2008 One account stated that in 2008 , Earth was a wasteland covered in a green mist . Instead of one yellow sun and one grey moon this version of Earth had three pink suns and eleven brown moons . Doctor Who stated that this is what would happen if the humans from Rosie Taylor ' s time didn ' t learn to live in peace . ( PROSE : " Voice from the Vortex ! " ) Dated events . January - June . On 1 January , shortly after midnight , the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard met Byron in Singapore . ( AUDIO : " The Girl Who Never Was " ) On 29 February , the Sixth Doctor and Charley Pollard arrived in Manchester and helped DI Patricia Menzies solve a murder . ( AUDIO : " The Condemned " ) On 15 May , Geoff Noble , the father of the Tenth Doctor ' s companion Donna Noble , died . ( PROSE : " Beautiful Chaos " ) On 31 May , the Tenth Doctor and Donna visited Calibris . ( AUDIO : " Time Reaver " ) Events surrounding the British election . In the spring , ( PROSE : " Forever Autumn " ) an election was held in the United Kingdom for a new Prime Minister following Harriet Jones being declared unfit to lead the country . ran in this election under the alias " Harold Saxon " . ( TV : " The Sounds of Drums " ) Four days before the election , ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " ) the Royal Hope Hospital was teleported to the Moon with the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones inside , for the Judoon to search for a murder er . Identified as non - human , the Doctor escaped the Judoon after he was mistaken for the murderer . The Doctor ' s blood was later sucked by Florence Finnegan ( the murderer ) . Martha revived him . The Judoon positively identified and executed Finnegan . The Doctor stopped a supercharged MRI machine from wiping out Earth . The hospital was returned and Martha joined the Doctor in the TARDIS . Saxon was given high support after the hospital ' s disappearance , then reappearance . ( TV : " Smith and Jones " ) Richard Lazarus unveiled an age - reversing machine which initially de - aged him , then transformed him into a possible evolutionary branch of humanity , latent in his DNA , becoming a monster in doing so . The Tenth Doctor killed Lazarus . ( TV : " The Lazarus Experiment " ) Election Day began and Harold Saxon was voted British Prime Minister . A mysterious woman surveilled Francine Jones ' phone , as she knew Francine ' s daughter Martha was in contact with Saxon ' s enemy , the Doctor . ( TV : " 42 " / " The Sound of Drums " ) At or around this date , Saxon sent Torchwood Three on a " wild goose chase " mission in the Himalayas . ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " ) The Tenth Doctor , Jack and Martha returned from 100 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 and went on the run as fugitives declared by Harold Saxon , in fact the Master . The Master announced on television that humanity was to make first contact with the Toclafane . President Winters stepped in , allowing UNIT to take control . The Doctor , Martha and Jack snuck aboard the " Valiant " ; the Toclafane murdered President Winters . The Master , seeing through the Doctor and his companions ' perception filters , heavily aged the Doctor and captured him and Jack . ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " ) The Year That Never Was began ; the Master built a new " Time Lord Empire " and Martha Jones travelled the world executing the Doctor ' s plan . Ultimately , the year was negated and the clock reset to just after the Toclafane killed Winters . Lucy Saxon killed the Master . Martha Jones and Jack returned home and left the Doctor on his own . ( TV : " Last of the Time Lords " ) Lucy was subsequently imprisoned ; unknown to her , a group of Saxon ' s followers retrieved his signet ring from his funeral pyre and began preparations for restoring the Master to life the following year . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) June - December . On 20 June , the annual de - frosting of Tommy Brockless , a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in 1918 , took place . This turned out to be the final defrosting . Tommy returned back in time to use a ' Rift key ' to stop the two timelines in this year and 2008 from colliding with one another . ( TV : " To the Last Man " ) In October , Majenta Pryce opened the Hotel Historia in London . After Tony won the lottery , he was contacted by Pryce and given a chance to stay at the Hotel Historia . One of the years that Tony visited using the hotel ' s time travel capabilities was 4039 , a time when London was being invaded by the Graxnix . The Tenth Doctor followed Tony back to 2008 from 4039 and the Doctor was followed by the Graxnix . The Doctor found Pryce and scolded her for using a potentially dangerous Chronexus 3000 to achieve time travel . When the Graxnix began attacking guests and staff at the hotel , the Doctor used the Chronexus to send them back to 4039 and then contacted the Cosmic Bailiff s , who shut down the hotel and arrested Pryce . ( COMIC : " Hotel Historia " ) On 31 October , the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones found an unusually creepy Halloween celebration in Blackwood Falls . ( PROSE : " Forever Autumn " ) On 10 September , CERN first tested their Large Hadron Collider , ( TV : " Extremis " ) finally creating a Higgs particle . However , the first test opened a portal to another dimension , letting neutron eater s loose ; the Higgs particle was merely a side effect of Professor Johnson and Jack Harkness ' plan to close the gateway , by having proton s and antiproton s fire against each other . ( AUDIO : " Lost Souls " ) In December , the First Doctor and Steven Taylor visited Antarctica . ( PROSE : " White on White " ) From 24 December to 25 December , the Tenth Doctor , after repairing a hole in space - time with the help of his fifth incarnation , ( TV : " Time Crash " ) found himself aboard a space - faring replica of the " Titanic " in orbit around Earth . Some of the passengers ( including the waitress Astrid Peth ) briefly landed in the middle of London . As the two previous Christmases had been disrupted by the arrival of alien spacecraft over London , most residents of the city had left for the season . Those choosing to remain in the city included Queen Elizabeth II and Wilfred Mott , grandfather of Donna Noble . A series of meteorites were deliberately allowed to collide with the deshielded " Titanic " , causing the ship and its nuclear storm drive to hurtle towards Earth . Most of the survivors of this collision were killed by the Heavenly Host . After the Doctor used the Host ' s security protocol to find the man in charge , Max Capricorn , Astrid followed , killing Capicorn but dying with him . The Doctor piloted the Titanic to safety , just missing Buckingham Palace . The only survivors were Midshipman Alonso Frame , Rickston Slade , the Doctor and Mr Copper . Astrid was partially revived as starlight . Mr Copper , having money for the first time in his life , retire d to Earth . ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) Donna Noble dismissed the near - miss by the " Titanic " as a hoax . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) Unknown dates . Following her encounter with the Tenth Doctor and the Empress of the Racnoss , Donna Noble attempted to improve her life by travelling to Egypt . Afterwards , experiencing regret at turning down the Doctor ' s invitation to travel with him , Donna began investigating unusual events in hopes of encountering the Doctor doing the same . Her investigations led to her learning about the disappearance of bees and Adipose Industries , which eventually led to her reuniting with the Doctor in 2009 . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) The Tenth Doctor participated in preventing a Graske causing mischief at a 2008 BBC Proms concert in London . ( TV : " Music of the Spheres " ) During an unchronicled adventure in London with Martha Jones , the Doctor met Sally Sparrow , who gave him information he would need to escape when the Weeping Angel s sent him back to 1969 . After this , Sally began to open up to Larry Nightingale . ( TV : " Blink " ) A company called Khrysalis set up operations in Stockbridge , purportedly planning to build a leisure park in the quiet town . Maxwell Edison created the Stockbridge Preservation Society to protest this . ( COMIC : " The Stockbridge Child " ) Ed Gold , later a member of the crew of Bowie Base One , was born in Australia . ( TV : " The Waters of Mars " ) The Seventh Doctor destroyed the Forge ' s alpha facility in Dartmoor . ( AUDIO : " Project : Lazarus " ) The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller visited London . ( AUDIO : " Sisters of the Flame " ) The Eleventh Doctor met Amy Pond in Leadworth after twelve years of waiting . A Multi - form called Prisoner Zero , who had escaped through the crack in Amy ' s wall , attacked . The Atraxi arrived , threatening the destruction of Earth if Prisoner Zero did not surrender . The Doctor created a computer virus for the Atraxi to track back to its source in Leadworth ( spread by Jeff ) . The Doctor also transmitted Prisoner Zero ' s disguises to the Atraxi so it couldn ' t hide in the bodies it had been disguised as . It then took the form of Amy ; the Doctor made Amy think of Prisoner Zero ' s original form . Now in plain sight , Prisoner Zero was captured by the Atraxi , who left . The Doctor took a test drive of his refurbished TARDIS , only returning two years later . ( TV : " The Eleventh Hour " ) Although intending to visit Brighton in 1818 , the Fifth Doctor arrived in Hove in this year as the TARDIS ' lateral balance cones were offline . ( AUDIO : " Cuddlesome " ) Jonah Bevan was taken by the Cardiff Rift , ending up on a burning planet . A much older Jonah was found on the island of Flat Holm seven months later . ( TV : " Adrift " ) In an attempt to take his own life , Huw MacLean purposefully drove off the motorway with both his wife and eight year old daughter in the car . Jackie was paralysed as a result , while April herself was not hurt . Huw went to prison for causing the crash . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " , " Brave - ish Heart " , " Detained " ) After over thirty years of production , the John Fuchas film adaptation of " The True History of Planets " was released . ( PROSE : " Mad Dogs and Englishmen " ) Undated exploits of Torchwood Three . Owen Harper went undercover to prevent the Weevil s like Janet from being abducted by humans to fight in a Weevil Fight Club . Torchwood Three discovered the club ' s location and shut it down . ( TV : " Combat " ) Jack Harkness and Toshiko Sato were transported back in time to The Ritz in 1941 . Owen used the Rift Manipulator to bring them back , opening the Rift . By this point , Harold Saxon ' s campaign for election was underway as " Vote Saxon " signs were visible in Cardiff . ( TV : " Captain Jack Harkness " ) As the Cardiff rift opened , the Rift quickly pulled beings through it at a steadier pace . Visions appeared to the Torchwood Three team and Rhys Williams was murdered . As a result , the Rift was closed , undoing the damage , but Abaddon was released , wiping out hundreds of people . Jack killed Abaddon with an overflow of life energy , which left Jack dead for days . ( TV : " End of Days " ) Shortly after being restored to life , Jack heard the sound of the Tenth Doctor ' s TARDIS and re - joined the Doctor as the TARDIS hurtled toward the year 100 , 000 , 000 , 000 , 000 . ( TV : " End of Days " , " Utopia " ) Meanwhile , Jack was declared missing by his Torchwood teammates , and Gwen Cooper took charge of the group . Subsequently , Ianto Jones began taking a more active role in field assignments . ( TV : " Kiss Kiss , Bang Bang " ) Captain Jack returned to Torchwood Three and met John Hart , who was sent on a wild goose chase to find an Arcadian diamond . In finding the apparent keys to its location , he was implanted with a bomb attached to his DNA . The Torchwood Three team disposed of the bomb and sent John through the Rift . John told Jack he had found Gray . ( TV : " Kiss Kiss , Bang Bang " ) The Torchwood Three team discovered Cell 114 sleeper agent s in Cardiff and stopped them from setting off nuclear warheads hidden under Cardiff . ( TV : " Sleeper " ) Rhys Williams discovered the truth about Gwen Cooper ' s job when he was caught up in Torchwood Three ' s investigation of a Cash Cow . Owen euthanised the animal . ( TV : " Meat " ) A being which used the name " Adam Smith " escaped from the Void and lived parasitically by altering and inserting himself into others ' memories . Adam was drawn to the unique memories of Torchwood Three and made them believe he was a long - time member of their team and Toshiko Sato ' s lover . Ianto Jones and Captain Jack Harkness exposed Adam after Ianto found no reference to him in his written diaries , and the team banished him to the Void by retcon ning themselves to forget the whole incident . ( TV : " Adam " ) Dr Martha Jones arrived in Cardiff on the trail of the the Pharm , who had been experimenting on humans with a drug called Reset . Martha was temporarily assigned to Torchwood Three . The Pharm was shut down , but Dr Owen Harper was shot and killed by Aaron Copley . ( TV : " Reset " ) Before Martha Jones could conduct an autopsy on Owen Harper , he was revived by Jack Harkness using the second resurrection gauntlet . For reasons unknown , Harper continued to live past the standard two and a half minute revival time . He was briefly possessed by Duroc , the embodiment of Death . Deaths occurred at a Cardiff hospital as a result of Duroc ' s manifestation . Owen defeated Duroc , not having any life energy for Duroc to steal . ( TV : " Dead Man Walking " ) While working on a time lock in the Hub , Toshiko went to Russia where she worked with the KVI to investigate Zone 10 . She was given Object One by cosmonaut Anna Volokova , who was given it by the Committee . ( AUDIO : " Zone 10 " ) Tosh managed to reverse engineer the properties of the object in order to make it give good luck . Whilst using it , she stopped a war in Africa just by hearing about it , and went on a date with Owen , who kissed her . Believing that nobody should have that power , she sent it into another dimension and removed her memories of it using retcon . ( AUDIO : " The Torchwood Archive " ) Undated adventures of Sarah Jane Smith & friends . Maria and Alan Jackson moved into 36 Bannerman Road , Ealing , the house opposite Sarah Jane Smith ' s . The Bane used a ' natural ingredient ' hidden in their Bubble Shock ! drink to enslave humanity . Sarah Jane and Maria went to the Bubble Shock ! factory and stole their human archetype . The archetype used a communication device from a Star Poet to destroy the Bane Mother and freed the mind - controlled people . One Bane , Mrs Wormwood , escaped from the exploding factory . Sarah Jane adopted the Archetype and named him Luke . ( TV : " Invasion of the Bane " ) The Slitheen family killed overweight teachers and created technology labs for their energy draining machine to cool the Sun , intending to sell the destroyed Earth . In the testing phases , the Earth briefly experienced a worldwide power outage . Luke unwittingly gave the code that would make the machine work properly to the Slitheen . Clyde Langer joined Luke , Maria and Sarah Jane in investigating the schools , fighting the Slitheen off with vinegar . When tried out on the Sun , the Slitheen ' s fixed machine overloaded and was destroyed in the confusion during its reset , killing two Slitheen while the others teleported to their ship . Sarah Jane used her supercomputer Mr Smith to orchestrate a cover - up that suggested the darkening of the sun and the power outage were caused by a sudden , but temporary , shift in Earth ' s magnetic field . ( TV : " Revenge of the Slitheen " ) Sarah Jane Smith found a Gorgon . Maria Jackson used a mirror to turn it into stone , and the gateway to the race ' s galaxy was sealed . ( TV : " Eye of the Gorgon " ) Teenagers went missing after playing Combat 3000 . Luke Smith and Clyde Langer were among them . Sarah Jane Smith discovered they were being teleported by an alien named Kudlak who took them to a war ship to fight in an alien war . After Luke discovered the war had ended ten years earlier , Kudlak returned the children and searched for the children he had sent to distant worlds . ( TV : " Warriors of Kudlak " ) Sarah Jane Smith was given a puzzle box by a Verron soothsayer , with instructions to give it to someone she trusted . The next week she gave it to Maria Jackson . The Trickster retroactively wiped Sarah Jane out of existence , but reality was restored with help from Maria Jackson , Alan Jackson and Andrea Yates , the woman who had caused all this . Mr . Smith pushed a meteorite headed for Earth out of the way . ( TV : " Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane ? " ) A few days after the incident with the Trickster and five months after the thwarted Bane invasion , Mr . Smith and the Slitheen tried to use Luke Smith ' s telekinetic abilities via a MITRE headset to collide the Moon with Earth , freeing his Xylok brothers . He was defeated by Sarah Jane , who infected him with the Armaggedon virus made by Alan Jackson . Mr . Smith was rebooted with a new purpose . ( TV : " The Lost Boy " ) Other timelines . Donna ' s world . In the spring or summer , the Judoon defeated Florence Finnegan ; all but one of the people inside Royal Hope Hospital , which was taken to the Moon , died of asphyxiation , including Sarah Jane Smith and Martha Jones . Luke Smith and Maria Jackson were also reported missing . ( TV : " Turn Left " ) On 25 December , while Donna Noble , her mother and her grandfather holidayed in the English countryside , the alien spaceship " Titanic " crashed into London , destroying the city and contaminating most of southern England with radioactivity . ( TV : " Turn Left " ) Andrea Yates ' world . From spring or summer to December , Maria Jackson , remembering Sarah Jane thanks to holding the Verron soothsayer ' s puzzle box , discovered she had died in 1964 , taking the place of Andrea Yates , and that Mr Smith was never installed in 13 Bannerman Road ' s attic , Andrea having made a deal with the Trickster . As a result , the Earth was susceptible to the meteorite strike , fuelling chaos the Trickster could feed on . Maria was erased by Krislok . Alan , who remembered Maria when no - one else did thanks to holding the puzzle box , confronted Andrea Yates about Sarah Jane . Andrea revoked her deal with the Trickster , returning the timeline to normal . ( TV : " Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane ? " )