31 December 31 December was the final day of December when many Earth - based cultures celebrated New Year ' s Eve . It was not a well - known holiday in the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire , as Sara Kingdom did not recognise it . ( TV : " The Daleks ' Master Plan " ) In 1879 , Queen Victoria issued the Torchwood Charter and founded the Torchwood Institute . ( TV : " " ) In 1899 , the Torchwood One agent Gerald Kneale assisted Torchwood Three with the Centurian Incident and its clean - up in Cardiff . ( COMIC : " Rift War ! Part Six : Circles " ) In 1926 , the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) played All India in the 2nd Unofficial Test match of the scene in Calcutta , British India . The MCC won the match by four wicket s . The Fifth Doctor considered it to be one of the best cricket matches of all time . ( AUDIO : " The Emerald Tiger " ) In 1930 , The Eighth Doctor finally brought Charley Pollard to the Raffles Hotel in Singapore , but an old enemy of the Doctor soon forced them to leave for a whirlwind tour of history . ( AUDIO : " Seasons of Fear " ) In 1965 , chasing the Dalek s , the First Doctor briefly materialised his TARDIS in Trafalgar Square during the New Year ' s Eve celebrations . ( TV : " The Daleks ' Master Plan " ) In 1986 , Ben and Polly reunited long after their travels with the Second Doctor had ended . They reflected on their time with him . ( PROSE : " Mondas Passing " ) In 1993 , Tko - Ma tried to escape his dimension al prison . He was stopped by the Sixth Doctor . ( PROSE : " Instruments of Darkness " ) In 1999 , inside the Walker General Hospital morgue , after having his regenerative ability delayed by anaesthetic , the Seventh Doctor regenerated into his eighth incarnation , forced his way out , and discovered his memories were gone too . The Doctor tried to convince Grace he was the same man she attended the previous day , and recruited her to help him with his bout of amnesia , eventually regaining his memories . Meanwhile , Chang Lee , having pocketed the Doctor ' s TARDIS key , began raiding it . The Master found Chang Lee in the TARDIS and manipulated him to open the Eye of Harmony . Opening the Eye destabilised Earth ' s physics and the Master used it to begin stealing the Doctor ' s lives . The Doctor helped Grace put the TARDIS in a temporal orbit , draining the power from the Eye and thwarting the Master . After the Master killed Grace and Lee , the Master fought the Doctor and fell into the Eye . The TARDIS reversed Lee and Grace ' s deaths and closed the Eye . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) In 1999 , the Sixth Doctor and Melanie Bush saved the Earth from being taken over by Saraquazel , a being from the after - universe , and his servant Ashley Chapel . ( PROSE : " Millennial Rites " ) In 1999 , a younger version of the Seventh Doctor and an older version of Mel gate crashed the New Year ' s Eve party being thrown by Alisha Hammerson , the Auton head of Hammerson Plastic PLC , in London . They foiled her plan to replace her guests with Auton replicas so the Earth could be dominated and absorbed by severing her link to the Nestene Consciousness . ( COMIC : " Plastic Millennium " ) In 1999 , the Fourth Doctor stopped the Y2K bug as the New Year arrived . ( PROSE : " Millennium Shock " ) In 1999 , while Jack Harkness fought a " Millennium Bug " of his own , Alex Hopkins killed the rest of his Torchwood Three team , then himself after Jack returned , just as the New Year arrived in Cardiff ' s time zone . He had been driven insane by the Last of Erebus , which showed him dark things awaiting in the future . Hopkins tricked Jack to leave the Hub because he was immortal and would have prevented Hopkins ' " mercy killings . " Harkness subsequently took over Torchwood Three , given the leadership by Alex just before he claimed his own life . ( TV : " Fragments " ) Alex also spoke to Yvonne Hartman at Torchwood One of his epiphany beforehand on the phone , as he shot the team . This incident made her realise that the Torchwood Institute needed a stronger leader to face the 21st century . ( AUDIO : " One Rule " ) In 1999 , Dave Young spent the entire evening trying to convince his girlfriend , Anji Kapoor , that the millennium wouldn ' t actually begin for another year . Kapoor , for her part , thought this extreme pedantry meant their relationship was in trouble . This incident led to her insisting on New Year ' s Eve 2000 that the two of them spend 2001 doing " Wild and Spontaneous Things ' — the result of which was the couple spontaneously going to Belgium in February 2001 . There , she met the Eighth Doctor and began travelling with him . ( PROSE : " Escape Velocity " ) In 1999 , the renegade Time Lady Iris Wildthyme and her companion Panda arrived in San Francisco in her TARDIS . Immediately after their arrival , Iris spilled gin into the bus ' control and out into the Time Vortex , resulting in various different versions of Panda from alternative realities crossing over into the primary universe . With the assistance of Dr George Strangeways , Iris was able to close the rift , though not before the Panda from the primary universe had been dragged into it . ( AUDIO : " The Panda Invasion " ) In 1999 , " Dara Morgan " suddenly came to being , and registered MorganTech . He was broadcast live on a news channel that same day . ( PROSE : " Beautiful Chaos " ) In an alternative timeline in 1999 , the Fifth Doctor , Peri Brown and Erimem visited Edinburgh . ( PROSE : " Graham Dilley Saves the World " ) In 2004 , Rose Tyler missed a New Year ' s Eve party , thereby allowing her to unwittingly meet the regenerating Tenth Doctor prior to her first encounter with the Ninth Doctor on 4 March 2005 . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) In 2007 , the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard arrived at 8 : 00 , and witnessed New Year ' s Eve . They had intended to go to 1931 , Charley ' s time , as she wanted to leave . The TARDIS had brought them to the wrong time because of a time hump on 17 January 1942 . ( AUDIO : " The Girl Who Never Was " ) In 2066 , Jack Harkness visited a bar on Zog . There , an individual of an unnamed species gave him instructions for the either earlier or later version of him . This version , upon opening a box on 7 August 1941 , relived these experiences . ( COMIC : " Overture " ) In 2599 , a New Year ' s Eve party at the Braxiatel Collection was interrupted by murder . ( PROSE : " The Doomsday Manuscript " )