Timeline for 2010

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2010 was a year.

Events

Dated

January - April

Jack Harkness investigated the House of the Dead and encountered the ghost of Ianto Jones before it was destroyed. At the same time, the Rift was apparently sealed forever. (AUDIO: The House of the Dead ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) However, temporary holes in space-time would persist in Cardiff in the years that would follow. (COMIC: The Doctor and the Nurse ^[+]Brandon Seifert, Doctor Who (2012) (IDW Publishing, 2012-2013)., AUDIO: More Than This ^[+]Guy Adams, Torchwood (Big Finish Productions, 2016).)

Gwen Cooper and Rhys Williams met with Jack Harkness outside Cardiff. Jack, still mourning the deaths of his grandson, Ianto, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato and Suzie Costello, used his recovered vortex manipulator to send a signal to a cold fusion freighter just outside the Sol system. He was beamed into space. With the departure of Jack, Torchwood Three unofficially ceased to exist. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five ^[+]Russell T Davies, Torchwood series 3 (BBC One, 2009).)

On 24 April, the wedding of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane occurred in Cheldon Bonniface, England, Earth. Many guests from throughout time and space attended. (PROSE: Happy Endings ^[+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was restored to youth and health by the Fortean Flicker. (PROSE: Happy Endings ^[+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

May - August

On 25 June, the Eleventh Doctor returned to Amy Pond's house two years after the incident with the Atraxi and Prisoner Zero from 2008 and invited her to travel with him. (TV: The Eleventh Hour ^[+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 5 (BBC One, 2010).) They left together, and returned at 11:55 PM, after escaping from the wreckage of the Byzantium. (TV: Flesh and Stone ^[+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 5 (BBC One, 2010).)

On 26 June, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy left for Venice in 1580 after picking up Amy's fiancé Rory Williams from his stag party. (TV: Flesh and Stone ^[+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 5 (BBC One, 2010).) Amy and Rory got married after the Eleventh Doctor, with Amy's help, had restored the universe to its original condition. (TV: The Big Bang ^[+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 5 (BBC One, 2010).)

The Institute of Temporal Consistency determined that the universe exploded on 26 June in 2010, leaving scientists very confused about why it still existed. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary ^[+]Chris Farnell, BBC Children's Books (2020).)

On 19 August, Luke Smith received his A Level results, all (four) A Stars. (TV: The Nightmare Man ^[+]Joseph Lidster, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

September - December

On 10 September, Luke Smith, Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra defeated the Nightmare Man by trapping him inside a dream. Luke left with K9 for Oxford University. (TV: The Nightmare Man ^[+]Joseph Lidster, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

Soon after Luke arrived at Oxford, a critically ill Androvax returned to Earth to free the remains of the Veil species from an interdimensional vault there. With Sarah Jane Smith and Mister Dread's help, he took the spaceship with the Veil safely off Earth into space to search for a new home. Mister Dread gave his life saving the day. (TV: The Vault of Secrets ^[+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

On 26 September, NASA announced a manned mission to Mars, which was scheduled for 2035. (COMIC: Super Gran ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Jilly Kitzinger started working for PhiCorp. (TV: Escape to LA ^[+]Jim Gray and John Shiban, Torchwood series 4 (Starz, 2011).)

Sarah Jane Smith was told by UNIT they had found the Doctor's body. She and her gang, along with Jo Jones and her grandson, were invited to the Doctor's funeral underneath Mount Snowdon. The Eleventh Doctor arrived; his death had been faked by the Claw Shansheeth. Using a machine he built, he swapped places with Clyde Langer from where he had been trapped in the Crimson Heart. With help from Jo and Sarah Jane, he fixed his teleporter and returned them all to Earth properly. The Claw Shansheeth and Tia Karim used memory weave technology to attempt to create a TARDIS key from the Doctor's companions' memories. Sarah Jane and Jo overloaded the machine, killing the Shansheeth and Tia. (TV: Death of the Doctor ^[+]Russell T Davies, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

Before 23 November, Clyde and Rani, having been grounded by the Judoon, were the only two humans left on Earth. They found an alien prince, Gavin, and delivered him to royal robots so he could take his rightful place as king of his home planet. Gavin happily teleported to his home planet after he knighted Clyde and Rani and ordered the return of the warp shunted human race. (TV: The Empty Planet ^[+]Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

On 23 November, the Shopkeeper requested the Bannerman Road gang's help to acquire Chronosteel at key points in time to save the Earth. While two of the pieces were supplied, one was left behind with Emily Morris in 1889. Her descendant, Angela, having been handed the newspaper article of the red herring the Shopkeeper had used to draw the Bannerman Road gang to him, gave the Shopkeeper the piece, saving the timestream. The Shopkeeper departed with his parrot Captain. (TV: Lost in Time ^[+]Rupert Laight, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

Sarah Jane encountered an unwilling ally using the alias of Ruby White. Ruby ultimately faked Sarah Jane's retirement, taking over 13 Bannerman Road and Mr Smith, and tried to kill Sarah Jane by draining her life-force. Ruby was defeated by being overwhelmed by humanity's fears of meteors (in simulations created by Mr White, reprogrammed by Luke). She was sent off into space on her prison ship. (TV: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith ^[+]Clayton Hickman and Gareth Roberts, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

On 24 December, the Novelisor Huxley forced Iris Wildthyme to park her Celestial Omnibus in the basement of the Selfridges on Oxford Street. Huxley approached Jo Jones while she was doing her Christmas shopping and tried to convince her that all of her memories of working with UNIT and the Third Doctor were lies and that she had actually been an agent of MIAOW and a companion of Iris. Huxley took Jo to the Celestial Omnibus and introduced her to Iris. Iris and Jo decided to pilot the omnibus to UNIT HQ in the 1970s to prove Huxley wrong. Panda stayed behind in 2010 to conduct a secret mission. (AUDIO: Find and Replace ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

On 25 December, the John Fuchas film adaptation of The True History of Planets was broadcast on BBC Three. According to one account, Elizabeth II was dead by this point, meaning that there was no Queen's Christmas speech. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen ^[+]Paul Magrs, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2002).)

Undated

According to one account, the crew of a sleeper starship which set off from Earth entered deep sleep. Upon awakening on the planet Vulcan, the crew opted to begin their dating system from the time they entered deep sleep and so acknowledged the year as 2010 despite the passing of several centuries. It was after this awakening that they endured a Dalek attack. (PROSE: The History of the Daleks ^[+]John Peel and Terry Nation, The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book (St Martin's Press, 1988).)

The Eleventh Doctor and Amy went to New York City and found that the city had been invaded by Vykoids. (PROSE: The Forgotten Army ^[+]Brian Minchin, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2010).)

The Tenth Doctor and Majenta Pryce landed in Sydney, Australia and foiled an invasion of the Skith. (COMIC: The Age of Ice ^[+]Dan McDaid, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2009).)

The Eleventh Doctor took Amy Pond to see a Vincent van Gogh exhibit in the Musée d'Orsay. They discovered a monster peeping through a church window in van Gogh's painting, The Church at Auvers. They travelled back to 1890 to discover the meaning of the painting and later took Vincent to 2010 to show modern evaluation of his work. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor ^[+]Richard Curtis, Doctor Who series 5 (BBC One, 2010).)

Iris Wildthyme and Panda attended a book launch party on Shaftsbury Avenue in London. Afterwards, they recuperated in the Celestial Omnibus with Elspeth May. George Mann saw them and drew a sketch using crayons and felt tip markers. (PROSE: Iris at the V&A ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

The Seventh Doctor and Ace visited Earth. (PROSE: The Devil Like a Bear ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Albert and Tamara Wilson took their children to Disney World in Florida. During their trip, Albert attended a business meeting with an American client that took place during a birthday party, to which he brought his daughter Lucy along. At the party, 5-year-old Lucy experienced racism for the first time, when she jumped into a swimming pool with other, white children, who were hastily ushered out by their parents. Albert was enraged when he realised what was going on, after one of the parents told him that they did not want their children splashing around with a "dirty little monkey". (PROSE: 8.46 ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Other timelines

Time Field timeline

On 26 June, River Song arrived some time in the early morning before sunrise after the TARDIS landed there. She investigated Amy's house and found two books, one on Pandora's box and one on Roman Britain, beside Amy's bed. She took them for analysis in the TARDIS (TV: The Pandorica Opens ^[+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 5 (BBC One, 2010).) shortly before the Silence exploded the TARDIS on this date, (TV: The Time of the Doctor ^[+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2013 (BBC One, 2013).) cracking all of time and space. (TV: The Pandorica Opens ^[+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 5 (BBC One, 2010).)

Pete's World

Mickey Smith, Jake Simmonds and Pete travelled from a parallel world back to the Doctor's universe. They and Rose and Jackie Tyler were stuck in Pete's World after the tear through the Void closed. (TV: Doomsday ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006).)^{[nb 1]}

Births and deaths

Doctor RV Singh died. (PROSE: The Mandela Effect, Or Monsters on the Streets of London ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Other

During the last few years of Ianto Jones' life, his bank card was due to expire in May 2010. (AUDIO: Fall to Earth ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) By that time, he had died a year prior during the invasion of the 456. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four ^[+]John Fay, Torchwood series 3 (BBC One, 2009).)

Igrix intended to end all wars in 2010. (COMIC: The Love Invasion ^[+]Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman, DWM Comics (2005).)

Behind the scenes

In a sketch on The Lenny Henry Show, a version of the Seventh Doctor played by Lenny Henry and Peri Brown visited London in 2010 to find that Cybermen led by Thatchos had taken over Britain's workforce.

In the initial pitch for what would become TV: Dalek, entitled Return of the Daleks, writer Russell T Davies set the story in Utah in 2010. While the location would remain unchanged in the final version by Robert Shearman, the time would be advanced by two years to 2012, seven years ahead of its 2005 premiere.^[1]

Though the Torchwood television stories Fragments and Exit Wounds have an apparent 2008 setting going by Jack Harkness's dialogue in Exit Wounds, this is complicated by mentions of Owen Harper's early employment with Torchwood from both of these stories. While Exit Wounds explicitly states that Toshiko Sato's examination of the space pig from the Doctor Who television story Aliens of London ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005)., a story set a year after 2005, happened on Owen's second week, a caption in Fragments places Owen's recruitment four years before those stories. This appears to put Fragments and Exit Wounds in 2010 instead.

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