B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (87 page)

[
625
] “Centuries” before “The Iron Legion”. Vesuvius is the oldest robot, and a guard says he “should have been dealt with centuries ago”. Likewise, the Bestarius have lain in their suspended animation “for centuries”.

[
626
] “Three centuries” before
Shada
.

[
627
]
Enlightenment

[
628
]
Phantasmagoria

[
629
]
The Last Dodo

[
630
] Dating
FP: Newtons Sleep
(
FP
novel #6) - The back cover cites the year.

[
631
] “Two hundred years old, at least” before
Kiss of Death
. Mention of the Arar-Jecks suggests this is the time of the Twenty Aeon War cited in
Frontios
.

[
632
] Dating
The Glorious Revolution
(BF CC #4.2) - It’s 1688, the year of the Glorious Revolution. The specific day isn’t mentioned, but historically, the king fled on 10th of December and was captured the next day.

[
633
]
Ghost Ship
. Purcell lived from 1659-1695.

[
634
]
Battlefield
. This is the date on the capstone above the hotel’s fireplace.

[
635
]
The Hollow Men

[
636
]
The Pirate Planet.
Newton lived 1642-1727, and published his theories of gravitation in 1685. This meeting clearly predates the fifth Doctor encountering Newton in
Circular Time
.

[
637
]
Circular Time:
“Summer”

[
638
]
Psi-ence Fiction

[
639
]
Winner Takes All
. This would be around 1690.

[
640
] “Final Sacrifice”

[
641
] Dating
FP: Newtons Sleep
(
FP
novel #6) - Behn died 16th April, 1689. The real-life cause of her death isn’t actually known, but she was buried in Westminster Abbey.

[
642
]
TW: Trace Memory

[
643
]
Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark
. The Ceffyl have lived at peace with the humans on Tír na n-Óg for “three centuries” (p169).

[
644
] Dating
The Witch Hunters
(PDA #9) - Each section states the date. Nurse was executed on 19th July, 1692.

[
645
]
100:
“Bedtime Story”

[
646
] Dating
The Smugglers
(4.1) - The Doctor notes that the design of the church he sees on leaving the TARDIS means that they could have landed “at any time after the sixteenth century”. Later, he says that the customers in the inn are dressed in clothes from the “seventeenth century”.
The Terrestrial Index
and
The TARDIS File
set the story in “1650”,
The TARDIS Logs
in “1646”.
Timelink
went for “1672”,
About Time
said it’s “likely to be after 1685”.

The Discontinuity Guide
states that as a character says “God save the King” (and, perhaps more to the point, Josiah Blake is the “King’s Revenue Officer”), it must be when England had a King (between 1603-1642, 1660-1688 or 1694 onwards). However, William III ruled as King from 1688-1702, and even though this was alongside Mary at first, legally and in the minds of the public he was King. The
Guide
further speculates that the costumes suggest this story is set in the latter part of the century.

[
647
] “The previous winter” and “three years” before
The Curse of the Black Spot
.

[
648
] Dating
The Curse of the Black Spot
(X6.3) - The Doctor says it’s the “seventeenth century”. The BBC website preview for the episode has Avery give the date as “April 1st, 1699”, and says the ship has been becalmed for eight days. There’s no evidence that
this
Avery is the same pirate said to have died in
The Smugglers
. The Skerth are named in
Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia
, but not on screen.

[
649
]
A Good Man Goes to War

[
650
] “Hundreds of years” before
Death Comes to Time
. Anima Persis is also mentioned in
Relative Dementias
and
The Tomorrow Windows.

[
651
]
Relative Dementias

[
652
] “Operation Proteus”

[
653
] Unspecified “centuries” before
The Deadstone Memorial.

[
654
]
Wishing Well

[
655
]
The Stones of Blood

[
656
]
Fury from the Deep

[
657
]
The Highest Science

[
658
] “Many generations” before
SJA: The Gift
.

[
659
]
Rags

[
660
]
Loups-Garoux

[
661
]
SJA: Warriors of Kudlak

[
662
] “Three hundred years” before
Excelis Rising
.

[
663
]
The Lodger
(TV)

[
664
] “The Child of Time” (
DWM
). Hume lived 1711-1776.

[
665
] Unspecified “centuries” before
Closing Time
.

[
666
] “Centuries” before
SJA: Sky
.

[
667
] “Centuries” before
SJA: Judgement Day
.

[
668
] “Within a century” of his crusade beginning, according to “The Glorious Dead”.

[
669
] “Three hundred years” before
SJS: The Tao Connection.

[
670
] Dating
Phantasmagoria
(BF #2) - The exact date is given.

[
671
] Dating
Doctor Who and the Pirates
(BF #43) - The date isn’t specified beyond it being “the eighteenth century”.

[
672
] Dating “Ravens” (
DWM
#188-190) - It’s “four hundred years” before the main event of this story.

[
673
] Dating
Circular Time:
“Summer” (BF #91) - The year isn’t specified, but the month is given as July. The story occurs while Newton is warden of the Royal Mint - he was appointed to the post in 1696, and served until his death in 1727. This date is otherwise arbitrary, based upon actor David Warner’s age of 65 when he voiced Newton (who was born in January 1643 by the Gregorian calendar) for this audio. Historically, counterfeiting in this period was treated as high treason, and those found guilty were put to death. Convictions proved difficult to achieve, but Newton - often venturing out in disguise, as occurs here - personally collected evidence against such criminals. His most notable prosecution was against the counterfeiter William Chaloner - who was hanged, drawn and quartered on 23rd March, 1699.

[
674
]
Only Human.
Montagu, an aristocrat chiefly known for her letters from Turkey (when she was the wife of the British ambassador) lived 1689-1762.

[
675
]
The Android Invasion
. The Doctor presumably means the first Duke, who lived 1650-1722 and was made a Duke in 1702.

[
676
]
The Wages of Sin
. This would have to be between 1712-1725.

[
677
]
The English Way of Death
(p46).

[
678
] “Hundreds of years” before
SJA: The White Wolf
.

[
679
] Malohkeh has been watching mankind “for the last three hundred years” according to
Cold Blood
.

[
680
] “One hundred forty-five years” after
The Vampires of Venice
(which is in accordance with Casanova’s real-life birth year).

[
681
]
The Mind Robber

[
682
] Dating
The Girl in the Fireplace
(X2.4) - Reinette says it’s 1727. The Doctor tells her that August of that year is “a bit rubbish”, but he’s no way of knowing if August has already passed or not. We might expect Reinette to correct him if it has, but he’s gabbling and doesn’t really give her a chance.

[
683
] Dating
The Girl in the Fireplace
(X2.4) - It is “weeks, months” after the Doctor and Reinette’s first meeting. It’s snowing outside, so it’s winter. The older Reinette later says she has “known the Doctor since she was seven” - as she was born 29th December, 1721, she would have been that age almost exclusively in 1728. If the initial meeting takes place in 1727 and the second is “months” later in 1728, then Reinette’s comment about her age makes some sense - although it means (not unreasonably) that she’s more referring to the Doctor saving her from the clockwork man than their initial, very brief conversation through the fireplace. This probably isn’t what was intended on screen, but it fits the available evidence fairly well. The alternative is that the Doctor and Reinette first meet in the last three days of 1727 - which would again push their second meeting into 1728.

[
684
] “Thirty years” before
The Many Hands
.

[
685
] Dating
FP: Newtons Sleep
(
FP
novel #6) - It’s “nearly sixty years” (p135) after the raid at Salomon’s house in 1671. It’s also spring (p134).

[
686
]
The Highlanders

[
687
]
World War Three
strongly implies that the Doctor met this man. Mr Chicken is historical, and was the last private resident of the building before King George II put it at the disposal of Sir Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister.

[
688
] “Over two hundred years” before
The Abominable Snowmen
according to the Abbot Songsten.