2003

History of the Doctor Who Universe

 * Ruby Duvall becomes a reporter for the Sunday Seeker (NA: Iceberg).

April

 * Liz Shaw is Chief of Operations at Tranquility Base on the Moon. She dies from a virus. (NA: Eternity Weeps)

August

 * 23rd of August: The Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield arrive at the Pinehill Crest Hotel in time for: A demonstration of spiritual channelling, a show of a temporal accelerator and a cross stitch convention and an attempt by the Scourge to manifest in our reality. (BFA: The Shadow of the Scourge)

Unknown date

 * 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)

January

 * No Place Like Home First Released


 * Jubilee First Released


 * Rip Tide First Published


 * 1 - Cyril Shaps, who had appearances in The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Ambassadors of Death, Planet of the Spiders and The Androids of Tara dies.

February

 * The Domino Effect First Published


 * Nekromanteia First Released


 * 14 - Neil Seiler, who played a radio operator in The Sea Devils and Commander Stewart in Death to the Daleks, dies.

March

 * Blue Box First Published


 * Short Trips: Companions First Published


 * The Dark Flame First Released

April

 * Reckless Engineering First Published


 * Wonderland First Published


 * Doctor Who and the Pirates First Released

May

 * Loving the Alien First Published


 * Shell Shock First Published


 * Creatures of Beauty First Released


 * Extra Jack Pitt (during the William Hartnell era) dies from bronchial pneumonia.

June

 * The Last Resort First Published


 * Short Trips: A Universe of Terrors First Published


 * Project: Lazarus First Released

July

 * The Colony of Lies First Published


 * The Cabinet of Light First Published. This Telos Publishing novella results in a spin-off series of books, Time Hunter.


 * Flip-Flop First Released


 * 2 - James Saxon, who played Oscar Botcherby in The Two Doctors, dies after suffering a heart attack in Chichester, England.

August

 * Timeless First Published


 * Omega First Released


 * Fallen Gods First Published


 * 12 - Anne Tirard, who played Locusta in "The Romans" and the Seeker in "The Ribos Operation," dies.

September

 * Wolfsbane First Published


 * Short Trips: The Muses First Published


 * Davros First Released


 * Life During Wartime First Published. This is the only book release in the Big Finish - Bernice Summerfield Series this year.

October

 * Emotional Chemistry First Published


 * Frayed First Published


 * Master First Released

November

 * Deadly Reunion First Published


 * Eye of the Tyger First Published


 * Zagreus First Released


 * The Wormery First Released


 * Living Legend First Released


 * The Winning Side First Published. This is the first in a series of novellas published by Telos Publishing in the Time Hunter series, a spin-off from from the Doctor Who novella, The Cabinet of Light.


 * 13th November to 18th December - Scream of the Shalka, a flash-animated serial webcast produced for BBC's website, is uploaded in weekly chapters, introducing Richard E. Grant as what would come to be known as the Shalka Doctor.


 * 23 - 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.


 * 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, 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.

December

 * Companion Piece First Published


 * Short Trips: Steel Skies First Published


 * Scherzo First Released


 * 16 - Alfred Lynch who appeared as Commander Millington in The Curse of Fenric dies from cancer.


 * 17 - Alan Tilvern, who played Forester in "Planet of Giants," dies in London.


 * 29 - Dinsdale Landen, who portrayed Dr. Judson in The Curse of Fenric dies from mouth cancer.

Unknown dates

 * An unofficial audio adaptation of Graham Williams' The Nightmare Fair is produced for CD by Argolis. The release is a fund-raiser for the charity Sense, and includes liner notes by Anthony Read.