2007

Events

January

• Rose Tyler, carrying a rucksack, said goodbye to her mother Jackie Tyler and her boyfriend Mickey Smith and continued her adventures with the Tenth Doctor. (TV: New Earth)
• 31 - The SS Elysium arrived safely in Panama, its passengers and crew having endured an attack by Cybermen just weeks earlier. One passenger, artist Michael Brack, was airlifted to hospital for treatment for hypothermia suffered during the attack. He missed his chance to tell Ruby Duvall that he was the man responsible for her father's paralysis. (PROSE: Iceberg)

February - March

• LINDA was given its name by Elton Pope. It was destroyed when the Abzorbaloff (alias Victor Kennedy) absorbed all members save Elton, one by one each Saturday. The Tenth Doctor killed the Abzorbaloff and restored Ursula Blake in the form of a paving slab. (TV: Love & Monsters)
• The Master arrived on Earth around this time and assumed the alias Harold Saxon. He set about establishing a political career while creating the Archangel Network. He also met his future wife, Lucy. (TV: The Sound of Drums)

June

• 21 - Annual de-frosting of Tommy Brockless, a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in 1918, took place.
• 25 - Donna Noble chose to take a job with H.C. Clements, rejecting her mother's suggestion that she work for another firm. An alternate timeline version of herself had been hit by a lorry a few blocks away to stop her making the contrary decision and altering the timeline. Rose Tyler travelled back in time from approximately two years in the future - and from the alternate timeline - to ask the alternate-Donna to pass a message on to the Tenth Doctor when she "died". (TV: The Runaway Bride, Turn Left)
• The Tenth Doctor landed in Torchwood Tower with Rose and Jackie Tyler after tracking the ghost shifts and was taken prisoner by Torchwood One. The ghosts were actually Cybermen from a parallel universe the Doctor had visited. Rose Tyler stumbled upon a Void Ship and discovered Mickey, back from Pete's World. The two of them witnessed four Daleks emerging from the ship. (TV: Army of Ghosts)
• Cybermen encountered Daleks; they fought, destroying Torchwood One. The Cybermen upgraded Torchwood staff to fight the Daleks. The Daleks identified themselves as the Cult of Skaro and used Mickey's DNA print to release millions of Daleks from the Genesis Ark to attack all life on Earth. The Tenth Doctor opened the gateway to the Void, letting the void stuff-covered Daleks and Cybermen be sucked into it (apart from the Cult, who emergency temporal shifted), before sealing itself. Rose, Jackie and Mickey were trapped in Pete's World, with no way back to their own universe, where Rose was declared dead. (TV: Doomsday) The partial cyber-conversion of Lisa Hallett happened during this battle. (TV: Cyberwoman) Donna Noble, meanwhile, was on a scuba-diving holiday in Spain and unaware of these events. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
• Former Torchwood One operative Ianto Jones relocated to Cardiff to convince Jack Harkness to give him a position with Torchwood Three. (TV: Fragments). He was successful. He subsequently hid his partially-converted girlfriend, Lisa Hallett, within the Torchwood Hub. (TV: Cyberwoman)

July

• C'rizz went on a rampage in King's Cross Station. He was stopped by the Eighth Doctor and Luke Tillyard. (PROSE: Salva Mea)

June-September

• Torchwood Three member Suzie Costello shot herself after being discovered for the murders she committed. Gwen Cooper joined the empty spot left in Torchwood Three. (TV: Everything Changes)
• On her first day of work, Gwen accidentally released an alien entity that inhabited Carys Fletcher. The Torchwood Three team tricked it, trapping it inside the portable prison cell. The creature was poisoned by Earth's atmosphere and died. (TV: Day One)

June-December

• The Torchwood Three team retrieved a quantum transducer that saw the past and future from Bernie Harris. It was eventually locked away. Ed Morgan impaled himself on a knife Gwen had confiscated. (TV: Ghost Machine)
• With the help of Dr Tanizaki, Ianto took Lisa off her life support. She attacked the Torchwood Hub to make it a base to start converting more Cybermen. The rest of the Torchwood Three team killed her. (TV: Cyberwoman)
• The Torchwood Three team handed over Jasmine Pierce to the Fairies after they threatened to destroy the Earth. (TV: Small Worlds)
• Jack incapacitated a set of cannibalistic villagers in the Welsh countryside. They were arrested by police. (TV: Countrycide)
• The Arcateenian "Mary" handed Toshiko Sato a telepathy pendant. When Mary snuck into the Torchwood hub, Jack tricked her into using the teleport device she was looking for. It sent her into the centre of the sun. (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts)

September-December

• Three months after her death, Suzie Costello was resurrected for a short period by Gwen, who used the resurrection gauntlet. Suzie drew life energy from Gwen over time. She died again when the gauntlet was destroyed. (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie)
• After his friends falsely inflated a bid for it on eBay, Eugene Jones swallowed a Dogon Sixth Eye to make sure they couldn't flog it themselves. He continued existing as a ghost for a time after his death. He helped Gwen Cooper investigate his death (which he couldn't recall) and passed on. (TV: Random Shoes)

December

• 18 - Diane Holmes, Emma-Louise Cowell and John Ellis arrived from 1953 through the Rift. (TV: Out of Time)
• 24 - Diane flew through the rift, Emma departed from Cardiff to London and John committed suicide, all against the wishes of the Torchwood Three team. (TV: Out of Time)
• 24 - Donna Noble's wedding to Lance Bennett was interrupted by the Huon particles inside her system (put there by Lance) dragging her into the Doctor's TARDIS. After being attacked by Roboforms at the wedding reception, the Tenth Doctor, Donna and Lance went to H.C. Clements' basement. There, they travelled to a Torchwood base on the Thames Flood Barrier. The Empress of the Racnoss force fed Lance Huon energy to awaken her children, killing him. She also sent her Webstar to attack London, but the Doctor killed the children by draining the Thames into them and the British military, ordered by "Mr Saxon", blew up the webstar. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
• 24 - Although Sylvia Noble, Donna's mother, was witness to the Roboman attack, her grandfather, Wilfred Mott, was absent due to an attack of Spanish flu. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem)

Unknown dates

• An "Arms for Humanity" concert was held to raise money for the Preserve our Planet Fund. (PROSE: Iceberg)
• Mickey Smith contacted the Tenth Doctor to investigate Deffry Vale High School after discovering strange occurrences there. (TV: School Reunion) The Tenth Doctor and Rose signed up as a teacher and a dinner lady respectively. The Doctor met Sarah Jane Smith for the first time since he had been called to Gallifrey and had left her on Earth. (TV: The Hand of Fear, School Reunion) The Doctor repaired K9 Mark III. K9 identified the intelligence-enhancing oil in the school children's chips as of Krillitane origin. The Doctor learnt they were using the children to solve the Skasis Paradigm. K9 destroyed the Krillitanes, along with himself and the oil, but the Doctor gave Sarah Jane a new model, K9 Mark IV. Mickey joined the Tenth Doctor and Rose in the TARDIS. (TV: School Reunion) The Doctor had hidden several gifts for Sarah Jane inside a panel in K9 Mark IV: sonic lipstick and a wristwatch for detecting alien life. (WEB: Sarah Jane Smith website, TV: Invasion of the Bane)
• Around this time the discovery of a bizarre message encoded as Easter eggs on seventeen different DVD releases caused a flurry of interest on the internet due to the message's cryptic nature. The message, which appeared to have been shot on film many years earlier, depicted a man with glasses conducting what appeared to be a one-sided conversation with an unknown person; he was occasionally interrupted by a young half-cast woman. Among those interested in the message was London video store employee Larry Nightingale. He began intensively studying the message, much to the annoyance of his sister, Kathy Nightingale. The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones, following information provided to them by Sally Sparrow, investigated the Wester Drumlins estate near London, where by choice or accident they were touched by the Weeping Angels and transported to 1969; the TARDIS remained behind and was later taken into custody by London police. Sally Sparrow received a bizarre message addressed to her from the Doctor in 1969 while investigating Wester Drumlins. Sparrow learnt of the Weeping Angels, her friend Kathy Nightingale was transported back to 1920 and a policeman named Billy Shipton was sent back to 1969. Sparrow encountered an elderly Shipton, who died soon after revealing he was responsible for adding the cryptic message from the Doctor to a number of DVDs. The Easter egg mystery was solved when Sally realised the one-sided conversation was from the Doctor and directed at her. Ultimately, Sparrow stopped the Weeping Angels from capturing the Doctor's TARDIS and with the help of Larry Nightingale, sent the vessel back to 1969. After this Sally and Larry took over the DVD rental store where Larry worked, turning it into a bookstore, but Sally remained distant from Larry as she awaited the final resolution of her involvement with the time-travelling Doctor. (TV: Blink)
• Professor Mallingan and his team of scientists began draining the power of the icy planet Asharoth, hoping it would put an end to global warming on Earth. The Tenth Doctor came across Mallingan's plans and enlisted the help of one of his scientists to destroy his lab, saving Asharoth. (COMIC: Cold War)
• The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams arrived in 2007 to visit the prominent Lexington Bank. There they discover two mysterious men, Mr Symington and Mr Blenkinsop who are giving out powerful watches that permit users to travel through time. Amy used it once, to the Doctor's disappointment, and found that the device had many consequences. (PROSE: Borrowed Time)
• Joseph Serf was killed in a skiing accident in Val d'Isère, France. However, his death was covered up by John Harrison. (TV: The Man Who Never Was)
• A BBC News bulletin reported that the United States and United Kingdom governments were anticipating final victory in the Iraq War in the near future. (AUDIO: Unregenerate!)

Donna's World timeline

June

• 25 - Donna Noble made a decision that resulted in her not joining H.C. Clements and so not meeting Lance Bennett and becoming engaged to him. Instead, she took a job as Jival Chowdry's secretary. (TV: Turn Left)

December

• 24 - As a consequence of never joining H.C. Clements, the Tenth Doctor never met Donna and he died after thwarting the Empress of the Racnoss' plans. Rose Tyler, travelling between dimensions, ended up in this alternate timeline and arrived soon after the Doctor's corpse had been retrieved by UNIT. (TV: Turn Left)

While the Empress of the Racnoss died the same way, the TARDIS had no-one left to pilot it, let alone park it on the Cardiff Rift, so Mr Saxon would have remained as Professor Yana on Utopia.

Pete's World

February

• 2 - The TARDIS fell into a parallel universe dubbed "Pete's World", where it almost died. With twenty-four hours before the TARDIS could return to its home universe, Rose discovered a living version of her dad, Pete Tyler, alive and a successful businessman. To meet her "father", Rose snuck with the Tenth Doctor into the birthday party of a parallel version of her mother. The President of Great Britain forbade the use of John Lumic's new cybernetic lifeform, but Lumic ignored him. Mickey, mistaken for his parallel self, Ricky Smith, was taken by the Preachers, who fought Lumic. The cybernetic life, dubbed Cybermen, attacked Jackie Tyler's birthday party, killing most of those inside, including the President. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)
• 2 - The Doctor and Rose escaped the Cyberman attack with the Preachers, Mickey and Pete. They infiltrated the Cyberman factory, where every Londoner in EarPods was being upgraded, including Pete's wife, Jackie. After a Cyberman whose emotional inhibitor was broken died of shock, the Doctor sent a signal that deactivated every one of them. Mickey and Jake destroyed the transmitter controls so the hypnotised EarPod bearers could escape. Mickey also sent the Doctor the codes to break the inhibitor controls, destroying the Cybermen. The survivors of the resistance escaped the burning factory in a zeppelin. (TV: The Age of Steel)
• 3 - With the TARDIS cells charged, the Doctor and Rose returned to their universe. Mickey stayed behind, taking his deceased counterpart's place in shutting down more Cyberman factories. (TV: The Age of Steel)

See Pete's World.

Behind the scenes

January

• AUDIO: Circular Time was first released.
• Big Finish Productions launched a new spin-off series of audio adventures, The Companion Chronicles, with the simultaneous release of four different productions: AUDIO: Frostfire, Fear of the Daleks, The Blue Tooth and The Beautiful People. The concept of The Companion Chronicles was to feature companions and original actors who previously had not performed their original characters due to their Doctors' (specifically the first four) unavailability to the Big Finish range. The Beautiful People was an exception as it featured Lalla Ward who had been portraying Romana II for Big Finish for several years at this point, though never before in an adventure with the Fourth Doctor.
• 1 - TV: Captain Jack Harkness and TV: End of Days were first broadcast, concluding the first season of Torchwood. The cliffhanger ending of End of Days was not resolved until the broadcast of TV: Utopia more than six months later.
• 1 - TV: Invasion of the Bane, the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, was also first broadcast, although the proper series did not begin until later in the year.
• 1 - The final episode of Torchwood Declassified's first season was also broadcast.
• 3 - TV: The Invasion was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 11 - PROSE: Another Life, PROSE: Border Princes and PROSE: Slow Decay, the first original novels based upon Torchwood, were first published by BBC Books. The books were similar in format to the BBC New Series Adventures novels as they were in hardcover (but with slightly larger pages) and had a slightly lower page count than the older BBC Books and Virgin paperbacks. Like the NSA's, the Torchwood novels were issued in sets of three.
• 11 - The cast readthrough for TV: 42 and TV: Utopia took place.
• 15 - After a five week mid-season hiatus, the CBC Canadian broadcast of Series 2 continued with TV: The Satan Pit.
• 16 - A DVD box set of the complete Second Series of Doctor Who was released in Region 1. In a reversal of the previous year, Series 2 still being in the midst of broadcast in Canada, release of the set was initially restricted to the US. The Canadian release was delayed until February.
• 19 - The CBC in Canada began rebroadcasting Series 1 of Doctor Who in a late night weekend timeslot.
• 21 - More than eight years after it was first released, Billie Piper's 1998 single, "Honey to the B", returned to the UK music charts. Piper had become a full-time actress by this time.
• 22 - Christopher Eccleston made his first of five appearances on the American science fiction series Heroes, which also featured Eric Roberts. Eccleston played "Claude", a man with the power to turn invisible.
• 27 - The New Beginnings DVD box set was released in the UK, featuring TV: The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Castrovalva.
• 27 - Also released in the UK was the Amazon.co.uk-exclusive DVD box set The Dalek Collection, consisting of the previously released TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Genesis of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks.

February

• AUDIO: Nocturne was first released.
• AUDIO: The Tub Full of Cats was first released.
• 8 - The cast read-through for TV: The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords took place.
• 15 - After a month's delay due to the CBC still airing the episodes, the Canadian release of the Series 2 DVD box set took place.
• 18 - Russell T Davies and Doctor Who Magazine writer Benjamin Cook began exchanging e-mails in a project to document the production of several episodes of the upcoming fourth series for DWM. The project eventually grew into what became the book release Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale.
• 19 - The Canadian broadcast of TV: Doomsday on the CBC took place, concluding Series 2; the season was broadcast over a longer than usual period due to the decision by the CBC to insert a mid-season hiatus. Doomsday attracted some two hundred thousand fewer viewers than part 1, TV: Army of Ghosts, a possible consequence of Series 2 being released to DVD in Canada a few days prior to Doomsday being broadcast.
• 20 - Derek Waring (Shardovan in TV: Castrovalva) died.
• 26 - Christopher Eccleston made his fifth and final appearance on Heroes in one of the series' most acclaimed episodes, "Company Man". Eccleston's appearances in Heroes were among the highest-profile American TV appearances by a former Doctor Who actor.
• 26 - The DVD Torchwood Series 1 Part 2 was released in the UK.
• Late February - In a meeting with Jane Tranter, Catherine Tate expressed interest in returning as Donna Noble for a couple of episodes of Series 4. At this point there had been no discussion of her returning to the series full-time.

March

• PROSE: Made of Steel was first published. The second release in the Quick Reads series, the book was released before the broadcast of TV: Smith and Jones, making this the first public appearance of Martha Jones. Written by Terrance Dicks, former script editor and prolific author of novelisations and original Doctor Who novels, this was the first New Series-related literary work by a veteran of the 1963-1989 TV series.
• AUDIO: Renaissance of the Daleks was first released.
• 06 - American actor Dennis Hopper expressed interest in appearing in Doctor Who and Russell T Davies began considering him for a role in what became the 2007 Christmas special, TV: Voyage of the Damned. Initially considered for the role of Mr. Copper and then Max Capricorn, the idea of Hopper appearing did not pan out. Meanwhile, Billie Piper expressed interest in returning for as many as four episodes of Series 4.
• TV: The Invasion and The Sontaran Experiment were released to DVD in Region 1.
• 13 - Catherine Tate, in a meeting with Julie Gardner, indicated interest in appearing in a full season of Doctor Who; Russell T Davies, still sketching out the introduction of a new companion called Penny for Series 4, began retooling his ideas to fit the possible return of Donna Noble.
• 16 - David Tennant appeared in a televised skit alongside Catherine Tate as part of a benefit for Comic Relief. Tennant played Mr. Logan, a substitute teacher who ran afoul of rebellious Lauren Cooper (Tate). The skit included numerous in-jokes related to Doctor Who; Lauren started to think that Logan is The Doctor; Lauren chided him with "Did you fancy Billie Piper, sir?"; Logan pulled out a sonic screwdriver and turned Lauren into a Rose Tyler action figure.
• 18 - TV: The Web of Fear episode one was repeated on BBC Four as part of London Underground night.
• 19 - Catherine Tate officially signed on to return as Donna Noble in the upcoming Series 4 of Doctor Who; besides retooling the season premiere, TV: Partners in Crime, Russell T Davies also began rethinking his planned "world without a Doctor" storyline, which became TV: Turn Left.
• 21 - The press launch for Series 3 of Doctor Who took place.
• 22 - Kylie Minogue, via her management, expressed interest in appearing in an episode of Doctor Who.
• 26 - The DVD Torchwood Series 1 Part 3 was released in the UK. This was the last "vanilla" release of episodes from Season 1 of Torchwood and the last such release related to this series although the vanilla releases continued for Doctor Who.
• 29 - John Gill, who played the character of Oak in TV: Fury from the Deep, died.
• 30 - Dave Martin, who co-wrote many stories and co-created K9 with Bob Baker, died from lung cancer.
• 31 - TV: Smith and Jones was first broadcast, launching Series 3 (aka Season 29). Freema Agyeman made her debut as new companion Martha Jones.
• Earlier in the day, five exclusive previews of TV: Smith and Jones took place at the Cardiff Odeon, Swansea Odeon, Wrexham Odeon, The Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Pwllheli Neuadd Dwyfor.
• After broadcast of TV: Smith and Jones, the first episode of the third series of Doctor Who Confidential aired.

April

• PROSE: Sting of the Zygons, PROSE: The Last Dodo and PROSE: Wooden Heart were first published.
• AUDIO: I.D. and AUDIO: Urgent Calls were first released. Urgent Calls was a single-episode story included as a bonus feature with I.D.
• AUDIO: The Judas Gift was first released.
• 01 - George Sewell (Ratcliffe in TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) died.
• 02 - TV: The Runaway Bride was released on to DVD in the UK. This was the first time a single episode of the revived series was released to DVD on its own. Although released in the same format as the "vanilla" releases of past seasons, this DVD included a bonus feature of the Doctor Who Confidential instalment relating to the 2006 Children in Need concert. This was the first time a full-length episode of Confidential was released to DVD.
• The first episode of the second season of Totally Doctor Who aired in the UK. This season, Totally Doctor Who featured a serialised animated Doctor Who adventure, TV: The Infinite Quest, with the voices of David Tennant, Freema Agyeman and Anthony Stewart Head (the last playing a new character).
• 07 - TV: The Shakespeare Code was first broadcast.
• 11 - Russell T Davies, who had already indicated his wish to leave his post as executive producer after Series 4, was formally invited by the BBC to stay on for Series 5. Davies declined, later writing to Benjamin Cook, "They knew my reply even before they walked in." Davies' impending departure was kept under wraps for the next year.
• 14 - TV: Gridlock was first broadcast, concluding a trilogy of episodes that began with TV: The End of the World.
• 16 - TV: Survival was released to DVD in the UK.
• 17 - Russell T Davies furnished Benjamin Cook with the story outline for what became TV: Voyage of the Damned, but then carried the working title, Starship Titanic. (According to the book, Davies was unaware of the Douglas Adams novel and videogame of this same name.)
• 21 - TV: Daleks in Manhattan was first broadcast. The episode included some second-unit filming in New York City, the first non-UK filming for a regular episode since TV: The Two Doctors and the first US production work ever for the franchise.
• 22 - The News of the World broke the story that Kylie Minogue had been cast in the upcoming Christmas special, but erroneously reported that she was to play a Cyberwoman.
• 22 - Russell T Davies pulled out of writing the script for the first episode of Torchwood season 2, although a scene he penned, involving a blowfish driving a sports car, was retained in the final script, TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.
• 28 - TV Evolution of the Daleks was first broadcast.
• 28 - Torchwood beat Doctor Who for the Best Drama prize at the Welsh BAFTA awards, while David Tennant and Eve Myles received Best Actor and Best Actress and Graeme Harper Best Director.

May

• AUDIO: Exotron and AUDIO: Urban Myths were first released. Urban Myths was a single-episode bonus story included with Exotron.
• AUDIO: The Two Jasons was first published.
• 05 - TV: The Lazarus Experiment was first broadcast. The story guest-starred longtime Doctor Who novelist and occasional scriptwriter Mark Gatiss.
• 13 - Charles Pemberton (a Cyberman in TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen and an Alien Technician in The War Games) died.
• 16 - After weeks of sketching out story ideas, Russell T Davies began writing the script for the 2007 Christmas special then titled Starship Titanic.
• 16 - Doctor Who: Battles in Time Daleks vs Cybermen Special, the first spinoff special issue of Battles in Time magazine, was published in the UK.
• Before 19 May - PROSE: 42 Prologue, a short story, was published exclusively online as part of the BBC's Doctor Who website. This was the first BBC-published exclusive-to-Internet Doctor Who story since WC: The Feast of the Stone several years earlier, and the first of several Tenth Doctor stories to be published online through the end of 2009.
• 19 - TV: 42 was first broadcast.
• 21 - The DVD Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 1 was released in the UK, including the episodes TV: Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code and Gridlock.
• 23 - David Cole (Billy Clanton in TV: The Gunfighters) died.
• 26 - TV: Human Nature was first broadcast. This episode, and the one that followed, adapted the Virgin New Adventures novel PROSE: Human Nature, a first for the franchise. The episode was also significant for showing drawings of several past incarnations of the Doctor - the first time the revived series had directly shown Doctors prior to the Ninth Doctor including, significantly, the Eighth Doctor.
• 30 - After discovering a Douglas Adams computer game of the same title, Russell T Davies changed the title of the 2007 Christmas special from Starship Titanic to TV: Voyage of the Damned.
• 31 - The Sun tabloid reported that Doctor Who would be taken off the air for a year after the conclusion of Series 4 in 2008, except for some specials, with David Tennant leaving midway through the season. The first half of the report proved accurate, the second half less so as Tennant ultimately stayed for all of the specials.

June

• AUDIO: Valhalla was first released.
• PROSE: Short Trips: Destination Prague was first published.
• AUDIO: Freedom of Information was first released
• 2 - TV: The Family of Blood was first broadcast.
• 3 - Gordon Gostelow (Milo Clancey in TV: The Space Pirates) died.
• 4 - Russell T Davies learned the secret of Catherine Tate replacing Freema Agyeman in Series 4 was leaking out, causing concern about the potential for tabloid reports over Agyeman being "fired" before the current season played out.
• 4 - TV: Robot was released to DVD in the UK.
• 5 - Russell T Davies completed his initial draft script for TV: Voyage of the Damned.
• 5 - The New Beginnings DVD box set consisting of TV: The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Castrovalva was released in both Region 1 and Region 4.
• 6 - TV: Survival was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 9 - TV: Blink was first broadcast. This Doctor-lite episode, starring Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow, won the franchise's third Hugo Award and became one of the most critically and fan-acclaimed episodes in franchise history.
• 16 - TV: Utopia was first broadcast, marking the return of the Master, last seen on screen in the 1996 TV movie and played by Derek Jacobi and John Simm. John Barrowman also returned to the series as Jack Harkness; the episode took place immediately after the events of TV: End of Days and marked the start of the revived series' first three-part story.
• 18 - The CBC in Canada began airing Series 3. In an unusual (and criticised) move, the network first aired TV: Smith and Jones during prime time, and then broadcast the Christmas special TV: The Runaway Bride a few hours later, after midnight in most areas of Canada (it had been originally scheduled to air by itself on 11 June, but was rescheduled to accommodate hockey broadcasts).
• 23 - TV: The Sound of Drums was first broadcast. It was the first full episode featuring John Simm as the Master. Alexandra Moen debuted as Lucy Saxon.
• 25 - The DVD Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 2 was released in the UK, featuring the episodes TV: Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, The Lazarus Experiment and 42.
• 27 - David Tennant informed the Doctor Who production staff he had been signed to appear in Hamlet in late 2008 during the already-planned production hiatus.
• 29 - The final episode of Totally Doctor Who was broadcast; it was subsequently cancelled. The final episode of the animated serial, TV: The Infinite Quest, also aired.
• 29 - Robin Davies, who worked behind the scenes on the 2005 season as driver for Christopher Eccleston, died.
• 30 - TV: Last of the Time Lords was first broadcast, concluding the third season of the Doctor Who revival. Freema Agyeman left the series as a regular, as did John Barrowman, again.
• The final episode of Doctor Who Confidential's third season aired afterwards.
• Plans to simulcast TV: Last of the Time Lords to crowds at Trafalgar Square as part of a Gay Pride event were cancelled at the last minute.

July

• AUDIO: The Wishing Beast and AUDIO: The Vanity Box were first released. The Vanity Box was a single-episode bonus feature included with The Wishing Beast.
• PROSE: Short Trips: Snapshots was first published.
• 2 - First cast read-through for TV: Voyage of the Damned was held at Central Baptist Church in London.
• 2 - Due to a quirk in scheduling involving its broadcasts of the U20 World Cup, the CBC in Canada gave TV: The Runaway Bride its only prime-time broadcast, albeit only in Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories.
• 4 - The BBC announced in a midnight press release that Catherine Tate would join Doctor Who for Series 4; according to Russell T Davies the announcement was made to preempt an expected story revealing the same by the Sun tabloid the same day. Davies learnt another tabloid The Daily Mail was expected to prematurely break the news of Tennant appearing in Hamlet and the official plan to have a gap year.
• TV: Robot was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 7 - Freddie Earlle, who played the role of Aldo in TV: Warriors' Gate, died.
• Doctor Who won three trophies at the inaugural Constellation Awards, a Canadian-based honour recognising the best in science fiction and presented during the annual Polaris SF convention. David Tennant won Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode for TV: The Girl in the Fireplace, while Doctor Who itself won the overall Best Science Fiction Television Series category. Unusually, Doctor Who also received the award for Outstanding Canadian Contribution to Science Fiction due to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation being a co-producer of the series.
• The Toronto Star newspaper ran a full-page feature on Doctor Who featuring an interview with Freema Agyeman.
• 9 - Filming began on TV: Voyage of the Damned.
• 9 - TV: Timelash was released to DVD in the UK.
• 9 - The UK newspaper the Guardian named Russell T Davies the fifteenth most powerful player in the UK media industry.
• 9 - Peter Tuddenham, who did voice work for Doctor Who, died.
• 10 - David Tennant left the set of TV: Voyage of the Damned on learning that his mother was taken gravely ill. Production continues around his absence.
• 15 - David Tennant's mother passed away.
• 17 - Russell T Davies addressed what he described to Benjamin Cook as "the elephant in the room" and initiated discussions with Steven Moffat about Moffat taking over Davies' job on Doctor Who. Moffat replied on the 19th that he was interested in talking about the idea.
• 21 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of books that was alluded to in TV: The Shakespeare Code, was published worldwide.
• 27 - The DVD Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 3 was released in the UK, featuring the episodes TV: Human Nature, The Family of Blood and Blink.
• 26 - John Normington (Morgus in TV: The Caves of Androzani, Trevor Sigma in TV: The Happiness Patrol and Tom Flanagan in TV: Ghost Machine) died.
• 29 - Inspired by reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Russell T Davies began toying with the idea of inviting J.K. Rowling to appear on Doctor Who, possibly in the 2008 Christmas special.
• 31 - Bernard Cribbins, a veteran of the Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. movie, filmed a cameo for TV: Voyage of the Damned, little knowing he would later return to the series several times in Series 4. Despite his workload, Russell T Davies visited the set.
• TV: Timelash was released to DVD in Region 4.

August

• AUDIO: Frozen Time was first released.
• PROSE: Nobody's Children was first published.
• Doctor Who received the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, for the episode TV: The Girl in the Fireplace, written by Steven Moffat. Also nominated in this category were the episodes TV: School Reunion and the two-parter TV: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday. Also nominated in this category was "200", an episode of Stargate SG-1, and "Downloaded", an episode of Battlestar Galactica.
• 03 - Problems with the script for TV: The Fires of Pompeii led to Russell T Davies considering replacing it with a previously aborted Second World War-era story by Mark Gatiss.
• 04 - Russell T Davies began work on a major rewrite of James Moran's script for TV: The Fires of Pompeii.
• 06 - TV: Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity were released to DVD in the UK in a two-disc set.
• 07 - The first cast read-throughs for TV: Planet of the Ood and TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp took place.
• Early August - Colin Teague and Phil Collinson visited the Cinecitta Studios in Rome, Italy, as the Doctor Who production team considered filming part of TV: The Fires of Pompeii in Rome -- the first time major filming for a DW TV episode had been conducted outside the UK since 1985. Cinecitta was the home studio of another BBC production, Rome.
• 09 - Around the time Teague and Collinson were in Rome, the Cinecitta Studios were heavily damaged in a fire.
• 14 - The North American DVD release of TV: Robot and Survival took place.
• 16 - PROSE: Child of Time was first published. It was the eleventh and, to date, final novel in the Time Hunter series.
• 17 - George Giles (the Guard Captain in TV: The Curse of Peladon) died.
• 20 - The DVD Doctor Who Series 3 Volume 4 was released in the UK, concluding the "vanilla" releases of episodes from Series 3. This release included the complete finale trilogy of TV: Utopia, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords.
• 21 - Russell T Davies hatched the idea of creating a false edit of TV: Partners in Crime for media/review distribution to hide a surprise cameo by Billie Piper as Rose Tyler.
• 23 - Plans for the return of Rose Tyler in Series 4 were jeopardised when it was learned that Billie Piper was planning on getting married at the end of 2007, and might not be available for filming.
• 25 - Kylie Minogue and a Dalek took part in a cover-photo shoot for Doctor Who Magazine.
• 30 - Russell T Davies began writing the script for TV: Partners in Crime, the first episode of Series 4.
• 31 - Due to a premature announcement by the Royal Shakespeare Company (see 3rd September, below), Doctor Who's producers informed their staff that the fifth series would not go into production until 2009, save for a few interim specials.
• David Tennant switched on the illuminations in Blackpool before a crowd of tens of thousands. He was accompanied by Julie Gardner and Phil Collinson. The somewhat manic race through traffic-clogged motorways to get to the event was immortalised in one of Tennant's video diaries which was subsequently released in the Series 4 DVD set.

September

• PROSE: Forever Autumn, PROSE: Sick Building and PROSE: Wetworld were first published.
• AUDIO: Son of the Dragon was first released.
• AUDIO: 100 was first released.
• AUDIO: The End of the World - a Bernice Summerfield audio drama not to be confused with the 2005 Doctor Who episode of the same title - was first released
• 3 - The BBC officially announced that Series 5 of Doctor Who would not air until 2010. According to Russell T Davies the announcement was originally to have been made prior to an 11th September press conference by the Royal Shakespeare Company announcing David Tennant's appearance in Hamlet in the fall of 2008, but the release of an RSC brochure in late August required an immediate announcement.
• 3 - TV: The Time Warrior was released to DVD in the UK.
• 3 - BBC Audio launched a series of audio releases adapting Target Books novelisations. These recordings, virtually unabridged, featured (for the most part) veteran cast members reading the long-out-of-print books. The first releases were PROSE: Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters and PROSE: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon.
• 3 - AUDIO: Doctor Who at the BBC: The Tenth Doctor, a radio documentary presented by Elisabeth Sladen, was first released on CD by BBC Audio.
• 4 - The cast read-through for TV: The Fires of Pompeii took place.
• 6 - Russell T Davies revealed to Benjamin Cook that, despite previous scheduling conflicts, Billie Piper would return as Rose Tyler in TV: Partners in Crime and Series 4.
• 6 - Russell T Davies completed his initial draft of TV: Partners in Crime.
• 13 - Filming began on TV: The Fires of Pompeii at the Cinecitta Studios in Rome, the first time, save the 1996 telefilm and second-unit filming on TV: Daleks in Manhattan, that major shooting for a regular episode had taken place outside the UK since 1985's TV: The Two Doctors was filmed in Spain.
• 23 - The American animated series Family Guy broadcasted the episode "Blue Harvest", a nearly scene-by-scene parody of Star Wars: A New Hope. A joke involving hyperspace featured a brief clip of the classic mid-1970s opening sequence of Doctor Who featuring Tom Baker and a few bars of the Doctor Who theme. This was the first time any footage from the Tom Baker era, or the classic Delia Derbyshire arrangement of the theme, had appeared on an American commercial network. The episode, with DW clip intact, was released to DVD in North America in early 2008.
• 24 - TV: Revenge of the Slitheen was first broadcast, launching the first full season of The Sarah Jane Adventures (following the pilot episode, TV: Invasion of the Bane, which had aired months earlier). This was the first half-hour episode produced by the televised Doctor Who franchise since episode 3 of TV: Survival in 1989.
• 24 - Nearly five years after it was released to DVD in North America (Region 1), the complete Key to Time season was finally released in Region 2 (UK). This version, issued in a somewhat limited release, included featurettes and other extra features not included in the 2002 version. This was the first UK release of a complete classic series season in one set. The episodes were TV: The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll and The Armageddon Factor.
• 27 - Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner decided to reject a script by Tom MacRae which was planned for Series 4. Davies took on the job of writing a replacement, which ultimately became TV: Midnight.
• 28 - Steven Moffat informed Russell T Davies that he agreed to take over the executive producer/head writer's position when Davies left.

October

• AUDIO: Absolution was first released.
• AUDIO: Mother Russia was first released.
• AUDIO: Dalek Empire IV: The Fearless: Part 1 was first released, launching Big Finish Productions' fourth Dalek Empire mini-series, three years after the third.
• AUDIO: The Final Amendment was first released.
• REF: The Target Book: A History of the Target Doctor Who Books was first published.
• 1 - TV: Eye of the Gorgon part 1 was first broadcast.
• 2 - The cast read-through for TV: Partners in Crime took place.
• 3 - TV: The Time Warrior was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 7 - Production of the Children in Need mini-episode, TV: Time Crash, featuring the return of Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, took place in Cardiff. Russell T Davies was drawn away from working on scripts to attend the filming.
• 8 - TV: Eye of the Gorgon part 2 was first broadcast.
• 10 - With production of TV: Partners in Crime now under way, Russell T Davies realised how ill Howard Attfield, playing Geoff Noble, was and began to consider how to work this into the season, given the character was supposed to appear in several episodes. A few days later, Davies considered filming Attfield's scenes in the as-yet-unwritten TV: Turn Left as soon as possible, along with his scenes in Partners in Crime.
• Mid-October - British media leaked the news that Billie Piper would be returning to Doctor Who.
• 13 - Russell T Davies began writing the script for Crusader Five, later renamed Crusader 50 as at the time it was going to be the fiftieth episode of the revived Doctor Who. The script was later retitled TV: Midnight.
• 15 - TV: Warriors of Kudlak part 1 was first broadcast.
• 15 - An injury forced Howard Attfield to pull out of production of TV: Partners in Crime after filming only a few of his planned scenes. Phil Collinson suggested hiring Bernard Cribbins as a last-minute replacement, and Russell T Davies retconned the newspaper seller Cribbins played in TV: Voyage of the Damned as Donna Noble's grandfather, Wilfred Mott.
• 15 - TV: Planet of Evil is released to DVD in the UK.
• 18 - Russell T Davies completed the initial draft of Crusader 50, later called TV: Midnight.
• 19 - The cast read-through for TV: The Sontaran Stratagem/ The Poison Sky took place.
• 21 - Doctor Who director Peter Moffatt died.
• 22 - TV: Warriors of Kudlak part 2 was first broadcast.
• 22 - Piers Wenger was interviewed as a possible replacement for Julie Gardner when she stepped down as producer after the 2009 Specials were filmed.
• 27 - Russell T Davies began writing the script for TV: Turn Left.
• 29 - TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? part 1 was first broadcast.
• TV: Invasion of the Bane was released by itself on DVD in the UK. This was the only episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, to date, to be released on its own in a "vanilla" edition.
• 31 - Howard Attfield, who played Geoff Noble in TV: The Runaway Bride, died only two weeks after pulling out of production of TV: Partners in Crime.
• Doctor Who won Most Popular Drama and David Tennant won Most Popular Actor at the 2007 National Television Awards.

November

• AUDIO: The Mind's Eye and AUDIO: Mission of the Viyrans were first released. Mission of the Viyrans was a single-episode bonus story included with The Mind's Eye.
• AUDIO: Helicon Prime was first released.
• AUDIO: Dalek Empire IV: The Fearless: Part 2 was first released.
• PROSE: Old Friends was first published.
• PROSE: Missing Adventures was first published.
• 01 - PROSE: Invasion of the Bane, PROSE: Revenge of the Slitheen, PROSE: Eye of the Gorgon and PROSE: Warriors of Kudlak were all first published. These novelisations, based upon episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures, were the first releases by Penguin Character Books and marked the first major release of televised story novelisations since the Target Books line was retired in 1994 (notwithstanding a few one-off Doctor Who releases between 1994 and 2005). Invasion of the Bane was Terrance Dicks' first TV novelisation since PROSE: Doctor Who - The Space Pirates some two decades earlier.
• 05 - TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? part 2 was first broadcast.
• The complete Third Series of Doctor Who was released in a DVD box set in the UK.
• TV: The Infinite Quest, an animated Tenth Doctor serial produced for Totally Doctor Who, was released to DVD in the UK. To date this has been the only DVD release of material from Totally Doctor Who.
• AUDIO: The Thirteenth Stone and AUDIO: The Glittering Storm, two original made-for-audio The Sarah Jane Adventures stories, were released by BBC Audio.
• Audio adaptations of PROSE: Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion and PROSE: Doctor Who and the Giant Robot were first released. The latter was read by Tom Baker and featured his first performance as the Fourth Doctor since his cameo in NOTDWU: Dimensions in Time.
• 06 - TV: Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity were released to DVD in Region 1. Unlike the UK release, the two stories were issued separately rather than as a set.
• The complete Third Series of Doctor Who was released in a DVD box set in North America (Region 1).
• 07 - The complete Key to Time season was released to DVD in Region 4. The episodes were TV: The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll and The Armageddon Factor.
• 12 - TV: The Lost Boy part 1 was first broadcast.
• 16 - TV: Time Crash, a mini-episode set between TV: Last of the Time Lords and TV: Voyage of the Damned, was first broadcast as part of the 2007 Children in Need appeal. Discounting NOTDWU: Dimensions in Time, Peter Davison made his first appearance as the Doctor since 1984's TV: The Caves of Androzani. It was the first multi-Doctor television story since TV: The Two Doctors. It was the final use of the Doctor Who theme arrangement by Murray Gold introduced in 2005.
• 19 - TV: The Lost Boy part 2 was first broadcast, concluding the first season of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• The complete First Series of Torchwood was released in a DVD box set in the UK.
• 22 - Verity Lambert, first producer of Doctor Who, died of cancer.
• 23 - Cast read-throughs for TV: The Doctor's Daughter, TV: Midnight, and TV: Turn Left took place.
• 26 - TV: Destiny of the Daleks was released to DVD in the UK.
• BBC Video released the box set The Complete Davros Collection including the previously released stories TV: Genesis of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks, and a new edition of TV: Remembrance of the Daleks. This marked the first time a previously released story was revisited on DVD with new features and restoration work.
• The Davros DVD set also included AUDIO: The Davros Mission, a single-episode audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions, as a bonus feature.
• 28 - Tony Holland, who played the Third Assistant in TV: The Savages, died.
• 29 - Simultaneous filming of TV: Midnight and TV: Turn Left was now underway, marking Billie Piper's return to Doctor Who production. During this time, she filmed her cameo for TV: Partners in Crime, as well as a short appearance originally intended only for Midnight but later also added to TV: The Poison Sky.

December

• PROSE: Wishing Well, PROSE: The Pirate Loop and PROSE: Peacemaker were first published.
• AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was was first released.
• AUDIO: Old Soldiers was first released.
• PROSE: Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas was first published.
• AUDIO: Dalek Empire IV: The Fearless: Part 3 was first released.
• IDW Publishing, an American comic book company, launched Doctor Who Classics, a monthly series of colourised reprints of Fourth Doctor comic strips from the early days of Doctor Who Weekly. This was in advance of the launch of a new original Tenth Doctor monthly series scheduled to begin in early 2008.
• 01 - The BBC's Doctor Who website launched the 2007 Advent Calendar. Each day between the 1st and 24th, a different item was uploaded to the site, ranging from exclusive video and games to original fiction.
• 02 - PROSE: The Frozen, an exclusive-to-Internet Doctor Who short story, was published on the 2007 Doctor Who Advent Calendar, a special feature on the BBC's Doctor Who website.
• 05 - BBC Video cancelled plans to release the Special Edition TV: Remembrance of the Daleks to DVD in North America in March 2008; clearance issues (presumably regarding the use of a Beatles song on the soundtrack) were cited as the reason. The DVD was eventually announced for a 2010 release, with the Beatles song removed. The announcement resulted in the North American release of The Complete Davros Collection being cancelled, although the other stories in the set remained available as individual releases.
• TV: Planet of Evil was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 07 - The BBC announced that Julie Gardner would end her tenure as executive producer of Doctor Who in 2009, with Piers Wenger succeeding her.
• 10 - Russell T Davies began writing the script for TV: The Stolen Earth. That same day, Steven Moffat began a dialogue with Davies regarding the changeover in producing regime and the start of Series 4.
• 15 - Catherine Tate let slip on the Jonathan Ross radio show the incorrect news that Series 4 would be David Tennant's last. This was followed by a similarly erroneous (or at least premature) report by BBC News.
• 18 - The press launch for TV: Voyage of the Damned took place.
• 22 - A Christmas-themed Doctor Who short story, PROSE: The Hopes and Fears of All the Years, was published on the Telegraph.co.uk website.
• 25 - TV: Voyage of the Damned, the third Doctor Who Christmas special, was first broadcast, introducing a new arrangement of the theme music, once again by Murray Gold. Bernard Cribbins, a Doctor Who veteran dating back to the 1960s film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., made his debut as Wilfred Mott, who became a recurring character in the next series. Much attention was given to the special's guest star, pop superstar Kylie Minogue.
• 31 - Russell T Davies completed the initial draft of TV: The Stolen Earth.

Unknown dates

• Keith Ashley died.
• Early winter - Doctor Who was nominated in the "Favourite Sci-Fi Show" category for the 2008 People's Choice Awards, to be presented in January 2008 on the CBS network. This was the first mainstream American award nomination for the series (which previously was only nominated for awards in genre awards such as the Hugos). The award winner was determined by an Internet poll, and the award ultimately went to Stargate Atlantis.
• As production began on Series 4, news leaked out that Billie Piper would return as Rose Tyler, including images of her filming scenes for the series. Initially denied by the BBC, this was later confirmed (with the BBC including her in a cinema trailer distributed prior to the season premiere in 2008). Piper filmed scenes for four episodes and a brief piece of footage that was added to two others.