17 January (releases)


 * 1970 - Episode three of Spearhead from Space was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1970 - Part one of TV Comic story The Arkwood Experiments was first published.
 * 1974 - Target Books followed its successful 1973 reprintings of novelisations from the 1960s with the publications of its first newly commissioned adaptations, PROSE: Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion by Terrance Dicks, based upon the Third Doctor serial TV: Spearhead from Space, and PROSE: Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters by Malcolm Hulke, adapting TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians. Auton Invasion was the first of many Doctor Who novels written by Dicks over the next thirty-plus years and Target continued to novelise Doctor Who adventures for the next twenty years. The practice of giving novelisations titles differing from the broadcast versions continued off-and-on into the 1980s, though it occurred less frequently from the late 1970s.
 * 1976 - Part three of The Brain of Morbius was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1981 - Part three of Warriors' Gate was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 2005 - Horror of Fang Rock was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 2008 - With issue forty-seven, Doctor Who Adventures switched from a fortnightly magazine to a weekly.
 * 2010 - Doctor Who Adventures comic story The Highest Stake was first released by BBC Magazines.
 * 2013 - Doctor Who Adventures comic story An Ill Wind was first released by BBC Magazines.