B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (169 page)

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434
]
Return of the Living Dad

[
435
]
Timewyrm: Revelation

[
436
]
Minuet in Hell
. This claim is either hyperbole on the Order’s part or extremely short-lived, as
Goth Opera
(set in 1993) has between three to four hundred vampires active in Britain alone.

[
437
]
TW: The Sin Eaters

[
438
]
Father Time

[
439
] “Over twenty years” before
The Dying Days.

[
440
]
The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories
: “Special Features”

[
441
] Dating
The Forbidden Time
(BF CC #5.9) - It’s “thirty-five years” before 2011.

[
442
] Dating
Vampire Science
(EDA #2) - It’s “1976” (p3).

[
443
] Dating
Demon Quest: Starfall
(BBC fourth Doctor audio #2.4) - Buddy’s opening narration says it’s “July”, “1976”. He later says the meteorite lands on the “12th”.

[
444
]
TW: The Dead Line

[
445
]
TW: Children of Earth

[
446
] Torchwood.org.uk, elaborating on
TW: From Out of the Rain
.
Jabberwocky
debuted in the United Kingdom on 28th March, 1977.

[
447
]
Blue Box
. This is contradicted by
Synthespians™
, which states that Peri’s father died in 1979 and her mother remarried after that.

[
448
]
TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts

[
449
] “Two years” before
City of Death.

[
450
]
Mission: Impractical

[
451
]
Day of the Moon
. Sir David Frost, a British media personality, conducted a series of seminal interviews with Nixon (later adapted as a play and a movie starring Michael Sheen and Frank Langella) in 1977.

[
452
]
Nuclear Time
(p75). Colonel Redvers remarks that it’s “only been... a week” since
Star Wars
came out; in the real world, it was only two days, as
A New Hope
saw release on 25th May.

[
453
] Dating
Mawdryn Undead
(20.3) - The earlier part of the story takes place during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee - various events to commemorate this started as early as February, and culminated in June. It’s repeatedly said that Tegan and Nyssa have arrived “six years” before the story’s modern-day component, set in 1983.

[
454
] Dating
Image of the Fendahl
(15.3) - According to Ma Tyler, it is “Lammas Eve” (31st July) at the end of episode three. There’s nothing to suggest it’s not set the year of broadcast. “Hartman”, a character spoken to over the phone, is pretty obviously not Yvonne Hartman of Torchwood (
Army of Ghosts
/
Doomsday
).

[
455
]
Timewyrm: Revelation
(p13).

[
456
] Seven years before
Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma.

[
457
] Dating “The Nightmare Game” (
DWM
#330-332) - The year is given.

[
458
]
The Left-Handed Hummingbird
(p23).

[
459
]
Terror Firma
. Presuming this doesn’t instead refer to the Las Vegas nightclub of the same name, the infamous disco operated from 1977-1986.

[
460
]
Iris: Enter Wildthyme

[
461
]
Benny: Beige Planet Mars
.
Option Lock
, which entails some nuclear gamesmanship in the late twentieth century, makes no mention of this protocol.

[
462
] “Nearly forty years” before
Iris: Iris and the Celestial Omnibus
: “The Deadly Flap” (set in 2008), and possibly a more definitive break-up after
Iris: The Land of Wonder
.

[
463
]
Iris: Iris and the Celestial Omnibus
: “The Deadly Flap”

[
464
]
Benny: The Diet of Worms
. The date isn’t specified, but Cartland lived 1901 to 2000.

[
465
] Dating
The Pirate Planet
(16.2) - The Doctor says that the population of Earth is “billions and billions”, possibly suggesting a contemporary setting.
First Frontier
implies the same.

[
466
] Dating
The Stones of Blood
(16.3) - There is no indication what year the story is set, but it is clearly contemporary.

[
467
]
The Armageddon Factor

[
468
]
Shada

[
469
] “Seven years” before
Attack of the Cybermen.

[
470
] Dating
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
(EDA #52) - The date is given.

[
471
] Among Jack’s Torchwood agents, Gwen’s birthday is the most uniformly referenced - it’s the same in
TW: Children of Earth
,
The Torchwood Archives
and
Torchwood: The Official Magazine Yearbook
(2008). A photo of Gwen in
TW: Miracle Day
bears the caption “1978”, presumably for the same reason. Her passport in
Miracle Day
says that she was born 11th December, 1974, but she’s using an alias, so it’s presumably fake.

[
472
] Four years before
Relative Dementias.

[
473
]
Iris: The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme

[
474
]
TW: Risk Assessment

[
475
] Dating
City of Death
(17.2) - The Doctor says that this isn’t a vintage year, “it is 1979 actually, more of a table wine, shall we say”. A poster says there’s an exhibition on from Janiver - Mai, and the blossoms on the tree would suggest it was towards the end of that period.

Mona Lisas

The Mona Lisa in the Louvre (a fake from
City of Death
onward, and presumably the one featured in
SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge
) is destroyed by the Martian asteroid in 2086 (
Transit
). Multiple Mona Lisas are seen a UNIT archive in “The Age of Ice” (set in 2010). The Monk owns a Mona Lisa that may or may not be destroyed in
To the Death
(circa 2190). “Art Attack!” shows a Mona Lisa as still around in a thousand years time. In
The Art of Destruction
, the Doctor saves a Mona Lisa in the fifty-first century. Rory smashes a Mona Lisa over a robot’s head in the undateable
The Girl Who Waited
.

[
476
] A Level Five World

This is first mentioned by Romana in
City of Death
. Earth is similarly a Level Five world in many New
Who
stories, including
Voyage of the Damned
,
Partners in Crime
,
The Eleventh Hour
and
SJA: Revenge of the Slitheen.
Earth is a Level Three planet in
The Good, the Bad and the Alien
, set in 1861. In
Ferril’s Folly
, set circa 2011, the first Romana repeatedly (and oddly) names Earth as a Level Four world.

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477
]
Dust Breeding
. This implies that the Doctor went back in time and nicked the original Mona Lisa before the fire in Scaroth’s house could destroy it.

[
478
]
Peri and the Piscon Paradox

[
479
]
Synthespians™.
This contradicts
Blue Box
, which said Peri’s mother remarried when Peri was ten (in 1976). It’s possible, if a little messy, to reconcile the two accounts by suggesting Peri’s mother married three times.
The Reaping
confirms her father’s name was Paul.

[
480
] Turlough says they last went into the vault “three years, nine months and seventeen days, give or take”, before
Kiss of Death
.

[
481
]
Tooth and Claw
(TV)

[
482
] Izzy was born on the cover date of the first issue of
Doctor Who Weekly
(a fact established in “TV Action”). That date wasn’t the day the magazine was published - magazine dates are when newsagents are meant to take them off the shelves. Details on her being adopted were mentioned in “End Game” (
DWM
).

[
483
]
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth

[
484
] Dating “The Iron Legion” (
DWW
#1-8) - The Doctor lands on contemporary Earth and makes topical references to inflation and the fuel crisis, suggesting the story is set around the year it was published (1979).

The Eternal War has “lasted through the millennia”. The Doctor surmises they have “conquered the entire galaxy” (a sentiment echoed by a later caption) and refers to them as the Galactic Roman Empire. Ironicus says “now that Rome has gone on to conquer all dimensions” when offering sacrifices from our universe, but it’s later clarified that the process has just started - these are “the first sacrifices from other dimensions”.

It’s unclear what year it is on the alternate Earth, or how long the Malevilus have been there. The Malevilus don’t have time travel, at least not in a form as advanced as the TARDIS; this implies that if time runs at the same rate between dimensions, it’s also 1979 there. However, Ironicus says it’s the “year MMMXXI R.I”., with R.I. standing for Regency of Ironicus. That suggests it’s 3021 years since the Regency started, but 1979 is only 2732 years after the founding of Rome (and when measuring the year, that was the start date Romans used), suggesting it’s the future.

Adolphus, though, appears to be a normal young boy - one who looks about eight years old. He seems shocked by Magog’s true appearance, and there’s no indication that Adolphus is a Malevilus or half-Malevilus himself. This may mean that Magog killed his real mother, or that he’s preventing him from growing up (or both), but this isn’t ever mentioned.