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1951

The radio telescope was invented.
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The last witchcraft act on the English statute books was repealed in 1951.
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Rupert Locke, a resident of Jackson Leaves, was convicted of six violent rapes in 1951.
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Mrs Randall, a future nursing home resident who would meet Sarah Jane Smith, was named Miss Ealing of 1951.
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A computer built to regulate space trains, cars and buses was left at loose ends once its humanoid creators were lost in an undisclosed incident. In 1951, the Rift transported a Cardiff train leaving from Platform 4 for Grangetown to the computer’s world. The train driver died, but the computer kept itself occupied by copying him and building trains to shuttle the replicants about.
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(=) 1951 (13th February) - TimeH: The Sideways Door
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Jonah Rankin, a time sensitive, accidentally transported Honoré and Emily to a parallel reality where their alternate selves had brazenly used their abilities to avert World War II and make other changes. The temporal amendments were such that history began to unravel. Honoré and Emily escaped as their counterparts were transported to parts unknown by a fatally wounded Rankin.

1951 (23rd February) - TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer
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Emily and the Albino - a half-human, half humanoid crimelord - travelled back some months to a bunker the Albino owned, as did Honoré and Catherine Howkins, one of the Albino’s dancers. They were present as Leiter and Catherine’s younger self - fugitives from the Sodality - arrived at the bunker using time belts. Honoré saved Catherine’s younger self when the bunker exploded; she believed that Emily had perished, when in fact her older self had died instead. The Albino was also killed in the explosion - which so gravely wounded a man named Burgess, he would become the Albino in future.

Sarah Jane Smith - a companion of the third and fourth Doctors, an associate of the tenth Doctor and a thwarter of alien evil-doers - was born between 1st and 21st May, 1951, in the village of Foxgrove, to Eddie and Barbara Smith.
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On 30th June, 1951, Catherine Howkins was hired as an exotic dancer for the Albino.
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1951 (18th August) - SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
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When Sarah Jane Smith was three months old, her parents mysteriously left her in her pram along the side of the road in the village of Foxgrove, then were killed when their car struck a tractor that had broken down in the lane. She would be raised by Lavinia Smith, her father’s sister.

(=) The Trickster enabled Sarah Jane to travel back from 2009 and prevent her parents’ death, creating a parallel timeline in which the Trickster devastated Earth. Sarah’s parents accepted that their survival had crippled the world, and sacrificed themselves to restore history.

1951 (4th November) - TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer
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Catherine Howkins happened upon Honoré and thanked him for saving her life last February - in an explosion where Howkins believed that Emily had died. Honoré, Howkins, Emily and the Albino used various means to go back to February, all of them intent on uncovering the truth about the incident.

Honoré and Emily briefly travelled to a parallel reality in which their alternate selves were abusing their powers.
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1951 (1st December) - TimeH: Child of Time
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Honoré and Emily examined the corpse of a woman from the future, which caused them to travel to 2586. After learning of Emily’s origins, they returned to 1951 and looked forward to new adventures together.

(=) 1951 - Timewyrm: Exodus
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Following the total defeat of the British army at Dunkirk in 1940, the German army swept across the Channel and landed at Folkestone. Britain fell in six days. Churchill and thousands of suspected troublemakers were executed. Oswald Mosley was installed as Prime Minister, and Edward VIII was crowned. Unsure what to do with Britain, the Nazi High Command let the country fall into ruin.

All able-bodied men were conscripted as slave workers and shipped to the continent. In 1951, the Festival of Britain took place in London to celebrate ten years of Nazi victory. The Germans planned to have a man on the moon in this year. The seventh Doctor and Ace realised that history had been altered. They travelled back and averted this timeline with the destruction of Drachensberg Castle in 1939.

After they defeated the War Lords and Timewyrm, the Doctor and Ace visited the real Festival of Britain and discovered that history was back on course.

@ 1951 - Endgame
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The seventh Doctor (and Ace) saw the eighth Doctor at the Festival of Britain, but neither recognised the other.

The Players decided on a new game, seeing which among them could provoke a nuclear holocaust on Earth. Kim Philby, a member of British intelligence and a double agent for the Soviet Union, recruited the eighth Doctor to defeat the Players.

President Truman became abnormally hostile to China, and the Doctor discovered the president was under the influence of the Player Myrek. As Philby suspected, another Player - the Countess - was manipulating Stalin. The Doctor ended the Players’ control of the Russian leader and Truman. Returning to America, the Doctor tricked the Players into killing each other. The Doctor declined a job at the White House and returned to London.

@ The eighth Doctor was present in the Soviet Union during a high profile chess match played in 1951.
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In 1951, the Dionysus Project in Cardington opened a doorway to the Divergents’ domain. This killed the researchers Dr. Stone and the Reverend Matthew Townsend.
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(=) 1951 - Real Time
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With the Cybermen firmly in control of Earth, a group of human rebels crafted an organic techno-virus capable of destroying the Cybermen’s artificial implants. They used a Chronosphere to dispatch Dr Reece Goddard to 3286, the year in which the Cybermen altered history, in the hope of averting this timeline altogether.

1952

Barbara Wright worked at Hampstead High School for girls in 1952.
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Pilot Diane Holmes flew from England to Australia in just four days.
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Ronald Turvey went to university to read biochemistry when he was 18, but bullies tore his beloved teddy bear, Mr. Cuddles, to shreds. In the years to come, Turvey was infected with the Tinghus: a member of a race of psychic parasites. He felt as if the ghost of Mr. Cuddles was talking to him, and would found a toy company.
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1952 (7th September) - The Nowhere Place
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Scientists working on behalf of the British War Office were stationed RAF Hill Lankton Base, and the Oxford-educated Trevor Ridgely was assigned to work on rocket propulsion there. Trevor doodled the rudimentary design for a star drive-equipped ship, and although he never worked toward the completion of such a device, his sketch planted the seed of his idea. Someone would return to Trevor’s sketch in future, spot something he’d overlooked and help to facilitate mankind’s journey into the stars.

The sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrived from 2197, and encountered Trevor on the
Ivy Lee
, the last Turret-class train in service, as it was passing through Stapely Moor. Representatives of the original race that evolved on Earth hoped to trick the time travellers into facilitating the loss of Trevor’s sketch - and thereby subvert humanity’s star-travel - but the Doctor and Evelyn thwarted the plot and returned to the future.

(=) In Klein’s history, the Third Reich controlled Africa. When the Mau Mau rebelled in 1952, waves of German aircraft obliterated their tribal areas.
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1952 (October) - A Thousand Tiny Wings
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The Chaliss had evolved as a species of intelligent little birds - a rarity in the universe, owing to their inability to work tools with wings. They would nestle on a humanoid - a “mule”, of sorts - in their hundreds, thousands even, and thereby achieve a group consciousness.

One such Chaliss gestalt arrived in Kenya as the Mau Mau rebelled against the British. It intended on using humanity as test subjects in the creation of a “universal plague” that could be tailored and sold to various parties. As different races wiped themselves out, the Chaliss would amass enough economic might to control the galaxy.

(=) The Elizabeth Klein who escaped from Colditz was now in Kenya, owing to her fascination with the dark continent. She had a full laboratory in Nairobi, but abandoned it when the uprising started. The seventh Doctor happened upon Klein as she sheltered in a farmhouse, and together they killed the Chaliss birds, whose “mule” died soon afterwards. A British subject, Mrs Sylvia O’Donnell, was tasked with seeing that a dome the Chaliss had built was buried, forever trapping the contagion within. The Doctor hoped to broaden Klein’s philosophies by letting her see other worlds, and made her his new companion.

Owing to Klein’s removal from history in 2044, the Doctor defeated the Chaliss without her involvement.

(=) In Klein’s history, Hans De Flores was “the Führer’s favourite”. The Nazis sent builders to construct new cities in the devastated Kenya, but the carpet bombing in 1952 had released the Chaliss contagion. Within three years, most of the builders were dead. The Führer assigned Klein to take a team of doctors and investigate, but they were evacuated before making any progress. It was years before the Nazis dared return to Africa.
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1952 (December) - Amorality Tale
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The third Doctor and Sarah Jane sought to investigate a warp shadow, and arrived prior to a killer smog descending on London. The Doctor set up shop as a watchmaker. Sarah found out that a war was brewing between the Ramsey and Callum gangs. Callum was actually a member of the Xhinn, a ruthless alien species, and the killer smog was actually a Xhinn weapon. The Doctor destroyed the Xhinn scoutship, which deterred their main fleet from attacking.

1952 - A Christmas Carol
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The eleventh Doctor, the teenage Karzan Sardick and Abigail Pettigrew visited Hollywood. The Doctor was supposed to do a duet with Frank Sinatra, but accidentally got engaged to Marilyn Monroe. They were married at a locale the Doctor later insisted wasn’t a real chapel. In the same year, the Doctor met Albert Einstein and Father Christmas - whom the Doctor better knew as “Fred” - at Sinatra’s hunting lodge.

1953

The science fiction serial
Nightshade
was first shown by the BBC in 1953. It would run for five years.
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@ The eighth Doctor quickly became a fan of the show.
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The Doctor was the first man to climb Everest, giving Tensing and Hillary a hand up.
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The notorious Piltdown Man skull was exposed for what it was: a human cranium with the jawbone of an ape attached.
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Joshua Douglas, a companion of the third Doctor, won first prize in a race in 1953 and was awarded a metal cup.
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Rivesh Mantilax was shot down attempting to rescue his wife from Area 51. He was found and kept safe by a group of Native Americans led by Night Eagle.
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In 1953, the Alliance of Shades - an extra-terrestrial organisation dedicated to keeping advanced technology from primitive worlds such as Earth - deployed robots presenting themselves as Men in Black to perform recovery operations. The tenth Doctor would encounter a quartet of Men in Black - Mr Dread, Mr Fear, Mr Terror and Mr Apprehension - during his visit to Area 51 in 1958.
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Martin Trueman was born at exactly the right moment, exactly the right time, for him to later serve as a channel for the power of the Ancient Lights.
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The Doctor made a hobby of seeing
The Mousetrap
, and watched every production from 1953 to at least 2009.
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