B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (107 page)

[
1732
]
TW: Out of Time

[
1733
]
Cuddlesome
. It’s not stated when this occurs, but Timothy West, who plays Turvey, was born in 1934 - making 1952 as good a dating as anything else.

[
1734
] Dating
The Nowhere Place
(BF #84) - The date is given.

[
1735
]
A Thousand Tiny Wings

[
1736
] Dating
A Thousand Tiny Wings
(BF #130) - The back cover vaguely declares that it’s “Kenya, the 1950s”, but to judge by everyone’s anxieties, the Mau Mau uprising (1952-1960) has just begun. A BBC Overseas Service radio broadcast relates how the Kenyan governor, Sir Evelyn Baring, has declared a state of emergency just two weeks after taking office, and how the authorities have already arrested one hundred leaders of the insurgency, including rebel spokesperson Jomo Kenyatta (who later became Kenya’s first prime minister) - all of which occurred on 20th October, 1952.

Annoyingly, and despite all the historical detail that indicates an October 1952 dating,
The Architects of History
dates this story to “1953” - although the version of Klein who works for UNIT might be rounding when she says that.

[
1737
]
A Thousand Tiny Wings
. De Flores appeared in
Silver Nemesis
.

[
1738
] Dating
Amorality Tale
(PDA #52) - It’s “Wednesday, December 3, 1952” (p12).

[
1739
] Dating
A Christmas Carol
(X6.0) - The year is given. Monroe
was
between marriages, as it happens, in 1952.

[
1740
]
Nightshade
(p111).

[
1741
]
Escape Velocity
(p196).

[
1742
]
The Dying Days
(p52). Sherpa Tensing Norgay and Edmund P. Hillary were the first to conquer Everest.

[
1743
]
The Suffering
. In real life,
The Times
published evidence of the hoax in November 1953.

[
1744
]
The Catalyst
. The type of race isn’t specified.

[
1745
] “Five years” before
Dreamland
(
DW
).

[
1746
]
Dreamland
(
DW
).
SJA: The Vault of Secrets
specifies that the Men in Black were first active in 1953.

[
1747
] Trueman is 56 in
SJA: Secrets of the Stars
, set in early November, 2009, so he was born in either 1952 or 1953. Trueman-actor Russ Abbott is somewhat older than the part he played, having been born 16th September, 1947.

[
1748
] “Ghosts of the Northern Line”

[
1749
]
The Mists of Time
, based upon Katy Manning being born in 1946, but subject to UNIT dating.

[
1750
] Dating
The Idiot’s Lantern
(X2.7) - The story’s climax coincides with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, with the Doctor and Rose arriving the day before.

[
1751
] Use of the Magpie Electricals logo has become a running joke for the new series design team, and is seen on various electronics in
The Runaway Bride
,
The Sound of Drums
,
Voyage of the Damned, Day of the Moon
and
TW: The Undertaker’s Gift.
It’s on a banner in
The Beast Below
, and on equipment in the TARDIS in
The Eleventh Hour
and
Vincent and the Doctor
.

[
1752
] Dating
TW: Trace Memory
(
TW
novel #5) - The exact day is given, p27.

[
1753
]
Jubilee

[
1754
] “End Game” (
DWM
). Le Chiffre is the villain in the first James Bond novel,
Casino Royale
(1953).

[
1755
]
TW: Out of Time

[
1756
]
TW: Slow Decay

[
1757
]
TW: Trace Memory

[
1758
] Dating “The Good Soldier” (
DWM
#175-178) - “It’s 1954” according to the Doctor. The Cybermen resemble those from
The Tenth Planet
, and that’s specified in dialogue. The Cybermen report to Mondas Control.

[
1759
] Dating
The Witch Hunters
(PDA #9) - The date is given, p68. The Fast Return Switch first appeared in
The Edge of Destruction
, but in that story, it was used to move the TARDIS into the past quickly - not as a “return to previous location” device.

[
1760
]
The Turing Test
. “Six months” after Turing’s suicide (7th June, 1954; p104), “forty-six years” before the year 2000 (p105).

[
1761
] “Fifty years” before
The Tomorrow Windows
(p274).

[
1762
] “Decades” prior to
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth.

[
1763
]
Father’s Day

[
1764
]
Loving the Alien
(p188-189).

[
1765
]
Shada

[
1766
]
TW: Slow Decay
(p84).

[
1767
]
Loving the Alien
. Dean died 30th September, 1955.

[
1768
] “Klein’s Story”, confirming the 1955 dating given in
Colditz
.

[
1769
]
The Time Warrior

[
1770
]
The Pit
(p98).

[
1771
]
Vampire Science

[
1772
]
The Turing Test
(p207).

[
1773
]
Invasion of the Cat-People
(p31).

[
1774
] “Last year” according to
First Frontier
(p68), and a reference to the original
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
.

[
1775
]
Dancing the Code

[
1776
] “The Curse of the Scarab”

[
1777
]
The Unicorn and the Wasp

[
1778
] From Torchwood.org.uk.

[
1779
] Dating
FP: Warlords of Utopia
(
FP
novel #3) - Scriptor gives the date.

[
1780
] Dating “Agent Provocateur” (IDW
DW
mini-series #1) - It has been “twelve years” since the war, and Martha sees a newspaper with the date on it.

[
1781
] “Thirteen years” before
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
.

[
1782
]
Vampire Science

[
1783
] “Ground Zero”

[
1784
] Dating
First Frontier
(NA #30) - It is “October 4th, 1957” (p6). The Master next appears in
Happy Endings
.

[
1785
]
Unregenerate!
The dating is awry, as radio broadcasts suggest this is the day of
Sputnik
’s launch (4th October), yet Louis claims the date is “the 15th”.

[
1786
] The Doctor mentions C19 in
Time-Flight
, in connection with contacting UNIT.

[
1787
]
The Scales of Injustice
(p205). C19 is referred to in a number of novels, particularly Gary Russell’s
The Scales of Injustice
,
Business Unusual
and
Instruments of Darkness
, where it’s a shadowy branch of British intelligence that keeps the existence of aliens under wraps by cleaning up alien artifacts left over from their various incursions (a little like Torchwood, then).

[
1788
]
Alien Bodies
.
Sputnik II
was launched 3rd November, 1957.

[
1789
]
Mad Dogs and Englishmen

[
1790
]
Escape Velocity

[
1791
]
Rags
(p185).

[
1792
]
TW: Children of Earth

[
1793
]
TW: Almost Perfect

[
1794
]
Beautiful Chaos
(p163).

[
1795
] “Agent Provocateur”

[
1796
]
Rat Trap

[
1797
] “Fifty years” before
SJA: Eye of the Gorgon
.

[
1798
]
J&L: Dead Men’s Tales

[
1799
] Dating
Dreamland
(
DW
Red Button animated story) - A caption conveys that it is “eleven years” since 1947, and the Doctor confirms that it’s “1958”. The Department in the
K9
series also calls the operation to recover alien ships “Fallen Angel”. The Doctor twice says he “always wanted” to go to Area 51. See the Unfixed Points of Time sidebar.

[
1800
]
Dreamland
(
DW
). The Doctor is almost certainly referring to Retcon, as seen in
Torchwood
, and may be unaware that they actually created it in the late 90s (according to
The Torchwood Archives
), i.e. only forty, not fifty, years on.