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2007

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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

February

February - March

June or July

c.Summer

July

August

August - December

December

Other timelines

See Donna's World.
See Pete's World.

Unknown dates

  • The discovery of a bizarre message encoded as an Easter Egg on 17 different DVD releases causes a flurry of interest on the Internet due to the cryptic nature of the message. The message, which appears to have been shot on film many years earlier, depicts a man with glasses conducting what appears to be a one-sided conversation with an unknown person, and he is occasionally interrupted by a young black woman. Among those interested in the message is London video store employee Larry Nightingale. One of the cryptic statements made, "The angels have the phone box", is made into a T-shirt design. Larry Nightingale begins intensively studying the message, much to the annoyance of his sister, Kathy Nightingale. (DW: Blink)
  • The Doctor and Martha Jones, following information provided to them by Sally Sparrow, investigate the Wester Drumlins estate near London, where by choice or accident they are touched by the Weeping Angels and transported to 1969; the TARDIS remains behind and is later taken into custody by London police. (DW: Blink; that this occurs in the same year as the events of Blink is conjecture, given that the Angels appear to only be recently interested in the TARDIS and Billy Shipton gives no indication that it's been in custody for long.)
  • Sally Sparrow receives a bizarre message addressed to her from someone called the Doctor in 1969 while investigating an old house called Wester Drumlins near London. 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, and the Easter Egg mystery is solved when Sally realizes the one-sided conversation is from the Doctor and directed at her. Ultimately, Sparrow stops the Weeping Angels from capturing the TARDIS and with the help of Larry Nightingale sends the vessel back to 1969. After this event, Sally and Larry take over the ownership of the DVD rental store where Larry works, turning it into a bookstore, but Sally remains distant from Larry as she awaits the final resolution of her involvement with the time-travelling Doctor. (DW: Blink)
  • Harriet Jones is removed from the post of Prime Minister (confirmed in DW: The Stolen Earth).

History of Doctor Who

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

  • The Wishing Beast / The Vanity Box is first released.
  • 7 - Freddie Earlle, who played the role of Aldo in Warriors' Gate, dies.
    • Doctor Who wins three trophies at the inaugural Constellation Awards, a Canadian-based honour recognizing the best in science fiction and presented during the annual Polaris SF convention. David Tennant wins Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode for The Girl in the Fireplace, while Doctor Who itself wins the overall Best Science Fiction Television Series category. Unusually, Doctor Who also receives the award for Outstanding Canadian Contribution to Science Fiction due to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation being a co-producer of the series.

August

September

  • Son of the Dragon first released.
  • 100 first released.
  • The End of the World - a Bernice Summerfield audio drama not to be confused with the 2005 Doctor Who episode of the same title, is released
  • Forever Autumn, Sick Building, and Wetworld are first published.
  • 23 - The American animated series Family Guy broadcasts the episode "Blue Harvest", a nearly scene-by-scene parody of Star Wars: A New Hope. A joke involving hyperspace features 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 is the first time any footage from the Tom Baker era, or the classic Delia Derbyshire arrangement of the theme, has appeared on an American commercial network. The episode, with DW clip intact, is released to DVD in North America in early 2008.
  • 24 - Revenge of the Slitheen is first broadcast, launching the first full season of The Sarah Jane Adventures (following the pilot episode, Invasion of the Bane which aired months earlier). This is the first half-hour episode produced by the televised Doctor Who franchise since episode 3 of Survival in 1989.

October

November

December

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  • 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.
  • Early winter - Doctor Who is nominated in the "Favorite Sci-Fi Show" category for the 2008 People's Choice Awards, to be presented in January 2008 on the CBS network. This is 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 goes to Stargate Atlantis.
  • As production begins on Series 4, news leaks out that Billie Piper would be returning to her role 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 films scenes for four episodes (two additional appearances are added using stock footage).
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