B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (101 page)

[
1365
] Dating
TimeH: The Severed Man
(
TimeH
#5) - A time-sensitive tells Honoré and Emily that they’re in 1921 (p108). Strangely, though,
TimeH: Echoes
p10 seems to state that these events happened in 1924.

[
1366
] Dating
The Daleks’ Master Plan
(4.4) - The script for episode seven, “The Feast of Steven”, specified a date of “1919”, but publicity material released on 1st October, 1965, stated that the TARDIS lands in “California 1921”. The film being made is a talkie, which means this must be after the release of
The Jazz Singer
in 1927. Numerous Hollywood personalities are seen or hinted at in the episode. Actor Rudolph Valentino made his debut in 1914, but was only really famous after
The Sheik
in 1921. Actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. debuted in 1915, but he wasn’t “big” (as he is described in the episode) until
The Three Musketeers
in 1921. Chaplin’s debut was 1914, but the film we see in production strongly resembles
Gold Rush
(1924). Bing Crosby didn’t go to Hollywood until 1930.
DWM
writer Richard Landen claimed a date of “1929”,
The TARDIS Special
offered “c.1920”.

[
1367
]
The Wages of Sin

[
1368
] Angus relates the story in
Terror of the Zygons
.

[
1369
] According to Commander Millington, the accident happened “over twenty years” before
The Curse of Fenric
, and Judson appears to blame Millington for it. The novelisation, also written by Ian Briggs, confirms that Millington was culpable.

[
1370
] “Wormwood”

[
1371
]
TW: Trace Memory

[
1372
]
TW: The Twilight Streets

[
1373
]
TimeH: Kitsune

[
1374
]
Assassin in the Limelight
. This is said to have taken place in “the summer of 23 or 24”, but Fender was more at his height in the former year, as England dropped him after 1924.

[
1375
] “The Age of Ice”. The likely suspect here is
The Life of Ernest Shackleton
(1923), published a year after Shackleton’s death, but it’s unclear who did the censoring as UNIT didn’t yet exist.

[
1376
] Dating
Paradox Lost
(NSA #48) - The exact day is given (p233).

[
1377
] Dating
Timewyrm: Exodus
(NA #2) - Part Two of the novel is set during the Munich Putsch, which took place between the 8th and 9th of November 1923. A textbook quoted in the novel erroneously gives the month as “September” (p95).

[
1378
]
Illegal Alien

[
1379
]
Iris: The Panda Invasion
. Historically speaking, the claim is a strange one. Eric Blair, a.k.a. George Orwell, wasn’t incarcerated but did serve as an imperial policeman in Burma from 1922 to 1927. Perhaps Iris was imprisoned and Orwell was her jailor.

[
1380
]
To the Slaughter

[
1381
]
Circular Time
: “Spring”. George Mallory and Andrew Irvine perished while attempting to climb Everest in June 1924, which perhaps makes the Doctor and Nyssa’s light-hearted banter about the topic a little inappropriate.

[
1382
] Torchwood.org.uk, elaborating on
TW: From Out of the Rain
.

[
1383
] First mentioned in
The Scarlet Empress
, with year specified in
Iris: Enter Wildthyme
.

[
1384
] “Forty-three years” before
Thin Ice
.

[
1385
]
TW: Golden Age
. The specific days are given - which is fortunate, as the time between 1924 and 2009 is variably rounded as “eighty years”, “about eighty years”, “over eighty years”, and “nearly ninety years”. The Duchess offhandedly suggests that Torchwood India collected, amongst other things, Yeti spheres and a one-eyed yellow idol from the north of Kathmandu. It’s difficult to imagine
The Abominable Snowmen
taking place before 1924 (this book dates it to 1935), so perhaps she’s just being whimsical about having such items.

[
1386
]
The Resurrection of Mars
. It’s a common misconception that “Caesar salad” originated with Julius Caesar - it actually started with Caesar Cardini, who is said to have created it during a 4th of July rush on his restaurant in 1924. Cardini died in 1956.

[
1387
]
The Magic Mousetrap.
The Weimar lasted from 1919-1933, and the height of its cabaret was 1930-ish, but Lola presumably performed before
The Magic Mousetrap
takes place in 1926.

[
1388
] Dating
The Clockwise Man
(NSA #1) - The date is given.

[
1389
] Dating
FP: Warlords of Utopia
(
FP
novel #3) - Scriptor is “18” when this sequence of events starts.

[
1390
]
FP: The Book of the War

[
1391
] Dating “The Futurists” (
DWM
#372-374) - It is “two decades into the new century”, and the Doctor says it is 1925 later in the story.

[
1392
]
Island of Death

[
1393
]
TW: Miracle Day

[
1394
] Dating
Black Orchid
(19.5) - The Doctor says it is “three o’clock, June the eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-five”.

[
1395
]
The Mind Robber

[
1396
]
Carnival of Monsters
. The Doctor has heard of the disappearance of the SS
Bernice
, but we see it vanish from the MiniScope and apparently return to its native time at the end of episode four. Perhaps the ship didn’t arrive home safely after all. Alternatively, perhaps the Doctor’s actions alter history, although this would make for something of a paradox.

[
1397
]
The Girl Who Never Was

[
1398
] Dating “The Gods Walk Among Us” (
DWM
#59) - The year is given in the opening caption.

[
1399
] Dating “Silver Scream” (IDW
DW
Vol. 1 #1-2) - A caption in issue #1 states that it’s “1926”, although when the Doctor returns to the scene in “Fugitive”, the caption says “1927”. It’s 1926 again when we see Maplin’s party once more at the end of “Final Sacrifice”. Matthew specifies in “Don’t Step on the Grass” that he met the Doctor in “late June 1926”, which would concur with a mention of Rudolph Valentino that implies he’s still alive - he died suddenly in August that year. Bizarrely, in ”Don’t Step on the Grass”, the Doctor wonders why Matthew - a native of 1926 - has never read
The Lord of the Rings
, which was published in 1954.

[
1400
] Dating
The Magic Mousetrap
(BF #120) - The year is given. This adventure appears to finish with two “pieces” of the Toymaker still lodged in Ace’s mind. The Toymaker claims he deliberately gave up his powers just to know what it was like to lose, but that could just be hyperbole.

[
1401
] Dating
The Unicorn and the Wasp
(X4.07) - The Doctor sniffs the air and states it’s the “1920s”, then later finds a newspaper giving the date as “8 December 1926”. Christie’s disappearance on that day is a matter of historical record; she was found on 19th December.

[
1402
]
The Androids of Tara.
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera lived 1888-1942. He spent six years as a world chess champion, ending in 1927.

[
1403
] “Fellow Travellers”. This may or may not be a reference to
The Abominable Snowman
. If so, it’s unclear which character Ella’s grandfather was.

[
1404
]
TW: Trace Memory

[
1405
]
Serpent Crest: Tsar Wars

[
1406
] Dating
Real Time
(BF BBCi #1) - Dr. Goddard identifies the date of Cyber-infection.

[
1407
] Dating
TW: Miracle Day
(
TW
4.7) - The year is twice given in captions. Angelo and Jack watch fireworks set off for the 4th of July celebrations, and Jack mentions that Franklin Roosevelt will be elected governor of New York “this November” (actually incorrect - that happened in November 1928, not 1927). The visa permit that Jack forges for Angelo bears the starting date of 2nd June, 1927, the expiration date of 9th December. The Trickster’s Brigade is a recurring villain in
The Sarah Jane Adventures
.

[
1408
]
The Power of Kroll
, and also mentioned in
Serpent Crest: Aladdin Time
. Dame Nellie Melba lived 1861-1931.

[
1409
]
Doctor Who - The Movie
. It’s possible these encounters were all on the same visit: Freud lived 1865-1939, Marie Curie 1867-1934, and Puccini 1858-1924. The only date given is that the Doctor was with Puccini shortly before he died.

[
1410
]
The Devil Goblins from Neptune

[
1411
]
Relative Dementias.
This is possibly a misremembering of
Doctor Who - The Movie
. The Doctor name-dropped Puccini in that story, but it was Leonardo da Vinci who had the cold.

[
1412
]
The City of the Dead

[
1413
]
Grimm Reality

[
1414
]
Borrowed Time
(p126).

[
1415
]
The Curse of the Black Spot

[
1416
]
Illegal Alien
(p83).

[
1417
]
Phantasmagoria

[
1418
] “Silent Scream”

[
1419
] Dating
TW: Miracle Day
(
TW
4.7) - Angelo has been locked away for “a year” when Jack re-enters his life, and Jack’s torture in the basement is later referenced as occurring in “1928”.

[
1420
] Dating
The Glamour Chase
(NSA #42) - The exact day is given (p23).