B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (108 page)

[
1801
]
SJA: Prisoner of the Judoon

[
1802
] Dating
Spiral Scratch
(PDA #72) - Rummas gives the year.

[
1803
]
Spiral Scratch

[
1804
] Dating “Tuesday” (
DW Annual 2011
) - The year is given.

[
1805
] Dating
Bad Therapy
(NA #57) - The date is given (p1).

[
1806
]
Shada

[
1807
]
SJA: The Last Sontaran
, no date given.

[
1808
]
SJA: The Day of the Clown
, no date given.

[
1809
] Dating
Delta and the Bannermen
(24.3) - The Tollmaster says that the bus will be going back to “1959”, and the date is confirmed by a banner up in the dance hall at the Shangri-La resort. Hawk’s line that “this is history in the making” implies this is the first American satellite, but that was actually
Explorer I
, launched on 31st January, 1958.

[
1810
]
Return of the Living Dad

[
1811
]
The Face of the Enemy
(p248).

[
1812
]
The Way Through the Woods

[
1813
]
TW: Submission.
In real life, the
Trieste
reached its maximum depth on 23rd January, 1960.

[
1814
]
Imperial Moon

[
1815
]
UNIT: Snake Head

[
1816
]
SJA: The White Wolf
. It’s suggested that Sarah loses a “whole year” of her life owing to this event, although this is hard to take literally, as she never notices the discrepancy.

[
1817
] Dating
Loving the Alien
(PDA #60) - Ace gains a tattoo that dates the year as 1959 (p24). The Doctor similarly remarks on the year as 1959 (p33). The newspaper on the cover specifies it’s “November” 1959.

[
1818
]
Synthespians™

[
1819
]
Ghost Ship
. No date is given.

[
1820
]
Millennial Rites
(p159). The Mods and Rockers gangs were two British youth movements during this time.

[
1821
]
Vincent and the Doctor
. Picasso started his art career in 1900; he died in 1973.

[
1822
]
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth

[
1823
]
A Death in the Family
. Lowry, famed for his renderings of Salford and its surrounding areas, lived 1887-1976.

[
1824
] Torchwood.org.uk, elaborating on
TW: From Out of the Rain
.

[
1825
]
TW: The House That Jack Built
. No date is given; Clarke immigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956, and lived there until his death in 2008.

[
1826
] The psychspace - and the musician’s native time - is variously given as “the late 1950s” and “the 1960s” in the undatable “Forever Dreaming”.

[
1827
]
Heart of Stone
. Ali was born in 1942, was a professional boxer from 1960 to 1981.

[
1828
] “Space Squid”. Godzilla first appeared in 1954, so it’s some time after that.

[
1829
]
Zamper.
Milton Keynes was build as part of the third wave of the New Towns programme, so this happened during the sixties.

[
1830
] “Twenty years” before
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
.

[
1831
] “For the last decade” before
Spearhead from Space.

[
1832
]
Transit

The Brigadier’s Family

Transit
introduces the Brigadier’s descendant, Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart (she reappears in
Set Piece, The Also People
,
So Vile a Sin
and
Benny: The Final Amendment
). Kadiatu hails from a line of Lethbridge-Stewarts descended from the Lieutenant’s liaison in Sierra Leone. An early draft of
The Also People
had more details of the Lethbridge-Stewart line.

We can deduce that Mariatu had a son, Mariama, in the early 1960s (he is unnamed in
Transit
, but the name appears in the early draft of
The Also People
, where his mother was mistakenly referred to as “Isatu”). He had a daughter, Kadiatu, who became an historian (she is first referred to in the
Remembrance of the Daleks
novelisation, and also in
Set Piece
). She had a son Gibril, who also had a son called Gibril (from the draft of
The Also People
). Gibril had a son, Yembe (seen in
Transit
), and he adopted Kadiatu in 2090. Kadiatu, then, is the Brigadier’s great-great-great-great-granddaughter, and this is consistent with
Transit
(p96) where “five generations” separate Kadiatu from Alistair.

Rather more simple is the Brigadier’s British family. According to
Downtime
, the Brigadier and his first wife Fiona (a name thought up by Nicholas Courtney, who plays the Brigadier) had a daughter named Kate (seen in
Downtime
and
Daemons: Daemos Rising
). She was a child during the UNIT era, when the Lethbridge-Stewarts split up. (The Brigadier and Fiona separate in
The Scales of Injustice
, and he is sleeping alone by
The Daemons
.) By the mid-nineties, Kate is a single mother looking after her son Gordon. By
Battlefield
, the Brigadier has married Doris, an old flame first mentioned in
Planet of the Spiders.
(They shared a weekend in Brighton eleven years before that story - perhaps before Alistair was married to Fiona.)

[
1833
]
Blood Heat

[
1834
] “Eleven years” before
Planet of Spiders -
possibly while married to Fiona.

[
1835
] “Eight years” before
The Scales of Injustice
(p61, p131).

[
1836
]
The King of Terror
(p255).

[
1837
] “About ten years” before
The Scales of Injustice
.

[
1838
]
The Blue Tooth

[
1839
]
Old Soldiers

[
1840
]
Shada

[
1841
]
Just War

[
1842
] Dating
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
(EDA #52) - “It’s 1960!” (p118).

[
1843
] Dating
No More Lies
(BF BBC7 #1.6) - No year is given, but the upper and lower boundaries of this story’s dating can be deduced. Rachel’s brother references “You Are My Sunshine” (1939) and the Time Lords’ temporal barrier is currently preventing the Doctor and Lucie from getting any closer to her era than 1974 (per
Horror of Glam Rock
). There’s no mention of a war being on or rationing, so the action is less likely to take place in the 1940s. The season is suggested in that the garden party is held outdoors, and some of the action occurs in Nick and Rachel’s “summer house”.

[
1844
] According to her character outline, Tegan is “21” when she meets the Doctor (in
Logopolis
, set in 1981). Originally she was to be 19, until the production team were told that legally air hostesses had to be 21 or older. Clarifying the issue,
The Gathering
has Tegan celebrating her 46th birthday on 22nd September 2006. Janet Fielding was born in 1957, which might suggest that she’s three years older than the character she played. However, fandom often presumes that Tegan spent three years travelling with the Doctor (the duration of Fielding’s time on screen), which would suggest that - like Fielding - Tegan is 49 when
The Gathering
takes place.

[
1845
]
Divided Loyalties

[
1846
]
The King of Terror

[
1847
]
Goth Opera

[
1848
]
The Cradle of the Snake

[
1849
] “4-Dimensional Vistas”. Gus has been “three years in the air force”, and has been fighting since “last year”.

[
1850
]
TW: Almost Perfect
. Historically, this happened on 9th February, 1961.

[
1851
] Dating “The Time of My Life” (
DWM
#399) - This can’t be the Beatles’
first
performance at the club, or Captain Jack would have spotted the Doctor there (
TW: Almost Perfect
). The Beatles played at the club more than once in 1961, and were first spotted there by Brian Epstein on 9th November.

[
1852
] Confirmed in
The Seeds of Death.

[
1853
] The ICMG is seen in
Remembrance of the Daleks
.
Who Killed Kennedy
(p69) describes its founding.

[
1854
] “Fifty years” before “Down to Earth”.

[
1855
] “Klein’s Story”

[
1856
] “Fifteen years” after 1947, according to
The Devil Goblins from Neptune.

[
1857
]
Salvation
(p5).

[
1858
]
Heart of TARDIS
(p197).

[
1859
] “Fifty years” before
The Shadows of Avalon.

[
1860
] “Many months” before “Operation Proteus”, and more than four months because Raldonn was there to detect the Doctor’s arrival on Earth.

[
1861
]
Trading Futures

[
1862
]
Father Time.
This is one reason that the Doctor doesn’t bump into himself during the UNIT era.