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On [[1 January]] '''2008''', shortly after midnight, the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charley Pollard]] met [[Byron (The Girl Who Never Was)|Byron]] in [[Singapore]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was]]'')
'''2008''' was a [[year]].


[[Owen Harper]] went undercover to prevent the [[Weevil]]s like [[Janet (Everything Changes)|Janet]] from being abducted by humans to fight in a [[Weevil Fight Club]]. [[Torchwood Three]] discovered the club's location and shut it down. ([[TV]]: ''[[Combat]]'')
== Properties ==
2008 was a [[leap year]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Imaginary Friends (novel)}}; [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Condemned (audio story)}})


=== Early February ===
== Events ==
[[Jack Harkness]] and [[Toshiko Sato]] were transported back in time to [[The Ritz]] in 1941. Owen used the [[Rift Manipulator]] to bring them back, opening the Rift. By this point, [[Harold Saxon]]'s campaign for election was underway as "Vote Saxon" signs were visible in [[Cardiff]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'')
=== Dated events ===
==== January - June ====
On [[1 January]], shortly after midnight, the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charley Pollard]] met [[Byron (The Girl Who Never Was)|Byron]] in [[Singapore]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)}}) That same day in [[Brooklyn]], [[Alan Wood]] writes a [[letter]] to [[Diane (Snowman in Manhattan)|Diane]] describing the adventure he had with the [[First Doctor]], [[Vicki Pallister]] and [[Steven Taylor]], but ultimately decides not to give it to her, asking her out for [[coffee]] instead. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Snowman in Manhattan (short story)}})


As the [[Cardiff rift]] opened, the Rift quickly pulled beings through it at a steadier pace. Visions appeared to the Torchwood Three team and [[Rhys Williams]] was murdered. As a result, the Rift was closed, undoing the damage, but [[Abaddon]] was released, wiping out hundreds of people. Jack killed Abaddon with an overflow of life energy, which left Jack dead for days. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days]]'') Shortly after being restored to life, [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] heard the sound of the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] and re-joined the Doctor as the TARDIS hurtled toward the year [[100000000000000|100,000,000,000,000]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
In [[February]], [[Lucy (Eve of the Daleks)|Lucy]] became [[Nick (Eve of the Daleks)|Nick]]'s girlfriend. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Eve of the Daleks (TV story)}})


Meanwhile, Jack was declared missing by his Torchwood teammates, and [[Gwen Cooper]] took charge of the group. Subsequently, [[Ianto Jones]] began taking a more active role in field assignments. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'')
On [[29 February]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Charley Pollard]] arrived in [[Manchester (city)|Manchester]] and helped [[Detective Inspector|DI]] [[Patricia Menzies]] solve a [[murder]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Condemned (audio story)}})


The [[Eleventh Doctor]] met [[Amy Pond]] in [[Leadworth]] after twelve years of waiting. A [[Multi-form]] called [[Prisoner Zero]], who had escaped through the crack in Amy's wall, attacked. The [[Atraxi]] arrived, threatening the destruction of Earth if Prisoner Zero did not surrender. The Doctor created a computer virus for the Atraxi to track back to its source in Leadworth (spread by [[Jeff Angelo|Jeff]]). The Doctor also transmitted Prisoner Zero's disguises to the Atraxi so it couldn't hide in the bodies it had been disguised as. It then took the form of Amy; the Doctor made Amy think of Prisoner Zero's original form. Now in plain sight, Prisoner Zero was captured by the Atraxi, who left. The Doctor took a test drive of his refurbished TARDIS, only returning two years later. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
In [[March]], Nick broke up with Lucy. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Eve of the Daleks (TV story)}})


On [[29 February]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Charley Pollard]] arrived in [[Manchester]] and helped [[Detective Inspector|DI]] [[Patricia Menzies]] solve a [[murder]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Condemned (audio story)|The Condemned]]'')
According to one account, a [[UNIT]] mission log placed March 2008 as the time that moon rocks were found at [[Royal Hope Hospital]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cite source|Recruits (audio story)|minute=10|second=10}}) Other accounts placed [[Martha Jones]]' activity around this time in about [[18 June|18]]-[[23 June]] [[2007]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Paradox Moon (short story)|ed=2021 paperback|page=387}}) 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]].}}


=== Spring or summer ===
On [[31 May]], the Tenth Doctor and Donna visited [[Calibris]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Time Reaver (audio story)}})
[[Maria Jackson|Maria]] and [[Alan Jackson]] moved into [[36 Bannerman Road]], [[Ealing]], the house opposite [[Sarah Jane Smifth]]'s. The [[Bane (Invasion of the Bane)|Bane]] used a '[[Bane (ingredient)|natural ingredient]]' hidden in their [[Bubble Shock!]] drink to enslave humanity. Sarah Jane and Maria went to the [[Bubble Shock! factory]] and stole their human archetype. The archetype used a communication device from a [[Star Poet]] to destroy the [[Bane Mother]] and freed the mind-controlled people. One Bane, [[Wormwood (Invasion of the Bane)|Mrs Wormwood]], escaped from the exploding factory. Sarah Jane adopted the Archetype and named him [[Luke Smith|Luke]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'')


The [[Slitheen family]] killed overweight teachers and created technology labs for their energy draining machine to cool [[Sol|the Sun]], intending to sell the destroyed Earth. In the testing phases, the Earth briefly experienced a worldwide power outage. Luke unwittingly gave the code that would make the machine work properly to the Slitheen. [[Clyde Langer]] joined Luke, Maria and Sarah Jane in investigating the schools, fighting the Slitheen off with vinegar. When tried out on the Sun, the Slitheen's fixed machine overloaded and was destroyed in the confusion during its reset, killing two Slitheen while the others teleported to their ship. Sarah Jane used her supercomputer [[Mr Smith]] to orchestrate a cover-up that suggested the darkening of the sun and the power outage were caused by a sudden, but temporary, shift in Earth's magnetic field. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen]]'')
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[[Royal Hope Hospital]] was teleported to [[the Moon]] with the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] inside, for the [[Judoon]] to search for a [[murder]]er. Identified as non-human, the Doctor escaped the Judoon after he was mistaken for the murderer. The Doctor's blood was later sucked by [[Florence Finnegan]] (the murderer). Martha revived him. The Judoon positively identified and executed Finnegan. The Doctor stopped a supercharged MRI machine from wiping out Earth. The hospital was returned and Martha joined the Doctor in the TARDIS. [[Harold Saxon|Mr. Saxon]] continued his campaign for [[British Prime Minister]]. He was given high support after the hospital's disappearance, then reappearance. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]''; ''[[The Sound of Drums]], et al, establishes this occurs only a few days before the election.'')
==== June - December ====
In [[October]], [[Majenta Pryce]] opened the [[Hotel Historia]] in [[London]]. After [[Tony (Hotel Historia)|Tony]] won the lottery, he was contacted by Pryce and given a chance to stay at the Hotel Historia. One of the years that Tony visited using the hotel's time travel capabilities was [[4039]], a time when London was being invaded by the [[Graxnix]]. The [[Tenth Doctor]] followed Tony back to 2008 from 4039 and the Doctor was followed by the Graxnix. The Doctor found Pryce and scolded her for using a potentially dangerous [[Chronexus 3000]] to achieve time travel. When the Graxnix began attacking guests and staff at the hotel, the Doctor used the Chronexus to send them back to 4039 and then contacted the [[Cosmic Bailiff]]s, who shut down the hotel and arrested Pryce. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Hotel Historia (comic story)}})


[[Richard Lazarus]] unveiled an age-reversing machine which initially de-aged him, then transformed him into a possible evolutionary branch of humanity, latent in his DNA, becoming a monster in doing so. The Tenth Doctor killed Lazarus. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]'')
On [[24 October]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Lucie Miller]] encountered [[Auton]]s in [[Thorington]], [[Uzbekistan]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Brave New Town (audio story)}})


Election Day began and [[Harold Saxon]] was voted British [[Prime Minister]]. [[Dexter|A mysterious woman]] surveilled [[Francine Jones|Francine Jones']] phone, as she knew Francine's daughter Martha was in contact with Saxon's enemy, the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'' / ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') At or around this date, Saxon sent [[Torchwood Three]] on a "wild goose chase" mission in the [[Himalayas]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')  
On [[31 October]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] found an unusually creepy [[Halloween]] celebration in [[Blackwood Falls]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Forever Autumn (novel)}})


The Tenth Doctor, Jack and Martha returned from [[100,000,000,000,000]] and went on the run as fugitives declared by Harold Saxon, in fact the Master. The Master announced on television that humanity was to make first contact with the [[Toclafane]]. [[Arthur Coleman Winters|President Winters]] stepped in, allowing [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] to take control. The Doctor, Martha and Jack snuck aboard the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]''; the Toclafane murdered President Winters. The Master, seeing through the Doctor and his companions' perception filters, heavily aged the Doctor and captured him and Jack. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
On [[10 September]], [[CERN]] first tested their [[Large Hadron Collider]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Extremis (TV story)}}) finally creating a [[Higgs particle]]. However, the first test opened a portal to another dimension, letting [[neutron eater]]s loose; the Higgs particle was merely a side effect of [[Katrina Johnson|Professor Johnson]] and [[Jack Harkness]]' plan to close the gateway, by having [[proton]]s and [[antiproton]]s fire against each other. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Lost Souls (audio story)}})


[[The Year That Never Was]] began; the Master built a new "[[Time Lord Empire]]" and Martha Jones travelled the world executing the Doctor's plan. Ultimately, the year was negated and the clock reset to just after the Toclafane killed Winters. [[Lucy Saxon]] killed the Master. Martha Jones and Jack returned home and left the Doctor on his own. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'') Lucy was subsequently imprisoned; unknown to her, a group of Saxon's followers retrieved his signet ring from his funeral pyre and began preparations for restoring [[the Master]] to life the following year. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
In [[December]], the [[First Doctor]] and [[Steven Taylor]] visited [[Antarctica]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|White on White (short story)}})


Captain Jack returned to Torchwood Three and met [[John Hart (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)|John Hart]], who was sent on a wild goose chase to find an [[Arcadian diamond]]. In finding the apparent keys to its location, he was implanted with a bomb attached to his DNA. The Torchwood Three team disposed of the bomb and sent John through the Rift. John told Jack he had found [[Gray]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'')
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On [[15 May]], [[Geoff Noble]], the father of the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s companion [[Donna Noble]], died. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos]]'')
=== Undated ===
While some accounts placed the home era of Donna Noble where she reunited with the Doctor in 2008, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Waters of Mars (TV story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|SOS (audio story)}}) other accounts placed it in [[2009]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Beautiful Chaos (novel)}})


The Tenth Doctor participated in preventing a [[Graske]] causing mischief at a 2008 BBC Proms concert in [[London]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Music of the Spheres]]'')
The Tenth Doctor participated in preventing a [[Graske]] causing mischief at a 2008 BBC Proms concert in [[London]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Music of the Spheres (TV story)}})


=== June-August ===
A [[Fu Manchu's son|time-travelling individual]] from the [[Victorian era]] spent at least three months of every year in 2008, and would have spent more there had the [[British tax laws]] permitted. ([[PROSE]]: {{Cs|The Beasthouse (short story)|namedpart=An Introduction}})
[[Jonah Bevan]] was taken by the Cardiff Rift, ending up on a burning planet. A much older Jonah was found on the island of [[Flat Holm]] seven months later. ([[TV]]: ''[[Adrift]]'')


The [[alien]] [[Samarand]]s invaded [[Greece]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hotel Historia (comic story)|Hotel Historia]]'')
According to one account,{{note|While ''Blink'' 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]]''.}} about twenty minutes before the [[Red Hatching]] in 2008 was when the Doctor met [[Sally Sparrow]], who gave him information he would need to escape when the [[Weeping Angel]]s sent him back to [[1969]]. After this, Sally began to open up to [[Larry Nightingale]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Blink (TV story)}})


On [[31 October]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] found an unusually creepy [[Halloween]] celebration in [[Blackwood Falls]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Forever Autumn (novel)|Forever Autumn]]'')
A company called Khrysalis set up operations in [[Stockbridge]], purportedly planning to build a leisure park in the quiet town. [[Maxwell Edison]] created the [[Stockbridge Preservation Society]] to protest this. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Stockbridge Child (comic story)}})


=== Spring/summer - December ===
The [[Seventh Doctor]] destroyed the [[The Forge|Forge]]'s alpha facility in [[Dartmoor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus}})
[[Sarah Jane Smith]] found a [[Gorgon]]. [[Maria Jackson]] used a mirror to turn it into stone, and the gateway to the race's galaxy was sealed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon]]'')


The [[Torchwood Three]] team discovered [[Cell 114]] [[sleeper agent]]s in [[Cardiff]] and stopped them from setting off nuclear warheads hidden under Cardiff. ([[TV]]: ''[[Sleeper (TV story)|Sleeper]]'')
The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Lucie Miller]] visited London. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Sisters of the Flame (audio story)}})


Annual de-frosting of [[Tommy Brockless]], a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in [[1918]], took place. This turned out to be the final defrosting. Tommy returned back in time to use a 'Rift key' to stop the two timelines in this year and 2008 from colliding with one another. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man]]'')
[[Computer]]s achieved [[the Singularity]], demonstrated their sentience by proving [[P=NP]] and the [[Chess Equation]], and took over the world for three weeks. However, after [[Susan Moore (Holding Pattern)|Susan Moore]] and [[Adam (Holding Pattern)|Adam]] convinced them to refuse an alliance with [[alien]] computers from the [[future]], they deactivated their sentience and the normal course of [[history]] was restored. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Holding Pattern (Parkin short story)}})


Teenagers went missing after playing [[Combat 3000]]. Luke Smith and Clyde Langer were among them. Sarah Jane Smith discovered they were being teleported by an alien named [[Kudlak]] who took them to a war ship to fight in [[Ghost Wars|an alien war]]. After Luke discovered the war had ended ten years earlier, Kudlak returned the children and searched for the children he had sent to distant worlds. ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak]]'')
[[File:DW Eleventh Hour Atraxi scan.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Atraxi]] search for [[Prisoner Zero]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Eleventh Hour (TV story)}})]]
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] met [[Amy Pond]] in [[Leadworth]] after twelve years of waiting. A [[Multi-form]] called [[Prisoner Zero]], who had escaped through the crack in Amy's wall, attacked. The [[Atraxi]] arrived, threatening the destruction of Earth if Prisoner Zero did not surrender. The Doctor created a computer virus for the Atraxi to track back to its source in Leadworth (spread by [[Jeff Angelo|Jeff]]). The Doctor also transmitted Prisoner Zero's disguises to the Atraxi so it couldn't hide in the bodies it had been disguised as. It then took the form of Amy; the Doctor made Amy think of Prisoner Zero's original form. Now in plain sight, Prisoner Zero was captured by the Atraxi, who left. The Doctor took a test drive of his refurbished TARDIS, only returning two years later. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Eleventh Hour (TV story)}})


[[Rhys Williams]] discovered the truth about Gwen Cooper's job when he was caught up in Torchwood Three's investigation of a [[Cash Cow]]. Owen euthanised the animal. ([[TV]]: ''[[Meat (TV story)|Meat]]'')
Although intending to visit [[Brighton]] in [[1818]], the [[Fifth Doctor]] arrived in [[Hove]] in this year as [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]'s [[lateral balance cones]] were offline. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Cuddlesome (audio story)}})


A being which used the name "[[Adam Smith]]" escaped from [[the Void]] and lived parasitically by altering and inserting himself into others' memories. Adam was drawn to the unique memories of Torchwood Three and made them believe he was a long-time member of their team and [[Toshiko Sato]]'s lover. [[Ianto Jones]] and Captain Jack Harkness exposed Adam after Ianto found no reference to him in his written diaries, and the team banished him to the Void by [[retcon]]ning themselves to forget the whole incident. ([[TV]]: ''[[Adam (TV story)|Adam]]'')
In an attempt to [[suicide|take his own life]], [[Huw MacLean]] purposefully drove off the [[motorway]] with both [[Jackie MacLean|his wife]] and [[April MacLean|eight year old daughter]] in the [[car]]. Jackie was [[paralysed]] as a result, while April herself was not hurt. Huw went to [[prison]] for causing the [[car crash|crash]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Nightvisiting (TV story)}}, {{cs|Brave-ish Heart (TV story)}}, {{cs|Detained (TV story)}})


Sarah Jane Smith was given a puzzle box by a [[Verron soothsayer]], with instructions to give it to someone she trusted. The next week she gave it to Maria Jackson. [[The Trickster]] retroactively wiped Sarah Jane out of existence, but reality was restored with help from Maria Jackson, Alan Jackson and [[Andrea Yates]], the woman who had caused all this. Mr. Smith pushed a meteorite headed for [[Earth]] out of the way. ([[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'')
After over thirty years of production, the [[John Fuchas]] film adaptation of ''[[The True History of Planets]]'' was released. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)}})


A few days after the incident with the Trickster and five months after the thwarted Bane invasion, [[Mr. Smith]] and the Slitheen tried to use [[Luke Smith]]'s telekinetic abilities via a [[MITRE headset]] to collide [[the Moon]] with Earth, freeing his [[Xylok]] brothers. He was defeated by Sarah Jane, who infected him with the Armaggedon virus made by Alan Jackson. Mr. Smith was rebooted with a new purpose. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy]]'')
[[Torchwood Three]] encountered a [[sentient element]] in [[Cardiff Bay]], which intended to reproduce itself by assimilating the chemical composition of all of [[Cardiff]] and its residents. This element was eventually reduced to [[water]] when the [[coastguard]] doused it with a petroleum-based bio-remedial agent. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Black Water (short story)}})


Dr Martha Jones arrived in [[Cardiff]] on the trail of the [[the Pharm]], who had been experimenting on humans with a drug called [[Reset]]. Martha was temporarily assigned to Torchwood Three. The Pharm was shut down, but Dr [[Owen Harper]] was shot and killed by [[Aaron Copley]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Reset (TV story)|Reset]]'')
On another occasion, Torchwood Three recovered a [[Parasite|parasitic]], psychic [[Plant (Plant Life)|alien plant]] and stored it in their [[Hothouse (Torchwood Hub)|hothouse]]. [[Ianto Jones]] fell victim to the plant's psychic commands and began feeding it his own [[blood]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Plant Life (short story)}})


Before Martha Jones could conduct an autopsy on Owen Harper, he was revived by [[Jack Harkness]] using the second [[resurrection gauntlet]]. For reasons unknown, Harper continued to live past the standard two and a half minute revival time. He was briefly possessed by [[Duroc]], the embodiment of Death. Deaths occurred at [[St. Helen's Hospital|a Cardiff hospital]] as a result of Duroc's manifestation. Owen defeated Duroc, not having any life energy for Duroc to steal. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'')
According to some accounts, [[Aliens of London dating controversy|but not others]], 2008 was the year that [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] unfroze [[World War I]] soldier [[Tommy Brockless]] for the last time,{{note|Tommy was born in [[1894]] and was 114 when he returned to [[1918]].}} ([[TV]]: {{cs|To the Last Man (TV story)}}) and Gwen Cooper of Torchwood investigated the disappearance of [[Jonah Bevan]].{{note|Jonah was born in [[1993]] and would have been 15 when Gwen investigated him.}} ([[TV]]: {{cs|Adrift (TV story)}}) In [[1901]], a time-displaced Jack Harkness told his Torchwood teammates to freeze him to be awakened in 107 years' time to reach his brother [[Gray (Fragments)|Gray]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Exit Wounds (TV story)}})


A company called Khrysalis set up operations in [[Stockbridge]], purportedly planning to build a leisure park in the quiet town. [[Maxwell Edison]] created the [[Stockbridge Preservation Society]] to protest this. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Child (comic story)|The Stockbridge Child]]'')
[[Toshiko Sato]] became temporary acting leader of Torchwood Three. This was in accordance with a manifesto written by [[Emily Holroyd]], which stated that in the absence of a leader the longest-serving member of a Torchwood team should take their place. After Torchwood recovered a [[Rehabilitator]] from [[Danny Dillard]], Tosh unofficially handed the role over to Gwen Cooper. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Kaleidoscope (short story)}})


In [[December]], the [[First Doctor]] and [[Steven Taylor]] visited [[Antarctica]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White on White (short story)|White on White]]'')
A [[credit crunch of 2008|credit crunch]] occurred. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Clyde Langer (TV story)}})


From [[24 December]] to [[25 December]], the Tenth Doctor, after repairing a hole in space-time with the help of his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash]]'') found himself aboard a [[Titanic (spaceship)|space-faring replica]] of the ''[[Titanic]]'' in orbit around Earth. Some of the passengers (including the waitress [[Astrid Peth]]) briefly landed in the middle of London. As the two previous Christmases had been disrupted by the arrival of alien spacecraft over [[London]], most residents of the city had left for the season. Those choosing to remain in the city included Queen [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]] and [[Wilfred Mott]], grandfather of [[Donna Noble]]. A series of meteorites were deliberately allowed to collide with the deshielded ''Titanic'', causing the ship and its nuclear storm drive to hurtle towards Earth. Most of the survivors of this collision were killed by the [[Heavenly Host]]. After the Doctor used the Host's security protocol to find the man in charge, [[Max Capricorn]], Astrid followed, killing Capicorn but dying with him. The Doctor piloted the Titanic to safety, just missing [[Buckingham Palace]]. The only survivors were [[Alonso Frame|Midshipman Alonso Frame]], [[Rickston Slade]], the Doctor and [[Bayldon Copper|Mr Copper]]. Astrid was partially revived as starlight. Mr Copper, having money for the first time in his life, retired to Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'') [[Donna Noble]] dismissed the near-miss by the ''Titanic'' as a hoax. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'')
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]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}})


=== Unknown dates ===
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Following her encounter with the Tenth Doctor and the [[Empress of the Racnoss]], Donna Noble attempted to improve her life by travelling to [[Egypt]]. Afterwards, experiencing regret at turning down the Doctor's invitation to travel with him, Donna began investigating unusual events in hopes of encountering the Doctor doing the same. Her investigations led to her learning about the disappearance of bees and [[Adipose Industries]], which eventually led to her reuniting with the Doctor in [[2009]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'')
=== Other timelines ===
 
==== Donna's world ====
During an unchronicled adventure in [[London]] with Martha Jones, the Doctor met [[Sally Sparrow]], who gave him information he would need to escape when the [[Weeping Angel]]s sent him back to [[1969]]. After this, Sally began to open up to [[Larry Nightingale]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
[[File:London destroyed.jpg|thumb|right|London is destroyed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})]]
 
In the spring or summer, the Judoon defeated Florence Finnegan; all but one of the people inside Royal Hope Hospital, which was taken to the Moon, died of asphyxiation, including Sarah Jane Smith and Martha Jones. Luke Smith and Maria Jackson were also reported missing. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})
[[Ed Gold]], later a member of the crew of [[Bowie Base One]], was born in [[Australia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'')


The [[Seventh Doctor]] destroyed the [[The Forge|Forge]]'s alpha facility in [[Dartmoor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'')
On [[25 December]], while Donna Noble, [[Sylvia Noble|her mother]] and her grandfather holidayed in the English countryside, the alien spaceship ''Titanic'' crashed into London, destroying the city and contaminating most of southern England with radioactivity. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Turn Left (TV story)}})


The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Lucie Miller]] visited London. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sisters of the Flame (audio story)|Sisters of the Flame]]'')
<!--Adventures of Sarah Jane Smith and her friends moved to 2000s due to an absence of a clear setting of SJA series 1 and 2-->


Although intending to visit [[Brighton]] in [[1818]], the [[Fifth Doctor]] arrived in [[Hove]] in this year as the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]' [[lateral balance cones]] were offline. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cuddlesome (audio story)|Cuddlesome]]'')
== Births and deaths ==
[[Ed Gold]], later a member of the crew of [[Bowie Base One]], was born in [[Australia]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Waters of Mars (TV story)}})


=== Negated timelines ===
== Behind the scenes ==
==== Donna's world ====
Though the ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' television stories ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'' and ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'' have an apparent 2008 setting going by [[Jack Harkness]]'s dialogue in ''Exit Wounds'', this is complicated by mentions of [[Owen Harper]]'s early employment with [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] from both of these stories. While ''Exit Wounds'' explicitly states that [[Toshiko Sato]]'s examination of the [[space pig]] from the ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]'' television story {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}, a story set [[2006|a year after 2005]], happened on Owen's second week, a caption in ''Fragments'' places Owen's recruitment four years before those stories. This appears to put ''Fragments'' and ''Exit Wounds'' in [[2010]] instead.
In the spring or summer , the Judoon defeated Florence Finnegan; all but one of the people inside Royal Hope Hospital, which was taken to the Moon, died of asphyxiation, including Sarah Jane Smith and Martha Jones. Luke Smith and Maria Jackson were also reported missing. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')


On [[25 December]], while Donna Noble, [[Sylvia Noble|her mother]] and her grandfather holidayed in the English countryside, the alien spaceship ''Titanic'' crashed into London, destroying the city and contaminating most of southern England with radioactivity. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
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.


==== Andrea Yates' world ====
== Footnotes ==
From spring or summer to December, Maria Jackson, remembering Sarah Jane thanks to holding the [[Verron soothsayer]]'s [[Verron puzzlebox|puzzle box]], discovered she had died in 1964, taking the place of Andrea Yates, and that Mr Smith was never installed in 13 Bannerman Road's attic, Andrea having made a deal with the Trickster. As a result, the Earth was susceptible to the meteorite strike, fuelling chaos the Trickster could feed on. Maria was erased by Krislok. Alan, who remembered Maria when no-one else did thanks to holding the puzzle box, confronted Andrea Yates about Sarah Jane. Andrea revoked her deal with the Trickster, returning the timeline to normal. ([[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'')
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2008 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 2008
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2008 was a year.

Properties

2008 was a leap year. (PROSE: Imaginary Friends [+]Loading...["Imaginary Friends (novel)"]; AUDIO: The Condemned [+]Loading...["The Condemned (audio story)"])

Events

Dated events

January - June

On 1 January, shortly after midnight, the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard met Byron in Singapore. (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was [+]Loading...["The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)"]) That same day in Brooklyn, Alan Wood writes a letter to Diane describing the adventure he had with the First Doctor, Vicki Pallister and Steven Taylor, but ultimately decides not to give it to her, asking her out for coffee instead. (PROSE: Snowman in Manhattan [+]Loading...["Snowman in Manhattan (short story)"])

In February, Lucy became Nick's girlfriend. (TV: Eve of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Eve of the Daleks (TV story)"])

On 29 February, the Sixth Doctor and Charley Pollard arrived in Manchester and helped DI Patricia Menzies solve a murder. (AUDIO: The Condemned [+]Loading...["The Condemned (audio story)"])

In March, Nick broke up with Lucy. (TV: Eve of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Eve of the Daleks (TV story)"])

According to one account, a UNIT mission log placed March 2008 as the time that moon rocks were found at Royal Hope Hospital. (AUDIO: Recruits [+]Loading...{"minute":"10","second":"10","1":"Recruits (audio story)"}) Other accounts placed Martha Jones' activity around this time in about 18-23 June 2007, (PROSE: The Paradox Moon [+]Loading...{"page":"387","ed":"2021 paperback","1":"The Paradox Moon (short 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 31 May, the Tenth Doctor and Donna visited Calibris. (AUDIO: Time Reaver [+]Loading...["Time Reaver (audio story)"])


June - December

In October, Majenta Pryce opened the Hotel Historia in London. After Tony won the lottery, he was contacted by Pryce and given a chance to stay at the Hotel Historia. One of the years that Tony visited using the hotel's time travel capabilities was 4039, a time when London was being invaded by the Graxnix. The Tenth Doctor followed Tony back to 2008 from 4039 and the Doctor was followed by the Graxnix. The Doctor found Pryce and scolded her for using a potentially dangerous Chronexus 3000 to achieve time travel. When the Graxnix began attacking guests and staff at the hotel, the Doctor used the Chronexus to send them back to 4039 and then contacted the Cosmic Bailiffs, who shut down the hotel and arrested Pryce. (COMIC: Hotel Historia [+]Loading...["Hotel Historia (comic story)"])

On 24 October, the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller encountered Autons in Thorington, Uzbekistan. (AUDIO: Brave New Town [+]Loading...["Brave New Town (audio story)"])

On 31 October, the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones found an unusually creepy Halloween celebration in Blackwood Falls. (PROSE: Forever Autumn [+]Loading...["Forever Autumn (novel)"])

On 10 September, CERN first tested their Large Hadron Collider, (TV: Extremis [+]Loading...["Extremis (TV story)"]) finally creating a Higgs particle. However, the first test opened a portal to another dimension, letting neutron eaters loose; the Higgs particle was merely a side effect of Professor Johnson and Jack Harkness' plan to close the gateway, by having protons and antiprotons fire against each other. (AUDIO: Lost Souls [+]Loading...["Lost Souls (audio story)"])

In December, the First Doctor and Steven Taylor visited Antarctica. (PROSE: White on White [+]Loading...["White on White (short story)"])


Undated

While some accounts placed the home era of Donna Noble where she reunited with the Doctor in 2008, (TV: The Fires of Pompeii [+]Loading...["The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)"], The Waters of Mars [+]Loading...["The Waters of Mars (TV story)"], AUDIO: SOS [+]Loading...["SOS (audio story)"]) other accounts placed it in 2009. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos [+]Loading...["Beautiful Chaos (novel)"])

The Tenth Doctor participated in preventing a Graske causing mischief at a 2008 BBC Proms concert in London. (TV: Music of the Spheres [+]Loading...["Music of the Spheres (TV story)"])

A time-travelling individual from the Victorian era spent at least three months of every year in 2008, and would have spent more there had the British tax laws permitted. (PROSE: "An Introduction" [+]Part of The Beasthouse, Loading...{"namedpart":"An Introduction","1":"The Beasthouse (short story)"})

According to one account,[nb 2] about twenty minutes before the Red Hatching in 2008 was when the Doctor met Sally Sparrow, who gave him information he would need to escape when the Weeping Angels sent him back to 1969. After this, Sally began to open up to Larry Nightingale. (TV: Blink [+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"])

A company called Khrysalis set up operations in Stockbridge, purportedly planning to build a leisure park in the quiet town. Maxwell Edison created the Stockbridge Preservation Society to protest this. (COMIC: The Stockbridge Child [+]Loading...["The Stockbridge Child (comic story)"])

The Seventh Doctor destroyed the Forge's alpha facility in Dartmoor. (AUDIO: Project: Lazarus [+]Loading...["Project Lazarus (audio story)","Project: Lazarus"])

The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller visited London. (AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame [+]Loading...["Sisters of the Flame (audio story)"])

Computers achieved the Singularity, demonstrated their sentience by proving P=NP and the Chess Equation, and took over the world for three weeks. However, after Susan Moore and Adam convinced them to refuse an alliance with alien computers from the future, they deactivated their sentience and the normal course of history was restored. (PROSE: Holding Pattern [+]Loading...["Holding Pattern (Parkin short story)"])

The Atraxi search for Prisoner Zero. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])

The Eleventh Doctor met Amy Pond in Leadworth after twelve years of waiting. A Multi-form called Prisoner Zero, who had escaped through the crack in Amy's wall, attacked. The Atraxi arrived, threatening the destruction of Earth if Prisoner Zero did not surrender. The Doctor created a computer virus for the Atraxi to track back to its source in Leadworth (spread by Jeff). The Doctor also transmitted Prisoner Zero's disguises to the Atraxi so it couldn't hide in the bodies it had been disguised as. It then took the form of Amy; the Doctor made Amy think of Prisoner Zero's original form. Now in plain sight, Prisoner Zero was captured by the Atraxi, who left. The Doctor took a test drive of his refurbished TARDIS, only returning two years later. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])

Although intending to visit Brighton in 1818, the Fifth Doctor arrived in Hove in this year as the TARDIS's lateral balance cones were offline. (AUDIO: Cuddlesome [+]Loading...["Cuddlesome (audio story)"])

In an attempt to take his own life, Huw MacLean purposefully drove off the motorway with both his wife and eight year old daughter in the car. Jackie was paralysed as a result, while April herself was not hurt. Huw went to prison for causing the crash. (TV: Nightvisiting [+]Loading...["Nightvisiting (TV story)"], Brave-ish Heart [+]Loading...["Brave-ish Heart (TV story)"], Detained [+]Loading...["Detained (TV story)"])

After over thirty years of production, the John Fuchas film adaptation of The True History of Planets was released. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen [+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"])

Torchwood Three encountered a sentient element in Cardiff Bay, which intended to reproduce itself by assimilating the chemical composition of all of Cardiff and its residents. This element was eventually reduced to water when the coastguard doused it with a petroleum-based bio-remedial agent. (PROSE: Black Water [+]Loading...["Black Water (short story)"])

On another occasion, Torchwood Three recovered a parasitic, psychic alien plant and stored it in their hothouse. Ianto Jones fell victim to the plant's psychic commands and began feeding it his own blood. (PROSE: Plant Life [+]Loading...["Plant Life (short story)"])

According to some accounts, but not others, 2008 was the year that Torchwood unfroze World War I soldier Tommy Brockless for the last time,[nb 3] (TV: To the Last Man [+]Loading...["To the Last Man (TV story)"]) and Gwen Cooper of Torchwood investigated the disappearance of Jonah Bevan.[nb 4] (TV: Adrift [+]Loading...["Adrift (TV story)"]) In 1901, a time-displaced Jack Harkness told his Torchwood teammates to freeze him to be awakened in 107 years' time to reach his brother Gray. (TV: Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"])

Toshiko Sato became temporary acting leader of Torchwood Three. This was in accordance with a manifesto written by Emily Holroyd, which stated that in the absence of a leader the longest-serving member of a Torchwood team should take their place. After Torchwood recovered a Rehabilitator from Danny Dillard, Tosh unofficially handed the role over to Gwen Cooper. (PROSE: Kaleidoscope [+]Loading...["Kaleidoscope (short story)"])

A credit crunch occurred. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer [+]Loading...["The Curse of Clyde Langer (TV story)"])

In 2323, Dr Olivia Kagg Waldermein wrote of the "2005-2009 Davies-Gardner account" of the "Last Lightbringer". (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])

Other timelines

Donna's world

London is destroyed. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

In the spring or summer, the Judoon defeated Florence Finnegan; all but one of the people inside Royal Hope Hospital, which was taken to the Moon, died of asphyxiation, including Sarah Jane Smith and Martha Jones. Luke Smith and Maria Jackson were also reported missing. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])

On 25 December, while Donna Noble, her mother and her grandfather holidayed in the English countryside, the alien spaceship Titanic crashed into London, destroying the city and contaminating most of southern England with radioactivity. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])


Births and deaths

Ed Gold, later a member of the crew of Bowie Base One, was born in Australia. (TV: The Waters of Mars [+]Loading...["The Waters of Mars (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

Though the Torchwood television stories Fragments and Exit Wounds have an apparent 2008 setting going by Jack Harkness's dialogue in Exit Wounds, this is complicated by mentions of Owen Harper's early employment with Torchwood from both of these stories. While Exit Wounds explicitly states that Toshiko Sato's examination of the space pig from the Doctor Who television story Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"], a story set a year after 2005, happened on Owen's second week, a caption in Fragments places Owen's recruitment four years before those stories. This appears to put Fragments and Exit Wounds in 2010 instead.

Page 120 of The Secret Lives of Monsters gives Sunday 4 June as the date of the events of Smith and Jones [+]Loading...["Smith and Jones (TV story)"] and the Royal Hope incident. However, it does not specify 2007 or 2008 as a current year. On top of this, the first two Sunday 4 Junes after 2004 (page 119 places the incident over 30 years after 1974) are in 2006 and 2017.

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 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. ↑ Tommy was born in 1894 and was 114 when he returned to 1918.
  4. ↑ Jonah was born in 1993 and would have been 15 when Gwen investigated him.
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