B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (172 page)

[
577
]
Interference
(p296).

[
578
] Dating “City of Devils” (
DWM Holiday Special 1992
) - The date is given in the opening caption.

[
579
] Dating
Heart of TARDIS
(PDA #32) - It’s July (p117), “fifteen years” after 1968 (p246).

[
580
]
TW: Fragments
, and confirmed in
The Torchwood Archives
, although
Torchwood: The Official Magazine Yearbook
(2008) says he was born 2nd December, 1982.

[
581
]
Burning Heart
(p102).

[
582
] “Thirty years” before
Autonomy.

[
583
] Dating
Return of the Living Dad
(NA #53) - It’s “10 December 1983” (p34).

[
584
]
Benny: Life During Wartime, Benny: Death to the Daleks.

[
585
] According to the CIA files in
TW: Miracle Day
. 24th October is named as a Saturday; in 1983, it was actually a Monday.

[
586
]
Remembrance of the Daleks
. Had someone from 1963 discovered Ace’s ghetto blaster, this would have occurred “twenty years too early”.

[
587
]
Touched by an Angel
. He’s 37 in October 2011, so was born in either 1983 or 1984.

[
588
]
The Hollow Men

[
589
]
Father’s Day
. No precise dating is given, but it’s before Rose’s birth in 1986.

[
590
]
The Reaping

[
591
]
The Runaway Bride
. The Thames Barrier was constructed from 1974 to 1984.

[
592
] “Eighteen years” before
SJS: Comeback
.

[
593
]
FP: The Book of the War

[
594
]
TW: Miracle Day

[
595
] Dating
The Awakening
(21.2) - The Doctor assures Tegan that “it is 1984”, despite Will Chandler’s clothing. As Tegan is the Queen of the May, it is presumably May Day.

[
596
]
The Hollow Men

[
597
] Dating “The Forgotten” (IDW
DW
mini-series #2) - Tegan is wearing her outfit from
Frontios
/
Resurrection of the Daleks
. This may well be set after
The Awakening
, when we know the Doctor and his companions stayed on Earth for a while.

[
598
] Dating
Resurrection of the Daleks
(21.3) - The Doctor says it is “1984 - Earth”. We never hear of the Duplicates again. In terms of this timeline, the Daleks are from 4590.

[
599
]
The Gathering
. The “Verney” of Verney Feeds presumably refers to Tegan’s grandfather from
The Awakening
.

[
600
] Dating
Planet of Fire
(21.5) - Peri says she is due back at college in “the fall”, which is “three months” away. There is nothing to suggest that the story isn’t set in the year it was broadcast (1984). It can’t take place before 1983, otherwise Turlough would return home while his past self was still in exile (
Mawdryn Undead
). In
Timelash,
the Doctor threatens to take Peri back to “1985”. The back cover of
The Reaping
specifies that Peri first met the Doctor on 9th May, 1984.
Peri and the Piscon Paradox
says that Peri first met the Doctor “twenty-five years” prior to 2009.

Peri’s step-father says they were on the island of Lanzarote, which is where filming took place. Yet Lanzarote was not on any ancient Greek trading routes, unlike the island in the story.

[
601
]
Peri and the Piscon Paradox

[
602
] “Final Sacrifice”. There’s no indication of how much time, for Turlough, has passed since
Planet of Fire
. It’s possible that they visit him on the alt-Trion he relocates to in
Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma
.

[
603
] Three months before
The Reaping
, set in September 1984.

[
604
] Dating “Urban Myths” (BF #95b) - The story takes place at an Earth restaurant (probably in Hungary, owing to mention of the invention of goulash), but the dating is unknown. The only real clue is that a restaurant has operated at the location “since the time of the Hapsburgs”, ruling out anything beyond the mid-twenty-second century (when the Dalek Invasion would undoubtedly interrupt service). The choice of dating this story to 1984 - contemporary with the fifth Doctor and Peri’s adventures on TV - is arbitrary. It could also be concurrent with the release of “Urban Myths” in 2007.

[
605
] Dating
Downtime
(MA #18) - This is “1984” (p22).

[
606
] Dating
The Reaping
(BF #86) - The date is given.
Miami Vice
is touted as a new show, and it debuted on 16th September, 1984, about a week before
The Reaping
begins.

[
607
]
The Gathering

[
608
] Dating
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
(BF BBC7 #2.6) - The date is given. The Doctor’s mention of “another lot” of nineteenth-century Zygons “down south” is probably a reference to
The Bodysnatchers
.

[
609
] Dating
Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma
(
The Companions of Doctor Who
#1) - The story opens some months after Turlough has left the TARDIS. According to p193, it is relative Trion date 17,883 when Turlough arrives on Trion.

[
610
]
Time and the Rani

[
611
] “Seven years” before
Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark
(p25).

[
612
] “Twenty-three years” before
The Runaway Bride.

[
613
] Dating “The Fires Down Below” (
DWM
#64) - A caption says it is “1984”.

[
614
] Dating
TimeH: The Winning Side
(
TimeH
#1) - “1984” is printed on the cover, and Honoré and Emily find a “four year old” (p45) newspaper dated “2 March 1980” (p35).

[
615
] Dating
Attack of the Cybermen
(22.1) - Mondas’ attack is in “1986”, which the hired gun Griffiths confirms is “next year”.

[
616
] Dating
The Two Doctors
(22.3) - The story is contemporary, but there is no indication exactly which year it takes place.

[
617
] This occurs in an unrecorded adventure before “Kane’s Story”, and we don’t learn why she left.

[
618
] Dating “Kane’s Story” (
DWM
#104) - A caption says it’s “1985”.

Peri Leaves and Causes Continuity Problems, Take One

When Peri joined the sixth Doctor and Frobisher’s adventures in the comic strip, it created a mild continuity headache. While we never saw her leave, she rejoins in “Kane’s Story” when the Doctor and Frobisher pick her up in New York. She’s settled down and just quit (another) job there, and it’s not even established whether she recognises Frobisher.

So far, so simple. We know from
The Trial of a Time Lord
that there are big gaps in the sixth Doctor’s recorded adventures. So, at some point after
Revelation of the Daleks
, Peri leaves the Doctor, who goes on to meet Frobisher in “The Shape Shifter” before meeting up with his old companion again. No matter how one plays the cards here (or invokes the multiple Peris established in
Peri and the Piscon Paradox
), Peri must meet Frobisher for the first time in “Kane’s Story”. She’s then present until the end of the sixth Doctor’s
DWM
run in “The World Shapers”, which then leads into
The Trial of a Time Lord
and her televised departure. This is even supported by the way Peri switches, during the course of the comic strip, from wearing her Season 22 leotards to her more tailored look of Season 23.

In
Planet of Fire
, Peri said she would travel with the Doctor for “three months”. This line was forgotten about on television, but perhaps she was true to her word and left the Doctor as planned. This could still be after
Revelation of the Daleks
- although
Attack of the Cybermen
and
Timelash
both have the “present day” as 1985, not 1984.

[
619
] Specified by Torlakh as “eighteen friggin years” prior to
Zygon: When Being You Isn’t Enough
. Torlakh’s plan is basically identical to that of the Zygons in
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
.

[
620
]
Damaged Goods

[
621
]
Business Unusual
(p244).

[
622
]
The Gallifrey Chronicles

[
623
] “About fifteen years” before
Excelis Rising.

[
624
]
The Left-Handed Hummingbird
(p261).

[
625
] “Two years” after
Return of the Living Dad
(p98).

[
626
]
Invasion of the Cat-People
(p46). This matches the Tarot deck’s real-world release in 1985. Kuykendall died in 1998.

[
627
] “About a year ago” (p129) and “last year” (p115) according to
Father Time
(p129).

[
628
] When Ace was “14” (p89) according to
Timewyrm: Revelation.
Chess is the son of Ian and Barbara (the “Chess” moniker is apparently short for “Chesterton”).

[
629
]
Interference
(
Book Two,
p157).

[
630
]
The Left-Handed Hummingbird
(p100).

[
631
]
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
(p23).

[
632
] Dating
Father Time
(EDA #41) - The date is never specified beyond “the mid-eighties” and there are a couple of (deliberate) references to keep the dating vague, such as one to Guns N’ Roses. It is “five years” after part one of the story.