B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (94 page)

[
1015
] Dating
The Unquiet Dead
(X1.3) - The Doctor gives the year (having originally aimed for 1860). The date is given a number of times, first on a poster in Dickens’ dressing room. The Doctor, Rose and Jack’s discussion about the Rift in
Boom Town
seems to indicate that it predates events in
The Unquiet Dead
.

[
1016
] The Doctor uses the Rift to refuel the TARDIS in
Boom Town
and
Utopia
. Evidence of the Rift attracting alien beings and technology to Cardiff is witnessed throughout
Torchwood
.

[
1017
]
TW: Ghost Train

[
1018
]
Journey’s End
, providing an explanation within
Doctor Who
as to why Gwen and Gwyneth look identical (as both were played by Eve Myles). From her conversation with Rose about boys, Gwyneth is very clearly not a mother in
The Unquiet Dead
, and so Gwen is not her descendant, and the physical resemblance seems more like a result of (to coin a phrase) “time echoing” than genetics.

[
1019
]
Utopia.
It may or may not be coincidence that 1869 is the year the TARDIS landed at the Rift in
The Unquiet Dead
. Jack’s immortality is first revealled in
TW: Everything Changes
.

[
1020
]
The Criminal Code
. Evans lived 1819 to 1880.

[
1021
] “Your Destiny Awaits”. This happens when Sitting Bull is a Sioux leader, which started no later than 1864, and ended with his surrender in 1881.

[
1022
] Dating
Industrial Evolution
(BF #145) - The period is generalised as “nineteenth century Lancashire”, but the Doctor would hardly want to deposit Brewster in his personal past, and there’s no sign on this occasion of the TARDIS missing its mark. It’s probably relevant that when the Doctor offers to take Brewster home in
The Feast of Axos
, he suggests a destination of “about 1870”, to which Brewster replies, “That’ll do.”

[
1023
] According to Angus in
Terror of the Zygons.

[
1024
]
Horror of Fang Rock

[
1025
]
The War Games

[
1026
]
Companion Piece

[
1027
] Dating
Set Piece
(NA #35) - It is “1871 CE” (p62). The Commune fell on 28th May, 1871. Ace’s departure in
Set Piece
deliberately echoes the epilogue to
The Curse of Fenric
novelisation, in which the Doctor visits an older Ace in nineteenth-century Paris, some time after she’s departed his company. Reconciling the epilogue with the New Adventures is difficult, as the epilogue takes place in 1887 (p186 and 188) when Ace is still a “young lady”. Given her aging in the New Adventures, this makes it unlikely that she lives in Paris for all of the sixteen years between 1871 and 1887. Fortunately, the New Adventures have Ace taking up time travel after
Set Piece
, and using a time-jump to facilitate her meeting with the Doctor in 1887 would explain a great deal.

[
1028
]
The Devil Goblins from Neptune

[
1029
]
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
. Greel arrived in 1872, according to
The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
.

[
1030
]
FP: The Book of the War
. She’s in her “eleventh year” in 1883 according to
FP: Warring States
(p52).

[
1031
]
The Girl Who Never Was

[
1032
]
TW: The Twilight Streets

[
1033
]
TW: Risk Assessment
. Havisham says that the zombie incident occurred “a few years” after a space-time disturbance “shifted” the Rift - presumably a reference to
The Unquiet Dead
.

[
1034
]
Birthright

[
1035
] Dating
Eye of Heaven
(PDA #8) - The date is given (p17).

[
1036
] Dating
The Chase
(2.8) - The emptied
Mary Celeste
was discovered in November 1872.

[
1037
] Dating
100
: “The 100 Days of the Doctor” (BF #100d) - It’s the “1870s”. The Tharsis Acumen is said to lack time travel, and to have existed for “only a few centuries”, so the Doctor could theoretically have freed their slaves at just about any point from (say) the 1500s to the twenty-second century.

[
1038
]
The Curse of Fenric

[
1039
]
Head Games

[
1040
]
The Stones of Blood

[
1041
]
Pyramids of Mars

[
1042
]
Doctor Who and the Pirates
. The Doctor says he “paced” Webb, which indicates he was swimming ahead of Webb to increase the man’s pace rather than trying to defeat him.

[
1043
] Dating
The Silver Turk
(BF #153) - A newspaper has the dateline “11th September, 1873”. The Doctor mentions the real-life Turk - an automation exhibited starting in 1770, was exposed as a fraud in the 1820s, and was incinerated in a fire in 1854.

[
1044
] Dating
Strange England
(NA #29) - The Doctor says that the “temporal location” is “1873” (p229).

[
1045
] Dating “Bad Blood” (
DWM
#338-342) - The date is given in a caption.

[
1046
]
The Pirate Planet
. Bandraginus V disappeared “over a century” ago according to the Doctor, when the Zanak native Balaton was young. As Zanak is not capable of time travel, it must have been operating at least that long. The planets attacked by Zanak are named in production documents, and plaques were made up with the names on... but only those for Bandraginus V, Granados, Lowiteliom and Calufrax are clearly visible on screen.
First Frontier
gives a little more detail about Bandraginus V (p129).

[
1047
]
TW: The Twilight Streets
, explaining how Abaddon came to be imprisoned beneath Cardiff (
TW: End of Days
).

[
1048
]
The Android Invasion
. Bell lived 1847-1922.

[
1049
]
Father’s Day.
Bell’s famous phone call occurred on 10th March, 1876.

[
1050
]
Players
(p62),
Festival of Death.
Custer was killed 25th June, 1876.

[
1051
]
The Edge of Destruction
. Gilbert and Sullivan collaborated between 1875-1896.

[
1052
]
Doctor Who and the Pirates

[
1053
]
TW: Trace Memory

[
1054
] “When Worlds Collide”. Billy the Kid lived 1859-1881.

[
1055
] Dating
Imperial Moon
(PDA #34) - It’s “the year of our Lord 1878” (p7).

[
1056
] Dating
Tooth and Claw
(X2.2) - The Doctor gives the date as “1879”. The book
Creatures and Demons
(a nonfiction book about various
Doctor Who
monsters) suggests that the parallel universe first seen in
Rise of the Cybermen
diverged from our history because Queen Victoria was killed in their (Doctorless) version of these events. The series itself was going to state this, but Russell T Davies decided against it. While it might explain why the Britain of that universe is a Republic, it doesn’t explain why the Queen’s successor would create Torchwood - an organisation founded in response to the Doctor and Rose irritating Victoria. Perhaps the Queen’s death at the hands of a werewolf triggered an urge to defend Britain against such foes.

[
1057
]
TW: Children of Earth

[
1058
]
Army of Ghosts,
with the date of the Charter’s establishment stated in
The Torchwood Archives
and on Home Office files in
TW: Children of Earth
.

[
1059
]
TW: Risk Assessment
.
The Torchwood Archives
establishes that Victoria gave orders for the founding of Torchwood Cardiff in 1879.
TW: Slow Decay
provides confirmation that it was operating no later than 1885.

[
1060
]
TW: Golden Age

[
1061
]
TW:
“Rift War”

[
1062
] “Wormwood”

[
1063
]
Storm Warning
. Roarke’s Drift occurred on 22nd to 23rd January, 1879.

[
1064
] Dating
Evolution
(MA #2) - It is the “year of grace eighteen hundred and eighty” (p6, p108). Events here seem to influence Conan Doyle regarding
The Hound of the Baskervilles
, which was written in 1902. Kipling lived 1865-1936, so he is “15” here (p45).

[
1065
]
Storm Warning
. No date given, but the Doctor did meet him in
Evolution
. Conan Doyle lived 1859-1930.

[
1066
]
Tooth and Claw
(TV). Bell lived 1837-1911, and Conan Doyle studied under him. Note that in
The Moonbase
, the Doctor remembers studying in Glasgow under Lister in 1888. Either he studied under both, or has altered the details slightly here.

[
1067
]
Storm Warning,
”The Golden Ones”. Despite the eleventh Doctor using “Geronimo” as a catch-phrase, only these two stories claim that he actually met the man. Geronimo lived 16th June, 1829, to 17th February, 1909. He instigated revenge attacks after soldiers killed his family in 1858, and surrendered in 1886.

[
1068
] Dating “The Greatest Gamble” (
DWM
#56) - The date is given.

[
1069
]
TW: The Twilight Streets

[
1070
]
TW: To the Last Man