2002

November

 * The Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Samantha Jones arrrive in San Francisco, however Sam Jones and the TARDIS fall into a dimensional anomaly. Sam Jones is lost, reverted to her original timeline. This version of Sam sacrifices herself to save the TARDIS and San Francisco. (EDA: Unnatural History)

January

 * EDA: Mad Dogs and Englishmen is first published.
 * PDA: Relative Dementias is first published.
 * BFA: The Ratings War, a single-episode story, is first released as an exclusive giveaway with Doctor Who Magazine. The DWM comic strip character Beep the Meep appears. Also included on the CD is episode 1 of BFA: Invaders from Mars.
 * BFA: Invaders from Mars is first released.
 * BFBS: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison is first published.

February

 * EDA: Hope is first published.
 * PDA: Drift is first published.
 * BFA: The Chimes of Midnight is first released.
 * 14 - After a six-month interval, the BBC website resumes the webcast series WC: Death Comes to Time with episode 2: "Planet of Blood, Part 1".
 * 22 - WC: Death Comes to Time Episode 3, "Planet of Blood, Part 2" is released.

March

 * EDA: Anachrophobia is first published.
 * PDA: Palace of the Red Sun is first published.
 * BFA: Seasons of Fear is first published.
 * 1 - WC: Death Comes to Time Episode 4, "Planet of Blood, Part 3" is released.
 * 4 - Claire Davenport, who portrayed the Empress in DW: Marco Polo, dies from renal failure.
 * 8 - WC: Death Comes to Time Episode 5, "The Child, Part 1" is released.
 * 15 - WC: Death Comes to Time Episode 6, "The Child, Part 2" is released.
 * 16 - During a broadcast of the NBC series Saturday Night Live, Sir Ian McKellen appears dressed as the Fourth Doctor in a sketch about public television. The TARDIS dematerialization sound effect is also heard.
 * 22 - WC: Death Comes to Time Episode 7, "The Child, Part 3" is released.
 * 28 - TN: Citadel of Dreams is first published.
 * 29 - WC: Death Comes to Time Episode 8, "No Child of Earth, Part 1" is released.

April

 * EDA: Trading Futures is first published.
 * PDA: Amorality Tale is first published.
 * BFA: Embrace the Darkness is first released.
 * 5 - WC: Death Comes to Time Episode 9, "No Child of Earth, Part 2" is released.
 * 12 - WC: Death Comes to Time Episode 10, "No Child of Earth, Part 3" is released.
 * 19 - WC: Death Comes to Time Episode 11, "Death Comes to Time, Part 1" is released.
 * 21 - Terry Walsh, longtime stunt person and fight arranger for Doctor Who, dies from cancer in London.
 * 26 - WC: Death Comes to Time Episode 12, "Death Comes to Time, Part 2" is released.

May

 * EDA: The Book of the Still is first published.
 * PDA: Warmonger is first published.
 * BFDE: Dalek Empire: The Time of the Daleks is first released.
 * The Killing Stone is first published. This is a non-Big Finish direct-to-audio story featuring Mike Yates of UNIT, written and read by Richard Franklin
 * 1 - Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner dies from liver failure in Brighton.
 * 3 - WC: Death Comes to Time Episode 13, "Death Comes to Time, Part 3" is released. This concludes the 13-part webcast experiment, which will be followed by three more over the next two years. The controversial ending of this episode sparks debate among some fans as to whether the 1996 telefilm or the 2005- revived series is actually canon.
 * 22 - TN: Nightdreamers is first published.

June

 * EDA The Crooked World is first published.
 * PDA: Ten Little Aliens is first published.
 * BFA: Neverland is first released.
 * BFA: The Maltese Penguin is first released. This single-episode audio drama was initially available exclusively to people who subscribed to the Big Finish audio dramas; it was later made available for purchase on its own.
 * 6th - Desmond Cullum-Jones, who appeared in DW: The War Machines, dies in Poole, Dorset.
 * 26th - Dolores Gray, who appeared in DW: Silver Nemesis, dies in Manhattan.

July

 * EDA: History 101 is first published.
 * PDA: Combat Rock is first published.
 * BFA: Spare Parts is first released.

August

 * EDA: Camera Obscura is first published.
 * PDA: The Suns of Caresh is first published. Last monthly release in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures line, which reduces in frequency hereafter.
 * BFA: ...ish is first released.
 * 2 - WC: Real Time episode 1, an original six-episode story featuring the Sixth Doctor, is released on the BBC website; the remainder will be webcast over the next month. The partially animated story features Evelyn Smythe - the first appearance of a Big Finish character appearing in a BBC venue; the story also introduces a new, less-garish costume for the Sixth Doctor.
 * 3 - Carmen Silvera, who played the Queen of Hearts, Mrs. Wiggs, and Clara the Clown in DW: The Celestial Toymaker and Ruth in DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs, dies from lung cancer in Northwood, London.
 * 6 - Katherine Schofield, who played Sabetha in DW: The Keys of Marinus, dies from cancer.
 * 9 - WC: Real Time Episode 2 is released.
 * 16 - WC: Real Time Episode 3 is released.
 * 22 - TN: Ghost Ship is first published. This is the first release in the Telos Publishing novellas line to also be made available in paperback.
 * 23 - WC: Real Time Episode 4 is released.
 * 30 - WC: Real Time Episode 5 is released.

September

 * EDA: Time Zero is first published, introducing a new companion, Trix. Last monthly release of the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures line, which reduces in frequency hereafter.
 * BFA: The Rapture is first released.
 * 6 - WC: Real Time Episode 6 is released; final episode.
 * 15 - Dwight Whylie, who played the radio announcer in DW: The War Machines, dies in Barbados.

October

 * PDA: Heritage is first published.
 * BFA: ''The Church and the Crownis first released.
 * BFBS: A Life of Surprises is first published.
 * William Dysart, who played Alexander McLaren in DW: The Highlanders and Reegan in DW: The Ambassadors of Death, dies.
 * 10 - REF: Dalek Survival Guide is first published.

November

 * EDA: The Infinity Race is first published.
 * BFA: The Sandman is first released.
 * 23 - TN: Foreign Devils is first published.

December

 * PDA: Fear of the Dark is first published.
 * BFA: Bang-Bang-A-Boom! is first released.
 * ST: Short Trips: Zodiac is first published. This collection of short stories is the first Doctor Who literary fiction to be published by Big Finish, as it continues the Short Trips line abandoned by BBC Books.
 * BFA: Doctor Who: The Audio Scripts is first published by Big Finish Productions.
 * 19 - Alan Johns (Ted Rogers in DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen) dies.