B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  w - The second iteration of Cousin Anastasia of Faction Paradox died as Nadezhda Vasilyeva in an insane asylum in Kazan, 1971. [382] Decimal currency was introduced in the United Kingdom. At some point afterwards, the first Doctor and Susan visited England. [383]

  In 1972, Nazi war criminal Oskar Steinmann died from cancer of the spine. [384] NASA launched the Pioneer 10 deep-space probe. The eleventh Doctor would find it on the Gyre in the year 250,339. [385] The Great Big Book Exchange opened in Darlington. [386] Joseph Samuel Serf, the future founder of Serf Systems, was born May 1972 in Dayton, Ohio. [387] Ace’s mother moved into the home in which Ace would grow up [388]; the road on which they lived was named Beech. [389]

  On 4th June, 1972, UNIT obtained the Tunguska Scroll from a collector. [390] In December of that year, the skeleton of Nazi Martin Bormann was discovered in West Germany. [391] Playwright Noel Coward died in 1972. One of his selves claimed - due to his status at a time traveller - that at his moment of death, he’d be mentally whisked back to his birth to experience life all over again. [392]

  In 1972, the Alliance of Shades disbanded, and pulled the plug on its robot Men in Black. [393] Mr Dread and his Men in Black, however, became the guardians of a hyperdimensional Vault containing numerous extra-terrestrial items and vessels. Ocean Waters, age 24, encountered Dread in 1972 - he wiped her memories of the event, and gave her one of two activation keys to the Vault for safekeeping. [394]

  The American military downed an alien spaceship carrying the Stormcore, a navigational instrument. The government erroneously believed the Stormcore was a weather control device, and formed Operation Afterburn to make it compatible with human technology. Researchers determined the device needed a psionic operator. In the years to come, the government’s ESP/Remote Viewing program, called Grill Flame, would locate such individuals. The spaceship’s crewmembers, now stranded on Earth, joined the American CIA as agents Melody Quartararo and Parker Theroux. [395]

  Iris Wildthyme’s people exiled her and Panda to London, 1972. She again worked for the Ministry for Incursions and other Alien Ontological Wonders (MIAOW) to obtain the alien technology needed to repair her bus. Iris based herself above a bus depot and tatty pool hall in New Cross. MIAOW’s headquarters was named the Pussy Parlour. [396]

  1973

  When Ace was three, her mum cried for days when Ace’s grandma Kathleen died. Ace’s first pet was called Marmaduke. [397]

  When Elton Pope was three or four, his mother was killed by an “elemental shade” that had escaped from the Howling Halls. Elton saw the tenth Doctor standing over her body, and would become obsessed with the mysterious stranger. [398]

  Aubrey Prior’s expedition to the Black Pyramid in 1973 discovered Nephthys’ burial chamber. [399] Jack Harkness was involved in the Hell House case, which he said “didn’t go well”. [400] In 1973, Jack twice saved the life of Professor Leonard Morgan - then left him for a chorus girl from Boston. [401]

  On 23rd February, 1973, Dr. Albert Gilroy - a researcher at the University of Michigan - developed an artificial intelligence that he named “Isley” after his daughter’s love of the Isley Brothers. [402] The Rise of Hancada, a Wraith World book, was published in 1973. [403]

  Anji Kapoor, a companion of the eighth Doctor, was born in Leeds on 1st April, 1973. [404] Suzie Costello of Torchwood was born 6th May, 1973. [405]

  1973 - Iris: The Land of Wonder [406]

  The Earth-exiled Iris Wildthyme and Panda investigated Harriet Dodd’s Wonderland when some of its denizens escaped from it. MIAOW, desperate that Iris not discover Wonderland’s secrets, turned on her and torched it. Dodd bequeathed Iris with the feasibility generator that made Wonderland possible - with this device, Iris repaired her bus and ended her exile. She and Panda left with the mock turtle from Wonderland and the generator - which adopted the shape of a sentient dodo.

  1973 (July) - Iris: Enter Wildthyme [407]

  Iris Wildthyme kept a private office in South Kensington, London; it was somewhere near the Victoria and Albert Museum, and above The Gilded Lily boutique. She stored important documents and objects there, but only for a three-day period in July 1973. On the last of these, a Saturday, Iris and her friends vapourised the building to keep the items from falling into the wrong hands. The same day saw Vince Cosmos announce that he was retiring from pop music. Iris’ rival, Anthony Marville, raided the office before its destruction and nicked her Blithe Pinking Shears, which could open portals by cutting through the Very Fabric of Space and Time.

  (=) In an alternate dimension, Martian assassins overran Cosmos’ last concert at the Hammersmith Odeon.

  The accomplished hunter Sebastiene believed that he had been an undergraduate at Cambridge, 1973, who was looking at a meteorite through an electron microscope - and suddenly found himself on an alien planet, a million light years from home. The tenth Doctor suspected that Sebastiene’s recollection might be true, or that he might be unaware of his genuine origins. [408]

  Tegan Jovanka’s grandmother died of coronary thrombosis. About this time, Tegan’s father had an affair and her parents split up. Tegan was sent to boarding school. [409] A short sword bearing the initials “IC”, given to Ian Chesterton by Thalius Maximus, was now on display in the British National Museum. Historians erroneously dated it to the end of the first century; it was about thirty-five years older. [410] On 12th December, 1973, Revolution Man cult leader Madeleine “Maddie” Burton died in Paris as the result of a drug addiction. The cult quickly died without her influence. [411]

  1974

  When Ace was four, her parents had a son, Liam. When Ace’s father discovered his wife was having an affair with his friend Jack, he left with the infant Liam. [412] When Donna Noble was six, her mother said there would be “no holiday this year”, so Donna caught a bus to Strathclyde. Her parents sent the police after her. [413]

  Reginald Tyler died in a domestic accident. He had been working on his novel The True History of Planets since 1917, much to the annoyance of his wife, Enid, who sold the movie rights and moved to Jamaica with her lover.

  (=) In another version of history, Reginald Tyler didn’t die. He was rescued by a poodle that walked on its hind legs, who transported him off Earth... in this reality, The True History of Planets would become a very different book.

  @ The eighth Doctor read the original The True History of Planets. [414]

  1974 (summer) - “Agent Provocateur” [415]

  The tenth Doctor and Martha saw sand sculptures of British pop stars in Parliament Square, London, that previewed an exhibition by one Princess Hentopet. The sand-sculpture exhibits were real people turned into sand, and were held together by a nanometre force field. The Doctor learned the story of Bubastion, Hentopet and Sheeq - who had travelled the world since Egyptian times - and had Bubastion restore the sculptures to life in return for promising to take him home. These events were part of a wider plot to snare the Doctor on behalf of the Elite Pantheon; the scheme culminated in the year five billion.

  Tegan ran away from home when she was 15. Once she was found, her father sent her to live with his sister Vanessa in England. [416]

  Hagoth’s Zygons continued their scheme to promote global warming; Phase Five entailed using biochemical warheads to detonate the accumulated gases in Earth’s atmosphere. Circa 1974, however, Hagoth renounced his people’s conquering ways, and made off with both his crew’s Skarasen and a crystal lattice that enabled his ship’s firing sequence. Deprived of the Skarasen’s lactic fluid, Hagoth’s crew made do with the powdered stuff. [417]

  1974 - “Urgent Calls” [418]

  Telephone operator Lauren Hudson was exhibiting strange symptoms, but a wrong call luckily put her in touch with the sixth Doctor, who advised that an alien worm was hugging her spine. Military surgeons extracted the worm, and Lauren experienced a string of wrong-but-fortuitous phone calls. The Doctor said that an alien “luck” virus capable of transmitting itself through telephones had infected them. He suspected t
hat the virus was engineered to let sleeper agents communicate, or to summon precisely the right sort of aid. Earth wasn’t ready for such a virus (however helpful it had become), and the Doctor said he would deal with it. Some time later, Lauren was saddened to find that every call she placed went through correctly. Failing to hear from the Doctor, she mailed him a letter instead.

  1974 - Horror of Glam Rock [419]

  The singer Nancy Babcock said that her cat dictated all of her music. Lucie Miller’s mother - a blonde named Mary - presently worked in a Gloucester shoe shop.

  Arnold Korns, a dynamic and powerful manager in the music industry, discovered two budding talents: Trisha and Tommy Tomorrow, who performed as The Day After Tomorrow. Korns scheduled them to make their debut on Top of the Pops. However, a group of discorporealised alien beings, seeking to stop over on Earth and consume the polyunsaturates and fibre found in the human body, had contacted Tommy as sound waves conducted through his Stylophone. They touted themselves as the “Only Ones”, claiming they were the only race in existence besides humanity, and helped Tommy to compose his songs.

  En route to London, Korns and the twins stopped off at Nadir Services, a service station and café just outside Bramlington. The spot had previously seen such celebrities as Hendrix, Lulu and the Wombles, and now witnessed the dissolution of the band Methylated Spirits. The group had lost their singer Wendy, and Bendy Roger - dressed in full regalia - now severed ties with drummer Patricia Ryder, who in future would become Lucie Miller’s “Auntie Pat”. Outside the café, the Only Ones manifested as scaled, bear-like creatures and killed Roger.

  The eighth Doctor and Lucie showed up as the Only Ones murdered Tricia Tomorrow and threatened to unleash a massacre. The Doctor found a means of converting the Only Ones back into sound, and trapped them on shuffle mode in Lucie’s MP3 Player. He speculated that the carnage would be blamed on the Hell’s Angels.

  The Headhunter pursuing the Doctor and Lucie narrowly missed them in this period.

  In November, the Celestial Toymaker kidnapped Lord Lucan, sparking an international manhunt. [420]

  1975

  The British government established the BEAGLE project to determine the next stage of human evolution. Professor Julius Quilter developed an advanced human - Alfred - who could absorb human organs, but Alfred killed a BEAGLE member while doing so. The government shut down the project in 1975; Quilter officially said that Alfred had been destroyed, but nurtured him in secret. [421]

  During the Cybermen invasion of June 1975, the Doctor was based at 35 Jefferson Road, Woking. [422] The Doctor visited a planet orbiting Lalande 21185. The Caxtarids had developed a virus that the government were planning to use against a rebel faction. [423]

  In July 1975, Toshiko Sato of Torchwood was born in London. Her parents were in the RAF, and her grandfather worked at Metchley Park. [424] Colonel Geoffrey Redvers coerced Albert Gilroy into building android assassins for the US military on 3rd August, 1975. [425]

  Melissa Moretti, the daughter of Lucia Moretti and Jack Harkness, was born 5th August, 1975. Lucia stopped working for Torchwood in the same year. [426] Jack Harkness dated a junior doctor named Stella Courtney for a few weeks in 1975. [427] Charles Arthur Cromwell retired from Torchwood in 1975. [428]

  Tegan and Mike Bretherton were high school classmates, and next door neighbours, in Brisbane. They were both inspired by Miss Anderson, who taught physics. When Tegan was 15, Mike carried her books home after she broke her toe during track and field. [429]

  c 1975 - Fury from the Deep [430]

  On the whole, this period was “a good time in Earth’s history to stay in. No wars, great prosperity, a time of plenty.” Gas from the sea now provided energy for the south of England and Wales, as well as mainland Europe. Twenty rigs pumped gas into every home without incident for more than four years.

  When scientists registered a regular build-up and fall in pressure in the main pipelines, the supply was cut off for the first time. A mutant species of seaweed was responsible, and it mentally dominated some of the rigs’ crews before being beaten back by amplified sound.

  Victoria Waterfield left the second Doctor and Jamie to settle down with the Harris family.

  The Doctor met hacker Robert Salmon in 1975. They stopped a US Navy programmer from installing a back door that would’ve granted illicit access to the Navy’s computers. [431] Freda Jackson joined the space programme in 1975 - she would later command Moon Village One. [432] The Doctor had tickets to opening night of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. [433]

  1976

  In 1976, a Lalandian safari killed people in Durham. Isaac Summerfield tipped off UNIT to the problem. [434] The seventh Doctor and Ace visited London in 1976. [435] In 1976, the Order of St Peter chased the last known European vampire from the continent. It escaped to the United States. [436] Jack Harkness converted the husk of an alien visitor into a coracle in 1976. [437]

  @ On 28th May, Deborah Gordon and Barry Castle married in Greyfrith. The eighth Doctor was elsewhere, with a widow called Claudia. [438]

  The last British mission to Mars, Mars Probe 13, ended in disaster when the Ice Warriors killed two crewmembers. The British government made a secret deal to stay away from Mars, and they framed the mission’s sole survivor, Lex Christian, for murder. He was sent to Fortress Island, where he remained for more than twenty years. [439]

  The Racht seed disc on Earth infected actress Johanna Bourke. As “Phillip Mungston”, she wrote a horror portmanteau film - Doctor Demonic’s Tales of Terror - and incorporated the seed disc into a sacrifice scene, a means of infecting anyone watching with a newborn Racht. The fifth Doctor and Nyssa visited the production in summer of 1976, and destroyed all footage pertaining to the scene. Nyssa appeared in the first Tales of Terror installment, “Curse of the Devil’s Whisper”, as “Nyssa Traken”. [440]

  = 1976 - The Forbidden Time [441]

  The Vist were time-walkers with bodies the size of greyhounds, set atop giraffe-like legs. They claimed dominion over a period of eight years, three months and two days - roughly from 2011 to 2019 - across the whole of creation, and sought to “penalise” the life force of any civilisation that entered it without permission. The second Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie encountered the Vist on a shadowy “sideways” version of Earth in the 70s, and the Doctor tricked the Vist into venturing back to the start of the universe.

  1976 - Vampire Science [442]

  Carolyn McConnell, a pre-med student, met the eighth Doctor and Sam in San Francisco. The Doctor was on the trail of a clutch of vampires, and a scuffle led to the death of his best lead, the vampire Eva. He gave Carolyn a signalling device in case the vampires resurfaced.

  1976 (12th July) - Demon Quest: Starfall [443]

  The fourth Doctor, Mike Yates and Mrs Wibbsey arrived in Central Park in Manhattan, looking for the fourth stolen component of the TARDIS’ spatial geometer and using an old comic book from this year as guidance. Buddy Hudson saw a meteorite land in Central Park, but when he and his girlfriend Alice Trefusis - who was helping to write the memoirs of faded actress Mimsy Loyne - investigated the incident, Alice touched the meteor and began crackling with energy. The Doctor and his friends recognised the scene from the comic book - Alice had become the superheroine Miss Starfall. She could fly, and played the part by wearing a superhero costume, rescuing people and putting out fires.

  Buddy and Wibbsey found a room full of cultists who were using a ritual - one that featured the last part of the spacial geometer - to drain the Doctor’s lifeforce. Mimsy Loyne was revealled as the aspect-changing Demon in disguise, and abducted Wibbsey while announcing that “the Sepulchre is prepared”. The Doctor and Mike vowed to find their friend, and returned to 2010. Alice’s powers faded, but not before she and Buddy took one last flight around the city.

  On 24th September, 1976, the Rift radiated energy that ended the worst drought Wales had seen in three centuries. The head office of the Cardiff and West Building Society, Madoc House
, was struck by lightning charged with an electrical virus. This rendered thirteen employees comatose when they answered the phones. They were relocated to a private hospital; Madoc House was closed, its operations moved to Swansea. The virus remained trapped in the disused Madoc House phone system. [444]

  1977

  On 14th February, 1977, Lucia Moretti’s application that her daughter Melissa be put into deep cover was approved. Melissa was renamed Alice Sangster, and officially was the child of James and Mary Sangster - place-holder names used for those undercover or in witness relocation. [445] The Electro in Cardiff had a final screening - Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky - then survived for another eighteen months as a bingo hall before closing. [446]

  Peri’s mother divorced and remarried when Peri was ten. [447] When Toshiko Sato was two, her family moved to Osaka, Japan. [448] Count Carlos Scarlioni, one of the richest men on Earth, married his Countess in 1977. [449] In 1977, the sixth Doctor and Frobisher attended the opening of Star Wars at Mann’s Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles. [450] The eleventh Doctor told Richard Nixon to say hello to David Frost for him. [451] Albert Gilroy, working from a Utah military research base, successfully transferred the AI Isley into an android body on 27th May, 1977. [452]

  1977 - Mawdryn Undead [453]

  The Brigadier had retired from UNIT, and was now teaching mathematics at Brendan Public School. The TARDIS arrived with Tegan and Nyssa on board - the Ship had been thrown back to 1977 thanks to a warp eclipse from Mawdryn’s spaceship. Mawdryn himself arrived in a transmat capsule, but the journey left him gravely injured. Tegan and Nyssa mistook him for the Doctor, and agreed to take him back to the spaceship. The Brigadier insisted on accompanying them.