B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (165 page)

[
239
] Dating “The Forgotten” (IDW
DW
mini-series #2) - No date is given. This could take place at any point when Jo is the Doctor’s companion.

[
240
]
The Eight Doctors
. In
The Daemons
, the local squire Winstanley says “there have been a lot of queer goings on the last few weeks”, suggesting that’s how long the Master has been in the area.

[
241
] Inferred from
TimeH: Child of Time
(p64).

[
242
] Dating
The Daemons
(8.5) - The story is set in the near future, as BBC3 is broadcasting.

Devil’s Hump is opened at “midnight” on “Beltane”, and the story ends with a dance around the May pole. Beltane appears to be a Saturday or Sunday, as Yates and Benton watch a Rugby International and don’t know the result. As Professor Horner’s book is released the next day (and the shops would have to be open), it is almost certainly Sunday. It is “two hundred years” since Devil’s Hump has been of interest, and the first attempt to open it was in 1793.

[
243
]
Who Killed Kennedy

[
244
]
The Eight Doctors

[
245
]
Downtime
. It is a little odd that this is named the “Aldbourne Incident” - Aldbourne is the real village where
The Daemons
, set in the fictional village of Devil’s End, was filmed. (Although an historic “Lord of Aldbourne” is referred to in
The Daemons.
)

[
246
]
Who Killed Kennedy

[
247
]
Business Unusual

[
248
]
The Hollow Men

[
249
]
The Face of the Enemy

[
250
]
Who Killed Kennedy

[
251
]
The Sea Devils
. The name of the island appears on Captain Hart’s map, but isn’t referred to in dialogue.

[
252
]
The Face of the Enemy

[
253
] Dating “The Man in the Ion Mask” (
DWM Winter Special 1991
) - The story takes place shortly after
The Daemons
, in “1976”. The story appeared in
DWM
’s
UNIT Special
, which set out a timeline for the UNIT stories running from
The Invasion
in 1975 to
The Seeds of Doom
in 1980.

[
254
] Dating
The Sentinels of the New Dawn
(BF CC #5.10) - It’s “about a year” after Liz left UNIT, during “summer break” at Cambridge.

[
255
]
No Future
, which places it in “1973”, three years earlier. This must have been quite an occasion, as the Doctor also remembers it in
Timewyrm: Revelation.

[
256
] “The UNIT Christmas party last year” according to
Verdigris.

[
257
] Dating
The Magician’s Oath
(BF CC #3.10) - The story takes place between
The Daemons
and
Day of the Daleks
. Mention is made of frosty lawns being found in mid-July - while it’s possible that the subsequent events take place some weeks later in August, it’s probably best to assume that everything happens in the same month.

[
258
] Dating
The Doll of Death
(BF CC #3.3) - Big Finish cites the story as taking place between
The Daemons
and
Day of the Daleks
. Jo says she’s already gone out to dinner and a club with Mike Yates; presumably, this is a precursor to their thwarted attempt at “a night out on the town” in
The Curse of Peladon
.

Jo says she’s 18 in this story, which presumably means that she was 17 when she joined UNIT - which is awfully young for someone to be dashing about with a leading military organisation that investigates the paranormal, high-ranking uncle at the United Nations or no. Katy Manning born in 1949, and so was 21 when she first played Jo.

[
259
] Dating
Who Killed Kennedy
(MA, unnumbered) - See Ft. 35 (pg240) for the dates given in this book.

[
260
] Dating
Day of the Daleks
(9.1) - This may have a contemporary setting. While the world is on the brink of WW3, a BBC reporter appears as himself.

Jo tells the Controller that she left the twentieth century on “September the 13th”. The Controller notes, rather annoyingly for those trying to pin down the dates of the UNIT stories, that Jo has “already told me the year” she is from.

[
261
]
Return of the Living Dad

[
262
]
No Future

[
263
]
Business Unusual

[
264
]
The Dimension Riders
. Rafferty is Professor of Extra-Terrestrial Studies at Oxford and the Doctor’s old friend.

[
265
] “Death to the Doctor!”, in what looks like an incident from the Doctor’s UNIT days.

[
266
] International Politics in the UNIT Era

In the UNIT era, there appear to be four superpowers: The US, USSR, China and the United Kingdom. In the nineteen-seventies, the world apparently lurches from a period of detente with the Soviet Union (
The Invasion
), to the brink of World War Three (
The Mind of Evil
,
Day of the Daleks
), but within a few years of
Day of the Daleks,
the Cold War has ended.
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
includes the line “back in the Cold War days”.
Robot
is also set after the Cold War ended.
About Time
notes that “it’s massively unlikely that the entire Cold War has ended at this point since the stories made/set in the 1980s seem to suggest a world where there’s still a schism between the US and USSR (see especially
Time-Flight
)”. Alternatively, it’s evidence that
Robot
is set after
Time-Flight
(so after 1981), which ties in nicely with the date given in
Pyramids of Mars
(the 1980 date would be the date of
The Time Warrior
).

The Soviet system seems to survive - in
Battlefield
the Russian troops’ uniforms bear the hammer and sickle, but they are operating on British soil under UN command, and the “Soviet Praesidium” is mentioned in
The Seeds of Death
.

Stories told since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the real world have referred to it: Ace mentions “perestroika” in
Timewyrm: Exodus
, and the Doctor talks of the collapse of the Soviet Union in
Just War
.

[
267
] “A couple of weeks” before
The Face of the Enemy.

[
268
]
The Curse of Peladon

[
269
] Dating
The Face of the Enemy
(PDA #7) - This runs while the Doctor and Jo are away in
The Curse of Peladon
, and takes about a fortnight.

[
270
] Dating
The Sea Devils
(9.3) - This is probably set in the near future. The prison guards’ vehicles and uniforms are futuristic. Although this is effectively a sequel to two stories, no indication is given how much time has passed since
Doctor Who and the Silurians
or
The Daemons
. The Master insists that his second television be in colour, but this doesn’t mean that the story is set just after colour TV was introduced - before the advent of cheap colour portable TVs, a household would commonly have a big colour set and a smaller black and white one. The Master watches an episode of
The Clangers
, first broadcast in 1971 and repeated many times since.

[
271
] Dating “Under Pressure” (
DWM Yearbook 1992
) - It’s the “late twentieth century”. It’s unclear if this is an unseen part of
The Sea Devils
or a later encounter with the monsters. We’ve assumed the former.

[
272
] Dating
The Eight Doctors
(EDA #1) - This happens straight after
The Sea Devils.

[
273
] Dating “Target Practice” (
DWM
#234) - The story takes place after
The Sea Devils
, as there’s a Sea Devil target on the range. The Doctor says he hasn’t been to Russia for “several hundred years”, and regardless of whether that’s historically or within his own timeline, that places the story before
Wages of Sin
and contradicts
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
.

[
274
] Dating
Tales from the Vault
(BF CC 6.1) - Jo names the titular characters from
The Sea Devils
, so it’s after that. The one thing that initially seems telling but isn’t: Jo records an account of this event over a cassette of Paul McCartney and Wings, but they were active from 1971 to 1981.

[
275
]
The Mutants

[
276
]
The Time Monster

[
277
] In
The Green Death
it was “last year”.

[
278
] Dating
The Time Monster
(9.5) - There’s nothing to suggest this is the near future. Benton wishes Jo a “Merry Michaelmas”. The TARDIS in this story appears to be fully functional - although this story is broadcast before
The Three Doctors
, perhaps it takes place afterwards. If not, then all the stories in Season Nine apparently take place between 13th September (
Day of the Daleks
) and 29th September (
The Time Monster
) of a given year.

This story is set in “the mid-seventies” according to
Falls the Shadow
, and “thirty years” before
The Quantum Archangel
(so 1973).

[
279
]
Falls the Shadow

[
280
]
The Blue Angel
. At some unspecified point during the Doctor’s exile.

[
281
] Dating
Rags
(PDA #40) - This was the first PDA that didn’t specify on the cover which TV stories it was set between. The Doctor’s exile has not been lifted, yet Jo refers to Daleks and Ogrons, meaning it takes place at some point between
Day of the Daleks
and
The Three Doctors
.