1984

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Contents 1 Timeline 1.1 May 1.2 Unknown Date 2 Doctor Who history 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 May 2.5 July 2.6 August 2.7 September 2.8 October 2.9 November 2.10 December 2.11 Unknown date

[edit] Timeline

[edit] May

• The Doctor defeats the Malus in Little Hodcombe. (DW: The Awakening)

[edit] Unknown Date

• H.C. Clements is bought by the Torchwood Institute.
• The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive in London where they encounter canisters of Movellan virus and Dalek dupicates. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks)
• Turlough returns to Trion and Peri Brown joins the Doctor on his travels and Kamelion is destroyed. (DW: Planet of Fire)
• Martha Jones is born.
• Lucie Miller's Auntie Pat was killed by Zygons and replaced by her Zygon husband Trevor. (BFA: Grand Theft Cosmos)

[edit] Doctor Who history

[edit] January

• 05 - Warriors of the Deep Episode 1 First Broadcast

• 06 - Warriors of the Deep Episode 2 First Broadcast

• 12 - Warriors of the Deep Episode 3 First Broadcast

Doctor Who - Mawdryn Undead First Published.

• 13 - Warriors of the Deep Episode 4 First Broadcast

• 19 - The Awakening Episode 1 First Broadcast

• 20 - The Awakening Episode 2 First Broadcast

• 26 - Frontios Episode 1 First Broadcast

• 27 - Frontios Episode 2 First Broadcast

Douglas Camfield Dies

[edit] February

• 02 - Frontios Episode 3 First Broadcast

• 03 - Frontios Episode 4 First Broadcast

• 08 - Resurrection of the Daleks Episode 1 First Broadcast

• 15 - Resurrection of the Daleks Episode 2 First Broadcast

• 23 - Planet of Fire Episode 1 First Broadcast

• 24 - Planet of Fire Episode 2 First Broadcast

[edit] March

• 01 - Planet of Fire Episode 3 First Broadcast

• 02 - Planet of Fire Episode 4 First Broadcast

• 08 - The Caves of Androzani Episode 1 First Broadcast

• 09 - The Caves of Androzani Episode 2 First Broadcast

• 15 - The Caves of Androzani Episode 3 First Broadcast

Doctor Who - Kinda First Published. This is the last fully photographic Peter Davison cover.

• 16 - The Caves of Androzani Episode 4 First Broadcast, ending in Peter Davison's regeneration into Colin Baker

• 17 - John Dearth, who provided the voice of BOSS in The Green Death and portrayed Lupton in Planet of the Spiders dies.

• 22 - The Twin Dilemma Episode 1 First Broadcast. A slight modification is made to the series logo, adding a prism effect (which creates the effect of it being curved); the logo used for merchandising, however, remains as per the version introduced in 1980.

• 23 - The Twin Dilemma Episode 2 First Broadcast

• 27 - Derek Francis, who played Nero in "The Romans," dies from a heart attack in Wimbledon.

• 29 - The Twin Dilemma Episode 3 First Broadcast

• 30 - The Twin Dilemma Episode 4 First Broadcast. Last half-hour episode until 1986. The 1984 season marks the end of the show's 24-episode long seasons. Beginning in 1985 the number of episodes is reduced to 13, later 14. A similar episode count would persist when the series revived in 2005.

[edit] May

• 03 - Doctor Who - Snakedance First Published. With this release, Target Books returns to using artistic covers, although for this and the next Fifth Doctor novelisation, a modified series logo incorporating a photograph of Peter Davison is utilized.

• 15 - Tom Baker guest stars in the American TV series, Remington Steele, in the episode "Hounded Steele".

• 24 - Doctor Who - Enlightenment First Published. A rare occasion where more than one novelisation has been published at different times within the same calendar month. Second and last use of the modified logo-and-photo branding for a Fifth Doctor novelisation, and the final use of a photographic element on a Doctor Who fiction book until the 1988 novelisation of Time and the Rani.

[edit] July

• 11 - Hugh Morton, who played Sir James Gregson in The Seeds of Death dies.

• 19 - Doctor Who - The Dominators First Published. First non-Fifth Doctor novelisation in two years.

[edit] August

• 16 - Doctor Who - Warriors of the Deep First Published. First fully-artistic Fifth Doctor novelisation cover.

[edit] September

• 20 - Doctor Who - The Aztecs First Published.

[edit] October

• 10 - Joan Young, who played Catherine de Medici in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve dies.

Alan Lake (Herrick in Underworld) commits suicide.

• 18 - Doctor Who - Inferno First Published.

• The Doctor Who Pattern Book First Published

[edit] November

• 7 - Hayden Jones, who provided the Auton voice in Terror of the Autons as well as playing Vosper in the following story, The Mind of Evil dies.

• 15 - Doctor Who - The Highlanders First Published.

• 20 - Peter Welch, who played the Sergeant in "The Highlanders" and Morgan in "The Android Invasion," dies in Hammersmith, England.

[edit] December

• 10 - Doctor Who - Frontios First Published.

• 25 - Georgia Moffett, daughter of Peter Davison is born. After unsuccessfully trying out for the role of Rose Tyler, Moffett would later play Jenny in The Doctor's Daughter.

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• Dennis Cleary, who took the part of a peasant in The Reign of Terror, dies.

1983

20th Century 1980s

1985