2009 (releases)

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In 2009, a number of things set in or relevant to the Doctor Who universe were released or published.

• AUDIO: The Transit of Venus and AUDIO: The Prisoner's Dilemma were first released.
• 1 January - BBC TV broadcast an edited version of the July 2008 Doctor Who at the Proms concert, previously released on radio and the Internet. The broadcast includes the television debut of the audience-interactive mini-episode Music of the Spheres. An extended version of the broadcast, including the performance of "Song for Ten", was later made available for UK Digital viewers.
• 3 January - The Eleventh Doctor aired on BBC Three, announcing to the public that Matt Smith would be playing the Eleventh Doctor following David Tennant's resign. Unlike most Confidential episodes, it was not broadcast along with an episode.
• 5 January - The Trial of a Time Lord was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 6 January - Dalek Operator John Scott Martin died.
• 6 January - The War Machines and Four to Doomsday were released to DVD in Region 1.
• 8 January - The audio adaptation of Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen was first released.
• 14 January - The first issue of Doctor Who DVD Files, a fortnightly UK/Ireland-only magazine, was published, incorporating a DVD of the episodes Rose and The End of the World.
• 19 January - The Next Doctor was released on DVD in the UK. The DVD also included the 2008 Doctor Who at the Proms concert and the mini-episode Music of the Spheres.
• 26 January - The DVD box set The E-Space Trilogy was released in the UK, including the episodes Full Circle, State of Decay and Warriors' Gate.
• 26 January - Doctor Who Adventures published its hundredth issue.
• 29 January - BBC Books launched the first in a planned series of ten novellas forming a single story arc, The Darksmith Legacy, with the publication of The Dust of Ages and The Graves of Mordane.
• 29 January - John Barrowman's autobiography, Anything Goes, was published in paperback.
• 31 January - AUDIO: The Judgement of Isskar was first released, launching a story arc that was a sequel to the original Key to Time arc of Season 16.
• To tie in with its broadcasts of Torchwood Series 2, the digital channel Watch published an exclusive comic strip, COMIC: The Return of the Vostok, on its website.
• AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme and the Sound of Fear was first released, relaunching Big Finish Productions' Iris Wildthyme audio drama series (last heard in 2005) starring Katy Manning.
• 5 February- Battlefield was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 12 February - AUDIO: The Nemonite Invasion, an original made-for-BBC Audio story read by Catherine Tate, was first released.
• 23 February - The Rescue and The Romans were released in a 2-DVD set in the UK.
• 25 February - COMIC: The Whispering Gallery, a one-shot comic book by IDW Publishing, was first published. This was the first of a series of single-issue stand-alones that IDW would publish during the year.
• 26 February - The Sontaran Games, the fourth Quick Reads novella, was first published. Beginning with this book, the BBC New Series Adventures line began a series of novels featuring returning monsters and races from the classic and revival series; this was slated to continue throughout 2009.
• 28 February - AUDIO: The Destroyer of Delights was first released.
• AUDIO: Resistance was first released.
• Short Trips: Indefinable Magic was first published. This became the final collection of new material in this long-running short story series as the BBC did not renew Big Finish Productions' licence. Following this publication there were no new officially licensed original literary stories being published featuring the first eight Doctors, for the time being.
• AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme and the Land of Wonder was first released.
• 3 March - The Key to Time: Special Edition, a DVD collection of all stories from Season 16, was released in North America. This was the expanded set that was released in the UK in 2007 and replaced an earlier version of the box set that had been issued in 2002. Unlike the earlier release, however, individual release of the six stories did not occur in Region 1.
• 5 March - The Next Doctor (including Music of the Spheres) was released to DVD in Region 4. Also released was The E-Space Trilogy box set featuring Full Circle, State of Decay and Warriors' Gate.
• 12 March - The audio adaptation of Doctor Who and the Cybermen was first released.
• 13 March - From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love, a special mini-episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, aired in the UK as part of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day. This was the first mini-episode to be based upon a spinoff of Doctor Who. David Tennant co-hosted the main BBC broadcast of Red Nose Day with Davina McCall, introducing the SJA mini-episode and taking part in a Doctor Who-themed round of the quiz show Mastermind. The SJA mini-adventure was originally given the title Funny for Money in pre-broadcast publicity, but so-writer Clayton Hickman later confirmed the official title on the Doctor Who Forum.
• 15 March - Reference book Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It is published by Mad Norwegian Press.
• 16 March - Attack of the Cybermen was released to DVD in the UK.
• 26 March - The Colour of Darkness and The Depths of Despair were first published.
• 30 March - AUDIO: The Chaos Pool was first released.
• AUDIO: The Magic Mousetrap was first released. Beginning with this release, and continuing over a year, a serialised second feature, AUDIO: The Three Companions, was included.
• AUDIO: The Magician's Oath was first released.
• COMIC: Doctor Who: The Forgotten, a graphic novel-style release reprinting the COMIC: The Forgotten story arc from IDW Publishing's Doctor Who comic book series, was first published.
• AUDIO: The Two Irises was first released.
• 2 April - The Rescue and The Romans were released to DVD in Region 4 in a single set.
• 9 April - The audio adaptation of Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora was first released.
• 11 April - Planet of the Dead debuted on BBC One.
• 11 April - An instalment of Doctor Who Confidential followed on BBC Three.
• 13 April - BBC Video released the DVD box set The Cybermen Collection in the UK. The set included the previously released Tenth Doctor episodes The Age of Steel, Rise of the Cybermen, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday and was the first themed reissue collection involving the revived series.
• 16 April - Judgement of the Judoon, Prisoner of the Daleks and The Slitheen Excursion were first published.
• 20 - Image of the Fendahl was released to DVD in the UK.
• 30 April - The Vampire of Paris was first published.
• AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks was first released.
• Bay of the Dead, The House That Jack Built and Into the Silence were first published.
• AUDIO: The Mahogany Murderers was first released. This was the first entry in The Companion Chronicles to not feature a Doctor; instead, it featured the characters of Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot from The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
• Short Trips: Re:Collections, an anthology of previously published stories, was first published, bringing to a close Big Finish Productions' Short Trips line.
• AUDIO: Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion was first released.
• 5 May - Battlefield and The E-Space Trilogy box set (Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate) were released to DVD in North America/Region 1.
• 7 - AUDIO: In the Shadows was first released.
• 7 - Attack of the Cybermen was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 11 May - The Deadly Assassin was released to DVD in the UK.
• 20 - COMIC: The Time Machination, a one-shot comic book by IDW Publishing, was first published. This was the first comic in IDW's Doctor Who line to make reference to Torchwood.
• 20 - Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus, published by Obverse Books and edited by Paul Magrs and Stuart Douglas, was first published. This was the first of a planned series of short story anthologies featuring Iris Wildthyme.
• 23 May - The John Barrowman-hosted talent series Tonight's the Night aired a specially written and filmed Doctor Who skit.
• 28 - The Game of Death was first published.
• 28 - Actor Terence Alexander died.
• 29 - COMIC: Doctor Who Classics Volume 3, a graphic novel-style release reprinting issues of COMIC: Doctor Who Classics by IDW Publishing, was published.
• AUDIO: The Stealers from Saiph was first released.
• Former Doctor Who executive producer Julie Gardner took her post at BBC Worldwide's Los Angeles branch.
• 4 June - The complete Series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 4 June - Image of the Fendahl was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 9 June - COMIC: Torchwood: Rift War, an omnibus of the multi-part Rift War! comic strip from Torchwood Magazine, was first published by Titan Books. It was the first Torchwood graphic novel.
• 9 June - AUDIO: The Sin Eaters was first released.
• 10 June - COMIC: Autopia, a one-shot comic story, was first published.
• 12 June - A preview showing of episode one of Torchwood: Children of Earth took place at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London.
• 13 June - Beginning this day and continuing for the next six Saturdays, special mini-editions of Doctor Who Adventures were included as giveaways in the Daily Mirror. These specials featured reprints from DWA.
• 16 June - Dalek Operator Michael Summerton died.
• 22 June - Delta and the Bannermen was released to DVD in the UK.
• 23 June - BBC Radio 4 broadcasted On the Outside it Looked Like an Old Fashioned Police Box, a documentary on the history of the Target Books novelisations hosted by Mark Gatiss. The documentary was posted online for the following week.
• 25 June - The Planet of Oblivion was first published.
• 27 June - This was the US broadcast debut of The Next Doctor on the show's new US broadcaster, BBC America.
• 29 June - Planet of the Dead was released to DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK, becoming the first Doctor Who episode to be released in Blu-Ray.
• 30 June - AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari was first released.
• 30 June - AUDIO: Glory Days was first released, launching the tenth season of the Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series.
• Big Finish Productions marked the tenth anniversary of its line of Doctor Who audio productions.
• IDW Publishing launched COMIC: Doctor Who Ongoing, a new comic series featuring the adventures of the Tenth Doctor, beginning with a three-issue storyline entitled COMIC: Silver Scream.
• AUDIO: The Company of Friends was first released. This audio was notable for introducing the Doctor Who Magazine comic character Izzy Sinclair to the audio range, as well as revealing that Mary Shelley had once been a companion.
• AUDIO: Mission of the Viyrans, a single-episode story from 2007 that had previously been packaged with another story, AUDIO: The Mind's Eye, was made available for individual download.
• AUDIO: The Drowned World was first released.
• 1 July - AUDIO: Asylum debuted on BBC One on BBC Radio 4, the first of a trilogy of Torchwood dramas featuring the TV cast aired in the days prior to Children of Earth. The three plays were also made available for streaming listening worldwide (and for MP3 download within the UK) for one week after broadcast and were released on CD later in the year.
• 2 July - AUDIO: Golden Age debuted on BBC One on BBC Radio 4.
• 2 July - AUDIO: The Rising Night was first released, read by Michelle Ryan.
• 2 July - Audio adaptation of Doctor Who - The Happiness Patrol was first released.
• 2 - The Deadly Assassin and Planet of the Dead were released to DVD in Region 4.
• 3 July - AUDIO: The Dead Line debuted on BBC One on BBC Radio 4.
• 6 July - Children of Earth: Day One debuted on BBC One, launching Series 3 of Torchwood.
• 6 July - The DVD of The War Games was released. It included the first BBC-sanctioned release of Devious, a fan-made Doctor Who story featuring the final performance of Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor. Although BBC Video had included the occasional fan-made production on DVDs previously, most notably in the The Beginning box set, this was the first time a major fan production had been included on an official BBC release. The DVD included only a twelve-minute excerpt as the film had yet to be completed.
• 7 July - Children of Earth: Day Two debuted on BBC One.
• 7 July - The soundtrack album for Torchwood: Children of Earth was released.
• 7 July - The Rescue and The Romans were issued as a two-DVD set in Region 1, along with Attack of the Cybermen.
• 8 July - Children of Earth: Day Three debuted on BBC One.
• 9 July - Children of Earth: Day Four debuted on BBC One.
• 10 July - Children of Earth: Day Five debuted on BBC One, concluding series 3.
• 13 July - Only three days after it was broadcast, BBC Video released the Torchwood mini-series Children of Earth to DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK. This was the quickest Who franchise home video release to date.
• Mid-July - To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing, the BBC's official website, over the course of four days, uploaded the exclusive Tenth Doctor short story PROSE: Blue Moon.
• 18 July - The sixth and final special mini-edition of Doctor Who Adventures appeared in the Daily Mirror.
• 20 - The new DVD edition of Remembrance of the Daleks was released on its own in the UK, some eighteen months after its original release as part of The Complete Davros Collection.
• 22 July - COMIC: Room with a Deja View, a standalone comic story, was first published.
• 28 July - Torchwood: Children of Earth and Planet of the Dead were released on DVD and Blu-Ray in North America. Planet of the Dead was the first Doctor Who story to be released in the high-def Blu-Ray format.
• 30 July - The Pictures of Emptiness was first published.
• 31 July - AUDIO: Absence was first released.
• AUDIO: The Cannibalists was first released.
• AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution was first released.
• REF: Bernice Summerfield: The Inside Story was first published; this was a Big Finish Productions-published history of the creation of the character.
• DOC: Myth Makers: Telos Publishing was first released by Reeltime Pictures.
• 6 August - Doctor Who The Official Annual 2010 was first published.
• 6 August - Audio adaptation of Doctor Who - The Mind Robber was first released.
• 6 August - The DVD box set The Cybermen Collection was released in Region 4. The set included the previously released Tenth Doctor episodes The Age of Steel, Rise of the Cybermen, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday. Also released in region 4 was Delta and the Bannermen.
• 10 August - The Black Guardian Trilogy DVD box set, consisting of Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment, was released in the UK.
• 19 August - AUDIO: The Mists of Time, a Big Finish Productions audio drama and part of The Companion Chronicles, was made available for download exclusively through Doctor Who Magazine #411. The download offer expired in October.
• 20 August - The Doctor, the first episode of the three-part documentary series Doctor Who's Greatest Moments, was broadcast on BBC Three. It followed a rebroadcast of The Runaway Bride and scored four hundred thousand viewers.
• 26 August - COMIC: Cold Blooded War!, a standalone comic, was first published.
• 27 August - The Art of War was first published.
• 27 August - Doctor Who's Greatest Moments: The Companions aired on BBC Three. It only had two hundred ninety thousand viewers this week, a drop from the first episode.
• 30 August - Farewell Great Macedon was first published by Nothing at the End of the Lane. This book collected two unproduced First Doctor scripts by Moris Farhi - Farewell Great Macedon, which had been commissioned by David Whitaker, and a single-episode story, The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance, written as a "tester" script by Farhi.
• 31 August - AUDIO: Patient Zero was first released.
• 31 August - AUDIO: Venus Mantrap was first released.
• AUDIO: Paper Cuts was first released.
• AUDIO: The Eight Truths was first released.
• AUDIO: The Prisoner of Peladon was first released.
• 1 September - Image of the Fendahl, The Deadly Assassin and Delta and the Bannermen were released to DVD in Region 1.
• 3 September - AUDIO: The Stuff of Nightmares, an audio adventure from BBC Audio, and Part 1 of the AUDIO: Hornets' Nest story arc, was first released. The adventure featured Tom Baker providing the voice of the Fourth Doctor, his first new performance in the role since 1993. Richard Franklin reprised his 1970s role of Mike Yates. This was followed by four more chapters over the next few months.
• 3 September - The Taking of Chelsea 426, The Krillitane Storm and Autonomy were first published. All novels featured the Tenth Doctor travelling on his own and, like previous BBC New Series Adventures releases this year, featured the return of classic monsters. These were the final full-length novels to feature the Tenth Doctor.
• 3 September - Doctor Who's Greatest Moments: The Enemies aired on BBC Three, concluding the trilogy of documentaries.
• 3 - Audio book version of Prisoner of the Daleks was first released.
• 3 - The Doctor Who Stories was first published by BBC Children's Books; this was an omnibus containing stories from the Doctor Who Files magazine, plus a previously unpublished story, Speech Day.
• 3 - The War Games (including excerpts from the fan film Devious) was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 7 September - The DVD of The Twin Dilemma was released in the UK. With this release, the Sixth Doctor era became the first classic series era to be completely released to DVD.
• 14 September - First Generation, the autobiography of Mary Tamm, was published. Colin Baker wrote the foreword. The book was available in a standard paperback edition and a limited-edition hardcover (200 copies) signed by Tamm.
• 15 September - The DVD of The Next Doctor was released in North America. Like the UK version of the release, the 2008 Doctor Who at the Proms concert special was included as a bonus feature, along with the mini-episode Music of the Spheres which had never been broadcast in North America.
• 19 September - Doctor Who received the first Television category award at the British Fantasy Awards.
• 21 September - John Barrowman published his second autobiography, I Am What I Am. This second volume of memoirs covered his years working on Doctor Who and Torchwood.
• 21 September - The Keys of Marinus was released to DVD in the UK.
• 24 September - The End of Time, the final book in the BBC Books miniseries The Darksmith Legacy, was first published. The book coincidentally shared its title with the final David Tennant special.
• 24 September - REF: The Ultimate Monster Guide was first published.
• 24 September - COMIC: Black Death White Life, a standalone comic, was published.
• Late September - Three Torchwood audio dramas that aired on BBC Radio 4 in July, AUDIO: Asylum, Golden Age and The Dead Line, were released to CD in a three-disc box set, The Radio Adventures.
• 30 September - AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet was first released. This seemed to be the final appearance (for now) of India Fisher as Charley Pollard.
• 30 September - AUDIO: Secret Origins was first released.
• AUDIO: Castle of Fear was first released.
• AUDIO: The Pyralis Effect was first released.
• SFX Magazine #188 came with a Doctor Who - Tom Baker Sampler CD, including excerpts from AUDIO: Hornets' Nest, Doctor Who and the Pescatons, several Target novelisations read by Baker and archival interviews from the Doctor Who at the BBC series.
• REF: Howe's Transcendental Toybox Update No. 3 was first published.
• REF: Doctor Who: Guide to Alien Armies was first published.
• The Doctor Who Files Collector's Edition was first published.
• 1 October - The Undertaker's Gift, Risk Assessment and Consequences were first published.
• 1 October - REF: Torchwood: The Encyclopedia was first published.
• 1 October - Children of Earth and the new edition of Remembrance of the Daleks were released to DVD in Region 4.
• 2 October - The complete Series 2 of Torchwood was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 5 October - With several episodes already under their belts, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan began filming the first episode of Series 5 in Llandaff, Wales. Subsequent media coverage of the filming revealed details of the new series, ranging from Amy Pond's apparent profession to glimpses of the redesigned TARDIS interior.
• 5 October - The Dalek War DVD box set was released in the UK, comprising the connected storylines Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks.
• 5 October - Silva Screen Records released a CD containing soundtrack music from Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D..
• 5 - David Tennant: A Life in Time and Space was published in paperback.
• 6 October - The BBC unveiled a new Doctor Who logo for Series 5.
• 6 October - Blue Peter launched a contest calling on viewers to design a TARDIS console that apparently would be used in an upcoming episode of Doctor Who.
• 8 October - AUDIO: The Dead Shoes, part 2 of the AUDIO: Hornets' Nest arc starring Tom Baker, was first released.
• 8 - AUDIO: The Day of the Troll was first released.
• 8 - AUDIO: The Shadow People and AUDIO: The White Wolf were first released.
• 8 - COMIC: The Dalek Project, the first Doctor Who graphic novel commissioned by and published by BBC Books, was scheduled for publication this date, but according to the BBC Shop site the publication date was moved to 1 March 2012.
• 14 October - This was the expiration date for the download offer included in Doctor Who Magazine issue 411 that allowed readers to download an exclusive Big Finish Productions audio drama, AUDIO: The Mists of Time.
• 15 October - Prisoner of the Judoon Part 1 debuted on BBC One, launching the third season of The Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC. This season two episodes aired per week.
• 16 October - Prisoner of the Judoon Part 2 debuted on BBC One.
• 16 October - Monster Hunt (video game and comic) was released by the BBC in The Sarah Jane Academy.
• 16 October - Tom Baker read Barry Letts' obituary on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Last Word.
• 19 October - BBC Video released its second themed box set reissuing related episodes of the revived series, named The Dalek Collection. Episodes included Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End.
• 21 October - 22 October - AUDIO: Prison in Space was recorded.
• 22 October - The Mad Woman in the Attic Part 1 debuted on BBC One.
• 23 October - The Mad Woman in the Attic Part 2 debuted on BBC One.
• 26 October - The first four seasons of the revived Doctor Who were released in the UK in a single twenty-three-disc DVD box set edition, as were the first 3 seasons of Torchwood in a fourteen-disc box set.
• 27 October - The first four seasons of the revived Doctor Who were released in Region 1 (North America) in a single 23-disc DVD box set edition. (No such Region 1 release occurred for Torchwood, however.)
• 29 October - The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith Part 1 debuted on BBC One, featuring a guest appearance by David Tennant as the Doctor, the first time the Doctor had appeared in a spin-off series. The episode scored the series' highest-ever ratings.
• 29 October - Elisabeth Sladen and Russell T Davies appeared on BBC Breakfast to promote that night's episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. The studio used for BBC Breakfast was the same one where Sladen filmed Doctor Who in the mid-1970s.
• 30 October - The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith Part 2 debuted on BBC One, again featuring David Tennant.
• 31 October - The first episode of the spin-off series K9, Regeneration, debuted in the UK on the Disney XD channel. This was a special, to be followed by the remainder of the series in 2010.
• AUDIO: The Eternal Summer was first released.
• AUDIO: The Claws of Santa was first released.
• AUDIO: Ringpullworld was first released.
• 2 November - 3 November - AUDIO: The Macros began recording.
• 3 November - The DVDs of The War Games (including footage from the fan-film Devious) and the Black Guardian Trilogy box set, consisting of Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment, were released in North America.
• 5 November - The Eternity Trap Part 1 debuted on BBC One
• 5 November - AUDIO: The Circus of Doom from BBC Audio, part 2 of the AUDIO: Hornets' Nest arc starring Tom Baker, was first released.
• 5 November - The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith was first published.
• 5 - The audio adaptation of Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth was first released.
• 5 - The DVD Box set The Black Guardian Trilogy featuring Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment was released to Region 4.
• 6 November - The Eternity Trap Part 2 debuted on BBC One.
• 8 November - The Doctor Who Museum at Blackpool closed after five years of operation.
• 9 November - The DVD of The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 was released in the UK.
• 9 November - Barry Letts' autobiography, Who and Me, was first published.
• 10 November - The DVD of The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 was released in North America.
• 10 November - The UK version of the MSN Video website began featuring classic series episodes, uploaded for viewing on Tuesdays and Fridays as of this date. The first story featured was The Web Planet.
• 12 November - Mona Lisa's Revenge Part 1 debuted on BBC One.
• 13 November - Mona Lisa's Revenge Part 2 debuted on BBC One.
• 15 November - The Waters of Mars debuted on BBC One.
• 15 November - BBC Worldwide released several classic series stories to YouTube for viewing outside of the United Kingdom; the files included advertising.
• 16 November - The Key to Time: The Complete Adventure DVD box set was released, months after its North American release. This set had actually been previously issued in the UK in 2007, but in a limited edition; this was its first wide release in Region 2.
• 19 November - The Gift Part 1 debuted on BBC One.
• 20 November - The Gift Part 2 debuted on BBC One, concluding the third season of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• 20 November - The annual Children in Need appeal on BBC One included a preview of The End of Time.
• 21 November - Dreamland Part 1 was released on the BBC Red Button service, as well as other UK-based satellite networks. It was also available (for UK users only) on the BBC's Doctor Who website.
• 22 November - Dreamland Part 2 was released.
• 23 November - Dreamland Part 3 was released.
• 24 November - Dreamland Part 4 was released.
• 25 November - Dreamland Part 5 was released.
• 26 November - Dreamland Part 6 was released, concluding the animated serial.
• 30 November - AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair was released, launching a new spin-off series of Big Finish Productions audio dramas entitled The Lost Stories adapting scripts planned for the TV series but never produced, in this case The Nightmare Fair. This was actually the second audio adaptation of The Nightmare Fair following an earlier, unofficial production mounted for charity.
• December - The audio story An Earthly Child  was first released by Big Finish Productions.
• AUDIO: Plague of the Daleks was first released.
• PROSE: Secret Histories was first published.
• The BBC released a series of short promo videos, or "idents" featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, for broadcast during the Christmas season. Four spots were created: a thirty-second-long mini-story in which the Doctor turned the TARDIS into a sleigh with the help of some flying reindeer, and three five-second-long "stings", one featuring Tennant digging the TARDIS out of a snowdrift, and two featuring a reindeer wandering around the outside of the TARDIS. A modified version of the main thirty-second ident also aired in the US on BBC America.
• 1 December - The 2009 Doctor Who Adventure Calendar was launched on the BBC's Doctor Who website. As with previous advent calendars, each day of the month a different special feature was uploaded, from exclusive video to fiction. This year the calendar featured two original short stories and an original mini-episode.
• 2 December - COMIC: Through Time and Space was published in North America. This was a graphic novel omnibus of the one-shot comics published by IDW Publishing throughout 2009.
• 3 December - The final two chapters of the AUDIO: Hornets' Nest audio drama arc from BBC Audio were first released: AUDIO: A Sting in the Tale and AUDIO: Hive of Horror, both starring Tom Baker and Richard Franklin.
• 3 December - The first 4 seasons of Doctor Who were released to Region 4 in a single twenty-three-DVD collection. The Twin Dilemma was also released in Region 4.
• 5 December - Dreamland was broadcast in its entirety on BBC Two.
• 5 December - The Dalek Collection, a DVD compilation including Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, was released in Region 4.
• 6 December - This was the twentieth anniversary of the broadcast of Survival Episode 3, the final episode of the original 1963-1989 series.
• 6 December - Part One of PROSE: The Advent of Fear, a two-part online short story, was published as part of the BBC's Doctor Who Adventure Calendar.
• 6 December - The Waters of Mars was broadcast on ABC1 in Australia.
• 8 December - The London events listings magazine Time Out published a special Doctor Who-themed issue with ten variant cover photos -- one for every Doctor.
• 10 December - Part Two of PROSE: The Advent of Fear, an exclusive-to-Internet short story, appeared on the BBC's Doctor Who Adventure Calendar.
• 12 December - The Panda Book of Horror, an Iris Wildthyme short story collection, was first published.
• 12 December - The BBC Radio 4 documentary Shelved, which looked at the cancellation of the Tom Baker story HOMEVID: Shada, among others, was broadcast. The special included "a key revelation" about Doctor Who discovered in documentation from the era.
• 12 December - BBC Radio 7 rebroadcast An Hour with Jon Pertwee, a one-man show recorded by the one-time Doctor actor.
• 12 December - Dreamland was rebroadcast on CBBC.
• 12 December - Doctor Who Magazine #416 was published, marking the publication's final use of the Doctor Who logo introduced in 2005. One regular feature reached a milestone as the "Time Team" completed its ten-year project to watch and review every "classic series" story.
• 13 December - Paul Cornell published an unofficial Doctor Who short story, The Last Doctor, on his blog.
• 15 December - Blue Peter aired a feature on Doctor Who.
• 15 December - Steven Moffat was interviewed by Matthew Sweet on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves about his new job on Doctor Who.
• 16 December - A Doctor Who-themed edition of the comedy quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, guest-hosted by David Tennant with Bernard Cribbins and Catherine Tate as panellists, debuted on BBC One.
• 16 December - An interview with David Tennant was aired on BBC One's Six O'Clock News.
• 17 December - Part 1 of PROSE: The Doctor on My Shoulder, an exclusive online short story, was uploaded to the 2009 BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar.
• 18 December - Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf, Part 2 was rebroadcast on BBC7 Radio.
• 18 December - InnerSPACE, an entertainment news program on the Canadian cable network Space, devoted an entire episode to Doctor Who.
• 19 December - The Waters of Mars was broadcast on BBC America in the US and Space in Canada.
• 19 December - The Infinite Quest was rebroadcast on BBC2.
• 19 December - A special Doctor Who Adventures mini-magazine appeaed in the Daily Mirror. Unlike past inserts which were reprints, this publication included all-new material and was the first DWA-related publication to be simply titled Doctor Who rather than Doctor Who Adventures.
• 22 December - The Next Doctor was rebroadcast on BBC3.
• 23 December - Planet of the Dead was rebroadcast on BBC3.
• 23 December - PROSE: The Doctor on My Shoulder Part 2 was uploaded to the BBC Doctor Who Adventure Calendar.
• 24 December - WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas was uploaded to the BBC Doctor Who Adventure Calendar. This short video story retold the origin of the Weeping Angels (Blink) and showed the disappearance of a young woman. The video was not available for viewing outside the UK.
• 24 December - Dreamland was rebroadcast on BBC One.
• 24 December - The Waters of Mars was rebroadcast on BBC3.
• 25 December - Part one of The End of Time debuted on BBC One.
• 26 - David Tennant and Catherine Tate guest-hosted the Jonathan Ross programme on BBC Radio 2. Their guests included Bernard Cribbins and Peter Davison. During the broadcast the two began discussing how to properly pronounce the year "2010", with Tennant claiming the BBC had instituted a rule on the matter. The debate sparked additional discussion and debate in media around the world.
• 26 - The documentary Doctor Who - The Lost Episodes was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
• 27 December - The End of Time, Part One was rebroadcast on BBC3.
• 27 December - David Tennant appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
• 29 December - Who on Who, a BBC Radio 2 special in which David Tennant interviewed Russell T Davies about Doctor Who, was broadcast.
• Last week of December: Radio Times listed Matt Smith as a face to watch in 2010 and included an interview with Steven Moffat discussing Smith.
• 31 December - AUDIO: Mission to Magnus was released, adapting the unreleased Doctor Who serial as part of The Lost Stories line.
• 31 December - Doctor Who at the Proms was rebroadcast on BBC HD.
• Unknown - Alien Alliance was first released by the BBC on the SJA website.
• Unknown - Find the Alien was first released by the BBC on the SJA website.
• Unknown- Monster Maker was first released by the BBC on the SJA website.