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The Doctor awoke to find time restored, and a memorial to the fallen knight in the church in Stockbridge: St Justinians. As Shayde watched the cricket game resume, the Doctor was unsure if it had all been a dream.
c 1983 - “Stars Fell on Stockbridge” [555]
UFO spotter Maxwell Edison discovered the TARDIS, and inspired the fifth Doctor to detect an alien spacecraft two days from Earth. They went to the ship, which was deserted and had been drifting for thousands of years. There was some sort of haunting presence on board, but the ship was already heading for Earth’s atmosphere. The Doctor and Maxwell returned to Earth, from where Maxwell watched the shooting stars caused by the ship’s break-up.
No human space agency had any space labs in orbit.
c 1983 - “The Stockbridge Horror” [556]
A local limestone quarry unearthed the TARDIS in rock five hundred million years old. Nearby, a police constable discovered a charred body.
The fifth Doctor, still staying at the Green Dragon Inn, saw a report from the quarry. He ran to where he had left the TARDIS - Well’s Wood - and found it was still there, covered in mud. He went to the quarry, but couldn’t get to the mysterious buried police box. Well’s Wood caught fire, and the Doctor - upon returning to the TARDIS - discovered an alien figure that could shoot jets of fire.
The Doctor dematerialised his Ship, but the alien clung to the TARDIS, then forced its way inside. It stalked the Doctor, who realised it was the presence he’d recently encountered on the deserted spaceship. The Gallifreyan military dispatched Lord Tubal Cain in a specially adapted TARDIS, while Shayde trapped the alien in the Matrix. Cain fired seeker torpedoes at the TARDIS... which landed on Gallifrey moments after they hit the homeworld.
While the Doctor faced trial on Gallifrey, the government agency SAG3 investigated the TARDIS. Shayde neutralised them, and erased the imprint of the TARDIS just as the military TARDIS landed. The Doctor was freed.
c 1983 - Arc of Infinity [557]
Omega had relocated the Arc of Infinity - a gateway between dimensions - away from the star system Rondel and placed its curve on the city of Amsterdam. The fifth Doctor and Nyssa tracked Omega to Amsterdam, and found Omega’s base in a crypt there. The ancient Gallifreyan’s attempt to bond with the Doctor failed, and he apparently died. Tegan Jovanka joined the Doctor’s travels once again.
Omega recorporealised enough to stow himself aboard the TARDIS of Ertikus, a Time Lord who arrived in this period to study Omega’s exploits. Ertikus’ TARDIS relocated to the far future with Omega aboard. [558] Before this time, the Arar-Jecks of Heiradi had carved out a huge subterranean city during the 20-Aeon War on that planet. [559] The seventh Doctor and Ace fought an N-form by the Rio Yari in 1983. [560] Jo Jones lived with the Nambiquara tribe from the Mato Grosso for about six months in 1983. [561] The Doctor collected some oolong tea in Peking in either 1983 or 1893. [562]
c 1983 - Hexagora [563]
The Hexagora, a nomadic insect species, had settled on Luparis - the third planet of Proxima Centauri. A global cooling event prevented the Hexagorans from moving on - to survive, they required mammalian bodies. Humans were abducted from Earth via spacepods, and the Hexagorans swapped minds with them, leaving their insectoid bodies in hibernation. The humanised Hexagorans constructed a city, Lupara, based upon schematics they had taken of Tudor London.
The fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa relaxed in Tegan’s hometown, near Brisbane, when Tegan learned that her friend Mike Bretherton had been abducted. They followed Bretherton’s trail to Luparis. Queen Zafira recognised that human bodies didn’t live long enough to survive the Luparis winter, and so decreed that she and the Doctor would marry and sire longer-lived offspring. The Doctor convinced Zafira that the collective Hexagoran memory pool, the Hexagon, was fragmenting because they were inhabiting human bodies. He aided them in returning to their insectoid forms, and relocating to a warmer world. The abducted humans, most of whom had slept in stasis, were returned to Earth seconds after they left.
There was civil war on Trion. Turlough’s mother was killed and the ship containing his father and brother crashed on Sarn, formerly a Trion prison planet. Turlough was captured and exiled to Brendon School on Earth, where Trion agents, including a solicitor on Chancery Lane, watched him. [564] Deela’s father was on the winning side of the civil war, and had seen to it that Turlough was exiled. [565]
1983 - Mawdryn Undead [566]
The Brigadier regained his memory, but lost his beloved car when he met the fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa. When the Brigadier met his past self from 1977, he unwittingly provided the energy that released Mawdryn and his followers from their curse of immortality. The Black Guardian forged a deal in secret with Turlough, and tasked him with killing the Doctor. Turlough left Brendon to join the TARDIS crew.
1983 - Kiss of Death [567]
Trion repatriation squads were now in operation on various worlds.
Turlough’s old flame Deela became engaged to a ruthless entrepreneur named Halquin Rennol. When Deela’s father disavowed the union and froze her assets, the pair coveted the royal treasure rumoured to reside in the dimensional vault established by Turlough’s ancestor. Only Turlough and Deela’s DNA in combination - through a simple kiss, for instance - would open the vault, and so Rennol’s mercenaries captured Turlough when the TARDIS landed on the vacation world of Vektris. The vault’s security system went haywire - Rennol killed Deela, and was probably killed himself when the vault resealed.
1983 (9th June) - Rat Trap [568]
The Rat King living beneath Cardogan Castle attempted to release a variant of the Black Death that would wipe out humanity. The fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa helped to destroy the Rat King, and UNIT was summoned to clear up the mess.
1983 - Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma [569]
After departing the fifth Doctor’s company, a time-travelling Turlough encountered the dictator Rechtaht while she ruled Trion. Rechtaht tried to transfer her mind into Turlough, but his ally - a Time Lord named the Magician - helped Turlough to expel Rechtaht from his mind. This averted a timeline that included the destruction of Earth, Trion and New Trion. Turlough learned that as he had altered history, he couldn’t remain in this timeline without causing a paradox.
= With the Magician’s help, Turlough found a reality in which he had died and took up residence there. He was reunited with his old friend, Juras Maateh, of that reality.
c 1983 - The Five Doctors [570]
The second Doctor and the Brigadier were kidnapped by Borusa in the grounds of UNIT HQ. The next day, the second Doctor bought a copy of “The Times” that reported the UNIT reunion. Colonel Crichton was running UNIT at this point. Despite K9’s warnings, Sarah Jane Smith was also kidnapped by Borusa.
Masie Hawk, Hamlet Macbeth, Liz Shaw and Sir John Sudbury also attended the reunion. Benton had returned to active duty. Carol Bell was married with a child. Mike Yates and Tom Osgood had opened a tearoom together. [571] Lethbridge-Stewart spent some time in Haiti. [572]
1983 - “4-Dimensional Vistas” [573]
A British Airways 747 crashed in the Arctic, shot down by the test firing of a Martian cannon. The Meddling Monk and a group of Ice Warriors led by Autek had a base there, and were manipulating time. The fifth Doctor homed in on them, but was attacked by the beam weapon. SAG3 arrived by plane to investigate.
Meanwhile, the Doctor and Gus discovered that the Ice Warriors had drilled a vast shaft. Gus and SAG3 launched an attack on the Ice Warrior base, but Autek and the Meddling Monk got away. They had activated “the Crucible”, then jumped five million years forwards in time. As they returned, the Doctor chased the Monk’s TARDIS in his own and set up a Time Ram - apparently annihilating the Monk and destroying the Ice Warrior base.
His vigil on Earth ended, the Doctor pledged to get Gus home.
In 1983, a 13-year-old Ace was friends with an Asian girl, Manisha, whose flat was firebombed in a racist attack. In anger because of this, Ac
e burnt down Gabriel Chase. She was assigned a probation officer and social worker. [574]
Joel Mintz had been thrown back in time to 1983 from 1993. He ended up in New York, where Isaac Summerfield found him. [575] Jason Kane, a future rogue and husband of Bernice Summerfield, was born in 1983. [576] In 1983, Faction Paradox agents wrecked the Blue Peter garden. [577]
c 1983 (summer) - “City of Devils” [578]
Aunt Lavinia sent Sarah Jane and K9 to Egypt to write a story about her friend Warren Martyn. An archaeological dig there had experienced some mysterious deaths and disappearances. Entering the tomb, Sarah and K9 encountered a group of Silurians and Sea Devils in a vast subterranean city. Sarah opened diplomatic relations with the Silurians, and it was hoped that this would lead to an accommodation between the two civilisations. Returning to England, Sarah Jane contacted Lethbridge-Stewart, who was keen to make amends for the mistakes of the past.
c 1983 (July) - Heart of TARDIS [579]
Crowley lured the fourth Doctor and Romana to the Tollsham USAF base, as he needed the Doctor to open the Golgotha gateway.
Ianto Jones of Torchwood was born on 19th August, 1983. [580] Peri Brown, a 17-year-old student at Boston University, bought a handgun. [581] A Nestene sphere fell to Earth, injured. A little girl, Elizabeth Sarah Devonshire, found the sphere - it would influence her mind and manipulate her career path in future. [582]
1983 - Return of the Living Dad [583]
The seventh Doctor, Benny, Jason, Chris and Roz discovered that Benny’s father, Isaac, was alive and well in the village of Little Caldwell. He was running an underground movement that helped stranded aliens on Earth return home.
Albinex the Navarino paid one of Isaac’s allies to retrieve nuclear launch codes from the Doctor. Albinex and Isaac were working together to detonate a nuclear device, which Isaac hoped would spur an arms race so humanity would have more advanced weapons to use against the Daleks in the twenty-second century. However, Albinex was actually a Dalek agent, and planned to destroy the Earth. The Doctor, Isaac and Benny captured the Navarino and thwarted the plan. Benny made peace with her father.
Isaac Summerfield’s presence in the twentieth century created historical anomalies that enabled the Daleks to locate and capture him. They took him to the twenty-seventh century and slaved him to battle computers. Following the Daleks’ defeat, Braxiatel returned Isaac to Little Caldwell. [584] On Oct. 24, 1983, the Welsh Assembly denied allegations of a conspiracy. [585]
The “microchip revolution” took place in the early eighties. [586] Mark Whitaker, a person of interest to the Weeping Angels, was born. [587] The fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa visited Hexen Bridge in 1984. [588] The ninth Doctor and Rose quietly attended the wedding of her parents, Peter Tyler and Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Prentice. [589] The Doctor said 1984 was “never as good as the book”. [590] Torchwood constructed a secret base beneath the Thames Barrier. [591]
Laboratories belonging to a French company, Rechauffer, Inc., contaminated the Well of St. Clothide in the village of Cloots Coombe, which made the population sterile. Rechauffer took genetic samples from the villagers, allegedly to clone them children, but actually to work towards the creation of disposable clones for military purposes. The initial experiments produced an abomination that fed off the life force itself, and lived in the well. [592]
w - The third iteration of Cousin Anastasia died as Anna Anderson in Charlottesville, Virginia, 1984. [593]
When Gwen Cooper was about five or six, her father came home after receiving the blame for money that had gone missing from work. He told Gwen that he wasn’t distressed about the money, but that he couldn’t stand anyone thinking that he wasn’t an honest man. She would always remember the incident, as it was the first time anyone had spoken to her like an adult. [594]
1984 (1st May) - The Awakening [595]
The Malus absorbed the psychic energy of a series of war games in Little Hodcombe, amplifying the villagers’ violence. The fifth Doctor prevented the Malus from becoming totally active and blew up the church in which the Malus lay dormant. After this, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough spent some time in Little Hodcombe with Tegan’s grandfather, Andrew Verney.
The Doctor’s experiences in Little Hodcombe reminded him of Hexen Bridge. He decided to monitor the area. [596]
c 1984 - “The Forgotten” [597]
The fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough spent time at the Doctor’s house at Allen Road, with the Doctor enjoying playing cricket for the local team. A Judoon ship arrived on Earth in defiance of galactic law that put the planet outside their jurisdiction. They were looking for the spherical Eye of Akasha, which was in the Doctor’s possession, but he tricked them into taking a cricket ball instead.
1984 - Resurrection of the Daleks [598]
Daleks from the future arrived in the twentieth century and placed their Duplicates in key positions around the world. They used the timezone as a safe storage place for the Movellan virus that had all but wiped them out. The fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough were present as a pitched battle broke out between the British army and the Daleks. The Doctor released the virus, killing the Daleks. Afterwards, Tegan was appalled by the carnage and left the Doctor’s company. Lytton, an agent of the Daleks, escaped.
Tegan relocated to Brisbane after leaving the Doctor, and eventually took over the family business, Verney Feeds, from her father. The company supplied animal feed to farmers, and Tegan for a time dated one of its employees, Michael Tenaka. [599]
c 1984 (9th May) - Planet of Fire [600]
Professor Howard Foster discovered an archaeologically important wreck off the coast of Lanzarote. His step-daughter, Perpugilliam Brown, travelled to the planet Sarn in the fifth Doctor’s TARDIS. There, the Master attempted to restore his shrunken body using the Numismaton gas of a sacred volcano. The Doctor facilitated the Master’s demise before this could happen. Turlough’s exile was lifted and he returned to Trion. Peri started travelling with the Doctor. In autumn of the same year, she was due back at college.
The Time Lords’ meddling in Peri’s history resulted in a version of her that returned home, her memories of the Doctor wiped save for their first adventure together. This Peri attained a doctorate of biology, wed her college boyfriend (Davy Silverman), escaped what became a physically abusive marriage and moved to Los Angeles. In time, she became “Dr Perpugilliam Brown” - a relationship counsellor with a hit cable show, Queen of Worries. [601]
The tenth Doctor and Emily Winter met Turlough on Trion, and confirmed that he never kept a diary - meaning the Advocate had faked one as a means of manipulating Matthew Finnegan. [602]
Anthony Chambers became undertaker of St. Anne’s Cemetery in Baltimore, and happened upon the Cyber-Leader from the far future there. The Cyber-Leader staged Chambers’ brutal murder to catch the Doctor’s interest. A local vagrant was blamed for the crime, even as Chambers’ body was secretly Cyber-augmented. [603]
? 1984 - “Urban Myths” [604]
Three agents of the Celestial Intervention Agency were infected by a strain of the Tule-Oz virus - which mucked up their memories, and caused them to think that the fifth Doctor and Peri had committed mass slaughter on the planet Poiti. The agents tracked the travellers to a restaurant on Earth and sought to kill them, but the Doctor and Peri served them the antidote throughout a multi-course meal.
1984 (August to September) - Downtime [605]
Victoria Waterfield was mentally compelled to return to the Det-Sen monastery, which was suddenly destroyed. She was later contracted by Professor Travers, unaware that he was dead and animated by the Great Intelligence.
1984 (24th September) - The Reaping [606]
In Baltimore, news of Anthony Chambers’ “murder” became public, and Peri arrived with the sixth Doctor to attend the man’s funeral. She had been gone for four months. Peri’s mother - Janine Foster - and Howard had divorced.
A Cyber-Leader from the far future, who had arrived two years before, attempte
d to compel the Doctor to pilot his acquired time-ship back to prehistoric Earth, and to retroactively initiate the conversion of humanity into Cybermen. The Doctor deposited the Cyber-Leader on the contemporary Mondas, where the indigenous Cybermen viewed the Leader as defective and scheduled him for reprocessing.
In the course of this investigation, the media branded the Doctor as a dangerous criminal. The Cyber-augmented Anthony Chambers went dormant, but not before grievously wounding his own son Nate.
Peri decided to leave the Doctor, live with her mother and enrol at university. However, she kept half of a Cyber-conversion egg as a memento. The device exploded, killing Janine Foster and her friend, Mrs Van Gysegham. Peri resumed travelling with the Doctor.
After Janine died, Katherine Chambers took the other half of the Cyber-conversion egg and went into hiding with her crippled brother. She had studied medicine at Boston, and a colleague of hers from university - James Clarke - helped them relocate to Brisbane. Kathy finished her education and became a doctor, but Nate’s condition worsened and she turned him into a pseudo-Cyberman. [607]
1984 - The Zygon Who Fell to Earth [608]
As a result of the Zygon scheme to boost global warming, CDs had been manufactured to emit invisible gas when they were played.
Along with her Zygon husband Trevor, Lucie Miller’s Aunty Pat was now running a hotel - the Bygones Guest House - near Lake Grasmere. Trevor’s Skarasen had chewed a tunnel between Allswater and Grassmere, under the mountains; the creature was glimpsed from time to time, boosting the tourist trade.