B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (289 page)

[
548
] Dating “Space Squid” (IDW
DW
Vol. 2, #9) - No date is given; this dating is arbitrary, but allows Kevin to settle in his native time. The level of technology might suggest this is relatively early in mankind’s progress into space.

[
549
]
SLEEPY

[
550
]
Benny: The Joy Device

[
551
] “Profits of Doom”

[
552
] “Two hundred and fifty years” before
The Also People.

[
553
]
Fear of the Dark
. The book’s internal dating is confused. On p81, the Doctor finds a record dated “2319.01.12”, which puts these events seventy-three years before the novel takes place. However, Tegan claims this happened “one hundred and fifty years ago” (p81), and the Doctor says it was “over one hundred and sixty years” ago (p93).

[
554
] Dating “Profits of Doom” (
DWM
#120-122) - It’s “eight decades out from Earth” and escaping “twenty-fourth century Earth”. Although as the date is soon specified by a monitor robot as “January 7th 2321”, they actually left twenty-
third
century Earth.

[
555
]
The Cradle of the Snake
specifies that the Mara comes to power in “Manussan Year 2326”, here presumed to be the same as the Earth calendar; see the dating notes under
Snakedance
.

[
556
]
The Also People
(p54).

[
557
]
Recorded Time and Other Stories:
“A Most Excellent Match”

[
558
] “Thirty years” before
Lords of the Storm
(p263).

[
559
] Dating
Valhalla
(BF #96) - The story would seem to occur in a year ending in 45, as “9-1-46” (the date given on a sales catalogue) is said to be “next month”. Funnily enough, the actual century is never specified. One clue is that the Doctor says he has “overshot [Valhalla’s] glory days” - meaning the gas mine rush there - by “about a century”. This is probably related to mankind’s original breakout from the solar system in the third millennium, but it’s unlikely to have occurred in the twenty-second century (the Dalek invasion would surely have disrupted such a boom time, and no mention is made of this). We know from
Lucifer Rising
that people were living on Callisto as early as the early twenty-second century, and
To the Slaughter
(c.2505) depicts Jupiter’s moons as being so worthless, they can be blown up in accordance with the principles of feng shui. The best compromise, then, is probably to say that the boom occurs in the twenty-third century, and
Valhalla
takes place in the twenty-fourth. (Callisto itself survives
To the Slaughter
and seems to have obtained greater significance by
So Vile a Sin
, set in 2982, as it’s home to the Emperor’s palace.)

Riots are held on the first Thursday of every month, and one occurs here. A piece of conflicting information, however, is that it’s repeatedly said that electrical engineer Jevvan Petrovna Adrea is having a birthday, and she was born “3-2-23”. This would seem to indicate that Valhalla takes place on 3rd February, not December as the catalogue suggests. If push comes to shove, the catalogue is probably more important to the plot (as it’s what motivates the Doctor to visit Valhalla in the first place) and should arguably take precedence.

[
560
] Dating
Terminal of Despair
(BBC children’s 2-in-1 #5, released in
Sightseeing in Space
) - It’s “five months” after “October 2345” (p21).

[
561
]
Original Sin
(p287).

[
562
] “Three hundred years” after
K9: The Korven
.

[
563
] Dating “The Seventh Segment” (
DWM Summer Special 1995
) - K9 says the planet was settled “Relative Terran date 2350 AD”, but gives no indication how long ago that was, and a later dating is certainly feasible.

[
564
] Dating
Exotron
(BF #95) - Writer Eddie Robson has stated that the planet was intended as being Earth, but the back cover states that the story takes place on “a distant outpost of Earth”. Within the story, a colony ship arrives direct from Earth. (Track 36, for example, has Sergeant Shreeni say, “Bleedin’ hell… what a time for the Earth shuttle to arrive.”) Security officers are dispatched from an organisation named Earth Authority, which is presumably headquartered on Earth itself.

The atypical and dead-end development of the Exotrons themselves aside, the technology level suggests Earth’s early colonial era. Otherwise, this date is arbitrary.

[
565
] Dating
Recorded Time and Other Stories
: “A Most Excellent Match” (BF #150c) - The year of the fair is given.

[
566
] “Profits of Doom”. The
Mayflower
was twenty years from its original destination in 2321, its new destination is another “twenty or so” years away.

[
567
] Dating
The Macra Terror
(4.7) - The planet was colonised “many centuries” ago. This date is somewhat arbitrary, but it allows the story to fit into a period in which Earth’s colonies are relatively remote and unregulated. The level of technology is reasonably low. The second edition of
The Making of Doctor Who
described the setting as “the distant future”.
The Programme Guide
set the story “c.2600”,
The Terrestrial Index
preferred “between 2100 and 2150”,
Timelink
“2670”.

[
568
]
Gridlock.
The Doctor says the Macra were the scourge of “this galaxy”, and
New Earth
establishes that the planet New Earth isn’t in our galaxy. Nonetheless, we can probably infer that he means our galaxy.

[
569
]
Zagreus
, but this is part of a suspect simulation.

[
570
] Tairngaire was colonised “three hundred years” before
Shadowmind
(p32).

[
571
] Dating
Lords of the Storm
(MA #17) - The Doctor states that it is “Earthdate 2371” (p23).

[
572
]
The Stone Rose

[
573
] “Five or six years” before
The Romance of Crime
(p62-63).

[
574
]
The Eight Doctors
. Not date given, but Sarg appears in
Shakedown
, so it is before that time.

[
575
] “Ten winters” and “many years” before
Infinite Requiem.

[
576
]
Divided Loyalties
(p31).

[
577
] Dating
The Androids of Tara
(16.4) - The Doctor implies that Tara is “four hundred years and twelve parsecs” away from Earth at the time of
The Stones of Blood
. It’s here assumed that the TARDIS travelled into the future, not the past, and that Tara is an isolated Earth colony (as the Tarans know of life on other planets).
The Terrestrial Index
set the story in the “fiftieth century”,
Timelink
in “2378”,
The Discontinuity Guide
in the “2370s”,
About Time
thought that “somewhere around 2400” was reasonable.

[
578
] Dating
Mindwarp
(23.2) - The Valeyard announces that the story starts in the “twenty-fourth century, last quarter, fourth year, seventh month, third day”. There is a case to be made for 2379, but not “2479” as suggested by the third edition of
The Programme Guide
. Peri is apparently killed in
Mindwarp
, but is revealed as having survived in
The Ultimate Foe
, and returns in the novel
Bad Therapy
, the comic “The Age of Chaos” and the audio
Peri and the Piscon Paradox
(which establishes there are multiples of her). Yrcanos’ people are rendered as the “Krontep” in the
Mindwarp
novelisation, as “Kr’on Tep” in
Bad Therapy
.

[
579
]
Peri and the Piscon Paradox

[
580
] “The Age of Chaos”

[
581
]
Mindwarp

[
582
] Dating
The Price of Paradise
(NSA #12) - It’s “the late twenty-fourth century”.

[
583
] Dating
The Romance of Crime
(MA #6) - Uva Beta Uva was “colonised in Earth year 2230” according to Romana (p47); the story is set “a hundred and fifty years later” (p8). The month and day are given on p46.

[
584
] Dating
The Infinity Race
(EDA #61) - There’s a conspiracy of assassins who have been waiting “six hundred years” (p191) for the chance to eliminate Sabbath - this would appear to be an offshoot of the Secret Service, which initiated him into its ranks in 1762. (There are reports - in the standard timeline, at least - of the Service trying to kill Sabbath in 1780, although it’s entirely possible that they moved to kill him sooner.)

Mention is also made of an Earth Empire that’s ruled by an Emperor, but as the story takes place in a parallel universe, there’s no guarantee that its history is comparable to our own. Dating this story off Sabbath’s history seems a surer bet, as it’s established in
Sometime Never
that the Council of Eight - deeming the Doctor the most unpredictable element in the whole of history - recruited Sabbath as the most constant variable in the whole of time. This is the reason, in fact, that no temporal duplicates of Sabbath show up in
The Last Resort
, whereas the Doctor, Fitz and Anji are duplicated thousands of times over. In every alternate history that we’re shown in this period of the EDAs, then, Sabbath’s history is reliably consistent.

[
585
] “Dogs of Doom”. The date is given.

[
586
] The real Jaeger comes to power “twenty years” before
LIVE 34
.

[
587
]
The Happiness Patrol

[
588
] Dating
The Dimension Riders
(NA #20) - It is “the late twenty-fourth century” (p2). The Doctor repeats this, adding it is “Just before Benny’s time, and after the Cyberwars” (p25); this analysis comes from
The Terrestrial Index
rather than the TV series. The date is not precisely fixed until the sequel,
Infinite Requiem
, which is set in 2387, “six years” after the events of the first book. “March 22nd” was “one week ago” (p76).

[
589
]
Infinite Requiem

[
590
] Dating
Fear of the Dark
(PDA #58) - The date is given on the back cover. The personnel file of a mineral pirate, Jyl Stoker, says she departed Earth Central some years back in 2363 (p109), and Tegan notes it has been “four hundred years” since 1982 (p118). It is after the time when Mechanoids were used. The Vegans first appeared in
The Monster of Peladon
.