B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (105 page)

[
1605
]
Autumn Mist
,
The King of Terror
(p241).

[
1606
] “Six months” before
The Curse of Fenric
.

[
1607
]
Just War

[
1608
]
Divided Loyalties
(p46).

[
1609
]
Benny: The Tub Full of Cats
, presuming Rogers’ claims can be given any credit.

[
1610
]
Endgame
(EDA)

[
1611
] Dating
The Girl Who Never Was
(BF #103) - The date is given.

[
1612
] Dating
The Scapegoat
(BF BBC7 #3.5) - The Germans are currently occupying Paris, and did so from June 14, 1940 to August 25, 1944. The Doctor here says his regenerative powers won’t save him if he’s decapitated - this contradicts what occurs to another Time Lord in
The Shadows of Avalon
, but as the Doctor is here in danger of being beheaded for sport, he could just be bluffing to save his current life.

[
1613
] Dating
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
(EDA #52) - The date is given.

[
1614
] Dating
The Shadow in the Glass
(PDA #41) - The date appears on p217. This contradicts
Timewyrm: Exodus
, which the Doctor says is his first meeting with Hitler.

[
1615
]
Just War
(p252).

[
1616
]
Utopia

[
1617
]
TW: Small Worlds.
Jack’s relationship with Estelle lasted weeks, at most, but it was serious enough for them to have a photograph (with Jack in uniform) taken together.

It isn’t specified whether Estelle met Jack while he was working as a con man prior to
The Empty Child
, or while he was immortal and living through the entire twenty-first century. The latter seems more likely for a couple of reasons. Such a heartfelt relationship appears more characteristic of the slightly bitter, emotionally withdrawn and immortal Jack than the carefree con man who knows he’s working to the clock and is possibly involved with Algy (
The Empty Child
). Additionally, it’s specified that Jack met Estelle “a few weeks before” Christmas, yet it’s unlikely that he started using the name “Jack Harkness” until the original died in January 1941 (
TW: Captain Jack Harkness
). Unless Estelle thinks the “son” has a different surname to his father (unlikely, although in truth she never calls him anything other than “Jack”), her meeting him in December 1940 seems suspect.

An earlier dating is probably preferable, as the odds of Jack and Estelle keeping in touch increase as World War II comes to a conclusion. However, the Torchwood website dates some final correspondence between Jack and Estelle to 1944.

[
1618
]
Jubilee

[
1619
]
The Devil Goblins of Neptune
(p10). Actress Caroline John, who played Liz, was born in 1940. Liz’s father was named in
P.R.O.B.E.: The Devil of Winterborne
.

[
1620
]
The Cabinet of Light
(p86).

[
1621
]
The Cabinet of Light
(p17).

[
1622
]
SJA: Lost in Time
. Date unknown, but actress Rowena Cooper was born in 1935, and so fits the timeframe of being Morris’ granddaughter.

[
1623
] Dating
The Curse of Fenric
(26.3) - Ace says that the year is “1943”. The script stated that the time is “1943 - probably May”.

[
1624
]
The Seeds of Doom

[
1625
]
The Time Monster

[
1626
]
Just War

[
1627
] “Forty years” before “The Tides of Time”.

[
1628
] “Fifty years” before “Evening’s Empire”.

[
1629
] Dating
The Turing Test
(EDA #39) - It’s “in January 1943” (p116).

[
1630
]
Who Killed Kennedy
, taking its cue from the
Remembrance of the Daleks
novelisation.

[
1631
]
The Hollows of Time

[
1632
]
Autumn Mist

[
1633
] Dating
The Macros
(BF LS #1.8) - The day is given. The mythos around the Philadelphia Experiment claim it commenced around 28th October, 1943.
Autumn Mist
offers an alternative explanation for what happens to the
Eldridge
- it’s possible to reconcile the two if the ship wasn’t entirely destroyed in
The Macros
, enabling the eighth Doctor to find it in a still-dephased state and make use of it in 1944. (Alternatively, see Unfixed Points in Time.) The “cover up” story of the
Eldridge
mirrors the real-life explanation for what became of the vessel.

[
1634
]
The Cabinet of Light

[
1635
] The independent film
Wartime
, based upon some graffiti that reads “CB + JB 1944”.

[
1636
] The independent film
Wartime
. The Allied invasion of Normandy occurred in 1944.

[
1637
] “About forty years” before
Rat Trap
. Both Operation Daylight and Cadogan Castle are fictional; D-Day actually commenced, under the codename Operation Neptune, on 6th June, 1944.

[
1638
] Dating
Resistance
(BF CC #3.9) - The back cover says it’s “February 1944”; the same month and year appear on Polly’s train ticket.

[
1639
] Dating
Colditz
(BF #25) - The date “1944” is given. The detail about New York and Moscow being bombed comes from “Klein’s Story”.
A Thousand Tiny Wings
relates what happens to Klein between 1944 and when she next meets the Doctor.

[
1640
]
The Architects of History

[
1641
]
The Impossible Astronaut

[
1642
] “Five months” before
The Turing Test
.

[
1643
] Dating
Deadly Reunion
(PDA #71) - The date is given (although as previously noted, it does make Lethbridge-Stewart older than most other stories would have him).

[
1644
]
Death and Diplomacy

[
1645
]
The Taint

[
1646
] “Thirty years” before
The Last of the Gaderene.

[
1647
]
Divided Loyalties

[
1648
] Dating
The Shadow in the Glass
(PDA #41) - The date is given (p29).

[
1649
] Dating
Autumn Mist
(EDA #24) - The story takes place during the Battle of the Bulge. The Doctor confronts the Beast in
The Taint
.

[
1650
]
SJA: Lost in Time

[
1651
] Dating
The Turing Test
(EDA #39) - The story takes place over several months, and ends with the Allies bombing Dresden, which occurred in February 1945.

[
1652
]
FP: The Book of the War
. The joke here is that Anastasia, following her downfall concerning the Thirteen-Day Republic debacle, was triplicated and made to live as three women who, in real life throughout the twentieth century, claimed to be the “lost” Grand Duchess Anastasia. Anastasia’s remains were conclusively identified in 2008.

[
1653
]
The Marian Conspiracy
, which takes place circa 2000, says she is “55. A Big Finish press release, however, claims she was 65 in 1999, suggesting a much earlier birth date of 1934. Big Finish Producer Gary Russell says
The Marian Conspiracy
should be favoured whatever the press release says.

[
1654
] Harry celebrates his 41st birthday in
Harry Sullivan’s War
, set circa 1986 but subject to UNIT dating. Ian Marter, who played Harry and also wrote
Harry Sullivan’s War
, was born in 1944.

[
1655
]
No Future

[
1656
]
TW: Trace Memory

[
1657
] “Next March” after
The Shadow in the Glass
.

[
1658
]
The Shadow in the Glass

[
1659
]
TimeH: Peculiar Lives

[
1660
] Dating
The Shadow in the Glass
(PDA #41) - The date is given (p23, 147).

[
1661
] Dating
Forty-Five:
“Casualties of War” (BF #115c) - The Doctor provides the specific day.

[
1662
]
TW: Children of Earth

[
1663
]
P.R.O.B.E.: The Zero Imperative

[
1664
] Dating
Atom Bomb Blues
(PDA #76) - The story is set on the eve of the first A-Bomb tests.

[
1665
]
TW: The Undertaker’s Gift

[
1666
]
Just War

[
1667
] “Memorial”

[
1668
]
Heart of TARDIS

[
1669
] “Operation Proteus”

[
1670
]
Time and the Rani
. A scene showing the Rani kidnap Einstein was deleted from the camera script.

[
1671
] “Thirty years” before
The Web of Fear
.

[
1672
] “Thirty years” before
The Paradise of Death
(p79).

[
1673
] Variously said to occur at the end of World War II and about “sixty years” before
The Eternal Summer
, set in 2009.