B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  [935] The One Doctor. Peter Roget was a physician and lexicographer who lived 1779-1869. He compiled Roget’s Thesaurus.

  [936] Cryptobiosis. “Livingstone” is presumably David Livingstone (1813-73), the famed Scottish medical missionary and explorer of Africa (from 1852-56).

  [937] State of Decay. Grimm lived 1785-1863.

  [938] Tooth and Claw (TV). Prince Albert and Sir Robert’s father seem to have begun collaborating as early as Robert’s childhood, but the exact dating is unclear. The Koh-i-Noor was presented to Queen Victoria in 1850, and Albert died 14th December, 1861. The recounting of the diamond in Tooth and Claw deviates a little from history - the story implies that Albert whittled down the stone through constant recuttings, when most of the lost mass was shed in a single cutting in 1852.

  [939] Downtime. Victoria was “11” (p14) when her mother died in “1863” (p261). This would make her 14 when she started travelling with the Doctor.

  [940] Ghost Ship. Novelist William Thackeray (Vanity Fair) lived 1811-1863; poet Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867; painter Eugéne Delacroix 1798-1863; painter Édouard Manet 1832-1883. While there’s no indication these meetings were on the same trip, it’s possible.

  [941] Timewyrm: Revelation (p4).

  [942] Dating The Four Doctors (BF subscription promo #9; also numbered as #142b) - The year is given.

  [943] The Angel of Scutari

  [944] Dating The Angel of Scutari (BF #122) - The Doctor provides all of the specified dates, which historically match the siege of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade. The attempted rescue of Hex happens “10:14 on 19th of November”. The only small deviation from history is that Nightingale seems to have arrived in Scutari in early November, not mid-month.

  [945] Dating “Perceptions” and “Coda” (Radio Times #3805-3816) - It’s broadly said to be “Victorian London”.

  [946] Dating “Cuckoo” (DWM #208-210) - The date is given at the beginning of the story.

  [947] The Evil of the Daleks

  [948] The Sea Devils

  [949] The War Games

  [950] The Evil of the Daleks

  [951] Interference (p191).

  [952] The Rapture. The brothers’ portal isn’t related to the portal that abducts James Lees in the same era.

  [953] Dating 100: “100 My Own Private Wolfgang” (BF #100b) - Mozart was born 27th January, 1756, and it’s now his 100th birthday.

  [954] Empire of Death. James is replaced in 1856, as dated on the back cover and p5.

  [955] Dating The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (BF #107) - Brewster has been at Shanks’ workhouse for five years, and the season of the year is stated.

  [956] FP: Erasing Sherlock (p27). The traditional date for Holmes’ birth, January 1854, is extrapolated from clues in the Conan Doyle story “His Last Bow”. Where Erasing Sherlock is concerned, the differing birthdate accommodates Holmes being 25 when the story opens in 1882.

  [957] Downtime

  [958] The Nightmare Fair. It’s not said which shelling during the Opium Wars (the first of which lasted 1839-1842, the second 1856-1860) this is meant to denote.

  [959] Dating “The Screams of Death” (DWM #430-431) - The year is given.

  [960] “The Child of Time” (DWM)

  [961] Dating A Town Called Fortune (BF CC #5.5) - The story is oddly circumspect about when it’s set, given that it’s a historical. Fortune is an American town, but we’re not told the state in which it resides, let alone the year. The only tangible clue is that it’s nine years after Donovan was engaged in the gold prospecting business - such activity generally dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and the most famous example of this, the California Gold Rush, lasted 1848-1855.

  [962] The Shadows of Avalon

  [963] “Cuckoo”

  [964] Island of Death. The third Doctor remembers the meeting, so it’s a different occasion than when the sixth Doctor met him in Bloodtide.

  [965] The Forgotten Army. The Doctor says this was in “1829” (p156) - probably either a typo or the result of him misremembering, as the Plug Uglies and Dead Rabbits operated in the 1850s, not the 1820s.

  [966] The Eleventh Tiger

  [967] Dating Benny: The Vampire Curse: “Possum Kingdom” (Benny collection #12b) - The tour group members dress up for the Victorian era (1837-1901), but nothing more specific is given.

  [968] The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Jago claims to have had “thirty years in the halls”.

  [969] Dating The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (BF #107) - Brewster is sold after having lived at Shanks’ workhouse for ten years.

  [970] Dating The Good, the Bad and Alien (BBC children’s 2-in-1 #3) - The story takes place “three months” (p109) after “18 April 1861” (p7).

  [971] It’s a Level Five world come the twenty-first century; see City of Death.

  [972] Dating Serpent Crest: The Broken Crown and Serpent Crest: Aladdin Time (BBC fourth Doctor audios #3.2-3.3) - The Doctor tells Mrs Wibbsey, “You saw that newspaper in the village shop, this is 1861. We have to get acclimatised.”

  [973] Just War

  [974] “The Forgotten”

  [975] A Good Man Goes to War. The London Underground first opened in 1863; it’s not specified if the Doctor met Vastra as part of the initial construction or as it continued. Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia says that the Underground tunnelling accidentally obliterated the shelter in which Vastra’s people lived.

  [976] Tooth and Claw (TV)

  [977] The Eleventh Tiger

  [978] “The Tides of Time”

  [979] “Half a century” before Year of the Pig, provided the age of Chardalot’s journals is anything to go by.

  [980] An Earthly Child, Wooden Heart. “Blondin” is Charles Blondin (a.k.a. Jean François Gravelet-Blondin), a French tight-rope walker and acrobat who lived 1824–1897. He first performed the Niagara Falls feat in 1859, but repeated it, with variations, a number of times after that.

  [981] The Three Companions. The Metropolitan line opened 10th of January, 1863.

  [982] Dating Empire of Death (PDA #65) - The story’s starting and ending dates are given on p37 and p235.

  [983] Logopolis. Thomas Huxley lived 1825-1895.

  [984] The Evil of the Daleks, with further details in Downtime.

  [985] The War Games

  [986] The Chase. The TARDIS crew supposedly watch this on the Time-Space Visualiser, although it’s possible that they’re just watching Lincoln rehearse the speech beforehand. The actual event had Lincoln surrounded by a huge crowd in close quarters; the Visualiser shows him very much isolated.

  [987] Iris: The Panda Invasion

  [988] An Earthly Child. This happened in 1864.

  [989] Dating The Runaway Train (BBC DW audiobook #9) - The year is given, and it’s after the battle of Galveston (there were actually two of these, fought on 4th October, 1862, and then on 1st January, 1863).

  [990] Dating Renaissance of the Daleks (BF #93) - The date is given toward the end of episode two. As stated, the detonation killed three hundred Confederates, but the Union army miscalculated in the explosion’s aftermath, and lost fifty-three thousand troops. The crater caused by the mine explosion is still visible to this day.

  [991] “Over one hundred years” before Iris: The Land of Wonder. The implication is that Lewis Carroll’s work was based upon Dodd’s Wonderland, but it’s not explained how this is the case. Perhaps the malleable creatures in Wonderland patterned themselves, somehow, after the characters in Carroll’s books. Either way, Alice in Wonderland saw print in 1865, and Dodd’s Wonderland was presumably created around the same time.

  [992] Dating Blood and Hope (TEL #14) - Judging by a letter on p29, the TARDIS crew arrive in America on 21st February, 1865. The Doctor’s saving Lincoln is dated on p49; Eustace’s death is dated on p69.

  [993] Minuet in Hell

  [994] “Fifteen years” before Evolution (p107).

  [995] Dating Assassin in the Limelight (BF #108) - The story takes place
on the day Lincoln was shot (14th April, 1865; he died the following day). The Civil War had concluded a mere five days beforehand on 9th April, when General Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia.

  Knox here passes himself off as Oscar Wilde - who is only age ten when this story takes place - but the few people to see him as “Wilde” either die or (in Henry Rathbone’s case) go insane and become institutionalized before the real Wilde became famous, suggesting none of them would have noticed the discrepancy in future. An exception is the theatre manager, Henry Clay Ford, who would have lived to hear of Wilde’s fame - but who also, having deduced that the Doctor and Evelyn were time travellers, would perhaps be inclined to keep quiet about it all.

  It’s fancifully implied that Knox, his mind in Pops’ dead body, assumes the life meant for Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) from this point on. Conan Doyle is actually seen in two Doctor Who stories: Evolution, set in 1880; and Revenge of the Judoon, set in 1902. The former is set before Assassin in the Limelight, and so doesn’t rule out the notion of an identity-swap. However, in the latter, Conan Doyle is presented as the genuine article, not a lively corpse-person with Knox’s mind.

  The more one considers Knox’s plan to swap himself for Conan Doyle, the more unlikely it seems that he succeeded. Such a scheme begs the question of a) what exactly Knox did to the real Conan Doyle, b) how, exactly, everyone who knew Conan Doyle could have possibly mistake Knox-Pops for him, and c) how, exactly, Knox is meant to have married three times and sired five children when his animated Pops-body reeks of decay and death. Some of these issues are solved if Knox transfers his consciousness into Conan Doyle’s body after arriving in England, but this isn’t actually said, and it’s very odd that Knox is already telling people that he’s Conan Doyle before he’s even left America. Conan Doyle in real life was a doctor of medicine, so Knox would be able to fake that expertise, at least.

  The Doctor and Evelyn are mistaken for Pinkertons - the Agency got its start in 1850, after Allan Pinkerton thwarted an attempt to kill president-elect Lincoln.

  [996] Dating The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (BF #107) - It’s “two years” before the 1867 component of the story, and it’s said that the TARDIS is recovered “thirty-four years” after 1831.

  [997] Dating The Eleventh Tiger (PDA #66) - The date is given. Although not referred to by name, the alien intelligence bears the characteristics of the Mandragora Helix (The Masque of Mandragora), and it’s intimated (p274) that the Doctor defeated its attempt to dominate Earth “four hundred years” previous.

  [998] Dating World Game (PDA #74) - The TARDIS travels “fifty years” beyond 1815.

  [999] Dating The Evil of the Daleks (4.9) - An early storyline gave the date of the Victorian sequence as “1880” (and the date of the caveman sequence which was later deleted as “20,000 BC”). The camera scripts gave the date of “1867”, as did some promotional material, but this was altered at the last minute to dovetail The Faceless Ones and The Evil of the Daleks.

  [1000] “Twelve months” before the November 1867 component of The Haunting of Thomas Brewster.

  [1001] The Androids of Tara

  [1002] Pier Pressure

  [1003] FP: Erasing Sherlock. Genevieve is “ten years” younger than Sherlock, who is said to have been born in 1857.

  [1004] The War Games

  [1005] Dating The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (BF #107) - The day and year are given. James Clerk Maxwell lived 1831-1879. The Doctor here tries to seem older by growing a beard - a rare occurrence, but something he also does in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street and The Wedding of River Song.

  [1006] Brewster has possession of the TARDIS for five months (from his perspective), and has such adventures as The Three Companions during that time. The Doctor and Nyssa catch up with him in The Boy That Time Forgot.

  [1007] Birthright

  [1008] Strange England (p157).

  [1009] Imperial Moon

  [1010] Revenge of the Judoon

  [1011] Dating The Boy That Time Forgot (BF #110) - It’s unclear how much time has passed since Brewster stole the TARDIS in mid-November 1867, and so it’s possible that it’s either late 1867 or some time in 1868. For the Doctor, Nyssa and Brewster, this story continues in the undatable Time Reef.

  [1012] Peacemaker. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was published in 1869.

  [1013] TW: “Broken”. The incident seems unrelated to events in The Unquiet Dead, even though they occur in the same year, and the Rift entity isn’t Abaddon, whom Bilis is seen serving in Torchwood Series 1.

  [1014] The Forgotten Army (p163). The American Museum of Natural History - presumably the same building that this novel keeps calling the “New York Natural History Museum”, and identified down to its street address (p26) - opened in 1869.

  [1015] Dating The Unquiet Dead (X1.3) - The Doctor gives the year (having originally aimed for 1860). The date is given a number of times, first on a poster in Dickens’ dressing room. The Doctor, Rose and Jack’s discussion about the Rift in Boom Town seems to indicate that it predates events in The Unquiet Dead.

  [1016] The Doctor uses the Rift to refuel the TARDIS in Boom Town and Utopia. Evidence of the Rift attracting alien beings and technology to Cardiff is witnessed throughout Torchwood.

  [1017] TW: Ghost Train

  [1018] Journey’s End, providing an explanation within Doctor Who as to why Gwen and Gwyneth look identical (as both were played by Eve Myles). From her conversation with Rose about boys, Gwyneth is very clearly not a mother in The Unquiet Dead, and so Gwen is not her descendant, and the physical resemblance seems more like a result of (to coin a phrase) “time echoing” than genetics.

  [1019] Utopia. It may or may not be coincidence that 1869 is the year the TARDIS landed at the Rift in The Unquiet Dead. Jack’s immortality is first revealled in TW: Everything Changes.

  [1020] The Criminal Code. Evans lived 1819 to 1880.

  [1021] “Your Destiny Awaits”. This happens when Sitting Bull is a Sioux leader, which started no later than 1864, and ended with his surrender in 1881.

  [1022] Dating Industrial Evolution (BF #145) - The period is generalised as “nineteenth century Lancashire”, but the Doctor would hardly want to deposit Brewster in his personal past, and there’s no sign on this occasion of the TARDIS missing its mark. It’s probably relevant that when the Doctor offers to take Brewster home in The Feast of Axos, he suggests a destination of “about 1870”, to which Brewster replies, “That’ll do.”

  [1023] According to Angus in Terror of the Zygons.

  [1024] Horror of Fang Rock

  [1025] The War Games

  [1026] Companion Piece

  [1027] Dating Set Piece (NA #35) - It is “1871 CE” (p62). The Commune fell on 28th May, 1871. Ace’s departure in Set Piece deliberately echoes the epilogue to The Curse of Fenric novelisation, in which the Doctor visits an older Ace in nineteenth-century Paris, some time after she’s departed his company. Reconciling the epilogue with the New Adventures is difficult, as the epilogue takes place in 1887 (p186 and 188) when Ace is still a “young lady”. Given her aging in the New Adventures, this makes it unlikely that she lives in Paris for all of the sixteen years between 1871 and 1887. Fortunately, the New Adventures have Ace taking up time travel after Set Piece, and using a time-jump to facilitate her meeting with the Doctor in 1887 would explain a great deal.

  [1028] The Devil Goblins from Neptune

  [1029] The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Greel arrived in 1872, according to The Shadow of Weng-Chiang.

  [1030] FP: The Book of the War. She’s in her “eleventh year” in 1883 according to FP: Warring States (p52).

  [1031] The Girl Who Never Was

  [1032] TW: The Twilight Streets

  [1033] TW: Risk Assessment. Havisham says that the zombie incident occurred “a few years” after a space-time disturbance “shifted” the Rift - presumably a reference to The Unquiet Dead.

  [1034] Birthright

  [1035] Dating Eye of
Heaven (PDA #8) - The date is given (p17).

  [1036] Dating The Chase (2.8) - The emptied Mary Celeste was discovered in November 1872.

  [1037] Dating 100: “The 100 Days of the Doctor” (BF #100d) - It’s the “1870s”. The Tharsis Acumen is said to lack time travel, and to have existed for “only a few centuries”, so the Doctor could theoretically have freed their slaves at just about any point from (say) the 1500s to the twenty-second century.

  [1038] The Curse of Fenric

  [1039] Head Games

  [1040] The Stones of Blood

  [1041] Pyramids of Mars

  [1042] Doctor Who and the Pirates. The Doctor says he “paced” Webb, which indicates he was swimming ahead of Webb to increase the man’s pace rather than trying to defeat him.

  [1043] Dating The Silver Turk (BF #153) - A newspaper has the dateline “11th September, 1873”. The Doctor mentions the real-life Turk - an automation exhibited starting in 1770, was exposed as a fraud in the 1820s, and was incinerated in a fire in 1854.

  [1044] Dating Strange England (NA #29) - The Doctor says that the “temporal location” is “1873” (p229).

  [1045] Dating “Bad Blood” (DWM #338-342) - The date is given in a caption.

  [1046] The Pirate Planet. Bandraginus V disappeared “over a century” ago according to the Doctor, when the Zanak native Balaton was young. As Zanak is not capable of time travel, it must have been operating at least that long. The planets attacked by Zanak are named in production documents, and plaques were made up with the names on... but only those for Bandraginus V, Granados, Lowiteliom and Calufrax are clearly visible on screen. First Frontier gives a little more detail about Bandraginus V (p129).