2007 (releases)


 * January - The audio anthology Circular Time was first released by Big Finish Productions.
 * January - Big Finish Productions launched a new spin-off series of audio adventures, The Companion Chronicles, with the simultaneous release of four different productions: Frostfire, Fear of the Daleks, The Blue Tooth and The Beautiful People. The concept of The Companion Chronicles was to feature companions and original actors who previously had not performed their original characters due to their Doctors' (specifically the first four) unavailability to the Big Finish range. The Beautiful People was an exception as it featured Lalla Ward who had been portraying Romana II for Big Finish for several years at this point, though never before in an adventure with the Fourth Doctor.
 * 1 January - Invasion of the Bane, the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, was also first broadcast, although the proper series did not begin until later in the year.
 * 1 January- Captain Jack Harkness and End of Days were first broadcast, concluding the first season of Torchwood. The cliffhanger ending of End of Days was not resolved until the broadcast of Utopia more than six months later. The two last episodes of Torchwood Declassified's first season, Blast from the Past and To the End, was also broadcast.
 * 3 January - The Invasion was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 11 January - Another Life, Border Princes and Slow Decay, the first original novels based upon Torchwood, were first published by BBC Books. The books were similar in format to the BBC New Series Adventures novels as they were in hardcover (but with slightly larger pages) and had a slightly lower page count than the older BBC Books and Virgin paperbacks. Like the NSA's, the Torchwood novels were issued in sets of three.
 * 11 January - The cast readthrough for 42 and Utopia took place.
 * 15 January - After a five week mid-season hiatus, the CBC Canadian broadcast of Series 2 continued with The Satan Pit.
 * 16 January - A DVD box set of the complete Second Series of Doctor Who was released in Region 1. In a reversal of the previous year, Series 2 still being in the midst of broadcast in Canada, release of the set was initially restricted to the US. The Canadian release was delayed until February.
 * 19 January - The CBC in Canada began rebroadcasting Series 1 of Doctor Who in a late night weekend timeslot.
 * 21 January - More than eight years after it was first released, Billie Piper's 1998 single, "Honey to the B", returned to the UK music charts. Piper had become a full-time actor by this time.
 * 22 January - Christopher Eccleston made his first of five appearances on the American science fiction series Heroes, which also featured Eric Roberts. Eccleston played "Claude", a man with the power to turn invisible.
 * 27 January - The New Beginnings DVD box set was released in the UK, featuring The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Castrovalva.
 * 27 January - Also released in the UK was the Amazon.co.uk-exclusive DVD box set The Dalek Collection, consisting of the previously released The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Genesis of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks.
 * AUDIO: Nocturne was first released.
 * AUDIO: The Tub Full of Cats was first released.
 * 8 February - The cast read-through for The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords took place.
 * 15 February - After a month's delay due to the CBC still airing the episodes, the Canadian release of the Series 2 DVD box set took place.
 * 18 February - Russell T Davies and Doctor Who Magazine writer Benjamin Cook began exchanging e-mails in a project to document the production of several episodes of the upcoming fourth series for DWM. The project eventually grew into what became the book release Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale.
 * 19 February - The Canadian broadcast of Doomsday on the CBC took place, concluding Series 2; the season was broadcast over a longer than usual period due to the decision by the CBC to insert a mid-season hiatus. Doomsday attracted some two hundred thousand fewer viewers than part 1, Army of Ghosts, a possible consequence of Series 2 being released to DVD in Canada a few days prior to Doomsday being broadcast.
 * 26 February - Christopher Eccleston made his fifth and final appearance on Heroes in one of the series' most acclaimed episodes, "Company Man". Eccleston's appearances in Heroes were among the highest-profile American TV appearances by a former Doctor Who actor.
 * 26 February - The DVD Torchwood Series 1 Part 2 was released in the UK.
 * Late February - In a meeting with Jane Tranter, Catherine Tate expressed interest in returning as Donna Noble for a couple of episodes of Series 4. At this point there had been no discussion of her returning to the series full-time.
 * Made of Steel was first published. The second release in the Quick Reads series, the book was released before the broadcast of Smith and Jones, making this the first public appearance of Martha Jones. Written by Terrance Dicks, former script editor and prolific author of novelisations and original Doctor Who novels, this was the first New Series-related literary work by a veteran of the 1963-1989 TV series.
 * AUDIO: Renaissance of the Daleks was first released.
 * 6 March - American actor expressed interest in appearing in Doctor Who and Russell T Davies began considering him for a role in what became the 2007 Christmas special, Voyage of the Damned. Initially considered for the role of Mr. Copper and then Max Capricorn, the idea of Hopper appearing did not pan out. Meanwhile, Billie Piper expressed interest in returning for as many as four episodes of Series 4.
 * The Invasion and The Sontaran Experiment were released to DVD in Region 1.
 * 13 March - Catherine Tate, in a meeting with Julie Gardner, indicated interest in appearing in a full season of Doctor Who; Russell T Davies, still sketching out the introduction of a new companion called Penny for Series 4, began retooling his ideas to fit the possible return of Donna Noble.
 * 16 March - David Tennant appeared in a televised skit alongside Catherine Tate as part of a benefit for Comic Relief. Tennant played Mr. Logan, a substitute teacher who ran afoul of rebellious Lauren Cooper (Tate). The skit included numerous in-jokes related to Doctor Who; Lauren started to think that Logan is The Doctor; Lauren chided him with "Did you fancy Billie Piper, sir?"; Logan pulled out a sonic screwdriver and turned Lauren into a Rose Tyler action figure.
 * 18 March - The Web of Fear episode one was repeated on BBC Four as part of London Underground night.* 26 March - The DVD Torchwood Series 1 Part 3 was released in the UK. This was the last "vanilla" release of episodes from Season 1 of Torchwood and the last such release related to this series although the vanilla releases continued for Doctor Who.
 * 31 March - Smith and Jones debuted on BBC One, launching Series 3 (aka Season 29). Freema Agyeman made her debut as new companion Martha Jones.
 * Earlier in the day, five exclusive previews of Smith and Jones took place at the Cardiff Odeon, Swansea Odeon, Wrexham Odeon, The Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Pwllheli Neuadd Dwyfor.
 * After broadcast of Smith and Jones, the first episode of the third series of Doctor Who Confidential aired.
 * AUDIO: I.D. and AUDIO: Urgent Calls were first released. Urgent Calls was a single-episode story included as a bonus feature with I.D.
 * AUDIO: The Judas Gift was first released.
 * 2 April - The Runaway Bride was released on to DVD in the UK. This was the first time a single episode of the revived series was released to DVD on its own. Although released in the same format as the "vanilla" releases of past seasons, this DVD included a bonus feature of the Doctor Who Confidential instalment relating to the 2006 Children in Need concert. This was the first time a full-length episode of Confidential was released to DVD.
 * The first episode of the second season of Totally Doctor Who aired in the UK. This season, Totally Doctor Who featured a serialised animated Doctor Who adventure, The Infinite Quest, with the voices of David Tennant, Freema Agyeman and Anthony Stewart Head (the last playing a new character).
 * 7 April - The Shakespeare Code debuted on BBC One.
 * 14 April - Gridlock debuted on BBC One, concluding a trilogy of episodes that began with The End of the World.
 * 16 April - Survival was released to DVD in the UK.
 * 19 April - Sting of the Zygons, The Last Dodo and Wooden Heart were first published.
 * 21 April - Daleks in Manhattan debuted on BBC One. The episode included some second-unit filming in New York City, the first non-UK filming for a regular episode since The Two Doctors and the first US production work ever for the franchise.
 * 28 April - TV Evolution of the Daleks debuted on BBC One.
 * AUDIO: Exotron and AUDIO: Urban Myths were first released. Urban Myths was a single-episode bonus story included with Exotron.
 * AUDIO: The Two Jasons was first published.
 * 5 May - The Lazarus Experiment debuted on BBC One. The story guest-starred longtime Doctor Who novelist and occasional scriptwriter Mark Gatiss.hristmas special then titled Starship Titanic.
 * 16 May (releases)] - DWBIT Daleks vs Cybermen Special, the first spinoff special issue of Battles in Time magazine, was published in the UK.
 * Before 19 May - 42 Prologue, a short story, was published exclusively online as part of the BBC's Doctor Who website. This was the first BBC-published exclusive-to-Internet Doctor Who story since PROSE: The Feast of the Stone several years earlier, and the first of several Tenth Doctor stories to be published online through the end of 2009.
 * 19 May - 42 debuted on BBC One.
 * 21 May - The DVD Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 1 was released in the UK, including the episodes Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code and Gridlock.
 * 26 May - Human Nature debuted on BBC One. This episode, and the one that followed, adapted the Virgin New Adventures novel Human Nature, a first for the franchise. The episode was also significant for showing drawings of several past incarnations of the Doctor - the first time the revived series had directly shown Doctors prior to the Ninth Doctor including, significantly, the Eighth Doctor.
 * AUDIO: Valhalla was first released.
 * Short Trips: Destination Prague was first published.
 * AUDIO: Freedom of Information was first released
 * 2 June - The Family of Blood debuted on BBC One.
 * 4 June - Robot was released to DVD in the UK.
 * 5 June - The New Beginnings DVD box set consisting of The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Castrovalva was released in both Region 1 and Region 4.
 * 6 June - Survival was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 9 June - Blink debuted on BBC One. This Doctor-lite episode, starring Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow, won the franchise's third Hugo Award and became one of the most critically and fan-acclaimed episodes in franchise history.
 * 16 June - Utopia debuted on BBC One, marking the return of the Master, last seen on screen in the 1996 TV movie and played by Derek Jacobi and John Simm. John Barrowman also returned to the series as Jack Harkness; the episode took place immediately after the events of End of Days and marked the start of the revived series' first three-part story.
 * 18 June - The CBC in Canada began airing Series 3. In an unusual (and criticised) move, the network first aired Smith and Jones during prime time, and then broadcast the Christmas special The Runaway Bride a few hours later, after midnight in most areas of Canada (it had been originally scheduled to air by itself on 11 June, but was rescheduled to accommodate hockey broadcasts).
 * 23 June - The Sound of Drums debuted on BBC One. It was the first full episode featuring John Simm as the Master. Alexandra Moen debuted as Lucy Saxon.
 * 25 June - The DVD Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 2 was released in the UK, featuring the episodes Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, The Lazarus Experiment and 42.
 * 29 June - The final episode of Totally Doctor Who was broadcast; it was subsequently cancelled. The final episode of the animated serial, The Infinite Quest, also aired.
 * 30 June - Last of the Time Lords debuted on BBC One, concluding the third season of the Doctor Who revival. Freema Agyeman left the series as a regular, as did John Barrowman, again.
 * The final episode of Doctor Who Confidential's third season aired afterwards.
 * AUDIO: The Wishing Beast and AUDIO: The Vanity Box were first released. The Vanity Box was a single-episode bonus feature included with The Wishing Beast.
 * Short Trips: Snapshots was first published.
 * 2 July - First cast read-through for Voyage of the Damned was held at Central Baptist Church in London.
 * 2 July - Due to a quirk in scheduling involving its broadcasts of the U20 World Cup, the CBC in Canada gave The Runaway Bride its only prime-time broadcast, albeit only in Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories.
 * Robot was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 9 July - Timelash was released to DVD in the UK.
 * 23 July - The DVD Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 3 was released in the UK, featuring the episodes Human Nature, The Family of Blood and Blink.
 * Timelash was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * AUDIO: Frozen Time was first released.
 * Nobody's Children was first published.
 * 6 August - Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity were released to DVD in the UK in a two-disc set.
 * 14 August - The North American DVD release of Robot and Survival took place.
 * 16 August - Child of Time was first published. It was the eleventh and, to date, final novel in the Time Hunter series.
 * 20 August - The DVD Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 4 was released in the UK, concluding the "vanilla" releases of episodes from Series 3. This release included the complete finale trilogy of Utopia, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords.
 * Forever Autumn, Sick Building and Wetworld were first published.
 * AUDIO: Son of the Dragon was first released.
 * AUDIO: 100 was first released.
 * AUDIO: The End of the World - a Bernice Summerfield audio drama not to be confused with the 2005 Doctor Who episode of the same title - was first released
 * 3 September - The Time Warrior was released to DVD in the UK.
 * 3 September - BBC Audio launched a series of audio releases adapting Target Books novelisations. These recordings, virtually unabridged, featured (for the most part) veteran cast members reading the long-out-of-print books. The first releases were Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters and Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon.
 * 3 - AUDIO: Doctor Who at the BBC: The Tenth Doctor, a radio documentary presented by Elisabeth Sladen, was first released on CD by BBC Audio.
 * 23 September - The American animated series  broadcasted the episode "Blue Harvest", a nearly scene-by-scene parody of Star Wars: A New Hope. A joke involving hyperspace featured a brief clip of the classic mid-1970s opening sequence of Doctor Who featuring Tom Baker and a few bars of the Doctor Who theme. This was the first time any footage from the Tom Baker era, or the classic Delia Derbyshire arrangement of the theme, had appeared on an American commercial network. The episode, with DW clip intact, was released to DVD in North America in early 2008.
 * 24 September - Revenge of the Slitheen debuted on BBC One, launching the first full season of The Sarah Jane Adventures (following the pilot episode, Invasion of the Bane, which had aired months earlier). This was the first half-hour episode produced by the televised Doctor Who franchise since episode 3 of Survival in 1989.
 * 24 September - Nearly five years after it was released to DVD in North America (Region 1), the complete Key to Time season was finally released in Region 2 (UK). This version, issued in a somewhat limited release, included featurettes and other extra features not included in the 2002 version. This was the first UK release of a complete classic series season in one set. The episodes were The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll and The Armageddon Factor.
 * AUDIO: Absolution was first released.
 * AUDIO: Mother Russia was first released.
 * AUDIO: Dalek Empire IV: The Fearless: Part 1 was first released, launching Big Finish Productions' fourth Dalek Empire mini-series, three years after the third.
 * AUDIO: The Final Amendment was first released.
 * REF: The Target Book: A History of the Target Doctor Who Books was first published.
 * 1 October - Eye of the Gorgon part 1 debuted on BBC One.
 * 3 October - The Time Warrior was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 8 October - Eye of the Gorgon part 2 debuted on BBC One.
 * 15 October - Warriors of Kudlak part 1 debuted on BBC One.
 * 15 October - Planet of Evil is released to DVD in the UK.
 * 22 October - Warriors of Kudlak part 2 debuted on BBC One.
 * 29 October - Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? part 1 debuted on BBC One.
 * Invasion of the Bane was released by itself on DVD in the UK. This was the only episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, to date, to be released on its own in a "vanilla" edition.
 * AUDIO: The Mind's Eye and AUDIO: Mission of the Viyrans were first released. Mission of the Viyrans was a single-episode bonus story included with The Mind's Eye.
 * AUDIO: Helicon Prime was first released.
 * AUDIO: Dalek Empire IV: The Fearless: Part 2 was first released.
 * Old Friends was first published.
 * Missing Adventures was first published.
 * 1 November - Invasion of the Bane, Revenge of the Slitheen, Eye of the Gorgon and Warriors of Kudlak were all first published. These novelisations, based upon episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures, were the first releases by Penguin Character Books and marked the first major release of televised story novelisations since the Target Books line was retired in 1994 (notwithstanding a few one-off Doctor Who releases between 1994 and 2005). Invasion of the Bane was Terrance Dicks' first TV novelisation since Doctor Who - The Space Pirates some two decades earlier.
 * 5 November - Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? part 2 debuted on BBC One.
 * The complete Third Series of Doctor Who was released in a DVD box set in the UK.
 * The Infinite Quest, an animated Tenth Doctor serial produced for Totally Doctor Who, was released to DVD in the UK. To date this has been the only DVD release of material from Totally Doctor Who.
 * AUDIO: The Thirteenth Stone and AUDIO: The Glittering Storm, two original made-for-audio The Sarah Jane Adventures stories, were released by BBC Audio.
 * Audio adaptations of Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion and Doctor Who and the Giant Robot were first released. The latter was read by Tom Baker and featured his first performance as the Fourth Doctor since his cameo in NOTVALID: Dimensions in Time.
 * 6 November - Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity were released to DVD in Region 1. Unlike the UK release, the two stories were issued separately rather than as a set.
 * The complete Third Series of Doctor Who was released in a DVD box set in North America (Region 1).
 * 7 November - The complete Key to Time season was released to DVD in Region 4. The episodes were The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll and The Armageddon Factor.
 * 12 November - The Lost Boy part 1 debuted on BBC One.
 * 16 November - Time Crash, a mini-episode set between Last of the Time Lords and Voyage of the Damned, debuted on BBC One as part of the 2007 Children in Need appeal. Discounting NOTVALID: Dimensions in Time, Peter Davison made his first appearance as the Doctor since 1984's The Caves of Androzani. It was the first multi-Doctor television story since The Two Doctors. It was the final use of the Doctor Who theme arrangement by Murray Gold introduced in 2005.
 * 19 November - The Lost Boy part 2 debuted on BBC One, concluding the first season of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
 * The complete First Series of Torchwood was released in a DVD box set in the UK.
 * 26 November - Destiny of the Daleks was released to DVD in the UK.
 * BBC Video released the box set The Complete Davros Collection including the previously released stories Genesis of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks, and a new edition of Remembrance of the Daleks. This marked the first time a previously released story was revisited on DVD with new features and restoration work.
 * The Davros DVD set also included AUDIO: The Davros Mission, a single-episode audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions, as a bonus feature.
 * Wishing Well, The Pirate Loop and Peacemaker were first published.
 * AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was was first released.
 * AUDIO: Old Soldiers was first released.
 * Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas was first published.
 * AUDIO: Dalek Empire IV: The Fearless: Part 3 was first released.
 * IDW Publishing, an American comic book company, launched Doctor Who Classics, a monthly series of colourised reprints of Fourth Doctor comic strips from the early days of Doctor Who Weekly. This was in advance of the launch of a new original Tenth Doctor monthly series scheduled to begin in early 2008.
 * 1 December - The BBC's Doctor Who website launched the 2007 Advent Calendar. Each day between the 1st and 24th, a different item was uploaded to the site, ranging from exclusive video and games to original fiction.
 * 2 December - The Frozen, an exclusive-to-Internet Doctor Who short story, was published on the 2007 Doctor Who Advent Calendar, a special feature on the BBC's Doctor Who website.
 * Planet of Evil was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 22 December - A Christmas-themed Doctor Who short story, The Hopes and Fears of All the Years, was published on the Telegraph.co.uk website.
 * 22 December - Chute! special was first broadcast on CBBC.
 * 25 December - Voyage of the Damned, the third Doctor Who Christmas special, debuted on BBC One, introducing a new arrangement of the theme music, once again by Murray Gold. Bernard Cribbins, a Doctor Who veteran dating back to the 1960s film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., made his debut as Wilfred Mott, who became a recurring character in the next series. Much attention was given to the special's guest star, pop superstar Kylie Minogue.
 * Unknown - Circuit Training was first released by the BBC on the SJA Website.
 * Unknown - Slitheen Splatter was first released by the BBC on the SJA Website.
 * Unknown - Interstella Z-Wingers was first released by the BBC on the SJA Website.
 * Unknown - Is there anybody out there? was first released by the BBC on the SJA Website.