1992

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Contents 1 Doctor Who Universe 1.1 December 2 Real World 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 June 2.7 August 2.8 September 2.9 October 2.10 November 2.11 December 2.12 Unknown date

[edit] Doctor Who Universe

[edit] December

• The Timewyrm transports St Christopher's Church to the Moon. (NA: Timewyrm: Revelation)

[edit] Real World

[edit] January

• US release of DW: An Unearthly Child on home video.
• 16 - DWN: Doctor Who - The Daleks, formerly titled Doctor Who and the Daleks, is reissued by Target Books with a new cover.
• 23 - TME: Doctor Who - The Nightmare Fair is reissued by Target. It is the only volume of the "Missing Adventures" line to be republished by Target.

[edit] February

• 20 - NA: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible is first published, launching the second Virgin New Adventures story arc, a trilogy this time.

[edit] March

• 2 - Anthony Lang, who played numerous small roles in several episodes of Doctor Who, dies.
• 3 - Robert Beatty, who played General Cutler in DW: The Tenth Planet, dies in London.

[edit] April

• 16 - NA: Cat's Cradle: Warhead is first published.

[edit] May

• 15 - Bartlett Mullins, who played the Second Elder in DW: The Sensorites, dies.

[edit] June

• 06 - BBC Audio, taking advantage of the fact that audio recordings exist for the many Doctor Who episodes of the 1960s that have been destroyed, begins issuing soundtrack recordings for these missing stories in "audio book" format on cassette. The first two to be released: DW: The Evil of the Daleks and DW: The Macra Terror. Similar releases won't occur again for another year.
• 18 - NA: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark is first published, ending the Cat's Cradle trilogy. Although Virgin would continue the idea of multi-book story arcs, this was the last time an overall arc title would be used for each book.

[edit] August

• 20 - NA: Nightshade is first published. This is the first standalone New Adventures novel, and features a character inspired by both the Doctor and Bernard Quatermass.

[edit] September

• 11 - REF: Doctor Who: The Monsters is first published by Virgin Publishing.
• 24 - After a hiatus of nearly two years, Titan Books revives its Doctor Who: The Scripts line with the first-ever publication of the script for the never-produced First Doctor serial, The Masters of Luxor.

[edit] October

• 10 - REF: Doctor Who: The Sixties is first published, the first book in a trilogy looking at the different eras of the series.
• 15 - NA: Love and War is first published, introducing the character of Professor Benny Summerfield. This book receives pre-release publicity due to the fact Benny is the first original companion created for the spin-off novels (although original companions had appeared in the comic strips as early as the 1960s). According to the documentary Stripped for Action: The Seventh Doctor, the character was created in conjunction with Doctor Who Magazine. Ace temporarily leaves the series after this novel.
• 20 - Brian Badcoe (Adam in DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs) dies.

[edit] November

• 05 - The Doctor Who: The Scripts release of DW: The Dæmons is first published.
• 18 - Andrew Carr, who appeared as the Senior Guard in DW: Day of the Daleks dies.
• 19 - REF: The Universal Databank is first published.

[edit] December

• 03 - NA: Transit is first published, introducing the recurring character of Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart.
• 04 - REF: Doctor Who - The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor is first published by Virgin Publishing. First in a series of detailed profiles of each era of the series. The books cover each of the Doctors to date, with the final book published in 1998.
• 11 - Michael Robbins, known for his portrayal of Richard Mace in DW: The Visitation dies from cancer in Catherham, Surrey, England, UK.

[edit] Unknown date

• To mark Doctor Who's 30th anniversary in 1993, the BBC announces plans for a made-for-video movie entitled The Dark Dimension which would have featured all surviving Doctor actors, most notably Tom Baker. Production was ultimately cancelled and the shorter tribute, DW: Dimensions in Time was commissioned instead.
• Independent film company BBV Productions releases BBV: Summoned by Shadows, the first release in its series, The Stranger. This was the first of numerous independent productions made over the next decade featuring actors from Doctor Who and characters analagous to characters in Doctor Who (see Doctor Who pastiches)

1991

20th century 1990s

1993