British toymaker Character Options releases a wave of five action figures depicting the New Dalek Paradigm introduces in the 2010 season of Doctor Who. These toys reflect the extremely colorful redesign – somewhat controversial in Who fandom – of the Doctor’s arch enemies. 
Big Finish Productions releases the 30th episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith.
Big Finish Productions releases the 141st Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred.
Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a limited edition 2-CD set featuring – for the first time – the entirety of Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. For the first time, the complete score is presented, including alternate takes and arrangements. The limited edition of 5,000 sells out in four months, and the album later gets an unlimited reissue with slightly different cover artwork on the Intrada label.
Character Options and Underground Toys release a box set of action figures from the 1985 Doctor Who episode Vengeance On Varos, including the first figure of the sixth Doctor’s companion Peri.
BBC subsidiary AudioGo releases the fourth Doctor Who audio drama in the Demon Quest story cycle, starring Tom Baker, Richard Franklin, and Susan Jameson.
BBC subsidiary AudioGo releases the fifth and final Doctor Who audio drama in the Demon Quest story cycle, starring Tom Baker, Richard Franklin, and Susan Jameson. A third series of adventures will follow in 2011, prior to the fourth Doctor’s Big Finish audio debut in 2012.
Walt Disney Records releases Daft Punk’s soundtrack from the movie Tron Legacy.
Big Finish Productions releases a bonus Doctor Who audio drama starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Paul McGann. (This title was initially exclusive to Big Finish’s subscription program, as an incentive for those whose subscriptions included The Demons Of Red Lodge.)
The 47th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). Tommy Knight returns in the season four finale.
Disney releases Tron Legacy, a sequel to 1982’s Tron, produced by Tron creator Steven Lisberger and directed by Joseph Kosinski. Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde star; Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner reprise their roles from the 1982 film. Daft Punk provides the soundtrack (with a significant assist from Joseph Trapanese).
Big Finish Productions releases the 38th Doctor Who audio drama in its Companion Chronicles range (short stories performed audiobook style with one or two actors). Carole Ann Ford and Tara-Louise Kaye star.
The 772nd episode of Doctor Who (the 74rd since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1, the first Christmas special under showrunner Steven Moffat’s reign. Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins guest star.
Big Finish Productions releases the 142nd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton.
Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama box set The Lost Stories: The Second Doctor, containing audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury star in a story originally intended for the first season of Doctor Who.
Big Finish Productions releases the 31st episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Carole Ann Ford.
Big Finish Productions releases the 143rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables.
Big Finish Productions releases the 32nd episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith.
Forever known as the Brigadier (and thus the only ranking UNIT officer who counts), actor Nicholas Courtney dies at the age of 81, the only actor to have appeared alongside every Doctor in Doctor Who. After appearing as a one-off guest character in the Hartnell era, Courtney is drafted into the role of Colonel Lethbridge Stewart for a 1968 Doctor Who story, proving popular enough to return the following season with a promotion to Brigadier. In this role, Courtney guest starred with every television Doctor (including, thanks to a cameo in a 1993 charity skit, Colin Baker); he would also appear alonside Paul McGann in a Big Finish audio play, a medium that also saw him appearing with David Tennant, years before being cast as the tenth Doctor. Courtney would play the role for Big Finish several times, and even reprised the Brigadier in a 1995 fan-made video production, before bringing the character back in a two-part episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Big Finish Productions releases the 144th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables.
Big Finish Productions releases the 33rd episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith.
The short Doctor Who sketch Space / Time, starring Matt Smith, Karel Gillan and Arthur Darvill, airs during the BBC’s annual Comic Relief charity telethon.
A two-part Doctor Who sketch airs as part of the BBC’s Comic Relief telethon. Featuring only series regulars Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, the mini-adventure runs around eight minutes in length.
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Silva Screen Records releases Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol. This is the first time in the revived series that a single episode has gotten an individual soundtrack release; Katherine Jenkins’ song “Abigail’s Song (Silence Is All You Know)” is inclucded.
Big Finish Productions releases the 145th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables.
Big Finish Productions releases the 34th and final episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith; the eighth Doctor’s adventures will continue in a series of boxed sets, beginning with Dark Eyes in 2012.
The internet-based fan film Star Trek: Phase II releases its seventh full-length episode, Enemy: Starfleet!. BarBara Luna guest stars.
Actress Elisabeth Sladen, possibly the performer who has maintained the longest on-screen association with a Doctor Who character in the history of the franchise, dies at the age of 65. In 1973, the producers of Doctor Who had hired another actress to play the part of new companion Sarah Jane Smith, only to meet with strenuous objections from series lead Jon Pertwee. Elisabeth Sladen was then cast in the part, continuing to play Sarah Jane through 1976, one of the longest-running companions in the original series. Numerous times she had been approached to reprise her role, only agreeing to do so in 1981 in her own spinoff, K-9 & Company, which never made it past the pilot stage. After reprising the role of Sarah Jane for Big Finish’s audio spinoff series centered around the character, she was asked to play the part again – on television – alongside David Tennant, sparking new interest in the character and ultimately leading to her own spinoff series, The Sarah Jane Adventures. Filming of the fifth season of that series had been put on hold while she was admitted to the hospital.
The 773rd episode of Doctor Who (the 75th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1, beginning the sixth season of the revived series. The episode sets up a time-bending paradox and guest stars Alex Kingston, Mark Sheppard (Battlestar Galactica) and W. Morgan Sheppard (Max Headroom), and introduces a new enemy, the Silents.
Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama Thin Ice, audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred star in a story originally intended for the unmade 1990 season of Doctor Who.