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Could, then, the Miracle initiate in early summer 2011, be in play when Amy and Rory reunite with the Doctor in
Let’s Kill Hitler
, and conclude in accordance with Charlotte’s mobile records in September? Again, this is exceedingly unlikely, even if it does have the benefit of roughly pegging
Miracle Day
to its weeks of broadcast. As before, it’s asking too much to believe that Amy and Rory would not once direct the Doctor’s attention to the Miracle and the horrific suffering it has inflicted upon millions worldwide. It’s also a little silly that, with all the guns being pointed about in
Let’s Kill Hitler
, Amy and Rory don’t wonder if the Miracle is still in play on their bodies now that they’ve relocated to another time zone.

The
most
likely scenario, then, for
Miracle Day
- albeit one that requires wilfully ignoring Charlotte’s phone log - is that the Miracle initiates after Amy and Rory leave with the Doctor in
Let’s Kill Hitler
, plays out in autumn 2011 and concludes before end of year. While hardly a perfect solution, this avoids all major continuity clashes in a world where
Doctor Who
,
The Sarah Jane Adventures
and
Torchwood
manifestly co-exist (the ties between the three shows are simply too strong to think otherwise). Such a solution leaves two
Doctor Who
novels (
Touched by an Angel
and
The Way Through the Woods
) as outliers, as they have material dated to October 2011 that doesn’t acknowledge the Miracle. But it’s impossible to get through this process without a continuity clash somewhere, somehow.

Incidentally, trying to determine the time of year from the sun being up at 6 am in Kentucky (in the very first
Miracle Day
scene of all) proved to a fool’s errand - it turns out that the sun is never up that early in Kentucky.

This chronology has avoided using the titles given to the individual
Miracle Day
episodes for publicity purposes, as these didn’t appear in the episodes themselves and so aren’t very intuitive. (Besides, with
Miracle Day
being a single story, using the individual titles rather than “episode one”, etc., just tends to create needless confusion.) For anyone needing to cross-reference, the publicity titles (which also appear on the DVD menus) are: 4.1,
The New World
; 4.2
Rendition
; 4.3,
Dead of Night
; 4.4,
Escape to L.A.
; 4.5,
The Categories of Life
; 4.6,
The Middle Men
; 4.7,
Immortal Sins
; 4.8,
End of the Road
; 4.9,
The Gathering
; 4.10,
The Blood Line
.

[
1457
] Dating
TW: Web of Lies
(
TW
animated serial #1) - A caption says that it’s “the present day”. It’s alternately said that Miles is shot “on Miracle Day”/the day
after
Miracle Day. While the action of this story only seems to take a day or so to unfold, it’s evidently much longer than that, as mention is made of “people being burned” and the economy being on razor’s edge.

[
1458
] Gwen Cooper,
TW: Miracle Day
.

[
1459
]
TW: Web of Lies

Future History

Alistair Gryffen was born in Canada in 2012. By 2050, he would be perhaps the world’s most brilliant scientist - an expert in robotics, cybernetics, weather control, time travel and alien technology.
 [1]
In 2012, a special pound coin was minted for the London Olympics.
 [2]

c 2012 - The God Complex
 [3]

Minotaur-like creatures - distant cousins of the Nimon - subsisted on the emotion of faith, and established themselves on various planets as gods. One such Minotaur was imprisoned in a space station that could transform its interior shape, and abducted beings with different belief systems to feed the prisoner.

The eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory arrived in the station after it had shifted into the likeness of a 1980s hotel. The Minotaur longed to die, but instinctually kept killing the abductees - a gambler, Joe; a medical student, Rita; and a blogger, Howie, all perished. Amy’s faith in the Doctor attracted the Minotaur, but the Doctor broke her belief in him, which severed the emotional tether and killed the creature.

The Doctor realised that Amy and Rory’s faith in him was dangerous, and that one or both of them would end up killed if they stayed with him. He set them up in London with a house and car, and took to travelling without them...

c 2012 (spring) - Closing Time
 [4]

Knowing he was about to die at Lake Silencio in Utah, the eleventh Doctor paid a social call on his friend Craig Owens - who now had a baby boy, Alfie, with his partner Sophie. The Doctor noticed electrical anomalies, and got himself a job at a department store where a number of employees had disappeared. They had been teleported to a weakened Cyber-ship that had dispatched Cybermats to beam electricity back to it. From a distance, the Doctor saw Amy and Rory; Amy was currently appearing in an ad for Petrichor perfume, a scent “For the Girl Who’s Tired of Waiting”.

When the Cybermen attempted to convert Craig into their new Controller, his love for Alfie overloaded the circuits, destroying the Cybermen and their ship. The Doctor repaired the damage to Craig’s house that a Cybermat had caused, and accepted Craig’s gift of a Stetson. He also took some blue envelopes to send invites to his closest friends... and left to confront his fate at Lake Silencio.

c 2012 - The Wedding of River Song
 [5]

River Song visited Amy and Rory at their home, and told them how the Doctor had survived at Lake Silencio.

=
Rose and her allies worked on a dimension cannon that would enable her to return home. The Daleks’ gambit with a reality bomb weakened the dimensional walls, enabling the cannon to work. Rose returned to her native universe, and helped Donna resolve an errant timeline.
 [6]

= 2012 - Journey’s End
 [7]

Mickey and Jackie also crossed over to their home reality, and aided Rose and the Doctor against the Daleks. Afterward, Rose, Jackie and the duplicate tenth Doctor resumed residence on Pete’s World, and the dimensional walls sealed once more. Jackie had now given birth to a son named Tony.

Paul Kendrick, an Auton created by the Nestene affiliated with Hyperville, and having no knowledge of his true origins, emerged as the best football player England had offered in the last two decades. In the Euro 2012 semi-final against Spain, Kendrick captained England and scored the winning goal. An injury to Kendrick prevented England from winning the final against Portugal.
 [8]

2012 (27th July) - Fear Her
 [9]

Adverts were distributed for
Shayne Ward: The Greatest Hits
. Humans were the only species in the galaxy to have ever bothered with edible ball bearings.

The Isolus were empathic creatures from the deep realms - it was not unusual for an Isolus family to consist of up to four billion members, or for them to journey for a thousand human lifetimes. During childbirth, an Isolus mother would jettison millions of spores into space, but one Isolus was caught in a solar flare, and its pod crashed to Earth. It empathised with Chloe Webber, age 12, and hosted itself in her. The Isolus could harness ionic power, enabling Chloe to turn people into drawings and vice versa.

As London geared up for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the tenth Doctor and Rose investigated reports of missing persons - actually consigned by Chloe to an ionic holding pen - on Dame Kelly Holmes Close in the city. Chloe also made the eighty thousand people in the Olympic Stadium vanish. The Doctor and Rose restored them, and helped the alien back into space by lighting the Olympic Flame.

Papua New Guinea went on to surprise everyone in the shot put. At this time, there was an East London police authority and an East London Council.

2012 / = 2012 (June - August) - The Shadows of Avalon
 [10]

Britain had a King and a female Prime Minister. There had been no major alien attack that required UNIT’s attention since the Martian invasion of 1997.
 [11]

The Time Lords detected that one of the eighth Doctor’s companions, Compassion, was evolving into a form of technology they could use, and President Romana dispatched agents Cavis and Gandar to recover her. Still mourning Doris, General Lethbridge-Stewart was on leave. He was called in to investigate the loss of a nuclear warhead, which he discovered had passed through to the parallel universe of Albion.

= Meanwhile, in Albion, a war was brewing between the Unseelie and the Catuvelauni. The eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion arrived in Avalon following the seeming destruction of the TARDIS in a dimensional rift. They prevented war there from escalating. Compassion evolved into a new form of TARDIS. President Romana tried to capture her, but the Doctor and his companions escaped. Lethbridge-Stewart remained in Avalon to advise Queen Mab.

2012 - Dalek
 [12]

The ninth Doctor and Rose followed a distress signal and discovered that Henry Van Statten, the owner of the Internet, had what was reportedly the last Dalek captive in his extra-terrestrial museum deep underneath Utah. The Dalek broke free and killed most of Van Statten’s staff, but contact with Rose’s DNA made it mutate and question its purpose. The conflicted creature destroyed itself. Van Statten’s employees rebelled at his callousness and had him mindwiped, then dumped in a US city starting with “S”. The Doctor reluctantly welcomed Adam, one of Van Statten’s staff, onboard the TARDIS.

Adam told Rose that the UN was keeping the existence of aliens a secret, and Van Statten didn’t know that his alien was called a Dalek.

2012 - The Long Game
 [13]

Adam attempted to send information from the year 200,000 home to exploit. When the ninth Doctor discovered this, he took Adam back to his native time and left him there.

Politically the world seemed less stable for a time. In 2012, the scientist/politician Salamander convinced a group of his followers that a global nuclear war was inevitable. He established a survival shelter at Kanowa in Australia for them.
 [14]
Following the Euro Wars, Mariah Learman took power in the United Kingdom on a popular tide of anti-EuroZone feeling, renaming it New Britain. Britain had a King at this time.
 [15]

World War Three was fought in the early twenty-first century. India was reduced to a radioactive mudhole.
 [16]
The War against Terrorism was won when the RealWar teletrooper was introduced. Subscribers could kill terrorists (identified with 80% accuracy by software) from the comfort of their own home by operating war robots. Baskerville, a Russian arms dealer, became the richest man in the world selling the technology.
 [17]

In 2012, firemen in New York laughed and toasted marshmallows instead of rescuing people from a fire. This resulted from the Memeovore feeding on human ideas.
 [18]
The Doctor owned a commemorative mug from the wedding of Euan and Eugenie.
 [19]

2012 - Christmas on a Rational Planet
 [20]

The seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz landed in Arizona. When Cacophony’s gynoids emerged into our universe, Roz fell through a crack in time to the end of the eighteenth century.

2012 - Frozen Time
 [21]

Lord Barset sought to locate the colony of lizard men that his grandfather (also known as Lord Barset) had discovered, and sponsored an expedition to Antarctica to find advanced technology there. The expedition members found a frozen Ice Warrior base, and their heaters revived the war-mongering Arakssor - as well as the seventh Doctor, who had been frozen for millions of years. Barset was killed, but the Doctor signalled an Ice Warrior spaceship. The commander of the vessel enforced a death sentence upon Arakssor - his spaceship bombarded the base from orbit, and Arakssor and his warriors died. The Doctor escaped with a member of Barset’s expedition, Genevieve, and she returned to her comrades a week later.