1974

1974 in

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1974 was the year of Professor Alec Palmer and Emma Grayling's investigation of the ghost that haunted Caliburn House. On the night of 25 November, the Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald visited the Caliburn House, and helped locate the ghost, who was actually a human time traveller named Hila Tacorien. Using Emma's psychic powers, the Doctor crossed a wormhole to get to the pocket universe in which Hila was trapped, bringing her back to N-Space. He later retrieved the Crooked Man from the pocket universe as well, reuniting him with his mate. The day was also notable as the start of the relationship between Alec and Emma, which would later give birth to Hila, their great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter. (TV: Hide)

In December, the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown saved a monk named Cheung from a Triad gang in Kowloon, Hong Kong. (PROSE: Exclave)

Reginald Tyler died, still working obsessively on revisions to his The True History of Planets. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen)

The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller arrived in England at a service station on the M62 sometime in the winter. (AUDIO: Horror of Glam Rock)

Evelyn Smythe later recalled that the class she taught in 1974 were a particularly difficult bunch. (AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy)

The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones went to London to find that a cat had turned people into sand figures. (COMIC: Agent Provocateur)

Liam McShane, the younger brother of Dorothy Gale "Ace" McShane, was born. (AUDIO: The Rapture)

After sailing down the Amazon "for months", Jo Grant and Cliff Jones arrived in a "village in Crystaluna" and she called UNIT to say hello to the Doctor, but was told that he had "left UNIT and never came back." (TV: Death of the Doctor)

Sherman Pegg was born. (AUDIO: The Way Forwards)