B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (168 page)

The Programme Guide
says the story is set “1970-75”; it’s “soon after” 1969 according to
The Terrestrial Index
.
The TARDIS Logs
claimed a date of “1969”.
Timelink
chose “1970”.
The Legend
simply states it’s “after 1968”.

[
373
]
The Shadow in the Glass
(p172).

[
374
]
Revolution Man
(p247).

[
375
] Ace’s Early Life

According to
The Curse of Fenric,
Ace does “O-Levels”, not GCSEs, so she must be a fifth former (i.e.: 15 or 16 years old) by the summer of 1987 at the latest. This supports
Ghost Light,
where she is “13” in “1983”. As Ace has a patch reading “1987” on her jacket in
Dragonfire
, it seems that the timestorm which swept her to Svartos must have originated in that year. Fenric is therefore rounding up when he tells Ace that Audrey Dudman will have a baby “thirty years” after
The Curse of Fenric
. Sophie Aldred was born in 1962, making her nine years older than the character she played.

In the New Adventures, starting with
Timewyrm: Revelation
, Ace’s birthday was established as 20th August (Sophie Aldred’s birthday). In
Falls the Shadow,
the Doctor says that she was born in “1970”. Paul Cornell attempted to establish that Ace’s surname was “McShane” in
Love and War
, but series editor Peter Darvill-Evans vetoed this at the proof stage.
Conundrum
(p245) and
No Future
(p19) both suggest that Ace’s surname begins with an “M” (although when asked in the latter, Ace claims it is “Moose”!). It wasn’t until Kate Orman’s
Set Piece
that “McShane” was officially adopted.

Ace is “Dorothy Gale” in some books by Mike Tucker, notably
Matrix
(p124) and
Prime Time
(p234).
The Rapture
attempts to reconcile this by stating that her middle name is Gale. In
Loving the Alien
, which appears to be set prior to
The Rapture
, Ace dies and is replaced by a parallel timeline version of herself. The Doctor says this swap accounts for much of the confusion regarding Ace’s last name.

[
376
]
Father Time
. Miranda is “ten” in the first part of the book (p54), and “two months old” when she arrives on Earth.

[
377
]
Island of Death
- although there isn’t actually a Nobel Prize for Philosophy.

[
378
]
I am a Dalek

[
379
]
The Dying Days
(p101).

[
380
]
Project: Twilight

[
381
]
TW: The Sin Eaters
. Prior to 1971, the Emirates were known as the Trucial States.

[
382
]
FP: The Book of the War

[
383
]
An Unearthly Child
. Susan is also familiar with the Beatles before their first hit single in
Time and Relative
.

[
384
]
Just War
(p178).

[
385
]
Night of the Humans
. Pioneer 10 was launched 2nd March, 1972.

[
386
] “Forty years” prior to the modern day portion of
Iris: Enter Wildthyme
.

[
387
]
SJA: The Man Who Never Was

[
388
] “Five years” after
Thin Ice
.

[
389
]
Night Thoughts

[
390
]
SJA: Enemy of the Bane

[
391
]
The Shadow in the Glass
. This is historical. The skeleton was identified first through dental records, then twenty-seven years later through a DNA test.

[
392
]
Mad Dogs and Englishmen

[
393
]
Dreamland
(
DW
),
SJA: The Vault of Secrets.

[
394
]
SJA: The Vault of Secrets

[
395
] “Thirty years” before
Drift
.

[
396
]
Iris: The Land of Wonder

[
397
]
Night Thoughts
. Kathleen is Ace’s grandmother as seen in
The Curse of Fenric
.

[
398
]
Love & Monsters

[
399
] “Twenty-three years” before
The Sands of Time.

[
400
]
TW:
“Hell House”. This presumably references the horror film
The Legend of Hell House
(1973).

[
401
]
TW: Something in the Water

[
402
]
Nuclear Time
. The day is given (p7). A janitor says “the war’s over” (p9), presumably referring to the Paris Peace Accords signed on 27th January, 1973, which were intended to end the Vietnam War. The conflict actually lasted until 30th April, 1975, when Saigon fell.

[
403
]
SJA: Wraith World

[
404
] According to the writers’ guidelines. She was “28” in
Escape Velocity
, set in February 2001.

[
405
] Per
The Torchwood Archives.

[
406
] Dating
Iris: The Land of Wonder
(Iris audio #2.2) - The year is repeatedly given.

[
407
] Dating
Iris: Enter Wildthyme
(Iris novel #1) - The month and year are given.

[
408
]
The Doctor Trap

[
409
] When she was “13”, according to
The King of Terror.

[
410
]
Byzantium!
(p8).

[
411
]
Revolution Man
(p248).

[
412
]
The Rapture

[
413
]
Partners in Crime

[
414
]
Mad Dogs and Englishmen

[
415
] Dating “Agent Provocateur” (IDW
DW
mini-series #1) - The Doctor names the year, and a flier advertises the exhibit as being open from “July 8” to “September 5”. Martha says it’s “ten years before I was born” (in 1986 according to
Wooden Heart
, 1984 according to
The Torchwood Archives
).

[
416
]
The King of Terror
(p32).

[
417
] “Ten years” before
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
.

[
418
] Dating “Urgent Calls” (BF #94b) - The year is given on the back cover. This is the first in a series of one-part stories related to the viruses released in
Patient Zero
.

[
419
] Dating
Horror of Glam Rock
(BF BBC7 #1.3) - “It’s 1974”, the Doctor says.

[
420
]
Divided Loyalties
(p46). Lord Lucan, a British peer, disappeared 8th November, 1974 - the day after Sandra Rivett, his children’s nanny, was murdered. He was never found, and has been a source of speculation ever since.

[
421
]
P.R.O.B.E.: Unnatural Selection

[
422
]
The One Doctor
. This may be a reference to
The Invasion
.

[
423
] “Eight years” before
Return of the Living Dad
.

[
424
]
TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts
, in which Mary gives the month and year of Tosh’s birth and Tosh doesn’t correct her. Otherwise, though, there’s conflicting evidence as to when Tosh was born.
Torchwood: The Official Magazine Yearbook
(2008) and her on-screen personnel file in
TW: Exit Wounds
both say she was born 18th September, 1981.
The Torchwood Archives
says she was born on the same day, but in 1975. Internet sources, almost appropriately given the confusion around her character, seem split down the middle as to whether actress Naoko Mori was born in 1971 or 1975, but seem to agree that her birthday is 19th November.

[
425
]
Nuclear Time

[
426
]
TW: Children of Earth

[
427
]
TW: The Dead Line

[
428
]
TW: Trace Memory

[
429
]
Hexagora
, going by Tegan being born in 1960.

[
430
] Dating
Fury from the Deep
(5.6) - It is clear that this story is set in the near future. There is a Europe-wide energy policy and videophones are in use. It’s tempting, in fact, to see this as being set in the same near future as the early UNIT stories. Although Robson, the refinery controller, talks of “tuppence ha’penny tinpot ideas”, this is clearly a figure of speech rather than an indication that the story is set in the era of predecimal currency.

The Programme Guide
always assumed that the story was contemporary.
The TARDIS Logs
set the story in “2074”, the same year it suggested for
The Wheel in Space
. In
Downtime
, Victoria has been in the twentieth century for “ten years” by 1984 (p41).

The quotation is the Doctor reassuring Jamie about Victoria’s new home in
The Wheel in Space
.

[
431
]
Blue Box

[
432
] “The Lunar Strangers”. Jackson says she’s been in “the service forty years”.

[
433
]
The Reaping
.
Rocky Horror
debuted on 14th August, 1975.