B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (160 page)

The evidence as to the canonicity of
Quatermass
in
Doctor Who
is otherwise split...
Beautiful Chaos
implies that the Doctor had dinner with Bernard Quatermass and his daughter Paula during the moon landings, but in
Planet of the Dead
, Malcolm Taylor appears to reference the
Quatermass
TV show when he designates “Bernard” as a unit of measurement.

[
20
]
The Scales of Injustice
(p154). This is “a few years” before the London Incident (the Yeti invasion seen in
The Web of Fear
). The first three individuals on this list hail from
Remembrance of the Daleks
, Ruth is seen in
The Time Monster
, and Anne appears in
The Web of Fear
and
Millennial Rites
.

[
21
]
The Algebra of Ice

[
22
]
Return of the Living Dad

[
23
]
Silver Nemesis
. The book
Who Killed Kennedy
offers another perspective on the assassination. The frequent references to the Kennedy Assassination are in-jokes, as
Doctor Who
’s first episode was shown the day after Kennedy’s assassination, the day most people in the UK learned the news.

[
24
] Dating
Who Killed Kennedy
(MA, unnumbered) - The date is given, and ties in with historical fact.

[
25
]
Zagreus

[
26
]
Rose

[
27
]
TW: The Men Who Sold the World
. It’s possible that this is just hyperbole.

[
28
]
Let’s Kill Hitler
. This doesn’t necessarily denote JFK’s assassination.

[
29
]
Father Time

[
30
]
Wonderland

[
31
] Dating
K9: The Cambridge Spy
(
K9
1.16) - The date is given, and is the date of the first broadcast of the first episode of
Doctor Who
.

[
32
]
The Resurrection of Mars
. This episode was broadcast before
An Unearthly Child
episode three, which is why it gained a million viewers over episode two.

[
33
] Dating
Winter for the Adept
(BF #10) - The date is given by the Doctor.

[
34
]
SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith

[
35
] “Almost twenty years” before
Rat Trap.

[
36
] Two years before
The Veiled Leopard
.

[
37
]
Shada

[
38
] It was cancelled in 1989 after twenty-five years, according to
Escape Velocity.

[
39
] Dating
Planet of Giants
(2.1) - The year is not specified on screen, although the setting is contemporary. Forester lives in a rural area, and a switchboard operator still mans the local telephone exchange.

[
40
] Dating
The Land of the Dead
(BF #4) - It is “thirty years” before 1994.

[
41
] Dating
SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
(
SJA
1.5) - The precise date is given. There’s no mention of Sarah remembering Maria’s visit to 1964 in the restored history. The Trickster’s background is given in
SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
.

[
42
] In the Writers’ Guide for the Season 23, written in July 1985, Mel is described as “21”. In the
Terror of the Vervoids
novelisation she is “22”, in
The Ultimate Foe
she has lived for “twenty-three years”. In
Just War
, Mel was born “twenty eight” years after “1936”. Later books have stated that Mel joined the Doctor in 1989, which would seem to make her year of birth later than this.

[
43
]
Spiral Scratch

[
44
]
Demon Quest: The Relics of Time

[
45
]
Benny: Present Danger
: “The Empire Variations”

[
46
] Dating
FP: Warlords of Utopia
(
FP
novel #3) - Scriptor gives the date.

[
47
]
TW: Miracle Day

[
48
]
Paradise 5
, and possibly an erroneous reference to the first Doctor’s trip to the Empire State Building (in
The Chase
, actually set in 1966).

[
49
] “Two years” before
Thin Ice
.

[
50
] “The Stockbridge Child”, based upon an extremely rough estimate of Max’s age as he appears in “The Stockbridge Horror”.

[
51
]
The Space Age

[
52
] Dating
The Chase
(2.8) - On their return home, Ian sees a tax disc dated “Dec 65”, and Barbara notes that they are “two years out”. (Ironically, after two years of trying to land in England in the nineteen-sixties, the TARDIS visits Ian and Barbara’s native time five times in the next ten television stories.) The script suggested that the Visualiser tuned in on the Beatles’ Fiftieth Anniversary reunion tour. The costume listing for 1st April, 1965, included a request for an announcer dressed in futuristic clothing from “2014”, and it seems that the Beatles were contacted. However, the television version eventually used stock footage from 1965.

The tenth Doctor says in “The Forgotten” that he doesn’t know what happened to Ian and Barbara after they left, but that story entails him having selective amnesia.

[
53
]
Who Killed Kennedy

[
54
]
Goth Opera

[
55
] Dating
The Massacre
(3.5) and
Salvation
(PDA #18) - It is never made explicit which year Dodo boards the TARDIS. She is surprised that the Post Office Tower has been completed on her return to Earth in
The War Machines
in 1966. In
Salvation
(p19), an edition of the
New York Ranger
marks the date that Dodo enters the TARDIS as 25th March, 1965. The same publication dates the gods’ departure as 1st April (p251).

[
56
] Dating “The Vanity Box” (BF #97b) - The back cover says “circa 1965”, but the Doctor more specifically says, “It’s 1965, I believe that’s groovy enough for anyone”. For the Doctor and Mel, this story follows directly on from
The Wishing Beast
.

[
57
] Dating “Klein’s Story” (BF #131a) -
Colditz
specifies that this occurs in 1965.

[
58
] Dating
TW: Children of Earth
(
TW
3.01-3.05) - The year is given.

[
59
] Dating
Blackout
(BBC
DW
audiobook #14) - It’s said to be “1965”, “the middle of November”. The blurb specifies the exact date.

[
60
] Dating
The Daleks’ Master Plan
(3.4) - A calendar in the police station reads “25th December”. It was originally intended that the 1965 Christmas episode, “The Feast of Steven”, would include a crossover with the popular BBC police serial
Z-Cars
. Publicity material to this effect was sent out on 1st October, 1965, and it appears that a version of the script was written with the
Z-Cars
characters in mind. John Peel’s novelisation of this story and Lofficier’s
The Universal Databank
both retain the names of actors (not the characters) from the police series.

[
61
]
Spiral Scratch

[
62
]
Invasion of the Cat-People
(p115), no date is given.

[
63
] Dating
Dead Air
(BBC
DW
audiobook #7) - The Doctor says it’s the “late 1960s”, but the blurb specifies that it’s 1966. For what it’s worth, it’s specified that the story doesn’t take place on a Tuesday. It’s implied that the Time Lords designed the Hush for use against the Daleks in the Last Great Time War.

[
64
] Dating
The Veiled Leopard
(BF promo,
DWM
#367) - The year is given.

[
65
] Dating
The Chase
(2.8) - Morton Dill says it is “1966”, in Alabama at least.

[
66
] Dating
The Perpetual Bond
(BF CC #5.8) - It’s generally said to be “the 1960s” in this story, but
The Cold Equations
and
The First Wave
specify Oliver as being “from 1966”. As
The Perpetual Bond
is set between
The Daleks’ Master Plan
and
The Massacre
, a dating of 1966 would thematically be in keeping with the other contemporary Hartnell TV episodes (
An Unearthly Child
episode one,
The Chase
episode six, etc.) that seem to occur at time of broadcast.

[
67
]
The Cold Equations
. Homosexuality was legalised in England and Wales in 1967.

[
68
] In
The War Machines,
it is twice stated that Ben has a shore posting (he is depressed by this and wants to get back to sea). At the end of the story, it is stated that he has to get “back to barracks”. However in
The Smugglers
and
The Faceless Ones
, he wants to return to his “ship”.

[
69
] Dating
The War Machines
(3.10) - C-Day is set for 16th July, but this didn’t fall on a Monday in 1966... it was actually the Saturday that
The War Machines
episode four was to be broadcast. The year “1966” is confirmed in
The Faceless Ones
and also in the
Radio Times
. WOTAN is connected up to Telstar and Cape Kennedy, both of which were operating in 1966. At the end of
The Faceless Ones
, Ben and Polly realise that it’s the same day they joined the TARDIS, and give the date as the 20th of July.