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(=) 1986 - “Time Bomb”
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The sixth Doctor and Frobisher went to pick up Peri in New York... but discovered that the Hedron interference two hundred million years ago had disrupted history. Mankind never evolved, and dinosaur men ruled the Earth.

1986 (December) - The Tenth Planet
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Technological developments continued on Earth. The Z-Bomb and Cobra missiles had been developed, and Zeus spaceships (launched on Demeter rockets) carried out manned missions to the moon as well as close-orbital work. Zeus 4’s mission was to monitor weather and cosmic rays. Space missions were controlled from the South Pole base (callsign: “Snowcap”). The space programme was now an international effort with Americans, Australians, British, Italians, Spaniards, Swiss and Africans manning Snowcap. International Space Command and its Secretary General, Wigner, controlled the programme from Geneva.

In late 1986, “the tenth planet” appeared in the skies of the southern hemisphere. This was Mondas, the homeworld of the Cybermen. The first Doctor, Ben and Polly were present at Snowcap as Mondas attempted to drain Earth’s energy, but absorbed too much and was destroyed.

The first Doctor’s body was so aged, it had worn out. The disembodied Oliver Harper used the last of his essence to manifest one final time - as the weakened Doctor stood in the TARDIS doorway, he spotted Oliver and gave a little wave before entering.
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Aided by Ben and Polly, the Doctor entered the TARDIS console room and was “renewed” into a new body.
 [651]

Tobias Vaughn recovered the bodies of the Cybermen from Snowcap.
 [652]
Cybermen who had crashed in the South Pole - remnants of an earlier, failed invasion - located and adapted Cyber technology from the 1986 incursion.
 [653]
After Mondas’ destruction, a surviving group of Cybermen settled on the planet Lonsis.
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In the late nineteen-eighties, archaeologist Peter Warmsley began excavating a site associated with King Arthur on the edge of Lake Vortigern near Carbury.
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Ace was now becoming a problem. She had sat her O-Levels, including French and Computer Studies, and was beginning to study for her A-Levels. But she was expelled from school for blowing up the Art Room using homemade gelignite - an event she described as “a creative act”. Ace vanished one day in a timestorm whipped up by Fenric, following experiments in her bedroom that involved her trying to extract nitro-glycerine from gelignite. Ace’s mother reported her missing, and her friends thought she was either dead or in Birmingham.
 [656]

Ace did work experience at an old folks home. She worked in McDonald’s on weekends.
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She kicked a time-lost and penniless Tegan out of the establishment, failing to realise they would later have something in common.
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Decades after she left the TARDIS, Polly Wright had married a man named Simon, and they had a son named Mikey. Ben Jackson had also married. On the last day of 1986, Ben and Polly met in a hotel room to commemorate the passing of Mondas, and their involvement in it with the Doctor. Despite the temptation, they kept their relationship platonic.
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The Johnny Chess album
Things to do on a Wet Tuesday Night
was released in 1987.
 [660]
In the same year, Jason Kane’s sister Lucy was born.
 [661]
SeneNet begin developing their Maxx games.
 [662]

@ In 1987, the Doctor was accidentally responsible for releasing a breed of talking wild boar into the wild.
 [663]
In 1987, the UK government tested an alien device on the village of Rawbone, and made everyone there sterile. The town was gradually isolated from the outside world.
 [664]
Sarah Jane profiled Dr. Francis Augur for
Metropolitan
magazine in 1987.
 [665]

The Headhunter, now allied with the spiders on Metebelis III, planted some Metebelis crystals in Yorkshire in 1987. A potholer, Clark Goodman, found the crystals, and the spiders implanted beliefs in his mind. Goodman founded a self-help organisation - “The Eightfold Truth” - and sent its members to locate more of the crystals. The group would, unknowingly, spend eighteen years facilitating the spiders’ plan to conquer thousands of worlds.
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The eighth Doctor visited Little Caldwell and met Joel Mintz.
 [667]
Rose Tyler, a companion of the ninth and tenth Doctors, was born on 27th April, 1987.
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Katherine Costello Wainright (formerly Kathy Nightingale) died the same year.
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Colonel Felnikov of the Soviet Union engineered the 1987 recession as a means of attacking the West by destabilising its economy. Those in the know about this dubbed it The Crime of the Century. Felnikov’s superiors lost too much money in the resultant economic bloodbath, and he was booted back to the Army.
 [670]

Benny had Isaac Summerfield babysit Peter in 1987 while she dealt with a quarrel between the Draconians and the Mim.
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1987 (July) - Damaged Goods
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The seventh Doctor, Roz and Chris investigated the Quadrant, an area of tower blocks in an English city. An N-form, an ancient Gallifreyan weapons system, had occupied the body of drug dealer Simon “the Capper” Jenkins. The N-form was searching for vampires, per its programming, and sold contaminated coke that allowed it to manifest in the brains of anyone who took it. The N-form erupted and went on a killing spree, but the Doctor shut it down.

(=) 1987 (7th November) - Father’s Day
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The ninth Doctor took Rose back to witness the death of her father, Peter Tyler, from a hit-and-run car accident. Rose saved her father’s life, which altered history and created a “wound” in time. Winged creatures, the Reapers, converged on the wound to “sterilise” it by consuming every person on Earth. Humanity was eradicated on a large scale, but Peter acknowledged the historical deviation and sacrificed himself. Upon his death, time reverted to normal and the Reapers disappeared.

Outside the wedding of Stewart Hoskins and Sarah Clark, Peter Tyler died from a hit-and-run accident. An unnamed young woman stayed with him until the end.

Jackie and Rose continued to reside at Flat 48, Bucknall House, Powell Estate
SE15 7GO.
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The eighth Doctor and Lethbridge-Stewart discovered the secret of the Embodiment of Gris in Hong Kong in 1988.
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Benny accidentally had a comic commissioned while walking through the offices of an American comic book publisher, just because she had a British accent.
 [676]
Victor Podesta, an associate of the Three Families who had adopted the name John Forester, died in La Boca, Argentina.
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1988 (8th April) - The Company of Friends: “Izzy’s Story”
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The eighth Doctor took Izzy to Grub and Sons newsstand in Stockbridge, as she knew that a prized copy of
Aggotron
#56 could be found there. The issue revealled the true face of Courtmaster Cruel, a vigilante magistrate, but all copies of it had mysteriously vanished afterwards. The travellers found Suits - the android henchlings of The Man, a villain from the comic - ruining every copy of #56 with their brolly guns.

At the
Aggotron
publication offices in Queenspoint Spire, London, the Doctor and Izzy found that the comic’s editor (known in print as “Grak, the Head-Swollen”) and artists were aliens that had been censored from their native Smog Worlds, and had based many of the
Aggotron
characters on their native forms. They also confronted Derek Dell - a geek who’d adopted the Courtmaster’s identity in the fifty-first century, but was so horrified upon learning that the original artwork to issue #56 rendered Courtmaster Cruel as a girl, he’d dispatched the Suits to destroy every copy. Izzy was similarly aghast at the revelation.

Dell, while trying to escape, was haphazardly flung through time. The Doctor relocated Grak and his artists back to the Smog Worlds, and
Aggotron
was merged into
Square Jaw
.

On 22nd May, 1988, an accident involving a Range Rover killed the parents of a young girl named Alice, and put her in a wheelchair for life.
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Lucie Miller, a companion of the eighth Doctor and (briefly) the Monk, was born on 31st July, 1988.
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Santiago, the grandson of Cliff and Jo Jones, was born in a caravan in the foothills of the Andes. He would never attend school, and instead travel the world with his parents while his advocacy-minded grandmother did such things as chain herself to the railings at a G8 Summit. Santiago’s father would get arrested - twice - at a climate change conference
.
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A temporal breach was detected high above London. Torchwood constructed a huge skyscraper to enclose the breach; the building was privately known as Torchwood Tower, but publicly it served as Canary Wharf, a business development. Torchwood also used the facility as their main headquarters.
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The Steggosians, “a particularly nasty race of fascist dinosaur people”, were all but wiped out by a plague that destroyed their immune systems. One patrol survived, its Captain driven mad by the death of his people. He would later encounter the Doctor in London.
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1988 (22nd-23rd November) - Silver Nemesis
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Thousands of Cyber-Warships massed in the solar system. A scouting party tried to recover the Validium asteroid, which had been launched from Earth two hundred and fifty years before. They wanted its power to make Earth into “New Mondas”. The seventh Doctor and Ace kept the statue from falling into the hands of the Cybermen, the Lady Peinforte (a sorceress from 1638), and a group of Nazis hoping to create a new Reich. The villains all died in the process.

By the end of the Reagan administration, the US military had built Station Nine. This was a Top Secret satellite - so secret, in fact, that no President after Reagan would be told about it. Station Nine quietly remained in orbit, ready to fire intercepting Nuke Killer missiles that would nullify an oncoming nuclear attack.
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An unmanned lander sent from Earth to Mars recovered Martian DNA. Webster Corporation combined it with human DNA in the hopes of creating augmented soldiers, and the young Tanya Webster was born with Martian DNA in her system. Webster began developing a manned mission to Mars, hoping to recover more Martian DNA or a live Martian.
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Sarah Jane Smith interviewed novelist Gregory P. Wilkinson for
Metropolitan
magazine.
 [687]

Amelia Jessica Pond, a companion of the eleventh Doctor, was born in 1989 to Augustus and Tabitha Pond.
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Melanie Bush joined the sixth Doctor
after helping him prevent the Master and the Usurians taking over the world in 1989
.
She had recently turned down a job at I2, but accepted one at Ashley Chapel Logistics.
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1989 (mid June) - Business Unusual
 [690]

The sixth Doctor thwarted an attempt by the Master and his Usurian partners to devastate America’s economy, but required a native computer expert to fully purge the conspirators’ illicit programming. This led to the Doctor meeting computer programmer Melanie Bush, and she helped him erase the Master’s programs.

Martyn Townsend, the former director of the Vault, was now the Managing Director of SeneNet. The company officially specialised in computer game consoles, but fronted Townsend’s ambitions to use Nestene technology to conquer Earth. Lacking the components to maintain his cybernetic body, Townsend kidnapped the telepathic Trey Korte in the hopes of mentally transferring his intelligence into a prosthetic form.

The Doctor’s intervention resulted in SeneNet’s destruction. Townsend died when falling rubble crushed him. The Auton-augmented twins Cellian and Ciara foreswore allegiance to Townsend and escaped. Melanie stowed away on the TARDIS and took up travelling with the Doctor.