B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (174 page)

The period set after
The Trial of a Time Lord
, but before the Doctor has his “first meeting” with Mel (in
Business Unusual
), is now brimming with book and audio adventures. These include the Doctor’s time with companions Frobisher, Evelyn Smythe, Thomas Brewster, Charley Pollard (after she travelled with the eighth Doctor), Grant Markham (who only appeared in two Missing Adventures:
Time of Your Life
and
Killing Ground
), “Flip” Jackson, Jason and Crystal (
The Ultimate Adventure
) and a Land-of-Fiction version of Jamie McCrimmon.

In
Just War,
Mel says that she has never been to the past before, “only the future”. Subsequent stories such as
Catch-1782
and “The Vanity Box” contradict this.

Millennial Rites
and
Business Unusual
both have Mel meeting the Doctor in 1989. She’s from “1986” in
Head Games
(p154) and
The Quantum Archangel
(p17).

[
690
] Dating
Business Unusual
(PDA #4) - The date is given (p15). From the sixth Doctor’s perspective, he first meets the Brigadier circa 2000 in
The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
.

[
691
]
Spiral Scratch
. Linus is that universe’s version of Bob Lines from
The Scales of Injustice
,
Business Unusual
and
Instruments of Darkness
.

[
692
]
Instruments of Darkness
. On p93, Evelyn claims the Doctor dropped her off in 1988. The Doctor conferred with Evelyn off panel during the events of
Business Unusual
, set in June 1989.

[
693
]
TW: Captain Jack Harkness

[
694
] In
Survival
, according to “Emperor of the Daleks”.

[
695
] Dating
Survival
(26.4) - Ace returns to Perivale. When she asks how long she’s been away, the Doctor replies “as long as you think you have”. Her friends Midge and Stevie vanished “last month”; Shreela the week before.

[
696
]
First Frontier

[
697
] All “a decade” before
The King of Terror
(p130, p141 and p144).

[
698
] “Eleven years” before
Escape Velocity.

[
699
] Dating “Business as Usual” (
DWW
#40-43) - The Doctor says the meteorites fell “that summer night in 1989” in the framing sequence; Stellar Plastics opens in “August 1990” according to a caption.

[
700
] Dating
Crime of the Century
(BF LS #2.4) - Raine’s dairy specifies the day she meets the Doctor as “October 13th, 1989... It’s Friday the 13th”, and the action continues from there, with Raine saying that it takes her “a few days” to get over her jet-lag.

[
701
] Dating
Father Time
(EDA #41) - The date is never specified beyond “the late 1980s” (p199), but the Berlin Wall fell on 9th November, 1989.

[
702
]
Forever Autumn

[
703
]
System Shock

[
704
]
The Shadow in the Glass

[
705
]
Escape Velocity, The Slow Empire.
She’s 28 and left home when she was 17.

[
706
] “Five hundred years” after
The Masque of Mandragora
. The
DWM
strip “The Mark of Mandragora” dealt with this return.

[
707
]
Downtime

[
708
]
TW: Adam
. This would be in February 1990.

[
709
]
The Beast Below.
The Queen seems to personally know the Doctor when she wishes him Merry Christmas in
Voyage of the Damned
.

[
710
]
Death Riders
(p130). If it’s the current Queen’s mother (1900-2002), this could occur just about anywhere in the twentieth century.

[
711
]
Benny: A Life Worth Living:
“A Summer Affair”. McGinley is a professor of twenty-first century literature at the Collection, and it seems likely that he hails from that period.

[
712
] Dating “Train-Flight” (
DWM
#159-161) - There’s no indication of the date, although the concert is an Oscar Peterson one, and so probably takes place before his stroke in 1993. There’s nothing to suggest it isn’t set the year it was published (1990). Sarah seems to be living in the same house she was in during
The Five Doctors.
This is the first time she’s met the Doctor’s seventh incarnation. They don’t take K9 along, but they have the option, so he’s still active.

[
713
] Dating
Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible
(NA #5) - It is “three years” since Ace left Perivale.

[
714
] Dating “Seaside Rendezvous” (
DWM Summer Special 1991
) - There’s no date given, but the story has a contemporary setting and was published in 1991.

[
715
]
TW: First Born
. The year is given. Sebastian, born 3rd March, 1981, is “almost ten”.

[
716
]
Timewyrm: Revelation

[
717
] Jenny is mentioned in such stories as
Verdigris
and appears in
Iris: Enter Wildthyme
; the information here comes from
Iris: Iris and the Celestial Omnibus
: “The Deadly Flap”.

[
718
]
Brave New Town

[
719
]
TW: Random Shoes

[
720
]
SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?

[
721
] “About five years” before
Auton
, although one of the Warehouse workers, Winslet, says he’s been there for “seven years”.

[
722
] “Forever Dreaming”

[
723
]
Orbis

[
724
] Dating
Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark
(NA #7) - The book saw release in June 1992 and seems contemporary. It’s “early summer” (p57).

[
725
] Dating “Invaders from Gantac” (
DWM
#148-150) - Leapy says it is “1992”.

[
726
] Dating
Timewyrm: Revelation
(NA #4) - “It was the Sunday before Christmas 1992” (p2). The Doctor confronts “Death”, here a creation of the Timewyrm, but will often encounter the living embodiment of Death itself in the New Adventures.

[
727
] Thirteen years before the present-day portion of
Night Thoughts
.

[
728
] Rani is an Aries according to
SJA: Secrets of the Stars
, which puts her birth date between 20th March and 20th April. As she’s 17 in
SJA: Lost in Time
, set on 23rd November, 2010, she must have been born in 1993. By comparison, Clyde turned 15 in June 2008 (if one aligns information on him provided in
Secrets of the Stars
and
SJA: The Mark of the Berserker
), meaning he and Rani out to be a year apart in school, even if they seem to share a fair amount of classes together.

[
729
] “Four years” before
The Rapture.

[
730
] Dating
Touched by an Angel
(NSA #47) - The exact day is given (p228).

[
731
] Dating
Blood Heat
(NA #19) - This story is a sequel to
Doctor Who and the Silurians
, containing many elements from its novelisation
Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters
. Thus, the Silurians are called “reptile people”, but the Doctor wears his velvet jacket, not coveralls, when he goes potholing and the Silurian leader is named Morka. It is repeatedly stated that the first encounter with the Silurians took place “twenty years” ago in “1973”.

[
732
]
No Future

[
733
]
Death and Diplomacy
, and reiterated in
Benny: The End of the World.

[
734
] Dating
The Left-Handed Hummingbird
(NA #21) - The date of the massacre is given. The Doctor arrives in “1994”.

[
735
] Dating
Conundrum
(NA #22) - The Doctor thinks that it is “November the second, 1993”.

[
736
] Dating
The Dimension Riders
(NA #20) - The scenes in Oxford are set in “1993”, “November 18th”.

[
737
] Dating “Time and Time Again” (
DWM
#207) - The date is given.

[
738
] Dating
Goth Opera
(MA #1) - It is “1993”, “November”.

[
739
] Dating
Instruments of Darkness
(PDA #48) - The Doctor and Mel arrive on 29th December (p69). “John Doe”, although his surname is never mentioned, is likely Jeremy Fitzoliver, Sarah Jane’s associate from
The Paradise of Death
and
The Ghosts of N-Space
(although this would clash with
Interference
). Sudbury was mentioned in
Time-Flight
.

[
740
]
The Sun Makers
first mentions the discovery, the year of which is given in
Iceberg
. It has to be discovered after
The Tenth Planet,
or the story would have been called “The Eleventh Planet”.
GodEngine
and
The Crystal Bucephalus
refer to the Battle of Cassius.

[
741
]
Interference

[
742
]
Dreamland
(
DW
)

[
743
]
Tales from the Vault.
Construction on the Angel of the North began in 1994.

[
744
] Dating
The Land of the Dead
(BF #4) - The year is given.