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1996 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

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1996 was a year in which a number of events important to the production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs occurred.

January

February

April

  • April - Fox Television in America began airing trailers for its upcoming broadcast of Doctor Who. The trailers incorporated special effects footage from episode 1 of the 1986 serial The Mysterious Planet.

June

  • June - Around the time the novelisation of the telefilm was published, a major shake-up occurred in the Doctor Who publishing world when it was announced that BBC Books had taken on the licence to publish fiction featuring the Doctor and other BBC-owned characters and concepts from the franchise. Virgin Books, which had been publishing original novels since 1991 and also owned the Target Books line which dated back to 1973, announced its Virgin New Adventures and Virgin Missing Adventures lines would conclude in 1997, after several remaining commissioned novels were published. Virgin, however, also announced it would continue the New Adventures line after that point, focusing on the character of Benny Summerfield.

July

  • 1 July - The BBC applied for trademark status for the traditional police box design associated with the TARDIS.[1]

Unknown Dates

Footnotes

  1. M KNIGHT For the Registrar the Comptroller-General (14th day of August 2002). IN THE MATTER OF Application No. 2104259 by The British Broadcasting Corporation to register a series of three marks in Classes 9, 16, 25 and 41 AND IN THE MATTER OF Opposition thereto under No. 48452 by The Metropolitan Police Authority (PDF). Intellectual Property Office (UK). Retrieved on 11th December 2011.
  2. Time Rift. Doctor Who Reference Guide. Retrieved on 11th December 2011.
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