2011

Events

January

• The Tenza boy George supposedly had his eighth birthday. (DW: Night Terrors)

February

• The Eleventh Doctor dropped off Amy Pond and Rory Williams back in Leadworth. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut)

February - Spring

• Amy was abducted by Madame Kovarian and the Headless Monks so that her child could be used as a weapon against the Doctor after it was born. She was taken to Demons Run in the 52nd or 51st century . She was replaced by a ganger avatar of herself so that no one suspected anything. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War)
• The Doctor, Amy and Rory appeared in the apartment complex where the Tenza boy George lived in response to his psychic distress call. The Doctor sorted out the problems that were causing George's fears to physically manifest in the area and left him to grow up with his human parents. (DW: Night Terrors)

April

• 22: An 1103 year-old version of the Eleventh Doctor recruited, using numbered envelopes, a 909 year-old version of himself (1), River Song (2), Amy Pond and Rory Williams (3), and Canton Delaware (4). All except the 909 year-old Doctor arrived in Utah and met up with the Doctor. An astronaut appeared and killed the Doctor at 4:30pm MDT. After cremating him, River, Amy and Rory went to a diner where they encountered his 909 year-old self. They left in The Doctor's TARDIS to the Oval Office in 1969. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut)

July

• Doris Lethbridge-Stewart died in a boating accident. (EDA: The Shadows of Avalon)

Spring/Summer

• After 22nd April - After their daughter Melody was kidnapped on Demon's Run, Amy and Rory returned to Leadworth, awaiting the Doctor's return. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)

Late Summer

• Amy and Rory hailed the Eleventh Doctor by creating a crop circle spelling the word "Doctor". The Doctor stated he still hadn't found Melody. Shortly afterwards, Amy and Rory's friend Mels arrived, threatening the Doctor at gunpoint so that she could go to 1938 Berlin to kill Hitler. The Doctor complied. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)

Unknown dates

• Chloe Webber's father died. (DW: Fear Her)
• The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond landed in Manchester where they encountered the Alifabe. (DWAM: Sky Scraper)
• The Miracle occured. Oswald Danes survived his execution. Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond investigated the word "Torchwood". Captain Jack Harkness returned to Earth. Rex arrived in Wales to take Gwen and Jack, identified as Torchwood, to America. (TW: The New World)
• With Rex landing in Dulles and he and Esther having been framed, Rex and Esther were forced to escape the Central Intelligence Agency with Torchwood. Jack had discovered the Miracle made him mortal. (TW: Rendition)
• In Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, the new Torchwood looked into how PhiCorp related to the Miracle. Oswald Danes gained popularity and fame. (TW: Dead of Night, Escape to LA)
• Various world governments implemented the categories of life. Gwen went to Cowbridge Overflow Camp in an attempt to rescue her father, while Rex and Dr. Juarez went to San Pedro, were Dr. Juarez was burnt inside a module. (TW: The Categories of Life)
• Jack learnt that PhiCorp was in the dark about the Miracle, but Stuart Owens told Jack that his agents traced the phrase "The Blessing". The nature of the overflow camps were revealed, but they were not shut down. (TW: The Middle Men)
• Gwen, her family held hostage, took Jack to Olivia Colasanto, who revealed Angelo Colasanto had waited a long time for Jack and knew all about the Miracle. Gwen's family were later released. (TW: Immortal Sins)
• In the Colasanto Residence, Olivia told Jack of the Three Families. Angelo became the first recorded death after Miracle Day thanks to a null field generator. Gwen was deported to the United Kingdom and Esther and Jack escaped to UK after they rendered the generator useless for the CIA. The Earth's economy began to collapse. (TW: End of the Road, The Gathering)
• Jilly Kitzinger started working for the Three Families. Aided by Oswald Danes, Torchwood, reunited after two months, discovered more about the Blessing, tracing it to Buenos Aires and Shanghai. (TW: The Gathering)

Events

NOTE: This section includes announced and surmised events in the future; dates, events, and titles are subject to change.

January

• First release of the 2011 series of IDW Publishing's Doctor Who Ongoing comic book, featuring the adventures of the Eleventh Doctor.
• BFA: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster released.
• BFA: Prisoner of the Sun released.
• CC: Peri and the Piscon Paradox released.
• The second series of Jago and Litefoot is released.
• 10: anniversary of the return of Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor in the Big Finish Productions audio drama series.
• 10: DW: Meglos released on Region 2 DVD.
• 11: Production begins on the Fourth Series of Torchwood in LA
• 24: DW: A Christmas Carol released on Region 2 DVD. The set also contains Doctor Who at the Proms (2010).
• 31: DW: The Mutants released on Region 2 DVD.

February

• BFA: The Feast of Axos released, the first of a two-part story to be concluded with To the Death..
• BFA: Lucie Miller released.
• CC: The Perpetual Bond released.
• 14: DW: The Ark released on Region 2 DVD.
• 22: Nicholas Courtney (Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart) died.
• 28: Short Trips: Volume 2 released, again containing one story for each of the first Eight doctors.

March

• Release of Short Trips: Volume 3.
• BFA: Industrial Evolution released.
• CC: The Forbidden Time released.
• BFA: To the Death released, the sequel to last month's The Feast of Axos, and the final episode of the fourth series of The New Eighth Doctor Adventures.
• 07: DW: Kinda and Snakedance released on Region 2 DVD in the Mara Tales box set.
• 18: First broadcast of DW: Space and Time, two 2011 Comic Relief specials (comprising one story) written by Steven Moffat, and the first televised story to have no settings other than the TARDIS since DW: The Edge of Destruction (although technically Amy's Choice also took place entirely inside the ship.).
• 28: Release of second Revisitations DVD box set, comprising new editions of stories that were released early in the range and containing new special features. This release includes Carnival of Monsters, Resurrection of the Daleks and The Seeds of Death.

April

• BFA: Heroes of Sontar released.
• The Lost Stories: Thin Ice released.
• CC: The Sentinels of the New Dawn released.
• The Minister of Chance series begins with MC: The Pointed Hand
• 18: DW: Planet of the Spiders released on Region 2 DVD.
• 19: Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) dies of cancer.
• 23: DW: The Impossible Astronaut first broadcast on BBC One and BBC America, launching Series 6 of Doctor Who.
• 30: DW: Day of the Moon first broadcast.

May

• BFA: Kiss of Death released.
• CC: Ferril's Folly released.
• 07: DW: The Curse of the Black Spot first broadcast.
• 09: DW: Spearhead from Space and Terror of the Autons released on Region 2 DVD as part of the Mannequin Mania' box set.
• 14: DW: The Doctor's Wife first broadcast.
• 21: DW: The Rebel Flesh first broadcast.
• 28: DW: The Almost People first broadcast.
• 30: DW: Frontios released on Region 2 DVD.
• 31: The Lost Stories: Crime of the Century released.

June

• BFA: Rat Trap released.
• The Lost Stories: Animal released.
• CC: The Cold Equations, the last of the range's fifth series, released.
• The third series of Jago and Litefoot is released.
• 04: DW: A Good Man Goes to War broadcast. After this episode, Series 6 is scheduled to go on hiatus until later in the year, marking the longest mid-season hiatus in the series' history.
• 07: The BBC announces that they have commissioned a 2011 Christmas special, as well as Series 7, with Matt Smith remaining in the role of the Eleventh Doctor. Piers Wenger, however, will step down as Executive Producer and leave the BBC altogether.
• 15: The BBC, through BBC One controller Danny Cohen, confirms that the recently commissioned Series 7 will air over two years - 2012 and 2013 - although exact dates, and the consequences for the series, remain unknown.
• 20: DW: The Gunfighters and The Awakening are released on Region 2 DVD, compiled as the Earth Story box set. The release of The Awakening means that the entire Fifth Doctor era is on DVD.

July

• BFA: Robophobia released.
• The Lost Stories: Earth Aid released.
• CC: Tales from the Vault released.
• 8: The New World, the first episode of Series 4 of Torchwood (known as Miracle Day) first broadcast in the US, on cable network Starz.
• 11: Doctor Who - Series 6, Part 1 released on Region 2 DVD.
• 14: Torchwood: Miracle Day premiered in the UK, with the broadcast of the first episode, The New World.
• 15: TW: Rendition, first broadcast in the US.
• 18: DW: Paradise Towers released on Region 2 DVD.
• 19: Doctor Who - Series 6, Part 1 released on Region 1 DVD.
• 21: TW: Rendition first broadcast in the UK.
• 22: TW: Dead of Night first broadcast in the US.
• 24: Interviewed at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego, Karen Gillan confirms she will return for an unstated number of episodes in series 7.
• 28: TW: Dead of Night first broadcast in the UK.
• 29: TW: Escape to LA first broadcast in the US.

August

• BFA: Recorded Time and Other Stories released.
• CC: The Rocket Men released.
• 01: DW: The Sun Makers released on Region 2 DVD.
• 04: TW: Escape to LA first broadcast in the UK.
• 04: Doctor Who - Series 6, Part 1 released on Region 4 DVD.
• 05: TW: The Categories of Life first broadcast in the US.
• 11: TW: The Categories of Life first broadcast in the UK.
• 12: TW: The Middle Men first broadcast in the US.
• 18: TW: The Middle Men first broadcast in the UK.
• 19: TW: Immortal Sins first broadcast in the US.
• 25: TW: Immortal Sins first broadcast in the UK.
• 26: TW: End of the Road first broadcast in the US.
• 27: DW: Let's Kill Hitler first broadcast in the UK and US, beginning the second half of the sixth series.
• 31: Short Trips: Volume 4 released.

September

• BFA: The Doomsday Quatrain released.
• BFA: House of Blue Fire scheduled for release.
• CC: The Memory Cheats scheduled for release.
• 1: TW: End of the Road first broadcast in the UK.
• 2: TW: The Gathering first broadcast in the US.
• 3: DW: Night Terrors first broadcast.
• 8: TW: The Gathering scheduled to air in the UK.
• 9: TW: The Blood Line scheduled to air in the US, ending the show's fourth series.
• 10: DW: The Girl Who Waited scheduled to air.
• 13: DW: Day of the Daleks scheduled for release on Region 2 DVD.
• 15: TW: The Blood Line scheduled to air in the UK.
• 17: DW: The God Complex scheduled to air.
• 24: DW: Closing Time scheduled to air.

October

• Anticipated premiere of Series 5 of The Sarah Jane Adventures. These will be the final six episodes, due to the death of Elisabeth Sladen.
• BFA: The Silver Turk scheduled for release.
• The Lost Stories: The Elite scheduled for release.
• CC: The Many Deaths of Jo Grant scheduled for release.
• 1: DW: The Wedding of River Song scheduled to air in the UK and US, bringing to a close the sixth series.
• 1: A special episode of Doctor Who, Death Is The Only Answer is scheduled to air. This is a three-minute 'mini episode' written by schoolchildren from Basingstoke, who won a Doctor Who Confidential competition.
• 3: DW: Colony in Space scheduled for release on Region 2 DVD
• 22: Fifth anniversary of the debut of Torchwood.
• 31: Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures scheduled for release on Region 2 DVD.

November

• BFA: The Witch from the Well scheduled for release.
• The Lost Stories: Hexagora scheduled for release.
• CC: The First Wave scheduled for release.
• 14: Torchwood: Miracle Day scheduled for release on Region 2 DVD.

December

• BFA: Army of Death scheduled for release.
• The Lost Stories: The Children of Seth scheduled for release.
• CC: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure scheduled for release.
• 25: The broadcast date of the 2011 Christmas Special for Doctor Who.