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* 1985 saw the 100th [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations Target novelisation]], Creator/RobertHolmes' adaptation of his TV story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]", with an introduction by Creator/JohnNathanTurner, the TV series' producer at the time.
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** The 100th [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations Targetnovelisation]], novelisation]] was released, Creator/RobertHolmes' adaptation of his TV story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]", with an introduction by Creator/JohnNathanTurner, the TV series' producer at the time.time.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' 100 came with a poster.
** The 100th [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations Target
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' 100 came with a poster.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' itself marked issues 200 and 207 (the anniversary issue, which featured "Time & Time Again") with covers that folded out into posters.
* ''Doctor Who Magazine'' 400, also in 2008, had a poster and several celebratory articles.
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*** Three specials on BBC 1 in November-December 2023, [[spoiler:starring Creator/DavidTennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. Yes, you read that right, Fourteenth]]: "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast The Star Beast]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder Wild Blue Yonder]]", and "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]".
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*** Three specials on BBC 1 in November-December 2023, [[spoiler:starring Creator/DavidTennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. Yes, you read that right, Fourteenth]]: "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast The Star Beast]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder Wild Blue Yonder]]", and "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]". Together, these resolved a 14-year-old plot thread; [[TheBusCameBack brought back a villain last seen 57 years ago]]; introduced a new Doctor; introduced (or reintroduced) several recurring characters and plot threads for Creator/RussellTDavies' second era; established a GenreShift for the Fifteenth Doctor's era, bringing in more fantasy; and drew a line under the trauma-ridden characterisation of the Doctor that had held sway since the revival began, letting them be more assured and emotionally open.
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** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' 597, on shelves during the first two TV specials, came with two double-sided posters.
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** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' 597, on shelves during the first two TV specials, came with two double-sided posters. Issue 598, on shelves during the final special and the Fifteenth Doctor's first episode, came with a double-sided poster and a supplement reprinting the original "Doctor Who and the Star Beast" comic.
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** To mark the 50th anniversary of the Sontarans' introduction in 1974's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior "The Time Warrior"]], Big Finish announced a four-part series, ''[[VersusTitle Sontarans vs Rutans]]'', a CrossThrough featuring the Third, Sixth, Eighth, and War Doctors as they encounter different fronts of the two species' ForeverWar, comprising ''The Battle of Giant's Causeway'', ''The Children of the Future'', ''Born to Die'', and ''In Name Only''.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' 600 came with a diorama, an art card, and a supplement with a pictoral history of the magazine, a photo-comic, and the fifteen main Doctors talking about the show in their own words (in Creator/WilliamHartnell's case, posthumously, as he'd died before the magazine began).
** To mark the 50th anniversary of the Sontarans' introduction in 1974's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior "The Time Warrior"]], Big Finish announced a four-part series, ''[[VersusTitle Sontarans vs Rutans]]'', a CrossThrough featuring the Third, Sixth, Eighth, and War Doctors as they encounter different fronts of the two species' ForeverWar, comprising ''The Battle of Giant's Causeway'', ''The Children of the Future'', ''Born to Die'', and ''In Name Only''.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' 600 came with a diorama, an art card, and a supplement with a pictoral history of the magazine, a photo-comic, and the fifteen main Doctors talking about the show in their own words (in Creator/WilliamHartnell's case, posthumously, as he'd died before the magazine began).
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*** Three specials on BBC 1 in November-December 2023, [[spoiler:starring Creator/DavidTennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. Yes, you read that right, Fourteenth]]: "The Star Beast", "Wild Blue Yonder", and "The Giggle".
*** A colorised, 75-minute cut of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]'' on BBC 4, airing on the date of the anniversary, November 23rd, 2023.
*** A colorised, 75-minute cut of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]'' on BBC 4, airing on the date of the anniversary, November 23rd, 2023.
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*** Three specials on BBC 1 in November-December 2023, [[spoiler:starring Creator/DavidTennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. Yes, you read that right, Fourteenth]]: "The "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast The Star Beast", "Wild Beast]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder Wild Blue Yonder", Yonder]]", and "The Giggle".
"[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]".
*** A colorised, 75-minute cut of''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]'' Daleks]]" on BBC 4, airing on the date of the anniversary, November 23rd, 2023.
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* Averted with "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood The Stones of Blood]]", which was the 100th story and aired on the show's 15th anniversary (1978). It was going to start with a scene where the Doctor and Romana celebrated his birthday with a cake, but producer Graham Williams wisely vetoed it as too self-congratulatory. (The cake had already been ordered, and was eaten by the cast and crew during production.)
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* Averted with "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood The Stones of Blood]]", which was the 100th story and aired on the show's 15th anniversary (1978). It was going to start with a scene where the Doctor and Romana celebrated his birthday with a cake, but producer Graham Williams Creator/GrahamWilliams wisely vetoed it as too self-congratulatory. (The cake had already been ordered, and was eaten by the cast and crew during production.)
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* The Thirteenth Doctor's final story, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]", was part of [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC's]] centenary celebrations in 2022, featuring her regeneration and [[ReunionShow surprise guest appearances from several past characters]].
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* The Thirteenth Doctor's final story, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]", was part of [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC's]] Creator/TheBBC's centenary celebrations in 2022, featuring her regeneration and [[ReunionShow surprise guest appearances from several past characters]].
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** TV: Three specials in November 2023, [[spoiler:starring Creator/DavidTennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. Yes, you read that right, Fourteenth]].
** Big Finish Doctor Who: ''Once and Future'', an eight-part series (seven parts in 2023 and a coda in November 2024) which sees the Doctor start randomly flitting between past incarnations after getting injured during the Time War and setting out to discover what's going on.
** Big Finish Doctor Who: ''Once and Future'', an eight-part series (seven parts in 2023 and a coda in November 2024) which sees the Doctor start randomly flitting between past incarnations after getting injured during the Time War and setting out to discover what's going on.
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** TV: TV:
*** Three specials on BBC 1 inNovember November-December 2023, [[spoiler:starring Creator/DavidTennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. Yes, you read that right, Fourteenth]].
Fourteenth]]: "The Star Beast", "Wild Blue Yonder", and "The Giggle".
*** A colorised, 75-minute cut of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]'' on BBC 4, airing on the date of the anniversary, November 23rd, 2023.
** Big Finish Doctor Who: ''Once and Future'', an eight-part series (seven parts in 2023 and a coda in November 2024) which sees the Doctor start randomly flitting between past incarnations after getting injured during the Time War and setting out to discover what's goingon.on, and ''The Box of Terrors'', an audionovel featuring the Third and Fourth Doctors teaming up against Omega, with the help of two Sarah Jane Smiths.
*** Three specials on BBC 1 in
*** A colorised, 75-minute cut of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]'' on BBC 4, airing on the date of the anniversary, November 23rd, 2023.
** Big Finish Doctor Who: ''Once and Future'', an eight-part series (seven parts in 2023 and a coda in November 2024) which sees the Doctor start randomly flitting between past incarnations after getting injured during the Time War and setting out to discover what's going
** Cubicle 7: ''Sixty Years of Adventure'', a two-volume release exploring the Doctors' many adventures, with a new RPG adventure for each Doctor.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' 597, on shelves during the first two TV specials, came with two double-sided posters.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' 597, on shelves during the first two TV specials, came with two double-sided posters.
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** Other: ''Tales of the TARDIS'', a series of feature length episodes released on iPlayer showcasing various reunions of classic characters, including Jamie and Zoe, Vicki and Steven, and the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
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** BBC Books: ''The Decades Collection'', a set of six standalone children's novels, each set in a different decade from the show's history: ''Imaginary Friends'' (60s), ''The Cradle'' (70s), ''The Self-Made Man'' (80s), ''Wannabes'' (90s), ''The Monster in the Cupboard'' (00s), and ''The Angel of Redemption'' (10s).
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** Multiplatform: ''Doom's Day'', a transmedia series following Doom, the Universe's greatest assassin, as she travels through space and time chasing the Doctor, who she needs to rescue her from Death, with only 24 hours and a vortex manipulator to do so, featuring the appearance of several fan-favourite characters and the occasional PunnyTitle riffing on the series's existing ''Doomsday'' titles ("Four to Doomsday" and "Doomsday").
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As a LongRunner, ''Series/DoctorWho'' and its [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] have a plethora of anniversary stories. Uniquely, since the show was largely off the air during the anniversary periods of 1993 to 2003, it was up to the expanded universe to pick up the slack during those years.
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As a LongRunner, ''Series/DoctorWho'' and its [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] have a plethora of anniversary stories. Uniquely, since the show was largely off the air during the anniversary periods of 1993 to 2003, it was up to the expanded universe to pick up the slack during those years.
* 10th anniversary (1973): "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]", a ReunionShow that concludes the Doctor's exile on Earth since 1970. Interestingly, it didn't mark the actual date of the anniversary, being aired almost a year beforehand; instead, it marked the beginning of the show's tenth season.
* Averted with "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood The Stones of Blood]]", which was the 100th story and aired on the show's 15th anniversary (1978). It was going to start with a scene where the Doctor and Romana celebrated his birthday with a cake, but producer Graham Williams wisely vetoed it as too self-congratulatory. (The cake had already been ordered, and was eaten by the cast and crew during production.)
* 20th anniversary (1983): "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]", another ReunionShow. Unlike the other two canon TV anniversary reunion episodes, this one didn't mark a major status quo change for the Doctor (unless you count him getting a spiffy new TARDIS console).
* 1985 saw the 100th [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations Target novelisation]], Creator/RobertHolmes' adaptation of his TV story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]", with an introduction by Creator/JohnNathanTurner, the TV series' producer at the time.
* 25th anniversary (1988): "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]", which had the Doctor revisiting the site of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild the first episode]] the next day (albeit hundreds of years later in his own timeline), and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]]", which was about a 25th anniversary, aired over the anniversary date, and had a cameo of Creator/NicholasCourtney and some program staff.
* 30th anniversary (1993):
** TV: The non-canon "[[Recap/DoctorWho30thASDimensionsInTime Dimensions in Time]]", which was a Series/ChildrenInNeed ReunionShow skit that [[IntercontinuityCrossover crossed over]] with ''Series/EastEnders'', and the documentary "More than 30 Years in the TARDIS".
** The Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures marked the anniversary with a story arc running from October 1993 to February 1994 and featuring a number of old villains and monsters from the TV series appearing in the novels for the first time.
** ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comics: "Time & Time Again", where the Seventh Doctor has to save his own timeline from the Black Guardian's rewriting by meeting his past selves.
* The fiftieth Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel is ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHappyEndings Happy Endings]]'' (1996) by Creator/PaulCornell, in which a new cover design is introduced, [[WeddingEpisode Benny gets married]], [[ReunionShow a whole host of characters from previous novels are invited]], a lot of [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse dangling plot threads]] get resolved, and ''every NA writer except one''[[note]]Jim Mortimore[[/note]] contributes a paragraph to the reception.
* ''Doctor Who Magazine'' marked its 250th issue (1997) with the comic "A Life of Matter and Death", [[ReunionShow bringing back many of its characters]] in [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind a battle inside the TARDIS' mind]].
* 35th anniversary (1998):
** Novels: The Literature/PastDoctorAdventures (sort of) novel ''The Infinity Doctors'', which features an unspecified Doctor and is filled with {{continuity nod}}s.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comics: "Happy Deathday", which pits the then-Eight Doctors against a LegionOfDoom of their greatest enemies. [[spoiler:The story turns out to be actually a video game the Doctor's companion Izzy has been playing on her spare time.]]
* ''Doctor Who Magazine'' celebrated its 20th anniversary (issue 283, 1999) with "TV Action!", a RealWorldEpisode comic strip where the Eighth Doctor and Izzy chase Beep the Meep to October 12, 1979[[note]]Just five days off the cover date of DWM's first issue, when it was ''Doctor Who Weekly''[[/note]] in a parallel universe where ''Doctor Who'' is just a TV show; there, they team up with none other than Creator/TomBaker[[note]]When ''Doctor Who Magazine'' began publication, Tom Baker was the incumbent Doctor.[[/note]].
* The 100th original BBC ''Doctor Who'' novel (counting the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures and Literature/PastDoctorAdventures together) is ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen'' (2002) by Paul Magrs, which announces the fact on its cover, along with having its logo in reflective gold foil.
* 40th anniversary (2003):
** TV: The revival of the series was announced in that period.
** AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: The main event was "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho050Zagreus Zagreus]]" (also the 50th Big Finish audio), a WhamEpisode that concludes the Anti-Time StoryArc which began [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho016StormWarning back at the Eighth Doctor's audio beginning]], sets the stage for the Divergent Universe story arc and casts a number of previous Doctor and companion actors in completely new roles. There was also the thematic Villains Trilogy of "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho047Omega Omega]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho048Davros Davros]]" and "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho049Master Master]]", which explores just how the Doctor isn't so different from his recurring enemies, and a web-animation of the unfinished Fourth Doctor story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]", substituting the Fourth Doctor for the Eighth[[note]]At that time, Creator/TomBaker was stubbornly unwilling to work with Creator/BigFinish.[[/note]]. The "Doctor Who Unbound" series of WhatIf stories also began that year.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comics: "The Land of Happy Endings", which revisits the settings and characters of the TV Comic strips via AllJustADream.
** Novels: The Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novel ''Deadly Reunion'', penned by Third Doctor era architects Creator/BarryLetts and Creator/TerranceDicks. The first half of it tells the early years of the Brigadier before meeting the Doctor.
** Other: The animated webcast ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'', which was intended to be the official revival of the series. The above announcement reduced it to an non-canon AlternateUniverse tale.
* 45th anniversary (2008): The show itself (which was revived by then) did nothing explicitly celebratory, but that didn't stop the Expanded Universe any.
** Big Finish Doctor Who: "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho115FortyFive Forty-Five]]", a Seventh Doctor audio anthology where the number 45 is littered everywhere. There is an in-universe rationale in the last story for that.
** [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW IDW comics]]: "ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheForgotten", which featured an amnesiac Tenth Doctor flashing back to all of his previous incarnations in order to regain his memories.
* Subtly done for the 200th story, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead "Planet of the Dead"]] (2009), which features a number 200 bus, which the Doctor refers to as "The mighty 200!"
* For Franchise/BerniceSummerfield's 20th birthday (2012), she had the charity special audio play ''Many Happy Returns'', which brings back a number of characters ''and'' writers, and an audio adaptation of her debut Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel ''Love and War''.
* 50th anniversary (2013):
** TV: "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]" and its associated prequels "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheLastDay The Last Day]]", a WhamEpisode ReunionShow that aired 50 years to the day of the show's premiere and laid down a new plot strand for the Doctor to follow for the rest of the show's Creator/StevenMoffat era; "Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime", a docudrama about the creation of the show, and "[[Recap/TheFiveishDoctorsReboot The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]]", a parody ReunionShow short feature. Also, nearly every episode of the season that preceded "The Day of the Doctor" featured a plot or characters related to the long history of the series, as did Creator/MattSmith's GrandFinale episode that immediately followed a few weeks later, the 2013 Christmas special, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]", which resolved a 37-year-old plot thread, an 8-year-old plot thread, a 3-year-old plot thread, and introduced a new Doctor, to boot.
** Big Finish Doctor Who: The Big Finish continuity was made a CanonImmigrant thanks to a line of dialogue in "The Night of the Doctor". For the celebratory audio plays, there was "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsTheLightAtTheEnd The Light at the End]]", a classic series-style ReunionShow; "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS8E5TheBeginning The Beginning]]", which tells the tale of the TARDIS's first flight; "Destiny of the Doctor", a series of CrossThrough audiobooks involving the then-Eleven Doctors (and also the first time Big Finish has been able to outright use new series elements), and the thematic 1963 trilogy of "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho1781963FanfareForTheCommonMen 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men]]" (which is pretty much a BrickJoke to a background element in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild the first episode]]), "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho1791963TheSpaceRace 1963: The Space Race]]" and "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho1801963TheAssassinationGames 1963: The Assassination Games]]".
** Novels: [[Literature/DoctorWho11Doctors11Stories A series of 11 ebook short stories]] for each of the then-Eleven Doctors published by Puffin Books. BBC Books also saw fit to reissue a number of Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novels.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comics: "Hunters of the Burning Stone", which saw the Eleventh Doctor reunited with the very first companions, Ian and Barbara, in a battle against an unexpected old foe, and "John Smith and the Common Men", published on the anniversary month of November 2013.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' 467, which featured "John Smith and the Common Men", also came with a special mini-magazine showing what DWM might have looked like in 1964, marking the show's first anniversary, and collectible art cards of the First through Twelfth Doctors (leaving out War).
** IDW comics: ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoPrisonersOfTime'', where an unexpected newer foe is disrupting the Doctor's timeline by removing his companions from his timestream. On a somber note, [[Creator/IDWPublishing IDW's]] ''Doctor Who'' contract ran out that year.
** Other: A ''Doctor Who'' game adorned Website/{{Google}}'s home page on November 22, 2013.
* 10th anniversary of TV revival (2015):
** [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan Titan Comics]] published ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoFourDoctors'', a five-part miniseries crossing over their Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor titles and throwing in the War Doctor, [[spoiler: an evil alternate universe Twelve as the Big Bad]], ''and'' [[spoiler: a cameo by Nine]] for good measure.
** While the show itself didn't acknowledge this anniversary, Series 9 ''was'' heavy on return appearances by fan-favorite characters: a prologue short saw the return of Ohila from "The Night of the Doctor", and two stories followed on from "The Day of the Doctor"'s events -- "The Zygon Invasion"/"The Zygon Inversion" is a direct sequel to its B-plot, and the three-part finale "Face the Raven"/"Heaven Sent"/"Hell Bent" had [[spoiler: the Doctor returning to Gallifrey for the first time since the Time War/the revival's debut]] as one of several WhamEpisode events.
* ''Doctor Who Magazine'' marked its 500th issue in 2016 with the comic "The Stockbridge Showdown", pitting the Twelfth Doctor and [[ReunionShow most of the living DWM-original companions]] against one of the strip's major villains in a finale to a long-AbortedArc, a bonus magazine covering DWM's history, a double-sided poster, the first of nine collectible art cards, and a sheet of stickers (calling back to DWM's first issue, back when it was ''Doctor Who Weekly'', which came with transfers).
* The first two Third Doctor season Blu-ray box sets were released on milestone dates: Season 10 on July 8, 2019, the centenary of Creator/JonPertwee's birth, and the Master's FirstAppearance Season 8 in March 2021, 50 years since its original run in January-June 1971.
* The Thirteenth Doctor's final story, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]", was part of [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC's]] centenary celebrations in 2022, featuring her regeneration and [[ReunionShow surprise guest appearances from several past characters]].
* 60th anniversary (2023):
** TV: Three specials in November 2023, [[spoiler:starring Creator/DavidTennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. Yes, you read that right, Fourteenth]].
** Big Finish Doctor Who: ''Once and Future'', an eight-part series (seven parts in 2023 and a coda in November 2024) which sees the Doctor start randomly flitting between past incarnations after getting injured during the Time War and setting out to discover what's going on.
** Multiplatform: ''Doom's Day'', a transmedia series following Doom, the Universe's greatest assassin, as she travels through space and time chasing the Doctor, who she needs to rescue her from Death, with only 24 hours and a vortex manipulator to do so, featuring the appearance of several fan-favourite characters and the occasional PunnyTitle riffing on the series's existing ''Doomsday'' titles ("Four to Doomsday" and "Doomsday").
* 10th anniversary (1973): "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]", a ReunionShow that concludes the Doctor's exile on Earth since 1970. Interestingly, it didn't mark the actual date of the anniversary, being aired almost a year beforehand; instead, it marked the beginning of the show's tenth season.
* Averted with "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood The Stones of Blood]]", which was the 100th story and aired on the show's 15th anniversary (1978). It was going to start with a scene where the Doctor and Romana celebrated his birthday with a cake, but producer Graham Williams wisely vetoed it as too self-congratulatory. (The cake had already been ordered, and was eaten by the cast and crew during production.)
* 20th anniversary (1983): "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]", another ReunionShow. Unlike the other two canon TV anniversary reunion episodes, this one didn't mark a major status quo change for the Doctor (unless you count him getting a spiffy new TARDIS console).
* 1985 saw the 100th [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations Target novelisation]], Creator/RobertHolmes' adaptation of his TV story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]", with an introduction by Creator/JohnNathanTurner, the TV series' producer at the time.
* 25th anniversary (1988): "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]", which had the Doctor revisiting the site of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild the first episode]] the next day (albeit hundreds of years later in his own timeline), and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]]", which was about a 25th anniversary, aired over the anniversary date, and had a cameo of Creator/NicholasCourtney and some program staff.
* 30th anniversary (1993):
** TV: The non-canon "[[Recap/DoctorWho30thASDimensionsInTime Dimensions in Time]]", which was a Series/ChildrenInNeed ReunionShow skit that [[IntercontinuityCrossover crossed over]] with ''Series/EastEnders'', and the documentary "More than 30 Years in the TARDIS".
** The Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures marked the anniversary with a story arc running from October 1993 to February 1994 and featuring a number of old villains and monsters from the TV series appearing in the novels for the first time.
** ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comics: "Time & Time Again", where the Seventh Doctor has to save his own timeline from the Black Guardian's rewriting by meeting his past selves.
* The fiftieth Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel is ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHappyEndings Happy Endings]]'' (1996) by Creator/PaulCornell, in which a new cover design is introduced, [[WeddingEpisode Benny gets married]], [[ReunionShow a whole host of characters from previous novels are invited]], a lot of [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse dangling plot threads]] get resolved, and ''every NA writer except one''[[note]]Jim Mortimore[[/note]] contributes a paragraph to the reception.
* ''Doctor Who Magazine'' marked its 250th issue (1997) with the comic "A Life of Matter and Death", [[ReunionShow bringing back many of its characters]] in [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind a battle inside the TARDIS' mind]].
* 35th anniversary (1998):
** Novels: The Literature/PastDoctorAdventures (sort of) novel ''The Infinity Doctors'', which features an unspecified Doctor and is filled with {{continuity nod}}s.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comics: "Happy Deathday", which pits the then-Eight Doctors against a LegionOfDoom of their greatest enemies. [[spoiler:The story turns out to be actually a video game the Doctor's companion Izzy has been playing on her spare time.]]
* ''Doctor Who Magazine'' celebrated its 20th anniversary (issue 283, 1999) with "TV Action!", a RealWorldEpisode comic strip where the Eighth Doctor and Izzy chase Beep the Meep to October 12, 1979[[note]]Just five days off the cover date of DWM's first issue, when it was ''Doctor Who Weekly''[[/note]] in a parallel universe where ''Doctor Who'' is just a TV show; there, they team up with none other than Creator/TomBaker[[note]]When ''Doctor Who Magazine'' began publication, Tom Baker was the incumbent Doctor.[[/note]].
* The 100th original BBC ''Doctor Who'' novel (counting the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures and Literature/PastDoctorAdventures together) is ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen'' (2002) by Paul Magrs, which announces the fact on its cover, along with having its logo in reflective gold foil.
* 40th anniversary (2003):
** TV: The revival of the series was announced in that period.
** AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: The main event was "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho050Zagreus Zagreus]]" (also the 50th Big Finish audio), a WhamEpisode that concludes the Anti-Time StoryArc which began [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho016StormWarning back at the Eighth Doctor's audio beginning]], sets the stage for the Divergent Universe story arc and casts a number of previous Doctor and companion actors in completely new roles. There was also the thematic Villains Trilogy of "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho047Omega Omega]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho048Davros Davros]]" and "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho049Master Master]]", which explores just how the Doctor isn't so different from his recurring enemies, and a web-animation of the unfinished Fourth Doctor story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]", substituting the Fourth Doctor for the Eighth[[note]]At that time, Creator/TomBaker was stubbornly unwilling to work with Creator/BigFinish.[[/note]]. The "Doctor Who Unbound" series of WhatIf stories also began that year.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comics: "The Land of Happy Endings", which revisits the settings and characters of the TV Comic strips via AllJustADream.
** Novels: The Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novel ''Deadly Reunion'', penned by Third Doctor era architects Creator/BarryLetts and Creator/TerranceDicks. The first half of it tells the early years of the Brigadier before meeting the Doctor.
** Other: The animated webcast ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'', which was intended to be the official revival of the series. The above announcement reduced it to an non-canon AlternateUniverse tale.
* 45th anniversary (2008): The show itself (which was revived by then) did nothing explicitly celebratory, but that didn't stop the Expanded Universe any.
** Big Finish Doctor Who: "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho115FortyFive Forty-Five]]", a Seventh Doctor audio anthology where the number 45 is littered everywhere. There is an in-universe rationale in the last story for that.
** [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW IDW comics]]: "ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheForgotten", which featured an amnesiac Tenth Doctor flashing back to all of his previous incarnations in order to regain his memories.
* Subtly done for the 200th story, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead "Planet of the Dead"]] (2009), which features a number 200 bus, which the Doctor refers to as "The mighty 200!"
* For Franchise/BerniceSummerfield's 20th birthday (2012), she had the charity special audio play ''Many Happy Returns'', which brings back a number of characters ''and'' writers, and an audio adaptation of her debut Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel ''Love and War''.
* 50th anniversary (2013):
** TV: "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]" and its associated prequels "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheLastDay The Last Day]]", a WhamEpisode ReunionShow that aired 50 years to the day of the show's premiere and laid down a new plot strand for the Doctor to follow for the rest of the show's Creator/StevenMoffat era; "Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime", a docudrama about the creation of the show, and "[[Recap/TheFiveishDoctorsReboot The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]]", a parody ReunionShow short feature. Also, nearly every episode of the season that preceded "The Day of the Doctor" featured a plot or characters related to the long history of the series, as did Creator/MattSmith's GrandFinale episode that immediately followed a few weeks later, the 2013 Christmas special, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]", which resolved a 37-year-old plot thread, an 8-year-old plot thread, a 3-year-old plot thread, and introduced a new Doctor, to boot.
** Big Finish Doctor Who: The Big Finish continuity was made a CanonImmigrant thanks to a line of dialogue in "The Night of the Doctor". For the celebratory audio plays, there was "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsTheLightAtTheEnd The Light at the End]]", a classic series-style ReunionShow; "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS8E5TheBeginning The Beginning]]", which tells the tale of the TARDIS's first flight; "Destiny of the Doctor", a series of CrossThrough audiobooks involving the then-Eleven Doctors (and also the first time Big Finish has been able to outright use new series elements), and the thematic 1963 trilogy of "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho1781963FanfareForTheCommonMen 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men]]" (which is pretty much a BrickJoke to a background element in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild the first episode]]), "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho1791963TheSpaceRace 1963: The Space Race]]" and "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho1801963TheAssassinationGames 1963: The Assassination Games]]".
** Novels: [[Literature/DoctorWho11Doctors11Stories A series of 11 ebook short stories]] for each of the then-Eleven Doctors published by Puffin Books. BBC Books also saw fit to reissue a number of Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novels.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comics: "Hunters of the Burning Stone", which saw the Eleventh Doctor reunited with the very first companions, Ian and Barbara, in a battle against an unexpected old foe, and "John Smith and the Common Men", published on the anniversary month of November 2013.
** ''Doctor Who Magazine'' 467, which featured "John Smith and the Common Men", also came with a special mini-magazine showing what DWM might have looked like in 1964, marking the show's first anniversary, and collectible art cards of the First through Twelfth Doctors (leaving out War).
** IDW comics: ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoPrisonersOfTime'', where an unexpected newer foe is disrupting the Doctor's timeline by removing his companions from his timestream. On a somber note, [[Creator/IDWPublishing IDW's]] ''Doctor Who'' contract ran out that year.
** Other: A ''Doctor Who'' game adorned Website/{{Google}}'s home page on November 22, 2013.
* 10th anniversary of TV revival (2015):
** [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan Titan Comics]] published ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoFourDoctors'', a five-part miniseries crossing over their Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor titles and throwing in the War Doctor, [[spoiler: an evil alternate universe Twelve as the Big Bad]], ''and'' [[spoiler: a cameo by Nine]] for good measure.
** While the show itself didn't acknowledge this anniversary, Series 9 ''was'' heavy on return appearances by fan-favorite characters: a prologue short saw the return of Ohila from "The Night of the Doctor", and two stories followed on from "The Day of the Doctor"'s events -- "The Zygon Invasion"/"The Zygon Inversion" is a direct sequel to its B-plot, and the three-part finale "Face the Raven"/"Heaven Sent"/"Hell Bent" had [[spoiler: the Doctor returning to Gallifrey for the first time since the Time War/the revival's debut]] as one of several WhamEpisode events.
* ''Doctor Who Magazine'' marked its 500th issue in 2016 with the comic "The Stockbridge Showdown", pitting the Twelfth Doctor and [[ReunionShow most of the living DWM-original companions]] against one of the strip's major villains in a finale to a long-AbortedArc, a bonus magazine covering DWM's history, a double-sided poster, the first of nine collectible art cards, and a sheet of stickers (calling back to DWM's first issue, back when it was ''Doctor Who Weekly'', which came with transfers).
* The first two Third Doctor season Blu-ray box sets were released on milestone dates: Season 10 on July 8, 2019, the centenary of Creator/JonPertwee's birth, and the Master's FirstAppearance Season 8 in March 2021, 50 years since its original run in January-June 1971.
* The Thirteenth Doctor's final story, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]", was part of [[Creator/TheBBC the BBC's]] centenary celebrations in 2022, featuring her regeneration and [[ReunionShow surprise guest appearances from several past characters]].
* 60th anniversary (2023):
** TV: Three specials in November 2023, [[spoiler:starring Creator/DavidTennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. Yes, you read that right, Fourteenth]].
** Big Finish Doctor Who: ''Once and Future'', an eight-part series (seven parts in 2023 and a coda in November 2024) which sees the Doctor start randomly flitting between past incarnations after getting injured during the Time War and setting out to discover what's going on.
** Multiplatform: ''Doom's Day'', a transmedia series following Doom, the Universe's greatest assassin, as she travels through space and time chasing the Doctor, who she needs to rescue her from Death, with only 24 hours and a vortex manipulator to do so, featuring the appearance of several fan-favourite characters and the occasional PunnyTitle riffing on the series's existing ''Doomsday'' titles ("Four to Doomsday" and "Doomsday").
