B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (98 page)

[
1173
] Per Torchwood.co.uk. There’s some confusion regarding Gerald’s surname - on screen he’s credited as just “Gerald”, the official Torchwood website gives his last name as “Carter”, but
The Torchwood Archives
and
Torchwood: The Encyclopedia
both claim that it’s “Kneale”.

[
1174
]
Human Nature
(TV). The Battle of Spion Kop occurred on 23rd and 24th January, 1900.

[
1175
]
The Daleks’ Master Plan, The Invasion of Time
,
The Unicorn and the Wasp.
This occurred on 17th May, 1900, when British troops ended the Siege of Mafeking during the second Boer War.

[
1176
]
TW: Consequences
: “Kaleidoscope”

[
1177
]
Paradox Lost

[
1178
]
The War Games
. The Boer War ran 1899-1902, the Boxer Rising was in 1900.

[
1179
]
TW: Miracle Day
. It’s not specified that this was for Torchwood, and it might’ve been during his time as a Time Agent.

[
1180
]
Year of the Pig
. The South African War (also known as the Second Boer War) lasted 1899-1902.

[
1181
]
The Unicorn and the Wasp

[
1182
] “The Glorious Dead”

[
1183
]
A Thousand Tiny Wings
. Baum lived 1856-1919;
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
saw print in 1900, but the described argument could have taken place either before or after publication.

[
1184
]
Iris: The Two Irises
. Arthur Balfour, UK Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905, lived 1848-1930.

[
1185
] Dating
Tales from the Vault
(BF CC 6.1) - Steven says that “The year is 1900”. The Battle of Spion Kop lasted from 23rd to 24th January.

[
1186
] Dating
FP: Warring States
(
FP
novel #4) - “Cousin Octavia... stepped... into a May afternoon in Peking, 1900” (p4). Prester John, here a member of Faction Paradox, is a legendary figure said to have ruled over a lost Christian nation.

[
1187
]
TW: Risk Assessment
. Victoria died on 22nd January, 1901, and as her conversation with Havisham occurs in December of a year that Victoria fears will see “her last Christmas”, it’s likely December 1900.

[
1188
] Dating
Foreign Devils
(TEL #5) - It’s “December 1900” (p35).

[
1189
] Dating
TW: Exit Wounds
(
TW
2.13) - The year is given.

[
1190
] “About seven years” after the 1894 component of
Iris: Enter Wildthyme
.

[
1191
]
TW: From Out of the Rain
, off a newspaper reported dated “August 11th 1901”.

[
1192
]
The Mind Robber

[
1193
]
Byzantium
! (p179). No date given, but McKinley was shot 6th September, 1901, and died eight days later.

[
1194
]
Demon Quest: The Demon of Paris.
Toulouse-Lautrec died 9th September, 1901.

[
1195
]
TW: Dead Man Walking
. Proust lived 1871-1922.

[
1196
] As strongly implied by a photo of Jack and an unidentified woman in
TW: Something Blue
.
The Torchwood Archives
state that the marriage occurred “in the early 1900s”. The eleventh Doctor mentions “all of Jack’s stag parties” in
The Wedding of River Song
.

[
1197
] Dating
Cryptobiosis
(BF subscription promo #3) - The date is given.

[
1198
]
Benny: Walking to Babylon

[
1199
]
TW: Trace Memory
. Sam is 96 in 1967, and says that he met Jack when he was 31 (p184-185). The second Boer War ended in 1902.

[
1200
]
TW:
“Hell House”

[
1201
]
The Silent Stars Go By
. Lt General Robert Baden-Powell, a.k.a. Lord Baden-Powell, served in India and Africa from 1876 to 1910, and authored many books on the art of reconnaissance and scout training.

[
1202
]
Eye of Heaven

[
1203
]
J&L: Swan Song
. No year given, but Bernhardt debuted as Hamlet in the silent film
Le Duel d’Hamlet
(1900), and would have been more likely to have continued in the role prior to a leg injury she incurred in 1905. Gangrene forced an amputation in 1915, although her acting career did continue.

[
1204
]
Circular Time:
“Autumn”. Wodehouse lived 1881-1975, but the date is otherwise arbitrary.

[
1205
]
The Suffering
. Raffles is a fictional “gentleman thief” created by Arthur Conan Doyle’s brother-in-law, E.W. Hornung, as something of a mirror reflection of Sherlock Holmes. The first collection of Raffles stories was published in 1899; the last by Hornung - a novel,
Mr. Justice Raffles
- saw print in 1909.

[
1206
]
Wishing Well

[
1207
] “One hundred and seven Earth years” before “Ghosts of the Northern Line”.

[
1208
] Dating
Horror of Fang Rock
(15.1) - The Terrance Dicks novelisation and contemporary publicity material set the story “at the turn of the century”. Electric power was introduced to lighthouses around the turn of the century. Fang Rock is in the English Channel (“five or six miles” from Southampton) and is particularly treacherous, and was probably upgraded early on.

There’s a reference to King Edward. As fan Alex Wilcock has noted, although the Doctor’s style of dress is often referred to as “Edwardian”, this is the only
Doctor Who
TV story set in the Edwardian period (and there’s not a frock coat to be seen). The young lighthouse worker Vince states that the Beast was last seen “eighty years ago”, “back in the twenties”.
The Programme Guide
offered the date “1909”,
The Terrestrial Index
claimed “1904”.
The TARDIS Logs
suggested “c.1890”,
The Doctor Who File
“early 1900s”.
The TARDIS Special
gave the date “1890s”.
Timelink
makes a convincing case for 1902, based on mumbled references to Salisbury and Bonar Law.

[
1209
] Dating
Forty-Five:
“False Gods” (BF #115a) - It’s “1902”.

[
1210
] Dating
Revenge of the Judoon
(
Quick Reads
#3) - The back cover gives the year; in the story the Doctor says it’s “the very beginning of the twentieth century”.

[
1211
]
The City of the Dead

[
1212
] “The Curse of the Scarab”. It’s “forty years” before the story, but that’s clearly rounding up as the Melies’ silent movie
Trip to the Moon
is referenced, and that was released in 1902.

[
1213
] “The Fallen”

[
1214
]
Year of the Pig
. Toby’s fan Alice Bultitude later shows him film footage of this event - even though 1903 is rather early for footage of this kind.

[
1215
]
Jubilee

[
1216
] Dating
The Sleep of Reason
(EDA #70) - We’re told it’s “Thursday 24th December 1903” at the start of this section (p22).

[
1217
] “One hundred years” before
SJS: Buried Secrets
.

[
1218
] Dating
Freakshow
(BF promo #9,
DWM
#419) - The year is given.

[
1219
]
Only Human

[
1220
] One hundred years before
Catch-1782
.

[
1221
]
The Romans

[
1222
] Mentioned in
Planet of the Spiders, Revenge of the Cybermen,
“Voyager”,
The Pit, Head Games, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Devil Goblins from Neptune, The Church and the Crown, Eye of Heaven
,
Independence Day, Dreamland
(
DW
) and “Don’t Step on the Grass”. There’s no date given in any of those stories. Houdini lived 1874-1926.

[
1223
]
The Vampires of Venice

[
1224
]
The Ribos Operation.
No date is given, but this is presumably the magician John Neville Maskelyne (1839-1917, and also mentioned in
Camera Obscura
), although it could be his grandson, the magician Jasper Maskelyne (1902-1973).

[
1225
] “Centuries” before
The Murder Game, The Final Sanction.

[
1226
]
The Tomorrow Windows. Peter Pan
was published in 1905.

[
1227
]
Casualties of War.
Pankhurst was a founder of the British suffragette movement. She was chained to Number Ten in 1905.

[
1228
]
Smith and Jones

[
1229
]
The Stones of Blood
. No date given. Einstein lived 1879-1955, publishing his Special and General Theories of Relativity in 1905 and 1915 respectively. He also appeared in
Time and the Rani
, but it isn’t made clear if he and the Doctor already knew one another.

[
1230
]
The Magic Mousetrap

[
1231
]
TW: Miracle Day

[
1232
] “Final Sacrifice”

[
1233
] Dating “Final Sacrifice” (IDW
DW
Vol. 1, #13-16) - A caption tells us it’s “1906”. Lewis says “the British Empire will rise again”, but actually, it was still in good shape in 1906. The tripod is presumably a reference to
The War of the Worlds
; the remains of the “giant metal man” recovered from the Thames presumably refers to the CyberKing (
The Next Doctor
), in defiance of it looking on screen as if it was completely disintegrated.