1994

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Timeline for 1994

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Events

The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa visited Alaska and destroyed some revived Permians. (AUDIO: The Land of the Dead)
UNISYC was formed. (PROSE: Interference - Book One)
According to the Tenth Doctor, the United States government acknowledged the existence of Area 51 by 1994. (TV: Dreamland)
The five-year-old Amelia Pond was at a fairground when she dropped an ice cream cone. The Eleventh Doctor and her future self bought her another and told her to cheer up. This was her saddest memory. (TV: Good Night)

The John Menzies newsagent chain published REF: The Doctor Who Quiz Book (1994) by Doctor Who Magazine editor John Freeman as a promotional giveaway item.
7 - Actor Llewellyn Rees died.
20 - PROSE: Conundrum was first published.

17 - PROSE: No Future was first published. This novel concluded the five-part Alternate Universe arc.

Target Books republished PROSE: Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang with new cover art and a slightly revised title (now Doctor Who - The Talons of Weng-Chiang). This was the last reissue of this nature by Target, ending a program it had begun in 1990.
17 - PROSE: Tragedy Day was first published.
17 - PROSE: Decalog was first published by Virgin Publishing. Discounting the Annuals, this was the first professionally published and licenced Doctor Who short story collection. It was followed by four more volumes (of decreasing relevance to Doctor Who) over the next three years and succeeded by the PROSE: Short Trips series of books.

16 - Actor Frank Wylie died.
21 - PROSE: Legacy was first published.
21 - PROSE: Doctor Who - The Paradise of Death was first published. This was the 156th and final release of a novelisation under the Target Books banner and the last of three "deluxe format" novelisations. This brought to a close a series of books dating back nearly twenty-one years. Target's owner, Virgin, published two more novelisations based upon a radio play and an independent film production under the Virgin Missing Adventures banner and an additional novelisation of an independent film under the Virgin New Adventures banner.

08 - Actor Clem Tibber was born.
16 - PROSE: All-Consuming Fire was first published.
16 - A third edition of REF: The Doctor Who Programme Guide was published by Virgin Publishing.
16 - Actress Eileen Way died in Canterbury, England.

09 - AUDIO: Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
15 - After a year's hiatus, Titan Books revived its Doctor Who: The Scripts series by publishing the teleplay for TV: Galaxy 4.
21 - PROSE: Blood Harvest was first published. This book tied in with the first instalment of the Virgin Missing Adventures line; see below.
21 - PROSE: Goth Opera was first published, launching the Virgin Missing Adventures book line, a spin-off of the New Adventures line focusing on the first six Doctors. On several occasions MA and NA books were linked, as was the case with PROSE: Blood Harvest (featuring the Seventh Doctor) and Goth Opera (featuring the Fifth Doctor; this was the first original novel for the Fifth Doctor).
28 - Doctor Who Yearbook 1995 was published.

Actor Richard Kerley died.
02 - Actor Roy Castle died from cancer.
07 - Actor Godfrey Quigley died.
15 - PROSE: First Frontier was first published.
15 - PROSE: Evolution was first published. It was the first original novel featuring the Fourth Doctor.

06 - Doctor Who: The Age of Chaos was first published by Marvel Comics UK. This was the first wholly original Doctor Who graphic novel ever published, and the first (and as of 2009, only) comic story written by one of the lead actors, Colin Baker. It was primarily available in the UK, with very limited distribution in North America.
20 - PROSE: St Anthony's Fire was first published.
20 - PROSE: Venusian Lullaby was first published. It was the first full-length original First Doctor novel.

03 - REF: Doctor Who: The Seventies was first published.
9 - Actor Ralph Michael died.
17 - PROSE: Falls the Shadow was first published.
17 - PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus was first published.
17 - REF: Doctor Who - The Handbook: The First Doctor was first published.
17 - The final release by Titan Books under its Doctor Who: The Scripts line, the script for The Crusade, was published. Although Titan planned to publish at least two more script books, the line, which had started in 1988, was discontinued after this release. The next publication of TV scripts did not occur until a decade later when BBC Books published a collection of scripts from Season 12.
20 - Writer John Lucarotti died.
26 - Actress Vi Delmar died.

1 - PROSE: Parasite was first published.
1 - PROSE: State of Change was first published. It was the first original Sixth Doctor novel if one doesn't count the Target Missing Adventures novelisations.
6 - This date marked the fifth anniversary of the broadcast of TV: Survival Episode 3, the final episode of the 1963-89 series. Fan hopes remained high that a new series or a movie would eventually be commissioned.

Actor Stephen Dartnell died.
Silva Screen Records released the soundtrack compilation The Worlds of Doctor Who, which included a newly recorded performance of the Doctor Who theme performed by Sylvester McCoy on the spoons.