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== History of ''Doctor Who'' ==
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'''2004''' was a [[year]].


==Properties==
Its corresponding year in the [[Huskix Cycle]] was [[HC 7818|7818]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Lapse (short story)}})


=== [[January]] ===
==Events==
===Dated===
On [[21 January]], [[NASA]]'s [[Mars rover]] ''[[Spirit (rover)|Spirit]]'' temporarily lost [[communication]] with [[Earth]] for [[2 (number)|two]] [[day]]s due to [[problem]]s with the [[computer]]'s [[memory]] or, as one source suggested, [[Ice Warrior]] interference. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Traveller's Diary (novel)}})


In [[April]], the billionaire businessman [[Neil Redmond]] was left severely disabled and disfigured after a serious [[car]] accident in the south of [[France]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Uncanny Valley (audio story)}})


* [[Sometime Never]] First Published
In [[June]], [[Tate Modern]] was destroyed by an [[electron bomb]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Tomorrow Windows (novel)}})


* [[The Creed of the Kromon]] First Released
On [[8 June]], [[Ian Chesterton]] witnessed the [[Transit of Venus]] from [[Earth]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Transit of Venus (audio story)}})


In mid-2004, [[Aaron Smith]] met the [[Ninth Doctor]] in [[department store (Have You Seen This Man?)|a department store]]. Around the same time, in [[summer]], [[GPW]]'s [[GPW's children|two children]] were rescued by the Ninth Doctor from "[[Silurian|lizard people]]". Also during that summer, the Doctor tried to buy a [[cup]] of [[tea]] from [[Café (Have You Seen This Man?)|a café]] in [[Cambridge]] with the old [[10p]] pieces, so [[Riccy Unwin]] gave him [[50p]] so he could pay. About [[6 (number)|six]] [[month]]s later, in early [[2005]], both Aaron, GPW and Riccy wrote about their encounters on [[Doctor Who?]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}})


On [[29 September]], the [[asteroid]] [[4179 Toutatis]] passed within [[4 (number)|four]] [[Moon|lunar]] distances of [[Earth]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Traveller's Diary (novel)}})


=== [[February]] ===
Prior to [[10 October]], the [[Serapheem]] migrated via [[Dundee]] and, upon hearing the local teenagers' wishes to escape, deconstructed their molecules to take them with them. However, they were left invisible and inaudible as a result. The [[Ninth Doctor]] later helped return them to normal. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Girl, Deconstructed (audio story)}})


Just before [[Christmas]], the Ninth Doctor said something in [[Arabic (language)|Arabic]] to [[Shopkeeper (Have You Seen This Man?)|a shopkeeper]] in a [[souk]] in [[Marrakech]], while [[Thomas Vaughan (Have You Seen This Man?)|Thomas Vaughan]] watched; Thomas later wrote about his encounter on Doctor Who?. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}})


* [[The Scream of the Shalka]] First Published
On [[24 December]], the infant [[Ruby Sunday]] was abandoned outside a [[Church, Ruby Road|church]] on [[Ruby Road]] in [[Manchester]] by her [[Ruby Sunday's mother|birth mother]] shortly before [[midnight]]. When the adult Ruby and the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] stopped Ruby's foster sister, [[Lulubelle]], from being kidnapped by [[goblin]]s in [[2023]], the goblins travelled back in time to 2004 Christmas Eve and attempted to seize Ruby to feed to the [[Goblin King]] instead, creating [[Cracked timeline (The Church on Ruby Road)|an alternate timeline]], but the Doctor followed them and rescued Ruby, restoring the timeline to normal. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}})


* [[Blood and Hope]] First Published
On [[25 December]], Ruby Sunday was discovered by a [[Vicar (The Church on Ruby Road)|vicar]] just after the stroke of [[midnight]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) On the same day, the [[First Doctor]], [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Barbara Wright]] and [[Vicki Pallister]] became trapped in a [[time loop]] in the home of [[George Smythe]], his wife [[Patricia Smythe|Patricia]] and his two children, [[Josie Smythe|Josie]] and [[Mark Smythe|Mark]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Every Day (short story)}})


* [[The Natural History of Fear]] First Released
On [[31 December]], [[Rose Tyler]] missed a [[New Year's Eve]] [[party]]. This allowed her to meet the regenerating [[Tenth Doctor]], prior to the instance when she first encountered the Ninth Doctor, shortly after midnight. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}})


* [[26th February | 26]] - [[Russell Hunter]], who played [[Uvanov]] in [[The Robots of Death]] dies from lung cancer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
===Undated===
Other notable events which took place in 2004 included the aftermath of the [[Iraq War]], [[Arsenal]] winning the [[Premier League]], [[flood]]s in [[Boscastle]], and the [[2004 Olympics]], in which [[Mallika Montgomery]] won the [[silver medal]] in the [[long jump]]. [[Ian Glendennis]] was a [[BBC (in-universe)|BBC]] [[commentator]] for the games. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Lapse (short story)}})


=== [[March]] ===
[[Connie Winter]] had tickets to a [[Kaiser Chiefs]] concert but went to the wrong [[Newcastle]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Perfect World (audio story)}})


[[Iris Wildthyme]] and [[Panda]] visited [[Manchester (city)|Manchester]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Shape of Things (short story)}})


* [[Empire of Death]] First Published
[[Clive Finch]] obtained a copy of a photograph taken just prior to the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]], featuring the image of the [[Ninth Doctor]], from the [[Washington public archive]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}})


* [[The Dalek Factor]] First Published
Elsewhere in the [[universe]], the [[Battle of Ygnbnbby]] took place in the year [[HC 7818|7818]] of the Huskix Cycle, which corresponded with Earth year 2004. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Lapse (short story)}})


* [[The Twilight Kingdom]] First Released
[[SkipN]] saw the [[Ninth Doctor]] at a [[Boston Red Sox]] game in [[1998]], and the Doctor told him to be [[Patience (virtue)|patient]] and wait until 2004. [[Doris Spelgar]] visited [[Fred Spelgar|Fred]] in [[hospital (Have You Seen This Man?)|a hospital]] also in 2004. [[Stephen Norris]] was advised against being [[Anthony Wallenda]] and supporting [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]. [[Dr]] [[C.J. Sansom]] found a [[cache]] of [[Tudor]] [[parchment]]s that cast doubt on [[Henry VIII]]'s right to the [[throne]] in [[Archive (Have You Seen This Man?)|an archive]] which the Doctor visited to retrieve said cache. SkipN, Doris, Stephen and Sansom wrote about their experiences on [[Doctor Who?]] in [[March]] [[2005]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}}) SkipN also saw [[Rose Tyler]] [[walking]] in [[Boston]] near the [[Charles River]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)}})


* [[3rd March |3]] - [[Sheila Dunn]], who played [[Blossom Lefavre]] in "[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]," the [[telephone operator (The Invasion) |telephone operator]] in "[[The Invasion]]," and [[Petra Williams]] in "[[Inferno]]," dies.
[[Yasmin Khan]] and [[Ryan Sinclair]] were attending [[primary school]] by this year. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Lapse (short story)}})


* [[27th March |27]] - [[Peter Diamond]], who played numerous roles and many of the stunts on the original ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[television]] series, dies from a stroke in [[Wikipedia:Wakefield |Wakefield]], [[Yorkshire]], [[England]].
===Other realities===
[[File:SouthAmericanState.jpg|thumb|A transmission from Gemini citing the 2004 report of the South American State. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Tardisode 5}})]]
In 2004 in [[Pete's World]], the [[South American State]] reported that [[265000 (number)|265,000]] people had gone missing. [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]], using an alias known as [[Gemini (Rise of the Cybermen)|Gemini]], linked these disappearances to [[Cybus Industries]] and sent this information to [[the Preachers]] on an encrypted broadcast. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Tardisode 5}})


=== [[April]] ===
In an [[alternate timeline]], [[Ralph (Suburban Hell)|Ralph]] and [[Belinda (Suburban Hell)|Belinda]] were married. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Suburban Hell (audio story)}})


==Births and deaths==
===Dated===
In [[November]], [[Cassandra Schofield]] was killed by [[William Abberton|Nimrod]] in [[the Forge]]'s alpha facility in [[Dartmoor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus}})


* [[Halflife]] First Published
[[Ruby Sunday]] was born on [[24 December]] in [[Manchester]], at approximately [[2 (number)|2]][[PM]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}})


* [[Short Trips 6: Past Tense]] First Published
===Undated===
[[Ray Charles]] died. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Lapse (short story)}})


* [[The Axis of Insanity]] First Released
[[Ian Glendennis' son]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Lapse (short story)}})


* [[19th April | 19]] - [[Philip Locke]] ([[Bigon]] in [[Four to Doomsday]]) dies.
==Other==
2004 briefly disappeared from [[history]] when [[Richard Somerset]], a [[Time Agent]], attempted to erase [[Maria Hackett]]'s [[memory]] of the year after she rejected his romantic feelings for her, but instead achieved the opposite effect due to his [[Time Adjuster]] being damaged. As a result, residents of [[Earth]] in [[2019]], with the exception of Maria, had neither [[memory]] nor documented evidence of any event which took place in this year. The year was restored after the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] fixed Richard's adjuster. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Lapse (short story)}})


=== [[May]] ===
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* [[Arrangements for War]] First Released
 
*[[3rd May | 3rd]] - [[Anthony Ainley]] dies at [[Harrow]] in [[London]].
 
 
 
 
=== [[June]] ===
 
 
* [[The Tomorrow Windows]] First Published
 
* [[Short Trips 7: Life Science]] First Published
 
* [[The Harvest]] First Released
 
* [[18th June | 18]] - [[Frederick Jaeger]], who played [[Jano]] in "[[The Savages]]," Professor [[Sorenson]] in "[[Planet of Evil]]," and [[Professor Marius]] in "[[The Invisible Enemy]]," dies in [[Majorca]], [[Spain]].
 
* [[19th June | 19]] - [[Colin McCormack]], who portrayed the Commander in [[The Sun Makers]] dies in Middlesex, England following a battle with cancer.
 
* [[23rd June | 23]] - [[Peter Birrel]], who appeared as the [[Draconian Prince]] in [[Frontier in Space]] dies in Bath, England after losing a battle with cancer.
 
=== [[July]] ===
 
 
* [[Synthespians&trade;]] First Published
 
* [[The Roof of the World (audio story)|The Roof of the World]] First Released
 
* [[31 July |31]] - [[Robert James]], who played [[Lesterson (The Power of the Daleks) |Lesterson]] in "[[The Power of the Daleks]]" and the [[High Priest]] in "[[The Masque of Mandragora]]," dies from complications of Alzheimer's Disease.
 
=== [[August]] ===
 
 
* [[The Sleep of Reason]] First Published
 
* [[Short Trips 8: Repercussions]] First Published
 
* [[Medicinal Purposes]] First Released
 
 
 
=== [[September]] ===
 
 
* [[The Algebra of Ice]] First Published
 
* [[Faith Stealer]] First Released
 
* [[10th September | 10]] - Glyn Owen ([[Rohm-Dutt]] in [[The Power of Kroll]]) dies from a cancer-related illness in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales, UK.
 
=== [[October]] ===
 
 
* [[The Deadstone Memorial]] First Published
 
* [[Short Trips 9: Monsters]] First Published
 
* [[The Last]] First Released
 
* [[Geoffrey Cheshire]], who played numerous roles on the original ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series and also played a [[Roboman]] in "[[Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD]]," dies.
 
 
 
=== [[November]] ===
 
 
* [[The Indestructible Man]] First Published
 
* [[Short Trips 10: 2040]] First Published
 
* [[Caerdroia]] First Released
 
 
 
=== [[December]] ===
 
 
* [[Short Trips 11: A Christmas Treasury]] First Published
 
* [[The Next Life]] First Released
 
* [[Her Final Flight]] First Released
 
 
 
=== Unknown date ===
 
* [[Alec Wallis]], who was used by director [[Michael E. Briant]] as Ldg. Telegraphist Bowman]] in [[The Sea Devils]] and [[Warner]] in [[Revenge of the Cybermen]] dies.
 
* [[Andrew Tourell]], who appeared as [[Constable Cummings]] in [[Black Orchid]] dies.
 
* [[John Slavid]], who had small roles in "[[The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve]]" and "[[The War Machines (TV story) |The War Machines]]," dies.
 
* [[William Marlowe]], who played [[Harry Mailer]] in [[The Mind of Evil]] and [[Lester]] in [[Revenge of the Cybermen]] dies.
 
 
 
 
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2004 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 2004
21st century | 2000s
1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010
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2004 was a year.

Properties

Its corresponding year in the Huskix Cycle was 7818. (PROSE: Time Lapse [+]Loading...["Time Lapse (short story)"])

Events

Dated

On 21 January, NASA's Mars rover Spirit temporarily lost communication with Earth for two days due to problems with the computer's memory or, as one source suggested, Ice Warrior interference. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])

In April, the billionaire businessman Neil Redmond was left severely disabled and disfigured after a serious car accident in the south of France. (AUDIO: Uncanny Valley [+]Loading...["Uncanny Valley (audio story)"])

In June, Tate Modern was destroyed by an electron bomb. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows [+]Loading...["The Tomorrow Windows (novel)"])

On 8 June, Ian Chesterton witnessed the Transit of Venus from Earth. (AUDIO: The Transit of Venus [+]Loading...["The Transit of Venus (audio story)"])

In mid-2004, Aaron Smith met the Ninth Doctor in a department store. Around the same time, in summer, GPW's two children were rescued by the Ninth Doctor from "lizard people". Also during that summer, the Doctor tried to buy a cup of tea from a café in Cambridge with the old 10p pieces, so Riccy Unwin gave him 50p so he could pay. About six months later, in early 2005, both Aaron, GPW and Riccy wrote about their encounters on Doctor Who?. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

On 29 September, the asteroid 4179 Toutatis passed within four lunar distances of Earth. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])

Prior to 10 October, the Serapheem migrated via Dundee and, upon hearing the local teenagers' wishes to escape, deconstructed their molecules to take them with them. However, they were left invisible and inaudible as a result. The Ninth Doctor later helped return them to normal. (AUDIO: Girl, Deconstructed [+]Loading...["Girl, Deconstructed (audio story)"])

Just before Christmas, the Ninth Doctor said something in Arabic to a shopkeeper in a souk in Marrakech, while Thomas Vaughan watched; Thomas later wrote about his encounter on Doctor Who?. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

On 24 December, the infant Ruby Sunday was abandoned outside a church on Ruby Road in Manchester by her birth mother shortly before midnight. When the adult Ruby and the Fifteenth Doctor stopped Ruby's foster sister, Lulubelle, from being kidnapped by goblins in 2023, the goblins travelled back in time to 2004 Christmas Eve and attempted to seize Ruby to feed to the Goblin King instead, creating an alternate timeline, but the Doctor followed them and rescued Ruby, restoring the timeline to normal. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])

On 25 December, Ruby Sunday was discovered by a vicar just after the stroke of midnight. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) On the same day, the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki Pallister became trapped in a time loop in the home of George Smythe, his wife Patricia and his two children, Josie and Mark. (PROSE: Every Day [+]Loading...["Every Day (short story)"])

On 31 December, Rose Tyler missed a New Year's Eve party. This allowed her to meet the regenerating Tenth Doctor, prior to the instance when she first encountered the Ninth Doctor, shortly after midnight. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])

Undated

Other notable events which took place in 2004 included the aftermath of the Iraq War, Arsenal winning the Premier League, floods in Boscastle, and the 2004 Olympics, in which Mallika Montgomery won the silver medal in the long jump. Ian Glendennis was a BBC commentator for the games. (PROSE: Time Lapse [+]Loading...["Time Lapse (short story)"])

Connie Winter had tickets to a Kaiser Chiefs concert but went to the wrong Newcastle. (AUDIO: A Perfect World [+]Loading...["A Perfect World (audio story)"])

Iris Wildthyme and Panda visited Manchester. (PROSE: The Shape of Things [+]Loading...["The Shape of Things (short story)"])

Clive Finch obtained a copy of a photograph taken just prior to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, featuring the image of the Ninth Doctor, from the Washington public archive. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])

Elsewhere in the universe, the Battle of Ygnbnbby took place in the year 7818 of the Huskix Cycle, which corresponded with Earth year 2004. (PROSE: Time Lapse [+]Loading...["Time Lapse (short story)"])

SkipN saw the Ninth Doctor at a Boston Red Sox game in 1998, and the Doctor told him to be patient and wait until 2004. Doris Spelgar visited Fred in a hospital also in 2004. Stephen Norris was advised against being Anthony Wallenda and supporting Liverpool. Dr C.J. Sansom found a cache of Tudor parchments that cast doubt on Henry VIII's right to the throne in an archive which the Doctor visited to retrieve said cache. SkipN, Doris, Stephen and Sansom wrote about their experiences on Doctor Who? in March 2005. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"]) SkipN also saw Rose Tyler walking in Boston near the Charles River. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]Loading...["The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"])

Yasmin Khan and Ryan Sinclair were attending primary school by this year. (PROSE: Time Lapse [+]Loading...["Time Lapse (short story)"])

Other realities

A transmission from Gemini citing the 2004 report of the South American State. (WC: Tardisode 5 [+]Loading...["Tardisode 5"])

In 2004 in Pete's World, the South American State reported that 265,000 people had gone missing. Pete Tyler, using an alias known as Gemini, linked these disappearances to Cybus Industries and sent this information to the Preachers on an encrypted broadcast. (WC: Tardisode 5 [+]Loading...["Tardisode 5"])

In an alternate timeline, Ralph and Belinda were married. (AUDIO: Suburban Hell [+]Loading...["Suburban Hell (audio story)"])

Births and deaths

Dated

In November, Cassandra Schofield was killed by Nimrod in the Forge's alpha facility in Dartmoor. (AUDIO: Project: Lazarus [+]Loading...["Project Lazarus (audio story)","Project: Lazarus"])

Ruby Sunday was born on 24 December in Manchester, at approximately 2PM. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])

Undated

Ray Charles died. (PROSE: Time Lapse [+]Loading...["Time Lapse (short story)"])

Ian Glendennis' son was born. (PROSE: Time Lapse [+]Loading...["Time Lapse (short story)"])

Other

2004 briefly disappeared from history when Richard Somerset, a Time Agent, attempted to erase Maria Hackett's memory of the year after she rejected his romantic feelings for her, but instead achieved the opposite effect due to his Time Adjuster being damaged. As a result, residents of Earth in 2019, with the exception of Maria, had neither memory nor documented evidence of any event which took place in this year. The year was restored after the Thirteenth Doctor fixed Richard's adjuster. (PROSE: Time Lapse [+]Loading...["Time Lapse (short story)"])

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