2023

2023 in

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2023 was a year.

Events

Dated

On Easter, Mrs Flood, according to her, did a fun run in 25 minutes flat. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])

In late November, (PROSE: The Star Beast ^[+]Loading...["The Star Beast (novelisation)"]) The Meep crashed their ship into Millson Wagner Steelworks, evading the Wrath Warriors chasing the Meep by exploiting Rose Noble's kindness. Controlling UNIT soldiers using a psychedelic sun, the Meep plotted to repair the ship to again menace the universe. The Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble prevented the Meep from leaving Earth, destroying London in the Meep's wake, and enabled the Meep's arrest by the Wrarth Warriors. (TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])

Days after the Meep's arrest, the satellite KOSAT 5 was launched. Although this brought all of humanity online, it also triggered a waveform the Toymaker had subliminally embedded with an arpeggio through Stooky Bill's giggle that caused every human to believe that they alone were right. Supported by UNIT to stop the ensuing chaos, the Doctor and Donna learned of the Toymaker's involvement and traveled to 1925 London to confront him.

The Toymaker arrived in 2023 just after the duo returned and turned UNIT personnel into his playthings. Unable to convince him to leave the Earth alone, the Doctor demanded the Toymaker finish their game. The Toymaker shot the Doctor with UNIT's galvanic beam, assuming he would regenerate into a third Doctor to play a third round, and was shocked when he instead bi-generated into the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors. The Doctors challenged the Toymaker to a game of catch and upon triumphing, banished him from existence, forever folded into a salt-surrounded box in a UNIT vault deep underground. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

On 1 December, Davina McCall took an interview from Ruby Sunday for a television show, offering to help Ruby find her relatives if possible using DNA. Goblins caused a series of accidents during the interview. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])

On 22 December, Ruby Sunday was performing at a concert when a Goblin unplugged her keyboard. This was observed by the Fifteenth Doctor. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])

On 23 December, Ruby Sunday was having a night out at a nightclub when a Goblin deliberately knocked over her drink. This was caught by the Fifteenth Doctor, who later saved a woman from a Christmas decoration collapsing on her, again triggered by a Goblin. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])

On 24 December, the Seventh Doctor and Ace visited a Los Angeles toy shop. (PROSE: Instead of You)

On the same day, Ruby Sunday, now living in London with her foster mother and grandmother, commemorated her ninteenth birthday by saving her foster sister Lulubelle from being eaten by the Goblin King, with assistance from the Fifteenth Doctor. After the Goblins were defeated, she stepped inside the TARDIS for the first time. Earlier in the day, Davina McCall contacted her to inform her that she was unable to locate her birth parents. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])

Ruth Lyons told Carla Sunday that she could return Lulubelle on Thursday 28 December, around ten o'clock. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])

Undated

By this time, dyslexia had reliable remedies. (PROSE: Artificial Intelligence)

Helen Thomson cured a number of childhood diseases and won an Outstanding Citizen Award in 2023. (PROSE: The Little Things)

Demeter Glauss's Cybercrime: An Analysis of Hacking was published in 2023. (PROSE: Millennial Rites)

Dodo Chaplet, who came from the 1960s, noticed people in London were wearing face masks, which the First Doctor told her was a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AUDIO: The Demon Song)

Births and deaths

On 24 December, Lulubelle was born. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

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The Eurovision Song Contest was held in the United Kingdom. (TV: 2023: The Eurovision Audition Tapes ^[+]Loading...["2023: The Eurovision Audition Tapes (TV story)"])