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2007 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 2007
21st century | 2000s

2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013
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In 2007, Torchwood One was destroyed in a battle between the Cult of Skaro and the Cybus Cybermen in a conflict known as the Battle of Canary Wharf. (TV: Doomsday)

The Saxon Master arrived on Earth around this time and assumed the alias Harold Saxon. He set about establishing a political career while creating the Archangel Network. He also met his future wife, Lucy. (TV: The Sound of Drums)

Dated events

January - March

Early in the year, Fadros Pallujikaa's sword and the satsuma the Tenth Doctor used to knock Pallujikaa off the Sycorax spaceship were recovered and taken to the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum. (GAME: Security Bot)

Around early 2007, Rose Tyler, carrying a rucksack, said goodbye to her mother Jackie Tyler and her boyfriend Mickey Smith and continued her adventures with the Tenth Doctor. (TV: New Earth) On 31 January, the SS Elysium arrived safely in Panama, its passengers and crew having endured an attack by Cybermen just weeks earlier. One passenger, artist Michael Brack, was airlifted to hospital for treatment for hypothermia suffered during the attack. He missed his chance to tell Ruby Duvall that he was the man responsible for her father's paralysis. (PROSE: Iceberg)

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LINDA. (TV: Love & Monsters)

One Tuesday night in March was "when it all changed" for LINDA. Victor Kennedy, also known as the Abzorbaloff, discovered LINDA and quickly took command of the group to help him find the Doctor. (TV: Love & Monsters)

Before April, the Tenth Doctor contacted Mickey Smith and told him to infiltrate the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum and destroy the recovered Sycorax Sword. Mickey created a robot and sent it into the museum. When the robot found the sword, it destroyed itself and took the sword with it. (GAME: Security Bot)

Before the Battle of Canary Wharf

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K9 defeats the Krillitanes. (TV: School Reunion)

Mickey Smith contacted the Tenth Doctor to investigate Deffry Vale High School after discovering strange occurrences there. (TV: School Reunion) The Tenth Doctor and Rose signed up as a teacher and a dinner lady respectively. The Doctor met Sarah Jane Smith for the first time since he had been called to Gallifrey and had left her on Earth. (TV: The Hand of Fear, School Reunion) The Doctor repaired K9 Mark III. K9 identified the intelligence-enhancing oil in the school children's chips as of Krillitane origin. The Doctor learnt they were using the children to solve the Skasis Paradigm. K9 destroyed the Krillitanes, along with himself and the oil, but the Doctor gave Sarah Jane a new model, K9 Mark IV. Mickey joined the Tenth Doctor and Rose in the TARDIS. (TV: School Reunion)

Mickey, Jackie and a group of actors posing as the crew and audience of an alien talk show help the Tenth Doctor free Rose from the Iagnon by making her jealous. (COMIC: The Green-Eyed Monster)

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Donna Noble at H.C. Clements. (TV: The Runaway Bride)

On 25 June, Donna Noble chose to take a job with H.C. Clements, rejecting her mother's suggestion that she work for Jival Chowdry. A version of herself from a parallel world had been hit by a lorry a few blocks away to stop her making the contrary decision. Rose Tyler travelled back in time from approximately two years in the future to ask the Donna to pass a message on to the Tenth Doctor when she "died". (TV: Turn Left)

The Death of LINDA

The Abzorbaloff absorbs the members of LINDA. (TV: Love & Monsters)

LINDA was destroyed when the Abzorbaloff absorbed all members save Elton, one by one. The Tenth Doctor killed the Abzorbaloff and restored Ursula Blake in the form of a paving slab. (TV: Love & Monsters)

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The ghosts. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

The Tenth Doctor landed in Torchwood Tower with Rose and Jackie Tyler after tracking the ghost shifts and was taken prisoner by Torchwood One. The ghosts were actually Cybermen from a parallel universe the Doctor had visited. Rose Tyler stumbled upon a Void Ship and discovered Mickey, back from Pete's World. The two of them witnessed four Daleks emerging from the ship. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

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The Battle of Canary Wharf. (TV: Doomsday)

Cybermen encountered Daleks; they fought, destroying Torchwood One. The Cybermen upgraded Torchwood staff to fight the Daleks. The Daleks identified themselves as the Cult of Skaro and used Mickey's DNA print to release millions of Daleks from the Genesis Ark to attack all life on Earth. The Tenth Doctor opened the gateway to the Void, letting the void stuff-covered Daleks and Cybermen be sucked into it (apart from the Cult, who emergency temporal shifted), before sealing itself. Rose, Jackie and Mickey were trapped in Pete's World, with no way back to their own universe, where Rose was declared dead. (TV: Doomsday) The partial cyber-conversion of Lisa Hallett happened during this battle. (TV: Cyberwoman)

After the Battle of Canary Wharf

After the battle former Torchwood One operative Ianto Jones relocated to Cardiff to convince Jack Harkness to give him a position with Torchwood Three. (TV: Fragments). He was successful. He subsequently hid his partially-converted girlfriend, Lisa Hallett, within the Torchwood Hub. (TV: Cyberwoman)

C'rizz went on a rampage in King's Cross station. He was stopped by the Eighth Doctor and Luke Tillyard. (PROSE: Salva Mea)

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Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper. (TV: Everything Changes)

Torchwood Three member Suzie Costello shot herself after being discovered for the murders she committed. Gwen Cooper joined the empty spot left in Torchwood Three. (TV: Everything Changes)

On her first day of work, Gwen accidentally released an alien entity contained in a meteorite that inhabited Carys Fletcher. (TV: Day One) Jessica Pugh died on that same night as a result of an accident caused when a car driver was distracted by the sight of the meteorite above Cardiff. (AUDIO: More Than This) The Torchwood Three team later caught up with it and tricked it, trapping it inside the portable prison cell. The creature was poisoned by Earth's atmosphere and died. (TV: Day One)

The Torchwood Three team retrieved a quantum transducer that saw the past and future from Bernie Harris. It was eventually locked away. Ed Morgan impaled himself on a knife Gwen had confiscated. (TV: Ghost Machine)

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Lisa Hallett. (TV: Cyberwoman)

With the help of Dr Tanizaki, Ianto took Lisa off her life support. She attacked the Torchwood Hub to make it a base to start converting more Cybermen. The rest of the Torchwood Three team killed her. (TV: Cyberwoman)

The Torchwood Three team handed over Jasmine Pierce to the Fairies after they threatened to destroy the Earth. (TV: Small Worlds)

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The Torchwood team. (TV: Countrycide)

Jack incapacitated a set of cannibalistic villagers in the Welsh countryside. They were arrested by police. (TV: Countrycide)

The Arcateenian "Mary" handed Toshiko Sato a telepathy pendant. When Mary snuck into the Torchwood hub, Jack tricked her into using the teleport device she was looking for. It sent her into the centre of the sun. (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts)

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Suzie Costello dies for the second time. (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie)

Three months after her death, Suzie Costello was resurrected for a short period by Gwen, who used the resurrection gauntlet. Suzie drew life energy from Gwen over time. She died again when the gauntlet was destroyed. (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie)

After his friends falsely inflated a bid for it on eBay, Eugene Jones swallowed a Dogon sixth eye to make sure they couldn't flog it themselves. He continued existing as a ghost for a time after his death. He helped Gwen Cooper investigate his death (which he couldn't recall) and passed on. (TV: Random Shoes)

December

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The Sky Gypsy. (TV: Out of Time)

On 18 December, Diane Holmes, Emma-Louise Cowell and John Ellis arrived in the Sky Gypsy from 1953 through the Rift. On 24 December, Diane flew through the rift, Emma departed from Cardiff to London and John committed suicide, all against the wishes of the Torchwood Three team. (TV: Out of Time)

Lance Metcalf's father, Simon Metcalf, was killed fighting in the Iraq War just before Christmas 2007. (PROSE: Warriors of Kudlak)

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The Webstar attacks London. (TV: The Runaway Bride)

On 24 December, Donna Noble's wedding to Lance Bennett was interrupted when the Huon particles inside her body (put there by Lance) dragged her into the Doctor's TARDIS. After being attacked by Roboforms at the wedding reception, the Tenth Doctor, Donna and Lance went to H.C. Clements' basement. There, they travelled to a Torchwood base on the Thames Flood Barrier. The Empress of the Racnoss force fed Lance Huon energy to awaken her children, killing him. The Doctor drowned the awakened Racnoss using the Thames. The Empress descended in the Webstar to exact revenge upon Earth, but her ship was destroyed by the British military by order of Minister of Defence Harold Saxon. (TV: The Runaway Bride)

On 25 December, the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe celebrated Christmas with the Cracker family. (PROSE: The Crackers)

On 31 December, the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard visited Singapore a few minutes before midnight. (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was)

Other/unknown dates

The annual de-frosting of Tommy Brockless, a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in 1918, took place in Torchwood Three. (TV: To the Last Man)

The Fourth Doctor and Oliver Day defeated the Puppeteer, who was travelling across the stars to feed on Humanity's warfare. After this adventure, the pair went their separate ways. (PROSE: Puppeteer)

An "Arms for Humanity" concert was held to raise money for the Preserve our Planet Fund. (PROSE: Iceberg)

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The Weeping Angels are trapped. (TV: Blink)

Around this time the discovery of a bizarre message encoded as Easter eggs on seventeen different DVD releases caused a flurry of interest on the internet due to the message's cryptic nature. The message, which appeared to have been shot on film many years earlier, depicted a man with glasses conducting what appeared to be a one-sided conversation with an unknown person; he was occasionally interrupted by a young woman. Among those interested in the message was London video store employee Larry Nightingale. He began intensively studying the message, much to the annoyance of his sister, Kathy Nightingale. The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones, following information provided to them by Sally Sparrow, investigated the Wester Drumlins estate near London, where by choice or accident they were touched by the Weeping Angels and transported to 1969; the TARDIS remained behind and was later taken into custody by London police. Sally received a bizarre message addressed to her from the Doctor in 1969 while investigating Wester Drumlins. Sally learnt of the Weeping Angels, her friend Kathy Nightingale was transported back to 1920 and a policeman named Billy Shipton was sent back to 1969. Sally encountered an elderly Shipton, who died soon after revealing he was responsible for adding the cryptic message from the Doctor to a number of DVDs. The Easter egg mystery was solved when Sally realised the one-sided conversation was from the Doctor and directed at her. Ultimately, Sally stopped the Weeping Angels from capturing the Doctor's TARDIS and with the help of Larry Nightingale, sent the vessel back to 1969. After this Sally and Larry took over the DVD rental store where Larry worked, turning it into a bookstore, but Sally remained distant from Larry as she awaited the final resolution of her involvement with the time-travelling Doctor. The Doctor and Martha were given the copies by Sally outside their store while the time travellers went off to see "four things and a lizard." (TV: Blink)

Professor Mallingan and his team of scientists began draining the power of the icy planet Isqar, hoping it would put an end to global warming on Earth. The Tenth Doctor came across Mallingan's plans and enlisted the help of one of his scientists to destroy his lab, saving Isqar. (COMIC: Cold War)

The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams arrived in 2007 to visit the prominent Lexington Bank. There they discovered two mysterious men, Mr Symington and Mr Blenkinsop giving out powerful watches that permitted users to travel through time. Amy used it once, to the Doctor's disappointment, and found that the device had many consequences. (PROSE: Borrowed Time)

Joseph Serf was killed in a skiing accident in Val d'Isère, France. However, his death was covered up by John Harrison. (TV: The Man Who Never Was)

A BBC News bulletin reported that the United States and United Kingdom governments were anticipating final victory in the Iraq War in the near future. (AUDIO: Unregenerate!)

Jamie Colquhoun had his family take him to the St. Michel War Cemetery in the Somme. The Tenth Doctor and Gabby Gonzalez watched him from a distance. As Jamie left with his family, his granddaughter Gabriella tripped on the hand of a Weeping Angel. (COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons)

Jason Summerfield, a distant ancestor of Bernice Summerfield, was born. (PROSE: Dead Romance)

Clara Oswald went sledging. (COMIC: Wintervention)

Other realities

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Ally reads Doctor Who The Official Annual 2007. (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)

In a parallel universe, a Doctor Who annual was released. (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)

Donna's World

On 25 June, Donna Noble made a decision that resulted in her not joining H.C. Clements and so not meeting Lance Bennett and becoming engaged to him. Instead, she took a job as Jival Chowdry's secretary.

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The Doctor's body is recovered. (TV: Turn Left)

As a consequence of never joining H.C. Clements, the Tenth Doctor never met Donna and he died after thwarting the Empress of the Racnoss' plans. Rose Tyler, travelling between dimensions, ended up in this alternate timeline and arrived soon after the Doctor's corpse had been retrieved by UNIT. (TV: Turn Left)

Pete's World

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Pete's World. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

On 1 February 2007, the TARDIS fell into a parallel universe dubbed "Pete's World", where it almost died. With twenty-four hours before the TARDIS could return to its home universe, Rose discovered a living version of her dad, Pete Tyler, alive and a successful businessman. To meet her "father", Rose snuck with the Tenth Doctor into the birthday party of a parallel version of her mother. The President of Great Britain forbade the use of John Lumic's new cybernetic lifeform, but Lumic ignored him. Mickey, mistaken for his parallel self, Ricky Smith, was taken by the Preachers, who fought Lumic. The cybernetic life, dubbed Cybermen, attacked Jackie Tyler's birthday party, killing most of those inside, including the President. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

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Cybus' factory. (TV: The Age of Steel)

The following day, the Doctor and Rose escaped the Cyberman attack with the Preachers, Mickey and Pete. They infiltrated the Cyberman factory, where every Londoner in EarPods was being upgraded, including Pete's wife, Jackie. Mickey and Jake destroyed the transmitter controls so the hypnotised EarPod bearers could escape. Mickey also sent the Doctor the codes to break the inhibitor controls, destroying the Cybermen. The survivors of the resistance escaped the burning factory in a zeppelin. With the TARDIS cells charged, the Doctor and Rose returned to their universe. Mickey stayed behind, taking his deceased counterpart's place in shutting down more Cyberman factories. (TV: The Age of Steel)

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