B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (198 page)

[
1407
] Dating
SJA: Lost in Time
(
SJA
4.5) - The date appears on a newspaper; in 2010, 23rd November was indeed a Tuesday. Rani says at one point, “I’m only 17”. George Woods was 13 when Clyde met him on 7th June, 1941, and has now aged seventy years - which is feasible if his birthday is 8th June or later.

[
1408
] Dating
SJA: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
(
SJA
4.6) - No specific date is given. The population of Earth is “six billion”. Sarah here orders Mr Smith to distribute the cover story that the whole of humanity thought that a meteor was coming toward them as part of a 3D-game promotion, but it’s such a ludicrous tale even by
Doctor Who
standards, it’s hard to see it gaining any traction.

[
1409
] Dating
Demon Quest: The Relics of Time
(BBC fourth Doctor audio #2.1) - The
Hornets’ Nest
series was “last year”, it is “next Christmas”, and the Doctor has had “a year’s absence” from Nest Cottage. It’s three days before Christmas.

[
1410
]
Demon Quest: Sepulchre

[
1411
]
Demon Quest: Sepulchre

[
1412
] Dating
Demon Quest: The Demon of Paris
(BBC fourth Doctor audio #2.2) - According to Mrs Wibbsey, “We arrived on the day we left, December the 23rd”.

[
1413
] Dating
Demon Quest: A Shard of Ice
(BBC fourth Doctor audio #2.3) - The Doctor and Mike return the same day as they left.

[
1414
] Dating
Find and Replace
(BF CC #4.3) - It’s repeatedly said that it’s Christmas Eve, and the back cover blurb specifies the year as 2010. Adding to the debate of whether the public of this era knows about the existence of extra-terrestrials or not, Jo fakes surprise upon learning that Huxley is an alien.

[
1415
] Dating
Demon Quest: Starfall
(BBC fourth Doctor audio #2.4) - The Doctor and Yates return soon after they left.

[
1416
] Dating
Demon Quest: Sepulchre
(BBC fourth Doctor audio #2.5) - The final sequence takes place on Christmas Eve. The sequences on Sepulchre explicitly take place in “a different time” and are undatable, but have been included here for clarity.

[
1417
] Dating
Serpent Crest: Tsar Wars
and
Aladdin Time
(BBC fourth Doctor audios #3.1, #3.3) - The story picks up directly after the robots charged into Nest Cottage on Christmas Eve, at the end of
Demon Quest: Sepulchre
.

[
1418
] Events in 2011 include
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Series 5, many (but not all) of the “present day” sequences of
Doctor Who
Series 6, and
Torchwood
Series 4 (a.k.a.
TW: Miracle Day
).

[
1419
]
Fear Her.
Chloe’s father died the previous year.

[
1420
]
No Man’s Land

[
1421
]
TW: Miracle Day
. This is presumably part of the Three Families’ efforts to exploit the Miracle.

[
1422
]
A Good Man Goes to War.
Wonder had his first hit, age 13, in 1963. The Doctor could have recruited him at any point in the many decades to come; linking it to the present day seems reasonable.

[
1423
]
Dalek

[
1424
]
Benny: Another Girl, Another Planet

[
1425
]
Relative Dimensions
. The year isn’t stated, but the idea seems to be that Lucie is back her home turf, so it’s probably the January after she started travelling with the Monk. The Doctor uses a debit card linked to an account with his “untouched” UNIT salary, further suggesting that it’s the modern day.

[
1426
] Dating
The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
(BF #143) - The story seems contemporary and was released in January 2011; Evelyn concurs with this at the start of
The Feast of Axos
, claiming that
The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
took place in “2011”. However, in
Tales from the Vault
- seemingly set in 2011 - Captain Ruth Matheson says the Terravore incident was “last year”. Patricia Menzies mentions meeting the Doctor “a couple of years ago”, and while she could be referring to
The Condemned
(set in February 2008), it’s more likely she means
The Raincloud Man
(set in December 2008), so she could be rounding up a little.

[
1427
] Dating
The Forbidden Time
(BF CC #5.9) - The Doctor tells Polly that the Vist seek to capture an eight-year span of time from “2011 to 2019”, and the Vist’s message is presumably triggered at the start of it - also in accordance with the audio coming out in 2011.

[
1428
] Dating “Ripper’s Curse” (IDW
DW
Vol. 2 #2-4) - The date is given in a caption. Amy and Rory are married, but there’s no indication that Amy is pregnant, suggesting that this is part of the adventures they experience between
A Christmas Carol
and their returning to Leadworth prior to
The Impossible Astronaut
.

[
1429
] Dating
Jago & Litefoot: Swan Song
(
J&L #
3.3) - The setting seems contemporary;
J&L: Chronoclasm
specifies the year as “2011”. Very strangely, Payne at one point says that in Victorian times, the New Regency was located adjacent to where his laboratory will be in “several thousand years”. (This can’t mean Earth in the future, as Payne isn’t human and conducted his work near a black star.) No mention is made of the Miracle from
TW: Miracle Day
, so events in this story likely resolve beforehand.

[
1430
] Dating
The Sentinels of the New Dawn
(BF CC #5.10) - This framing sequence is probably contemporary with the audio’s release in 2011.

[
1431
] Dating
Ferril’s Folly
(BF CC 5.11) - The audio was released in May 2011, and the blurb says it occurs on “Earth in the present day”. There’s little to support or rule against this, save that Millicent Ferril was a NASA astronaut fifteen years ago.

[
1432
] Dating
Tales from the Vault
(BF CC 6.1) - The audio came out in July 2011. Sato remarks that some items in the Vault have labels such as “Do not open until the year 2011”, and the revived Kalicarache says, “What year is this... 2011”. It’s “about ten years” after the story’s 2002 component. Mucking things up slightly is that Matheson says the Terravore incident in
The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
was “last year” (see the dating notes on that story).

[
1433
] Dating
Heart of Stone
(BBC children’s 2-in-1 #2) - The story seems contemporary, especially in its allusions to NASA, and was released in 2011. For the Doctor, Amy and Rory, it appears to occur during their travels together between Series 5 and 6.

[
1434
] Dating
The Witch from the Well
(BF #154) - It’s “twenty-first century Earth”, and “three and a half centuries” since the witch scare at Tranchard’s Fell in the seventeenth century. Without any other evidence, the story is probably contemporary with its release in 2011.

[
1435
] Dating “Down to Earth” (IDW
DW Annual 2011
) - The setting appears contemporary. A World War II fighter plane is considered “old”, but not so old that it’s unlikely that it could still fly.

[
1436
] Dating “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (
DWM
#432) - The year is given, and repeated in “The Child of Time” (
DWM
).

[
1437
] “The Child of Time” (
DWM
). One of the downsides of Chiyoko cancelling out her own existence is that the Hawkshaw residents are, presumably, made to remain on Earth as senior citizens.

[
1438
] Amy and Rory first part company with the Doctor at some point after
A Christmas Carol
, and it’s “two months” before they see him again in
The Impossible Astronaut
.

[
1439
] As revealled in
The Almost People
. It’s not clear when Amy’s abduction/replacement happens, but it’s far more likely to have happened when she and Rory are living on Earth and away from the Doctor’s protection (so, between
A Christmas Carol
and
The Impossible Astronaut
). It’s alternatively possible that the switch happened in the three months between
The Impossible Astronaut
and
Day of the Moon
in 1969, but that would more awkwardly require the Silence to be nipping in and out of their own timeline, when (setting aside that River does this sort of thing all the time) there’s no evidence otherwise that they’re doing so.

[
1440
] Dating
SJA: Sky
(
SJA
5.1) -
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Series 5 was broadcast from 3rd to 18th October, 2011, but what few dating clues are provided suggests that it actually takes place sooner than that, in spring of the same year. As
SJA: The Curse of Clyde Langer
appears to occur in early April (see the dating notes on that story), and also says that Sky came to Earth (in
Sky
) “barely a month” beforehand,
Sky
itself must take place in early March. Supporting that timeframe, Rani’s mum says in
Sky
that Rani is “17” - we know from cross-referencing
SJA: Secrets of the Stars
and
SJA: Lost in Time
that Rani is an Aries born in 1993, so if she’s still 17, then
Sky
cannot occur any later than the second-to-last day of Aries, 19th April. (If it were 20th April, and Rani’s birthday were the same day, Gita would almost certainly have mentioned it instead of just saying, “She’s 17”.) The scenery isn’t entirely in keeping with early March - the trees have leaves, and Sky is amazed at all the green plants (flowers included) growing in Sarah’s driveway - but otherwise it’s not so warm and sunny as to evoke the onset of summer. In fact, it’s noticeably windy and overcast.

Myers’ name is spelled “the alien way”, but we’re never told what that means, exactly, so it’s rendered here as it appears in the credits.

[
1441
] Dating
SJA: The Curse of Clyde Langer
(
SJA
5.2) - Sarah is reading
The
Ealing Echo
as Clyde visits her the morning after the curse on him activates, and while the newspaper’s dateline is unreadable, the top headline on the back page - presumably the sports section - says “... For Cricket’s First Day”. The 2011 English cricket season commenced on 2nd April (a mid to late April start is typical, but the seasons began much earlier than the norm in 2010 and 2011). That fits very well with
SJA: Sky
not being able to occur later than the end of Aries (20th April; see the dating notes on that story), and Sarah Jane’s statement in
The Curse of Clyde Langer
that “barely a month” has passed since
Sky
.