2005

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The year 2005 was most significant for being the year in which the Doctor met Rose Tyler, and the year he said his final farewell to her before regenerating. (DW: Rose, The End of Time). From Rose's perspective, it was mostly a "lost" year — one which she failed to experience past a spring encounter with the Nestene Consciousness. The Doctor's inability to precisely control his TARDIS meant that after her initial journey in the TARDIS, she resumed her life in the 2000s from spring 2006 forward. (DW: Aliens of London)

Events

History of Doctor Who Universe

January

Since the regeneration occurred after the Doctor dematerialised the TARDIS, it is unclear whether the event actually occurred on 1 January 2005.

February

March

  • Monday (exact date unknown) - The Doctor is in London pursuing the Nestene Consciousness. His investigations take him to the Henrik's department store where he saves Rose Tyler from an Auton attack. He then blows up the building. (DW: Rose)
  • Tuesday (exact date unknown) - With the help of his new companion Rose Tyler, the the Doctor stops a third attempt to conquer Earth by the Nestene Consciousness, recently reduced from a marauding race of conquerors to desperate refugees by the Last Great Time War. Rose joins the Doctor on his travels. (DW: Rose)
    • Clive Finch's website "Who is Doctor Who?", dedicated to uncovering the mystery of a man seen in historical photographs going back more than a century, is left without a webmaster when Clive is killed by Autons. (DW: Rose)
  • Wednesday (exact date unknown) - Rose contacts her mother Jackie from the year 5,000,000,000 using the superphone and makes a brief return trip to her own time (DW: The End of the World), but thereafter she disappears until 2006. After this time her boyfriend, Mickey Smith, is initially held as a suspect in her possible murder; Mickey subsequently takes over running the "Who is Doctor Who?" website. (DW: Aliens of London)
  • Some time after this, London, cabs are replaced with motorcycles in an attempt to relieve the increasing traffic congestion (NA: Cat's Cradle: Warhead)

June

Unknown date

  • The FLIPback Project begins at the Snowcap Base at Earth's South Pole, at the same time that Cybermen left over from the attack on Earth in 1986 once more become active. (NA: Iceberg)
  • London police, including DI Billy Shipton, begin investigating the disappearance of a number of people who visited an old abandoned house called Wester Drumlins. The police begin collecting as evidence the vehicles left abandoned by the disappeared, at one point obtaining a police box from the scene. The case would remain unsolved until 2007. (DW: Blink)
  • For most of 2005, Mickey Smith lived with accusations that he had kidnapped or killed Rose Tyler. He was taken in for police questioning about Rose's disappearance five times from early 2005 to early 2006. Jackie Tyler fueled the mistrust of Smith around the Powell Estate by starting a "whisper campaign" against him. For Jackie, though, 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)

History of Doctor Who

January

February

  • PDA: Match of the Day is first published. Final BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel to feature the Fourth Doctor and, as of 2009, this is the most recent original Fourth Doctor novel. The PDA series is suspended until July to allow for the premiere and broadcast of the first season of the revived series.
  • BFA:The Game is first released.
  • 03 - DW: Ghost Light is 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 makes reference to the Daleks and the TARDIS. The sketch is widely circulated among SF fandom, in part via the recently introduced video-sharing website, YouTube. In the coming years, YouTube would become 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) dies 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 is launched.

March

  • BFA: Dreamtime is first released.
  • ST: Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins is first published.
  • BFU: The Longest Night is first released.
  • This month, promotion for the upcoming return of Doctor Who to television enters high gear.
  • 01 - DW: The Visitation and The Green Death is released to DVD in Region 1.
    • As early reviews of the new Doctor Who series begin to appear, IGN Filmforce reports that the American cable broadcaster Sci-Fi Channel, considered the most likely US broadcast home for the series, has chosen not to purchase it. Although there is talk of a related cable network, Universal HD, picking up the series, for the time being United States viewers will not be able to see the new series, with the exception of those close enough to Canada to receive the CBC broadcasts, which will now be the North American premiere of the series.
  • 07 - DW: The Mind Robber is released to DVD in the UK.
  • 08 - Big Finish Productions announces it have agreed a deal with Paul Cornell allowing the company to continue its range of Bernice Summerfield books and audio CDs for the next few years.
  • 09 - BBC Radio 4's Today runs a feature on the new series.
  • 12 - Whether by coincidence or by design (as the impending change of lead actor was already known behind the scenes), this week's cover of Radio Times features yet-to-be-announced Tenth Doctor actor David Tennant in a very Doctor-like pose promoting the mini-series Casanova - right next to a headline promoting the return of Doctor Who. This is the first of numerous Radio Times covers for Tennant over the next few years.
  • 22 - Project Who : Bigger on the Inside, the first episode of a two-part behind-the-scenes documentary on the return of Doctor Who, is first broadcast on BBC Radio 2 (later released on the CD Project: WHO?).
  • 23 - Billie Piper interviewed on The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1
  • 25 - Christopher Eccleston interviewed on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
  • 26 - DW: Rose is first broadcast, returning Doctor Who to television as a weekly series for the first time since 1989 and launching Series 1, aka Season 27. Christopher Eccleston debuts as the Ninth Doctor, along with Billie Piper as companion Rose Tyler.
    • In conjunction with the debut of the new series, BBC Three premieres its behind-the-scenes series, Doctor Who Confidential the same night. A new episode of Confidential follows the broacast of each new episode of Doctor Who.
    • The Doctor Who Story Broadcast on UK Gold.
    • Radio Times features Doctor Who on its cover. With the arrival of the news series, the Radio Times begins featuring the series on a more frequent basis (something not seen since the early 1970s).
  • 29 - Project Who: Reverse the Polarity, part 2 of the BBC Radio 2 documentary series, is first broadcast (later released on the CD Project: WHO?).
  • 30 - The BBC announces production to go ahead on a second series and a Christmas Special.
    • A publicity branch of the BBC prematurely announces that Christopher Eccleston will not be returning for a second series as the Doctor, citing his desire to not be typecast. This reason is immediately denied by Eccleston and the BBC ultimately retracts it (as of 2009 he has never confirmed his reason for leaving the role). In his 2008 book The Writer's Tale, Russell T Davies confirms that Eccleston's departure was intended to be kept secret until the final moments of DW: The Parting of the Ways.

April

  • BFA: Three's a Crowd is first released.
  • BFG: Lies is 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 is first broadcast.
  • 4 - The BBC retracts part of its 30th March announcement regarding the departure of Christopher Eccleston, indicting it had released the information with incorrect attribution and without the actor's consent.
  • 7 - DW: Horror of Fang Rock is released to DVD in Region 4.
  • 9 - DW: The Unquiet Dead is first broadcast. First appearance of the Rift; first revival-series story set in Wales; first appearance of Eve Myles in the Doctor Who franchise.
  • 16 - DW: Aliens of London is first broadcast. This episode is significant for reintroducing UNIT (last referenced on television in DW: Battlefield) and for 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 is first published.
  • 23 - DW: World War Three is first broadcast.
  • 25 - DW: The Claws of Axos is released to DVD in the UK; this is the first classic series DVD release in the UK since the revival of the series began.
  • 30 - DW: Dalek is 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 has 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 are promoted as the North American debut of the series, as no other broadcaster on the continent had yet picked up the revived series.
  • Christopher Eccleston becomes a Mencap charity ambassador.

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Unknown dates

  • Broadcast of the revived series in the United States is delayed when the American Sci-Fi Channel unexpectedly passes on picking up the series. Reasons cited in media and fan forums included the show being considered "too British" and concerns over the quality of the preview episodes seen. Sci-Fi eventually reverses its decision and the series is broadcast at a later date and the network subsequently picks up further seasons in a more timely manner.
  • Following the conclusion of the 2005 Doctor Who series, the BBC announces that it has commissioned the franchise's first full spin-off series, Torchwood, to debut in 2006 and star John Barrowman, reprising his role of Jack Harkness.
  • Fall: During production of the 2006 series, the media reports that Billie Piper will leave the series at the end of the season.
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