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{{timeline}}The year '''2005''' was most significant for being the year when central [[London]] was attacked by the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. It was also the year that [[Rose Tyler]] joined the [[Ninth Doctor]] on his travels. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') 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]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
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'''2005''' was a [[year]]. It was largely significant for a large-scale [[Operation Mannequin|Auton invasion]] on [[Earth]] which occurred in [[March]].
== Events ==
== Events ==
=== January ===
=== Dated ===
* [[1 January|01]] - [[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 personal timeline. After she left, the Doctor succumbed to [[radiation]] poisoning and staggered towards his [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]], encouraged by a vision of [[Ood Sigma]]. After dematerialising the TARDIS, he regenerated into his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]]. Due to the difficulty of the regeneration, he released large amounts of energy, wrecking the control room and sending the TARDIS crashing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
==== January-June ====
: ''Since the regeneration occurred after the Doctor dematerialised the TARDIS, it was unclear whether this event actually occurred on 1 January 2005.''
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)}})
=== February ===
[[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)}})
* Annual de-frosting of [[Tommy Brockless]], a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in [[1918]], took place. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man]]'', [[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.co.uk]]'')
=== March ===
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)}})
* [[4 March|04]] - 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 blew up the building. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
* [[5 March|05]] - Rose Tyler investigated the identity of the Ninth Doctor, talking to conspiracy theorist [[Clive Finch]] about his website on the Doctor at [[whoisdoctorwho.co.uk]]. 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 killed by the Autons. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') [[Ellie Oswald]], the mother of [[Clara Oswald]] and the wife of [[Dave Oswald]], also died on this date. As well as her husband and daughter, her funeral was attended by the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]'')
* Wednesday (exact date unknown) - [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]] got a phone call from Rose, who was using the [[superphone]] from the year [[5,000,000,000]]. Rose made a brief return trip to her own time, ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'') but promptly disappeared until [[2006]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'')
* Some time after this, in [[London]], cabs were replaced with [[Motorbike|motorcycles]] to relieve the increasing traffic congestion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'')
=== 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 Spiegel]]'' magazine gave away a personal organiser with every issue. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit]]'')
=== December ===
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)}})
* [[22 December|22]] - 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]]. 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 (short story)|What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow]]'')
=== Unknown dates ===
[[Ianto Jones]] joined [[Torchwood One]] in [[March]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|New Girl (audio story)}}) prior to the [[Auton]] attack. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}})
* The [[FLIPback Project]] began at the [[Snowcap Base]] at [[Earth]]'s [[South Pole]] at the same time that the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] left over from the attack on Earth in [[December]] [[1986]] again became active. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
* [[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]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
* For most of 2005, [[Mickey Smith]] lived with accusations 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 daughter. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'') Mickey took over the whoisdoctorwho.co.uk website. {{fact}}
* [[Owen Harper]]'s fiancée, [[Katie Russell]], who had been diagnosed with the youngest ever case of early-onset Alzheimer's, was put into surgery after she was found to have a growth in her brain. The tumour was actually [[tumour alien|an alien parasite]]. It released deadly gas during the operation, killing Katie and the medical staff. Owen encountered Captain [[Jack Harkness]], who recovered Katie's brain and erased the video evidence of what had happened. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'')
* The [[Eighth Doctor]] attended this years' [[European Cup]] final. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Something Inside (audio story)|Something Inside]]'')
* [[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]]: ''[[Mr Nobody (comic story)|Mr Nobody]]'')
=== Alternate timelines ===
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)}})
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)}})
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)}})
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)}})
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)}})
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)}})
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)}})
[[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)}})
[[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}})
[[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)}})
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)}})
==== July-December ====
In [[November]], a ''[[Crimewatch]]'' episode on the [[Blackhall Rocks Multiple Murder]] was broadcast. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|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 [[Jackie Tyler|her mum]], telling them about her adventures. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Companion's Companion (novel)}}, {{cs|A Short History of Everyone (novel)}})
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]].
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)}})
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.
== Behind the scenes ==
[[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)}})
=== January ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[To the Slaughter]]'' was first published. With the new ''Doctor Who'' TV series about to premiere, BBC Books decided to retire both the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] and [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] lines in favour of a new series of novels featuring the [[Ninth Doctor]]. One more EDA book followed in June, while the PDA series continued to the end of 2005 (one of which was an Eighth Doctor story).
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Juggernauts]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Snake Head]]'' was first released.
* [[17 January|17]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Horror of Fang Rock]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* [[29 January|29]] - [[Big Finish Productions]] announced the production of three standalone hardback novels as part of its [[Big Finish New Worlds]] range. These were [[PROSE]]: ''[[Wildthyme on Top]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Project Valhalla|Project: Valhalla]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Coming of the Queen]]''. Big Finish also announced it would produce two single audio stories featuring [[Iris Wildthyme]].
* [[Sophie Okonedo]], who provided the voice of [[Alison Cheney]] in the webcast [[WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'', was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in the 2004 film ''Hotel Rwanda''. Okonedo became the first actor to have played a Doctor or companion in an official ''Doctor Who'' production to have been nominated for an Oscar. She did not win.
* At some point in January, the BBC was made aware that [[Christopher Eccleston]] was not taking part in a second series of ''Doctor Who''. According to a 4th April press release, the BBC agreed not to announce this to the public. It was later revealed that [[Russell T Davies]] had hoped to keep the actor's departure secret until the regeneration in [[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' was broadcast.
=== February ===
The magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' gave away a personal organiser with every issue. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Transit (novel)}})
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Match of the Day]]'' was first published. This was the final [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] novel to feature the [[Fourth Doctor]] and, as of [[2011]], the most recent original Fourth Doctor novel. The PDA series was suspended until July to allow for the premiere and broadcast of the first season of the revived series.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Game]]'' was first released.
* Actress [[Sheila Gill]] died.
* [[3 February|03]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[5 February|05]] - At the conclusion of a ''Saturday Night Live'' sketch on public access television pledge drives, TV celebrity Paris Hilton donned the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s hat and [[The Doctor's scarf|scarf]] and referred to the Daleks and the TARDIS. The sketch was widely circulated among science fiction fandom, in part via the recently introduced video-sharing website YouTube. In the coming years, YouTube was a major outlet for the distribution of fan-made music videos, clips and other material related to ''Doctor Who'' and its spinoffs.
* [[10 February|10]] - Actor [[Leonard Trolley]] died in England.
* [[11 February|11]] - The Doctor Who Information Network (DWIN), the main Canadian ''Doctor Who'' fan club, launched its News Blog website.
* [[16 February|16]] - The TARDIS Index File Wikia website was launched, which has since been renamed the TARDIS Data Core. This date serves as this very Wiki's birthday.
=== March ===
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)}})
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dreamtime]]'' was first released.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins]]'' was first published.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Longest Night]]'' was first released.
* This month, promotion for the upcoming return of ''Doctor Who'' to television entered high gear.
* [[1 March|01]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation]]'' and ''[[The Green Death]]'' were released to DVD in Region 1.
* As early reviews of the new ''Doctor Who'' series began to appear, IGN Filmforce<ref>[http://movies.ign.com/articles/592/592429p1.html IGN: The Who Report: Did Sci Fi Pass on the Series?] </ref> reported the American cable broadcaster [[Syfy|Sci-Fi Channel]], considered the most likely US broadcast home for the series, had chosen not to purchase it. Although there was talk of a related cable network, Universal HD, picking up the series, for the time being [[United States]] viewers would not be able to see the new series, with the exception of those close enough to [[Canada]] to receive the [[CBC]] broadcasts, which was now the North American premiere of the series.<br />
* [[7 March|07]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Mind Robber]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* [[8 March|08]] - [[Big Finish Productions]] announced it had agreed to a deal with [[Paul Cornell]] allowing the company to continue its range of [[Bernice Summerfield]] books and audio CDs for the next few years.{{fact}}
* [[9 March|09]] - BBC Radio 4's ''Today'' ran a feature on the new series.
* [[12 March|12]] - Whether by coincidence or design (as the impending change of lead actor was already known behind the scenes), this week's cover of ''[[Radio Times]]'' featured yet-to-be-announced [[Tenth Doctor]] actor [[David Tennant]] in a very Doctor-like pose promoting the mini-series ''Casanova'' - right next to a headline promoting the return of ''Doctor Who''. This was the first of many ''Radio Times'' covers for Tennant over the next few years.
* [[22 March|22]] - ''[[Project Who]]'' ''Bigger on the Inside'', the first episode of a two-part behind-the-scenes documentary on the return of ''Doctor Who'', was first broadcast on [[BBC Radio 2]] (later released on the CD ''[[Project WHO?|Project: WHO?]]'').
* [[23 March|23]] - [[Billie Piper]] was interviewed on ''[[The Chris Moyles Show]]'' on [[BBC Radio 1]].
* [[25 March|25]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]] was interviewed on ''[[Friday Night with Jonathan Ross]]''.
* [[26 March|26]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' was first broadcast, returning ''Doctor Who'' to television as a weekly series for the first time since [[1989]] and launching [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]], aka Season 27. [[Christopher Eccleston]] debuted as the [[Ninth Doctor]], along with [[Billie Piper]] as his companion [[Rose Tyler]]. Additionally, [[Noel Clarke]] debuted as recurring character and future companion [[Mickey Smith]].
* 26 - In conjunction with the debut of the new series, BBC Three premiered its behind-the-scenes series, ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'', the same night. A new episode of ''Confidential'' followed the broadcast of each new episode of ''Doctor Who''.
* 26 - ''[[The Doctor Who Story]]'' was broadcast on [[UK Gold]].
* 26 - ''[[Radio Times]]'' featured ''Doctor Who'' on its cover. With the arrival of the new series, the ''Radio Times'' began featuring the series on a more frequent basis (something they had not done since the early [[1970s]]).
* [[29 March|29]] - ''[[Project Who]]'': ''Reverse the Polarity'', part 2 of the [[BBC Radio 2]] documentary series, was first broadcast (later released on the CD ''[[Project WHO?|Project: WHO?]]'').
* [[30 March|30]] - The [[BBC]] announced production would proceed on a second series and a [[The Christmas Invasion|Christmas Special]].
* 30 - A publicity branch of the BBC prematurely announced [[Christopher Eccleston]] would not return for a second series as the [[Ninth Doctor]], citing his desire to not be typecast. This reason was denied immediately by Eccleston and the BBC ultimately retracted it. Eccelston later stated he left because he disliked the working environment. [http://www.bad-wolf.info/LNinterview01-a.htm] In his [[2008]] book ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] confirmed that Eccleston's departure was intended to be kept secret until the final moments of [[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''.
=== 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)}})
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Three's a Crowd]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies]]'' was first released. This audio drama featured the landmark first meeting between the first two incarnations of [[Romana]], featuring [[Mary Tamm]] returning to the role of [[Romana I]].
* [[2 April|02]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[4 April|04]] - The BBC retracted part of its 30th March announcement of the departure of [[Christopher Eccleston]], indicating it released the information with incorrect attribution and without the actor's consent.{{fact}}
* [[7 April|07]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Horror of Fang Rock]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[9 April|09]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'' was first broadcast. It was the first appearance of the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]], the first revival-series story set in [[Wales]] and the first appearance of [[Eve Myles]] in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise.
* [[11 April|11]] - Actor [[John Bennett]] died.
* [[16 April|16]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'' was first broadcast. This episode reintroduced [[UNIT]] (last referenced on television in [[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield]]''), establishing that all modern-day stories in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise from this point on (spinoffs included) took place approximately one year ahead of their real-life broadcast date. This was the first appearance of the [[Slitheen]]. For the first time since [[TV]]: ''[[The Gunfighters]]'', a multi-part story carried different episode titles.
* 16 - [[David Tennant]] was officially announced as the [[Tenth Doctor]].{{fact}} At this time Tennant was best known for playing the title role in ''Casanova'', a BBC miniseries written and produced by [[Russell T Davies]]. He had also recently filmed a role in ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Goblet of Fire'', which was released to theatres the same day [[Children in Need Special|his first solo performance]] as the Doctor was broadcast.
* [[21 April|21]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Echoes (novel)|Echoes]]'' was first published.
* [[23 April|23]] - [[TV]]: ''[[World War Three]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[25 April|25]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'' was released to DVD in the UK; this was the first classic series DVD release in the UK since the revival of the series.
* [[26 April|26]] - Actor [[Michael Coles]] died.
* [[30 April|30]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'' was first broadcast. This was the first [[Dalek]] TV story since [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' in [[1988]]. It was also the first Dalek TV story not to feature [[Davros]] since [[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'' in [[1974]]. [[Bruno Langley]] briefly joined the series as short-term companion [[Adam Mitchell]].
* The [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] in [[Canada]] began airing the new series, the first time the CBC had aired ''Doctor Who'' since the mid-1960s. For the CBC broadcasts, Christopher Eccleston videotaped 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 were promoted as the North American debut of the series, as no other broadcaster on the continent had yet picked up the revived series.
* [[Christopher Eccleston]] became a Mencap charity ambassador.{{fact}}
=== May ===
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)}})
* [[BBC Books]] launched the [[BBC New Series Adventures|New Series Adventures]] line of original novels tying in with the new series; this line, featuring the [[Ninth Doctor]], replaced the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] and [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] lines, though both continued publishing briefly. The new line of books was published in hardcover and had a shorter word count than the EDA/PDA novels. The books were released three at a time. The first three released were [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Clockwise Man (novel)|The Clockwise Man]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Monsters Inside (novel)|The Monsters Inside]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Winner Takes All (novel)|Winner Takes All]]''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Catch-1782]]'' was first released.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Short Trips: A Day in the Life]]'' was first published.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spirit (audio story)|Spirit]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project WHO?|Project: WHO?]]'' was first released by [[BBC Audio]]. This was a CD issue of the two-part [[BBC Radio]] documentary ''[[Project Who]]'' on the return of ''Doctor Who'', featuring interviews with [[Christopher Eccleston]], [[Billie Piper]] and others.
* [[5 May|05]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Mind Robber]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[7 May|07]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Long Game]]'' was first broadcast. [[Bruno Langley]] departed the series as his character, [[Adam Mitchell]] was forced out by the Doctor.
* [[14 May|14]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[16 May|16]] - In the UK, BBC Video released ''Doctor Who: Volume 1'' with the episodes [[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'' and ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]''. This was the first of a series of "vanilla" (extras-free) DVDs released by BBC Video featuring episodes from a still-underway season and the first new-series episodes (and first [[Ninth Doctor]] episodes) to be released to home video.
* [[21 May|21]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'' was first broadcast. [[John Barrowman]] made his first appearance as [[Jack Harkness]]. This episode, and ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'' the next week, were [[Steven Moffat]]'s first serious contributions to televised ''Doctor Who'' and won the series its first Hugo Award.
* [[28 May|28]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'' was first broadcast.
=== June ===
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)}})
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'' was first published. This was the final release in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel series, as [[BBC Books]] prepared to move into publishing novels exclusively based upon the revived series. One further [[Eighth Doctor]] novel was published in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] line.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate!]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Insurgency (audio story)|Insurgency]]'' were first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wasting]]'' was first released. It was the final episode of the spin-off series ''[[UNIT (audio series)|UNIT]]''.
* The [[BBC]] announced that a [[The Runaway Bride|Christmas special]] was already commissioned for [[2006]], as well as a third season for the new ''Doctor Who'' series.
* [[1 June|01]] - Actor [[Geoffrey Toone]] died in {{w|Northwood}}, {{w|Middlesex}}, [[England]].
* [[2 June|02]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[3 June|03]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tree of Life (novel)|The Tree of Life]]'' was first published.
* [[4 June|04]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[7 June|07]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]'' was released to DVD in Region 1.
* [[8 June|08]] - Actor [[Ed Bishop]] died.
* [[11 June|11]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'' was first broadcast. It was the first reference to [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]].
* 11 - [[Christopher Eccleston]] was interviewed by BBC Radio.
* [[13 June|13]] - The DVD ''Doctor Who: Volume 2'' was released by BBC Video, featuring the new series episodes [[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'', ''[[World War Three]]'' and ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]''.
* [[18 June|18]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' was first broadcast, concluding the first season of the revival of ''Doctor Who''. The [[Ninth Doctor]] regenerated into the [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]], introducing [[David Tennant]] and marking [[Christopher Eccleston]]'s final (to date) appearance as the Doctor. [[John Barrowman]] also departed the series as a regular with this story. The broadcast was followed by the final transmission of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'s'' first season.
* 18 - Post-production was completed for [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''.
* [[21 June|21]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light]]'' was released to DVD in Region 1.
=== July ===
[[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)}})
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]'' was first published. It was the final PDA novel to feature the [[Third Doctor]] and the last Third Doctor original novel to date. The PDA series returned to monthly released for the remainder of the year as the final books in the line were published.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma]]'' was first released.
* [[11 July|11]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'' was released to DVD in the UK. Beginning with this release, BBC Video issued ''Doctor Who'' DVDs in conjunction with [[2 entertain]].
* [[15 July|15]] - The first performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Robert Blackwood Hall in Melbourne, Australia.
* [[16 July|16]] - The second performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.
* [[17 July|17]] - The third performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.
* [[21 July|21]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Peculiar Lives]]'' was first published.
* The fourth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Burswood Theatre in Perth, Australia.
* [[23 July|23]] - The fifth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Festival Theatre in Adelaide, Australia.
* [[25 July|25]] - The BBC announced that [[Elisabeth Sladen]] would return to the role of [[Sarah Jane Smith]] for an upcoming episode of the revived ''Doctor Who's'' second series.{{fact}}
* [[26 July|26]] - The sixth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Canberra Theatre in Canberra, Australia.
* [[29 July|29]] - The seventh performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, Australia.
* [[30 July|30]] - The eighth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, Australia.
* 30 - Actress [[Peggy Dixon]] died.
=== August ===
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.)
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Spiral Scratch]]'' (originally promoted under the title ''Future Nostalgia'') was first published. It was the final novel to date to feature the [[Sixth Doctor]], and also depicted his [[regeneration]] story that ties into [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Council of Nicaea]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Imperiatrix (audio story)|Imperiatrix]]'' was first released.
* Actor [[Tony Harwood]] died.
* [[1 August|01]] - The DVD ''Doctor Who: Volume 3'', featuring the episodes [[TV]]: ''[[The Long Game]]'', ''[[Father's Day]]'', ''[[The Empty Child]]'' and ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'', was first released.
* The ninth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Brisbane Convention Centre in Brisbane, Australia.
* [[5 August|05]] - The tenth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Westpac St James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand.
* [[6 August|06]] - The last performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Civic Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand.
* [[31 August|31]] - Actor [[Michael Sheard]] died of cancer on the Isle of Wight.
=== September ===
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)}})
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deviant Strain]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Only Human]]'', and [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stealers of Dreams]]'' were first published. To date, these were the last novels featuring the [[Ninth Doctor]] as [[BBC Books]] changed to novels featuring the [[Tenth Doctor]].
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Fear Itself (novel)|Fear Itself]]'' was first published. This was the last novel to date to feature the [[Eighth Doctor]] and was the only time this incarnation was featured in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] line.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thicker Than Water]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[LIVE 34]]'' was first released.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Short Trips: The Solar System]]'' was first published.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scorpius (audio story)|Scorpius]]'', the first episode of a new [[Big Finish Productions]] spin-off series, ''[[Cyberman (audio series)|Cyberman]]'', was first released.
* ''[[Doctor Who Annual 2006]]'' was first published. This marked the return of the [[Doctor Who annual|''Doctor Who'' annual]], a once-traditional publication that was issued during most of the run of the original series. [[Marvel Comics]] last made an attempt at reviving the format in the early 1990s.
* [[1 September|01]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[5 September|05]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Doctor Who at the BBC Volume 3]]'' was first released, including the first release of an unbroadcast [[Third Doctor]] audio mini-episode recorded for ''[[Glorious Goodwood]]''.
* BBC Video released the DVD ''Doctor Who: Volume 4'', featuring the episodes [[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'', ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'' and ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''. This concluded the series of "vanilla" DVD released of episodes from the first revival season. Discounting the unique appearance of the [[Eighth Doctor]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] became the first Doctor to have his complete era released to DVD.<br />
* [[9 September|09]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Web Planet]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* [[12 September|12]] - Actor [[Ronald Leigh-Hunt]] died.
* [[23 September|23]] - Actor [[Roger Brierley]] died after suffering a heart attack.
=== October ===
=== Alternate timelines ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game]]'' was first published. It was the final [[Second Doctor]] novel to date.
[[The Doctor]] visited [[Luminos]] in an alternate 2005. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Spiral Scratch (novel)}})
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scaredy Cat]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fear (audio story)|Fear]]'' was first released.
* [[6 October|06]] - BBC Video released a special ''Dalek Collector's Edition'' DVD box set exclusively in UK [[W H Smith]] stores. The set included the previously released [[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.
* [[18 October|18]] - Actor [[John Hollis]] died from natural causes.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Travellers]]'' was first published. It was the final [[First Doctor]] novel to date.
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)}})
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Singularity (audio story)|Singularity]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wildthyme at Large]]'' was first released, launching an ongoing series of audio dramas featuring the character of [[Iris Wildthyme]], played by [[Katy Manning]].
* [[3 November|3]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Web Planet]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[6 November|6]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Horror of Fang Rock]]'', ''[[The Mind Robber]]'' and ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'' were released to DVD in Region 1.
* [[7 November|7]] - [[BBC Audio]] released ''[[Travels in Time and Space]]'', a box set collecting three unabridged readings of early [[Target novelisation|novelisations]]: ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Zarbi]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who and the Crusaders]]'', all read by [[William Russell]].
* 7 - [[TV]]: ''[[City of Death]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* [[18 November|18]] - The [[TV]]: ''[[Children in Need Special]]'' was broadcast by the BBC as part of the Children in Need Appeal, marking the first solo appearance by [[David Tennant]] as the [[Tenth Doctor]]. This seven-minute mini-episode bridged the events of [[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''. It became the first production of the series revival not to be broadcast outside of the UK (though it was later included on international DVDs).
* 18 - ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' was released to cinemas in the US and UK, featuring new Doctor [[David Tennant]] in a key role.
* [[21 November|21]] - The complete [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]] (2005) of ''Doctor Who'' was released to DVD in the UK as a box set. This was the first time a complete season of ''Doctor Who'' was released all at once (although all episodes had been issued previously in vanilla editions). Included was a bonus disc featuring the first DVD release of episodes of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'', although due to licensing and appearance rights issues, the practice of releasing edited-down versions (retitled ''Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown'') to DVD was begun.
* [[25 November|25]] - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dreamland (audio story)|Dreamland]]'' was recorded.
* The first Region 1 (North American) release {{what}}
* [[29 November|29]] - Actor [[Joseph Fürst]] died in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
=== December ===
[[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)}})
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Atom Bomb Blues (novel)|Atom Bomb Blues]]'' was first published. This novel featuring the [[Seventh Doctor]] was the final release in the [[BBC Books]] [[Past Doctor Adventures]] line. After this, BBC Books published only novels based upon the current series of ''Doctor Who'', and also moved away from the paperback format to a hardcover one (with the exception of [[Quick Reads]] novellas) hereafter.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Other Lives]]'' was first released.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Short Trips: The History of Christmas]]'' was first published.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Conversion (audio story)|Conversion]]'' was first released.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme (audio story)|The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme]]'' was first released. This was the last [[Iris Wildthyme]] audio drama until 2009.
* [[1 December|01]] - [[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[8 December|08]] - [[David Tennant]] appeared on BBC Radio 4's ''Front Row''.
* [[19 December|19]] - Actor [[Don McKillop]] died from natural causes in the UK.
* [[21 December|21]] - [[David Tennant]] appeared on [[BBC One]]'s ''Breakfast'' programme.
* [[23 December|23]] - BBC Radio Wales broadcast ''Back in Time - New Doctor, New Danger'', featuring [[Russell T Davies]] and others.
* The BBC Two comedy series ''Dead Ringers'' featured the parody "Christmas at Doctor Who's" with the cast impersonating [[David Tennant]], [[Tom Baker]], [[Sylvester McCoy]], [[Patrick Troughton]] and [[Christopher Eccleston]].
* [[25 December|25]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' was first broadcast, officially launching the [[Tenth Doctor]] era. The episode's closing credits introduced a modified arrangement of the Doctor Who theme, restoring the "middle 8" section not used during Series 1. At the behest of star [[David Tennant]], the lead character was once again identified in the closing credits as "The Doctor".
* [[25 December|25]] - Following the broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', the [[BBC Red Button]] service made available [[NOTDWU]]: ''[[Attack of the Graske (video game)|Attack of the Graske]]'', an interactive mini-episode-cum-game featuring [[David Tennant]]. Initially this was only available for viewing/playing in the UK.
* [[26 December|26]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'' aired on the [[CBC]] in Canada. For this broadcast, Billie Piper videotaped a special introduction. This marked the last time (to date) that the CBC's broadcasts of the series more-or-less coincided with that of the BBC.
* [[27 December|27]] - [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''Front Row'' ran a feature on the new Doctor.
=== Unknown dates ===
[[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)}})
* Broadcast of the revived series in the United States was delayed when the American Sci-Fi Channel unexpectedly passed on the series. Reasons cited in media and fan forums included the show being "too British" and concerns over the quality of the preview episodes seen.{{fact}} Sci-Fi eventually reversed its decision and the series was broadcast at a later date. The network subsequently picked up further seasons in a more timely manner.
* Following the conclusion of the 2005 ''Doctor Who'' series, the [[BBC]] announced it had commissioned the franchise's first spin-off series, ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'', to debut in [[2006]] and star [[John Barrowman]] reprising his role of [[Jack Harkness]].
* Autumn: During production of the 2006 series, the media reported that [[Billie Piper]] would leave the series at the end of the season.{{fact}}
[[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.
=== 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>
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)"])
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'sdepartment 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 March2006. (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)"])
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)"])
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)"])
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)"])
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)"])
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)"])
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)"])
