2007

History of the Doctor Who Universe

January

• 31 - The SS Elysium arrives safely in Panama, its passengers and crew having endured an attack by Cybermen just weeks earlier. One passenger, artist Michael Brack, is airlifted to hospital for treatment for hypothermia suffered during the attack. He misses his chance to tell Ruby Duvall that he is the man responsible for her father's paralysis. (NA: Iceberg)

Unknown dates

• An "Arms for Humanity" concert is held to raise money for the Preserve our Planet Fund. (NA: Iceberg)
• Krillitanes attempt to solve the Skasas Paradigm using the imagination of the children at Deffry Vale High School. Sarah Jane Smith's pet, K-9 Mark III, is destroyed and replaced by K-9 Mark IIIb (DW: School Reunion). The Doctor has hidden several gifts inside a panel in K-9 Mark IV: Sonic lipstick and a wristwatch for detecting alien life for Sarah Jane to find and use later. (Sarah Jane Smith website, SJA: Invasion of the Bane)

February

• 1 - The Doctor, Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith arrive in a parallel universe that the Doctor's TARDIS is catapulted into while travelling through the Time Vortex. The TARDIS is nearly destroyed by the impact. The Doctor gives away 10 years of his life to repair the TARDIS. The alternate universe's Cybermen are created by John Lumic and attack the United Kingdom. After meeting his parallel counterpart Ricky Smith and being inspired by his example, Mickey decides to stay in the alternate universe to take the late Ricky's place and help fight the Cybermen. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel)

February - March

• LINDA is given its name by Elton Pope, then is eventually destroyed when the Abzorbaloff (alias Victor Kennedy) absorbs all but one member, Elton, one by one each Saturday. (DW: Love & Monsters)
• Mr Saxon arrives on Earth arround this time

June or July

• The Battle of Canary Wharf. (DW: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday) The partial cyber-conversion of Lisa Hallett happens during this event. (TW: Cyberwoman)

August

• Torchwood 3 member Suzie Costello dies. Gwen Cooper joins Torchwood 3. (TW: Everything Changes)
• On her first day of work, Gwen helps the team defeat an alien entity. (TW; Day One)

August - December

• The new Torchwood 3 team (new in the sense that it is different due to one member being replaced) saves the Earth - at least Cardiff - several more times. (TW: Ghost Machine through Out of Time)

• Sometime during this period, Suzie Costello was resurrected for a short period by Gwen before eventually being killed again. (DW: They Keep Killing Suzie)

December

• 18 - Diane Holmes, Emma-Louise Cowell and John Ellis arrive from 1953 through the Cardiff rift. (TW: Out of Time)

• 24 - Diane flies through the rift, Emma leaves from Cardiff to London and John commits suicide, all against the wishes of the Torchwood 3 team (TW: Out of Time).

• • H.C. Clements is eaten by the Racnoss Empress, whose plan to release her children from their ship in the centre of the Earth is foiled by the Doctor that evening. Mr Saxon orders that the Webstar, which appeared over the skies of London during this incident, be shot down. (DW: The Runaway Bride) As a result of the Webstar/Christmas Star inclident, and the Sycorax incident the previous Christmas, London's populace voluntarily chooses to evacuate the city for Christmas 2008.

Unknown

• Sally Sparrow receives a bizarre message addressed to her from the Doctor in 1969 while investigating an old house. Sparrow learns of the Weeping Angels and during the course of the adventure her friend Kathy Nightingale is transported back to 1920, and a policeman named Billy Shipton is sent back to 1969. Sparrow encounters an elderly Shipton, who dies soon after revealing that he is responsible for adding a cryptic message from the Doctor to a number of DVDs. Ultimately, Sparrow stops the Weeping Angels from capturing the TARDIS and with the help of Larry Nightingale sends the vessel back to 1969. (DW: Blink)

History of Doctor Who

January

• Circular Time is first released.
• 1 - Captain Jack Harkness, End of Days, and Invasion of the Bane are first broadcast.

February

• Nocturne is first released.

March

• Renaissance of the Daleks is first released.
• 31 - Smith and Jones is first broadcast.

April

• Sting of the Zygons, The Last Dodo, and Wooden Heart are first published.
• I.D. / Urgent Calls is first released.
• 7 - The Shakespeare Code is first broadcast.
• 14 - Gridlock is first broadcast.
• 21 - Daleks in Manhattan is first broadcast.
• 28 - Evolution of the Daleks is first broadcast.

May

• Exotron / Urban Myths is first released.
• 5 - The Lazarus Experiment is first broadcast.
• 19 - 42 is first broadcast.
• 26 - Human Nature is first broadcast.

June

• Valhalla is first released.
• 2 - The Family of Blood is first broadcast.
• 9 - Blink is first broadcast.
• 16 - Utopia is first broadcast.
• 23 - The Sound of Drums is first broadcast.
• 30 - Last of the Time Lords is first broadcast.

July

• The Wishing Beast / The Vanity Box is first released.

August

• Frozen Time is first released.

September

• Son of the Dragon and 100 are first released.
• Forever Autumn, Sick Building, and Wetworld are first published.
• 24 - Revenge of the Slitheen is first broadcast.

October

• Absolution is first released.
• 1 - Eye of the Gorgon part 1 is first broadcast.
• 8 - Eye of the Gorgon part 2 is first broadcast.
• 15 - Warriors of Kudlak part 1 is first broadcast.
• 22 - Warriors of Kudlak part 2 is first broadcast.
• 29 - Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? part 1 is first broadcast.

November

• The Mind's Eye / Mission of the Viyrans is first released.
• 5 - Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? part 2 is first broadcast.
• 12 - The Lost Boy part 1 is first broadcast.
• 16 - Time Crash is first broadcast.
• 19 - The Lost Boy part 2 is first broadcast.

December

• Wishing Well, The Pirate Loop, and Peacemaker are first published.
• The Girl Who Never Was is first released.
• 25 - Voyage of the Damned is first broadcast.

Unknown dates

• Filming for The Fires of Pompeii takes place in Italy. Discounting second-unit filming done in New York City for Daleks in Manhattan, this is the first Doctor Who adventure substantially filmed outside the UK since Doctor Who: The TV Movie was filmed in Canada in 1996.

2006

21st century 2000s

2008