Most of the episodes in this era are set approximately a year after their airdate. The early 21st century is described by the Doctor and Jack Harkness as when the course of humanity changes.
- Spring 2004[1]; Toshiko Sato is inducted into Torchwood. (Fragments)
- Early March 2005[2]; The Ninth Doctor arrives in London and meets Rose Tyler. After they defeat the Nestene Consciousness and the Autons, she becomes his companion. (Rose) Elton Pope is also present at the events. (Love & Monsters)
- 21 February 2006[1]; Owen Harper is inducted into Torchwood. (Fragments)
- 6 March 2006[2]; The Ninth Doctor and Rose return to London a year after the left. They foil a plot by the Slitheen to bring down the British government, destroying Big Ben and 10 Downing Street in the process. Harriet Jones becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (Aliens of London and World War Three) Elton Pope is also present at the events. (Love & Monsters)
- 6 September 2006[3]; The Ninth Doctor and Rose arrive in Cardiff to refuel, and prevent a Slitheen from using a nuclear power station to destroy the city. (Boom Town)
- Autumn 2006[4] ; Rose is sent back to 21st century London by the Ninth Doctor for a brief period during the events on Satellite 5 in the year 200,100. (The Parting of the Ways)
- 24-25 December 2006[5] ; The newly-regenerated Tenth Doctor and Rose arrive back on Earth for Christmas; A Sycorax invasion ship appears over London and the doctor defeats its leader in a duel. The ship is later destroyed by Harriet Jones using a Torchwood weapon, which leads to the Doctor to sow the seeds of her demise. (The Christmas Invasion) Elton Pope is also present at the events. (Love & Monsters)
- January or February 2007[8]; The Tenth Doctor and Rose meet up with Sarah Jane Smith at a school and they team up to (School Reunion)
- Shortly after School Reunion[9]; One scene in the Lost Boy (The Lost Boy)
|"Rise of the Cybermen" & "The Age of Steel" || 1 February 2007 (alternate timeline)[10] || 10th || 2006 |- |"The Age of Steel" (partly) || between "School Reunion" and "Love and Monsters"[8] || 10th || 2006 |- |"Love & Monsters" || March-April 2007[11] || 10th || 2006 |- |"The Runaway Bride" (flashbacks) || five dates in 2007 from June[12] || 10th || 2006 |- |"Army of Ghosts" & "Doomsday" || Summer 2007[11] || 10th || 2006 |- |"Fragments" (Ianto's induction flashback) || between "Doomsday" and "Everything Changes"[1] || TW || 2008 |- |"Everything Changes" to "They Keep Killing Suzie" || spanning 3 months in late 2007[11] || TW || 2006 |- |"Random Shoes" || between "They Keep Killing Suzie" and "Out of Time" || TW || 2006 |- |"Out of Time" || 17-24 December 2007[11] || TW || 2006 |- |"The Runaway Bride" || 24 December 2007[5] || 10th || 2006 |- |"Combat" || between "Out of Time" and "Captain Jack Harkness" || TW || 2006 |- |"Blink" (final scene) || 2008[13] || 10th || 2007 |- |"Adrift" (teaser) || between 15 February and 16 June 2008[14] || TW || 2008 |- |"Captain Jack Harkness" (partly)||rowspan=3|between "Adrift" (teaser) and "The Sound of Drums"[15] ||rowspan=2| TW ||rowspan=2| 2007 |- |"End of Days" |- |"Utopia" (first scene) || 10th || 2007 |- |"Smith and Jones" ||rowspan=5| spanning 6 days between late June and September 2008[16] ||rowspan=5| 10th ||rowspan=5| 2007 |- |"The Lazarus Experiment" |- |"42" (Earth scenes) |- |"The Sound of Drums" |- |"Last of the Time Lords" (final Valiant scenes) |- |"Last of the Time Lords" (Jack's departure) || after the final Valiant scenes, before Martha’s departure || 10th || 2007 |- |"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" to "Sleeper" || after "Last of the Time Lords" (Jack’s departure)[17], before "To the Last Man" || TW || 2008 |- |"To the Last Man" || 20-21 of either July, August or September 2008[16] || TW || 2008 |- |"Meat" to "From Out of the Rain" ||after "To the Last Man" and before 14 February 2009.[18] || TW || 2008 |- |”Last of the Time Lords” (Martha’s departure) || October/November 2008[16] || 10th || 2007 |- |"Adrift" (main part)||between 26 September 2008 and 21 February 2009, starting 7 months and 11 days after the teaser[14] || TW || 2008 |- |"Voyage of the Damned" || 24-25 December 2008[5] || 10th || 2007 |- |The Sarah Jane Adventures series 1 || January to June 2009[19] || SJA || 2007 |- |"Partners in Crime" || after "Voyage of the Damned"[20] || 10th || 2008 |- |"The Sontaran Stratagem" & "The Poison Sky"|| a few days after "Partners in Crime"[7] || 10th || 2008 |- |"The Doctor's Daughter" (final scene) || after "The Poison Sky"[21] || 10th || 2008 |- |"Fragments", "Exit Wounds" || Spring 2009[1] || TW || 2008 |- |"Last of the Time Lords" (negated timeline) || spanning 2 days between late June and September 2009, one year after "The Sound of Drums" [22] || 10th || 2007 |}
Symbols of the IPA
editLower-case Latin alphabet
edit| Symbol | Sound | Languages that use it |
|---|---|---|
| a | Open front unrounded vowel | French, German, Spanish |
| b | Voiced bilabial plosive | English, French, German |
| c | Voiceless palatal plosive | Scottish Gaelic |
| d | Voiced alveolar plosive | English, French, German |
| e | Close-mid front unrounded vowel | Italian, Portuguese, Swedish |
| f | Voiceless labiodental fricative | English, French, German, Spanish |
| g | Voiced velar plosive | English, German, Spanish |
| h | Voiceless glottal fricative | English, German, Norwegian |
| i | Close front unrounded vowel | French, Italian, Spanish |
| j | Palatal approximant | Danish, Dutch, German |
| k | Voiceless velar plosive | Dutch, English, Norwegian |
| l | Alveolar lateral approximant | English, French, German, Spanish |
| m | Bilabial nasal | English, French, German, Spanish |
| n | Alveolar nasal | English, Italian, Spanish |
| o | Close-mid back rounded vowel | Italian |
| p | Voiceless bilabial plosive | English, French, German, Spanish |
| q | Voiceless uvular plosive | Arabic (translit), Quechua, Uyghur |
| r | Alveolar trill | Czech, Dutch, Polish |
| s | Voiceless alveolar fricative | Dutch, English, Spanish |
| t | Voiceless alveolar plosive | English, French, German |
| u | Close back rounded vowel | German, Italian, Spanish |
| v | Voiced labiodental fricative | English, French, Italian |
| w | Voiced labio-velar approximant | English, Hawaiian, Malay |
| x | Voiceless velar fricative | Azerbaijani, Bulgarian |
| y | Close front rounded vowel | Danish, Finnish, Swedish |
| z | Voiced alveolar fricative | Dutch, English, Romanian |
Upper-case Latin alphabet
editGreek alphabet
edit| Symbol | Sound |
|---|---|
| β | Voiced bilabial fricative |
| ɣ (variant of gamma) | Voiced velar fricative |
| ɛ | Open-mid front unrounded vowel |
| θ | Voiceless dental fricative |
| ɸ | Voiceless bilabial fricative |
| χ | Voiceless uvular fricative |
Norse letters
edit| Symbol | Sound |
|---|---|
| ð | Voiced dental fricative |
| ø | Close-mid front rounded vowel |
- ^ a b c d The flashbacks showing Tosh, Ianto and Owen's inductions into Torchwood are preceded by captions giving the length of time from those events to those in Fragments. Ianto's is '21 months earlier', during which he refers to the events of Doomsday. Also, he must have joined before Everything Changes. This places Fragments in Spring 2009. Tosh and Owen's inductions are 5 and 4 years earlier, respectively. Tosh and Owen state that he had been in Torchwood for 2 weeks when the 'space pig' incident occured, which was in Aliens of London. The events of Exit Wounds follow immediately on those of Fragments, and together both episodes take place over two days. Note that Jack tells the 1901 Torchwood to set the timer to keep him frozen for 107 years, implying he awoke no later than 31 December 2008. However, we can posit approximation, misappreciation of the then date or poor arithmetic due to his ordeal.
- ^ a b The 'have you seen this girl' posters in Aliens of London say that Rose went missing 6 March 2005. Both the Doctor and Mickey say that she has been gone a whole year. Each storyline takes place over a few days. Elton has a flashback to both stories' events in Love & Monsters.
- ^ Six months after "World War Three", as stated in a caption at the beginning of the episode, which is set over a day.
- ^ The contemporary scenes take place after the events of "Boom Town" - Rose says to Mickey "the last time I saw you, with the Slitheen, this middle bit opened" - but before those of "The Christmas Invasion", as Jackie (on hearing the Tardis) says 'she's alive, Mickey! I said so, didn't I? She's alive!' And the Doctor has regenerated.
- ^ a b c The Christmas Invasion is after Aliens of London, as Jackie knows about the Doctor whom she first met in the latter episode. Wilf, in Voyage of the Damned, which is set at Christmas, states that the events of the Christmas Invasion happened 'the Christmas before last', and that the events of The Runaway Bride happened 'last year'. The events of To the Last Man and of Adrift both take place before March 2009, and the events of both episodes are after The Sound of Drums, which itself is after Runaway Bride. Therefore the latter must be set at either Christmas 2007 or Christmas 2008. However, if it is the latter, then Christmas Invasion would be set at Christmas 2007, and as the events of Sound of Drums are at least 18 months later, the latter episode would be set after May 2009, which is incompatible with it being set before March of that year. Therefore Runaway Bride is set at Christmas 2007 (specifically Christmas Eve, as stated in dialogue), with Christmas Invasion being a year earlier and Voyage of the Damned a year later (both specifically 24-25 December, as stated in dialogue) . Elton has a flashback to the events of Christmas Invasion in Love & Monsters.
- ^ Rose says goodbye to Jackie and Mickey, presumably shortly after Christmas, as when on New Earth, Rose says "you're so different", the Doctor responding "new, new Doctor".
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
indialoguewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b In School Reunion, Sarah Jane refers to the events of "The Christmas Invasion" as taking place at the Christmas just gone. Children are back at school, so in the New Year. Mickey is present, so before his relocation to the alternative universe in Age of Steel. That happened prior to Love & Monsters as Jackie tells Elton that Mickey had 'gone now. Bless him.' When the Doctor returns Rose to Jackie's flat in The Age of Steel she asks 'where's Mickey', not 'do you know where Mickey is', implying she knows he has started travelling with them, which was in School Reunion.
- ^ Mentioned to be set 18 months before the main events in The Lost Boy, which in turn is at least 18 months after "School Reunion".
- ^ "The episodes comprise a two-part storyline set on 1 February (stated a number of times in dialogue) and Mickey says the date of the newspaper he found is 'this year'. (Note: the story is set on the alternate Jackie Tyler's supposed 39th (actually 40th) birthday. Her official biography states that she was born on the same day as Cuba Gooding, Jr., though the real-life individual was actually born on 2 January 1968.)
- ^ a b c d In Love & Monsters, Elton specifically states Kennedy's arrival to a "Tuesday night in March". He met Ursula after The Christmas Invasion, and the presence of Jackie makes this before her relocation to the alternative universe in Doomsday. The latter episode events are referenced by the Doctor in The Runaway Bride. So both are in 2007. (Army of Ghosts and Doomsday takes place over a day. Love & Monsters over several weeks, and the flashbacks to the Hoix are in this period.) In Everything Changes, Jack references the events of Doomsday. In They Keep Killing Suzie he tells Suzie she's been dead 3 months. All episodes take place before Out of Time. Diane flew into the rift at the end of that episode, which Owen says (in End of Days) happened on 24 December (and Ianto tells Owen that he only knew Diane for a week). The episode takes place before The Sound of Drums, so this is Christmas 2007. (Note: Although Diane gives the date 18 December 1953 as 'today's date' at the beginning of the episode, there is nothing that implies a whole number of years has passed.) So Doomsday must be over three months prior to Christmas, but after March, placing it in the summer.
- ^ Flashbacks to when Donna meets Lance (which she states was 6 months before the episode), joking with him on stairs and asking him to marry her (three times).
- ^ The episode's final scene was introduced by a "One Year Later" caption on broadcast, but not on the DVD release.
- ^ a b Both PC Andy and various posters said that Jonah was born on 15 February 1993. Gwen twice said he was 15 when he disappeared. According to PC Andy, Jonah had been missing 7 months and 11 days. Therefore the teaser would be no earlier than 15 February 2008 and the main part of the episode would be on or after 26 September 2008. Gwen said she was looking for a 15-year old when going into the adult Jonah's room, which dates that event to no later than 14 February 2009. (Subsequent to that scene there was a 'One Week Later' caption, making the end of the episode no later than 21 February 2009.) A poster states that the first Searchlight meeting was on Mon 27, so that event is no later than 27 January 2009, which means the teaser can be no later than 16 June 2008. Note: the only Mon 27 within the period in real life is in October. However, days fall on different dates in the Doctor Who universe (see Out of Time and Captain Jack Harkness for examples).
- ^ According to PC Andy, Jack appeared at the scene one hour after Jonah went missing in the Adrift teaser, which itself is before The Sound of Drums, in which episode Jack returns. Therefore the teaser must be before Jack goes missing in End of Days, which episode follows directly on from Captain Jack Harkness. Note A "MISSING" poster on the Torchwood website states Jack was last seen in "Early February", but this is incompatible with dating information given in the program itself.
- ^ a b c In The Sound of Drums (SoD), Vivienne Rook says that Saxon became real 18 months ago just after the downfall of Harriett Jones, which would be shortly after The Christmas Invasion. Therefore SoD is no earlier than 25 June 2008. Martha says that it is the day after the election, which is four days after she met the Doctor. In The Lazarus Experiment, the Doctor says it is the morning after they left. In 42, Francine states it is Election Day. SoD (and Last of the Timelords (LotT), after time is reset) is set over 2 days. There is no information in LotT as to the length of time between the final Valiant scenes, Jack’s departure and Martha’s departure, though Tom Milligan takes Martha's phone call standing in front of a whiteboard recording monthly achievements against targets, which is completed up to October. SoD is before To the Last Man. That episode spans two days, starting on the 20th, as given by both Jack and Tosh’s calendars. Owen says Tommy is awoken every 12 months or so, but this is the first time since Gwen joined Torchwood in Everything Changes, which was no later than 17 September 2007. Note: The calendars say Friday the 20th, the only one of which in 2008 in real-life is in June. However, days fall on different dates in the Doctor Who universe (see Out of Time and Captain Jack Harkness for examples).
- ^ Jack returns hours after the events of Last of the Time Lords
- ^ The episodes are set before the main part of "Adrift", which itself must be before 14 February 2009.
- ^ Sarah Jane gives the date of "Invasion of the Bane" to at least eighteen months after "School Reunion". Maria's alarm clock says January 11 in Invasion of the Bane. "Jay and Heidi" say that "Ashley" (Luke) has been missing for 5 months, and Luke was "born" in IotB.
- ^ Donna refers to the events of "Voyage of the Damned".
- ^ Undated, but placed after The Poison Sky on the basis that character appearances are in timeline order unless otherwise stated (and we can assume the Doctor would minise the risk of time paradoxes).
- ^ A caption on screen gives this as one year later. At the end, the paradox is broken, negating the timeline in which the episode is set.