B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  1925 - “The Futurists” [1391]

  The tenth Doctor and Rose landed in Milan, because Rose wanted an ice cream. The Futurists were holding a meeting, and a strange green glow heralded the materialisation of a futuristic city - which quickly started to crumble. The TARDIS transported the Doctor and Rose to Cardiff in the late third century.

  In 1925, the Doctor stopped the time traveller Studs Maloney importing hooch from the twenty-fifth century. [1392] The American CIA acquired a photo of Jack Harkness that was taken in 1925. [1393]

  1925 (11th June) - Black Orchid [1394]

  The explorer George Cranleigh was believed killed by Indians while on an expedition in the Amazon in 1923. Cassell and Company published his book Black Orchid. George’s fiancée, Anne Talbot, eventually became engaged to his brother Charles. Yet George hadn’t died. The Kajabi Indians had horribly disfigured George because he stole their sacred black orchid, but the chief of a rival tribe rescued him. George was kept hidden away at Cranleigh Hall. The fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric were guests at the hall when George broke out, and fell to his death while trying to abduct his former fiancée.

  A famous author of boys’ stories for The Ensign magazine vanished at his home in 1926. [1395] On 4th June, 1926, the SS Bernice inexplicably vanished in the Indian Ocean. The ship had left England in early May, and the last anyone ever saw of it was on 2nd June, when it left Bombay. [1396] The Doctor’s account at the Singapore Hilton went unpaid from 1926 to decades afterwards. He settled the bill, with a gold brick, in 2008. [1397]

  1926 - “The Gods Walk Among Us” [1398]

  Archaeologists unearthed the tomb of Sontar in Egypt. The Sontaran within was still alive after fifty-five hundred years, and killed the archaeologists - but their Egyptian bearers dropped a stone slab on the alien, apparently killing it.

  1926 (late June) - “Silver Scream” / “Fugitive” / “Final Sacrifice” [1399]

  The tenth Doctor investigated a static point in space and time connected to Emily Winter, a hopeful starlet. He attended a Hollywood party thrown by Archibald Maplin, and met actor Maximilian Love (the biggest thing to hit Hollywood since Rudolph Valentino) as well as studio-runner Matthew Finnegan. The Doctor learned that an alien Terronite from the future, Leo Miller, was posing as human and using an ancient device to chemically alter people’s rostal anterior cingulate cortexes - the part of the brain that controls optimism. The device let Miller transfer the hopes and dreams of individuals into Love, making him more charismatic and successful. The Doctor thwarted the Terronites and saved Emily’s life - but this changed history, as she was fated to die. A squad of Judoon arrested the Doctor, and took him to the Shadow Proclamation to stand trial.

  Upon the Doctor’s return, Emily and Matthew joined him on his travels. Unknown to the travellers, Emily’s older self - passing as Annabella Primavera - had also attended Maplin’s party. The Doctor helped Maplin to secure funding for his films; in future, Maplin would star in The Fun Fair, The Great Oppressor and Future Times.

  1926 - The Magic Mousetrap [1400]

  Ludovic Comfort served as director of the Hulbrook sanatorium in Switzerland. He was captured by the Celestial Toymaker, and spent ten years playing games including electric shock tiddlywinks and poison-tipped pin the tail on the donkey.

  (=) The seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex and other people in the Toymaker’s domain defeated the mandarin, turning him into a wooden doll. The Doctor believed that the Toymaker’s powers and identity would fade if separated for long enough, and had everyone present - save for Ace and Hex - eat one piece of the Toymaker. Everyone believed they’d been transported back to the Hulbrook sanatorium, 1926, but the Toymaker’s realm was mimicing the locale.

  Four weeks passed. The still-wooden Toymaker revived and made his foes play games, winning back many splinters of himself. The chess master Swapnil Khan and his daughter Queenie manipulated gameplay until Swapnil and the Toymaker were trapped on an electrocuted board. So long as Swapnil didn’t make his final move, neither of them could leave without burning to death. Theoretically, the board could remain viable for two thousand billion years.

  Swapnil mustered enough mental force to return everyone save himself and the Toymaker to the real Hulbrook sanatorium in 1926. The game-losers remained in the shape of toys.

  1926 (8th and 19th December) - The Unicorn and the Wasp [1401]

  The tenth Doctor and Donna arrived at Eddison Manor, where Agatha Christie was just one of the guests of Lady Clemency Eddison. Another guest, Professor Peach, was murdered and suspicion fell on a mysterious jewel thief: the Unicorn, who was after Lady Eddison’s necklace, the Firestone. Soon after, Donna was attacked by a giant wasp - a Vespiform from the Silfrax galaxy.

  The Doctor solved the mystery... Reverend Golightly killed Professor Peach when he learned that Golightly was Lady Eddison’s illegitimate son. The Firestone was a Vespiform telepathic recorder which contained Golightly’s true identity - he was also a Vespiform. Golightly abducted Christie, but after a car chase, he drowned. He was mentally tethered to Christie’s mind through the Firestone, and as he died, she lost her memory of these events. The Doctor dropped Christie in Harrogate, knowing that history dictated that she would be found after having gone missing for ten days. It was possible that Christie’s subconscious remembered details of this adventure that would be incorporated into her novels, including the creation of Miss Marple. The Unicorn escaped.

  In 1927, the Doctor watched the Cuban grandmaster Capablanca play chess. [1402] In the same year, the second Doctor met Ella’s grandfather in Tibet. From this time, his family became caretakers of the Doctor’s house in Kent. [1403] The Vondrax killed people in Siberia, 1927. [1404] The Doctor was in the movie Metropolis (1927). [1405]

  (=) 1927 - Real Time [1406]

  The Cybermen succeeded in infecting Earth with a techno-virus that transformed living beings into cybernetic ones. Most of the human race died from shock, and all animals perished. The cybernetic survivors fell under Cybermen domination. Evelyn Smythe was reportedly the virus’ original carrier, having travelled back to this year after being infected in 3286.

  1927 (July) - TW: Miracle Day [1407]

  Jack Harkness met Angelo Colasanto, an Italian immigrant, on Ellis Island after Angelo stole Jack’s visa. The two of them became lovers, and infiltrated bootlegging operations in Little Italy, New York. They fulfilled Jack’s mission by destroying one of the Trickster’s Brigade - a parasite considered as vermin on at least one hundred and fifty worlds, and served as dinner on another. The Trickster had intended that the parasite would lay eggs in Franklin Roosevelt’s brain, driving him mad and changing world history so the Trickster could feed off the resulting chaos. Jack was temporarily shot dead while killing the parasite - he went to Los Angeles, even as Angelo was arrested and sentenced to a year in prison.

  The Doctor met Dame Nellie Melba, a noted Australian opera soprano, and learned her party piece: how to shatter glass with your voice. [1408] The Doctor met Sigmund Freud and knew Marie Curie intimately. He met Pucchini [1409] in Milan. [1410] Puccini had a cold. [1411]

  @ The eighth Doctor had sessions with Freud, hoping to jog his memory. [1412] He told Freud that he had a phobia of silverfish. [1413] Sigmund Freud told his friend the Doctor: “Vell Doctor, ven confronted vis ze unbelievable, ze human brain goes into shock!” [1414] The Doctor had fond memories of Freud’s comfy sofa. [1415]

  The Doctor watched Babe Ruth hit three home runs for the Yankees in 1926. [1416] The Doctor owned a copy of Wisden’s Almanac from 1928. [1417] The tenth Doctor’s runaround with Leo Miller in Hollywood, 1926, inspired director Buster Keaton regarding the filmography of the silent film Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928). [1418]

  1928 - TW: Miracle Day [1419]

  Jack Harkness reunited with Angelo Colasanto upon Angelo’s release from Sing Sing prison in New York. Angelo believed that Jack’s resurrection powers stemmed from the devil, and turned him over to the superstitious residents of Lit
tle Italy. Jack was repeatedly killed in the basement of the Giordano Butcher Shop, coming back to life every time.

  A trio of men with the surnames Ablemarch, Costerdane and Frines sensed that Jack represented an opportunity, and embarked on a partnership - they paid $10,000 for the contents of the butcher’s basement. Angelo regretted his actions and freed Jack, but Ablemarch, Costerdane and Frines retained Jack’s spilt blood and formed The Three Families. Jack judged that Angelo would be better off without him, and exited his life. Angelo remained inspired by Jack, and devoted the rest of his life to finding a means of living forever. He monitored Jack for decades to come.

  The Three Families went into the world and became shadow players - one family specialised in finance, one in politics and one in the media. They systematically erased all records of their bloodlines, purging the names Ablemarch, Costerdane and Frines from history. Angelo had some early affiliation with the Families, but was ostracised because he had loved a man.

  1928 (14th August) - The Glamour Chase [1420]

  The Tahnn wiped out the English town of Little Cadthorpe while searching for the missing Weave spaceship Exalted. They refrained from destroying Earth, fearing the wrath of the Shadow Proclamation.

  Aaron Blinovitch formulated his Limitation Effect in the reading room of the British Museum in 1928. He authored Temporal Mechanics, and was a member of Faction Paradox. [1421] The Night Travellers recognised that the advent of cinema had numbered the days of their circus shows. They opted to endow themselves onto film containing their images; one such reel wound up in the basement archives of the Electro Cinema in Cardiff. [1422] Jack Harkness once cruised the Kurfurstendamm in Berlin with Christopher Isherwood. [1423]

  In 1929, Lord Barset led an expedition to Antarctica aboard his ship, the Rochester. A base that contained “lizard men” was discovered, and disaster ensued. The Rochester sank and all hands were lost, save for one member found with Lord Barset’s diary of the mission. The man died shortly afterwards, screaming about monsters, but the journal was later passed down to Barset’s grandson. [1424]

  The base was a Silurian shelter, and UNIT would investigate it in the 1970s. [1425] The Daily Telegraph of 12th April, 1929, noted rumours that an Antarctic expedition had been lost after finding a city of intelligent reptiles. [1426]

  1929 - The Hounds of Artemis [1427]

  An expedition found the temple of Artemis in Smyrna, Eastern Turkey, and released the psychic parasite inside. The eleventh Doctor and Amy helped to bind the creature in iron once more, and a group of local psionics re-buried its temple. The Doctor provided the expedition’s only survivor, Bradley Stapleton, with the location of a genuine temple of Artemis, guaranteeing the man’s career.

  1929 (summer) - The Stealers from Saiph [1428]

  The Saiph had possessed an archaeologist and spent some decades establishing energy reception points in Antibes, Thessalonica, Tobruk, Tunis and Tangiers. Using an elemental converter aboard an orbiting satellite, the Saiph hoped to create an energy ring that would change the chemical composition of the Mediterranean Sea, turning it into a breeding ground for them. The fourth Doctor and Romana, having vacationed for some weeks at the Hotel du Cap in Antibes, France, torched the Saiph.

  1929 - Blood Harvest [1429]

  As gangland violence escalated in Chicago, the enigmatic Doc McCoy opened a speakeasy right in the middle of disputed territory. The Doc and his moll Ace saved Al Capone’s life. The seventh Doctor was tracking down the eternal being Agonal, who had amplified the gang warfare to feed his lust for violence.

  The vampire Yarven travelled to Earth from E-Space aboard the Doctor’s TARDIS.

  Yarven became a progenitor of many of Earth’s vampires. Villagers in Croatia overpowered and buried him alive, and he would remain trapped until 1993. [1430] The Doctor couldn’t remember if Al Capone or Genghis Khan told him that villains often wanted records detailing exactly how bad they’d been. [1431]

  The Brigadier’s car, a Humber 1650 Open Tourer Imperial Model, was built in 1929. [1432] The Canavatchi engineered the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 to hinder mankind’s development. [1433]

  Lord Tamworth witnessed the arrival of the Engineer Prime of the telepathic Triskele on Earth. He was promoted to “Minister of Air”, and oversaw preparations to use the R-101 airship to return the Engineer Prime to its people. [1434]

  The Nineteen Thirties

  The Urbankans began to receive radio signals from Earth. [1435] The Doctor met the cricket player Donald Bradman, and once took five wickets for New South Wales. [1436]

  During the 1930s, the League of Nations set up a secret international organisation, LONGBOW, to deal with matters of world security. It found itself, on occasion, dealing with unexplained and extra-terrestrial phenomena. [1437] The Doctor discussed the theoretical Philosopher’s Stone (not the Khamerian-created one) with psychiatrist Carl Jung. [1438]

  The Silurian Triad was revived. These were Ichtar, Scibus and science advisor Tarpok. [1439]

  In the 1930s, a matador named Manolito trained the Doctor in the basics of his art, and the Doctor and his friend Ernest Hemingway ran with the bulls in Pamplona. [1440] The tenth Doctor got drunk with Ernest Hemingway on the banks of the Seine. In future, the Doctor would lose this memory to the Memeovax. [1441] The Doctor was friends with the philosopher Wittgenstein. [1442] He worked with the Three Stooges in Hollywood, and was the fourth Stooge. [1443] Firestone Finance was founded in Cardiff, the 1930s, as a front to acquire and sell alien technology for profit - until the business did so well selling war bonds, it became a legitimate bank. [1444]

  Between 1932 and 1940, Odd Bob the Clown - an aspect of the Pied Piper - abducted at least one hundred and four children across America. [1445] The people of Parakon discovered rapine, a crop that when processed could be used as a foodstuff or a building material. For the next forty years, the Corporation that marketed rapine ruled the planet unopposed, supplanting nations, governments, armies and all competition. [1446] An escape pod carrying the criminal Zimmerman landed in England, where he met a woman named Rachel. He became known as “Nick Zimmerman”, turned over a new leaf and spent the next thirty years with her in wedded bliss. [1447]

  Jack Harkness went undercover with a travelling show, billing himself as a man who couldn’t die, while looking into rumours of the Night Travellers. He found no trace of them. [1448] During the 1930s, Jack went to the Weimar Republic to investigate reports that some prominent National Socialists were peddling in alien technology. He entirely failed in his mission owing to a number of parties and other distractions. [1449]

  A young actor named Billy appeared in I’m an Explosive (1933) and While Parents Sleep (1935). He would come to befriend the music hall comedian Max Miller. [1450] The Doctor sparred with Errol Flynn. [1451]

  The stage musician Professor Talbot performed on Brighton’s West Pier, which led to his encountering the Indo aliens. Talbot was killed, but the aliens’ energy animated his body, and his mind became focused on gaining widespread recognition and authority. He was presumed dead, but would resurface in 1936. [1452]

  UNIT in the Thirties [1453]

  Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was born. He was an only child whose mother died when he was young. He was raised by his father and Granny McDougal. He was raised in Simla, India, and his happiest memories are of summers there. His father rose to the rank of Colonel. [1454]

  (=) u - When Lethbridge-Stewart was six or seven, he was heartbroken to lose a red balloon, and had a recurring nightmare about it for the rest of his life.

  The eighth Doctor caught the balloon and returned it. [1455] Lethbridge-Stewart left India for prep school in England when he was eight. [1456]

  ? 1930 - The Wormery [1457]

  On a planet affected by a dimensional nexus point, worms evolved with a precognitive ability. Appalled to see themselves turning into hairy, complex beings, the worms divided into factions to derail their future. The “anti faction” group sought to turn
the universe into total chaos, preventing development of any type. The “pro faction” group allied with the club singer Bianca, hoping to freeze the universe in a single perfect moment. Additionally, a group of shadow beings - the potential future selves of the worms, held in a state of flux - searched for a means of becoming corporeal.

  The nightclub “Bianca’s” now existed in a dimensional nexus, accessible via special taxis that shuttled patrons through dimensional portals. The club was Iris Wildthyme’s TARDIS, with its exterior looking like 1930s Berlin. The sixth Doctor and Iris arrived separately at Bianca’s club, and exposed Bianca as the embodiment of Iris’ darker natures. The worm factions and their shadow selves each tried to exploit the club’s extra-dimensional nature to their advantage. The Doctor used his TARDIS to Time-Ram the nightclub, which severed its dimensional links and returned its patrons to their native times. This defeated the worms and their shadows, and transferred the wreckage of the club to Berlin. Bianca escaped.

  1930

  1930 (June) - The English Way of Death [1458]

  The TARDIS arrived in London during an inexplicable heat wave, as the fourth Doctor needed to return some library books. He, Romana and K9 stumbled upon a group from the thirty-second century (the Bureau) that were using time corridor technology to send retired people to the English village of Nutchurch. While the Doctor put a stop to that, Romana confronted the sentient smell Zodaal, an exiled would-be conqueror from the planet Vesur. Zodaal was trapped in a flask.

  In 1930, Douglas Caldwell transferred to Torchwood London to work in research and development. [1459] Around 1930, the fourth Doctor visited Tigella and saw the Dodecahedron. [1460] The Doctor bought Jacques Cousteau his first set of flippers. [1461] Jacques Cousteau taught the Doctor about sharks. [1462] In the US census of 1930, the population of Manhattan was 1,867,000. [1463]