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'''2010''' was the year of the [[Wedding|weddings]] of two of [[the Doctor]]'s companions: [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Donna Noble]]. It was also the year the [[Eleventh Doctor]] returned for [[Amy Pond]] and she started travelling with him in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]].
'''2010''' was a [[year]].


== Events ==
== Events ==
=== Dated ===
==== January - April ====
[[Jack Harkness]] investigated [[the House of the Dead]] and encountered the ghost of [[Ianto Jones]] before it was destroyed. At the same time, [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|the Rift]] was apparently sealed forever. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The House of the Dead (audio story)}}) However, temporary holes in space-time would persist in Cardiff in the years that would follow. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|More Than This (audio story)}})


=== [[March]] ===
[[File:Jack leaves Earth.jpg|thumb|left|Jack leaves Earth. ([[TV]]: '' [[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]'')]]
* [[Jack Harkness]] investigated [[the House of the Dead]] and encountered the ghost of [[Ianto Jones]] before it was destroyed. At the same time, [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|the Rift]] was sealed forever. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The House of the Dead (audio story)|The House of the Dead]]'')
[[Gwen Cooper]] and [[Rhys Williams]] met with [[Jack Harkness]] outside [[Cardiff]]. Jack, still mourning the deaths of [[Steven Carter|his grandson]], Ianto, [[Owen Harper]], [[Toshiko Sato]] and [[Suzie Costello]], used [[Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator|his recovered vortex manipulator]] to send a signal to a [[cold fusion freighter]] just outside the [[Sol system]]. He was beamed into [[space]]. With the departure of Jack, [[Torchwood Three]] unofficially ceased to exist. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)}})
* [[Gwen Cooper]] and [[Rhys Williams]] met with [[Jack Harkness]] outside [[Cardiff]]. Jack, still mourning the deaths of [[Steven Carter|his grandson]], [[Ianto Jones]], [[Owen Harper]], [[Toshiko Sato]] and [[Suzie Costello]], used his recovered [[vortex manipulator]] to send a signal to a [[cold fusion freighter]] just outside the [[Sol system]]. He was beamed into space. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five]]'')


=== [[April]] ===
On [[24 April]], the [[Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding|wedding]] of [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Jason Kane]] occurred in [[Cheldon Bonniface]], [[England]], [[Earth]]. Many guests from throughout [[time]] and space attended. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Happy Endings (novel)}})
* [[24 April|24]]: The [[wedding]] of [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Jason Kane]] occurred on this date in [[Cheldon Bonniface]], [[England]], [[Earth]]. Many guests from throughout time and space attended. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'')
* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] was restored to youth and health by the [[Fortean Flicker]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'')


=== Spring ===
[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] was restored to youth and health by the [[Fortean Flicker]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Happy Endings (novel)}})
* Some time before [[Donna Noble|Donna's]] wedding, [[Joshua Naismith]] and his daughter, [[Abigail Naismith|Abigail]], were put on trial. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
* The wedding of Donna Noble and [[Shaun Temple]] occurred at this time. Among her guests were her mother [[Sylvia Noble]], granddad [[Wilfred Mott]], friend [[Nerys]], and, unbeknownst to her, the [[Tenth Doctor]], who was in the midst of a prolonged regeneration. The Doctor (by way of Sylvia and Wilf) gifted Donna a winning triple rollover lottery ticket. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')


=== [[June]] ===
==== May - August ====
* [[25 June|25]]: The [[Eleventh Doctor]] returned to [[Amy Pond]]'s house two years after the incident with the [[Atraxi]] and [[Prisoner Zero]] from [[2008]] and invited her to travel with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''). They left together, and returned at 11:55 PM after the crash of the ''[[Byzantium (ship)|Byzantium]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
[[File:AmySaysGoodbyeTBB.jpg|thumb|Newlywed Amy Pond enters the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Big Bang (TV story)}})]]
* [[26 June|26]]: The Eleventh Doctor and Amy left for [[1580]] [[Venice]] after picking up Amy's fiancé [[Rory Williams|Rory]] from his stag party. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'', ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]''). Amy Pond and Rory Williams got married after the Eleventh Doctor, with Amy's help, had restored the universe to its original condition. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
On [[25 June]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] returned to [[Amy Pond]]'s house two years after the incident with the [[Atraxi]] and [[Prisoner Zero]] from [[2008]] and invited her to travel with him. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Eleventh Hour (TV story)}}) They left together, and returned at 11:55 PM, after escaping from the wreckage of the ''[[Byzantium (spacecraft)|Byzantium]]''. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Flesh and Stone (TV story)}})
* Approximately this time, [[Anwen Williams]], daughter of [[Gwen Cooper]] and [[Rhys Williams]], was born. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]'', ''[[The New World]]'' based on Gwen being two weeks pregnant in ''Children of Earth'')


=== [[August]] ===
On [[26 June]], the Eleventh Doctor and Amy left for [[Venice]] in [[1580]] after picking up Amy's [[fiancé]] [[Rory Williams]] from his stag party. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Flesh and Stone (TV story)}}) Amy and Rory got married after the Eleventh Doctor, with Amy's help, had restored the universe to its original condition. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Big Bang (TV story)}})
* [[19 August|19]]: [[Luke Smith]] received his A Level results all (four) A Stars. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man]]'')


=== September ===
The [[Institute of Temporal Consistency]] determined that the universe exploded on 26 June in 2010, leaving [[scientist]]s very confused about why it still existed. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Traveller's Diary (novel)}})
* [[10 September|10]]: Luke Smith, [[Clyde Langer]] and [[Rani Chandra]] defeated the [[Nightmare Man]] by trapping him inside a [[dream]]. Luke left with [[K9 Mark IV|K9]] for [[Oxford University]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man]]'')
* Soon after Luke arrived at Oxford, a critically ill [[Androvax]] returned to [[Earth]] to free the remains of the [[Veil]] species from an interdimensional vault there. With [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Mister Dread]]'s help, he took the spaceship with the Veil safely off Earth into space to search for a new home. Mister Dread gave his life saving the day. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vault of Secrets]]'')
* [[Jilly Kitzinger]] started working for [[PhiCorp]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Escape to LA]]'')


=== October ===
On [[19 August]], [[Luke Smith]] received his A Level results, all (four) A Stars. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Nightmare Man (TV story)}})
* Sarah Jane Smith was told by [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] they had found the Doctor's body. She and her gang, along with [[Jo Jones]] and [[Santiago Jones|her grandson]], were invited to the Doctor's funeral on [[Mount Snowdon]]. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] arrived; his death had been faked by the [[Claw Shansheeth]]. Using a machine he built, he swapped places with Clyde Langer from where he had been trapped in the [[Crimson Heart]]. With help from Jo and Sarah Jane, he fixed his teleporter and returned them all to Earth properly. The Claw Shansheeth and [[Tia Karim]] used memory weave technology to attempt to create a [[TARDIS key]] from the Doctor's [[companion]]s' memories. Sarah Jane and Jo overloaded the machine, killing the Shansheeth and Tia. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'')


=== November ===
==== September - December ====
* Before 23rd [[November]] - Clyde and Rani, having been grounded by the [[Judoon]], were the only two humans left on Earth. They found an alien prince, [[Gavin (The Empty Planet)|Gavin]], and delivered him to royal robots so he could take his rightful place as king of his home planet. Gavin happily teleported to [[Unnamed planet (The Empty Planet)|his home planet]] after he knighted Clyde and Rani and ordered the return of the [[warp shunt]]ed human race. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Planet]]'')
On [[10 September]], Luke Smith, [[Clyde Langer]] and [[Rani Chandra]] defeated the [[Nightmare Man]] by trapping him inside a [[dream]]. Luke left with [[K9 Mark IV|K9]] for [[Oxford University]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Nightmare Man (TV story)}})
* [[23 November|23]] -  [[The Shopkeeper]] requested the [[Template:Bannerman Road Gang|Bannerman Road gang]]'s help to acquire [[Chronosteel]] at key points in time to save the Earth. While two of the pieces were supplied, one was left behind with [[Emily Morris]] in [[1889]]. Her descendant, [[Angela Price (Lost in Time)|Angela]], having been handed the newspaper article of the red herring  the Shopkeeper had used to draw the Bannerman Road gang to him, gave the Shopkeeper the piece, saving the timestream. The Shopkeeper departed with his parrot [[Captain (Parrot)|Captain]]. ([[TV]]: '' [[Lost in Time (TV story)|Lost in Time]]'')


=== Winter ===
Soon after Luke arrived at Oxford, a critically ill [[Androvax]] returned to [[Earth]] to free the remains of the [[Veil (species)|Veil]] species from an interdimensional vault there. With [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Mister Dread]]'s help, he took the spaceship with the Veil safely off Earth into space to search for a new home. Mister Dread gave his life saving the day. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Vault of Secrets (TV story)}})
* Sarah Jane encountered an unwilling ally using the alias of [[Ruby White]]. Ruby ultimately faked Sarah Jane's retirement, taking over [[13 Bannerman Road]] and [[Mr Smith]], and tryied to kill Sarah Jane by draining her life force. Ruby was defeated by being overwhelmed by humanity's fears of [[Meteorite|meteors]] (in simulations created by [[Mr White]], reprogrammed by Luke). She was sent off into space on her prison ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]'')
* The Eleventh Doctor took Amy Pond to see a [[Vincent van Gogh]] exhibit in the [[Musée d'Orsay]]. They discovered a monster peeping through a church window in one of van Gogh's paintings. They travelled back to [[1890]] to discover the meaning of the painting and later took Vincent to 2010 to show modern evaluation of his work. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]'') ''Although the date in the year was not confirmed, the setting indicates that it was winter or nearing it.''


=== Unknown dates ===
On [[26 September]], [[NASA]] announced a manned mission to [[Mars]], which was scheduled for [[2035]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Super Gran (comic story)}})
* The Eleventh Doctor and Amy went to [[New York City]] and found that the city had been invaded by [[Vykoid]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Forgotten Army]]'')
* The Tenth Doctor and [[Majenta Pryce]] landed in [[Sydney]] [[Australia]] and foiled an invasion of the [[Skith]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Age of Ice (comic story)|The Age of Ice]]'')
''The following events are conjectured as taking place in 2010. None of them, however, include any on-screen indication as to whether they actually occurred this year, but the likeliness was that they do, with Martha and Mickey appearing recently married and having gotten married near September 2009 and Captain Jack appearing to have not been away from Earth long since he left in March this year.''
* [[Martha Jones]] and her husband [[Mickey Smith]] were saved from a [[Sontaran]] attack by the Tenth Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
* At some point after March, the Tenth Doctor visited [[Jack Harkness]], who was recovering from [[the 456]] incident, and hinted that he should start dating [[Alonso Frame]] before parting. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
* [[Verity Newman]], great-granddaughter of [[Joan Redfern (TV character)|Joan Redfern]], published a [[A Journal of Impossible Things (The End of Time)|semi-autobiography of her great-grandmother]], incorporating elements of [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith's]] ''[[A Journal of Impossible Things (Human Nature)|A Journal of Impossible Things]]''. During a book-signing, the Tenth Doctor, who had used a [[Chameleon arch]] to temporarily become John, got a copy of the book signed and asked if Joan lived a happy life. ([[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]''/''[[The Family of Blood]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')


=== Other timelines ===
[[Jilly Kitzinger]] started working for [[PhiCorp]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Escape to LA (TV story)}})
==== [[Time Field]] timeline ====
 
* [[26 June]] - [[River Song]] arrived some time in the early morning before sunrise after the TARDIS landed there. She investigated Amy's house and found a book on the Pandora's Box and a [[Roman]] Britain book beside Amy's bed. She took them for analysis in the TARDIS shortly before it exploded on this date, [[Time Field|cracking all of time and space]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
Sarah Jane Smith was told by [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] they had found the Doctor's body. She and her gang, along with [[Jo Jones]] and [[Santiago Jones|her grandson]], were invited to the Doctor's funeral underneath [[Mount Snowdon]]. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] arrived; his death had been faked by the [[Claw Shansheeth]]. Using a machine he built, he swapped places with Clyde Langer from where he had been trapped in the [[Crimson Heart]]. With help from Jo and Sarah Jane, he fixed his teleporter and returned them all to Earth properly. The Claw Shansheeth and [[Tia Karim]] used memory weave technology to attempt to create a [[TARDIS key]] from the Doctor's [[companion]]s' memories. Sarah Jane and Jo overloaded the machine, killing the Shansheeth and Tia. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Death of the Doctor (TV story)}})
 
Before [[23 November]], Clyde and Rani, having been grounded by the [[Judoon]], were the only two humans left on Earth. They found an alien prince, [[Gavin (The Empty Planet)|Gavin]], and delivered him to royal robots so he could take his rightful place as king of his home planet. Gavin happily teleported to [[Planet (The Empty Planet)|his home planet]] after he knighted Clyde and Rani and ordered the return of the [[warp shunt]]ed human race. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Empty Planet (TV story)}})
 
[[File:Time window.jpg|thumb|left|The Shopkeeper presents a [[time window]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Lost in Time (TV story)|Lost in Time]]'')]]
On [[23 November]], [[The Shopkeeper (Lost in Time)|the Shopkeeper]] requested the [[Bannerman Road gang]]'s help to acquire [[Chronosteel]] at key points in time to save the Earth. While two of the pieces were supplied, one was left behind with [[Emily Morris]] in [[1889]]. Her descendant, [[Angela Price (Lost in Time)|Angela]], having been handed the newspaper article of the red herring the Shopkeeper had used to draw the Bannerman Road gang to him, gave the Shopkeeper the piece, saving the timestream. The Shopkeeper departed with his parrot [[Captain (Lost in Time)|Captain]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Lost in Time (TV story)}})
 
Also on 23 November, [[Archie MacTavish]]'s [[P.R.O.B.E.]] ID badge was issued. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Kelpie (home video)}})
 
Sarah Jane encountered an unwilling ally using the alias of [[Ruby White]]. Ruby ultimately faked Sarah Jane's [[retirement]], taking over [[13 Bannerman Road]] and [[Mr Smith]], and tried to kill Sarah Jane by draining her [[life-force]]. Ruby was defeated by being overwhelmed by humanity's fears of [[Meteorite|meteors]] (in simulations created by [[Mr White]], reprogrammed by Luke). She was sent off into space on her prison ship. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)}})


==== [[Pete's World]] ====
On [[24 December]], the [[Novelisor]] [[Huxley (Ringpullworld)|Huxley]] forced [[Iris Wildthyme]] to park her [[Celestial Omnibus]] in the basement of the [[Selfridges]] on [[Oxford Street]]. Huxley approached [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]] while she was doing her [[Christmas]] shopping and tried to convince her that all of her memories of working with [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] and the [[Third Doctor]] were lies and that she had actually been an agent of [[Ministry for Alien Incursions and Ontological Wonders|MIAOW]] and a companion of Iris. Huxley took Jo to the Celestial Omnibus and introduced her to Iris. Iris and Jo decided to pilot the omnibus to [[UNIT HQ]] in the [[1970s]] to prove Huxley wrong. [[Panda]] stayed behind in 2010 to conduct a secret mission. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Find and Replace (audio story)}})
* Mickey Smith, [[Jake Simmonds]] and [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete]] travelled from [[Pete's World|a parallel world]] back to [[Normal Space|the Doctor's universe]]. They and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] and [[Jackie Tyler]] were stuck in Pete's World after the tear through [[the Void]] closed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
:''Due to time differences between the two worlds, they appeared in [[2007]] in the other world. See also [[Pete's World#circa 2010|Pete's World]]''.


== Behind the scenes ==
On [[25 December]], the [[John Fuchas]] film adaptation of ''[[The True History of Planets]]'' was broadcast on [[BBC3|BBC Three]]. According to one account, [[Elizabeth II]] was dead by this point, meaning that there was no [[Queen's Christmas speech]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)}})


==== Early 2010 ====
=== Undated ===
* [[Big Finish Productions]] announced it was reviving its [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] line as a series of short audio dramas, with the first release expected in late 2010.<ref name="short trips reminder">[http://www.bigfinish.com/news/Short-Trips-Reminder Big Finish - News - Short Trips Reminder]</ref>
According to one account, the crew of a [[sleeper starship]] which set off from Earth entered [[deep sleep]]. Upon awakening on the planet [[Vulcan (Invasion of the Daleks)|Vulcan]], the crew opted to begin their [[dating system]] from the time they entered deep sleep and so acknowledged the year as 2010 despite the passing of several [[century|centuries]]. It was after this awakening that they endured a [[Vulcan Incident|Dalek attack]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The History of the Daleks (short story)}})


==== [[January]] ====
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy went to [[New York City]] and found that the city had been invaded by [[Vykoid]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Forgotten Army (novel)}})
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code]]'' was first released. While earlier instalments of [[The Companion Chronicles]] had featured former TV companions, this story featured [[Benny Summerfield]], a companion created for the [[Virgin New Adventures]] novels.
* The ''[[Radio Times]]'' published [[Radio Times Doctor Who Collectors' Edition|a special retrospective magazine]] available by mail order.
* The Australian-produced spin-off series ''[[K9 (TV series)|K9]]'' began airing in Scandinavia.
* [[1 January|1]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part Two]]'' was first broadcast, concluding the [[David Tennant]] era and marking the debut of [[Matt Smith]] as the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. This was expected to be the final on-screen use of the [[Doctor Who logo|logo]] introduced in 2005 and later modified slightly, as well as the arrangement of the [[Doctor Who theme|''Doctor Who'' theme]] introduced at the end of 2007. The final David Tennant edition of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' followed.
* 1 - BBC One also rebroadcasted [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part One]]'' earlier in the day.
* 1 - ''[[Doctor Who's Greatest Moments]]: The Doctor'' was rebroadcast on BBC3.
* 1 - Beginning at midnight New Year's Eve/Day, [[BBC America]] aired a forty-six-hour marathon of the entire David Tennant era, starting with [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''.
* 1 - [[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'' was rebroadcast in its entirety on the Canadian network [[Space (TV channel)|Space]].
* 1 - A [[Dalek]] made a cameo appearance in an episode of the American sitcom ''Better Off Ted''.
* 1 - Almost immediately after the broadcast of the finale, BBC Online's ''Doctor Who'' website began phasing in a new look featuring the new logo and material related to the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. Little of this was made available to Internet users outside the UK.
* [[2 January|2]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part Two]]'' was broadcast in the U.S. on [[BBC America]], ending its forty-six-hour David Tennant marathon.
* 2 - [[Space (TV channel)|Space Channel]] in Canada aired both parts of [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' for the first time as part of a daylong ''Doctor Who''/''Torchwood'' marathon that included rebroadcasts of all the specials from [[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'' to ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' and additional rebroadcasts of the complete [[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'' mini-series.
* 2 - The final [[David Tennant]] edition of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' was rebroadcast on BBC3.
* 2 - Following its broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part Two]]'', the BBC received more than a hundred forty complaints from viewers alleging that the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s reference to not being [[Ginger (trait)|ginger]] was a slight against redheaded people.
* [[3 January|3]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' was rebroadcast on [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] in Canada.
* Week of [[4 January]] - Production of [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] resumed in [[Cardiff]] after a Christmas break.
* [[5 January|5]] - The North American DVD release of [[TV]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'' took place on this date.
* 5 - The arrival of [[Matt Smith]] as the new Doctor Who was the topic of a question on the internationally syndicated American game show ''Jeopardy''.
* [[6 January|6]] - In response to complaints regarding widespread misinterpretation of the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s comment from the end of [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part Two]]'' about not being ginger, the BBC issued an official statement clarifying that the line referenced the Doctor's previously-stated desire to be ginger in [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', and also noting that both [[Donna Noble]] and [[Amy Pond]] were redheads.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/response/2010/01/100106_res_doctorwho_ginger_jmf.shtml](dead link){{facts}}
* 6 - Filming for [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] took place in [[Cardiff]] at [[Roald Dahl Plass]], attracting media attention.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/01/filming-returns-to-cardiff.html The Doctor Who News Page: Filming Returns to Cardiff]</ref>
* [[7 January|7]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Voyage (audio story)|The Last Voyage]]'', an exclusive-to-audio adventure of the [[Tenth Doctor]], was first released.
* 7 - The audio adaptation of [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Three Doctors]]'' was first released.
* 7 - ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' debuted a new look incorporating the new [[Doctor Who logo|''Doctor Who'' logo]].
* 7 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* Early January - Production of [[David Tennant]]'s American pilot, ''Rex was Not Your Lawyer'', concluded in Hollywood. Soon after, US media reported that production of a full series by the NBC network might be fast-tracked due to the necessity of filling multiple timeslots left vacant as of March 2010 by the cancellation of the five-nights-a-week ''Jay Leno Show.'' It was later reported that NBC chose not to follow through with a full series immediately, though a fall 2010 broadcast was still a possibility. <ref>[http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/01/24/nbc-delays-rex-is-not-your-lawyer/ EW.com - Exclusive: 'Rex Is Not Your Lawyer' DOA at NBC?]</ref>
* Early January - It was also announced that [[Gugu Mbatha-Raw]] ([[Tish Jones]] in [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]]) had been cast in a lead role in another American series, ''Undercovers'', from [[wikipedia:J.J. Abrams|J.J. Abrams]].
* [[8 January|8]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Series 3 (Torchwood)|Children of Earth]]'' debuted in Australia on ABC2. The five chapters of the mini-series were broadcast one per week.
* 8 - The British Academy of Film and Television Arts posted ''The Regeneration of Doctor Who'', a twenty-five-minute discussion with [[Russell T Davies]] and [[Julie Gardner]], to its YouTube channel.{{facts}}
* [[11 January|11]] - The UK DVD/Blu-Ray release of the [[2009 Specials (Doctor Who)|2009 Specials]] box set occurred , including [[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'', ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'', ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' and ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''. [[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'' became the first ''Doctor Who'' episode to be "upconverted" from standard definition to high definition.<ref>[http://www.TVShowsOnDVD.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=13068 TVShowsonDVD - Doctor Who - Official Answer for The Next Doctor on Blu-ray, Plus the BBC's Press Release ***UPDATE: Online Previews for 'The End of Time, Part 1' ***]</ref> A three-disc ''Winter Specials'' set containing just ''Waters of Mars'' and ''End of Time'' was also released.
* 11 - [[TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[12 January|12]] - A box set compiling the 5-part [[BBC Audio]] story [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hornets' Nest]]'' was first released.
* [[14 January|14]] - The second edition of ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'' by [[Russell T Davies]] and [[Benjamin Cook]], titled ''The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter'', was first published in the UK. The new edition added more than 300 pages of new material to the previous book.
* 14 - [[Mark Jones]], who played Keeler in [[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]'', died in Shrewsbury, Shropshire at the age of 70.
* Mid January - Canadian broadcasts of [[Series 2 (SJA)|Series 2]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' began in some parts of Canada on [[BBC Kids]] (a major national cable provider dropped the network in 2009).
* Mid January - The BBC began scouting for a new producer to take on [[Series 4 (SJA)|Series 4]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/01/sarah-jane-adventures-series-4.html The Doctor Who News Page: Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 4 confirmed]</ref>
* [[18 January|18]] - The UK release of ''The Peladon Tales'' DVD box set, consisting of [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon]]'', occurred.
* 18 - [[TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[19 January|19]] - Reports surfaced in US media that BBC Worldwide, [[Russell T Davies]], [[Julie Gardner]] and [[Jane Tranter]] were planning to mount a US version of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' for the American Fox network. [[John Barrowman]] was a potential star, reprising [[Jack Harkness]], but at this point it was not known if the show would be a standalone remake or part of the established Whoniverse. According to ''The Hollywood Reporter'' a US-based "reboot" of ''Doctor Who'' was a possibility as well.<ref>[http://io9.com/#!5451815/torchwood-may-be-coming-to-america io9.com Torchwood May Be Coming To America]</ref>
* [[20 January|20]] - For the fourth consecutive ceremony, ''Doctor Who'' won the Drama category at the National Television Awards. [[David Tennant]] also received the NTA award for Best Drama Performance.
* 20 - Special effects technician [[Ian Scoones]] died in Bulgaria.
* [[21 January|21]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Doctor Who at the BBC: A Legend Reborn]]'' was first released (delayed from original release date of November 2009). However it was immediately recalled due to issues regarding clearance of some material on the disc and a new February release date was announced. A few copies of the unedited version, however, entered circulation.<ref name="CD delayed">[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/01/cd-delayed.html The Doctor Who News Page: CD Delayed]</ref>
* 21 - [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale|The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter]]'' was scheduled to be published in North America, although availability through retailers such as Amazon was apparently delayed until March. Some smaller retailers might still have received the book.
* 21 - ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' published its hundred-fiftieth issue. To celebrate, the magazine came with a package of "Mars Slime".
* [[22 January|22]] - The audio adaptation of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors]]'' was first released.
* [[25 January|25]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* Late January - ''[[Vworp Vworp!]]'', a fanzine dedicated to the history of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' and the ''Doctor Who'' comic strip, was launched.<ref>[http://www.vworpvworp.co.uk/ Vworp Vworp]</ref>
* [[29 January|29]] - ''Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral'', a piece of [[fan fiction]] written by an astronomer Dr. Megan Argo to commemorate a major discovery involving a supernova, received notable press coverage in ''Scientific American''. Argo also recorded and uploaded an audio version of the story, read by her.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/01/doctor-who-and-silver-spiral.html The Doctor Who News Page: Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral]</ref><ref>[http://www.rigel.org.uk/blog/000279.shtml Megan's Blog - Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral]</ref>
* 29 - [[Adam Dawson]], who was a [[film editor]] for [[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', died.
* [[30 January|30]] - [[David Tennant]] and [[Catherine Tate]] again guest-hosted the ''Jonathan Ross'' show on BBC Radio. Guests included [[Anthony Head]] and Ricky Gervais.
* [[31 January|31]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Leviathan]]'', part of Big Finish Productions' [[The Lost Stories]] series, was first released.
* 30 - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Thousand Tiny Wings]]'' was first released. This audio reintroduced [[Elizabeth Klein]], a character who last appeared in the 2001 release [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Colditz (audio story)|Colditz]]'', as a new companion for the [[Seventh Doctor]].
* ''Look Who's Talking'', a collection of columns written by [[Colin Baker]] for ''Bucks Free Press'' between 1995 and 2009, was first published.
* ''Shooty Dog Thing'', a collection of fanzine articles, was first published.


==== [[February]] ====
The Tenth Doctor and [[Majenta Pryce]] landed in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]] and foiled an invasion of the [[Skith]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Age of Ice (comic story)}})
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Suffering]]'' was first released.
* The online service SeeSaw began offering classic-series ''Doctor Who'' episodes for online viewing.
* [[1 February|1]] - The animated story [[TV]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'' was first released on DVD in the UK. The documentary series ''[[Doctor Who's Greatest Moments]]'' was included in the release.
* 1 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[2 February|2]] - The North American DVD/Blu-Ray release of [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' and ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' occurred, and the five-disc ''[[2009 Specials]]'' box set including [[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'' was up-converted to high definition for the Blu-Ray edition.
* [[3 February|3]] - ''[[Doctor Who DVD Files]]'' moved beyond the 2005-present revival and began featuring classic-series stories on DVD, beginning with [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.
* [[4 February|4]] - The region 4 DVD/Blu-Ray release of [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' and the ''Dalek War'' DVD box set featuring [[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'' and ''[[Planet of the Daleks]]'' occurred.
* 4 - The audio adaptation of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Logopolis (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Logopolis]]'' was first released.
* [[6 February|6]] - Noted fantasy writer [[Neil Gaiman]] announced via his blog that he would write an episode of ''Doctor Who'' for the [[2011]] season.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/02/gaiman-confirms-he-is-writing-for.html The Doctor Who News Page: Gaiman confirms he is writing for Doctor Who]</ref> This was also the first indication that the series was expected to continue beyond 2010.
* [[7 February|7]] - The New Zealand broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part One]]'' occurred.
* [[8 February|8]] - UK DVD release of [[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]'' occurred.
* 8 - [[TV]]: ''[[Sirens of Ceres]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[11 February|11]] - This was the reissue date for [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Doctor Who at the BBC: A Legend Reborn]]'', following two previous delays. <ref name="CD delayed"/>
* [[13 February|13]] - [[Max Faulkner]], a frequent [[stunt performer]] on ''Doctor Who'', died.
* [[14 February|14]] - Australian broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part One]]'' on [[ABC1]] occurred.
* 14 - New Zealand broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part Two]]'' occurred.
* 14 - The ''Sunday Times'' ran an article, "Doctor in War with Planet Maggie", that alleged that episodes of the fading original series in the late 1980s were crafted with an anti-[[Margaret Thatcher]] political agenda, a view apparently supported by [[Sylvester McCoy]] and his era's script editor, [[Andrew Cartmel]]. [[TV]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol]]'' and ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]'' and even the obscure novel [[PROSE]]: ''[[Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma]]'' were cited as specific examples.
* [[15 February|15]] - The twenty-years-warmed-over controversy as to whether late-period ''Doctor Who'' had an anti-Thatcher agenda was picked up by other media, and was the topic of a discussion with [[Andrew Cartmel]], [[Terrance Dicks]] and others on BBC Two's ''Newsnight''.
* 15 - [[George Waring]] ([[Arden]], [[TV]]: ''[[The Ice Warriors]]'') died.
* 15 - [[TV]]: ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[17 February|17]] - The BBC, in advance of issuing a new trailer, released a new [[Eleventh Doctor]] promotional image featuring the the Doctor, [[Amy Pond]], a [[Dalek]], a [[Weeping Angel]], and the first glimpse of a new character, the [[Smiler]].
* 17 - [[Matt Smith]] chose the winner in a "design a TARDIS console" contest conducted on ''[[Blue Peter]]''. The console design was scheduled to be incorporated into an upcoming [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] episode in some way.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/02/blue-peter-competition-winner-announced.html The Doctor Who News Page: Blue Peter competition winner announced]</ref>
* 17 - Around this same time, ''Broadcast'' magazine reported that a forty-second 3-D trailer had been produced for cinemas.
* [[19 February|19]] - ''Doctor Who'' and ''Torchwood'' received several nominations for the 2010 Saturn Awards (scheduled to be awarded 24th June). [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'' were nominated for Best Television Presentation. Competition included the new versions of ''The Prisoner'' and ''V'' along with, strangely, ''The Tudors''; [[David Tennant]] was nominated for Best Actor in Television; [[Bernard Cribbins]]  for Best Guest Starring Role in Television (his competition included [[wikipedia:John Lithgow|John Lithgow]] and [[wikipedia:Leonard Nimoy|Leonard Nimoy]]); and in the Best DVD Television Release category, the DVDs of [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'' were nominated against full-season sets of ''Lost'', ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'', the US version of ''Life on Mars'' and another BBC series, ''Primeval.''
* [[20 February|20]] - A 3-D trailer for the new series, featuring specially-shot footage, debuted on UK cinemas.
* [[21 February|21]] -  The Australian broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part Two]]'' on [[ABC1]] occurred.
* [[22 February|22]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Gryffen]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[23 February|23]] - Multiple ''Doctor Who''-related audios were released in North America, including [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Voyage (audio story)|The Last Voyage]]'', and the audio adaptations of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos]]''.
* 23 - Australian broadcasts of [[Series 3 (SJA)|Series 3]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' began on Nickelodeon.
* [[24 February|24]] - A major auction of props from ''Doctor Who'' took place at Bonhams auction house.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/01/doctor-who-auction-at-bonhams.html The Doctor Who News Page: Doctor Who auction at Bonhams]</ref>
* [[28 February|28]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Hollows of Time]]'' ([[The Lost Stories]]) was first released.
* 28 - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' was first released. This release included the twelfth and final chapter of the serialised story [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Three Companions]]''.


==== [[March]] ====
[[File:TheChurchAtAuvers.jpg|thumb|The Doctor and Amy see ''The Church at Auvers''. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)}})]]
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emperor of Eternity]]'' was first released.
The Eleventh Doctor took Amy Pond to see a [[Vincent van Gogh]] exhibit in the [[Musée d'Orsay]]. They discovered a monster peeping through a church window in van Gogh's painting, ''[[The Church at Auvers]]''. They travelled back to [[1890]] to discover the meaning of the painting and later took Vincent to 2010 to show modern evaluation of his work. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)}})
* The Canadian cable network [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] took over the Canadian broadcast licence for ''Doctor Who'' seasons 1-4 and related Christmas Specials (save [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' which did not become available until April) from the [[CBC]].
* [[1 March|1]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum]]'' and ''[[The Chase]]'' were released as a single set in the UK.
* 1 - [[TV]]: ''[[Jaws of Orthrus]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[2 March|2]] - The North American DVD release of the ''Dalek War'' box set, featuring [[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'' and ''[[Planet of the Daleks]]'', occurred.
* 2 - The North American DVD release of [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' Special Edition occurred, more than two years after it was first announced.
* [[4 March|4]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Code of the Krillitanes]]'', the fifth [[Quick Reads]] novella, was first published. This book featured the [[Tenth Doctor]], despite it being published several months after [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''. It was the final [[Tenth Doctor]] original novel under the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] line. (Although announced for 4th March, online retailers were shipping the book as early as mid-February.)
* 4 - The audio adaptation of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Castrovalva (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Castrovalva]]'' was first released.
* 4 - The ''The Peladon Tales'' DVD box set consisting of [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon]]'' was released in Region 4, along with the DVD/Blu-Ray release of [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.
* 4 - The BBC announced that it had not only commissioned a [[Series 4 (SJA)|4th series]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' for airing later in 2010, but also a [[Series 5 (SJA)|5th series]] to air in 2011. [[Brian Minchin]] was announced as the new producer for the series, although [[Russell T Davies]] stayed on as executive producer. <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/03_march/04/sarah_jane.shtml BBC - Press Office - Sarah jane returns to CBBC for two further series of adventures]</ref>
* 4 - [[Paul Magrs]] published the young adult novel ''The Diary of a Dr. Who Addict'', about a youth growing up in 1980s Britain.
* 4 - The BBC announced it had purchased [[2 entertain]], the company that had co-produced many of its DVD releases, including ''Doctor Who'', in recent years.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2010/03_march/2entertain.shtml BBC - Press Office - BBC Worldwide reaches agreement on 2entertain]</ref>
* [[7 March|7]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dead Air (audio story)|Dead Air]]'', the final exclusive-to-audio story featuring the [[Tenth Doctor]], was first released.
* [[8 March|8]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Dream-Eaters]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]]
* [[9 March|9]] - The BBC Four documentary ''Sidekick Stories'', narrated by [[Catherine Tate]], included a segment devoted to ''Doctor Who'' and interviews with [[David Tennant]], [[Elisabeth Sladen]] and [[John Leeson]].
* 9 - ''Doctor Who'' won Best TV Drama at the 2010 Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards. The award was accepted by [[Bernard Cribbins]].
* [[10 March|10]] - ''Fugitive'', a graphic novel reprinting the first story arcs from [[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who Ongoing]]'', was published both in North America and in the UK, making it one of the first occasions of original IDW comic stories released in Britain.
* [[11 March|11]] - It was reported that the upcoming Region 1 and 4 DVD release of [[TV]]: ''[[The Chase]]'' would be edited to remove a sequence featuring a film clip of [[The Beatles]]. No release date for the DVD was announced. It was also reported that the North American release of [[TV]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'', originally scheduled for 4 May, had been delayed to October.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-beatles-outside-europe.html The Doctor Who News Page: No Beatles outside Europe]</ref>
* [[12 March|12]] - ''The Sun'' tabloid reported that [[BBC Worldwide]] had signed a £10-million deal with Nintendo for the development of a ''Doctor Who'' game for the Wii and DS gaming systems.[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/03/doctor-wii.html]
* [[15 March|15]] - [[REF]]: ''[[Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It]]'' was first published. This was an essay collection by [[Mad Norwegian Press]]. Contributors included [[Lisa Bowerman]], [[Kate Orman]], [[India Fisher]], [[Sophie Aldred]] and Carole E. Barrowman (sister of [[John Barrowman]] and co-author of his autobiography).
* 15 - [[TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[16 March|16]] - The 20-26 March issue of ''[[Radio Times]]'', available this day, included an interview with [[Steven Moffat]].
* [[17 March|17]] - On his official website, [[Tom Baker]] indicated that he was in discussions with [[Big Finish Productions]] about possibly recording an audio drama.[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/03/tom-baker-to-record-for-big-finish.html]
* [[18 March|18]] - A BBC press screening was held for [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', during which producer [[Piers Wenger]] officially announced that a 2010 Christmas special was planned, and production of [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]] was set to begin in July.<ref name="2011 series confirmed">[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/03/2011-series-confirmed.html The Doctor Who News Page: 2011 Series Confirmed]</ref>
* 18 - [[Big Finish Productions]] issued a statement titled "Fourth Doctor Rumour Control" indicating that nothing official had been arranged regarding [[Tom Baker]] doing any recordings for the company, though [[Elisabeth Sladen]], [[Louise Jameson]] and [[Nicholas Courtney]] were cited as being enthusiastic about possibly participating should such a project come together.<ref>[http://www.bigfinish.com/news/Fourth-Doctor-Rumour-Control Big Finish - News - Fourth Doctor Rumour Control]</ref>
* [[19 March|19]] - UK media gave extensive coverage to the previous night's press launch, with [[Steven Moffat]], fresh from a dubbing edit of [[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'', appearing on ''BBC Breakfast'' to promote the show.
* 19 - The American publication ''Entertainment Weekly's'' website reported on rumours that [[Jack Harkness]] might be made heterosexual for the proposed US version of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''.<ref>[http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/03/19/torchwood-american-version-gay-straight/ EW.com - 'Torchwood' exclusive: Would U.S. version turn Capt. Jack straight?]</ref>
* [[20 March|20]] - Filming of [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] concluded (according to comments made at the 18 March press launch).
* [[22 March|22]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Oroborus (TV story)|Oroborus]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[24 March|24]] - This was the rescheduled release date for [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale|The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter]]'' for North American retailers such as Amazon (originally announced for 21 January).
* [[25 March|25]] - ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' published its final issue using the ''Doctor Who'' branding introduced in 2005. It was likely the last piece of merchandise to make the change to the new [[Eleventh Doctor]]-era branding.
* [[26 March|26]] - This was the fifth anniversary of the return of ''Doctor Who'' to television.
* 26 - [[Matt Smith]] appeared on ''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'', during which a new trailer and a clip from [[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'' were unveiled.
* [[27 March|27]] - The first minute of [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' became available as a special preview on the BBC's Red Button service in the UK.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/03/red-button-preview-of-eleventh-hour.html The Doctor Who News Page: Red Button Preview of The Eleventh Hour]</ref>
* 27 - The BBC Radio 4 series ''Archive on Four'' aired the documentary ''Sculptress of Sound: The Lost Works of [[Delia Derbyshire]]''.
* [[28 March|28]] - At approximately the same time, two BBC Radio programmes were interrupted by specially-recorded mini-skits featuring [[Matt Smith]] in character as [[Eleventh Doctor]]: on ''The Official Chart'' on BBC Radio 1 the Doctor interrupted ""Opposite Adults" by Chiddy Bang and joked about knowing the No. 1 song before the listeners. Approximately two minutes later, BBC Radio 2's ''The Paul O'Grady Show'' was airing ABBA's "Super Trooper" when the Doctor again interrupted long enough to spot a mouse in the BBC studio.
* 28 - The [[BBC7]] radio series ''7th Dimension'' began broadcasting [[Barry Letts]]' audio book reading of his memoirs ''Who and Me'', running over the course of the next seven weeks.
* [[29 March|29]] - For the first time since the original series ended, the stars of ''Doctor Who'' embarked on a promotional tour for an upcoming season, with [[Matt Smith]] and [[Karen Gillan]] scheduled to make personal appearances in several cities accompanied by special screenings of [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''. An appearance in Belfast occurred this day.
* 29 - [[TV]]: ''[[Alien Avatar]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* 29 -  UK release of the DVD box set ''[[Myths and Legends]]'', including [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Underworld]]'' and ''[[The Horns of Nimon]]'', occurred.
* 29 - ''Doctor Who Classics Vol. 5'', a graphic novel collecting more issues of the [[COMIC]] series ''[[Doctor Who Classics]]'', was released in North America.
* 29 - Production of [[Series 4 (SJA)|Series 4]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' began under new series producer [[Brian Minchin]]; [[Russell T Davies]] and new ''Doctor Who'' producer [[Nikki Wilson]] were executive producers.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/03/sarah-jane-adventures-series-4-and-5.html The Doctor Who News Page: Sarah Jane Adventures 4 (and 5!) confirmed]</ref>
* 29 - This was the submission deadline for the first of [[Big Finish Productions]]' new [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] audio series.<ref name="short trips reminder"/>
* [[30 March|30]] - The Series 5 promotional tour visited Inverness and Sunderland.
* 30 - [[Steven Moffat]] was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's ''Front Row''.
* [[31 March|31]] - The Series 5 promotional tour concluded in Salford and Northampton.
* 31 - [[Matt Smith]] appeared on ''[[Blue Peter]]''.
* 31 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' was rebroadcast on BBC Three.
* 31 - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Paradise 5]]'' ([[The Lost Stories]]) was first released.
* 31 - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Architects of History]]'' was first released.


==== [[April]] ====
[[Iris Wildthyme]] and [[Panda]] attended a book launch party on [[Shaftsbury Avenue]] in [[London]]. Afterwards, they recuperated in the [[Celestial Omnibus]] with [[Elspeth May]]. [[George Mann (Iris at the V&A)|George Mann]] saw them and drew a sketch using [[crayon]]s and felt tip [[marker]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Iris at the V&A (short story)}})
* The Canadian cable network [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] was scheduled to take over the Canadian broadcast licence for the 2007 Christmas special [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' from the [[CBC]], officially ending the CBC's association with the ''Doctor Who'' franchise. According to a January 2010 posting by the Doctor Who Information Network, Space was expected to broadcast the episode soon after.{{fact}}
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shadow of the Past]]'' was released.
* The [[BBC7]] radio series ''7th Dimension'' was scheduled to broadcast several of [[BBC Audio]]'s audio-book versions of [[Target Books]] novelislations, read by [[Tom Baker]]. Scheduled to air in April were [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Giant Robot]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius]]'', and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit]]''.
* [[1 April|1]] - ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' magazine underwent a relaunch to introduce the new [[Eleventh Doctor]]-era branding and new editorial features.
* 1 - Guinness World Records recognised ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', which had celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2009, as the Longest Running Magazine Based on a Television Series.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/04/doctor-who-magazine-wins-guinness-world.html The Doctor Who News Page: ''Doctor Who Magazine'' wins Guinness World Record]</ref>
* 1 - [[Matt Smith]] appeared on ''One Show'' on BBC One.
* 1 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[1 April|1]] - [[3 April|3]] - Big screen showings of [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Plymouth, and Swansea.
* [[2 April|2]] - BBC Radio 4 aired ''Douglas and the Doctor'', a documentary on [[Douglas Adams]]’s influence on ''Doctor Who'', hosted by [[Jon Culshaw]].
* 2 - Both parts of [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', along with the final [[David Tennant]] edition of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'', were rebroadcast on BBC Three.
* 2 - The cast promoted the new season: [[Karen Gillan]] appeared on ''GMTV'' and [[CBBC]], while [[Matt Smith]] was on BBC Radio 1's ''Chris Moyles'' show.
* [[2 April|2]] - [[5 April|5]] - The UK Sci Fi Channel broadcast a marathon of classic ''Doctor Who'', beginning with [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'' and ending with [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]''.
* [[3 April|3]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' was first broadcast, beginning [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]], launching the [[Eleventh Doctor]] era and introducing [[Karen Gillan]] as [[Amy Pond]]. A new [[Doctor Who theme|''Doctor Who'' theme]] arrangement was introduced - an unprecedented third arrangement for [[Murray Gold]] - along with the first on-screen use of the new [[Doctor Who logo|''Doctor Who'' logo]] and a new title sequence.
* 3 - ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' also returned for another season.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/03/official-website-updated.html Official Website Updated]</ref>
* 3 - [[TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'' was broadcast on Network 10 in [[Australia]], launching the first season of the spin-off series ''[[K9 (TV series)|K9]]''. The episode was also supposed to be broadcast on the same day on Disney XD in the UK. However, ''[[The Korven]]'' aired in its place. <ref name="K9 premier">[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/03/k9-australian-launch-date.html K9 UK and Australian premier on 3rd April]</ref>
* 3 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' received its North American premiere when it was shown during the 2010 WonderCon in San Francisco, two weeks ahead of broadcast.
* [[3 April|3]] - [[4 April|4]] - [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] in Canada rebroadcast [[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'', ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' and ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' as a mini-marathon.
* [[4 April|4]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter]]'' was first broadcast in the UK, despite ''[[Liberation]]'' being reported to air. <ref name="K9 premier"/>
* 4 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' was rebroadcast on BBC Three.
* [[5 April|5]] - For the fifth consecutive year, ''Doctor Who'' was nominated in the Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form category at the Hugo Awards. Nominated this year were [[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'', ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' and ''[[The Waters of Mars]]''; the competing nominees were the TV series ''Dollhouse'' and ''FlashForward''.
* 5 - [[TV]]: ''[[Aeolian (TV story)|Aeolian]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[8 April|8]] - The audio adaptation of [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Three Doctors]]'' was released.
* 8 - The Canadian press screening for [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' was held in Toronto. [[Steven Moffat]] participated in a Q&A conducted via Skype.
* [[10 April|10]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Beast Below]]'' was first broadcast..
* 10 - [[TV]]: ''[[Sirens of Ceres]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* 10 - [[TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[11 April|11]] - [[TV]] - ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* 11 - In Canada, [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] rebroadcasted both parts of [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' as a single three-hour programme.
* [[12 April|12]] - [[Matt Smith]], [[Karen Gillan]] and [[Steven Moffat]] promoted the launch of Series 5 in America by attending a presentation entitled ''Who's Next? The New Era of Doctor Who'' in New York City.
* 12 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Oak Tree]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[14 April|14]] - In New York City, [[Matt Smith]] and [[Karen Gillan]] attended a [[BBC America]] screening of [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' at the Village East Cinema.
* 14 - In Canada, the cable network CBC Bold rebroadcast [[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End]]''. With the broadcast rights to the revival now resting with [[Space (TV channel)|Space]], this was expected to be the final [[CBC]]-related broadcast of ''Doctor Who'', ending an association that had begun in 2005.
* 14 - A volcanic eruption in Iceland disrupted air travel to, from, and within Europe. Among those later reported as "stranded" in the US were [[Karen Gillan]]<ref>[http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2936559/Ash-from-Icelandic-volcano-causes-travel-chaos-across-Europe.html The Sun - Ash wreaks havoc across Europe ]</ref>, [[Matt Smith]]<ref name="Jo Grant's return">[http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/04/20/watching-katy-mannings-return/ SFX - Witnessing Jo Grant's return]</ref>, and [[Steven Moffat]]<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/04/moffat-delighted-with-series-reception.html The Doctor Who News Page: Moffat delighted with series reception]</ref>, all of whom took the opportunity to attend events in the Los Angeles area after the conclusion of their East Coast press junket.
* [[16 April|16]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' received a third pre-broadcast US screening at the C2E2 convention in Chicago.
* [[17 April|17]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'' was first broadcast. It was followed by a trailer for ''[[Doctor Who: The Adventure Games]]''.
* 17 - [[TV]]: ''[[Jaws of Orthrus]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* 17 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* 17 - [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] began airing on [[BBC America]] <ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/02/bbc-america-announces-us-start-date.html The Doctor Who News Page: BBC America Announces US Start Date]</ref> and [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] in Canada <ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/03/space-announces-canadian-start-date.html The Doctor Who News Page: Space Announces Canadian Start Date]</ref>. The BBC America broadcast set a ratings record for the network.[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/04/bbc-america-ratings.html]
* 17 - The BBC America and Space premieres were preceded by a documentary, ''[[Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide]]''.
* 17 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' became available for viewing in Australia on the online iView service, ahead of the next day’s [[ABC1]] broadcast.
* [[18 April|18]] - [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] began in Australia with the broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' on ABC1.<ref>[http://news.whoviannet.co.uk/2010/03/series-5-to-air-down-under-from-april-18th/ whovian.net - Series 5 to air Down Under from April 18th!]</ref>
* 18 - [[TV]]: ''[[Dream-Eaters]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* [[19 April|19]] - The BBC Press Office announced that [[Katy Manning]] would return to the role of [[Jo Grant]] for a fourth season storyline of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', an episode also to feature [[Matt Smith]] as the [[Eleventh Doctor]].<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/04_april/19/sj_adventures.shtml BBC Press Office - The Doctor and Jo to join CBBC's The Sarah Jane Adventures]</ref>
* 19 - The read-through for the  reunion episode of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' was held in Cardiff. [[Matt Smith]] could not attend due to being stranded in the US by the Iceland volcano.<ref name="Jo Grant's return"/>
* 19 - [[TV]]: ''[[Black Hunger]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[21 April|21]] - A press event attended by a number of new-design [[Dalek]]s announced details of the upcoming ''[[Doctor Who: The Adventure Games]]'' video game releases.<ref name="Adventure Games">[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/04/doctor-who-adventure-games.html The Doctor Who News Page: Doctor Who - The Adventure Games]</ref>
* 21 - The American FOX network announced it was dropping plans to produce a thirteen-episode, serialised series of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/04/american-torchwood-on-hold.html The Doctor Who News Page: Fox withdraw from American Torchwood]</ref>
* [[22 April|22]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Apollo 23 (novel)|Apollo 23]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Night of the Humans]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Forgotten Army]]'', the first original novels featuring the [[Eleventh Doctor]] were published.
* [[23 April|23]] - [[Eiji Kusuhara]], [[Toshio Shimura]] in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy of the Daleks]]'', died.
* [[24 April|24]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'' was first broadcast.
* 24 - [[TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* 24 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* 24 - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Runaway Train (audio story)|The Runaway Train]]'' was scheduled for release as a promotional giveaway with copies of ''The Daily Telegraph'' (retail release, originally announced for June 2010, was pushed back to 2011). This launched a weeklong promotion in the ''Telegraph'' which saw several previously released BBC Audio issues ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pest Control (audio story)|Pest Control]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Slipback]]'', the audio version of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'', [[AUDIO]] ''[[Exploration Earth]]'' and the audio soundtrack to [[TV]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown]]'') made available again.
* [[25 April|25]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Oroborus (TV story)|Oroborus]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* [[26 April|26]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Cambridge Spy]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[28 April|28]] -This was the scheduled broadcast of the [[David Tennant]] version of ''Hamlet'' on [[PBS]] in the US.
* [[29 April|29]] - The ''[[Decide Your Destiny]]'' line continued with the scheduled release of ''[[Claws of the Macra]]'' and ''[[The Coldest War]]''.
* 29 - This was the scheduled UK publication of the ''Doctor Who Classics Omnibus'' from [[IDW Publishing]].
* 29 - This was the scheduled publication of the children's books ''[[Eleventh Doctor Regeneration Sticker Guide]]'' and ''[[Companion Activity Book]]''.
* [[30 April|30]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[City of Spires]]'' was scheduled for release. This was the first of three dramas pairing the [[Sixth Doctor]] with [[Jamie McCrimmon]].
* 30 - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Point of Entry]]'' ([[The Lost Stories]]) was scheduled for release.


==== [[May]] ====
The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] visited Earth. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Devil Like a Bear (short story)}})
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time Vampire]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Night's Black Agents]]'' were first released.
* [[1 May|1]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'' was first broadcast.
* 1 - [[TV]] - ''[[Alien Avatar]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* 1 - [[TV]] - ''[[Sirens of Ceres]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* 1 - [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who Funfax]]'' (2nd edition) was scheduled for publication.
* 1 - [[REF]]: ''[[Time, Unincorporated 2]]'' was scheduled for publication.
* 1 - [[REF]]: ''[[Timeless Adventures: How Doctor Who Conquered TV]]'' was scheduled for publication.
* [[2 May|2]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Aeolian (TV story)|Aeolian]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* [[3 May|3]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Lost Library of Ukko]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[3 May|3]] - [[Jimmy Gardner]] ([[Chenchu]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'' and [[Idmon]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Underworld]]'') died.
* [[4 May|4]] - ''The Crimson Hand'', the final omnibus of [[Tenth Doctor]] ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strips, was published.
* 4 - This was the North American DVD release of [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon]]'' (released separately instead of as a box set as in the UK), as well as [[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]''.
* [[6 May|6]] - This was the release of the audio adaptation of [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan Part 1: Mission to the Unknown|Doctor Who - Mission to the Unknown]]''.
* [[8 May|8]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice]]'' was first broadcast.
* 8 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Oak Tree]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* 8 - [[TV]]: ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[9 May|9]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Black Hunger]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* [[10 May|10]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Mutant Copper]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[15 May|15]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Amy's Choice]]'' was first broadcast.
* 15 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Cambridge Spy]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* 15 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Gryffen]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[15 May|15]]-[[16 May|16]] - This was the publication of [[Deborah Watling]]'s autobiography, ''Daddy's Girl'' (delayed from the original November 2009 publication date).
* [[16 May|16]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Lost Library of Ukko]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* [[17 May|17]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Custodians]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[22 May|22]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth]]'' was first broadcast.
* 22 - [[TV]]:''[[Mutant Copper]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* 22 - [[TV]]: ''[[Jaws of Orthrus]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[23 May|23]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Custodians]]'' was first broadcast in the UK.
* [[24 May|24]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Taphony and the Time Loop]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[27 May|27]] - [[REF]]: ''[[The Tardis Handbook]]'' was published.
* [[28 May|28]] - [[REF]]: ''[[The Science of Doctor Who]]'' was published.
* [[29 May|29]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood]]'' was first broadcast.
* 29 - This was the scheduled North American publication of the ''Doctor Who Classics Omnibus'' from [[IDW Publishing]].
* 29 - [[TV]]: ''[[Dream-Eaters]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[31 May|31]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wreck of the Titan]]'' was released.
* 31 - [[TV]]: ''[[Robot Gladiators]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* 31 - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Song of Megaptera]]'' ([[The Lost Stories]]) was released.


==== [[June]] ====
[[Albert Wilson|Albert]] and [[Tamara Wilson]] took their children to [[Disney World]] in [[Florida]]. During their trip, Albert attended a [[business meeting]] with an [[Albert Wilson's client (8.46)|American client]] that took place during a [[birthday party]], to which he brought his daughter [[Lucy Wilson|Lucy]] along. At the party, 5-year-old Lucy experienced [[racism]] for the first time, when she jumped into a [[swimming pool]] with other, white children, who were hastily ushered out by their parents. Albert was enraged when he realised what was going on, after one of the parents told him that they did not want their children splashing around with a "dirty little [[monkey]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|8.46 (short story)}})
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire]]'' was released, ending the range's forth series.
* [[Big Finish Productions]] released ''[[Jago and Litefoot]] Series One'', a collection of four audio dramas featuring characters from [[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]''. Stories included ''[[The Bloodless Soldier]]'' by [[Justin Richards]], ''[[The Bellova Devil]]'' by [[Alan Barnes]], ''[[The Spirit Trap]]'' by [[Jonathan Morris]] and ''[[The Similarity Engine]] by [[Andy Lane]].''
* [[3 June|3]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Hounds of Artemis (audio story)|The Hounds of Artemis]]'', the first original audio story featuring the [[Eleventh Doctor]], was released (delayed from 8 April 2010).
* 3 - The audio adaptation of [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan Part 2: The Mutation of Time|Doctor Who - The Mutation of Time]]'' was released.
* 3 - [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Intergalactic Survival Guide]]'' was published.
* 3 - The children's books ''[[Doctor Who: Battle Badges Activity Book]]'', ''[[Doctor Who: Top Secret Stories, Activities and Stickers!]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who: 3-D Mask Activity Book]]'' were published.
* [[5 June|5]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]'' was first broadcast.
* 5 - The [[BBC]] released [[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'', the first of four computer games for PC and Mac under the umbrella title ''[[Doctor Who: The Adventure Games]]''. These games featured the voices of [[Matt Smith]] and [[Karen Gillan]].<ref name="Adventure Games"/>
* 5 - [[TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[7 June|7]] - ''Doctor Who Series 5 - Volume 1'', a "vanilla" DVD/Blu-Ray release featuring the first three [[Eleventh Doctor]] stories, [[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Beast Below]]'',and ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'' and a featurette, ''The Monster Diaries,'' was released in the UK.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/03/matt-smith-first-dvd-release-date.html The Doctor Who News Page: Matt Smith First DVD release date]</ref>
* 7 - [[TV]]: ''[[Mind Snap]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[12 June|12]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'' was first broadcast.
* 12 - [[TV]]: - ''[[Oroborus (TV story)|Oroborus]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[14 June|14]] This was the UK release of the ''Kamelion'' DVD box set featuring [[TV]]: ''[[The King's Demons]]'' and ''[[Planet of Fire]]''.
* 14 - [[TV]]: ''[[Angel of the North]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[19 June|19]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[21 June|21]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Precinct (TV story)|The Last Precinct]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[23 June|23]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Alien Avatar]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[24 June|24]] - [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Episode Guide]]'' from Pocket Essentials was published.
* [[26 June|26]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'' was first broadcast.
* 26 - [[TV]]: ''[[Aeolian (TV story)|Aeolian]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[28 June|28]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Hound of the Korven]]'' was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[30 June|30]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen]]'' was released, featuring the return of [[Wendy Padbury]] as [[Zoe Heriot]].
* 30 - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Macros]]'' ([[The Lost Stories]]) was released.


==== [[July]] ====
=== Other timelines ===
* Production of the [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|6th series]] of the revived ''Doctor Who'' began.<ref name="2011 series confirmed"/>
==== Time Field timeline ====
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Guardian of the Solar System]]'' was released, launching the range's fifth series.
On [[26 June]], [[River Song]] arrived some time in the early morning before sunrise after the TARDIS landed there. She investigated Amy's house and found two [[book]]s, [[The Legend of Pandora's Box|one]] on [[Pandora's box]] and one on [[Roman]] Britain, beside Amy's bed. She took them for analysis in the TARDIS ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Pandorica Opens (TV story)}}) shortly before [[the Silence]] exploded the TARDIS on this date, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Time of the Doctor (TV story)}}) [[Time Field|cracking all of time and space]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Pandorica Opens (TV story)}})
* ''[[Situation Vacant]]'' was first released.
* [[3 July|3]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Oak Tree]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[5 July|5]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Eclipse of the Korven]]'', the [[Series 1 (K9)|Series 1]] finale, was first broadcast in [[Scandinavia]].
* [[6 July|6]] - The region 1 DVD of [[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum]]''/''[[The Chase]]'' was released (three-disc set with ''The Chase'' edited to remove footage of [[the Beatles]] performing "[[Ticket to Ride]]"), along with ''[[The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Underworld]]'' and ''[[The Horns of Nimon]]'' which were released individually rather than as the ''Myth & Legends'' box set as per the UK release.
* [[10 July|10]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Black Hunger]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* Region 2 DVD of [[TV]]: ''[[The Dominators]]'' was released.
* [[17 July|17]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Cambridge Spy]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[22 July|22]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Adorable Illusion]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Nuclear Time]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[The King's Dragon]]'' were published.
* [[24 July|24]]-[[25 July|25]] - The second ''Doctor Who at the Proms'' concert, hosted by [[Matt Smith]] and [[Karen Gillan]], was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 with later telecast on BBC Three.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/04/doctor-who-returns-to-proms.html The Doctor Who News Page: Doctor Who Returns to the Proms]</ref>
*  [[TV]]: ''[[Lost Library of Ukko]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[28 July|28]]: "All the Presidents' Heads", a ''Futurama'' episode featuring the [[Fourth Doctor]], aired.
* [[31 July|31]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cobwebs]]'' was released; this was the first of several audio dramas reuniting the 1983 cast of [[Peter Davison]], [[Sarah Sutton]], [[Janet Fielding]] and [[Mark Strickson]].
* 31 - [[TV]]: ''[[Mutant Copper]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.


==== [[August]] ====
==== Pete's World ====
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Echoes of Grey]]'' was released.
Mickey Smith, [[Jake Simmonds]] and [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete]] travelled from [[Pete's World|a parallel world]] back to [[N-Space|the Doctor's universe]]. They and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] and [[Jackie Tyler]] were stuck in Pete's World after the tear through [[the Void]] closed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}}){{note|Due to time differences between the two worlds, they appeared in [[2007]] in the other world. See also [[Pete's World#circa 2010|Pete's World]].}}
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ring of Steel]]'' was released.
* ''[[Nevermore]]'' was released.
* [[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011]] was published.
* [[5 August|5]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes - Collection One]]'' audio box set was released in the UK. This collection compiled audio tracks for the missing stories ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'', ''[[The Reign of Terror]]'', ''[[The Crusade]]'', ''[[Galaxy 4 (TV story)|Galaxy 4]]'', and ''[[The Myth Makers]]''.
* [[7 August|7]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Custodians]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* This was the region 2 DVD release of [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[Silver Nemesis]]''.
* [[14 August|14]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Taphony and the Time Loop]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[18 August|18]] -  [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trail of the White Worm]]'' and ''[[The Oseidon Adventure]]'' were recorded.
* [[21 August|21]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Robot Gladiators]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[28 August|28]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Mind Snap]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[31 August|31]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Whispering Forest]]'' was released.


==== [[September]] ====
== Births and deaths ==
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Find and Replace]]'' was released. This [[Third Doctor]] story featured [[Jo Grant]] and [[Iris Wildthyme]] - both characters played by [[Katy Manning]].
[[Doctor]] [[RV Singh]] died. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Mandela Effect, Or Monsters on the Streets of London (short story)}})
* ''[[The Book of Kells]]'' was released.
* [[4 September|4]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Angel of the North]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[11 September|11]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Precinct (TV story)]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[13 September|13]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'' was released on DVD in the UK.
* [[15 September|15]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beyond the Ultimate Adventure]]'' was recorded.
* 15 - [[Frank Jarvis]] died.
* [[18 September|18]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Hound of the Korven]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[21 September|21]] - [[Geoffrey Burgon]], who provided [[incidental music]] for ''Doctor Who'', died.
* [[25 September|25]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Eclipse of the Korven]]'' was first broadcast in Australia.
* [[30 September|30]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cradle of the Snake]]'' was released.
* 30 - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Destiny (audio story)|Project: Destiny]]'' was released.


==== [[October]] ====
== Other ==
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Invasion of E-Space]]'' was released. This was [[Andrew Smith (writer)|Andrew Smith]]'s first ''Doctor Who'' story since [[TV]]: ''[[Full Circle]]'' thirty years earlier.
During the last few years of [[Ianto Jones]]' life, his bank card was due to expire in [[May]] 2010. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Fall to Earth (audio story)}}) By that time, he had died a [[2009|year prior]] during the invasion of [[the 456]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)}})
* ''[[Deimos (audio story)|Deimos]]'' was released.
* [[2 October|2]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Taphony and the Time Loop]]'' was first broadcast in Britain.
* [[4 October|4]] - The first ''Revisitations'' DVD set was released in Region 2. This contained new editions of televised stories released on DVD early in the range; they were now remastered or compiled with new extras. This first set contained [[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|The Movie]]''.
* [[5 October|5]] - This was the region 1 DVD release of [[TV]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'', delayed from an original announced release date of 4 May, including the ''[[Doctor Who Greatest Moments]]'' documentary.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0036BDQGU/ Amazon.com: Doctor Who: Dreamland]</ref>
* [[7 October|7]] - The [[TV]] audio original ''[[Wraith World]]'' was released. <ref>[http://www.play.com/Books/AudioBooks/4-/15159287/The-Sarah-Jane-Adventures-Wraith-World/Product.html Play.com The Sarah Jane Adventures: Wraith World (Audio Original)]</ref>
* [[9 October|9]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'' was first broadcast in Britain.
* [[11 October|11]]- [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man]]'' Part 1 aired, launching ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' [[Series 4 (SJA)|Series 4]].
* [[12 October|12]]- [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[16 October|16]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Robot Gladiators]]'' was first broadcast in Britain.
* [[18 October|18]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Vault of Secrets]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[19 October|19]]- [[TV]]: ''[[The Vault of Secrets]]'' Part 2 aired.
* 19 - [[Graham Crowden]], who played [[Soldeed]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Horns of Nimon]]'', died.
* [[23 October|23]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Mind Snap]]'' was first broadcast in Britain.
* [[25 October|25]]- [[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[25 October|25]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]'' was first released on Region 2 DVD.
* [[26 October|26]]- [[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[29 October|29]] - Two ''Doctor Who'' Nintendo Games, ''[[Evacuation Earth (video game)|Evacuation Earth]]'' and ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'', for the Nintendo Wii and DS respectively, were released.
* [[31 October|31]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Death in the Family]]'' was released.
* 31 - [[REF]]: ''[[The Doctor's Monsters: Meanings of the Monstrous in Doctor Who]]'' was scheduled for publication.


==== Fall ====
[[Igrix]] intended to end all wars in 2010. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Love Invasion (comic story)}})
* ''[[Doctor Who: The Monsters Are Coming!|Doctor Who: The Monsters Are Coming]] ''(informally ''Doctor Who Live'') started and ended its original run.


==== [[November]] ====
== Behind the scenes ==
* ''[[The Resurrection of Mars]]'' was released.
In [[Untitled (The Lenny Henry Show)|a sketch on ''The Lenny Henry Show'']], [[Seventh Doctor (The Lenny Henry Show)|a version of the Seventh Doctor played by Lenny Henry]] and [[Peri Brown]] visited London in 2010 to find that Cybermen led by [[Thatchos]] had taken over Britain's workforce.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Town Called Fortune]]'' was released, featuring the return of audio companion [[Evelyn Smythe]].
* [[The Lost Stories]]' second series began with a double release of [[First Doctor]] stories: ''[[Farewell, Great Macedon (audio story)|Farewell, Great Macedon]]'' and ''[[The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance (audio story)|The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance]]''.
* [[Big Finish Productions]] relaunched the ''Short Trips'' series, with an audio release, ''[[Short Trips: Volume 1]]'', featuring stories from the first eight Doctors.
* [[1 November|1]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Planet]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* 1 - This was the UK DVD release of the [[Series 3 (SJA)|Third Series]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.
* [[2 November|2]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Planet]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[8 November|8]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Lost in Time (TV story)|Lost in Time]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* 8 - ''[[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Doctor Who - The Complete Fifth Series]]'' was released on Region 2 DVD.
* [[9 November|9]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Lost in Time (TV story)|Lost in Time]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* 9 - ''[[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Doctor Who - The Complete Fifth Series]]'' was released on Region 1 DVD.
* [[15 November|15]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[16 November|16]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[22 November|22]] - [[23 November|23]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Elite]]'' was recorded.
* [[23 November|23]] - This was the forty-seventh anniversary of [[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]].''
* 23 - [[Ingrid Pitt]] ([[Galleia]]  in [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'' and [[Solow]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]'') died.
* [[30 November|30]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge]]'' was released.


==== Late 2010 ====
In the initial pitch for what would become [[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', entitled ''Return of the Daleks'', [[writer]] [[Russell T Davies]] set the story in [[Utah]] in 2010. While the location would remain unchanged in the final version by [[Robert Shearman]], the time would be advanced by two [[year]]s to [[2012]], seven years ahead of its [[2005 (releases)|2005]] premiere.<ref name = "series 1 comp">[[DWMSE 11]]</ref>
* ''[[The Coming of the Terraphiles]]'' by [[Michael Moorcock]] was scheduled for publication before Christmas.<ref>[http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?t=12620 By TARDIS Through the Multiverse - Moorcock's Miscellany]</ref>


==== [[December]] ====
Though the ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' television stories ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'' and ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'' have an apparent [[2008]] setting going by [[Jack Harkness]]'s dialogue in ''Exit Wounds'', this is complicated by mentions of [[Owen Harper]]'s early employment with [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] from both of these stories. While ''Exit Wounds'' explicitly states that [[Toshiko Sato]]'s examination of the [[space pig]] from the ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]'' television story {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}, a story set [[2006|a year after 2005]], happened on Owen's second week, a caption in ''Fragments'' places Owen's recruitment four years before those stories. This appears to put ''Fragments'' and ''Exit Wounds'' in 2010 instead.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Quinnis]]'' was released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Four Doctors]]'', a multi-Doctor adventure issued as an exclusive for [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] subscribers, was scheduled for release.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories]]'', an anthology of four stories featuring the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Nyssa]], was released.
* ''[[Relative Dimensions]]'' was released.
* According to an announcement made by [[IDW Publishing]] in February 2010, the final [[Tenth Doctor]] issue of its ''[[Doctor Who Ongoing]]'' series was scheduled to occur with issue #16 scheduled for publication this month.<ref>[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/03/idw-announce-first-us-doctor-who-annual.html The Doctor Who News Page: IDW annoucne first US Doctor Who Annual]</ref>
* The second box set of ''[[The Lost Stories]]'' was released, containing audio adaptations of the unmade [[Second Doctor]] story ''[[Prison in Space]]'' and the unmade pilot for a Dalek TV spin-off ''[[The Destroyers (audio story)|The Destroyers]]''.
* [[1 December|1]] - ''K-9: Alien Avatar'' was released in Australia containing episodes 7-12 of Series 1.
* [[2 December|2]] - ''[[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Doctor Who - The Complete Fifth Series]]'' was released on Region 4 DVD.
* [[9 December|9]] - ''[[Coronation Street]]'', long ''Doctor Who's'' biggest competitor, marked its fiftieth anniversary of broadcast. Since September it had been the longest-running English language drama series in the world.
* [[18 December|18]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[19 December|19]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Liberation]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[20 December|20]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[21 December|21]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Bounty Hunter]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[22 December|22]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Sirens of Ceres]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[23 December|23]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Itself]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[24 December|24]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Gryffen]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[25 December|25]] - [[TV]]: ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'' was first broadcast.
* 25 - [[TV]]: ''[[Jaws of Orthrus]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[26 December|26]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Dream-Eaters]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[27 December|27]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[28 December|28]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Oroborus (TV story)|Oroborus]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[29 December|29]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Alien Avatar]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.
* [[30 December|30]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Aeolian (TV story)|Aeolian]]'' was first broadcast on Five in the UK.


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2010 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 2010
21st century | 2010s
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2010 was a year.

Events

Dated

January - April

Jack Harkness investigated the House of the Dead and encountered the ghost of Ianto Jones before it was destroyed. At the same time, the Rift was apparently sealed forever. (AUDIO: The House of the Dead [+]Loading...["The House of the Dead (audio story)"]) However, temporary holes in space-time would persist in Cardiff in the years that would follow. (COMIC: The Doctor and the Nurse [+]Loading...["The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)"], AUDIO: More Than This [+]Loading...["More Than This (audio story)"])

Jack leaves Earth. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five)

Gwen Cooper and Rhys Williams met with Jack Harkness outside Cardiff. Jack, still mourning the deaths of his grandson, Ianto, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato and Suzie Costello, used his recovered vortex manipulator to send a signal to a cold fusion freighter just outside the Sol system. He was beamed into space. With the departure of Jack, Torchwood Three unofficially ceased to exist. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)"])

On 24 April, the wedding of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane occurred in Cheldon Bonniface, England, Earth. Many guests from throughout time and space attended. (PROSE: Happy Endings [+]Loading...["Happy Endings (novel)"])

Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was restored to youth and health by the Fortean Flicker. (PROSE: Happy Endings [+]Loading...["Happy Endings (novel)"])

May - August

Newlywed Amy Pond enters the TARDIS. (TV: The Big Bang [+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"])

On 25 June, the Eleventh Doctor returned to Amy Pond's house two years after the incident with the Atraxi and Prisoner Zero from 2008 and invited her to travel with him. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"]) They left together, and returned at 11:55 PM, after escaping from the wreckage of the Byzantium. (TV: Flesh and Stone [+]Loading...["Flesh and Stone (TV story)"])

On 26 June, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy left for Venice in 1580 after picking up Amy's fiancé Rory Williams from his stag party. (TV: Flesh and Stone [+]Loading...["Flesh and Stone (TV story)"]) Amy and Rory got married after the Eleventh Doctor, with Amy's help, had restored the universe to its original condition. (TV: The Big Bang [+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"])

The Institute of Temporal Consistency determined that the universe exploded on 26 June in 2010, leaving scientists very confused about why it still existed. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])

On 19 August, Luke Smith received his A Level results, all (four) A Stars. (TV: The Nightmare Man [+]Loading...["The Nightmare Man (TV story)"])

September - December

On 10 September, Luke Smith, Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra defeated the Nightmare Man by trapping him inside a dream. Luke left with K9 for Oxford University. (TV: The Nightmare Man [+]Loading...["The Nightmare Man (TV story)"])

Soon after Luke arrived at Oxford, a critically ill Androvax returned to Earth to free the remains of the Veil species from an interdimensional vault there. With Sarah Jane Smith and Mister Dread's help, he took the spaceship with the Veil safely off Earth into space to search for a new home. Mister Dread gave his life saving the day. (TV: The Vault of Secrets [+]Loading...["The Vault of Secrets (TV story)"])

On 26 September, NASA announced a manned mission to Mars, which was scheduled for 2035. (COMIC: Super Gran [+]Loading...["Super Gran (comic story)"])

Jilly Kitzinger started working for PhiCorp. (TV: Escape to LA [+]Loading...["Escape to LA (TV story)"])

Sarah Jane Smith was told by UNIT they had found the Doctor's body. She and her gang, along with Jo Jones and her grandson, were invited to the Doctor's funeral underneath Mount Snowdon. The Eleventh Doctor arrived; his death had been faked by the Claw Shansheeth. Using a machine he built, he swapped places with Clyde Langer from where he had been trapped in the Crimson Heart. With help from Jo and Sarah Jane, he fixed his teleporter and returned them all to Earth properly. The Claw Shansheeth and Tia Karim used memory weave technology to attempt to create a TARDIS key from the Doctor's companions' memories. Sarah Jane and Jo overloaded the machine, killing the Shansheeth and Tia. (TV: Death of the Doctor [+]Loading...["Death of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Before 23 November, Clyde and Rani, having been grounded by the Judoon, were the only two humans left on Earth. They found an alien prince, Gavin, and delivered him to royal robots so he could take his rightful place as king of his home planet. Gavin happily teleported to his home planet after he knighted Clyde and Rani and ordered the return of the warp shunted human race. (TV: The Empty Planet [+]Loading...["The Empty Planet (TV story)"])

The Shopkeeper presents a time window. (TV: Lost in Time)

On 23 November, the Shopkeeper requested the Bannerman Road gang's help to acquire Chronosteel at key points in time to save the Earth. While two of the pieces were supplied, one was left behind with Emily Morris in 1889. Her descendant, Angela, having been handed the newspaper article of the red herring the Shopkeeper had used to draw the Bannerman Road gang to him, gave the Shopkeeper the piece, saving the timestream. The Shopkeeper departed with his parrot Captain. (TV: Lost in Time [+]Loading...["Lost in Time (TV story)"])

Also on 23 November, Archie MacTavish's P.R.O.B.E. ID badge was issued. (HOMEVID: Kelpie [+]Loading...["Kelpie (home video)"])

Sarah Jane encountered an unwilling ally using the alias of Ruby White. Ruby ultimately faked Sarah Jane's retirement, taking over 13 Bannerman Road and Mr Smith, and tried to kill Sarah Jane by draining her life-force. Ruby was defeated by being overwhelmed by humanity's fears of meteors (in simulations created by Mr White, reprogrammed by Luke). She was sent off into space on her prison ship. (TV: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith [+]Loading...["Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)"])

On 24 December, the Novelisor Huxley forced Iris Wildthyme to park her Celestial Omnibus in the basement of the Selfridges on Oxford Street. Huxley approached Jo Jones while she was doing her Christmas shopping and tried to convince her that all of her memories of working with UNIT and the Third Doctor were lies and that she had actually been an agent of MIAOW and a companion of Iris. Huxley took Jo to the Celestial Omnibus and introduced her to Iris. Iris and Jo decided to pilot the omnibus to UNIT HQ in the 1970s to prove Huxley wrong. Panda stayed behind in 2010 to conduct a secret mission. (AUDIO: Find and Replace [+]Loading...["Find and Replace (audio story)"])

On 25 December, the John Fuchas film adaptation of The True History of Planets was broadcast on BBC Three. According to one account, Elizabeth II was dead by this point, meaning that there was no Queen's Christmas speech. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen [+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"])

Undated

According to one account, the crew of a sleeper starship which set off from Earth entered deep sleep. Upon awakening on the planet Vulcan, the crew opted to begin their dating system from the time they entered deep sleep and so acknowledged the year as 2010 despite the passing of several centuries. It was after this awakening that they endured a Dalek attack. (PROSE: The History of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The History of the Daleks (short story)"])

The Eleventh Doctor and Amy went to New York City and found that the city had been invaded by Vykoids. (PROSE: The Forgotten Army [+]Loading...["The Forgotten Army (novel)"])

The Tenth Doctor and Majenta Pryce landed in Sydney, Australia and foiled an invasion of the Skith. (COMIC: The Age of Ice [+]Loading...["The Age of Ice (comic story)"])

The Doctor and Amy see The Church at Auvers. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"])

The Eleventh Doctor took Amy Pond to see a Vincent van Gogh exhibit in the Musée d'Orsay. They discovered a monster peeping through a church window in van Gogh's painting, The Church at Auvers. They travelled back to 1890 to discover the meaning of the painting and later took Vincent to 2010 to show modern evaluation of his work. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor [+]Loading...["Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)"])

Iris Wildthyme and Panda attended a book launch party on Shaftsbury Avenue in London. Afterwards, they recuperated in the Celestial Omnibus with Elspeth May. George Mann saw them and drew a sketch using crayons and felt tip markers. (PROSE: Iris at the V&A [+]Loading...["Iris at the V&A (short story)"])

The Seventh Doctor and Ace visited Earth. (PROSE: The Devil Like a Bear [+]Loading...["The Devil Like a Bear (short story)"])

Albert and Tamara Wilson took their children to Disney World in Florida. During their trip, Albert attended a business meeting with an American client that took place during a birthday party, to which he brought his daughter Lucy along. At the party, 5-year-old Lucy experienced racism for the first time, when she jumped into a swimming pool with other, white children, who were hastily ushered out by their parents. Albert was enraged when he realised what was going on, after one of the parents told him that they did not want their children splashing around with a "dirty little monkey". (PROSE: 8.46 [+]Loading...["8.46 (short story)"])

Other timelines

Time Field timeline

On 26 June, River Song arrived some time in the early morning before sunrise after the TARDIS landed there. She investigated Amy's house and found two books, one on Pandora's box and one on Roman Britain, beside Amy's bed. She took them for analysis in the TARDIS (TV: The Pandorica Opens [+]Loading...["The Pandorica Opens (TV story)"]) shortly before the Silence exploded the TARDIS on this date, (TV: The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]) cracking all of time and space. (TV: The Pandorica Opens [+]Loading...["The Pandorica Opens (TV story)"])

Pete's World

Mickey Smith, Jake Simmonds and Pete travelled from a parallel world back to the Doctor's universe. They and Rose and Jackie Tyler were stuck in Pete's World after the tear through the Void closed. (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"])[nb 1]

Births and deaths

Doctor RV Singh died. (PROSE: The Mandela Effect, Or Monsters on the Streets of London [+]Loading...["The Mandela Effect, Or Monsters on the Streets of London (short story)"])

Other

During the last few years of Ianto Jones' life, his bank card was due to expire in May 2010. (AUDIO: Fall to Earth [+]Loading...["Fall to Earth (audio story)"]) By that time, he had died a year prior during the invasion of the 456. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)"])

Igrix intended to end all wars in 2010. (COMIC: The Love Invasion [+]Loading...["The Love Invasion (comic story)"])

Behind the scenes

In a sketch on The Lenny Henry Show, a version of the Seventh Doctor played by Lenny Henry and Peri Brown visited London in 2010 to find that Cybermen led by Thatchos had taken over Britain's workforce.

In the initial pitch for what would become TV: Dalek, entitled Return of the Daleks, writer Russell T Davies set the story in Utah in 2010. While the location would remain unchanged in the final version by Robert Shearman, the time would be advanced by two years to 2012, seven years ahead of its 2005 premiere.[1]

Though the Torchwood television stories Fragments and Exit Wounds have an apparent 2008 setting going by Jack Harkness's dialogue in Exit Wounds, this is complicated by mentions of Owen Harper's early employment with Torchwood from both of these stories. While Exit Wounds explicitly states that Toshiko Sato's examination of the space pig from the Doctor Who television story Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"], a story set a year after 2005, happened on Owen's second week, a caption in Fragments places Owen's recruitment four years before those stories. This appears to put Fragments and Exit Wounds in 2010 instead.

Footnotes

Notes

  1. ↑ Due to time differences between the two worlds, they appeared in 2007 in the other world. See also Pete's World.

Citations

  1. ↑ DWMSE 11
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