[1644] Death and Diplomacy
[1645] The Taint
[1646] “Thirty years” before The Last of the Gaderene.
[1647] Divided Loyalties
[1648] Dating The Shadow in the Glass (PDA #41) - The date is given (p29).
[1649] Dating Autumn Mist (EDA #24) - The story takes place during the Battle of the Bulge. The Doctor confronts the Beast in The Taint.
[1650] SJA: Lost in Time
[1651] Dating The Turing Test (EDA #39) - The story takes place over several months, and ends with the Allies bombing Dresden, which occurred in February 1945.
[1652] FP: The Book of the War. The joke here is that Anastasia, following her downfall concerning the Thirteen-Day Republic debacle, was triplicated and made to live as three women who, in real life throughout the twentieth century, claimed to be the “lost” Grand Duchess Anastasia. Anastasia’s remains were conclusively identified in 2008.
[1653] The Marian Conspiracy, which takes place circa 2000, says she is “55. A Big Finish press release, however, claims she was 65 in 1999, suggesting a much earlier birth date of 1934. Big Finish Producer Gary Russell says The Marian Conspiracy should be favoured whatever the press release says.
[1654] Harry celebrates his 41st birthday in Harry Sullivan’s War, set circa 1986 but subject to UNIT dating. Ian Marter, who played Harry and also wrote Harry Sullivan’s War, was born in 1944.
[1655] No Future
[1656] TW: Trace Memory
[1657] “Next March” after The Shadow in the Glass.
[1658] The Shadow in the Glass
[1659] TimeH: Peculiar Lives
[1660] Dating The Shadow in the Glass (PDA #41) - The date is given (p23, 147).
[1661] Dating Forty-Five: “Casualties of War” (BF #115c) - The Doctor provides the specific day.
[1662] TW: Children of Earth
[1663] P.R.O.B.E.: The Zero Imperative
[1664] Dating Atom Bomb Blues (PDA #76) - The story is set on the eve of the first A-Bomb tests.
[1665] TW: The Undertaker’s Gift
[1666] Just War
[1667] “Memorial”
[1668] Heart of TARDIS
[1669] “Operation Proteus”
[1670] Time and the Rani. A scene showing the Rani kidnap Einstein was deleted from the camera script.
[1671] “Thirty years” before The Web of Fear.
[1672] “Thirty years” before The Paradise of Death (p79).
[1673] Variously said to occur at the end of World War II and about “sixty years” before The Eternal Summer, set in 2009.
[1674] Dating Dying in the Sun (PDA #47) - Early on, a newspaper is dated “12 October 1947” (p17).
[1675] Dating Ghosts of India (NA #25) - The year is given.
[1676] Dating “The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop” (DWM #429) - It’s prior to Lewis writing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the manuscript of which was finished in March 1949.
[1677] Happy Endings. Tolkien’s wedding gift is a first edition of The Hobbit, which was published in 1937.
[1678] The Devil Goblins from Neptune, and also referred to in The Face of the Enemy.
[1679] Dalek
[1680] Peacemaker
[1681] Dreamland (DW). The date is given in a caption. See the Unfixed Points in Time sidebar.
[1682] Divided Loyalties. Pollock was influential to the abstract expressionism movement.
[1683] Heart of TARDIS
[1684] Ghosts of India
[1685] The Devil Goblins from Neptune (p240).
[1686] Interference. We see it in The Hand of Fear.
[1687] Fear Her
[1688] TW: Slow Decay
[1689] The End of Time (TV)
[1690] SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith. No date given, but this is before Sarah Jane is born in 1951.
[1691] FP: The Labyrinth of Histories, extrapolating from the godfather’s grandfather being conceived circa February 1899.
[1692] Dating The Cabinet of Light (TEL #9) - The year is 1949, according to p14 and the back cover blurb. TimeH: Peculiar Lives specifies that the pyjama-clad Emily was found wandering the streets of London in “late 1949” (p13). The Doctor admits that his own memories are “hazy”, and so he might be conflating the story of his last regeneration with the one in Doctor Who - The Movie. (Alternatively, it might have happened exactly as he claims.)
Emily’s amnesia is attributed to Mestizer’s agents attacking her. Given the murky recollections of everyone involved, though, it could stem from the blow to the head she receives at the end of TimeH: Child of Time.
[1693] TimeH: Child of Time
[1694] Dating TimeH: The Winning Side (TimeH #1) - The Time Hunter novella series picks up in wake of events in The Cabinet of Light; the year is variously reiterated as 1949. Pages 7 and 78 say that Emily is “killed” on a “cool, crisp December night”.
[1695] “Twenty years” before The Underwater Menace.
[1696] The Scales of Injustice. No date is given.
[1697] Return of the Living Dad. This happened in “the fifties” (p66).
[1698] Instruments of Darkness
[1699] Psi-ence Fiction. No date is given.
[1700] According to the Doctor in Dreamland (DW).
[1701] The Eye of the Jungle
[1702] TW: Department X
[1703] TW: Slow Decay
[1704] The Devil Goblins from Neptune (p37).
[1705] “Fifteen years” before The Scales of Injustice.
[1706] The Devil Goblins from Neptune (p56), The King of Terror (p126).
[1707] “About a year” before Endgame (EDA).
[1708] TW: Trace Memory, extrapolating from the fact that Valentine’s paper trail vanishes in that year, and his records were later purged by Torchwood.
[1709] Dating TimeH: The Tunnel at the End of the Light (TimeH #2) - The cover bears the year, and when all is said and done, Honoré and Emily return to their starting point of “early 1950” (p150).
[1710] TimeH: The Clockwork Woman; TimeH: Kitsune; TimeH: The Severed Man; TimeH: Echoes. Honoré and Emily tend to return home after each adventure, and the intros to each novella (as well as some internal references, including The Severed Man, pgs. 60-61, 106; Echoes, p9) reiterate that they originate from 1950.
[1711] Dating TimeH: Peculiar Lives (TimeH #7) - The month and year are given as June (pgs 13, 41, 82), and an epilogue references some incidental events on “early July” (p127) and “5th September” (p129).
[1712] TimeH: Deus Le Volt. Honoré mentions some relaxation of rationing in the United Kingdom, as historically occurred in May 1950.
[1713] “Forty years” after Pyramids of Mars.
[1714] The Daemons
[1715] TW: The House That Jack Built. This event still occurs even once the house’s history is revised.
[1716] SJA: Eye of the Gorgon
[1717] TW: Ghost Train
[1718] Dating TimeH: The Sideways Door (TimeH #10) - After Honoré and Emily cross over into the parallel reality, page 32 reads: “The masthead on The Times confirmed the date was the same as it had been that morning: 13 February 1951.” While this would seem to mean that it’s 13th February in Honoré and Emily’s native reality as well, TimeH: Child of Time - set in either late November or December 1951 - claims (p12) that events in The Sideways Door happened only “weeks” ago. The only way to reconcile this is to assume that some time displacement does occur when they cross from one Earth to another, but that’s certainly not the impression one gets here.
[1719] Dating TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer (TimeH #9) - The exact day is repeatedly given.
[1720] According to SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, Sarah was “13” by mid-July, 1964. SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith establishes that she was “three months old” in August 1951, suggesting she was born in May. We can further narrow the date as SJA: Secrets of the Stars says that Sarah is a Taurus, which lasts 20th April to 21st May.
; In SJA: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, Sarah says she was “23” when she met the Doctor (in The Time Warrior) - the same as her age given on screen in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (although in the novelisation of that story, she’s “22”). Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah, was born in 1948. In the format document for the proposed K9 and Company series, it’s stated that Sarah was born in “1949”. She was “about 30” in the spin-off novel Harry Sullivan’s War (suggesting a birth date of 1955), and she’s born “over sixty years” after 1880 in Evolution (p242).
[1721] TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer
[1722] Dating SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (SJA 2.5) - The precise date is given.
[1723] Dating TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer (TimeH #9) - The exact day is repeatedly given, and while it’s stated within the text and on the cover that Honoré and Emily now originate from 1951, the introduction - as with the previous six Time Hunter novellas - continues to stubbornly insist that it’s 1950.
[1724] TimeH: The Sideways Door
[1725] Dating TimeH: Child of Time (TimeH #11) - This is the final Time Hunter novella. It’s reiterated that it’s still 1951. The day is given (p15), and it’s been “a couple of weeks” (pgs 12, 15) since the previous novella.
[1726] Dating Timewyrm: Exodus (NA #2) - In Part One of the novel, the Doctor proclaims it to be the “Festival of Britain, 1951” (p5). At the end of the novel, the Doctor and Ace arrive at the real Festival of Britain.
[1727] Dating Endgame (EDA #40) - The year is given (p242).
[1728] Father Time (p58).
[1729] Zagreus, again judging by a historical simulation.
[1730] Dating Real Time (BF BBCi #1) - The date is given, episode one, track 1.
[1731] The Plotters. If we take the writers’ guidelines at face value, she would have been 12 at the time.
[1732] TW: Out of Time
[1733] Cuddlesome. It’s not stated when this occurs, but Timothy West, who plays Turvey, was born in 1934 - making 1952 as good a dating as anything else.
[1734] Dating The Nowhere Place (BF #84) - The date is given.
[1735] A Thousand Tiny Wings
[1736] Dating A Thousand Tiny Wings (BF #130) - The back cover vaguely declares that it’s “Kenya, the 1950s”, but to judge by everyone’s anxieties, the Mau Mau uprising (1952-1960) has just begun. A BBC Overseas Service radio broadcast relates how the Kenyan governor, Sir Evelyn Baring, has declared a state of emergency just two weeks after taking office, and how the authorities have already arrested one hundred leaders of the insurgency, including rebel spokesperson Jomo Kenyatta (who later became Kenya’s first prime minister) - all of which occurred on 20th October, 1952.
Annoyingly, and despite all the historical detail that indicates an October 1952 dating, The Architects of History dates this story to “1953” - although the version of Klein who works for UNIT might be rounding when she says that.
[1737] A Thousand Tiny Wings. De Flores appeared in Silver Nemesis.
[1738] Dating Amorality Tale (PDA #52) - It’s “Wednesday, December 3, 1952” (p12).
[1739] Dating A Christmas Carol (X6.0) - The year is given. Monroe was between marriages, as it happens, in 1952.
[1740] Nightshade (p111).
[1741] Escape Velocity (p196).
[1742] The Dying Days (p52). Sherpa Tensing Norgay and Edmund P. Hillary were the first to conquer Everest.
[1743] The Suffering. In real life, The Times published evidence of the hoax in November 1953.
[1744] The Catalyst. The type of race isn’t specified.
[1745] “Five years” before Dreamland (DW).
[1746] Dreamland (DW). SJA: The Vault of Secrets specifies that the Men in Black were first active in 1953.
[1747] Trueman is 56 in SJA: Secrets of the Stars, set in early November, 2009, so he was born in either 1952 or 1953. Trueman-actor Russ Abbott is somewhat older than the part he played, having been born 16th September, 1947.
[1748] “Ghosts of the Northern Line”
[1749] The Mists of Time, based upon Katy Manning being born in 1946, but subject to UNIT dating.
[1750] Dating The Idiot’s Lantern (X2.7) - The story’s climax coincides with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, with the Doctor and Rose arriving the day before.
[1751] Use of the Magpie Electricals logo has become a running joke for the new series design team, and is seen on various electronics in The Runaway Bride, The Sound of Drums, Voyage of the Damned, Day of the Moon and TW: The Undertaker’s Gift. It’s on a banner in The Beast Below, and on equipment in the TARDIS in The Eleventh Hour and Vincent and the Doctor.
[1752] Dating TW: Trace Memory (TW novel #5) - The exact day is given, p27.
[1753] Jubilee
[1754] “End Game” (DWM). Le Chiffre is the villain in the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953).
[1755] TW: Out of Time
[1756] TW: Slow Decay
[1757] TW: Trace Memory
[1758] Dating “The Good Soldier” (DWM #175-178) - “It’s 1954” according to the Doctor. The Cybermen resemble those from The Tenth Planet, and that’s specified in dialogue. The Cybermen report to Mondas Control.
[1759] Dating The Witch Hunters (PDA #9) - The date is given, p68. The Fast Return Switch first appeared in The Edge of Destruction, but in that story, it was used to move the TARDIS into the past quickly - not as a “return to previous location” device.
[1760] The Turing Test. “Six months” after Turing’s suicide (7th June, 1954; p104), “forty-six years” before the year 2000 (p105).
[1761] “Fifty years” before The Tomorrow Windows (p274).
[1762] “Decades” prior to The Zygon Who Fell to Earth.
[1763] Father’s Day
[1764] Loving the Alien (p188-189).
[1765] Shada
[1766] TW: Slow Decay (p84).
[1767] Loving the Alien. Dean died 30th September, 1955.
[1768] “Klein’s Story”, confirming the 1955 dating given in Colditz.
[1769] The Time Warrior
[1770] The Pit (p98).
[1771] Vampire Science
[1772] The Turing Test (p207).
[1773] Invasion of the Cat-People (p31).
[1774] “Last year” according to First Frontier (p68), and a reference to the original Invasion of the Bodysnatchers.
[1775] Dancing the Code
[1776] “The Curse of the Scarab”
[1777] The Unicorn and the Wasp
[1778] From Torchwood.org.uk.
[1779] Dating FP: Warlords of Utopia (FP novel #3) - Scriptor gives the date.
[1780] Dating “Agent Provocateur” (IDW DW mini-series #1) - It has been “twelve years” since the war, and Martha sees a newspaper with the date on it.
[1781] “Thirteen years” before The Devil Goblins from Neptune.
[1782] Vampire Science
[1783] “Ground Zero”
[1784] Dating First Frontier (NA #30) - It is “October 4th, 1957” (p6). The Master next appears in Happy Endings.
[1785] Unregenerate! The dating is awry, as radio broadcasts suggest this is the day of Sputnik’s launch (4th October), yet Louis claims the date is “the 15th”.
[1786] The Doctor mentions C19 in Time-Flight, in connection with contacting UNIT.
[1787] The Scales of Injustice (p205). C19 is referred to in a number of novels, particularly Gary Russell’s The Scales of Injustice, Business Unusual and Instruments of Darkness, where it’s a shadowy branch of British intelligence that keeps the existence of aliens under wraps by cleaning up alien artifacts left over from their various incursions (a little like Torchwood, then).
[1788] Alien Bodies. Sputnik II was launched 3rd November, 1957.
[1789] Mad Dogs and Englishmen
[1790] Escape Velocity
[1791] Rags (p185).
[1792] TW: Children of Earth
[1793] TW: Almost Perfect
[1794] Beautiful Chaos (p163).
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[1796] Rat Trap
[1797] “Fifty years” before SJA: Eye of the Gorgon.
[1798] J&L: Dead Men’s Tales
[1799] Dating Dreamland (DW Red Button animated story) - A caption conveys that it is “eleven years” since 1947, and the Doctor confirms that it’s “1958”. The Department in the K9 series also calls the operation to recover alien ships “Fallen Angel”. The Doctor twice says he “always wanted” to go to Area 51. See the Unfixed Points of Time sidebar.
[1800] Dreamland (DW). The Doctor is almost certainly referring to Retcon, as seen in Torchwood, and may be unaware that they actually created it in the late 90s (according to The Torchwood Archives), i.e. only forty, not fifty, years on.
[1801] SJA: Prisoner of the Judoon
[1802] Dating Spiral Scratch (PDA #72) - Rummas gives the year.
[1803] Spiral Scratch
[1804] Dating “Tuesday” (DW Annual 2011) - The year is given.
[1805] Dating Bad Therapy (NA #57) - The date is given (p1).
[1806] Shada
[1807] SJA: The Last Sontaran, no date given.
[1808] SJA: The Day of the Clown, no date given.
[1809] Dating Delta and the Bannermen (24.3) - The Tollmaster says that the bus will be going back to “1959”, and the date is confirmed by a banner up in the dance hall at the Shangri-La resort. Hawk’s line that “this is history in the making” implies this is the first American satellite, but that was actually Explorer I, launched on 31st January, 1958.
[1810] Return of the Living Dad
[1811] The Face of the Enemy (p248).
[1812] The Way Through the Woods
[1813] TW: Submission. In real life, the Trieste reached its maximum depth on 23rd January, 1960.
[1814] Imperial Moon
[1815] UNIT: Snake Head
[1816] SJA: The White Wolf. It’s suggested that Sarah loses a “whole year” of her life owing to this event, although this is hard to take literally, as she never notices the discrepancy.
[1817] Dating Loving the Alien (PDA #60) - Ace gains a tattoo that dates the year as 1959 (p24). The Doctor similarly remarks on the year as 1959 (p33). The newspaper on the cover specifies it’s “November” 1959.
[1818] Synthespians™
[1819] Ghost Ship. No date is given.
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