1978

1978 in

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Events

• 21 February - Workers in Mexico City uncovered the sacrificial stone at the base of the Great Temple. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)
• 16 August - Gwen Cooper was born. (TV: Children of Earth)
• At St Benedict's School in Perivale, Chad Boyle almost hit Dorothy McShane with a brick, but was stopped by the adult Ace. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation)
• In an alternative timeline, Chad Boyle hit Dorothy McShane in the head with a brick, killing her. The Timewyrm recruited him in her battle against the Seventh Doctor and Ace. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation) Although the novel dates this as 1976, this happens when Dorothy was eight years old (she was born in 1978).

Unknown dates

• The Fourth Doctor and Romana searched for the third segment of the Key to Time on Earth, encountering the Ogri. (TV: The Stones of Blood)
• Chris Parsons graduated from Cambridge, and soon began his postgraduate studies at St Cedd's College. (HOMEVID: 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)
• The Eighth Doctor brought Anji Kapoor and 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)