B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (104 page)

[
1556
]
The Spectre of Lanyon Moor

[
1557
]
Matrix

[
1558
]
Illegal Alien
(p211). The Nazis occupied Jersey on 1st May, 1940.

[
1559
]
TW: Sleeper

[
1560
] Dating
The Nemonite Invasion
(BBC
DW
audiobook #3) - The date is given, and the story takes place at the start of the Dunkirk evacuation, which took place from 26th May to 4th June, 1940.

[
1561
] Dating
Timewyrm: Exodus
(NA #2) - The story coincides with the historical evacuation of Dunkirk, and the Doctor exorcises the Timewyrm from Hitler’s mind shortly prior to that.

[
1562
]
Just War

[
1563
]
The Nemonite Invasion

[
1564
]
Resistance
, in which it’s said that his “third birthday” occurs in the summer of 1943.

[
1565
]
Grimm Reality

[
1566
]
The Turing Test
(p59).

[
1567
] Dating
Illegal Alien
(PDA #5) - Tomorrow’s date, “14 November 1940” is given (p20).

[
1568
]
TW: Captain Jack Harkness
. The Battle of Britain lasted 10th July to 31st October, 1940.

[
1569
]
J&L: Chronoclasm

[
1570
]
Just War
. The date is given as 1941 (p4), but that is a mistake and should read 1940.

[
1571
]
The Lazarus Experiment
. Lazarus names the year as 1940. The Blitz began on 7th September, and lasted into 1941. The Doctor refers to having seen the horrors of the Blitz, which he did in
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances,
as well as in a number of the novels.

[
1572
] In
The Rescue
, Vicki claims that Barbara ought to be “550” years old. As
The Rescue
is set in 2493, this means Barbara was born in 1943 - making her twenty in 1963, and therefore too young to be a history teacher. Jacqueline Hill was born in 1931, and was 34 when
The Rescue
was made - meaning that Vicki is clearly rounding down. The finalised Writers’ Guide for the first series said Barbara was “23”, although she certainly seems older.

[
1573
] Dating
FP: Warlords of Utopia
(
FP
novel #3) - Scriptor arrived on the first Nazi Earth in time to hear the original broadcast of Churchill’s “Fight them on the beaches” speech, which was delivered 8th June, 1940.

[
1574
] “A few months” before
Victory of the Daleks
, and presumably after Dunkirk, or Churchill would have deployed the Ironsides then. The Daleks seen here seem to be survivors from the events of
Journey’s End
. (The Doctor: “When we last met, you were at the end of your rope, finished.” Dalek: “One ship survived.” The Doctor: “And you fell back through time, crippled, dying.”) In the Monster File on the DVD extras, writer Mark Gatiss states that “The last three Daleks who survived Davros and the Reality Bomb have arrived back in 1940”.

[
1575
] “A month” before
Victory of the Daleks
.

[
1576
]
SJA: The Mark of the Berserker

[
1577
] Dating
Victory of the Daleks
(X5.3) - There’s no year given. The story takes place during the Blitz (September 1940 to May 1941) and there’s reference to St Paul’s being hit - it was never hit in real life, but there was a famous near-miss that destroyed much of the surrounding area on 29th December. This might be when the story is set, but there’s no evidence of it being around Christmas. When we see Bracewell and Churchill again, in
The Pandorica Opens
, the caption tells us it is 1941.

[
1578
]
Victory of the Daleks
,
A Good Man Goes to War

[
1579
]
The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
(p23).

[
1580
] From
The Torchwood Archives

[
1581
] Torchwood.org.uk

[
1582
]
The Big Bang

[
1583
] Dating
TW: Trace Memory
(
TW
novel #5) - The exact day is given, p30.

[
1584
] Dating
The Pandorica Opens
(X5.12) - The date is given in a caption. No explanation is given for why Bracewell, who seemingly went into hiding in fear of being deactivated (
Victory of the Daleks
) is working for Churchill again. Bracewell’s black glove, indicating the hand he lost in
Victory of the Daleks
, proves that
The Pandorica Opens
comes after that story.

[
1585
] Dating
TW: Captain Jack Harkness
(
TW
1.12) - The story takes place on 20th January, 1941 (as is stipulated on the dance hall poster), and the original Jack Harkness is fated to die the following day.

[
1586
]
The Empty Child

[
1587
]
TW: Captain Jack Harkness

[
1588
] Dating
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
(X1.9-1.10) - The date is repeatedly given as 1941. Jack says it’s the “height of the Blitz”, which ended 16th May.

In
TW: Everything Changes
, military records claim that Captain Jack Harkness failed to report for duty on 21st January and was presumed dead. Some fans and commentators have adopted this date for
The Empty Child
two-parter, under the assumption that Jack was “presumed dead” because he left on that date with the Doctor and Rose. However, it’s stipulated in
TW: Captain Jack Harkness
that the original Captain Jack Harkness died on 21st January, and “our” Jack admits that he falsified the military’s records to cover up the man’s death. The reference to Harkness “failing to report for duty”, then, must refer to the genuine article, not “our” Jack.

It is unlikely that “our” Jack would start passing as “Jack Harkness” before the original has died; nor does it ring true that he takes the name, experiences the events of
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
and departs in the TARDIS all in a twenty-four hour period. Moreover,
The Empty Child
states that the Doctor and Rose don’t turn up until “a few weeks” or perhaps “a month” after the alien probe has landed. “Our” Jack presumably passes as “Captain Jack Harkness” during that time, as he has no way of knowing when the targets of his con-job - the Doctor and Rose - will arrive.

The most likely scenario, then, is that the original Jack Harkness dies on 21st January, the time-travelling con man (whose real name - for all we know - might well be “Jack”) adopts his identity shortly thereafter, the con man gets cosy with the soldiers seen in
The Empty Child
and the Doctor and Rose land “a few weeks” or “a month” later - meaning February 1941 is the most probable time for this story to occur.

The
Torchwood
website says that Captain Jack disappeared on 5th January, which doesn’t fit what we’re told on screen.

[
1589
] Dating
Just War
(NA #46) - The main action of the book starts on “the morning of 1 March 1941” (p5).

[
1590
] Dating
SJA: Lost in Time
(
SJA
4.5) - The precise date is given.

[
1591
]
TW: Ghost Machine

[
1592
] Dating
TW:
“Overture” (
TWM
#25) - The day is given.

[
1593
] Dating
TW: The Twilight Streets
(
TW
novel #7) - The exact day is given, p17.

[
1594
] Dating “The Way of All Flesh” (
DWM
#306, 308-310) - The date is given.

[
1595
] Dating “Me and My Shadow” (
DWM
#318) - The date is given.

[
1596
]
TW: Captain Jack Harkness
. Pearl Harbor was attacked on 7th December, 1941.

[
1597
]
TW: Trace Memory

[
1598
] Dating
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
(X7.0) - A caption says Reg is shot down “three years later” than the day Madge first met the Doctor. The telegram she receives states that he was shot down on the “20th”. A second caption states that the Arwells arrive at Uncle Digby’s house on “Christmas Eve”. Madge later tells Droxil she is from “1941”.

[
1599
] According to a plot synopsis issued on 20th May, 1966, Ben and Polly are both “24” at the time of
The Smugglers
. Michael Craze (Ben) was then 24, Anneke Wills (Polly) was 23. The document also gave Polly’s surname as “Wright”, which is never used on screen, but is mentioned in the Missing Adventure
Invasion of the Cat-People
. In the same book, Polly says she was brought up in Devon. In
The War Machines
, Kitty, the manageress of the Inferno nightclub, remarks that they rarely get anyone “over twenty” into the club, which might suggest that Ben and Polly are a little younger. Mind, neither of them look younger than twenty, and
The Murder Game
reaffirms their birth year as 1942, and
Resistance
concurs that Polly was born before 1944.

[
1600
]
Resistance

[
1601
] Torchwood.org.uk.
The Torchwood Archives
claims that Gerald died during the Blitz in January 1941, possibly juxtaposing his fate with the one the website attributes to Charles Quinn.

[
1602
]
Beautiful Chaos
(p105). The first air raid on Singapore occurred on 8th December, 1941, followed by a long respite until the prolonged Battle of Singapore (29th December, 1941, to 15th February, 1942).

[
1603
] The Doctor knows of the
Bismarck
in
Terror of the Zygons
.

[
1604
]
The Sea Devils.
Two World War II battles were fought at El-Alamein, an Egyptian town, in 1942. The first lasted 1st to 27th July. The second, 23rd October to 4th November, saw the Allies forcing the Axis to retreat back to Tunisia.