B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (302 page)

[
974
] The Swampies appear in
The Power of Kroll
. Slavery exists at the time of
Warriors’ Gate
and
Terminus
, and the work camps referred to in
The Caves of Androzani
are also near-slavery.

[
975
]
Warriors’ Gate
. Stephen Gallagher has stated in interviews (see, for example,
In-Vision
#50) that Rorvik’s crew come from N-Space, and their familiarity with English (such as the graffiti), “sardines” and “custard” suggest they come from Earth. The coin flipped is a “100 Imperial” piece and they use warp drive, both of which suggest an Earth Empire setting, although placing the story details here is arbitrary.

[
976
]
The Robots of Death
, as extrapolated from a painting native to Kaldor City (seen in
Kaldor City: Occam’s Razor
) that’s two hundred years old. “Crisis on Kaldor” concurs with this, as it seemingly happens around the time of
The Robots of Death
, and “centuries” after Kaldor was colonised.

[
977
] Dating
The Highest Science
(NA #11) - Sheldukher’s ship arrives at Sakkrat in “2680” (p17). It is “two hundred and thirty years” in Benny’s future (p35) [q.v. “Benny’s Birthday”].

[
978
]
Happy Endings

[
979
]
The Well-Mannered War

[
980
] Dating “Mission of the Viyrans” (BF #102b) - Gralista Social seems to be a human planet; some of those present are named “Chris” and “Lawrence”. The Viyrans say it’s the first time they’ve encountered humanity, but allowing that they can time-travel, it’s unclear if they mean relative to history or their own lifetimes. For lack of other evidence, this dating is very arbitrary. The sixth Doctor again visits Gralista Social in
Blue Forgotten Planet
.

[
981
] Dating “Bus Stop!” (
DWM
#385) - It’s “Mars in the twenty-seventh century”. Environmental suits are here needed on the Martian surface, but Mars seems to still be inhabited (at the very least, it’s got a president), so perhaps the toxicity is localised.

[
982
]
Death and Diplomacy
(pgs 71, 203).

[
983
]
The Crystal Buchephalus
(p40, p80).

[
984
]
100:
“My Own Private Wolfgang”

[
985
] “A thousand years” before
Interference
.

[
986
]
The Dark Path

[
987
] Four generations after
Benny: Timeless Passages.

[
988
] Dating “By Hook or By Crook” (
DWM
#256) - The date is given.

[
989
] “One hundred years” before
The Whispering Forest
.

[
990
]
Spiral Scratch

[
991
] “Warlord of the Ogrons”

[
992
] Dating “Warlord of the Ogrons” (
DWW
#13-14) - Rostow mentions Federation patrols, but in the framing sequence the Doctor mentions that he met Leofrix in 2723, so it can’t be the Galactic Federation.

[
993
] “Seven hundred years” before
Snakedance
.

[
994
] The war begins “seventy years” before
Nocturne
.

[
995
] Twenty-three years after “By Hook or By Crook”.

[
996
] “A few hundred years” after
Scaredy Cat
.

[
997
] Dating “Time Bomb” (
DWM
#114-116) - “Earthdate 2750” according to the opening caption.

[
998
] Dating
The Sensorites
(1.7) - Maitland says “we come from the twenty-eighth century”, which might mean it is later than that. The novelisation suggested the Earth ship set out in the “in the early years of the twenty-eighth century”. An incoherent John says they’ve been at Sense-Sphere either “four years” or “for years”.
The Programme Guide
set the story in “c.2600” in its first two editions,
The Terrestrial Index
settled on “about 2750”.
The TARDIS Logs
gave the date as “2765”.
Timelink
“2764”.

[
999
] Dating
The End of Time
(
DL
#10) - A case study of the Mind Set by H. James Moore, University of Castillianus V, is dated to 2764 (p17), and which at least provides the general era in which the Space Brain exists. The motives of the Krashoks have shifted slightly - the Doctor claimed in
The Art of War
(p11-12) that they wanted to animate fallen soldiers so they could prolong wars and further their weapons trade, but here, the Krashoks calibrate the Crystal to only raise their own soldiers from the dead.

[
1000
]
Original Sin
(p287).

[
1001
] Dating
The Stealers of Dreams
(NSA #6) - It’s “2755 AD”.

[
1002
] Dating
Paradox Lost
(NSA #48) - The exact day is given. The Doctor vaguely alludes to the fact that much of old London will be preserved “for another few decades”, possibly in reference to the new series’ dating for
The Beast Below
, or something else altogether.

[
1003
] “Twenty years” before
Nocturne
.

[
1004
]
The Fall of Yquatine
, “over two hundred years” earlier than 2992.

[
1005
] The girls are born, and Elizabethan is rendered comatose, “thirteen years” and about “seven years” respectively before
EarthWorld.

[
1006
] The foiled assassination attempts occur five years before
Nocturne
. Zeta Reticula is located thirty three light-years from Earth.

[
1007
] Will happens upon the Ultani texts at least eighteen months before
Nocturne
.

[
1008
] Dating
Companion Piece
(TEL #13) - It is “the twenty-eighth century” (p74), “eight hundred years” after Cat’s time (p78). The seventh Doctor is similarly travelling with a robotic companion in
Death Comes to Time
.

[
1009
] Dating
Nocturne
(BF #92) - The Doctor tells Ace and Hex that they’re “about seven hundred ninety years and three parsecs in that direction” from their native era on Earth. As Ace hails from the late 1980s but Hex originates from 2021, this could support a dating of roughly anywhere between 2777 and 2811.

[
1010
] Dating
EarthWorld
(EDA #43) - The date is arbitrary, but New Jupiter wants independence from Earth and the advanced androids are “pretty standard”. It is “the far distant future”.

[
1011
]
The Beast Below
. This is an arbitrary date - were the current Prince Harry to ascend to the throne (possible, but not likely), he would be Henry IX. Stories such as
Revenge of the Judoon
(p19) have established the reigns of Charles III and William V (the current Prince of Wales and his son, the Duke of Cambridge).
The Beast Below
establishes that eight Queen Elizabeths and at least four King Henrys rule after that, and we have to allow that
Interference
tells us the last King of England abdicated in the 2060s.
Legacy of the Daleks
says the last British monarch was exterminated in the Dalek Invasion of 2157 (so presumably only a Queen or Queens reigned for a hundred years before that). Clearly, as Liz X demonstrates, the British monarchy is restored at some point.

[
1012
] “Fifty years” before
Three’s a Crowd
.

[
1013
] Dating
The Story of Martha:
“Star-Crossed” (NSA #28e) - No date is given. We know that old ships with colonists in suspended animation were still being found at the time of
The Sensorites
, and so this arbitrary placement puts it around that period.

[
1014
] “Eight hundred years” after “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”. The story is later reduced to being alternate history.

[
1015
] Dating
Festival of Death
(PDA #35) - The date is given on p116.

[
1016
] “Fifty years” before
Revenge of the Cybermen.

[
1017
] Dating
The Whispering Forest
(BF #137) - Mention is made of Earth Empire Command and the Dravidian (
The Brain of Morbius
) war zone, and the Doctor says that the Takers are “auto-medics in the twenty-eighth century”. As one hundred years have passed since the hospital ship crashed, it’s presumably now the twenty-ninth century.

[
1018
]
Christmas on a Rational Planet
(p189).

[
1019
]
The Ultimate Treasure
(p71).

[
1020
] “Almost a century and a half” before
So Vile a Sin.

[
1021
] Dating
Dark Progeny
(EDA #48) - The date is given.

[
1022
] Dating “Time Bomb” (
DWM
#114-116) - The caption states it’s “Earthdate 2850”.

[
1023
] Dating
The Mind’s Eye
(BF #102a) - It’s the time of the Earth Empire, and yet a Federation Drugs Administration (FDA) is in operation. As with Colin Brake’s other fifth Doctor-Peri-Erimem audio,
Three’s a Crowd
, mention of the Federation might suggest a tie to
Corpse Marker
, and it seems fair to place the two stories in the same vicinity.

Erimem’s dream-reality entails her ruling a colony planet in the twenty-fifth century - either a reflection of when she thinks the TARDIS has arrived on YT45, or just a tidbit her mind invented. Either way, the twenty-fifth century is too early for the Earth Empire - Brake’s own novel,
The Colony of Lies
, specifies its creation as 2534.

[
1024
] Dating
Three’s a Crowd
(BF #69) - The Doctor estimates it is around the “twenty-eighth, maybe twenty-ninth century” from the space station’s design, which dates back at least fifty years to the colony’s formation. Mention of a Federation suggests this story occurs in the vicinity of
Corpse Marker
. There’s talk of a “hyperspace transmat link” capable of “beaming” people from star system to star system, but nobody actually uses this device, and it’s possibly part of Auntie’s ruse against the colonists.