B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (81 page)

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Spiral Scratch.
This was in “the twelfth century”.

[
301
] “Eight centuries” before
Freakshow
.

[
302
]
Sanctuary

[
303
]
The King of Terror

[
304
] “End Game” (
DWM
)

[
305
]
Nightshade

[
306
] Dating
The Krillitane Storm
(NSA #36) - The year is given.

[
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]
The Stones of Blood

[
308
]
The Church and the Crown

[
309
]
Tragedy Day.
Genghis Khan was born circa 1162, and died in 1227. The seventh Doctor must have delivered Genghis, as he claims in
Thin Ice
that he’s never delivered a child before - but does so in that story, here, and in
The Settling
.

[
310
]
An Earthly Child
. It’s possible that she met Khan at the same time her grandfather delivered him.

[
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]
The Daemons

[
312
]
Doctor Who - The Movie

[
313
]
Rose

[
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]
Borrowed Time
. Either Khan or Al Capone told the Doctor this.

[
315
]
The Left-Handed Hummingbird

[
316
]
Timelash

[
317
]
The Taking of Planet 5

[
318
] Two accounts of Stefan’s game are given, in
The Nightmare Fair
and
Divided Loyalties
. Both versions have Stefan serving with Barbarossa, but the former story has him losing a game of dice to the Toymaker after wagering a Greek family.
Divided Loyalties
, however, says that Barbarossa drowned after Stefan bet the Toymaker that Barbarossa could successfully swim the Bosporus.

The account is slightly at odds with established history. Frederick Barbarossa was made Holy Roman Emperor in 1155, and died in 1190 after being thrown from his horse into the Saleph River in Cilicia (part of modern-day Turkey), whereupon his heavy armour made him drown in hip-deep water. As if that weren’t enough, one chronicler claimed the shock additionally made Barbarossa have a heart attack.

[
319
] Dating
The Crusade
(2.6) - A document written for Donald Tosh and John Wiles in April/May 1965 (apparently by Dennis Spooner), “The History of Doctor Who”, stated that the story is set between the Second and Third crusades, with the Third Crusade starting when Richard’s plan fails.

Richard is already in Palestine at the start of the story, indicating a date of around 1190. Ian claims in
The Space Museum
that
The Crusade
took place in the “thirteenth century”, but this seems to be an error on his part. The
Radio Times
and
The Making of Doctor Who
both set the story in the “twelfth century”.
The Programme Guide
gives a date of “1190”,
The Terrestrial Index
picks “1192”.

[
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]
Leviathan
. The Doctor might well have taken lessons from Richard in some body other than his first (
The Crusades
), at an unspecified point in Richard’s life.

[
321
] Dating
Krynoids: The Green Man
(BBV audio #33) - King Richard is on the throne. Mention is also made of stories pertaining to the Saracen - a sign, although not a guarantee, that it’s during the Third Crusade (1189-1192).

[
322
] “The Tides of Time” doesn’t specify at what point of the Middle Ages Justin comes from. However, a mercenary in
Castle of Fear
, set in 1199, has met Justin and gives a correct description of him.

[
323
] “Seven years” before
Castle of Fear

[
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]
K9: The Last Oak Tree
. This possibly, but not necessarily, happened when K9 was travelling with the Doctor.

[
325
]
The Eternal Summer

[
326
] “The Stockbridge Child”. The accompanying illustration suggests this was during medieval times.

[
327
] Dating
Castle of Fear
(BF #127) - The back cover and - within the story - the Doctor agree that it’s 1199.
Plague of the Daleks
reiterates that
Castle of Fear
occurs in the “twelfth century”. What’s perplexing is that the Doctor determines the year to which he and Nyssa must go based upon a statement that one of the Stockbridge residents makes in 1899 - “It’s the year when the ant by the lion was slain.” It’s a reversal of the real-life phrase “when the lion by the ant was slain”, denoting how King Richard was fatally shot by a boy wielding a crossbow, who was angered because Richard had killed his father and brothers. (Richard was shot on 25th March, 1199, and died on 6th April.) Even more strangely (unless this is a deliberate choice as part of the story’s comedy), the Doctor here says that the “ant” refers to Saladin - in real life it does no such thing, as Saladin died in 1193.

This adventure originates the tale of St. George and the dragon, the earliest text of which dates to the eleventh century, although George himself dates back to at least the seventh century. The Green Dragon Inn is mentioned in “The Tides of Time”.

For benefit of non-UK readers, “Mummerset” is a deliberately awful depiction in plays and films of a West Country accent. Twelfth-century Stockbridge is said to reside in Mummerset; “The Tides of Time” says that the modern-day Stockbridge is in Gloucestershire.

[
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]
SJA: The Mark of the Berserker

[
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]
Invasion of the Dinosaurs

[
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]
City of Death.
Most fans have interpreted the last of the four Scaroths we see as a Crusader, although the DVD says it’s a “Celt”. Although Julian Glover plays both Richard the Lionheart in
The Crusade
and Scaroth in
City of Death
, it doesn’t seem likely that Scaroth posed as King Richard.

[
331
] “Ten years” before
The King’s Demons.

[
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]
Option Lock

[
333
] “End Game” (
DWM
)

[
334
] Dating
Benny: The Vampire Curse
: “Possum Kingdom” (Benny collection #12b) - The year and season are given.

[
335
] Dating
The King’s Demons
(20.6) - The TARDIS readings say it is “March the fourth, twelve hundred and fifteen”.

[
336
] As seen in
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
.

[
337
]
The Gallifrey Chronicles

[
338
]
The Big Bang

[
339
] Dating
Bunker Soldiers
(PDA #39) - The Doctor says “we are in Kiev in 1240” (p16).

[
340
] Dating
Sanctuary
(NA #37) - Benny “persuaded someone to tell her that the year was 1242”.

[
341
] Dating
Guy de Carnac: The Quality of Mercy
(BBV audio #35) - The audio features Guy de Carnac from
Sanctuary
, but it’s not expressly said whether this is a prequel or a sequel to that book (presuming for the moment that Guy survived the Roc of the Cathares - his body is never found, after all). That said, a conversation concerning Guy and an “unrequited love” could well be a reference to Bernice. Seven years passed in the real world between the release of the two stories; the placement here somewhat arbitrarily splits the difference.

[
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]
FP: Warlords of Utopia

[
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]
The Impossible Astronaut
, possibly contradicting the origin of the statues given in
Eye of Heaven
. The first moai on Easter Island were carved in the thirteenth century.

[
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]
Marco Polo.
Barbara states that Marco Polo was born in “1252”, although actually it was two years later.

[
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]
Death in Blackpool

[
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]
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth

[
347
]
The Bodysnatchers
; Zygor is also named in
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
.

[
348
] “Several centuries” before
Deep Blue.

[
349
]
Terror of the Zygons
. The Zygon leader Broton tells Harry that they crashed “centuries ago by your timescale”. While disguised as the Duke, Broton later tells the Doctor that there have been sightings of the Loch Ness Monster “since the Middle Ages”, the implication being that the Zygons and Skarasen have been on Earth since then.

In
Timelash
, we’re made to believe that the Borad has been similarly swimming around Loch Ness from 1179 onwards, but the Borad’s death in
The Taking of Planet 5
suggests he doesn’t actually contribute to the Loch Ness sightings.
The Programme Guide
claimed that the Zygon ship crashed in “50,000 BC”,
The Terrestrial Index
preferred “c.1676”.

[
350
] The eighth Doctor believes that the Zygon craft in
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
crashed concurrent to the one that landed in Scotland in
Terror of the Zygons
.

[
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]
The Mind of Evil

[
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]
The Time Monster

[
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]
Marco Polo

[
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]
Birthright

[
355
] “Seven hundred years” before
Dancing the Code.

[
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]
Brave New Town

[
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]
Marco Polo

[
358
] Dating
The Time Warrior
(11.1) - The story seems to be set either during the Crusades, as Sir Edward of Wessex talks of “interminable wars” abroad, or quite soon after the Conquest as Irongron refers to “Normans”. The Doctor tells Professor Rubeish they are in the “early years of the Middle Ages”. However, in
The Sontaran Experiment
, Sarah says that Linx died “in the thirteenth century”. According to
The Paradise of Death
, this was “eight hundred years back” (p12), and it’s “three centuries” before “Dragon’s Claw”.
The Programme Guide
set a date of “c.800”, but
The Terrestrial Index
offered “c.1190”.
The TARDIS Logs
said “1191 AD”,
Timelink
said “1272” and
About Time
“1190-1220”.