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The Doctor and Ace uncovered a plot to alter the equations of the Manhattan Project to unleash enough power to destroy this universe, tipping history in Japan’s favour across the multiverse. The Doctor defeated the plan, the atom bomb test concluded as history recorded and the Doctor took Ray home - with his precious records.

The End of the Second World War

Captain Jack and a platoon of commandoes rounded up fugitive Nazis in Berlin at the end of World War II.
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The Russians captured Emil Hartung’s research into stealth aircraft, and took it to a vault in the Kremlin. Generalleutnant Oskar Steinmann was found guilty (along with twenty-two others) of Nazi war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment at Nuremberg.
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Brian Galway was killed in North Africa during the Second World War. His 12-year-old brother, Simon, attended a memorial service on 20th December, 1945. The Doctor placed the surviving consciousness of the Telphin, a peaceful race wiped out by the Chaktra, inside the boy.
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After World War II, the American military experimented to see if widespread belief could alter the laws of physics. The residents of the Midwest town Lychburg were brainwashed with transceivers, creating thousands of people who simultaneously believed whatever the military wanted. An experiment to make the people believe “the gates of Hell were opening”, however, created an unstable dimensional rift. The military tried to level the project with a low-yield nuclear device, but only succeeded in knocking Lychburg out of Earth’s dimension entirely.
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After the war, the British government set up Operation Proteus to create illegal chemical weapons.
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The Rani briefly kidnapped Albert Einstein.
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The collector Julius Silverstein bought the only surviving robot Yeti from Professor Travers.
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The Parakon named Freeth began to visit Earth, accounting for some UFO sightings over the next thirty years.
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(=) A time bubble caused the village of Stockbridge to vanish. Authorities said a bomber had destroyed the town, and the mystery of Stockbridge’s disappearance gave rise to the Psychic Investigation Group (PIG).
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1947

1947 - Dying in the Sun
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The second Doctor, Ben and Polly called in on the Doctor’s old friend, movie producer Harold Reitman, but found he had been murdered. Star Light Pictures were about to release
Dying in the Sun
, and the Doctor was surprised that such a poor movie had received such rave reviews. The telepathic Selyoids were affecting the audience’s perceptions of the film. The movie’s producer, De Sande, was intent on using their powers to dominate the world. The Doctor caused a plane crash that killed De Sande, but this released the Selyoids present in De Sande’s body. Their dispersal meant that Hollywood would remain a place of extreme emotions.

1947 - Ghosts of India
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The tenth Doctor tried to satiate Donna’s craving for curry, but arrived in Calcutta ten years later than he had planned, while India was in the throes of its independence struggle. They met Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi, and soon discovered that a weed-like alien, the Jal Kalath named Darac-7, was creating outlawed Gelem Warriors for use by the Hive Council of its homeworld. The Gelem were created by absorbing violent impulses, and when Darac-7 forced Gandhi into the Gelem-making machine, it exploded, killing Darac-7. The Doctor and Donna wished Gandhi farewell, and the Doctor solemnly informed Donna that Gandhi was fated to die in January, the following year.

c 1947 - “The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop”
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C.S. Lewis wrote
The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop
, in which little Amelia and Rory wandered into Phoenix Books - a time-travelling bookshop - and met the Professor who managed it. They arrived in the realm of the White Queen, where it was always winter - not Christmas - and trapped her in a book. J.R.R. Tolkien thought that Lewis’ story was rubbish, but one of the Inklings sharing their company at the Eagle and the Child pub - the eleventh Doctor, accompanied by Amy - suggested that the story might work better with a wardrobe.

The seventh Doctor took his friend, J.R.R. Tolkien, through time to attend the wedding of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane.
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The Roswell Incident

The CIA captured a Nedenah ship at Roswell. One alien was autopsied, the others were taken to Area 51.
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The collector Henry Van Statten had artifacts from Roswell in his private museum.
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The Roswell incident was an alien “fender-bender”, according to the Doctor.
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On 13th June, 1947, ambassador Seruba Velak - a “Grey Alien” - was en route to negotiate an alliance against the Viperox when pirates shot down her saucer. Her ship crashed outside Roswell, and the US Air Force took her to Area 51. Her husband, Rivesh Mantilax, was fighting the Viperox and unable to mount a rescue attempt for six years.
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The Doctor knocked over a paint pot and inspired Jackson Pollock, an American artist, around this time. Pollock gave the Doctor a painting,
Azure in the Rain by a Man Who’d Never Been
.
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The rituals of black arts practitioner Edward Alexander Crowley had summoned a Jarakabeth demon to Earth. The demon impersonated Crowley after his death at Hastings, 1947. The US security service Section Eight approached “Crowley” in the hope that his Hermetic Arts could be adopted for military use. The Crowley demon would become the head of the DIvisional department of Special Tactical Operations (Provisional) with Regard to Insurgent and Subversive Activity (DISTO(P)IA), a government branch designed to counter subversion.
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1948

On 30th January, 1948, Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi was assassinated.
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A year after the first crash, a Nedenah rescue mission was shot down over Roswell.
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The Doctor bought a stuffed owl for Sarah in 1948. It was one of the items she packed when she left his company.
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The Doctor liked the 1948 Olympics opening ceremony so much, he went back to see it again.
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Torchwood acquired some alien artifacts at auction in 1948.
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Wilf Mott was too young to fight in the Second World War, but joined the British Army and served as a private in Palestine, 1948.
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Barbara Wilson and Eddie Smith, the future parents of Sarah Jane Smith, met while serving coffee in a Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) canteen. They were married after he proposed by passing her a note asking her to become “Mrs. Smith”.
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1949

Godfather Sabbath of Faction Paradox was born.
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1949 - The Cabinet of Light
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An unknown incarnation of the Doctor - one who believed he had regenerated after visiting “the city by the bay” and being shot after meeting “a beautiful lady with no pity” - arrived in London with his companion, Emily Blandish. Agents working for Mestizer, a nemesis of the Doctor, attacked them - Emily helped the Doctor to escape, but Mestizer’s agents captured the Doctor’s time cabinet. The trauma of the event rendered Emily amnesiac. She was found wandering the streets of London, and became known in the press as “the Girl in Pink Pyjamas” (and occasionally “the Girl in the Pink Bikini”). She was used to promote clothes rationing.

To retrieve his property, the Doctor sought help from an expatriate and time sensitive named Honoré Lechasseur, who chiefly worked as a “fixer” - a trafficker of goods in a largely, but not entirely, legal fashion. Honoré observed the Doctor confronting Mestizer, and light from the Doctor’s time cabinet started her house on fire. The Doctor, Mestizer, the house and the cabinet all disappeared. Afterwards, Honoré and Emily struck up a partnership.

By now, the Doctor was regarded as a “hobgoblin” or “myth” in the underground community. Legends claimed he variously gave fire to mankind, burned London in 1666, kidnapped the crew of the
Mary Celeste
and built Stonehenge with his bare hands.

Honoré and Emily’s future selves travelled back to watch as she was found, wandering the London streets, in her pyjamas.
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1949 (December) - TimeH: The Winning Side
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Emily found that she was a “time channeller” who could travel through time and space in conjunction with a time-sensitive such as Honoré. They investigated the appearance of Emily’s body beneath Hammersmith Bridge - part of a divergent timeline triggered when a civil servant, Simon Brown, released nuclear secrets to the entire world. Emily and Honoré erased this errant history after travelling to it in the year 1984, and Emily prevented her death by letting go of her “killer”, a time-sensitive named Radford, during a time jump.

The Nineteen Fifties

In the early nineteen-fifties, Professor Zaroff - “the greatest scientist since Leonardo” - vanished.
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The testing of nuclear weapons, plus an increase in dumping of toxic waste, destroyed many Silurian shelters.
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Albinex the Navarino arrived down a faulty time corridor from the far future.
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In Jamaica, the 1950s, the Doctor met the ornithologist James Bond and took him to the 1800s to see a live dodo. The Doctor later introduced writer Ian Fleming to Bond, who served as inspiration for Fleming’s super-spy novels.
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The Doctor met the Cuban guerrilla leader Che Guevara.
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UFOs were fashionable in the fifties.
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Amy and Rory agreed with the eleventh Doctor that American hot dogs from the 1950s were the best hot dogs of all.
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Jack Harkness thought the food of the 1950s was horrid.
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Torchwood collected about a dozen items of alien technology that came through the Rift in the 1950s.
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UNIT in the Fifties

u - When Lethbridge-Stewart was 21, he spent a time in New York on the way back from Korea.
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Lethbridge-Stewart met Fiona, his future wife.
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Lethbridge-Stewart’s grandmother died in 1955.
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1950

Mentally influenced by the Player Myrek, President Truman approved Operation Kali, a psychic warfare programme.
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Kenneth James Valentine, a former policeman who was at D-Day, joined Torchwood Cardiff in 1950.
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(=) 1950 - TimeH: The Tunnel at the End of the Light
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Mestizer resurfaced and took command of the Subterraneans. They committed an escalating number of murders while helping her find a time-sensitive that she could use to escape.

Honoré and Emily went back in time and stopped the Subterraneans’ leader from leaving them, which retroactively prevented Mestizer from knowing they existed.

Honoré and Emily made further time-jumps, and had adventures pertaining to a clockwork woman in 1805; an impending apocalypse in Japan, 2020; the murderous Cabal of the Horned Beast in 1921; and a trapped time entity in London, 1995.
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1950 (June) - TimeH: Peculiar Lives
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The future humans that had created
homo peculiar
now sought to eliminate them, as their timeline depended upon
homo peculiar
dissipating its essence through humanity. Members of
homo peculiar
defeated this goal by mastering time-channelling, and took to living in future eras where animal and plant life were in abundance on Earth, but mankind was absent.

On “a hot summer’s night”, Honoré and Emily left for Antioch, 1098.
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