jay Roach on an upcoming movie version of the story. Mr. Adams is survived by his wife Jane and a six-year-old daughter.
Big Finish Productions releases the 20th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Mark Strickson. Eleanor Bron guest stars.
The independently produced Doctor Who spoof Do You Have A Licence To Save This Planet? is released on VHS, starring Sylvester McCoy.
Big Finish Productions releases the 21st Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. Caroline John and Geoffrey Beevers guest star.
Big Finish Productions releases the first Dalek Empire audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7) and Sarah Mowat.
The BBCi website releases the first episode of Doctor Who: Death Comes To Time, an audio drama with limited Flash animation starring Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, John Sessions, and Stephen Fry. (As this story features elements that diverge significantly from established Doctor Who lore, for the purposes of this site it is categorized as a “Doctor Who Unbound” story unconnected to the larger continuity of the Doctor Who universe.)
Big Finish Productions releases the 22nd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables.
Big Finish Productions releases the second Dalek Empire audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7) and Sarah Mowat.
Big Finish Productions releases the 23rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables.