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==[[Doctor Who Universe]]==
'''2009''' was a [[year]].
===[[January]]===
*[[16th January|16]] - [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack]] is reunited with the [[Torchwood Three]] team and re-unites with [[John Hart]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]''; date: [[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.co.uk]]'')
*[[23rd January|23]] - The [[Torchwood Three]] team discovers [[Cell 114]] [[sleeper agent]]s in [[Cardiff]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Sleeper]]''; date: [[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.co.uk]]'')
===[[February]]===
* - Annual de-frosting of [[Tommy Brockless]], a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in [[1918]]. Ultimately, this turns out to be the final defrosting. ([[TW]]: ''[[To the Last Man]]''; date: [[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.co.uk]]'')
*[[20th February|20]] - Dr. [[Martha Jones]] arrives in [[Cardiff]] on the trail of the [[Pharm]] and is temporarily assigned to [[Torchwood 3]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Reset (Torchwood story)|Reset]]'')
*[[27th February|27]] - Dr. [[Owen Harper]] is shot and killed during the resolution of the [[Pharm]] incident. ([[TW]]: ''[[Reset (Torchwood story)|Reset]]''; date: [[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.co.uk]]'')
*[[28th February|28]] - Before Martha Jones can conduct an autopsy on Owen Harper, Harper is revived by [[Jack Harkness]] using the second [[resurrection gauntlet]]. As a direct consequence, and for reasons known, Harper continues to live past the standard 2.5 minute revival time, but is briefly possessed by [[Durac]], the embodiment of Death. A number of deaths also occur at [[St. Helen's Hospital|a Cardiff hospital]] as a result of Durac's manifestation. ([[TW]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'')


===[[March]]===
== Events ==
*[[2nd March|02]] - Dr. [[Owen Harper]], who continues to have difficulty accepting his new undead existence, is relieved of his duties with [[Torchwood Three]] (though he continues to help out as their new tea boy) as [[Martha Jones]] agrees to stay on as medical officer. After a fruitless suicide attempt, Harper begins to come to terms with his death and returns to active duty for a mission to retrieve an alien artifact from a dying millionaire, [[Henry Parker]], who reveals intimate knowledge about Torchwood and its personnel before his passes away. With Harper reinstated, Jones departs Torchwood to return to her duties at [[UNIT]]. Soon after, Harper successfully talks a young woman out of committing suicide. ([[TW]]: ''[[A Day in the Death]]'')
=== Dated events ===
*[[19th March|19]] - The [[Torchwood Three]] team investigates the [[Night Travellers]]. Events of [[TW]]: ''[[From Out of the Rain]]''; date: [[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.co.uk]]'')
==== January - May ====
*By this time conspiracy theorists have begun noting the disappearance of [[bee]]s from the planet Earth, which is also noted by [[Donna Noble]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'', et al) It is later learned that they have left Earth in anticipation of its imminent relocation to the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')
<!--Donna's era and the early 21st century setting of the 2009 specials have been moved to 2000s, due to heavily contradictory dating in series 4, and no date at all in the specials.-->
On [[20 January]], [[Barack Obama]] was inaugurated as [[President of the United States]], the first [[African-American]] in the position. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'')


===April===
Early in the year, over 4 months before August, [[Thomas Brewster]] and [[Gerry Lenz|Gerald Lendler]] came to [[London]]. At the time, Lendler had stolen [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] from Brewster. When Brewster rummaged through Lendler's collection of valuable items, he accidentally woke up a hibernating [[Coffin-Loader]] and it escaped into the [[River Thames]]. It released methane and mould into the atmosphere, which increased Earth's temperature by 1 degree. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Three Companions (audio story)|The Three Companions]]'')
*Thousands of [[Adipose]] are born from people's fat and [[March of the Adipose|walk around the streets]]. During this time, [[Donna Noble]] reunites with the [[Tenth Doctor]] and begins her travels with him. Before leaving with the Doctor, however, Donna briefly encounters [[Rose Tyler]] (although she is unaware of Rose's identity). ([[DW]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]''; date: [[NSA]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos]]'')
*The [[Sontaran]]s [[Sontaran invasion of Earth|invade Earth]]. During this event, [[Martha Jones]] is temporarily reunited with the Doctor and meets [[Donna Noble]] for the first time. Donna also narrowly misses witnessing a brief transmission from [[Rose Tyler]] in the [[TARDIS]]. As part of the Sontaran invasion plan, all [[ATMOS]]-equipped vehicles begin emitting a toxic gas intended to transform the world's atmosphere into a more hospitable one for Sontaran offspring; numerous fatalities are reported worldwide before the Doctor disables the devices. Afterwards, the ATMOS devices are removed from the planet's vehicles. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky]]''; date: [[NSA]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos]]'')
*[[Easter|'''Easter''']]:&nbsp;[[The 200]]&nbsp;goes through a [[wormhole]] to [[San Helios]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'')


===[[May]]===
[[File:Vostok.jpg|thumb|right|[[Owen Harper]] finds a [[Vostok (species)|Vostok]] in [[Cardiff Bay]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Return of the Vostok (comic story)|The Return of the Vostok]]'')]]
*[[15th May|15]] - [[18th May|18]] - the [[Mandragora Helix]] attempts a takeover of Earth through the MorganTech computer systems. ([[NSA]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos]]'')
In [[March]], the [[Vostok (species)|Vostok]] came to [[Cardiff]] with the intentions of using its rift to bring the Earth into a new [[Ice Age]]. Torchwood Three visited [[Cardiff Bay]] after it was frozen and discovered the Vostok beneath the ice. They defeated the Vostok by covering the ice in fuel and dropping a match in the fuel, burning the Vostok alive. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Return of the Vostok (comic story)|The Return of the Vostok]]'')
*The Earth is relocated to the [[Medusa Cascade]] by the [[Dalek]]s under the control of the Supreme Dalek and [[Davros]]. Despite the relocation, the planet retains a full communications network. An invasion of Earth by the Daleks commences and a number of humans are taken to "the [[Crucible]]", the Dalek mothership, where they are killed in tests of the [[reality bomb]]. As part of a counter-insurgency against the Dalek invasion, former Prime Minister [[Harriet Jones]] brings together a number of the Doctor's former companions, including Captain [[Jack Harkness]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]], and [[Martha Jones]] in order to contact the Doctor, and before she herself is killed by the Daleks. [[Rose Tyler]], meanwhile, contacts [[Donna Noble]]'s family and is ultimately reunited with the Doctor. During this incident, The Doctor undergoes a partial regeneration in order to repair damage from a Dalek blast; as a result of this, [[The Doctor's hand|the Doctor's severed hand]] later forms a mental link with Donna and grows into [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor|a second version of the Doctor]], but one that's half-human without Time Lord biological abilities such as regeneration. During this incident, [[Martha Jones]], under orders from [[UNIT]], reveals the existence of the [[Osterhagen Key]], a weapon capable of destroying Earth. Due to her interaction with the second Doctor, Donna briefly gains the knowledge of a Time Lord, and with her help the two Doctors are able to defeat the Daleks. Afterwards, the Doctor and his companions are successful in restoring Earth to its original location using the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]; this sparks worldwide celebrations around the planet. Afterwards, [[Mickey Smith]] chooses to remain on his original Earth instead of returning to [[Pete's World]], Harkness offers Martha Jones a job with [[Torchwood Three]], and the Doctor returns Rose and [[Jackie Tyler]] to [[Pete's World]], along with his clone. [[Donna Noble]] is returned to her family, but with all memories of the Doctor wiped from her mind due to the danger to her survival posed by her transformation. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]'') (Takes place within 6 weeks of [[NSA]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos]]'')
** At some point during these events, a young girl named [[Adelaide Brooke]] loses her family and encounters a Dalek that, for reasons unknown to her, chooses not to exterminate her. This event inspires her to become an astronaut, becoming a trailblazer for human exploration of space - in her case, establishing the first human base on [[Mars]] in [[2058]] and, in turn, inspiring generations of Brookes who further expand human reach into the stars. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'')
* In the aftermath of the Medusa Cascade incident, the human race on Earth begins coming to terms with the fact it is not alone in the universe. While many accept it, others experience crises of faith and a large number of people commit suicide. ([[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]'')


===June===
One account, [[Aliens of London dating controversy|but not others]], which suggested this time as [[2008]], placed [[15 May]] 2009 as the start of the [[Mandragora Helix]]'s attempted takeover of Earth through the [[MorganTech]] computer systems. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]'')
* [[Brian Green]] becomes British Prime Minister.


===September===
==== June - August ====
On [[6 June]], the [[Atraxi]] [[Dimensional transcendentalism|extradimensional]] [[prison]] break occurred. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'')
[[File:Newspaper_Wed_Sept_2009_CoE_ep2.png|thumb|Newspaper [[Ianto Jones]] picks up. Date reads: Wednesday September 2009 ([[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two]]'')]]
* Over the course of five days, every child on Earth periodically stops in their tracks and begin reciting the same message (permutations of "We are coming"). Officially, Earth's governments claim it to be caused by a form of virus. Behind the scenes, the truth is this is a message from [[the 456]], a race that had visited Earth in [[1965]] and negotiated the payment of 12 orphan children in exchange for the cure for a pandemic-level influenza virus. The 456 return to Earth and demand the payment of a significant percentage of Earth's children (for use in creating a narcotic). As part of a cover-up to divert blame away from the UK government, which brokered the original deal, the [[Torchwood 3]] hub in Cardiff is destroyed and attempts are made to assassinate [[Jack Harkness]], [[Gwen Cooper]] and [[Ianto Jones]]. During the course of events, Thames House becomes the centre of 456-related negotiations, and at one point all occupants of the building are exposed to a deadly gas, killing all except for [[Dekker|Mr. Dekker]] and [[Jack Harkness]]. Among those killed is Ianto Jones. Ultimately, through the efforts of Harkness - who was involved in the original 1965 deal - and the sacrifice of Harkness' grandson, the 456 are driven from Earth. ([[TW]]: ''[[Series 3 (Torchwood)|Children of Earth]]'' Date based upon on-screen evidence, specifically a newspaper headline.)
* During the course of these events, [[Gwen Cooper]] and husband [[Rhys Williams]] learn that she is pregnant.
* The government of Prime Minister [[Brian Green]] is toppled soon afterwards (assumption).
* Stricken with guilt over the death of his grandson, [[Jack Harkness]] leaves Cardiff and spends the next few months wandering the Earth.


===October ===
On [[28 June]], [[Stephen Hawking]] held a [[party]] for [[time travel]]lers at [[Gonville & Caius College]], but he only sent out invitations after the [[event]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'')
*[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones]] visit [[Blackwood Falls]]. ([[NSA]]: ''[[Forever Autumn]]'')


*'''[[17th October|17]]''' - The alien [[Androvax]] crash-lands in [[Ealing]], followed by the [[Judoon]] [[Tybo]], which arrests him. ([[SJA]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon]]'')
Sometime before 18 August, [[Polly Wright]] read a blog post by [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]] about Jo's encounter with [[Doreen Killebrew]] in the [[1970s]]. From this blog post, she learned that [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] knew the Doctor and they began exchanging emails on their past adventures with him. Eventually, they were contacted by Thomas Brewster, who thought they could help him deal with Gerald Lendler.
*'''[[24th October|24]]''' - The alien [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]] is living in a funfair in [[Ealing]] and, along with her [[Harry Stevens|adoptive father]] and [[Samuel Lloyd|boyfriend]], take of in her [[Ship]]. ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'')
*'''[[29th October|29]]''' - Wedding of [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Peter Dalton]]; eventually revealed as a plan of [[The Trickster|the Trickster]] and averted with help from the [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]]. ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')


On [[18 August]], Polly and Alistair met up with Brewster at a restaurant where Brewster had been working for three weeks. Lendler had hired [[The Hunter|an alien hunter]] to deal with the creature. The Coffin-Loader came out of the River Thames and parts of London were flooded. Using Alistair as bait for the Coffin-Loader, the Hunter lured it to [[Trafalgar Square]] and killed it, returning Earth's climate to normal. Afterwards, with some convincing from Polly and Alistair, Lendler gave the Doctor's TARDIS back to Brewster. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Three Companions (audio story)|The Three Companions]]'')


=== November ===
==== September - December ====
Members of the [[Stockbridge]] Preservation Society began to go missing. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Child (comic story)|The Stockbridge Child]]'')


*'''[[7th November|7]]''' - Sarah Jane Smith defeats [[Erasmus Darkening]]. ([[SJA]]: [[The Eternity Trap]])
[[File:Newspaper Wed Sept 2009 CoE ep2.png|thumb|Newspaper [[Ianto Jones]] picks up. Date reads: Wednesday September 2009 ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Two]]'')]]
*'''[[12th November|12]]''' - The [[Mona Lisa]] gets out of her painting in the National Gallery in [[London]] ([[SJA]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'')
On 8:40AM [[GMT]] on a [[Wednesday]] in [[September]], every child on Earth stopped in their tracks and recited the message, "We are coming", repeatedly, in English. Behind the scenes, the [[British government]] knew this came from [[the 456]], a race who had visited Earth before. [[Gwen Cooper]] spoke to [[Clement McDonald]], who also stopped and said the message, He told Gwen that when he was a child, the children on his orphanage bus were stolen away, with him almost being taken too. Jack Harkness had a bomb encased in his body which blew up the Torchwood Three hub. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day One]]'')
*'''[[19th November|19]]''' - The [[Slitheen]] and [[Slitheen-Blathereen family]] arrive on Earth, along with the [[Rakweed]], which infects parts of Ealing ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Gift (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|The Gift]]'')
*'''[[20th November|20]]''' - The Rakweed infects parts of London including [[Ealing]],[[Perivale]] and [[Chiswick]]. ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Gift (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|The Gift]]'')


Jack, his body slowly reconstituting itself, was held by Johnson, while Gwen went on the run from the British government, revealing to her husband Rhys she was pregnant. The children on Earth stopped again to say, "We are coming...tomorrow". [[Dekker|Mr Dekker]] built a container for the 456 to specification, filled with unusual gases. [[Lois Habiba]] revealed to Gwen that [[John Frobisher]] was behind the death orders for Torchwood. Johnson sealed Jack in concrete, but [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] arrived, releasing him. Jack and Ianto escaped with Rhys and Gwen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Two]]'')


=== December ===
The [[456 ambassador]] materialised in the gassy container in [[Thames House]]. They demanded 10% of all of Earth's children. Clem revealed that Jack had been behind the handover in 1965, and Jack staid it was for the 456. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Three]]'')


*'''[[24th December|24]]''' - "[[The Master (Harold Saxon)|Harold Saxon]]" is resurrected by [[Trefusis|Miss Trefusis]] and the new governer of [[Broadfell Prison]] on Christmas Eve, Lucy Saxon interferes with the resurrection, causing an explosion at the prison and killing everyone inside, except for The Master. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
Jack continued to talk about the night he and others handed children over to the 456 in 1965. At Thames House, the 456 ambassador had one of the children of 1965 as part of its system, unaging. As negotiations failed, the government started to think of ways to hand over the 10%, which Lois recorded with Torchwood's [[Eye-5]] contact lenses as incriminating evidence. The 456 killed Clem. Jack and Ianto faced the 456, but were also killed, along with the rest of Thames House once the 456 released the virus. Jack revived, upset over his loss. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]'')
*'''[[25th December|25]]''' - [[The Master (Harold Saxon)|The Master]] is captured by soldiers working for [[Joshua Naismith]] so that the Master can help him use the [[Immortality Gate]]. However, the Master betrays him and as [[Barack Obama]] gives a speech on the Recession, uses the Gate's abilities, intended to heal planets, to turn every single Human on Earth except for [[Wilfred Mott]] and [[Donna Noble]] into copies of the Master. During this time a diamond harvested on Gallifrey is sent through time and space and crashes to Earth where it is retrieved by the Master, who uses it to open a portal that briefly allows [[Rassilon]] and other [[Time Lord]]s to escape the [[Last Great Time War]] before the Doctor and, ultimately, the Master, foil their plans. Before this occurs, however, Rassilon undoes the "cloning" of the Master, returning the human race to normal, though they are soon faced with the spectacle of [[Gallifrey|a giant planet]] appearing in the sky on a collision course; but this, too, is soon undone. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')


===Unknown===
The British government started sending the 10% to the 456, labelling it "inoculations". The ambassador revealed the children were to be used as drugs. The Prime Minister informed John Frobisher that his children would be among those handed over to the 456. Unable to cope with this, Frobisher killed his family and committed suicide. Gwen and Rhys tried to escape with as many children as they could. Jack used the wave the 456 had used to kill Clem the previous day to destroy the 456, but sacrificed his grandson [[Steven Carter|Steven]] to set it up. Stricken with guilt over the death of his grandson, Jack left Cardiff and spent the next few months wandering the Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]'')
*[[Gareth (TVM)|Gareth]], head the seismology unit of the UCMA taskforce, develops a system for accurately predicting earthquakes. Gareth's system would be credited for saving the human race several times. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')
*[[Shreela Govindia]] dies of an autoimmune disease. ([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'')
*[[ATMOS]], a combination GPS/emission control system for automobiles, becomes widespread in vehicles around the world.
*[[Rose Tyler]] temporarily returns from her [[Pete's World|parallel Earth]], initially arriving in the normal universe ([[DW]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'') but later ending up in an alternate timeline where she attains a position of authority with [[UNIT]] and works with them and [[Donna Noble]] to restore the timeline. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
*[[John Hart|Captain John Hart]] places bombs in an abandoned building where the Torchwood team are investigating. While they are unconscious, all except for Gwen experience flashbacks. ([[TW]]: ''[[Fragments]]'')
*After regaining consciousness the Torchwood team try to stop [[John Hart]]. Later that night a series of alien attacks occur in Cardiff, including [[Weevil]]s killing four senior Cardiff police officers, a [[Hoix]] let lose in a hospital where it is captured by [[Owen Harper]], a group of men in cloaks haunt a building only to be shot dead by [[Toshiko Sato]] and [[Ianto Jones]], and John Hart captures [[Jack Harkness]] and sets off several bombs in buildings across Cardiff. It is then revealed Jack's brother [[Gray]] is forcing John Hart to do his bidding. Gray unleashes all of the Weevils in the sewers on Cardiff, shoots Toshiko, who later dies of her wounds, and Owen is disintegrated by nuclear radiation following the actions of Gray and [[John Hart]], who helps Captain Jack stop Gray. ([[TW]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'')
''The last two events took place between March 19th and the ''[[Dalek Invasion of Earth (2009)|2009 Dalek invasion of Earth]]'', which took place in May. It's possible that these took place around roughly the same date ''[[Exit Wounds]]'' was originally broadcast.''


*The exact dates that the events The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 happens is unknown; however, it is known that they span June, July and August. Post-[[DW]]: [[The Stolen Earth]]/[[Journey's End]] and pre-[[TW]]: [[Children of Earth]].
On [[Halloween]] in 2009, the [[Gelth]] attempted to pass through a [[rift]] in [[Space-time continuum|space and time]] which had opened in [[Ratchett Abbey]], [[Cheltenham]], but were eventually stopped by the Tenth Doctor and [[Corynne Fletcher]]. ([[PROSE]]: [[Scared Stiff (short story)|''Scared Stiff'']])


====Alternate timelines====
In mid-December, the Aurelia Festival was held in [[Stockbridge]]. The Tenth Doctor and new companion [[Majenta Pryce]] arrived to find themselves involved in an adventure with [[Maxwell Edison]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Child (comic story)|The Stockbridge Child]]'')
*'''[[The Year That Never Was]]''': [[The Master (Harold Saxon)|The Master]] rules [[Earth]] with an iron fist. During this time, [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]], physically aged, is kept captive aboard the [[UNIT]] airship the ''[[Valiant]]'', along with [[Jack Harkness]] and most of [[Martha Jones]]' family. Meanwhile, Martha, following instruction given to her by the Doctor, spends the year travelling the world spreading stories and faith about the Doctor. Ultimately, the collected faith of the people of the world restores the Doctor, leading to the Master's defeat. Captain Jack destroys the [[Paradox machine]], reversing time back to [[2008]]. Afterwards, the Master is shot by his wife, [[Lucy Saxon]], and, refusing to regenerate, apparently dies. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
*'''[[Donna's World]]''' - After the ''[[Titanic (spaceship)|Titanic]]'' fell to Earth on [[25th December]] [[2008]], annihilating [[London]] and rendering most of southern [[England]] unlivable with nuclear radiation, [[Great Britain]] has become a police state. Londoners lucky enough to have survived are subject to forced relocations; [[Donna Noble]]'s family is moved to [[Leeds]]. [[Rose Tyler]] works with the [[UNIT]] of this timeline to help [[Donna Noble]] restore the proper chain of events which, at one point, involves sending Donna back to [[2007]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')


==Real World==
On the [[12 December|12th of December]], [[Brenda]] sent out a [[Letter (Brenda's B&B)|letter]] to the readers of the [[Brenda and Effie|book series]] based upon herself and [[Effie Jacobs|Effie]], inviting them to visit [[Brenda's B&B|her B&B]] in [[Whitby]], [[North Yorkshire]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Brenda's B&B (short story)|Brenda's B&B]]'')


===January===
<!--The setting of The End of Time is not dated at all. Moved to 2000s.-->
* [[CC]]: ''[[The Transit of Venus]]'' and [[CC]]: ''[[The Prisoner's Dilemma]]'' are both first released.
On [[25 December]], the Tenth Doctor and his companion [[Heather McCrimmon]] visited the village of [[Stillmuir]] to celebrate [[Christmas]] with Heather's family. The celebrations were interrupted by three blue-skinned aliens who wanted to learn about Christmas. They transported the entire village away from Earth to a giant snow globe where they could observe the humans. The Doctor talked with the aliens and invited them to observe Christmas by attending the McCrimmon family's celebrations if they returned the village to Earth. The aliens agreed and spent Christmas night celebrating. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Merry Little Christmas (comic story)|A Merry Little Christmas]]'')
* [[1st January|01]] - BBC TV broadcasts an edited version of the July 2008 ''Doctor Who at the Proms'' concert, previously released on radio and the Internet. The broadcast includes the television debut of the audience-interactive mini-episode [[DW]]: ''[[Music of the Spheres]]''. An extended version of the broadcast, including the performance of "[[Song for Ten]]", is later made available for UK Digital viewers.
* [[2nd January|02]] - Who fandom is caught by surprise when the BBC announces that the actor to play the [[Eleventh Doctor]] is to be announced in a special edition of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' the next day.
* [[3rd January|03]] - During a special edition of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'', the BBC announces that [[Matt Smith]] has been cast as the [[Eleventh Doctor]].
* [[4th January|04]] - The announcement of Matt Smith as the new Doctor is front page news in many UK newspapers. Since these are Sunday publications, many receive international distribution.
* [[5th January|05]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'' is released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[6th January|06]] - [[John Scott Martin]] dies.
** [[DW]]: ''[[The War Machines]]'' and ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'' are released to DVD in Region 1.
* [[8th January|08]] - Audio adaptation of [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen]]'' is first released.
* [[14th January|14]] - Production begins on [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' with the first cast read-through of the script. [[David Tennant]], as he did regularly during Series 2 and 3 and less regularly during Series 4, records the event for posterity for a series of video diaries (dubbed "The Tennant Tapes") later posted to the BBC's website. Tennant jokingly introduces himself as [[Matt Smith]] at the read-through.
** First issue of ''[[Doctor Who DVD Files]]'', a fortnightly UK/Ireland-only magazine, is published, incorporating a DVD of the episodes [[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World]]''.
* [[16th January|16]] - The website of the UK newspaper ''The Guardian'' publishes a column condemning then-rumored plans to film one of the 2009 specials in Dubai, citing the United Arab Emirates' human rights record.[http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/garethmcleanblog/2009/jan/16/1]
* [[19th January|19]] - Filming begins on [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'', the first of four one-hour ''Doctor Who'' specials to air during 2009 and early 2010 in lieu of a full season. These specials will mark the end of [[David Tennant]]'s era as the [[Tenth Doctor]], and also conclude [[Russell T Davies]] and [[Julie Gardner]]'s tenures as producers. Concurrent with the start of production are rumours that [[Michelle Ryan]] and [[Lee Evans]] had been cast in the special. The rumours are later confirmed by the BBC, which releases publicity photographs of Ryan with [[David Tennant]]. According to ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' #405, ''Planet of the Dead'' is the first ''Doctor Who'' episode to be produced in high-definition.
** [[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'' is released on DVD in the UK. The DVD also includes the 2008 ''Doctor Who at the Proms'' concert and the mini-episode [[DW]]: ''[[Music of the Spheres]]''.  
** [[Catherine Tate]] guest stars on ''The Sunday Night Project'' and take part in a skit in which she impersonates [[David Tennant]] as the [[Tenth Doctor]].
* [[22nd January|22]] - David Tennant's first day of shooting on [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' ("The Tennant Tapes 2").
* [[26th January|26]] - The DVD box set ''[[The E-Space Trilogy]]'' is released in the UK, including the episodes [[DW]]: ''[[Full Circle]]'', ''[[State of Decay]]'' and ''[[Warriors' Gate]]''.
** ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' publishes its 100th issue.
* [[28th January|28]] - Media in the UK and United Arab Emirates report that a transportation mishap has resulted in a double-decker bus intended for filming scenes for the Easter 2009 special [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' on location in Dubai, being heavily damaged, forcing writers [[Russell T Davies]] and [[Gareth Roberts]] to revise part of their script. The resulting BBC News report serves as confirmation to earlier rumours that ''Doctor Who'' is in fact filming at least part of ''Planet of the Dead'' in the Middle Eastern country. This marks the first full-scale production of a ''Doctor Who'' installment outside Europe since [[Doctor Who (1996)|the 1996 telefilm]] was shot in [[Canada]] and only the second regular TV episode to film major scenes outside Europe since [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'' was partially filmed in the Canary Islands in 1984.
* [[29th January|29]] - [[BBC Books]] launches the first in a planned series of 10 novellas forming a single story arc, ''[[The Darksmith Legacy]]'', with the publication of [[TDL]]: ''[[The Dust of Ages]]'' and [[TDL]]: ''[[The Graves of Mordane]]''.
** [[John Barrowman]]'s autobiography, ''Anything Goes'', is published in paperback.
* Late January - The weekly magazine ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' publishes its 100th issue.
* [[31st January|31]] - [[BFA]]: ''[[The Key 2 Time - The Judgement of Isskar]]'' is first released.


===February===
=== Undated ===
By this year, [[Polly Wright]] worked in the [[Westminster|City of Westminster]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Three Companions (audio story)|The Three Companions]]'')


* To tie in with its broadcasts of ''[[Torchwood]]'' Series 2, the digital channel Watch publishes an exclusive comic strip, [[WC]]: ''[[The Return of the Vostok]]'', on its website.
[[Professor]] [[Egen]], a time traveller from [[1959]], briefly stopped in 2009 during his first (and ultimately only) journey through time in his [[Egen's time machine|experimental time machine]]. He looked at a 21st century city full of skyscrapers, which looked "ultra-modern", as he had expected — but, precisely because he had expected it, found it underwhelming, prompting him to move on to the more distant future. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dr. Who's Time Tales (DWM 33 comic story)|Dr. Who's Time Tales]]'')
* [[BFIW]]: ''[[The Sound of Fear|Iris Wildthyme and the Sound of Fear]]'' is first released, relaunching [[Big Finish]]'s [[Iris Wildthyme]] audio drama series (last heard in 2005) starring [[Katy Manning]].
* [[5th February|05]] - The official trailer for ''[[Torchwood]]'': ''[[Children of Earth]]'' is unveiled at the New York Comic Con and online. At this point a broadcast date had not yet been announced.
** [[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'' is released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[12th February|12]] - [[BBCR]]: ''[[The Nemonite Invasion]]'', an original made-for-[[BBC Audio]] story read by [[Catherine Tate]], is first released.
* [[13th February|13]] - The BBC reports filming is now officially under way in Dubai for [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]''.
* [[13th February|13]] - [[15th February|15]] - The American "Gallifrey" Doctor Who and SF convention marks its 20th anniversary.
* [[18th February|18]] - Cast readthrough for the as yet untitled [[The Waters of Mars|second 2009 special]].
* [[19th February|19]] - The BBC announces that [[Lindsay Duncan]] has been cast as [[Adelaide Brooke|Adelaide]], a character described as the companion of [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]]'s in the as-yet untitled [[The Waters of Mars|second 2009 special]]. The BBC also announces that production of the special is scheduled to occur in the spring, although no confirmation of a broadcast date has yet been made.
* [[23rd February|23]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Rescue]]'' and ''[[The Romans]]'' are released in a 2-DVD set in the UK.
** Shooting begins for [[DW]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' (date per [[Russell T. Davies]]' script).
* [[25th February|25]] - [[IDW]]: ''[[The Whispering Gallery]]'', a one-shot comic book by [[IDW Publishing]], is first published. This is the first of a series of single-issue standalones that IDW would publish during the year.
* [[26th February|26]] - [[NSA]]: ''[[The Sontaran Games]]'', the fourth [[Quick Reads]] novella, is first published. Beginning with this book, the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] line begins a series of novels featuring returning monsters and races from both the classic and revival series; this is slated to continue throughout 2009.
* [[28th February|28]] - [[BFA]]: ''[[The Key 2 Time - The Destroyer of Delights]]'' is first released.
* An online version of ''[[Doctor Who DVD Files]]'' is launched, allowing those who already own the DVDs, or who are unable to buy the magazine internationally due to licensing restrictions, access to the printed content of the magazine. The subscription-based site also makes the contents of the ''[[Doctor Who: Battles in Time]]'' series available to international fans.


===March===
A broken [[Filbik colour coder]] leaked a [[rainbow]] over a town in England, causing anyone who touched it to change colour and fall [[unconscious]] before being transported to a [[Filbik storage ship|storage ship]]. When [[Bobby (The End of the Rainbow)|Bobby]] explained the mishap to the [[Filbik]] they politely agreed to return all of the [[sample]]s taken by accident. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The End of the Rainbow (short story)|The End of the Rainbow]]'')


* [[CC]]: ''[[Resistance]]'' is first released.
[[Gareth (Doctor Who)|Gareth]], head of the seismology unit of the UCMA taskforce, developed a system for accurately predicting earthquakes. Gareth's system was credited for saving the human race several times. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
* [[ST]]: ''[[Short Trips: Indefinable Magic]]'' is first published, which ultimately becomes the final collection of new material in this long-running short story series as the BBC does not renew [[Big Finish]]'s licence. As a result, following this publication there are no new officially licensed original literary stories being published featuring the first eight Doctors, for the time being.
* [[BFIW]]: ''[[The Land of Wonder|Iris Wildthyme and the Land of Wonder]]'' is first released.
* The BBC series ''Tonight's the Night'' (hosted by [[John Barrowman]]) launches a contest for viewers to create their own Doctor Who monster. Following the 28 March deadline finalists will be chosen to take part in further competition on the series. The winner gets to appear in a specially written ''Doctor Who'' scene (which is similar to A Fix with Sontarans, as David Tennant appears as himself, and it also breaks the fourth wall).
* A trailer for the upcoming [[K9TV]]: ''[[K-9 (TV series)|K-9]]'' spinoff series is unveiled at the MIPTV show in Cannes and is later posted online.
* [[3rd March|3]] - The BBC announces that outgoing ''Doctor Who'' executive producer [[Julie Gardner]] will be joining the Los Angeles branch of [[BBC Worldwide]] in June 2009, serving as executive producer of American-market projects.
** North American release of ''The Key to Time: Special Edition'', a DVD collection of all stories from [[Season 16]]. This is the expanded set that was released in the UK in 2007 and replaces an earlier version of the box set that had been issued in 2002. Unlike the previous release, however, individual release of th six stories does not occur in Region 1.
* [[5th March|5]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'' (including ''[[Music of the Spheres]]'') is released to DVD in Region 4. Also released is ''[[The E-Space Trilogy]]'' box set featuring [[DW]]: ''[[Full Circle]]'', ''[[State of Decay]]'' and ''[[Warriors' Gate]]''.
* [[12th March|12]] - Audio adaptation of [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]'' is first released.
* [[13th March|13]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love]]'', a special mini-episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', airs in the UK as part of [[Comic Relief]]'s Red Nose Day. This is the first mini-episode to be based upon a spinoff of ''Doctor Who''. [[David Tennant]] co-hosts the main BBC broadcast of of Red Nose Day with [[Davina McCall]], introducing the SJA mini-episode and also taking part in a Doctor Who-themed round of the quiz show ''Mastermind''. The SJA mini-adventure is originally given the title ''Funny for Money'' in pre-broadcast publicity, but so-writer [[Clayton Hickman]] later confirmed the official title on the Doctor Who Forum.[http://www.doctorwhoforum.com/showthread.php?p=7959913#post7959913]
* [[14th March|14]] - Canadian premiere of [[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]''. The cable network [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] is airing the special rather than the [[CBC]], marking a possible major shift in how future episodes of the revived series will be broadcast in that country.
* [[16th March|16]] - A quarter-century after their use was phased out across the UK, Edinburgh's police department announces plans to reintroduce "[[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]-style" police boxes.[http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Police-bring-Tardisstyle-boxes-back.5074422.jp]
** [[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'' is released to DVD in the UK.
* Mid-March - For the fourth consecutive year, episodes of ''Doctor Who'' written by [[Steven Moffat]] are nominated for the annual Hugo Award: [[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead]]''. Also nominated: [[Russell T Davies]]' episode [[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'' (resulting in some controversy among fans who expected his [[DW]]: ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]'' to be nominated. Competition for the award includes episodes of ''Battlestar Galactica'' and ''Lost''; this year ''Doctor Who'' does not win, however, and the award goes to the made-for-Internet short film ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog''.
* [[18th March|18]] - In a speech to members of BAFTA, [[Russell T Davies]] reveals that production of Series 3 of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' had been impacted by BBC budget cuts and had nearly been cancelled on three occasions.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7952655.stm]
* [[25th March|25]] - The final cast readthrough of the David Tennant era (for both parts of [[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') takes place
* [[26th March|26]] - [[TDL]]: ''[[The Colour of Darkness]]'' and [[TDL]]: ''[[The Depths of Despair]]'' are first published.
* [[30th March|30]] - [[BFA]]: ''[[The Key 2 Time - The Chaos Pool]]'' is first released.
** Filming begins on [[David Tennant]]'s final two episodes, [[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' (date per [[Russell T. Davies]]' script).


===April===
[[Kate Maguire]] first encountered the Tenth Doctor. However, he knew that one day she would help him defend the Earth against an [[Auton]] invasion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Autonomy (novel)|Autonomy]]'')


* [[BFA]]: ''[[The Magic Mousetrap]]'' is first released. Beginning with this release, and continuing over 12 months, a serialized second feature, [[CC]]: ''[[The Three Companions]]'' is included.
A crashed [[Terpsivore]] spaceship was buried under [[Birmingham]] before being repaired and leaving in 2009. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Death Disco (comic story)|Death Disco]]'')
* [[CC]]: ''[[The Magician's Oath]]'' is first released.
* [[IDW]]: ''Doctor Who: The Forgotten'', a graphic novel-style release reprinting the [[IDW]]: ''[[The Forgotten]]'' story arc from [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''[[Doctor Who (IDW)|Doctor Who]]'' comic book series, is first published.
* [[BFIW]]: ''[[The Two Irises]]'' is first released.
* In the weeks following its broadcast of [[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'', the Canadian television network [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] confirms that it has obtained the Canadian broadcast rights to the [[2009 specials]] and [[Series 5]], and announces it will air [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' in June. This ends speculation over the future of ''Doctor Who'' on the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]], although it's not yet known whether the CBC or related networks will retain broadcast rights to the first four seasons. Up to at least the end of Series 4, the CBC had been a (sometimes-credited) co-producer of the series; presumably this announcement means that arrangement has ended.
* [[2nd April|02]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Rescue]]'' and ''[[The Romans]]'' are released to DVD in Region 4 in a single set.
* [[9th April|09]] - Audio adaptation of [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora]]'' is first released.
* [[10th April|10]] - After a hiatus of 10 years, ''Red Dwarf'', the BBC's other major science fiction series, returns to TV for a three-part miniseries, ''Back to Earth'', with part 1 aired this date on the non-BBC cable network, Dave.
* [[11th April|11]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' is first broadcast, the first of four one-hour special episodes of ''Doctor Who'' scheduled for broadcast during 2009 and early 2010 in lieu of a regular season in 2009. Co-written by [[Russell T Davies]] and [[Gareth Roberts]], it is the first episode on which Davies shares writing credit, is the first episode of the revived series to credit two writers, and is the first story to credit two writers since 1993's [[DW]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]''. It is also the first episode (as opposed to telemovie) of the series to be filmed in part outside Europe since 1984. The BBC did not officially announce the broadcast date until 1 April, leading to some erroneous reports that it would air on Easter Sunday itself, 12 April. The special, the first to be filmed in high-definition, was simulcast on BBC HD.
** An installment of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' follows on BBC Three.
* [[13th April|13]] - [[BBC Video]] releases the DVD box set ''The Cybermen Collection'' in the UK. The set includes the previously released [[Tenth Doctor]] episodes [[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'', and ''[[Doomsday]]'' and is the first themed reissue collection involving the revived series.
* [[16th April|16]] - [[NSA]]: ''[[Judgement of the Judoon]]'', [[NSA]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks]]'' and [[NSA]]: ''[[The Slitheen Excursion]]'' are first published. All three novels feature the [[Tenth Doctor]] without a companion, continuing the format established by [[NSA]]: ''[[The Eyeless]]''. Notably, all three releases in this cycle (as well as the preceding Quick Reads release) feature returning monsters.
* [[17th April|17]] - [[Big Finish Productions]] announces that it is ending its long-running [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] series of short story anthologies, due to the BBC not renewing its licence in this area.[http://www.bigfinish.com/news/Short-Trips-Announcement]
* [[20th April|20]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl]]'' is released to DVD in the UK.
* [[30th April|30]] - [[TDL]]: ''[[The Vampire of Paris]]'' is first published.


===May===
[[Rani Chandra]] visited a [[Krulius]] spaceship. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Krulius (comic story)|Return of the Krulius]]'')


* [[BFA]]: ''[[Enemy of the Daleks]]'' is first released.
[[Ellie Faber]] became [[homeless]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Clyde Langer (TV story)|The Curse of Clyde Langer]]'')
* [[TWN]]: ''[[Bay of the Dead]]'', [[TWN]]: ''[[The House That Jack Built]]'', and [[TWN]]: ''[[Into the Silence]]'' are first published.
* [[CC]]: ''[[The Mahogany Murderers]]'' is first released. This is the first entry in [[The Companion Chronicles]] to not feature a Doctor; instead, it features the characters of [[Henry Gordon Jago]] and [[George Litefoot]] from [[DW]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]''.
* [[ST]]: ''[[Short Trips: Re:Collections]]'', an anthology of previously published stories, is first published, bringing to a close [[Big Finish]]'s [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] line.
* [[BFIW]]: ''[[The Panda Invasion|Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion]]'' is first released.
* [[5th May|05]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'' and ''[[The E-Space Trilogy]]'' box set ([[DW]]: ''[[Full Circle]]'', ''[[State of Decay]]'', ''[[Warriors' Gate]]'') are released to DVD in North America/Region 1.
* [[7th May|07]] - Production of the first season of the spinoff series [[K9TV]]: ''[[K-9 (TV series)|K-9]]'' is scheduled to be completed.[http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkFVZyAlApqWLTtAaz&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyle]
** [[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'' is released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[8th May|08]] - Official release of the film ''[[Star Trek]]'', a new take on the classic series. [[Simon Pegg]], who guest starred in [[DW]]: ''[[The Long Game]]'' and narrated ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'', appears as Scotty in the highest-profile example to date of a ''Doctor Who'' actor crossing over into the ''Star Trek'' franchise. [[Deep Roy]], an alumni of [[DW]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', shares several scenes with Pegg in a small role as Scotty's alien sidekick.
* [[11th May|11]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' is released to DVD in the UK.
* [[12th May|12]] - Proving some things just never change, a survey of parents of young children published in ''The Telegraph'' cites ''Doctor Who'' is a series blamed for giving children nightmares, with parents surveyed indicating they'd rather see it aired in post-watershed hours.[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5312812/TV-shows-including-Doctor-Who-giving-children-nightmares.html]
* [[20th May|20]] - [[IDW]]: ''[[The Time Machination]]'', a one-shot comic book by [[IDW Publishing]], is first published. This is the first comic in IDW's ''Doctor Who'' line to make reference to ''[[Torchwood]]''.
** ''[[Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus]]'' published by [[Obverse Books]] and edited by [[Paul Magrs]] and [[Stuart Douglas]], is first published. This is the first of a planned series of short story anthologies featuring the character of [[Iris Wildthyme]].
* [[21st May|21]] - [[David Tennant]] films the [[2009 BBC Christmas idents]] in London. These short promotional pieces will air during the 2009 Christmas season on BBC One and BBC America.
* [[23rd May|23]] - The [[John Barrowman]]-hosted talent series ''[[Tonight's the Night]]'' airs a specially written and filmed ''Doctor Who'' scene in which Barrowman, as [[Jack Harkness]], encounters an alien (played by a contest winner) in the TARDIS. The scene is written by [[Russell T Davies]] and includes a cameo by [[David Tennant]], out of character as himself. The scene breaks the fourth wall, showing the studio surrounding the TARDIS set, and the special also included a ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]''-style look behind the scenes of the filming.
* [[26th May|26]] - The BBC and [[Russell T Davies]] announce that [[David Tennant]] will appear as the [[Tenth Doctor]] in an [[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith|upcoming two-part episode]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.
* [[28th May|28]] - [[BBC America]] announces that it has obtained the US broadcast rights to the [[2009 specials]] of ''Doctor Who''. The series had previously aired on the [[Sci Fi Channel]].
** [[TDL]]: ''[[The Game of Death]]'' is first published.
* [[29th May|29]] - The BBC announces that [[Karen Gillan]], who previously appeared in [[DW]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'', will co-star with [[Matt Smith]] as the new Doctor Who companion for [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]].[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8073734.stm]
** Publication of [[IDW]]: ''Doctor Who Classics Vol. 3'', a graphic novel-style release reprinting issues of [[IDW]]: ''[[Doctor Who Classics]]'' by [[IDW Publishing]].


===June===
[[Phil Houseman]]'s ''[[The Myth of Artificial Intelligence]]'' was published. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Theatre of War (novel)|Theatre of War]]'')


* [[CC]]: ''[[The Stealers from Saiph]]'' is first released.
[[Julia Hardwick]] was sent back in time by a [[Weeping Angel]] when she was in a [[graveyard]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[A Ghost Story for Christmas (webcast)|A Ghost Story for Christmas]]'')
* Former ''Doctor Who'' executive producer [[Julie Gardner]] is takes her post at [[BBC Worldwide]]'s Los Angeles branch.
* The Canadian cable network [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] officially confirms that it has obtained the broadcasting rights to ''Doctor Who'' from the [[CBC]], and will air the remaining [[2009 specials]] along with [[Series 5]] in 2010; in addition, it will obtain Canadian broadcast rights to the first four seasons and the never-aired-in-Canada [[DW]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' in the spring of 2010.
* [[David Tennant]], fresh from concluding his final episodes as the Doctor, begins filming a motion picture version of ''Hamlet'', which is scheduled for broadcast on [[BBC Two]] in late 2009, on [[PBS]] in the US in 2010, and also is planned for limited theatrical release in the US in the fall of 2009.
* [[2nd June|02]] - [[Shaun Lyon]] announces that the Outpost Gallifrey website, the Doctor Who News website, and the Doctor Who Forum will all close as of 31st July. A detailed reason for closing the sites is not provided.[http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=95073]
* [[4th June|04]] - The complete [[Series 1 (The Sarah Jane Adventures|Series 1]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' is released to DVD in Region 4.
** [[DW]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl]]'' is released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[7th June|07]] - The ''Sunday Mirror'' includes a poster of [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] and a [[Dalek]] maze reprinted from ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]''.
* [[9th June|09]] - [[TWM]]: ''[[Torchwood: Rift War]]'', an omnibus of the multi-part ''[[Rift War|Rift War!]]'' comic strip from ''[[Torchwood Magazine]]'', is first published by Titan Books. It is the first ''[[Torchwood]]'' graphic novel.
* [[10th June|10]] - [[IDW]]: ''[[Autopia]]'', a one-shot comic story, is first published.
* [[12th June|12]] - Preview showing of episode one of ''[[Torchwood]]'': ''[[Children of Earth]]'' at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London.
* [[13th June|13]] - Beginning today and continuing for the next six Saturdays, special mini-editions of ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' are included as giveaways in the ''Daily Mirror''. These specials feature reprints from DWA.
* [[16th June|16]] - [[Michael Summerton]] dies. He appeared in [[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks]]'' as one of the first [[Dalek]]s to appear in ''Doctor Who.''
* [[22nd June|22]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]'' is released to DVD in the UK.
* [[23rd June|23]] - [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcasts ''[[On the Outside it Looked Like an Old Fashioned Police Box]]'', a documentary on the history of the [[Target Books]] novelisations hosted by [[Mark Gatiss]]. The documentary is posted online for the following week.
* [[25th June|25]] - [[TDL]]: ''[[The Planet of Oblivion]]'' is first published.
* [[27th June|27]] - US broadcast debut of [[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'' on the show's new US broadcaster, [[BBC America]].[http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuFulFVZlcTGqbxEg&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyle]
* [[29th June|29]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' is released to DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK, becoming the first ''Doctor Who'' episode to be released in Blu-Ray.
* [[30th June|30]] - [[BFA]]: ''[[The Angel of Scutari]]'' is first released.
** [[BFBS]]: ''[[Glory Days]]'' is first released, launching the 10th season of the [[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series]].


===July===
The nine-year-old [[Sally Morgan]]'s parents were killed in the [[Middle East]] when their convoy was ambushed. From then onwards, she was raised by her grandfather. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')
* [[Big Finish]] marks the 10th anniversary of its line of ''Doctor Who'' audio productions.
* [[IDW Publishing]] launches [[IDW]]: ''[[Doctor Who Ongoing]]'', a new comic series featuring the adventures of the [[Tenth Doctor]], beginning with a three-issue storyline entitled [[IDW]]: ''[[Silver Scream]]''.
* ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' #411 reports that [[John Leeson]] will reprise the role of [[K-9]] for the upcoming [[K9TV]]: ''[[K-9 (TV series)|K-9]]'' spin-off series.
* [[BFA]]: ''[[The Company of Friends]]'' is first released. This audio is notable for introducing the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic character [[Izzy Sinclair]] to the audio range, as well as revealing that [[Mary Shelley]] had once been a companion.
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Mission of the Viyrans]]'', a single-episode story from 2007 that had previously been packaged with another story, [[BFA]]: ''[[The Mind's Eye]]'', is made available for individual download.
* [[CC]]: ''[[The Drowned World]]'' is first released.
* [[1st July|01]] - [[TWA]]: ''[[Asylum (Torchwood)|Asylum]]'' is first broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]], the first of a trilogy of ''[[Torchwood]]'' dramas featuring the TV cast aired in the days prior to [[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]''. The three plays are also made available for streaming listening worldwide (and for MP3 download within the UK) for one week after broadcast. All three plays are also scheduled for CD release in the fall of 2009.
* [[2nd July|02]] - [[TWA]]: ''[[Golden Age]]'' is first broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]].
** [[BBCR]]: ''[[The Rising Night]]'' is first released, read by [[Michelle Ryan]].
** Audio adaptation of [[DWN]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Happiness Patrol]]'' is first released.
** [[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' and ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' are released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[3rd July|03]] - [[TWA]]: ''[[The Dead Line]]'' is first broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]].
* [[6th July|06]] - ''[[Torchwood]]'': ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]'' is first broadcast, launching [[Series 3 (Torchwood)|Series 3]] of ''Torchwood'', which this year consists of a single five-episode arc airing over five consecutive nights. The show moves to [[BBC One]].
** UK DVD release of [[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]''. This release also includes the first BBC-sanctioned release of ''[[Devious]]'', a fan-made ''Doctor Who'' story featuring the final performance of [[Jon Pertwee]] as the [[Third Doctor]]. Although BBC Video has included the occasional fan-made production on DVDs previously (most notably in the ''[[The Beginning]]'' box set), this is the first time a major fan production has been included on an official BBC release. The DVD, however, includes only a 12-minute excerpt as the film has yet to be completed.[http://www.doctorwho-devious.com]
* [[7th July|07]] - ''[[Torchwood]]'': ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two]]'' is first broadcast.
** Release of the soundtrack album for ''[[Torchwood]]'': ''[[Children of Earth]]''.
** [[DW]]: ''[[The Rescue]]'' and ''[[The Romans]]'' are issued as a two-DVD set in Region 1, along with [[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]''.
* [[8th July|08]] - ''[[Torchwood]]'': ''[[Children of Earth: Day Three]]'' is first broadcast.
* [[9th July|09]] - ''[[Torchwood]]'': ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four]]'' is first broadcast.
* [[10th July|10]] - ''[[Torchwood]]'': ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five]]'' is first broadcast, concluding Series 3 and the ''Children of Earth'' arc.
* [[13th July|13]] - Only three days after it was broadcast, [[BBC Video]] releases the ''[[Torchwood]]'' mini-series ''[[Children of Earth]]'' to DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK. This is the quickest Who franchise home video release to date.
* mid [[July]] - To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first ''Apollo'' moon landing, the BBC's official website, over the course of four days, uploads the exclusive [[Tenth Doctor]] short story [[WC]]: ''[[Blue Moon]]''.
* [[18th July|18]] - The sixth and final special mini-edition of ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' appears in the ''Daily Mirror''.
* [[20th July|20]] - Production begins on [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] of ''Doctor Who'', with the BBC formally announcing the Doctor's new companion as [[Amy Pond]] and unveiling the first photographs of the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s costume. Media coverage of the first day's filming also reveals that [[Alex Kingston|a major guest star from Series 4]] will be returning.
** [[DW]]: The new DVD edition of [[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' is released on its own in the UK, some 18 months after its original release as part of ''[[The Complete Davros Collection]]''.
* [[20th July|20]]-[[24th July|24]] - Broadcasts of ''[[Torchwood]]'': ''[[Children of Earth]]'' on both [[BBC America]] in the US and [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] in Canada. As in the UK, the miniseries runs for five consecutive nights.
** The broadcasts in Canada and the US are ratings successes. This, combined with the show's success in the UK, is the subject of media coverage and speculation that a fourth season of ''[[Torchwood]]'' is likely to be commissioned.
* [[22nd July|22]] - [[IDW]]: ''[[Room with a Deja View]]'', a standalone comic story, first published.
* [[23rd July|23]] - According to media reports, [[John Barrowman]] is involved in an 80 mph race car crash while filming a segment of the series ''Top Gear''. He escapes with minor injuries.[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1200698/Lucky-escape-John-Barrowman-survives-80mph-rally-car-crash.html] The exact date of the accident is unclear, as only a couple of days after this date Barrowman attends the San Diego ComicCon.
* [[24th July|24]] - [[Harry Towb]] dies. He appeared in [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]''; in the latter, he experienced one of the most iconic of all ''Doctor Who'' deaths by being "eaten" by a living plastic chair.
* [[25th July|25]] - Broadcast of [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' on the Canadian network [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] (originally announced for 20 June).
* [[26th July|26]] - Broadcast of [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' on [[BBC America]].
** ''Doctor Who'' is officially named the single most successful science fiction TV series by Guinness World Records. The honour is announced at the 2009 San Diego ComicCon.[http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/07/doctor-who-named-the-most-successful-scifi-series.html] The same event also unveiled the first trailer for the [[David Tennant]] finale specials, confirming the return appearance of [[The Master|a longtime villain]] and indicating the title [[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' for the finale. The ComicCon marks Tennant's first appearance at such an event; he is accompanied by [[John Barrowman]] and [[Russell T. Davies]].
* [[28th July|28]] - North American DVD and Blu-Ray releases of ''[[Torchwood]]'': ''[[Children of Earth]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]''. ''Planet of the Dead'' is the first ''Doctor Who'' story to be released in the high-def Blu-Ray format.
* [[30th July|30]] - [[TDL]]: ''[[The Pictures of Emptiness]]'' is first published.
* [[31st July|31]] - [[BFBS]]: ''[[Absence]]'' is first released.
** The Internet's largest Doctor Who discussion board, the Doctor Who Forum, along with the original Doctor Who News Page (formerly known as Outpost Gallifrey), closes. A replacement discussion board, Gallifrey Base, is established some weeks earlier (although the archives of the 13-year-old forum are deleted), while other parties have taken over the Doctor Who News Page.


===August===
[[Jack Odwards]] swam the [[English Channel]] to raise money for [[Chuckle-Aid]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379) (audio story)|Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379)]]'')


* [[BFA]]: ''[[The Cannibalists]]'' is first released.
The [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Zoe Heriot]] visited London for a few days during their travels. The Doctor met [[Miranda Peel]] on a [[Tuesday]] and a [[Wednesday]] on the [[London Underground]] while Jamie and Zoe explored the city. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Favourite Star (short story)|Favourite Star]]'')
* [[CC]]: ''[[The Glorious Revolution]]'' is first released.
* [[REF]]: ''[[Bernice Summerfield: The Inside Story]]'' is first published; this is a [[Big Finish]]-published history of the creation of the character.
* [[RP]]: ''[[Myth Makers]]'': ''[[Telos Publishing]]'' first released by [[Reeltime Pictures]].
* Unknown date - [[Alan Chuntz]] (The chauffeur in [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]'' and a member of the HAVOC stunt team featured on the show between the 1960s and 1980s), dies at age 81.
* [[6th August|06]] - ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2010]]'' is first published.
** Audio adaptation of [[DWN]]: ''[[The Mind Robber (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Mind Robber]]'' is first released.
** The DVD box set ''The Cybermen Collection'' is released in Region 4. The set includes the previously released [[Tenth Doctor]] episodes [[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'', and ''[[Doomsday]]''. Also released in region 4: [[DW]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]''.
* [[9th August|09]] - [[Steven Moffat]]'s winning streak at the Hugo Awards ends when [[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]''/''[[Forest of the Dead]]'' is defeated by a Joss Whedon production, ''Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog'', in the Dramatic Presentation - Short Form category, which Moffat and ''Doctor Who'' has dominated since 2006. An examination of the voting results show only about 100 votes separated Moffat from first place in the final tally. [[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'' by [[Russell T. Davies]] had also been nominated for the award this year. As Moffat has not written any of the [[2009 specials]], the earliest he'll be eligible again for a Hugo is in 2011.
* [[10th August|10]] - UK DVD release of the ''Black Guardian Trilogy'' box set consisting of [[DW]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]''.
* [[19th August|19]] - [[CC]]: ''[[The Mists of Time]]'', a [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama and part of [[The Companion Chronicles]], is made available for download exclusively through ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' #411. The download offer expires in October.
* [[20th August|20]] - Broadcast of ''The Doctor'', the first episode of the three-part documentary series, ''[[Doctor Who's Greatest Moments]]'' on [[BBC Three]]. It follows a rebroadcast of [[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'' and scores 400,000 viewers.[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/08/greatest-moments-ratings.html]
* [[25th August|25]] - [[The Doctor]] is named Best Alien in online Best Television Characters of the 2000s poll conducted by Zap2It, an entertainment website affiliated with the ''Los Angeles Times''. The Doctor also received a strong write-in presence in the Best Doctor category (but was disqualified as he isn't considered a medical doctor), while [[The Master]] received write-in votes for Best Villain.[http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/08/you-name-the-decades-best-television-characters.html]
* [[26th August|26]] - [[IDW]]: ''[[Cold Blooded War!]]'', a standalone comic, is first published.
** [[Big Finish Productions]] announces that [[Frazer Hines]] will be returning to the role of [[Jamie McCrimmon]] for an upcoming series of audios in which Jamie serves as companion to the [[Sixth Doctor]].
* [[27th August|27]] - [[TDL]]: ''[[The Art of War]]'' is first published.
** ''[[Doctor Who's Greatest Moments]]'': ''The Companions'' airs on [[BBC Three]]. Only 290,000 viewers this week, a drop from the first episode.[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/08/greatest-moments-companions-ratings.html]
* [[30th August|30]] - ''[[Farewell Great Macedon (book)|Farewell Great Macedon]]'' is first published by [[Nothing at the End of the Lane (publisher)|Nothing at the End of the Lane]]. This book collects two unproduced [[First Doctor]] scripts by [[Moris Farhi]] - ''[[Farewell Great Macedon]]'', which had been commissioned by [[David Whitaker]], and a single-episode story, ''[[The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance]]'', written as a "tester" script by Farhi.
* [[31st August|31]] - [[BFA]]: ''[[Patient Zero]]'' is first released.
** [[BFBS]]: ''[[Venus Mantrap]]'' is first released.


===September===
One of [[Abslom Daak]]'s ancestors was found guilty by [[Intersol]] for crimes against [[New Devonia]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Crimson Hand (comic story)|The Crimson Hand]]'')


* [[BFA]]: ''[[Paper Cuts]]'' is first released.
The [[Abzorbaloff (The Genuine Article)|Abzorbaloff]] met the Tenth Doctor in Cardiff, wanting to revenge his [[Abzorbaloff|son]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Genuine Article (webcast)|The Genuine Article]]'')
* [[BFA]]: ''[[The Eight Truths]]'' is first released.
* [[CC]]: ''[[The Prisoner of Peladon]]'' is first released.
* [[1st September|01]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl]]'', ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' and ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]'' are released to DVD in Region 1.
* [[3rd September|03]] - [[BBCR]]: ''[[The Stuff of Nightmares]]'', an audio adventure from BBC Audio, and Part 1 of the [[BBCR]]: ''[[Hornets' Nest]]'' story arc, is first released. The adventure features [[Tom Baker]] providing the voice of the [[Fourth Doctor]]; his first new performance in the role since 1993. [[Richard Franklin]] reprises his 1970s role of [[Mike Yates]]. To be followed by four more chapters over the next few months.
** [[NSA]]: ''[[The Taking of Chelsea 426]]'', [[NSA]]: ''[[The Krillitane Storm]]'', and [[NSA]]: ''[[Autonomy]]'' are first published. All novels feature the [[Tenth Doctor]] travelling on his own and, like previous [[BBC New Series Adventures]] releases this year, feature the return of classic monsters.
** ''[[Doctor Who's Greatest Moments]]'': ''The Enemies'' airs on [[BBC Three]], concluding the trilogy of documentaries.
** Audio book version of [[NSA]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks]]'' is first released.
** ''[[The Doctor Who Stories]]'' is first published by BBC Children's Books; this is an omnibus containing stories from the ''[[Doctor Who Files]]'' magazine, plus a previously unpublished story, ''[[Speech Day]]''.
** ''[[The War Games]]'' (including excerpts from the fan film ''[[Devious]]'') is released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[4th September|04]] - [[Iain Cuthbertson]] ([[Garron]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation]]'') dies at the age of 79.
* [[7th September|07]] - UK DVD release of [[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]''. With this release, the [[Sixth Doctor]] era becomes the first classic series era to be completely released to DVD.
* [[8th September|08]] - [[Ray Barrett]] ([[Bennett]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Rescue]]''), dies of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 82.
* [[14th September|14]] - Publication of ''First Generation'', the autobiography of [[Mary Tamm]]. [[Colin Baker]] writes the foreword. The book is available in a standard paperback edition and a limited-edition hardcover (200 copies) signed by Tamm.
* [[15th September|15]] - North American DVD release of [[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]''. Like the UK version of the release, the 2008 ''Doctor Who at the Proms'' concert special is included as a bonus feature, along with the mini-episode [[DW]]: ''[[Music of the Spheres]]'' which has never been broadcast in North America.
** [[Timothy Bateson]] ([[Binro]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation]]'') dies.
* [[19th September|19]] - ''Doctor Who'' receives the first Television category award at the British Fantasy Awards.
* [[21st September|21]] - [[John Barrowman]] publishes his second autobiography, ''I Am What I Am''. This second volume of memoirs covers his years working on ''Doctor Who'' and ''Torchwood''.
** [[DW]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus]]'' is released to DVD in the UK.
* [[24th September|24]] - [[TDL]]: ''[[The End of Time (novel)|The End of Time]]'', the final book in the [[BBC Books]] miniseries [[The Darksmith Legacy]], is first published. The book coincidentally shares its title with [[The End of Time (TV story)|the final David Tennant]] special.
** [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Ultimate Monster Guide|The Ultimate Monster Guide]]'' is first published.
** [[IDW]]: ''[[Black Death White Life]]'', a standalone comic, is published.
* Late September - Three ''[[Torchwood]]'' audio dramas aired on [[BBC Radio 4]] in July: [[TWA]]: ''[[Asylum (Torchwood)|Asylum]]'', [[TWA]]: ''[[Golden Age]]'' and [[TWA]]: ''[[The Dead Line]]'', are released to CD.
** ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' announces the results of its "The Mighty 200" reader's poll in [[DWM Issue 413]]. [[DW]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' is named voted for in the poll, while [[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'' is the least voted for.
* [[30th September|30]] - [[BFA]]: ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet]]'' is first released. This appears to the the final appearance (for now) of [[India Fisher]] as [[Charley Pollard]].
** [[BFBS]]: ''[[Secret Origins]]'' is first released.


===October===
According to [[Brent Cleever]], [[William Frazer|Sir William Frazer]] and [[Lady Frazer]] settled on [[Mars]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Biography — 21 (short story)|Biography — 21]]'')


* [[BFA]]: ''[[Castle of Fear]]'' is first released.
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)}})
* [[CC]]: ''[[The Pyralis Effect]]'' is first released.
* ''SFX Magazine'' #188 comes with a ''Doctor Who - [[Tom Baker]] Sampler'' CD, including excerpts from [[BBCR]]: ''[[Hornets' Nest]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Pescatons]]'', several [[Target novelisation]]s read by Baker, and archival interviews from the ''[[Doctor Who at the BBC]]'' series.
* [[REF]]: ''[[Howe's Transcendental Toybox|Howe's Transcendental Toybox Update No. 3]]'' is first published.
* [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who - Guide to Alien Armies]]'' is first published.
* ''[[The Doctor Who Files|The Doctor Who Files Collector's Edition]]'' is first published.
* [[1st October | 01]] - [[TWN]]: ''[[The Undertaker's Gift]]'', [[TWN]]: ''[[Risk Assessment]]'' and [[TWN]]: ''[[Consequences]]'' are first published.
** [[REF]]: ''[[Torchwood: The Encyclopedia]]'' is first published.
** [[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'' and the new edition of [[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' is released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[2nd October | 02]] - The complete [[Series 2 (Torchwood)|Series 2]] of ''[[Torchwood]]'' is released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[5th October | 05]] - With several episodes already under their belts, [[Matt Smith]] and [[Karen Gillan]] begin filming the first episode of [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] in Llandaff, Wales.[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/10/october-filming-roundup_22.html] Subsequent media coverage of the filming begin to reveal details regarding the new season, ranging from [[Amy Pond]]'s apparent profession to glimpses of the redesigned TARDIS interior.
** The ''Dalek War'' DVD box set is released in the UK, comprising the connected storylines [[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'' and ''[[Planet of the Daleks]]''.
** [[Silva Screen Records]] releases a CD containing soundtrack music from ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD]]''.
* [[6th October | 06]] - The BBC unveils a new [[Doctor Who logo]] for [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]].
** ''[[Blue Peter]]'' launches a contest calling on viewers to design a [[TARDIS]] console that apparently will be used in an upcoming episode of ''Doctor Who''.
* [[8th October | 08]] - [[BBCR]]: ''[[The Dead Shoes]]'', part 2 of the [[BBCR]]: ''[[Hornets' Nest]]'' arc starring [[Tom Baker]], is first released.
** [[BBCR]]: ''[[Day of the Troll]]'' is first released.
** [[SJAA]]: ''[[The Shadow People]]'' and [[SJAA]]: ''[[The White Wolf]]'' are first released.
** [[NSA]]: ''[[The Dalek Project]]'', the first ''Doctor Who'' graphic novel commissioned by and published by [[BBC Books]], is first published.[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Project-Justin-Richards/dp/1846077559]
* [[9th October | 09]] - [[Barry Letts]] dies.
* [[14th October | 14]] - Expiry date for the download offer included in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' #411 that allowed readers to download an exclusive [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama, [[CC]]: ''[[The Mists of Time]]''. It's not known whether this recording will be made available again hereafter.
* [[15th October|15]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon]]'' Part 1 is first broadcast, launching the [[Series 3 (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|third season]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' on [[CBBC]]. This season two episodes will air per week.
* [[16th October|16]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon]]'' Part 2 is first broadcast.
** [[Tom Baker]] reads [[Barry Letts]]' obituary on the BBC Radio 4 programme ''The Last Word''.
* [[17th October | 17]] - 30th anniversary of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', the longest continually running publication of its type based upon an English-language TV series.
* [[19th October | 19]] - [[BBC Video]] releases its second themed box set reissuing related episodes of the revived series: ''The Dalek Collection''. Episodes included: [[DW]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'', ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'', ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'', ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'', and ''[[Journey's End]]''.
* [[21st October | 21]] - [[Chris D'Oyly-John]] dies. John was a longtime production unit manager, production assistant, and assistant floor manager during the classic series.
* [[22nd October | 22]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'' Part 1 is first broadcast.
* [[23rd October | 23]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'' Part 2 is first broadcast.
* [[25th October | 25]] - [[David Tennant]] begins his first post-''Doctor Who'' television job, and his first American TV assignment, as host of ''Masterpiece Contemporary'' on [[PBS]].
* [[26th October | 26]] - The first 4 seasons of the revived ''Doctor Who'' are released in the UK in a single 23-disc DVD box set edition, as are the first 3 seasons of ''Torchwood'' in a 14-disc box set.
* [[27th October | 27]] - The first 4 seasons of the revived ''Doctor Who'' are released in Region 1 (North America) in a single 23-disc DVD box set edition. (No such Region 1 release occurs for ''Torchwood'', however.)
* [[29th October | 29]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' Part 1 is first broadcast, featuring a guest appearance by [[David Tennant]] as the Doctor, the first time the Doctor has appeared in one of the spin-off series. The episode scores the series' highest-ever ratings.
** [[Elisabeth Sladen]] and [[Russell T. Davies]] appear on ''BBC Breakfast'' to promote that night's episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. The studio used for ''BBC Breakfast'' is the same one where Sladen filmed ''Doctor Who'' in the mid-1970s.
* [[30th October | 30]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' Part 2 is first broadcast, once again featuring [[David Tennant]].
** Press preview for [[DW]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]''.
** [[David Tennant]] appears on ''GMTV'' during which he announces the airdate for [[DW]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]''.
** 75th anniversary of Maida Vale studio, where the [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]] recorded the [[Doctor Who theme]] among other works.
* [[31st October| 31]] - The first episode of the spin-off series ''[[K-9 (TV series)|K-9]]'' is debuts in the UK on the Disney XD channel. This will be a special, to be followed by the remainder of the series in 2010.


===November===
==== Prior to 456 incursion ====
[[Aliens of London dating controversy|Contradicting other sources]], one account placed this year as the time Torchwood discovered the skeleton of a [[Cardiff]] [[Soldier (Greeks Bearing Gifts)|soldier]] from [[1812]] who died when his heart was ripped out. According to this account, Ianto, [[Owen Harper]], and [[Toshiko Sato]] were still active in Torchwood. ([[TV]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'')


* [[BFA]]: ''[[The Eternal Summer]]'' is first released.
A half-[[Ghosty|alien]], half-human girl named [[Freda]] was sent back from the future to escape persecution and came under the protection of Torchwood Three. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Asylum (audio story)|Asylum]]'')
* [[BFIW]]: ''[[The Claws of Santa]]'' is first released.
* [[CC]]: ''[[Ringpullworld]]'' is first released.
* [[BBC America]]'s upcoming broadcasts of the final [[David Tennant]] specials receive major promotion in full-page ads in American comic books issued this month, including those published by DC Comics.
* [[2nd November | 02]] - NBC announces that [[David Tennant]] will film a pilot for a proposed new series, ''Rex is Not Your Lawyer''. Tennant becomes the first Doctor actor to be signed to lead an American TV series. [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i8161b51e045b5cf6f1b2296423bf7743]
* [[3rd November | 03]] - North American DVD release of [[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]'' (including footage from the fan-film ''[[Devious]]'') and the ''Black Guardian Trilogy'' box set consisting of [[DW]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]''.
* [[5th November | 05]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[The Eternity Trap]]'' Part 1 is first broadcast
** [[BBCR]]: ''[[The Circus of Doom]]'' from [[BBC Audio]], part 2 of the [[BBCR]]: ''[[Hornets' Nest]]'' arc starring [[Tom Baker]], is first released.
** [[SJAN]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (novelisation)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' is first published.
** The audio adaptation of [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' is first released.
** The DVD Box set ''The Black Guardian Trilogy'' featuring [[DW]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]'', ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'' and ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]'' is released to Region 4.
* [[6th November | 06]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[The Eternity Trap]]'' Part 2 is first broadcast.
* [[8th November | 08]] - The Doctor Who Museum at Blackpool closes after five years of operation.
** The death of [[Alan Chuntz]], a frequent stuntman on ''Doctor Who'', is announced.
* [[9th November | 09]] - UK DVD release of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' season 2.
** [[Barry Letts]]' autobiography, ''[[Who and Me]]'' is first published.
* [[10th November | 10]] - North American DVD release of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' season 2.
** The UK version of the MSN Video website begins featuring classic series episodes, which will be uploaded for viewing on Tuesdays and Fridays as of this date. The first story to be featured is [[DW]]: ''[[The Web Planet]]''.
* [[11th November | 11]] - Fantasy legend [[Michael Moorcock]] announces that he will be writing ''Doctor Who'' novel for publication by the end of 2010.[http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?t=12620]
* [[12th November | 12]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'' Part 1 is first broadcast.
* [[13th November | 13]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'' Part 2 is first broadcast.
* [[15th November | 15]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' is first broadcast, the second of the gap year specials. An edition of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' follows.
** [[BBC Worldwide]] releases several classic series stories to YouTube, for viewing outside of the United Kingdom (as the files include advertising).
* [[16th November | 16]] - UK release of the ''[[Season 16|Key to Time: The Complete Adventure]]'' DVD box set, months after its North American release. This set had actually been previously issued in the UK in 2007, but in a limited edition; this is its first wide release in Region 2.
* [[19th November | 19]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[The Gift (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|The Gift]]'' Part 1 is first broadcast.
* [[20th November | 20]] - [[SJA]]: ''[[The Gift (The Sarah Jane Adventures)|The Gift]]'' Part 2 is first broadcast, concluding the third season of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.
** The annual [[Children in Need]] appeal on BBC One includes a preview of [[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.
* [[21st November|21]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'' Part 1 is released on the BBC Red Button service, as well as other UK-based satellite networks. It is also available (for UK users only) on the BBC's Doctor Who website.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2009/wk47/red_button_feature.shtml]
** [[Michael Moorcock]] writes an article in ''The Guardian'' about ''Doctor Who'', for which he will be writing a novel.[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/21/michael-moorcock-doctor-who-author]
* [[22nd November|22]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'' Part 2 is released.
* [[23rd November|23]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'' Part 3 is released.
* [[24th November|24]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'' Part 4 is released.
* [[25th November|25]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'' Part 5 is released.
* [[26th November|26]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'' Part 6 is released, concluding the animated serial.
* [[29th November | 29]] - New Zealand broadcast of [[DW]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' on Prime.
** [[Bernard Cribbins]] receives a special BAFTA award for his six-decade career in film and TV.
* [[30th November | 30]] - [[BFA]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (audio)|The Nightmare Fair]]'' is released, launching a new spin-off series of [[Big Finish Productions]] audio dramas entitled ''[[The Lost Stories]]'' adapting scripts planned for the TV series, but never produced, in this case [[DW]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair]]''. This is actually the second audio adaptation of ''The Nightmare Fair'' following an earlier, unofficial production mounted for charity.
** The UK Royal Mint announces the release of a series of commemorative medals honouring ''Doctor Who''. This is the first time a TV series has been featured on Mint-produced coins. The coins feature [[David Tennant]], the [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], [[Dalek]]s and other characters.
* Late November - Filming for Series 5 of ''Doctor Who'' takes place in [[Croatia]].
** The December issue of the UK edition of ''Reader's Digest'' is published, featuring a cover story on ''Doctor Who''.


===December===
Torchwood Three discovered [[Torchwood India]] still existed and its members were preserving their own time in their headquarters by draining the life out of innocent civilians, with plans to roll back time to Britain's empire across the world. Torchwood Three defeated them and Torchwood India was frozen in time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Golden Age (audio story)|Golden Age]]'')


* [[BFA]]: ''[[Plague of the Daleks]]'' is first released.
Torchwood Three combatted a mysterious force that put people into coma-like trances after they answered the phone. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dead Line (audio story)|The Dead Line]]'')<!--Removed "The Devil and Miss Carew" and "Submission". See Behind the scenes.-->
* [[BFBS]]: ''[[Secret Histories]]'' is first published.
* A revised and updated edition of ''Hines Sight'', the autobiography of [[Frazer Hines]] first issued in 1996, is published.
* The BBC releases [[2009 BBC Christmas idents|a series of short promo videos]], or "idents" featuring [[David Tennant]] as [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]], for broadcast during the Christmas season. Four spots are created: a 30-second-long mini-story in which the Doctor turns the TARDIS into a sleigh with the help of some flying reindeer, and three five-second-long "stings", one featuring Tennant digging the TARDIS out of a snowdrift, and two featuring a reindeer wandering around the outside of the TARDIS. A modified vresion of the main 30-second ident also airs in the US on [[BBC America]].
* [[1st December|01]] - The 2009 Doctor Who Adventure Calendar is launched on the BBC's Doctor Who website. As with previous advent calendars, each day through the month a different special feature is uploaded, ranging from exclusive video to fiction. This year the calendar will feature two original short stories and an original mini-episode.
* [[2nd December|02]] - [[IDW]]: ''[[Through Time and Space]]'' is published in North America. This is a graphic novel omnibus of the one-shot comics published by [[IDW Publishing]] throughout 2009.
* [[3rd December|03]] - The final two chapters of the [[BBCR]]: ''[[Hornets' Nest]]'' audio drama arc from [[BBC Audio]] are first released: [[BBCR]]: ''[[A Sting in the Tail]]'' and [[BBCR]]: ''[[Hive of Horror]]'', both starring [[Tom Baker]] and [[Richard Franklin]].
** [[Richard Todd]] ([[Sanders]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Kinda (TV story)|Kinda]]'') dies.
** The first 4 seasons of ''Doctor Who'' are released to Region 4 in a single 23-DVD collection. [[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'' is also released in Region 4.
* [[5th December|05]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'' is broadcast in its entirety on BBC Two.
** ''The Dalek Collection'', a DVD compilation including [[DW]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'', ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'', ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'', ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'', and ''[[Journey's End]]'', is released in Region 4.
* [[6th December|06]] - 20th anniversary of the broadcast of [[DW]]: ''[[Survival]]'' Episode 3, the final episode of the original 1963-1989 series.
** Part One of [[WC]]: ''[[The Advent of Fear]]'', a two-part online short story, is published as part of the BBC's Doctor Who Adventure Calendar.
**[[DW]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' is broadcast on [[ABC1]] in Australia.
* [[8th December|08]] - The London events listings magazine ''Time Out'' publishes a special ''Doctor Who''-themed issue with 10 variant cover photos -- one for every Doctor.
* [[10th December|10]] - Part Two of [[WC]]: ''[[The Advent of Fear]]'', an exclusive-to-Internet short story, appears on the BBC's Doctor Who Adventure Calendar.
* [[12th December|12]] - ''[[The Panda Book of Horror]]'', an [[Iris Wildthyme]] short story collection, is first published.
** Broadcast of the [[BBC Radio 4]] documentary ''Shelved'', which looks at the cancellation of the [[Tom Baker]] story [[DW]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'', among others. The special includes "a key revelation" about ''Doctor Who'' discovered in documentation from the era.
** [[BBC Radio 7]] rebroadcasts ''An Hour with [[Jon Pertwee]]'', a one-man show recorded by the one-time Doctor actor.
** Rebroadcast of [[DW]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'' on [[CBBC]].
** ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' #416 is published, marking the publication's final use of the [[Doctor Who logo]] introduced in 2005. One regular feature reaches a milestone as the "Time Team" completes its 10-year project to watch and review every "classic series" story.
* [[13th December|13]] - [[Paul Cornell]] publishes an unofficial ''Doctor Who'' short story, [[WC]]: ''[[The Last Doctor]]'', on his blog.[http://www.paulcornell.com/2009/12/12-blogs-of-christmas-one-doctor-who_9773.html]
* [[14th December|14]] - The Welsh government approves plans to develop a [[BBC Drama Village]], a series of studios near [[Cardiff Bay]] which would be used for productions such as ''Doctor Who''.[http://wales.gov.uk/publications/accessinfo/drnewhomepage/economicdrs/2010/bbcdramavillage/?lang=en]
* [[15th December|15]] - ''[[Blue Peter]]'' is airs a feature on ''Doctor Who''.
** [[Steven Moffat]] is interviewed by [[Matthew Sweet]] on BBC Radio 3's ''Night Waves'' about his new job on ''Doctor Who''.
* [[16th December|16]] - A ''Doctor Who''-themed edition of the comedy quiz show ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks'', guest-hosted by [[David Tennant]] with [[Bernard Cribbins]] and [[Catherine Tate]] as panelists, is first broadcast.
** An interview with [[David Tennant]] is aired on [[BBC One]]'s ''Six O'Clock News''.
* [[17th December|17]] - Part 1 of [[WC]]: ''[[The Doctor on My Shoulder]]'', an exclusive online short story, is uploaded to the 2009 BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar.
** Press showing for [[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part One]]''.
** [[James Cairncross]] ([[Lemaitre]], [[DW]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror]]'' and [[Beta (Gond)|Beta]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Krotons]]''), dies at the age of 94.
* [[18th December|18]] - ''Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf, Part 2'' is rebroadcast on BBC7 Radio.
** ''InnerSPACE'', an entertainment news program on the Canadian cable network [[Space (TV channel)|Space]], devotes an entire episode to ''Doctor Who''.
** Rebroadcast of [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' on [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] in Canada.
* [[19th December|19]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' is broadcast on [[BBC America]] in the US and [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] in Canada.
** [[Donald Pickering]] ([[Eyesen]], [[DW]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus]]''; [[Blade|Captain Blade]], [[DW]]: ''[[The Faceless Ones]]''; [[Beyus]], [[DW]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'') dies.
** Rebroadcast of [[DW]]: ''[[The Infinite Quest]]'' on BBC2.
** A special ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' mini-magazine appears in the ''Daily Mirror''. Unlike past inserts which have been reprints, this publication includes all-new material and is the first DWA-related publication to be simply titled ''Doctor Who'' rather than ''Doctor Who Adventures''.
* [[20th December|20]] - [[Space (TV channel)|Space]] in Canada rebroadcasts [[DW]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]''.
** ''The Observer Magazine'' runs a cover feature on [[David Tennant]] and ''Doctor Who''.
* [[22nd December|22]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'' is rebroadcast on BBC3.
* [[23rd December|23]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'' is rebroadcast on BBC3.
** [[WC]]: ''[[The Doctor on My Shoulder]]'' Part 2 is uploaded to the BBC Doctor Who Adventure Calendar.
* [[24th December|24]] - [[WC]]: ''[[A Ghost Story for Christmas]]'' is uploaded to the BBC Doctor Who Adventure Calendar. This short video story retells the origin of the [[Weeping Angels]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'') and shows the disappearance of a young woman. The video is not available for viewing outside the UK.
** [[David Tennant]] is interviewed on ''GMTV''.
** [[DW]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'' is rebroadcast on BBC One.
** [[DW]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'' is rebroadcast on BBC3.
** ''[[Radio Times]]'' publishes a special magazine paying tribute to the David Tennant era. The special is available via mail-order only.
* [[25th December|25]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time|The End of Time, Part One]]'' is first broadcast. An episode of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' follows.
* [[26th December|26]] - US broadcast of ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time, Part I]]'' on [[BBC America]].
** Broadcast of the film version of ''Hamlet'' starring [[David Tennant]] on BBC2.
** [[David Tennant]] and [[Catherine Tate]] guest-host the Jonathan Ross programme on BBC Radio 2. Their guests include [[Bernard Cribbins]] and [[Peter Davison]]. During the broadcast the two begin discussing how to properly pronounce the year "2010", with Tennant claiming the BBC has instituted a rule on the matter. The debate sparks additional discussion and debate in media around the world.[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/12/press-notes_30.html]
** The documentary ''Doctor Who: The Lost Episodes'' is broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
* [[27th December|27]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time|The End of Time, Part One]]'' is rebroadcast on BBC3.
** [[David Tennant]] appears on BBC Radio 4's ''Desert Island Discs''.
* [[29th December|29]] - Broadcast of ''Who on Who'', a [[BBC Radio 2]] special in which [[David Tennant]] interviews [[Russell T. Davies]] about ''Doctor Who''.[http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/11/tennant-and-davies-on-radio-2.html]
* Last week of December: ''[[Radio Times]]'' lists [[Matt Smith]] as a face to watch in 2010 and includes an interview with [[Steven Moffat]] discussing Smith.
* [[31st December|31]] - [[BFA]]: ''[[Mission to Magnus (audio)|Mission to Magnus]]'' is released, adapting the unreleased serial [[DW]]: ''[[Mission to Magnus]]'' as part of [[The Lost Stories]] line.
** ''[[Doctor Who at the Proms]]'' is rebroadcast on BBC HD.
** Promoting the next day's finale, [[David Tennant]] appears on [[BBC One]]'s ''Breakfast'' program, and later takes part in a [[BBC Radio 5]] phone-in programme. An appearance on [[MTV]] is also broadcast around this time.
** [[David Tennant]] and [[Catherine Tate]] make a pre-recorded appearance on [[Channel 4]]'s ''Alan Carr: Chatty Man''.


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Captain Jack and [[Gwen Cooper]] searched for an [[Torrosett 51 binary heat-cannon|alien heat-gun]] on [[Cardiff|Cardiff's]] [[Arthur Machen estate|Machen estate]]. While doing so, they inadvertently caused a parasitic [[Czisch|alien baby]] to unlatch from [[Pam Feerce|its host]], causing the host to kill herself and the baby. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wrong Hands (short story)|The Wrong Hands]]'') When the baby's [[Alien father (Virus)|father]] discovered this, he sought revenge on [[Torchwood Three]] and infected Jack and Gwen with the [[Kagawa Virus]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Virus (short story)|Virus]]'')
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Torchwood Three recovered a [[Sentient book (Consequences)|sentient book]] from [[Cardiff University Library]], which had been stealing people's [[Memory|memories]] and converting them into [[Story|stories]]. The book was indestructible, so to release its grasp on [[Nina Rogers]] Jack decided to send it back in time to [[1899]], where [[Emily Holroyd]] would secretly place it in the [[university]] [[library]] and so trap it in a [[time loop]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Consequences (short story)|Consequences]]'')
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The [[Veil (species)|Veil]] [[Androvax]] crashed in [[Ealing]], followed by the [[Judoon]] [[Tybo]]. Androvax escaped to [[Genetec Systems]], using [[Nanoform]]s to build a spaceship and destroy Earth. Luke deactivated the Nanoforms, and Tybo arrested Androvax. Clyde and Rani were grounded on Earth by the Judoon. ([[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]'')
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Rani was called to [[Danemouth]] by [[Samuel Lloyd]] to investigate a haunted [[funfair]]. Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde followed. Rani found [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]], whose powers were out of control. Eve was taken to [[Ship (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Ship]] to control them. Sarah Jane gave Ship the co-ordinates to the black hole [[K9 Mark IV|K9]] was protecting, freeing him and powering Ship. Eve, Samuel and Eve's adopted father [[Harry Sowersby|Harry]] left in Ship to explore the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'')
 
[[Peter Dalton]] was about to marry Sarah Jane Smith, but the [[Tenth Doctor]] interfered. The Trickster took Sarah Jane and her gang into a time loop, with Sarah Jane and Peter stuck in one second and the Doctor, Clyde and Rani in another. Peter revoked his deal with the Trickster and died. Time resumed its natural course. With Peter nowhere to be seen, Sarah Jane called the wedding off. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')
 
At [[Ashen Hill Manor]], Sarah Jane discovered the people who had disappeared at the manor had been trapped inside another dimension, keeping [[Erasmus Darkening]] alive. Sarah Jane tricken Darkening by putting him into an electromagnetic field. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eternity Trap (TV story)|The Eternity Trap]]'')
 
The ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' was in the [[International Gallery]] in London, on loan from the [[Louvre]]. Due to her proximity to ''[[The Abomination (Mona Lisa's Revenge)|The Abomination]]'', made from the same sentient paint as the ''Mona Lisa'', Mona Lisa was brought to life. She returned to her painting when she was tricked into bringing a sketch of K9 to life, who shot at ''The Abomination''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'')
 
The [[Slitheen-Blathereen family]] captured some [[Slitheen family|Slitheen]], stopping them from destroying the Earth. The Slitheen-Blathereen gave Sarah Jane a [[Rakweed]] plant, which the next day mutated, sending spores across London that would have put humans into a coma. Mr Smith used a high-pitched frequency across the city to destroy the plants, and when the Slitheen-Blathereen attacked Sarah Jane, he did so again, destroying their Rakweed-saturated bodies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'')
 
Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Rani fought and killed a [[Raxacoricofallapatorian]], while [[K9 Mark IV|K9]] defused a bomb. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]'')
 
=== Other timelines ===
In the summer, Rani, upset over not living up to the standards of her predecessor, Maria, offhandedly wished that her friends would leave her alone. Ship took this as an actual request and erased Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and K9. Eve's son [[Adam Lloyd|Adam]] reversed this once an older Rani told him about this in [[2059]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'')
 
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[[Mary Baker]], the paternal grandmother of [[Julia Hardwick]] as well as one of her possible descendants due to [[time travel]], died at the age of 82. ([[WC]]: ''[[A Ghost Story for Christmas (webcast)|A Ghost Story for Christmas]]'')
 
[[Chang Hu]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Observer Effect (short story)|Observer Effect]]'')
 
== Other ==
In [[March]] 2005, [[Chris Martin]] watched the [[Ninth Doctor]] get kicked off a [[train]] as his [[season ticket]] wasn't valid until 2009. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Have You Seen This Man? (short story)|Have You Seen This Man?]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
While the [[2011 (releases)|2011]] audio stories ''[[The Devil and Miss Carew (audio story)|The Devil and Miss Carew]]'' and ''[[Submission (audio story)|Submission]]'' are ostensibly set not long before the [[Series 3 (Torchwood)|third series]] of ''[[Torchwood (series)|Torchwood]]'' from [[2009 (releases)|2009]], dialogue in ''The Devil and Miss Carew'' mentioning that [[Joanna Carew]] is 81 years old and born in [[1930]], and the events of ''Submission'' taking place more than 50 years after the successful return of the ''[[Trieste (submarine)|Trieste]]'' from the [[Mariana Trench]] in [[1960]], contradictorily suggest that they are set in their year of broadcast, [[2011]].
 
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2009 in

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Timeline for 2009
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2009 was a year.

Events

Dated events

January - May

On 20 January, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, the first African-American in the position. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

Early in the year, over 4 months before August, Thomas Brewster and Gerald Lendler came to London. At the time, Lendler had stolen the Doctor's TARDIS from Brewster. When Brewster rummaged through Lendler's collection of valuable items, he accidentally woke up a hibernating Coffin-Loader and it escaped into the River Thames. It released methane and mould into the atmosphere, which increased Earth's temperature by 1 degree. (AUDIO: The Three Companions)

Owen Harper finds a Vostok in Cardiff Bay. (COMIC: The Return of the Vostok)

In March, the Vostok came to Cardiff with the intentions of using its rift to bring the Earth into a new Ice Age. Torchwood Three visited Cardiff Bay after it was frozen and discovered the Vostok beneath the ice. They defeated the Vostok by covering the ice in fuel and dropping a match in the fuel, burning the Vostok alive. (COMIC: The Return of the Vostok)

One account, but not others, which suggested this time as 2008, placed 15 May 2009 as the start of the Mandragora Helix's attempted takeover of Earth through the MorganTech computer systems. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos)

June - August

On 6 June, the Atraxi extradimensional prison break occurred. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

On 28 June, Stephen Hawking held a party for time travellers at Gonville & Caius College, but he only sent out invitations after the event. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

Sometime before 18 August, Polly Wright read a blog post by Jo Jones about Jo's encounter with Doreen Killebrew in the 1970s. From this blog post, she learned that Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart knew the Doctor and they began exchanging emails on their past adventures with him. Eventually, they were contacted by Thomas Brewster, who thought they could help him deal with Gerald Lendler.

On 18 August, Polly and Alistair met up with Brewster at a restaurant where Brewster had been working for three weeks. Lendler had hired an alien hunter to deal with the creature. The Coffin-Loader came out of the River Thames and parts of London were flooded. Using Alistair as bait for the Coffin-Loader, the Hunter lured it to Trafalgar Square and killed it, returning Earth's climate to normal. Afterwards, with some convincing from Polly and Alistair, Lendler gave the Doctor's TARDIS back to Brewster. (AUDIO: The Three Companions)

September - December

Members of the Stockbridge Preservation Society began to go missing. (COMIC: The Stockbridge Child)

Newspaper Ianto Jones picks up. Date reads: Wednesday September 2009 (TV: Children of Earth: Day Two)

On 8:40AM GMT on a Wednesday in September, every child on Earth stopped in their tracks and recited the message, "We are coming", repeatedly, in English. Behind the scenes, the British government knew this came from the 456, a race who had visited Earth before. Gwen Cooper spoke to Clement McDonald, who also stopped and said the message, He told Gwen that when he was a child, the children on his orphanage bus were stolen away, with him almost being taken too. Jack Harkness had a bomb encased in his body which blew up the Torchwood Three hub. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One)

Jack, his body slowly reconstituting itself, was held by Johnson, while Gwen went on the run from the British government, revealing to her husband Rhys she was pregnant. The children on Earth stopped again to say, "We are coming...tomorrow". Mr Dekker built a container for the 456 to specification, filled with unusual gases. Lois Habiba revealed to Gwen that John Frobisher was behind the death orders for Torchwood. Johnson sealed Jack in concrete, but Ianto arrived, releasing him. Jack and Ianto escaped with Rhys and Gwen. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Two)

The 456 ambassador materialised in the gassy container in Thames House. They demanded 10% of all of Earth's children. Clem revealed that Jack had been behind the handover in 1965, and Jack staid it was for the 456. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three)

Jack continued to talk about the night he and others handed children over to the 456 in 1965. At Thames House, the 456 ambassador had one of the children of 1965 as part of its system, unaging. As negotiations failed, the government started to think of ways to hand over the 10%, which Lois recorded with Torchwood's Eye-5 contact lenses as incriminating evidence. The 456 killed Clem. Jack and Ianto faced the 456, but were also killed, along with the rest of Thames House once the 456 released the virus. Jack revived, upset over his loss. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four)

The British government started sending the 10% to the 456, labelling it "inoculations". The ambassador revealed the children were to be used as drugs. The Prime Minister informed John Frobisher that his children would be among those handed over to the 456. Unable to cope with this, Frobisher killed his family and committed suicide. Gwen and Rhys tried to escape with as many children as they could. Jack used the wave the 456 had used to kill Clem the previous day to destroy the 456, but sacrificed his grandson Steven to set it up. Stricken with guilt over the death of his grandson, Jack left Cardiff and spent the next few months wandering the Earth. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five)

On Halloween in 2009, the Gelth attempted to pass through a rift in space and time which had opened in Ratchett Abbey, Cheltenham, but were eventually stopped by the Tenth Doctor and Corynne Fletcher. (PROSE: Scared Stiff)

In mid-December, the Aurelia Festival was held in Stockbridge. The Tenth Doctor and new companion Majenta Pryce arrived to find themselves involved in an adventure with Maxwell Edison. (COMIC: The Stockbridge Child)

On the 12th of December, Brenda sent out a letter to the readers of the book series based upon herself and Effie, inviting them to visit her B&B in Whitby, North Yorkshire. (PROSE: Brenda's B&B)

On 25 December, the Tenth Doctor and his companion Heather McCrimmon visited the village of Stillmuir to celebrate Christmas with Heather's family. The celebrations were interrupted by three blue-skinned aliens who wanted to learn about Christmas. They transported the entire village away from Earth to a giant snow globe where they could observe the humans. The Doctor talked with the aliens and invited them to observe Christmas by attending the McCrimmon family's celebrations if they returned the village to Earth. The aliens agreed and spent Christmas night celebrating. (COMIC: A Merry Little Christmas)

Undated

By this year, Polly Wright worked in the City of Westminster. (AUDIO: The Three Companions)

Professor Egen, a time traveller from 1959, briefly stopped in 2009 during his first (and ultimately only) journey through time in his experimental time machine. He looked at a 21st century city full of skyscrapers, which looked "ultra-modern", as he had expected — but, precisely because he had expected it, found it underwhelming, prompting him to move on to the more distant future. (COMIC: Dr. Who's Time Tales)

A broken Filbik colour coder leaked a rainbow over a town in England, causing anyone who touched it to change colour and fall unconscious before being transported to a storage ship. When Bobby explained the mishap to the Filbik they politely agreed to return all of the samples taken by accident. (PROSE: The End of the Rainbow)

Gareth, head of the seismology unit of the UCMA taskforce, developed a system for accurately predicting earthquakes. Gareth's system was credited for saving the human race several times. (TV: Doctor Who)

Kate Maguire first encountered the Tenth Doctor. However, he knew that one day she would help him defend the Earth against an Auton invasion. (PROSE: Autonomy)

A crashed Terpsivore spaceship was buried under Birmingham before being repaired and leaving in 2009. (COMIC: Death Disco)

Rani Chandra visited a Krulius spaceship. (COMIC: Return of the Krulius)

Ellie Faber became homeless. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer)

Phil Houseman's The Myth of Artificial Intelligence was published. (PROSE: Theatre of War)

Julia Hardwick was sent back in time by a Weeping Angel when she was in a graveyard. (WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas)

The nine-year-old Sally Morgan's parents were killed in the Middle East when their convoy was ambushed. From then onwards, she was raised by her grandfather. (AUDIO: Black and White)

Jack Odwards swam the English Channel to raise money for Chuckle-Aid. (AUDIO: Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379))

The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot visited London for a few days during their travels. The Doctor met Miranda Peel on a Tuesday and a Wednesday on the London Underground while Jamie and Zoe explored the city. (PROSE: Favourite Star)

One of Abslom Daak's ancestors was found guilty by Intersol for crimes against New Devonia. (COMIC: The Crimson Hand)

The Abzorbaloff met the Tenth Doctor in Cardiff, wanting to revenge his son. (WC: The Genuine Article)

According to Brent Cleever, Sir William Frazer and Lady Frazer settled on Mars. (PROSE: Biography — 21)

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)"])

Prior to 456 incursion

Contradicting other sources, one account placed this year as the time Torchwood discovered the skeleton of a Cardiff soldier from 1812 who died when his heart was ripped out. According to this account, Ianto, Owen Harper, and Toshiko Sato were still active in Torchwood. (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts)

A half-alien, half-human girl named Freda was sent back from the future to escape persecution and came under the protection of Torchwood Three. (AUDIO: Asylum)

Torchwood Three discovered Torchwood India still existed and its members were preserving their own time in their headquarters by draining the life out of innocent civilians, with plans to roll back time to Britain's empire across the world. Torchwood Three defeated them and Torchwood India was frozen in time. (AUDIO: Golden Age)

Torchwood Three combatted a mysterious force that put people into coma-like trances after they answered the phone. (AUDIO: The Dead Line)

Captain Jack and Gwen Cooper searched for an alien heat-gun on Cardiff's Machen estate. While doing so, they inadvertently caused a parasitic alien baby to unlatch from its host, causing the host to kill herself and the baby. (PROSE: The Wrong Hands) When the baby's father discovered this, he sought revenge on Torchwood Three and infected Jack and Gwen with the Kagawa Virus. (PROSE: Virus)

Torchwood Three recovered a sentient book from Cardiff University Library, which had been stealing people's memories and converting them into stories. The book was indestructible, so to release its grasp on Nina Rogers Jack decided to send it back in time to 1899, where Emily Holroyd would secretly place it in the university library and so trap it in a time loop. (PROSE: Consequences)

Undated adventures of Sarah Jane Smith & friends

The Veil Androvax crashed in Ealing, followed by the Judoon Tybo. Androvax escaped to Genetec Systems, using Nanoforms to build a spaceship and destroy Earth. Luke deactivated the Nanoforms, and Tybo arrested Androvax. Clyde and Rani were grounded on Earth by the Judoon. (TV: Prisoner of the Judoon)

Rani was called to Danemouth by Samuel Lloyd to investigate a haunted funfair. Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde followed. Rani found Eve, whose powers were out of control. Eve was taken to Ship to control them. Sarah Jane gave Ship the co-ordinates to the black hole K9 was protecting, freeing him and powering Ship. Eve, Samuel and Eve's adopted father Harry left in Ship to explore the universe. (TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic)

Peter Dalton was about to marry Sarah Jane Smith, but the Tenth Doctor interfered. The Trickster took Sarah Jane and her gang into a time loop, with Sarah Jane and Peter stuck in one second and the Doctor, Clyde and Rani in another. Peter revoked his deal with the Trickster and died. Time resumed its natural course. With Peter nowhere to be seen, Sarah Jane called the wedding off. (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)

At Ashen Hill Manor, Sarah Jane discovered the people who had disappeared at the manor had been trapped inside another dimension, keeping Erasmus Darkening alive. Sarah Jane tricken Darkening by putting him into an electromagnetic field. (TV: The Eternity Trap)

The Mona Lisa was in the International Gallery in London, on loan from the Louvre. Due to her proximity to The Abomination, made from the same sentient paint as the Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa was brought to life. She returned to her painting when she was tricked into bringing a sketch of K9 to life, who shot at The Abomination. (TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge)

The Slitheen-Blathereen family captured some Slitheen, stopping them from destroying the Earth. The Slitheen-Blathereen gave Sarah Jane a Rakweed plant, which the next day mutated, sending spores across London that would have put humans into a coma. Mr Smith used a high-pitched frequency across the city to destroy the plants, and when the Slitheen-Blathereen attacked Sarah Jane, he did so again, destroying their Rakweed-saturated bodies. (TV: The Gift)

Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Rani fought and killed a Raxacoricofallapatorian, while K9 defused a bomb. (TV: The Nightmare Man)

Other timelines

In the summer, Rani, upset over not living up to the standards of her predecessor, Maria, offhandedly wished that her friends would leave her alone. Ship took this as an actual request and erased Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and K9. Eve's son Adam reversed this once an older Rani told him about this in 2059. (TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic)


Births and deaths

Mary Baker, the paternal grandmother of Julia Hardwick as well as one of her possible descendants due to time travel, died at the age of 82. (WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas)

Chang Hu was born. (PROSE: Observer Effect)

Other

In March 2005, Chris Martin watched the Ninth Doctor get kicked off a train as his season ticket wasn't valid until 2009. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)

Behind the scenes

While the 2011 audio stories The Devil and Miss Carew and Submission are ostensibly set not long before the third series of Torchwood from 2009, dialogue in The Devil and Miss Carew mentioning that Joanna Carew is 81 years old and born in 1930, and the events of Submission taking place more than 50 years after the successful return of the Trieste from the Mariana Trench in 1960, contradictorily suggest that they are set in their year of broadcast, 2011.

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