B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (196 page)

[
1361
] Dating
Code of the Krillitanes
(
Quick Reads
#5) - The year is given.

[
1362
] Dating
The Forgotten Army
(NSA #39) - The Doctor says it’s 2010. The Doctor’s mention of the Ood Food Guide praising June 2010 might suggest the month. It’s “a Saturday night” (p110, p151).

[
1363
] Presuming for even a second that the Doctor isn’t just having Amy on with his wild claims of “the Doctor Burger”, his having purchased an entire street on her behalf
and
his having banned ketchup on said street, it’s not specified
which
street he’s named after her. A “Pond Street” exists in Staten Island, but not Manhattan, where the story seems to take place.

[
1364
] Dating “The Golden Ones” (
DWM
#425-428) - The story was published in 2010, and looks contemporary. It’s after UNIT has changed its name to become the Unified Intelligence Taskforce.

[
1365
] “The Child of Time” (
DWM
). Chiyoko’s temporal undoing of her actions (meaning “The Golden Ones” was erased from history) is fortunate, given that events in this story heavily contradict
The Feast of Axos
.

[
1366
] Dating
Doomsday
(X2.13) - Pete states that “three years” have passed since the end of
The Age of Steel
; this must mean that it’s 2010. In “our” universe, it’s still 2007 (confirmed in
TW: Everything Changes
and
The Runaway Bride
, and as can be inferred from Jackie saying she’s “forty” in
Army of Ghosts
and telling Pete he “died twenty years ago” in
Doomsday
).

Perhaps the disruption caused by travelling between the two universes has knocked them out of sync. It means that Mickey, Pete and Jake are all three years older in
Army of Ghosts
than they were in
The Age of Steel
(even though they all look exactly the same as before), and that Jackie is “officially” three years older there than her actual age (which presumably she’s not happy about).

Jackie is three months pregnant by the time the Doctor contacts Rose, so it takes at least three months (of parallel universe time, at any rate) for him to do so.

[
1367
] Dating
Vincent and the Doctor
(X5.10) - The Doctor tells Vincent that it’s “Paris, 2010 AD”; he and Amy first visit the museum “a few days” beforehand.

Like Martha before her, the main “present day” events of Amy’s first season are compressed into a very short period, so, technically, other “present day” stories (in Amy’s case, this story and
The Lodger
) must happen out of sequence with those events and can be safely placed elsewhere. There’s snow on the ground outside Musee d'Orsay, everyone is wrapped warmly and their breath is visible - snow in Paris is very rare in April, although it did happen, without much accumulation, in 2008. Further research into this was thwarted because neither of this guidebook’s authors speak French.

[
1368
] Dating
The Big Bang
(X5.13) - The scene occurs the same day as
The Lodger
(TV).

[
1369
] Dating
The Lodger
(X5.11) - An advert on Craig’s fridge for a “Vincent Van Gogh: The Great Innovator” exhibit is dated “13th March-29th August, 2010”. (This isn’t the same exhibit that the Doctor and Amy visit in
Vincent and the Doctor
, especially as Craig has never been to Paris and can’t see the point of it.) It’s a time of year when people are wearing jackets and even gloves. The population of the Earth is given as 6,000,400,026 ... fewer people than were on Earth in
The End of Time
(TV), which either suggests that
The Lodger
is set before that, or that the Cracks in Time have temporarily “erased” some of Earth’s population (see the Cracks in Time sidebar). Either way, it’s preferable that
The Lodger
occurs before the other “modern-day” stories in Series 5, as at least two years elapse between this story and
Closing Time
, which likely occurs in spring 2012 (see the dating notes on that story).

[
1370
] Dating
TW: The House of the Dead
(
TW
audio drama #7) – Jack tells Ianto’s shade, “Six months ago, you died in my arms”, so this is just prior to Jack’s leaving Earth in the epilogue of
TW: Children of Earth
. Barring on any further stories that address the topic, the Rift is here sealed forever – which might explain why Jack finally feels at liberty to relinquish his duty to Cardiff and depart into space.

[
1371
] Dating
TW: Children of Earth
(
TW
3.05) - It’s “six months” after the defeat of the 456.

[
1372
]
The End of Time
(TV). This occurs after
TW: Children of Earth
.

[
1373
] Dating
TW: First Born
(
TW
novel #17) - Gwen is currently “seven months” pregnant (p5). It’s possible that this scene is the start of Gwen and Rhys being forced to go underground, following their meet-up with Jack in March 2010 at the end of
TW: Children of Earth
. No reason is given as to why the government has left them alone this long, although
TW: The Men Who Sold the World
hints that the UK has a new coalition government, which might have negated the damning video evidence collected against Prime Minister Green’s administration in
Children of Earth
.

[
1374
] Dating
The End of Time
(X4.17-4.18) - We’re told that Donna planned to marry in the spring.

[
1375
] Dating
Death and Diplomacy
and
Happy Endings
(NA #49-50) - The Virgin version of
Ahistory
dated
Death and Diplomacy
to the present day, based upon the synopsis. The final book has Benny asking Jason the year, and him replying that it’s “Nineteen ninety-six when I last looked. Mind you, that was something like fifteen years ago, more or less. I had a watch once, but it broke and I lost count” (p123).

While it’s reasonable to take Jason’s “something like fifteen years” comment to mean
precisely
fifteen years, and thereby date
Death and Diplomacy
to circa 2011, it also seems justifiable to place it before
Happy Endings
- which is repeatedly said to be set in 2010, with the season specified as “spring” (p11). Given the vagueness of Jason’s remarks and with the two stories occurring so close together regardless, why
would
the Doctor have decided to hold the wedding in the year before Benny and Jason actually met? A wedding invite in
Happy Endings
(p90) specifies Benny and Jason’s nuptials as taking place on “Saturday, 24th April, 2010” (which in real life was actually a Tuesday).

In
Prime Time
, the director of Channel 400, Lukos, tells Ace’s younger self that her mother died age 85, haunted by never knowing what happened to her daughter. As Ace’s mother was born in 1943 (
The Curse of Fenric
), this would place her death in 2028. However, Channel 400’s account is specifically tailored to torment Ace and is therefore suspect, especially given the older Ace’s reunion with her mother in
Happy Endings
. Ricky McIlveen is the son of Vincent and Justine from
Warchild
. Time was first mentioned in
Love and War
, and the seventh Doctor is often cited as “Time’s Champion”.

[
1376
]
The Shadows of Avalon
, following on Lethbridge-Stewart’s rejuvenation as a result of events in
Happy Endings
. This explains how the Brigadier lives well past a normal human lifespan.

[
1377
]
Demon Quest: The Relics of Time
. We see Mike with the Brigadier at Benny’s wedding, so perhaps he told him then.

[
1378
] Dating
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Series 3 (
SJA: The Eternity Trap
, 3.4;
SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge
, 3.5;
SJA: The Gift
, 3.6) - The remainder of Series 3 occurs in the spring of 2010, with the last story,
The Gift
, appearing to finish at the very end of the school year. This isn’t directly said, but the children are doing GCSE preliminary exams, and the final scene - with Sarah and company enjoying a backyard BBQ without jackets on, and basking in the sunshine - looks and feels as if they’re celebrating the start of the summer holiday. Either way,
The Gift
definitely occurs later in the spring - established green plants are shown as the Rakweed pollinates everywhere, and Rani goes off to school without a jacket on as birds chirp in the warm sun.

[
1379
] Dating
SJA: The Eternity Trap
(
SJA
3.4) - Rani and Darkening separately (and broadly) say that 1665 was “three hundred forty years ago”. Lord Marchwood’s shade claims, twice, that he’s been searching “over three hundred years” since 1665 for the souls of his children. Clyde and Rani have school “on Monday”, so it’s during the school year.

[
1380
] Dating
SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge
(
SJA
3.5) - The International Gallery curator mentions “the Cup of Athelstan fiasco at Easter” (
Planet of the Dead
). He definitely
doesn’t
say “last Easter” - so this is possibly evidence that
Mona Lisa’s Revenge
occurs before Easter 2010 (4th April, in that year). It’s not impossible, of course, that the “at Easter” reference denotes that
Mona Lisa’s Revenge
(and by extension
SJA: The Eternity Trap
) take place at the very tail end of 2009, but that would necessitate forcing a five-month gap between
The Gift
and the rest of Series 3 where none was meant to exist. Moreover, the more Series 3 stories one wedges into the waning weeks of 2009, the more the total absence of bitterly cold weather and holiday decorations becomes conspicuous.

[
1381
] Luke is said to be 15. The Blathereen first appeared in
The Monsters Inside
.

[
1382
] Extrapolating from Gwen being three weeks pregnant in
TW: Children of Earth
.

[
1383
] Dating
TW: The Twilight Streets
(
TW
novel #6) - The exact dating for this is unclear, but it’s possible that Gwen’s pregnancy parallels the one in the real timeline. Bizarrely, Gwen here gives birth to a son - on screen, she has a daughter.

[
1384
] Dating
TW:
“Shrouded” (
TWM
#21-22) - Gwen has now given birth. John Hart says he met Beatrice in 2010, and Rhys tells Ianto in 2008 that Beatrice will “come to find” him in “two years”.

[
1385
] “Six weeks” before
TW: The Men Who Sold the World
.