Big Finish Productions releases the 177th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Tracey Childs. 
Big Finish Productions releases the 177th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Tracey Childs.
Big Finish Productions releases the 178th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton.
The BBC announces that broadcast archive company TIEA has recovered nine missing episodes of Doctor Who, all from the Patrick Troughton era, completing one story of which only one episode was previous held in the BBC archives (The Enemy Of The World) and almost completing another story (The Web Of Fear), which is now missing only the third of its six episodes. All nine episodes have been found in surprisingly good condition in at a regional broadcaster in Nigeria, which had received the episodes from a Hong Kong broadcaster in the early 1970s. All nine episodes are made available for digital download, with remastered DVD releases due in time for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who in November 2013. The find had been the subject of wild speculation on the internet for months.
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Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who audio drama The Light At The End, celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who and featuring all of the surviving classic series Doctors and many of their companions.
Big Finish Productions releases the 179th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant.
The BBC debuts the Doctor Who minisode Night Of The Doctor on the internet, reintroducing Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor in his first on-screen appearance since the 1996 TV movie and depicting his apparent regeneration into a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor, as played by John Hurt. The minisode debuts on McGann’s birthday, but was originally intended to premiere much closer to the 50th anniversary special, Day Of The Doctor, until it became apparent that word of McGann’s secretive return to Doctor Who was about to be leaked.
Big Finish Productions releases the 180th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
A Doctor Who short, a prelude to the events of the 50th anniversary special Day Of The Doctor, is made available on the BBC Red Button service.
BBC2 broadcasts the movie An Adventure In Space And Time, starring David Bradley, Brian Cox and Jessica Raine, chronicling the genesis and the early years of Doctor Who (and celebrating the show’s 50th anniversary). Numerous past stars of the series make cameo appearances in other roles. The movie is written by Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss, who had originally proposed the project a decade earlier.
The 801st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 103rd episode since the series’ revival). This is the show’s 50th anniversary special, starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, and John Hurt, with past Doctors putting in appearances via archive footage; Tennant’s co-star Billie Piper also appears, though not as Rose Tyler. This is the first episode since 1976 to feature the shape-shifting Zygons, and it adds a major plot twist to the Time War.
Big Finish Productions releases a bonus Doctor Who audio drama starring Colin Baker. (This title was initially exclusive to Big Finish’s subscription program, as an incentive for those whose subscriptions included Afterlife.)
Big Finish Productions releases the 181st Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
The 802nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 104th episode since the series’ revival). This Christmas-themed episode sees the exit of Matt Smith as the eleventh Doctor (revealed during the story to actually be the thirteenth and final Doctor), but bends the long-standing mythos surrounding regeneration in time to introduce Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor. The production staff behind the scenes will remain largely intact for the transition into the Capaldi era.
Silva Screen Records releases a 4-CD box set compiling selections from Doctor Who soundtracks across the series’ 50-year history. This set is effectively a sampler of the label’s much larger limited edition 11-CD set.
Big Finish Productions releases the 182nd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
Big Finish Productions releases the 14th Doctor Who audio drama in its Fourth Doctor Adventures range, starring Tom Baker and Mary Tamm. David Warner guest stars.
Big Finish Productions releases the audio drama box set Doctor Who: Dark Eyes 2, featuring the episode The Traitor, starring Paul McGann and Nicola Walker.
Silva Screen Records releases a CD of music from the 2013 made-for-TV movie An Adventure In Space And Time, composed by Edmund Butt (Life On Mars, Origin, Intergalactic).
Thee audio drama box set Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Box Set, starring Peter Davison, is released by Big Finish, featuring the story Psychodrome. This set reunites the complete cast of Davison’s first season, including Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, and Matthew Waterhouse.
The 803rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 104th episode since the series’ revival). This episode opens the show’s eighth full season since its revival, and is the first full episode with Peter Capaldi as the twelfth Doctor. Dan Starkey and Michelle Gomez guest star.
The 804th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 105th episode since the series’ revival). Michelle Gomez and Nigel Betts guest star.
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The 805th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 106th episode since the series’ revival). Tom Riley, Ben Miller (Primeval), and Trevor Cooper (Star Cops) guest star.
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The 806th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 107th episode since the series’ revival).
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The 807th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 108th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Keeley Hawes guest stars.
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Doctor Who audio actress Maggie Stables, who originated the role of the first TARDIS traveler unique to the audio medium, dies after a lengthy illness. First appearing in a guest role in Big Finish Productions’ inaugural Doctor Who story, The Sirens Of Time, in 1999, Stables was quickly cast as Dr. Evelyn Smythe, a new companion for the sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) who defied the series’ convention of casting young actresses in such roles. Ms. Stables reprised the role intermittently, making her final appearance in a trilogy of stories released by Big Finish early in 2011; the character appeared in animated form in a 2002 webcast, but never appeared on television.
The 808th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 109th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Nigel Betts guest stars.
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The 809th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 110th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman.
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The 810th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 111th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. John Sessions guest stars.
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The 811th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 112th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman.
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The 812th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 113th episode since the series’ revival), starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman.
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