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==History of the [[Doctor Who Universe]]==
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=== [[February]] ===
'''2005''' was a [[year]]. It was largely significant for a large-scale [[Operation Mannequin|Auton invasion]] on [[Earth]] which occurred in [[March]].
* Annual de-frosting of [[Tommy Brockless]], a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in [[1918]]. ([[TW]]:''[[To the Last Man]]''.) (Date: [[WEB]]:''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.co.uk]]'')


=== [[March]] ===
== Events ==
*Monday March 2005 - [[Ninth Doctor|The Doctor]] is in London pursuing the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. His investigations take him to the [[Henrik's]] department store where he saves [[Rose Tyler]] from an [[Auton]] attack. He then blows up the building. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
=== Dated ===
*Tuesday March 2005 - With the help of his new companion [[Rose Tyler]], the [[Ninth Doctor|the Doctor]] stops a third attempt to conquer [[Earth]] by the [[Nestene Consciousness]], recently reduced from a marauding race of conquerors to desperate refugees by the [[Last Great Time War]]. Rose joins the Doctor on his travels. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
==== January-June ====
*Tuesday March 2005 - [[Clive Finch]]'s website "Who is Doctor Who?", dedicated to uncovering the mystery of a man seen in historical photographs going back more than a century, is left without a webmaster when Clive is killed by [[Auton]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
On [[1 January]] 2005, [[Rose Tyler]] encountered a man who predicted she would have a great year. Unbeknownst to her, he was the [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]] of [[the Doctor]], whom she had not yet met in her own timeline. After she left, the Doctor succumbed to [[radiation]] poisoning after spending an unknown amount of time holding back the regeneration and staggered towards [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], encouraged by a vision of [[Ood Sigma]]. After dematerialising the TARDIS, he regenerated into his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}})
*Wednesday March 2005 - Rose contacts her mother [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]] from the year [[5,000,000,000]] using the [[superphone]] and makes a brief return trip to her own time ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World]]''), but thereafter she disappears until [[2006]]. After this time her boyfriend, [[Mickey Smith]], is initially held as a suspect in her possible murder; Mickey subsequently takes over running the "Who is Doctor Who?" website. ([[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'')
*Some time after this, [[London]], cabs are replaced with motorcycles in an attempt to relieve the increasing traffic congestion ([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'')


===[[June]]===
[[UNIT]] released a [[press briefing]] about [[Skaniska Incident|the loss]] of [[13 (number)|thirteen]] UNIT personnel during [[operational manoeuvres]] in the [[Russian Steppes]], [[embargo]]ed until [[31 January]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|UNIT's Position on the Skaniska Incident (short story)}})
*''[[Der Speigel]]'' magazine gives away a personal organiser with every issue ([[NA]]: ''[[Transit]]'')


===Unknown date===
In mid-[[February]], [[Clive Finch]] took a [[photograph]] of himself with his wife [[Caroline Finch|Carole]] and two children, [[Michael Finch|Michael]] and [[Ben Finch|Ben]], at [[Thorpe Park]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}})
*The [[FLIPback Project]] begins at the [[Snowcap base]] at [[Earth]]'s [[South Pole]], at the same time that [[Cybermen]] left over from the attack on Earth in [[1986]] once more become active. ([[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg]]'')
*[[London]] police, including DI [[Billy Shipton]], begin investigating the disappearance of a number of people who visited an old abandoned house called [[Wester Drumlins]]. The police begin collecting as evidence the vehicles left abandoned by the disappeared, at one point obtaining a [[the Doctor's TARDIS|police box]] from the scene. The case would remain unsolved until [[2007]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'')


==Real World==
[[Geoff Cliff]] met the [[Ninth Doctor]] in an [[HMV]] on a [[Tuesday]] in early 2005. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}})
=== [[January]] ===
* [[EDA]]: ''[[To the Slaughter]]'' is first published. With the new ''Doctor Who'' TV series about to premiere, BBC Books has decided to retire both the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] and [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] lines, in favor of a new series of novels featuring the [[Ninth Doctor]]. One more EDA book will follow in June, while the PDA series will continue to the end of 2005 (one of which will be an Eighth Doctor story).
* [[BFA]]: ''[[The Juggernauts]]'' is first released.
* [[BFU]]: ''[[Snake Head]]'' is first released.
* [[29th January|29]] - [[Big Finish Productions]] announces the production of three standalone hardback novels as part of its [[Big Finish New Worlds]] range. These are [[BFNW]]: ''[[Wildthyme on Top]]'', [[BFNW]]: ''[[Project Valhalla|Project: Valhalla]]'' and [[BFNW]]: ''[[The Coming of the Queen]]''. Big Finish also announces that it will be producing two single audio stories featuring [[Iris Wildthyme]]
* [[Sophie Okonedo]], who provided the voice of [[Alison Cheney]] in the webcast [[WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka]]'', is nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in the 2004 film, ''Hotel Rwanda''. Okonedo becomes, to date, the only actor to have played a Doctor or companion in an official ''Doctor Who'' production to have been nominated for an Oscar.  She ultimately did not win.


=== [[February]] ===
Beginning sometime around [[March]], [[Clive Finch]] released an open call on his conspiracy website, [[Doctor Who?]], for anyone who had seen [[the Doctor]] to contact him and tell their story. He got replies from [[:Category:Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk|hundreds of people]], including [[Peri Brown]], [[Arthur Dent]], [[Mike Yates|Mr Yates]], and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. Some of the readers, such as [[r willimas]], [[Matt (Have You Seen This Man?)|Matt]], [[Benjamin McKenzie]], [[Edward J Green]] and [[Chris Martin]] met the [[Ninth Doctor]] on the very same day, or up to a [[week]] prior, to when they wrote to Clive. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}})


* [[PDA]]: ''[[Match of the Day]]'' is first published. Final [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] novel to feature the [[Fourth Doctor]] and, as of 2009, this is the most recent original Fourth Doctor novel. The PDA series is suspended until July to allow for the premiere and broadcast of the first season of the revived series.
[[Ianto Jones]] joined [[Torchwood One]] in [[March]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|New Girl (audio story)}}) prior to the [[Auton]] attack. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}})
* [[BFA]]:''[[The Game]]'' is first released.
* [[5th February |05]] - At the conclusion of a ''Saturday Night Live'' sketch on public access television pledge drives, TV celebrity Paris Hilton dons the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s hat and scarf and makes reference to the Daleks and the TARDIS. The sketch is widely circulated among SF fandom, in part via the recently introduced video-sharing website, YouTube. In the coming years, YouTube would become a major outlet for the distribution of fan-made music videos, clips and other material related to ''Doctor Who'' and its spinoffs.
* [[10th February|10]] - [[Leonard Trolley]] (Supt. [[Reynolds]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Faceless Ones]]'') dies in England.
* [[16th February|16]] - The TARDIS Index File Wikia website is launched.


=== [[March]] ===
Prior to Rose handing in her lottery money to a syndicate at work, [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]] got a phone call from Rose in the middle of the day on a [[Wednesday]]; Rose was using the [[superphone]] to call Jackie from the year [[5,000,000,000]] after she had already left (from Rose's perspective). ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}})


* [[BFA]]: ''[[Dreamtime]]'' is first released.
[[File:Auton fires Rose.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Auton]]s attack. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}})]]
* [[ST]]: ''[[Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins]]'' is first published.
On [[4 March]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}}) the [[Ninth Doctor]] was in London pursuing the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. His investigations took him to the [[Henrik's]] [[department store]], where he saved [[Rose Tyler]] from an [[Auton]] attack. He then blew up the building. [[5 March|The following day]], Rose investigated the identity of the Ninth Doctor, talking to conspiracy theorist Clive Finch about [[Doctor Who?|his website]] about the Doctor. Rose's boyfriend, [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]], was abducted by Autons and replaced with an [[Mickey Smith (Auton)|Auton duplicate]]. Using the head of this Auton, the Doctor tracked the Nestene Consciousness' signal. It had been rendered a scavenger without protein planets by a war the Doctor fought in. Rose rescued Mickey (and later, the Doctor) and destroyed the Consciousness with [[anti-plastic]]. She joined the Doctor on his travels. Meanwhile, Clive was [[kill]]ed by the Autons as they assaulted London. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}, {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}) [[Elton Pope]] was also out shopping in the city centre at the time and survived the attack. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Love & Monsters (TV story)}}) The invasion, which would be subsequently covered up as a "[[terrorist]] attack", had spread to at least [[Cardiff]], where the city centre was brought to its knees as [[Barry Jackson]] used it as a cover for his murder of the [[Lord Mayor of Cardiff]], [[Roy Llewellyn]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}}) Another account dated [[Operation Mannequin]] to [[26 March]]. UNIT issued a [[press briefing]], [[embargo]]ed until [[28 March]], wherein they ignored the allegations that the incident had anything to do with terrorists or robots, and denied any confirmation of alien life. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|UNIT's Position on The London Incident (short story)}}, {{cs|Operation Mannequin (short story)}})
* [[BFU]]: ''[[The Longest Night]]'' is first released.
* This month, promotion for the upcoming return of ''Doctor Who'' to television enters high gear.
* [[8th March|08]] - [[Big Finish Productions]] announces it have agreed a deal with [[Paul Cornell]] allowing the company to continue its range of [[Bernice Summerfield]] books and audio CDs for the next few years.
* [[9th March|09]] - BBC Radio 4's ''Today'' runs a feature on the new series.
* [[12th March|12]] - Whether by coincidence or by design (as the impending change of lead actor was already known behind the scenes), this week's cover of ''[[Radio Times]]'' features yet-to-be-announced [[Tenth Doctor]] actor [[David Tennant]] in a very Doctor-like pose promoting the mini-series ''Casanova'' - right next to a headline promoting the return of ''Doctor Who''. This is the first of numerous ''Radio Times'' covers for Tennant over the next few years.
* [[22nd March|22]] - ''[[Project Who]]'' : ''Bigger on the Inside'', the first episode of a two-part behind-the-scenes documentary on the return of ''Doctor Who'', is first broadcast on [[BBC Radio 2]] (later released on the CD ''[[Project WHO?|Project: WHO?]]'').
* [[23rd March|23]] - [[Billie Piper]] interviewed on ''[[The Chris Moyles Show]]''  on [[BBC Radio 1]]
* [[25th March|25]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]] interviewed on ''[[Friday Night with Jonathan Ross]]''.
* [[26th March|26]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)| Rose]]'' is first broadcast, returning ''Doctor Who'' to television as a weekly series for the first time since 1989 and launching [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]], aka Season 27. [[Christopher Eccleston]] debuts as the [[Ninth Doctor]], along with [[Billie Piper]] as companion [[Rose Tyler]].
** In conjunction with the debut of the new series, BBC Three premieres its behind-the-scenes series, ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' the same night. A new episode of ''Confidential'' follows the broacast of each new episode of ''Doctor Who''.
** ''[[The Doctor Who Story]]'' Broadcast on [[UK Gold]].
** ''[[Radio Times]]'' features ''Doctor Who'' on its cover. With the arrival of the news series, the ''Radio Times'' begins featuring the series on a more frequent basis (something not seen since the early 1970s).
* [[29th March | 29]] - ''[[Project Who]]'': ''Reverse the Polarity'', part 2 of the [[BBC Radio 2]] documentary series, is first broadcast (later released on the CD ''[[Project WHO?|Project: WHO?]]'').
* [[30th March | 30]] - The [[BBC]] announces production to go ahead on a second series and a [[The Christmas Invasion|Christmas Special]].
** A publicity branch of the BBC prematurely announces that [[Christopher Eccleston]] will not be returning for a second series as [[the Doctor]], citing his desire to not be typecast. This reason is immediately denied by Eccleston and the BBC ultimately retracts it (as of 2009 he has never confirmed his reason for leaving the role). In his 2008 book ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] confirms that Eccleston's departure was intended to be kept secret until the final moments of [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''.


=== [[April]] ===
Shortly after the invasion, an Auton head that was recovered from the [[Queen's Arcade|Queen's Arcade shopping centre]], the garbage bin that swallowed Mickey, and a secondary bomb discovered in Henrik's were taken and stored in the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Security Bot (video game)}})


* [[BFA]]: ''[[Three's a Crowd]]'' is first released.
Rose made a brief return trip to London in her own time, where the Doctor told her about the [[Fall of Gallifrey|loss]] of his [[Gallifrey|homeworld]] and [[Time Lord|his people]] before the pair went to get [[chips]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}}) Rose was reported missing from her home on the Powell Estate since [[6 March]]. She returned a year later in [[March]] [[2006]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}) [[dalek (Rose sighting confirmed)|dalek]] had spotted the pair talking about chips and reported the sighting to [[Doctor Who?]] a year later. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose sighting confirmed (short story)}})
* [[BFG]]: ''[[Lies]]'' is first released. This audio drama features the landmark first meeting between the first two incarnations of [[Romana]], featuring [[Mary Tamm]] returning to the role of [[Romana I]].
* [[2nd April|2]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World]]'' is first broadcast.
* [[9th April|9]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'' is first broadcast. First appearance of [[the Rift]]; first revival-series story set in [[Wales]]; first appearance of [[Eve Myles]] in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise.  
* [[16th April| 16]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'' is first broadcast. This episode is significant for reintroducing [[UNIT]] (last referenced on television in [[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'') and for establishing that all modern-day stories in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise from this point on (spinoffs included) take place approximately one year ahead of their real-life broadcast date. First appearance of the [[Slitheen]]. For the first time since [[DW]]: ''[[The Gunfighters]]'', a multi-part story carries different episode titles.
** [[David Tennant]] is officially announced as the [[Tenth Doctor]].
* [[21st April | 21]] - [[THN]]: ''[[Echoes (Time Hunter|Echoes]]'' is first published.
* [[23rd April | 23]] - [[DW]]: ''[[World War Three]]'' is first broadcast.
* [[30th April | 30]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story) | Dalek]]'' is first broadcast. The [[Dalek]]s make their revived-series debut. [[Bruno Langley]] briefly joins the series as short-term companion [[Adam Mitchell]].
* The [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] in [[Canada]] begins airing the new series, the first time the CBC has aired ''Doctor Who'' since the mid-1960s. For the CBC broadcasts, Christopher Eccleston videotapes special introductions and promotions for a contest sponsored by ''TV Guide'', the first prize being a trip to London to visit the set of ''Doctor Who''. These broadcasts are promoted as the North American debut of the series, as no other broadcaster on the continent had yet picked up the revived series.


=== [[May]] ===
On [[10 March]], UNIT issued yet another press briefing, this time about a [[computer]] [[virus]] named "[[RUFFCUT]]". ([[PROSE]]:{{cs|Computer Virus File Sharing Alert (short story)}})


* [[BBC Books]] launches the [[BBC New Series Adventures|New Series Adventures]] line of original novels tying in with the new series; this line, featuring the [[Ninth Doctor]], replaces the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] and [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] lines, though both continue publishing briefly. The new line of books are published in hardcover and have a shorter word count than the EDA/PDA novels. The books are to be released three at a time. The first three releases are [[NSA]]: ''[[The Clockwise Man]]'', [[NSA]]: ''[[The Monsters Inside]]'', and [[NSA]]: ''[[Winner Takes All]]''.
For the rest of 2005, Mickey Smith lived with accusations that he had kidnapped or killed Rose Tyler. He was taken in for police questioning about her disappearance five times from early 2005 to early [[2006]]. [[Jackie Tyler]] fueled the mistrust of him around the [[Powell Estate]] with a "whisper campaign". Understandably, Jackie devoted considerable time to the search for her "missing" daughter. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}})
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Catch-1782]]'' is first released.
* [[ST]]: ''[[Short Trips: A Day in the Life]]'' is first published.
* [[BFG]]: ''[[Spirit]]'' is first released.
* [[BBCR]]: ''[[Project WHO?|Project: WHO?]]'' is first released by [[BBC Audio]]. This is a CD issue of the two-part [[BBC Radio]] documentary ''[[Project Who]]'' on the return of ''Doctor Who'', featuring interviews with [[Christopher Eccleston]], [[Billie Piper]] and others.
* [[7th May|7]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Long Game]]'' is first broadcast. [[Bruno Langley]] leaves the series as his character, [[Adam Mitchell]], becomes the first TV companion to be evicted.
* [[14th May|14]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'' is first broadcast.
* [[21st May|21]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'' is first broadcast. [[John Barrowman]] makes his first appearance as [[Jack Harkness]]. This episode, and part 2 the next week, are [[Steven Moffat]]'s first serious contributions to televised ''Doctor Who'' and will win the series its first Hugo Award.
* [[28th May|28]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'' is first broadcast.  [[Jack Harkness]] becomes a companion.


=== [[June]] ===
On [[22 March]], the [[North Eastern Daily Press]] reported that [[Chantelle (Weapons Grade Snake Oil)|Sharonda Arkley]] had shot four of her colleagues and put their bodies in caves along [[Blackhall Rocks]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)}})


* [[EDA]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'' is first published. This is the final release in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel series, as [[BBC Books]] prepares to move into publishing novels exclusively based upon the revived series. One further [[Eighth Doctor ]] novel will be published under the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] line.
In early 2005, UNIT issued one press briefing which noted the [[Daylight savings|upcoming transition]] to [[British Summertime]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Clocks Go Forward (short story)}})
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Unregenerate!]]'' is first released.
* [[BFG]]: ''[[Pandora (audio drama)|Pandora]]'' and [[BFG]]: ''[[Insurgency]]'' are first released.
* [[BFU]]: ''[[The Wasting]]'' is first released. Final episode of the spin-off series, ''[[U.N.I.T. (audio series)|U.N.I.T.]]''.
* [[BFBS]]: ''[[The Tree of Life]]'' is first published.
* [[FP]]: ''[[Warring States]]'' is first published.
* The [[BBC]] announces that a second [[The Runaway Bride|Christmas special]] has already been commissioned for [[2006]], as well as a third season for the new ''Doctor Who'' series.
* [[1st June|01]] - [[Geoffrey Toone]] ([[Hepesh]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon]]'' and [[Temmosus]] in ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'') dies in [[Wikipedia:Northwood |Northwood]], [[Wikipedia:Middlesex |Middlesex]], [[England]].
* [[4th June|04]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'' is first broadcast.
* [[8th June|08]] - [[Ed Bishop]] dies. He played [[Flint|General Flint]] in [[DWU]]: ''[[Full Fathom Five]]'' and is best known as Ed Straker in ''UFO'' and Captain Blue in ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons''.
* [[11th June|11]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'' is first broadcast. First reference to [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]].
* [[18th June|18]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' is first broadcast, concluding the first season of the revival of ''Doctor Who''. The [[Ninth Doctor]] regenerates into the [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]], introducing [[David Tennant]] and marking [[Christopher Eccleston]]'s final (to date) appearance as the Doctor. [[John Barrowman]] also leaves the series as a regular with this episode. The broadcast is followed by the final transmission of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'s'' first season.
**Post-production completed for [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''.


=== [[July]] ===
[[UNIT]] released an [[embargo]]ed [[press briefing]] on [[31 March]] 2005, filed by [[Staff Sergeant]] [[A. Frederick]], about [[Major]] [[A Highway]]'s plan to reorganise [[UNIT North America|UNIT]]'s pan-territorial activities in [[America]] into a single site operation, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)}}) the [[UNIT HQ, New York City|New York UNIT HQ]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Fountains of Forever (comic story)}})


* [[PDA]]: ''[[Island of Death]]'' is first published. Final PDA novel to feature the [[Third Doctor]] and last Third Doctor original novel to date. The PDA series returns to monthly releases for the remainder of the year as the final books in the line are published.
[[Steve Woolfall (in-universe)|Steve Woolfall]] responded to [[Doctor Who?]]'s request for sightings of the missing Rose Tyler, reporting that he had seen a [[girl]] that looked like her in the [[Grosvenor Museum]] in [[Chester]] that [[afternoon]] with a [[Tenth Doctor|chap]] that reminded him of "[[David Tennant (in-universe)|that Casanova bloke]]". Steve suggested that it might not have been the same girl but that it was strange nonetheless. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)|writer=Steve Woolfall}})
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Terror Firma]]'' is first released.
* [[MB]]: ''[[Coming to Dust|Coming to Dust: The True History of Faction Paradox Volume 1]]'' is first released. The [[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]] series is now being produced by [[Magic Bullet Productions]].
* [[21st July | 21]] - [[THN]]: ''[[Peculiar Lives]]'' is first published.
* [[25th July | 25]] - The BBC announces that [[Elisabeth Sladen]] will be returning to the role of [[Sarah Jane Smith]] for an upcoming episode of the revived ''Doctor Who's'' second series.


=== [[August]] ===
[[Angola]] suffered from an epidemic of the [[Marburg virus]] in early 2005, with a [[British]] news broadcast on [[26 March]] reporting that the [[death]] toll had risen to 120. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[One Rule (audio story)|One Rule]]'')


* [[PDA]]: ''[[Spiral Scratch]]'' (originally promoted under the title ''Future Nostalgia'') is first published. Final novel to date to feature the [[Sixth Doctor]].
As recounted by the [[Eighth Doctor]], the [[European Cup]] final was won by [[Liverpool]], led by [[Steven Gerrard]], who triumphed over [[A.C. Milan]] despite being 3-0 down at half time, having scored three goals in the second half before going on to win the match, marking Liverpool's fifth win of the European Cup in its history. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Something Inside (audio story)}})
* [[BFA]]: ''[[The Council of Nicaea]]'' is first released.
* [[BFG]]: ''[[Imperiatrix (audio drama)|Imperiatrix]]'' is first released.
* [[31st August|31]] - [[Michael Sheard]], who had countless roles in [[Doctor Who]], notably [[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', dies of cancer on the Isle of Wight.


=== [[September]] ===
The [[Neanderthal]] [[Das (Only Human)|Das]] was accidentally transported forward in time from [[24 May]] [[BC#Prehistory|29,185 BC]] to [[Bromley]] in 2005. Several weeks later, he and [[Anna Marie Dimitru|Anna Marie O'Grady]] were married in Bromley. The Ninth Doctor, Rose and [[Jack Harkness]] attended their wedding. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Only Human (novel)}})


* [[NSA]]: ''[[The Deviant Strain]]'', [[NSA]]: ''[[Only Human]]'', and [[NSA]]: ''[[The Stealers of Dreams]]'' are first published. To date, these are the last novels featuring the [[Ninth Doctor]] as [[BBC Books]] changes to novels featuring the [[Tenth Doctor]].
==== July-December ====
* [[PDA]]: ''[[Fear Itself]]'' is first published. This is the last novel to date to feature the [[Eighth Doctor]] and was the only time this incarnation was featured in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] line.
In [[November]], a ''[[Crimewatch]]'' episode on the [[Blackhall Rocks Multiple Murder]] was broadcast. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)}})
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Thicker Than Water]]'' is first released.
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Live 34]]'' is first released.
* [[ST]]: ''[[Short Trips: The Solar System]]'' is first published.
* [[BFC]]: ''[[Scorpius]]'' the first episode of a new [[Big Finish Productions]] spin-off series, ''[[Cyberman (audio series)|Cyberman]]'', is first released.
* [[5th September | 05]] - [[BBCR]]: ''[[Doctor Who at the BBC Volume 3]]'' is first released, including the first release of an unbroadcast [[Third Doctor]] audio mini-episode recorded for ''[[Glorious Goodwood]]''.
* [[12th September | 12]] - [[Ronald Leigh-Hunt]] (Commander [[Julian Radnor]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death]]'' and Commander [[Stevenson]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') dies.
* [[23rd September | 23]] - [[Roger Brierley]] ([[Trevor (The Daleks' Master Plan)|Trevor]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' and voice of [[Drathro]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]'') dies after suffering a heart attack.


=== [[October]] ===
On [[29 September]], while [[Rose Tyler]] was travelling with the [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Mickey Smith]] sent her an [[email]], asking where she was and if she was okay. On [[3 October]], Rose sent emails to both Mickey and [[Jackie Tyler|her mum]], telling them about her adventures. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Companion's Companion (novel)}}, {{cs|A Short History of Everyone (novel)}})


* [[PDA]]: ''[[World Game]]'' is first published. Final [[Second Doctor]] novel to date.
On [[22 December]], while in [[Sally Sparrow's aunt|her aunt]]'s house in [[Devon]], [[Sally Sparrow (What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow)|Sally Sparrow]] tore off a piece of wallpaper, revealing a message from [[1985]] asking for help. After later finding a photograph with the [[Ninth Doctor]] asking to look through the wallpaper again, she found another message leading her to play a video recording of the Doctor in 1985, the Doctor communicating to Sally through already having the conversation from Sally's uncompleted [[What I Did on My Christmas Holidays|Christmas homework]].
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Scaredy Cat]]'' is first released. 
* [[BFC]]: ''[[Fear]]'' is first released.
* [[18th October|18]] - [[John Hollis]] ([[Sondergaard]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Mutants]]'') dies from natural causes.
* [[24th October|24]] - [[Robert Sloman]], who along with [[Barry Letts]], wrote [[DW]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Green Death]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'' dies. (The pair were credited as "Guy Leopold" on the first story but for the final three, Sloman took the sole credit.)


=== [[November]] ===
The Doctor explained that the TARDIS had "burped" forward in time twenty years and needed Sally's help. Sally's future self appeared, telling Sally to hit the TARDIS [[reset button]] to reach the Doctor. The Doctor told Sally to finish her [[homework]] detailing this conversation and the messages left to her first, which she did. Sally then piloted the TARDIS to the Doctor to rescue him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow (short story)}})


* [[PDA]]: ''[[The Time Travellers]]'' is first published. Final [[First Doctor]] novel to date.
=== Undated ===
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Singularity]]'' is first released.
[[File:Bowed.jpg|thumb|The Cybermen invade. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'')]]
* [[BFIW]]: ''[[Wildthyme at Large]]'' is first released, launching an ongoing series of audio dramas featuring the character of [[Iris Wildthyme]], played by [[Katy Manning]].
The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Destrii]] defeated a plot by highly advanced [[Cybermen]] who had travelled back in time to convert the population of Earth using modified rain. The Cybermen had time travelled to convert the Earth's population because the humans of their home time were too genetically diluted to become Cybermen.
* [[7th November|07]] - [[BBC Audio]] releases ''[[Travels in Time and Space]]'', a box set collecting three unabridged readings of early [[Target novelisation|novelisations]]: ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Zarbi]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who and the Crusaders]]'', all read by [[William Russell]].
* [[18th November|18]] - The [[DW]]: ''[[Children in Need Special]]'' is broadcast by the BBC as part of the Children in Need Appeal. This 7-minute mini-episode bridges the events of [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' and is the first canonical production of this nature (an earlier CiN production, [[1993]]'s [[DW]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'', is not generally considered part of the canon). 
** ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' is released to cinemas in the US and UK, featuring new Doctor [[David Tennant]] in a key role.
* [[29th November | 29]] - [[Joseph Fürst]] (Professor [[Zaroff]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Underwater Menace]]'') dies in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.


=== [[December]] ===
[[MI6]]'s headquarters was massacred in the process, allowing [[Patrick Lake]] to rise up the hierarchy and pitch the outer-space branch "Wonderland". ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Flood (comic story)}}, {{cs|Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)}})


* [[PDA]]: ''[[Atom Bomb Blues]]'' is first published. This novel featuring the [[Seventh Doctor]] is the final release in the [[BBC Books]] [[Past Doctor Adventures]] line. After this point, BBC Books publishes only novels based upon the current series of ''Doctor Who'', and also moves away from the paperback format, adopting a hardcover format (with the exception of [[Quick Reads]] novellas) hereafter. As of the fall of 2009, ''Atom Bomb Blues'' is the last novel to be published featuring a Doctor other than the one currently on TV.
The magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' gave away a personal organiser with every issue. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Transit (novel)}})
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Other Lives]]'' is first released.
* [[ST]]: ''[[Short Trips: The History of Christmas]]'' is first published.
* [[BFC]]: ''[[Conversion]]'' is first released.
* [[BFIW]]: ''[[The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme]]'' is first released. Last [[Iris Wildthyme]] audio drama until 2009.
* [[8th December | 08]] - [[David Tennant]] appears on BBC Radio 4's ''Front Row''.
* [[19th December | 19]] - [[Don McKillop]] ([[Bert the Landlord]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'') dies from natural causes in the UK.
* [[21st December | 21]] - [[David Tennant]] appears on [[BBC One]]'s ''Breakfast'' programme.
* [[23rd December | 23]] - BBC Radio Wales broadcasts ''Back in Time - New Doctor, New Danger'', featuring [[Russell T. Davies]] and others.
** The BBC Two comedy series ''Dead Ringers'' features the parody "Christmas at Doctor Who's" featuring the cast impersonating [[David Tennant]], [[Tom Baker]], [[Sylvester McCoy]], [[Patrick Troughton]] and [[Christopher Eccleston]].
* [[25th December|25]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' is first broadcast. The episode closing credits introduce a modified arrangement of the Doctor Who theme restoring the "middle 8" section not used during Series 1. At the behest of star [[David Tennant]], the lead character is once again identified in the closing credits as "The Doctor".
* [[26th December|26]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' airs on the [[CBC]] in Canada. For this broadcast, Billie Piper videotapes a special introduction. This marks the last time (to date) that the CBC's broadcasts of the series more-or-less coincide with that of the BBC.
* [[27th December|27]] - [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''Front Row'' runs a feature on the new Doctor.


=== Unknown dates ===
The [[FLIPback]] Project began at the [[Snowcap Base]] at [[Earth]]'s [[South Pole]] to counter the predicted reversal of the Earth's [[magnetic field]] in [[2006]]. At the same time, the [[Cybermen]] left over from the attack on Earth in [[December]] [[1986]] again became active. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Iceberg (novel)}})


* Broadcast of the revived series in the United States is delayed when the American Sci-Fi Channel unexpectedly passes on picking up the series. Reasons cited in media and fan forums included the show being considered "too British" and concerns over the quality of the preview episodes seen. Sci-Fi eventually reverses its decision and the series is broadcast at a later date and the network subsequently picks up further seasons in a more timely manner.
London [[police]], including DI [[Billy Shipton]], began investigating the disappearance of people from an abandoned house called [[Wester Drumlins]]. The police began collecting as evidence vehicles left abandoned by those who had disappeared, at one point taking a [[the Doctor's TARDIS|police box]] from the scene. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Blink (TV story)}})
* Following the conclusion of the 2005 ''Doctor Who'' series, the [[BBC]] announces that it has commissioned the franchise's first full spin-off series, ''[[Torchwood]]'', to debut in [[2006]] and star [[John Barrowman]], reprising his role of [[Jack Harkness]].
* Fall: During production of the 2006 series, the media reports that [[Billie Piper]] will leave the series at the end of the season.


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The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Lucie Miller]] foiled a [[Quitoxin]] Spy's plan to take control of [[Little Morton]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Young Lions (audio story)}})
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In 2005, [[Phil Tyson]] was taken on board the [[Vandosian ship]] to be executed for the crimes of [[Shogalath]], whom the [[Vandos Tribunal]] believed Phil was the [[reincarnation]] of. Phil escaped with the Ninth Doctor and Rose into [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. Through the Doctor's meddling, the ship, aiming for [[Great Britain]], had its weapons backfire, destroying it. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Mr Nobody (comic story)}})
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[[Tim Phillips]] first performed the [[tradition]]al [[Christmas]] [[song]] "[[Song for Ten (in-universe)|Song for Ten]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}})
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According to one account, London's [[taxi|cabs]] were replaced with [[motorcycle]]s to relieve the increasing [[road traffic|traffic congestion]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)}}) Other accounts stated that London kept its taxis. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}, etc.)
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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)}})
 
=== Alternate timelines ===
[[The Doctor]] visited [[Luminos]] in an alternate 2005. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Spiral Scratch (novel)}})
 
== Births and deaths ==
On [[4 March]], [[Bernie Wilson]] was killed by [[Auton]]s in the basement of [[Henrik's, Central London]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}}) Other accounts stated the deceased Henrik's employee was [[H.P. Wilson]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}})
 
[[5 March]] was the date of multiple deaths during the Auton invasion, including [[Clive Finch]], [[Jimmy Stone]], [[Rudi Henrik|Rudi]] and [[Valentina Henrik]], and [[Oskar (Rose)|Oskar]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}}) [[Lord Mayor of Cardiff]] [[Roy Llewellyn]] was [[murder]]ed by [[Barry Jackson]], who used the invasion to cover up his crime. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}})
 
[[Ellie Oswald]], the mother of [[Clara Oswald]] and the wife of [[Dave Oswald]], died on 5 [[March]] at the age of 44. As well as her husband and daughter, her funeral was attended by the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)}})
 
[[Lucy Wilson]] was born on [[2 June]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucy Wilson (short story)}}) with [[Midwife (Lucy Wilson & the Bledoe Cadets)|a midwife]] helping deliver the newborn Lucy. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Midwife and the Alien (short story)}})
 
== Behind the scenes ==
A number of [[Doctor Who tie-in websites|tie-in websites]] contain details about 2005.
 
=== Torchwood website ===
On [[20 July]], an interview with [[Bilis Manger]] was released in a Cardiff newspaper. [[Torchwood Three]] had this interview in their files on Manger. <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070826211257/http://www.torchwood.org.uk/html/bilis/newspaper.shtml Cardiff Jobs: Time Keeper]</ref>
 
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2005 in

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2005 was a year. It was largely significant for a large-scale Auton invasion on Earth which occurred in March.

Events

Dated

January-June

On 1 January 2005, Rose Tyler encountered a man who predicted she would have a great year. Unbeknownst to her, he was the tenth incarnation of the Doctor, whom she had not yet met in her own timeline. After she left, the Doctor succumbed to radiation poisoning after spending an unknown amount of time holding back the regeneration and staggered towards his TARDIS, encouraged by a vision of Ood Sigma. After dematerialising the TARDIS, he regenerated into his eleventh incarnation. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])

UNIT released a press briefing about the loss of thirteen UNIT personnel during operational manoeuvres in the Russian Steppes, embargoed until 31 January. (PROSE: UNIT's Position on the Skaniska Incident [+]Loading...["UNIT's Position on the Skaniska Incident (short story)"])

In mid-February, Clive Finch took a photograph of himself with his wife Carole and two children, Michael and Ben, at Thorpe Park. (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"])

Geoff Cliff met the Ninth Doctor in an HMV on a Tuesday in early 2005. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

Beginning sometime around March, Clive Finch released an open call on his conspiracy website, Doctor Who?, for anyone who had seen the Doctor to contact him and tell their story. He got replies from hundreds of people, including Peri Brown, Arthur Dent, Mr Yates, and Sarah Jane Smith. Some of the readers, such as r willimas, Matt, Benjamin McKenzie, Edward J Green and Chris Martin met the Ninth Doctor on the very same day, or up to a week prior, to when they wrote to Clive. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

Ianto Jones joined Torchwood One in March, (AUDIO: New Girl [+]Loading...["New Girl (audio story)"]) prior to the Auton attack. (AUDIO: One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"])

Prior to Rose handing in her lottery money to a syndicate at work, Jackie got a phone call from Rose in the middle of the day on a Wednesday; Rose was using the superphone to call Jackie from the year 5,000,000,000 after she had already left (from Rose's perspective). (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"])

The Autons attack. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])

On 4 March, (AUDIO: One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"]) the Ninth Doctor was in London pursuing the Nestene Consciousness. His investigations took him to the Henrik's department store, where he saved Rose Tyler from an Auton attack. He then blew up the building. The following day, Rose investigated the identity of the Ninth Doctor, talking to conspiracy theorist Clive Finch about his website about the Doctor. Rose's boyfriend, Mickey, was abducted by Autons and replaced with an Auton duplicate. Using the head of this Auton, the Doctor tracked the Nestene Consciousness' signal. It had been rendered a scavenger without protein planets by a war the Doctor fought in. Rose rescued Mickey (and later, the Doctor) and destroyed the Consciousness with anti-plastic. She joined the Doctor on his travels. Meanwhile, Clive was killed by the Autons as they assaulted London. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) Elton Pope was also out shopping in the city centre at the time and survived the attack. (TV: Love & Monsters [+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"]) The invasion, which would be subsequently covered up as a "terrorist attack", had spread to at least Cardiff, where the city centre was brought to its knees as Barry Jackson used it as a cover for his murder of the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Roy Llewellyn. (AUDIO: One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"]) Another account dated Operation Mannequin to 26 March. UNIT issued a press briefing, embargoed until 28 March, wherein they ignored the allegations that the incident had anything to do with terrorists or robots, and denied any confirmation of alien life. (PROSE: UNIT's Position on The London Incident [+]Loading...["UNIT's Position on The London Incident (short story)"], Operation Mannequin [+]Loading...["Operation Mannequin (short story)"])

Shortly after the invasion, an Auton head that was recovered from the Queen's Arcade shopping centre, the garbage bin that swallowed Mickey, and a secondary bomb discovered in Henrik's were taken and stored in the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum. (GAME: Security Bot [+]Loading...["Security Bot (video game)"])

Rose made a brief return trip to London in her own time, where the Doctor told her about the loss of his homeworld and his people before the pair went to get chips. (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"]) Rose was reported missing from her home on the Powell Estate since 6 March. She returned a year later in March 2006. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) dalek had spotted the pair talking about chips and reported the sighting to Doctor Who? a year later. (PROSE: Rose sighting confirmed [+]Loading...["Rose sighting confirmed (short story)"])

On 10 March, UNIT issued yet another press briefing, this time about a computer virus named "RUFFCUT". (PROSE:Computer Virus File Sharing Alert [+]Loading...["Computer Virus File Sharing Alert (short story)"])

For the rest of 2005, Mickey Smith lived with accusations that he had kidnapped or killed Rose Tyler. He was taken in for police questioning about her disappearance five times from early 2005 to early 2006. Jackie Tyler fueled the mistrust of him around the Powell Estate with a "whisper campaign". Understandably, Jackie devoted considerable time to the search for her "missing" daughter. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"])

On 22 March, the North Eastern Daily Press reported that Sharonda Arkley had shot four of her colleagues and put their bodies in caves along Blackhall Rocks. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil [+]Loading...["Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)"])

In early 2005, UNIT issued one press briefing which noted the upcoming transition to British Summertime. (PROSE: The Clocks Go Forward [+]Loading...["The Clocks Go Forward (short story)"])

UNIT released an embargoed press briefing on 31 March 2005, filed by Staff Sergeant A. Frederick, about Major A Highway's plan to reorganise UNIT's pan-territorial activities in America into a single site operation, (PROSE: UNIT's New York Operation Expansion [+]Loading...["UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)"]) the New York UNIT HQ. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"], COMIC: The Fountains of Forever [+]Loading...["The Fountains of Forever (comic story)"])

Steve Woolfall responded to Doctor Who?'s request for sightings of the missing Rose Tyler, reporting that he had seen a girl that looked like her in the Grosvenor Museum in Chester that afternoon with a chap that reminded him of "that Casanova bloke". Steve suggested that it might not have been the same girl but that it was strange nonetheless. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]Loading...{"writer":"Steve Woolfall","1":"The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"})

Angola suffered from an epidemic of the Marburg virus in early 2005, with a British news broadcast on 26 March reporting that the death toll had risen to 120. (AUDIO: One Rule)

As recounted by the Eighth Doctor, the European Cup final was won by Liverpool, led by Steven Gerrard, who triumphed over A.C. Milan despite being 3-0 down at half time, having scored three goals in the second half before going on to win the match, marking Liverpool's fifth win of the European Cup in its history. (AUDIO: Something Inside [+]Loading...["Something Inside (audio story)"])

The Neanderthal Das was accidentally transported forward in time from 24 May 29,185 BC to Bromley in 2005. Several weeks later, he and Anna Marie O'Grady were married in Bromley. The Ninth Doctor, Rose and Jack Harkness attended their wedding. (PROSE: Only Human [+]Loading...["Only Human (novel)"])

July-December

In November, a Crimewatch episode on the Blackhall Rocks Multiple Murder was broadcast. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil [+]Loading...["Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)"])

On 29 September, while Rose Tyler was travelling with the Ninth Doctor, Mickey Smith sent her an email, asking where she was and if she was okay. On 3 October, Rose sent emails to both Mickey and her mum, telling them about her adventures. (PROSE: The Companion's Companion [+]Loading...["The Companion's Companion (novel)"], A Short History of Everyone [+]Loading...["A Short History of Everyone (novel)"])

On 22 December, while in her aunt's house in Devon, Sally Sparrow tore off a piece of wallpaper, revealing a message from 1985 asking for help. After later finding a photograph with the Ninth Doctor asking to look through the wallpaper again, she found another message leading her to play a video recording of the Doctor in 1985, the Doctor communicating to Sally through already having the conversation from Sally's uncompleted Christmas homework.

The Doctor explained that the TARDIS had "burped" forward in time twenty years and needed Sally's help. Sally's future self appeared, telling Sally to hit the TARDIS reset button to reach the Doctor. The Doctor told Sally to finish her homework detailing this conversation and the messages left to her first, which she did. Sally then piloted the TARDIS to the Doctor to rescue him. (PROSE: What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow [+]Loading...["What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow (short story)"])

Undated

The Cybermen invade. (COMIC: The Flood)

The Eighth Doctor and Destrii defeated a plot by highly advanced Cybermen who had travelled back in time to convert the population of Earth using modified rain. The Cybermen had time travelled to convert the Earth's population because the humans of their home time were too genetically diluted to become Cybermen.

MI6's headquarters was massacred in the process, allowing Patrick Lake to rise up the hierarchy and pitch the outer-space branch "Wonderland". (COMIC: The Flood [+]Loading...["The Flood (comic story)"], Hunters of the Burning Stone [+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"])

The magazine Der Spiegel gave away a personal organiser with every issue. (PROSE: Transit [+]Loading...["Transit (novel)"])

The FLIPback Project began at the Snowcap Base at Earth's South Pole to counter the predicted reversal of the Earth's magnetic field in 2006. At the same time, the Cybermen left over from the attack on Earth in December 1986 again became active. (PROSE: Iceberg [+]Loading...["Iceberg (novel)"])

London police, including DI Billy Shipton, began investigating the disappearance of people from an abandoned house called Wester Drumlins. The police began collecting as evidence vehicles left abandoned by those who had disappeared, at one point taking a police box from the scene. (TV: Blink [+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"])

The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller foiled a Quitoxin Spy's plan to take control of Little Morton. (AUDIO: The Young Lions [+]Loading...["The Young Lions (audio story)"])

In 2005, Phil Tyson was taken on board the Vandosian ship to be executed for the crimes of Shogalath, whom the Vandos Tribunal believed Phil was the reincarnation of. Phil escaped with the Ninth Doctor and Rose into the TARDIS. Through the Doctor's meddling, the ship, aiming for Great Britain, had its weapons backfire, destroying it. (COMIC: Mr Nobody [+]Loading...["Mr Nobody (comic story)"])

Tim Phillips first performed the traditional Christmas song "Song for Ten". (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])

According to one account, London's cabs were replaced with motorcycles to relieve the increasing traffic congestion. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead [+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)"]) Other accounts stated that London kept its taxis. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"], etc.)

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)"])

Alternate timelines

The Doctor visited Luminos in an alternate 2005. (PROSE: Spiral Scratch [+]Loading...["Spiral Scratch (novel)"])

Births and deaths

On 4 March, Bernie Wilson was killed by Autons in the basement of Henrik's, Central London. (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"]) Other accounts stated the deceased Henrik's employee was H.P. Wilson. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])

5 March was the date of multiple deaths during the Auton invasion, including Clive Finch, Jimmy Stone, Rudi and Valentina Henrik, and Oskar. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"]) Lord Mayor of Cardiff Roy Llewellyn was murdered by Barry Jackson, who used the invasion to cover up his crime. (AUDIO: One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"])

Ellie Oswald, the mother of Clara Oswald and the wife of Dave Oswald, died on 5 March at the age of 44. As well as her husband and daughter, her funeral was attended by the Eleventh Doctor. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten [+]Loading...["The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)"])

Lucy Wilson was born on 2 June, (PROSE: Lucy Wilson [+]Loading...["Lucy Wilson (short story)"]) with a midwife helping deliver the newborn Lucy. (PROSE: The Midwife and the Alien [+]Loading...["The Midwife and the Alien (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

A number of tie-in websites contain details about 2005.

Torchwood website

On 20 July, an interview with Bilis Manger was released in a Cardiff newspaper. Torchwood Three had this interview in their files on Manger. [1]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Cardiff Jobs: Time Keeper
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