1982

April

 * The Doctor and Ace defeat rogue Annarenes. (PDA: Relative Dementias)

July

 * 11 - The Doctor and Charley Pollard prevent the Threllip from invading Earth. (BFA: Living Legend)

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 * Pete Tyler marries Jackie Prentice (who becomes Jackie Tyler).


 * On 'Pete's World' Cybus Industries is founded.

January

 * 04 - DW: Castrovalva Episode 1 is first broadcast, launching Season 19 and properly introducing Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor. Beginning with this episode and continuing until 1989, the lead actor is credited as "The Doctor", not "Doctor Who" or "Dr. Who". Also, beginning with this episode, the series moves to a new broadcast schedule, with the series beginning in January rather than the fall, and airing 2 episodes a week. This format continues throughout the Davison era.
 * 05 - DW: Castrovalva Episode 2 is first broadcast.
 * 11 - DW: Castrovalva Episode 3 is first broadcast.
 * 12 - DW: Castrovalva Episode 4 is first broadcast.
 * 14 - DWN: Doctor Who and the State of Decay is first published.
 * 18 - DW: Four to Doomsday Episode 1 is first broadcast.
 * 19 - DW: Four to Doomsday Episode 2 is first broadcast.
 * 25 - DW: Four to Doomsday Episode 3 is first broadcast.
 * 26 - DW: Four to Doomsday Episode 4 is first broadcast.

February

 * Doctor Who: A Marvel Monthly magazine changes its title to Doctor Who Monthly this month.
 * 01 - DW: Kinda Episode 1 is first broadcast.
 * 02 - DW: Kinda Episode 2 is first broadcast.
 * 08 - DW: Kinda Episode 3 is first broadcast.
 * 09 - DW: Kinda Episode 4 is first broadcast.
 * 15 - DW: The Visitation Episode 1 is first broadcast.
 * 16 - DW: The Visitation Episode 2 is first broadcast.
 * 22 - DW: The Visitation Episode 3 is first broadcast.
 * 23 - DW: The Visitation Episode 4 is first broadcast.

March

 * 01 - DW: Black Orchid Episode 1 is first broadcast. This is the first purely historical episode since The Highlanders.
 * 02 - DW: Black Orchid Episode 2 is first broadcast.
 * 08 - DW: Earthshock Episode 1 is first broadcast.
 * 09 - DW: Earthshock Episode 2 is first broadcast.
 * 15 - DW: Earthshock Episode 3 is first broadcast.
 * 16 - DW: Earthshock Episode 4 is first broadcast. Matthew Waterhouse leaves the series as his character, Adric, becomes the first companion to be killed off since Sara Kingdom. The episode ends with the series' first and only silent credit scroll.
 * 22 - DW: Time-Flight Episode 1 is first broadcast. The episode features the first mention of UNIT since DW: The Seeds of Doom.
 * 23 - DW: Time-Flight Episode 2 is first broadcast.
 * 29 - DW: Time-Flight Episode 3 is first broadcast.
 * 30 - DW: Time-Flight Episode 4 is first broadcast. This episode concludes Season 19 (which, thanks to the two-a-week broadcast schedule, had begun only three months earlier). The ending leaves viewers wondering whether Janet Fielding has now left the series (she hasn't).

April

 * 15 - DWN: Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate is first published.

May

 * 20 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken is first published.

July

 * REF: Doctor Who: The Making of a Television Series is first published.
 * 22 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive is first published.

August

 * Doctor Who Annual 1983 published.
 * K-9 Annual 1983 published, the first and only annual to be based upon the aborted K-9 and Company spinoff.
 * 19 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Visitation is first published. First Fifth Doctor story novelisation. Beginning with this release, Target Books establishes the controversial practice of using photographic covers for stories featuring the Fifth Doctor, rather than commissioning artistic covers as had been the practices to this point. Artistic covers continue for adapations of previous Doctors' stories, however.

September

 * 02 - An American actor named Tom Baker dies in New York City. Although unrelated to Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor, at least one (possibly more) reference books later erroneously indicate that it was the Doctor Who Tom Baker who had died on this date.
 * 16 - DWN: Doctor Who - Full Circle is first published.
 * 22 - Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) is born at Swindon, Wiltshire, England.

Fall

 * John Nathan-Turner receives approval to produce a 90-minute 20th anniversary special episode for broadcast in 1983 and begins feeling out the interest of Doctor Who actors, including Tom Baker. At the time, the special carries the working title The Six Doctors, and Robert Holmes is commissioned to write the script; he subsequently leaves the project and Terrance Dicks writes the script.

October

 * 10 - Laidlaw Dalling, who played Rouvray in DW: The Reign of Terror, dies.
 * 21 - DWN: Doctor Who - Logopolis is first published.
 * 28 - Matt Smith is born. In January 2009, Smith was announced as the actor cast to play the Eleventh Doctor.

November

 * 7 - John Bay, who played the Earl of Leicester in DW: The Crusade, dies from brain cancer in London.
 * 18 - DWN: Doctor Who and the Sunmakers is first published. This is the final Target Books novelisation release to use the title form Doctor Who and....

December

 * Publication of REF: The Second Doctor Who Quiz Book.
 * Publication of REF: The Doctor Who Crossword Book.
 * 1 - Eric Thompson, who played Viscount Gaston de Leran in DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, dies from a heart attack in London.
 * 6 - Ryan Carnes, who played Laszlo in DW: Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks is born in Pittsfield, Illinois.
 * 24 - KAC: A Girl's Best Friend is rebroadcast on BBC2.

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 * Magnet Books, a subsidiary of Methuen Children's Books, publishes Doctor Who Quiz Book of Dinosaurs by Michael Holt, the first of a series of four in the Doctor Who Quiz Book series (not to be confused with a similarly titled, concurrent series by Nigel Robinson). These illustrated paperback books (published in the same format as Target Books novelisations) contain original short stories featuring the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka that set up short quizzes related to the subject matter of the book. The remaining three books in the series will be published in 1983.
 * The first edition of The Doctor and the Enterprise by Jean Airey is published; this unauthorized crossover between Doctor Who, Star Trek and the Wizard of Oz becomes a cult classic in this initial small-press publication and an edited version is published in 1989 by Pioneer Books.