[318] Lucifer Rising (p59, p272-273).
[319] The Taking of Planet 5 (p15).
[320] Spiral Scratch
[321] Dating The Face-Eater (EDA #18) - The date is given (p126).
[322] St Anthony’s Fire
[323] The Taint
[324] The Face-Eater
[325] Dating The Space Pirates (6.6) - A monitor readout in episode two suggests that the year is “1992”, but this contradicts dialogue stating that prospectors have been in deep space for “fifty years”. No other date is given on screen. The Radio Times said that the story takes place in “the far future”. Earth is mentioned once in the first episode, but after that only a “homeworld” is referred to. The force here is specified as the Interstellar Space Corps. The regulatory actions of the government suggest that space travel is becoming more common now, but is still at an early stage.
As Zoe is unfamiliar with the technology of this story, it is almost certainly set after her time. The Main Boost Drive is not very advanced, and this story almost certainly takes place well before Frontier in Space, where hyperdrive technology is common. At the start of the story, the V41-LO is both “fifty days” and “fifty billion miles” from Earth - it seems reasonable to assume that writer Robert Holmes meant “billion” in the British sense of a million million, rather than the American (and now generally accepted British) thousand million. If this is the case, then the Beacon is 8.3 light years from Earth (otherwise it is a thousandth of this distance, and only just outside the solar system).
The Programme Guide set the story “c.2600”. The Terrestrial Index suggested it was “during the Empire” period. The TARDIS Logs claimed a date of “8751”. Timelink suggested “2146”, About Time “2135ish”.
[326] The Issigri Mining Company appears in The Space Pirates. Another company with the same initials, the Interplanetary Mining Company, is seen in Colony in Space. In the Missing Adventure The Menagerie, we learn that they are the same company (p161). The change of name must have occurred before Lucifer Rising, when we see IMC in action.
[327] Lucifer Rising. The evil polluting company in the television version of The Green Death is called “Global Chemicals”. A real company of that name objected, and the name was changed in the novelisation to “Panorama Chemicals”.
[328] Fear Itself (PDA)
[329] Benny: Another Girl, Another Planet. Aragonite was mentioned in The Space Pirates.
[330] The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (p203-204).
[331] Heritage (p198).
[332] Leviathan
[333] Dating The Murder Game (PDA #2) - The date is given (p12).
[334] Lucifer Rising (p158).
[335] Parasite
[336] Dating “The Daleks: The Terrorkon Harvest” (TV21 #70-75) - There’s no indication how long after “Impasse” this TV Century 21 Dalek story is set, allowing the first significant gap in the narrative. The next story, “Legacy of Yesteryear”, is set “centuries” after the first (which seems to be set in 1763 AD). The novel GodEngine notes that the Daleks became concerned with Earth ten years before they invade, and that’s exactly what we see happening in these strips, so the novel has been used to establish the dating of these stories. This block of stories ends with the Daleks discovering Earth of the future and gearing up to invade - clearly a reference to The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
[337] Dating “The Daleks: Legacy of Yesteryear” (TV21 #76-85) - It is “centuries” since the original Daleks were frozen - and that happened the day of the meteorite strike that set off the neutron bomb (seen in “Genesis of Evil”). The Daleks remember Yarvelling and his inventions. So there are “centuries” between “Impasse” and “The Terrorkon Harvest”.
[338] Dating “The Daleks: Shadow of Humanity” (TV21 #86-89) - There is no indication how long it has been since “Legacy of Yesteryear”. The Emperor now knows about “human beings”, although it’s unclear when he heard the name - perhaps fragments of evidence were discovered in the wreckage of Lodian’s ship after the previous story. The following stories all seem to take place without lengthy gaps between them.
[339] Dating “The Daleks: The Emissaries of Jevo” (TV21 #90-95) - At the end of the story, the Emperor praises Kirid’s “human spirit”, and before that Kirid seems to call himself “human”, although he looks more like a humanoid alien (he has forehead ridges, like a Klingon). Given that the next story features a spaceship from Earth, we are now definitely in the future.
[340] Dating “The Daleks: The Road to Conflict” (TV21 #96-104) - The story is set soon after “The Emissaries of Jevo”. There’s no date given, but this story features an interstellar human passenger spacecraft, and the people have never heard of the Daleks. So this is set before The Dalek Invasion of Earth, almost certainly in the first half of the twenty-second century, which fits in with later televised stories such as Nightmare of Eden.
[341] Dating “The Daleks: Return of the Elders” (DWM #249-254) - This was a sequel to the TV Century 21 strip. It is set straight after “The Road to Conflict”. The Daleks attack the solar system, but it ends in failure. The Emperor vows to succeed next time - and that is almost certainly what happens, as we discover in The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
[342] “10.6 human years” and “about ten years” before GodEngine (p107, p168).
[343] Frontier Worlds
[344] Dating St Anthony’s Fire (NA #31) - The Doctor tells Bernice that the year is “2148” (p39).
[345] “Five years” before GodEngine (p15, p98, p193).
[346] GodEngine
[347] Cold Fusion
[348] Autonomy
[349] Dating “The Grief” (DWM #185-187) - The date isn’t specified. CHEX is an agency of the Sol Government; it has energy weapons and genetic fabrication units. The story appears to be set early in humanity’s exploration efforts.
[350] Killing Ground (p15).
[351] Benny: Another Girl, Another Planet
[352] Excelis Decays
[353] GodEngine (p18).
[354] “One hundred fifty years” after Zygon: When Being You Isn’t Enough.
[355] “A year” before GodEngine.
[356] Lucifer Rising, GodEngine
[357] Dating Lucifer Rising (NA #14) - The story takes place in the mid-twenty-second century, shortly before the Dalek Invasion of Earth. The Adjudicators’ simularity registers the Doctor’s arrival as “19/11/2154” (p30), Paula Engado’s death as “22/2/2154” (p174) and her wake as “23/2/2154” (p13). Ace and Benny had expressed the desire to “pop back to the year 2154 or so” (p338), so at first sight it might appear that the story is set in 2154. However, this is inconsistent with the Dalek Invasion, which the authors of Lucifer Rising place in “2158” (p337). On p195, there’s mention of a raid “in Tokyo in fifty-six”. The story is here placed in 2157, consistent with this chronology’s dating for the Dalek Invasion.
[358] The Dalek Invasion of Earth, with the date established in The Daleks’ Master Plan.
[359] According to the Doctor in The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
The Middle Period of Dalek History
Taking the Doctor’s analysis at face value, the Middle Period of Dalek history might be the time when their power is at its zenith - they are technologically advanced, expansionist and feared. In the words of the Doctor in Death to the Daleks, they are “one of the greatest powers in the universe”.
In the Virgin edition of Ahistory, it was speculated that it coincided with the Daleks developing an internal power supply - in The Daleks, they took static electricity up through the floor and so couldn’t leave their city. In The Dalek Invasion of Earth, they had a disc resembling a satellite dish fastened to their backs; the Doctor and Ian speculate that it allows them free movement. In the first two Dalek stories, they have “bands” rather than the “slats” seen in all other stories. In The Power of the Daleks, they are dependent on a static electricity generator. In all subsequent stories - all of which (apart from the prototypes seen in
Genesis of the Daleks) have Daleks originating from after The Dalek Invasion of Earth - none of these restrictions seem to apply. We are explicitly told they move via “psychokinetic power” in Death to the Daleks.
The Daleks are confined to the First Segment of Time, according to The Ark. We might speculate that the end of the Middle Period of Dalek history comes with either their defeat at the hands of the Movellans (Resurrection of the Daleks), or shortly afterwards with Skaro’s destruction (Remembrance of the Daleks).
As we’ve now seen the end of Dalek history (the Daleks withdrawing from history to fight the Time War, as recounted by Jack in Bad Wolf), we can perhaps speculate that the “early period” Daleks have bands and are dependent on externally-generated static electricity; the “middle period” Daleks are the slatted ones familiar from the original TV series and now we can add the “late period” Daleks seen in the new television series, which seem significantly more mobile and advanced than their forebears.
[360] The Dalek Invasion of Earth
[361] The Arcturus attacks take place at “the beginning of the year” according to Lucifer Rising. Sifranos is also mentioned in GodEngine.
[362] The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Legacy of the Daleks.
[363] Lucifer Rising
[364] GodEngine (p3).
[365] The Dalek Invasion of Earth
[366] The Final Sanction (p75, p178).
[367] According to Vicki in The Chase and Salvation (p58). The Indestructible Man said New York was destroyed in a nuclear assault in 2068, but it was evidently rebuilt. Even after its second devastation it seems to recover somewhat, as Fear Itself (PDA) says that New York’s waterways are a tourist attraction near the end of the twenty-second century.
[368] Nekromanteia
[369] Legacy of the Daleks (p45).
[370] The Mutant Phase, although this occurs in an alternate timeline.
[371] GodEngine (p107).
[372] Head Games (p157).
[373] GodEngine
[374] Fear Itself (PDA), and referencing the weapon of choice of Abslom Daak.
[375] An Earthly Child
[376] Genesis of the Daleks. It is confirmed in GodEngine that this invasion takes place at the same time as the Dalek Invasion of Earth.
[377] Dating GodEngine (NA #51) - The year is given (p3).
[378] The Dalek Invasion of Earth
[379] GodEngine
[380] Dating The Mutant Phase (BF #15) - The year is given as “2158”.
[381] Dating Renaissance of the Daleks (BF #93) - The date is given, and re-confirmed as being “a year” after the Daleks should have invaded Earth in 2157. Vague mention is made of a “new Dalek homeworld”.
[382] War of the Daleks
[383] “Three years” after GodEngine (p214).
[384] The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Mutant Phase.
[385] GodEngine (p11).
[386] Alien Bodies
[387] Dating The Dalek Invasion of Earth (2.2) - There are two dates to establish: the date of the initial Dalek invasion, and the date of this story, which takes place after the Daleks have occupied Earth for some time. To start, the Doctor and Ian discover a calendar dated “2164” in a room that “hasn’t been used in years” and Ian remarks that “at least we know the century”. Arguably, the Doctor’s recollection of the calendar is why Ben comments in The Forbidden Time that the Doctor told him about “that Dalek invasion in 2164”. The prisoner Jack Craddock later says that the Daleks invaded “about ten years” ago.
However, it seems that someone was printing calendars after the invasion - in The Daleks’ Master Plan, the Doctor urges Vyon to “tell Earth to look back in the history of the year 2157 and that the Daleks are going to attack again”. In The Space Museum, Vicki states that the Daleks invaded Earth “three hundred years” before her own time [c 2193]. In Remembrance of the Daleks, the Doctor states that the Daleks conquered Earth in “the twenty-second century”.
In Lucifer Rising, the Doctor says that the Daleks invade in “2158” (p337). GodEngine dates the invasion to 2157; the TV story to “ten years” later (p240). The Mutant Phase sets the TV story in “nine years” [2168]. It’s “a few decades” after No Future [c.2000], “two centuries” after Head Games (p157) [c.2201], it’s “2157” in Killing Ground (p48), and “2154” in Return of the Living Dad (p241).
A production document written in July 1964 gave the date as “2042”. The trailer for the 1964 serial claimed the story was set in “the year 2000” (and, unlike The Power of the Daleks, that’s explicitly contradicted in the story itself), and in Genesis of the Daleks, the Doctor talks of the Daleks’ extraction of the Earth’s magnetic core in “the year 2000”, apparently referring to this story (although he seems to be remembering the movie version, which was set in 2150).
Radio Times consistently dated the story as “2164”, as did The Making of Doctor Who second edition, The Doctor Who File and even the 1994 radio play Whatever Happened to... Susan Foreman?. The first edition of The Programme Guide set the story “c2060”, the second “2164”, while The Terrestrial Index said “2167”. “A History of the Daleks” (DWM #77) set the story in “2166”. The Discontinuity Guide suggested a date of “2174”. In John Peel’s novelisation of The Chase, Vicki says that the Daleks will destroy New York “one hundred years” after 1967.
In “The Forgotten”, the tenth Doctor claims to have never seen Susan since they parted ways during the Dalek Invasion. But as his memory isn’t the most reliable when he says this, it’s perhaps best ignored - it would contradict not just tie-in stories such as An Earthly Child and Legacy of the Daleks, but The Five Doctors also.
More detail of the Dalek invasions of both Earth and Mars is given in Benny: Beige Planet Mars.
[388] GodEngine
[389] To the Death, although it’s possible the eighth Doctor returned the key to Susan, off screen, as a keepsake.
[390] Here There Be Monsters. This presumably changes later in Susan and David’s marriage; by Legacy of the Daleks, he’s certainly aware that she’s aging slower than a human.
[391] The Crystal Bucephalus, GodEngine.
[392] An Earthly Child
[393] The Final Sanction
[394] Legacy of the Daleks
[395] Cold Fusion
[396] The Final Sanction (p75).
[397] The Alliance
The Terrestrial Index suggested that a group that included Earth, Draconia and perhaps the Thals, who were all “united to attack and punish the Daleks”. This contradicts what we are told on screen [q.v. “The Dalek Wars”], and the Alliance is never referred to on television. The Alliance is mentioned in Original Sin (p286), and this revised account of its origins appears in Lords of the Storm (p201).
[398] Dating The Chase (2.8) - The Daleks launch an attack against their “greatest enemies” - the first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan - in revenge for The Dalek Invasion of Earth. The fact they don’t know Susan has left and Vicki has joined the TARDIS crew indicates that this is relatively soon after their defeat. No date is given, but as the Daleks are based on Skaro here, but will be confined to their city by The Daleks, this has to be substantially before then. The Dalek time machine was named the DARDIS in the script but not on screen.
[399] Day of the Daleks
[400] Reconciling the first Dalek story, The Daleks, with the other Dalek stories is difficult. There was no intention to bring back the Daleks, and the first story is a self-contained story about a war confined to Skaro, that sees the Daleks killed off at the end. From The Dalek Invasion of Earth, the Daleks became galactic conquerors - they invade and occupy the Earth, go on to invent time travel, twice threaten to conquer the entire galaxy, then go off to fight a mutually destructive war with the Time Lords.
Despite the Doctor’s assertion that The Daleks takes place in the far future, we know that The Daleks takes place before Planet of the Daleks (2540). We also know that, by then, the Daleks are back on Skaro.
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p; There’s no elegant way of reconciling this. The Daleks have to abandon Skaro, leaving behind a city full of Daleks who don’t have space travel or any apparent knowledge of other planets. They can’t leave their city, let alone conquer another planet. And they have to do it after The Dalek Invasion of Earth, then develop time travel (the Daleks in The Chase specifically leave and report back to Skaro).
If there is a logical reason this happened, there’s no indication in an existing story. Vicki (from 2493) has heard of the Dalek Invasion of Earth, but doesn’t know what a Dalek looks like, suggesting that from 2167ish to at least 2493, the Daleks don’t menace Earth. (The eighth Doctor audios somewhat complicate this by featuring a second Dalek invasion later in the twenty-second century.)
[401] Fear Itself (PDA)
[402] Dating Day of the Daleks (9.1) - It is “two hundred years” after the UNIT era. A Dalek states that they “have discovered the secret of time travel, we have invaded the Earth again, we have changed the course of history”. This isn’t, as some fans have suggested, a version of events where the conquest seen in The Dalek Invasion of Earth was more successful - the Daleks travel back and invade a full century earlier, after the first attempt has failed.
The Daleks don’t recognise the third Doctor, so they have come from before 2540 and Planet of the Daleks (or the alternate history they set up has wiped that story from the new timeline).
[403] “A hundred years” before The Stones of Venice. The painting of the “woman in a jar” probably refers to an Empress of Hyspero from The Scarlet Empress.
[404] There are frequent references to the Veltrochni and Tzun in the books of David A McIntee. In White Darkness, we learn that civilisation on Veltroch is more than three billion years old (p90). The Tzun appear in First Frontier, and Lords of the Storm reveals much of their technology and the history of their destruction. The history is further sketched out in First Frontier (p94), Lords of the Storm (p24) and The Dark Path (p142). The Veltrochni also appear in Mission: Impractical, and the aliens in Bullet Time - although never named - could well be Tzun survivors of the First Frontier incident.
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