2009

Events

January - March

• Dr. Owen Harper still had difficulty accepting his new undead existence. He was relieved of his duties with Torchwood Three, though he continued as their tea boy. Martha Jones stayed on as medical officer. After attempting suicide, Harper began to come to terms with his death. He returned to active duty for a mission to steal an alien artefact from a dying millionaire, Henry Parker, who revealed intimate knowledge about Torchwood and its personnel before he passed away. With Owen Harper reinstated, Martha left for her duties at UNIT. Soon after, Owen talked a young woman out of suicide. (TW: A Day in the Death)

• On the night of her bachelorette party, Gwen Cooper was made the host of a Nostrovite offspring whose mother was waiting to pull it straight out of Gwen's womb. At her and Rhys Williams' wedding, Rhys destroyed the unborn Nostrovite young with the singularity scalpel without harming Gwen, and Jack Harkness destroyed the mother. Gwen married Rhys. (TW: Something Borrowed)

• The Torchwood Three team investigated the Night Travellers, and defeated them by trapping their celluloid forms on film and exposing the film. (TW: From Out of the Rain)

• Gwen Cooper investigated the disappearance of Jonah Bevan and others lost through the Cardiff Rift. She found Flat Holm Island, where some of those apparently returned by the Rift were kept. Nikki Bevan met her son, who had only vanished seven months previously, now much older. She was forced to leave Jonah at Flat Holm, after hearing an unearthly shriek come from him. (TW: Adrift)

March

• Captain John Hart placed bombs in an abandoned building Torchwood were investigating. After they escaped, John showed Jack a hologram of Gray. (TW: Fragments)

• The Torchwood team regained consciousness. They tried to stop John Hart. That night aliens attacked Cardiff. Weevils killed four police officers. A Hoix ran loose in a hospital, to be captured by Owen Harper. Men in cloaks haunting a building and were shot dead by Toshiko Sato and Ianto Jones. John Hart captured Jack Harkness and set off bombs in key buildings across Cardiff. Jack's brother Gray was forcing John Hart to do his bidding. Gray sent Jack back to 27 A.D. to be buried. Jack was discovered in 1901 and stored in Torchwood's cryo-chamber to be re-awakened. Gray unleashed all of the Weevils in Cardiff's sewers and shot Toshiko. She later died of her wounds. Owen was destroyed by nuclear radiation which flooded into the room he was in. Cardiff was saved. (TW: Exit Wounds)

Spring, Prior to Easter

• Martha Jones called in Torchwood Three for help at CERN. (BBCR: Lost Souls)
• Conspiracy theorists and Donna Noble had begun noting the disappearance of bees from the planet Earth. (DW: Partners in Crime, et al) They had left Earth in anticipation of its imminent relocation to the Medusa Cascade. (DW: The Stolen Earth)
• Donna Noble investigated Adipose Industries and met the Tenth Doctor again. Matron Cofelia forced the birth of thousands of Adipose from Londoners' bodies. The Doctor and Donna turned off the parthenogenesis signal before it proved fatal. The Adipose were sent into their ship, and Cofelia was killed by the Adipose First Family to cover up seeding a Level 5 planet. Donna joined the Doctor in the TARDIS. Before leaving with the Doctor, she encountered Rose Tyler, unaware of who she was. (DW: Partners in Crime)
• UNIT investigated the simultaneous deaths of fifty-two people across the world, all in ATMOS-equipped vehicles. Dr. Martha Jones, now working for UNIT, called in the Tenth Doctor. UNIT raided an ATMOS factory. The Sontarans captured Martha and cloned her. As part of a Sontaran invasion plan, all ATMOS-equipped vehicles, half of all cars on Earth, emitted a toxic gas. (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem)
• The TARDIS, with Donna Noble inside, was taken to the Sontaran flagship. The Sontarans invaded the ATMOS factory, but UNIT retook it. The Doctor found Martha with her clone's help. The clone's link was severed. Before dying, she revealed the ATMOS gas would be used to clone Sontarans. With Donna's aid, the Doctor retook his TARDIS and used the technology from the Rattigan Academy to create an Atmospheric Converter to destroy the gas. Luke Rattigan, learning his plans to start a new world with his students had failed, swapped places with the Doctor and destroyed the Sontaran fleet and himself. The TARDIS, with Martha inside as well as the Doctor and Donna, suddenly started moving on its own. (DW: The Poison Sky)
• The Earth and twenty-three other planets were relocated to the Medusa Cascade by the Daleks (with three other planets, Adipose 3, Pyrovillia and the Lost Moon of Poosh from other time zones) by the Supreme Dalek and Davros. The Tenth Doctor went to the Shadow Proclamation and tracked the Earth to the Medusa Cascade before the trail went cold. An invasion of Earth by the Daleks began and humans were taken to the Crucible. The British Prime Minister was shot down by Daleks. Former Prime Minister Harriet Jones contacted some of the Doctor's former companions, including Captain Jack Harkness, Sarah Jane Smith and Martha Jones, to reach the Tenth Doctor, using the Cardiff Rift and Mr Smith, before she herself was killed by the Daleks. Rose Tyler, meanwhile, contacted Donna Noble's family and was reunited with the Doctor, having broken through to the out-of-sync Cascade. (DW: The Stolen Earth)
• The Tenth Doctor underwent a partial regeneration to heal damage from a Dalek blast. He threw his regenerative energy into his old hand. The TARDIS was taken to the Crucible. Humans were used for tests of the reality bomb. The TARDIS was almost destroyed in the Crucible's Z-neutrino core, but the energy-infused hand formed into a human Time-Lord Meta-Crisis clone of the Doctor after making physical contact with Donna Noble, safely piloting the TARDIS away. Sarah Jane threatened the Crucible with a warp star, while Martha planned to blow up Earth, stopping the use of the reality bombs. Davros quickly stopped them. The Meta-Crisis Doctor and the Donna attempted an attack on Davros but failed; the electricity from his hand awakening her dormant Time Lord mind, the regeneration energy from earlier having spread both ways, turning her into the DoctorDonna. Donna used a Dalek interface to shut down the Crucible and disable the Daleks and was able to send all but one planet home, while the Meta-Crisis Doctor finished off the Daleks. The Doctor and his companions towed the remaining planet, Earth, home with the TARDIS; this sparked worldwide celebrations around the planet. Afterwards, Mickey Smith chose to remain on his original Earth instead of returning to Pete's World, Jack and Martha went back to their respective jobs, and the Doctor returned Rose and Jackie Tyler to Pete's World, along with his clone, whom he considered unsafe and asked Rose to help the clone. Donna Noble was returned to her family with all memories of the Doctor wiped from her mind due to the danger to her survival posed by her transformation. (DW: Journey's End)
• During these events, a young Adelaide Brooke lost her family and saw a Dalek. For reasons unknown to her, it chose not to exterminate her. This inspired her to become an astronaut, a trailblazer for human exploration of space - in her case, establishing the first human base on Mars in 2058 and, in turn, inspiring generations of Brookes who would impel humanity to reach into the stars. (DW: The Waters of Mars)
• In the aftermath of the Medusa Cascade incident, the human race began coming to terms with the fact it was not alone in the universe. While many accepted it, others experienced crises of faith and many committed suicide. Brian Green became British Prime Minister before September. (TW: Children of Earth: Day One)
• The last survivor of the ATMOS Sontaran invasion, Commander Kaagh, tried to destroy Earth by commandeering the Tycho Project in Goblin's Copse, landing satellites onto nuclear stockpiles. He was thwarted when Luke Smith shut down the project and Chrissie Jackson attacked Kaagh's probic vent, knocking him out. Kaagh left Earth disgraced. Chrissie Jackson became aware of aliens and of Sarah Jane and her team's fight against them. (SJA: The Last Sontaran, at least six weeks before the events of The Day of the Clown)

April

• 12 - Easter. The 200 bus travelled through a wormhole, leaving several passengers, including the Tenth Doctor and Lady Christina de Souza, stranded on the desert planet San Helios, which had been turned into a sandy wasteland within the last year by alien stingrays which had started approaching the wormhole to devour Earth. Using some Tritovore anti-gravity clamps taken by Lady Christina, the 200 flew through the wormhole safely. The wormhole was closed and the handful of stingrays which made it through were destroyed by UNIT. The Doctor declined Lady Christina's offer to join the TARDIS, but helped her evade arrest. (DW: Planet of the Dead)

May

• 12 - This was Adelaide Brooke's tenth birthday. (birthdate seen in DW: The Waters of Mars)
• 15 - 18 - The Mandragora Helix attempted a takeover of Earth through the MorganTech computer systems. (NSA: Beautiful Chaos)

Spring - Summer

• Ianto Jones Dies (Air date 7/9/09) Real death in September.
• Maria and Alan Jackson moved to America. (SJA: The Last Sontaran)
• Rani Chandra and her family moved to Bannerman Road. Clyde and Rani investigated Spellman's Magical Museum of the Circus. The owner, Elijah Spellman, was the clown and the Pied Piper, having come from a meteorite in the Jeggorabax Cluster centuries before. The Piper gathered children he had given balloons to, but Mr Smith interfered by contacting their mobile phones. Clyde, weakening the fear-eating Pied Piper with humour, allowed Sarah Jane to trap the Piped Piper back inside his meteorite, releasing the children who had been recently taken by him. (SJA: The Day of the Clown)
• Martin Trueman, using the power of the Ancient Lights, started enslaving every human on Earth using astrology. Luke, not having a starsign, defeated him. (SJA: Secrets of the Stars)
• Rani Chandra discovered the Berserker Pendant. Clyde Langer's father Paul came to visit him after having walked out on his family years before. Paul took and was possessed by the pendant, but Sarah Jane and the team brought him back to himself. Clyde threw the pendant into the sea. (SJA: The Mark of the Berserker)
• The Trickster used a time fissure to trick Sarah Jane into saving her parents' lives in 1951 and created an alternate timeline where he drained the life out of Earth and enslaved humanity. Sarah Jane and her friends returned to 2009 after Sarah Jane's parents, Eddie and Barbara Smith, prevented this alternate timeline by sacrificing themselves in 1951. (SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith)
• Mrs Wormwood and Commander Kaagh became allies in the light of Wormwood's exile from the Bane and Kaagh's self-imposed exile from the Sontarans. Taking the Tunguska Scroll from Sarah Jane and her gang, they used Luke to place the scroll on the "tomb" of Horath, the tyrant of the Dark Empire, to bring him back. Kaagh, disgraced by Wormwood's preference for her "son" Luke, pushed Wormwood into the interdimensional portal that held Horath, destroying the link. (SJA: Enemy of the Bane)
• The Veil Androvax crashed in Ealing, followed by the Judoon Tybo. Androvax escaped to Genetec Systems, using Nanoforms to build a spaceship and destroy Earth. Luke deactivated the Nanoforms, and Tybo arrested Androvax. Clyde and Rani were grounded on Earth by the Judoon. (SJA: Prisoner of the Judoon)
• Rani was called to Danemouth by Samuel Lloyd to investigate a haunted funfair. Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde followed. Rani found Eve, whose powers were out of control. Eve was taken to Ship to control them. Sarah Jane gave Ship the co-ordinates to the black hole K9 was protecting, freeing him and powering Ship. Eve, Samuel and Eve's adopted father Harry left in Ship to explore the universe. (SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic)
• Peter Dalton was about to marry Sarah Jane Smith, but the Tenth Doctor interfered. The Trickster took Sarah Jane and her gang into a time loop, with Sarah Jane and Peter stuck in one second and the Doctor, Clyde and Rani in another. Peter revoked his deal with the Trickster and died. Time resumed its natural course. With Peter nowhere to be seen, Sarah Jane called the wedding off. (SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)
• At Ashen Hill Manor, Sarah Jane discovered the people who had disappeared at the manor had been trapped inside another dimension, keeping Erasmus Darkening alive. Sarah Jane tricken Darkening by putting him into an electromagnetic field. (SJA: The Eternity Trap)
• The Mona Lisa was in the International Gallery in London, on loan from the Louvre. Due to her proximity to The Abomination, made from the same sentient paint as the Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa was brought to life. She returned to her painting when she was tricked into bringing a sketch of K9 to life, who shot at The Abomination. (SJA: Mona Lisa's Revenge)
• The Slitheen-Blathereen family captured some Slitheen, stopping them from destroying the Earth. The Slitheen-Blathereen gave Sarah Jane a Rakweed plant, which the next day mutated, sending spores across London that would have put humans into a coma. Mr Smith used a high-pitched frequency across the city to destroy the plants, and when the Slitheen-Blathereen attacked Sarah Jane, he did so again, destroying their Rakweed-saturated bodies. (SJA: The Gift)

Summer - Autumn

• A half-alien, half-human girl named Freda was sent back from the future to escape persecution and came under the protection of Torchwood Three. (BBCR: Asylum)
• Torchwood Three discovered Torchwood India still existed and its members were preserving their own time in their headquarters by draining the life out of innocent civilians, with plans to roll back time to Britain's empire across the world. Torchwood Three defeated them and Torchwood India was frozen in time. (BBCR: Golden Age)
• Torchwood Three combatted a mysterious force that put people into coma-like trances after they answered the phone. (BBCR: The Dead Line)
• Rhys Williams' uncle Bryn died. Torchwood Three investigated mysterious power cuts and Miss Carew. She was a woman in her eighties who was fit and at work after being on her deathbed not long before. Carew worked with Fitzroy to destroy all electricity on Earth, but was stopped. (BBCR: The Devil and Miss Carew)
• Torchwood Three, working in cooperation with UNIT, tracked a distress signal to the Mariana Trench and discovered Sam Doyle of the Guernica, who hadn't aged in fifty years. The team defeated the entity possessing him which later entered Carlie Roberts. (BBCR: Submission)

September

Newspaper Ianto Jones picks up. Date reads: Wednesday September 2009 (TW: Children of Earth: Day Two)

• Every child on Earth stopped in their tracks and recited the message, "We are coming", repeatedly, all them in English. Behind the scenes, the British government knew this came from the 456, a race who had visited Earth before. Gwen Cooper spoke to Clement McDonald, who also stopped and said the message, He told Gwen that when he was a child, the children on his orphanage bus were stolen away, with him almost being taken too. Jack Harkness had a bomb encased in his body which blew up the Torchwood Three hub. (TW: Children of Earth: Day One)
• Jack, his body slowly reconstituting itself, was held by Johnson, while Gwen went on the run from the British government, revealing to her husband Rhys she was pregnant. The children on Earth stopped again to say, "We are coming...tomorrow". Mr Dekker built a container for the 456 to specification, filled with unusual gases. Lois Habiba revealed to Gwen that John Frobisher was behind the death orders for Torchwood. Johnson sealed Jack in concrete, but Ianto arrived, releasing him. Jack and Ianto escaped with Rhys and Gwen. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Two)
• The 456 Ambassador materialised in the gassy container in Thames House. They demanded 10% of all of Earth's children. Clem revealed that Jack had been behind the handover in 1965, and Jack staid it was for the 456. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Three)
• Jack continued to talk about the night he and others handed children over to the 456 in 1965. At Thames House, the 456 Ambassador had one of the children of 1965 as part of its system, unaging. As negotiations failed, the government started to think of ways to hand over the 10%, which Lois recorded with Torchwood's Eye-5 contact lenses as incriminating evidence. The 456 killed Clem. Jack and Ianto faced the 456, but were also killed, along with the rest of Thames House once the 456 released the virus. Jack revived, upset over his loss. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Four)
• The British government started sending the 10% to the 456, labelling it "inocculations". The Ambassador revealed the children were to be used as drugs. Unable to cope with this, Frobisher killed his family and committed suicide. Gwen and Rhys tried to escape with as many children as they could. Jack used the wave the 456 had used to kill Clem the previous day to destroy the 456, but sacrificed his grandson Steven to set it up. Stricken with guilt over the death of his grandson, Jack left Cardiff and spent the next few months wandering the Earth. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Five)

Children of Earth dates based upon on-screen evidence, specifically a newspaper headline.

• Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Rani fought and killed a Raxacoricofallapatorian, while K9 defused a bomb. (SJA: The Nightmare Man)

October

• The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones visited Blackwood Falls. (NSA: Forever Autumn)

December

• 24 - The Master was resurrected by Miss Trefusis and the new governor of Broadfell Prison on Christmas Eve. Lucy Saxon caused an explosion at the prison, killing everyone inside, except for the Master. The White House announced that President Barack Obama would make a Christmas Day speech announcing new economic initiatives to resolve the current worldwide economic crisis. (DW: The End of Time)
• 25 - The Master was captured by soldiers working for Joshua Naismith to help him use the Immortality Gate. The Master betrayed him and, as Obama gave a speech on the recession, used the Gate, intended to heal planets, to turn every human on Earth except Donna Noble and Wilfred Mott into copies of the Master.
• 26 - A diamond called a White-Point Star was sent from Gallifrey through time and space and crashed to Earth, where it was retrieved by the Master. He used it to open a portal that allowed Rassilon and other Time Lords to escape the Last Great Time War. Rassilon undid the "cloning" of the Master and Gallifrey entered the space around Earth, the Time Lords ready to end time. The Tenth Doctor shot the diamond, breaking the connection, and the Master blasted the Time Lords back into the time lock, the Master also disappearing. The Tenth Doctor rescued Wilf from certain death. In doing so, he was flooded with radiation. The Doctor began his regeneration cycle. A malfunction with the world's wi-fi systems was later blamed for causing mass hallucinations, a cover story concocted by Mr Smith. Shortly after, Luke Smith was nearly run over by a car on Bannerman Road, but rescued by the slowly-regenerating Tenth Doctor, who disappeared into his TARDIS. (DW: The End of Time)
  

Dates Unknown

• Prior to Easter - ATMOS, a combination GPS/emission control system for automobiles, became widespread in vehicles around the world. (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky)
• Prior to Easter - Rose Tyler temporarily returned from her parallel Earth, to arrive in her home universe (DW: Partners in Crime) but later was in an alternate timeline where she attained a position of authority with UNIT and worked with them and Donna Noble to restore the timeline. (DW: Turn Left)
• Gareth, head of the seismology unit of the UCMA taskforce, developed a system for accurately predicting earthquakes. Gareth's system was credited for saving the human race several times. (DW: Doctor Who)
• Kate Maguire first encountered the Tenth Doctor. However, he knew that one day she would help him defend the Earth against an Auton invasion. (NSA: Autonomy)

Alternate timelines

The Year That Never Was

• Spring or Summer - The Master ruled Earth with an iron fist. During this time, the Tenth Doctor, physically aged, was kept captive aboard the UNIT airship the Valiant, along with Jack Harkness and most of Martha Jones' family, while the Toclafane invaded Earth. Meanwhile, Martha, following instruction given to her by the Doctor, spent the year travelling the world spreading stories and faith about the Doctor. Ultimately, the collected faith of the people of the world restored the Doctor, leading to the Master's defeat. Captain Jack destroyed the paradox machine, reversing time back to 2008. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)

Donna's World

• Prior to Easter - After the Titanic fell to Earth on 25 December 2008, annihilating London and rendering most of southern England unliveable with nuclear radiation, Great Britain had become a police state. People across Southern England were subject to forced relocations; Donna Noble's family was moved to Leeds. (DW: Turn Left)
• Spring, Prior to Easter - After Donna's family was relocated, the parthenogenesis of the Adipose was a huge success, with 60 million Americans killed before the Adipose were moved to their spaceship. Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones died saving the world from ATMOS, and Jack was transferred to Sontar. Rose Tyler worked with the UNIT of this timeline to help Donna Noble restore the proper chain of events which, at one point, involved sending Donna back to 2007. (DW: Turn Left)

Other timelines

• Summer - Rani, upset over not living up to the standards of her predecessor, Maria, offhandedly wished that her friends would leave her alone. Ship took this as an actual request and erased Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and K9. Eve's son Adam reversed this once an older Rani told him about this in 2059. (SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic)

Behind the scenes

January

• CC: The Transit of Venus and CC: The Prisoner's Dilemma were first released.
• 1 - BBC TV broadcasts an edited version of the July 2008 Doctor Who at the Proms concert, previously released on radio and the Internet. The broadcast includes the television debut of the audience-interactive mini-episode DW: Music of the Spheres. An extended version of the broadcast, including the performance of "Song for Ten", was later made available for UK Digital viewers.
• 2 - Doctor Who fandom was caught by surprise when the BBC announced that the actor to play the Doctor was to be announced in a special edition of Doctor Who Confidential the next day. (According to REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter, however, this had been scheduled for several weeks.)
• 3 - During a special edition of Doctor Who Confidential, the BBC announced that Matt Smith had been cast as the Eleventh Doctor.
• 4 - The announcement of Matt Smith as the new Doctor was front page news in many UK newspapers. Since these are Sunday publications, many received international distribution.
• 5 - DW: The Trial of a Time Lord was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 6 - John Scott Martin, a frequent Dalek Operator on Doctor Who, died.
• 6 - DW: The War Machines and Four to Doomsday were released to DVD in Region 1.
• 8 - The audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen was first released.
• 8 - Word reached the Doctor Who production team that a transportation mishap had resulted in the London double-decker bus being shipped to Dubai for use in location filming for DW: Planet of the Dead being heavily damaged. Russell T Davies convened an emergency meeting to discuss how to proceed; the damage was written into the script. (REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter)
• 14 - Production began on DW: Planet of the Dead with the first cast read-through of the script. David Tennant, as he did regularly during Series 2 and 3 and less regularly during Series 4, recorded the event for posterity for a series of video diaries dubbed "The Tennant Tapes" later posted to the BBC's website. Tennant introduced himself as Matt Smith at the read-through.
• 14 - The first issue of Doctor Who DVD Files, a fortnightly UK/Ireland-only magazine, was published, incorporating a DVD of the episodes DW: Rose and DW: The End of the World.
• 16 - The website of the UK newspaper The Guardian published a column condemning rumoured plans to film one of the 2009 specials in Dubai, citing the United Arab Emirates' human rights record.
• 18 - Henry Stamper, who played Anton in DW: The Enemy of the World, died.
• 19 - Filming began on DW: Planet of the Dead, the first of four one-hour Doctor Who specials to air during 2009 and early 2010 in lieu of a full season. These specials marked the end of David Tennant's era as the Tenth Doctor, and also concluded Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner's tenures as producers. Planet of the Dead was the first Doctor Who episode to be produced in high-definition. The first scenes shot were of Michelle Ryan's character robbing a museum. (REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter)
• 19 - Concurrent with the start of production were rumours that Michelle Ryan and Lee Evans had been cast in the special. The rumours were later confirmed by the BBC, which released publicity photographs of Ryan with David Tennant.
• 19 - DW: The Next Doctor was released on DVD in the UK. The DVD also included the 2008 Doctor Who at the Proms concert and the mini-episode DW: Music of the Spheres.
• 19 - Catherine Tate guest starred on The Sunday Night Project and took part in a skit in which she impersonated David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor.
• 22 - David Tennant's first day of shooting on DW: Planet of the Dead ("The Tennant Tapes 2") took place, consisting of scenes aboard a bus and around a tunnel in Cardiff.
• 26 - The DVD box set The E-Space Trilogy was released in the UK, including the episodes DW: Full Circle, State of Decay and Warriors' Gate.
• 26 - Doctor Who Adventures published its hundredth issue.
• 28 - Media in the UK and United Arab Emirates reported on the damage to the double-decker bus earlier in the month prior to filming the Easter special DW: Planet of the Dead. The BBC News report served as confirmation to earlier rumours that Doctor Who was filming at least part of Planet of the Dead in the Middle Eastern country. This marked the first full-scale production of a Doctor Who instalment outside Europe since the 1996 telefilm was shot in Canada and only the second regular TV episode to film major scenes outside Europe since DW: Planet of Fire was partially filmed in the Canary Islands in 1984.
• 29 - BBC Books launched the first in a planned series of ten novellas forming a single story arc, The Darksmith Legacy, with the publication of TDL: The Dust of Ages and TDL: The Graves of Mordane.
• 29 - John Barrowman's autobiography, Anything Goes, was published in paperback.
• 31 - BFA: The Judgement of Isskar was first released, launching a story arc that was a sequel to the original Key to Time arc of Season 16.

February

• To tie in with its broadcasts of Torchwood Series 2, the digital channel Watch published an exclusive comic strip, WC: The Return of the Vostok, on its website.
• IW: Iris Wildthyme and the Sound of Fear was first released, relaunching Big Finish Productions' Iris Wildthyme audio drama series (last heard in 2005) starring Katy Manning.
• 5 - The official trailer for Torchwood: Children of Earth was unveiled at the New York Comic Con and online.
• 5 - DW: Battlefield was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 10 - Cast and crew arrived in Dubai for filming scenes for DW: Planet of the Dead.
• 12 - BBCR: The Nemonite Invasion, an original made-for-BBC Audio story read by Catherine Tate, was first released.
• 13 - The BBC reported filming was officially under way in Dubai for DW: Planet of the Dead.
• 13 - 15 - The American "Gallifrey" Doctor Who and SF convention marked its twentieth anniversary.
• 18 - Cast read-through for the as yet untitled second 2009 special. BFA: Mission to Magnus began recording.
• 19 - The BBC announced that Lindsay Duncan had been cast as Adelaide, a character described as the companion of the Tenth Doctor, in the as-yet untitled second 2009 special. BFA: Mission to Magnus finished recording.
• 23 - DW: The Rescue and The Romans were released in a 2-DVD set in the UK.
• 23 - Shooting began for DW: The Waters of Mars (date per Russell T Davies' script).
• 23 - Laurence Payne (Johnny Ringo in DW: The Gunfighters, Morix in DW: The Leisure Hive and Dastari in DW: The Two Doctors) died.
• 25 - IDW: The Whispering Gallery, a one-shot comic book by IDW Publishing, was first published. This was the first of a series of single-issue stand-alones that IDW would publish during the year.
• 26 - QR: The Sontaran Games, the fourth Quick Reads novella, was first published. Beginning with this book, the BBC New Series Adventures line began a series of novels featuring returning monsters and races from the classic and revival series; this was slated to continue throughout 2009.
• 28 - BFA: The Destroyer of Delights was first released.
• An online version of Doctor Who DVD Files was launched, allowing those who already owned the DVDs, or unable to buy the magazine internationally due to licensing restrictions, access to the printed content of the magazine. The subscription-based site also made the contents of the Doctor Who: Battles in Time series available to international fans.

March

• CC: Resistance was first released.
• ST: Short Trips: Indefinable Magic was first published. This became the final collection of new material in this long-running short story series as the BBC did not renew Big Finish Productions' licence. Following this publication there were no new officially licensed original literary stories being published featuring the first eight Doctors, for the time being.
• IW: Iris Wildthyme and the Land of Wonder was first released.
• The BBC series Tonight's the Night (hosted by John Barrowman) launched a contest for viewers to create their own Doctor Who monster. Following the 28 March deadline finalists would be chosen to take part in further competition on the series. The winner would appear in a specially written Doctor Who scene (similar to A Fix with Sontarans, as David Tennant would appear as himself, breaking the fourth wall).
• A trailer for the upcoming K9 spinoff series was unveiled at the MIPTV show in Cannes and was later posted online.
• 3 - The BBC announced that outgoing Doctor Who executive producer Julie Gardner would join the Los Angeles branch of BBC Worldwide in June 2009, serving as executive producer of American-market projects.
• 3 - The Key to Time: Special Edition, a DVD collection of all stories from Season 16, was released in North America. This was the expanded set that was released in the UK in 2007 and replaced an earlier version of the box set that had been issued in 2002. Unlike the earlier release, however, individual release of the six stories did not occur in Region 1.
• 5 - DW: The Next Doctor (including Music of the Spheres) was released to DVD in Region 4. Also released was The E-Space Trilogy box set featuring DW: Full Circle, State of Decay and Warriors' Gate.
• 12 - The audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who and the Cybermen was first released.
• 13 - SJA: From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love, a special mini-episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, aired in the UK as part of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day. This was the first mini-episode to be based upon a spinoff of Doctor Who. David Tennant co-hosted the main BBC broadcast of Red Nose Day with Davina McCall, introducing the SJA mini-episode and taking part in a Doctor Who-themed round of the quiz show Mastermind. The SJA mini-adventure was originally given the title Funny for Money in pre-broadcast publicity, but so-writer Clayton Hickman later confirmed the official title on the Doctor Who Forum.
• 14 - Canadian premiere of DW: The Next Doctor took place. The cable network Space aired the special rather than the CBC, marking a possible major shift in how future episodes of the revived series would be broadcast in Canada.
• 16 - A quarter-century after their use was phased out across the UK, Edinburgh's police department announced plans to reintroduce "TARDIS-style" police boxes.
• 16 - DW: Attack of the Cybermen was released to DVD in the UK.
• Mid-March - For the fourth consecutive year, episodes of Doctor Who written by Steven Moffat were nominated for the annual Hugo Award: DW: Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. Also nominated was Russell T Davies' episode DW: Turn Left, resulting in fan controversy; his DW: Midnight was expected to be nominated. Competition for the award included episodes of Battlestar Galactica and Lost; this year Doctor Who did not win, and the award went to the made-for-Internet short film Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
• 18 - In a speech to members of BAFTA, Russell T Davies revealed production of Series 3 of The Sarah Jane Adventures had been impacted by BBC budget cuts and had nearly been cancelled on three occasions.
• 21 - A scene for DW: The End of Time Part Two was shot early to accommodate Jessica Hynes' schedule and allow her to appear in a cameo. (REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter)
• 21 - John Franklyn-Robbins (Ferain in DW: Genesis of the Daleks) died.
• 25 - The final cast read-through of the David Tennant era (for both parts of DW: The End of Time) took place.
• 26 - TDL: The Colour of Darkness and TDL: The Depths of Despair were first published.
• 30 - BFA: The Chaos Pool was first released.
• 30 - Filming began on David Tennant's final two episodes, DW: The End of Time (date per Russell T Davies' script).

April

• BFA: The Magic Mousetrap was first released. Beginning with this release, and continuing over a year, a serialised second feature, CC: The Three Companions, was included.
• CC: The Magician's Oath was first released.
• IDW: Doctor Who: The Forgotten, a graphic novel-style release reprinting the IDW: The Forgotten story arc from IDW Publishing's Doctor Who comic book series, was first published.
• IW: The Two Irises was first released.
• In the weeks following its broadcast of DW: The Next Doctor, the Canadian television network Space confirmed it had obtained the Canadian broadcast rights to the 2009 specials and Series 5, and announced it would air DW: Planet of the Dead in June. This ended speculation over the future of Doctor Who on the CBC, although it was not yet known whether the CBC or related networks would retain broadcast rights to the first four seasons. Up to at least the end of Series 4, the CBC had been a sometimes-credited co-producer of the series; presumably this announcement meant that arrangement had ended.
• 1 - As an April Fool's joke, word circulated around the Doctor Who set that Michael Jackson was paying a visit. (REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter)
• 2 - DW: The Rescue and The Romans were released to DVD in Region 4 in a single set.
• 9 - The audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora was first released.
• 10 - After a hiatus of ten years, Red Dwarf, the BBC's other major science fiction series, returned to TV for a three-part miniseries, Back to Earth, with part 1 airing this date on the non-BBC cable network Dave.
• 11 - DW: Planet of the Dead was first broadcast, the first of four one-hour special episodes of Doctor Who scheduled for broadcast during 2009 and early 2010 in lieu of a regular season in 2009. Co-written by Russell T Davies and Gareth Roberts, it was the first episode on which Davies shared writing credit, the first episode of the revived series to credit two writers and the first story to credit two writers since 1993's DW: Dimensions in Time. It was also the first episode (as opposed to telemovie) of the series to be filmed in part outside Europe since 1984. The BBC did not officially announce the broadcast date until 1 April, leading to erroneous reports that it would air on Easter Sunday itself, 12 April. The special, the first to be filmed in high-definition, was simulcast on BBC HD.
• 11 - An instalment of Doctor Who Confidential followed on BBC Three.
• 13 - BBC Video released the DVD box set The Cybermen Collection in the UK. The set included the previously released Tenth Doctor episodes DW: The Age of Steel, Rise of the Cybermen, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday and was the first themed reissue collection involving the revived series.
• 15 - Andrew Downie (Willie Mackay in DW: The Highlanders) died.
• 16 - NSA: Judgement of the Judoon, NSA: Prisoner of the Daleks and NSA: The Slitheen Excursion were first published. All three novels featured the Tenth Doctor without a companion, continuing the format established by NSA: The Eyeless. All three releases in this cycle (as well as the preceding Quick Reads release) featured returning monsters.
• 17 - Big Finish Productions announced it was ending its long-running Short Trips series of short story anthologies, due to the BBC not renewing its licence in this area.
• 17 - Russell T Davies completed the script for the Tonight's the Night Doctor Who skit, which Davies described as his last-ever Doctor Who script. (REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter)
• 20 - A mini-episode/skit featuring John Barrowman as Jack Harkness and a cameo by David Tennant was filmed for Tonight's the Night. (REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter)
• 20 - DW: Image of the Fendahl was released to DVD in the UK.
• 30 - TDL: The Vampire of Paris was first published.

May

• BFA: Enemy of the Daleks was first released.
• TWN: Bay of the Dead, TWN: The House That Jack Built and TWN: Into the Silence were first published.
• CC: The Mahogany Murderers was first released. This was the first entry in The Companion Chronicles to not feature a Doctor; instead, it featured the characters of Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot from DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
• ST: Short Trips: Re:Collections, an anthology of previously published stories, was first published, bringing to a close Big Finish Productions' Short Trips line.
• IW: Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion was first released.
• 5 - DW: Battlefield and The E-Space Trilogy box set (DW: Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate) were released to DVD in North America/Region 1.
• 7 - Production of the first season of the spinoff series K9 was completed.
• 7 - TWA: In the Shadows was first released.
• 7 - DW: Attack of the Cybermen was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 8 - This was the official release of the film Star Trek, a new take on the classic series. Simon Pegg, guest star in DW: The Long Game and narrator of Doctor Who Confidential, appeared as Scotty in the highest-profile example to date of a Doctor Who actor crossing over into the Star Trek franchise. Deep Roy, an alumni of DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, shared several scenes with Pegg in a small role as Scotty's alien sidekick.
• 11 - DW: The Deadly Assassin was released to DVD in the UK.
• 12 - David Tennant and Matt Smith filmed the regeneration sequence for DW: The End of Time, Part Two; among those in attendance was Timothy Dalton. This was Smith's first performance on camera as the Eleventh Doctor. Russell T Davies met Smith for the first time just prior to shooting. Steven Moffat oversaw the filming of Smith's portion of the regeneration. According to Tennant, he left the studio before Smith filmed his segment, although a photograph of the two together was taken and REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter suggested he wasn't quite that rushed. (DWC: Allons-y!)
• 12 - Proving some things never change, a survey of parents of young children published in The Telegraph cited Doctor Who was a series blamed for giving children nightmares, with parents surveyed indicating they'd rather see it aired in post-watershed hours.
• 16 - David Tennant and Billie Piper filmed their reunion scene for DW: The End of Time. According to Doctor Who Magazine issue 417, Tennant begged onlookers not to reveal the dialogue spoken during the scene, but it appeared online within hours anyway.
• 20 - David Tennant filmed his final regular-series scenes as the Tenth Doctor for DW: The End of Time, Part Two. Tennant's final scene was a green-screen action shot of him falling through a glass ceiling (the regeneration having been shot earlier). Afterwards, he was called back on set for an emotional celebration. (REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter, and Doctor Who Confidential: Allon-sy!)
• 20 - IDW: The Time Machination, a one-shot comic book by IDW Publishing, was first published. This was the first comic in IDW's Doctor Who line to make reference to Torchwood.
• 20 - Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus, published by Obverse Books and edited by Paul Magrs and Stuart Douglas, was first published. This was the first of a planned series of short story anthologies featuring Iris Wildthyme.
• 21 - David Tennant filmed the 2009 BBC Christmas idents in London. These short promotional pieces aired during the 2009 Christmas season on BBC One and BBC America. Although Tennant identified this as his final performance as the Doctor in his video diary, in fact he later filmed one last appearance for an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures (see below).
• After 21 May - David Tennant filmed his final performance as the Tenth Doctor for SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith. According to an interview with Tennant published in Doctor Who Magazine issue 417, production occurred the week after he films his final scenes for Doctor Who proper.
• 23 - The John Barrowman-hosted talent series Tonight's the Night aired a specially written and filmed Doctor Who scene in which Barrowman, as Jack Harkness, encountered an alien named Sao Til (played by a contest winner) in the TARDIS. The scene was written by Russell T Davies and included a cameo by David Tennant, out of character as himself. The scene broke the fourth wall, showing the studio surrounding the TARDIS set, and the special also included a Doctor Who Confidential-style look behind the filming.
• 26 - The BBC and Russell T Davies announced David Tennant would appear as the Tenth Doctor in an upcoming two-part episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• 28 - BBC America announced it had obtained the US broadcast rights to the 2009 specials of Doctor Who. The series had previously aired on the Sci Fi Channel.
• 28 - TDL: The Game of Death was first published.
• 28 - Terence Alexander (Ravensworth in DW: The Mark of the Rani) died.
• 29 - The BBC announced that Karen Gillan, who previously appeared in DW: The Fires of Pompeii, would co-star with Matt Smith as the new Doctor Who companion for Series 5.
• 29 - DWC: Doctor Who Classics Volume 3, a graphic novel-style release reprinting issues of DWC: Doctor Who Classics by IDW Publishing, was published.

June

• CC: The Stealers from Saiph was first released.
• Former Doctor Who executive producer Julie Gardner took her post at BBC Worldwide's Los Angeles branch.
• The Canadian cable network Space officially confirmed it had obtained the broadcasting rights to Doctor Who from the CBC, and would air the remaining 2009 specials along with Series 5 in 2010; in addition, it obtained Canadian broadcast rights to the first four seasons and the never-aired-in-Canada DW: Voyage of the Damned in the spring of 2010.
• David Tennant, fresh from concluding his final episodes as the Doctor, began filming a motion picture version of Hamlet, scheduled for broadcast on BBC Two in late 2009, on PBS in the US in 2010, and planned for limited theatrical release in the US in the fall of 2009.
• 2 - Shaun Lyon announced that the Outpost Gallifrey website, the Doctor Who News website, and the Doctor Who Forum would all close as of 31st July. A detailed reason for closing the sites was not offered.
• 4 - The complete Series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 4 - DW: Image of the Fendahl was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 7 - The Sunday Mirror included a poster of the Tenth Doctor and a Dalek maze reprinted from Doctor Who Adventures.
• 9 - TM: Torchwood: Rift War, an omnibus of the multi-part Rift War! comic strip from Torchwood Magazine, was first published by Titan Books. It was the first Torchwood graphic novel.
• 9 - TWA: The Sin Eaters was first released.
• 10 - IDW: Autopia, a one-shot comic story, was first published.
• 10 - Tenniel Evans (Major Daly in DW: Carnival of Monsters) died.
• 12 - A preview showing of episode one of Torchwood: Children of Earth took place at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London.
• 13 - Beginning this day and continuing for the next six Saturdays, special mini-editions of Doctor Who Adventures were included as giveaways in the Daily Mirror. These specials featured reprints from DWA.
• 16 - Michael Summerton died. He appeared in DW: The Daleks as one of the first Daleks to appear in Doctor Who.
• 17 - The UK tabloid The Sun published a leaked photograph of David Tennant and Timothy Dalton with Dalton in his Time Lord costume, spoiling what was to be a surprise reveal of the return of Gallifrey in DW: The End of Time. This provoked an angered response from Russell T Davies in his correspondence with Benjamin Cook. (REF: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter)
• 22 - DW: Delta and the Bannermen was released to DVD in the UK.
• 23 - BBC Radio 4 broadcasted On the Outside it Looked Like an Old Fashioned Police Box, a documentary on the history of the Target Books novelisations hosted by Mark Gatiss. The documentary was posted online for the following week.
• 25 - TDL: The Planet of Oblivion was first published.
• 27 - This was the US broadcast debut of DW: The Next Doctor on the show's new US broadcaster, BBC America.
• 29 - DW: Planet of the Dead was released to DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK, becoming the first Doctor Who episode to be released in Blu-Ray.
• 30 - BFA: The Angel of Scutari was first released.
• 30 - BFBS: Glory Days was first released, launching the tenth season of the Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series.

July

• Big Finish Productions marked the tenth anniversary of its line of Doctor Who audio productions.
• IDW Publishing launched IDW: Doctor Who Ongoing, a new comic series featuring the adventures of the Tenth Doctor, beginning with a three-issue storyline entitled IDW: Silver Scream.
• Doctor Who Magazine #411 reported John Leeson would reprise the role of K9 in the upcoming K9 spin-off series.
• BFA: The Company of Friends was first released. This audio was notable for introducing the Doctor Who Magazine comic character Izzy Sinclair to the audio range, as well as revealing that Mary Shelley had once been a companion.
• BFA: Mission of the Viyrans, a single-episode story from 2007 that had previously been packaged with another story, BFA: The Mind's Eye, was made available for individual download.
• CC: The Drowned World was first released.
• 1 - BBCR: Asylum was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the first of a trilogy of Torchwood dramas featuring the TV cast aired in the days prior to TW: Children of Earth. The three plays were also made available for streaming listening worldwide (and for MP3 download within the UK) for one week after broadcast and were released on CD later in the year.
• 2 - BBCR: Golden Age was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
• 2 - BBCR: The Rising Night was first released, read by Michelle Ryan.
• 2 - Audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - The Happiness Patrol was first released.
• 2 - DW: The Deadly Assassin and Planet of the Dead were released to DVD in Region 4.
• 3 - BBCR: The Dead Line was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
• 6 - Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day One was first broadcast, launching Series 3 of Torchwood, which consisted of a single five-episode arc airing over five consecutive nights. The show moved to BBC One.
• 6 - The DVD of DW: The War Games was released. It included the first BBC-sanctioned release of Devious, a fan-made Doctor Who story featuring the final performance of Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor. Although BBC Video had included the occasional fan-made production on DVDs previously, most notably in the The Beginning box set, this was the first time a major fan production had been included on an official BBC release. The DVD included only a twelve-minute excerpt as the film had yet to be completed.
• 7 - Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Two was first broadcast.
• 7 - The soundtrack album for Torchwood: Children of Earth was released.
• 7 - DW: The Rescue and The Romans were issued as a two-DVD set in Region 1, along with DW: Attack of the Cybermen.
• 8 - Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Three was first broadcast.
• 9 - Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Four was first broadcast.
• 10 - Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Five was first broadcast, concluding Series 3 and the Children of Earth arc.
• 11 - John Breslin, who played Capt. Jimmy Munro, DW: Spearhead from Space, died.
• 13 - Only three days after it was broadcast, BBC Video released the Torchwood mini-series Children of Earth to DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK. This was the quickest Who franchise home video release to date.
• 13 - Linda Polan, who played Juno Baker in A Girl's Best Friend, died.
• mid July - To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing, the BBC's official website, over the course of four days, uploaded the exclusive Tenth Doctor short story WC: Blue Moon.
• 18 - The sixth and final special mini-edition of Doctor Who Adventures appeared in the Daily Mirror.
• 20 - Production began on Series 5 of Doctor Who, with the BBC formally announcing the Doctor's new companion as Amy Pond and unveiling the first photographs of the Eleventh Doctor's costume and revised TARDIS exterior. Media coverage of the first day's filming also revealed a major guest star from Series 4 would return. The episode filmed was later identified as DW: The Time of Angels.
• 20 - DW: The new DVD edition of DW: Remembrance of the Daleks was released on its own in the UK, some eighteen months after its original release as part of The Complete Davros Collection.
• 20-24 - Torchwood: Children of Earth was broadcast on BBC America in the US and Space in Canada. As in the UK, the miniseries ran for five consecutive nights.
  • The broadcasts in Canada and the US were ratings successes. This, combined with the show's success in the UK, was the subject of media coverage and speculation that a fourth season of Torchwood was likely to be commissioned.
• 22 - IDW: Room with a Deja View, a standalone comic story, was first published.
• 23 - According to media reports, John Barrowman was involved in an eighty mph race car crash while filming a segment of the series Fifth Gear. He escaped with minor injuries.The exact date of the accident was unclear, as only a couple of days after this date Barrowman attended the San Diego ComicCon.
• 24 - Harry Towb died. He had appeared in DW: The Seeds of Death and DW: Terror of the Autons; in the latter, he experienced one of the most iconic of all Doctor Who deaths by being "eaten" by a living plastic chair.
• 25 - DW: Planet of the Dead was broadcast on the Canadian network Space (originally announced for 20th June).
• 26 - DW: Planet of the Dead was broadcast on BBC America.
• 26 - Doctor Who was officially named the single most successful science fiction TV series by Guinness World Records. The honour was announced at the 2009 San Diego ComicCon. The same event also unveiled the first trailer for the David Tennant finale specials, confirming the return appearance of a longtime villain and indicating the title DW: The End of Time for the finale. The ComicCon marked Tennant's first appearance at such an event; he was accompanied by John Barrowman and Russell T Davies.
• 26 - Prior to arriving at ComicCon, Tennant and Davies were interviewed on San Diego's CW affiliate. Many of the station's crewmembers were revealed to be fans.
• 28 - Torchwood: Children of Earth and DW: Planet of the Dead were released on DVD and Blu-Ray in North America. Planet of the Dead was the first Doctor Who story to be released in the high-def Blu-Ray format.
• 30 - TDL: The Pictures of Emptiness was first published.
• 31 - BFBS: Absence was first released.
• 31 - The Internet's largest Doctor Who discussion board, the Doctor Who Forum, along with the original Doctor Who News Page, formerly known as Outpost Gallifrey, closed. A replacement discussion board, Gallifrey Base, had been established some weeks earlier although the archives of the thirteen-year-old forum were deleted, while other parties have taken over the Doctor Who News Page.

August

• BFA: The Cannibalists was first released.
• CC: The Glorious Revolution was first released.
• REF: Bernice Summerfield: The Inside Story was first published; this was a Big Finish Productions-published history of the creation of the character.
• RP: Myth Makers: Telos Publishing was first released by Reeltime Pictures.
• 6 - Doctor Who The Official Annual 2010 was first published.
• 6 - Audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - The Mind Robber was first released.
• 6 - The DVD box set The Cybermen Collection was released in Region 4. The set included the previously released Tenth Doctor episodes DW: The Age of Steel, Rise of the Cybermen, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday. Also released in region 4 was DW: Delta and the Bannermen.
• 8 - Alan Chuntz (the chauffeur in DW: The Seeds of Doom and a member of the HAVOC stunt team featured on the show between the 1960s and 1980s) died at age 82.
• 9 - Steven Moffat's winning streak at the Hugo Awards ended when DW: Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead was defeated by a Joss Whedon production, Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog, in the Dramatic Presentation - Short Form category, which Moffat and Doctor Who had dominated since 2006. An examination of the voting results show only about a hundred votes separated Moffat from first place in the final tally. DW: Turn Left by Russell T Davies had also been nominated for the award this year. As Moffat had not written any of the 2009 specials, the earliest he would be eligible again for a Hugo was in 2011.
• 10 - The Black Guardian Trilogy DVD box set, consisting of DW: Mawdryn Undead, DW: Terminus and DW: Enlightenment, was released in the UK.
• 19 - CC: The Mists of Time, a Big Finish Productions audio drama and part of The Companion Chronicles, was made available for download exclusively through Doctor Who Magazine #411. The download offer expired in October.
• 20 - The Doctor, the first episode of the three-part documentary series Doctor Who's Greatest Moments, was broadcast on BBC Three. It followed a rebroadcast of DW: The Runaway Bride and scored four hundred thousand viewers.
• 25 - The Doctor was named Best Alien in online Best Television Characters of the 2000s poll conducted by Zap2It, an entertainment website affiliated with the Los Angeles Times. The Doctor also received a strong write-in presence in the Best Doctor category but was disqualified as he wasn't considered a medical doctor, while the Master received write-in votes for Best Villain.
• 26 - IDW: Cold Blooded War!, a standalone comic, was first published.
• 26 - Big Finish Productions announced that Frazer Hines would return to the role of Jamie McCrimmon for an upcoming series of audios in which Jamie serves as companion to the Sixth Doctor..
• 27 - TDL: The Art of War was first published.
• 27 - Doctor Who's Greatest Moments: The Companions aired on BBC Three. It only had two hundred ninety thousand viewers this week, a drop from the first episode.
• 30 - Farewell Great Macedon was first published by Nothing at the End of the Lane. This book collected two unproduced First Doctor scripts by Moris Farhi - Farewell Great Macedon, which had been commissioned by David Whitaker, and a single-episode story, The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance, written as a "tester" script by Farhi.
• 31 - BFA: Patient Zero was first released.
• 31 - BFBS: Venus Mantrap was first released.

September

• BFA: Paper Cuts was first released.
• BFA: The Eight Truths was first released.
• CC: The Prisoner of Peladon was first released.
• 1 - DW: Image of the Fendahl, The Deadly Assassin and Delta and the Bannermen were released to DVD in Region 1.
• 3 - BBCR: The Stuff of Nightmares, an audio adventure from BBC Audio, and Part 1 of the BBCR: Hornets' Nest story arc, was first released. The adventure featured Tom Baker providing the voice of the Fourth Doctor, his first new performance in the role since 1993. Richard Franklin reprised his 1970s role of Mike Yates. This was followed by four more chapters over the next few months.
• 3 - NSA: The Taking of Chelsea 426, NSA: The Krillitane Storm and NSA: Autonomy were first published. All novels featured the Tenth Doctor travelling on his own and, like previous BBC New Series Adventures releases this year, featured the return of classic monsters. These were the final full-length novels to feature the Tenth Doctor.
• 3 - Doctor Who's Greatest Moments: The Enemies aired on BBC Three, concluding the trilogy of documentaries.
• 3 - Audio book version of NSA: Prisoner of the Daleks was first released.
• 3 - The Doctor Who Stories was first published by BBC Children's Books; this was an omnibus containing stories from the Doctor Who Files magazine, plus a previously unpublished story, Speech Day.
• 3 - The War Games (including excerpts from the fan film Devious) was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 4 - Iain Cuthbertson (Garron in DW: The Ribos Operation) died at the age of 79.
• 5 - Final e-mail exchange between Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook to be included in Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter took place.
• 7 - The DVD of DW: The Twin Dilemma was released in the UK. With this release, the Sixth Doctor era became the first classic series era to be completely released to DVD.
• 8 - Ray Barrett (Bennett in DW: The Rescue) died of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 82.
• 14 - First Generation, the autobiography of Mary Tamm, was published. Colin Baker wrote the foreword. The book was available in a standard paperback edition and a limited-edition hardcover (200 copies) signed by Tamm.
• 15 - The DVD of DW: The Next Doctor was released in North America. Like the UK version of the release, the 2008 Doctor Who at the Proms concert special was included as a bonus feature, along with the mini-episode DW: Music of the Spheres which had never been broadcast in North America.
• 15 - John Joyce, who played Garvin in The Dæmons, died.
• 16 - Timothy Bateson (Binro in DW: The Ribos Operation) died.
• 19 - Doctor Who received the first Television category award at the British Fantasy Awards.
• 20 - Kenneth Seeger (a Cyberman in DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen) died.
• 21 - John Barrowman published his second autobiography, I Am What I Am. This second volume of memoirs covered his years working on Doctor Who and Torchwood.
• 21 - DW: The Keys of Marinus was released to DVD in the UK.
• 24 - TDL: The End of Time, the final book in the BBC Books miniseries The Darksmith Legacy, was first published. The book coincidentally shared its title with the final David Tennant special.
• 24 - REF: The Ultimate Monster Guide was first published.
• 24 - IDW: Black Death White Life, a standalone comic, was published.
• Late September - Three Torchwood audio dramas that aired on BBC Radio 4 in July, BBCR: Asylum, Golden Age and The Dead Line, were released to CD in a three-disc box set, The Radio Adventures.
• Late September - Doctor Who Magazine announced the results of its "The Mighty 200" reader's poll in DWM 413. DW: The Caves of Androzani was voted the reader's favourite story of all time (with DW: Blink at #2), while DW: The Twin Dilemma was voted least favourite.
• 30 - BFA: Blue Forgotten Planet was first released. This seemed to be the final appearance (for now) of India Fisher as Charley Pollard.
• 30 - BFBS: Secret Origins was first released.

October

• BFA: Castle of Fear was first released.
• CC: The Pyralis Effect was first released.
• SFX Magazine #188 came with a Doctor Who - Tom Baker Sampler CD, including excerpts from BBCR: Hornets' Nest, Doctor Who and the Pescatons, several Target novelisations read by Baker and archival interviews from the Doctor Who at the BBC series.
• REF: Howe's Transcendental Toybox Update No. 3 was first published.
• REF: Doctor Who: Guide to Alien Armies was first published.
• The Doctor Who Files Collector's Edition was first published.
• 1 - TWN: The Undertaker's Gift, TWN: Risk Assessment and TWN: Consequences were first published.
• 1 - REF: Torchwood: The Encyclopedia was first published.
• 1 - TW: Children of Earth and the new edition of DW: Remembrance of the Daleks were released to DVD in Region 4.
• 2 - The complete Series 2 of Torchwood was released to DVD in Region 4.
• 5 - With several episodes already under their belts, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan began filming the first episode of Series 5 in Llandaff, Wales. Subsequent media coverage of the filming revealed details of the new series, ranging from Amy Pond's apparent profession to glimpses of the redesigned TARDIS interior.
• 5 - The Dalek War DVD box set was released in the UK, comprising the connected storylines DW: Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks.
• 5 - Silva Screen Records released a CD containing soundtrack music from Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D..
• 5 - David Tennant: A Life in Time and Space was published in paperback.
• 6 - The BBC unveiled a new Doctor Who logo for Series 5.
• 6 - Blue Peter launched a contest calling on viewers to design a TARDIS console that apparently would be used in an upcoming episode of Doctor Who.
• 8 - BBCR: The Dead Shoes, part 2 of the BBCR: Hornets' Nest arc starring Tom Baker, was first released.
• 8 - BBCR: Day of the Troll was first released.
• 8 - SJAA: The Shadow People and SJAA: The White Wolf were first released.
• 8 - NSA: The Dalek Project, the first Doctor Who graphic novel commissioned by and published by BBC Books, was scheduled for publication this date, but according to the BBC Shop site the publication date was moved to 1 March 2012.
• 9 - Barry Letts, Doctor Who producer, director and writer, died.
• 10 - Stephen Gately, who played Tommy Tomorrow in BFA: Horror of Glam Rock, died.
• 14 - This was the expiration date for the download offer included in Doctor Who Magazine issue 411 that allowed readers to download an exclusive Big Finish Productions audio drama, CC: The Mists of Time.
• 15 - SJA: Prisoner of the Judoon Part 1 was first broadcast, launching the third season of The Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC. This season two episodes aired per week.
• 16 - SJA: Prisoner of the Judoon Part 2 was first broadcast.
• 16 - Tom Baker read Barry Letts' obituary on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Last Word.
• 16 - Denys Hawthorne (Rudge in DW: Terror of the Vervoids) died.
• 17 - This was the thirtieth anniversary of Doctor Who Magazine, the longest continually running publication of its type based upon an English-language TV series.
• 19 - BBC Video released its second themed box set reissuing related episodes of the revived series, named The Dalek Collection. Episodes included DW: Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End.
• 21 - 22 - BFA: Prison in Space was recorded.
• 21 - Chris D'Oyly-John died. D'Oyley-John was a longtime production unit manager, production assistant and assistant floor manager during the classic series.
• 22 - SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic Part 1 was first broadcast.
• 23 - SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic Part 2 was first broadcast.
• 25 - David Tennant began his first post-Doctor Who television job, and his first American TV assignment, as host of Masterpiece Contemporary on PBS.
• 26 - The first four seasons of the revived Doctor Who were released in the UK in a single twenty-three-disc DVD box set edition, as were the first 3 seasons of Torchwood in a fourteen-disc box set.
• 27 - The first four seasons of the revived Doctor Who were released in Region 1 (North America) in a single 23-disc DVD box set edition. (No such Region 1 release occurred for Torchwood, however.)
• 29 - SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith Part 1 was first broadcast, featuring a guest appearance by David Tennant as the Doctor, the first time the Doctor had appeared in a spin-off series. The episode scored the series' highest-ever ratings.
• 29 - Elisabeth Sladen and Russell T Davies appeared on BBC Breakfast to promote that night's episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. The studio used for BBC Breakfast was the same one where Sladen filmed Doctor Who in the mid-1970s.
• 30 - SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith Part 2 was first broadcast, again featuring David Tennant.
• 30 - Press preview for DW: The Waters of Mars took place.
• 30 - David Tennant appeared on GMTV during which he announced the airdate for DW: The Waters of Mars.
• 30 - This was the seventy-fifth anniversary of Maida Vale studio, where the BBC Radiophonic Workshop recorded the Doctor Who theme among other works.
• 31 - The first episode of the spin-off series K9, K9TV: Regeneration, debuted in the UK on the Disney XD channel. This was a special, to be followed by the remainder of the series in 2010.

November

• BFA: The Eternal Summer was first released.
• IW: The Claws of Santa was first released.
• CC: Ringpullworld was first released.
• BBC America's upcoming broadcasts of the final David Tennant specials received major promotion in full-page ads in American comic books issued this month, including those published by DC Comics.
• 2 - 03 - BFA: The Macros began recording.
• 2 - NBC announced David Tennant would film a pilot for a proposed new series, Rex was Not Your Lawyer. Tennant became the first Doctor actor to be signed to lead an American TV series.
• 3 - The DVDs of DW: The War Games (including footage from the fan-film Devious) and the Black Guardian Trilogy box set, consisting of DW: Mawdryn Undead, DW: Terminus and DW: Enlightenment, were released in North America.
• 5 - SJA: The Eternity Trap Part 1 was first broadcast
• 5 - BBCR: The Circus of Doom from BBC Audio, part 2 of the BBCR: Hornets' Nest arc starring Tom Baker, was first released.
• 5 - SJAN: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith was first published.
• 5 - The audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth was first released.
• 5 - The DVD Box set The Black Guardian Trilogy featuring DW: Mawdryn Undead, Terminus and Enlightenment was released to Region 4.
• 6 - SJA: The Eternity Trap Part 2 was first broadcast.
• 8 - The Doctor Who Museum at Blackpool closed after five years of operation.
• 8 - The death of Alan Chuntz, a frequent stuntman on Doctor Who, was announced.
• 9 - The DVD of The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 was released in the UK.
• 9 - Barry Letts' autobiography, Who and Me, was first published.
• 10 - The DVD of The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 was released in North America.
• 10 - The UK version of the MSN Video website began featuring classic series episodes, uploaded for viewing on Tuesdays and Fridays as of this date. The first story featured was DW: The Web Planet.
• 11 - Fantasy legend Michael Moorcock announced he would write a Doctor Who novel for publication by the end of 2010.
• 12 - SJA: Mona Lisa's Revenge Part 1 was first broadcast.
• 13 - SJA: Mona Lisa's Revenge Part 2 was first broadcast.
• 15 - DW: The Waters of Mars was first broadcast, the second of the gap year specials. An edition of Doctor Who Confidential followed.
• 15 - BBC Worldwide released several classic series stories to YouTube for viewing outside of the United Kingdom; the files included advertising.
• 16 - The Key to Time: The Complete Adventure DVD box set was released, months after its North American release. This set had actually been previously issued in the UK in 2007, but in a limited edition; this was its first wide release in Region 2.
• 19 - SJA: The Gift Part 1 was first broadcast.
• 20 - SJA: The Gift Part 2 was first broadcast, concluding the third season of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• 20 - The annual Children in Need appeal on BBC One included a preview of DW: The End of Time.
• 21 - DW: Dreamland Part 1 was released on the BBC Red Button service, as well as other UK-based satellite networks. It was also available (for UK users only) on the BBC's Doctor Who website.
• 21 - Michael Moorcock wrote an article in The Guardian about Doctor Who, for which he will be writing a novel.
• 22 - DW: Dreamland Part 2 was released.
• 23 - DW: Dreamland Part 3 was released.
• 24 - DW: Dreamland Part 4 was released.
• 25 - DW: Dreamland Part 5 was released.
• 26 - DW: Dreamland Part 6 was released, concluding the animated serial.
• 29 - New Zealand broadcast DW: The Waters of Mars on Prime.
• 29 - Bernard Cribbins received a special BAFTA award for his six-decade career in film and TV.
• 30 - BFA: The Nightmare Fair was released, launching a new spin-off series of Big Finish Productions audio dramas entitled The Lost Stories adapting scripts planned for the TV series but never produced, in this case The Nightmare Fair. This was actually the second audio adaptation of The Nightmare Fair following an earlier, unofficial production mounted for charity.
• 30 - The UK Royal Mint announced the release of a series of commemorative medals honouring Doctor Who. This was the first time a TV series had been featured on Mint-produced coins. The coins featured David Tennant, the Doctor's TARDIS, Daleks and other characters.
• Late November - Filming for Series 5 of Doctor Who took place in Croatia.
• Late November - The December issue of the UK edition of Reader's Digest was published, featuring a cover story on Doctor Who.

December

• BFA: Plague of the Daleks was first released.
• BFBS: Secret Histories was first published.
• A revised and updated edition of Hines Sight, the autobiography of Frazer Hines first issued in 1996, was published.
• The BBC released a series of short promo videos, or "idents" featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, for broadcast during the Christmas season. Four spots were created: a thirty-second-long mini-story in which the Doctor turned the TARDIS into a sleigh with the help of some flying reindeer, and three five-second-long "stings", one featuring Tennant digging the TARDIS out of a snowdrift, and two featuring a reindeer wandering around the outside of the TARDIS. A modified version of the main thirty-second ident also aired in the US on BBC America.
• 1 - The 2009 Doctor Who Adventure Calendar was launched on the BBC's Doctor Who website. As with previous advent calendars, each day of the month a different special feature was uploaded, from exclusive video to fiction. This year the calendar featured two original short stories and an original mini-episode.
• 2 - IDW: Through Time and Space was published in North America. This was a graphic novel omnibus of the one-shot comics published by IDW Publishing throughout 2009.
• 3 - The final two chapters of the BBCR: Hornets' Nest audio drama arc from BBC Audio were first released: BBCR: A Sting in the Tale and BBCR: Hive of Horror, both starring Tom Baker and Richard Franklin.
• 3 - Richard Todd, who played Sanders in DW: Kinda, died.
• 3 - The first 4 seasons of Doctor Who were released to Region 4 in a single twenty-three-DVD collection. DW: The Twin Dilemma was also released in Region 4.
• 5 - DW: Dreamland was broadcast in its entirety on BBC Two.
• 5 - The Dalek Collection, a DVD compilation including DW: Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways, Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, was released in Region 4.
• 6 - This was the twentieth anniversary of the broadcast of DW: Survival Episode 3, the final episode of the original 1963-1989 series.
• 6 - Part One of WC: The Advent of Fear, a two-part online short story, was published as part of the BBC's Doctor Who Adventure Calendar.
• 6 - DW: The Waters of Mars was broadcast on ABC1 in Australia.
• 8 - The London events listings magazine Time Out published a special Doctor Who-themed issue with ten variant cover photos -- one for every Doctor.
• 10 - Part Two of WC: The Advent of Fear, an exclusive-to-Internet short story, appeared on the BBC's Doctor Who Adventure Calendar.
• 12 - The Panda Book of Horror, an Iris Wildthyme short story collection, was first published.
• 12 - The BBC Radio 4 documentary Shelved, which looked at the cancellation of the Tom Baker story DW: Shada, among others, was broadcast. The special included "a key revelation" about Doctor Who discovered in documentation from the era.
• 12 - BBC Radio 7 rebroadcast An Hour with Jon Pertwee, a one-man show recorded by the one-time Doctor actor.
• 12 - DW: Dreamland was rebroadcast on CBBC.
• 12 - Doctor Who Magazine #416 was published, marking the publication's final use of the Doctor Who logo introduced in 2005. One regular feature reached a milestone as the "Time Team" completed its ten-year project to watch and review every "classic series" story.
• 13 - Paul Cornell published an unofficial Doctor Who short story, The Last Doctor, on his blog.
• 14 - The Welsh government approved plans to develop a BBC Drama Village, a series of studios near Cardiff Bay to be used for productions such as Doctor Who.
• 15 - Blue Peter aired a feature on Doctor Who.
• 15 - Steven Moffat was interviewed by Matthew Sweet on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves about his new job on Doctor Who.
• 16 - A Doctor Who-themed edition of the comedy quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, guest-hosted by David Tennant with Bernard Cribbins and Catherine Tate as panellists, was first broadcast.
• 16 - An interview with David Tennant was aired on BBC One's Six O'Clock News.
• 17 - Part 1 of WC: The Doctor on My Shoulder, an exclusive online short story, was uploaded to the 2009 BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar.
• 17 - Press showing for DW: The End of Time, Part One, took place.
• 17 - James Cairncross (Lemaitre, DW: The Reign of Terror and Beta in DW: The Krotons) died at the age of 94.
• 18 - Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf, Part 2 was rebroadcast on BBC7 Radio.
• 18 - InnerSPACE, an entertainment news program on the Canadian cable network Space, devoted an entire episode to Doctor Who.
• 18 - DW: Planet of the Dead was rebroadcast on Space in Canada.
• 19 - DW: The Waters of Mars was broadcast on BBC America in the US and Space in Canada.
• 19 - Donald Pickering (Eyesen in DW: The Keys of Marinus, Captain Blade in DW: The Faceless Ones and Beyus in DW: Time and the Rani) died.
• 19 - DW: The Infinite Quest was rebroadcast on BBC2.
• 19 - A special Doctor Who Adventures mini-magazine appeaed in the Daily Mirror. Unlike past inserts which were reprints, this publication included all-new material and was the first DWA-related publication to be simply titled Doctor Who rather than Doctor Who Adventures.
• 20 - Space in Canada rebroadcasted DW: The Waters of Mars.
• 20 - The Observer Magazine ran a cover feature on David Tennant and Doctor Who.
• 22 - DW: The Next Doctor was rebroadcast on BBC3.
• 23 - DW: Planet of the Dead was rebroadcast on BBC3.
• 23 - WC: The Doctor on My Shoulder Part 2 was uploaded to the BBC Doctor Who Adventure Calendar.
• 24 - WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas was uploaded to the BBC Doctor Who Adventure Calendar. This short video story retold the origin of the Weeping Angels (DW: Blink) and showed the disappearance of a young woman. The video was not available for viewing outside the UK.
• 24 - David Tennant was interviewed on GMTV.
• 24 - DW: Dreamland was rebroadcast on BBC One.
• 24 - DW: The Waters of Mars was rebroadcast on BBC3.
• 24 - Radio Times published a special magazine paying tribute to the David Tennant era. The special was available via mail-order only.
• 25 - DW: The End of Time, Part One, the fifth Doctor Who Christmas special, was first broadcast. An episode of Doctor Who Confidential followed.
• 26 - The End of Time, Part I was broadcast in the US on BBC America.
• 26 - The film version of Hamlet starring David Tennant was broadcast on BBC2.
• 26 - David Tennant and Catherine Tate guest-hosted the Jonathan Ross programme on BBC Radio 2. Their guests included Bernard Cribbins and Peter Davison. During the broadcast the two began discussing how to properly pronounce the year "2010", with Tennant claiming the BBC had instituted a rule on the matter. The debate sparked additional discussion and debate in media around the world.
• 26 - The documentary Doctor Who - The Lost Episodes was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
• 27 - DW: The End of Time, Part One was rebroadcast on BBC3.
• 27 - David Tennant appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
• 29 - Who on Who, a BBC Radio 2 special in which David Tennant interviewed Russell T Davies about Doctor Who, was broadcast.
• Last week of December: Radio Times listed Matt Smith as a face to watch in 2010 and included an interview with Steven Moffat discussing Smith.
• 31 - BFA: Mission to Magnus was released, adapting the unreleased Doctor Who serial as part of The Lost Stories line.
• 31 - Doctor Who at the Proms was rebroadcast on BBC HD.
• 31 - Promoting the next day's finale, David Tennant appeared on BBC One's Breakfast program, and later took part in a BBC Radio 5 phone-in programme. An appearance on MTV was also broadcast around this time.
• 31 - David Tennant and Catherine Tate made a pre-recorded appearance on Channel 4's Alan Carr: Chatty Man.