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In '''1978''', the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana I]] searched for the third segment of the [[Key to Time]] on [[Earth]], encountering the [[Ogri]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stones of Blood]]'')

[[Igrix]] intended to end poverty in 1978. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Love Invasion (comic story)|The Love Invasion]]'')

== Dated events ==
On [[21 February]], workers in [[Mexico City]] uncovered the [[human sacrifice|sacrificial stone]] at the base of the Great Temple. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'')

On [[25 February]], [[Saeed Taufeeq]] was born. ([[TV]]: ''[[Adrift (TV story)|Adrift]]'')

On [[5 April]], a memorial service was conducted for [[Charles Dickinson]]'s son [[Justin Dickinson|Justin]], whom [[UNIT]] had claimed had died in the line of duty. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Instruments of Darkness (novel)|Instruments of Darkness]]'')
[[File:Stones title.jpg|left|thumb|The Fourth Doctor on a [[hyperspace]] craft with [[Cessair of Diplos]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stones of Blood (TV story)|The Stones of Blood]]'')]]

On [[3 May]], [[Dominic Martin]] was born. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cuddlesome (audio story)|Cuddlesome]]'')

On [[16 August]], [[Gwen Cooper]] was born. ([[TV]]: ''[[Series 3 (Torchwood)|Children of Earth]]'')

== Unknown dates ==
[[Chris Parsons]] graduated from [[Cambridge]], and soon began his postgraduate studies at [[St Cedd's College]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'')

[[The Doctor]] shipped the newly built [[K9 Mark III]] to [[Lavinia Smith]]'s home in [[South Croydon]] as a gift for [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. However, the gift was not received by her until [[18 December]] [[1981]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)|A Girl's Best Friend]]'')

The [[Eighth Doctor]] brought [[Anji Kapoor]] and [[Fritter (Mad Dogs and Englishmen)|Fritter]] to a [[Hollywood]] bar, where they met special effects photographer [[Ron von Arnim]] and later [[Noël Coward]]. Coward arrived here from the [[1960s]] using pinking shears given to him by [[Iris Wildthyme]], which could cut through the fabric of [[space]] and [[time]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'')

The Doctor met the [[Harlem Globetrotters]], who taught him how to spin a [[basketball]] on his [[finger]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dark Horizons (novel)|Dark Horizons]]'')

''[[How I Saved the World]]'' by [[Alexander Lullington-Smythe]], which was published by Aphrodite Press in [[1976]], was "very publicly discredited." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Salvation (novel)|Salvation]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:Sontarans in Cardiff.jpg|thumb|left|[[Sontaran]]s on [[St Mary's Street]]. ([[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Legacy (video game)|Legacy]]'')]]
At the beginning of [[Legacy (video game)|Legacy]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Vastra]] arrive in [[Cardiff]] on [[16th October]] 1978 to find [[Sontaran]]s changing history by invading Earth. The Doctor and Vastra defeated the Sontarans, but realised that they had only witnessed the beginning of a Sontaran plot to alter all of time.

According to the [[UNIT website]], the book ''Forces Other Than NATO: A history of Special Operations Units 1945-1989'' contained an extensive section on UNIT's involvement in a crisis in [[Transylvania]] in this year.  <ref>[https://www.unit.org.uk/publications.shtml UNIT Publications]</ref>

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