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c 1960 (summer) - No More Lies
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Nick Zimmerman modified his time technology and created a mini-time loop, hoping that he and his dying wife Rachel could eternally enjoy a garden party together. This drew the attention of time-eaters - the Tar-Modowk, who rode Vortisaurs. Accompanied by Lucie, the eighth Doctor erased the Tar-Modowk from existence. Zimmerman was forced to deactivate the time-loop, and Rachel died soon afterwards.

Tegan Jovanka, a companion of the fifth Doctor, was born
on 22nd September,
1960.
 [1844]
Tegan’s middle name was Melissa. Her father was named William.
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She spent her childhood in Caloundra, near Brisbane.
 [1846]
Tegan’s Serbian grandfather told her vampire stories.
 [1847]
One of Tegan’s fondest memories was flying in a single-engine Cessna Skyhawk with her father.
 [1848]

= In the 1960 of a world where the Second World War never ended, Gus - a companion of the fifth Doctor - joined the US Air Force to join the fight. After two years, he saw combat.
 [1849]

1961

Captain Jack went to the Beatles’ debut at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, on the off-chance that the Doctor would turn up at such a nostalgic event. When the Doctor failed to show, Jack enjoyed himself with a party of student nurses in Biba shirts.
 [1850]

1961 - “The Time of My Life”
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The tenth Doctor and Donna saw the Beatles perform at the Cavern Club. Donna had John Lennon autograph a CD of an album that the Beatles hadn’t written yet for her mother.

In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel in space.
 [1852]
The Intrusion Countermeasures Group (ICMG) was formed to fight covert actions from hostile powers. Group Captain Gilmore was appointed leader.
 [1853]
The Doctor materialised in the middle of a battle between the Trylonians and Zorians, causing both sides to scatter. The Trylonian commander Lum-Tee fled to Earth and hid in a small English village.
 [1854]

(=) In Klein’s reality, Adolf Hitler died in 1961. Prior to this, technology harvested from alien incursions had been locked away in a Berlin depository, its existence denied because Hitler was loathe to admit the superiority of alien intelligences. With his passing, limitations on researching such tech were eased, and the Reich’s ruling body became torn with internal divisions.
 [1855]

1962

American scientists worked out how to operate the navigation system of their captured Nedenah spaceship.
 [1856]

Dorothea Chaplet, a companion of the first Doctor, was sent to live with her great-aunt Margaret when her parents died. At her new school, she was given the nickname “Dodo”.
 [1857]

Section Eight used the dark arts to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.
 [1858]
A small party of Muslims passed into Avalon.
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The starship of the alien scientist Raldonn crashed in Britain, killing the co-pilot. He was set to work on Operation Proteus, and began using it as a cover for other experiments on humans.
 [1860]

@ It was the eighth Doctor’s idea that the Beatles should wear suits.
 [1861]
The Doctor travelled the world in the sixties and seventies.
 [1862]
He visited India.
 [1863]

The Doctor spent some time at a Buddhist temple in Thailand, searching for a dragon. His search took twenty-five years and he travelled across China, Vietnam and Siam. He found the dragon, but it’s not known what subsequently happened.
 [1864]

During the 1960s, the Doctor spent some time learning ventriloquism from Edgar Bergen of
The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show
.
 [1865]

One Dalek fell through time at the end of the Last Great Time War, crashing to Earth in the Ascension Islands. Damaged and unresponsive, it spent the next fifty years being passed from one private collection to another, ending up being bought by Van Statten.
 [1866]

Melanie Bush’s sister Annabelle was born 4th October, 1962.
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Percival Noggins was born around 1962.
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(=) 1962 - “Klein’s Story”
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Elizabeth Klein was researching physics at Cambridge when Major Eunice Faber recruited her to examine alien technology stored in Berlin. The two of them became romantically involved, and he told her of the capture of the Doctor’s time machine in 1955. Soon after, the eighth Doctor, posing as “Johann Schmidt”, made contact with Klein and offered to help her determine the Ship’s secrets. They worked together for the next three years.

Minnie Hooper, a friend of Wilfred Mott, got trapped in a police box on August bank holiday in 1962.
 [1870]

History Section Sidebars

Are There Two Dalek Histories?

There are a number of discrepancies between the accounts of the Daleks’ origins in
The Daleks
and
Genesis of the Daleks
. In the first story, the original Daleks (or Dals) were humanoid, and it is implied they only mutated after the Neutronic War. This version was also depicted in the
TV Century 21
comic strip, where the Dalek casings are built by a scientist called Yarvelling and a mutated Dalek crawls into a casing to survive. Whereas in
Genesis of the Daleks
, we see Davros deliberately accelerate the mutations that have begun to affect the Kaled race (a process the Doctor calls “genetic engineering” in
Dalek
).

Fans have attempted to reconcile these accounts in a number of ways. Perhaps the most common nowadays is to completely dismiss the version in
The Daleks,
and declare the Thal version of events to be a garbled version of the true history seen in
Genesis of the Daleks
. This would mean that the Doctor’s comment that the Thal records are accurate is wrong - which isn’t too difficult to justify. The idea that Skaro’s civilisation lost knowledge following a nuclear war and that the two races would have subjective, propaganda-driven history is tempting... but it
doesn’t
explain why both the Thals and the Daleks in
The Daleks
believe in exactly the same version of events, especially as they’ve had no contact with each other for some time. It’s also suggesting that Skaro’s historians are so incompetent that they can’t tell the difference between a war that lasted a thousand years with one that lasted a day.

Another possible explanation is that the Doctor changes history in
Genesis of the Daleks
- before then, history was the version in
The Daleks
, afterwards it’s the
Genesis
version. This is tempting, because altering history
was
the Doctor’s mission, after all, and he says at the end that he’s set the Daleks back “a thousand years”.
The Discontinuity Guide
suggested that in their appearances after
Genesis of the Daleks
, the Daleks are nowhere near as unified a force as they had been before. Morever, Davros - who previously wasn’t even mentioned - plays a major part in Dalek politics.
The Discontinuity Guide
credits all of this to the Doctor changing history - looking closely at the evidence, though, the Doctor hasn’t actually made much of a difference. The Daleks are an extremely feared, powerful and unified force in the first of the post-
Genesis
stories (
Destiny of the Daleks
), and it’s their defeat to the Movellans after that story which weakens them. In other words, no alteration of the timeline need be invoked to explain the change in the status quo. Perhaps the clincher is that
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
still happens in the post-
Genesis
stories - Susan remembers it in
The Five Doctors
(indeed, she’s been snatched from its aftermath), and
Remembrance of the Daleks
contains references both to the Daleks invading Earth in “the twenty-second century” and to events on Spiridon (
Planet of the Daleks
). That’s before factoring in the dozens of references to pre-
Genesis of the Daleks
stories in the novels, audios and comic strips featuring later Doctors.

All told, it looks like the Doctor setting the Daleks back a thousand years in
Genesis of the Daleks
is part of the timeline we know, not a divergence from it - again, they still invade Earth in 2157, not 3157. With that in mind, it’s interesting to note that the 60s strip has the Daleks developing space travel very soon after they take to their mechanical casings, but that this happens a thousand years after the end of the Thousand Years War (which we would later see ending in
Genesis of the Daleks
). If the Doctor hadn’t been there, the Daleks would have developed space travel very soon after
Genesis of the Daleks
, and so the Doctor - as part of the original timeline -
has
set them back a thousand years.

There’s a second problem: We have to reconcile the fact that
The Daleks
shows a group of Daleks confined to their city on Skaro and wiped out at the end, while all the other stories have them as galactic conquerors. Nothing in any
Doctor Who
story, in any medium, accounts for this.

The FASA roleplaying game and
About Time
both explain the discrepancy by theorising that soon after
Genesis of the Daleks
, there’s a schism between Daleks who want to stay on Skaro to exterminate the Thals and those who want to conquer other planets. The FASA game names them the “exterminator” and “expansionist” factions, and states that the exterminator Daleks never leave Skaro, eventually wither on the vine and end up confined to their city - finally dying out in
The Daleks.
(In this scenario, spacefaring Daleks later recolonise their home planet.)

In
About Time
’s version, the “exterminator” Daleks do venture beyond Skaro, but only on limited sorties - like the invasion of Earth - and they’re not galactic conquerors. There’s nothing on screen to suggest an early divergence in Dalek history, and only a line in
Alien Bodies
(p138) supports it.
If
this was the case, it seems the spacefaring “expansionist” Daleks completely broke contact with the Daleks on Skaro. Adding speculation to speculation, we might infer this schism was because the Daleks on Skaro continued to mutate - indeed, perhaps they become the humanoid Dals mentioned in
The Daleks
, a different race altogether. Given what we know of Dalek history, it seems unlikely that this was an amicable arrangement, so there could have been a Dalek civil war of some kind.

While we’re speculating, we might wonder if the Thals joined the Dals in their efforts to rid the planet of Daleks. Following this, the Dals and Thals lived together in (relative) peace on Skaro for a long time - until the Neutronic War, placed in this guidebook in 1763. The spacefaring Daleks eventually return to Skaro somewhere between
The Daleks
(?2263) and
Planet of the Daleks
(2540).

It might be straightforward, then: the “expansionist” Daleks are the ones with slats in their mid-section, the “exterminators” are the ones with bands (as seen in the first two TV stories,
The Space Museum
and the
TV Century 21
strip). However, the Daleks in
The Chase
are based on Skaro and are out to avenge the defeat in
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, so that would also seem to be the “exterminator” faction (unless the first order of business when the “expansionists” return to Skaro is to go after the man who twice inflicted crushing defeats - and so wiped out - the “exterminators”).