B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (106 page)

[
1674
] Dating
Dying in the Sun
(PDA #47) - Early on, a newspaper is dated “12 October 1947” (p17).

[
1675
] Dating
Ghosts of India
(NA #25) - The year is given.

[
1676
] Dating “The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop” (
DWM
#429) - It’s prior to Lewis writing
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
, the manuscript of which was finished in March 1949.

[
1677
]
Happy Endings
. Tolkien’s wedding gift is a first edition of
The Hobbit
, which was published in 1937.

[
1678
]
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
, and also referred to in
The Face of the Enemy.

[
1679
]
Dalek

[
1680
]
Peacemaker

[
1681
]
Dreamland
(
DW
). The date is given in a caption. See the Unfixed Points in Time sidebar.

[
1682
]
Divided Loyalties.
Pollock was influential to the abstract expressionism movement.

[
1683
]
Heart of TARDIS

[
1684
]
Ghosts of India

[
1685
]
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
(p240).

[
1686
]
Interference
. We see it in
The Hand of Fear
.

[
1687
]
Fear Her

[
1688
]
TW: Slow Decay

[
1689
]
The End of Time
(TV)

[
1690
]
SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
. No date given, but this is before Sarah Jane is born in 1951.

[
1691
]
FP: The Labyrinth of Histories
, extrapolating from the godfather’s grandfather being conceived circa February 1899.

[
1692
] Dating
The Cabinet of Light
(TEL #9) - The year is 1949, according to p14 and the back cover blurb.
TimeH: Peculiar Lives
specifies that the pyjama-clad Emily was found wandering the streets of London in “late 1949” (p13). The Doctor admits that his own memories are “hazy”, and so he might be conflating the story of his last regeneration with the one in
Doctor Who - The Movie
. (Alternatively, it might have happened exactly as he claims.)

Emily’s amnesia is attributed to Mestizer’s agents attacking her. Given the murky recollections of everyone involved, though, it could stem from the blow to the head she receives at the end of
TimeH: Child of Time
.

[
1693
]
TimeH: Child of Time

[
1694
] Dating
TimeH: The Winning Side
(
TimeH
#1) - The
Time Hunter
novella series picks up in wake of events in
The Cabinet of Light
; the year is variously reiterated as 1949. Pages 7 and 78 say that Emily is “killed” on a “cool, crisp December night”.

[
1695
] “Twenty years” before
The Underwater Menace.

[
1696
]
The Scales of Injustice
. No date is given.

[
1697
]
Return of the Living Dad
. This happened in “the fifties” (p66).

[
1698
]
Instruments of Darkness

[
1699
]
Psi-ence Fiction
. No date is given.

[
1700
] According to the Doctor in
Dreamland
(
DW
).

[
1701
]
The Eye of the Jungle

[
1702
]
TW: Department X

[
1703
]
TW: Slow Decay

[
1704
]
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
(p37).

[
1705
] “Fifteen years” before
The Scales of Injustice
.

[
1706
]
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
(p56),
The King of Terror
(p126).

[
1707
] “About a year” before
Endgame
(EDA).

[
1708
]
TW: Trace Memory
, extrapolating from the fact that Valentine’s paper trail vanishes in that year, and his records were later purged by Torchwood.

[
1709
] Dating
TimeH: The Tunnel at the End of the Light
(
TimeH
#2) - The cover bears the year, and when all is said and done, Honoré and Emily return to their starting point of “early 1950” (p150).

[
1710
]
TimeH: The Clockwork Woman
;
TimeH: Kitsune
;
TimeH: The Severed Man
;
TimeH: Echoes
. Honoré and Emily tend to return home after each adventure, and the intros to each novella (as well as some internal references, including
The Severed Man
, pgs. 60-61, 106;
Echoes
, p9) reiterate that they originate from 1950.

[
1711
] Dating
TimeH: Peculiar Lives
(
TimeH
#7) - The month and year are given as June (pgs 13, 41, 82), and an epilogue references some incidental events on “early July” (p127) and “5th September” (p129).

[
1712
]
TimeH: Deus Le Volt
. Honoré mentions some relaxation of rationing in the United Kingdom, as historically occurred in May 1950.

[
1713
] “Forty years” after
Pyramids of Mars
.

[
1714
]
The Daemons

[
1715
]
TW: The House That Jack Built
. This event still occurs even once the house’s history is revised.

[
1716
]
SJA: Eye of the Gorgon

[
1717
]
TW: Ghost Train

[
1718
] Dating
TimeH: The Sideways Door
(
TimeH
#10) - After Honoré and Emily cross over into the parallel reality, page 32 reads: “The masthead on
The Times
confirmed the date was the same as it had been that morning: 13 February 1951.” While this would seem to mean that it’s 13th February in Honoré and Emily’s native reality as well,
TimeH: Child of Time
- set in either late November or December 1951 - claims (p12) that events in
The Sideways Door
happened only “weeks” ago. The only way to reconcile this is to assume that some time displacement does occur when they cross from one Earth to another, but that’s certainly not the impression one gets here.

[
1719
] Dating
TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer
(
TimeH
#9) - The exact day is repeatedly given.

[
1720
] According to
SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
, Sarah was “13” by mid-July, 1964.
SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
establishes that she was “three months old” in August 1951, suggesting she was born in May. We can further narrow the date as
SJA: Secrets of the Stars
says that Sarah is a Taurus, which lasts 20th April to 21st May.

In
SJA: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
, Sarah says she was “23” when she met the Doctor (in
The Time Warrior
) - the same as her age given on screen in
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
(although in the novelisation of that story, she’s “22”). Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah, was born in 1948. In the format document for the proposed
K9 and Company
series, it’s stated that Sarah was born in “1949”. She was “about 30” in the spin-off novel
Harry Sullivan’s War
(suggesting a birth date of 1955), and she’s born “over sixty years” after 1880 in
Evolution
(p242).

[
1721
]
TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer

[
1722
] Dating
SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
(
SJA
2.5) - The precise date is given.

[
1723
] Dating
TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer
(
TimeH
#9) - The exact day is repeatedly given, and while it’s stated within the text and on the cover that Honoré and Emily now originate from 1951, the introduction - as with the previous six
Time Hunter
novellas - continues to stubbornly insist that it’s 1950.

[
1724
]
TimeH: The Sideways Door

[
1725
] Dating
TimeH: Child of Time
(
TimeH
#11) - This is the final
Time Hunter
novella. It’s reiterated that it’s still 1951. The day is given (p15), and it’s been “a couple of weeks” (pgs 12, 15) since the previous novella.

[
1726
] Dating
Timewyrm: Exodus
(NA #2) - In Part One of the novel, the Doctor proclaims it to be the “Festival of Britain, 1951” (p5). At the end of the novel, the Doctor and Ace arrive at the real Festival of Britain.

[
1727
] Dating
Endgame
(EDA #40) - The year is given (p242).

[
1728
]
Father Time
(p58).

[
1729
]
Zagreus
, again judging by a historical simulation.

[
1730
] Dating
Real Time
(BF BBCi #1) - The date is given, episode one, track 1.

[
1731
]
The Plotters.
If we take the writers’ guidelines at face value, she would have been 12 at the time.