B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (103 page)

[
1484
]
The Year of Intelligent Tigers

[
1485
]
The Year of Intelligent Tigers,
referring to events in
Eater of Wasps.

[
1486
]
History 101.
This was possibly during his second bout of world travelling in the sixties and seventies.

[
1487
] Dating
Eater of Wasps
(EDA #45) - The Doctor estimates “it is probably the 1930s. If pushed, I’d have to say 1933. Twenty-seventh of August in fact” (p10).

[
1488
]
Wolfsbane
(p90).

[
1489
]
The Left-Handed Hummingbird
(p58).

[
1490
] Dating
The Eye of the Giant
(MA #21) - “The time is the eighth of June, nineteen thirty-four” (p42).

[
1491
] Dating
Lurkers at Sunlight’s Edge
(BF #141) - The year is given.

[
1492
]
The King of Terror
(p103).

[
1493
]
Wolfsbane
. Page 93 says the werewolves were taken from the camp on 29th June, 1934; the hotel slaughter occurred the following evening. Historically, Hitler moved against Roehm and his Sturmabetilung because they could have staged a
coup d’etat
. He ordered the Sturmabetilung leaders to congregate at the Hanselbauer Hotel in Bad Wiesse near Munich, which is where the massacre in
Wolfsbane
evidently takes place. The purge is sometimes referred to as “The Night of the Long Knives”.

[
1494
]
The Highest Science
(p257).

[
1495
]
The Time of Angels
. Woolf lived 1882-1941.

[
1496
]
TW: Miracle Day

[
1497
] Dating
The Abominable Snowmen
(4.2) - According to the Doctor, this story takes place “three hundred years” after events that the monk Thonmi says took place in “1630”. In
The Web of Fear
, Victoria states that the Travers Expedition took place in “1935”. In
Downtime
, Charles Bryce says it was “1936” (p65).

[
1498
]
The Nightmare of Black Island

[
1499
]
The Unicorn and the Wasp

[
1500
]
Just War

[
1501
]
The Ancestor Cell
(p126), based on the writers’ guidelines. He was “27” in
The Taint
. His year of birth is “1935” in
Escape Velocity
. He celebrates his birthday on 7th March in
Interference
.

[
1502
]
Divided Loyalties

[
1503
] According to an early format document for the series, dating from July 1963, Ian is “27”. Then again, William Russell, born in 1924, certainly looks older than that on screen.

[
1504
]
The Mind of Evil
. The Long March was a massive retreat on the part of the Chinese Communist Army to elude the Kuomintang Army. It granted the Communists a needed respite in the north of China.

[
1505
]
The Cold Equations
. Edward ruled 20th January, 1936, to 11th December of the same year.

[
1506
] Dating
The Glamour Chase
(NSA #42) - The year is repeatedly given. According to p59, it’s a Sunday. The Doctor rattles off a list of the “true greats” of archaeology (p139), but as he does so while expressly lying to Enola Porter that she’s going to number among them (and as the list includes at least one real-life fraud, Shinichi Fujimura) the whole thing looks so improvised, it’s probably best to not take it seriously.

[
1507
] Dating
Wolfsbane
(PDA #62) - Harry is abandoned on 27th November, 1936, according to p24. Harry’s fate is left ambiguous due to the presence of multiple timelines, which were finally compressed to one history in
Timeless
.
Sometime Never
says the Council of Eight had a hand in engineering Harry’s “death”.

[
1508
] Dating
Wolfsbane
(PDA #62) - It’s 11th December, 1936 (p49).

[
1509
]
Grimm Reality

[
1510
] Dating
Players
(PDA #21) - The date is given (p150).

[
1511
] Dating
Pier Pressure
(BF #78) - The year is given. Mention that
Charlie Chan at the Opera
is currently showing in Brighton is potentially a glitch, as some documentation indicates it wasn’t distributed in the UK until 8th January, 1937. Miller states that he’s 40; he’s approximating, because he would have been 42 at the time.

[
1512
]
Pier Pressure.
This refers to the West Pier’s real-life decay. It partially collapsed on 29th December, 2002, then further caved in on 20th January, 2003.

[
1513
]
History 101

[
1514
] Dating
Benny: Secret Origins
(Benny audio #10.4) - The year is given.

[
1515
]
TimeH: The Sideways Door
. The
Hindenburg
went down on 6th of May, 1937.

[
1516
] Dating
History 101
(EDA #58) - It’s “Barcelona, 1937” (p1).

[
1517
]
The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
(p208).

[
1518
]
Superior Beings
(p58).

[
1519
] Dating
The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
(MA #25) - The date is given (p1).

[
1520
] “Tooth and Claw” (
DWM
). Threshold’s involvement and the date are confirmed in “Wormwood”.

[
1521
]
Ghost Ship

[
1522
]
TW: Miracle Day

[
1523
]
J&L: Swan Song
. This dating is somewhat arbitrary, as the date of Jago’s death isn’t known, but it must occur before the New Regency’s destruction in 1940.

[
1524
] Dating “The Curse of the Scarab” (
DWM
#228-230) - The date is given.

[
1525
] Dating
Let’s Kill Hitler
(X6.8) - The date is given in a caption. In all of the
Doctor Who
stories that involve Hitler, this is the only one where he actually sees the TARDIS.

[
1526
] Dating
TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer
(
TimeH
#9) - The exact day is given, p1.

[
1527
] Dating
Invaders from Mars
(BF #28) - The date is given, although the Welles play was actually broadcast on 30th October, not the 31st. Big Finish claims to have deliberately changed the date as part of the historical alterations affecting the second season of McGann audios. There are a couple of further anachronisms, such as a mention of the CIA and Welles not knowing about Shakespeare, which are explained in
The Time of the Daleks.

[
1528
]
Timeless
. The bookshop is said to be on Charing Cross Road, but it was on Euston Road in
Time Zero
.

[
1529
]
Time Zero

[
1530
]
Silver Nemesis

[
1531
] Dating
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
(X7.0) - It is three years before the story’s main action.

[
1532
]
The Shadow in the Glass

[
1533
]
TW: Miracle Day

[
1534
] “A year or two back” before
Illegal Alien.

[
1535
]
The Daemons

[
1536
]
The Impossible Astronaut
. The movie appears to be
The Flying Deuces
(1939).

[
1537
] Dating “Tooth and Claw” (
DWM
#257-260) - It’s “1939”, according to the opening caption.

[
1538
] Dating
A Blind Eye
(BF
Gallifrey
mini-series #1.4) – The exact day is given.

[
1539
]
The Web of Fear

[
1540
]
Doctor Who and the Pirates

[
1541
]
Ghost Ship

[
1542
]
Endgame
(EDA)

[
1543
]
Wishing Well

[
1544
]
Heart of TARDIS
. This was “several years” before Crowley’s reported death in 1947 (p6).

[
1545
]
Heart of TARDIS

[
1546
]
Project: Twilight

[
1547
]
Resistance
. The start of the war is generally dated to 1st September, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland.

[
1548
] Dating
Timewyrm: Exodus
(NA #2) - Part Three of the novel is set in “1939” (p111).

[
1549
]
Remembrance of the Daleks

[
1550
]
Sontarans: Old Soldiers

[
1551
]
The Paradise of Death
(p25).

[
1552
]
Island of Death

[
1553
]
Business Unusual

[
1554
]
Old Soldiers

[
1555
] In
Mawdryn Undead
, the 1983 Brigadier talks of “thirty years of soldiering”. He doesn’t have a moustache in the regimental photograph seen in
Inferno
. He is a member of the Scots’ Guards in
The Web of Fear
. Other information here comes from
The Invasion
and
The Green Death
.