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==History of the ''Doctor Who'' Universe==
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=== [[March]] ===
'''2005''' was a [[year]]. It was largely significant for a large-scale [[Operation Mannequin|Auton invasion]] on [[Earth]] which occurred in [[March]].
*With the help of his new companion [[Rose Tyler]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] stops a third attempt to conquer [[Earth]] by the [[Nestene Consciousness|Nestene]]s, recently reduced from a marauding race of conquerors to desperate refugees by the [[Time War]]. Rose joins the Doctor on his travels ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')


*Clive's website "Who is Doctor Who?", dedicated to uncovering the mystery of a man seen in historical photographs going back more than a century, is left without a webmaster when Clive is killed by [[Autons]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')  
== Events ==
=== Dated ===
==== January-June ====
On [[1 January]] 2005, [[Rose Tyler]] encountered a man who predicted she would have a great year. Unbeknownst to her, he was the [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]] of [[the Doctor]], whom she had not yet met in her own timeline. After she left, the Doctor succumbed to [[radiation]] poisoning after spending an unknown amount of time holding back the regeneration and staggered towards [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], encouraged by a vision of [[Ood Sigma]]. After dematerialising the TARDIS, he regenerated into his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}})


*Rose subsequently contacts her mother from the year [[5,000,000,000]] using a Doctor-modified version of her cellphone, and makes a brief return trip to her own time ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World]]''), but thereafter she disappears for the next year. During this time her boyfriend, [[Mickey Smith]], is initially held as a suspect in her possible murder; Mickey subsequently takes over running the "Who is Doctor Who?" website. ([[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'')
[[UNIT]] released a [[press briefing]] about [[Skaniska Incident|the loss]] of [[13 (number)|thirteen]] UNIT personnel during [[operational manoeuvres]] in the [[Russian Steppes]], [[embargo]]ed until [[31 January]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|UNIT's Position on the Skaniska Incident (short story)}})


*Sometime after this point, [[London]] cabs are replaced with motorcycles in an attempt to relieve the increasing traffic congestion ([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'')
In mid-[[February]], [[Clive Finch]] took a [[photograph]] of himself with his wife [[Caroline Finch|Carole]] and two children, [[Michael Finch|Michael]] and [[Ben Finch|Ben]], at [[Thorpe Park]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}})


===[[June]]===
[[Geoff Cliff]] met the [[Ninth Doctor]] in an [[HMV]] on a [[Tuesday]] in early 2005. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}})
*''Der Speigel'' magazine gives away a personal organizer with every issue ([[NA]]: ''[[Transit]]'')


===Unknown date===
Beginning sometime around [[March]], [[Clive Finch]] released an open call on his conspiracy website, [[Doctor Who?]], for anyone who had seen [[the Doctor]] to contact him and tell their story. He got replies from [[:Category:Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk|hundreds of people]], including [[Peri Brown]], [[Arthur Dent]], [[Mike Yates|Mr Yates]], and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. Some of the readers, such as [[r willimas]], [[Matt (Have You Seen This Man?)|Matt]], [[Benjamin McKenzie]], [[Edward J Green]] and [[Chris Martin]] met the [[Ninth Doctor]] on the very same day, or up to a [[week]] prior, to when they wrote to Clive. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}})
*The [[FLIPback Project]] begins at the [[Snowcap base]] at [[Earth]]'s [[South Pole]], at the same time that [[Mondasian Cyberman|Mondasian Cybermen]] left over from their attack on Earth in [[1986]] once more become active. ([[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg]]'')
*London police, including DI [[Billy Shipton]], begin investigating the disappearance of a number of people who visited an old abandoned house called [[Wester Drumlins]]. The police begin collecting as evidence the vehicles left abandoned by the disappeared, at one point obtaining a [[TARDIS|police box]] from the scene. The case would remain unsolved until 2007. ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
*The song "[[Voodoo Child]]" is a hit in Australia and Great Britain. A few years later, [[The Master]] would reveal a fondness for it when he played it while watching the [[Toclafane]] invasion commence. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')


==History of Doctor Who==
[[Ianto Jones]] joined [[Torchwood One]] in [[March]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|New Girl (audio story)}}) prior to the [[Auton]] attack. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}})
=== [[January]] ===


Prior to Rose handing in her lottery money to a syndicate at work, [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]] got a phone call from Rose in the middle of the day on a [[Wednesday]]; Rose was using the [[superphone]] to call Jackie from the year [[5,000,000,000]] after she had already left (from Rose's perspective). ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}})


* [[29th January | 29]] - [[Big Finish]] announce the production of 3 stand alone hardback novels as part of their [[New Worlds]] range. These are [[Wildthyme on Top]], [[Project: Valhalla]], and [[The Coming of the Queen]]. They also announced that they would be producing 2 Single [[Audio CD's]] featuring [[Iris Wildthyme]]
[[File:Auton fires Rose.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Auton]]s attack. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}})]]
On [[4 March]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}}) the [[Ninth Doctor]] was in London pursuing the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. His investigations took him to the [[Henrik's]] [[department store]], where he saved [[Rose Tyler]] from an [[Auton]] attack. He then blew up the building. [[5 March|The following day]], Rose investigated the identity of the Ninth Doctor, talking to conspiracy theorist Clive Finch about [[Doctor Who?|his website]] about the Doctor. Rose's boyfriend, [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]], was abducted by Autons and replaced with an [[Mickey Smith (Auton)|Auton duplicate]]. Using the head of this Auton, the Doctor tracked the Nestene Consciousness' signal. It had been rendered a scavenger without protein planets by a war the Doctor fought in. Rose rescued Mickey (and later, the Doctor) and destroyed the Consciousness with [[anti-plastic]]. She joined the Doctor on his travels. Meanwhile, Clive was [[kill]]ed by the Autons as they assaulted London. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}, {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}) [[Elton Pope]] was also out shopping in the city centre at the time and survived the attack. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Love & Monsters (TV story)}}) The invasion, which would be subsequently covered up as a "[[terrorist]] attack", had spread to at least [[Cardiff]], where the city centre was brought to its knees as [[Barry Jackson]] used it as a cover for his murder of the [[Lord Mayor of Cardiff]], [[Roy Llewellyn]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}}) Another account dated [[Operation Mannequin]] to [[26 March]]. UNIT issued a [[press briefing]], [[embargo]]ed until [[28 March]], wherein they ignored the allegations that the incident had anything to do with terrorists or robots, and denied any confirmation of alien life. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|UNIT's Position on The London Incident (short story)}}, {{cs|Operation Mannequin (short story)}})


* [[To the Slaughter]] First Published
Shortly after the invasion, an Auton head that was recovered from the [[Queen's Arcade|Queen's Arcade shopping centre]], the garbage bin that swallowed Mickey, and a secondary bomb discovered in Henrik's were taken and stored in the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Security Bot (video game)}})


* [[The Juggernauts]] First Released
Rose made a brief return trip to London in her own time, where the Doctor told her about the [[Fall of Gallifrey|loss]] of his [[Gallifrey|homeworld]] and [[Time Lord|his people]] before the pair went to get [[chips]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}}) Rose was reported missing from her home on the Powell Estate since [[6 March]]. She returned a year later in [[March]] [[2006]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}) [[dalek (Rose sighting confirmed)|dalek]] had spotted the pair talking about chips and reported the sighting to [[Doctor Who?]] a year later. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose sighting confirmed (short story)}})


* [[Sophie Okonedo]], who provided the voice of [[Alison Cheney]] in the webcast ''[[Scream of the Shalka]]'', is nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in the 2004 film, ''Hotel Rwanda''. Okonedo becomes, to date, the only actor to have played a Doctor or companion in an official ''Doctor Who'' production to have been nominated for an Oscar (she ultimately does not win the award, however).
On [[10 March]], UNIT issued yet another press briefing, this time about a [[computer]] [[virus]] named "[[RUFFCUT]]". ([[PROSE]]:{{cs|Computer Virus File Sharing Alert (short story)}})


=== [[February]] ===
For the rest of 2005, Mickey Smith lived with accusations that he had kidnapped or killed Rose Tyler. He was taken in for police questioning about her disappearance five times from early 2005 to early [[2006]]. [[Jackie Tyler]] fueled the mistrust of him around the [[Powell Estate]] with a "whisper campaign". Understandably, Jackie devoted considerable time to the search for her "missing" daughter. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}})


On [[22 March]], the [[North Eastern Daily Press]] reported that [[Chantelle (Weapons Grade Snake Oil)|Sharonda Arkley]] had shot four of her colleagues and put their bodies in caves along [[Blackhall Rocks]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)}})


* [[Match of the Day]] First Published
In early 2005, UNIT issued one press briefing which noted the [[Daylight savings|upcoming transition]] to [[British Summertime]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Clocks Go Forward (short story)}})


* [[The Game]] First Published
[[UNIT]] released an [[embargo]]ed [[press briefing]] on [[31 March]] 2005, filed by [[Staff Sergeant]] [[A. Frederick]], about [[Major]] [[A Highway]]'s plan to reorganise [[UNIT North America|UNIT]]'s pan-territorial activities in [[America]] into a single site operation, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)}}) the [[UNIT HQ, New York City|New York UNIT HQ]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Fountains of Forever (comic story)}})


* [[10th February | 10]] - [[Leonard Trolley]], who appeared as Supt. [[Reynolds]] in [[The Faceless Ones]] dies in England.
[[Steve Woolfall (in-universe)|Steve Woolfall]] responded to [[Doctor Who?]]'s request for sightings of the missing Rose Tyler, reporting that he had seen a [[girl]] that looked like her in the [[Grosvenor Museum]] in [[Chester]] that [[afternoon]] with a [[Tenth Doctor|chap]] that reminded him of "[[David Tennant (in-universe)|that Casanova bloke]]". Steve suggested that it might not have been the same girl but that it was strange nonetheless. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)|writer=Steve Woolfall}})


=== [[March]] ===
[[Angola]] suffered from an epidemic of the [[Marburg virus]] in early 2005, with a [[British]] news broadcast on [[26 March]] reporting that the [[death]] toll had risen to 120. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[One Rule (audio story)|One Rule]]'')


As recounted by the [[Eighth Doctor]], the [[European Cup]] final was won by [[Liverpool]], led by [[Steven Gerrard]], who triumphed over [[A.C. Milan]] despite being 3-0 down at half time, having scored three goals in the second half before going on to win the match, marking Liverpool's fifth win of the European Cup in its history. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Something Inside (audio story)}})


* [[8th March | 08]] - [[Big Finish]] announce they have agreed a deal with [[Paul Cornell]] allowing the company to continue its range of [[Bernice Summerfield]] [[Books]] and [[Audio CD's]] for the next few years
The [[Neanderthal]] [[Das (Only Human)|Das]] was accidentally transported forward in time from [[24 May]] [[BC#Prehistory|29,185 BC]] to [[Bromley]] in 2005. Several weeks later, he and [[Anna Marie Dimitru|Anna Marie O'Grady]] were married in Bromley. The Ninth Doctor, Rose and [[Jack Harkness]] attended their wedding. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Only Human (novel)}})


* [[22nd March | 22]] - [[Project Who]] : [[Bigger on the Inside]] Airs on [[BBC Radio 2]]
==== July-December ====
In [[November]], a ''[[Crimewatch]]'' episode on the [[Blackhall Rocks Multiple Murder]] was broadcast. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)}})


* [[23rd March | 23]] - [[Billie Piper]] interviewed on [[The Chris Moyles Show]] Airs on [[BBC Radio 1]]
On [[29 September]], while [[Rose Tyler]] was travelling with the [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Mickey Smith]] sent her an [[email]], asking where she was and if she was okay. On [[3 October]], Rose sent emails to both Mickey and [[Jackie Tyler|her mum]], telling them about her adventures. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Companion's Companion (novel)}}, {{cs|A Short History of Everyone (novel)}})
::The [[This Morning]] Program includes coverage of the new series and an interview with [[Russell T. Davies]] Broadcast on [[ITV]]
::[[Billie Piper]] interview on [[Parkinson]] is repeated on [[ITV 3]]


* [[25th March | 25]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]] interviewed on [[Friday Night with Jonathan Ross]]
On [[22 December]], while in [[Sally Sparrow's aunt|her aunt]]'s house in [[Devon]], [[Sally Sparrow (What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow)|Sally Sparrow]] tore off a piece of wallpaper, revealing a message from [[1985]] asking for help. After later finding a photograph with the [[Ninth Doctor]] asking to look through the wallpaper again, she found another message leading her to play a video recording of the Doctor in 1985, the Doctor communicating to Sally through already having the conversation from Sally's uncompleted [[What I Did on My Christmas Holidays|Christmas homework]].


* [[26th March | 26]] - [[The Doctor Who Story]] Broadcast on [[UK Gold]]
The Doctor explained that the TARDIS had "burped" forward in time twenty years and needed Sally's help. Sally's future self appeared, telling Sally to hit the TARDIS [[reset button]] to reach the Doctor. The Doctor told Sally to finish her [[homework]] detailing this conversation and the messages left to her first, which she did. Sally then piloted the TARDIS to the Doctor to rescue him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow (short story)}})
::New Series premieres on [[BBC One]]
::[[Rose (TV story)| Rose]] First Broadcast. [[Christopher Eccleston]] debuts as the [[Ninth Doctor]], along with [[Billie Piper]] as [[Rose Tyler]], [[Camille Coduri]] as [[Jackie Tyler]] and [[Noel Clarke]] as [[Mickey Smith]]. Return to 45-minute episodes (last seen in [[1985]]); introduction of a new theme music arrangement by [[Murray Gold]] that reinstates elements of [[Delia Derbyshire]]'s [[1963]]/[[1967]] arrangement not heard on screen since [[1980]]; introduction of a new computer-generated title sequence and new oval-shaped series logo - the first logo to show both words of the title on one line; for the first time since ''[[The Moonbase]]'' in [[1967]] the opening credits do not show the Doctor's face (notwithstanding the 1996 telefilm); also notwithstanding the telefilm, the first regular episode to feature actor credits during the opening sequence. The closing credits identify the lead character as "Doctor Who" for the first time since ''[[Logopolis]]'' in [[1981]].
::In conjunction with the debut of the new series, BBC Three premieres its behind-the-scenes series, ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' the same night.


* [[30th March | 30]] - [[BBC]] Announce production to go ahead on a second series and a [[The Christmas Invasion|Christmas Special]]
=== Undated ===
::A publicity branch of the BBC prematurely announces that [[Christopher Eccleston]] will not be returning for a second series as [[the Doctor]], citing his desire to not be typecast. This is quickly disputed and actual reason for his decision to leave is not announced; reportedly this announcement was not to have been made until later in the series, possibly in an attempt to keep the regeneration at the end a secret. Perhaps related to this, initial media reports regarding Eccleston's departure indicate his final appearance will be in the Christmas special, which turns out to be incorrect.
[[File:Bowed.jpg|thumb|The Cybermen invade. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'')]]
The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Destrii]] defeated a plot by highly advanced [[Cybermen]] who had travelled back in time to convert the population of Earth using modified rain. The Cybermen had time travelled to convert the Earth's population because the humans of their home time were too genetically diluted to become Cybermen.


* [[Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins]] First Published
[[MI6]]'s headquarters was massacred in the process, allowing [[Patrick Lake]] to rise up the hierarchy and pitch the outer-space branch "Wonderland". ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Flood (comic story)}}, {{cs|Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)}})


* [[Dreamtime]] First Released
The magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' gave away a personal organiser with every issue. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Transit (novel)}})


* [[Echoes (Time Hunter|Echoes]] First Published
The [[FLIPback]] Project began at the [[Snowcap Base]] at [[Earth]]'s [[South Pole]] to counter the predicted reversal of the Earth's [[magnetic field]] in [[2006]]. At the same time, the [[Cybermen]] left over from the attack on Earth in [[December]] [[1986]] again became active. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Iceberg (novel)}})


=== [[April]] ===
London [[police]], including DI [[Billy Shipton]], began investigating the disappearance of people from an abandoned house called [[Wester Drumlins]]. The police began collecting as evidence vehicles left abandoned by those who had disappeared, at one point taking a [[the Doctor's TARDIS|police box]] from the scene. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Blink (TV story)}})


The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Lucie Miller]] foiled a [[Quitoxin]] Spy's plan to take control of [[Little Morton]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Young Lions (audio story)}})


* [[2nd April | 02]] - [[The End of the World]] First Broadcast. First appearance of the [[Face of Boe]] and [[Cassandra]]. Significantly, the Doctor is heard to use the word "hell" as an expletive - the first time the Doctor has used such language on screen. Also includes the first reference to [[bad wolf]].
In 2005, [[Phil Tyson]] was taken on board the [[Vandosian ship]] to be executed for the crimes of [[Shogalath]], whom the [[Vandos Tribunal]] believed Phil was the [[reincarnation]] of. Phil escaped with the Ninth Doctor and Rose into [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. Through the Doctor's meddling, the ship, aiming for [[Great Britain]], had its weapons backfire, destroying it. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Mr Nobody (comic story)}})


* [[9th April | 09]] - [[The Unquiet Dead]] First Broadcast. [[Eve Myles]] makes her first appearance in a ''Doctor Who''-related production.
[[Tim Phillips]] first performed the [[tradition]]al [[Christmas]] [[song]] "[[Song for Ten (in-universe)|Song for Ten]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}})


* [[16th April | 16]] - [[David Tennant]] is officially announced as the [[Tenth Doctor]]
According to one account, London's [[taxi|cabs]] were replaced with [[motorcycle]]s to relieve the increasing [[road traffic|traffic congestion]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)}}) Other accounts stated that London kept its taxis. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}, etc.)


* [[16th April | 16]] - [[Aliens of London]] First Broadcast. First appearance of [[Harriet Jones]] and the [[Slitheen]], and the first reference to [[UNIT]] in the new series. Also, this episode establishes the notion of most "present-day" episodes actually taking place a year into the future.
In [[2323]], [[Dr]] [[Olivia Kagg Waldermein]] wrote of the "2005-[[2009]] [[Russell T Davies (in-universe)|Davies]]-[[Julie Gardner (in-universe)|Gardner]] [[Doctor Who (in-universe)|account]]" of the "[[Last Lightbringer]]", stating that it "ha[d] been steadily leaking credibility since it was linked to the contents of [[whoisdoctorwho.co.uk|a well-known conspiracy site]] of the embryonic [[Internet]], operated between 2005 and [[2007]] by a small cabal of disreputable characters." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}})


* [[23rd April | 23]] - [[World War Three]] First Broadcast
=== Alternate timelines ===
[[The Doctor]] visited [[Luminos]] in an alternate 2005. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Spiral Scratch (novel)}})


* [[30th April | 30]] - [[Dalek (TV story) | Dalek]] First Broadcast. First appearance of Daleks in the revived series; the head a classic-era [[Cyberman]] is also seen. [[Adam Mitchell]] briefly becomes a companion. First episode to include substantive references to the [[Last Great Time War]] and the destruction of the Time Lords and Daleks.
== Births and deaths ==
On [[4 March]], [[Bernie Wilson]] was killed by [[Auton]]s in the basement of [[Henrik's, Central London]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}}) Other accounts stated the deceased Henrik's employee was [[H.P. Wilson]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}})


* [[Three's a Crowd]] First Released
[[5 March]] was the date of multiple deaths during the Auton invasion, including [[Clive Finch]], [[Jimmy Stone]], [[Rudi Henrik|Rudi]] and [[Valentina Henrik]], and [[Oskar (Rose)|Oskar]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}}) [[Lord Mayor of Cardiff]] [[Roy Llewellyn]] was [[murder]]ed by [[Barry Jackson]], who used the invasion to cover up his crime. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}})


* The [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] in [[Canada]] begins airing the new series, the first time the CBC has aired ''Doctor Who'' since the mid-1960s. For the CBC broadcasts, Christopher Eccleston videotapes special introductions and promotions for a contest sponsored by ''TV Guide'', the first prize being a trip to London to visit the set of ''Doctor Who''. These broadcasts are promoted as the North American debut of the series, as no other broadcaster on the continent had yet picked up the revived series.
[[Ellie Oswald]], the mother of [[Clara Oswald]] and the wife of [[Dave Oswald]], died on 5 [[March]] at the age of 44. As well as her husband and daughter, her funeral was attended by the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)}})


=== [[May]] ===
[[Lucy Wilson]] was born on [[2 June]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucy Wilson (short story)}}) with [[Midwife (Lucy Wilson & the Bledoe Cadets)|a midwife]] helping deliver the newborn Lucy. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Midwife and the Alien (short story)}})


== Behind the scenes ==
A number of [[Doctor Who tie-in websites|tie-in websites]] contain details about 2005.


* [[7th May | 07]] - [[The Long Game]] First Broadcast. [[Adam Mitchell]] leaves the TARDIS.
=== Torchwood website ===
On [[20 July]], an interview with [[Bilis Manger]] was released in a Cardiff newspaper. [[Torchwood Three]] had this interview in their files on Manger. <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070826211257/http://www.torchwood.org.uk/html/bilis/newspaper.shtml Cardiff Jobs: Time Keeper]</ref>


* [[14th May | 14]] - [[Father's Day (TV story) | Father's Day]] First Broadcast. First appearance of [[Pete Tyler]].
== Footnotes ==
 
{{Reflist}}
* [[21st May | 21]] - [[The Empty Child]] First Broadcast. First appearance of [[John Barrowman]] as [[Jack Harkness]]. This episode, plus its second chapter, go on to become the first Doctor Who episodes to win the Hugo Award.
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* [[28th May | 28]] - [[The Doctor Dances]] First Broadcast
 
* [[Short Trips: A Day in the Life]] First Published
 
* [[Catch-1782]] First Released
 
* [[The Clockwise Man]], [[The Monsters Inside]], and [[Winner Takes All]] First Published. These are the first releases in [[BBC Books]]' new hardcover line of books based upon the revived series, and are the first books to feature the [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]]. BBC Books adopts a pattern of releasing the books three at a time, usually in the spring and fall. The company will continue to publish its paperback [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|Eighth Doctor Adventures]] line for one more month, and its [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures|Past Doctor Adventures]] line to the end of the year. Although modified photographs of actors have been used in the PDA and EDA lines, this marks the first major, unadulterated use of actor photos as part of the cover art since the days of [[Target Books]]' early [[Fifth Doctor]] novelisations in the early-mid 1980s.
 
=== [[June]] ===
 
 
* [[The Gallifrey Chronicles]] First Published. This is the final release in the [[BBC Books]] [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series of books, as BBC Books prepares to move into publishing exclusively novels based upon the soon-to-debut revived series.
 
* [[Unregenerate!]] First Released
 
* [[The Tree of Life]] First Published - Only release in the [[Big Finish - Bernice Summerfield Series]] of books in 2005.
 
* The [[BBC]] announces that a [[Christmas]] story has been scheduled for [[2006]], as well as a third season for the new ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series.
 
* [[1st June |1]] - [[Geoffrey Toone]], who played [[Hepesh]] in "[[The Curse of Peladon]]" and [[Temmosus]] in "[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]," dies in [[Wikipedia:Northwood |Northwood]], [[Wikipedia:Middlesex |Middlesex]], [[England]].
 
* [[4th June | 4]] - [[Boom Town]] First Broadcast
 
* [[11th June | 11]] - [[Bad Wolf (TV story) | Bad Wolf]] First Broadcast. First reference to [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]].
 
* [[18th June | 18]] - [[The Parting of the Ways]] First Broadcast. [[Christopher Eccleston]] regenerates into [[David Tennant]].
: Post-production completed for [[The Christmas Invasion]].
 
=== [[July]] ===
 
 
* [[Island of Death]] First Published
 
* [[Terror Firma]] First Released
 
* [[Peculiar Lives]] First Published
 
 
=== [[August]] ===
 
 
* [[Future Nostalgia]] First Published
 
* [[The Council of Nicaea]] First Released
 
* [[31st August | 31]] - [[Michael Sheard]], who had countless roles in [[Doctor Who]], notably [[Pyramids of Mars]] and [[Remembrance of the Daleks]] dies of cancer on the Isle of Wight.
 
=== [[September]] ===
 
 
* [[Fear Itself]] First Published
 
* [[Thicker Than Water]] First Released
 
* [[Live 34]] First Released
 
* [[The Deviant Strain]], [[Only Human]], and [[The Stealers of Dreams]] First Published. To date, these are the last novels featuring the [[Ninth Doctor]].
 
* [[12th September | 12]] - [[Ronald Leigh-Hunt]], who played Commander [[Radnor]] in [[The Seeds of Death]] and Commander [[Stevenson]] in [[Revenge of the Cybermen]] dies.
 
* [[23rd September | 23]] - [[Roger Brierley]], who portrayed [[Trevor (The Daleks' Master Plan)|Trevor]] in [[The Daleks' Master Plan]] and [[Drathro]] in [[The Mysterious Planet]] dies after suffering a heart attack. (On the latter credit, he only did the voice, due to being claustrophobic. Visual effects designer [[Paul McGuiness]] stepped in and took his place.)
 
=== [[October]] ===
 
* [[Scaredy Cat]] First Released
 
* [[18th October | 18]] - [[John Hollis]], who appeared as [[Sondergaard]] in [[The Mutants]] dies from natural causes.
 
* [[24th October | 24]] - [[Robert Sloman]], who along with [[Barry Letts]], wrote [[The Dæmons]], [[The Time Monster]], [[The Green Death]] and [[Planet of the Spiders]] dies. (The pair were credited as "Guy Leopold" on the first story but for the final three, Sloman took the sole credit.)
 
=== [[November]] ===
 
* [[Singularity]] First Released
 
* [[18th November| 18]] - The [[Children in Need Special]] is broadcast by the BBC as part of the Children in Need Appeal. This 7-minute mini-episode bridges the events of ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' and ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''.
 
* [[29th November | 29]] - [[Joseph Fürst]], known for his performance as Professor [[Zaroff]] in [[The Underwater Menace]] dies in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
 
=== [[December]] ===
 
*[[Other Lives]] First Released
 
*[[Atom Bomb Blues]] is published. This novel featuring the [[Seventh Doctor]] is the final release in the [[BBC Books]] [[Past Doctor Adventures]] line. After this point, BBC Books publishes only novels based upon the current series of ''Doctor Who'', and also moves away from the paperback format, adopting a hardcover format (with the exception of [[Quick Reads]] novellas) hereafter. As of the spring of 2008, ''Atom Bomb Blues'' is the last novel to be published featuring a Doctor other than the one currently on TV (this includes novels featuring the [[Ninth Doctor]], the last of which were published in September 2005).
 
*[[Deus Le Volt]] First Published
 
*[[19th December | 19]] - [[Don McKillop]] ([[Bert the Landlord]] in [[The Dæmons]]) dies from natural causes in the UK.
 
*[[25th December | 25]] - [[The Christmas Invasion]] is first broadcast. The episode closing credits introduce a modified arrangement of the Doctor Who theme restoring the "middle 8" section not used during the [[2005]] series. At the behest of star [[David Tennant]], the lead character is once again identified in the closing credits as "The Doctor".
*[[26th December | 26]] - The Christmas Invasion airs on the [[CBC]] in Canada. For this broadcast, Billie Piper videotapes a special introduction. This marks the last time (to date) that the CBC's broadcasts of the series more-or-less coincide with that of the BBC.
 
=== Unknown dates ===
* Broadcast of the revived series in the United States is delayed when the American Sci-Fi Channel unexpectedly passes on picking up the series. Reasons cited in media and fan forums included the show being considered "too British" and concerns over the quality of the preview episodes seen. Sci-Fi eventually reverses its decision and the series is broadcast at a later date and the network subsequently picks up further seasons in a more timely manner.
* Following the conclusion of the 2005 ''Doctor Who'' series, the [[BBC]] announces that it has commissioned the franchise's first full spin-off series, ''[[Torchwood]]'', to debut in [[2006]] and star [[John Barrowman]], reprising his role of [[Jack Harkness]].
* Fall: During production of the 2006 series, the media reports that [[Billie Piper]] will leave the series at the end of the season.
 
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2005 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 2005
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2005 was a year. It was largely significant for a large-scale Auton invasion on Earth which occurred in March.

Events

Dated

January-June

On 1 January 2005, Rose Tyler encountered a man who predicted she would have a great year. Unbeknownst to her, he was the tenth incarnation of the Doctor, whom she had not yet met in her own timeline. After she left, the Doctor succumbed to radiation poisoning after spending an unknown amount of time holding back the regeneration and staggered towards his TARDIS, encouraged by a vision of Ood Sigma. After dematerialising the TARDIS, he regenerated into his eleventh incarnation. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])

UNIT released a press briefing about the loss of thirteen UNIT personnel during operational manoeuvres in the Russian Steppes, embargoed until 31 January. (PROSE: UNIT's Position on the Skaniska Incident [+]Loading...["UNIT's Position on the Skaniska Incident (short story)"])

In mid-February, Clive Finch took a photograph of himself with his wife Carole and two children, Michael and Ben, at Thorpe Park. (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"])

Geoff Cliff met the Ninth Doctor in an HMV on a Tuesday in early 2005. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

Beginning sometime around March, Clive Finch released an open call on his conspiracy website, Doctor Who?, for anyone who had seen the Doctor to contact him and tell their story. He got replies from hundreds of people, including Peri Brown, Arthur Dent, Mr Yates, and Sarah Jane Smith. Some of the readers, such as r willimas, Matt, Benjamin McKenzie, Edward J Green and Chris Martin met the Ninth Doctor on the very same day, or up to a week prior, to when they wrote to Clive. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

Ianto Jones joined Torchwood One in March, (AUDIO: New Girl [+]Loading...["New Girl (audio story)"]) prior to the Auton attack. (AUDIO: One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"])

Prior to Rose handing in her lottery money to a syndicate at work, Jackie got a phone call from Rose in the middle of the day on a Wednesday; Rose was using the superphone to call Jackie from the year 5,000,000,000 after she had already left (from Rose's perspective). (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"])

The Autons attack. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])

On 4 March, (AUDIO: One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"]) the Ninth Doctor was in London pursuing the Nestene Consciousness. His investigations took him to the Henrik's department store, where he saved Rose Tyler from an Auton attack. He then blew up the building. The following day, Rose investigated the identity of the Ninth Doctor, talking to conspiracy theorist Clive Finch about his website about the Doctor. Rose's boyfriend, Mickey, was abducted by Autons and replaced with an Auton duplicate. Using the head of this Auton, the Doctor tracked the Nestene Consciousness' signal. It had been rendered a scavenger without protein planets by a war the Doctor fought in. Rose rescued Mickey (and later, the Doctor) and destroyed the Consciousness with anti-plastic. She joined the Doctor on his travels. Meanwhile, Clive was killed by the Autons as they assaulted London. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) Elton Pope was also out shopping in the city centre at the time and survived the attack. (TV: Love & Monsters [+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"]) The invasion, which would be subsequently covered up as a "terrorist attack", had spread to at least Cardiff, where the city centre was brought to its knees as Barry Jackson used it as a cover for his murder of the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Roy Llewellyn. (AUDIO: One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"]) Another account dated Operation Mannequin to 26 March. UNIT issued a press briefing, embargoed until 28 March, wherein they ignored the allegations that the incident had anything to do with terrorists or robots, and denied any confirmation of alien life. (PROSE: UNIT's Position on The London Incident [+]Loading...["UNIT's Position on The London Incident (short story)"], Operation Mannequin [+]Loading...["Operation Mannequin (short story)"])

Shortly after the invasion, an Auton head that was recovered from the Queen's Arcade shopping centre, the garbage bin that swallowed Mickey, and a secondary bomb discovered in Henrik's were taken and stored in the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum. (GAME: Security Bot [+]Loading...["Security Bot (video game)"])

Rose made a brief return trip to London in her own time, where the Doctor told her about the loss of his homeworld and his people before the pair went to get chips. (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"]) Rose was reported missing from her home on the Powell Estate since 6 March. She returned a year later in March 2006. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) dalek had spotted the pair talking about chips and reported the sighting to Doctor Who? a year later. (PROSE: Rose sighting confirmed [+]Loading...["Rose sighting confirmed (short story)"])

On 10 March, UNIT issued yet another press briefing, this time about a computer virus named "RUFFCUT". (PROSE:Computer Virus File Sharing Alert [+]Loading...["Computer Virus File Sharing Alert (short story)"])

For the rest of 2005, Mickey Smith lived with accusations that he had kidnapped or killed Rose Tyler. He was taken in for police questioning about her disappearance five times from early 2005 to early 2006. Jackie Tyler fueled the mistrust of him around the Powell Estate with a "whisper campaign". Understandably, Jackie devoted considerable time to the search for her "missing" daughter. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"])

On 22 March, the North Eastern Daily Press reported that Sharonda Arkley had shot four of her colleagues and put their bodies in caves along Blackhall Rocks. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil [+]Loading...["Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)"])

In early 2005, UNIT issued one press briefing which noted the upcoming transition to British Summertime. (PROSE: The Clocks Go Forward [+]Loading...["The Clocks Go Forward (short story)"])

UNIT released an embargoed press briefing on 31 March 2005, filed by Staff Sergeant A. Frederick, about Major A Highway's plan to reorganise UNIT's pan-territorial activities in America into a single site operation, (PROSE: UNIT's New York Operation Expansion [+]Loading...["UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)"]) the New York UNIT HQ. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"], COMIC: The Fountains of Forever [+]Loading...["The Fountains of Forever (comic story)"])

Steve Woolfall responded to Doctor Who?'s request for sightings of the missing Rose Tyler, reporting that he had seen a girl that looked like her in the Grosvenor Museum in Chester that afternoon with a chap that reminded him of "that Casanova bloke". Steve suggested that it might not have been the same girl but that it was strange nonetheless. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]Loading...{"writer":"Steve Woolfall","1":"The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"})

Angola suffered from an epidemic of the Marburg virus in early 2005, with a British news broadcast on 26 March reporting that the death toll had risen to 120. (AUDIO: One Rule)

As recounted by the Eighth Doctor, the European Cup final was won by Liverpool, led by Steven Gerrard, who triumphed over A.C. Milan despite being 3-0 down at half time, having scored three goals in the second half before going on to win the match, marking Liverpool's fifth win of the European Cup in its history. (AUDIO: Something Inside [+]Loading...["Something Inside (audio story)"])

The Neanderthal Das was accidentally transported forward in time from 24 May 29,185 BC to Bromley in 2005. Several weeks later, he and Anna Marie O'Grady were married in Bromley. The Ninth Doctor, Rose and Jack Harkness attended their wedding. (PROSE: Only Human [+]Loading...["Only Human (novel)"])

July-December

In November, a Crimewatch episode on the Blackhall Rocks Multiple Murder was broadcast. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil [+]Loading...["Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)"])

On 29 September, while Rose Tyler was travelling with the Ninth Doctor, Mickey Smith sent her an email, asking where she was and if she was okay. On 3 October, Rose sent emails to both Mickey and her mum, telling them about her adventures. (PROSE: The Companion's Companion [+]Loading...["The Companion's Companion (novel)"], A Short History of Everyone [+]Loading...["A Short History of Everyone (novel)"])

On 22 December, while in her aunt's house in Devon, Sally Sparrow tore off a piece of wallpaper, revealing a message from 1985 asking for help. After later finding a photograph with the Ninth Doctor asking to look through the wallpaper again, she found another message leading her to play a video recording of the Doctor in 1985, the Doctor communicating to Sally through already having the conversation from Sally's uncompleted Christmas homework.

The Doctor explained that the TARDIS had "burped" forward in time twenty years and needed Sally's help. Sally's future self appeared, telling Sally to hit the TARDIS reset button to reach the Doctor. The Doctor told Sally to finish her homework detailing this conversation and the messages left to her first, which she did. Sally then piloted the TARDIS to the Doctor to rescue him. (PROSE: What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow [+]Loading...["What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow (short story)"])

Undated

The Cybermen invade. (COMIC: The Flood)

The Eighth Doctor and Destrii defeated a plot by highly advanced Cybermen who had travelled back in time to convert the population of Earth using modified rain. The Cybermen had time travelled to convert the Earth's population because the humans of their home time were too genetically diluted to become Cybermen.

MI6's headquarters was massacred in the process, allowing Patrick Lake to rise up the hierarchy and pitch the outer-space branch "Wonderland". (COMIC: The Flood [+]Loading...["The Flood (comic story)"], Hunters of the Burning Stone [+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"])

The magazine Der Spiegel gave away a personal organiser with every issue. (PROSE: Transit [+]Loading...["Transit (novel)"])

The FLIPback Project began at the Snowcap Base at Earth's South Pole to counter the predicted reversal of the Earth's magnetic field in 2006. At the same time, the Cybermen left over from the attack on Earth in December 1986 again became active. (PROSE: Iceberg [+]Loading...["Iceberg (novel)"])

London police, including DI Billy Shipton, began investigating the disappearance of people from an abandoned house called Wester Drumlins. The police began collecting as evidence vehicles left abandoned by those who had disappeared, at one point taking a police box from the scene. (TV: Blink [+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"])

The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller foiled a Quitoxin Spy's plan to take control of Little Morton. (AUDIO: The Young Lions [+]Loading...["The Young Lions (audio story)"])

In 2005, Phil Tyson was taken on board the Vandosian ship to be executed for the crimes of Shogalath, whom the Vandos Tribunal believed Phil was the reincarnation of. Phil escaped with the Ninth Doctor and Rose into the TARDIS. Through the Doctor's meddling, the ship, aiming for Great Britain, had its weapons backfire, destroying it. (COMIC: Mr Nobody [+]Loading...["Mr Nobody (comic story)"])

Tim Phillips first performed the traditional Christmas song "Song for Ten". (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])

According to one account, London's cabs were replaced with motorcycles to relieve the increasing traffic congestion. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead [+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)"]) Other accounts stated that London kept its taxis. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"], etc.)

In 2323, Dr Olivia Kagg Waldermein wrote of the "2005-2009 Davies-Gardner account" of the "Last Lightbringer", stating that it "ha[d] been steadily leaking credibility since it was linked to the contents of a well-known conspiracy site of the embryonic Internet, operated between 2005 and 2007 by a small cabal of disreputable characters." (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])

Alternate timelines

The Doctor visited Luminos in an alternate 2005. (PROSE: Spiral Scratch [+]Loading...["Spiral Scratch (novel)"])

Births and deaths

On 4 March, Bernie Wilson was killed by Autons in the basement of Henrik's, Central London. (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"]) Other accounts stated the deceased Henrik's employee was H.P. Wilson. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])

5 March was the date of multiple deaths during the Auton invasion, including Clive Finch, Jimmy Stone, Rudi and Valentina Henrik, and Oskar. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"]) Lord Mayor of Cardiff Roy Llewellyn was murdered by Barry Jackson, who used the invasion to cover up his crime. (AUDIO: One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"])

Ellie Oswald, the mother of Clara Oswald and the wife of Dave Oswald, died on 5 March at the age of 44. As well as her husband and daughter, her funeral was attended by the Eleventh Doctor. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten [+]Loading...["The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)"])

Lucy Wilson was born on 2 June, (PROSE: Lucy Wilson [+]Loading...["Lucy Wilson (short story)"]) with a midwife helping deliver the newborn Lucy. (PROSE: The Midwife and the Alien [+]Loading...["The Midwife and the Alien (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

A number of tie-in websites contain details about 2005.

Torchwood website

On 20 July, an interview with Bilis Manger was released in a Cardiff newspaper. Torchwood Three had this interview in their files on Manger. [1]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Cardiff Jobs: Time Keeper
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