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==History of the [[Doctor Who Universe]]==
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===[[February]]===
'''2006''' was a [[year]].
* Annual de-frosting of [[Tommy Brockless]], a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in [[1918]]. [[Toshiko Sato]] meets Brockless for the first time. ([[TW]]:''[[To the Last Man]]''.) (Date: [[WEB]]:''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.co.uk]]'')


===[[March]]===
== Events ==
==== [[28th June|28]] — [[29th June|29]] ====
=== Dated events ===
==== January - March ====
[[File:Big_Ben_destroyed.jpg|left|thumb|[[Big Ben]] is destroyed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}})]]
On [[6 March]] 2006, the [[Ninth Doctor]] returned [[Rose Tyler]] to her home in [[London]]. Due to a miscalculation, they arrived a year late. Rose learnt that her mother, [[Jackie Tyler]], had been searching for her ever since she left the previous year. At one point, she was believed [[murder]]ed and [[Mickey Smith]] had been a suspect. [[Big Ben]] was [[London UFO crash|side-swiped]] by [[Slitheen craft (Aliens of London)|a UFO]] which crashed into the [[Thames]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}})


*[[Ninth Doctor|The Doctor]] returns [[Rose Tyler]] to her home in London, but due to a miscalculation they arrive a year late, and Rose subsequently learns that she was believed murdered and that [[Mickey Smith]] was at one point considered a suspect. ([[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'', ''[[World War Three]]'')
An "[[Alien (Aliens of London)|alien astronaut]]" from the UFO was taken to [[Albion Hospital]], where the Doctor and [[Toshiko Sato]] examined it. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}) "Dr Sato" was working undercover for [[Torchwood Three]], covering for [[Owen Harper]], who was hungover on his "second week" working for Torchwood. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'')


*[[Big Ben]] is side-swiped by a [[UFO]] which crashes into the [[Thames]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'') Many people witness the crash, including [[Elton Pope]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]''), however the crash is later covered up as a hoax (which, in some ways, it was). ([[WEB]]: ''[[Defending the Earth!|whoisdoctorwho.co.uk]]'')
Most of the Earth's leading experts on aliens were killed, as was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}) [[10 Downing Street]] was destroyed by a [[harpoon missile]] targeted by [[Mickey Smith]]. The fortitude of backbench MP [[Harriet Jones]] during this crisis contributed to her ascent to power and the post of Prime Minister. [[Mickey Smith]] was asked by the Doctor to install a virus that would wipe out all references to [[The Doctor|him]] on the [[Internet]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|World War Three (TV story)}}) Jones later claimed that the destruction of 10 Downing Street was a [[terrorist]] attack. This was repeated in a [[press briefing]] issued by [[UNIT]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Number Ten Pays Tribute to UNIT (short story)|Number Ten Pays Tribute to UNIT]]'')


*An [[Space Pig|"alien astronaut"]] from the UFO is taken to [[Albion Hospital]] where [[Ninth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Toshiko Sato]] examine it. Most of the Earth's leading experts on aliens are killed, as is the [[Prime Minister]] of [[Great Britain]]. [[10 Downing Street]] is destroyed by a [[Harpoon missile]]. The fortitude that backbencher [[MP]] [[Harriet Jones]] shows during this crisis contributes to Jones' ascent towards power and the post of [[Prime Minister]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'', ''[[World War Three]]'') Sato is working undercover for [[Torchwood 3]], covering for [[Owen Harper]] who is indisposed. ([[TW]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'')
Afterwards, the Slitheen skin suit of General [[R. Asquith]] was recovered from 10 Downing street and stored at the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Security Bot (video game)|Security Bot]]'') Harriet Jones became the new [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}})


*[[Mickey Smith]], who is now webmaster of the "Who is Doctor Who?" website, is asked by the Doctor to install a virus intended to wipe out all references to the Doctor on the [[Internet]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[World War Three]]'') He does not do this, and instead renames his website [[Defending the Earth!]] and proceeds to chronicle unexplained happenings, usually involving the Doctor.([[WEB]]: ''[[Defending the Earth!|whoisdoctorwho.co.uk]]'')
==== April - August ====
In [[June]], the article "''[[Down the Boozer with Iris and Panda]]''" by [[Iris Wildthyme]] was published in the magazine ''[[Sounds]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Low/Profile (short story)|Low/Profile]]'')


===[[September]]===
Around the same date, the [[2006 World Cup]] took place in [[Munich]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Forgotten (short story)|Forgotten]]'')
====Unknown dates====
*The Doctor along with [[Rose Tyler]], [[Mickey Smith]] and [[Jack Harkness]] stop the [[Slitheen]] plot to blow up [[Cardiff]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'') At this point in time there were no less than three versions of Harkness in Cardiff in different places within his timeline: the Jack travelling with the Doctor, an older Jack now operating [[Torchwood 3]] (and presumably staying out of sight during these events), and a still older Jack in cryogenic freeze in the Torchwood vaults. ([[TW]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'')


===[[October]]===
In [[July]] 2006, many [[Schlechter Wolf]] artillery shells were excavated during renovations to the refurbishings of the [[Northern line|Northern]] and [[Jubilee line]]s of the [[London Underground]]. UNIT issued a [[press briefing]] about the dangers on [[28 July]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings (short story)|Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings]]'')
====[[Halloween|31]]====
*The [[British Rocket Group]] [[space probe]] [[Guinevere One]] launches from [[Earth]] for a scheduled rendezvous with [[Mars]] on [[Christmas Day]]. (''[[Guinevere One website]]'')


=== [[December]] ===
In [[August]], [[astronomer]]s reclassified [[Pluto]] as a [[dwarf planet]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'')
====[[Christmas Eve|24]]====
*[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] recovers from his [[regeneration]] at the [[Powell Estate]]. [[Sycorax]] intercept the ''Guinevere One'' and send a threatening message to [[Earth]]. [[Pilot fish]] land. New Prime Minister [[Harriet Jones]] seeks help from [[United Nations Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')


====[[Christmas Day|25]]====
[[Torchwood House]] was opened to the public between [[April]] and [[September]] of this year, alongside an exhibition called "[[House of History]]", which was officially opened by [[Charles III|Prince Charles]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Visiting (feature)|Visiting]]'')
*The [[Sycorax]] ship enters [[London]] airspace at around 0745 ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', ''[[Love & Monsters]]'') [[Elton Pope]] gazes up at the ship in awe. ([[DW]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'') [[Sarah Jane Smith]] wonders if the ship has the Doctor onboard, taking care of the situation. ([[DW]]: ''[[School Reunion]]'') [[Donna Noble]], however, is oblivious to events due to a hangover. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'').


*The Sycorax use [[blood control]] on one third of Earth's population. Harriet Jones appears on television to ask for the Doctor's help. The Doctor defeats the Sycorax though not before their leader cuts off the Doctor's hand (which grows back). The [[Torchwood Institute]] destroy the retreating Sycorax ship. The Doctor regards as murder and so engineers Harriet Jones' fall from power. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')
==== September - December ====
[[File:350px-Thecardiffrift.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Earth]] is almost destroyed by the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Boom Town (TV story)}})]]
In [[September]], the [[Raxacoricofallapatorian]] [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]], posing as the human [[Margaret Blaine]], [[Mayor of Cardiff]], plotted to blow up the [[Earth]] with the [[Blaidd Drwg]] [[nuclear power plant]] and the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|Cardiff Rift]]. This would let her escape on her [[Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator|extrapolator]]. The Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith and Jack Harkness captured her, but she used a fallback plan to make the extrapolator latch onto [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]'s energies (having been parked directly on the Rift) and still destroy Earth. The plan backfired and the [[Heart of the TARDIS]] opened up, regressing Blon to an egg. The Doctor and his companions returned Blon to [[Raxacoricofallapatorius]] to start a new life. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Boom Town (TV story)}}) UNIT issued a [[press briefing]] about the [[Cardiff Earthquake]], saying that the clean up was successful, though a number of people were missing (including Blaine), and that UNIT's [[Scientific Advisor]]s had all agreed that the plans for the Blaidd Drwg plant should be abandoned. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cardiff Earthquake (short story)|Cardiff Earthquake]]'') At this moment there were no fewer than three versions of Harkness in Cardiff at different points in his timeline: the Jack travelling with the Doctor, an older Jack now operating [[Torchwood Three]] while keeping himself and his team in the Hub during these events ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twilight Streets (novel)|The Twilight Streets]]'') and a still older Jack in cryogenic freeze in the Torchwood vaults, unknown to the Torchwood Three team. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'')


:[[Captain Jack Harkness|Captain Jack]] finds and retrieves the Doctor's hand, which later ends up at [[Torchwood 3]]. ([[TW]]: [[Everything Changes]] et al, [[DW]]: [[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]])''
On [[22 September]], on her 46th birthday, [[Tegan Jovanka]] was briefly reunited with the [[Fifth Doctor]], who discovered that she had been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour and had at most a year to live. Despite the Doctor's entreaty, Tegan chose to forgo his assistance in treating the tumour. She stated that she wished to remain on Earth because she was happy with the life that she had. She rekindled her relationship with [[Michael Tanaka]]. She had previously ended the relationship because of her tumour. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'')


*[[Ursula Blake]] snaps a photo of [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] celebrating with [[Rose Tyler]] in London. Meanwhile, on the [[Internet]], frantic speculation among conspiracy theorists begins as to what really happened during the Sycorax invasion. ([[DW]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'')
According to one account, [[Aliens of London dating controversy|but not others]], a CIA file on [[Gwen Cooper]] dated her joining [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] to October 2006. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'') One account also placed 2006 as the year Gwen investigated the road accident death of [[Eugene Jones]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Random Shoes (TV story)|Random Shoes]]'')


:''Later, she posts the photo to [[My Invasion Blog|her blog]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Love & Monsters]]'')
Mickey helped Rose to get back to the Ninth Doctor by connecting a truck to the Heart of the TARDIS to open it. In doing so, Rose allowed the Heart to get inside her head and pilot her to the [[Satellite Five|Game Station]] in [[200100|200,100]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}})


*Although the Earth has been visited (and even invaded) many times previously by alien races, the Doctor tells Rose that the Sycorax event marked the first occasion that  life beyond Earth became common knowledge, and that Earth itself was now becoming noticed by other worlds. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'') This sentiment is later echoed by [[Jack Harkness]] in his statement, "The 21st century is when it all changes." ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'' and repeatedly in ''[[Torchwood]]'')
On [[24 December]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] recovered from his [[regeneration]] at the [[Powell Estate]]. The [[Sycorax]] intercepted [[Guinevere One]] and sent a threatening message to [[Earth]]. The [[Sycorax spaceship|Sycorax ship]]'s [[Roboform|pilot fish]] landed. The Doctor stopped them from taking his regeneration energy. [[British Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] Harriet Jones sought help from [[UNIT]] as the Doctor was still in bed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}})


===Unknown dates===
Also on this day, [[Daniel Francis Thompson]] was struck by a vehicle and hospitalised at [[St Nicholas's Hospital]] in London. The Tenth Doctor, only older than his encounter with the Sycorax, shared an adventure with Daniel and spent time at St Nicholas's Hospital waiting for Daniel to recover. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deep and Dreamless Sleep (short story)|Deep and Dreamless Sleep]]'')
*[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Ruby Duvall]] stop the [[Cybermen]]'s latest attempt to conquer Earth by preventing the magnetic field reversal that would have created worldwide chaos under which the Cybermen planned to invade ([[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg]]'').


*''[[The Zen Military]]'', [[Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart I|Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart]]'s expose of the history of [[UNIT]], is published following the expiration of the thirty year rule for official secrets ([[NA]]: ''[[Set Piece]]'').
On [[25 December]], the Sycorax ship entered [[London]] airspace at around 07:45. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}, {{cs|Love & Monsters (TV story)}}) The Sycorax used [[blood control]] on [[2000000000 (number)|one-third of Earth's population]]. Harriet Jones appeared on television to ask for the Doctor's help. The Doctor defeated the [[Fadros Pallujikaa|Sycorax leader]], who was later killed after trying to sneak-attack the Doctor. In the battle the leader cut off [[the Doctor's hand]], which grew back. The [[Torchwood Institute]] destroyed the retreating Sycorax ship at Harriet Jones' orders. The Doctor regarded this as [[murder]] and engineered Jones' spiral in the polls. Although the Earth had been visited and even invaded many times before by alien races, the Doctor told Rose the Sycorax event marked the first occasion that life beyond Earth became common knowledge, and that Earth itself was now becoming noticed by other worlds. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}) After [[Sycorax invasion of Earth|the attack]], UNIT issued another press briefing, confirming the existence of aliens. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Life (short story)|Alien Life]]'')


*Mickey helps Rose to get back to the Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'')
[[Ursula Blake]] snapped a photo of the Tenth Doctor celebrating with Rose Tyler in London. Meanwhile, on the [[Internet]], there began frantic speculation among conspiracy theorists as to what had really happened during the Sycorax invasion. She later posted the photo to [[My Invasion Blog|her blog]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Love & Monsters (TV story)}})


*After March, but before December: [[Harriet Jones]] is elected Prime Minister ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')
=== Undated ===
The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Lucie Miller]] located the thief [[Nick Zimmerman]], who had put himself in a [[time loop]] on [[Earth]] after leaving the Doctor and Lucie for dead aboard a [[Tar-Modowk ship]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No More Lies (audio story)|No More Lies]]'')


==History of Doctor Who==
[[Lucie Miller]] was on her way to her first day at work when she was placed in the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s care by the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blood of the Daleks (audio story)|Blood of the Daleks]]'') She was returned to this time by the [[Headhunter]] and taken to [[Lonsis]], where [[Hulbert Logistics]] was battling the [[Cybermen]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]'')


===Early 2006===
The [[Tenth Doctor]] visited [[St. Nicholas's Hospital]], taking on the alias of a consultant. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deep and Dreamless Sleep (short story)|Deep and Dreamless Sleep]]'')
* According to his book, ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'', [[Russell T. Davies]], [[David Tennant]] and others involved in ''Doctor Who'', following production of ''[[Doomsday]]'', agree that after the [[Series 4|fourth series]] the program would be rested for a year, except for the occasional special. This idea later evolves into the [[2009 Specials]] season and dovetails with the eventual departures of Davies and Tennant from the series.


===[[January]]===
[[Idris Hopper]] recognised Jack Harkness and chased him. Seeing past its [[perception filter]], he witnessed the [[invisible lift]] in action. An attempt to erase Idris' memories with [[retcon]] in his dinner failed and Idris became angry with Jack because he thought he was poisoned. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twilight Streets (novel)|The Twilight Streets]]'')
*[[Pier Pressure]] is first released.
*[[Parallel Lives]] First Published
*[[Something Changed]] First Published
*[[2nd January | 2]] - [[John Woodnutt]], who had parts in [[Spearhead from Space]], [[Frontier in Space]], [[Terror of the Zygons]] and [[The Keeper of Traken]] dies from natural causes at Denville Hall, Northwood, England, UK.


===[[February]]===
The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ruby Duvall]] stopped the [[Cybermen]]'s attempt to conquer Earth by preventing the magnetic field reversal that would have created worldwide chaos under which the Cybermen planned to invade. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
*[[Night Thoughts]] is first released.
*[[The Goddess Quandary]] is first released.


===[[March]]===
Former teacher [[Oswald Danes]] was convicted of the [[rape]] and [[murder]] of twelve year old [[Susie Cabina]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'')
*[[Time Works]] is first released.


===[[April]]===
The [[First Doctor]] lost [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in a bet in [[Chicago]]. He and his companions [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Barbara Wright]] and [[Susan Foreman]] were forced to travel 2,500 miles down [[Route 66]] in a purple Oldsmobile 88 (which the Doctor won in another bet) to [[California]] in order to retrieve it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mother Road (short story)|The Mother Road]]'')
*[[The Stone Rose]], [[The Feast of the Drowned]], and [[The Resurrection Casket]] are first published. These are the first original novels to feature the [[Tenth Doctor]]
*[[The Kingmaker]] is first released.
*[[The Albino's Dancer]] First Published
*Approximately one week prior to the broadcast of ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'', the BBC releases the first [[Tardisode]]. These mini-episodes, available online or via mobile phone, featured specially shot scenes setting up elements of the episode to come.
*[[5th April| 05]] - BBC Magazines launches ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'', a weekly magazine promoting the ''Doctor Who'' franchise aimed at younger readers (no relation to ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''). Unlike DWM, it is not distributed internationally.
*[[15th April | 15]] - [[New Earth (TV story) | New Earth]] is first broadcast, launching the second season of the revived series and the first full season to feature [[David Tennant]] as the [[Tenth Doctor]]
*[[22nd April | 22]] - [[Tooth and Claw]] is first broadcast.
*[[29th April | 29]] - [[School Reunion]] is first broadcast.


===[[May]]===
The [[Sixth Doctor]] once watched the 2006 [[cricket]] Test Match between [[Australia]] and [[South Africa]] on the [[Time-Space Visualiser]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fourth Wall (audio story)|The Fourth Wall]]'')
*[[I am a Dalek]] is first released, launching the BBC [[Quick Reads]] novella series.
*[[The Settling]] is first released.
*[[BBC Books]] marks its 10th year publishing ''Doctor Who'' fiction.
*[[6th May | 6]] - [[The Girl in the Fireplace]] is first broadcast.
*[[13th May | 13]] - [[Rise of the Cybermen]] is first broadcast.
*[[14th May | 14]] - 10th anniversary of the broadcast of the [[Doctor Who (1996)|1996 Doctor Who TV movie)]]
*[[19th May | 19]] - Producer [[Peter Bryant]] (from [[The Web of Fear]] to [[The Space Pirates]]) dies.
*[[20th May | 20]] - [[The Age of Steel]] is first broadcast.
*[[27th May | 27]] - [[The Idiot's Lantern]] is first broadcast.


===[[June]]===
UNIT set up [[Moonbase One]] as a scientific research station. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Horror of the Space Snakes (novel)|Horror of the Space Snakes]]'')
*[[Something Inside]] is first released.
*[[Genius Loci]] First Published
*[[The Crystal of Cantus]] is first released
*[[3rd June | 3]] - [[The Impossible Planet]] is first broadcast.
*[[10th June | 10]] - [[The Satan Pit]] is first broadcast.
*[[17th June | 17]] - [[Love and Monsters]] is first broadcast.
*[[24th June | 24]] - [[Fear Her]] is first broadcast.


===[[July]]===
Following the expiration of the thirty year rule for official secrets, ''[[The Zen Military]]'', [[Kadiatu S. Lethbridge-Stewart]]'s exposé of the history of [[UNIT]], was published. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Piece (novel)|Set Piece]]'')
*[[The Nowhere Place]] is first released.
*[[The Tartarus Gate]] is first released.
*[[1st July | 1]] - [[Army of Ghosts]] is first broadcast.
*Approximately a week prior to the broadcast of ''[[Doomsday]]'', the final [[Tardisode]] is released online and to mobile phones; the BBC decides not to continue them after this.
*[[8th July | 8]] - [[Doomsday]] is first broadcast, concluding the second season of the revived series. [[Billie Piper]], [[Noel Clarke]] and [[Camille Coduri]] leave the series with this episode. In a surprise cliffhanger (successfully kept secret from Internet spoilers and the press), popular comic actress [[Catherine Tate]] appears for the first time as [[Donna Noble]]. This episode is also historic for featuring the first on-screen interaction between Daleks and Cybermen. The broadcast is followed by the final episode of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'s'' second season.
::[[Peter Hawkins]], one of the original voices for the [[Dalek]]s and the [[Cybermen]], dies.
*[[18th July | 18]] - [[David Maloney]], who directed many serials between [[The Mind Robber]] and [[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]] dies from cancer.
*[[19th July | 19]] - Stuntman [[Tim Condren]], who portrayed a guerrilla in [[Day of the Daleks]] dies.


===[[August]]===
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)}})
*[[Red]] is first released.
*[[Timeless Passages]] is first released.
*[[The Sideways Door]] First Published. Last release to date of the [[Telos Publishing]] [[Time Hunter]] spin-off series.
*''Doctor Who'' wins the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, the first time the ''Doctor Who'' franchise has won an international award of this magnitude. The award is presented for the [[Steven Moffat]] two-parter ''[[The Empty Child]]''/''[[The Doctor Dances]]''. Two other episodes from the 2005 series are also nominated in this category: ''[[Father's Day]]'' and ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]''. The competition in the category also included "Pegasus", an episode of ''Battlestar Galactica''; ''Jack-Jack Attack'', an animated short spun-off from the film ''The Incredibles''; ''Lucas Back in Anger'', a short film; and, controversially, the opening segment of the previous year's Prix Victor Hugo Awards Ceremony.
*[[24th August|24]] - The [[Wikipedia:International Astronomical Union|International Astronomical Union]] approves an official definition of the term "planet" which results in [[Pluto]] and several newly discovered Pluto-like worlds being disqualified from planetary status. The decision is immediately controversial and is expected to be challenged when the IAU meets again in [[2009]].


===[[September]]===
== Births and deaths ==
*[[The Reaping]] and [[The Gathering]] are first released.
=== Dated ===
*[[The Worst Thing in the World]] is first released.
On [[Saturday]] [[24 June]], [[Edward Grainger]] died on his 100th birthday. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Forgotten (short story)|Forgotten]]'')
*[[The Nightmare of Black Island]], [[The Art of Destruction]], and [[The Price of Paradise]] are first published.
*[[Collected Works]] First Published
*[[GE Fabbri Ltd.]] launches ''[[Doctor Who: Battles in Time|Battles in Time]]'', a card game/[[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (Magazine)|magazine]] publication releases fortnightly in the UK.
*[[14th September | 14]] - [[Peter Ling]], who wrote [[The Mind Robber]] dies from a heart attack.
*[[23rd September | 23]] - [[Patrick Tull]], one of the voices of the [[Kroton]]s in [[The Krotons]] dies.


===[[October]]===
On [[23 November]], [[retire]]d [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]] agent [[Lucia Moretti]], a former lover of Jack Harkness and mother of his daughter [[Alice Carter]], died of [[heart disease]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Three]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Red Skies (audio story)|Red Skies]]'')
*[[Memory Lane]] is first released.
*[[Summer of Love]] is first released.
*[[21st October | 21]] - [[Peter Barkworth]], who played [[Clent|Leader Clent]] in [[The Ice Warriors]] dies as a result of broncho-pneumonia following a stroke
*[[22nd October | 22]] - The ''Doctor Who'' spin-off series ''[[Torchwood]]'' debuts with the broadcast of [[Everything Changes]] and [[Day One]]. Also debuting: the behind-the-scenes program ''[[Torchwood Declassified]]''.
::[[Richard Mayes]] ([[Baxter|Chief Baxter]] in [[Fury from the Deep]]) dies.
*[[29th October | 29]] - [[Ghost Machine]] is first broadcast.


===[[November]]===
=== Undated ===
*[[No Man's Land]] is first released.
[[Charles Cromwell]] died. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trace Memory (novel)|Trace Memory]]'')
*[[Old Friends]] First Published
*[[The Oracle of Delphi]] is first released.
*[[5th November | 5]] - [[Cyberwoman]] is first broadcast.
::Giant actor [[R.J. Bell]], who appeared as [[The Garm]] in [[Terminus]] dies in England.
*[[10th November | 10]] - [[Chubby Oates]], who had a small role as a policeman in [[Planet of the Spiders]] dies from a stroke after giving a performance at a showbusiness luncheon.
*[[12th November | 12]] - [[Small Worlds]] is first broadcast.
*[[19th November | 19]] - [[Countrycide]] is first broadcast.
*[[26th November | 26]] - [[Greeks Bearing Gifts]] is first broadcast.


===[[December]]===
== Other ==
*[[Year of the Pig]] is first released.
[[Iris Wildthyme]] had a [[driver's licence]] from 2006. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Gimme Shelter (short story)|Gimme Shelter]]'')
*[[The Empire State]] is first released.
*[[3rd December | 3]] - [[They Keep Killing Suzie]] is first broadcast.
*[[10th December | 10]] - [[Random Shoes]] is first broadcast.
*[[17th December | 17]] - [[Out of Time]] is first broadcast.
*[[24th December | 24]] - [[Combat]] is first broadcast.
*[[25th December | 25]] - [[The Runaway Bride]] is first broadcast.
*[[28th December | 28]] - 25th anniversary of the broadcast of ''[[A Girl's Best Friend]]'', the pilot for ''[[K-9 and Company]]'', only a few days before the debut of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' featuring the same character.


===Unknown dates===
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* Following the well-received return appearance of [[Elisabeth Sladen]]'s [[Sarah Jane Smith]] in ''[[School Reunion]]'', the BBC announces that a spin-off series entitled ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' would be produced featuring her. Around the same time, a non-BBC production company obtains the rights to produce an animated series featuring [[K-9]] (which as of [[2008]] has yet to be broadcast).
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* After the departure of [[Billie Piper]] in ''[[Doomsday]]'', the BBC authorizes a budget for a proposed spin-off special entitled ''[[Rose Tyler: Earth Defence]]'', an idea ultimately abandoned by [[Russell T Davies]].
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* [[Christopher Eccleston]] earns a recurring role in the NBC series ''Heroes''. While Eccleston isn't the first to get roles on American TV after his tenure as the Doctor (he was preceded by [[Tom Baker]], [[Peter Davison]] and [[Colin Baker]] in this regard), he is the first to gain a recurring role in an American series. His role as Claude, the Invisible Man, includes a reference to The Doctor in that he utters the catchphrase "Fantastic!". He also shares several scenes with [[Eric Roberts]], who played [[The Master]] in ''[[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]]''.
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2006 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 2006
21st century | 2000s
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2006 was a year.

Events

Dated events

January - March

Big Ben is destroyed. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"])

On 6 March 2006, the Ninth Doctor returned Rose Tyler to her home in London. Due to a miscalculation, they arrived a year late. Rose learnt that her mother, Jackie Tyler, had been searching for her ever since she left the previous year. At one point, she was believed murdered and Mickey Smith had been a suspect. Big Ben was side-swiped by a UFO which crashed into the Thames. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"])

An "alien astronaut" from the UFO was taken to Albion Hospital, where the Doctor and Toshiko Sato examined it. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) "Dr Sato" was working undercover for Torchwood Three, covering for Owen Harper, who was hungover on his "second week" working for Torchwood. (TV: Exit Wounds)

Most of the Earth's leading experts on aliens were killed, as was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) 10 Downing Street was destroyed by a harpoon missile targeted by Mickey Smith. The fortitude of backbench MP Harriet Jones during this crisis contributed to her ascent to power and the post of Prime Minister. Mickey Smith was asked by the Doctor to install a virus that would wipe out all references to him on the Internet. (TV: World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"]) Jones later claimed that the destruction of 10 Downing Street was a terrorist attack. This was repeated in a press briefing issued by UNIT. (PROSE: Number Ten Pays Tribute to UNIT)

Afterwards, the Slitheen skin suit of General R. Asquith was recovered from 10 Downing street and stored at the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum. (GAME: Security Bot) Harriet Jones became the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])

April - August

In June, the article "Down the Boozer with Iris and Panda" by Iris Wildthyme was published in the magazine Sounds. (PROSE: Low/Profile)

Around the same date, the 2006 World Cup took place in Munich. (PROSE: Forgotten)

In July 2006, many Schlechter Wolf artillery shells were excavated during renovations to the refurbishings of the Northern and Jubilee lines of the London Underground. UNIT issued a press briefing about the dangers on 28 July. (PROSE: Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings)

In August, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

Torchwood House was opened to the public between April and September of this year, alongside an exhibition called "House of History", which was officially opened by Prince Charles. (PROSE: Visiting)

September - December

The Earth is almost destroyed by the Cardiff Space-Time Rift. (TV: Boom Town [+]Loading...["Boom Town (TV story)"])

In September, the Raxacoricofallapatorian Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, posing as the human Margaret Blaine, Mayor of Cardiff, plotted to blow up the Earth with the Blaidd Drwg nuclear power plant and the Cardiff Rift. This would let her escape on her extrapolator. The Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith and Jack Harkness captured her, but she used a fallback plan to make the extrapolator latch onto the TARDIS's energies (having been parked directly on the Rift) and still destroy Earth. The plan backfired and the Heart of the TARDIS opened up, regressing Blon to an egg. The Doctor and his companions returned Blon to Raxacoricofallapatorius to start a new life. (TV: Boom Town [+]Loading...["Boom Town (TV story)"]) UNIT issued a press briefing about the Cardiff Earthquake, saying that the clean up was successful, though a number of people were missing (including Blaine), and that UNIT's Scientific Advisors had all agreed that the plans for the Blaidd Drwg plant should be abandoned. (PROSE: Cardiff Earthquake) At this moment there were no fewer than three versions of Harkness in Cardiff at different points in his timeline: the Jack travelling with the Doctor, an older Jack now operating Torchwood Three while keeping himself and his team in the Hub during these events (PROSE: The Twilight Streets) and a still older Jack in cryogenic freeze in the Torchwood vaults, unknown to the Torchwood Three team. (TV: Exit Wounds)

On 22 September, on her 46th birthday, Tegan Jovanka was briefly reunited with the Fifth Doctor, who discovered that she had been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour and had at most a year to live. Despite the Doctor's entreaty, Tegan chose to forgo his assistance in treating the tumour. She stated that she wished to remain on Earth because she was happy with the life that she had. She rekindled her relationship with Michael Tanaka. She had previously ended the relationship because of her tumour. (AUDIO: The Gathering)

According to one account, but not others, a CIA file on Gwen Cooper dated her joining Torchwood to October 2006. (TV: The New World) One account also placed 2006 as the year Gwen investigated the road accident death of Eugene Jones. (TV: Random Shoes)

Mickey helped Rose to get back to the Ninth Doctor by connecting a truck to the Heart of the TARDIS to open it. In doing so, Rose allowed the Heart to get inside her head and pilot her to the Game Station in 200,100. (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"])

On 24 December, the Tenth Doctor recovered from his regeneration at the Powell Estate. The Sycorax intercepted Guinevere One and sent a threatening message to Earth. The Sycorax ship's pilot fish landed. The Doctor stopped them from taking his regeneration energy. Prime Minister Harriet Jones sought help from UNIT as the Doctor was still in bed. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])

Also on this day, Daniel Francis Thompson was struck by a vehicle and hospitalised at St Nicholas's Hospital in London. The Tenth Doctor, only older than his encounter with the Sycorax, shared an adventure with Daniel and spent time at St Nicholas's Hospital waiting for Daniel to recover. (PROSE: Deep and Dreamless Sleep)

On 25 December, the Sycorax ship entered London airspace at around 07:45. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"], Love & Monsters [+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"]) The Sycorax used blood control on one-third of Earth's population. Harriet Jones appeared on television to ask for the Doctor's help. The Doctor defeated the Sycorax leader, who was later killed after trying to sneak-attack the Doctor. In the battle the leader cut off the Doctor's hand, which grew back. The Torchwood Institute destroyed the retreating Sycorax ship at Harriet Jones' orders. The Doctor regarded this as murder and engineered Jones' spiral in the polls. Although the Earth had been visited and even invaded many times before by alien races, the Doctor told Rose the Sycorax event marked the first occasion that life beyond Earth became common knowledge, and that Earth itself was now becoming noticed by other worlds. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"]) After the attack, UNIT issued another press briefing, confirming the existence of aliens. (PROSE: Alien Life)

Ursula Blake snapped a photo of the Tenth Doctor celebrating with Rose Tyler in London. Meanwhile, on the Internet, there began frantic speculation among conspiracy theorists as to what had really happened during the Sycorax invasion. She later posted the photo to her blog. (TV: Love & Monsters [+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"])

Undated

The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller located the thief Nick Zimmerman, who had put himself in a time loop on Earth after leaving the Doctor and Lucie for dead aboard a Tar-Modowk ship. (AUDIO: No More Lies)

Lucie Miller was on her way to her first day at work when she was placed in the Eighth Doctor's care by the Time Lords. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks) She was returned to this time by the Headhunter and taken to Lonsis, where Hulbert Logistics was battling the Cybermen. (AUDIO: Human Resources)

The Tenth Doctor visited St. Nicholas's Hospital, taking on the alias of a consultant. (PROSE: Deep and Dreamless Sleep)

Idris Hopper recognised Jack Harkness and chased him. Seeing past its perception filter, he witnessed the invisible lift in action. An attempt to erase Idris' memories with retcon in his dinner failed and Idris became angry with Jack because he thought he was poisoned. (PROSE: The Twilight Streets)

The Seventh Doctor and Ruby Duvall stopped the Cybermen's attempt to conquer Earth by preventing the magnetic field reversal that would have created worldwide chaos under which the Cybermen planned to invade. (PROSE: Iceberg)

Former teacher Oswald Danes was convicted of the rape and murder of twelve year old Susie Cabina. (TV: The New World)

The First Doctor lost his TARDIS in a bet in Chicago. He and his companions Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman were forced to travel 2,500 miles down Route 66 in a purple Oldsmobile 88 (which the Doctor won in another bet) to California in order to retrieve it. (PROSE: The Mother Road)

The Sixth Doctor once watched the 2006 cricket Test Match between Australia and South Africa on the Time-Space Visualiser. (AUDIO: The Fourth Wall)

UNIT set up Moonbase One as a scientific research station. (PROSE: Horror of the Space Snakes)

Following the expiration of the thirty year rule for official secrets, The Zen Military, Kadiatu S. Lethbridge-Stewart's exposé of the history of UNIT, was published. (PROSE: Set Piece)

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)"])

Births and deaths

Dated

On Saturday 24 June, Edward Grainger died on his 100th birthday. (PROSE: Forgotten)

On 23 November, retired Torchwood agent Lucia Moretti, a former lover of Jack Harkness and mother of his daughter Alice Carter, died of heart disease. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three, AUDIO: Red Skies)

Undated

Charles Cromwell died. (PROSE: Trace Memory)

Other

Iris Wildthyme had a driver's licence from 2006. (PROSE: Gimme Shelter)

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