2005 (releases)


 * January - Big Finish Doctor Who audio story The Juggernauts was first released.
 * January - Snake Head, the third story in the Big Finish UNIT audio series, was first released.
 * 3 January - Match of the Day was first published. This was the final BBC Past Doctor Adventures (PDA) novel to feature the Fourth Doctor and,, the most recent original Fourth Doctor novel. The PDA series was suspended until July to allow for the premiere and broadcast of the first season of the revived series.


 * 17 January - Horror of Fang Rock was released to DVD in the UK.
 * 29 January - Big Finish Productions published the books Wildthyme on Top, Project: Valhalla and The Coming of the Queen. Big Finish also announced it would produce two single audio stories featuring Iris Wildthyme.
 * February - AUDIO: The Game was first released.
 * 3 February - Ghost Light was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 7 February - To the Slaughter was first published.
 * 11 February - The Doctor Who Information Network (DWIN), the main Canadian Doctor Who fan club, launched its News Blog website.
 * March - AUDIO: Dreamtime was first released.
 * March - AUDIO: The Longest Night was first released.
 * 1 March - The Visitation and The Green Death were released to DVD in Region 1.
 * 7 March - The Mind Robber was released to DVD in the UK.
 * 15 March - Mastermind: Doctor Who Special was first broadcast.
 * 22 March - "Bigger on the Inside" debuted on BBC One on BBC Radio 2.
 * 26 March - Rose debuted on BBC One, returning Doctor Who to television as a weekly series for the first time since 1989 and launching Series 1.
 * 26 March- In conjunction with the debut of the new series, BBC Three premiered its behind-the-scenes series, Doctor Who Confidential, the same night.
 * 26 March - The Doctor Who Story was broadcast on UK Gold.
 * 29 March - "Reverse the Polarity" debuted on BBC One.
 * AUDIO: Lies was first released. This audio drama featured the landmark first meeting between the first two incarnations of Romana, featuring Mary Tamm returning to the role of Romana I.
 * 2 April - The End of the World debuted on BBC One.
 * 7 April - Horror of Fang Rock was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 9 April - The Unquiet Dead debuted on BBC One.
 * 9 April - Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins was first published.
 * 16 April - Aliens of London debuted on BBC One.
 * 21 April - Echoes was first published.
 * 23 April - World War Three debuted on BBC One.
 * 25 April - The Claws of Axos was released to DVD in the UK; this was the first classic series DVD release in the UK since the revival of the series.
 * 30 April - Dalek debuted on BBC One.
 * BBC Books launched the New Series Adventures line of original novels tying in with the new series; this line, featuring the Ninth Doctor, replaced the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures and BBC Past Doctor Adventures lines, though both continued publishing briefly. The new line of books was published in hardcover and had a shorter word count than the EDA/PDA novels. The books were released three at a time. The first three released were The Clockwise Man, The Monsters Inside and Winner Takes All.
 * May - AUDIO: Three's a Crowd was first released.
 * AUDIO: Catch-1782 was first released.
 * Short Trips: A Day in the Life was first published.
 * AUDIO: Spirit was first released.
 * AUDIO: Project: WHO? was first released by BBC Audio. This was a CD issue of the two-part BBC Radio documentary Project Who on the return of Doctor Who, featuring interviews with Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper and others.
 * 5 May - The Mind Robber was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 7 May - The Long Game debuted on BBC One. Bruno Langley departed the series as his character, Adam Mitchell, was forced out of the TARDIS by the Doctor.
 * 14 May - Father's Day debuted on BBC One.
 * 16 May - In the UK, BBC Video released Doctor Who: Volume 1 with the episodes Rose, The End of the World and The Unquiet Dead. This was the first of a series of "vanilla" (extras-free) DVDs released by BBC Video featuring episodes from a still-underway season and the first new-series episodes (and first Ninth Doctor episodes) to be released to home video.
 * 21 May - The Empty Child debuted on BBC One.
 * 28 May - The Doctor Dances debuted on BBC One.
 * The Gallifrey Chronicles was first published. This was the final release in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel series, as BBC Books prepared to move into publishing novels exclusively based upon the revived series. One further Eighth Doctor novel was published in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures line.
 * AUDIO: Unregenerate! was first released.
 * AUDIO: Pandora and AUDIO: Insurgency were first released.
 * AUDIO: The Wasting was first released. It was the final episode of the spin-off series UNIT.
 * The BBC announced that a Christmas special was already commissioned for 2006, as well as a third season for the new Doctor Who series.
 * 2 June - The Claws of Axos was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 3 June - The Tree of Life was first published.
 * 4 June - Boom Town debuted on BBC One.
 * 7 June - The Leisure Hive was released to DVD in Region 1.
 * 11 June - Bad Wolf debuted on BBC One.
 * 13 June - The DVD Doctor Who: Volume 2 was released by BBC Video, featuring the new series episodes Aliens of London, World War Three and Dalek.
 * 18 June - The Parting of the Ways debuted on BBC One, concluding the first season of the revival of Doctor Who.
 * 21 June - Ghost Light was released to DVD in Region 1.
 * Island of Death was first published. It was the final PDA novel to feature the Third Doctor and the last Third Doctor original novel to date. The PDA series returned to monthly released for the remainder of the year as the final books in the line were published.
 * AUDIO: Terror Firma was first released.
 * 11 July - Revelation of the Daleks was released to DVD in the UK. Beginning with this release, BBC Video issued Doctor Who DVDs in conjunction with 2|entertain.
 * 15 July - The first performance of the Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS live stage tour was held at the Robert Blackwood Hall in Melbourne, Australia.
 * 16 July - The second performance of the Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS live stage tour was held at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.
 * 17 July - The third performance of the Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS live stage tour was held at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.
 * 21 July - Peculiar Lives was first published.
 * 21 July - The fourth performance of the Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS live stage tour was held at the Burswood Theatre in Perth, Australia.
 * 23 July - The fifth performance of the Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS live stage tour was held at the Festival Theatre in Adelaide, Australia.
 * 26 July - The sixth performance of the Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS live stage tour was held at the Canberra Theatre in Canberra, Australia.
 * 29 July - The seventh performance of the Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS live stage tour was held at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, Australia.
 * 30 July - The eighth performance of the Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS live stage tour was held at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, Australia.
 * Spiral Scratch (originally promoted under the title Future Nostalgia) was first published. It was the final novel to date to feature the Sixth Doctor, and also depicted his regeneration story that ties into Time and the Rani.
 * AUDIO: The Council of Nicaea was first released.
 * AUDIO: Imperiatrix was first released.
 * 1 August - The DVD Doctor Who: Volume 3, featuring the episodes The Long Game, Father's Day, The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, was first released.
 * The ninth performance of the Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS live stage tour was held at the Brisbane Convention Centre in Brisbane, Australia.
 * 5 August - The tenth performance of the Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS live stage tour was held at the Westpac St James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand.
 * 6 August - The last performance of the Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS live stage tour was held at the Civic Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand.
 * The Deviant Strain, Only Human, and The Stealers of Dreams were first published. To date, these were the last novels featuring the Ninth Doctor as BBC Books changed to novels featuring the Tenth Doctor.
 * Fear Itself was first published. This was the last novel to date to feature the Eighth Doctor and was the only time this incarnation was featured in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures line.
 * AUDIO: Thicker Than Water was first released.
 * AUDIO: LIVE 34 was first released.
 * Short Trips: The Solar System was first published.
 * AUDIO: Scorpius, the first episode of a new Big Finish Productions spin-off series, Cyberman, was first released.
 * Doctor Who Annual 2006 was first published. This marked the return of the Doctor Who annual, a once-traditional publication that was issued during most of the run of the original series. Marvel Comics last made an attempt at reviving the format in the early 1990s.
 * 1 September - Revelation of the Daleks was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 5 September - AUDIO: Doctor Who at the BBC Volume 3 was first released, including the first release of an unbroadcast Third Doctor audio mini-episode recorded for Glorious Goodwood.
 * BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Volume 4, featuring the episodes Boom Town, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways. This concluded the series of "vanilla" DVD released of episodes from the first revival season. Discounting the unique appearance of the Eighth Doctor, the Ninth Doctor became the first Doctor to have his complete era released to DVD.
 * 9 September - The Web Planet was released to DVD in the UK.
 * World Game was first published. It was the final Second Doctor novel to date.
 * AUDIO: Scaredy Cat was first released.
 * AUDIO: Fear was first released.
 * 6 October - BBC Video released a special Dalek Collector's Edition DVD box set exclusively in UK W H Smith stores. The set included the previously released The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Resurrection of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks.
 * The Time Travellers was first published. It was the final First Doctor novel to date.
 * AUDIO: Singularity was first released.
 * AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large was first released, launching an ongoing series of audio dramas featuring the character of Iris Wildthyme, played by Katy Manning.
 * 3 November - The Web Planet was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 6 November - Horror of Fang Rock, The Mind Robber and The Claws of Axos were released to DVD in Region 1.
 * 7 November - BBC Audio released Travels in Time and Space, a box set collecting three unabridged readings of early novelisations: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, Doctor Who and the Zarbi and Doctor Who and the Crusaders, all read by William Russell.
 * 7 - City of Death was released to DVD in the UK.
 * 18 November - The Children in Need Special was broadcast by the BBC as part of the Children in Need appeal, marking the first solo appearance by David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. This seven-minute mini-episode bridged the events of The Parting of the Ways and The Christmas Invasion. It became the first production of the series revival not to be broadcast outside the UK (though it was later included on international DVDs).
 * 21 November - The complete Series 1 (2005) of Doctor Who was released to DVD in the UK as a box set. This was the first time a complete season of Doctor Who was released all at once (although all episodes had been issued previously in vanilla editions). Included was a bonus disc featuring the first DVD release of episodes of Doctor Who Confidential, although due to licensing and appearance rights issues, the practice of releasing edited-down versions (retitled Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown) to DVD was begun.
 * 25 November - AUDIO: Dreamland was recorded.
 * Atom Bomb Blues was first published. This novel featuring the Seventh Doctor was the final release in the BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures line. After this, BBC Books published only novels based upon the current series of Doctor Who, and also moved away from the paperback format to a hardcover one (with the exception of Quick Reads novellas) hereafter.
 * AUDIO: Other Lives was first released.
 * Short Trips: The History of Christmas was first published.
 * AUDIO: Conversion was first released.
 * AUDIO: The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme was first released. This was the last Iris Wildthyme audio drama until 2009.
 * December - Deus Le Volt, the eighth Time Hunter novel published by Telos Publishing.
 * 1 December - City of Death was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 23 December - BBC Radio Wales broadcast Back in Time - New Doctor, New Danger, featuring Russell T Davies and others.
 * 25 December - The Christmas Invasion debuted on BBC One, officially launching the Tenth Doctor era.
 * 25 December - Following the broadcast of The Christmas Invasion, the BBC Red Button service made available NOTVALID: Attack of the Graske, an interactive mini-episode-cum-game featuring David Tennant. Initially this was only available for viewing/playing in the UK.