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{{timeline}}The year '''2005''' was most significant for being the year when central [[London]] on [[Earth]] was attacked by the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') The [[FLIPback Project]] began at the [[Snowcap Base]] at [[Earth]]'s [[South Pole]] to counter the predicted reversal of the Earth's magnetic field in [[2006]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
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'''2005''' was a [[year]]. It was largely significant for a large-scale [[Operation Mannequin|Auton invasion]] on [[Earth]] which occurred in [[March]].
==Events==
== Events ==
===[[January]]===
=== Dated ===
*[[1st January|01]] - [[Rose Tyler]] encountered a man who predicted that she would have a great year ahead. Unknown to her, he was the [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation of the Doctor]], an individual whom she had yet to meet. After she left, the Doctor succumbed to radiation poisoning and staggered towards his [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]], encouraged by a vision of [[Ood Sigma]]. After dematerializing the TARDIS, he regenerated into his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]] and began to crash the TARDIS due to the difficulty of the regeneration. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
==== January-June ====
: ''Since the regeneration occurred after the Doctor dematerialised the TARDIS, it was unclear whether this event actually occurred on 1st January 2005.''
On [[1 January]] 2005, [[Rose Tyler]] encountered a man who predicted she would have a great year. Unbeknownst to her, he was the [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]] of [[the Doctor]], whom she had not yet met in her own timeline. After she left, the Doctor succumbed to [[radiation]] poisoning after spending an unknown amount of time holding back the regeneration and staggered towards [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], encouraged by a vision of [[Ood Sigma]]. After dematerialising the TARDIS, he regenerated into his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}})
===[[February]]===
[[UNIT]] released a [[press briefing]] about [[Skaniska Incident|the loss]] of [[13 (number)|thirteen]] UNIT personnel during [[operational manoeuvres]] in the [[Russian Steppes]], [[embargo]]ed until [[31 January]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|UNIT's Position on the Skaniska Incident (short story)}})
* Annual de-frosting of [[Tommy Brockless]], a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in [[1918]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[To the Last Man]]''.) (Date: [[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.co.uk]]'')
=== [[March]] ===
In mid-[[February]], [[Clive Finch]] took a [[photograph]] of himself with his wife [[Caroline Finch|Carole]] and two children, [[Michael Finch|Michael]] and [[Ben Finch|Ben]], at [[Thorpe Park]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}})
*Monday (exact date unknown) - The [[Ninth Doctor]] was in London pursuing the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. His investigations took him to the [[Henrik's]] department store where he saved [[Rose Tyler]] from an [[Auton]] attack. He blew up the building. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
*Tuesday (exact date unknown) - Rose Tyler investigated the Ninth Doctor, talking to [[Clive Finch]] about his website on the Doctor called "[[Who was Doctor Who?]]". Rose's boyfriend, [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]], was abducted by Autons and replaced with an [[Mickey Smith (Auton)|Auton duplicate]]. Using the head of this Auton, the Doctor tracked the the Nestene Consciousness's signal. It had been rendered a scavenger without protein planets by the [[Last Great Time War]]. Rose rescued Mickey (and later, the Doctor) and destroyed the Consciousness with [[anti-plastic]]. She then joined the Doctor on his travels. Meanwhile, Clive was killed by the Autons, leaving his website without a webmaster. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
*Wednesday (exact date unknown) - Rose called her mother, [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]], from the year [[5,000,000,000]], using the [[superphone]], and made a brief return trip to her own time ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]''), but promptly disappeared until [[2006]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'')
*Some time after this, in [[London]], cabs were replaced with motorcycles in an attempt to relieve the increasing traffic congestion ([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'')
===[[June]]===
[[Geoff Cliff]] met the [[Ninth Doctor]] in an [[HMV]] on a [[Tuesday]] in early 2005. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}})
*''[[Der Spiegel]]'' magazine gaves away a personal organiser with every issue ([[NA]]: ''[[Transit]]'')
===Unknown dates===
Beginning sometime around [[March]], [[Clive Finch]] released an open call on his conspiracy website, [[Doctor Who?]], for anyone who had seen [[the Doctor]] to contact him and tell their story. He got replies from [[:Category:Readers of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk|hundreds of people]], including [[Peri Brown]], [[Arthur Dent]], [[Mike Yates|Mr Yates]], and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. Some of the readers, such as [[r willimas]], [[Matt (Have You Seen This Man?)|Matt]], [[Benjamin McKenzie]], [[Edward J Green]] and [[Chris Martin]] met the [[Ninth Doctor]] on the very same day, or up to a [[week]] prior, to when they wrote to Clive. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Have You Seen This Man? (short story)}})
*The [[FLIPback Project]] began at the [[Snowcap Base]] at [[Earth]]'s [[South Pole]], at the same time that [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] left over from the attack on Earth in [[1986]] again became active. ([[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
*[[London]] [[police]], including DI [[Billy Shipton]], began investigating the disappearance of several people who visited an abandoned house called [[Wester Drumlins]]. The police begin collecting as evidence the vehicles left abandoned by the disappewered, at one point taking a [[the Doctor's TARDIS|police box]] from the scene. ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'')
*For most of 2005, [[Mickey Smith]] lives with accusations he has kidnapped or killed [[Rose Tyler]]. He was taken in for [[police]] questioning about her disappearance five times from early 2005 to early [[2006]]. Mickey takes over the "Who was Doctor Who?" website. [[Jackie Tyler]] fuels the mistrust of him around the [[Powell Estate]] with a "whisper campaign". For Jackie, the year isn't spent ''just'' accusing Smith. It was also a year in which she devotes considerable time to the actual search for her daughter. ([[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'')
*[[Owen Harper]]'s fiancée, [[Katie Russell]], who had been diagnosed with the youngest-ever case of early-onset Alzheimer's, was put into surgery after she was found to have a growth in her brain. The tumour was actually [[tumour alien|an alien parasite]], who released deadly gas during the operation, killing Katie and the scientists. Owen encounters Captain [[Jack Harkness]], who recovered Katie's brain and erased the video evidence of what had happened. ([[TW]]: ''[[Fragments]]'')
===Other timelines===
[[Ianto Jones]] joined [[Torchwood One]] in [[March]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|New Girl (audio story)}}) prior to the [[Auton]] attack. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}})
* In [[Pete's World]], drinks company [[Vitex]], owned by [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]], was purchased by [[Cybus Industries]]. ([[REF]]: ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac]]'') In that world, 2005 was called 20-Point-5. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]''/''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
:''See [[Pete's World#2005|Pete's World]].''
Prior to Rose handing in her lottery money to a syndicate at work, [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]] got a phone call from Rose in the middle of the day on a [[Wednesday]]; Rose was using the [[superphone]] to call Jackie from the year [[5,000,000,000]] after she had already left (from Rose's perspective). ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}})
On [[4 March]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}}) the [[Ninth Doctor]] was in London pursuing the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. His investigations took him to the [[Henrik's]] [[department store]], where he saved [[Rose Tyler]] from an [[Auton]] attack. He then blew up the building. [[5 March|The following day]], Rose investigated the identity of the Ninth Doctor, talking to conspiracy theorist Clive Finch about [[Doctor Who?|his website]] about the Doctor. Rose's boyfriend, [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]], was abducted by Autons and replaced with an [[Mickey Smith (Auton)|Auton duplicate]]. Using the head of this Auton, the Doctor tracked the Nestene Consciousness' signal. It had been rendered a scavenger without protein planets by a war the Doctor fought in. Rose rescued Mickey (and later, the Doctor) and destroyed the Consciousness with [[anti-plastic]]. She joined the Doctor on his travels. Meanwhile, Clive was [[kill]]ed by the Autons as they assaulted London. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}, {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}) [[Elton Pope]] was also out shopping in the city centre at the time and survived the attack. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Love & Monsters (TV story)}}) The invasion, which would be subsequently covered up as a "[[terrorist]] attack", had spread to at least [[Cardiff]], where the city centre was brought to its knees as [[Barry Jackson]] used it as a cover for his murder of the [[Lord Mayor of Cardiff]], [[Roy Llewellyn]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}}) Another account dated [[Operation Mannequin]] to [[26 March]]. UNIT issued a [[press briefing]], [[embargo]]ed until [[28 March]], wherein they ignored the allegations that the incident had anything to do with terrorists or robots, and denied any confirmation of alien life. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|UNIT's Position on The London Incident (short story)}}, {{cs|Operation Mannequin (short story)}})
* [[EDA]]: ''[[To the Slaughter]]'' was first published. With the new ''Doctor Who'' TV series about to premiere, BBC Books decided to retire both the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] and [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] lines in favour of a new series of novels featuring the [[Ninth Doctor]]. One more EDA book will follow in June, while the PDA series will continue to the end of 2005 (one of which will be an Eighth Doctor story).
* [[BFA]]: ''[[The Juggernauts]]'' was first released.
* [[BFU]]: ''[[Snake Head]]'' was first released.
* [[17th January|17]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Horror of Fang Rock]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* [[29th January|29]] - [[Big Finish Productions]] announces the production of three standalone hardback novels as part of its [[Big Finish New Worlds]] range. These were [[BFIW]]: ''[[Wildthyme on Top]]'', [[BFNW]]: ''[[Project Valhalla|Project: Valhalla]]'' and [[BFNW]]: ''[[The Coming of the Queen]]''. Big Finish also announced that it would be producing two single audio stories featuring [[Iris Wildthyme]].
* [[Sophie Okonedo]], who provided the voice of [[Alison Cheney]] in the webcast [[WC]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka]]'', was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in the 2004 film, ''Hotel Rwanda''. Okonedo became the first actor to have played a Doctor or companion in an official ''Doctor Who'' production to have been nominated for an Oscar. She does not win.
* At some point in January, the BBC was made aware that [[Christopher Eccleston]] was not taking part in a second series of ''Doctor Who''. According to a 4th April press release, the BBC agreed not to announce this to the public. It was later revealed that [[Russell T Davies]] had hoped to keep the actor's departure secret until the regeneration in [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' was broadcast.
=== [[February]] ===
Shortly after the invasion, an Auton head that was recovered from the [[Queen's Arcade|Queen's Arcade shopping centre]], the garbage bin that swallowed Mickey, and a secondary bomb discovered in Henrik's were taken and stored in the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Security Bot (video game)}})
* [[PDA]]: ''[[Match of the Day]]'' was first published. This was the final [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] novel to feature the [[Fourth Doctor]] and, as of 2009, the most recent original Fourth Doctor novel. The PDA series was suspended until July to allow for the premiere and broadcast of the first season of the revived series.
* [[BFA]]:''[[The Game]]'' was first released.
* [[3rd February |03]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Ghost Light]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[5th February |05]] - At the conclusion of a ''Saturday Night Live'' sketch on public access television pledge drives, TV celebrity Paris Hilton dons the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s hat and [[The Doctor's scarf|scarf]] and refers to the Daleks and the TARDIS. The sketch was widely circulated among SF fandom, in part via the recently introduced video-sharing website, YouTube. In the coming years, YouTube would be a major outlet for the distribution of fan-made music videos, clips and other material related to ''Doctor Who'' and its spinoffs.
* [[10th February|10]] - [[Leonard Trolley]] (Supt. [[Reynolds]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Faceless Ones]]'') died in England.
* [[11th February|11]] - The Doctor Who Information Network (DWIN), the main Canadian ''Doctor Who'' fan club, launches its News Blog website.
* [[16th February|16]] - The TARDIS Index File Wikia website was launched.
=== [[March]] ===
Rose made a brief return trip to London in her own time, where the Doctor told her about the [[Fall of Gallifrey|loss]] of his [[Gallifrey|homeworld]] and [[Time Lord|his people]] before the pair went to get [[chips]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}}) Rose was reported missing from her home on the Powell Estate since [[6 March]]. She returned a year later in [[March]] [[2006]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}) [[dalek (Rose sighting confirmed)|dalek]] had spotted the pair talking about chips and reported the sighting to [[Doctor Who?]] a year later. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose sighting confirmed (short story)}})
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Dreamtime]]'' was first released.
* [[ST]]: ''[[Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins]]'' was first published.
* [[BFU]]: ''[[The Longest Night]]'' was first released.
* This month, promotion for the upcoming return of ''Doctor Who'' to television enters high gear.
* [[1st March|01]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Visitation]]'' and ''[[The Green Death]]'' was released to DVD in Region 1.
* As early reviews of the new ''Doctor Who'' series begin to appear, IGN Filmforce<ref>[http://movies.ign.com/articles/592/592429p1.html IGN: The Who Report: Did Sci Fi Pass on the Series?] </ref> reports the American cable broadcaster [[Syfy|Sci-Fi Channel]], considered the most likely US broadcast home for the series, has chosen not to purchase it. Although there was talk of a related cable network, Universal HD, picking up the series, for the time being United States viewers will not be able to see the new series, with the exception of those close enough to Canada to receive the [[CBC]] broadcasts, which will now be the North American premiere of the series.<br />
* [[7th March|07]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Mind Robber]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* [[8th March|08]] - [[Big Finish Productions]] announces it had agreed to a deal with [[Paul Cornell]] allowing the company to continue its range of [[Bernice Summerfield]] books and audio CDs for the next few years.{{fact}}
* [[9th March|09]] - BBC Radio 4's ''Today'' runs a feature on the new series.
* [[12th March|12]] - Whether by coincidence or design (as the impending change of lead actor was already known behind the scenes), this week's cover of ''[[Radio Times]]'' features yet-to-be-announced [[Tenth Doctor]] actor [[David Tennant]] in a very Doctor-like pose promoting the mini-series ''Casanova'' - right next to a headline promoting the return of ''Doctor Who''. This was the first of many ''Radio Times'' covers for Tennant over the next few years.
* [[22nd March|22]] - ''[[Project Who]]'' ''Bigger on the Inside'', the first episode of a two-part behind-the-scenes documentary on the return of ''Doctor Who'', was first broadcast on [[BBC Radio 2]] (later released on the CD ''[[Project WHO?|Project: WHO?]]'').
* [[23rd March|23]] - [[Billie Piper]] was interviewed on ''[[The Chris Moyles Show]]'' on [[BBC Radio 1]]
* [[25th March|25]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]] was interviewed on ''[[Friday Night with Jonathan Ross]]''.
* [[26th March|26]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' was first broadcast, returning ''Doctor Who'' to television as a weekly series for the first time since 1989 and launching [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]], aka Season 27. [[Christopher Eccleston]] debuts as the [[Ninth Doctor]], along with [[Billie Piper]] as companion [[Rose Tyler]].
** In conjunction with the debut of the new series, BBC Three premiers its behind-the-scenes series, ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' the same night. A new episode of ''Confidential'' follows the broadcast of each new episode of ''Doctor Who''.
** ''[[The Doctor Who Story]]'' Broadcast on [[UK Gold]].
** ''[[Radio Times]]'' features ''Doctor Who'' on its cover. With the arrival of the new series, the ''Radio Times'' begins featuring the series on a more frequent basis (something not done since the early 1970s).
* [[29th March |29]] - ''[[Project Who]]'': ''Reverse the Polarity'', part 2 of the [[BBC Radio 2]] documentary series, was first broadcast (later released on the CD ''[[Project WHO?|Project: WHO?]]'').
* [[30th March |30]] - The [[BBC]] announces production will proceed on a second series and a [[The Christmas Invasion|Christmas Special]].
** A publicity branch of the BBC prematurely announces{{fact}} that [[Christopher Eccleston]] will not return for a second series as the [[Ninth Doctor]], citing his desire to not be typecast. This reason was denied immediately by Eccleston and the BBC ultimately retracts it (as of 2009 he has never confirmed his reason for leaving the role).{{fact}} In his 2008 book ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] confirms that Eccleston's departure was intended to be kept secret until the final moments of [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''.
=== [[April]] ===
On [[10 March]], UNIT issued yet another press briefing, this time about a [[computer]] [[virus]] named "[[RUFFCUT]]". ([[PROSE]]:{{cs|Computer Virus File Sharing Alert (short story)}})
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Three's a Crowd]]'' was first released.
* [[BFG]]: ''[[Lies]]'' was first released. This audio drama features the landmark first meeting between the first two incarnations of [[Romana]], featuring [[Mary Tamm]] returning to the role of [[Romana I]].
* [[2nd April|2]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[4th April|4]] - The BBC retracts part of its 30th March announcement of the departure of [[Christopher Eccleston]], indicating it released the information with incorrect attribution and without the actor's consent.{{fact}}
* [[7th April|7]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Horror of Fang Rock]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[9th April|9]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'' was first broadcast. First appearance of the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]]; first revival-series story set in [[Wales]]; first appearance of [[Eve Myles]] in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise.
* [[16th April|16]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'' was first broadcast. This episode reintroduces [[UNIT]] (last referenced on television in [[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]''), establishing that all modern-day stories in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise from this point on (spinoffs included) take place approximately one year ahead of their real-life broadcast date. First appearance of the [[Slitheen]]. For the first time since [[DW]]: ''[[The Gunfighters]]'', a multi-part story carries different episode titles.
** [[David Tennant]] was officially announced as the [[Tenth Doctor]].{{fact}} At this time Tennant was best known for playing the title role in ''Casanova'', a BBC miniseries that was written and produced by [[Russell T Davies]]. He has also recently filmed a role in ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Goblet of Fire'' which will be released to theatres the same day that [[Children in Need Special|his first solo performance]] as the Doctor was broadcast.
* [[21st April |21]] - [[THN]]: ''[[Echoes (novella)|Echoes]]'' was first published.
* [[23rd April |23]] - [[DW]]: ''[[World War Three]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[25th April |25]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'' was released to DVD in the UK; this was the first classic series DVD release in the UK since the revival of the series.
* [[30th April |30]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'' was first broadcast. The [[Dalek]]s make their revived-series debut. [[Bruno Langley]] briefly joins the series as short-term companion [[Adam Mitchell]].
* The [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] in [[Canada]] begins airing the new series, the first time the CBC have aired ''Doctor Who'' since the mid-1960s. For the CBC broadcasts, Christopher Eccleston videotapes special introductions and promotions for a contest sponsored by ''TV Guide'', the first prize being a trip to London to visit the set of ''Doctor Who''. These broadcasts were promoted as the North American debut of the series, as no other broadcaster on the continent has yet picked up the revived series.
* [[Christopher Eccleston]] becomes a Mencap charity ambassador.{{fact}}
=== [[May]] ===
For the rest of 2005, Mickey Smith lived with accusations that he had kidnapped or killed Rose Tyler. He was taken in for police questioning about her disappearance five times from early 2005 to early [[2006]]. [[Jackie Tyler]] fueled the mistrust of him around the [[Powell Estate]] with a "whisper campaign". Understandably, Jackie devoted considerable time to the search for her "missing" daughter. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}})
* [[BBC Books]] launches the [[BBC New Series Adventures|New Series Adventures]] line of original novels tying in with the new series; this line, featuring the [[Ninth Doctor]], replaces the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] and [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] lines, though both continue publishing briefly. The new line of books were published in hardcover and have a shorter word count than the EDA/PDA novels. The books were released three at a time. The first three released were [[NSA]]: ''[[The Clockwise Man]]'', [[NSA]]: ''[[The Monsters Inside]]'', and [[NSA]]: ''[[Winner Takes All]]''.
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Catch-1782]]'' was first released.
* [[ST]]: ''[[Short Trips: A Day in the Life]]'' was first published.
* [[BFG]]: ''[[Spirit]]'' was first released.
* [[BBCR]]: ''[[Project WHO?|Project: WHO?]]'' was first released by [[BBC Audio]]. This was a CD issue of the two-part [[BBC Radio]] documentary ''[[Project Who]]'' on the return of ''Doctor Who'', featuring interviews with [[Christopher Eccleston]], [[Billie Piper]] and others.
* [[5th May|5]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Mind Robber]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[7th May|7]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Long Game]]'' was first broadcast. [[Bruno Langley]] departs the series as his character, [[Adam Mitchell]], became the first TV companion to be forced out by the Doctor.
* [[14th May|14]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[16th May|16]] - In the UK, BBC Video releass ''Doctor Who: Volume 1'' with the episodes [[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'' and ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]''. This was the first of a series of "vanilla" (extras-free) DVD released by BBC Video featuring episodes from a still-underway season and the first new-series episodes (and first [[Ninth Doctor]] episodes) to be released to home video.
* [[21st May|21]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'' was first broadcast. [[John Barrowman]] makes his first appearance as [[Jack Harkness]]. This episode, and part 2 the next week, were [[Steven Moffat]]'s first serious contributions to televised ''Doctor Who'' and will win the series its first Hugo Award.
* [[28th May|28]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'' was first broadcast.
=== [[June]] ===
On [[22 March]], the [[North Eastern Daily Press]] reported that [[Chantelle (Weapons Grade Snake Oil)|Sharonda Arkley]] had shot four of her colleagues and put their bodies in caves along [[Blackhall Rocks]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)}})
* [[EDA]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'' was first published. This was the final release in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel series, as [[BBC Books]] prepweres to move into publishing novels exclusively based upon the revived series. One further [[Eighth Doctor ]]novel will be published in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] line.
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Unregenerate!]]'' was first released.
* [[BFG]]: ''[[Pandora (audio drama)|Pandora]]'' and [[BFG]]: ''[[Insurgency]]'' were first released.
* [[BFU]]: ''[[The Wasting]]'' was first released. Final episode of the spin-off series, ''[[U.N.I.T. (audio series)|U.N.I.T.]]''.
* [[BFBS]]: ''[[The Tree of Life]]'' was first published.
* [[FP]]: ''[[Warring States]]'' was first published.
* The [[BBC]] announces that a [[The Runaway Bride|Christmas special]] has already been commissioned for [[2006]], as well as a third season for the new ''Doctor Who'' series.
* [[1st June|01]] - [[Geoffrey Toone]] ([[Hepesh]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon]]'' and [[Temmosus]] in ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'') died in [[Wikipedia:Northwood |Northwood]], [[Wikipedia:Middlesex |Middlesex]], [[England]].
* [[2nd June|02]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[4th June|04]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'' was first broadcast.
* [[7th June|07]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]'' was released to DVD in Region 1.
* [[8th June|08]] - [[Ed Bishop]] died. He played [[Flint|General Flint]] in [[DWU]]: ''[[Full Fathom Five]]'' and was best known as Ed Straker in ''UFO'' and Captain Blue in ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons''.
* [[11th June|11]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'' was first broadcast. First reference to [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]].
** [[Christopher Eccleston]] was interviewed by BBC Radio.
* [[13th June|13]] - The DVD ''Doctor Who: Volume 2'' was released by BBC Video featuring the new series episodes [[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'', ''[[World War Three]]'' and ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]''.
* [[18th June|18]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' was first broadcast, concluding the first season of the revival of ''Doctor Who''. The [[Ninth Doctor]] regenerates into the [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]], introducing [[David Tennant]] and marking [[Christopher Eccleston]]'s final (to date) appearance as the Doctor. [[John Barrowman]] also departs the series as a regular with this story. The broadcast was followed by the final transmission of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'s'' first season.
**Post-production completed for [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''.
* [[21st June|21]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Ghost Light]]'' was released to DVD in Region 1.
=== [[July]] ===
In early 2005, UNIT issued one press briefing which noted the [[Daylight savings|upcoming transition]] to [[British Summertime]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Clocks Go Forward (short story)}})
* [[PDA]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]'' was first published. Final PDA novel to feature the [[Third Doctor]] and last Third Doctor original novel to date. The PDA series returns to monthly released for the remainder of the year as the final books in the line were published.
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Terror Firma]]'' was first released.
* [[MB]]: ''[[Coming to Dust|Coming to Dust: The True History of Faction Paradox Volume 1]]'' was first released. The [[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]] series was now being produced by [[Magic Bullet Productions]].
* [[11th July |11]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'' was released to DVD in the UK. Beginning with this release, BBC Video issues ''Doctor Who'' DVDs in conjunction with [[2 entertain]].
* [[15th July|15]] - The first performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Robert Blackwood Hall in Melbourne, Australia.
* [[16th July|16]] - The second performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.
* [[17th July|17]] - The third performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.
* [[21st July |21]] - [[THN]]: ''[[Peculiar Lives]]'' was first published.
* The fourth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Burswood Theatre in Perth, Australia.
* [[23rd July|23]] - The fifth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Festival Theatre in Adelaide, Australia.
* [[25th July |25]] - The BBC announces that [[Elisabeth Sladen]] will return to the role of [[Sarah Jane Smith]] for an upcoming episode of the revived ''Doctor Who's'' second series.{{fact}}
* [[26th July|26]] - The sixth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Canberra Theatre in Canberra, Australia.
* [[29th July|29]] - The seventh performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, Australia.
* [[30th July|30]] - The eighth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, Australia.
=== [[August]] ===
[[UNIT]] released an [[embargo]]ed [[press briefing]] on [[31 March]] 2005, filed by [[Staff Sergeant]] [[A. Frederick]], about [[Major]] [[A Highway]]'s plan to reorganise [[UNIT North America|UNIT]]'s pan-territorial activities in [[America]] into a single site operation, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)}}) the [[UNIT HQ, New York City|New York UNIT HQ]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Fountains of Forever (comic story)}})
* [[PDA]]: ''[[Spiral Scratch]]'' (originally promoted under the title ''Future Nostalgia'') was first published. Final novel to date to feature the [[Sixth Doctor]].
* [[BFA]]: ''[[The Council of Nicaea]]'' was first released.
* [[BFG]]: ''[[Imperiatrix (audio story)|Imperiatrix]]'' was first released.
* [[1st August|01]] - The DVD ''Doctor Who: Volume 3'' featuring the episodes [[DW]]: ''[[The Long Game]]'', ''[[Father's Day]]'', ''[[The Empty Child]]'' and ''[[The Doctor Dances]]''.
* The ninth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Brisbane Convention Centre in Brisbane, Australia.
* [[5th August|5]] - The tenth performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Westpac St James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand.
* [[6th August|6]] - The last performance of the ''[[Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS]]'' live stage tour was held at the Civic Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand.
* [[31st August|31]] - [[Michael Sheard]], who had countless roles in [[Doctor Who]], notably [[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', died of cancer on the Isle of Wight.
=== [[September]] ===
[[Steve Woolfall (in-universe)|Steve Woolfall]] responded to [[Doctor Who?]]'s request for sightings of the missing Rose Tyler, reporting that he had seen a [[girl]] that looked like her in the [[Grosvenor Museum]] in [[Chester]] that [[afternoon]] with a [[Tenth Doctor|chap]] that reminded him of "[[David Tennant (in-universe)|that Casanova bloke]]". Steve suggested that it might not have been the same girl but that it was strange nonetheless. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)|writer=Steve Woolfall}})
* [[NSA]]: ''[[The Deviant Strain]]'', [[NSA]]: ''[[Only Human]]'', and [[NSA]]: ''[[The Stealers of Dreams]]'' were first published. To date, these were the last novels featuring the [[Ninth Doctor]] as [[BBC Books]] changes to novels featuring the [[Tenth Doctor]].
* [[PDA]]: ''[[Fear Itself]]'' was first published. This was the last novel to date to feature the [[Eighth Doctor]] and was the only time this incarnation was featured in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] line.
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Thicker Than Water]]'' was first released.
* [[BFA]]: ''[[LIVE 34]]'' was first released.
* [[ST]]: ''[[Short Trips: The Solar System]]'' was first published.
* [[BFC]]: ''[[Scorpius]]'' the first episode of a new [[Big Finish Productions]] spin-off series, ''[[Cyberman (audio series)|Cyberman]]'', was first released.
* ''[[Doctor Who Annual 2006]]'' was first published. This marks the return of the ''[[Doctor Who Annual]]'', a once-traditional publication that was issued during most of the run of the original series. [[Marvel Comics]] last made an attempt at reviving the format in the early 1990s.
* [[1st September |01]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[5th September |05]] - [[BBCR]]: ''[[Doctor Who at the BBC Volume 3]]'' was first released, including the first release of an unbroadcast [[Third Doctor]] audio mini-episode recorded for ''[[Glorious Goodwood]]''.
* BBC Video releases the DVD ''Doctor Who: Volume 4'' featuring the episodes [[DW]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'', ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'' and ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''. This concludes the series of "vanilla" DVD released of episodes from the first revival season. Discounting the unique appearance of the [[Eighth Doctor]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] becomes the first Doctor to have his complete era released to DVD.<br />
* [[9th September |09]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Web Planet]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* [[12th September |12]] - [[Ronald Leigh-Hunt]] (Commander [[Julian Radnor]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death]]'' and Commander [[Stevenson]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') died.
* [[23rd September |23]] - [[Roger Brierley]] ([[Trevor (The Daleks' Master Plan)|Trevor]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' and voice of [[Drathro]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]'') died after suffering a heart attack.
=== [[October]] ===
[[Angola]] suffered from an epidemic of the [[Marburg virus]] in early 2005, with a [[British]] news broadcast on [[26 March]] reporting that the [[death]] toll had risen to 120. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[One Rule (audio story)|One Rule]]'')
* [[PDA]]: ''[[World Game]]'' was first published. Final [[Second Doctor]] novel to date.
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Scweredy Cat]]'' was first released.
* [[BFC]]: ''[[Fear]]'' was first released.
* [[6th October|06]] - BBC Video releases a special ''Dalek Collector's Edition'' DVD box set exclusively in UK [[W H Smith]] stores. The set includes the previously released [[DW]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.
* [[18th October|18]] - [[John Hollis]] ([[Sondergaard]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'') died from natural causes.
* [[24th October|24]] - [[Robert Sloman]], who along with [[Barry Letts]], wrote [[DW]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Green Death]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'' died. (The pair were credited as "Guy Leopold" on the first story but for the final three, Sloman took the sole credit.)
=== [[November]] ===
As recounted by the [[Eighth Doctor]], the [[European Cup]] final was won by [[Liverpool]], led by [[Steven Gerrard]], who triumphed over [[A.C. Milan]] despite being 3-0 down at half time, having scored three goals in the second half before going on to win the match, marking Liverpool's fifth win of the European Cup in its history. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Something Inside (audio story)}})
* [[PDA]]: ''[[The Time Travellers]]'' was first published. Final [[First Doctor]] novel to date.
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Singularity (audio story)|Singularity]]'' was first released.
* [[BFIW]]: ''[[Wildthyme at Large]]'' was first released, launching an ongoing series of audio dramas featuring the character of [[Iris Wildthyme]], played by [[Katy Manning]].
* [[3rd November|03]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Web Planet]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[6th November|06]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Horror of Fang Rock]]'', ''[[The Mind Robber]]'' and ''[[The Claws of Axos]]'' were released to DVD in Region 1.
* [[7th November|07]] - [[BBC Audio]] releases ''[[Travels in Time and Space]]'', a box set collecting three unabridged readings of early [[Target novelisation|novelisations]]: ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Zarbi]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who and the Crusaders]]'', all read by [[William Russell]].
** [[DW]]: ''[[City of Death]]'' was released to DVD in the UK.
* [[18th November|18]] - The [[DW]]: ''[[Children in Need Special]]'' was broadcast by the BBC as part of the Children in Need Appeal, marking the first solo appearance by [[David Tennant]] as the [[Tenth Doctor]]. This 7-minute mini-episode bridges the events of [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' and was the first canonical production of this nature (an earlier CiN production, [[1993]]'s [[DW]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'', was not generally considered part of the canon). It becomes the first production of the series revival not to be broadcast outside of the UK (though it will later be included on international DVDs).
** ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' was released to cinemas in the US and UK, featuring new Doctor [[David Tennant]] in a key role.
* [[21st November |21]] - The complete [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]] (2005) of ''Doctor Who'' was released to DVD in the UK as a box set. This was the first time a complete season of ''Doctor Who'' has been released all at once (although all episodes had been issued previously in vanilla editions). Included was a bonus disc featuring the first DVD release of episodes of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'', although due to licensing and appearance rights issues, the practice of releasing edited-down versions (retitled ''Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown'') to DVD was begun.
* The first Region 1 (North American) release<br />
* [[29th November |29]] - [[Joseph Fürst]] (Professor [[Zaroff]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Underwater Menace]]'') died in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
=== [[December]] ===
The [[Neanderthal]] [[Das (Only Human)|Das]] was accidentally transported forward in time from [[24 May]] [[BC#Prehistory|29,185 BC]] to [[Bromley]] in 2005. Several weeks later, he and [[Anna Marie Dimitru|Anna Marie O'Grady]] were married in Bromley. The Ninth Doctor, Rose and [[Jack Harkness]] attended their wedding. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Only Human (novel)}})
* [[PDA]]: ''[[Atom Bomb Blues]]'' was first published. This novel featuring the [[Seventh Doctor]] was the final release in the [[BBC Books]] [[Past Doctor Adventures]] line. After this, BBC Books publishes only novels based upon the current series of ''Doctor Who'', and also moved away from the paperback format, to a hardcover one (with the exception of [[Quick Reads]] novellas) hereafter. As of the fall of 2009, ''Atom Bomb Blues'' was the last novel to be published featuring a Doctor other than the one currently on TV.
* [[BFA]]: ''[[Other Lives]]'' was first released.
* [[ST]]: ''[[Short Trips: The History of Christmas]]'' was first published.
* [[BFC]]: ''[[Conversion]]'' was first released.
* [[BFIW]]: ''[[The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme]]'' was first released. Last [[Iris Wildthyme]] audio drama until 2009.
* [[1st December |01]] - [[DW]]: ''[[City of Death]]'' was released to DVD in Region 4.
* [[8th December |08]] - [[David Tennant]] appears on BBC Radio 4's ''Front Row''.
* [[19th December |19]] - [[Don McKillop]] ([[Bert the Landlord]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'') died from natural causes in the UK.
* [[21st December |21]] - [[David Tennant]] appears on [[BBC One]]'s ''Breakfast'' programme.
* [[23rd December |23]] - BBC Radio Wales broadcasts ''Back in Time - New Doctor, New Danger'', featuring [[Russell T Davies]] and others.
* The BBC Two comedy series ''Dead Ringers'' features the parody "Christmas at Doctor Who's" with the cast impersonating [[David Tennant]], [[Tom Baker]], [[Sylvester McCoy]], [[Patrick Troughton]] and [[Christopher Eccleston]].
* [[25th December|25]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' was first broadcast, officially launching the [[Tenth Doctor]] era. The episode's closing credits introduce a modified arrangement of the Doctor Who theme, restoring the "middle 8" section not used during Series 1. At the behest of star [[David Tennant]], the lead character was once again identified in the closing credits as "The Doctor".
* Following the broadcast, the BBC's "Red Button" service makes available [[WC]]: ''[[Attack of the Graske]]'', an interactive mini-episode-cum-game featuring [[David Tennant]]. Initially this was only available for viewing/playing in the UK.
* [[26th December|26]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' airs on the [[CBC]] in Canada. For this broadcast, Billie Piper videotapes a special introduction. This marks the last time (to date) that the CBC's broadcasts of the series more-or-less coincide with that of the BBC.
* [[27th December|27]] - [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''Front Row'' runs a feature on the new Doctor.
=== Unknown dates ===
==== July-December ====
* Broadcast of the revived series in the United States was delayed when the American Sci-Fi Channel unexpectedly passes on the series. Reasons cited in media and fan forums include the show being "too British" and concerns over the quality of the preview episodes seen.{{fact}} Sci-Fi eventually reverses its decision and the series was broadcast at a later date. The network subsequently picks up further seasons in a more timely manner.
In [[November]], a ''[[Crimewatch]]'' episode on the [[Blackhall Rocks Multiple Murder]] was broadcast. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)}})
* Following the conclusion of the 2005 ''Doctor Who'' series, the [[BBC]] announces it had commissioned the franchise's first spin-off series, ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'', to debut in [[2006]] and star [[John Barrowman]], reprising his role of [[Jack Harkness]].
*Autumn: During production of the 2006 series, the media reports that [[Billie Piper]] will leave the series at the end of the season.{{fact}}
==Footnotes==
On [[29 September]], while [[Rose Tyler]] was travelling with the [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Mickey Smith]] sent her an [[email]], asking where she was and if she was okay. On [[3 October]], Rose sent emails to both Mickey and [[Jackie Tyler|her mum]], telling them about her adventures. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Companion's Companion (novel)}}, {{cs|A Short History of Everyone (novel)}})
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On [[22 December]], while in [[Sally Sparrow's aunt|her aunt]]'s house in [[Devon]], [[Sally Sparrow (What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow)|Sally Sparrow]] tore off a piece of wallpaper, revealing a message from [[1985]] asking for help. After later finding a photograph with the [[Ninth Doctor]] asking to look through the wallpaper again, she found another message leading her to play a video recording of the Doctor in 1985, the Doctor communicating to Sally through already having the conversation from Sally's uncompleted [[What I Did on My Christmas Holidays|Christmas homework]].
The Doctor explained that the TARDIS had "burped" forward in time twenty years and needed Sally's help. Sally's future self appeared, telling Sally to hit the TARDIS [[reset button]] to reach the Doctor. The Doctor told Sally to finish her [[homework]] detailing this conversation and the messages left to her first, which she did. Sally then piloted the TARDIS to the Doctor to rescue him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow (short story)}})
The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Destrii]] defeated a plot by highly advanced [[Cybermen]] who had travelled back in time to convert the population of Earth using modified rain. The Cybermen had time travelled to convert the Earth's population because the humans of their home time were too genetically diluted to become Cybermen.
[[MI6]]'s headquarters was massacred in the process, allowing [[Patrick Lake]] to rise up the hierarchy and pitch the outer-space branch "Wonderland". ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Flood (comic story)}}, {{cs|Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)}})
The magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' gave away a personal organiser with every issue. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Transit (novel)}})
The [[FLIPback]] Project began at the [[Snowcap Base]] at [[Earth]]'s [[South Pole]] to counter the predicted reversal of the Earth's [[magnetic field]] in [[2006]]. At the same time, the [[Cybermen]] left over from the attack on Earth in [[December]] [[1986]] again became active. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Iceberg (novel)}})
London [[police]], including DI [[Billy Shipton]], began investigating the disappearance of people from an abandoned house called [[Wester Drumlins]]. The police began collecting as evidence vehicles left abandoned by those who had disappeared, at one point taking a [[the Doctor's TARDIS|police box]] from the scene. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Blink (TV story)}})
The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Lucie Miller]] foiled a [[Quitoxin]] Spy's plan to take control of [[Little Morton]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Young Lions (audio story)}})
In 2005, [[Phil Tyson]] was taken on board the [[Vandosian ship]] to be executed for the crimes of [[Shogalath]], whom the [[Vandos Tribunal]] believed Phil was the [[reincarnation]] of. Phil escaped with the Ninth Doctor and Rose into [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. Through the Doctor's meddling, the ship, aiming for [[Great Britain]], had its weapons backfire, destroying it. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Mr Nobody (comic story)}})
[[Tim Phillips]] first performed the [[tradition]]al [[Christmas]] [[song]] "[[Song for Ten (in-universe)|Song for Ten]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)}})
According to one account, London's [[taxi|cabs]] were replaced with [[motorcycle]]s to relieve the increasing [[road traffic|traffic congestion]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)}}) Other accounts stated that London kept its taxis. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}, etc.)
In [[2323]], [[Dr]] [[Olivia Kagg Waldermein]] wrote of the "2005-[[2009]] [[Russell T Davies (in-universe)|Davies]]-[[Julie Gardner (in-universe)|Gardner]] [[Doctor Who (in-universe)|account]]" of the "[[Last Lightbringer]]", stating that it "ha[d] been steadily leaking credibility since it was linked to the contents of [[whoisdoctorwho.co.uk|a well-known conspiracy site]] of the embryonic [[Internet]], operated between 2005 and [[2007]] by a small cabal of disreputable characters." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}})
=== Alternate timelines ===
[[The Doctor]] visited [[Luminos]] in an alternate 2005. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Spiral Scratch (novel)}})
== Births and deaths ==
On [[4 March]], [[Bernie Wilson]] was killed by [[Auton]]s in the basement of [[Henrik's, Central London]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}}) Other accounts stated the deceased Henrik's employee was [[H.P. Wilson]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}})
[[5 March]] was the date of multiple deaths during the Auton invasion, including [[Clive Finch]], [[Jimmy Stone]], [[Rudi Henrik|Rudi]] and [[Valentina Henrik]], and [[Oskar (Rose)|Oskar]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}}) [[Lord Mayor of Cardiff]] [[Roy Llewellyn]] was [[murder]]ed by [[Barry Jackson]], who used the invasion to cover up his crime. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}})
[[Ellie Oswald]], the mother of [[Clara Oswald]] and the wife of [[Dave Oswald]], died on 5 [[March]] at the age of 44. As well as her husband and daughter, her funeral was attended by the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)}})
[[Lucy Wilson]] was born on [[2 June]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucy Wilson (short story)}}) with [[Midwife (Lucy Wilson & the Bledoe Cadets)|a midwife]] helping deliver the newborn Lucy. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Midwife and the Alien (short story)}})
== Behind the scenes ==
A number of [[Doctor Who tie-in websites|tie-in websites]] contain details about 2005.
=== Torchwood website ===
On [[20 July]], an interview with [[Bilis Manger]] was released in a Cardiff newspaper. [[Torchwood Three]] had this interview in their files on Manger. <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070826211257/http://www.torchwood.org.uk/html/bilis/newspaper.shtml Cardiff Jobs: Time Keeper]</ref>
On 1 January 2005, Rose Tyler encountered a man who predicted she would have a great year. Unbeknownst to her, he was the tenth incarnation of the Doctor, whom she had not yet met in her own timeline. After she left, the Doctor succumbed to radiation poisoning after spending an unknown amount of time holding back the regeneration and staggered towards his TARDIS, encouraged by a vision of Ood Sigma. After dematerialising the TARDIS, he regenerated into his eleventh incarnation. (TV: The End of Time[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
Prior to Rose handing in her lottery money to a syndicate at work, Jackie got a phone call from Rose in the middle of the day on a Wednesday; Rose was using the superphone to call Jackie from the year 5,000,000,000 after she had already left (from Rose's perspective). (TV: The End of the World[+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"])
The Autons attack. (TV: Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])
On 4 March, (AUDIO: One Rule[+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"]) the Ninth Doctor was in London pursuing the Nestene Consciousness. His investigations took him to the Henrik'sdepartment store, where he saved Rose Tyler from an Auton attack. He then blew up the building. The following day, Rose investigated the identity of the Ninth Doctor, talking to conspiracy theorist Clive Finch about his website about the Doctor. Rose's boyfriend, Mickey, was abducted by Autons and replaced with an Auton duplicate. Using the head of this Auton, the Doctor tracked the Nestene Consciousness' signal. It had been rendered a scavenger without protein planets by a war the Doctor fought in. Rose rescued Mickey (and later, the Doctor) and destroyed the Consciousness with anti-plastic. She joined the Doctor on his travels. Meanwhile, Clive was killed by the Autons as they assaulted London. (TV: Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], Aliens of London[+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) Elton Pope was also out shopping in the city centre at the time and survived the attack. (TV: Love & Monsters[+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"]) The invasion, which would be subsequently covered up as a "terrorist attack", had spread to at least Cardiff, where the city centre was brought to its knees as Barry Jackson used it as a cover for his murder of the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Roy Llewellyn. (AUDIO: One Rule[+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"]) Another account dated Operation Mannequin to 26 March. UNIT issued a press briefing, embargoed until 28 March, wherein they ignored the allegations that the incident had anything to do with terrorists or robots, and denied any confirmation of alien life. (PROSE: UNIT's Position on The London Incident[+]Loading...["UNIT's Position on The London Incident (short story)"], Operation Mannequin[+]Loading...["Operation Mannequin (short story)"])
Shortly after the invasion, an Auton head that was recovered from the Queen's Arcade shopping centre, the garbage bin that swallowed Mickey, and a secondary bomb discovered in Henrik's were taken and stored in the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum. (GAME: Security Bot[+]Loading...["Security Bot (video game)"])
Rose made a brief return trip to London in her own time, where the Doctor told her about the loss of his homeworld and his people before the pair went to get chips. (TV: The End of the World[+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"]) Rose was reported missing from her home on the Powell Estate since 6 March. She returned a year later in March2006. (TV: Aliens of London[+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"]) dalek had spotted the pair talking about chips and reported the sighting to Doctor Who? a year later. (PROSE: Rose sighting confirmed[+]Loading...["Rose sighting confirmed (short story)"])
For the rest of 2005, Mickey Smith lived with accusations that he had kidnapped or killed Rose Tyler. He was taken in for police questioning about her disappearance five times from early 2005 to early 2006. Jackie Tyler fueled the mistrust of him around the Powell Estate with a "whisper campaign". Understandably, Jackie devoted considerable time to the search for her "missing" daughter. (TV: Aliens of London[+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"])
As recounted by the Eighth Doctor, the European Cup final was won by Liverpool, led by Steven Gerrard, who triumphed over A.C. Milan despite being 3-0 down at half time, having scored three goals in the second half before going on to win the match, marking Liverpool's fifth win of the European Cup in its history. (AUDIO: Something Inside[+]Loading...["Something Inside (audio story)"])
On 22 December, while in her aunt's house in Devon, Sally Sparrow tore off a piece of wallpaper, revealing a message from 1985 asking for help. After later finding a photograph with the Ninth Doctor asking to look through the wallpaper again, she found another message leading her to play a video recording of the Doctor in 1985, the Doctor communicating to Sally through already having the conversation from Sally's uncompleted Christmas homework.
The Doctor explained that the TARDIS had "burped" forward in time twenty years and needed Sally's help. Sally's future self appeared, telling Sally to hit the TARDIS reset button to reach the Doctor. The Doctor told Sally to finish her homework detailing this conversation and the messages left to her first, which she did. Sally then piloted the TARDIS to the Doctor to rescue him. (PROSE: What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow[+]Loading...["What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow (short story)"])
The Eighth Doctor and Destrii defeated a plot by highly advanced Cybermen who had travelled back in time to convert the population of Earth using modified rain. The Cybermen had time travelled to convert the Earth's population because the humans of their home time were too genetically diluted to become Cybermen.
MI6's headquarters was massacred in the process, allowing Patrick Lake to rise up the hierarchy and pitch the outer-space branch "Wonderland". (COMIC: The Flood[+]Loading...["The Flood (comic story)"], Hunters of the Burning Stone[+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"])
The magazine Der Spiegel gave away a personal organiser with every issue. (PROSE: Transit[+]Loading...["Transit (novel)"])
London police, including DI Billy Shipton, began investigating the disappearance of people from an abandoned house called Wester Drumlins. The police began collecting as evidence vehicles left abandoned by those who had disappeared, at one point taking a police box from the scene. (TV: Blink[+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"])
In 2005, Phil Tyson was taken on board the Vandosian ship to be executed for the crimes of Shogalath, whom the Vandos Tribunal believed Phil was the reincarnation of. Phil escaped with the Ninth Doctor and Rose into the TARDIS. Through the Doctor's meddling, the ship, aiming for Great Britain, had its weapons backfire, destroying it. (COMIC: Mr Nobody[+]Loading...["Mr Nobody (comic story)"])
