1996 In 1996 , the Eighth Doctor was summoned back to Earth via the space - time telegraph by the United Nations to assist them after they were offered the Cold . Samantha Jones met Sarah Jane Smith ( who also met the Doctor in his eighth incarnation ) . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book One " , " Interference - Book Two " ) Dated events . On 22 January , James Stevens began writing " Who Killed Kennedy " . In April , Stevens went missing , having travelled back in time to Dallas , Texas on 22 November 1963 to assassinate U . S . President John F . Kennedy . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " ) At Easter , the newly regenerated Eleventh Doctor crashed his TARDIS in Amy Pond ' s back garden in Leadworth . He discovered a mysterious crack in her bedroom wall . ( TV : " The Eleventh Hour " ) In May , a " Professor X " film premiered . ( PROSE : " The Room With No Doors " ) In October , Jacob Tyler remarried . ( PROSE : " Damaged Goods " ) On 17 December , the Celestial Toymaker came to Stockbridge to get revenge on the Doctor . The villagers were transformed into the Toymaker ' s puppets . Maxwell Edison and Izzy Sinclair were in Wells Wood at the time and managed to evade the Toymaker ' s powers . On 19 December , the Eighth Doctor came to Stockbridge . He met up with Maxwell and Sinclair . The Toymaker brought them to his newly created castle and used the Imagineum to create a copy of the Doctor . The Doctor was forced to fight the copy to the death , but he talked the copy out of fighting . The Doctor then used the Imagineum on the Toymaker . The Toymaker became caught in a stalemate with his copy and was banished back to where he came from . Afterwards , Izzy began travelling with the Doctor . ( COMIC : " Endgame " ) Undated events . The First Doctor , Ian Chesterton , Barbara Wright and Vicki Pallister arrived at the Festival of Ghana , pursued by Dalek s . ( TV : " The Chase " ) Rex Matheson ' s father became an alcoholic due to family and financial troubles . ( TV : " Dead of Night " ) A NASA shuttle was struck by a meteorite . Millicent Drake was the only survivor of the crew but she lost her limbs , which were replaced by metal prosthetics . ( AUDIO : " Ferril ' s Folly " ) The Fifth Doctor , Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka visited Egypt and London . ( PROSE : " The Sands of Time " ) A Graske was responsible for the disappearance of three students in Carlisle . The Graske was killed in a nightclub and its corpse was taken to the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum . ( GAME : " Security Bot " ) Iris Wildthyme and Jenny Winterleaf came to North East England and had an adventure involving jellyfish - like aliens , a moonbase , and the cast of a soap opera . After this , Jenny decided to stop travelling with Iris and stayed on Earth . ( PROSE : " The Dreadful Flap " ) Nathan Goss was born . ( TV : " The Lost Boy " ) Chang Ho was stabbed to death by a member of rival gang in San Francisco . ( PROSE : " The Novel of the Film " ) Alternate timeline . At Easter , Auton Rory Williams finished his job guarding the Pandorica at the National Museum . A version of Amelia Pond rescued her older , nearly deceased self , who had been inside the Pandorica since 102 , with the younger Amy ' s DNA . The Eleventh Doctor , having taken a Vortex manipulator from 102 , seemed to be killed by a Stone Dalek . River Song killed it shortly afterward . This was a ruse to sneak past and fly the Pandorica with the Doctor inside into his exploding TARDIS to reboot the universe , which was being destroyed by the Time Field . ( TV : " The Big Bang " )