2006 (releases)

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2006 in

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the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

In 2006, a number of things set in or relevant to the Doctor Who universe were released or published.

• January - AUDIO: Pier Pressure was first released by Big Finish Productions.
• 2 January - Parallel Lives, the sixth Big Finish Bernice Summerfield story anthology, was first released.
• 3 January - Something Changed, seventh Big Finish Bernice Summerfield story anthology, was first released.
• 10 January - The Dream was released online.
• 16 January - The interactive mini-episode NOTVALID: Attack of the Graske was made available on the BBC's Doctor Who website, after it was available exclusively on BBC Red Button.
• 30 January - The DVD box set The Beginning, which featured the first three Doctor Who stories An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and The Edge of Destruction, was released.
• February - Night Thoughts, the seventy-ninth monthly Big Finish Doctor Who audio story, was first released.
• February - AUDIO: Telos, the final episode of the first season of the Big Finish Productions spin-off, Cyberman, was first released.
• February - AUDIO: Buried Secrets and AUDIO: Snow Blind were first released. They were the first episodes of the spin-off audio series Sarah Jane Smith to be released since 2002. The remaining episodes were released when the character returned to TV in School Reunion.
• February - AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Goddess Quandary was first released.
• 6 February - Bullies was released online.
• 14 February - Doctor Who: The Complete First Series, the DVD box set featuring the complete 2005 seasons, was released to Region 1. Due to the fact that the series had yet to be aired in the United States, for which the Sci-Fi Channel belatedly obtained the rights, the set was released on this date only in Canada. American consumers were still able to order it from Canada. The American release occurred later in the summer.
• March (releases) - AUDIO: Time Works was first released.
• 1 March - AUDIO: Fatal Consequences was first released.
• 1 March - Short Trips: Farewells was first published. With BBC Books having retired its BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures and BBC Past Doctor Adventures book lines at the end of 2005, the Short Trips collections were now the only source for original (licensed) literary stories featuring the first eight incarnations of the Doctor.
• 1 March - AUDIO: Dreamland was first released. It was the final episode of the Big Finish Productions audio spin-off series, Sarah Jane Smith, as the character returned to television later this month.
• 2 March - The DVD set The Beginning featuring An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and The Edge of Destruction was released in Region 4.
• 28 March - The Beginning DVD box set featuring An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and The Edge of Destruction was released in North America.
• April - AUDIO: The Kingmaker was first released.
• Approximately one week prior to the broadcast of New Earth, the BBC released the first Tardisode. These mini-episodes, available online or via mobile phone, featured specially shot scenes setting up elements of the episode to come.
• 5 April - BBC Magazines launched Doctor Who Adventures, a weekly magazine promoting the Doctor Who franchise aimed at younger readers (no relation to Doctor Who Magazine). Unlike DWM, it was not distributed internationally.
• 10 April - Genesis of the Daleks was released to DVD in the UK.
• 13 April - The first episode of Totally Doctor Who aired in the UK. Similar in some ways to Doctor Who Confidential, this BBC series also took a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the series, but with the focus on a kid-friendly point of view.
• 13 April - The Stone Rose, The Feast of the Drowned and The Resurrection Casket were first published. These were the first original novels to feature the Tenth Doctor.
• 15 April - New Earth debuted on BBC One, launching the second series of the revived series.
• 22 April - Tooth and Claw debuted on BBC One.
• 29 April - School Reunion debuted on BBC One.
• 29 April - Back in Time - Adventures in Sound was broadcast on BBC Radio Wales.
• May - AUDIO: The Settling was first released.
• May - AUDIO: Fractures was first released.
• May - BBC Books marked its tenth year publishing original Doctor Who fiction.
• 1 May - AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests was first released.
• 1 May - BBC Video continued its "vanilla" releases of new-series episodes with Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 1 featuring The Christmas Invasion and New Earth. Not counting his cameo at the end of Series 1, this was the first full DVD release featuring the Tenth Doctor.
• 4 May - Genesis of the Daleks was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 6 May - The Girl in the Fireplace debuted on BBC One.
• 13 May - Rise of the Cybermen debuted on BBC One.
• 18 May - I am a Dalek was first published by BBC Books, launching the BBC Quick Reads novella series.
• 20 May - The Age of Steel debuted on BBC One.
• 27 May - The Idiot's Lantern debuted on BBC One.
• AUDIO: Something Inside was first released.
• AUDIO: Warfare was first released.
• AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus was first released
• 3 June - The Impossible Planet debuted on BBC One.
• 5 June - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 2 featuring Tooth and Claw, School Reunion and The Girl in the Fireplace.
• 6 June -Genesis of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks were released in North America.
• 10 June - The Satan Pit debuted on BBC One.
• 14 June - Actor Jay Neill died.
• 15 June - The Albino's Dancer was first published.
• 17 June - Love & Monsters debuted on BBC One.
• 19 June - Inferno was released to DVD in the UK.
• 19 June - Genius Loci was first published.
• 24 June - Fear Her debuted on BBC One.
• AUDIO: The Nowhere Place was first released.
• AUDIO: Appropriation and AUDIO: Mindbomb were first released.
• AUDIO: The Tartarus Gate was first released.
• 1 July - Army of Ghosts debuted on BBC One. Noel Clarke temporarily returned to the series.
• Approximately a week prior to the broadcast of Doomsday, the final Tardisode was released online and to mobile phones; the BBC decided not to continue them after this.
• 4 July - The belated release in the United States of the Doctor Who: The Complete First Series DVD box set, which had been available in Canada since February, took place.
• 5 July - Newsbeat on BBC Radio 1 reported on the casting of Freema Agyeman as the new companion.
• 6 July - Inferno was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 6 July - The final episode of the first season of Totally Doctor Who aired in the UK.
• 8 July - Doomsday debuted on BBC One, concluding the second season of the revived series.
• 10 July - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 3 featuring Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel and The Idiot's Lantern.
• 24 July - The Hand of Fear was released to DVD in the UK.
• AUDIO: Red was first released.
• AUDIO: Panacea was first released, concluding the third series of Big Finish Productions spin-off series, Gallifrey.
• AUDIO: Timeless Passages was first released.
• 7 August - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 4 featuring The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit and Love & Monsters.
• 17 August - The Sideways Door was first published.
• The Nightmare of Black Island, The Art of Destruction and The Price of Paradise were first published.
• AUDIO: The Reaping was first released.
• AUDIO: The Gathering was first released.
• Short Trips: The Centenarian was first published.
• September - Innocence, the first episode of the Big Finish Productions audio stories miniseries I, Davros, was first released.
• AUDIO: The Worst Thing in the World was first released.
• PROSE: Collected Works was first published.
• GE Fabbri Ltd launched Battles in Time, a card game/magazine publication released fortnightly in the UK. International distribution did not begin until February 2009 when its content was included on the website for a later Fabbri publication, Doctor Who DVD Files.
• 4 September - AUDIO: Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays was first released, featuring several full-cast audio dramas based upon the real-world impact of Doctor Who. Tom Baker and Sophie Aldred appeared, and one play dramatised the life of Delia Derbyshire.
• 4 September - The Mark of the Rani was released to DVD in the UK.
• 5 September - The Web Planet and Inferno were released in North America.
• 7 September - The Hand of Fear was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 20 September - The first issue of Doctor Who: Battles in Time magazine was published in the UK.
• 25 September - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 5 featuring Fear Her, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, completing the "vanilla" releases of Series 2.
• AUDIO: Memory Lane was first released.
• Short Trips: Time Signature was first published.
• AUDIO: Purity was first released.
• AUDIO: Summer of Love was first released.
• 9 October - The Sontaran Experiment was released to DVD in the UK. This release was seen as an experiment in releasing a two-episode story on its own rather than as an add-on with a longer story. Several documentaries were included on the release as well as the story, Built for War.
• 20 October - Billie Piper appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. During her appearance she confessed to being a subscriber to Doctor Who Magazine, even after her departure from the show.
• 22 October - The Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood debuted with the broadcast of Everything Changes and Day One.
• 22 October - Torchwood Declassified, a behind-the-scenes series similar to Doctor Who Confidential, debuted.
• 26 October - REF: Doctor Who: The Inside Story was first published.
• 29 October - Ghost Machine debuted on BBC One.
• AUDIO: No Man's Land was first released.
• November - Corruption, the third episode of the Big Finish Productions audio stories miniseries I, Davros, was first released.
• PROSE: Old Friends was first published.
• AUDIO: The Oracle of Delphi was first released.
• REF: Howe's Transcendental Toybox Update No. 2 was first published.
• 2 November - The Mark of the Rani was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 5 November - Cyberwoman debuted on BBC One.
• 6 November - The Invasion was released to DVD in the UK. This release was notable for including two episodes currently lost from the BBC Archives, but restored using animation linked up to the existing soundtracks, an experiment that was not repeated until the 2011 announcement that animation would again be used for the missing episodes of The Reign of Terror.
• 6 November - Also issued this date in the UK were two compilation box sets released exclusively through the British arm of Amazon. The Cybermen Collection consisted of Tomb of the Cybermen, The Invasion and Earthshock, while the larger Third Doctor Collection features Spearhead from Space, Inferno, The Claws of Axos, The Three Doctors, Carnival of Monsters and The Green Death.
• 7 November - The Hand of Fear, The Web Planet and The Mark of the Rani were released in North America.
• 7 November - In Region 1 (North America), BBC Video redistributed the episodes of Series 1 in the same four-volume "vanilla" (no-extras) sets the company had issued in the UK in mid-2005. The full-season box set remained in print.
• 12 November - Small Worlds debuted on BBC One.
• 19 November - Countrycide debuted on BBC One.
• 20 November - BBC Video released the Doctor Who: The Complete Second Series DVD box set in the UK.
• 26 November - Greeks Bearing Gifts debuted on BBC One.
• 26 November - BBC Video began issuing Torchwood episodes in "vanilla" (no-extras) DVD editions, similar in format to the Doctor Who releases over the previous two years. Torchwood: Series 1 Part 1 was released.
• AUDIO: Year of the Pig was first released.
• Short Trips: Dalek Empire was first published.
• AUDIO: Guilt, the final episode of the I, Davros miniseries, was first released.
• AUDIO: The Empire State was first released.
• 3 December - They Keep Killing Suzie debuted on BBC One.
• 7 December - The Sontaran Experiment was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 7 December - Stunt co-ordinator Peter Brayham died.
• 10 December - Random Shoes debuted on BBC One.
• 11 December - Elisabeth Sladen appeared on Blue Peter to promote The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• 17 December - Out of Time debuted on BBC One.
• 24 December - Combat debuted on BBC One.
• 24 December - A Christmas-themed Doctor Who short story, WC: Deep and Dreamless Sleep, was published on the TimesOnline website.
• 24 December - BBC Radio Wales broadcast Back in Time - Jingle Hell promoting The Runaway Bride with appearances by David Tennant, Catherine Tate and others.
• 25 December - The Runaway Bride, the second Doctor Who Christmas special, debuted on BBC One, properly introducing Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, although Donna declined an invitation to become a companion at this point.
• 25 December - BBC Radio broadcast Jo Whiley Meets Doctor Who, a behind the scenes look at the making of the 2007 series, which was combined with in-studio conversation with David Tennant.
• 26 December - The Torchwood: Series 1, Part 1 DVD was released.
• 31 December - BBC Radio 7 debuted a new series of audio dramas co-produced with Big Finish Productions starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. Dubbed The New Eighth Doctor Adventures, these stories were, initially, aired on BBC7 first and later released by Big Finish on CD. The first story was episode 1 of AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks, which introduced new companion Lucie Miller played by Sheridan Smith. This meant that, as of this date, there were actually two series of Doctor Who being broadcast by different arms of the BBC: the main series on BBC TV and the Eighth Doctor series on BBC7.