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'''2007''' was a [[year]]. Notably, [[Torchwood One]] was destroyed in a battle between the [[Cult of Skaro]] and the [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybus Cybermen]] in a conflict that became known as the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}})
== Properties ==
It was recorded as 21K0.7 by the [[43rd century]] dating system, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]'')
== Events ==
== Events ==
=== January ===
=== Dated ===
* Approximately this time, [[Rose Tyler]], carrying a rucksack, said goodbye to her mother [[Jackie Tyler]] and her boyfriend [[Mickey Smith]] and continued her adventures with the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'')
On [[31 January]], the [[SS Elysium|SS ''Elysium'']] arrived safely in [[Panama]], its passengers and crew having endured an attack by [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] just weeks earlier. One passenger, artist [[Michael Brack]], was airlifted to [[hospital]] for treatment for hypothermia suffered during the attack. He missed his chance to tell [[Ruby Duvall]] that he was the man responsible for her father's paralysis. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
* [[31 January|31]] - The [[SS Elysium|SS ''Elysium'']] arrived safely in [[Panama]], its passengers and crew having endured an attack by [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] just weeks earlier. One passenger, artist [[Michael Brack]], was airlifted to [[hospital]] for treatment for hypothermia suffered during the attack. He missed his chance to tell [[Ruby Duvall]] that he was the man responsible for her father's paralysis. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
[[File:LINDA Love Monsters.jpg|thumb|left|LINDA. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Love & Monsters (TV story)}})]]
One [[Tuesday]] night in [[March]] was "when it all changed" for [[LINDA]]. [[Victor Kennedy]], also known as the [[Abzorbaloff]], discovered LINDA and quickly took command of the group to help him find [[the Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Love & Monsters (TV story)}})
One account placed the [[Toclafane invasion]] on [[23 June]] 2007. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Paradox Moon (short story)|ed=2021 paperback|page=387}}) Other accounts placed [[Martha Jones]]' activity around this time in [[March]] [[2008]] ([[AUDIO]]: {{cite source|Recruits (audio story)|minute=10|second=10}}) or [[4 June|4]]-[[9 June]] in an unspecified year.<!--See Behind the scenes section--> ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|page=120}}) {{note|According to {{cite source|The Sound of Drums (TV story)|timestamp=5:47 and 33:27|ed=iPlayer}} the events of the [[Royal Hope incident]] are three days before the election of {{Simm}} and five days before the [[Toclafane invasion]].}}
On [[25 June]], [[Donna Noble]] chose to take a job with [[H.C. Clements]], rejecting [[Sylvia Noble|her mother]]'s suggestion that she work for [[Jival Chowdry]]. A version of herself from a [[parallel world (Turn Left)|a parallel world]] had been hit by a lorry a few blocks away to stop her making the contrary decision. [[Rose Tyler]] travelled back in time from approximately two years in the future to ask the Donna to pass a message on to the [[Tenth Doctor]] when she "died". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})
On [[7 July]], [[C'rizz]] went on a rampage in [[King's Cross station]]. He was stopped by the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Luke Tillyard]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Salva Mea (short story)|Salva Mea]]'')
On [[24 December]], [[Donna Noble]]'s [[Donna Noble and Lance Bennett's wedding|wedding]] to [[Lance Bennett]] was interrupted when the [[Huon particles]] inside her body (put there by Lance) dragged her into [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. After being attacked by [[Roboform]]s at the wedding reception, the Tenth Doctor, Donna and Lance went to H.C. Clements' [[basement]]. There, they travelled to a Torchwood base beneath the [[Thames Flood Barrier]]. The [[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)|Empress of the Racnoss]] force-fed Lance Huon energy to awaken her children, killing him. The Doctor drowned the awakened Racnoss using the [[Thames]]. The Empress descended in the ''[[Webstar]]'' to exact revenge upon Earth, but her ship was destroyed by the British military by order of [[Minister of Defence]] {{Simm|n=Harold Saxon}}. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}})
=== February - [[March]] ===
On [[25 December]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Evelyn Smythe]] celebrated Christmas with the Cracker family. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crackers (short story)|The Crackers]]'')
* [[LINDA]] was given its name by [[Elton Pope]]. It was destroyed when the [[Abzorbaloff]] absorbed all members save Elton, one by one each Saturday. The Tenth Doctor killed the Abzorbaloff and restored [[Ursula Blake]] in the form of a paving slab. ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'')
* [[The Master]] arrived on [[Earth]] around this time and assumed the alias {{Simm|n=Harold Saxon}}. He set about establishing a political career while creating the [[Archangel Network]]. He also met his future wife, [[Lucy Saxon|Lucy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
=== June ===
* [[21 June|21]] - Annual de-frosting of [[Tommy Brockless]], a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in 1918, took place. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'')
* [[25 June|25]] - [[Donna Noble]] chose to take a job with [[H.C. Clements]], rejecting her mother's suggestion that she work for another firm. An alternate timeline version of herself had been hit by a lorry a few blocks away to stop her making the contrary decision and altering the timeline. [[Rose Tyler]] travelled back in time from approximately two years in the future - and from the alternate timeline - to ask the alternate-Donna to pass a message on to the [[Tenth Doctor]] when she "died". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'', ''[[Turn Left]]'')
* The Tenth Doctor landed in [[Torchwood Tower]] with Rose and Jackie Tyler after tracking the [[ghost shift]]s and was taken prisoner by [[Torchwood One]]. The ghosts were actually [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] from [[Pete's World|a parallel universe]] the Doctor had visited. Rose Tyler stumbled upon a [[Void Ship]] and discovered Mickey, back from [[Pete's World]]. The two of them witnessed four Daleks emerging from the ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'')
* Cybermen encountered Daleks; they fought, destroying Torchwood One. The Cybermen upgraded Torchwood staff to fight the Daleks. The Daleks identified themselves as the [[Cult of Skaro]] and used Mickey's DNA print to release millions of Daleks from the [[Genesis Ark]] to attack all life on Earth. The Tenth Doctor opened the gateway to [[the Void]], letting the [[void stuff]]-covered Daleks and Cybermen be sucked into it (apart from the Cult, who [[emergency temporal shift]]ed), before sealing itself. Rose, Jackie and Mickey were trapped in Pete's World, with no way back to [[Normal Space|their own universe]], where Rose was declared dead. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'') The partial [[cyber-conversion]] of [[Lisa Hallett]] happened during this battle. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'') [[Donna Noble]], meanwhile, was on a scuba-diving holiday in Spain and unaware of these events. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')
* Former [[Torchwood One]] operative [[Ianto Jones]] relocated to [[Cardiff]] to convince [[Jack Harkness]] to give him a position with [[Torchwood Three]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]''). He was successful. He subsequently hid his partially-converted girlfriend, [[Lisa Hallett]], within the [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood Hub]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')
=== July ===
On [[31 December]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] visited [[Singapore]] a few minutes before midnight. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]'')
* [[C'rizz]] went on a rampage in [[King's Cross Station]]. He was stopped by the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Luke Tillyard]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Salva Mea]]'')
=== June-[[September]] ===
=== Undated ===
* Torchwood Three member [[Suzie Costello]] shot herself after being discovered for the [[murder]]s she committed. [[Gwen Cooper]] joined the empty spot left in Torchwood Three. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]'')
The [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Oliver Day]] defeated [[the Puppeteer]], who was travelling across the stars to feed on Humanity's warfare. After this adventure, the pair went their separate ways. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Puppeteer (short story)|Puppeteer]]'')
* On her first day of work, Gwen accidentally released an [[Sex Gas|alien entity]] that inhabited [[Carys Fletcher]]. The Torchwood Three team tricked it, trapping it inside the [[portable prison cell]]. The creature was poisoned by Earth's atmosphere and died. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day One]]'')
=== June-December ===
* The Torchwood Three team retrieved a [[quantum transducer]] that saw the past and future from [[Bernie Harris]]. It was eventually locked away. [[Ed Morgan]] impaled himself on a knife Gwen had confiscated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine]]'')
* With the help of [[Tanizaki|Dr Tanizaki]], Ianto took Lisa off her life support. She attacked the Torchwood Hub to make it a base to start converting more Cybermen. The rest of the Torchwood Three team killed her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')
* The Torchwood Three team handed over [[Jasmine Pierce]] to the [[Fairy|Fairies]] after they threatened to destroy the Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Small Worlds]]'')
* Jack incapacitated [[Brynblaidd villager|a set of cannibalistic villagers]] in the [[Wales|Welsh]] countryside. They were arrested by [[police]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Countrycide]]'')
* The [[Arcateenian]] "[[Mary (Greeks Bearing Gifts)|Mary]]" handed [[Toshiko Sato]] a [[telepathy pendant]]. When Mary snuck into the Torchwood hub, Jack tricked her into using the [[teleport]] device she was looking for. It sent her into the centre of [[Sol|the sun]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'')
=== September-[[December]] ===
An "Arms for Humanity" concert was held to raise money for the [[Preserve our Planet Fund]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
* Three months after her death, Suzie Costello was resurrected for a short period by Gwen, who used the [[resurrection gauntlet]]. Suzie drew life energy from Gwen over time. She died again when the gauntlet was destroyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie]]'')
* After his friends falsely inflated a bid for it on eBay, [[Eugene Jones]] swallowed a [[Dogon Sixth Eye]] to make sure they couldn't flog it themselves. He continued existing as a ghost for a time after his death. He helped Gwen Cooper investigate his death (which he couldn't recall) and passed on. ([[TV]]: ''[[Random Shoes]]'')
=== December ===
[[File:Weeping angels trapped.jpg|thumb|[[Sally Sparrow]] and [[Larry Nightingale]] trap the [[Weeping Angel]]s by making them stare at each other. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Blink (TV story)}})]]
* [[18 December|18]] - [[Diane Holmes]], [[Emma-Louise Cowell]] and [[John Ellis]] arrived from [[1953]] through [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|the Rift]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Out of Time (TV story)|Out of Time]]'')
According to one account,{{note|While {{cs|Blink (TV story)}} itself uncontroversially sets its main setting in 2007 and "twenty minutes to [[Red Hatching]]" a year later in [[2008]]—as [[Kathy Nightingale]]'s letter describes taking "one breath in 2007 and the next in [[1920]]", and the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s side of his conversation with [[Sally Sparrow]] in [[1969]] happens 38 years before Sally says hers—these are contradicted by heavily conflicting dates in the ''[[Redacted (audio series)|Redacted]]'' audio series later on regarding both Kathy's disappearance and the Red Hatching. In ''[[Angels (audio story)|Angels]]'', [[Abby McPhail]] identifies 2008 as the year of Kathy's disappearance, which suggests [[2009]] as the year of the Red Hatching. In ''[[Salvation (audio story)|Salvation]]'', the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] recognises the Red Hatching as the cause of death of [[Andy Proctor]], who was last seen by his daughter [[Cleo Proctor|Cleo]] "nearly 20 years" before [[2022]] according to ''[[Recruits (audio story)|Recruits]]''.}} the Tenth Doctor and [[Martha Jones]], following information provided to them by [[Sally Sparrow]], investigated the [[Wester Drumlins]] estate in 2007, where they were touched by the [[Weeping Angel]]s and transported to [[1969]]; the TARDIS remained behind. By sending messages through [[Easter egg]]s on DVDs, the Doctor was able to contact Sally and [[Larry Nightingale]] and help them defeat the Angels and send the TARDIS to 1969. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Blink (TV story)}})
* [[24 December|24]] - Diane flew through the rift, Emma departed from [[Cardiff]] to [[London]] and John committed suicide, all against the wishes of the [[Torchwood Three]] team. ([[TV]]: ''[[Out of Time (TV story)|Out of Time]]'')
* 24 - [[Donna Noble]]'s [[wedding]] to [[Lance Bennett]] was interrupted by the [[Huon particles]] inside her system (put there by Lance) dragging her into the Doctor's TARDIS. After being attacked by [[Roboform]]s at the wedding reception, the Tenth Doctor, Donna and Lance went to H.C. Clements' basement. There, they travelled to a Torchwood base on the [[Thames Flood Barrier]]. The [[Empress of the Racnoss]] force fed Lance Huon energy to awaken her children, killing him. She also sent her Webstar to attack London, but the Doctor killed the children by draining the Thames into them and the British military, ordered by "Mr Saxon", blew up the webstar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')
* 24 - Although [[Sylvia Noble]], Donna's mother, was present at Donna's wedding, her grandfather, [[Wilfred Mott]], was absent due to an attack of [[Spanish influenza|Spanish flu]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')
=== Unknown dates ===
[[Mallingan|Professor Mallingan]] and his team of scientists began draining the power of the icy planet [[Isqar]], hoping it would put an end to [[global warming]] on Earth. The Tenth Doctor came across Mallingan's plans and enlisted the help of one of his scientists to destroy his lab, saving Isqar. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Cold War (comic story)|Cold War]]'')
* The [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Oliver Day]] defeated the [[Puppeteer]], who was travelling across the stars to feed on Humanity's warfare. After this adventure, the pair went their seperate ways. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Puppeteer]]'')
* An "Arms for Humanity" concert was held to raise money for the [[Preserve our Planet Fund]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
* Mickey Smith contacted the Tenth Doctor to investigate [[Deffry Vale High School]] after discovering strange occurrences there. ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion]]'') The Tenth Doctor and Rose signed up as a teacher and a dinner lady respectively. The Doctor met [[Sarah Jane Smith]] for the first time since he had been called to [[Gallifrey]] and had left her on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear]]'', ''[[School Reunion]]'') The Doctor repaired [[K9 Mark III]]. K9 identified the [[Krillitane oil|intelligence-enhancing oil]] in the school children's [[chips]] as of [[Krillitane]] origin. The Doctor learnt they were using the children to solve the [[Skasis Paradigm]]. K9 destroyed the Krillitanes, along with himself and the oil, but the Doctor gave Sarah Jane a new model, [[K9 Mark IV]]. Mickey joined the Tenth Doctor and Rose in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion]]'') The Doctor had hidden several gifts for Sarah Jane inside a panel in K9 Mark IV: [[sonic lipstick]] and a wristwatch for detecting alien life. ([[WEB]]: ''[[Sarah Jane Smith website]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'')
* Mickey, Jackie and a group of actors posing as the crew and audience of an alien talk show help the Tenth Doctor free Rose from the [[Iagnon]] by making her jealous. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Green-Eyed Monster]]'')
* Around this time the discovery of a bizarre message encoded as [[Easter egg]]s on seventeen different DVD releases caused a flurry of interest on the internet due to the message's cryptic nature. The message, which appeared to have been shot on film many years earlier, depicted [[Tenth Doctor|a man with glasses]] conducting what appeared to be a one-sided conversation with an unknown person; he was occasionally interrupted by [[Martha Jones|a young woman]]. Among those interested in the message was London video store employee [[Larry Nightingale]]. He began intensively studying the message, much to the annoyance of his sister, [[Kathy Nightingale]]. The Tenth Doctor and [[Martha Jones]], following information provided to them by [[Sally Sparrow]], investigated the [[Wester Drumlins]] estate near London, where by choice or accident they were touched by the [[Weeping Angel]]s and transported to [[1969]]; the TARDIS remained behind and was later taken into custody by London police. [[Sally Sparrow]] received a bizarre message addressed to her from the Doctor in 1969 while investigating Wester Drumlins. Sparrow learnt of the [[Weeping Angel]]s, her friend [[Kathy Nightingale]] was transported back to [[1920]] and a policeman named [[Billy Shipton]] was sent back to 1969. Sparrow encountered an elderly Shipton, who died soon after revealing he was responsible for adding the cryptic message from the Doctor to a number of DVDs. The [[Easter egg]] mystery was solved when Sally realised the one-sided conversation was from the Doctor and directed at her. Ultimately, Sparrow stopped the Weeping Angels from capturing [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and with the help of Larry Nightingale, sent the vessel back to 1969. After this Sally and Larry took over the DVD rental store where Larry worked, turning it into a bookstore, but Sally remained distant from Larry as she awaited the final resolution of her involvement with the time-travelling Doctor. The Doctor and Martha were given the copies by Sally outside their store while the time travellers went off to see "four things and a lizard." ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
* [[Mallingan|Professor Mallingan]] and his team of scientists began draining the power of the icy planet [[Asharoth]], hoping it would put an end to [[global warming]] on Earth. The Tenth Doctor came across Mallingan's plans and enlisted the help of one of his scientists to destroy his lab, saving Asharoth. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Cold War (comic story)|Cold War]]'')
* The [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] arrived in 2007 to visit the prominent [[Lexington Bank]]. There they discover two mysterious men, [[Mr Symington]] and [[Mr Blenkinsop]] who are giving out powerful watches that permit users to travel through time. Amy used it once, to the Doctor's disappointment, and found that the device had many consequences. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Borrowed Time (novel)|Borrowed Time]]'')
* [[Joseph Serf]] was killed in a [[skiing]] accident in [[Val d'Isère]], [[France]]. However, his death was covered up by [[John Harrison]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was (TV story)|The Man Who Never Was]]'')
* A [[BBC News]] bulletin reported that the [[United States of America|United States]] and [[United Kingdom]] governments were anticipating final victory in the [[Iraq War]] in the near future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate!]]'')
=== Donna's World timeline ===
The [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] arrived in 2007 to visit the prominent [[Lexington International Bank]]. There, they discovered two mysterious men, Mr [[Symington]] and Mr [[Blenkinsop]], giving out [[Time Harvester|devices]] that permitted users to travel through time. Amy used it once, to the Doctor's disappointment, and found that the device had many consequences. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Borrowed Time (novel)|Borrowed Time]]'')
==== June ====
* [[25 June|25]] - Donna Noble made a decision that resulted in her not joining [[H.C. Clements]] and so not meeting [[Lance Bennett]] and becoming engaged to him. Instead, she took a job as [[Jival Chowdry|Jival Chowdry's]] secretary. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
==== December ====
A [[BBC News]] bulletin reported that the [[United States of America|United States]] and [[United Kingdom]] governments were anticipating final victory in the [[Iraq War]] in the near future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate!]]'')
* [[24 December|24]] - As a consequence of never joining H.C. Clements, the [[Tenth Doctor]] never met Donna and he died after thwarting the [[Empress of the Racnoss]]' plans. [[Rose Tyler]], travelling between dimensions, ended up in this alternate timeline and arrived soon after the Doctor's corpse had been retrieved by [[UNIT]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
: ''While the Empress of the Racnoss died the same way, the TARDIS had no-one left to pilot it, let alone park it on the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|Cardiff Rift]], so Mr Saxon would have remained as [[Professor Yana]] on [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]].''
=== Pete's World ===
[[Jamie Colquhoun]] had his family take him to the [[St Michel War Cemetery]] in [[the Somme]]. The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Gabby Gonzalez]] watched him from a distance. As Jamie left with his family, his granddaughter [[Gabriella (The Weeping Angels of Mons)|Gabriella]] tripped on the hand of a [[Weeping Angel]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Weeping Angels of Mons (comic story)|The Weeping Angels of Mons]]'')
==== February ====
* [[1 February|2]] - The TARDIS fell into a parallel universe dubbed "Pete's World", where it almost died. With twenty-four hours before the TARDIS could return to [[Normal Space|its home universe]], Rose discovered a living version of her dad, [[Peter Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]], alive and a successful businessman. To meet her "father", Rose snuck with the Tenth Doctor into the birthday party of a parallel version of [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|her mother]]. The [[President of Great Britain]] forbade the use of [[John Lumic]]'s new cybernetic lifeform, but Lumic ignored him. Mickey, mistaken for his parallel self, [[Ricky Smith]], was taken by [[the Preachers]], who fought Lumic. The cybernetic life, dubbed [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]], attacked [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie Tyler]]'s birthday party, killing most of those inside, including the President. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
* 2 - The Doctor and Rose escaped the Cyberman attack with the Preachers, Mickey and Pete. They infiltrated the Cyberman factory, where every Londoner in [[EarPod]]s was being [[Cyber-conversion|upgraded]], including Pete's wife, Jackie. After a Cyberman whose emotional inhibitor was broken died of shock, the Doctor sent a signal that deactivated every one of them. Mickey and Jake destroyed the transmitter controls so the hypnotised EarPod bearers could escape. Mickey also sent the Doctor the codes to break the inhibitor controls, destroying the Cybermen. The survivors of the resistance escaped the burning factory in a [[zeppelin]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
* [[2 February|3]] - With the TARDIS cells charged, the Doctor and Rose returned to their universe. Mickey stayed behind, taking his deceased counterpart's place in shutting down more Cyberman factories. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
:''See [[Pete's World#2007|Pete's World]].''
[[Clara Oswald]] went sledging. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Wintervention (comic story)|Wintervention]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
[[Nina Rogers]] began studying [[History]] at [[Cardiff University]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Consequences (short story)|Consequences]]'')
=== January ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Circular Time]]'' was first released.
One account, [[Aliens of London dating controversy|but not others]], placed [[Torchwood Three]]'s [[Gwen Cooper]]'s early missions with Torchwood, such as her meeting with [[Tom Flanagan]] in Cardiff,{{note|Tom lived in Cardiff for 66 years after moving in [[1941]].}} in this year. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Ghost Machine (TV story)}}) Another account placed the later killing of [[Meredith Roberts]]{{note|Meredith is described as age 45 by [[Owen Harper]], and a computer display clearly shows his date of birth as [[11 January]] [[1962]].}} by [[the Pharm]] in 2007. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Reset (TV story)}})
* [[Big Finish Productions]] launched a new spin-off series of audio adventures, [[The Companion Chronicles]], with the simultaneous release of four different productions: [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Frostfire (audio story)|Frostfire]]'', ''[[Fear of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Blue Tooth]]'' and ''[[The Beautiful People]]''. The concept of The Companion Chronicles was to feature companions and original actors who previously had not performed their original characters due to their Doctors' (specifically the first four) unavailability to the Big Finish range. ''The Beautiful People'' was an exception as it featured [[Lalla Ward]] who had been portraying [[Romana II]] for Big Finish for several years at this point, though never before in an adventure with the [[Fourth Doctor]].
* [[1 January|1]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'', the first episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', was also first broadcast, although the proper series did not begin until later in the year.
==== The Tyler family ====
* 1 - [[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[End of Days]]'' were first broadcast, concluding the first season of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''. The cliffhanger ending of ''End of Days'' was not resolved until the broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'' more than six months later.
[[File:K9 iii last stand.jpg|thumb|K9 defeats the Krillitanes. ([[TV]]: {{cs|School Reunion (TV story)}})]]
* 1 - The final episode of ''[[Torchwood Declassified]]'s'' first season was also broadcast.
The Tenth Doctor contacted Mickey Smith and told him to infiltrate the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]] and destroy the recovered Sycorax Sword. Mickey created a robot and sent it into the museum. When the robot found the sword, it destroyed itself and took the sword with it. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Security Bot (video game)|Security Bot]]'')
* [[3 January|3]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[11 January|11]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Another Life]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Border Princes (novel)|Border Princes]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay]]'', the first original novels based upon ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'', were first published by [[BBC Books]]. The books were similar in format to the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] novels as they were in hardcover (but with slightly larger pages) and had a slightly lower page count than the older BBC Books and Virgin paperbacks. Like the NSA's, the ''Torchwood'' novels were issued in sets of three.
Mickey Smith contacted the Tenth Doctor to investigate [[Deffry Vale High School]] after discovering strange occurrences there. The Tenth Doctor and Rose signed up as a teacher and a dinner lady respectively. ([[TV]]: {{cs|School Reunion (TV story)}}) The Doctor met [[Sarah Jane Smith]] for the first time since he had been called to [[Gallifrey]] and had left her on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]'', {{cs|School Reunion (TV story)}}) The Doctor repaired [[K9 Mark III]]. K9 identified the [[Krillitane oil|intelligence-enhancing oil]] in the school children's [[chips]] as of [[Krillitane]] origin. The Doctor learnt they were using the children to solve the [[Skasis Paradigm]]. K9 destroyed the Krillitanes, along with himself and the oil, but the Doctor gave Sarah Jane a new model, [[K9 Mark IV]]. Mickey joined the Tenth Doctor and Rose in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: {{cs|School Reunion (TV story)}})
* 11 - The cast readthrough for [[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'' took place.
* [[15 January|15]] - After a five week mid-season hiatus, the [[CBC]] Canadian broadcast of Series 2 continued with [[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit]]''.
Mickey, Jackie and a group of actors posing as the crew and audience of an alien talk show helped the Tenth Doctor free Rose from the [[Iagnon]] by making her jealous. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Green-Eyed Monster (comic story)|The Green-Eyed Monster]]'')
* [[16 January|16]] - A DVD box set of the complete [[Series 2 (Doctor Who)|Second Series]] of ''Doctor Who'' was released in Region 1. In a reversal of the previous year, Series 2 still being in the midst of broadcast in Canada, release of the set was initially restricted to the US. The Canadian release was delayed until February.
* [[19 January|19]] - The [[CBC]] in Canada began rebroadcasting [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]] of ''Doctor Who'' in a late night weekend timeslot.
[[LINDA]] was destroyed when the [[Abzorbaloff]] absorbed all members save Elton, one by one. The Tenth Doctor killed the Abzorbaloff and restored [[Ursula Blake]] in the form of a paving slab. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Love & Monsters (TV story)}})
* [[21 January|21]] - More than eight years after it was first released, [[Billie Piper]]'s 1998 single, "Honey to the B", returned to the UK music charts. Piper had become a full-time actress by this time.
* [[22 January|22]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]] made his first of five appearances on the American science fiction series ''Heroes'', which also featured [[Eric Roberts]]. Eccleston played "Claude", a man with the power to turn invisible.
* [[27 January|27]] - The ''[[New Beginnings]]'' DVD box set was released in the UK, featuring [[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'' and ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]''.
* 27 - Also released in the UK was the Amazon.co.uk-exclusive DVD box set ''The Dalek Collection'', consisting of the previously released [[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.
=== February ===
The English city of [[Norwich]] was invaded by the [[Zaross]] as part of an alien television programme. Jackie Tyler contacted the Tenth Doctor and Rose and together they convinced the Zaross to turn on their producers and end the show. [[Torchwood]] cleaned up after the event. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Infamy of the Zaross (audio story)|Infamy of the Zaross]]'')
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nocturne (audio story)|Nocturne]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Tub Full of Cats]]'' was first released.
* [[8 February|8]] - The cast read-through for [[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]''/''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'' took place.
* [[15 February|15]] - After a month's delay due to the [[CBC]] still airing the episodes, the Canadian release of the [[Series 2 (Doctor Who)|Series 2]] DVD box set took place.
* [[18 February|18]] - [[Russell T Davies]] and ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' writer [[Benjamin Cook]] began exchanging e-mails in a project to document the production of several episodes of the upcoming fourth series for DWM. The project eventually grew into what became the book release ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale]]''.
* [[19 February|19]] - The Canadian broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'' on the [[CBC]] took place, concluding Series 2; the season was broadcast over a longer than usual period due to the decision by the CBC to insert a mid-season hiatus. ''Doomsday'' attracted some two hundred thousand fewer viewers than part 1, [[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'', a possible consequence of Series 2 being released to DVD in Canada a few days prior to ''Doomsday'' being broadcast.
* [[20 February|20]] - Actor [[Derek Waring]] died.
* [[26 February|26]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]] made his fifth and final appearance on ''Heroes'' in one of the series' most acclaimed episodes, "Company Man". Eccleston's appearances in ''Heroes'' were among the highest-profile American TV appearances by a former ''Doctor Who'' actor.
* 26 - The DVD ''Torchwood Series 1 Part 2'' was released in the UK.
* Late February - In a meeting with [[Jane Tranter]], [[Catherine Tate]] expressed interest in returning as [[Donna Noble]] for a couple of episodes of Series 4. At this point there had been no discussion of her returning to the series full-time. <ref name="WritersTale">[[Russell T Davies|Davies, Russell T]], [[Benjamin Cook|Cook, Benjamin]], [[2008]], ''[[Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale]]'', [[BBC Books]]</ref>
=== March ===
The Tenth Doctor landed in [[Torchwood Tower]] with Rose and Jackie Tyler after tracking the [[ghost shift]]s and was taken prisoner by [[Torchwood One]]. The ghosts were actually [[Cybusman|Cybermen]] from [[Pete's World|a parallel universe]] the Doctor had visited. Rose Tyler stumbled upon a [[Void Ship]] and discovered Mickey, back from [[Pete's World]]. The two of them witnessed four [[Dalek]]s emerging from the ship. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Army of Ghosts (TV story)}})
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Made of Steel]]'' was first published. The second release in the [[Quick Reads]] series, the book was released before the broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'', making this the first public appearance of [[Martha Jones]]. Written by [[Terrance Dicks]], former script editor and prolific author of [[Target novelisation|novelisations]] and original ''Doctor Who'' novels, this was the first New Series-related literary work by a veteran of the [[1963]]-[[1989]] TV series.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance of the Daleks]]'' was first released.
* [[6 March|06]] - American actor {{w|Dennis Hopper}} expressed interest in appearing in ''Doctor Who'' and [[Russell T Davies]] began considering him for a role in what became the 2007 Christmas special, [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]''. Initially considered for the role of [[Bayldon Copper|Mr. Copper]] and then [[Max Capricorn]], the idea of Hopper appearing did not pan out. Meanwhile, [[Billie Piper]] expressed interest in returning for as many as four episodes of Series 4. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'' and ''[[The Sontaran Experiment]]'' were released to DVD in Region 1.
* [[13 March|13]] - [[Catherine Tate]], in a meeting with [[Julie Gardner]], indicated interest in appearing in a full season of ''Doctor Who''; [[Russell T Davies]], still sketching out the introduction of a new companion called Penny for Series 4, began retooling his ideas to fit the possible return of [[Donna Noble]].<ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[16 March|16]] - [[David Tennant]] appeared in a televised skit alongside [[Catherine Tate]] as part of a benefit for [[Comic Relief]]. Tennant played Mr. Logan, a substitute teacher who ran afoul of rebellious Lauren Cooper (Tate). The skit included numerous in-jokes related to ''Doctor Who''; Lauren started to think that Logan ''is'' The Doctor; Lauren chided him with "Did you fancy [[Billie Piper]], sir?"; Logan pulled out a [[sonic screwdriver]] and turned Lauren into a [[Rose Tyler]] action figure.
* [[18 March|18]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear]]'' episode one was repeated on [[BBC Four]] as part of [[London Underground]] night.
* [[19 March|19]] - [[Catherine Tate]] officially signed on to return as [[Donna Noble]] in the upcoming [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]] of ''Doctor Who''; besides retooling the season premiere, [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] also began rethinking his planned "world without a Doctor" storyline, which became [[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]''. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[21 March|21]] - The press launch for [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]] of ''Doctor Who'' took place.
* [[22 March|22]] - [[Kylie Minogue]], via her management, expressed interest in appearing in an episode of ''Doctor Who''.<ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[26 March|26]] - The DVD ''Torchwood Series 1 Part 3'' was released in the UK. This was the last "vanilla" release of episodes from Season 1 of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' and the last such release related to this series although the vanilla releases continued for ''Doctor Who''.
* [[29 March|29]] - Actor [[John Gill]] died.
* [[30 March|30]] - Writer [[Dave Martin]] died from lung cancer.
* [[31 March|31]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'' was first broadcast, launching [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]] (aka Season 29). [[Freema Agyeman]] made her debut as new companion [[Martha Jones]].
* Earlier in the day, five exclusive previews of [[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'' took place at the [[Cardiff]] Odeon, [[Swansea]] Odeon, [[Wrexham]] Odeon, The [[Aberystwyth University|Aberystwyth Arts Centre]] and Pwllheli Neuadd Dwyfor.
* After broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'', the first episode of the third series of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' aired.
=== April ===
The Cybermen encountered Daleks; they [[Battle of Canary Wharf|fought]], destroying Torchwood One. The Cybermen upgraded several Torchwood staff to fight the Daleks. The Daleks identified themselves as the [[Cult of Skaro]] and used Mickey's DNA print to release millions of Daleks from the [[Genesis Ark]] to attack all life on Earth. The Tenth Doctor opened the gateway to [[the Void]], letting the [[void stuff]]-covered Daleks and Cybermen be sucked into it (apart from the Cult, who [[emergency temporal shift]]ed), before sealing itself. Rose, Jackie and Mickey were trapped in Pete's World, with no way back to [[N-Space|their own universe]], where Rose was declared dead. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}}) The partial [[cyber-conversion]] of [[Lisa Hallett]] happened during this battle. Ianto hid Lisa in the [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood Hub]] in [[Cardiff]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Cyberwoman (TV story)}})
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Sting of the Zygons]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Dodo]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Wooden Heart]]'' were first published.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[I.D.]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Urgent Calls]]'' were first released. ''Urgent Calls'' was a single-episode story included as a bonus feature with ''I.D.''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Judas Gift]]'' was first released.
* [[1 April|01]] - Actor [[George Sewell]] died.
* [[2 April|02]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'' was released on to DVD in the UK. This was the first time a single episode of the revived series was released to DVD on its own. Although released in the same format as the "vanilla" releases of past seasons, this DVD included a bonus feature of the ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' instalment relating to the 2006 Children in Need concert. This was the first time a full-length episode of ''Confidential'' was released to DVD.
* The first episode of the second season of ''[[Totally Doctor Who]]'' aired in the UK. This season, ''Totally Doctor Who'' featured a serialised animated ''Doctor Who'' adventure, [[TV]]: ''[[The Infinite Quest]]'', with the voices of [[David Tennant]], [[Freema Agyeman]] and [[Anthony Stewart Head]] (the last playing a new character).
* [[7 April|07]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[11 April|11]] - [[Russell T Davies]], who had already indicated his wish to leave his post as executive producer after [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]], was formally invited by the BBC to stay on for [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]]. Davies declined, later writing to [[Benjamin Cook]], "They knew my reply even before they walked in." <ref name="WritersTale"/> Davies' impending departure was kept under wraps for the next year.
* [[14 April|14]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Gridlock]]'' was first broadcast, concluding a trilogy of episodes that began with [[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]''.
* [[16 April|16]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* [[17 April|17]] - [[Russell T Davies]] furnished [[Benjamin Cook]] with the story outline for what became [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'', but then carried the working title, ''Starship Titanic''.<ref name="WritersTale"/> (According to the book, Davies was unaware of the [[Douglas Adams]] novel and videogame of this same name.)
* [[21 April|21]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'' was first broadcast. The episode included some second-unit filming in [[New York City]], the first non-UK filming for a regular episode since [[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'' and the first US production work ever for the franchise.
* [[22 April|22]] - The ''News of the World'' broke the story that [[Kylie Minogue]] had been cast in the [[Voyage of the Damned|upcoming Christmas special]], but erroneously reported that she was to play a Cyberwoman.
* 22 - [[Russell T Davies]] pulled out of writing the script for the first episode of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' season 2, although a scene he penned, involving a blowfish driving a sports car, was retained in the final script, [[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]''.<ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[28 April|28]] - [[TV]] ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'' was first broadcast.
* 28 - ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' beat ''Doctor Who'' for the Best Drama prize at the Welsh BAFTA awards, while [[David Tennant]] and [[Eve Myles]] received Best Actor and Best Actress and [[Graeme Harper]] Best Director.
=== May ===
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)}})
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exotron (audio story)|Exotron]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Urban Myths]]'' were first released. ''Urban Myths'' was a single-episode bonus story included with ''Exotron''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Jasons]]'' was first published.
* [[5 May|05]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]'' was first broadcast. The story guest-starred longtime ''Doctor Who'' novelist and occasional scriptwriter [[Mark Gatiss]].
* [[13 May|13]] - Actor [[Charles Pemberton]] died.
* [[16 May|16]] - After weeks of sketching out story ideas, [[Russell T Davies]] began writing the script for the 2007 Christmas special then titled ''[[Voyage of the Damned|Starship Titanic]]''.
* 16 - ''[[DWBIT Daleks vs Cybermen Special]]'', the first spinoff special issue of ''[[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (magazine)|Battles in Time]]'' magazine, was published in the UK.
* Before [[19 May]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[42 Prologue]]'', a short story, was published exclusively online as part of the BBC's ''Doctor Who'' website. This was the first BBC-published exclusive-to-Internet ''Doctor Who'' story since [[WC]]: ''[[The Feast of the Stone]]'' several years earlier, and the first of several [[Tenth Doctor]] stories to be published online through the end of 2009.
* [[19 May|19]] - [[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[21 May|21]] - The DVD ''Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 1'' was released in the UK, including the episodes [[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'', ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'' and ''[[Gridlock]]''.
* [[23 May|23]] - Actor [[David Cole]] died.
* [[26 May|26]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' was first broadcast. This episode, and the one that followed, adapted the [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel [[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'', a first for the franchise. The episode was also significant for showing drawings of several past incarnations of the Doctor - the first time the revived series had directly shown Doctors prior to the [[Ninth Doctor]] including, significantly, the [[Eighth Doctor]].
* [[30 May|30]] - After discovering a [[Douglas Adams]] computer game of the same title, [[Russell T Davies]] changed the title of the 2007 Christmas special from ''Starship Titanic'' to [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]''. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[31 May|31]] - The ''Sun'' tabloid reported that ''Doctor Who'' would be taken off the air for a year after the conclusion of [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]] in [[2008]], except for some specials, with [[David Tennant]] leaving midway through the season. The first half of the report proved accurate, the second half less so as Tennant ultimately stayed for all of the specials.
=== June ===
=== Other realities ===
[[File:Ally reads 2007 Annual.jpg|thumb|left|[[Ally (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|Ally]] reads [[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2007 (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|Doctor Who The Official Annual 2007]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)|The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who]]'')]]
In a [[Parallel universe (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|parallel universe]], [[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2007 (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|a Doctor Who annual]] was released. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)|The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who]]'')
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Valhalla (audio story)|Valhalla]]'' was first released.
==== Parallel World (''Turn Left'') ====
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Short Trips: Destination Prague]]'' was first published.
On [[25 June]], Donna Noble made a decision that resulted in her not joining [[H.C. Clements]] and so not meeting [[Lance Bennett]] and becoming engaged to him. Instead, she took a job as [[Jival Chowdry]]'s secretary.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Freedom of Information]]'' was first released
* [[2 June|2]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Family of Blood]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[3 June|3]] - Actor [[Gordon Gostelow]] died.
* [[4 June|4]] - [[Russell T Davies]] learned the secret of [[Catherine Tate]] replacing [[Freema Agyeman]] in [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]] was leaking out, causing concern about the potential for tabloid reports over Agyeman being "fired" before the current season played out. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* 4 - [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* [[5 June|5]] - Russell T Davies completed his initial draft script for [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]''.<ref name="WritersTale"/>
* 5 - The ''[[New Beginnings]]'' DVD box set consisting of [[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'', ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'' and ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'' was released in both Region 1 and Region 4.
* [[6 June|6]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[9 June|9]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Blink]]'' was first broadcast. This Doctor-lite episode, starring [[Carey Mulligan]] as [[Sally Sparrow]], won the franchise's third Hugo Award and became one of the most critically and fan-acclaimed episodes in franchise history.
* [[16 June|16]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'' was first broadcast, marking the return of [[the Master]], last seen on screen in the [[Doctor Who (1996)|1996 TV movie]] and played by [[Derek Jacobi]] and [[John Simm]]. [[John Barrowman]] also returned to the series as [[Jack Harkness]]; the episode took place immediately after the events of [[TV]]: ''[[End of Days]]'' and marked the start of the revived series' first three-part story.
* [[18 June|18]] - The [[CBC]] in Canada began airing Series 3. In an unusual (and criticised) move, the network first aired [[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'' during prime time, and then broadcast the Christmas special [[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'' a few hours later, after midnight in most areas of Canada (it had been originally scheduled to air by itself on 11 June, but was rescheduled to accommodate hockey broadcasts).
* [[23 June|23]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' was first broadcast. It was the first full episode featuring [[John Simm]] as [[the Master]]. [[Alexandra Moen]] debuted as [[Lucy Saxon]].
* [[25 June|25]] - The DVD ''Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 2'' was released in the UK, featuring the episodes [[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'', ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]'' and ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]''.
* [[27 June|27]] - [[David Tennant]] informed the ''Doctor Who'' production staff he had been signed to appear in ''Hamlet'' in late 2008 during the already-planned production hiatus.<ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[29 June|29]] - The final episode of ''[[Totally Doctor Who]]'' was broadcast; it was subsequently cancelled. The final episode of the animated serial, [[TV]]: ''[[The Infinite Quest]]'', also aired.
* 29 - Robin Davies, who worked behind the scenes on the 2005 season as driver for [[Christopher Eccleston]], died. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[30 June|30]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'' was first broadcast, concluding the third season of the ''Doctor Who'' revival. [[Freema Agyeman]] left the series as a regular, as did [[John Barrowman]], again.
* The final episode of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'s'' third season aired afterwards.
* Plans to simulcast [[TV]]: ''Last of the Time Lords'' to crowds at Trafalgar Square as part of a Gay Pride event were cancelled at the last minute.
=== July ===
As a consequence of never joining H.C. Clements, the [[Tenth Doctor (Turn Left)|Tenth Doctor]] never met Donna and he died after thwarting the [[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)|Empress of the Racnoss]]'s plans. [[Rose Tyler]], travelling between universes, ended up in this alternate world and arrived soon after the Doctor's corpse had been retrieved by [[UNIT]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wishing Beast]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Vanity Box]]'' were first released. ''The Vanity Box'' was a single-episode bonus feature included with ''The Wishing Beast''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Short Trips: Snapshots]]'' was first published.
* [[2 July|2]] - First cast read-through for [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' was held at Central Baptist Church in London.
* 2 - Due to a quirk in scheduling involving its broadcasts of the U20 World Cup, the [[CBC]] in Canada gave [[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'' its only prime-time broadcast, albeit only in Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories.
* [[4 July|4]] - The BBC announced in a midnight press release that [[Catherine Tate]] would join ''Doctor Who'' for [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]]; according to [[Russell T Davies]] the announcement was made to preempt an expected story revealing the same by the ''Sun'' tabloid the same day. Davies learnt another tabloid ''The Daily Mail'' was expected to prematurely break the news of Tennant appearing in ''Hamlet'' and the official plan to have a gap year.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[7 July|7]] - Actor [[Freddie Earlle]] died.
* ''Doctor Who'' won three trophies at the inaugural Constellation Awards, a Canadian-based honour recognising the best in science fiction and presented during the annual Polaris SF convention. [[David Tennant]] won Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode for [[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'', while ''Doctor Who'' itself won the overall Best Science Fiction Television Series category. Unusually, ''Doctor Who'' also received the award for Outstanding Canadian Contribution to Science Fiction due to the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] being a co-producer of the series.
* The ''Toronto Star'' newspaper ran a full-page feature on ''Doctor Who'' featuring an interview with [[Freema Agyeman]].
* [[9 July|9]] - Filming began on [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]''.
* 9 - [[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* 9 - The UK newspaper the ''Guardian'' named [[Russell T Davies]] the fifteenth most powerful player in the UK media industry.
* 9 - Actor [[Peter Tuddenham]] died.
* [[10 July|10]] - [[David Tennant]] left the set of [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' on learning that his mother was taken gravely ill. Production continues around his absence. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[15 July|15]] - David Tennant's mother passed away.
* [[17 July|17]] - [[Russell T Davies]] addressed what he described to [[Benjamin Cook]] as "the elephant in the room" and initiated discussions with [[Steven Moffat]] about Moffat taking over Davies' job on ''Doctor Who''. Moffat replied on the 19th that he was interested in talking about the idea. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[21 July|21]] - ''[[w:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', the seventh book in [[J.K. Rowling]]'s [[Harry Potter]] series of books that was alluded to in [[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'', was published worldwide.
* [[23 July|27]] - The DVD ''Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 3'' was released in the UK, featuring the episodes [[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'', ''[[The Family of Blood]]'' and ''[[Blink]]''.
* [[26 July|26]] - Actor [[John Normington]] died.
* [[29 July|29]] - Inspired by reading ''[[w:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] began toying with the idea of inviting [[J.K. Rowling]] to appear on ''Doctor Who'', possibly in the [[The Next Doctor|2008 Christmas special]]. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[31 July|31]] - [[Bernard Cribbins]], a veteran of the ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'' movie, filmed a cameo for [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'', little knowing he would later return to the series several times in [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]]. Despite his workload, [[Russell T Davies]] visited the set. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
=== August ===
==== Pete's World ====
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Frozen Time]]'' was first released.
[[File:Pete's World.jpg|thumb|right|Pete's World. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)}})]]
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Nobody's Children]]'' was first published''.''
On [[1 February]] 2007, the TARDIS fell into a parallel universe dubbed "Pete's World", where it almost died. With twenty-four hours before the TARDIS could return to [[N-Space|its home universe]], Rose discovered a living version of her dad, [[Peter Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]], alive and a successful [[businessman]]. To meet her "father", Rose snuck with the Tenth Doctor into the birthday party of a parallel version of [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|her mother]]. The [[President of Great Britain]] forbade the use of [[John Lumic]]'s new cybernetic lifeform, but Lumic ignored him. Mickey, mistaken for his parallel self, [[Ricky Smith]], was taken by [[the Preachers]], who fought Lumic. The cybernetic life, dubbed [[Cybusman|Cybermen]], attacked [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie Tyler]]'s birthday party, killing most of those inside, including the President. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)}})
* ''Doctor Who'' received the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, for the episode [[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'', written by [[Steven Moffat]]. Also nominated in this category were the episodes [[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion]]'' and the two-parter [[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday]]''. Also nominated in this category was "200", an episode of ''[[Wikipedia:Stargate-SG-1|Stargate SG-1]]'', and "Downloaded", an episode of ''[[Wikipedia:Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* [[3 August|03]] - Problems with the script for [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'' led to [[Russell T Davies]] considering replacing it with a previously aborted [[Second World War]]-era story by [[Mark Gatiss]]. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[4 August|04]] - [[Russell T Davies]] began work on a major rewrite of [[James Moran]]'s script for [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]''.<ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[6 August|06]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'' and ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' were released to DVD in the UK in a two-disc set.
* [[7 August|07]] - The first cast read-throughs for [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Ood]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'' took place.
* Early August - [[Colin Teague]] and [[Phil Collinson]] visited the Cinecitta Studios in Rome, Italy, as the ''Doctor Who'' production team considered filming part of [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'' in Rome -- the first time major filming for a DW TV episode had been conducted outside the UK since 1985. Cinecitta was the home studio of another BBC production, ''Rome''.
* [[9 August|09]] - Around the time Teague and Collinson were in Rome, the Cinecitta Studios were heavily damaged in a fire. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[14 August|14]] - The North American DVD release of [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' and ''[[Survival]]'' took place.
* [[16 August|16]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Child of Time]]'' was first published. It was the eleventh and, to date, final novel in the [[Time Hunter]] series.
* [[17 August|17]] - Actor [[George Giles]] died.
* [[20 August|20]] - The DVD ''Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 4'' was released in the UK, concluding the "vanilla" releases of episodes from [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]]. This release included the complete finale trilogy of [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' and ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''.
* [[21 August|21]] - [[Russell T Davies]] hatched the idea of creating a false edit of [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'' for media/review distribution to hide a surprise cameo by [[Billie Piper]] as [[Rose Tyler]]. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[23 August|23]] - Plans for the return of [[Rose Tyler]] in [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]] were jeopardised when it was learned that [[Billie Piper]] was planning on getting married at the end of 2007, and might not be available for filming.<ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[25 August|25]] - [[Kylie Minogue]] and a [[Dalek]] took part in a cover-photo shoot for ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''.
* [[30 August|30]] - [[Russell T Davies]] began writing the script for [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'', the first episode of [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]].
* [[31 August|31]] - Due to a premature announcement by the Royal Shakespeare Company (see 3rd September, below), ''Doctor Who's'' producers informed their staff that the fifth series would not go into production until 2009, save for a few interim specials. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[David Tennant]] switched on the illuminations in Blackpool before a crowd of tens of thousands. He was accompanied by [[Julie Gardner]] and [[Phil Collinson]]. The somewhat manic race through traffic-clogged motorways to get to the event was immortalised in one of Tennant's video diaries which was subsequently released in the Series 4 DVD set.
=== September ===
[[2 February|The following day]], the Doctor and Rose escaped the Cyberman attack with the Preachers, Mickey and Pete. They infiltrated the Cyberman factory, where every Londoner in [[EarPod]]s was being [[Cyber-conversion|upgraded]], including Pete's wife, Jackie. Mickey and Jake destroyed the transmitter controls so the hypnotised EarPod bearers could escape. Mickey also sent the Doctor the codes to break the inhibitor controls, destroying the Cybermen. The survivors of the resistance escaped the burning factory in a [[zeppelin]]. With the TARDIS cells charged, the Doctor and Rose returned to their universe. Mickey stayed behind, taking his deceased counterpart's place in shutting down more Cyberman factories. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Age of Steel (TV story)}})
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Forever Autumn]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Sick Building]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Wetworld]]'' were first published.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Son of the Dragon]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[100 (audio anthology)|100]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The End of the World (audio story)|The End of the World]]'' - a [[Bernice Summerfield]] audio drama not to be confused with the 2005 ''Doctor Who'' episode of the same title - was first released
* [[3 September|3]] - The BBC officially announced that [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] of ''Doctor Who'' would not air until 2010. According to [[Russell T Davies]] the announcement was originally to have been made prior to an 11th September press conference by the Royal Shakespeare Company announcing [[David Tennant]]'s appearance in ''Hamlet'' in the fall of 2008, but the release of an RSC brochure in late August required an immediate announcement.
* 3 - [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* 3 - [[BBC Audio]] launched [[Target Books (BBC Audio releases)|a series of audio releases]] adapting [[Target novelisation|Target Books novelisations]]. These recordings, virtually unabridged, featured (for the most part) veteran cast members reading the long-out-of-print books. The first releases were [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon]]''.
* 3 - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Doctor Who at the BBC: The Tenth Doctor]]'', a radio documentary presented by [[Elisabeth Sladen]], was first released on CD by [[BBC Audio]].
* [[4 September|4]] - The cast read-through for [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'' took place.
* [[6 September|6]] - [[Russell T Davies]] revealed to [[Benjamin Cook]] that, despite previous scheduling conflicts, [[Billie Piper]] would return as [[Rose Tyler]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'' and [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]]. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* 6 - Russell T Davies completed his initial draft of [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]''.
* [[13 September|13]] - Filming began on [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'' at the Cinecitta Studios in Rome, the first time, save the [[Doctor Who (1996)|1996 telefilm]] and second-unit filming on [[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'', that major shooting for a regular episode had taken place outside the UK since 1985's [[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'' was filmed in Spain.
* [[23 September|23]] - The American animated series ''[[Wikipedia:Family Guy|Family Guy]]'' broadcasted the episode "Blue Harvest", a nearly scene-by-scene parody of ''Star Wars: A New Hope''. A joke involving hyperspace featured a brief clip of the classic mid-1970s opening sequence of ''Doctor Who'' featuring [[Tom Baker]] and a few bars of the [[Doctor Who theme|''Doctor Who'' theme]]. This was the first time any footage from the Tom Baker era, or the classic [[Delia Derbyshire]] arrangement of the theme, had appeared on an American commercial network. The episode, with DW clip intact, was released to DVD in North America in early 2008.
* [[24 September|24]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen]]'' was first broadcast, launching the first full season of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' (following the pilot episode, [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'', which had aired months earlier). This was the first half-hour episode produced by the televised ''Doctor Who'' franchise since episode 3 of [[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'' in 1989.
* 24 - Nearly five years after it was released to DVD in North America (Region 1), the complete [[Season 16|Key to Time]] season was finally released in Region 2 (UK). This version, issued in a somewhat limited release, included featurettes and other extra features not included in the 2002 version. This was the first UK release of a complete classic series season in one set. The episodes were [[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation]]'', ''[[The Pirate Planet]]'', ''[[The Stones of Blood]]'', ''[[The Androids of Tara]]'', ''[[The Power of Kroll]]'' and ''[[The Armageddon Factor]].''
* [[27 September|27]] - [[Russell T Davies]] and [[Julie Gardner]] decided to reject a script by [[Tom MacRae]] which was planned for [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]]. Davies took on the job of writing a replacement, which ultimately became [[TV]]: ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]''.<ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[28 September|28]] - [[Steven Moffat]] informed [[Russell T Davies]] that he agreed to take over the executive producer/head writer's position when Davies left. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
=== October ===
== Births and deaths ==
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolution (BFA audio story)|Absolution]]'' was first released.
=== Dated ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mother Russia]]'' was first released.
Just before [[Christmas]], [[Lance Metcalf]]'s father, [[Simon Metcalf]], was [[kill]]ed fighting in the [[Iraq War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (novelisation)|Warriors of Kudlak]]'')
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek Empire IV]]'': ''[[The Fearless: Part 1]]'' was first released, launching [[Big Finish Productions]]' fourth ''[[Dalek Empire IV|Dalek Empire]]'' mini-series, three years after the third.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Final Amendment]]'' was first released.
* [[REF]]: ''[[The Target Book|The Target Book: A History of the Target Doctor Who Books]]'' was first published.
* [[1 October|1]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon]]'' part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[2 October|2]] - The cast read-through for [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'' took place.
* [[3 October|3]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[7 October|7]] - Production of the Children in Need mini-episode, [[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash]]'', featuring the return of [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Fifth Doctor]], took place in Cardiff. [[Russell T Davies]] was drawn away from working on scripts to attend the filming.<ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[8 October|8]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon]]'' part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[10 October|10]] - With production of [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'' now under way, [[Russell T Davies]] realised how ill [[Howard Attfield]], playing [[Geoff Noble]], was and began to consider how to work this into the season, given the character was supposed to appear in several episodes. A few days later, Davies considered filming Attfield's scenes in the as-yet-unwritten [[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'' as soon as possible, along with his scenes in ''Partners in Crime''. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* Mid-October - British media leaked the news that [[Billie Piper]] would be returning to ''Doctor Who''.
* [[13 October|13]] - [[Russell T Davies]] began writing the script for ''Crusader Five'', later renamed ''Crusader 50'' as at the time it was going to be the fiftieth episode of the revived ''Doctor Who''. The script was later retitled [[TV]]: ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]''. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[15 October|15]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak]]'' part 1 was first broadcast.
* 15 - An injury forced [[Howard Attfield]] to pull out of production of [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'' after filming only a few of his planned scenes. [[Phil Collinson]] suggested hiring [[Bernard Cribbins]] as a last-minute replacement, and [[Russell T Davies]] [[Retroactive continuity|retconned]] the newspaper seller Cribbins played in [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' as [[Donna Noble]]'s grandfather, [[Wilfred Mott]]. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* 15 - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil]]'' is released to DVD in the UK.
* [[18 October|18]] - [[Russell T Davies]] completed the initial draft of ''Crusader 50'', later called [[TV]]: ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]''.
* [[19 October|19]] - The cast read-through for [[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]''/ ''[[The Poison Sky]]'' took place.
* [[21 October|21]] - Director [[Peter Moffatt]] died.
* [[22 October|22]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak]]'' part 2 was first broadcast.
* 22 - [[Piers Wenger]] was interviewed as a possible replacement for [[Julie Gardner]] when she stepped down as producer after the [[2009 Specials]] were filmed. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[27 October|27]] - [[Russell T Davies]] began writing the script for [[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]''.
* [[29 October|29]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'' part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'' was released by itself on DVD in the UK. This was the only episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', to date, to be released on its own in a "vanilla" edition.
* [[31 October|31]] - Actor [[Howard Attfield]] died only two weeks after pulling out of production of [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]''.
* ''Doctor Who'' won Most Popular Drama and [[David Tennant]] won Most Popular Actor at the 2007 National Television Awards.
=== November ===
=== Undated ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mind's Eye]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mission of the Viyrans]]'' were first released. ''Mission of the Viyrans'' was a single-episode bonus story included with ''The Mind's Eye''.
[[Joseph Serf]] was killed in a [[skiing]] accident in [[Val d'Isère]], [[France]]. However, his death was covered up by [[John Harrison]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was (TV story)|The Man Who Never Was]]'')
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Helicon Prime (audio story)|Helicon Prime]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek Empire IV]]'': ''[[The Fearless: Part 2]]'' was first released.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Old Friends]]'' was first published.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Missing Adventures (anthology)|Missing Adventures]]'' was first published.
* [[1 November|01]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (novelisation)|Invasion of the Bane]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (novelisation)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (novelisation)|Eye of the Gorgon]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (novelisation)|Warriors of Kudlak]]'' were all first published. These novelisations, based upon episodes of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', were the first releases by [[Penguin Character Books]] and marked the first major release of televised story novelisations since the [[Target Books]] line was retired in [[1994]] (notwithstanding a few one-off ''Doctor Who'' releases between 1994 and 2005). ''Invasion of the Bane'' was [[Terrance Dicks]]' first TV novelisation since [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Space Pirates (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Space Pirates]]'' some two decades earlier.
* [[5 November|05]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'' part 2 was first broadcast.
* The complete [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Third Series]] of ''Doctor Who'' was released in a DVD box set in the UK.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Infinite Quest]]'', an animated [[Tenth Doctor]] serial produced for ''[[Totally Doctor Who]]'', was released to DVD in the UK. To date this has been the only DVD release of material from ''Totally Doctor Who''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Thirteenth Stone]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Glittering Storm]]'', two original made-for-audio ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' stories, were released by [[BBC Audio]].
* Audio adaptations of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Giant Robot]]'' were first released. The latter was read by [[Tom Baker]] and featured his first performance as the [[Fourth Doctor]] since his cameo in [[NOTDWU]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]''.
* [[6 November|06]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]'' and ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'' were released to DVD in Region 1. Unlike the UK release, the two stories were issued separately rather than as a set.
* The complete [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Third Series]] of ''Doctor Who'' was released in a DVD box set in North America (Region 1).
* [[7 November|07]] - The complete [[Season 16|Key to Time]] season was released to DVD in Region 4. The episodes were [[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation]]'', ''[[The Pirate Planet]]'', ''[[The Stones of Blood]]'', ''[[The Androids of Tara]]'', ''[[The Power of Kroll]]'' and ''[[The Armageddon Factor]].''
* [[12 November|12]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy]]'' part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[16 November|16]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash]]'', a mini-episode set between [[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'', was first broadcast as part of the 2007 Children in Need appeal. Discounting [[NOTDWU]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'', [[Peter Davison]] made his first appearance as the Doctor since [[1984]]'s [[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]''. It was the first multi-Doctor television story since [[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]''. It was the final use of the ''Doctor Who'' theme arrangement by [[Murray Gold]] introduced in [[2005]].
* [[19 November|19]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy]]'' part 2 was first broadcast, concluding the first season of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.
* The complete [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|First Series]] of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' was released in a DVD box set in the UK.
* [[22 November|22]] - Producer [[Verity Lambert]] died of cancer.
* [[23 November|23]] - Cast read-throughs for [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]'', and [[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'' took place.
* [[26 November|26]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* [[BBC Video]] released the box set ''[[The Complete Davros Collection]]'' including the previously released stories [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'', and a new edition of [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]''. This marked the first time a previously released story was revisited on DVD with new features and restoration work.
* The Davros DVD set also included [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Davros Mission]]'', a single-episode audio drama produced by [[Big Finish Productions]], as a bonus feature.
* [[28 November|28]] - Actor [[Tony Holland]] died.
* [[29 November|29]] - Simultaneous filming of [[TV]]: ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'' was now underway, marking [[Billie Piper]]'s return to ''Doctor Who'' production. During this time, she filmed her cameo for [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'', as well as a short appearance originally intended only for ''Midnight'' but later also added to [[TV]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]''.
=== December ===
[[Jason Summerfield]], a distant ancestor of [[Bernice Summerfield]], was born. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'')
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Wishing Well]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pirate Loop]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Peacemaker (novel)|Peacemaker]]'' were first published.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Old Soldiers (CC audio story)|Old Soldiers]]'' was first released.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas]]'' was first published.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek Empire IV]]'': ''[[The Fearless: Part 3]]'' was first released.
* [[IDW Publishing]], an American comic book company, launched ''[[Doctor Who Classics]]'', a monthly series of colourised reprints of [[Fourth Doctor]] comic strips from the early days of ''[[Doctor Who Weekly]]''. This was in advance of the launch of a new original [[Tenth Doctor]] monthly series scheduled to begin in early 2008.
* [[1 December|01]] - The BBC's ''Doctor Who'' website launched the 2007 Advent Calendar. Each day between the 1st and 24th, a different item was uploaded to the site, ranging from exclusive video and games to original fiction.
* [[2 December|02]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen]]'', an exclusive-to-Internet ''Doctor Who'' short story, was published on the 2007 ''Doctor Who'' Advent Calendar, a special feature on the BBC's ''Doctor Who'' website.
* [[5 December|05]] - [[BBC Video]] cancelled plans to release the Special Edition [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' to DVD in North America in March 2008; clearance issues (presumably regarding the use of a [[The Beatles|Beatles]] song on the soundtrack) were cited as the reason. The DVD was eventually announced for a 2010 release, with the Beatles song removed. The announcement resulted in the North American release of ''[[The Complete Davros Collection]]'' being cancelled, although the other stories in the set remained available as individual releases.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[7 December|07]] - The BBC announced that [[Julie Gardner]] would end her tenure as executive producer of ''Doctor Who'' in 2009, with [[Piers Wenger]] succeeding her.
* [[10 December|10]] - [[Russell T Davies]] began writing the script for [[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''. That same day, [[Steven Moffat]] began a dialogue with Davies regarding the changeover in producing regime and the start of [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]]. <ref name="WritersTale"/>
* [[15 December|15]] - [[Catherine Tate]] let slip on the Jonathan Ross radio show the incorrect news that [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]] would be [[David Tennant]]'s last. This was followed by a similarly erroneous (or at least premature) report by BBC News.
* [[18 December|18]] - The press launch for [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' took place.
* [[22 December|22]] - A Christmas-themed ''Doctor Who'' short story, [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hopes and Fears of All the Years]]'', was published on the Telegraph.co.uk website.
* [[25 December|25]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'', the third ''Doctor Who'' Christmas special, was first broadcast, introducing a new arrangement of the theme music, once again by [[Murray Gold]]. [[Bernard Cribbins]], a ''Doctor Who'' veteran dating back to the 1960s film ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'', made his debut as [[Wilfred Mott]], who became a recurring character in the next series. Much attention was given to the special's guest star, pop superstar [[Kylie Minogue]].
* [[31 December|31]] - [[Russell T Davies]] completed the initial draft of [[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''.
=== Unknown dates ===
== Behind the scenes ==
* Actor [[Keith Ashley]] died.
* Explaining how [[Henry van Statten]] was unfamiliar with the [[Dalek]] he named [[Metaltron]], ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac]]'' suggested that the [[Van Statten Incident]] took place in a [[timeline]] where the [[Cult of Skaro]] did not emerge from [[the Sphere]] in [[Torchwood London]] and precipitate the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] in 2007 since the [[personal timeline]]s of both [[The Doctor's time stream|the Doctor]] and the [[Daleks' timeline|Dalek race]] had not progressed to the point where those events occurred.
* Early winter - ''Doctor Who'' was nominated in the "Favourite Sci-Fi Show" category for the 2008 People's Choice Awards, to be presented in January 2008 on the CBS network. This was the first mainstream American award nomination for the series (which previously was only nominated for awards in genre awards such as the Hugos). The award winner was determined by an Internet poll, and the award ultimately went to ''[[Wikipedia:Stargate Atlantis|Stargate Atlantis]]''.
* Page 120 of ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'' gives [[Sunday]] [[4 June]] as the date of the events of {{cs|Smith and Jones (TV story)}} and the [[Royal Hope incident]]. However, it does not specify 2007 or 2008 as a current year. On top of this, the first two Sunday 4 Junes after 2004 (page 119 places the incident over 30 years after 1974) are in 2006 and 2017.
* As production began on Series 4, news leaked out that [[Billie Piper]] would return as [[Rose Tyler]], including images of her filming scenes for the series. Initially denied by the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]], this was later confirmed (with the BBC including her in a cinema trailer distributed prior to the season premiere in 2008). Piper filmed scenes for four episodes and a brief piece of footage that was added to two others.
On 31 January, the SS Elysium arrived safely in Panama, its passengers and crew having endured an attack by Cybermen just weeks earlier. One passenger, artist Michael Brack, was airlifted to hospital for treatment for hypothermia suffered during the attack. He missed his chance to tell Ruby Duvall that he was the man responsible for her father's paralysis. (PROSE: Iceberg)
LINDA. (TV: Love & Monsters[+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"])
On 25 June, Donna Noble chose to take a job with H.C. Clements, rejecting her mother's suggestion that she work for Jival Chowdry. A version of herself from a a parallel world had been hit by a lorry a few blocks away to stop her making the contrary decision. Rose Tyler travelled back in time from approximately two years in the future to ask the Donna to pass a message on to the Tenth Doctor when she "died". (TV: Turn Left[+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])
According to one account,[nb 2] the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones, following information provided to them by Sally Sparrow, investigated the Wester Drumlins estate in 2007, where they were touched by the Weeping Angels and transported to 1969; the TARDIS remained behind. By sending messages through Easter eggs on DVDs, the Doctor was able to contact Sally and Larry Nightingale and help them defeat the Angels and send the TARDIS to 1969. (TV: Blink[+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"])
Professor Mallingan and his team of scientists began draining the power of the icy planet Isqar, hoping it would put an end to global warming on Earth. The Tenth Doctor came across Mallingan's plans and enlisted the help of one of his scientists to destroy his lab, saving Isqar. (COMIC: Cold War)
K9 defeats the Krillitanes. (TV: School Reunion[+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"])
The Tenth Doctor contacted Mickey Smith and told him to infiltrate the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum and destroy the recovered Sycorax Sword. Mickey created a robot and sent it into the museum. When the robot found the sword, it destroyed itself and took the sword with it. (GAME: Security Bot)
Mickey Smith contacted the Tenth Doctor to investigate Deffry Vale High School after discovering strange occurrences there. The Tenth Doctor and Rose signed up as a teacher and a dinner lady respectively. (TV: School Reunion[+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"]) The Doctor met Sarah Jane Smith for the first time since he had been called to Gallifrey and had left her on Earth. (TV: The Hand of Fear, School Reunion[+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"]) The Doctor repaired K9 Mark III. K9 identified the intelligence-enhancing oil in the school children's chips as of Krillitane origin. The Doctor learnt they were using the children to solve the Skasis Paradigm. K9 destroyed the Krillitanes, along with himself and the oil, but the Doctor gave Sarah Jane a new model, K9 Mark IV. Mickey joined the Tenth Doctor and Rose in the TARDIS. (TV: School Reunion[+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"])
Mickey, Jackie and a group of actors posing as the crew and audience of an alien talk show helped the Tenth Doctor free Rose from the Iagnon by making her jealous. (COMIC: The Green-Eyed Monster)
LINDA was destroyed when the Abzorbaloff absorbed all members save Elton, one by one. The Tenth Doctor killed the Abzorbaloff and restored Ursula Blake in the form of a paving slab. (TV: Love & Monsters[+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"])
The English city of Norwich was invaded by the Zaross as part of an alien television programme. Jackie Tyler contacted the Tenth Doctor and Rose and together they convinced the Zaross to turn on their producers and end the show. Torchwood cleaned up after the event. (AUDIO: Infamy of the Zaross)
The Cybermen encountered Daleks; they fought, destroying Torchwood One. The Cybermen upgraded several Torchwood staff to fight the Daleks. The Daleks identified themselves as the Cult of Skaro and used Mickey's DNA print to release millions of Daleks from the Genesis Ark to attack all life on Earth. The Tenth Doctor opened the gateway to the Void, letting the void stuff-covered Daleks and Cybermen be sucked into it (apart from the Cult, who emergency temporal shifted), before sealing itself. Rose, Jackie and Mickey were trapped in Pete's World, with no way back to their own universe, where Rose was declared dead. (TV: Doomsday[+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"]) The partial cyber-conversion of Lisa Hallett happened during this battle. Ianto hid Lisa in the Torchwood Hub in Cardiff. (TV: Cyberwoman[+]Loading...["Cyberwoman (TV story)"])
On 25 June, Donna Noble made a decision that resulted in her not joining H.C. Clements and so not meeting Lance Bennett and becoming engaged to him. Instead, she took a job as Jival Chowdry's secretary.
As a consequence of never joining H.C. Clements, the Tenth Doctor never met Donna and he died after thwarting the Empress of the Racnoss's plans. Rose Tyler, travelling between universes, ended up in this alternate world and arrived soon after the Doctor's corpse had been retrieved by UNIT. (TV: Turn Left[+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])
Pete's World
Pete's World. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen[+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"])
On 1 February 2007, the TARDIS fell into a parallel universe dubbed "Pete's World", where it almost died. With twenty-four hours before the TARDIS could return to its home universe, Rose discovered a living version of her dad, Pete Tyler, alive and a successful businessman. To meet her "father", Rose snuck with the Tenth Doctor into the birthday party of a parallel version of her mother. The President of Great Britain forbade the use of John Lumic's new cybernetic lifeform, but Lumic ignored him. Mickey, mistaken for his parallel self, Ricky Smith, was taken by the Preachers, who fought Lumic. The cybernetic life, dubbed Cybermen, attacked Jackie Tyler's birthday party, killing most of those inside, including the President. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen[+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"])
The following day, the Doctor and Rose escaped the Cyberman attack with the Preachers, Mickey and Pete. They infiltrated the Cyberman factory, where every Londoner in EarPods was being upgraded, including Pete's wife, Jackie. Mickey and Jake destroyed the transmitter controls so the hypnotised EarPod bearers could escape. Mickey also sent the Doctor the codes to break the inhibitor controls, destroying the Cybermen. The survivors of the resistance escaped the burning factory in a zeppelin. With the TARDIS cells charged, the Doctor and Rose returned to their universe. Mickey stayed behind, taking his deceased counterpart's place in shutting down more Cyberman factories. (TV: The Age of Steel[+]Loading...["The Age of Steel (TV story)"])
Page 120 of The Secret Lives of Monsters gives Sunday4 June as the date of the events of Smith and Jones[+]Loading...["Smith and Jones (TV story)"] and the Royal Hope incident. However, it does not specify 2007 or 2008 as a current year. On top of this, the first two Sunday 4 Junes after 2004 (page 119 places the incident over 30 years after 1974) are in 2006 and 2017.
↑While Blink[+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"] itself uncontroversially sets its main setting in 2007 and "twenty minutes to Red Hatching" a year later in 2008—as Kathy Nightingale's letter describes taking "one breath in 2007 and the next in 1920", and the Tenth Doctor's side of his conversation with Sally Sparrow in 1969 happens 38 years before Sally says hers—these are contradicted by heavily conflicting dates in the Redacted audio series later on regarding both Kathy's disappearance and the Red Hatching. In Angels, Abby McPhail identifies 2008 as the year of Kathy's disappearance, which suggests 2009 as the year of the Red Hatching. In Salvation, the Thirteenth Doctor recognises the Red Hatching as the cause of death of Andy Proctor, who was last seen by his daughter Cleo "nearly 20 years" before 2022 according to Recruits.
↑Tom lived in Cardiff for 66 years after moving in 1941.
↑Meredith is described as age 45 by Owen Harper, and a computer display clearly shows his date of birth as 11 January1962.
