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2003

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Contents

[edit] Events

[edit] History of the Doctor Who Universe

[edit] April

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  • Singer Britney Spears debuts her recorded song, "Toxic" on her album In the Zone; it would become an international hit the next year, and be preserved until the year 5,000,000,000 when it would be revered as a piece of classical music from old Earth. (DW: The End of the World)

[edit] Real World

[edit] January

[edit] February

[edit] March

[edit] April

[edit] May

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[edit] August

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  • PDA: Deadly Reunion is first published.
  • BFA: Zagreus is first released. Considered a milestone for Doctor Who audio dramas, this story is the first to feature not only the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors, but thanks to the availability fo some recorded dialogue from an unreleased fan film, the late Jon Pertwee is also featured. This was Big Finish Productions' 50th Doctor Who audio drama, and was also marketed as a 40th anniversary story.
  • BFA: The Wormery is first released. First regular-series Doctor Who Big Finish story to feature Iris Wildthyme.
  • BFA: Living Legend is first published; this is a single-episode story released exclusively with Doctor Who Magazine. The disc also includes a documentary featurette on the making of BFA: Zagreus.
  • TN: The Eye of the Tyger is first published.
  • BBC Wales announces that it will produce a new series of Doctor Who for broadcast in 2005, returning the series to weekly television after a 16-year hiatus. Named executive producer is Russell T Davies, best known as the creator of the controversial Queer as Folk series, but who also is a longtime fan of the franchise who even wrote a novel for the Virgin New Adventures book series, NA: Damaged Goods. Little is revealed about the proposed series at this point except that it will be a continuation of the 1963-89 series and not a remake. The immediate impact on Richard Grant's status as the recently unveiled "Ninth Doctor" is not known.
  • 5 - Brian McDermott dies.
  • 13 - The BBC website launches a new webcast serial, WC: Scream of the Shalka, introducing Richard E. Grant as what would come to be known as the Shalka Doctor. At the time of its production and promotion, publicity held that Grant was the official Ninth Doctor, with future Doctor Who adventures expected to be produced in the webcast format. By the time the first episode was uploaded, however, the BBC had already announced the return of Doctor Who to television, with another actor in the lead role of the Ninth Doctor. Episode 1 features the first appearance of Derek Jacobi as the Master (although a different incarnation than he would later play in DW: Utopia). Sophie Okonedo is introduced as Alison Cheney, who as intended to become an ongoing companion for Grant's Doctor.David Tennant, more than a year before his appointment as the Tenth Doctor, voices a supporting character.
  • 20 - WC: Scream of the Shalka episode 2 is released.
  • 22 - Doctor Who's 40th anniversary is marked by a cover feature in the Radio Times. This is the last Radio Times cover produced before the series returned in 2005.
  • 23 - 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.
  • 27 - WC: Scream of the Shalka episode 3 is released.

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