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[
745
] According to
SJA: Secrets of the Stars
, Clyde’s birthday is 5th June. He’s 15 in
SJA: The Mark of the Berserker
, likely set after that date in 2009.

[
746
] Dating
Touched by an Angel
(NSA #47) - The exact days are given (pgs 34, 39, 79). Page 224 appears to contain a mistake, saying that Mark was sent back to 2003, not 1994.

[
747
] Dating
Invasion of the Cat-People
(MA #13) - It is “AD 1994”, the adventure starting “Friday the eighth of July 1994”.

[
748
] Dating
P.R.O.B.E.: The Zero Imperative
(P.R.O.B.E. film #1) - The film was released in 1994, and seems contemporary. The story appears to begin on 8th August (as noted when a clinic worker who seems to be arriving for work checks off 7th August on her calendar, suggesting that it’s the next day). Liz’s desk calendar at one point reads (albeit somewhat hazily) “August 1994”, and roughly mid-way through the story, she flips her desk calendar to reveal that it’s now 10th August. A mortician tells Liz how unusual it is that the ground around the body he’s examining was “frozen in August”. The story ends on the night of perihelion, presumably the same day (13th August) as in 1945 when O’Kane killed his family.

[
749
]
Zamper

[
750
]
Who Killed Kennedy
(p271).

[
751
]
The Five Companions

[
752
] “Ten years” before
UNIT: Time Heals
.

[
753
] About ten years before
Iris: Wildthyme on Top
.

[
754
] Dating “Star Beast II” (
DWM Yearbook 1996
) - Beep’s been imprisoned for “fifteen years”, and it’s “1995”.

[
755
] According to publicity material, she’s “13” in
SJA: Invasion of the Bane
.

[
756
]
TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts

[
757
]
Utopia

[
758
] Dating
TimeH: Echoes
(
TimeH
#6) - The year “1995” is given on the cover of the printed book and the cover of the audiobook, and is reiterated at least four times within the text. However, a frequently used online version of the cover (including the one on the Telos website) gives the year as 2006.

[
759
] Dating
Downtime
(MA #18) - The story is set “about thirty” or “over twenty-five” years after
The Web of Fear
, “nearly twenty years” after
Fury from the Deep
and Sarah’s time in UNIT, and about ten years after 1984. The Brigadier has been teaching at Brendon for “twenty odd years”. The Intelligence’s next incursion on Earth -
Millennial Rites
, set in 1999 - is “four years” afterwards. “Brigadier Crichton” is said to still be with UNIT.

[
760
] Between
Mawdryn Undead
and
Battlefield
, and shortly after the Missing Adventure
Downtime
. Doris is first mentioned in
Planet of the Spiders
.

[
761
] Dating
P.R.O.B.E.: The Devil of Winterborne
(P.R.O.B.E. film #2) - The video came out in 1995, and seems contemporary. Liz’s father has passed away recently enough for her boss to offer condolences, and her father’s tombstone in
P.R.O.B.E.: The Ghosts of Winterborne
says he lived “1919-1995”.

[
762
] “Six years” before
Psi-ence Fiction.

[
763
]
The Feast of Axos
, respectively referencing
Remembrance of the Daleks
and
The Android Invasion
.

[
764
]
The Hollow Men

[
765
] “Eleven years” before
The Gathering
.

[
766
] Dating “Memorial” (
DWM
#191) - “The TARDIS chronometer read December 20th 1995”.

[
767
] “Twelve years” prior to 2008, according to
Iris: Iris and the Celestial Omnibus
: “The Deadly Flap”.

[
768
] “Fifteen years” before
Ferril’s Folly
.

[
769
]
Who Killed Kennedy
. It is “nearly twenty-five years” (p274) after Cleary’s return to the 1970s, and is subject to UNIT dating. This novel presumes that the UNIT stories occurred around the time of broadcast, and the date of Stevens’ departure is given (p271).

[
770
]
TW: Miracle Day

[
771
] Dating
Night Thoughts
(BF #79) - It is “ten years” before the story’s present-day component. An audio statement from Maude, recorded shortly before her suicide, is dated 12th January.

[
772
] Dating
Touched by an Angel
(NSA #47) - The exact day is given (p91).

[
773
] Dating
Benny: The End of the World
(Benny audio #8.4) - Jason was born in 1983 and is “nearly 13” when he leaves home. A conversation between Jason and Benny in
Death and Diplomacy
detailed Jason and Lucy’s physical abuse, in a scene that’s here dramatised for audio.

[
774
]
Death and Diplomacy

[
775
]
The Big Bang

[
776
] Dating
Interference
(EDA #25-26) - The date is “1996” (p8, p29). This means that Sam actually arrives back on Earth a bit before her younger self leaves in the TARDIS.

[
777
] The backstory to
The Eleventh Hour
, given in
The Big Bang
.

[
778
] Dating
The Eleventh Hour
(X5.1) - Amelia says that it’s “Easter” in her prayer to Santa. The year isn’t stated, but it’s twelve years before the Doctor sees Amy again, then a further two years before her wedding day, which is stated to be in 2010.

[
779
] Dating
The Big Bang
(X5.13) - The action picks up from Amelia waiting in
The Eleventh Hour
.

[
780
]
Let’s Kill Hitler
. This has to be shortly after Amelia’s first meeting with the Doctor in
The Eleventh Hour
.

[
781
]
The Eleventh Hour

[
782
] Dating
The Big Bang
(X5.13) - It’s “1894 years later” than 102 AD, and the older Amy confirms it’s “1996”.

[
783
]
The Hounds of Artemis
; Vortis first appears in
The Web Planet
. This was true in one story, the apocryphal
Doctor Who Annual 1965
story “The Lair of Zarbi Supremo”, set circa 1996.

[
784
]
TW: Adam

[
785
]
Army of Ghosts
,
TW: Fragments
, with the years given in
The Torchwood Archives
.

[
786
] Dating
P.R.O.B.E.: Unnatural Selection
and
P.R.O.B.E.: The Ghosts of Winterborne
(P.R.O.B.E. films #3-4) - As with the rest of the
P.R.O.B.E.
series, the stories seem contemporary - in these last two cases, with their release in 1996. In
Unnatural Selection
, events in 1975 are repeatedly said to be “twenty years ago” and “over twenty years ago”. The body of Alfred’s first victim was found “in early hours of July the 8th”, so
Unnatural Selection
would seem to occur in August at the earliest. In
The Ghosts of Winterborne
, enough time has passed that headmaster Gavin Purcell has been tried and convicted for his culpability in events in
The Devil of Winterborne
.
The Ghosts of Winterborne
has Andrew, a student at Winterborne, returning there after a leave of absence - possibly suggesting that it’s the start of the new term.

[
787
] Dating
The Chase
(2.8) - The Doctor claims that as “this house is exactly what you would expect in a nightmare”, suspecting that the TARDIS and the Dalek time machine have landed “in a world of dreams” that “exists in the dark recesses of the human mind”. Viewers later find out the truth - the TARDIS has simply landed in a theme park. A sign proclaims that it is the “Festival of Ghana 1996”. The “Tower of London” quote is Ian’s description of what he has just seen. Quite why Peking would cancel an exhibition in Ghana is not explained.

[
788
]
Original Sin
. Vaughn’s memories are, by his own admission, corrupted and he seems to be a year out.

[
789
]
Interference

[
790
]
Something Inside
. The year is unspecified, although there’s nothing to say it isn’t the discontinued Ghana celebration mentioned in
The Chase
.

[
791
] Dating
The Sands of Time
(MA #22) - The date is given (p117).

[
792
] At the start of
Return of the Living Dad
(p15).

[
793
]
Bad Therapy
. The exact year isn’t given.

[
794
] Dating “End Game” and “Oblivion” (
DWM
#244-247, 323-328) - “End Game” takes place “six days to Christmas”, and the day of Izzy’s return (the same as when she left) is given as “December 19th, 1996” in “Oblivion”. We learn in “TV Action” that Izzy was born on 12th October, 1979, and she’s “17” in a couple of the strips. “The Company of Thieves” establishes that Izzy is short for Isabelle.

[
795
]
The Sontaran Stratagem
. The Doctor says that Rattigan is only “18”, but he’s either estimating or belittling him, as Rattigan’s on screen biography says he attended local primary school from 1990 to 1992 - suggesting that, like the actor who played him (Ryan Sampson), Rattigan was born in 1985.

[
796
]
Benny: The Vampire Curse
: “The Badblood Diaries”, with an obvious reference to
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
.

[
797
] “The Mark of Mandragora”

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