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… and, earlier in “our” Jack’s timeline, he arrived in 1941 to perpetrate a con job. [1586] He had never met the original Jack Harkness, but adopted his name after falsifying the records. [1587]
1941 - The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances [1588]
Captain Jack Harkness, a con-artist and former Time Agent from the fiftieth century, attempted to scam the ninth Doctor and Rose by crashing a Chula ambulance capsule into London. The capsule dispatched sub-atomic nanogenes that attempted to heal a gas-masked boy who’d been killed by a German bomb. The nanogenes were unfamiliar with human physiology and concluded that the masked, torn-up child was indicative of the human race. The child revived as a hollow, gas mask-wearing individual who was looking for his mummy.
The Doctor and Rose arrived “a few weeks, maybe a month” afterwards. The nanogenes had become airborne and started restructuring people into gas mask-wearing figures en masse. Jack admitted his con job to the Doctor and Rose, and the three of them deduced that a young woman named Nancy was the child’s mother. The nanogenes recognised Nancy as such and examined her, creating a more suitable template of the human form. The affected humans were restored, and the Doctor programmed the nanogenes to deactivate. Jack took up travel with the Doctor and Rose.
1941 (1st-6th March) - Just War [1589]
The seventh Doctor, Bernice, Roz and Chris investigated reports of a new Nazi weapon. Roz and Chris joined the Scientific Intelligence Division to find out what the British knew, and Bernice went undercover in Guernsey. The German scientist Hartung had built two radar-invisible planes, Hugin and Munin, which he had started developing before the British had even invented radar. Hugin exploded on a test flight, killing Hartung. Bernice was captured and tortured, but Roz blew up Munin, denying it to the Nazis.
1941 (7th June) - SJA: Lost in Time [1590]
Clyde Langer was transported back in time to obtain a piece of chronosteel discovered beneath the Rhineland. Hitler believed the item was Thor’s Hammer, an object of great power. A team of Germans tried to use the chronosteel to block a radar system in the English village of Little Maulding - the first step of a German invasion that would catch the English by surprise. A local boy, George Woods, aided Clyde in alerting the authorities, and the German force was captured. Clyde returned to 2010 with the chronosteel.
Thomas Erasmus Flanagan, age eight, was evacuated to Cardiff in 1941. He never saw his mother or sister again, and momentarily got lost at the railway station. He was adopted, and lived out his life in Cardiff. [1591]
1941 (7th August) - TW: “Overture” [1592]
An alien race had seeded sleeper agents onto Earth - a means of monitoring the human race prior to it developing a space empire. The sleeper agents were activated upon hearing a specific song; Captain Jack’s future self in 2607 sent back a sonic failsafe that he thought would safely deactivate the agents, but it killed them instead.
1941 (18th August) - The Twilight Streets [1593]
Torchwood Cardiff was now composed of Dr Matilda B Brennan, Llinos King, Gregory Phillip Bishop, Jack Harkness and a Welshman named Rhydian. To test Jack, Bilis Manger disrupted the group’s operations - Jack killed an enthralled Tilda Brennan, and failed to save Bishop, his lover, from being incinerated. The Hub was currently accessed by a warehouse; in future, this would become a pizza parlour.
1941 (2nd November) - “The Way of All Flesh” [1594]
The eighth Doctor and Izzy arrived in Mexico during the Day of the Dead festival. While the Doctor tracked a strange energy reading, Izzy was run over and rescued by the artist Frida Kahlo. The ghost of Frida’s father appeared. The Doctor met the aliens responsible, the Torajenn. Their mistress, Susini of the Wasting Wall, was a necrotist - she created art from the death of the innocent. The Torajenn wanted to have their natural bodies restored using her technology. The Torajenn were vulnerable to loud sounds, and Frida and Izzy set off fireworks to prevent them from killing the revellers. The Doctor destroyed them, but aliens arrived and kidnapped Izzy.
1941 (November) - “Me and My Shadow” [1595]
Fey Truscott-Sade was fighting Nazis in Austria, using her “Feyde” powers as a last resort, when she was summoned by the eighth Doctor to help find Izzy.
Toshiko Sato’s grandfather stayed in London after the attack on Pearl Harbor, but was persecuted for his ethnicity. [1596] Basement sections D-3 and D-4 of the Torchwood Hub were built in 1941 and 1942, under cover of the work being part of Britain’s war effort. [1597]
1941 (Christmas) - The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe [1598]
Madge Arwell’s husband, Reg, was killed in action over the Channel. She decided to postpone telling their children, Lily and Cyril, about it until after Christmas so as not to ruin the holiday. They evacuated to a house owned by their Uncle Digby in Dorset - the eleventh Doctor had got there before them, and prepared the place to give the children the perfect Christmas. Part of this involved wrapping up a dimensional portal to a planet that was a winter wonderland. Cyril opened his present early, and fell through to the year 5345. The Doctor and Lily went after him, and Madge soon followed.
Using her memories of home, Madge navigated the Time Vortex and returned the Doctor and her family back to England. This acted as a beacon for her husband’s bomber, which arrived outside Uncle Digby’s house in time for the family to celebrate the perfect Christmas.
1942
Ben Jackson and Polly Wright, companions of the first and second Doctors, were both born in 1942. The Jackson family lived near a brewery. [1599] Polly had four brothers, and was the second-born in her family. [1600]
Gerald Carter of Torchwood died in 1942. [1601] The husband of Henrietta Goodhart, a future friend of Wilf Mott, was killed during the bombing of Singapore. They had been married for only three days. [1602]
The German battleship Bismarck was sunk. [1603] The Doctor once claimed to have been wounded at El-Alamein in Egypt. [1604] He drove an ambulance at El Alamein and was registered as Dr John Smith, 55583. [1605]
In November 1942, there were reports of vampires in Romania. [1606] On Christmas Eve of that year, the Nazi Oskar Steinmann oversaw the first test of the “flying bomb” at Peenemunde. [1607] Aviatrix Amy Johnson vanished after her plane crashed. The Celestial Toymaker had kidnapped her. [1608]
Captain Anthony Rogers was part of an early space experiment, possibly as far back as 1942. He was hardwired into satellite technology that was later sold to the Deselby Matango company, and remained in such a state for centuries. [1609]
@ The eighth Doctor rented a flat in Bloomsbury, and lived there for almost a decade from 1942. [1610]
1942 (15th January) - The Girl Who Never Was [1611]
The Japanese laid siege to Singapore, which was defenceless after the Imperial Navy sank the HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales. The SS Batavia was one of the last ships out of the harbour, having been chartered by the smuggler Byron - the ship’s contraband included part of Adolf Hitler’s private gold supply.
The TARDIS deposited Charley Pollard on board the Batavia, then returned to 2008 when the Cybermen compelled Byron to modify equipment that “translocated” the vessel to the year 500,002. The eighth Doctor, arriving separately from 2008, sent a recall signal that pulled the Batavia back to 1942. Byron’s grandson, also originating from 2008, forced the reunited Doctor and Charley to transport him to 500,002, as he wanted to plunder the Cyber-ship there.
Japanese torpedoes struck the Batavia; its passengers took to lifeboats, but were killed by Japanese mines. The Batavia, with a cache of Cybermen in its hold, took to “bouncing” through time and would be seen in 2008. Madeleine Fairweather, a seaman, was the sole survivor of the event. Exposure to Cyber-signals rendered her amnesiac, and she spent the next sixty-five years thinking her name was “Charlotte Pollard”. The Byron family took her in, and she later birthed a son.
c 1942 - The Scapegoat [1612]
A group of goat-like Barok aliens had amalgamated themselves into French society. The
“scapegoat” of their tribe had crafted a career as “Max Paul, the most assassinated person in the world”. Paul would be brutally killed on stage - past performances had seen him cut into pieces, crushed, shot by firing squad, stabbed, strangled, burnt, as well as his being blown up in Testing, Testing, and lynched in Last Post. After each “death”, the Baroks used a quantic reanimator to turn back time and heal Paul’s injuries.
The quantic reanimator was losing its potency, and required power from a time machine. The Baroks projected a quantic beam that snagged the TARDIS while the eighth Doctor and Lucie were en route to the Moulin Rouge, 1899. Paul was appearing at the Theatre des Baroques in Paris, and Lucie found herself performing alongside him in The Executioner’s Son - in which Paul was guillotined. The Doctor finally relocated the Baroks back to their homeworld, which had recovered from the cosmic disaster that occurred there two millennia ago. Paul snuck away with a slinky female Barok.
1942 - Mad Dogs and Englishmen [1613]
In the nineteen-forties, various Oxford academics and writers such as Tyler and Cleavis started meeting as the Smudgelings. All was well until the necromancer William Freer was invited to join - before long, the other members started to mock Tyler’s work. The eighth Doctor discovered that Freer had put Tyler in psychic contact with Dogworld, and compelled Tyler to rewrite The True History of Planets. The Doctor left for London and met Noel Coward, who was in on Freer’s scheme. Later, Coward refused to help some talking kittens from Pussyworld.
1942 (August) - The Shadow in the Glass [1614]
The sixth Doctor and the Brigadier arrived at a Berlin ballroom party, where the Doctor presented himself to Hitler as “Major Johann Schmidt” of the Reich. The time travellers acquired a sample of Hitler’s blood for analysis.
Steinmann oversaw the first test of Germany’s V-1 rocket at Peenemünde in December. [1615] The immortal Captain Jack served in the Second World War. [1616] Captain Jack became close to a 17-year-old woman named Estelle Cole, whom he met at the Astoria ballroom a few weeks before Christmas. They pledged to spend the rest of their lives together, but he was posted abroad, and she volunteered to work the land. He would renew their friendship decades later in the twenty-first century, while posing as his own son. [1617]
1943
(=) The English Empire retook the American colonies, but there was a revolt in 1943. The future American Prime Minister’s grandfather led the army that put it down. [1618]
Liz Shaw, a companion of the third Doctor, was born in Stoke-on-Trent, 1943, to Ruben Shaw. [1619]
In 1943, the toy store owner Mr. Sun walked out of his shop in Covent Garden and was never seen again. A week later, the shop was bombed and vanished as if it had never existed. It soon reappeared. [1620] Honoré Lechasseur was posted to England in 1943. [1621] When Angela Price was a little girl, her grandmother, Emily Morris, gave her the chronosteel key and a newspaper clipping that Sarah Jane had left behind in 1889. Morris tasked her granddaughter with returning the key to Sarah on the date of the clipping: 23rd November, 2010. [1622]
1943 (May) - The Curse of Fenric [1623]
The seventh Doctor and Ace arrived at a military base on the Yorkshire coast which housed the ULTIMA machine, an early computer. The Russians sent a squad to capture the machine, but the British had anticipated this by booby-trapping it to detonate a lethal toxin, waiting for a time when the Russians became their enemies. Fenric, an ancient being trapped by the Doctor, had engineered the situation to free himself and roused an army of Haemovores to help his bid. The Doctor convinced the Ancient Haemovore to destroy Fenric.
The Doctor visited the German High Command around this time.
In the later stages of the war, the painter Amelia Ducat manned an ack-ack gun in Folkestone. [1624] The Master kidnapped a V1 from the skies over Cambridgeshire using TOM-TIT. [1625] Melanie Bush’s grandfather died during the war. [1626] A time warp meant a World War II soldier bowled a cricket ball instead of a hand grenade. [1627] A German fighter crashed in the River Tees following a collision with a Q’Dhite spaceship. [1628]
@ 1943 - The Turing Test [1629]
The eighth Doctor met the British spy/novelist Graham Greene in Sierra Leone, where they encountered pale-skinned humanoids.
Rachel Jensen, a future scientific adviser to the Intrusion Counter Measures Group, worked with cryptographer Alan Turing on codebreaking. [1630] The Reverend Foxwell, a friend of the Doctor, was a leading mind at the Naval Cryptographic Section at Bletchley, and worked with Alan Turing. [1631] The Philadelphia Experiment created a rift that interacted with the upper dimensions containing fairy creatures: the Sidhe. [1632]
1943 (26th October) - The Macros [1633]
American military researchers applied Einstein’s unified field theory in an attempt to bend light around the USS Eldridge, hoping to develop invisibility for use in the war. The sixth Doctor and Peri went to Washington, D.C., where they tried, and failed, to retroactively prevent the effort - dubbed the “Philadelphia Experiment” - from proceeding. The Eldridge was caught in a time-looping rift, and would remain stuck there until 2010.
Later, the American government covered up the loss of the USS Eldridge by claiming it had been renamed the Leon and given to Greece.
1944
In 1944, Belgium, Honoré Lechasseur was caught in a German booby trap in Belgium and severely injured. He spent the next few years in a Dorset hospital, proving his doctors wrong by walking again. He rarely slept, and began having strange visions. [1634]
John Benton’s brother Christopher accidentally fell to his death while the two boys were out playing. [1635] The boys’ father, an army sergeant, was blown to pieces by a grenade in a town in Normandy. [1636] The Doctor visited a set of rooms beneath Cadogan Castle, and there saw Winston Churchill work on Operation Daylight, a covert operation that worked toward the liberation of France. [1637]
1944 (February) - Resistance [1638]
The second Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie became separated in German-occupied France following a scuffle with the Milice (the French Gestapo). Polly found herself face to face with a downed British pilot: her father’s brother, Randolph Wright, who was historically slated to die in a German POW camp. She abandoned her friends in a bid to save her uncle from his fate, only to realise that her “uncle” was a spy. The real Randolph Wright had already been captured, and the spy had been using his biographical details as a cover story. A French resistance member shot the spy dead, and Polly was reunited with her friends.
1944 / (=) 1944 - Colditz [1639]
The seventh Doctor and Ace were quickly captured when the TARDIS landed at Colditz Castle.
(=) The Doctor realised that one of his interrogators, Klein, had travelled back from a future where the Nazis had developed laser technology from the components of Ace’s walkman, won the war by dropping nuclear bombs on New York and Moscow, and secured the TARDIS. Ace had been killed, but the Doctor had given himself a second chance by regenerating and posing as “Schmidt” - a scientist who helped Klein determine how to operate the TARDIS.
In one version of events, the Doctor’s manipulations caused Klein to keep Ace alive, averting the errant history. The Doctor and Ace escaped Colditz while Klein, now the only survivor of her timeline, fled to South America. She sheltered with a colony of National Socialists, and requalified for medicine.
Owing to events in 2044, the version of Klein who visited Colditz was erased from history - and the Colditz paradox was somehow resolved without her involvement. [1640]
The eleventh Doctor took part in a failed breakout from a World War II POW camp. [1641]
@ The eighth Doctor met Joseph Heller, an American pilot, in a military hospital. [1642]
1944 - Deadly Reunion [1643]
Second Lieutenant Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart served in Intelligence during World War II. He was assigned to update the British army’s maps of the Greek islands.
On the island of Zante, Lethbridge-Stewart encountered the Greek g
ods Demeter, Persephone and Hermes, who were attempting to lead quiet, domestic lives. The Greek god Hades hoped to provoke a world conflict even more devastating than World War II, which would cripple humanity and allow him to rule Earth. The god Poseidon, at Persephone’s request, ended Hades’ scheme and cast him back into the underworld. Persephone and Lethbridge-Stewart became lovers, but she used water from the River Lethe to make him forget these events.
During the Normandy landings, Jason Kane’s grandfather was killed when a sniper hit his lucky crucifix and it became lethal shrapnel. [1644] Captain Davydd Watson saw visions during the Normandy landings, an effect of an experiment by the organic computer Azoth. [1645]
During the nineteen-forties, two Gaderene scouts - members of an insectoid race whose homeworld was dying - arrived on Earth via an unstable transmat process. One of them matured into the calculating Bliss, but her brother mutated into a dragon-sized Gaderene that covered itself in mud and went dormant. Bliss lost the ninth key - a small jade shard - to the Gaderene transmat, but British Wing Commander Alec Whistler discovered it in the aftermath of an explosion at Culverton Aerodrome. Without the key, Bliss could only bring Gaderene embryos, not adults, through to Earth. [1646]
In 1944, the Toymaker kidnapped US Marine Mark Conrad. [1647]
1944 - The Shadow in the Glass [1648]
On 17th May, 1944, a British fighter plane shot down a Vvormak spacecruiser as it passed over Turelhampton, England. The Vvormak were in stasis, but the ship’s gravitational field rendered it immobile. Unable to relocate the ship, the British military sealed off the area for fifty years as part of a cover story.