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==History of the Doctor Who Universe==
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===[[January]]===
'''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)}})
*[[31st January|31]] - The ''[[SS Elysium]]'' arrives safely in [[Panama]], its passengers and crew having endured an attack by [[Cybermen]] just weeks earlier. One passenger, artist [[Michael Brack]], is airlifted to hospital for treatment for hypothermia suffered during the attack.  He misses his chance to tell [[Ruby Duvall]] that he is the man responsible for her father's paralysis. ([[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg]]'')


====Unknown dates====
== Properties ==
*An "Arms for Humanity" concert is held to raise money for the [[Preserve our Planet Fund]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg]]'')
It was recorded as 21K0.7 by the [[43rd century]] dating system, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]'')
*[[Krillitane]]s attempt to solve the [[Skasas Paradigm]] using the imagination of the children at [[Deffry Vale High School]]. [[Sarah Jane Smith]]'s pet, [[K-9 Mark III]], is destroyed and replaced by [[K-9 Mark IIIb]] ([[DW]]: ''[[School Reunion]]''). [[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] has hidden several gifts inside a panel in K-9 Mark IV: [[Sonic lipstick]] and a wristwatch for detecting alien life for Sarah Jane to find and use later. (''[[Sarah Jane Smith website]]'', [[SJA]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'')


===[[February]] - [[March]]===
== Events ==
*[[LINDA]] is given its name by [[Elton Pope]], then is eventually destroyed when the [[Abzorbaloff]] (alias Victor Kennedy) absorbs all but one member, Elton, one by one each Saturday. ([[DW]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'')
=== Dated ===
*[[Mr Saxon]] arrives on Earth around this time and sets about establishing an identity for himself and creating the [[Archangel Network]].
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]]'')


===[[June]] or [[July]]===
[[File:LINDA Love Monsters.jpg|thumb|left|LINDA. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Love & Monsters (TV story)}})]]
*The [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday]]'') The partial [[cyber-conversion]] of [[Lisa Hallett]] happens during this event. ([[TW]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'') [[Donna Noble]], meanwhile, is on a Scuba-diving holiday in Spain and is not aware of these events. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')
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)}})
*At some point after the Battle of Canary Wharf, [[Donna Noble]] chooses to take a job with [[H.C. Clements]], after rejecting a request from her mother that she work for another firm. Unknown to Donna, an alternate timeline version of herself has fallen beneath the wheels of a lorry a few blocks away in order to prevent her from making the other decision and altering the timeline. [[Rose Tyler]] travels 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 [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] when she "dies". ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')


===[[July]]===
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]].}}
*[[21st July|21]] - ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows'', the seventh and final book in [[J.K. Rowling]]'s [[Harry Potter]] series of books, is published worldwide. Among the book's admirers is [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] who later admits to crying after reading the ending. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'')


===[[August]]===
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)}})
*[[Torchwood 3]] member [[Suzie Costello]] dies. [[Gwen Cooper]] joins Torchwood 3. ([[TW]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]'')
*On her first day of work, Gwen helps the team defeat an [[Sex Gas|alien entity]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Day One]]'')


===[[August]] - [[December]]===
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]]'')
*The new [[Torchwood 3]] team (new in the sense that it is different due to one member being replaced) saves the [[Earth]] - at least [[Cardiff]] - several more times. ([[TW]]: ''[[Ghost Machine]]'' through ''[[Out of Time]]'')


*Sometime during this period, [[Suzie Costello]] was resurrected for a short period by [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] before eventually being killed again. ([[DW]]: ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie]]'')
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)}})


===[[December]]===
On [[25 December]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Evelyn Smythe]] celebrated Christmas with the Cracker family. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crackers (short story)|The Crackers]]'')
*[[18th December|18]] - [[Diane Holmes]], [[Emma-Louise Cowell]] and [[John Ellis]] arrive from [[1953]] through the [[Cardiff rift]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Out of Time]]'')


*[[24th December|24]] - Diane flies through the rift, Emma leaves from [[Cardiff]] to [[London]] and John commits suicide, all against the wishes of the [[Torchwood 3]] team ([[TW]]: ''[[Out of Time]]'').
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]]'')


*[[24th December|24]] - [[Donna Noble]]'s marriage to [[Lance Bennett]] is interrupted by the events of ''[[The Runaway Bride]]''. Although [[Sylvia Noble]], Donna's mother, is witness to these events, her grandfather, [[Wilfred Mott]], is absent due to an attack of flu. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Strategem]]'')
=== Undated ===
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]]'')


===Other timelines===
An "Arms for Humanity" concert was held to raise money for the [[Preserve our Planet Fund]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
*[[Donna Noble]] makes a decision that results in her not joining [[H.C. Clements]] and so not meeting [[Lance Bennett]] and becoming engaged to him. As a consequence, on [[Christmas Day]], [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] never meets Donna and he drowns to death when defeating the [[Empress of the Racnoss]]. [[Rose Tyler]], travelling between dimensions, ends up in this alternate timeline and arrives soon after the Doctor's corpse has been retrieved by [[UNIT]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')


:''See [[Donna's World]].''
[[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)}})]]
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)}})


*[[The TARDIS]] visits [[Pete's World]] for the first time and [[Mickey Smith]] decides to stay there.
[[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]]'')


:''See [[Pete%27s_World#2007|Pete's World]].''
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]]'')


===Unknown dates===
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!]]'')
*The discovery of a bizarre message encoded as an [[Easter Egg]] on 17 different DVD releases causes a flurry of interest on the Internet due to the cryptic nature of the message. The message, which appears to have been shot on film many years earlier, depicts [[Tenth Doctor|a man with glasses]] conducting what appears to be a one-sided conversation with an unknown person, and he is occasionally interrupted by [[Martha Jones|a young black woman]]. Among those interested in the message is [[London]] video store employee [[Larry Nightingale]]. One of the cryptic statements made, "The angels have the phone box", is made into a T-shirt design. Larry Nightingale begins intensively studying the message, much to the annoyance of his sister, [[Kathy Nightingale]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
*[[Sally Sparrow]] receives a bizarre message addressed to her from someone called [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] in [[1969]] while investigating an old house called [[Wester Drumlins]] near London. Sparrow learns of the [[Weeping Angels]] and during the course of the adventure her friend [[Kathy Nightingale]] is transported back to [[1920]], and a policeman named [[Billy Shipton]] is sent back to 1969. Sparrow encounters an elderly Shipton, who dies soon after revealing that he is responsible for adding a cryptic message from the Doctor to a number of DVDs, and the [[Easter Egg]] mystery is solved when Sally realizes the one-sided conversation is from the Doctor and directed at her. Ultimately, Sparrow stops the Weeping Angels from capturing the [[TARDIS]] and with the help of [[Larry Nightingale]] sends the vessel back to 1969. After this event, Sally and Larry take over the ownership of the DVD rental store where Larry works, turning it into a bookstore, but Sally remains distant from Larry as she awaits the final resolution of her involvement with the time-travelling Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
*[[Harriet Jones]] is removed from the post of Prime Minister (confirmed in [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'').


==History of Doctor Who==
[[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]]'')
===[[January]]===


[[Clara Oswald]] went sledging. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Wintervention (comic story)|Wintervention]]'')


* [[Circular Time]] is first released.
[[Nina Rogers]] began studying [[History]] at [[Cardiff University]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Consequences (short story)|Consequences]]'')
*[[1st January | 1]] - [[Captain Jack Harkness]] and [[End of Days]] are first broadcast, concluding the first season of ''[[Torchwood]]''. The same day, ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'', the first episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', is also first broadcast, although the proper series won't begin until later in the year. Also broadcast: the final episode of ''[[Torchwood Declassified]]'s'' first season.
*[[11th January | 11]] - [[Another Life]], [[Border Princes]] and [[Slow Decay]], the first original novels based upon ''[[Torchwood]]'', are first published.
*[[21st January | 21]] - More than eight years after it was first released, [[Billie Piper]]'s 1998 single, "Honey to the B" returns to the UK music charts, even though Piper herself has become a full-time actress by this time.


===[[February]]===
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)}})


==== The Tyler family ====
[[File:K9 iii last stand.jpg|thumb|K9 defeats the Krillitanes. ([[TV]]: {{cs|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 (video game)|Security Bot]]'')


* [[Nocturne]] is first released.
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)}})


===[[March]]===
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]]'')


[[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)}})


* [[Renaissance of the Daleks]] is first released.
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]]'')
* [[16th March | 16]] - [[David Tennant]] appears in a televised skit alongside [[Catherine Tate]] as part of a benefit for [[Comic Relief]]. Tennant plays Mr. Logan, a substitute teacher who runs afoul of rebellious Lauren Cooper (Tate). The skit includes numerous in-jokes related to ''Doctor Who'', especially when Lauren starts to think that Logan ''is'' The Doctor. After Lauren chides him with "Did you fancy [[Billie Piper]], sir?", "Mr. Logan" pulls out a [[sonic screwdriver]] and turns Lauren into a [[Rose Tyler]] action figure.
* [[29th March | 29]] - [[John Gill]], who played the character of [[Oak]] in [[Fury from the Deep]], dies.
* [[30th March | 30]] - Seventies writer [[Dave Martin]], who co-wrote many stories and co-created [[K9]] with [[Bob Baker]], dies from lung cancer.
* [[31st March | 31]] - Five exclusive previews of [[Smith and Jones]] take place at the [[Cardiff]] Odeon, [[Swansea]] Odeon, [[Wrexham]] Odeon, The [[Aberystwyth University|Aberystwyth Arts Centre]] and Pwllheli Neuadd Dwyfor.
** [[Smith and Jones]] first broadcast. [[Freema Agyeman]] joins the series as [[Martha Jones]].


===[[April]]===
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)}})


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)}})


* [[Sting of the Zygons]], [[The Last Dodo]], and [[Wooden Heart]] are first published.
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)}})
* [[I.D.]] / [[Urgent Calls]] is first released.
* [[7th April | 7]] - [[The Shakespeare Code]] is first broadcast.
*[[14th April | 14]] - [[Gridlock]] is first broadcast.
*[[21st April | 21]] - [[Daleks in Manhattan]] is first broadcast.
*[[28th April | 28]] - [[Evolution of the Daleks]] is first broadcast.


===[[May]]===
=== 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]]'')


==== Parallel World (''Turn Left'') ====
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.


* [[Exotron]] / [[Urban Myths]] is first released.
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)}})
* [[The Two Jasons]] First Published
* [[5th May | 5]] - [[The Lazarus Experiment]] is first broadcast.
* [[19th May | 19]] - [[42]] is first broadcast.
* [[26th May | 26]] - [[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]] is first broadcast.


===[[June]]===
==== Pete's World ====
[[File:Pete's World.jpg|thumb|right|Pete's World. ([[TV]]: {{cs|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 [[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)}})


[[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)}})


* [[Valhalla]] is first released.
== Births and deaths ==
* [[2nd June | 2]] - [[The Family of Blood]] is first broadcast.
=== Dated ===
* [[9th June | 9]] - [[Blink]] is first broadcast.
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]]'')
* [[16th June | 16]] - [[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]] is first broadcast, marking the return of [[the Master]], last seen on screen in the 1996 TV movie. [[John Barrowman]] also returns to the series as [[Jack Harkness]].
* [[18th June | 18]] - The [[CBC]] in Canada begins airing Series 3. In an unusual (and criticized) move, the network first airs ''[[Smith and Jones]]'' during prime time, and then broadcasts the Christmas special ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'' a few hours later, after midnight in most areas of Canada.
* [[23rd June | 23]] - [[The Sound of Drums]] is first broadcast.
* [[30th June | 30]] - [[Last of the Time Lords]] is first broadcast, concluding the third season of the ''Doctor Who'' revival. [[Freema Agyeman]] leaves the series, as does [[John Barrowman]], again. The final episode of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'s'' third season airs afterwards. Also this week, the final episode of ''[[Totally Doctor Who]]'' is broadcast; it is subsequently cancelled.


===[[July]]===
=== Undated ===
[[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]]'')


[[Jason Summerfield]], a distant ancestor of [[Bernice Summerfield]], was born. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'')


* [[The Wishing Beast]] / [[The Vanity Box]] is first released.
== Behind the scenes ==
* [[7th July | 7]] - [[Freddie Earlle]], who played the role of [[Aldo]] in [[Warriors' Gate]], dies.
* 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.
** ''Doctor Who'' wins three trophies at the inaugural Constellation Awards, a Canadian-based honour recognizing the best in science fiction and presented during the annual Polaris SF convention. [[David Tennant]] wins Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode for ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'', while ''Doctor Who'' itself wins the overall Best Science Fiction Television Series category. Unusually, ''Doctor Who'' also receives the award for Outstanding Canadian Contribution to Science Fiction due to the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] being a co-producer of the series.
* 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.


===[[August]]===
== Footnotes ==
 
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* [[Nobody's Children]] First Published
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* ''Doctor Who'' receives the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for the episode ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'' written by [[Steven Moffat]]. Also nominated in this category are the episodes ''[[School Reunion]]'' and the two-parter ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'' and ''[[Doomsday]]''. Also nominated in this category is "200", an episode of ''Stargate SG-1'', and "Downloaded", an episode of ''Battlestar Galactica''.
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===[[September]]===
 
 
* [[Son of the Dragon]] and [[100]] are first released.
* [[Forever Autumn]], [[Sick Building]], and [[Wetworld]] are first published.
* [[23rd September | 23]] - The American animated series ''Family Guy'' broadcasts the episode "Blue Harvest", a nearly scene-by-scene parody of ''Star Wars: A New Hope''. A joke involving hyperspace features 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]]. This is the first time any footage from the Tom Baker era, or the classic [[Delia Derbyshire]] arrangement of the theme, has appeared on an American commercial network. The episode, with DW clip intact, is released to DVD in North America in early 2008.
* [[24th September | 24]] - [[Revenge of the Slitheen]] is first broadcast, launching the first full season of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' (following the pilot episode, ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'' which aired months earlier). This is the first half-hour episode produced by the televised ''Doctor Who'' franchise since episode 3 of ''[[Survival]]'' in 1989.
 
===[[October]]===
 
 
* [[Absolution]] is first released.
* [[1st October | 1]] - [[Eye of the Gorgon]] part 1 is first broadcast.
* [[1st October | 1]] - [[I Am the Doctor: The Unauthorised Diaries of a Timelord]] is published by [[Zone Publishing]]. Written by [[John Peel]] and illustrated by [[Pete Wallbank]], this unofficial publication features diaries entries by all 10 Doctors and new illustrations by Wallbank.
* [[8th October | 8]] - [[Eye of the Gorgon]] part 2 is first broadcast.
* [[15th October | 15]] - [[Warriors of Kudlak]] part 1 is first broadcast.
* [[22nd October | 22]] - [[Warriors of Kudlak]] part 2 is first broadcast.
* [[29th October | 29]] - [[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]] part 1 is first broadcast.
* [[31st October | 31]] - [[Howard Attfield]], who played [[Geoff Noble]] in ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'' dies. Attfield had been signed to reprise the role of [[Donna Noble]]'s father in several episodes of [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]]. At the time of his death he had already filmed several scenes; instead of recasting the role, the producers sign [[Bernard Cribbins]] to reprise the role of [[Wilfred Mott]], a character introduced in the now-finished ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' special, who is retroactively made Donna's grandfather.
 
===[[November]]===
 
 
*[[The Mind's Eye]] / [[Mission of the Viyrans]] is first released.
*[[Old Friends]] First Published
*[[Missing Adventures (anthology)|Missing Adventures]] First Published
*[[1st November | 1]] - [[Invasion of the Bane (novelisation)|Invasion of the Bane]], [[Revenge of the Slitheen (novelisation)|Revenge of the Slitheen]], [[Eye of the Gorgon (novelisation)|Eye of the Gorgon]] and [[Warriors of Kudlak (novelisation)|Warriors of Kudlak]] first published. These novelisations based upon episodes of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' are the first releases by [[Penguin Character Books]] and mark 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).
*[[5th November | 5]] - [[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]] part 2 is first broadcast.
** [[The Thirteenth Stone]] and [[The Glittering Storm]], two original made-for-audio ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' stories, are released by [[BBC Audio]].
*[[12th November | 12]] - [[The Lost Boy]] part 1 is first broadcast.
*[[16th November | 16]] - [[Time Crash]] is first broadcast. Discounting ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'', [[Peter Davison]] makes his first appearance as the Doctor since [[1984]]'s ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]''. First multi-Doctor television story since ''[[The Two Doctors]]''. Final use of the Doctor Who Theme arrangement by [[Murray Gold]] intoduced in [[2005]].
*[[19th November | 19]] - [[The Lost Boy]] part 2 is first broadcast, concluding the first season of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.
 
===[[December]]===
 
* [[IDW Publishing]], an American comic book company, launches ''[[Doctor Who Classics]]'', a monthly series of colorized reprints of [[Fourth Doctor]] comic strips from the early days of ''[[Doctor Who Weekly]]''. This is in advance of the launch of a new original [[Tenth Doctor]] monthly series scheduled to begin in early 2008.
* [[Wishing Well]], [[The Pirate Loop]], and [[Peacemaker]] are first published.
* [[The Girl Who Never Was]] is first released.
* [[25th December | 25]] - [[Voyage of the Damned]] is 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 AD]]'', makes his debut as [[Wilfred Mott]], who becomes recurring character in the next series. Much attention is given to the special's guest star, pop superstar [[Kylie Minogue]].
 
===Unknown dates===
*Filming for ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'' takes place in Italy. Discounting second-unit filming done in New York City for [[Daleks in Manhattan]], this is the first ''Doctor Who'' adventure substantially filmed outside the UK since ''[[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]]'' was filmed in Canada in 1996.
*Early winter - ''Doctor Who'' is nominated in the "Favorite Sci-Fi Show" category for the 2008 People's Choice Awards, to be presented in January 2008 on the CBS network. This is 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 goes to ''Stargate Atlantis''.
*As production begins on Series 4, news leaks out that [[Billie Piper]] would be returning to her role as [[Rose Tyler]], including images of her filming scenes for the series. Initially denied by the [[BBC]], this was later confirmed (with the BBC including her in a cinema trailer distributed prior to the season premiere in 2008). Piper films scenes for four episodes (two additional appearances are added using stock footage).
 
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2007 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 2007
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2007 was a year. Notably, Torchwood One was destroyed in a battle between the Cult of Skaro and the Cybus Cybermen in a conflict that became known as the Battle of Canary Wharf. (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"])

Properties

It was recorded as 21K0.7 by the 43rd century dating system, (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive)

Events

Dated

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)"])

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: Love & Monsters [+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"])

One account placed the Toclafane invasion on 23 June 2007. (PROSE: The Paradox Moon [+]Loading...{"page":"387","ed":"2021 paperback","1":"The Paradox Moon (short story)"}) Other accounts placed Martha Jones' activity around this time in March 2008 (AUDIO: Recruits [+]Loading...{"minute":"10","second":"10","1":"Recruits (audio story)"}) or 4-9 June in an unspecified year. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters [+]Loading...{"page":"120","1":"The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)"}) [nb 1]

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)"])

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)

On 24 December, Donna Noble's 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 Roboforms 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 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 Harold Saxon. (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"])

On 25 December, the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe celebrated Christmas with the Cracker family. (PROSE: The Crackers)

On 31 December, the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard visited Singapore a few minutes before midnight. (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was)

Undated

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)

An "Arms for Humanity" concert was held to raise money for the Preserve our Planet Fund. (PROSE: Iceberg)

Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale trap the Weeping Angels by making them stare at each other. (TV: Blink [+]Loading...["Blink (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)

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 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)

A BBC News bulletin reported that the United States and United Kingdom governments were anticipating final victory in the Iraq War in the near future. (AUDIO: Unregenerate!)

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 tripped on the hand of a Weeping Angel. (COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons)

Clara Oswald went sledging. (COMIC: Wintervention)

Nina Rogers began studying History at Cardiff University. (PROSE: Consequences)

One account, but not others, placed Torchwood Three's Gwen Cooper's early missions with Torchwood, such as her meeting with Tom Flanagan in Cardiff,[nb 3] in this year. (TV: Ghost Machine [+]Loading...["Ghost Machine (TV story)"]) Another account placed the later killing of Meredith Roberts[nb 4] by the Pharm in 2007. (TV: Reset [+]Loading...["Reset (TV story)"])

The Tyler family

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 Tenth Doctor landed in Torchwood Tower with Rose and Jackie Tyler after tracking the ghost shifts and was taken prisoner by Torchwood One. The ghosts were actually Cybermen from 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 [+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"])

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)"])

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

Other realities

Ally reads Doctor Who The Official Annual 2007. (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)

In a parallel universe, a Doctor Who annual was released. (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)

Parallel World (Turn Left)

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)"])

Births and deaths

Dated

Just before Christmas, Lance Metcalf's father, Simon Metcalf, was killed fighting in the Iraq War. (PROSE: Warriors of Kudlak)

Undated

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)

Jason Summerfield, a distant ancestor of Bernice Summerfield, was born. (PROSE: Dead Romance)

Behind the scenes

Footnotes

  1. ↑ According to The Sound of Drums [+]Loading...{"timestamp":"5:47 and 33:27","ed":"iPlayer","1":"The Sound of Drums (TV story)"} the events of the Royal Hope incident are three days before the election of the Saxon Master and five days before the Toclafane invasion.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Tom lived in Cardiff for 66 years after moving in 1941.
  4. ↑ Meredith is described as age 45 by Owen Harper, and a computer display clearly shows his date of birth as 11 January 1962.
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