1995

History of the Doctor Who universe

 * On Earth, the DVD video format is finalized and within a few years would become the dominant home video entertainment format on the planet. Among those who subsequently became involved in DVD authoring is time-displaced Billy Shipton. (DW: Blink)

January

 * NA: Warlock is first published.
 * MA: The Romance of Crime is first published.
 * 11 - Peter Pratt, who portrayed the Master in DW: The Deadly Assassin, dies.

February

 * NA: Set Piece is first published. Ace leaves the Virgin New Adventures series a second time with this novel, this time for good, though she would make cameo appearances later.
 * DWN/MA: The Ghosts of N-Space is first published. This novelisation of the BBCR: Ghosts of N-Space audio drama is the first novelisation of any Doctor Who story to not be released under the now-retired Target Books banner. Instead, it is published as part of the Virgin Missing Adventures line, making it the first Third Doctor book of that line (but not an original story). It is the last novelisation of a BBC-produced Doctor Who story to be published by Virgin Publishing and the last until BBC Books published Doctor Who - The Novel of the Film in 1996.
 * REF: The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel is first published.
 * 22 - Nicholas Pennell (David Winton in DW: Colony in Space) dies from cancer in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.

March

 * NA: Infinite Requiem is first published.
 * MA: Time of Your Life is first published.
 * 6 - Alan Haywood, who played Hector in DW: The Myth Makers, dies from a heart attack.

April

 * NA: Sanctuary is first published.
 * MA: Dancing the Code is first published. First original Third Doctor novel.

May

 * NA: Human Nature is first published. This novel would later be adapted for television by its author (Paul Cornell) for the third series of the revived Doctor Who in 2007 (see DW: Human Nature/The Family of Blood). The renders Human Nature one of a handful of licensed novels whose canonicity is in question.
 * MA: The Menagerie is first published. First original Second Doctor novel.
 * 18 - REF: The Discontinuity Guide is first published.

June

 * NA: Original Sin is first published, introducing new literary companions Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester. Cwej is the first gay companion to be depicted in an official piece of Doctor Who fiction.
 * MA: System Shock is first published.

July

 * NA: Sky Pirates! is first published.
 * MA: The Sorcerer's Apprentice is first published.
 * 20 - Virgin Publishing releases a paperback edition of REF: Doctor Who: A Celebration by Peter Haining, 12 years after the hardcover was first issued.
 * 27 - The 1996 edition of the Doctor Who Yearbook is published by Marvel Comics (unlike previous editions, the title bears no date). This is the fifth and final Yearbook to be published by Marvel. The Annual concept would be revived once again a decade later.

August

 * NA: Zamper is first published.
 * MA: Invasion of the Cat-People is first published.
 * 7 - Dursley McLinden, who played Mike Smith in DW: Remembrance of the Daleks, dies.
 * 17 - Virgin Publishing issues a new paperback edition of REF: Doctor Who: The Time-Travellers' Guide.
 * REF: Doctor Who: The Seventies is published in paperback.
 * 18 - Donald Bisset, who played Colin McLaren in DW: The Highlanders, dies in London.

September

 * NA: Toy Soldiers is first published.
 * MA: Managra is first published.
 * Alan Bromly (director of DW: The Time Warrior and DW: Nightmare of Eden) dies.

October

 * NA: Head Games is first published, featuring the return of Mel.
 * MA: Millennial Rites is first published.
 * 16 - REF: Doctor Who: Companions first published.

November

 * NA: The Also People is first published.
 * MA: The Empire of Glass is first published.
 * 16 - REF: Blacklight is first published.
 * 26 - "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", an episode of the American animated series The Simpsons broadcast in the United States. This episode features an animated caricature of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and is the first of several on-screen references to Doctor Who the series would make over the next decade.

December

 * DWN/NA: Shakedown First Published. Published under the Virgin New Adventures line, this book is a novelisation of the unofficial fan film RP: Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans'' and is the second of three post-Target Books novelisations to be published by Virgin Publishing. It is also the first time such a production has been adapted in this way. The middle of the novel adapts the film, with a framing story involving the Seventh Doctor and companions added.
 * MA: Lords of the Storm is first published.
 * 07 - REF: Doctor Who - The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor is first published.
 * 11 - The Outpost Gallifrey website and Doctor Who Forum are launched by Shaun Lyon. With modifications and name changes along the way, they run until 2009.
 * 16 - Tony Then (Lee in DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang) dies in Singapore.

Unknown

 * VD: Decalog 2: Lost Property is first published.
 * Early winter: Who fandom is taken by surprise with the announcement that the American network, Fox, is to co-produce with the BBC a made-for-television film reviving Doctor Who, as a possible "pilot" for a new series. The producers announce that Paul McGann has been cast as the new Doctor, but Sylvester McCoy will also appear as the Seventh Doctor, making the film a continuation of the original series rather than a remake or reboot. DW: Doctor Who is scheduled to air in the spring of 1996. Filming is to take place in Vancouver, Canada, marking not only the first time a Doctor Who story has been filmed in North America, but also the first time a story had been completely mounted outside the United Kingdom (previously foreign location filming had been done, with studio filming still in Britain).
 * Panini Comics takes over the publishing rights to Doctor Who Magazine from Marvel Comics UK.
 * A "Special Edition" of DW: The Five Doctors is released by BBC Video, featuring updated special effects, reordered scenes, new musical scoring, and other new footage. The Special Edition is heavily criticised by some fans, as well as by John Nathan Turner in Doctor Who Magazine.