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Events of 1983

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Undated

Ongoing

Births

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Deaths

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Unknown Dates

External Links

From Coronation Street Wiki

Events

• 7th December - Len Fairclough dies in a car crash.

See also

• Coronation Street in 1983
• Category:1983 episodes

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

History of the Doctor Who Universe

August

• 19 - Ianto Jones is born, probably in Cardiff. (TW: Fragments)

December

• 10 - The Doctor, Benny, Roz, and Chris arrive in Little Caldwell, England. Benny is reunited with her father. (NA: Return of the Living Dad)

Undated

• The Brigadier, now retired and working at Brendon Public School, meets the Doctor and in the ensuing adventure meets his younger self from 1977, causing his younger self to lose all memory of the Doctor and experience a breakdown, while his 1983 self regains his memory. Turlough joins the Doctor on his travels, although unknown to the Doctor, he does so under the orders of the Black Guardian. (DW: Mawdryn Undead)

• According to the Brigadier, Harry Sullivan is doing "hush-hush" work on behalf of NATO at this time. (DW: Mawdryn Undead)

• After the Fifth Doctor departs, the Brigadier reactivates his relationship with UNIT (as suggested by DW: The Five Doctors) eventually returning to active duty (at some point before DW: Battlefield).

• The Doctor and the Brigadier are abducted by Borusa while attending a UNIT reunion. (DW: The Five Doctors)

• Jason Kane is born, in the suburbs of London. (NA: Return of the Living Dad)

• Ace burns down Gabriel Chase. (DW: Ghost Light)

Real World

January

• 03 - DW: Arc of Infinity Episode 1 is first broadcast, launching Doctor Who's 20th season. Future Sixth Doctor Colin Baker makes his first appearance on the series, but as a different character.
• 05 - DW: Arc of Infinity Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 11 - DW: Arc of Infinity Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 12 - DW: Arc of Infinity Episode 4 is first broadcast.
• 18 - DW: Snakedance Episode 1 is first broadcast.
• 19 - DW: Snakedance Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 25 - DW: Snakedance Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 26 - DW: Snakedance Episode 4 is first broadcast.

February

• 01 - DW: Mawdryn Undead Episode 1 is first broadcast. Mark Strickson joins as new companion Vislor Turlough, while Nicholas Courtney makes his first appearance as Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart since Terror of the Zygons. This serial is the first to definitively establish that the current incarnation of the Doctor is the fifth.
• 02 - DW: Mawdryn Undead Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 08 - DW: Mawdryn Undead Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 09 - DW: Mawdryn Undead Episode 4 is first broadcast.
• 15 - DW: Terminus Episode 1 is first broadcast.
• 16 - DW: Terminus Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 20 - Peter Glaze, who played the City Administrator in DW: The Sensorites and the Brigadier in a Doctor Who parody segment of Crackerjack!, dies in Dartford, England.
• 22 - DW: Terminus Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 23 - DW: Terminus Episode 4 is first broadcast. Sarah Sutton leaves the series with this episode.

March

• Filming and studio recording for DW: The Five Doctors occurs this month.
• REF: The Doctor Who Technical Manual is first published.
• 01 - DW: Enlightenment Episode 1 is first broadcast.
• 02 - DW: Enlightenment Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 08 - DW: Enlightenment Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 09 - DW: Enlightenment Episode 4 is first broadcast.
• 15 - DW: The King's Demons Episode 1 is first broadcast. Introduction of the android companion Kamelion.
• 16 - DW: The King's Demons Episode 2 is first broadcast, technically concluding Season 20, although the later special DW: The Five Doctors will also be considered part of Season 20.
• 21 - Bruno Langley, who portrayed companion Adam Mitchell in 2005, is born in Devon, England.

April

• 15 - DWN: Doctor Who - Time-Flight is first published.

May

• 02 - 10th anniversary of the launch of Target Books' line of Doctor Who novelisations.
• 05 - DWN: Doctor Who - Meglos is first published. This was the final televised Fourth Doctor story to be novelised. Due to licensing issues, no novelisations were ever officially published for DW: The Pirate Planet, DW: City of Death or the unfinished/unbroadcast DW: Shada. Target Books would publish one more Fourth Doctor novelisation, DWN: The Pescatons, based upon an audio drama, in 1991.

June

• 16 - DWN: Doctor Who - Castrovalva is first published.
• 23 - Publication of Doctor Who: Daleks Omnibus, a hardcover Target Books collection reprinting the Terrance Dicks novelisations DWN: Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth, DWN: Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks and DWN: Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks.

July

• 21 - DWN: Doctor Who - Four to Doomsday is first published.

August

• The BBC announces that Colin Baker - no relation to Tom Baker - has been cast as the Sixth Doctor.
• Doctor Who Annual 1984 published.
• 18 - DWN: Doctor Who - Earthshock is first published.

September

• 13 - REF: Doctor Who: A Celebration first published.
• 15 - DWN: Doctor Who - Terminus is first published.

October

• REF: Doctor Who: The Making of a Television Series published in paperback.
• 14-19 Filming for DW: Planet of Fire takes place in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, marking the first time Doctor Who has been filmed outside the European continent.
• 20 - DWN: Doctor Who - Arc of Infinity is first published.

November

• REF: Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text, one of the first widely published scholarly works on the franchise, first published in both the UK and US.
• 19 - For the first time in nearly 10 years, Doctor Who makes the cover of the Radio Times. It'll be another decade before this happens again, making this the last Radio Times cover to be published during the original series' run.
• 23 - 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.
  • DW: The Five Doctors is broadcast for the first time. However, PBS affiliates in the United States (which are also received on cable television in Canada) it before the BBC, the first time America has seen a Doctor Who story before the UK. This version is slightly truncated compared to the version shown two days later in the UK. This is the first "feature-length" regular episode of Doctor Who produced. The special features the return of Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee (with Tom Baker represented by footage from the unbroadcast DW: Shada). Richard Hurndall makes his first and only appearance as the First Doctor. Numerous companions from all eras of the series appear. Although broadcast closer to the start of Season 21, it is considered part of the anniversary Season 20 and, thus, its belated finale.
• 24 - DWN: Doctor Who - The Five Doctors is first published. This is the first time a Target Books novelisation has been published before the UK broadcast premiere of an episode. According to the 2008 DVD release of DW: The Five Doctors, this is widely believed to have been an error.
• 25 - DW: The Five Doctors is first broadcast in the UK, as part of that year's Children in Need fund-raising drive.

Unknown date

• Magnet Books, a subsidiary of Methuen Children's Books, publishes Doctor Who Quiz Book of Science, Doctor Who Quiz Book of Space and Doctor Who Quiz Book of Magic, all by Michael Holt, the remainder of the Doctor Who Quiz Book line. These illustrated paperback books (published in the same format as Target Books novelisations) contain original short stories featuring the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka that set up short quizzes related to the subject matter of the book. The first book in the series had been published in 1982.

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Releases

January

• TOS novel #8: Black Fire, by Sonni Cooper

March

• TOS novel #9: Triangle, by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath

June

• TOS novel #10: Web of the Romulans, by M.S. Murdock

August

• TOS novel #11: The Yesterday Saga, Book 1: Yesterday's Son, by A.C. Crispin

October

• TOS novel #12: Mutiny on the Enterprise, by Robert E. Vardeman

December

• TOS novel #13: The Wounded Sky, by Diane Duane

Connections

• 1983 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• 1983 productions article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• 1983 page at the Complete Starfleet Library
• 1983 article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

From DC Database

Creators

Titles

The following comic titles debuted with a 1983 cover date:

Batman and the Outsiders Vol 1 · Green Arrow Vol 1 · Green Lantern/Green Arrow Vol 1 · Omega Men Vol 1 · Sword of the Atom Vol 1 · Thriller Vol 1 · Vigilante Vol 1

The following Comic titles were last published with a 1983 cover date:

Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew Vol 1 · Green Arrow Vol 1 · House of Mystery Vol 1 · Masters of the Universe Vol 1 · Night Force Vol 1 · Sword of the Atom Vol 1 · Weird War Tales Vol 1

The following One Shots were published with a 1983 cover date:

New Teen Titans Drug Awareness Special (IBM) · New Teen Titans Drug Awareness Special (Keebler) · New Teen Titans Drug Awareness Special (NSDI)

Characters

The following characters debuted with a 1983 cover date:

Albert Rothstein (New Earth) · Amy Winston (New Earth) · Anton Knight (New Earth) · Bizarro Green Lantern (Earth-One) · Brin (New Earth) · Brion Markov (New Earth) · Circe (Earth-One) · Clarissa Clemens (New Earth) · Deeter (New Earth) · Dinah Laurel Lance (New Earth) · Doc (New Earth) · Doc I (New Earth) · Droxelle (New Earth) · Felicity (New Earth) · Frederick DeLamb (New Earth) · Gabrielle Doe (New Earth) · Gan Williams (New Earth) · Green Man (New Earth) · Gretti (New Earth) · Harvid (New Earth) · Hector Hall (New Earth) · Helga Jace (New Earth) · Henry King, Jr. (New Earth) · Herbert Hyndes (Earth-Two) · Hippolyta Trevor-Hall (New Earth) · Irena (Earth-One) · Jack Crane (Earth-One) · Jason Hart (New Earth) · Jason Todd (New Earth) · Jeffrey Coopersmith (New Earth) · Kaylark (New Earth) · Krista X (New Earth) · Leroy Merkyn (New Earth) · Lobo (New Earth) · Loretta Nordan (Earth-One) · Lysandra (New Earth) · Meadlux (New Earth) · Mica Love (New Earth) · Natalia Knight (New Earth) · Nicholas Lucien (Earth-One) · Norda Cantrell (New Earth) · Okonoko (New Earth) · Paul Hoben (New Earth) · Reactron (Earth-One) · Remnant Nod (New Earth) · Rex Rogan (Earth-One) · Spol (New Earth) · Symon Terrynce (New Earth) · T-Cher (New Earth) · Takeo Sato (New Earth)

Teams

The following teams debuted with a 1983 cover date:

Free Lancers · Outsiders · Thunder and Lightning

Chronology

The following events were published by DC Comics in the year 1983. This does not necessarily indicate that these storylines took place in the year 1983. The passage of time in the DC Universe is nebulous and subject to change and interpretation. Events from historical time periods are indexed under their corresponding years.

Date Unknown

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From Muppet Wiki

Television & Movies

• The World of the Dark Crystal on PBS, January 9
• Fraggle Rock Season 1 begins on HBO, January 10
• Rocky Mountain Holiday on ABC, May 12
• Don't Eat the Pictures on PBS, November 16
• Sesame Street Season 15, November 21
• Sesame Street Episode 1839 (Mr. Hooper's death) on PBS, November 24
• Big Bird in China on NBC

International Television

• Die Fraggles (Fraggle Rock) begins airing in Germany on ZDF, November 12
• Barrio Sésamo begins its second run in Spain
• Sesame! begins airing in the Philippines
• Germany's Sesamstrasse celebrates 10th Anniversary

Storybooks

• Big Bird and Little Bird's Big & Little Book (reissue version with new illustrations by A. Delaney)
• Bert and the Missing Mop Mix-up
• The Case of the Missing Mother
• The City Worm and the Country Worm
• Don't Cry, Big Bird
• Early Bird on Sesame Street
• Ernie's Little Lie
• Everyone Makes Mistakes
• Grover Goes to School
• I Can Dress Myself
• The Little Red Hen
• The Muppets on the Road
• People in My Family
• Pigs in Space
• Puppy Love
• The Radish Day Jubilee
• Red and the Pumpkins
• The Sesame Street Question and Answer Book About Animals
• The Sesame Street Treasury series begins
• The Sesame Street Word Book
• The Twiddlebugs' Dream House
• You Are the Star of a Muppet Adventure

Non-fiction Books

• The Making of the Dark Crystal

Albums

• The Best of Bert
• The Best of Big Bird
• The Best of Cookie Monster
• The Best of the Count
• The Best of Ernie
• The Best of Grover
• The Best of Oscar the Grouch
• Born to Add
• Fraggle Rock
• The Gang's All Here!
• Rocky Mountain Holiday
• Surprise!

Videos

• Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (Muppet Home Video)
• De Freggels 1 (from the Dutch coproduction of Fraggle Rock)
• De Freggels 2
• De Freggels 3
• De Freggels 4
• De Freggels 5
• De Freggels 6

Merchandise

• Muppet Magazine begins, January
• American Telecommunications Kermit phone
• Alpha Beam with Ernie
• Big Bird's Egg Catch
• Cookie Monster Munch
• Doozer wind-up toys
• Fraggle Rock dolls (Tomy)
• The Fraggle Trap Game
• Happy House Books coloring books
• Oscar's Trash Race
• Pigs in Space video game
• Tomy Muppet wind-up toys

Stage Shows

• Sesame Street Live show Around the World debuts

People

• Olamide Faison born

From Grand Theft Wiki

Events concerning the Grand Theft Auto series in 1983

Game World

GTA IV Era

• Playboy X is born.
• Luis Fernando Lopez is born.
• Huang Lee is born in China.
• Rudy D'Avanzo is arrested for grand theft auto.
• Johnny Barbosa is born in Alderney City.

From the eWrestling Encyclopedia.

This article contains information on e-wrestling events that happened in 1983.

Notable 1983 births

• February 9: Ryan Phoenix
• February 24: JTX
• March 3: William Cole
• May 27: Elijah James
• June 6: Mr. C.C.
• August 22nd: Dallas Roland
• November 14: Daniel Hutchinson

1983 handler births/deaths

• Mr. C.C.
• Thomas Ford

See also

• Help:Year articles - Information on editing and adding information to year articles.

An Ice Hockey Wiki article.

These events occured in 1983 in the world of hockey:

January

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March

April

May

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September

October

November

December

From Marvel Database

All Comics for 1983 Without Month Designations

Adventures of Kool-Aid Man Vol 1 1	Amazing Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 17	Avengers Annual Vol 1 12	Captain America Annual Vol 1 7
Conan the Barbarian Annual Vol 1 8	Fantastic Four Annual Vol 1 17	Iron Man Annual Vol 1 6	Marvel Comics Super Special Vol 1 25
Marvel Comics Super Special Vol 1 26	Marvel Comics Super Special Vol 1 27	Marvel Comics Super Special Vol 1 28	Marvel Comics Super Special Vol 1 29
Marvel Graphic Novel Vol 1 6	Marvel Graphic Novel Vol 1 7	Marvel Graphic Novel Vol 1 8	Marvel Graphic Novel Vol 1 9
Rom Annual Vol 1 2	Spider-Man Firestar Iceman Dallas Ballet Nutcracker Vol 1 1	Spider-Man Firestar Iceman Danger in Denver Vol 1 1	Spider-Woman Vol 1 48
Spider-Woman Vol 1 49	Spider-Woman Vol 1 50	Thor Annual Vol 1 11

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Events

• Daniel leaves Vulcan and visits Earth in search of Guinan. After many decades of searching, he doesn't find her and decides to leave and return to Vulcan. (Star Trek: Phoenix-X: "The Links' Traitor")

Births

April

• Jeremy Fack is born. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles)

May

• May 11: Abbey Cartwright is born in Melbourne, Australia, Earth. (Star Trek: Daedalus - Reversed Polarities)

Deaths

Assignments & Promotions

From Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki.

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi released in May 1983.

A list of events in 1983 related to Star Wars.

• Kenner releases the following action figures:
  • Admiral Ackbar
  • Luke Skywalker Jedi Knight
  • Bib Fortuna
  • Tessek aka Squid Head
  • Gamorrean Guard
  • Weequay
  • Princess Leia Boushh
  • Nien Nunb
  • Chief Chirpa
  • Logray
  • Emperor's Royal Guard
  • Imperial Biker Scout
  • General Madine
  • Tamtel Skreej aka Lando Calrissian Skiff Guard Disguise
  • Ree-Yees
  • Wooof aka Klaatu
  • Rebel Commando
  • Jabba the Hutt
  • Salacious Crumb
  • Max Rebo
  • Droopy McCool
  • Sy Snootles

• • Yotts Orren aka Klaatu Skiff Guard
  • Orrimaarko aka Prune Face
  • AT-ST Driver
  • Wicket Warrick
  • Teebo
  • Han Solo Trench Coat
  • Princess Leia Combat Poncho
  • Nikto
  • B-Wing Pilot
  • 8D8
  • Malakili aka Rancor Keeper
  • The Emperor
  • Paploo
  • Lumat

April

• 01 - Matt Lanter is born.

May

• 12 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novelization published.
• 25 - Return of the Jedi releases.

June

• 12 - Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu published.

September

• 12 - Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon published.

November

• 12 - Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka published.