2011 In 2011 , the Eleventh Doctor was apparently killed . After learning about his fate , the Doctor began a farewell tour and spent 200 years wandering the universe , running from the event that was supposed to claim his life . Dated events . January - April . Following their honeymoon and an adventure in which the TARDIS materialised inside itself , the Eleventh Doctor dropped off Amy Pond and Rory Williams in Leadworth . ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " ) Amy Pond was abducted from Leadworth by Madame Kovarian and the Headless Monks so her child , Melody , could be used as a weapon against the Doctor . She was taken to Demons Run in the 52nd century and replaced by a Ganger avatar of herself so no one suspected anything . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) The Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory travelled to the apartment complex where the Tenza boy George lived , in response to his psychic distress call . The Doctor sorted out the problems causing George ' s fears to physically manifest and left him to grow up with his human parents . ( TV : " Night Terrors " ) Before 31 March , a Fleshkind baby was left on Sarah Jane Smith ' s doorstep by the Shopkeeper . She was dubbed Sky . After Miss Myers ' plan to use her as a weapon against the Metalkind was foiled , Sarah Jane adopted the now teenaged Sky . ( TV : " Sky " ) Clyde Langer fell victim to the curse of Hetocumtek . He later prevented Hetocumtek from escaping his prison . ( TV : " The Curse of Clyde Langer " ) At the launch of the SerfBoard , Joseph Serf suddenly discredited his own product . In reality , Serf had died years ago in a skiing accident and was just a simulation maintained by Skullion slaves as part of John Harrison ' s scheme . Luke and Sky took control of the fake Serf so he could denounce the SerfBoard . ( TV : " The Man Who Never Was " ) At the conclusion of his " farewell tour " , from 18 - 20 April , the Eleventh Doctor visited his friend Craig Owens in Colchester at his new house and met Craig ' s infant son Alfie . Noticing strange power fluctuations in the area , the Doctor stayed to investigate . With Craig and Alfie ' s help , he uncovered and foiled a plot by Cybermen in a crashed spaceship beneath a local store . By this time , Amy had become a model for a perfume called Petrichor . The Doctor went to meet his destiny with a Stetson and blue envelopes , provided by Craig . Three children , who , as adults , would provide testimony later viewed by River Song at Luna University in the 52nd century , witnessed his leaving . ( TV : " Closing Time " ) On 22 April , an 1103 - year - old version of the Eleventh Doctor recruited , using numbered , TARDIS blue envelopes , ( 1 ) a 909 - year - old version of himself , ( 2 ) River Song , ( 3 ) Amy Pond and Rory Williams and ( 4 ) Canton Everett Delaware III . All except the younger Doctor arrived in Utah and met the Doctor . An earlier River Song appeared in an astronaut suit and seemed to kill the Doctor at 5 : 02pm MDT . In truth , she shot the " Teselecta " in the Doctor ' s form , with him safely inside . An alternate timeline briefly came into being when River exhausted the weaponry of the suit instead , but the timeline was restored when she shot the " Teselecta " . After supposedly cremating him , River , Amy and Rory went to a diner where they encountered the Doctor ' s younger self . They left in the Doctor ' s TARDIS for the Oval Office in 1969 . ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " , " The Wedding of River Song " ) The Miracle . A blood bank in Buenos Aires , Argentina was burned to the ground . A day later , a blood bank in Shanghai , China was burned to the ground . ( TV : " The Gathering " ) On 18 March , four days after the destruction of the Shanghai blood bank , at 3 : 36am GMT ( 10 : 36pm EST ) , Miracle Day occurred . Physical death was negated . A sign of Miracle Day ' s effects appeared when Oswald Danes survived his execution . Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond investigated the word " Torchwood " . Captain Jack Harkness had , by this time , returned to Earth . Rex arrived in Wales to extradite Gwen and Jack to America to question them about Torchwood . Jack discovered the Miracle had made him again mortal . ( TV : " The New World " ) A day after extradition began , en route to Washington Dulles International Airport , Jack Harkness survived an assassination attempt by a CIA agent . Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond , now framed as double agent s of the Chinese government , escaped the CIA with the aid of Torchwood . ( TV : " Rendition " ) In Washington DC and Los Angeles , the new Torchwood looked into how PhiCorp related to the Miracle . Oswald Danes gained popularity and fame . ( TV : " Dead of Night " , " Escape to LA " ) Various world governments implemented the categories of life . Gwen went to Cowbridge Overflow Camp to try to rescue her father , while Rex and Dr Juarez went to San Pedro Overflow Camp . Here , Dr . Juarez was burnt inside a module . ( TV : " The Categories of Life " ) Jack learnt that PhiCorp was in the dark about the Miracle , but Stuart Owens told Jack his agents had traced the phrase " the Blessing " . The nature of the overflow camps were revealed , but they were not shut down . ( TV : " The Middle Men " ) Gwen , her family held hostage , took Jack to Olivia Colasanto , who revealed Angelo Colasanto had waited a long time for Jack and knew all about the Miracle . Gwen ' s family were later released . ( TV : " Immortal Sins " ) In the Colasanto residence , Olivia told Jack of the Three Families . Angelo became the first recorded death after Miracle Day thanks to a null field generator . Gwen was deported to the United Kingdom and Esther and Jack escaped to UK after they rendered the generator useless for the CIA . The Earth ' s economy began to collapse . ( TV : " End of the Road " , " The Gathering " ) At some point before 9 September , Jilly Kitzinger started working for the Three Families directly . Aided by Oswald Danes , the reunited Torchwood discovered more about the Blessing , tracing it to Buenos Aires and Shanghai . ( TV : " The Gathering " ) Charlotte Wills was nearly exposed as a mole but slipped out of the CIA Watch office after bombing it , making Allen Shapiro and Noah Vickers Category 1 . The Torchwood team reversed the effects of the Miracle by feeding the Blessing mortal blood from Jack Harkness and Rex Matheson ( who had been transfused with Jack ' s blood ) . Esther Drummond was shot and killed , and Geraint Cooper and all other Category 1s finally passed away . Oswald detonated a bomb , killing himself and the Mother . ( TV : " The Blood Line " ) On 9 September , Kitzinger was recruited by the Families to work with them on " Plan B " . Wills was exposed at Esther ' s funeral and shot Rex before being gunned down . Matheson discovered he was now immortal like Harkness . ( TV : " The Blood Line " ) May - August . After their daughter Melody was kidnapped on Demons Run , Amy and Rory were returned to Leadworth by River Song . The two of them were left to await the Doctor ' s return . ( TV : " Let ' s Kill Hitler " ) In June , John Dixon and Miranda Evenden were married . ( AUDIO : " Cuddlesome " ) Doris Lethbridge - Stewart died in a boating accident . ( PROSE : " The Shadows of Avalon " ) September - December . After waiting " all summer " for the Eleventh Doctor , Amy and Rory drove through a field and summoned the Eleventh Doctor by creating a crop circle - like message spelling out the word " Doctor " . The Doctor stated he still hadn ' t found their daughter Melody . Shortly afterwards , Amy and Rory ' s friend Mels arrived to escape the police and force the Doctor to kill Hitler . With little choice , the Doctor complied with her demand to take them all to Berlin in the 1930s . The next day , a newspaper printed a story about the crop circle . ( TV : " Let ' s Kill Hitler " ) In an alternate timeline negated by the Eleventh Doctor , the town of Foxton was swallowed up by a lake that came from Swallow Woods . Earlier on , Vicky Caine , Laura Brown and Jess Ashcroft disappeared into the woods . ( PROSE : " The Way Through the Woods " ) River Song , coming from the Crash of the " Byzantium " , appeared in the garden of Amy and Rory ' s new house and told them the truth about the Doctor ' s apparent death . Amy was aware of the aborted timeline created at 5 : 02pm MDT . ( TV : " The Wedding of River Song " ) In November , Chinwagz Magazine published an article called " " I Was Abducted By A Time - Travelling Sex Pest " " which recounted Jane ' s encounter with the Hussar . ( PROSE : " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " ) On 25 December , Amy Pond and Rory Williams set a place for their son - in - law , the Doctor , at Christmas . He did not show up . ( TV : " The Doctor , the Widow and the Wardrobe " ) Unknown dates . Chloe Webber ' s father was killed in a car accident . ( TV : " Fear Her " ) Following an adventure on a prison ship that caged a Minotaur , the Eleventh Doctor parted from his companions , Amy Pond and Rory Williams , dropping them off at a new house with a new car . ( TV : " The God Complex " ) The Koggnossenti launched an invasion of London . They began emitting a signal which devolved the brains of all intelligent non - Koggnossenti life . For a few hours , London was transformed into a ghost town , with 98 . 2 % of the population reduced to a primitive technology fearing state . The Tenth Doctor reversed the signal unto the Koggnossenti , forcing them to leave Earth . Those affected by the signal did not retain any memories of the invasion . ( AUDIO : " Technophobia " ) The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond landed in Manchester . They encountered the Alifabe . ( COMIC : " Sky Scraper " ) Henry van Statten ' s scientists discovered the cure for the common cold from alien bacteria found inside " the Russia n crater " . ( TV : " Dalek " ) While searching for the fourth segment of the Key to Time , the Fourth Doctor and Romana arrived in Norfolk . ( AUDIO : " Ferril ' s Folly " ) Immediately after the Fifth Doctor departed Hove in 2008 , the TARDIS materialised in the same spot three years later . ( AUDIO : " Cuddlesome " ) The Eleventh Doctor , Amy Pond and Rory Williams went on a Jack the Ripper tour in Whitechapel . ( COMIC : " Ripper ' s Curse " ) Rebecca Young went backpacking for three months . ( AUDIO : " Technophobia " )