B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  [1820] Millennial Rites (p159). The Mods and Rockers gangs were two British youth movements during this time.

  [1821] Vincent and the Doctor. Picasso started his art career in 1900; he died in 1973.

  [1822] The Zygon Who Fell to Earth

  [1823] A Death in the Family. Lowry, famed for his renderings of Salford and its surrounding areas, lived 1887-1976.

  [1824] Torchwood.org.uk, elaborating on TW: From Out of the Rain.

  [1825] TW: The House That Jack Built. No date is given; Clarke immigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956, and lived there until his death in 2008.

  [1826] The psychspace - and the musician’s native time - is variously given as “the late 1950s” and “the 1960s” in the undatable “Forever Dreaming”.

  [1827] Heart of Stone. Ali was born in 1942, was a professional boxer from 1960 to 1981.

  [1828] “Space Squid”. Godzilla first appeared in 1954, so it’s some time after that.

  [1829] Zamper. Milton Keynes was build as part of the third wave of the New Towns programme, so this happened during the sixties.

  [1830] “Twenty years” before Invasion of the Dinosaurs.

  [1831] “For the last decade” before Spearhead from Space.

  [1832] Transit

  The Brigadier’s Family

  Transit introduces the Brigadier’s descendant, Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart (she reappears in Set Piece, The Also People, So Vile a Sin and Benny: The Final Amendment). Kadiatu hails from a line of Lethbridge-Stewarts descended from the Lieutenant’s liaison in Sierra Leone. An early draft of The Also People had more details of the Lethbridge-Stewart line.

  We can deduce that Mariatu had a son, Mariama, in the early 1960s (he is unnamed in Transit, but the name appears in the early draft of The Also People, where his mother was mistakenly referred to as “Isatu”). He had a daughter, Kadiatu, who became an historian (she is first referred to in the Remembrance of the Daleks novelisation, and also in Set Piece). She had a son Gibril, who also had a son called Gibril (from the draft of The Also People). Gibril had a son, Yembe (seen in Transit), and he adopted Kadiatu in 2090. Kadiatu, then, is the Brigadier’s great-great-great-great-granddaughter, and this is consistent with Transit (p96) where “five generations” separate Kadiatu from Alistair.

  Rather more simple is the Brigadier’s British family. According to Downtime, the Brigadier and his first wife Fiona (a name thought up by Nicholas Courtney, who plays the Brigadier) had a daughter named Kate (seen in Downtime and Daemons: Daemos Rising). She was a child during the UNIT era, when the Lethbridge-Stewarts split up. (The Brigadier and Fiona separate in The Scales of Injustice, and he is sleeping alone by The Daemons.) By the mid-nineties, Kate is a single mother looking after her son Gordon. By Battlefield, the Brigadier has married Doris, an old flame first mentioned in Planet of the Spiders. (They shared a weekend in Brighton eleven years before that story - perhaps before Alistair was married to Fiona.)

  [1833] Blood Heat

  [1834] “Eleven years” before Planet of Spiders - possibly while married to Fiona.

  [1835] “Eight years” before The Scales of Injustice (p61, p131).

  [1836] The King of Terror (p255).

  [1837] “About ten years” before The Scales of Injustice.

  [1838] The Blue Tooth

  [1839] Old Soldiers

  [1840] Shada

  [1841] Just War

  [1842] Dating Mad Dogs and Englishmen (EDA #52) - “It’s 1960!” (p118).

  [1843] Dating No More Lies (BF BBC7 #1.6) - No year is given, but the upper and lower boundaries of this story’s dating can be deduced. Rachel’s brother references “You Are My Sunshine” (1939) and the Time Lords’ temporal barrier is currently preventing the Doctor and Lucie from getting any closer to her era than 1974 (per Horror of Glam Rock). There’s no mention of a war being on or rationing, so the action is less likely to take place in the 1940s. The season is suggested in that the garden party is held outdoors, and some of the action occurs in Nick and Rachel’s “summer house”.

  [1844] According to her character outline, Tegan is “21” when she meets the Doctor (in Logopolis, set in 1981). Originally she was to be 19, until the production team were told that legally air hostesses had to be 21 or older. Clarifying the issue, The Gathering has Tegan celebrating her 46th birthday on 22nd September 2006. Janet Fielding was born in 1957, which might suggest that she’s three years older than the character she played. However, fandom often presumes that Tegan spent three years travelling with the Doctor (the duration of Fielding’s time on screen), which would suggest that - like Fielding - Tegan is 49 when The Gathering takes place.

  [1845] Divided Loyalties

  [1846] The King of Terror

  [1847] Goth Opera

  [1848] The Cradle of the Snake

  [1849] “4-Dimensional Vistas”. Gus has been “three years in the air force”, and has been fighting since “last year”.

  [1850] TW: Almost Perfect. Historically, this happened on 9th February, 1961.

  [1851] Dating “The Time of My Life” (DWM #399) - This can’t be the Beatles’ first performance at the club, or Captain Jack would have spotted the Doctor there (TW: Almost Perfect). The Beatles played at the club more than once in 1961, and were first spotted there by Brian Epstein on 9th November.

  [1852] Confirmed in The Seeds of Death.

  [1853] The ICMG is seen in Remembrance of the Daleks. Who Killed Kennedy (p69) describes its founding.

  [1854] “Fifty years” before “Down to Earth”.

  [1855] “Klein’s Story”

  [1856] “Fifteen years” after 1947, according to The Devil Goblins from Neptune.

  [1857] Salvation (p5).

  [1858] Heart of TARDIS (p197).

  [1859] “Fifty years” before The Shadows of Avalon.

  [1860] “Many months” before “Operation Proteus”, and more than four months because Raldonn was there to detect the Doctor’s arrival on Earth.

  [1861] Trading Futures

  [1862] Father Time. This is one reason that the Doctor doesn’t bump into himself during the UNIT era.

  [1863] “Twenty-seven years” before the third part of Father Time.

  [1864] The Year of Intelligent Tigers

  [1865] Dark Progeny. The success of this depends upon when the Doctor trained with Bergen - who was very popular, but let his ventriloquism skills lapse while working in radio. Later in Bergen’s career, the McCarthy doll would mock Bergen for moving his lips.

  [1866] It arrived “at least fifty years” before Dalek.

  [1867] Spiral Scratch

  [1868] This happened forty-seven years before Hornets’ Nest: Hive of Horror, according to the sleeve notes.

  [1869] Dating “Klein’s Story” (BF #131a) - The year is given. Reference is made to the Reich possessing a Drahvinian power core, which suggests that the Drahvins from Galaxy 4 are spacefaring in this era, but it’s of little help in dating that story.

  [1870] The End of Time (TV)

  Present Day

  1963

  In 1963, Polly Wright worked for a week at a charity shop. [1] Nyssa, a companion of the fifth Doctor, was born. [2] In 1963, Professor Rachel Jensen was moved from British Rocket Group to the Intrusion Countermeasures Group. [3] The future psychopath Patrick Jefferson was born in 1963 to Christine Jefferson and an unknown father. [4]

  = The former Council of Eight member Soul, along with the Doctor’s granddaughter Zezanne, arrived in a junkyard in 1963 aboard the Jonah. A chameleon device built by Octan enabled the ship to alter its appearance for the first and nearly last time, blending into its surroundings as a police box. Soul and Zezanne’s memories were clouded by the nature of their escape. Having absorbed some of the Doctor’s life force, Soul became convinced that he was the Doctor. Zezanne regarded him as her grandfather. [5]

  The first Doctor and Susan arrived in Shoreditch, London, in early 1963 and spent five months on Earth. The Doctor attended to his TARDIS while Susan went
to Coal Hill School. A month before his departure, the Doctor arranged to bury the Hand of Omega. [6]

  IM Foreman’s travelling carnival for a time remodelled itself as the junkyard at Totter’s Yard, and the instability it created had served to draw the Doctor’s TARDIS there. [7]

  The first Doctor acquired a Shoreditch Library card under the name “J Smith”. [8]

  1963 (27th March to 4th April) - Time and Relative [9]

  Several months after Susan started at Coal Hill School, England was caught in the most severe winter for quite some time. There had been snow and ice since before Christmas, into April. This was caused by an ancient sentience called the Cold, which had recently revived, possibly due to a Soviet cryogenics research undertaking called the Novosibirsk Project. The Cold animated killer snowmen, the Cold Knights, which caused mayhem in London and slew many in Piccadilly Circus. The first Doctor siphoned the Cold into a lump of ice, and took it to Pluto in the far future.

  On 29th March, 1963, Lizzy Lewis was murdered in Cardiff. [10]

  = 1963 (July) - “Lunar Lagoon” [11]

  The fifth Doctor was fishing on a Pacific Island when he was attacked by an old Japanese soldier, Fuji, who didn’t realise the War was over. To the Doctor’s surprise, the island was attacked by a USAF bomber. Fuji was killed by a downed American airman, leaving the Doctor to ponder the meaningless of war.

  = 1963 (25th July) - “4-Dimensional Vistas” [12]

  The fifth Doctor was captured by the US airman who killed Fuji, Angus “Gus” Goodman, and learned that the TARDIS had landed twenty years earlier than he thought... and in a parallel universe. Lost in time, the Doctor convinced Gus to join him on his travels.

  = 1963 (25th July) - “The Moderator” [13]

  After a couple of adventures, the fifth Doctor returned Gus home. The Moderator had followed them from the far future, and gunned down Gus.

  1963 - The Taint [14]

  The eighth Doctor and Sam Jones met Fitz Kreiner, a floral shop worker, shortly before being confronted by an escaped mental patient, Oscar Austen. The patients at Austen’s hospital had alien leech creatures in their brains. Sam and Fitz were attacked by Azoth, an organic computer from the planet Benelisa, who injected Sam with a leech. Azoth sought to destroy “the Beast”, invisible aliens that were feeding on humans, and the leech enabled Sam to see them. The leeches drove the patients further insane and granted them with dangerous psychic abilities. Azoth was destroyed, and the Doctor released a bioelectric pulse that killed the mental patients, including Fitz’s mother. Fitz joined the Doctor and Sam on their travels. They predicted that the Beast would eventually move on from Earth.

  1963 (October) - “Operation Proteus” [15]

  Four months after they arrived in London, the first Doctor and Susan confronted Raldonn, an alien scientist who was experimenting on human beings, causing genetic acceleration. He was attempting to create another of his kind, to replace the co-pilot of his crashed ship. Only one in a million would be affected, the others become random mutants, so he planned to release an airbourne serum. One of the mutants killed Raldonn, and the Doctor used his equipment to release a cure into the atmosphere.

  During this encounter, Threshold abducted Susan.

  1963 (October) - Ghost Ship [16]

  The fourth Doctor landed on the Queen Mary, which was bound for New York. He found that quantum physicist Peter Osbourne had developed a time-space visualiser, and that the device had captured psionic residue from the passengers, collecting “ghosts” from the past, present and future. The Doctor destroyed the device and liberated the “ghosts”, who took Osbourne among their number. The Doctor thought the “ghosts” would remain aboard the Queen Mary forever.

  1963 (a Tuesday in late October) - An Unearthly Child [17]

  Two school teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, thought their pupil Susan Foreman was very unusual and investigated her home one evening. They found that she was living in a junkyard with her grandfather - an old man with the TARDIS, a space-time machine disguised as a police box. The Doctor was suspicious of the school teachers, and put the TARDIS into motion. As he could not control where the Ship went, he was unable to return Ian and Barbara home.

  (=) 1963 (12th November) - Matrix [18]

  On Matrix Earth, Britain was the fifty-first of the United States. President Kennedy came to London on 11th November to speak in Westminster, but was torn apart by supernatural creatures. Ian and Barbara were lovers, but were killed by the Jacksprites - the drug-addicted followers of Jack the Ripper. The seventh Doctor and Ace arrived in this timeline, then went back to 1888 and restored history.

  1963 (from 22nd November) - Remembrance of the Daleks [19]

  An Imperial Dalek Shuttlecraft landed in a playground in London and established a transmat link with an orbiting mothership. Their rivals, the Renegade Dalek faction, began recruiting sympathetic locals. The Imperial Daleks, with Davros as their Emperor, wiped out the Renegades and captured the Hand of Omega. Davros planned on using its power to give the Daleks mastery of Time, and make them the new Time Lords. The seventh Doctor, accompanied by Ace, tricked Davros into destroying both Skaro and his battleship with the Hand of Omega. Davros survived in an escape pod, while the Hand of Omega returned to Gallifrey.

  The British Rocket Group and the Intrusion Counter Measures Group (ICMG) were active at this time.

  The ICMG became part of Department C19. It formed the basis of an organisation that dealt with unusual events. Members included Ian Gilmore, Rachel Jensen, Allison Williams, Ruth Ingram and Anne Travers. [20] The fact that IM Foreman’s name was spelt “Forman” on the gates of the Totter’s Yard when the Doctor encountered the Dalek there owed to temporal disruption. [21] Isaac Summerfield and the survivors of the Tisiphone arrived circa 1963 after falling through a wormhole from the twenty-sixth century. [22]

  The Kennedy Assassination

  In late November 1963, the Nemesis asteroid passed over the Earth, influencing the assassination of President Kennedy. [23]

  1963 - Who Killed Kennedy [24]

  Journalist James Stevens arrived from the seventies to stop the Master from interfering with the Kennedy assassination. The Master wanted to disrupt history using a brainwashed Private Cleary as his assassin. Stevens defeated Cleary, but a James Stevens from twenty-five years further into the future fulfilled history by killing Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald was blamed for the crime. The younger Stevens returned home with a brain-damaged Cleary.

  The Doctor was once blamed for the Kennedy assassination. [25] He was present at the event. [26] Mr Wynter, the chief enforcer and assassin for the shadow men who ran the world, claimed to have held Oswald’s hand when he had doubts, and to have cradled the leaking brains of presidents in his bare hands. [27]

  Justice agents aboard the Teselecta said that Kennedy’s history had been “rewritten”. [28] @ The amnesiac eighth Doctor remained unaware of the Kennedy assassination until the early eighties. [29] Summer, a future rock festival attendee who would encounter the Doctor in 1967, was in Dealey Plaza when Kennedy was killed. [30]

  1963 (23rd November) - K9: The Cambridge Spy [31]

  K9’s friend Jorjie arrived from the future and was questioned by the police. She met Bill Pike, the exact double of Darius Pike, and another man, Barker, who was the double of the Department agent Thorne. K9 and Starkey arrived from the future to aid Jorjie. Pike was Darius’ great-grandfather - history changed upon his being charged with treason, and Darius vanished. Jorjie and her friends convinced the authorities otherwise, and returned home. Once they were gone, Barker was revealled as the true spy.

  For posterity’s sake, the Meddling Monk secured a video of the Beatles’ appearance on Juke Box Jury. [32]

  1963 (22nd December) - Winter for the Adept [33]

  Two advance scouts for the Spillagers, alien plunderers who “spill” through dimensional wormholes to sack a target, arrived on Earth. One of them disguised itself as Mlle. Maupassant, a French teach
er at a girls’ finishing school in the Swiss Alps. She brought two latent psionics - students Peril Bellamy and Allison Speer - into contact with the ghost of mountaineer Harding Wellman, which repeatedly triggered poltergeist effects that fuelled a wormhole for the invading Spillager warfleet. The fifth Doctor and Nyssa’s intervention resulted in the Spillager scouts’ deaths and the warfleet’s obliteration.

  1964

  In 1964, Sarah Jane Smith’s home village of Foxgrove was demolished to make way for the A7665. [34] The Rat King created by Operation Piper became so intelligent, it faked an accident that put the research facility beneath Cardogan Castle into lockdown. The humans who remained were converted into rat drones. [35] A jewel thief committed at least two dozen robberies in London society over the course of two years. He (or she) always took jewels and left a calling card depicting the head of the Roman god Janus. The affluent Lady Lily Hawthorne took to copying Janus’ modus operandi, and sold her takings for benefit of charity. [36] The Doctor visited St Cedd’s College in 1964. [37] In the same year, the television series Professor X started broadcasting. [38]

  c 1964 - Planet of Giants [39]

  A government inspector, Arnold Farrow, told the industrialist Forester that the insecticide his company had developed would not be approved for production. The scientist Smithers, obsessed by the idea of ending world famine, had succeeded over the last year in creating an insecticide 60% more powerful than anything on the market. It could even stop locusts breeding, but tests showed that it killed all insect life, even those vital to the ecology. Forester murdered Farrow, but was arrested by the local policeman, Bert Rowse.

  1964 - The Land of the Dead [40]

  The fifth Doctor and Nyssa briefly arrived in Alaska while tracing a mysterious energy field, then went thirty years into the future to investigate it more thoroughly. They had detected the first stirrings of the Permians.