2006

In 2006, following the expiration of the thirty year rule for official secrets, The Zen Military, Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart's exposé of the history of UNIT, was published. (PROSE: Set Piece)

January-March
Circa 2006, Owen Harper encountered Jack Harkness again at Katie Russell's graveside and was recruited by him as Torchwood Three's medical officer. (TV: Fragments)

On 6 March 2006, the Ninth Doctor returned Rose Tyler to her home in London. Due to a miscalculation, they arrived a year late. Rose learnt that her mother, Jackie Tyler, had been searching for her ever since. At one point, she was believed murdered and Mickey Smith had been a suspect. Big Ben was side-swiped by a UFO which crashed into the Thames. (TV: Aliens of London) An "alien astronaut" from the UFO was taken to Albion Hospital, where the Doctor and Toshiko Sato examined it. "Doctor" Sato was working undercover for Torchwood Three, covering for Owen Harper, who was hungover on his first week working for Torchwood. (TV: Aliens of London, TV: Exit Wounds) Most of the Earth's leading experts on aliens were killed, as was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (TV: Aliens of London) 10 Downing Street was destroyed by a Harpoon missile targeted by Mickey Smith. The fortitude of backbench MP Harriet Jones during this crisis contributed to her ascent to power and the post of Prime Minister. Mickey Smith was asked by the Doctor to install a virus that would wipe out all references to him on the Internet. (TV: World War Three)

April-June
On 25 June, Edward Grainger died. (PROSE: Forgotten)

After reading an internet article about Jo Jones, on 20 July, Polly Wright emailed Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and they shared stories of their adventures with the Doctor. (AUDIO: The Three Companions)

July-September
In September, the Raxacoricofallapatorian Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, posing as the human Margaret Blaine, mayor of Cardiff, plotted to blow up the Earth with the Blaidd Drwg nuclear power plant and the Cardiff Rift. This would let her escape on her extrapolator. The Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith and Jack Harkness captured her, but she used a fallback plan to make the extrapolator latch onto the TARDIS' energies (having been parked directly on the Rift) and still destroy Earth. The plan backfired and the Heart of the TARDIS opened up, regressing Blon to an egg. The Doctor and his companions returned Blon to Raxacoricofallapatorius to start a new life. (TV: Boom Town) At this moment there were no fewer than three versions of Harkness in Cardiff at different points in his timeline: the Jack travelling with the Doctor, an older Jack now operating Torchwood Three while keeping himself and his team in the Hub during these events (PROSE: The Twilight Streets) and a still older Jack in cryogenic freeze in the Torchwood vaults, unknown to the Torchwood Three team. (TV: Exit Wounds)

October-December
On 23 November, retired Torchwood agent Lucia Moretti, a former lover of Jack Harkness and mother of his daughther Alice Carter, died. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three, AUDIO: Red Skies)

On 24 December - The Tenth Doctor recovered from his regeneration at the Powell Estate. Sycorax intercepted Guinevere One and sent a threatening message to Earth. The Sycorax ship's pilot fish landed. The Doctor stopped them from taking his regeneration energy. Prime Minister Harriet Jones sought help from UNIT as the Doctor was still in bed. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

Also on this day, Daniel Thompson was struck by a vehicle and hospitalised at St. Nicholas's Hospital in London. The Doctor, in his tenth incarnation, only older than his encounter with the Sycorax, shared an adventure with Daniel and spent time at St. Nicholas's Hospital waiting for Daniel to recover. (PROSE: Deep and Dreamless Sleep)

On 25 December, the Sycorax ship entered London airspace at around 0745. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, Love & Monsters) The Sycorax used blood control on one third of Earth's population. Harriet Jones appeared on television to ask for the Doctor's help. The Doctor defeated the Sycorax leader, who was later killed after trying to sneak-attack the Doctor. In the battle the leader cut off the Doctor's hand, which grew back. The Torchwood Institute destroyed the retreating Sycorax ship at Harriet Jones' orders. The Doctor regarded this as murder and engineered Jones' spiral in the polls. Although the Earth had been visited and even invaded many times before by alien races, the Doctor told Rose the Sycorax event marked the first occasion that life beyond Earth became common knowledge, and that Earth itself was now becoming noticed by other worlds. (TV: The Christmas Invasion) This sentiment was later echoed by Jack Harkness in his statement, "The 21st century is when it all changes." (TV: Last of the Time Lords and repeatedly in Torchwood)

Ursula Blake snapped a photo of the Tenth Doctor celebrating with Rose Tyler in London. Meanwhile, on the Internet, there began frantic speculation among conspiracy theorists as to what had really happened during the Sycorax invasion. (TV: Love & Monsters)


 * Later, Ursula posted the photo to her blog. (TV: Love & Monsters)

Other/undated dates
The Tenth Doctor visited St. Nicholas's Hospital, taking on the alias of a consultant. (PROSE: Deep and Dreamless Sleep)

Idris Hopper recognised Jack Harkness and chased him. Seeing past its perception filter, he witnessed the invisible lift in action. An attempt to erase Idris' memories with retcon in his dinner failed and Idris became angry with Jack because he thought he was poisoned. (PROSE: The Twilight Streets)

The Seventh Doctor and Ruby Duvall stopped the Cybermen's attempt to conquer Earth by preventing the magnetic field reversal that would have created worldwide chaos under which the Cybermen planned to invade. (PROSE: Iceberg)

Some time before Christmas, Mickey helped Rose to get back to the Ninth Doctor by connecting a truck to the Heart of the TARDIS to open it. In doing so, Rose allowed the Heart to get inside her head and pilot her to the Game Station in 200,100. (TV: The Parting of the Ways)

After the destruction of 10 Downing Street but before Christmas, Harriet Jones became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

Former teacher Oswald Danes was convicted of the rape and murder of twelve year old Susie Cabina. (TV: The New World)

The First Doctor lost his TARDIS in a bet in Chicago. He and his companions Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman were forced to travel 2,500 miles down Route 66 in a purple Oldsmobile 88 (which the Doctor won in another bet) to California in order to retrieve it. (PROSE: The Mother Road)

The Sixth Doctor once watched the 2006 cricket Test Match between Australia and South Africa on the Time-Space Visualiser. (AUDIO: The Fourth Wall)