B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (161 page)

[
70
] Dating
The Faceless Ones
(4.8) - Setting this story in 1966 seems to have been a last minute decision to smooth Ben and Polly’s departure, one that also affects the dating for
The Evil of the Daleks
. The
Radio Times
stated that it is “Earth - Today”.

[
71
] Dating
The Evil of the Daleks
(4.9) - The story follows straight on from
The Faceless Ones
.

[
72
] Dating “They Think It’s All Over” (IDW
DW
Vol. 2, #5) - The 1966 World Cup final took place, as every true Englishman knows, two weeks to the day after the last episode of
The War Machines
.

[
73
] Dating “The Love Invasion” (
DWM
#355-357) - The year is given.

[
74
]
Planet of Fire.
According to a Character Outline prepared for Season 21, before Nicola Bryant was cast in the role, Peri is “an 18 year old” when she starts travelling with the Doctor. Her mother’s name is “Janine” (the same document also says Peri is “blonde”). This would seem to make Peri three years younger than the actress playing her. In both
Bad Therapy
and
The Reaping
, Peri confirms she was 18 when she met the Doctor.

[
75
]
Blue Box

[
76
] “Forty years” before
TW: They Keep Killing Suzie
.

[
77
]
A Good Man Goes to War, Day of the Moon
. The timeframe is a little murky here, as Graystark was shut down in 1967, suggesting that Melody lived there afterwards - and yet Melody is kidnapped by the Silence as an infant, but is a young girl when we see her in 1969 (
The Impossible Astronaut
). It’s possible that the Silence kept her in another locale/time zone on Earth before relocating her to the 1960s.

[
78
]
Day of the Moon
. The whole point of taking Melody to Earth was to raise her in an Earth environment, so she wouldn’t necessarily need a life-support device. As much as anything, the suit is probably needed to fulfilll the story (related in
Closing Time
) of the Doctor being killed by “an impossible astronaut”.

[
79
]
Wonderland
(p46, p50).

[
80
]
The Gallifrey Chronicles
. The Beatles went to Bangor in 1967.

[
81
]
TW: In the Shadows

[
82
]
TW: Miracle Day

[
83
]
TW: The Men Who Sold the World

[
84
] Brendan is “14” according to
K9 and Company
.

[
85
]
Amorality Tale

[
86
]
The Year of Intelligent Tigers

[
87
] “Ten years” before
Image of the Fendahl
.

[
88
] Dating
Wonderland
(TEL #7) - The date is given (p11).

[
89
] Dating
TW: Trace Memory
(
TW
novel #5) - The year is given (p143). Page 169 says that it’s “fourteen years” after 1953. It’s “late summer” (p143).

[
90
] Dating
Renaissance of the Daleks
(BF #93) - It’s during the Vietnam Conflict (which lasted 1959-1975, although US participation was greatly accelerated under President Johnson in 1965). Agent Orange is here deployed; it was used 1961-1971. The US military didn’t use female pilots in Vietnam, so the likelihood of Alice Hunniford seeing combat duty is remote.

[
91
] Dating
Revolution Man
(EDA #21) - The general date is given on p1; the dates of the defacings on p98-100.

[
92
] Dating
Thin Ice
(BF LS #2.3) - The Doctor tells Ace, “This is the USSR, 1967. Everyone is watching [you].” More specifically, it’s the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution; the parade that the Doctor and Ace watch might commemorate the start of the downfall of the Tsars on 7th November. (Part of the terminology confusion here is the difference between Russia’s Julian calendar and the West’s Gregorian calendar - 7th November on the latter equates to 25th October on the former.) Raine, therefore, might be born on 7th November itself. In
Crime of the Century
(set in October 1989), Raine as a grown woman says that
Thin Ice
was (roughly) “twenty years ago”.

[
93
]
Crime of the Century

[
94
]
Animal

[
95
] We don’t know how old Donna is when she travelled with the Doctor, but Catherine Tate was born in 1968.
Planet of the Ood
cites Chiswick as Donna’s birthplace.

[
96
]
TW: Children of Earth

[
97
]
Gridlock
. As the tenth Doctor’s coat is already in the TARDIS wardrobe in
The Christmas Invasion
, it was given to an earlier incarnation - which means it really shouldn’t fit him. It’s possible that Joplin was on so many drugs, she wasn’t concerned about whether the coat fit or not. Joplin lived 1943-1970.

[
98
]
The Time Meddler

[
99
]
The Underwater Menace

[
100
]
Frontier Worlds
. The Tufty Club was a group that taught British children the fundamentals of road safety. The group’s mascot, Tufty the squirrel, avoided roadside accidents and was featured on club badges.

[
101
]
The Sound of Drums.
Some have viewed this as a reference to events in
The Invasion
, which broadcast in November and December 1968. John Frobisher seems to reference the same protocols in
TW: Children of Earth
.

[
102
]
The Banquo Legacy
(p274).

[
103
]
Iris: The Land of Wonder
, presumably reflective (in Iris Wildthyme terms) of the second Doctor working alongside UNIT in
The Invasion. Crossroads
initially ran 1964-1988. Mention of the “robot guru” is probably meant to parallel the Beatles’ association with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, which started in 1967.

[
104
]
Iris: The Claws of Santa.
Animal Magic
ran 1962-1983.

[
105
]
Iris: Enter Wildthyme
. Chi Chi arrived at the London Zoo in September 1958, died in 1972.

[
106
] Dating
Nightshade
(NA #8) - Ace finds a calendar saying it is “Christmas 1968”.

[
107
] Dating
The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories
: “The Entropy Composition” (BF #142b) - The year is given.

[
108
]
Revolution Man
(p180).

[
109
]
Instruments of Darkness
. This might be the same car the eighth Doctor drives in the early EDAs.

[
110
]
SJA: The Ghost House

[
111
]
SJA: Wraith World

[
112
] “Black Death, White Life”

[
113
] “Six weeks” before
The Impossible Astronaut.

[
114
] Dating
Iris: The Sound of Fear
(Iris audio #2.1) - Mohanalee makes Iris take him back to an unspecified part of the 1960s, but it’s probably later in the decade than earlier, given this story’s fixation on the golden oldies.

[
115
] Dating
Blink
(X3.10) - The year is given, first of all in the graffiti that the Doctor leaves for Sally to find in 2007. The Doctor and Martha mention that the moon landing hasn’t happened yet - this occurred on 20th July, 1969.

[
116
] Dating
The Impossible Astronaut
(X6.1) - The date is given. The story continues in
Day of the Moon
; some details from that story and
A Good Man Goes to War
have been included in this summary for clarity.

[
117
]
Day of the Moon

[
118
]
The Wedding of River Song

[
119
] Dating
Revolution Man
(EDA #21) - The date is given (p223).

[
120
] Dating
Day of the Moon
(X6.2) - A caption tells us that the action (which follows on from
The Impossible Astronaut
) has resumed “3 Months Later. July 1969”. Events culminate with the
Apollo 11
moon landing (on 20th July).

[
121
] “Wormwood”. The
TV Comic
story “Moon Landing” predicted the first moon landing would occur in 1970. Richard Lazarus namechecks Armstrong in
The Lazarus Experiment
.

[
122
]
Blink.
These were separate occasions from their being stranded in 1969.

[
123
]
Beautiful Chaos
(p76). This presumably references Bernard Quatermass and his daughter Paula.

[
124
]
Heart of Stone
(p146). This happened on “the last
Apollo
mission”, presumably
Apollo 11
.

[
125
]
The Blue Angel
. The novel was published in 1969.

[
126
]
The Left-Handed Hummingbird
. No specific actions on Manson’s part are mentioned, but the infamous “Helter Skelter” murders took place in August 1969, and the most prominent victim, actress Sharon Tate, was killed 8th August. Page 243 establishes that Huitzilin merely fed off Manson’s actions, but didn’t “possess” or influence him as is sometimes claimed.

[
127
] “Five years” before
The Invasion
according to Vaughn.

[
128
] Dating
The Web of Fear
(5.5) - It is the near future. Professor Travers declares that the events of
The Abominable Snowmen
were “over forty years ago”, Victoria says that they were in “1935” and no-one contradicts her, so it’s at least 1975.