2011 (releases)


 * The 2011 series of IDW Publishing's Doctor Who Ongoing comic book, featuring the adventures of the Eleventh Doctor, was first released.
 * AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster was released.
 * AUDIO: Prisoner of the Sun was released.
 * AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox was released.
 * The second series of Jago and Litefoot was released.
 * 10 January - 11 January - AUDIO: The Children of Seth was recorded.
 * 10 January - This date was the anniversary of the return of Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor in the Big Finish Productions audio drama series.
 * 10 January - Meglos was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 11 January - Production began on the Fourth Series of Torchwood in LA
 * 15 January - Actor Susannah York died.
 * 24 January - A Christmas Carol was released on Region 2 DVD. The set also contained Doctor Who at the Proms (2010).
 * 31 January: TV - The Mutants was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * AUDIO: The Feast of Axos was released.
 * AUDIO: Lucie Miller was released. This was the first of a two-part story to be concluded with To the Death.
 * AUDIO: The Perpetual Bond was released.
 * 2 February - Actor Margaret John died.
 * 13 February - Actor T. P. McKenna died.
 * 14 February - The Ark was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 14 February - AUDIO: Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes - Collection Two audio box set was released in the UK. This collection incorporates audio tracks for several William Hartnell missing stories: Mission to the Unknown, The Daleks' Master Plan, The Massacre, The Celestial Toymaker, and The Savages.
 * 22 February - Actor Nicholas Courtney died.
 * 28 February - Short Trips: Volume 2 was released, again containing one story for each of the first eight Doctors.
 * Short Trips: Volume 3 was released.
 * AUDIO: Industrial Evolution was released.
 * AUDIO: The Forbidden Time was released.
 * AUDIO: To the Death was released. It was the sequel to last month's Lucie Miller, and the final episode of the fourth series of The New Eighth Doctor Adventures.
 * 7 March - Kinda and Snakedance were released on Region 2 DVD in the Mara Tales box set.
 * 17 March - Actor Michael Gough died.
 * 18 March - Space and Time were first broadcast. These were two 2011 Comic Relief specials (comprising one story) written by Steven Moffat, and the first televised story to have no settings other than the TARDIS since The Edge of Destruction (although technically Amy's Choice also took place entirely inside the ship).
 * 28 March - The second Revisitations DVD box set was released, comprising new editions of stories that were released early in the range and containing new special features. This release included Carnival of Monsters, Resurrection of the Daleks, and The Seeds of Death.
 * AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar was released.
 * AUDIO: Thin Ice was released.
 * AUDIO: The Sentinels of the New Dawn was released.
 * The Minister of Chance series began with MC: The Pointed Hand.
 * 9 April - Actor Yolande Palfrey died.
 * 14 April - Actor Trevor Bannister died.
 * 18 April - Planet of the Spiders was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 19 April - Actor Elisabeth Sladen died.
 * 23 April - The Impossible Astronaut was first broadcast on BBC One, launching series six of Doctor Who. This was one of only three instances where a new series Doctor Who television story took place on the same day as its broadcast. The other two occurrences were: The Big Bang (26 June 2010) and part one of The End of Time (25 December 2009).
 * 30 April - Day of the Moon was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * AUDIO: Kiss of Death was released.
 * AUDIO: Ferril's Folly was released.
 * 7 May - The Curse of the Black Spot was first broadcast.
 * 9 May - Spearhead from Space and Terror of the Autons were released on Region 2 DVD as part of the Mannequin Mania box set.''
 * 14 May - The Doctor's Wife was first broadcast.
 * 16 May - Actor Derek Crewe died.
 * 21 May - The Rebel Flesh was first broadcast.
 * 21 - Actor Bill Hunter died.
 * 28 May - The Almost People was first broadcast.
 * 30 May - Frontios was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 31 May - AUDIO: Crime of the Century was released.
 * AUDIO: Rat Trap was released.
 * AUDIO: Animal was released.
 * AUDIO: The Cold Equations, the last of the range's fifth series, was released.
 * The third series of Jago and Litefoot was released.
 * 4 June - A Good Man Goes to War was broadcast. After this episode, Series 6 was scheduled to go on hiatus until later in the year, marking the longest mid-season hiatus in the series' history. This episode also included the first appearance of Vastra, Jenny Flint and Strax.
 * 4 - Actor Donald Hewlett died.
 * 7 June - The BBC announced that they had commissioned a 2011 Christmas special, as well as Series 7, with Matt Smith remaining in the role of the Eleventh Doctor. Piers Wenger, however, would step down as Executive Producer and leave the BBC altogether.
 * 15 June - The BBC, through BBC One controller Danny Cohen, confirmed that the recently commissioned Series 7 would air over two years - 2012 and 2013. The first five episodes aired in September 2012, with a 2012 Christmas special scheduled.
 * 20 June - The Gunfighters and The Awakening were released on Region 2 DVD, compiled as the Earth Story box set. The release of The Awakening meant that the entire Fifth Doctor era was on DVD.
 * Episode 3 of Galaxy 4 was recovered.
 * AUDIO: Robophobia was released.
 * AUDIO: Earth Aid was released.
 * AUDIO: Tales from the Vault was released.
 * 8 July - The New World, the first episode of Series 4 of Torchwood (known as Miracle Day), was first broadcast in the US, on cable network Starz.
 * 11 July - Doctor Who - Series 6, Part 1 was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 14 July - Torchwood: Miracle Day premiered in the UK, with the broadcast of the first episode, The New World.
 * 14 - Actor Robert Cartland died.
 * 15 July - Rendition was first broadcast in the US.
 * 18 July - Paradise Towers was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 19 July - Doctor Who - Series 6, Part 1 was released on Region 1 DVD.
 * 21 July - Rendition was first broadcast in the UK.
 * 22 July - Dead of Night was first broadcast in the US.
 * 24 July - Interviewed at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego, Karen Gillan confirmed she would return for an unstated number of episodes in series 7.
 * 28 July - Dead of Night was first broadcast in the UK.
 * 29 July - Escape to LA was first broadcast in the US.
 * AUDIO: Recorded Time and Other Stories was released.
 * AUDIO: The Rocket Men was released.
 * 1 August - The Sun Makers was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 4 August - Escape to LA was first broadcast in the UK.
 * 4 - AUDIO: Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes - Collection Three audio box set was released in the UK. This collection incorporates the audio tracks for several missing First Doctor and Second Doctor stories: The Smugglers, The Tenth Planet, The Power of the Daleks, The Highlanders, The Underwater Menace, and The Moonbase.
 * 4 - Doctor Who - Series 6, Part 1 was released on Region 4 DVD.
 * 5 August - The Categories of Life was first broadcast in the US.
 * 11 August - The Categories of Life was first broadcast in the UK.
 * 12 August - The Middle Men was first broadcast in the US.
 * 18 August - The Middle Men was first broadcast in the UK.
 * 19 August - Immortal Sins was first broadcast in the US.
 * 25 August - Immortal Sins was first broadcast in the UK.
 * 26 August - End of the Road was first broadcast in the US.
 * 27 August - Let's Kill Hitler was first broadcast in the UK and US, beginning the second half of the sixth series.
 * 31 August - Short Trips: Volume 4 was released.
 * AUDIO: The Doomsday Quatrain was released.
 * AUDIO: House of Blue Fire was released.
 * AUDIO: The Memory Cheats was released.
 * 1 September - End of the Road was first broadcast in the UK.
 * 2 September - The Gathering was first broadcast in the US.
 * 3 September - Night Terrors was first broadcast.
 * 8 September - The Gathering was first broadcast in the UK.
 * 9 September - The Blood Line was first broadcast in the US, ending the show's fourth series.
 * 10 September - The Girl Who Waited was first broadcast.
 * 13 September - Day of the Daleks was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 15 September - The Blood Line was first broadcast in the UK.
 * 17 September - The God Complex was first broadcast.
 * 19 September - The second episode of The Underwater Menace was recoverd.
 * 24 September - Closing Time was first broadcast.
 * AUDIO: The Silver Turk was released.
 * AUDIO: The Elite was released.
 * AUDIO: The Many Deaths of Jo Grant was released.
 * 1 October - The Wedding of River Song was first broadcast in the UK and US, bringing to a close the sixth series.
 * 1 - A special episode of Doctor Who, Death is the Only Answer, was first broadcast. This was a three-minute 'mini episode' written by schoolchildren from Basingstoke who won a Doctor Who Confidential competition.
 * 3 October - Colony in Space was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 3 - Sky Part One was first broadcast. This opened the fifth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, which was also the final series, due to the 2011 death of series star Elisabeth Sladen. Although originally conceived as twelve episodes (six serials), only the first six episodes were completed. It was the first appearance of Sinead Michael, who joined the cast as Sky.
 * 4 October - Sky Part Two was first broadcast.
 * 7 October - Actor George Baker died.
 * 10 October - The Curse of Clyde Langer Part One was first broadcast.
 * 11 October - The Curse of Clyde Langer Part Two was first broadcast
 * 17 October - The Man Who Never Was Part One was first broadcast
 * 18 October - The Man Who Never Was Part Two aired, concluding the fifth and final series of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
 * 22 October - This was the fifth anniversary of the debut of Torchwood.
 * 29 October - Television host Jimmy Savile died.
 * 31 October - Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 31 - GAME: The Gunpowder Plot was released.
 * AUDIO: The Witch from the Well was released.
 * AUDIO: Hexagora was released.
 * AUDIO: The First Wave was released.
 * 14 November - Torchwood: Miracle Day was released on Region 2 DVD.
 * 18 November - The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe was announced as the title for the year's Christmas special on Children in Need. The first footage was shown and Matt Smith revealed that he was selling his costume for Children in Need.
 * 21 November - Series 6 was released on DVD.
 * 11 December - The BBC announced the discovery of two missing Doctor Who episodes: episode 3 of Galaxy 4 and episode 2 of The Underwater Menace.
 * AUDIO: Army of Death was released.
 * AUDIO: The Children of Seth was released.
 * 25 December - The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe was broadcast.
 * 31 December - AUDIO: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure was released.