Programmed by the Silence to kill the Doctor, Melody kissed him using lipstick laced with poison from the Judas Tree before heading out into Berlin. The justice agents identified Melody as the criminal River Song and began torturing her - but Amy sabotaged the Teselecta, forcing its crew to transmat to safety. The TARDIS taught Melody to fly her, enabling Melody to rescue Amy and Rory from the Teselecta’s interior.
The dying Doctor asked Melody to find River Song and whispered something to her that profoundly affected her. Amy used the Teselecta records to prove that Melody was River Song, whereupon River sacrificed her remaining regenerations to save the Doctor’s life. The Doctor, Amy and Rory took the exhausted River Song to the fifty-first century to recover.
1938 (8th April) - TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer [1526]
Honoré and Emily fulfilled history pertaining to events in the Albino’s bunker by damaging and hiding a time-belt.
1938 (31st October) - Invaders from Mars [1527]
An alien spaceship crashed in New Jersey and was looted by the gangster Don Chaney, who discovered a bat-like being aboard. Chaney hired the Russian physicist Yuri Stepashin to develop an atom bomb from the advanced technology, hoping to give America an advantage over Germany. The eighth Doctor and Charley found conflict brewing between Chaney and his rival, Cosmo Devine, who wanted to sell the technology for the Nazis.
The alien split into thirty beings and threatened to go on a rampage, but the aliens Streath and Noriam subdued the pilot as part of a protection racket. Devine convinced Streath and Noriam that their weapons could seize control of Earth without the need for deception. The Doctor went to CBS Studios and had Orson Welles stage a second, private performance of War of the Worlds for the aliens’ benefit, hoping to make them think that the formidable Martians had already invaded Earth. The plan failed. Stepashin detonated his atom bomb aboard the aliens’ spacecraft while it was in orbit, destroying them.
The eighth Doctor left a copy of Fitz’s journal, entitled An Account of An Expedition to Siberia, in a second hand bookshop for his past self to find. [1528]
@ In 1938, the amnesiac Doctor bought Fitz’s journal from a bookshop on Euston Road. [1529]
Adolf Hitler gained the Validium Arrow, a piece of the Nemesis statue. The Nemesis itself passed over Earth, heralding Germany’s annexation of Austria. [1530]
1938 (Christmas) - The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe [1531]
The eleventh Doctor destroyed a threatening alien spaceship, and donned an impact suit as he fell to Earth. A young mother, Madge Arwell, helped him get back to the TARDIS. As his helmet was on backwards, she never saw his face.
1939
In Antarctica, the Nazis started construction of a huge underground base that was shaped like a swastika. [1532] A photo of Jack Harkness from 1939 wound up in the American CIA archives. [1533]
Circa 1939, a pair of Cybermen from the thirtieth century arrived accidentally in Jersey. They secretly took control of Peddler Electronic Engineering in London. [1534] In 1939, a failed attempt to open Devil’s Hump, “the Cambridge University Fiasco”, took place. [1535] A fez-wearing eleventh Doctor found his way onto a Laurel and Hardy movie. [1536]
1939 - “Tooth and Claw” (DWM) [1537]
The eighth Doctor and Izzy were summoned to Varney’s island in the Atlantic, where eccentric guests - including Fey Truscott-Sade, an old friend of the Doctor - were served the meat of endangered animals by Varney’s monkey servants. Truscott-Sade worked for British Intelligence, and suspected that Varney was creating biological weapons for the Nazis. In truth, Varney had drugged everyone’s champagne with a microbe derived from his ancestors, and this turned the guests - the Doctor and Fey included - into vampires.
Varney served the last of the Curcurbites - an alien construct fuelled by blood. The Doctor destroyed the Curcurbite by poisoning his own blood and allowing the construct to feed off him... this returned the Doctor to normal, but left him gravely ill. Izzy and Fey got him back to the TARDIS, knowing they would have to take the Doctor to Gallifrey if he was going to survive.
1939 (3rd September) – Gallifrey: A Blind Eye [1538]
The arms and secrets broker Mephistopheles Arkadian summoned Romana to the Vienna-Calais express on Earth, 1939, and offered to identify the party behind the theft of a timonic fusion device if she turned a blind eye to his activities concerning Charley Pollard’s sister, Cecila “Sissy” Pollard. Sissy had been appointed the Munich representative of the League of English Fascists by Sir Oswald Mosely, and had met Hitler himself. One of Arkadian’s clients hoped to kill, stuff and sell her as a Nazi collectible.
Romana, Leela, CIA Coordinator Narvin and CIA agent Torvald found that Sissy’s boyfriend, Erich Kepler, was actually an earlier incarnation of Torvald. An embittered isolationist disgusted with Romana’s policies, Kepler had averted Sissy’s historic suicide by a river in Munich. Kepler threatened that unless Romana allowed the Time Lords to erase her from history, he would use Sissy – much like her sister – to unleash anti-Time throughout the Universe. Moreover, Torvald had arranged the theft of the timonic fusion device, in a further bid to discredit Romana.
The incumbent Torvald confessed that he was actually Andred – who had regenerated during the gunfight in which Torvald had died. Narvin removed Kepler’s memories of these events; Torvald would die in future as history dictated. Leela and Andred remained estranged. Knowing she’d never be regarded as anything other than an amusement to the Nazis, and a traitor to the British, Sissy killed herself.
The Second World War
During the war, bunkers were built in the London Underground, including one at Covent Garden. [1539] The Doctor advised Winston Churchill on policy. [1540] During World War II, the Queen Mary was used as a troop ship and torpedoed. Soldiers died, leading people to suspect the ship was haunted. [1541] Beings of light from Altair III observed the Second World War. [1542] Gaskin Manor in Creighton Mere was used as a convalescent home during World War II. [1543]
Occultist Aleister Crowley summoned the demon Jarakabeth. [1544] During World War II, the United States feared that collective Nazi belief could alter the fabric of reality. The US government hired writer J.R.R. Tolkien and his contemporaries to infuse world culture with a greater sense of what was fantasy, and what was reality. [1545] The Doctor knew his way around the secret tunnels under the Thames used during the Second World War. [1546]
Polly Wright’s parents were married a month before World War II broke out. Her father Edward was a doctor, and her mother was a proper society lady, being one of the Bessingham-Smiths. They lived in a big old house in the country. Edward had two siblings: his elder brother Charles, and his younger brother Randolph. [1547]
1939 (early September) - Timewyrm: Exodus [1548]
The seventh Doctor, having inveigled his way into Hitler’s confidence as “Herr Doktor Johann Scmidt” with Ace as his “niece, Fräulein Dorothy Scmidt”, told Hitler that if he invaded Poland, the British would declare war on Germany. Hitler refused to believe him, but the Doctor was proved right - which made Hitler trust him all the more.
Hitler had risen to power, doubly aided by the War Lords and the Timewyrm nestled within his mind. The War Lords hoped to build a “War Lord universe” by giving the Nazis space travel, whereas the Timewyrm wanted to divert the course of history. The Doctor exposed the War Lords’ plans to betray the Nazis, and the forces of Reichsmarshal Goering slaughtered them. The War Lords’ influence ended with the destruction of their base, Drachensberg Castle.
As the Second World War started, a few people in England felt that their country should fight alongside the Nazis. Ratcliffe was one such person, and he was imprisoned for his belief. [1549]
The British government wanted the Sontaran Brak to create weapons for use in World War II. Brak synthesised Kobalt Blue, a malleable substance that could power projectile and energy weapons - and hoped that it would either spur humanity into becoming foes worthy of the Sontarans, or push Earth’s gove
rnments into destroying one another. However, the government’s development of Kobalt Blue never got past the testing stage. [1550]
UNIT in the Forties
Lethbridge-Stewart would later attend Holborough with Teddy “Pooh” Fitzoliver. Lethbridge-Stewart’s Granny McDougal died when he was 13 [1551], and he later won the Public Schools Middleweight Cup during his last year at Fettes. [1552] Lethbridge-Stewart and John Sudbury went to the same school. [1553] When a young Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart told his father that he was going to join the army, the senior Lethbridge-Stewart said, “In life, as on the field of battle, there are old soldiers and there are bold soldiers, but there are very few old, bold soldiers.” [1554]
u - Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart began his military service. Shortly afterwards, he attended Sandhurst with Billy Rutlidge. Once his training was complete, Lethbridge-Stewart grew his moustache, joined the Scots’ Guards and was stationed for a time at Aldgate. [1555]
1940
Radar equipment on Lanyon Moor was subject to mysterious interference, and the men stationed there suffered from mental illnesses. [1556]
(=) On the Earth of the Dark Matrix, Britain had to use its army to fight civil disorder, not Hitler. The Americans intervened, and took control of the United Kingdom before defeating Hitler. [1557]
The Nazis occupied Jersey. Colonel Schott found a dormant Cyberman army in the Le Mur engineering factory. [1558] The British military sealed off a mineshaft just outside Cardiff in the 1940s, and in future used it to store nuclear weapons. [1559]
1940 (26th May) - The Nemonite Invasion [1560]
Aliens terraformed the homeworld of the leech-like Nemonites and culled them. One Nemonite fled into space in a crystalline sphere, and sought to initiate a breeding cycle that would create millions of offspring - enough to possess the population of an entire planet.
The tenth Doctor and Donna were in hot pursuit of the rogue and arrived at Dover Castle, the tunnels of which contained a British navy centre under the command of Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay. The Nemonite spawned thousands of offspring that were contained aboard a British submarine. A Naval rating named Fossbrook - whom Donna had become enamoured with - sacrificed himself to blow up the vessel.
British forces were trapped at Dunkirk, but Ramsay was reluctant to initiate Operation Dynamo (a strategy for saving the troops using civilian vessels) for fear of the blow to morale if the civilians involved were killed. At the Doctor’s recommendation, Ramsay initiated the operation.
1940 (May) - Timewyrm: Exodus [1561]
Hitler, still emboldened by the Timewyrm within him, became jubilant as his armies scored many successes. German forces had reached Abbeville in France. At Hitler’s command post of Felsennest, the seventh Doctor and Ace exorcised the Timewyrm from Hitler’s mind. This left Hitler weakened, and the Doctor persuaded him to halt the German advance on Dunkirk. This enabled the Miracle of Dunkirk - the rescue of hundreds of thousands of British and French soldiers in a makeshift fleet of civilian boats - to occur and mark a turning point of the war.
The seventh Doctor remembered being at Dunkirk during the evacuation. [1562] In early June, Donna visited Fossbook’s mother, and delivered a letter that he’d written to her. [1563] Polly Wright’s oldest brother was born in the summer of 1940. [1564]
@ The eighth Doctor visited Lancashire in the forties and met aliens from Antares 5. [1565] He failed to join the RAF, unable to prove he was a British subject. He left England, spending two years in South America and Africa. [1566]
1940 - Illegal Alien [1567]
A time-travelling Cyberman, injured by a Luftwaffe bomb in London, instinctively sought blood plasma to heal its damaged components. It began a murder campaign and gained a reputation as “the Limehouse Lurker”. The seventh Doctor and Ace destroyed it.
The time travellers discovered that George Limb, a former Foreign Office secretary, had given Cyber-technology to both the Allies and the Nazis as a means of sparking a technology race. Limb escaped using a Cybermen time machine, but the Doctor’s intervention eradicated much of the errant Cyber-technology, plus destroyed the Nazi Cyber-conversion base in Jersey. However, a pump house containing hundreds of Cybermen cocoons survived, and was discovered by private detective Cody McBride.
The “original” Jack Harkness - an American pilot whose name would be adopted by a Time Agent in 1941 - killed twenty-six opponents during the Battle of Britain. [1568] At 8:47 pm on 12th October, 1940, a bomb destroyed a hotel next to the New Regency Theatre, which as a consequence was torn down. Elliot Payne linked his location in the Victorian Era to the very minute that the bomb fell, destroying a group of Time Eaters (and evidently himself) when it detonated. [1569]
The seventh Doctor and Bernice arrived in Guernsey in December 1940. Bernice went undercover as Celia Doras, the daughter of a local landlady. [1570] As a child, Richard Lazarus was caught up in the Blitz and became obsessed with immortality. [1571]
Barbara Wright, a companion of the first Doctor, was born in 1940 and lived in Bedfordshire for a time. [1572]
= c 1940 - FP: Warlords of Utopia [1573]
While exploring parallel Romes, Scriptor crossed a great Divide between universes. He arrived in a new order of realities, ones where Hitler was winning World War II. On one of these worlds, Germania V, he met and slept with a parallel version of his wife Angela, and helped the British army fight SS officers parachuting in to kidnap the British royal family.
Returning across the Divide, Scriptor developed a plan to liberate all these Nazi Earths. Few differences existed between these realities (the point of divergence came in 1918, at the end of World War I), and the Romans quickly alighted on winning strategies. The plan failed for the first time on Germania LXI; Scriptor soon met Abschrift - one of the Cwejen - and realised that the Nazi worlds were co-ordinating with one another.
There was also a “Hitler wins” Earth - the one perfect iteration of the idea. The Hitler of that world had set up a Council of Hitlers from other parallels. These Nazis were using atomic weapons to devastate Britain. The tide was turning across the Nazi worlds, and Scriptor was captured.
A single Dalek ship had fallen back in time following the Reality Bomb gambit in 2009. The few Daleks aboard needed to draw the Doctor out of hiding, and fashioned an independent-thinking android: Professor Edwin Bracewell. He presented the Daleks to Churchill as his own inventions: the “Ironsides”, war machines powerful enough to change the course of the war. [1574] Churchill had concerns about the Ironsides and telephoned the Doctor, requesting his presence. [1575] Park Vale barracks was hit by a German bomb in December 1940, burying the Berserker pendant there. [1576]
1940 (end of December) - Victory of the Daleks [1577]
The eleventh Doctor and Amy arrived in the Cabinet War Rooms in response to a summons from the Doctor’s old friend Winston Churchill. It was a month since Churchill phoned the Doctor, and in that time he’d come to see the advantages of Bracewell’s machine soldiers: the Ironsides. The Doctor was horrified to learn that the Ironsides were actually Daleks - they had obtained the final remaining Dalek Progenitor, but were not genetically pure enough to activate it. The Doctor’s identification of his foes as Daleks triggered the Progenitor, and it spawned “a new Dalek paradigm”: five new, genetically pure Daleks with the designated functions of Scientist, Strategist, Drone, Eternal and Supreme. These Daleks exterminated the impure Daleks, and threatened to destroy the Earth with an Oblivion Continuum planted in Bracewell. The Doctor deactivated the Continuum, but the Daleks escaped.
Bracewell’s knowledge temporarily enabled a few British airplanes to become space-worthy and fight the Daleks. The Doctor later took the aircraft through time to help rescue Amy from Demon’s Run. [1578]
1941
In 1941, the Doctor was present when a group of Alpha Centauri were stranded in Shanghai and panicked. [1579] Lydia Childs of Torchwood died in 1941. [1580] Dr Charles Quinn of Torchwood was killed during an air raid in World
War II. [1581] The Lone Centurion dragged the Pandorica free from a warehouse hit by incendiary devices during the Blitz. This was his last recorded appearance. [1582]
1941 (2nd January) - TW: Trace Memory [1583]
The time-jumping Michael Bellini visited the day a German bomb destroyed his childhood home, killing his mother.
1941 - The Pandorica Opens [1584]
The painting The Pandorica Opens was found in an attic in France. Professor Bracewell showed Churchill the painting, and Churchill telephoned the Doctor about it. The TARDIS redirected the call so that Churchill spoke to River Song, who was at Stormcage prison in the future.
1941 (Saturday, 20th January) - TW: Captain Jack Harkness [1585]
Captain Jack and Toshiko Sato arrived from the twenty-first century, having entered a temporal shift in the Ritz, a Cardiff dance hall. They met an American pilot named Captain Jack Harkness - the man whose identity “our” Jack stole while operating as a conman - and who was due to die the following day. Jack befriended his namesake before the Rift re-opened, and he and Tosh returned home.
The original Jack Harkness died on 21st January. His squadron was out on a training mission, and two formations of Messerschmitts surprised them. The Captain destroyed three of the enemy, but was hit and couldn’t bail out because his plane was on fire.
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