B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (102 page)

[
1421
]
Timewyrm: Revelation
(p50),
The Ghosts of N-Space
(p147) and
Unnatural History
(p164). The Blinovitch Limitation Effect was first mentioned in
Day of the Daleks
(and subsequently in
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
and
Mawdryn Undead
). Episodes of New
Who
(particularly
The Big Bang
and
A Christmas Carol
) indicate the Limitation Effect has lost its potency, somehow.

[
1422
] “Eighty years” before
TW: From Out of the Rain
, according to Captain Jack.
The Torchwood Archives
dates the Travellers’ encounter with Christina - seen as an old woman in the TV story - to 1928.

[
1423
]
TW: A Day in the Death
. Isherwood, a novelist, resided in Berlin from 1929 to 1933. His meeting with Jack could have easily have happened in another year, but it’s perhaps relevant - given that Jack was involved - that Isherwood at this time capitalised upon Berlin’s relative sexual freedom to indulge his taste for “pretty youths” (
The Telegraph
, 18th May, 2004).

[
1424
]
Frozen Time
, reflecting events from the Audio-Visuals story
Endurance
. Nick Briggs, who wrote
Frozen Time,
starred as the Doctor in that adventure.

[
1425
]
The Scales of Injustice
, also referring to
Endurance
.

[
1426
] “City of Devils”, and yet another reference to
Endurance
by
The Scales of Injustice
author Gary Russell. By 2012, the loss of the expedition is publicly acknowledged, not just rumoured.

[
1427
] Dating
The Hounds of Artemis
(BBC
DW
audiobook #11) - The year is given.

[
1428
] Dating
The Stealers from Saiph
(BF CC #3.12) - Romana’s narration tells us, “It was the summer of 1929.” Somewhat uniquely for a Doctor/first Romana story, this audio takes place between
The Armageddon Factor
and
Destiny of the Daleks
.

[
1429
] Dating
Blood Harvest
(NA #28) - The blurb states it is 1929. The book is set during Prohibition (1919-1933), but while Al Capone is at liberty. In May 1929, Capone was sentenced to prison time for carrying a concealed weapon, so
Blood Harvest
occurs before that. He saw release in 1930; his more infamous conviction on tax evasion charges happened in 1931.

[
1430
]
Goth Opera

[
1431
]
Borrowed Time

[
1432
] His student Ibbotson, nicknamed “Hippo”, identifies the car in
Mawdryn Undead
.

[
1433
]
The King of Terror
(p179).

[
1434
] “One night last winter” before
Storm Warning
.

[
1435
]
Four to Doomsday

[
1436
]
Four to Doomsday
. No date given. Donald Bradman was born in 1908, playing for Australia from 1928-1948.

[
1437
]
Just War

[
1438
]
Option Lock
. No date given. Jung lived 26th July, 1875, to 6th June, 1961.

[
1440
]
Deadly Reunion
. No date given. Hemingway lived 1898-1961
.

[
1441
] “Thinktwice”. Hemingway lived 1899-1961. He appears in good health during his meeting with the Doctor, and was much less so after being nearly killed in a plane crash in 1952.

[
1442
]
The Hollows of Time
. Ludwig Wittgenstein lived 1889-1951.

[
1443
]
Paradise 5
. The Stooges were effectively active from 1925 until Larry Fine had a stroke in January 1970.

[
1444
]
TW: Department X

[
1445
]
SJA: The Day of the Clown

[
1446
] “Forty years” before
The Paradise of Death
(p131).

[
1447
] “Thirty years” before
No More Lies.

[
1448
]
TW: From Out of the Rain
, with
The Torchwood Archives
specifying that Jack did this undercover work in the “early 1930s”.

[
1449
]
TW: Almost Perfect

[
1450
]
Pier Pressure
. Billy is obviously a young William Hartnell, who appeared in both films.

[
1451
]
Hexagora
. Flynn lived 1909-1959. His first starring role was
Captain Blood
(1935).

[
1452
] “At least” fifteen years before
Pier Pressure
.

[
1453
] See The UNIT Era: Overview - the exact dates of the early years of Lethbridge-Stewart’s life are affected by the wider issue of when the UNIT stories are set.

[
1454
]
Island of Death

[
1455
]
The Shadows of Avalon
(p3, 271).

[
1456
]
Island of Death

[
1457
] Dating
The Wormery
(BF #51) - It is some point in “the thirties”.

[
1458
] Dating
The English Way of Death
(MA #20) - The date is given (p23).

[
1459
] From Torchwood.org.uk.

[
1460
] “Fifty years” before
Meglos.

[
1461
] “Children of the Revolution”. In
The Devil Goblins of Neptune
, the third Doctor (as his internal monologue conveys to the reader) lies to Captain Yates that he “taught Jacques Cousteau everything he knows”.

[
1462
]
The Murder Game
. No date is given.

[
1463
]
TW: Miracle Day

[
1464
] Dating
Storm Warning
(BF #16) - It is stated that it is “early in October 1930”; the
R-101
historically began its maiden flight on 4th October, 1930, and crashed the next day. The date is confirmed in
Minuet in Hell
and
Neverland
. According to
The Chimes of Midnight
, Charley was born the day the
Titanic
sank (or, rather, the night the ship hit the iceberg), and was eighteen years, five months and twenty-one days old when she met the Doctor.

[
1465
] Dating
Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks
(X3.4-3.5) - Martha finds a newspaper just after the TARDIS lands, and it sets the date as “Saturday 1 November 1930”. Construction of the Empire State Building commended on 17th March, 1930, and it officially opened on 1st May, 1931.

[
1466
]
The Stolen Earth
,
Journey’s End.

[
1467
] At least twenty years before
TimeH: The Tunnel at the End of the Light.

[
1468
]
TimeH: Peculiar Lives
. The blurb specifies this as happening “between the wars”, i.e. World War I and II, and a member of
homo peculiar
, Percival, was a 15 year old “five years” prior to 1950 (p21), meaning he was born in 1930.

[
1469
] Dating
Seasons of Fear
(BF #30) - The play starts with the Doctor saying it’s the “cusp of the years 1930 and 1931”.

[
1470
]
The Rapture

[
1471
] “The Final Chapter”

[
1472
] The island resurfaces “four years, three months and six days” prior to
Lurkers at Sunlight’s Edge
.

[
1473
] Dating
TimeH: The Sideways Door
(
TimeH
#10) - Honoré’s mother is killed “four months” before he turns 12 (p19), and he was born in either 1920 or 1921 (likely the former). A little confusingly, page 16 says that Honoré’s grandmother raised him “from early childhood” - not a term that’s typically attributed to an 11 year old.

[
1474
] Torchwood.org.uk, elaborating on
TW: From Out of the Rain
.

[
1475
]
TW: Out of Time.
Earhart really disappeared in 1937.

[
1476
] Lazarus declares he is “seventy-six years old” in
The Lazarus Experiment
, which is set in 2008.

[
1477
]
Demon Quest: Starfall
. She meets the actress, after a fashion, in the 1970s.

[
1478
]
The Forgotten Army
. The code was presumably originated for the Doctor’s personal benefit, but it’s not said how this came about.

[
1479
] Dating
Hornets’ Nest: The Dead Shoes
(BBC fourth Doctor audio #1.2) - It’s stated a number of times in this story and the previous one that it’s 1932.
Hornets’ Nest: The Stuff of Nightmares
says it’s “July”; the sleeve notes for
The Dead Shoes
include a newspaper clipping datelined “13th June 1932”, and which dates events to “last week”. Mrs Wibbsey’s first name is never given in dialogue, but appears in the sleeve notes of
The Dead Shoes
.

[
1480
]
Frontier Worlds

[
1481
] “About seventy-eight years” before
TW: Miracle Day.

[
1482
]
Eater of Wasps

[
1483
]
Mad Dogs and Englishmen