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I rescued Doctor Who	2005-06-18
How my Dad dodged being exterminated by a Dalek... and became the first man to kiss Doctor Who's companion	2023-11-26
The fury's still out on this lot...	2010-05-20
Highlanders, Aztec gods, icky aliens and cowboys	2010-05-20
Smith and Jo	2010-05-20
The showrunner Russell T Davies retakes the keys to the Tardis	2023-11-25
David Tennant is back as the Doctor	2023-11-25

This date in history

• Spine-chilling rubbish (27 December 1964)

• The green monster (27 December 1967)
• It's Monsters for the little horrors! (27 December 1967)
• The show that makes the holiday (27 December 1967)

• Advanced technology has arrived on the Christmas show scene (27 December 1974)
• The birth of the Daleks (27 December 1974)
• Tom Baker makes his first appearance as Doctor Who (27 December 1974)

• Baby for actress (27 December 1984)

• When it comes to raising funds, Channel 12 officials realize the importance of being earnest (27 December 1985)

• Now, pass the envelope please (27 December 1987)

• Whovians have landed (27 December 1988)

• Why Peter isn't blue (27 December 1991)

• Who's that girl? (2000) (27 December 2000)

• Doctor Who fails to top ratings (27 December 2009)
• Tennant pays tribute to 'Doctor Who' heroes as he bows out (27 December 2009)

• Home Sweet Tardis! (27 December 2011)

• Doctor Who writer confirms movie (27 December 2012)

• Capaldi tops Christmas TV ratings (27 December 2013)
• Doctor Who is exterminated by Mrs Brown in the fight for festive viewers (27 December 2013)
• The Doctor's fitting farewell (27 December 2013)
• Looking back at a quirky, cool Doctor (27 December 2013)
• Ratings cheer for Doctor Who and sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys (27 December 2013)

• Restaurant grants boy's wish (27 December 2016)

• Making Waves (27 December 2017)

• Hooray! The scary monsters and super freaks are back (27 December 2019)

• Boy, 8, gets Tardis bedroom surprise (27 December 2020)

The 8954 articles here are collected mainly from newspapers and general interest magazines. Many articles, news items and advertisements from television industry magazines (such as Variety) can be found at BroaDWcast.

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Date of publication

In order to keep the articles in strict chronological order, some dates may be adjusted slightly in tables to accommodate computer sorting. In most cases this will be for monthly publications, e.g. April 2006 becomes 2006-04-01.

Contributions

All contributions are welcome. Please send an email to whovian@cuttingsarchive.org

Contributors

Laura Adler, Luke Andrew, Chris Balcombe, Keith Barnfather, Jeremy Bement, Tom Boon, Ian Brown, Chris Browning, Mark Campbell, Simeon Carter, Christopher Cebula, Larry Charet, Jesse Conrad, Craig Cormick, Michael Dennis, Michael T. Dyer, Robert Edwards, George Fergus, Jill Franklin, John Gardner, James Gill, John Grochowski, Christopher Hill, Emily Homins, Michael A Jones, Jennifer Adams Kelley, David May, Nick Mays, David McKinlay, Jake Mellor, Michelle Meyer-Edley, Jennifer D. Miller, Alan Morton, Sphinx Nero-Chalazia, Jim Paterson, Hawkeye Pierce, Jon Preddle, Jonathan Randall, Dom Robinson, Janet Radziejeski at KTWU, Mark Salter, Kieran Seymour, Paul Smith, Simon Stabler, Kathryn Sullivan, Cary Sweet, Unknown Physician of Rassilon, Stephen West

Thanks

Des Plaines Public Library; Ronald Williams Library, Northeastern Illinois University; Northwestern University Library, Oakton Community College Library; Elmhurst College A.C. Buehler Library; San Francisco Public Library; University of Illinois Chicago Richard J. Daley Library; The Harper College Library; Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Michigan State University Library; Mount Prospect Public Library; Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library; Eisenhower Public Library District; Dallas Public Library; The British Newspaper Archive; John L. Nash Middle School Library; The College of William & Mary Library; The State Library of Oregon; North Dakota State Library; The Internet Archive; LaBudde Special Collections at University of Missouri-Kansas City; American University Library; Missouri Historical Society Library & Research Center; The Semantic MediaWiki community.

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