2011

Events

January

• The Tenza boy George had his (supposed) eighth birthday. (DW: Night Terrors)

February

• Following their honeymoon and an adventure in which the TARDIS materialised inside itself, the Eleventh Doctor dropped off Amy Pond and Rory Williams in Leadworth. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut)

Early 2011

• Amy was abducted from Leadworth by Madame Kovarian and the Headless Monks, so her child could be used as a weapon against the Doctor. She was taken to Demon's Run in the 52nd century and replaced by a ganger avatar of herself so no one suspected anything. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War)
• The Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory travelled to the apartment complex where the Tenza boy George lived in response to his psychic distress call. The Doctor sorted out the problems that were causing George's fears to physically manifest in the area and left him to grow up with his human parents. (DW: Night Terrors)
• Following an adventure on a prison ship that caged a Minotaur, the Eleventh Doctor parted from his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams, dropping them off at a new house with a new car. This took place prior to April 18, 2011, meaning that two versions of the couple existed at the same time in different parts of Britain. (DW: The God Complex, Closing Time)

April

• 18-21: At the conclusion of his "farewell tour", the Eleventh Doctor visited his old friend Craig Owens in Colchester at his new house, and met his infant son Alfie. Noticing strange power fluctuations in the area, the Doctor stayed toinvestigate. With Craig and Alfie's help, he uncovered and foiled a plot by Cybermen in a crashed spaceship beneath a local store. By this time, the version of Amy who had been dropped off by the Doctor following the prison ship incident had become a model for a perfume named Petrichor. The Doctor went to meet his destiny with a Stetson hat and blue envelopes provided by Craig. Three children (who, as adults, would provide testimony viewed by River Song at 52nd century Luna University) witness him leaving. (DW: Closing Time)
• 22: An eleven hundred and three year-old version of the Eleventh Doctor recruited, using numbered envelopes, a nine hundred and nine year-old version of himself (1), River Song (2), the versions of Amy Pond and Rory Williams living in Leadworth (3), and Canton Delaware (4). All except the younger Doctor arrived in Utah and met up with the Doctor. An earlier River Song appeared in an astronaut suit and seemingly killed the Doctor at 5:02pm MDT, but it was really the Teselecta in the Doctor's form with him inside. An alternate timeline briefly came into being when River exhausted the weaponry of the suit, but the timeline was restored. After cremating him, River, Amy and Rory went to a diner where they encountered his younger self. They left in the Doctor's TARDIS to the Oval Office in 1969. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut, The Wedding of River Song)
  • Some time after this, River Song, coming from the Crash of the Byzantium, appeared in the garden of Amy and Rory's new house and told them the truth about the Doctor's apparent death. This was the version of Amy and Rory that had parted ways with the Doctor after the prison ship, and they were aware of the aborted timeline created at 5:02pm MDT. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)

Spring/Summer

• After 22 April - After their daughter Melody was kidnapped on Demon's Run, Amy and Rory were returned to Leadworth by River Song. The two of them were left to await the Doctor's return. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)
• Sky was left on Sarah Jane Smith's doorstep by the Shopkeeper. After Miss Myers' plan to use her as a weapon against the Metalkind was foiled, Sarah Jane adopted Sky. (SJA: Sky)
• Clyde Langer fell victim to the curse of Hetocumtek. He later prevented Hetocumtek from escaping his prison. (SJA: The Curse of Clyde Langer)
• 15th, Unknown month: At the launch of the SerfBoard, Joseph Serf suddenly discredited his own product. In reality, Serf had died years ago, and he was just a simulation maintained by Skullion slaves as part of John Harrison's scheme. Luke and Sky took control of the fake Serf so he could tell people not to bother with the SerfBoard. (SJA: The Man Who Never Was)

July

• Doris Lethbridge-Stewart died in a boating accident. (EDA: The Shadows of Avalon)
• A blood bank in Buenos Aires, Argentina was burned to the ground. A day later, a blood bank in Shanghai, China was burned to the ground. (TW: The Gathering)
• Four days after the destruction of the Shanghai blood bank, at 3:36am GMT (10:36pm EST), Miracle Day occurred. Oswald Danes survived his execution. Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond investigated the word "Torchwood". Captain Jack Harkness had, by this time, returned to Earth. Rex arrived in Wales to extradite Gwen and Jack to America to question them about Torchwood. Jack discovered the Miracle had made him again mortal. (TW: The New World)
• A day after extradition began, en route to Washington Dulles International Airport, Jack Harkness survived an assassination attempt by a CIA agent. Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond, now framed as double agents of the Chinese government, escaped the CIA with the aid of Torchwood. (TW: Rendition)
• In Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, the new Torchwood looked into how PhiCorp related to the Miracle. Oswald Danes gained popularity and fame. (TW: Dead of Night, Escape to LA)
• Various world governments implemented the categories of life. Gwen went to Cowbridge Overflow Camp to try to rescue her father, while Rex and Dr. Juarez went to San Pedro Overflow Camp. Here, Dr. Juarez was burnt inside a module. (TW: The Categories of Life)
• Jack learnt that PhiCorp was in the dark about the Miracle, but Stuart Owens told Jack his agents had traced the phrase "The Blessing". The nature of the overflow camps were revealed, but they were not shut down. (TW: The Middle Men)
• Gwen, her family held hostage, took Jack to Olivia Colasanto, who revealed Angelo Colasanto had waited a long time for Jack and knew all about the Miracle. Gwen's family were later released. (TW: Immortal Sins)
• In the Colasanto residence, Olivia told Jack of the Three Families. Angelo became the first recorded death after Miracle Day thanks to a null field generator. Gwen was deported to the United Kingdom and Esther and Jack escaped to UK after they rendered the generator useless for the CIA. The Earth's economy began to collapse. (TW: End of the Road, The Gathering)

September

• Before 9 September - Jilly Kitzinger started working for the Three Families directly. Aided by Oswald Danes, the reunited Torchwood discovered more about the Blessing, tracing it to Buenos Aires and Shanghai. (TW: The Gathering)
  • Charlotte Wills was nearly exposed as a mole but slipped out of the CIA Watch office after bombing it, making Allen Shapiro and Noah Vickers Category 1. The Torchwood team reversed the effects of the Miracle by feeding the Blessing mortal blood from Jack Harkness and Rex Matheson (who had been transfused with Jack's blood). Esther Drummond was shot and killed, and Geraint Cooper and all other Category 1s finally passed away. Oswald detonated a bomb, killing himself and The Mother. (TW: The Blood Line)
• 9 - Kitzinger was recruited by the Families to work with them on "Plan B". Wills was exposed at Esther's funeral and shot Rex before being gunned down. Matheson discovered he was now immortal like Harkness. (TW: The Blood Line, date given on cellphone)

Early Autumn

• After waiting "all summer" for the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory drove through a field and summoned the the Eleventh Doctor by creating a crop circle-like message spelling out the word "Doctor". The Doctor stated he still hadn't found their daughter Melody. Shortly afterwards, Amy and Rory's friend Mels arrived to escape the police and force the Doctor to kill Hitler. With little choice, the Doctor complied with her demand to take them all to Berlin in the 1930s. The next day, a newspaper printed a story about the message. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)

Unknown dates

• Chloe Webber's father died. (DW: Fear Her)
• The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond landed in Manchester and they encounter the Alifabe. (DWA: Sky Scraper)
• Henry van Statten's scientists discovered the cure for the common cold from alien bacteria found inside "the Russian crater". (DW: Dalek)

Events

NOTE: This section includes announced and surmised events in the future; dates, events, and titles are subject to change.

January

• First release of the 2011 series of IDW Publishing's Doctor Who Ongoing comic book, featuring the adventures of the Eleventh Doctor.
• BFA: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster released.
• BFA: Prisoner of the Sun released.
• CC: Peri and the Piscon Paradox released.
• The second series of Jago and Litefoot is released.
• 10: anniversary of the return of Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor in the Big Finish Productions audio drama series.
• 10: DW: Meglos released on Region 2 DVD.
• 11: Production begins on the Fourth Series of Torchwood in LA
• 24: DW: A Christmas Carol released on Region 2 DVD. The set also contains Doctor Who at the Proms (2010).
• 31: DW: The Mutants released on Region 2 DVD.

February

• BFA: The Feast of Axos released.
• BFA: Lucie Miller released.This is the first of a two-part story to be concluded with To the Death..
• CC: The Perpetual Bond released.
• 14: DW: The Ark released on Region 2 DVD.
• 22: Nicholas Courtney (Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart) died.
• 28: Short Trips: Volume 2 released, again containing one story for each of the first Eight doctors.

March

• Release of Short Trips: Volume 3.
• BFA: Industrial Evolution released.
• CC: The Forbidden Time released.
• BFA: To the Death released, the sequel to last month's The Feast of Axos, and the final episode of the fourth series of The New Eighth Doctor Adventures.
• 07: DW: Kinda and Snakedance released on Region 2 DVD in the Mara Tales box set.
• 18: First broadcast of DW: Space and Time, two 2011 Comic Relief specials (comprising one story) written by Steven Moffat, and the first televised story to have no settings other than the TARDIS since DW: The Edge of Destruction (although technically Amy's Choice also took place entirely inside the ship.).
• 28: Release of second Revisitations DVD box set, comprising new editions of stories that were released early in the range and containing new special features. This release includes Carnival of Monsters, Resurrection of the Daleks and The Seeds of Death.

April

• BFA: Heroes of Sontar released.
• The Lost Stories: Thin Ice released.
• CC: The Sentinels of the New Dawn released.
• The Minister of Chance series begins with MC: The Pointed Hand
• 18: DW: Planet of the Spiders released on Region 2 DVD.
• 19: Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) dies of cancer.
• 23: DW: The Impossible Astronaut first broadcast on BBC One and BBC America, launching Series 6 of Doctor Who.
• 30: DW: Day of the Moon first broadcast.

May

• BFA: Kiss of Death released.
• CC: Ferril's Folly released.
• 07: DW: The Curse of the Black Spot first broadcast.
• 09: DW: Spearhead from Space and Terror of the Autons released on Region 2 DVD as part of the Mannequin Mania' box set.
• 14: DW: The Doctor's Wife first broadcast.
• 21: DW: The Rebel Flesh first broadcast.
• 28: DW: The Almost People first broadcast.
• 30: DW: Frontios released on Region 2 DVD.
• 31: The Lost Stories: Crime of the Century released.

June

• BFA: Rat Trap released.
• The Lost Stories: Animal released.
• CC: The Cold Equations, the last of the range's fifth series, released.
• The third series of Jago and Litefoot is released.
• 04: DW: A Good Man Goes to War broadcast. After this episode, Series 6 is scheduled to go on hiatus until later in the year, marking the longest mid-season hiatus in the series' history.
• 07: The BBC announces that they have commissioned a 2011 Christmas special, as well as Series 7, with Matt Smith remaining in the role of the Eleventh Doctor. Piers Wenger, however, will step down as Executive Producer and leave the BBC altogether.
• 15: The BBC, through BBC One controller Danny Cohen, confirms that the recently commissioned Series 7 will air over two years - 2012 and 2013 - although exact dates, and the consequences for the series, remain unknown.
• 20: DW: The Gunfighters and The Awakening are released on Region 2 DVD, compiled as the Earth Story box set. The release of The Awakening means that the entire Fifth Doctor era is on DVD.

July

• BFA: Robophobia released.
• The Lost Stories: Earth Aid released.
• CC: Tales from the Vault released.
• 8: The New World, the first episode of Series 4 of Torchwood (known as Miracle Day) first broadcast in the US, on cable network Starz.
• 11: Doctor Who - Series 6, Part 1 released on Region 2 DVD.
• 14: Torchwood: Miracle Day premiered in the UK, with the broadcast of the first episode, The New World.
• 15: TW: Rendition, first broadcast in the US.
• 18: DW: Paradise Towers released on Region 2 DVD.
• 19: Doctor Who - Series 6, Part 1 released on Region 1 DVD.
• 21: TW: Rendition first broadcast in the UK.
• 22: TW: Dead of Night first broadcast in the US.
• 24: Interviewed at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego, Karen Gillan confirms she will return for an unstated number of episodes in series 7.
• 28: TW: Dead of Night first broadcast in the UK.
• 29: TW: Escape to LA first broadcast in the US.

August

• BFA: Recorded Time and Other Stories released.
• CC: The Rocket Men released.
• 01: DW: The Sun Makers released on Region 2 DVD.
• 04: TW: Escape to LA first broadcast in the UK.
• 04: Doctor Who - Series 6, Part 1 released on Region 4 DVD.
• 05: TW: The Categories of Life first broadcast in the US.
• 11: TW: The Categories of Life first broadcast in the UK.
• 12: TW: The Middle Men first broadcast in the US.
• 18: TW: The Middle Men first broadcast in the UK.
• 19: TW: Immortal Sins first broadcast in the US.
• 25: TW: Immortal Sins first broadcast in the UK.
• 26: TW: End of the Road first broadcast in the US.
• 27: DW: Let's Kill Hitler first broadcast in the UK and US, beginning the second half of the sixth series.
• 31: Short Trips: Volume 4 released.

September

• BFA: The Doomsday Quatrain released.
• BFA: House of Blue Fire released.
• CC: The Memory Cheats released.
• 1: TW: End of the Road first broadcast in the UK.
• 2: TW: The Gathering first broadcast in the US.
• 3: DW: Night Terrors first broadcast.
• 8: TW: The Gathering first broadcast in the UK.
• 9: TW: The Blood Line first broadcast in the US, ending the show's fourth series.
• 10: DW: The Girl Who Waited first broadcast.
• 13: DW: Day of the Daleks released on Region 2 DVD.
• 15: TW: The Blood Line first broadcast in the UK.
• 17: DW: The God Complex first broadcast.
• 24: DW: Closing Time first broadcast.

October

• BFA: The Silver Turk released.
• The Lost Stories: The Elite released.
• CC: The Many Deaths of Jo Grant released.
• 1: DW: The Wedding of River Song first broadcast in the UK and US, bringing to a close the sixth series.
• 1: A special episode of Doctor Who, Death is the Only Answer first broadcast. This is a three-minute 'mini episode' written by schoolchildren from Basingstoke, who won a Doctor Who Confidential competition.
• 3:
  • DW: Colony in Space released on Region 2 DVD
  • SJA: Sky, part one, first broadcast. This opens the fifth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, which will also be the final series, due to the 2011 death of series star Elisabeth Sladen. Although originally conceived as twelve episodes (six serials), only the first six episodes were completed. First appearance of Sinead Michael, who joins the cast as Sky.
• 4: SJA: Sky, episode two first broadcast.
• 10: SJA: The Curse of Clyde Langer, part one first broadcast.
• 11: SJA: The Curse of Clyde Langer, part two first broadcast
• 17: SJA: The Man Who Never Was, part one first broadcast
• 18: SJA: The Man Who Never Was, part two airs, concluding the fifth and final series of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• 22: Fifth anniversary of the debut of Torchwood.
• 29: Jimmy Savile, of Jim'll Fix It, dies at the age of 84.
• 31:
  • Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures is released on Region 2 DVD.
  • VG: The Gunpowder Plot is released.

November

• BFA: The Witch from the Well scheduled for release.
• The Lost Stories: Hexagora scheduled for release.
• CC: The First Wave scheduled for release.
• 14: Torchwood: Miracle Day scheduled for release on Region 2 DVD.

December

• BFA: Army of Death scheduled for release.
• The Lost Stories: The Children of Seth scheduled for release.
• CC: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure scheduled for release.
• 25: The broadcast date of the 2011 Christmas Special for Doctor Who.