B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (164 page)

The original draft of the script called for the real Beatles to appear, made up to look very old to indicate they were still performing in the future (the script specified 2012).

The Devil Goblins from Neptune
reveals that The Beatles of the
Doctor Who
universe stayed together at least into the early seventies. John Lennon was murdered as he was in our history in
The Left-Handed Hummingbird
, though, and Paul McCartney was playing with Wings in
No Future
.

In
The Gallifrey Chronicles
, it’s revealled that Fitz collects Beatles records from parallel universes, and that he saw them play a song called “Celebrate the Love” at Live Aid. “Celebrate the Love” is the title of the song the Ewoks sang at the end of
Return of the Jedi
, at least until the Special Edition.

[
199
] “Five years” before
Island of Death
.

[
200
] “Six months” before
The Devil Goblins from Neptune.

[
201
]
Who Killed Kennedy
. It is “1970” (p87).

[
202
] “Three or four months” before
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
. There are at least two UNIT HQs: one that’s almost certainly in a London office block by the Thames in London (seen in
Terror of the Autons
) and one that’s a stately home (seen in
The Three Doctors
).

[
203
] “Early March” before
The Devil Goblins from Neptune.

[
204
] “Three months” before
The Scales of Injustice
, “fifteen years” before
Business Unusual.

[
205
] “A couple of months” and “a month” before
The Scales of Injustice.

[
206
] Dating
The Eye of the Giant
(MA #21) - The story is set “thirty-seven years” after 1934, so 1971. UNIT have a photocopier. This is apparently the first time Mike Yates meets the Doctor, although he’s been working for UNIT “over the last year”. This is “a few weeks” before
The Scales of Injustice
, according to that book.

[
207
] Dating
The Blue Tooth
(BF CC #1.3) - It’s toward the end of Liz’s tenure with UNIT (she’s been with the organisation “about a year”) and Captain Yates is described as “a new boy” - which would place the story between
The Eye of the Giant
and
The Scales of Injustice
.

[
208
] Dating
The Scales of Injustice
(MA #24) - The back cover states this is set between
Inferno
and
Terror of the Autons
, and “immediately after”
The Eye of the Giant
. It’s a “few weeks” since that book. Liz tells the Doctor she is leaving at the end of the book “eight months, two weeks and four days” after
Spearhead from Space
. It is “six months” since
Doctor Who and the Silurians
.

The Silurians who sue for peace are not mentioned again. The next time we see them,
The Sea Devils
, they are pitted against humanity. By the time of
Eternity Weeps
, set in 2003, man and Silurian are working together in relative harmony. Perhaps the discrepancy can be put down to the fact that UNIT don’t feature in
The Sea Devils
, and the reptile people there were revived and are being provoked into conflict by the Master.

[
209
]
Business Unusual

[
210
]
The Scales of Injustice
, which states that it’s “eight months, two weeks and four days” since she met the Doctor in
Spearhead from Space
, although their amount of time together has become “thirteen months” by
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
.

[
211
]
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
,
The Face of the Enemy.

[
212
]
The Devil Goblins from Neptune

[
213
]
The Face of the Enemy
, picking up on a reference in
Harry Sullivan’s War.

[
214
] Dating
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
(PDA #1) - Between
Inferno
and
Terror of the Autons
. Liz has been with UNIT for “thirteen months”. The Brigadier hasn’t been to Geneva for eight months (when, we’re told, he was reporting on the events of
Inferno
). It is “1970”, with a host of contemporary references to, for example, David Bowie and Brazil winning the World Cup (p109).

[
215
]
Who Killed Kennedy
(p117), which specifies the year as “1970”.

[
216
]
Emotional Chemistry

[
217
]
Terror of the Autons

[
218
]
The Death of Art

[
219
]
Terror of the Autons

[
220
]
Blood Heat

[
221
]
The Wages of Sin
,
Catastrophea.

[
222
]
Verdigris,
a reference to
The Avengers.

[
223
] Dating
Terror of the Autons
(8.1) - It seems to be the near future, and the plastics factory has a videophone.

The Doctor works on his dematerialisation circuit for “three months”, and apparently hadn’t started in
Inferno
, so this story would seem to start at least three months after Season Seven ends. There is no indication how much time has passed since the previous Auton story,
Spearhead from Space
. A desk calendar is referred to when the Doctor and Brigadier visit Farrell’s office, but we do not see it.

This is clearly not the Master’s first arrival on Earth at this time - he has managed to research the history of Lew Russell, the circus owner.

Inferno
was “a few years” before
Terror of the Autons
according to
The Face of the Enemy
(p215). In
Genocide,
Jo says that she’s been on UNIT’s books since 1971.
Who Killed Kennedy
prefers April 1970.

[
224
]
Return of the Living Dad

[
225
]
Who Killed Kennedy
. It is “four months” since the June 1970 General Election (p119).

[
226
] The Black Archive was first seen in
SJA: Enemy of the Bane
. The Doctor’s involvement was established in “Don’t Step on the Grass”. We don’t know precisely when it was built, but it would seem to be after
The Scales of Injustice
, which features Department C19’s (very similar) Vault. In
Terror of the Autons
, the Brigadier expresses an interest in the technology of the Master’s grenade but the Doctor defuses it, suggesting they hadn’t a protocol about alien technology at that point. It is not related to the (again, very similar) Vault in
SJA: The Vault of Secrets
, or the UNIT Vault featured in
Tales from the Vault
.
Army of Ghosts
established that Torchwood have a similar archive, “The Age of Ice” includes a UNIT archive in Sydney, Australia, and
Dreamland
(
DW
) shows us that the US stores alien technology and aliens at Area 51. By the time of the K9 series, the Department keep aliens and alien technology in the Dauntless facility in the Tower of London.

[
227
] Dating
The Mind of Evil
(8.2) - It seems to be the near future - there is a National Power Complex, there is a World Peace Conference in progress in which the Chinese are key players. Gas warfare was banned “years” ago. Mao Tse Tung is referred to in the present tense - he died in 1976, after
The Mind of Evil
was made.

Inferno
was “some time ago”. This story might be set a full year after
Terror of the Autons
: the Master has been posing as Keller since “nearly a year ago”. However, it’s clear from
Terror of the Autons
that the Master has been on Earth for at least a little while. It’s possible that the Master set his plan in motion before his apparent arrival on Earth in
Terror of the Autons
... which would mean he had two entirely distinct plans to take over the Earth running simultaneously. The “year ago” line might well be a remnant from an earlier draft of the script that didn’t include the Master.

According to
Who Killed Kennedy
, it is October 1970 (p119).

[
228
] Dating
Deadly Reunion
(PDA #63) -
Terror of the Autons
is “recent”, but the Master’s TARDIS works, so this is set after
The Mind of Evil
.

[
229
]
Who Killed Kennedy
. It is “December” (p136) 1970.

[
230
] Dating “Change of Mind” (
DWM
#221-223) - The date is given as 1971. Liz has already left UNIT, but there’s no mention of Jo.

[
231
]
Who Killed Kennedy
(p162, p157).

[
232
] Dating
The Claws of Axos
(8.3) - This story is set in the near future. There are videophones, although normal telephones are also in use. The National Power Complex “provides power for the whole of Britain” according to Sir George Hardiman, the head of the facility. (This needn’t mean that the complex provides
all
of the country’s power, just that it contributes to the whole of the National Grid rather than one region of it.) The complex has a “light accelerator”. While this story was filmed in January, and the trees are bare, the snow is described as “freak weather conditions”, perhaps suggesting the story is set in the spring or summer. Chinn says of the Brigadier’s actions “that’s the kind of high-handed attitude one has come to expect of the UN lately”.

[
233
]
Business Unusual

[
234
] Nuton is destroyed in
The Claws of Axos
, but mentioned in
The Daemons.

[
235
]
Who Killed Kennedy

[
236
]
Colony in Space

[
237
]
The Gallifrey Chronicles

[
238
] Dating
Colony in Space
(8.4) - There’s no clear indication of the year. When Jo reaches the future, she is surprised that a colony ship was sent out in 1971 (it wasn’t, of course, it was 2471). Either this story is set before 1971 and Jo is amazed how quickly the space programme has progressed, or it is set afterwards and she finds it difficult to believe that the colony ship was kept secret.