2005
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2005 was ayear. It was largely significant for a large-scaleAuton invasion onEarth which occurred inMarch.
Events
Dated
January-June
On1 January 2005,Rose Tyler encountered a man who predicted she would have a great year. Unbeknownst to her, he was thetenth incarnation ofthe Doctor, whom she had not yet met in her own timeline. After she left, the Doctor succumbed toradiation poisoning after spending an unknown amount of time holding back the regeneration and staggered towardshis TARDIS, encouraged by a vision ofOod Sigma. After dematerialising the TARDIS, he regenerated into hiseleventh incarnation. (TV:The End of Time[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
UNIT released apress briefing aboutthe loss ofthirteen UNIT personnel duringoperational manoeuvres in theRussian Steppes,embargoed until31 January. (PROSE:UNIT's Position on the Skaniska Incident[+]Loading...["UNIT's Position on the Skaniska Incident (short story)"])
In mid-February,Clive Finch took aphotograph of himself with his wifeCarole and two children,Michael andBen, atThorpe Park. (PROSE:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"])
Geoff Cliff met theNinth Doctor in anHMV on aTuesday in early 2005. (PROSE:Have You Seen This Man?[+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])
Beginning sometime aroundMarch,Clive Finch released an open call on his conspiracy website,Doctor Who?, for anyone who had seenthe Doctor to contact him and tell their story. He got replies fromhundreds of people, includingPeri Brown,Arthur Dent,Mr Yates, andSarah Jane Smith. Some of the readers, such asr willimas,Matt,Benjamin McKenzie,Edward J Green andChris Martin met theNinth Doctor on the very same day, or up to aweek prior, to when they wrote to Clive. (PROSE:Have You Seen This Man?[+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])
Ianto Jones joinedTorchwood One inMarch, (AUDIO:New Girl[+]Loading...["New Girl (audio story)"]) prior to theAuton attack. (AUDIO:One Rule[+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"])
Prior to Rose handing in her lottery money to a syndicate at work,Jackie got a phone call from Rose in the middle of the day on aWednesday; Rose was using thesuperphone to call Jackie from the year5,000,000,000 after she had already left (from Rose's perspective). (TV:The End of the World[+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"])
On4 March, (AUDIO:One Rule[+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"]) theNinth Doctor was in London pursuing theNestene Consciousness. His investigations took him to theHenrik'sdepartment store, where he savedRose Tyler from anAuton attack. He then blew up the building.The following day, Rose investigated the identity of the Ninth Doctor, talking to conspiracy theorist Clive Finch abouthis website about the Doctor. Rose's boyfriend,Mickey, was abducted by Autons and replaced with anAuton duplicate. Using the head of this Auton, the Doctor tracked the Nestene Consciousness' signal. It had been rendered a scavenger without protein planets by a war the Doctor fought in. Rose rescued Mickey (and later, the Doctor) and destroyed the Consciousness withanti-plastic. She joined the Doctor on his travels. Meanwhile, Clive waskilled by the Autons as they assaulted London. (TV:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"],Aliens of London[+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"])Elton Pope was also out shopping in the city centre at the time and survived the attack. (TV:Love & Monsters[+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"]) The invasion, which would be subsequently covered up as a "terrorist attack", had spread to at leastCardiff, where the city centre was brought to its knees asBarry Jackson used it as a cover for his murder of theLord Mayor of Cardiff,Roy Llewellyn. (AUDIO:One Rule[+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"]) Another account datedOperation Mannequin to26 March. UNIT issued apress briefing,embargoed until28 March, wherein they ignored the allegations that the incident had anything to do with terrorists or robots, and denied any confirmation of alien life. (PROSE:UNIT's Position on The London Incident[+]Loading...["UNIT's Position on The London Incident (short story)"],Operation Mannequin[+]Loading...["Operation Mannequin (short story)"])
Shortly after the invasion, an Auton head that was recovered from theQueen's Arcade shopping centre, the garbage bin that swallowed Mickey, and a secondary bomb discovered in Henrik's were taken and stored in theLeamington Spa Lifeboat Museum. (GAME:Security Bot[+]Loading...["Security Bot (video game)"])
Rose made a brief return trip to London in her own time, where the Doctor told her about theloss of hishomeworld andhis people before the pair went to getchips. (TV:The End of the World[+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"]) Rose was reported missing from her home on the Powell Estate since6 March. She returned a year later inMarch2006. (TV:Aliens of London[+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"])dalek had spotted the pair talking about chips and reported the sighting toDoctor Who? a year later. (PROSE:Rose sighting confirmed[+]Loading...["Rose sighting confirmed (short story)"])
On10 March, UNIT issued yet another press briefing, this time about acomputervirus named "RUFFCUT". (PROSE:Computer Virus File Sharing Alert[+]Loading...["Computer Virus File Sharing Alert (short story)"])
For the rest of 2005, Mickey Smith lived with accusations that he had kidnapped or killed Rose Tyler. He was taken in for police questioning about her disappearance five times from early 2005 to early2006.Jackie Tyler fueled the mistrust of him around thePowell Estate with a "whisper campaign". Understandably, Jackie devoted considerable time to the search for her "missing" daughter. (TV:Aliens of London[+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"])
On22 March, theNorth Eastern Daily Press reported thatSharonda Arkley had shot four of her colleagues and put their bodies in caves alongBlackhall Rocks. (PROSE:Weapons Grade Snake Oil[+]Loading...["Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)"])
In early 2005, UNIT issued one press briefing which noted theupcoming transition toBritish Summertime. (PROSE:The Clocks Go Forward[+]Loading...["The Clocks Go Forward (short story)"])
UNIT released anembargoedpress briefing on31 March 2005, filed byStaff SergeantA. Frederick, aboutMajorA Highway's plan to reorganiseUNIT's pan-territorial activities inAmerica into a single site operation, (PROSE:UNIT's New York Operation Expansion[+]Loading...["UNIT's New York Operation Expansion (short story)"]) theNew York UNIT HQ. (TV:The Stolen Earth[+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"],COMIC:The Fountains of Forever[+]Loading...["The Fountains of Forever (comic story)"])
Steve Woolfall responded toDoctor Who?'s request for sightings of the missing Rose Tyler, reporting that he had seen agirl that looked like her in theGrosvenor Museum inChester thatafternoon with achap that reminded him of "thatCasanovabloke". Steve suggested that it might not have been the same girl but that it was strange nonetheless. (PROSE:The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre[+]Loading...{"writer":"Steve Woolfall","1":"The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"})
Angola suffered from an epidemic of theMarburg virus in early 2005, with aBritish news broadcast on26 March reporting that thedeath toll had risen to 120. (AUDIO:One Rule)
As recounted by theEighth Doctor, theEuropean Cup final was won byLiverpool, led bySteven Gerrard, who triumphed overA.C. Milan despite being 3-0 down at half time, having scored three goals in the second half before going on to win the match, marking Liverpool's fifth win of the European Cup in its history. (AUDIO:Something Inside[+]Loading...["Something Inside (audio story)"])
TheNeanderthalDas was accidentally transported forward in time from24 May29,185 BC toBromley in 2005. Several weeks later, he andAnna Marie O'Grady were married in Bromley. The Ninth Doctor, Rose andJack Harkness attended their wedding. (PROSE:Only Human[+]Loading...["Only Human (novel)"])
July-December
InNovember, aCrimewatch episode on theBlackhall Rocks Multiple Murder was broadcast. (PROSE:Weapons Grade Snake Oil[+]Loading...["Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)"])
On29 September, whileRose Tyler was travelling with theNinth Doctor,Mickey Smith sent her anemail, asking where she was and if she was okay. On3 October, Rose sent emails to both Mickey andher mum, telling them about her adventures. (PROSE:The Companion's Companion[+]Loading...["The Companion's Companion (novel)"],A Short History of Everyone[+]Loading...["A Short History of Everyone (novel)"])
On22 December, while inher aunt's house inDevon,Sally Sparrow tore off a piece of wallpaper, revealing a message from1985 asking for help. After later finding a photograph with theNinth Doctor asking to look through the wallpaper again, she found another message leading her to play a video recording of the Doctor in 1985, the Doctor communicating to Sally through already having the conversation from Sally's uncompletedChristmas homework.
The Doctor explained that the TARDIS had "burped" forward in time twenty years and needed Sally's help. Sally's future self appeared, telling Sally to hit the TARDISreset button to reach the Doctor. The Doctor told Sally to finish herhomework detailing this conversation and the messages left to her first, which she did. Sally then piloted the TARDIS to the Doctor to rescue him. (PROSE:What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow[+]Loading...["What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow (short story)"])
Undated
TheEighth Doctor andDestrii defeated a plot by highly advancedCybermen who had travelled back in time to convert the population of Earth using modified rain. The Cybermen had time travelled to convert the Earth's population because the humans of their home time were too genetically diluted to become Cybermen.
MI6's headquarters was massacred in the process, allowingPatrick Lake to rise up the hierarchy and pitch the outer-space branch "Wonderland". (COMIC:The Flood[+]Loading...["The Flood (comic story)"],Hunters of the Burning Stone[+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"])
The magazineDer Spiegel gave away a personal organiser with every issue. (PROSE:Transit[+]Loading...["Transit (novel)"])
TheFLIPback Project began at theSnowcap Base atEarth'sSouth Pole to counter the predicted reversal of the Earth'smagnetic field in2006. At the same time, theCybermen left over from the attack on Earth inDecember1986 again became active. (PROSE:Iceberg[+]Loading...["Iceberg (novel)"])
Londonpolice, including DIBilly Shipton, began investigating the disappearance of people from an abandoned house calledWester Drumlins. The police began collecting as evidence vehicles left abandoned by those who had disappeared, at one point taking apolice box from the scene. (TV:Blink[+]Loading...["Blink (TV story)"])
TheEighth Doctor andLucie Miller foiled aQuitoxin Spy's plan to take control ofLittle Morton. (AUDIO:The Young Lions[+]Loading...["The Young Lions (audio story)"])
In 2005,Phil Tyson was taken on board theVandosian ship to be executed for the crimes ofShogalath, whom theVandos Tribunal believed Phil was thereincarnation of. Phil escaped with the Ninth Doctor and Rose intothe TARDIS. Through the Doctor's meddling, the ship, aiming forGreat Britain, had its weapons backfire, destroying it. (COMIC:Mr Nobody[+]Loading...["Mr Nobody (comic story)"])
Tim Phillips first performed thetraditionalChristmassong "Song for Ten". (PROSE:The Time Traveller's Almanac[+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])
According to one account, London'scabs were replaced withmotorcycles to relieve the increasingtraffic congestion. (PROSE:Cat's Cradle: Warhead[+]Loading...["Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)"]) Other accounts stated that London kept its taxis. (TV:The Christmas Invasion[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"], etc.)
In2323,DrOlivia Kagg Waldermein wrote of the "2005-2009Davies-Gardneraccount" of the "Last Lightbringer", stating that it "ha[d] been steadily leaking credibility since it was linked to the contents ofa well-known conspiracy site of the embryonicInternet, operated between 2005 and2007 by a small cabal of disreputable characters." (PROSE:Love & War[+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
Alternate timelines
The Doctor visitedLuminos in an alternate 2005. (PROSE:Spiral Scratch[+]Loading...["Spiral Scratch (novel)"])
Births and deaths
On4 March,Bernie Wilson was killed byAutons in the basement ofHenrik's, Central London. (PROSE:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"]) Other accounts stated the deceased Henrik's employee wasH.P. Wilson. (TV:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])
5 March was the date of multiple deaths during the Auton invasion, includingClive Finch,Jimmy Stone,Rudi andValentina Henrik, andOskar. (TV:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"],PROSE:Rose[+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"])Lord Mayor of CardiffRoy Llewellyn wasmurdered byBarry Jackson, who used the invasion to cover up his crime. (AUDIO:One Rule[+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"])
Ellie Oswald, the mother ofClara Oswald and the wife ofDave Oswald, died on 5March at the age of 44. As well as her husband and daughter, her funeral was attended by theEleventh Doctor. (TV:The Rings of Akhaten[+]Loading...["The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)"])
Lucy Wilson was born on2 June, (PROSE:Lucy Wilson[+]Loading...["Lucy Wilson (short story)"]) witha midwife helping deliver the newborn Lucy. (PROSE:The Midwife and the Alien[+]Loading...["The Midwife and the Alien (short story)"])
Behind the scenes
A number oftie-in websites contain details about 2005.
Torchwood website
On20 July, an interview withBilis Manger was released in a Cardiff newspaper.Torchwood Three had this interview in their files on Manger.[1]
