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2015 in

the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

Timeline for 2015
21st century | 2010s

2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021
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2015 was, according to the Twelfth Doctor, an unimportant year in the grand scale of things. (PROSE: Big Bang Generation)

The Fourth Doctor attempted to take Leela; they ended up in London on 30 January 2025. (AUDIO: Energy of the Daleks)

During this year, Harry Sullivan was said to be alive and working for MI5, (PROSE: Damaged Goods) despite his friend and fellow companion Sarah Jane Smith's belief that he had died by 2009. (PROSE: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)

The relations between the United States and Cuba remained tense. The Centre of Balance, which had been founded in the United Kingdom by Clarke Goodman in 1987, had 244 million members worldwide. Its membership had increased fivefold since 2010. The British space programme was fully operational but retained its reputation for amateurism. (AUDIO: The Eight Truths)

By this time, Sally Morgan was a 15-year-old orphan who was living with her grandfather and Lysandra was a sergeant in the British Army. (AUDIO: Project: Nirvana)

January - June

A few months after Jack Odwards fell into the Gomagog wormhole in the River Thames in late 2014, the american television show The World's Strangest Mysteries traveled to London to do an episode on his disappearance. While filming an episode on Kronos Vad's History of Earth Volume 36,379, Jenni Marcel, the host of the show, met Iris Wildthyme and Edwin Turner. History of Earth Volume 36,379 detailed that the Gomagog would invade Earth that week, something that the Gomagog did not want humanity knowing. They changed history so that Sherlock Holmes died in 1911, meaning that he was not able to save the book. Iris fixed history and trapped the Gomagog ship in the same wormhole that swallowed Jack Odwards. (AUDIO: Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379))

Give Free or Die (comic story)

Zzagnar takes control of humanity. (COMIC: Give Free or Die)

On free comic book day, a living story called Zzagnar tried to take over the Earth by giving itself away in free comics, books, magazines, and audio files. Anyone that read or listened to Zzagnar became under its control. Many car crashes occurred because people were reading while driving. The Eleventh Doctor, Alice Obiefune, John Jones, and ARC landed in Piccadilly Circus during the invasion. The Doctor took a Zzagnar comic into his TARDIS and used the telepathic circuits to drain Zzagnar out of fiction and into reality, making all of the books, comics, and magazines blank. Zzagnar stayed on Earth and became a popular comic book writer. (COMIC: Give Free or Die)

On 7 June, the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka and Turlough visited the Moon. (COMIC: The Lunar Strangers)

After the last day of the Coal Hill School term, Clara Oswald was picked up in her flat by the Twelfth Doctor. (PROSE: Deep Time)

Hyperion invasion of Earth

In the summer, Earth was invaded and for several weeks enslaved by the last surviving Hyperions.

After sending surveillance probes across the galaxy, the Hyperions learned that the Time Lords had been destroyed during the Last Great Time War. Emerging from their hiding place on Neptune, the Hyperions went towards Earth with the intentions of using the planet and its population to create a fusion web around the Sun. The web would drain the sun of all its solar energy. The Hyperions planned on using the energy to prolong their lives.

Windermere destruction

Tourists run from a tidal wave caused by the Hyperion scout ship's crash into Lake Windermere. (COMIC: The Hyperion Empire)

The Hyperion's first contact with Earth came when they sent a scout ship. While passing through Earth's atmosphere, the ship collided with the International Space Station, burning all of the astronauts onboard. Their bodies were taken by the Hyperion and transmuted into fusion angels. The ship then crashed into Lake Windermere, evaporating the lake and killing hundreds. Three helicopters from RAF Spadeadam were sent to the crater formed by the ship. As they informed their officers that a spaceship caused the damage, the helicopters were shot down. The British Army were sent in under the command of UNIT, but they were killed as well. The Hyperions then broadcast a message across all of Earth: "Hyperios rises".

Hyperion slave camp

Human slaves build a part for the fusion web in the burnt remains of East Sussex. (COMIC: The Hyperion Empire)

After the entire Hyperion fleet landed, they attacked London. Buildings were burnt down and the streets became covered in ashes from the people killed. Within days, all of Earth's armies were wiped out. The majority of the human population were taken prisoner by the Hyperions and forced to build parts for the fusion web. Those in London that escaped hid in the London Underground. The Hyperions erected walls of fire around their slave camps which incinerated any who got near.

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The Twelfth Doctor is surrounded by the Scorched. (COMIC: The Hyperion Empire)

A few weeks later, the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald landed in London near Big Ben. They searched the city for people and met a fireman named Sam near Westminster Abbey. Sam took the Doctor and Clara to King's Cross station, where they encountered Kate Stewart. Kate declared that during the time of crisis the Doctor was President of Earth.

The Doctor, Clara, and Sam went to the camp in the remains of East Sussex and encountered a fusion angel that used to be Weir, one of the astronauts on the space station. They were chased back into the TARDIS, were Sam sprayed the angel with his fire extinguisher. The Doctor was able to help Weir regain her memories.

They went back to UNIT's underground base and prepared them for an attack on the East Sussex camp. The Doctor had learned that the final piece of the fusion web was being created there and was almost completed. They freed the slaves, but didn't stop the part from being finished. Before the final piece was inserted into the web, the Doctor hacked his TARDIS into it. When the web was completed, the Doctor was able to get into the Hyperions' control network with his TARDIS and send them five billion years into the future. Weir kept the Hyperions away from the controls as they were sent to an explosion too hot for even the Hyperions: the destruction of Earth's sun. (COMIC: The Hyperion Empire)

July - September

Iris Wildthyme and Captain Edwin Turner encountered the Scorchies at a Brian Bonamy concert in Margate. (AUDIO: Comeback of the Scorchies)

Entity in Trafalgar

John Jones chases the Doctor's TARDIS through Trafalgar Square. (COMIC: The Comfort of the Good)

After the Eleventh Doctor lost his TARDIS, it was attracted to the nearest Time Lord, which was the Talent Scout in the form of the Doctor's mother. The Doctor followed his TARDIS to London in summer 2015 with the help of John Jones. John chased the Talent Scout through London on top of the Entity in the form of a dragon. He caught the TARDIS and the Doctor took the Talent Scout back to the Entity. (COMIC: The Comfort of the Good)

Erimem was brought to the London Museum of History and Antiquities by a cult worshipping Ash-Ama-Teseth. (PROSE: The Last Pharaoh)

On 14 August, Iris Wildthyme played a game of interdimensional poker against a group of dangerous aliens in the Nebulon Constelation. After a Naxian called her bluff, she lost. In order to save her life, Iris made a deal with the aliens that she would organise a party for them in two days and she would make MIAOW pay for it.

On 15 August, MIAOW received a broadcast from a race of multidimensional beings who were planning on destroying all life on Earth. MIAOW contacted Iris and she helped negotiate with the aliens. MIAOW would provide the aliens with a party at the temple of the Lord of Time on Saturn's moon Iapetus.

On 16 August, MIAOW gave Iris a buffet table, a dozen crates of beer, and a karaoke machine, which she took to Iapetus. Iris singlehandedly prepared a party at the temple. (PROSE: Our Tune)

Missy time froze all of Earth's planes in an attempt to get Clara Oswald's attention. This brief worldwide phenomenon ended when Missy released the planes at Clara's request. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)

Ravenscaur Sea Devils

The Sea Devils at Ravenscaur. (COMIC: Clara Oswald and the School of Death)

In late September, Clara Oswald got a job at Ravenscaur School to investigate the disappearance of Christel Dean. Four days after Clara's arrival Daniel Claremont, the British Prime Minister, gave a speech on global warming at the school. The Twelfth Doctor sabotaged the event by activating the sprinkler system, which melted Claremont's disguise. (COMIC: Clara Oswald and the School of Death)

October - December

On 21 October, the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller visited London. (AUDIO: The Eight Truths)

On Christmas day, Andy Hansen convinced Erimem to take her to 1964 to get the book Doctor X in an Amazing Adventure in Space. (PROSE: In Search of Doctor X)

Also on Christmas, Ross McNamara went into his school's basement after he was dared to by his friend Dan Hinchliffe. Ross accidentally walked into a Helestican space ship that was trapped under the school and was transported to 2115. In the future, he met the Twelfth Doctor, who took him back to 2015. (PROSE: Haunted)

Undated events

The Seventh Doctor, Sally and Lysandra Aristedes fought Derleth in Romania. (AUDIO: Project: Nirvana)

The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield encountered Sutekh in Egypt. (AUDIO: The Vaults of Osiris)

Other realities

Amy'sChoiceLineup

The Doctor and his companions in the Dream Lord's world. (TV: Amy's Choice)

A dream created by the Dream Lord was set in this year. In it, the Eleventh Doctor returned to Amy Pond and Rory Williams in Upper Leadworth on the day before Amy would give birth to her first child. The Doctor, Amy and Rory were pursued by the Eknodine. The three alternated between this dream and another dream set onboard a dead TARDIS headed for a cold star. The Dream Lord led them to believe one of the dreams was reality. With Rory killed by the Eknodine, Amy decided she was willing to risk her life if it meant there was a chance of seeing Rory again. She crashed a van into a house, killing herself and the Doctor in the dream and "waking them up" on the TARDIS, bound for the cold star. They then flew away. (TV: Amy's Choice)

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