2005

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The year 2005 was most significant for being the year when central London on Earth was attacked by the Nestene Consciousness. (DW: 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)

Events

January

  • 01 - Rose Tyler encountered a man who predicted that she would have a great year ahead. Unknown to her, he was the 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 TARDIS, encouraged by a vision of Ood Sigma. After dematerializing the TARDIS, he regenerated into his eleventh incarnation and began to crash the TARDIS due to the difficulty of the regeneration. (DW: The End of Time)
Since the regeneration occurred after the Doctor dematerialised the TARDIS, it was unclear whether this event actually occurred on 1st January 2005.

February

March

  • 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)
  • 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, was abducted by Autons and replaced with an 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)
  • Wednesday (exact date unknown) - Rose called her mother, 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), 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

Unknown dates

  • The FLIPback Project began at the Snowcap Base at Earth's South Pole, at the same time that Cybermen left over from the attack on Earth in 1986 again became active. (NA: Iceberg)
  • London police, including DI Billy Shipton, began investigating the disappearance of several people who visited an abandoned house called Wester Drumlins. The police began collecting as evidence the vehicles left abandoned by those who disappeared, at one point taking a police box from the scene. (DW: Blink)
  • For most of 2005, Mickey Smith lived with accusations he kidnapped or killed Rose Tyler. He was taken in for police questioning about her disappearance five times from early 2005 to early 2006. Mickey took over the "Who was Doctor Who?" website. Jackie Tyler fueled the mistrust of him around the Powell Estate with a "whisper campaign". For Jackie, the year wasn't spent just accusing Smith. It was also a year in which she devoted 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 an alien parasite, who released deadly gas during the operation, killing Katie and the scientists. Owen encountered Captain Jack Harkness, who recovered Katie's brain and erased the video evidence of what had happened. (TW: Fragments)

Other timelines

See Pete's World.

Behind the scenes

January

February

  • 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.
  • 03 - DW: Ghost Light was released to DVD in Region 4.
  • 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 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.
  • 10 - Leonard Trolley (Supt. Reynolds in DW: The Faceless Ones) died in England.
  • 11 - The Doctor Who Information Network (DWIN), the main Canadian Doctor Who fan club, launches its News Blog website.
  • 16 - The TARDIS Index File Wikia website was launched.

March

April

  • 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.
  • 2 - DW: The End of the World was first broadcast.
  • 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.[source needed]
  • 7 - DW: Horror of Fang Rock was released to DVD in Region 4.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 21 - THN: Echoes was first published.
  • 23 - DW: World War Three was first broadcast.
  • 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.
  • 30 - DW: Dalek was first broadcast. The Daleks 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.[source needed]

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Unknown dates

  • 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.[source needed] 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.
  • Following the conclusion of the 2005 Doctor Who series, the BBC announces it had commissioned the franchise's first spin-off 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.[source needed]

Footnotes