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In 1929, Lord Barset led an expedition to Antarctica aboard his ship, the
Rochester
. A base that contained “lizard men” was discovered, and disaster ensued. The
Rochester
sank and all hands were lost, save for one member found with Lord Barset’s diary of the mission. The man died shortly afterwards, screaming about monsters, but the journal was later passed down to Barset’s grandson.
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The base was a Silurian shelter, and UNIT would investigate it in the 1970s.
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The
Daily Telegraph
of 12th April, 1929, noted rumours that an Antarctic expedition had been lost after finding a city of intelligent reptiles.
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1929 - The Hounds of Artemis
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An expedition found the temple of Artemis in Smyrna, Eastern Turkey, and released the psychic parasite inside. The eleventh Doctor and Amy helped to bind the creature in iron once more, and a group of local psionics re-buried its temple. The Doctor provided the expedition’s only survivor, Bradley Stapleton, with the location of a genuine temple of Artemis, guaranteeing the man’s career.

1929 (summer) - The Stealers from Saiph
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The Saiph had possessed an archaeologist and spent some decades establishing energy reception points in Antibes, Thessalonica, Tobruk, Tunis and Tangiers. Using an elemental converter aboard an orbiting satellite, the Saiph hoped to create an energy ring that would change the chemical composition of the Mediterranean Sea, turning it into a breeding ground for them. The fourth Doctor and Romana, having vacationed for some weeks at the Hotel du Cap in Antibes, France, torched the Saiph.

1929 - Blood Harvest
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As gangland violence escalated in Chicago, the enigmatic Doc McCoy opened a speakeasy right in the middle of disputed territory. The Doc and his moll Ace saved Al Capone’s life. The seventh Doctor was tracking down the eternal being Agonal, who had amplified the gang warfare to feed his lust for violence.

The vampire Yarven travelled to Earth from E-Space aboard the Doctor’s TARDIS.

Yarven became a progenitor of many of Earth’s vampires. Villagers in Croatia overpowered and buried him alive, and he would remain trapped until 1993.
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The Doctor couldn’t remember if Al Capone or Genghis Khan told him that villains often wanted records detailing exactly how bad they’d been.
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The Brigadier’s car, a Humber 1650 Open Tourer Imperial Model, was built in 1929.
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The Canavatchi engineered the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 to hinder mankind’s development.
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Lord Tamworth witnessed the arrival of the Engineer Prime of the telepathic Triskele on Earth. He was promoted to “Minister of Air”, and oversaw preparations to use the
R-101
airship to return the Engineer Prime to its people.
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The Nineteen Thirties

The Urbankans began to receive radio signals from Earth.
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The Doctor met the cricket player Donald Bradman, and once took five wickets for New South Wales.
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During the 1930s, the League of Nations set up a secret international organisation, LONGBOW, to deal with matters of world security. It found itself, on occasion, dealing with unexplained and extra-terrestrial phenomena.
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The Doctor discussed the theoretical Philosopher’s Stone (not the Khamerian-created one) with psychiatrist Carl Jung.
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The Silurian Triad was revived. These were Ichtar, Scibus and science advisor Tarpok.
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In the 1930s, a matador named Manolito trained the Doctor in the basics of his art, and the Doctor and his friend Ernest Hemingway ran with the bulls in Pamplona.
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The tenth Doctor got drunk with Ernest Hemingway on the banks of the Seine. In future, the Doctor would lose this memory to the Memeovax.
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The Doctor was friends with the philosopher Wittgenstein.
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He worked with the Three Stooges in Hollywood, and was the fourth Stooge.
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Firestone Finance was founded in Cardiff, the 1930s, as a front to acquire and sell alien technology for profit - until the business did so well selling war bonds, it became a legitimate bank.
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Between 1932 and 1940, Odd Bob the Clown - an aspect of the Pied Piper - abducted at least one hundred and four children across America.
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The people of Parakon discovered rapine, a crop that when processed could be used as a foodstuff or a building material. For the next forty years, the Corporation that marketed rapine ruled the planet unopposed, supplanting nations, governments, armies and all competition.
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An escape pod carrying the criminal Zimmerman landed in England, where he met a woman named Rachel. He became known as “Nick Zimmerman”, turned over a new leaf and spent the next thirty years with her in wedded bliss.
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Jack Harkness went undercover with a travelling show, billing himself as a man who couldn’t die, while looking into rumours of the Night Travellers. He found no trace of them.
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During the 1930s, Jack went to the Weimar Republic to investigate reports that some prominent National Socialists were peddling in alien technology. He entirely failed in his mission owing to a number of parties and other distractions.
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A young actor named Billy appeared in
I’m an Explosive
(1933) and
While Parents Sleep
(1935). He would come to befriend the music hall comedian Max Miller.
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The Doctor sparred with Errol Flynn.
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The stage musician Professor Talbot performed on Brighton’s West Pier, which led to his encountering the Indo aliens. Talbot was killed, but the aliens’ energy animated his body, and his mind became focused on gaining widespread recognition and authority. He was presumed dead, but would resurface in 1936.
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UNIT in the Thirties
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Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was born.
He was an only child whose mother died when he was young. He was raised by his father and Granny McDougal. He was raised in Simla, India, and his happiest memories are of summers there. His father rose to the rank of Colonel.
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(=) u - When Lethbridge-Stewart was six or seven, he was heartbroken to lose a red balloon, and had a recurring nightmare about it for the rest of his life.

The eighth Doctor caught the balloon and returned it.
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Lethbridge-Stewart left India for prep school in England when he was eight.
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? 1930 - The Wormery
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On a planet affected by a dimensional nexus point, worms evolved with a precognitive ability. Appalled to see themselves turning into hairy, complex beings, the worms divided into factions to derail their future. The “anti faction” group sought to turn the universe into total chaos, preventing development of any type. The “pro faction” group allied with the club singer Bianca, hoping to freeze the universe in a single perfect moment. Additionally, a group of shadow beings - the potential future selves of the worms, held in a state of flux - searched for a means of becoming corporeal.

The nightclub “Bianca’s” now existed in a dimensional nexus, accessible via special taxis that shuttled patrons through dimensional portals. The club was Iris Wildthyme’s TARDIS, with its exterior looking like 1930s Berlin. The sixth Doctor and Iris arrived separately at Bianca’s club, and exposed Bianca as the embodiment of Iris’ darker natures. The worm factions and their shadow selves each tried to exploit the club’s extra-dimensional nature to their advantage. The Doctor used his TARDIS to Time-Ram the nightclub, which severed its dimensional links and returned its patrons to their native times. This defeated the worms and their shadows, and transferred the wreckage of the club to Berlin. Bianca escaped.

1930

1930 (June) - The English Way of Death
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The TARDIS arrived in London during an inexplicable heat wave, as the fourth Doctor needed to return some library books. He, Romana and K9 stumbled upon a group from the thirty-second century (the Bureau) that were using time corridor technology to send retired people to the English village of Nutchurch. While the Doctor put a stop to that, Romana confronted the sentient smell Zodaal, an exiled would-be conqueror from the planet Vesur. Zodaal was trapped in a flask.

In 1930, Douglas Caldwell transferred to Torchwood London to work in research and development.
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Around 1930, the fourth Doctor visited Tigella and saw the Dodecahedron.
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The Doctor bought Jacques Cousteau his first set of flippers.
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Jacques Cousteau taught the Doctor about sharks.
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In the US census of 1930, the population of Manhattan was 1,867,000.
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1930 (5th October) - Storm Warning
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The TARDIS landed on the doomed airship
R-101
during its maiden voyage, and the eighth Doctor discovered Charley Pollard, a stowaway. Lord Tamworth, a government minister, ordered the ship to a higher altitude and it docked with an alien vessel. The British had arranged to return a crashed alien to its own people, the Triskele. A faction of the Triskele became aggressive when the Lawgiver that kept them in check died. The Doctor eased the situation, and Tamworth stayed with the Triskele as an advisor. The
R-101
was damaged upon its return, and the Doctor and Charley escaped as it crashed in France. The Doctor realised that Charley was meant to have died in the crash.

1930 (1st November) - Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks
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The tenth Doctor and Martha discovered that homeless people in New York had been going missing from a Hooverville, a community of victims of the Great Depression living in Central Park. The people had been abducted by the Cult of Skaro - the last four surviving Daleks, who had fled the Battle of Canary Wharf in 2007 via temporal shift. The Daleks required human subjects for their genetic experiments, and were turning them into pig slaves. The final experiment was undertaken by their leader, Dalek Sec, who converted himself into a “human Dalek”.

The Daleks planned to draw energy from a solar flare down through the Empire State Building, and use it to create a new race of human Daleks. The Doctor sabotaged the attempt, and the resultant human Daleks rebelled. In the ensuing conflict, every Dalek and Dalek hybrid was destroyed save for Dalek Caan - who escaped via a temporal shift.

Dalek Caan penetrated the time lock established around the Last Great Time War, and succeeded in rescuing Davros from it.
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Half-human creatures dubbed “Subterraneans” took to living in an underground cavern near the Constitution Hill tube station in London.
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(=) Their leader escaped to find a better life on the surface. He became the famed poet Randolf Crest, writing such works as
The Darkness That Hides as Kind
.

Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish changed history so that Crest never left his people.

Advanced humans from the future sought to spur their own creation, and mentally influenced the founding of the British Hampdenshire Programme, an undertaking to create supermen. It produced genetically modified children of the species
homo peculiar
.
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1930 (31st December) - Seasons of Fear
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The immortal Sebastian Grayle found the eighth Doctor and Charley in Singapore, and boasted that he’d already killed the Doctor in the past. The Doctor set about investigating the matter, heading for Britain in 305 AD.

The Doctor fought in the Spanish Civil War with the father of future bar owner Gustavo Riviera. Later, he brought Gustavo to refuge in Ibiza.
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The Doctor was a house guest of Dali.
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