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In Baltimore, news of Anthony Chambers’ “murder” became public, and Peri arrived with the sixth Doctor to attend the man’s funeral. She had been gone for four months. Peri’s mother - Janine Foster - and Howard had divorced.

A Cyber-Leader from the far future, who had arrived two years before, attempted to compel the Doctor to pilot his acquired time-ship back to prehistoric Earth, and to retroactively initiate the conversion of humanity into Cybermen. The Doctor deposited the Cyber-Leader on the contemporary Mondas, where the indigenous Cybermen viewed the Leader as defective and scheduled him for reprocessing.

In the course of this investigation, the media branded the Doctor as a dangerous criminal. The Cyber-augmented Anthony Chambers went dormant, but not before grievously wounding his own son Nate.

Peri decided to leave the Doctor, live with her mother and enrol at university. However, she kept half of a Cyber-conversion egg as a memento. The device exploded, killing Janine Foster and her friend, Mrs Van Gysegham. Peri resumed travelling with the Doctor.

After Janine died, Katherine Chambers took the other half of the Cyber-conversion egg and went into hiding with her crippled brother. She had studied medicine at Boston, and a colleague of hers from university - James Clarke - helped them relocate to Brisbane. Kathy finished her education and became a doctor, but Nate’s condition worsened and she turned him into a pseudo-Cyberman.
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1984 - The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
 [608]

As a result of the Zygon scheme to boost global warming, CDs had been manufactured to emit invisible gas when they were played.

Along with her Zygon husband Trevor, Lucie Miller’s Aunty Pat was now running a hotel - the Bygones Guest House - near Lake Grasmere. Trevor’s Skarasen had chewed a tunnel between Allswater and Grassmere, under the mountains; the creature was glimpsed from time to time, boosting the tourist trade.

Three members of Trevor’s crew tracked down their former leader, and retrieved their stolen crystal lattice which - as the product of organic crystallography - had bonded to Patricia’s flesh. They tore it away, killing her. Trevor ordered his Skarasen to attack the Zygons’ spaceship. The Skarasen, the crew and the spaceship were all destroyed in an explosion.

Lucie thought Trevor had died, and was unaware that her Aunty Pat had perished. Trevor shapeshifted one last time, and assumed his late wife’s form. In the decades to come, “he” fulfilled history by masquerading as the Aunty Pat that Lucie had grown up with. The eighth Doctor knew about the deception.

= c 1984 (winter) - Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma
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On Trion, the dictator Rehctaht fell from power, and the exiled Clansmen - including Turlough - returned home to a hero’s welcome. Turlough used his knowledge of TARDISes to build the first-ever ARTEMIS drive, a time-travel device that used “muon” particles. On New Trion, Turlough discovered a copy of an alien edifice named the Mobile Castle, and equipped it with a second ARTEMIS drive. The in-flight Castle was sabotaged and crashed onto Trion, destroying the planet. Earth and New Trion were subsequently annihilated in nuclear conflicts.

Turlough discovered that Rehctaht had transferred her mind into the body of his old friend Juras Maateh, and had engineered Earth, Trion and New Trion’s obliteration to further her gravity control experiments, hoping to gain the secret of time travel. Turlough killed Rechtaht/Juras, then travelled back in time to prevent this history from occurring.

In 1984, scientists in Princeton discovered Strange Matter.
 [610]
The seventh Doctor and Mel visited the Welsh village of Llanfer Ceiriog.
 [611]
Torchwood bought the London security firm HC Clements.
 [612]

1984 - “The Fires Down Below”
 [613]

Lethbridge-Stewart sent Major Whitaker of UNIT to Reykjavik to investigate an unnatural increase in volcanic activity. The UNIT troops discovered a squad of Quarks planting seismic charges. A member of the party, Professor Iskander, learned that the Dominators were planning to destroy Earth to extract its core for fuel. The UNIT troops attacked, then escaped as the Dominators’ machines exploded and destroyed the aliens.

(=) 1984 - TimeH: The Winning Side
 [614]

Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish visited a parallel timeline where the release of nuclear secrets in 1949 had caused a massive suppression of education, schools, libraries and scientists, and a single Party had uncontested political power.

1985 - Attack of the Cybermen
 [615]

The police had been aware of Lytton, a sophisticated thief who had stolen valuable electronic components, for a year. Lytton had discovered the Cybermen were operating in the sewers of London and was trying to contact them. The Cybermen tried, but failed, to divert Halley’s Comet so that it would crash into Earth and avert the destruction of Mondas in 1986.

The Cybermen captured Lytton and lured the sixth Doctor and Peri to Telos in the future.

c 1985 - The Two Doctors
 [616]

Some years ago, the Doctor had officially represented the Time Lords at the opening of space station Chimera in the Third Zone. Now a renegade, his second incarnation - accompanied by Jamie - was sent to the station by the Time Lords. Experiments conducted by professors Kartz and Reimer were registering 0.4 on the Bocca Scale, and could potentially threaten the stability of space-time.

Before the Doctor could finish lodging a protest with the Head of Projects - his old friend, Joinson Dastari - a Sontaran attack devastated the station. The Third Zone had been betrayed by Chessene of the Franzine Grig, an Androgum that Dastari had technologically augmented.

The Doctor was captured and taken to Seville by one of Chessene’s Sontaran allies, Major Varl. He was joined by Group Marshall Stike of the Ninth Sontaran Attack Group. The Sontarans wanted Dastari to operate on the Doctor and discover the means by which Time Lords had a symbiotic relationship with their travel capsules. They hoped to create a time capsule for use against the Rutan in the Madillon Cluster.

The sixth Doctor and Peri traced his earlier self to Seville, which he had visited before. He helped to rescue his former self and defeat the Sontaran plan. Chessene, Dastari and the Sontarans all died.

The sixth Doctor dropped Peri off on Earth in 1985. She didn’t expect to see him again.
 [617]

1985 - “Kane’s Story”
 [618]

The sixth Doctor and Frobisher went to New York and met up with Peri, who rejoined the TARDIS crew.

A Zygon spaceship exploded, stranding Commander Kritakh and his second, Torlakh, on Earth. They assumed human form, and set about committing industrial espionage to increase Earth’s greenhouse gas emissions. If successful, Earth would become as warm as the Zygon homeworld.
 [619]
The third Doctor and Jo met an N-form in Tranquilandia the time they met the drug baron Gomez.
 [620]
SeneNet acquired a Sontaran Mezon rifle.
 [621]

= Fitz saw the Beatles perform at Live Aid in a parallel universe.
 [622]

On the planet Artaris, the immortal Grayvorn kept shifting identities and rose to the rank of Reeve, becoming known as Reeve Maupassant.
 [623]
In July 1986, the wreck of the
Titanic
was discovered.
 [624]
A virus on Lalanda 21185 created hundreds of thousands of zombies.
 [625]
Artist Karen Kuykendall created the Tarot of the Cat-People.
 [626]

@ Iris Wildthyme visited the eighth Doctor and Miranda and tried (unsuccessfully) to explain the gaps in his memories. That year, the Doctor won the London Marathon.
 [627]
Dorothy McShane was disillusioned when she met her idol, pop star Johnny Chess.
 [628]

During the mid-eighties, Carol Bell worked for an arms manufacturer, watching SF films to inspire the creation of new weapons.
 [629]
She had attained the rank of captain during her time with UNIT, but was rendered brain-damaged in a car accident.
 [630]

@ The eighth Doctor was offered a chair at Cambridge, but declined as he was dedicated to looking after Miranda.2
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@ c 1985 (spring) - Father Time
 [632]

Sallak escaped from prison and summoned his people, the Klade, from the far future. Ferran, brother of Zevron, arrived through a time corridor in an abandoned tower block in a northern city. Ferran and Sallak killed the comatose Barry Castle as revenge for Zevron’s death, then set their sights on the eighth Doctor and Miranda.

Ferran became enamoured of Miranda and explained her alien heritage to her, but the Doctor sent him back to the far future. Miranda shot and killed Sallak, then went on the run.

Mr Wynter negotiated the price per kilo as part of a deal to fund the Contras, then bumped a rail up his nose while they mowed down their enemies with the weapons their money had purchased.
 [633]
The eleventh Doctor visited a Little Green Storage facility on the Isle of Dogs.
 [634]
Raine Creevy went to King’s University College.
 [635]

1985 (12th December) - “Skywatch-7”
 [636]

A Zygon attacked Skywatch-7, a UNIT radar station in the Arctic. The UNIT staff saw it off, and the intruder died after falling into frozen water.

1986

In 1986, Toshiko Sato moved back to the UK from Japan.
 [637]
Matthew Hatch was exposed to the power of the Jack i’ the Green and started planning to release him.
 [638]
On 28th January, 1986, the
Challenger
exploded.
 [639]

On the 26th April, 1986, a strange light shone over Takhail in the USSR - radiation from the Chernobyl disaster irradiated 11-year-old Piotr Arkady, and killed everyone else in the village.
 [640]

Martha Jones, a companion of the tenth Doctor, was born
in 1986.
 [641]
Henry John Parker went into seclusion.
 [642]
In 1986, two students were incinerated while exploring a house in the “haunted” Tretarri in Cardiff.
 [643]
When Owen Harper was six, he went to see his piano teacher after Christmas... only to discover the man had died, and been eaten by his cats.
 [644]
The sixth Doctor insisted that his coat was the height of fashion.
 [645]

c 1986 - Harry Sullivan’s War
 [646]

Surgeon-Commander Harry Sullivan was reassigned to a NATO chemical weapons centre on the island of Yarra, and researched the lethal toxin Attila 305. He found a nykor inhibitase that showed great promise in both curing infertility and providing an antidote to the toxin.

Led by Zbigniew Brodsky, a terrorist group named the European Anarchist Revolution stole three ampules of the toxin. Harry exposed his department head, Conrad Gold, as being part of the conspiracy. Brodsky’s group was using the Van Gogh Appreciation Society as a front for its operations, and French authorities rounded up the terrorists during the Society’s annual meeting at the Eiffel Tower.

Harry celebrated his forty-first birthday.

c 1986 - The Nightmare Fair
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The Celestial Toymaker set up operations in Blackpool, and manufactured video games that manifested monsters to kill the game-players when they lost. He intended to mass produce the games, but also sought to revenge himself upon the Doctor, and drew the TARDIS to Blackpool. The sixth Doctor and Peri imprisoned the Toymaker in a holofield that was powered by the Toymaker’s own mind, and would keep him looped in time for the rest of his life. The Doctor made plans to transport the bubbled Toymaker to somewhere that he wouldn’t be noticed.

The Ventusans served as mechanics at this time, and kept half the spacefleets in the galaxy running. A replica of Blackpool was being built out by the Crab Nebula - but to the Doctor’s horror, it was, compared to the genuine article, being built for a
purpose
. The Pathfinders serving in an entirely pointless galactic war were now part of the Third Federation Force for Peace.