B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (89 page)

[
734
] “Legacy of Yesteryear”

[
735
] Dating “The Daleks: Genesis of Evil” (
TV21
#1-3,
DWW
#33) - It is two years later.

[
736
] “Duel of the Daleks”

[
737
] Dating “The Daleks: Power Play” (
TV21
#4-10,
DWW
#33-34) - “Two months” after “Genesis of Evil”.

[
738
] Dating “The Daleks: Duel of the Daleks” (
TV21
#11-17,
DWW
#35-36) - It’s set soon after “Power Play”.

[
739
] Dating “The Daleks: The Amaryll Challenge” (
TV21
#18-24,
DWW
#36-37) - It’s not stated how long the Daleks experiment with spacecraft, but they design and build thirteen different prototypes, test them and then build a fleet of the winning design in the first installment. This allows one of only two gaps in the narrative (the other is between “Impasse” and “The Terrorkon Harvest”), which have to add up to the “centuries” between “Genesis of Evil” and “Legacy of Yesteryear”. That said, there’s no indication it takes the Daleks very long to develop space travel.

[
740
] Dating “The Daleks: The Penta Ray Factor” (
TV21
#25-32,
DWW
#37-39) - The story follows straight on from “The Amaryll Challenge”.

[
741
] Dating “The Daleks: Plague of Death” (
TV21
#33-39,
DWW
#39-40) - The Emperor is summoned back at the end of “The Penta Ray Factor”, so this story starts while that story is running.

[
742
] Dating “The Daleks: Menace of the Monstrons” (
TV21
#40-46,
DWW
#40-42) - The Monstron ship arrives while the Daleks are rebuilding after “Plague of Death”.

[
743
] Dating “The Daleks: Eve of the War” (
TV21
#47-51,
DWM
#53-54) - It’s “a few months” after “The Menace of the Monstrons”, and the Daleks have spent the time rebuilding their city. The Mechanoids in the
TV Century 21
strip physically resemble the ones seen in
The Chase
, but see the dating notes on that story for more.

[
744
] Dating “The Daleks: The Archive of Phryne” (
TV21
#52-58,
DWM
#54-55) - The story is set shortly after “Eve of the War”, with the Daleks gearing up to fight the Mechanoids.

[
745
] Dating “The Daleks: Rogue Planet” (
TV21
#47-51,
DWM
#53-54) - The Daleks are still preparing to fight the Mechanoids, so this is shortly after “The Archive of Phryne”. The rogue planet is accidentally called Skardel in a couple of the later instalments.

[
746
] Dating “The Daleks: Impasse” (
TV21
#63-69,
DWM
#62-66, 68) - The story ends the immediate threat of war between the Mechanoids and Daleks.

[
747
]
TW: Trace Memory
. Sheridan was an Irish actor, educator and proponent of elocution movement.

[
748
]
Minuet in Hell

[
749
] Dating
Hornets’ Nest: The Circus of Doom
and
Hornets’ Nest: A Sting in the Tale
(BBC fourth Doctor audios #1.3-1.4) - The date is given.

[
750
] “Two centuries” before
Revolution Man.

[
751
]
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
. Sabbath is working with the service prior to this in the
Faction Paradox
audios; this must represent his initiation into its higher echelons.

[
752
]
Timeless

[
753
] Dating
Transit of Venus
(BF CC #3.7) - The adventure occurs over a period of “less than two months” in 1770, and concludes “days” after the
Endeavour
gets stuck on the Great Barrier Reef on June 11. Susan’s empathic link with Banks is deemed an offshoot of the telepathy she used in
The Sensorites
. Ian claims to have seen “the metal seas of Venus”, but it’s not stated that he actually met any Venusians; the Doctor, Ian and Barbara do so in
Venusian Lullaby
.

Transits of Venus are extraordinarily rare - pairs of transits will occur at eight-year intervals, then not be seen again for two hundred and forty-three years. A transit of Venus occurred in 1761; Cook’s party witnessed its “pairing” in 1769.

[
754
]
The Many Hands

[
755
] “Two hundred years” before
The Many Deaths of Jo Grant
.

[
756
] Dating
FP:
“Political Animals” and
FP:
“Betes Noires and Dark Horses” (
FP
comic #1-2) - The year and month are given. The story was interrupted by the cancellation of the
Faction Paradox
comic after two issues.

[
757
]
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street

[
758
]
The Unquiet Dead

[
759
]
The Mark of the Rani
. The American War of Independence ran from 1775-1783.

[
760
]
The King of Terror

[
761
]
The Impossible Astronaut

[
762
]
Survival of the Fittest
. Jefferson lived 1743 to 1826.

[
763
]
Seasons of Fear
. No date is given, but Franklin died in 1790. The modern-day American government didn’t start until 1789, so unless Franklin was President in the
Doctor Who
universe under its predecessor, the Articles of Confederation, then he must have served during the term normally attributed to George Washington.

The mistake wasn’t deliberate - writer Paul Cornell genuinely believed that Franklin had been President. In
Neverland
, a line that the “wrong man became President” was meant to denote the Bush/Gore election in 2000, but fans have cited it to cover this mistake.

[
764
]
FP: Warlords of Utopia

[
765
] “Two hundred years” before
The Daemons
.

[
766
]
City of Death

[
767
] We see the portrait of Ace hanging in Windsor Castle in the extended version of
Silver Nemesis
. In Ace’s personal timeline, she had not yet sat for the painting. Gainsborough lived from 1727-1788, painting society portraits 1760-1774 before turning to landscapes.

[
768
]
Timeless
(p93). Kalicum says that D’Amantine, who’s alive in 1830, is the third generation affected by his alterations.

[
769
]
The Nightmare Fair

[
770
]
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
. He ruled 1780-1790.

[
771
]
The Stones of Blood
. Allan Ramsay, a Scottish portrait painter, lived 1713-1784.

[
772
] Three months before
Catch-1782.

[
773
] Dating
Catch-1782
(BF #68) - The dates of Mel’s arrival and departure from this era are given.

[
774
] Dating
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
(EDA #51) - It is “March 1782” on p2, more specifically “March 20, 1782” on p15. The Siege of Henrietta Street happens on “February 8”, 1783 (p259). Scarlette’s funeral is dated 9th February on p269 and the back cover, with the Doctor departing Henrietta Street on February 13 (p273), and his final conversation with Scarlette occurs on the same day. An epilogue with Sabbath and Juliette happens on “August 18 1783” (p278).

The book is told in a style reminiscent of a history book, and some of the key facts are open to dispute. With that in mind, novels after this one state that Anji has been travelling with the Doctor only for “months”, suggesting the timeframe of
Henrietta Street
might be more condensed than the book itself suggests.

Scarlette is the young girl Isobel from the
Faction Paradox
comic series, which covers some of her early history and takes place in 1774.

[
775
] Dating
Dead of Winter
(NSA #46) - The six days that pass within the story - starting with “4th December 1783” (p10) and ending with “10th December 1783” (p251) - are listed in various journal entries and letters.

[
776
]
The Spectre of Lanyon Moor

[
777
]
The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
. Franklin died in 1790.

[
778
] A bit more than two hundred years before
The Nightmare Fair
.

[
779
]
Hexagora
. Date unknown, but this is within the lifetime of Queen Zafira, who as a Hexagoran has a life-span of five hundred years.

[
780
] Dating
Helicon Prime
(BF CC #2.2) - The next Companion Chronicles audio starring Frazer Hines,
The Glorious Revolution
, suggests that the same amount of time has passed for Jamie as has passed in the real world since the broadcast of
The War Games
in 1969. If that’s the case, the framing sequence of
Helicon Prime
(which was released in 2007) probably takes place circa 1784.

[
781
] Dating
The Glorious Revolution
(BF CC #4.2) - The Time Lord says that it’s been “forty years” since
The Highlanders
, which is set in 1746, evidently mirroring the real-life time that’s passed for Frazer Hines since he left
Doctor Who
in 1969. Additionally, it’s said that 1688 was “a hundred years ago”, and that King James VII died “eighty years ago” (he lived 1633-1701). Jamie’s wife, named as “Kirsty”, is presumably Hannah Gordon’s character of the same name from
The Highlanders
.

[
782
]
The Death of Art

[
783
]
Silver Nemesis

[
784
]
The Taint
. Fitz is named after Freddie’s brother.

[
785
] Dating “The World Shapers” (
DWM
#127-129) - It’s “the eighteenth century” according to a caption, and the Doctor thinks he’s miscalculated by “about forty years”. The previous edition of
Ahistory
dated this story to circa 1785, but the inclusion of
The Glorious Revolution
at circa 1786 makes it advisable to bump “The World Shapers” ahead in time a bit, under the assumption that personal matters go downhill for Jamie afterwards. Peri remembers
The Two Doctors
as being “a couple of years ago”. The reference to Planet 14 appeared in
The Invasion
.