B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (90 page)

[
786
]
Doctor Who and the Pirates
. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1797.

[
787
]
The Space Museum
. James Watt lived 1736-1819.

[
788
]
Day of the Daleks
, Alex Macintosh, the television commentator in that story, states that the house is “Georgian”.

[
789
] “One and a half centuries” before “Tooth and Claw” (
DWM
).

[
790
] According to Susan in
The Reign of Terror.

[
791
] In
An Unearthly Child
, Susan borrows a book about the French Revolution, but already knows a great deal about the subject.

[
792
]
The Scapegoat
. The Bastille was in operation as a fortress prison from 1370 until its storming on 14th July, 1789.

[
793
]
Christmas on a Rational Planet

[
794
]
Just War

[
795
] “The Golden Ones”

[
796
] Dating
100:
“100 My Own Private Wolfgang” (BF #100b) - It’s the day of Mozart’s death. His last composition,
Requiem in Mass D minor
, is regarded as one of his most popular works - but it’s also unfinished, and was completed by Franz Xaver Sussmayr or other parties after Mozart’s death. In
Time and Relative
, Susan relates that her grandfather regards Mozart as a “bad-mannered show-off with a silly hairstyle” - but as Susan herself hasn’t met Mozart, this is likely just the first Doctor’s opinion without benefit of having met the man.

[
797
] The lockpick is mentioned in
Pyramids of Mars
. The Doctor mentions Marie Antoinette again in
The Robots of Death.

[
798
]
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street

[
799
]
The Beautiful People

[
800
]
The Resurrection of Mars
. Antoinette was Queen of France from 1774 to 1792.

[
801
]
The Crystal Bucephalus

[
802
]
The Daemons

[
803
]
The Burning

[
804
]
The Banquo Legacy

[
805
] Dating
The Reign of Terror
(1.8) - The date is given on screen.
The Programme Guide
offered the date “1792”, but
The Terrestrial Index
corrected this. The story shows the arrest of Robespierre, which occurred on 27th July.

[
806
]
The Man in the Velvet Mask

[
807
] Dating
World Game
(PDA #74)
-
Serena gives the date of the Doctor’s arrival as 9th August, 1794. The Duke of Wellington was a leading military and political figure. He was a Field Marshall during the Napoleonic Wars, and oversaw Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo.

[
808
]
Christmas on a Rational Planet

[
809
]
The Scarlet Empress
(p90). Coleridge lived 1772-1834.

[
810
]
The Hollow Men
,
Blood Heat

[
811
]
The Death of Art

[
812
]
The Sands of Time
. Napoleon began his expedition in March 1798, and the year is given (p203).

[
813
] Dating
Set Piece
(NA #35) - It is “1798 CE” (p57).

[
814
]
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
. William Wordsworth lived 1770-1850, and his magnum opus is generally regarded as
The Prelude
- a work he started working on when he was 28, but was published posthumously.

[
815
]
The Banquo Legacy

[
816
]
Interference
(p59, p147).

[
817
] Dating
Christmas on a Rational Planet
(NA #52) - It’s “1799. At Christmas” (p24).

[
818
] “The early nineteenth century” according to
The Eight Doctors.

[
819
]
Instruments of Darkness
. In our history, the dodo was extinct by 1700.

[
820
]
The Lazarus Experiment

[
821
]
A Thousand Tiny Wings
. This presumably occurred when the Arapaho lived on the plains - they were relocated, in the mid-nineteenth century, to reservations in Wyoming and Oklahoma.

[
822
]
The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories
: “Special Features”

[
823
] “The Glorious Dead”

[
824
] “Millennia” before
Earth Aid
.

[
825
] Dating
Foreign Devils
(TEL #5) - It’s “December 1800” (p22).

[
826
] Dating
The Man in the Velvet Mask
(MA #19) - The Doctor and Dodo see a poster that gives a date of “Messidor, Year XII”, and the Doctor calculates that they are in “June or July 1804”.

[
827
] Dating
The Rising Night
(BBC
DW
audiobook #4) - The Doctor guesses that it’s the seventeenth or early eighteenth century; the back cover says that it’s the eighteenth. It’s said that the Baobhan is freed in October, and the Doctor arrives three weeks later, so it’s quite possibly November by now.

[
828
] Dating
TimeH: The Clockwork Woman
(
TimeH
#3) - The year is given.

[
829
]
The Sea Devils
. Nelson lived 1758-1805.

[
830
]
Eye of Heaven
. Nelson’s final battle occurred on 21st October, 1805.

[
831
]
The Scarlet Empress

[
832
] “Fire and Brimstone”

[
833
] Dating
World Game
(PDA #74) - The date is given, and is indeed the only day Nelson and Wellington met historically.

[
834
]
Benny: The Medusa Effect
. This presumably denotes
The Battle of Trafalgar
by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), painted in 1806, and currently owned by the Tate Gallery in London.

[
835
] Dating
Seasons of Fear
(BF #30) - The date is given.

[
836
] “Forty years” before
Demon Quest: A Shard of Ice
.

[
837
] Twenty years before
The Beast of Orlok
.

[
838
] “About two hundred years” before
The Raincloud Man.

[
839
] “Two hundred years” before
Planet of the Dead
. There is no International Gallery in real life, but we see it again in
SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge
.

[
840
] “Two hundred years” before
SJA: Eye of the Gorgon
.

[
841
] According to a gravestone in
The Curse of Fenric
.

[
842
]
Managra.
This happened to one of the first three Doctors.

[
843
] “The Forgotten”

[
844
]
The Pit

[
845
]
The Eye of the Tyger
, which sounds like a different visit to the one seen in
The Pit.

[
846
]
Hornets’ Nest: The Stuff of Nightmares

[
847
]
Night of the Humans
(p16). Pond lived 1767 to 1836, and served as Astronomer Royal from 1811 to 1835.

[
848
]
The Devil Goblins from Neptune.
Other references to meeting the Duke of Wellington around this time appear in
The Tomorrow Windows
,
Synthespians™
and
The Book of the Still
.

[
849
]
The War Games

[
850
]
Day of the Daleks
. The Doctor does not meet Napoleon in
The Reign of Terror
(although Ian and Barbara do). The third Doctor is still exiled in the twentieth century timezone, so he must have met Napoleon in an earlier incarnation (see
Mother Russia
and
World Game
). Napoleon lived 1769-1821. The meeting is also mentioned in
Escape Velocity
and
Warmonger.

[
851
]
The Impossible Astronaut
. Napoleon lived 1769-1821.

[
852
]
TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts.
Mary is evidently from the same race as the peaceful “star poet” seen in
SJA: Invasion of the Bane
, which suggests that - as Mary speculates in the
Torchwood
episode - her planet has undergone a regime change.

[
853
] Dating
Emotional Chemistry
(EDA #66) - The date is given in the blurb.

[
854
] Dating “The Time of My Life” (
DWM
#399) - Jonathan Morris’ behind-the-scenes notes in
The Widow’s Curse
graphic novel specifies that this scene originated from a pitch of his where “Napoleon attacks Moscow with nuclear bombs”. The resolution to this dilemma is never told, but said temporal interference is presumably (but not necessarily) erased from history.

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