2005 (production)

January

 * 4, 5, 6 & 7 January - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Cardiff Royal Infirmary.
 * 9 January - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Womanby Street.
 * 10 January - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Headlands School, St. Augustine's Road and Womanby Street.
 * 11, 12, 13 & 14 January - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Cardiff Royal Infirmary.
 * 17 January - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at RAF St. Athan Aircraft Hangar.
 * 18, 19 & 20 January - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Unit Q2.
 * 19 January - Filming for Boom Town began at Bistro 10 and Mermaid Quay.
 * 21 January - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Vale of Glamorgan Railway.
 * 23, 24, 25, 26 & 27 January - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Vale of Glamorgan Railway.
 * 26 January - The Big Finish audio story Three's a Crowd was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 28 January - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Bargoed Street.
 * 30 January - Big Finish's UNIT audio story The Longest Night was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 31 January - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Unit Q2.
 * January - The BBC was made aware that Christopher Eccleston was not taking part in a second series of Doctor Who. According to a 4 April press release, the BBC agreed not to announce this to the public. It was later revealed that Russell T Davies had hoped to keep the actor's departure secret until the regeneration in The Parting of the Ways was broadcast.

February

 * 1 & 2 February - Filming on Boom Town at Glamorgan House and Mermaid Quay.
 * 3 February - Filming on Boom Town at Unit Q2.
 * 4 February - Filming on Boom Town at Glamorgan House.
 * 5 February - Filming on Boom Town at Unit Q2.
 * 7 February - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Unit Q2.
 * 8 February- Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Glamorgan House, and filming on Boom Town at Mermaid Quay.
 * 8 & 9 February - Model filming for The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances recorded at Model Unit Stage.
 * 9 February - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Unit Q2.
 * 10 February - Filming on Boom Town at Unit Q2.
 * 11 February - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Unit Q2.
 * 14 February - Filming on Boom Town at Glamorgan House.
 * 15 February - Filming on Boom Town at Cardiff Railway Station and Mermaid Quay.
 * 16 February - The very first edit was made on this wiki, then known as "Tardis Index File", curiously three whole months after the wiki's founding.
 * 16 & 17 February - Filming for Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways began at Severn Square. [Note: both days are correctly given their different days of the week but the Thursday is erroneously also marked as being the 16th in the DWM Special Edition.]
 * 18 February - Filming on Boom Town and Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways at Unit Q2.
 * 19 February - Filming on Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways at Unit Q2.
 * 21, 22, 23 & 24 February - Filming on Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways at Unit Q2.
 * 22 February - Big Finish's UNIT audio story The Wasting took place at the Moat Studios.
 * 25 February - Filming on The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at Unit Q2. Filming for Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways also took place at NCLA, Clarence Place.
 * 28 February - Filming on Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways at NCLA, Clarence Place.
 * February - The story originally slotted for Doctor Who series 2, episodes 7 and 8, which would eventually become episodes 8 and 9, The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, was allocated to Matt Jones.

March

 * March - Promotion for the upcoming return of Doctor Who to television entered high gear.
 * 1 March - As early reviews of the new Doctor Who series began to appear, IGN Filmforce reported the American cable broadcaster Sci-Fi Channel, considered the most likely US broadcast home for the series, had chosen not to purchase it. Although there was talk of a related cable network, Universal HD, picking up the series, for the time being United States viewers would not be able to see the new series, with the exception of those close enough to Canada to receive the CBC broadcasts, which was now the North American premiere of the series.
 * 1, 2, 3 & 4 March - Filming on Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways at Unit Q2.
 * 3 March - The Big Finish audio story Three's a Crowd  was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 5 March - Filming on Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways at Enfys Television Studio.
 * 7 March - Filming on Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways at Enfys Television Studio.
 * 8 March - Big Finish Productions announced it had agreed to a deal with Paul Cornell allowing the company to continue its range of Bernice Summerfield books and audio CDs for the next few years.
 * 8 March - Whilst at the press launch of Series 1, the Doctor Who production team ask Shaun Dingwall about returning for Series 2.
 * 8 & 9 March - Filming on Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways at Unit Q2.
 * 9 March - BBC Radio 4's Today ran a feature on the new series.
 * 10 & 11 March - Filming on Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways at Louden Square.
 * 12 March - Whether by coincidence or design (as the impending change of lead actor was already known behind the scenes), this week's cover of Radio Times featured 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 was the first of many Radio Times covers for Tennant over the next few years.
 * 12 March - Filming on Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways at Unit Q2.
 * 14 March - Filming on Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways at Unit Q2.
 * 22 & 23 March - Model filming for Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways recorded at Model Unit Stage.
 * 22 March - Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield audio story The Kingdom of the Blind was recorded.
 * 23 March - Billie Piper was interviewed on The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1.
 * 25 March - Christopher Eccleston was interviewed on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
 * 26 March - Radio Times featured Doctor Who on its cover. With the arrival of the new series, the Radio Times began featuring the series on a more frequent basis.
 * 30 March - The BBC announced production would proceed on a second series and a Christmas Special.
 * 30 March - A publicity branch of the BBC prematurely announced Christopher Eccleston would not return for a second series as the Ninth Doctor, citing his desire to not be typecast. This reason was denied immediately by Eccleston and the BBC ultimately retracted it. Eccleston later stated he left because he disliked the working environment. In his 2008 book The Writer's Tale, Russell T Davies confirmed that Eccleston's departure was intended to be kept secret until the final moments of The Parting of the Ways.
 * 30 March - Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield audio story The Lost Museum was recorded.

April

 * 16 April - David Tennant was officially announced as the Tenth Doctor. At this time Tennant was best known for playing the title role in Casanova, a BBC miniseries written and produced by Russell T Davies. He had also recently filmed a role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which was released to theatres the same day his first solo performance as the Doctor was broadcast.
 * 18-19 April - The Big Finish audio story The Council of Nicaea took place at the Moat Studios.
 * 21 April - David Tennant spent "a couple of hours" recording his first scene as the Tenth Doctor on the set of the TARDIS, which would be edited into The Parting of the Ways with Billie Piper. This filming was done with a small amount of crew present and concluded the filming for Series 1.
 * 25 April - The Big Finish audio story Terror Firma was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * April, before the 28th - Tom MacRae was invited to write a Cyberman two-parter for Doctor Who series 2.
 * 27-28 April - The Big Finish audio story Scaredy Cat was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 28 April - The first draft script for the story which would become Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel was submitted.
 * 29-30 April - The Big Finish audio story Other Lives was recorded at the Moat Studios.

May

 * 3 May - ADR session for Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways conducted.
 * May - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Canada began airing series 1 of Doctor Who, the first time the CBC had aired Doctor Who since the mid-1960s. For the CBC broadcasts, Christopher Eccleston videotaped 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 were promoted as the North American debut of the series, as no other broadcaster on the continent had yet picked up the revived series.
 * May - BBC Books launched the New Series Adventures line of original novels tying in with the new series; this line, featuring the Ninth Doctor, replaced the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures and BBC Past Doctor Adventures lines, though both continued publishing briefly. The new line of books was published in hardcover and had a shorter word count than the EDA/PDA novels. The books were released three at a time. The first three released were The Clockwise Man, The Monsters Inside and Winner Takes All.
 * 11 May - The Big Finish audio story Terror Firma was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 26 May - DWM 367 announced the return of the Cybermen.

June

 * 15 June - After The Runaway Bride was pushed back to become the Christmas special, Russell commissioned himself Queen Victoria, based on an earlier treatment to fill the gap. The script, eventually becoming Tooth and Claw, was written hastily to allow for pre-production in late July.
 * 22 and 24 June - The Big Finish audio story LIVE 34 took place at the Moat Studios.
 * 27-28 June - The Big Finish audio story Thicker Than Water took place at the Moat Studios.
 * June - "[F]urther scripts" of Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, then titled Parallel World Part 1 and 2, were delivered.
 * June - It was announced that Graeme Harper was assigned as director of Block Three of Doctor Who series 2.
 * June - The BBC announced that a Christmas special was already commissioned for 2006, as well as a third season for the new Doctor Who series.

July

 * 18 July - Rehearsals for Block One of Doctor Who series 2 began.
 * 19 July - The read-through for The Christmas Invasion took place.
 * 19 July - The Design a Monster competition was launched.
 * 20 July - Rewrites for The Christmas Invasion and New Earth known as "pink revisions" were made. These applied to the scenes with Harriet Jones' press conference, the taxi returning Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith to the Powell Estate, Harriet being brought aboard the Sycorax spaceship, the Tenth Doctor asking Rose how he looks, the newly-regenerated Doctor asking what kind of character he is, the Doctor's challenge to the Sycorax leader and the Cassandra watching a home movie of her younger self.
 * 21 July - Rewrites for School Reunion known as "pink script revisions" were made. These covered the opening scene with Lassar and Nina Jones, the Tenth Doctor's physics lesson, the Doctor and Rose Tyler in the "dining room" [sic], Kenny meeting Melissa after her first class with Mr Wagner, the Doctor meeting Sarah Jane Smith at the classroom that night, the Krillitane teachers' mid-morning break in Lassar's office and from the Doctor's realisation of the Skasis Paradigm through to the destruction of the Krillitanes.
 * 22 July - Filming on The Christmas Invasion began on location at Tredagar House and in studio at Unit Q2.
 * 25 July - David Tennant posed in-costume as the Tenth Doctor with Billie Piper and executive producers Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner for a press photocall.
 * 25 July - The first scenes with David Tennant and Billie Piper together (not including the insert of David into The Parting of the Ways) was recorded.
 * 25 July - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at Wallis House.
 * 26 July - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at the Brandon Estate. On this day of filming, the first scene featuring principal actors David Tennant, Billie Piper, Noel Clarke and Camille Coduri together was recorded.
 * 27 July - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at Brandon Estate.
 * 28 July - Fight rehearsals between David Tennant and Sean Gilder for The Christmas Invasion began.
 * 28 July - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at the Tower of London.
 * 29 July - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at Brandon Estate.
 * 29 July - Rewrites for The Christmas Invasion known as a "blue rewrite" were made. These covered Mickey Smith telling Rose Tyler how he just wanted a normal life, the Tenth Doctor discussing blood control and the fight between the Doctor and the Sycorax leader.
 * July - The episode Queen Victoria was now titled Tooth and Claw.
 * July - The position for Parallel World Part 1 and 2, later retitled Rise of the Cybermen was moved back from their positions in series 2 from episodes 4 and 5 to 5 and 6.
 * Late July - In a meeting, Russell T Davies and Tom MacRae "broke the story" of what would eventually be Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel into "pieces" and "reassembled it". In doing so, they moved away from the initial inspiration of Marc Platt's Spare Parts.

August

 * 1 August - Filming for New Earth began at Mermaid Quay and Loudoun Square. Filming for The Christmas Invasion also continued at Loudoun Square.
 * 2 August - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at Unit Q2 and HTV Studios.
 * 3 & 4 August - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at HTV Studios.
 * 8 August - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at Baltic House, the British Gas building on Churchill Way, and the Hayes.
 * 9 August - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at Broadstairs Road and The Hayes.
 * 9-10 August - The Big Finish audio story Singularity took place at the Moat Studios.
 * 10, 11, 12 & 13 August - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at Clearwell Caves.
 * 15 August - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at Clearwell Caves and Bromley Road.
 * 16 August - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at Barry Docks.
 * 17 August - The winning entry of the Design a Monster competition was announced on Blue Peter as William Grantham's Abzorbaloff.
 * 17, 18 & 19 August - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at Millennium Stadium.
 * 19 August - The Big Finish audio story Cryptobiosis was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 22 August - Filming for New Earth and The Christmas Invasion at HTV Studios. This filming involved green screen work.
 * 23 & 24 August - Filming for School Reunion began at Fitzalan High School.
 * 25, 26 & 27 August - Filming for School Reunion at Duffryn High School.
 * 29, 30 & 31 August - Filming for School Reunion at Duffryn High School.
 * 31 August - Matthew Graham's pitch for a story revolving around either drawings or paintings, which eventually became Fear Her was commissioned, possibly for broadcast in 2006, but more likely at the time for 2007.

September

 * 1 & 2 September - Filming for School Reunion at Duffryn High School.
 * 4 September - Big Finish's Iris Wildthyme audio story Wildthyme at Large was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 5 September - Doctor Who Magazine attended the storyboard meeting for Tooth and Claw.
 * 5 September - Filming for New Earth at the Millennium Centre.
 * 6 September - Filming for School Reunion at Duffryn High School.
 * 6 & 7 September - Model filming for The Christmas Invasion and New Earth took place at the BBC Model Unit.
 * 7 September - Rewrites of School Reunion known as a "yellow script revision" covered a scene where K9 Mark III recognises the Tenth Doctor on reactivation.
 * 7 September - Filming for School Reunion at Belle View Car Park and Da Vinci's Coffee Shop in Newport.
 * 8 September - Filming for The Christmas Invasion and School Reunion at Unit Q2. Location filming for School Reunion also took place at Da Vinci's Coffee Shop.
 * 8 September - Model filming for School Reunion took place at the BBC Model Unit.
 * 9 September - Doctor Who Magazine attended a production meeting on Tooth and Claw.
 * 9 & 10 September - Filming for New Earth at the Paper Mill.
 * 12, 13 & 14 September - Filming for New Earth at the Unit Q2.
 * 14 September - Rewrites for New Earth and Tooth and Claw known as "goldenrod script changes" for New Earth and "pink script revisions" for Tooth and Claw shortened Matron Casp and Sister Jatt's discussion of their experiments in Intensive Care and also covered the TARDIS' arrival in Scotland, the scenes from the arrival in Torchwood House through to the observatory scene, Queen Victoria meeting Sir Robert MacLeish, the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler on the stairs and the TARDIS leaving Scotland.
 * 15 September - Big Finish's Iris Wildthyme audio story The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 15 & 16 September - Filming for New Earth at Unit Q2.
 * 19 September - Filming for New Earth at Tredagar House.
 * 21 September - Filming for New Earth at Tredagar House.
 * 21-22 September - The Big Finish audio story Pier Pressure was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 22 September - Filming for The Christmas Invasion and New Earth at Unit Q2. Also filming for New Earth at Tredagar House.
 * 26 September - Filming on Tooth & Claw began at Penllyn Castle. Filming for New Earth also continued at Worm's Head in Rhossill.
 * 27 September - Filming for Tooth & Claw at Gelligaer Common.
 * 28 September - Filming for Tooth & Claw at Craig-y-Nos.
 * 29 & 30 September - Filming for Tooth & Claw at Headlands School.

October

 * 1 October - Filming for Tooth & Claw at Llansannor Court.
 * 3 October - A tone meeting for Army of Ghosts and Doomsday was held. Head writer Russell T Davies saw the tone of the episodes as "classy".
 * 3 & 4 October - Filming for Tooth & Claw at Unit Q2.
 * 5 October - Filming for Tooth & Claw at Treowen Manor.
 * 6 October - Filming for Tooth & Claw and The Girl in the Fireplace at HTV Studios. This marked the beginning of filming for The Girl in the Fireplace.
 * 7 October - Filming for New Earth at Unit Q2. Filming for Tooth & Claw also took place at Tredegar House.
 * 8 October - Filming for The Christmas Invasion and New Earth at Unit Q2.
 * 10, 11 & 12 October - Filming for Tooth & Claw at Tredegar House.
 * 12 October - Filming for The Girl in the Fireplace at Tredegar House.
 * 13 & 14 October - Filming for The Girl in the Fireplace at Unit Q2.
 * 14 October - The Doctor Who Galactic Dinner for BBC Children in Need took place.
 * 17 October - Clearance issues caused rewrites known as "yellow rewrites" to alter Tooth and Claw playing Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number" in the TARDIS to Ian Dury and the Blockheads' "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick".
 * 17 October - The British Broadcasting Corporation announced the Doctor Who spinoff series Torchwood.
 * 17, 18 & 19 October - Filming for The Girl in the Fireplace at Unit Q2.
 * 19 October - The original script for Attack of the Graske, then called Christmas Challenge, was prepared.
 * 20 October - Filming for Tooth & Claw and The Girl in the Fireplace at Dyffryn Gardens.
 * 21 & 22 October - Filming for The Girl in the Fireplace at Ragley Hall.
 * 24 October - Untitled shooting scripts for Doctor Who series 2, episodes 12 and 13, later titled Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, were issued.
 * 24 October - Filming for The Girl in the Fireplace at Dyffryn Gardens.
 * 25 October - The shooting script for Rise of the Cybermen, then titled Parallel World Part 1, was prepared.
 * 25 October - Filming for The Girl in the Fireplace at Unit Q2.
 * 26 October - A planning meeting for Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel was held.
 * 26 October - Filming for The Girl in the Fireplace at Mount Ballan Manor and Unit Q2.
 * 26 & 27 October - Filming for Tooth & Claw at Unit Q2.
 * 27 October - The shooting script for The Age of Steel, then titled Parallel World Part 2, was issued.
 * 27 October - Filming for The Girl in the Fireplace at Unit Q2.
 * 31 October - Rewrites for The Christmas Invasion known as a "goldenrod revision", of New Earth known as a "salmon revision", and of The Age of Steel and Doomsday known as "pink rewrites" were made. These amended Invasion's pre-titles, the introduction to the Sycorax, the Tenth Doctor choosing his outfit, the TARDIS arriving at Lady Cassandra's party, the Doctor discovering Pete Tyler and Rose Tyler being captured, the scene where the aforementioned trio climb a ladder to escape, the Daleks and the Cybermen comparing the size of their forces, Pete and Jackie embracing inside Torchwood Tower, the Doctor realising the nature of the Genesis Ark, "Rose's return from the other Torchwood" and the Daleks and the Cybermen being sucked into the Void.
 * End of October - By this point, Parallel World Part 1 had been renamed Rise of the Cybermen. Part 2 was not renamed The Age of Steel until some time later.

November

 * 1 November - Rewrites known as "pink script changes" for Attack of the Graske, then called Christmas Challenge, extended the segment linking the living room in the then-present day with Victorian era. Filming for Attack of the Graske also began at Beach Road in Penarth.
 * 1 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel begins at Lambeth Pier, Battersea Power Station and MI5.
 * 2 November - Filming for Army of Ghosts/Doomsday began at the Brandon Estate and Westminster Bridge.
 * 2 November - Filming for Attack of the Graske at Enfys TV Studios.
 * 3 November - The Children in Need Special was filmed at Upper Boat Studios. Filming for The Christmas Invasion and New Earth also took place at Unit Q2. Filming for Attack of the Graske took place at Enfys TV Studios and at Mount Stuart Square.
 * 3 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Tal-y-Garn Manor.
 * 3 November - Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith audio story Buried Secrets was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 4 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Southside Roath Dock and the surrounding roads.
 * 4 November - Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith audio story Snow Blind was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 7 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Unit Q2.
 * 7-8 November - Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unproduced TV story Night Thoughts was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 8 November - Rewrites for The Christmas Invasion known as "salmon script revisions" were made. This changed Guinevere One's television coverage, Daniel Llewellyn arriving at the Tower of London and the A-positive people being returned to normal.
 * 8 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Riverfront Arts Centre.
 * 9 November - Rewrites known as a "blue revision" or "blue rewrites" were made on Attack of the Graske, or Christmas Interactive Challenge: Attack of the Graske, and on Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel. For Graske this mainly gave clearer instructions on how to play the hatchery segment of the interactive adventure to younger audiences, while the rewrites on Rise and Steel covered the scenes where Jackie complained about her birthday banner, the Tenth Doctor agreeing with Rose Tyler about meeting Pete Tyler, the two at the Tylers' mansion, the Doctor at the computer terminal, Pete asking about Torchwood, the arrival of the Cybermen, and Angela Price and the Doctor inside the tunnel filled with Cybermen.
 * 9 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Unit Q2.
 * 9-10 November - The Big Finish audio story The Settling was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 10 November - Filming for The Christmas Invasion at BBC Broadcasting House.
 * 10 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Unit Q2.
 * 11 November - Rewrites for The Age of Steel known as a "yellow rewrite" were made. These covered the establishment of the Cybus factory and the demise of the Cyber-Controller.
 * 11 November - Filming for Attack of the Graske at Unit Q2.
 * 11 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Uskmouth Power Station.
 * 14 November - Music written by Murray Gold for The Christmas Invasion, including an extended version of his first incarnation of the Doctor Who theme, was recorded in a six-hour session with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Ben Foster at Studio 1 of the BBC in Cardiff.
 * 14 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Veritair, Cardiff Heliport.
 * 14-15 November - The Big Finish audio story Something Inside was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 15 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Unit 7 on Sanatorium Road, and Papermill Road.
 * 16 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Riverside Theatre in Newport.
 * 16 November - Filming for Army of Ghosts/Doomsday at Tredegar House.
 * 16-17 November - The Big Finish audio story Time Works was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 17 & 18 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at St. Nicholas' Church.
 * 20-21 November - The Big Finish audio story The Kingmaker was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 21 November - Filming for Army of Ghosts/Doomsday at St. Nicholas.
 * 21, 22 & 23 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at St. Nicholas' Church.
 * 23 November - Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith story Fatal Consequences was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 24 November - Recording for the Sarah Jane Smith audio story Dreamland took place at The Moat Studios.
 * 24 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Veritair and Coedarhydyglyn.
 * 25 November - Rewrites for Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel known as "green rewrites" were made. These covered the scene with the hypnotised Londoners, Rose Tyler mentioning the Cyberman head inside Henry van Statten's Vault, the Tenth Doctor confronting the converted John Lumic, and expanding on Angela Price's scene where she was killed.
 * 25 & 26 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Unit G12 in Trefforest.
 * 28 November - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Compton Street, Clarence Embankment and Hamadrayad Hospital.
 * Late November - Fear Her, then on its fifth draft, was scheduled for the second half of series 2, having been pushed forward from its slot in series 3 after Stephen Fry's submission could not be amended for either series 2 or 3's production schedule due to Fry being "entrenched" in other projects at the time.
 * October-November - Post production company The Mill worked on The Christmas Invasion.
 * 28 November - A final edit of The Christmas Invasion was available for viewing.
 * 29 & 30 November - Filming for Army of Ghosts/Doomsday at Unit Q2.

December

 * 1 & 2 December - Filming for Army of Ghosts/Doomsday at Unit Q2.
 * 2 December - During shooting of Doomsday, the Daleks and Cybermen were on set together for the first time.
 * 5 December - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Grangemoor Park, Clarence Embankment and Hamadrayad Hospital.
 * 6 December - A tone meeting was held for Fear Her. Head writer and executive producer Russell T Davies saw the episode as "colourful" and wanted elements of "strangeness in suburbia".
 * 6 December - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Brackla Bunkers.
 * 6 December - Filming for Army of Ghosts/Doomsday at Hoel Spencer in Brynceithyn.
 * 7 December - Rewrites for Army of Ghosts known as "blue revisions" and for Doomsday known as "yellow rewrites" covered the activation of the Genesis Ark, the Tenth Doctor's return from Pete's World through to the adjustment of Jake Simmonds' gun and the sequence with the Doctor and Rose Tyler cut off from one another in the two Torchwood Tower lever rooms after the gap between worlds was closed.
 * 7 December - Filming for Army of Ghosts/Doomsday at Brackla Bunkers.
 * 8, 9 & 10 December - Filming for Army of Ghosts/Doomsday at Unit Q2.
 * 12 December - A press release was issued for the interactive adventure Attack of the Graske.
 * 12, 13, 14 & 15 December - Filming for Army of Ghosts/Doomsday at Unit Q2.
 * 15 December - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Unit Q2.
 * 16 December - Filming for Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel at Unit Q2 and Newport Docks.