1982 (releases)


 * 4 January - Castrovalva Part One debuted on BBC1, launching Doctor Who's nineteenth season.
 * 5 January - Castrovalva Part Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 11 January - Castrovalva Part Three debuted on BBC1.
 * 12 January - Castrovalva Part Four debuted on BBC1.
 * 14 January - Doctor Who and the State of Decay was first published.
 * 18 January - Four to Doomsday Part One debuted on BBC1.
 * 18 January - Actor Rik Makarem was born.
 * 19 January - Four to Doomsday Part Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 25 January - Four to Doomsday Part Three debuted on BBC1.
 * 26 January - Four to Doomsday Part Four debuted on BBC1.
 * 1 February - Kinda Part One debuted on BBC1.
 * 2 February - Kinda Part Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 8 February - Kinda Part Three debuted on BBC1.
 * 9 February - Kinda Part Four debuted on BBC1.
 * 15 February - The Visitation Part One debuted on BBC1.
 * 16 February - The Visitation Part Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 22 February - The Visitation Part Three debuted on BBC1.
 * 23 February - The Visitation Part Four debuted on BBC1.
 * 1 March - Black Orchid Part One debuted on BBC1. This was the first purely historical story since The Highlanders.
 * 2 March - Black Orchid Part Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 8 March - Earthshock Part One debuted on BBC1.
 * 9 March - Earthshock Part Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 15 March - Earthshock Part Three debuted on BBC1.
 * 16 March - Earthshock Part Four debuted on BBC1.
 * 22 March - Time-Flight Part One debuted on BBC1. This episode featured the first mention of UNIT since The Seeds of Doom, as well as the first and only reference to Department C19 in the series.
 * 23 March - Time-Flight Part Two debuted on BBC1.
 * 29 March - Time-Flight Part Three debuted on BBC1.
 * 30 March - Time-Flight Part Four debuted on BBC1. Part 4 concluded Season 19 (which, thanks to the two-a-week broadcast schedule, had begun only three months earlier). The ending left viewers wondering whether Janet Fielding had left the series (she hadn't).
 * 15 April - Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate was first published.
 * 20 May - Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken was first published.
 * REF: Doctor Who: The Making of a Television Series was first published.
 * 22 July - Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive was first published.
 * The Doctor Who Annual 1983 was published.
 * The K9 Annual 1983 was published, the first and only annual to be based upon the aborted K9 and Company spin-off.
 * 19 August - Doctor Who and the Visitation was first published.
 * 16 September - Doctor Who - Full Circle was first published.

Autumn

 * October - John Nathan-Turner received approval to produce a ninety-minute twentieth anniversary special episode for broadcast in 1983 and began feeling out the interest of Doctor Who actors, including Tom Baker. At the time, the special carried the working title The Six Doctors, and Robert Holmes was commissioned to write the script; he subsequently left the project and Terrance Dicks wrote the script.
 * 21 October - Doctor Who - Logopolis was first published.
 * 18 November - Doctor Who and the Sunmakers was first published. This was the final Target Books novelisation release to use the title form Doctor Who and....
 * REF: The Second Doctor Who Quiz Book was published.
 * REF: The Doctor Who Crossword Book was published.
 * 24 December - A Girl's Best Friend was rebroadcast on BBC2.

Unknown dates

 * Magnet Books, a subsidiary of Methuen Children's Books, published 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) contained 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 were published in 1983.
 * The first edition of The Doctor and the Enterprise by Jean Airey was published; this unauthorised crossover between Doctor Who, Star Trek and Darkover became a cult classic in this initial small-press publication and an edited version was published in 1989 by Pioneer Books.