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'''1999''' was a [[year]].


=== History of the Doctor Who Universe ===
== Events ==
=== Dated ===
==== Before New Year's Eve ====
On [[12 May]], [[Adelaide Brooke]] was born. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Waters of Mars (TV story)}})


====[[December]]====
In [[June]], [[Rosa Parks]] received a [[Congressional Medal]] from [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]]. According to the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], this recognised her as a living icon for [[freedom]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rosa (TV story)}})
*[[30th December|30]]/[[31st December|31 December]] - [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] lands in [[San Francisco]], where he is caught in a gangland shooting. He subsequently (as the result of exploratory heart surgery) [[regenerate]]s into his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], and prevents [[the Master]] from using the [[Eye of Harmony]] to destroy [[Earth]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]]'')
*During the above period, natural phenomenon are reported in the San Francisco Bay area, including unusual tides, flood warnings. Meanwhile, snow is reported in [[Hawaii]]. Scientists link this to fluctations in the earth's gravitational pull that occur only once every 1,000 years (though the real reason involves The Master opening the Eye of Harmony). ([[DW]]: "[[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]]")
*[[31st December|31]] - To ring in the new year, the Institute for Technological Advancement & Research in [[San Francisco]] establishes "San Francisco Mean Time" by unveiling the world's most accurate atomic clock. The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Grace Holloway]] crash (and disrupt) the party in order to obtain components needed to defeat the Master. The Master causes the death of Grace Holloway and [[Chang Lee]], but they are soon brought back to life by the Doctor. Later, just before the clock strikes midnight, Grace declines an invitation to travel with the Doctor. ([[DW]]: "[[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]]")
*Late December - The [[Sixth Doctor]]  saves Earth from both a software house and an an entity older than the universe. ([[MA]]: ''[[Millennial Rites]]'')
*Late December - The [[Fourth Doctor]] also comes and stops the bug (probably with a little help from the sixth incarnation) just as the new year arrives. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Millennium Shock]]'')
*Late December - While [[Jack Harkness]] fights a "[[Millennium Bug]]", [[Alex Hopkins]] kills the rest of his Torchwood team, then kills himself after Jack returns. ([[TW]]: ''[[Fragments]]'')


=== History of ''Doctor Who'' ===
On [[31 July]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] encountered [[Bane (Dominion)|The Bane]] in [[Sweden]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dominion (novel)}})


[[File:Seventh Doctor final scream of life.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Seventh Doctor]] dies. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}})]]
On [[30 December]], the [[Seventh Doctor]], en route to [[Gallifrey]] with the remains of {{Tipple}}, was forced to land [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] in [[San Francisco]] and was caught in the crossfire of a gangland shooting. Ignorance of the [[Time Lord]] form meant that his surgeon, [[Grace Holloway]], accidentally killed him. The Master escaped into the city. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}})


==== [[January]] ====
On the same day the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Melanie Bush]] arrived in [[London]]. Mel visited her class reunion, while the Doctor reintroduced himself to [[Anne Travers]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Millennial Rites (novel)}})


==== New Year's Eve ====
Several things happened on [[31 December]].


* [[The Face-Eater]] First Published
The Seventh Doctor [[regenerate]]d into his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]] after the surgery almost destroyed the regenerative process, leaving the Eighth Doctor suffering from post-regeneration amnesia. {{Roberts|n=The Master}} took paramedic [[Bruce Gerhardt]] as a host and his first action was to murder [[Miranda Gerhardt|Bruce's wife]] after she saw the Master's eyes and screamed. With the assistance of [[Chang Lee]] and Grace, {{Roberts}} opened the [[Eye of Harmony]]. Opening the Eye destabilised [[Earth]]'s physics and the Master used it to begin stealing the Doctor's lives. The Doctor helped Grace put the TARDIS in a [[temporal orbit]], draining the power from the Eye and thwarting the Master. After the Master killed Grace and Lee, the Master fought the Doctor and fell into the Eye. The TARDIS reversed Lee and Grace's deaths and closed the Eye. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Novel of the Film (novelisation)}})


* [[Salvation]] First Published
The Seventh Doctor and [[Melanie Bush]] crashed a party hosted by the [[Auton]] [[Alisha Hammerson]] and prevented another invasion by the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Plastic Millenium (comic story)}})


==== [[February]] ====
The [[Fourth Doctor]] stopped the millennium bug just as the [[New Year]] arrived. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Millennium Shock (novel)}})


While [[Jack Harkness]] fought a "[[Millennium Bug]]" of his own, [[Alex Hopkins]] killed the rest of his [[Torchwood Three]] team, then himself after Jack returned, just as the New Year arrived in [[Cardiff]]'s time zone. Harkness subsequently took over Torchwood Three. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Fragments (TV story)}}) Alex also spoke to [[Yvonne Hartman]] at [[Torchwood One]] of his epiphany beforehand on the [[phone]], as he shot the team. This incident made her realise that the [[Torchwood Institute]] needed a stronger leader to face the 21st century. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}})


* [[The Taint]] First Published
[[Dave Young]] spent the entire evening trying to convince his girlfriend, [[Anji Kapoor]], that the millennium would not actually begin for another year. Kapoor, for her part, thought this extreme pedantry meant their relationship was in trouble. This incident led to her insisting on [[New Year's Eve]] [[2000]] that the two of them spend [[2001]] doing "Wild and Spontaneous Things' —the result of which was the couple spontaneously going to [[Belgium]] in [[February]] [[2001]]. There, she met the [[Eighth Doctor]] and began [[companion|travelling with him]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Escape Velocity (novel)}})


* [[The Wages of Sin]] First Published
The [[Renegade Time Lord|renegade]] [[Time Lord|Time Lady]] [[Iris Wildthyme]] and her companion [[Panda]] arrived in San Francisco in [[Iris Wildthyme's TARDIS|her TARDIS]]. Immediately after their arrival, Iris spilled [[gin]] into the bus' control and out into [[Time Vortex]], resulting in various different versions of Panda from [[parallel universe|alternative realities]] crossing over into the primary universe. With the assistance of [[George Strangeways|Dr. George Strangeways]], Iris was able to close the rift, though not before the Panda from the primary universe had been dragged into it. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Panda Invasion (audio story)}}) Iris travelled to this date on at least four other occasions and recorded five different [[diary]] entries across three different [[journal]]s from 31 December 1999. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Most Faithful Panda in the World (short story)}})


* [[9th February |9]] - [[Buddy Windrush]], aka Bryan Mosley, who played the [[prop man (The Daleks' Master Plan) |prop man]] in "[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]" and a [[pirate]] in "[[The Smugglers]]," dies in [[Wikipedia:Shipley |Shipley]], [[England]].
At midnight [[Ashley Chapel]] summoned [[Saraquazel]], a being from [[after-universe|after the universe]]. [[Anne Travers]] summoned the [[Great Intelligence]] at the exact same time, leading to the two multi-dimensional entities colliding. This created the [[Great Kingdom]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Millennial Rites (novel)}})


==== [[March]] ====
"[[Dara Morgan]]" registered [[MorganTech]] as a company, and made his first public appearance on a television interview. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Beautiful Chaos (novel)}})


=== Undated ===
Throughout 1999, much concern was raised on [[Earth]] over a feared [[computer]] glitch known as [[Y2K bug]] or the Millennium Bug. This had the potential to cause technological havoc as [[clock]]s changed from 1999 to 2000 (the "00" in the date being expected to cause problems for many computer systems). The concern ended up being unfounded, though not without some help from one, or possibly two incarnations of [[the Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Millennium Shock (novel)}})


* [[6th March|6]] - [[Graham Armitage]], who played [[Barney (The Macra Terror) |Barney]] in "[[The Macra Terror]]," dies in [[South Africa]].
[[Johnny Chess]]'s first novel, ''[[Neurotic Boy Outsider]]'', was published. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The King of Terror (novel)}})


* [[Demontage]] First Published
[[Jack Harkness]] met [[Neil Redmond]] in [[Miami]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Uncanny Valley (audio story)}})


* [[Deep Blue]] First Published
The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] fought the [[Mandragora Helix]] in [[London]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Mark of Mandragora (comic story)}})


* [[More Short Trips]] First Published
[[Australia]] was seemingly in a dire state by 1999, with [[pollution]] causing issues, and the country's [[natural resource]]s being used up or lost under piles of waste and [[litter]]. "[[Bruce (Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful)|Citizen 327KL]]" sent a [[distress call]] to the [[Fourth Doctor]] from Australia, but as the Doctor was currently in [[1979]], he could only give 327KL advice on what to do about Australia's pollution. 327KL then [[choke]]d, and presumably died due to the pollution. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful (TV story)}})


==== [[April]] ====
The [[Ninth Doctor]] retrieved a "[[Control sphere|large silver metal ball]]" from the [[Mornington Crescent]] [[Mornington Crescent tube station|underground station]] and exited the station in the direction of [[Camden]]. The Doctor also had a conversation about early [[reggae]] [[record]]s with "[[Eddie Duggan]]" outside [[Club (Have You Seen This Man?)|a club]] in [[Prague]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}})


=== Alternate timelines ===
==== Dated ====
In an [[Alternate timeline|alternative timeline]], the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Peri Brown]] and [[Erimem]] visited [[Edinburgh]] on [[31 December]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Graham Dilley Saves the World (short story)}})


* [[Revolution Man]] First Published
==== Undated ====
[[Iris Wildthyme]] and [[Panda]] visited [[Hyspero]]'s desert and built sand castles. Panda drew a sketch of Iris while she was resting. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Iris at the V&A (short story)}})


* [[Players (novel)|Players]] First Published
== Births and deaths ==
=== Dated ===
On [[4 October]], [[Steven Carter]], grandson of [[Captain]] [[Jack Harkness]], was born to [[Alice Carter|Alice]] and [[Joe Carter]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)}})


==== [[May]] ====
=== Undated ===
Sometime during this year, [[April MacLean]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Nightvisiting (TV story)}}, {{cs|Detained (TV story)}}) [[Matteusz Andrzejewski]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart (TV story)}}) and [[Ram Singh]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Joyride (novel)}}) were born.


== Other ==
In [[1997]], [[IIF]] planned to build a [[nuclear-waste storage facility]] on [[the Moon]] by 1999. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dying Days (novel)}})


* [[Dominion]] First Published
[[Terry Brooks]] was serving as the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] of the [[United Kingdom]] during this year. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Millennium Shock (novel)}})


* [[Millennium Shock]] First Published
[[Ruth Clayton]], actually [[Fugitive Doctor|the Doctor]] under a [[Chameleon Arch]], implanted with false [[memories]], remembered moving to [[Gloucester]] in mid-[[December]] 1999. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)}})


* [[27th May |27]] - [[Donald Morley]], who played [[Jules Renan]] in "[[The Reign of Terror]]," dies.
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* [[Unnatural History]] First Published
 
* [[Storm Harvest]] First Published
 
==== [[July]] ====
 
 
* [[Autumn Mist]] First Published
 
* [[The Final Sanction]] First Published
 
* [[The Sirens of Time]] First Released
 
==== [[August]] ====
 
 
* [[Interference: Book One]] First Published
 
* [[Interference: Book Two]] First Published
 
==== [[September]] ====
 
 
* [[The Blue Angel]] First Published
 
* [[City at World's End]] First Published
 
==== [[October]] ====
 
 
* [[The Taking of Planet 5]] First Published
 
* [[Divided Loyalties]] First Published
 
* [[Phantasmagoria]] First Released
 
* [[1st October |1]] - [[Noel Johnson]], who played King [[Thous]] in "[[The Underwater Menace]]" and [[Charles Grover]] in "[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]," dies.
 
* [[30th October |30]] - [[Cavan Kendall]], who played [[Achilles]] in "[[The Myth Makers]]," dies.
 
==== [[November]] ====
 
 
* [[Frontier Worlds]] First Published
 
* [[Corpse Marker]] First Published
 
* [[Whispers of Terror]] First Released
 
==== [[December]] ====
* [[Twilight of the Gods]] is published, bringing to a close the [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] series of books, which began as the ''Doctor Who''-expanding [[Virgin New Adventures]] series in 1991. The publication of this book ends an era, concluding the book-publishing relationship of Virgin/W.H. Allen/Target that had begun in [[1973]].
 
* [[21st December|21]] - [[Jack Le White]], who went uncredited in [[The Reign of Terror]] and [[The Daleks' Master Plan]], dies.
 
* [[25th December|25]] - [[Peter Jeffrey]], who played the [[pilot (The Macra Terror) |pilot]] in "[[The Macra Terror]]" and Count [[Grendel]] in "[[The Androids of Tara]]," dies at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] from prostate [[cancer]].
 
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* [[Leonard Grahame]], who played [[Darcy Tranton]] in "[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]," dies.
 
 
 
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1999 in

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1999 was a year.

Events

Dated

Before New Year's Eve

On 12 May, Adelaide Brooke was born. (TV: The Waters of Mars [+]Loading...["The Waters of Mars (TV story)"])

In June, Rosa Parks received a Congressional Medal from President Clinton. According to the Thirteenth Doctor, this recognised her as a living icon for freedom. (TV: Rosa [+]Loading...["Rosa (TV story)"])

On 31 July, the Eighth Doctor encountered The Bane in Sweden. (PROSE: Dominion [+]Loading...["Dominion (novel)"])

The Seventh Doctor dies. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])

On 30 December, the Seventh Doctor, en route to Gallifrey with the remains of the Old Master, was forced to land the TARDIS in San Francisco and was caught in the crossfire of a gangland shooting. Ignorance of the Time Lord form meant that his surgeon, Grace Holloway, accidentally killed him. The Master escaped into the city. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])

On the same day the Sixth Doctor and Melanie Bush arrived in London. Mel visited her class reunion, while the Doctor reintroduced himself to Anne Travers. (PROSE: Millennial Rites [+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"])

New Year's Eve

Several things happened on 31 December.

The Seventh Doctor regenerated into his eighth incarnation after the surgery almost destroyed the regenerative process, leaving the Eighth Doctor suffering from post-regeneration amnesia. The Master took paramedic Bruce Gerhardt as a host and his first action was to murder Bruce's wife after she saw the Master's eyes and screamed. With the assistance of Chang Lee and Grace, the Bruce Master opened the Eye of Harmony. Opening the Eye destabilised Earth's physics and the Master used it to begin stealing the Doctor's lives. The Doctor helped Grace put the TARDIS in a temporal orbit, draining the power from the Eye and thwarting the Master. After the Master killed Grace and Lee, the Master fought the Doctor and fell into the Eye. The TARDIS reversed Lee and Grace's deaths and closed the Eye. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"], PROSE: The Novel of the Film [+]Loading...["The Novel of the Film (novelisation)"])

The Seventh Doctor and Melanie Bush crashed a party hosted by the Auton Alisha Hammerson and prevented another invasion by the Nestene Consciousness. (COMIC: Plastic Millenium [+]Loading...["Plastic Millenium (comic story)"])

The Fourth Doctor stopped the millennium bug just as the New Year arrived. (PROSE: Millennium Shock [+]Loading...["Millennium Shock (novel)"])

While Jack Harkness fought a "Millennium Bug" of his own, Alex Hopkins killed the rest of his Torchwood Three team, then himself after Jack returned, just as the New Year arrived in Cardiff's time zone. Harkness subsequently took over Torchwood Three. (TV: Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"]) Alex also spoke to Yvonne Hartman at Torchwood One of his epiphany beforehand on the phone, as he shot the team. This incident made her realise that the Torchwood Institute needed a stronger leader to face the 21st century. (AUDIO: One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"])

Dave Young spent the entire evening trying to convince his girlfriend, Anji Kapoor, that the millennium would not actually begin for another year. Kapoor, for her part, thought this extreme pedantry meant their relationship was in trouble. This incident led to her insisting on New Year's Eve 2000 that the two of them spend 2001 doing "Wild and Spontaneous Things' —the result of which was the couple spontaneously going to Belgium in February 2001. There, she met the Eighth Doctor and began travelling with him. (PROSE: Escape Velocity [+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"])

The renegade Time Lady Iris Wildthyme and her companion Panda arrived in San Francisco in her TARDIS. Immediately after their arrival, Iris spilled gin into the bus' control and out into Time Vortex, resulting in various different versions of Panda from alternative realities crossing over into the primary universe. With the assistance of Dr. George Strangeways, Iris was able to close the rift, though not before the Panda from the primary universe had been dragged into it. (AUDIO: The Panda Invasion [+]Loading...["The Panda Invasion (audio story)"]) Iris travelled to this date on at least four other occasions and recorded five different diary entries across three different journals from 31 December 1999. (PROSE: The Most Faithful Panda in the World [+]Loading...["The Most Faithful Panda in the World (short story)"])

At midnight Ashley Chapel summoned Saraquazel, a being from after the universe. Anne Travers summoned the Great Intelligence at the exact same time, leading to the two multi-dimensional entities colliding. This created the Great Kingdom. (PROSE: Millennial Rites [+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"])

"Dara Morgan" registered MorganTech as a company, and made his first public appearance on a television interview. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos [+]Loading...["Beautiful Chaos (novel)"])

Undated

Throughout 1999, much concern was raised on Earth over a feared computer glitch known as Y2K bug or the Millennium Bug. This had the potential to cause technological havoc as clocks changed from 1999 to 2000 (the "00" in the date being expected to cause problems for many computer systems). The concern ended up being unfounded, though not without some help from one, or possibly two incarnations of the Doctor. (PROSE: Millennium Shock [+]Loading...["Millennium Shock (novel)"])

Johnny Chess's first novel, Neurotic Boy Outsider, was published. (PROSE: The King of Terror [+]Loading...["The King of Terror (novel)"])

Jack Harkness met Neil Redmond in Miami. (AUDIO: Uncanny Valley [+]Loading...["Uncanny Valley (audio story)"])

The Seventh Doctor and Ace fought the Mandragora Helix in London. (COMIC: The Mark of Mandragora [+]Loading...["The Mark of Mandragora (comic story)"])

Australia was seemingly in a dire state by 1999, with pollution causing issues, and the country's natural resources being used up or lost under piles of waste and litter. "Citizen 327KL" sent a distress call to the Fourth Doctor from Australia, but as the Doctor was currently in 1979, he could only give 327KL advice on what to do about Australia's pollution. 327KL then choked, and presumably died due to the pollution. (TV: Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful [+]Loading...["Dr. Who For Keep Australia Beautiful (TV story)"])

The Ninth Doctor retrieved a "large silver metal ball" from the Mornington Crescent underground station and exited the station in the direction of Camden. The Doctor also had a conversation about early reggae records with "Eddie Duggan" outside a club in Prague. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

Alternate timelines

Dated

In an alternative timeline, the Fifth Doctor, Peri Brown and Erimem visited Edinburgh on 31 December. (PROSE: Graham Dilley Saves the World [+]Loading...["Graham Dilley Saves the World (short story)"])

Undated

Iris Wildthyme and Panda visited Hyspero's desert and built sand castles. Panda drew a sketch of Iris while she was resting. (PROSE: Iris at the V&A [+]Loading...["Iris at the V&A (short story)"])

Births and deaths

Dated

On 4 October, Steven Carter, grandson of Captain Jack Harkness, was born to Alice and Joe Carter. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)"])

Undated

Sometime during this year, April MacLean, (TV: Nightvisiting [+]Loading...["Nightvisiting (TV story)"], Detained [+]Loading...["Detained (TV story)"]) Matteusz Andrzejewski, (TV: Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart [+]Loading...["Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart (TV story)"]) and Ram Singh (PROSE: Joyride [+]Loading...["Joyride (novel)"]) were born.

Other

In 1997, IIF planned to build a nuclear-waste storage facility on the Moon by 1999. (PROSE: The Dying Days [+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"])

Terry Brooks was serving as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during this year. (PROSE: Millennium Shock [+]Loading...["Millennium Shock (novel)"])

Ruth Clayton, actually the Doctor under a Chameleon Arch, implanted with false memories, remembered moving to Gloucester in mid-December 1999. (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon [+]Loading...["Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)"])

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