2006

Before 6 March

 * Owen Harper encountered Jack Harkness again at Katie Russell's graveside, and was recruited by him as Torchwood Three's medical officer. (TW: Fragments)

March

 * 6 - The Ninth Doctor returned Rose Tyler to her home in London. Due to a miscalculation they arrived a year late. Rose learnt that she was believed murdered and that Mickey Smith was at one point considered a suspect. Big Ben was side-swiped by a UFO which crashed into the Thames. (DW: Aliens of London) Many people witnessed the crash, including Elton Pope, (DW: Love & Monsters) but the crash was later covered up as a hoax. (WEB: whoisdoctorwho.co.uk) 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. (DW: Aliens of London, TW: Exit Wounds) Most of the Earth's leading experts on aliens were killed, as was the Prime Minister of Great Britain. (DW: Aliens of London)
 * 10 Downing Street was destroyed by a Harpoon missile targeted by Mickey Smith. The fortitude of backbencher MP Harriet Jones during this crisis contributed to her ascent to power and the post of Prime Minister. Mickey Smith, now webmaster of the "Who is Doctor Who?" website, was asked by the Doctor to install a virus that would wipe out all references to the Doctor on the Internet. (DW: World War Three) He did not do this. Instead he renamed his website Defending the Earth! and proceeded to chronicle unexplained happenings, usually involving the Doctor. (WEB: whoisdoctorwho.co.uk)

June

 * The Tenth Doctor visited St. Nicholas's Hospital, taking on the alias of a consultant. (Times Online: Deep and Dreamless Sleep)
 * 25 - Edward Grainger died on his hundredth birthday. (ST: Forgotten)

July

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

September

 * The Raxacoricofallapatorian mayor of Cardiff Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, posing as the human Margaret Blaine, plotted to blow up the Earth with the Blaidd Drwg nuclear power plant and the Cardiff Rift while escaping on her extrapolator. The Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith and Jack Harkness captured her, but she used a fallback plan by making 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. (DW: 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 (TWN: The Twilight Streets) and a still older Jack in cryogenic freeze in the Torchwood vaults, unknown to the Torchwood Three team. (TW: Exit Wounds)

October

 * Idris Hopper recognised Jack Harkness and chased after 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 becomes angry with Jack because he thought he was poisoned. (TWN: The Twilight Streets)


 * 31 - The British Rocket Group space probe Guinevere One launched from Earth for a scheduled rendezvous with Mars on Christmas Day. (Date: WEB: http://www.guinevere.org.uk/)

November

 * 23 - Retired Torchwood agent Lucia Moretti, a former lover of Jack Harkness and mother of his daughter, passed away due to heart disease.

December

 * 24 - 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 stopping them from taking his regeneration energy. Prime Minister Harriet Jones sought help from UNIT as the Doctor was still in bed. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)
 * Daniel Thompson, age four, was struck by a vehicle and hospitalised at St. Nicholas's Hospital in London. The Doctor, again 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. (Times Online: Deep and Dreamless Sleep)
 * This meant there were two versions of the Tenth Doctor in London at the same time.


 * 25 - The Sycorax ship entered London airspace at around 0745 (DW: The Christmas Invasion, Love & Monsters) Elton Pope gazed up at the ship in awe. (DW: Love & Monsters) Sarah Jane Smith wondered if the ship has the Doctor onboard, taking care of the situation. (DW: School Reunion) Donna Noble, however, was oblivious to events due to a hangover. (DW: The Runaway Bride) 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 under 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. (DW: The Christmas Invasion) This sentiment was later echoed by Jack Harkness in his statement, "The 21st century is when it all changes." (DW: Last of the Time Lords and repeatedly in Torchwood)


 * Later, Jack Harkness found and retrieved the Doctor's hand, which ended up at Torchwood Three. (TW: Everything Changes et al, DW: Utopia)


 * 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 really happened during the Sycorax invasion. (DW: Love & Monsters)


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

Unknown dates

 * 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. (NA: Iceberg)
 * The Zen Military, Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart's exposé of the history of UNIT, was published following the expiration of the thirty year rule for official secrets (NA: Set Piece).
 * 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. (DW: The Parting of the Ways)
 * After March, but before December: Harriet Jones was elected British Prime Minister. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)
 * Former teacher Oswald Danes was convicted of the rape and murder of twelve year old Susie Cabina. (TW: The New World)

Early 2006

 * According to his book, The Writer's Tale, Russell T Davies, David Tennant and others involved in Doctor Who, following production of DW: Doomsday, agreed that after the fourth series the program would be rested for a year, except for the occasional special. This idea later evolved into the 2009 Specials season and dovetailed with the eventual departures of Davies and Tennant from the series.

January

 * The American network Sci-Fi Channel announced it had bought the rights to air the new version of Doctor Who. The first series would air beginning in March 2006, a year after their UK and Canadian broadcasts, and the network had the option of airing Series 2 as well.
 * BFA: Pier Pressure was first released.
 * BFBS: Parallel Lives was first released.
 * BFBS: Something Changed was first released.
 * 2 - John Woodnutt, who had parts in DW: Spearhead from Space, DW: Frontier in Space, DW: Terror of the Zygons and DW: The Keeper of Traken died from natural causes at Denville Hall, Northwood, England, UK.
 * 16 - The interactive mini-episode WC: Attack of the Graske was made available on the BBC's Doctor Who website, after it was available exclusively on the BBC's Red Button TV service.
 * 19 - THN: Deus Le Volt was first published.
 * 30 - UK release of the DVD box set The Beginning, which features the first three Doctor Who stories DW: An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and The Edge of Destruction.

February

 * BFA: Night Thoughts was first released.
 * BFC: Telos, the final episode of the first season of the Big Finish Productions spin-off, Cyberman, was first released.
 * BFSJS: Buried Secrets and BFSJS: Snow Blind were first released. First episodes of the spin-off audio series Sarah Jane Smith to be released since 2002. The remaining episodes would be released when the character returns to TV in DW: School Reunion.
 * BFBS: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Goddess Quandary was first released.
 * 14 - Doctor Who: The Complete First Series, the DVD box set featuring the complete 2005 seasons, was released to Region 1. Due to the fact that the series had yet to be aired in the United States, for which the Sci-Fi Channel belatedly obtained the rights, the set was released on this date only in Canada. American consumers were still able to order it from Canada. American release occurred later in the summer.

March

 * BFA: Time Works was first released.
 * BFSJS: Fatal Consequences was first released.
 * 2 - The DVD set The Beginning featuring DW: An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and The Edge of Destruction was released in Region 4.
 * 28 - North American release of the The Beginning DVD box set featuring DW: An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and The Edge of Destruction.

April

 * NSA: The Stone Rose, NSA: The Feast of the Drowned and NSA: The Resurrection Casket were first published. These were the first original novels to feature the Tenth Doctor
 * BFA: The Kingmaker was first released.
 * ST: Short Trips: Farewells was first published. With BBC Books having retired its BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures and BBC Past Doctor Adventures book lines at the end of 2005, the Short Trips collections were now the only source for original (licensed) literary stories featuring the first eight incarnations of the Doctor.
 * BFSJS: Dreamland was first released. Final episode of the Big Finish Productions audio spin-off series, Sarah Jane Smith, as the character would return to television later this month.
 * MB: The Ship of a Billion Years: The True History of Faction Paradox Volume 2 was first released. More than two years would pass before the next entry in this series.
 * Approximately one week prior to the broadcast of DW: New Earth, the BBC released the first Tardisode. These mini-episodes, available online or via mobile phone, featured specially shot scenes setting up elements of the episode to come.
 * 05 - BBC Magazines launched Doctor Who Adventures, a weekly magazine promoting the Doctor Who franchise aimed at younger readers (no relation to Doctor Who Magazine). Unlike DWM, it is not distributed internationally.
 * 10 - DW: Genesis of the Daleks was released to DVD in the UK.
 * 13 - The first episode of Totally Doctor Who aired in the UK. Similar in some ways to Doctor Who Confidential, this BBC series also took a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the series, but with the focus on a kid-friendly point of view.
 * 15 - DW: New Earth was first broadcast, launching the second season of the revived series and the first full season to feature David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor
 * Beginning with the day's issue, the BBC's promotional magazine, Radio Times began extensive coverage of Doctor Who, with weekly features called "Who's Watch" that run for the duration of each new season.
 * 22 - DW: Tooth and Claw was first broadcast; this episode featured the origin of the Torchwood Institute.
 * 24 - Elisabeth Sladen and John Leeson appeared on Blue Peter promoting School Reunion.
 * 27 - Elisabeth Sladen appeared on BBC One's Breakfast to promote her upcoming appearance on Doctor Who.
 * 29 - DW: School Reunion was first broadcast. This landmark episode returned Elisabeth Sladen to Doctor Who as Sarah Jane Smith, and John Leeson as K9. It set the groundwork for the later spinoff, The Sarah Jane Adventures. This episode was also the first to definitively link the new series to the 1963-89 classic series in direct continuity. Anthony Stewart Head, a frequent voiceover contributor to various Doctor Who projects, made his first and, to date only, on-screen appearance. Mickey Smith, played by Noel Clarke, graduated from recurring character to companion with this episode becoming, in the process, the first-ever non-Caucasian television companion (although there had been others in the comic strips previously).
 * BBC Radio Wales broadcasts Back in Time - Adventures in Sound.

May

 * QR: I am a Dalek was first released, launching the BBC Quick Reads novella series, aimed at promoting literacy. The books were roughly the length of one of the shorter Target novelisations and although they're considered part of the BBC New Series Adventures line, were published in paperback. Annual releases of Quick Reads books continued for the next several years.
 * BFA: The Settling was first released.
 * BFG: Fractures was first released.
 * BBC Books marked its tenth year publishing original Doctor Who fiction.
 * 01 - BBCR: The Dalek Conquests was first released.
 * BBC Video continued its "vanilla" releases of new-series episodes with Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 1 featuring DW: The Christmas Invasion and New Earth. Not counting his cameo at the end of Series 1, this was the first full DVD release featuring the Tenth Doctor.
 * 04 - DW: Genesis of the Daleks was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 06 - DW: The Girl in the Fireplace was first broadcast. This episode wons Doctor Who its second Hugo Award and featured guest star Sophia Myles, who became romantically involved with David Tennant after production.
 * 13 - DW: Rise of the Cybermen was first broadcast. This episode introduced the alternate Earth known as Pete's World, as well as the Cybermen created by Cybus Industries.
 * 14 - Tenth anniversary of the broadcast of the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie)
 * 19 - Producer Peter Bryant (from DW: The Web of Fear to DW: The Space Pirates) died.
 * 20 - DW: The Age of Steel was first broadcast. Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) left the series with this episode (though he returned for several guest appearances).
 * 27 - DW: The Idiot's Lantern was first broadcast.

June

 * BFA: Something Inside was first released.
 * BFG: Warfare was first released.
 * BFBS: Genius Loci was first published.
 * BFBS: The Crystal of Cantus was first released
 * 03 - DW: The Impossible Planet was first broadcast. First appearance of the Ood.
 * 05 - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 2 featuring DW: Tooth and Claw, School Reunion and The Girl in the Fireplace.
 * 06 - North American DVD release of DW: Genesis of the Daleks and DW: Revelation of the Daleks.
 * 10 - DW: The Satan Pit was first broadcast.
 * 15 - THN: The Albino's Dancer was first published.
 * 17 - DW: Love & Monsters was first broadcast. First "Doctor-lite" episode; beginning this season, the filming schedule demanded at least one episode feature only a brief appearance by the Doctor. The monster featured in this episode was designed by a contest entrant.
 * 19 - DW: Inferno was released to DVD in the UK.
 * 24 - DW: Fear Her was first broadcast.

July

 * BFA: The Nowhere Place was first released.
 * BFG: Appropriation and BFG: Mindbomb were first released.
 * BFBS: The Tartarus Gate was first released.
 * 01 - DW: Army of Ghosts was first broadcast. Noel Clarke temporarily returned to the series.
 * Approximately a week prior to the broadcast of DW: Doomsday, the final Tardisode was released online and to mobile phones; the BBC decided not to continue them after this.
 * 04 - Belated release in the United States of the Doctor Who: The Complete First Series DVD box set, which had been available in Canada since February.
 * 05 - Newsbeat on BBC Radio 1 reported on the casting of Freema Agyeman as the new companion.
 * 06 - DW: Inferno was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * The final episode of the first season of Totally Doctor Who aired in the UK.
 * 08 - DW: Doomsday was first broadcast, concluding the second season of the revived series. Billie Piper, Noel Clarke and Camille Coduri left the series with this episode. In a surprise cliffhanger, successfully kept secret from Internet spoilers and the press, popular comic actress Catherine Tate appeared for the first time as Donna Noble,although the character's name was not revealed until months later. This episode was also historic for featuring the first on-screen interaction between Daleks and Cybermen. The broadcast was followed by the final episode of Doctor Who Confidential's second season. The events of Doomsday would form a major piece of backstory forthe soon-to-debut spin-off series, Torchwood.
 * Peter Hawkins, one of the original voices for the Daleks and the Cybermen, died.
 * 10 - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 3 featuring DW: Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel and The Idiot's Lantern.
 * 18 - David Maloney, who directed many serials between DW: The Mind Robber and DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, died from cancer.
 * Doctor Who fan sites, including Outpost Gallifrey, began reporting that plans were afoot for a third Doctor Who spinoff series to feature K9. The series would be a non-BBC production; it took several more years before the K9TV: K9 TV series finally gets off the ground, however.
 * 19 - Stuntman Tim Condren, who portrayed a guerrilla in DW: Day of the Daleks, died.
 * 24 - DW: The Hand of Fear was released to DVD in the UK.

August

 * BFA: Red was first released.
 * BFG: Panacea was first released, concluding the Big Finish Productions spin-off series, Gallifrey.
 * BFBS: Timeless Passages was first released.
 * Doctor Who won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, the first time the Doctor Who franchise won an international award of this magnitude. The award was presented for the Steven Moffat two-parter DW: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. Two other episodes from the 2005 series were also nominated in this category: DW: Father's Day and DW: Dalek. The competition in the category also included "Pegasus", an episode of Battlestar Galactica; Jack-Jack Attack, an animated short spun-off from the film The Incredibles; Lucas Back in Anger, a short film; and, controversially, the opening segment of the previous year's Prix Victor Hugo Awards Ceremony. Moffat would be nominated for his Doctor Who episodes for the next three consecutive years, winning the award in 2007 and 2008 and coming a close second place in 2009.
 * 7 - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 4 featuring DW: The Impossible Planet, The Satan Pit and Love & Monsters.
 * 17 - THN: The Sideways Door was first published.
 * 21 - BBC News revealed details of a cancelled Doctor Who spinoff. Entitled Rose Tyler: Earth Defence, the special would have followed Rose Tyler from the events of DW: Doomsday. Russell T Davies, however, vetoed the idea.
 * 24 - The International Astronomical Union approved an official definition of the term "planet" which resulted in Pluto and several newly discovered Pluto-like worlds being disqualified from planetary status. The decision was immediately controversial, with attempts at overturning it expected in the future. The Doctor Who franchise, retroactively, had made its opinion known by establishing Pluto as a planet in DW: The Sun Makers.

September

 * NSA: The Nightmare of Black Island, NSA: The Art of Destruction and NSA: The Price of Paradise were first published.
 * BFA: The Reaping was first released.
 * BFA: The Gathering was first released.
 * ST: Short Trips: The Centenarian was first published.
 * BFD: Innocence, the first episode of the Big Finish Productions miniseries I, Davros, was first released.
 * BFBS: The Worst Thing in the World was first released.
 * BFBS: Collected Works was first published.
 * GE Fabbri Ltd launched Battles in Time, a card game/magazine publication released fortnightly in the UK. International distribution did not begin until February 2009 when its content was included on the website for a later Fabbri publication, Doctor Who DVD Files.
 * 04 - BBCR: Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays was first released, featuring several full-cast audio dramas based upon the real-world impact of Doctor Who. Tom Baker and Sophie Aldred appeared, and one play dramatised the life of Delia Derbyshire.
 * DW: The Mark of the Rani was released to DVD in the UK.
 * 05 - North American DVD release of DW: The Web Planet and DW: Inferno.
 * 07 - DW: The Hand of Fear was released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 14 - Peter Ling, who wrote DW: The Mind Robber, died from a heart attack.
 * 20 - The first issue of Doctor Who: Battles in Time magazine was published in the UK.
 * 23 - Patrick Tull, one of the voices of the Krotons in DW: The Krotons, died.
 * 25 - BBC Video released the DVD Doctor Who: Series 2 Volume 5 featuring DW: Fear Her, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, completing the "vanilla" releases of Series 2.

October

 * BFA: Memory Lane was first released.
 * ST: Short Trips: Time Signature was first published.
 * BFD: Purity was first released.
 * BFBS: Summer of Love was first released.
 * 09 - Series 2 of Doctor Who began airing on the CBC in Canada with DW: New Earth. Due to a month-long hiatus at midseason, Series 2 didn't conclude until February 2007.
 * DW: The Sontaran Experiment was released to DVD in the UK. This release was seen as an experiment in releasing a two-episode story on its own rather than as an add-on with a longer story.
 * 20 - Billie Piper appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. During her appearance she confessed to being a subscriber to Doctor Who Magazine, even after her departure from the show.
 * 21 - Peter Barkworth, who played Leader Clent in DW: The Ice Warriors died as a result of broncho-pneumonia following a stroke.
 * 22 - The Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood debuted with the broadcast of TW: Everything Changes and TW: Day One (the episodes were edited together to form a single broadcast). Debuts of Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper, Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto Jones, Burn Gorman as Owen Harper, Tom Price as Andy Davidson, Kai Owen as Rhys Williams; Naoko Mori reprised her role as Toshiko Sato from DW: Aliens of London.
 * Torchwood Declassified, a behind-the-scenes series similar to Doctor Who Confidential, debuts.
 * Richard Mayes (Chief Baxter in DW: Fury from the Deep) dies.
 * 26 - REF: Doctor Who: The Inside Story was first published.
 * 29 - TW: Ghost Machine was first broadcast.

November

 * BFA: No Man's Land is first released.
 * BFD: Corruption is first released.
 * BFBS: Old Friends is first published.
 * BFBS: The Oracle of Delphi is first released.
 * REF: Howe's Transcendental Toybox Update No. 2 is first published.
 * 02 - DW: The Mark of the Rani is released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 05 - TW: Cyberwoman is first broadcast.
 * Giant actor R.J. Bell, who appeared as the Garm in DW: Terminus, dies in England.
 * 06 - DW: The Invasion is released to DVD in the UK. This release is notable for including two episodes currently lost from the BBC Archives, but restored using animation, an experiment that would not be repeated until the 2011 announcement that animation would again be utilised for the missing episodes of The Reign of Terror.
 * Also issued this date in the UK are two compilation box sets released exclusively through the British arm of Amazon. The Cybermen Collection consists of DW: Tomb of the Cybermen, The Invasion and Earthshock, while the larger Third Doctor Collection features DW: Spearhead from Space, Inferno, The Claws of Axos, The Three Doctors, Carnival of Monsters and The Green Death.
 * 07 - North American DVD release of DW: The Hand of Fear, The Web Planet and DW: The Mark of the Rani.
 * In Region 1 (North America), BBC Video redistributes the episodes of Series 1 in the same 4-volume "vanilla" (no-extras) sets that the company had issued in the UK in mid-2005. The full-season box set remains in print.
 * 10 - Chubby Oates, who had a small role as a policeman in DW: Planet of the Spiders, dies from a stroke after giving a performance at a show business luncheon.
 * 12 - TW: Small Worlds is first broadcast.
 * 19 - TW: Countrycide is first broadcast. This episode is notable for being the very first televised Doctor Who franchise storyline that contains no actual science fiction or fantasy elements (beyond the presence of Jack Harkness).
 * 20 - BBC Video releases the Doctor Who: The Complete Second Series DVD box set in the UK.
 * 26 - TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts is first broadcast.
 * BBC Video begins issuing Torchwood episodes in "vanilla" (no-extras) DVD editions, similar in format to the Doctor Who releases over the past 2 years. Torchwood: Series 1 Part 1 is released today.

December

 * BFA: Year of the Pig is first released.
 * ST: Short Trips: Dalek Empire is first published.
 * BFD: Guilt, the final episode of the I, Davros miniseries, is first released.
 * BFBS: The Empire State is first released.
 * FP: Erasing Sherlock is first published. Final Faction Paradox book published by Mad Norwegian Press; a New Zealand company, Random Static, takes over publication after this.
 * 03 - TW: They Keep Killing Suzie is first broadcast.
 * 04 - Canadian broadcast of DW: The Impossible Planet on the CBC, after which the network decides to place the show on hiatus for the next 5 weeks.
 * 07 - DW: The Sontaran Experiment is released to DVD in Region 4.
 * 10 - TW: Random Shoes is first broadcast.
 * 11 - Elisabeth Sladen appears on Blue Peter to promote The Sarah Jane Adventures.
 * 17 - TW: Out of Time is first broadcast.
 * 22 - Julie Gardner appears on the Richard Evans radio call-in program on BBC Radio Wales. During the broadcast, David Tennant calls in as a joke, pretending to be a long-lost relative of Julie's who wants a role on Doctor Who.
 * 24 - TW: Combat is first broadcast. The episode is written by Noel Clarke, who becomes the first Doctor Who franchise regular to write a televised episode.
 * A Christmas-themed Doctor Who short story, WC: Deep and Dreamless Sleep, is published on the TimesOnline website.
 * BBC Radio Wales broadcasts Back in Time - Jingle Hell promoting DW: The Runaway Bride with appearances by David Tennant, Catherine Tate and others.
 * 25 - DW: The Runaway Bride, the second Doctor Who Christmas special is first broadcast, properly introducing Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, although Donna declines an invitation to become a companion at this point.
 * BBC Radio broadcasts Jo Whiley Meets Doctor Who, a behind the scenes look at the making of the 2007 series, which was combined with in-studio conversation with David Tennant.
 * 27 - Matt Smith makes his TV acting debut in The Ruby in the Smoke, which airs in the US this date as part of Masterpiece Theatre.
 * 28 - 25th anniversary of the broadcast of KAC: A Girl's Best Friend, the pilot for K9 and Company, only a few days before the debut of The Sarah Jane Adventures featuring the same character.
 * 31 - BBC Radio 7 debuts a new series of audio dramas co-produced with Big Finish Productions starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. Dubbed The New Eighth Doctor Adventures, these stories are, initially, aired on BBC7 first and later released by Big Finish on CD. The first story is episode 1 of BFA/BBCR: Blood of the Daleks, which introduces new companion Lucie Miller, played by Sheridan Smith. This means that, as of this date, there are actually two series of Doctor Who being broadcast by different arms of the BBC: the main series on BBC TV, and the Eighth Doctor series on BBC7.

Unknown dates

 * Christopher Eccleston earns a recurring role in the NBC series Heroes. While Eccleston isn't the first to get roles on American TV after his tenure as the Doctor (he was preceded by Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Colin Baker in this regard), he is the first to gain a recurring role in an American series. His role as Claude, the Invisible Man, includes a reference to the Doctor in that he utters the catchphrase "Fantastic!". He also shares several scenes with Eric Roberts, who played the Master in the 1996 TV movie. Eccleston appears in five episodes broadcast in early 2007.