B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (109 page)

[
1863
] “Twenty-seven years” before the third part of
Father Time.

[
1864
]
The Year of Intelligent Tigers

[
1865
]
Dark Progeny
. The success of this depends upon when the Doctor trained with Bergen - who was very popular, but let his ventriloquism skills lapse while working in radio. Later in Bergen’s career, the McCarthy doll would mock Bergen for moving his lips.

[
1866
] It arrived “at least fifty years” before
Dalek
.

[
1867
]
Spiral Scratch

[
1868
] This happened forty-seven years before
Hornets’ Nest: Hive of Horror
, according to the sleeve notes.

[
1869
] Dating “Klein’s Story” (BF #131a) - The year is given. Reference is made to the Reich possessing a Drahvinian power core, which suggests that the Drahvins from
Galaxy 4
are spacefaring in this era, but it’s of little help in dating that story.

[
1870
]
The End of Time
(TV)

Present Day

1963

In 1963, Polly Wright worked for a week at a charity shop.
 [1]
Nyssa, a companion of the fifth Doctor, was born.
 [2]
In 1963, Professor Rachel Jensen was moved from British Rocket Group to the Intrusion Countermeasures Group.
 [3]
The future psychopath Patrick Jefferson was born in 1963 to Christine Jefferson and an unknown father.
 [4]

= The former Council of Eight member Soul, along with the Doctor’s granddaughter Zezanne, arrived in a junkyard in 1963 aboard the
Jonah
. A chameleon device built by Octan enabled the ship to alter its appearance for the first and nearly last time, blending into its surroundings as a police box. Soul and Zezanne’s memories were clouded by the nature of their escape. Having absorbed some of the Doctor’s life force, Soul became convinced that he
was
the Doctor. Zezanne regarded him as her grandfather.
 [5]

The first Doctor and Susan arrived in Shoreditch, London, in early 1963 and spent five months on Earth. The Doctor attended to his TARDIS while Susan went to Coal Hill School.
A month before his departure, the Doctor arranged to bury the Hand of Omega.
 [6]

IM Foreman’s travelling carnival for a time remodelled itself as the junkyard at Totter’s Yard, and the instability it created had served to draw the Doctor’s TARDIS there.
 [7]

The first Doctor acquired a Shoreditch Library card under the name “J Smith”.
 [8]

1963 (27th March to 4th April) - Time and Relative
 [9]

Several months after Susan started at Coal Hill School, England was caught in the most severe winter for quite some time. There had been snow and ice since before Christmas, into April. This was caused by an ancient sentience called the Cold, which had recently revived, possibly due to a Soviet cryogenics research undertaking called the Novosibirsk Project. The Cold animated killer snowmen, the Cold Knights, which caused mayhem in London and slew many in Piccadilly Circus. The first Doctor siphoned the Cold into a lump of ice, and took it to Pluto in the far future.

On 29th March, 1963, Lizzy Lewis was murdered in Cardiff.
 [10]

= 1963 (July) - “Lunar Lagoon”
 [11]

The fifth Doctor was fishing on a Pacific Island when he was attacked by an old Japanese soldier, Fuji, who didn’t realise the War was over. To the Doctor’s surprise, the island was attacked by a USAF bomber. Fuji was killed by a downed American airman, leaving the Doctor to ponder the meaningless of war.

= 1963 (25th July) - “4-Dimensional Vistas”
 [12]

The fifth Doctor was captured by the US airman who killed Fuji, Angus “Gus” Goodman, and learned that the TARDIS had landed twenty years earlier than he thought... and in a parallel universe. Lost in time, the Doctor convinced Gus to join him on his travels.

= 1963 (25th July) - “The Moderator”
 [13]

After a couple of adventures, the fifth Doctor returned Gus home. The Moderator had followed them from the far future, and gunned down Gus.

1963 - The Taint
 [14]

The eighth Doctor and Sam Jones met Fitz Kreiner, a floral shop worker, shortly before being confronted by an escaped mental patient, Oscar Austen. The patients at Austen’s hospital had alien leech creatures in their brains. Sam and Fitz were attacked by Azoth, an organic computer from the planet Benelisa, who injected Sam with a leech. Azoth sought to destroy “the Beast”, invisible aliens that were feeding on humans, and the leech enabled Sam to see them. The leeches drove the patients further insane and granted them with dangerous psychic abilities. Azoth was destroyed, and the Doctor released a bioelectric pulse that killed the mental patients, including Fitz’s mother. Fitz joined the Doctor and Sam on their travels. They predicted that the Beast would eventually move on from Earth.

1963 (October) - “Operation Proteus”
 [15]

Four months after they arrived in London, the first Doctor and Susan confronted Raldonn, an alien scientist who was experimenting on human beings, causing genetic acceleration. He was attempting to create another of his kind, to replace the co-pilot of his crashed ship. Only one in a million would be affected, the others become random mutants, so he planned to release an airbourne serum. One of the mutants killed Raldonn, and the Doctor used his equipment to release a cure into the atmosphere.

During this encounter, Threshold abducted Susan.

1963 (October) - Ghost Ship
 [16]

The fourth Doctor landed on the
Queen Mary
, which was bound for New York. He found that quantum physicist Peter Osbourne had developed a time-space visualiser, and that the device had captured psionic residue from the passengers, collecting “ghosts” from the past, present and future. The Doctor destroyed the device and liberated the “ghosts”, who took Osbourne among their number. The Doctor thought the “ghosts” would remain aboard the
Queen Mary
forever.

1963 (a Tuesday in late October) - An Unearthly Child
 [17]

Two school teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, thought their pupil Susan Foreman was very unusual and investigated her home one evening. They found that she was living in a junkyard with her grandfather - an old man with the TARDIS, a space-time machine disguised as a police box. The Doctor was suspicious of the school teachers, and put the TARDIS into motion. As he could not control where the Ship went, he was unable to return Ian and Barbara home.

(=) 1963 (12th November) - Matrix
 [18]

On Matrix Earth, Britain was the fifty-first of the United States. President Kennedy came to London on 11th November to speak in Westminster, but was torn apart by supernatural creatures. Ian and Barbara were lovers, but were killed by the Jacksprites - the drug-addicted followers of Jack the Ripper. The seventh Doctor and Ace arrived in this timeline, then went back to 1888 and restored history.

1963 (from 22nd November) - Remembrance of the Daleks
 [19]

An Imperial Dalek Shuttlecraft landed in a playground in London and established a transmat link with an orbiting mothership. Their rivals, the Renegade Dalek faction, began recruiting sympathetic locals. The Imperial Daleks, with Davros as their Emperor, wiped out the Renegades and captured the Hand of Omega. Davros planned on using its power to give the Daleks mastery of Time, and make them the new Time Lords. The seventh Doctor, accompanied by Ace, tricked Davros into destroying both Skaro and his battleship with the Hand of Omega. Davros survived in an escape pod, while the Hand of Omega returned to Gallifrey.

The British Rocket Group and the Intrusion Counter Measures Group (ICMG) were active at this time.

The ICMG became part of Department C19. It formed the basis of an organisation that dealt with unusual events. Members included Ian Gilmore, Rachel Jensen, Allison Williams, Ruth Ingram and Anne Travers.
 [20]
The fact that IM Foreman’s name was spelt “Forman” on the gates of the Totter’s Yard when the Doctor encountered the Dalek there owed to temporal disruption.
 [21]
Isaac Summerfield and the survivors of the
Tisiphone
arrived circa 1963 after falling through a wormhole from the twenty-sixth century.
 [22]

The Kennedy Assassination

In late November 1963, the Nemesis asteroid passed over the Earth, influencing the assassination of President Kennedy.
 [23]

1963 - Who Killed Kennedy
 [24]

Journalist James Stevens arrived from the seventies to stop the Master from interfering with the Kennedy assassination. The Master wanted to disrupt history using a brainwashed Private Cleary as his assassin. Stevens defeated Cleary, but a James Stevens from twenty-five years further into the future fulfilled history by killing Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald was blamed for the crime. The younger Stevens returned home with a brain-damaged Cleary.

The Doctor was once blamed for the Kennedy assassination.
 [25]
He was present at the event.
 [26]
Mr Wynter, the chief enforcer and assassin for the shadow men who ran the world, claimed to have held Oswald’s hand when he had doubts, and to have cradled the leaking brains of presidents in his bare hands.
 [27]

Justice agents aboard the
Teselecta
said that Kennedy’s history had been “rewritten”.
 [28]
@ The amnesiac eighth Doctor remained unaware of the Kennedy assassination until the early eighties.
 [29]
Summer, a future rock festival attendee who would encounter the Doctor in 1967, was in Dealey Plaza when Kennedy was killed.
 [30]

1963 (23rd November) - K9: The Cambridge Spy
 [31]

K9’s friend Jorjie arrived from the future and was questioned by the police. She met Bill Pike, the exact double of Darius Pike, and another man, Barker, who was the double of the Department agent Thorne. K9 and Starkey arrived from the future to aid Jorjie. Pike was Darius’ great-grandfather - history changed upon his being charged with treason, and Darius vanished. Jorjie and her friends convinced the authorities otherwise, and returned home. Once they were gone, Barker was revealled as the true spy.

For posterity’s sake, the Meddling Monk secured a video of the Beatles’ appearance on
Juke Box Jury
.
 [32]

1963 (22nd December) - Winter for the Adept
 [33]

Two advance scouts for the Spillagers, alien plunderers who “spill” through dimensional wormholes to sack a target, arrived on Earth. One of them disguised itself as Mlle. Maupassant, a French teacher at a girls’ finishing school in the Swiss Alps. She brought two latent psionics - students Peril Bellamy and Allison Speer - into contact with the ghost of mountaineer Harding Wellman, which repeatedly triggered poltergeist effects that fuelled a wormhole for the invading Spillager warfleet. The fifth Doctor and Nyssa’s intervention resulted in the Spillager scouts’ deaths and the warfleet’s obliteration.

1964

In 1964, Sarah Jane Smith’s home village of Foxgrove was demolished to make way for the A7665.
 [34]
The Rat King created by Operation Piper became so intelligent, it faked an accident that put the research facility beneath Cardogan Castle into lockdown. The humans who remained were converted into rat drones.
 [35]
A jewel thief committed at least two dozen robberies in London society over the course of two years. He (or she) always took jewels and left a calling card depicting the head of the Roman god Janus. The affluent Lady Lily Hawthorne took to copying Janus’ modus operandi, and sold her takings for benefit of charity.
 [36]
The Doctor visited St Cedd’s College in 1964.
 [37]
In the same year, the television series
Professor X
started broadcasting.
 [38]