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'''1984''' was a [[year]].


The [[Sixth Doctor]] claimed that '''1984''' was "never as good as the book" of the same name by [[George Orwell]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')
==Events==
===Dated===
[[Peri Brown]] and [[Katherine Chambers]] graduated from high school in [[Fell's Point]], [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]].


== Events ==
On [[8 May]], the [[Soviet Union]] withdrew from the [[1984 Olympics|1984 Olympic Games]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})


=== May ===
[[File:Turlough doctor goodbye.jpg|left|thumb|Turlough says goodbye to the Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of Fire (TV story)}})]]
* The [[Fifth Doctor]] defeated the [[Malus]] in [[Little Hodcombe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Awakening (TV story)|The Awakening]]'')
On [[9 May]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] returned to [[Trion (planet)|Trion]], [[Peri Brown]] joined the Fifth Doctor on his travels and [[Kamelion]] was destroyed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of Fire (TV story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})
* [[Peri Brown]] and [[Katherine Chambers]] graduated from high school in [[Fell's Point]], [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')
* [[8 May]] - The [[Russia|Soviet Union]] withdrew from the 1984 [[Olympic Games]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')
* [[9 May]] - [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] returned to [[Trion (planet)|Trion]], [[Peri Brown]] joined the Fifth Doctor on his travels and [[Kamelion]] was destroyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')


=== Summer ===
Between [[9 May]] and [[24 September]], [[Peri Brown]]'s mother [[Janine Foster|Janine]] and [[Howard Foster]] divorced. In spite of this, Janine kept her ex-husband's surname for the rest of her life. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})
* Between [[9 May]] and [[28 September]], [[Peri Brown]]'s mother [[Janine Foster|Janine]] and [[Howard Foster]] divorced. In spite of this, Janine kept her ex-husband's surname for the rest of her life. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')
* The [[Olympic Games]], which were boycotted by the [[Russia|Soviet Union]], were held in [[Los Angeles]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')


=== September ===
According to one account, [[Pauline Smith]] gave birth to her son [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]] on [[22 May]] 1984. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Mickey (reference book)|namedpart=Mickey Data|page=6|name="data"}}) Other accounts gave his birth year as [[1983]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}}) or circa [[1985]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)}})
* [[28 September]] - The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] attended the funeral of [[Anthony Chambers]] in [[Fell's Point]], [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')


=== Unknown dates ===
On [[7 June]], the last-ever [[Mondasian Olympics]] were held after all the [[Cyberman]] [[Athlete|competitors]] drew in every single [[event]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Traveller's Diary (novel)}})
* [[H.C. Clements]] was bought by the [[Torchwood Institute]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')
* With the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] caught inside a [[time corridor]], the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] arrived in [[London]], where they encountered canisters of [[Movellan virus]] and [[Dalek Duplicate|duplicates of humans]] created by the [[Dalek]]s. They travelled across the corridor to meet the Daleks and their creator [[Davros]] in the future. After witnessing a huge amount of bloodshed in the early days of the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War|Dalek Civil War]], Tegan departed from the TARDIS in this year. [[Gustave Lytton|Commander Lytton]] escaped from the future alive with his two [[police]] guards. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')
* [[Lucie Miller]]'s maternal aunt [[Patricia Ryder]], whom she called "Auntie Pat," was killed by [[Zygon]]s and replaced by her Zygon husband Trevor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Grand Theft Cosmos (audio story)|Grand Theft Cosmos]]'')
* [[Martha Jones]] was born. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'') {{disputed}}
* [[Indira Gandhi]] was serving as the [[Prime Minister]] of [[India]] during this year. As she told the [[Egypt]]ian [[Pharaoh]] [[Erimem]], [[Peri Brown]] considered her to be an effective female leader in contrast to her British counterpart and contemporary [[Margaret Thatcher]]. Given that Erimem was from the [[BC|14th century BC]], she had unsurprisingly never heard of either Gandhi or Thatcher. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eye of the Scorpion (audio story)|The Eye of the Scorpion]]'')
* In [[1964]], [[Ken Temple]] believed that it would be possible to evacuate 1% of the human population to [[Venus]] by this year if all of Earth's fossil fuels and natural resources were used to create an interplanetary fleet. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pelage Project (audio story)|The Pelage Project]]'')
* [[Albert Marsden]] retired. He and his wife [[Peggy Marsden|Peggy]] subsequently bought a cottage in the [[England|north of England]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Protect and Survive (audio story)|Protect and Survive]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
On [[12 June]], [[Harold Withers|Harold]] and [[Alice Withers]], the owners of [[Stockbridge]]'s [[Green Dragon]], were [[married]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Eternal Summer (audio story)}})
=== January ===
* [[5 January|05]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast, launching [[Season 21]] and marking the return of the [[Sea Devil]]s and the [[Silurian]]s, races not seen since the [[Jon Pertwee]] era.
* [[6 January|06]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[12 January|12]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* 12 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Mawdryn Undead]]'' was first published.
* 12 - The final studio recording session for [[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' was held, concluding [[Peter Davison]]'s time as the [[Fifth Doctor]].
* [[13 January|13]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
* [[19 January|19]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Awakening]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. This was the final two-part ''Doctor Who'' story produced as two twenty-five-minute episodes.
* [[20 January|20]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Awakening]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[26 January|26]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[27 January|27]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* 27 - Director [[Douglas Camfield]] died.


=== February ===
During the [[summer]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]] encountered the [[Kin (Nothing O'Clock)|Kin]] in [[Leadworth]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Nothing O'Clock (short story)}})
* ''Doctor Who Monthly'' changed its title to ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''.
* [[2 February|02]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[3 February|03]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
* [[7 February|07]] - Production commenced on [[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'', the first story of the [[Colin Baker]] era.
* [[8 February|08]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. Due to a scheduling issue relating to the 1984 Winter [[Olympics]], it was re-edited into two fifty-minute episodes rather than the usual four twenty-five-minute episodes. These were the first "double-length" episodes; the format was adopted permanently in the next season.
* [[15 February|15]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast. [[Janet Fielding]] left the series with this episode.
* [[23 February|23]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. [[Nicola Bryant]] debuted as new companion [[Peri Brown]].
* [[24 February|24]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.


=== March ===
On [[24 September]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] attended the funeral of [[Anthony Chambers]] in [[Fell's Point]], [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})
* [[1 March|01]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[2 March|02]] - [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast. [[Kamelion]] was destroyed and [[Mark Strickson]] left the series.
* [[8 March|08]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[9 March|09]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[15 March|15]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* 15 - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Kinda (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Kinda]]'' was first published. This was the last fully photographic [[Peter Davison]] cover.
* [[16 March|16]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast, ending in [[Peter Davison]]'s [[regeneration]] into [[Colin Baker]].
* [[17 March|17]] - Actor [[John Dearth]] died.
* [[22 March|22]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast, launching the [[Colin Baker]] era. A slight modification was made to the series logo, adding a prism effect (which created the effect of it being curved); the logo used for merchandising, however, remained as per the version introduced in [[1980]]. This was the first time since the switchover from [[William Hartnell]] to [[Patrick Troughton]] that a [[regeneration]] occurred before the end of a season, allowing the new Doctor to finish the year.
* [[23 March|23]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[27 March|27]] - Actor [[Derek Francis]] died from a heart attack in [[Wimbledon]].
* [[29 March|29]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[30 March|30]] - [[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast, concluding Season 21. This was the last half-hour episode until [[1986]] as [[Season 22]] moved to a new format of forty-five-minute episodes. The 1984 season also marked the end of the show's twenty-four-episode long seasons. Beginning in 1985 the number of episodes was reduced to thirteen, later fourteen. A similar episode count persisted when the series returned in [[2005]].


=== April ===
===Undated===
* [[2 April|2]] - Actor [[Frank Crawshaw]] died.
[[File:Little Hodcombe.jpg|thumb|right|A stake is built on the village green as part of Little Hodcombe's [[English Civil War]] reenactment. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Awakening (TV story)}})]]
* [[3 April|3]] - Actress [[Chrissie Marie Fit]] was born.
The [[Fifth Doctor]] defeated the [[Malus]] in [[Little Hodcombe]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Awakening (TV story)}})
* [[13 April|13]] - Actor [[Richard Hurndall]] died.
* [[15 April|15]] - Magician and comic {{w|Tommy Cooper}}, at one point a contender to play the Doctor, suffered a heart attack and collapsed during a live TV performance; he died backstage.
* [[22 April|22]] - Actress [[Michelle Ryan]] was born.
* [[26 April|26]] - [[Composer]] [[Barry Gray]] died.


=== May ===
The [[1984 Olympics|1984 Olympic Games]], which were boycotted by the [[Soviet Union]], were held in [[Los Angeles]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}}, {{cs|The Gathering (audio story)}})
* [[3 May|03]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Snakedance (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Snakedance]]'' was first published. With this release, [[Target Books]] returned to non-photographic covers, although for this and the next [[Fifth Doctor]] novelisation, a modified series logo incorporating a photograph of [[Peter Davison]] was utilised.
* [[15 May|15]] - [[Tom Baker]] guest-starred in the American TV series, ''Remington Steele'', in the part "Hounded Steele".
* [[24 May|24]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Enlightenment (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Enlightenment]]'' was first published, a rare occasion when more than one novelisation was published at different times in a calendar month. It was the second and last use of the modified logo-and-photo branding for a [[Fifth Doctor]] novelisation and the final use of a photographic element on a ''Doctor Who'' fiction book until the [[1988]] novelisation of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (novelisation)|Time and the Rani]]''. As Target was not allowed to feature artistic renderings of [[Peter Davison]] at the time, this was the last appearance of an image of the Fifth Doctor on a new novelisation, although Target was finally allowed to feature drawings of Davison when it issued new editions of many of its novelisations in the early [[1990s]]. Target chose not to include images of the [[Sixth Doctor]] on initial releases of any of that era's novelisations; as a result, no image of a current Doctor appeared on the cover of a newly issued Target novelisation until [[PROSE]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (novelisation)|Paradise Towers]]'' in December [[1988]].


=== June ===
[[H.C. Clements]] was bought by the [[Torchwood Institute]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}})
* [[14 June|14]] - BBC Broadcasting Research issued a Viewing Panel Report gauging response to [[Season 21]] of ''Doctor Who'', which had included the changeover from [[Fifth Doctor]] [[Peter Davison]] to [[Sixth Doctor]] [[Colin Baker]]. The season received an Appreciation Index of 57, while newcomer Baker received a "rather cool reception" from viewers.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/changingwho/10322.shtml BBC - Archive - The Changing Face of Doctor Who - Audience Response Report on 'Doctor Who' in 1984]</ref>


=== July ===
With [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] caught inside a [[time corridor]], the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] arrived in London at some point, where they encountered canisters of [[Movellan virus]] and [[Dalek duplicate|duplicates of humans]] created by the [[Dalek]]s. They travelled across the corridor to meet the Daleks and their creator [[Davros]] in the future. After witnessing a huge amount of bloodshed in the early days of the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War|Dalek Civil War]], Tegan departed from the TARDIS in this year. [[Gustave Lytton|Commander Lytton]] escaped from the future alive with his two [[police]] guards. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)}})
* [[11 July|11]] - Actor [[Hugh Morton]] died.
* [[12 July|12]] - Actress [[Florence Hoath]] was born.
* [[19 July|19]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dominators (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Dominators]]'' was first published. It was the first non-[[Fifth Doctor]] novelisation in two years.


=== August ===
[[Albert Marsden]] [[retire]]d. He and his wife [[Peggy Marsden|Peggy]] subsequently bought a cottage in the [[England|north of England]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Protect and Survive (audio story)}})
* The ''[[Doctor Who Annual 1985]]'' was published.
* [[16 August|16]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Warriors of the Deep]]'' was first published. It was the first fully-artistic [[Fifth Doctor]] novelisation cover and the first to use the new white-outline version of the Target Books logo.


=== September ===
{{Macqueen|The Master}} arrived in [[Hexford]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|And You Will Obey Me (audio story)}})
* [[11 September|11]] - Actor [[Troy Glasgow]] was born.
* [[20 September|20]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Aztecs (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Aztecs]]'' was first published. It was the last book to use the colour version of the Target Books logo.
* 20 - [[REF]]: ''[[The Key to Time|Doctor Who: The Key to Time]]'' was first published.
* [[26 September|26]] - Actress [[Chandra Ruegg]] was born.


=== October ===
A [[Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform]] killed three farmers in [[Wetwang]]. Its claws were found and stored at the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Security Bot (video game)}})
* [[10 October|10]] - Actress [[Joan Young]] died.
* 10 - Actor [[Alan Lake]] took his own life by shooting himself.
* [[18 October|18]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Inferno (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Inferno]]'' was first published.
* [[REF]]: ''[[The Doctor Who Pattern Book]]'' was first published.
* [[Marvel Comics]] in the United States launched the monthly comic book ''[[Doctor Who (1984)|Doctor Who]]''. It carried colourised reprints of comic strips and other features from ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. Initially, [[Fourth Doctor]] material was featured. [[Fifth Doctor]] material followed the next year.


=== November ===
There was a conflict in [[Ethiopia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Conspiracy (audio story)}})
* [[7 November|7]] - Actor [[Hayden Jones]] died.
* [[15 November|15]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Highlanders (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Highlanders]]'' was first published.
* 15 - [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Brain Teasers and Mind Benders]]'' was first published by [[Target Books]], written by sixteen-year-old fan [[Adrian Heath]].
* [[20 November|20]] - Actor [[Peter Welch]] died in [[Hammersmith]], [[England]].


=== December ===
On [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]'s orders, [[Whitaker (The Fires Down Below)|Major Whitaker]] and her [[UNIT]] team were sent to [[Reykjavik]], [[Iceland]] to inspect caverns with Dr [[Iskander]] to find the cause of sudden seismic activity. They discovered that [[Dominator]] [[Haag]] and the [[Quark]]s were attempting to use the Earth's core as a power source for the Dominators' star fleet. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Fires Down Below (comic story)}})
* [[10 December|10]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Frontios (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Frontios]]'' was first published.
* [[25 December|25]] - Actress [[Georgia Moffett]] was born.


=== Unknown dates ===
A [[Terpsivore]] [[Spacecraft|spaceship]] which had crashed in [[Birmingham]] was luring in [[dancer]]s to repair the ship by dancing on its [[living]] [[dancefloor]]. When Birmingham was redeveloped the secret entrance to the spaceship was sealed off, trapping the dancers inside. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Death Disco (comic story)}})
* Actor [[Dennis Cleary]] died.
* Actress [[Amara Karan]] was born.


== Trivia ==
[[Indira Gandhi]] was serving as the [[Prime Minister]] of [[India]] during this year. As she told the [[Egypt]]ian [[Pharaoh]] [[Erimem]], [[Peri Brown]] considered her to be an effective female leader in contrast to her British counterpart and contemporary [[Margaret Thatcher]]. As Erimem was from the [[BC|14th century BC]], she had unsurprisingly never heard of either Gandhi or Thatcher. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Eye of the Scorpion (audio story)}})
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== Footnotes ==
===Alternate timelines===
{{reflist}}
In an [[alternate timeline]], [[Margaret Thatcher]], the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] of the [[United Kingdom]], was [[Assassination|assassinated]] by her fellow [[Conservative Party]] politician [[Heathcliffe Bower]]. However, the proper timeline was restored by the [[Fifth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Assassin's Story (short story)}})


[[Category:Years]]
In another alternate timeline, [[Germany]] reunified and joined the International Communist Republic of [[Mokoshia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Red Planets (audio story)}})
 
==Births and deaths==
===Dated===
[[Martha Jones]] was born in this year ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Forgotten (comic story)}}) on [[14 September]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Torchwood Archives (novel)}}) Another account indicates she was born in [[1986]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Frozen Wastes (short story)}})
 
On [[22 December]], [[Ruby Duvall|Ruby Sara Duvall]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Iceberg (novel)}})
 
===Undated===
[[Ethel Merman]] died. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})
 
[[Lucie Miller]]'s maternal aunt [[Patricia Ryder]], whom she called "Auntie Pat", was killed by [[Zygon]]s and replaced by her Zygon husband [[Haygoth|Trevor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)}})
 
[[Janet Rae Tanner]] was born. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Middle Men (TV story)}})
 
==Other==
In [[1964]], [[Ken Temple]] believed that it would be possible to evacuate 1% of the human population to [[Venus]] by this year if all of Earth's fossil fuels and natural resources were used to create an interplanetary fleet. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Pelage Project (audio story)}})
 
The [[Sixth Doctor]] claimed that 1984 was "never as good as [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|the book]]" of the same name by [[George Orwell]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})
 
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1984 was a year.

Events

Dated

Peri Brown and Katherine Chambers graduated from high school in Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland.

On 8 May, the Soviet Union withdrew from the 1984 Olympic Games. (AUDIO: The Reaping [+]Loading...["The Reaping (audio story)"])

Turlough says goodbye to the Doctor. (TV: Planet of Fire [+]Loading...["Planet of Fire (TV story)"])

On 9 May, Turlough returned to Trion, Peri Brown joined the Fifth Doctor on his travels and Kamelion was destroyed. (TV: Planet of Fire [+]Loading...["Planet of Fire (TV story)"], AUDIO: The Reaping [+]Loading...["The Reaping (audio story)"])

Between 9 May and 24 September, Peri Brown's mother Janine and Howard Foster divorced. In spite of this, Janine kept her ex-husband's surname for the rest of her life. (AUDIO: The Reaping [+]Loading...["The Reaping (audio story)"])

According to one account, Pauline Smith gave birth to her son Mickey on 22 May 1984. (PROSE: "Mickey Data" [+]Part of Mickey, Loading...{"name":"\"data\"","page":"6","namedpart":"Mickey Data","1":"Mickey (reference book)"}) Other accounts gave his birth year as 1983, (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"]) or circa 1985. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]Loading...["The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"])

On 7 June, the last-ever Mondasian Olympics were held after all the Cyberman competitors drew in every single event. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])

On 12 June, Harold and Alice Withers, the owners of Stockbridge's Green Dragon, were married. (AUDIO: The Eternal Summer [+]Loading...["The Eternal Summer (audio story)"])

During the summer, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond encountered the Kin in Leadworth. (PROSE: Nothing O'Clock [+]Loading...["Nothing O'Clock (short story)"])

On 24 September, the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown attended the funeral of Anthony Chambers in Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland. (AUDIO: The Reaping [+]Loading...["The Reaping (audio story)"])

Undated

A stake is built on the village green as part of Little Hodcombe's English Civil War reenactment. (TV: The Awakening [+]Loading...["The Awakening (TV story)"])

The Fifth Doctor defeated the Malus in Little Hodcombe. (TV: The Awakening [+]Loading...["The Awakening (TV story)"])

The 1984 Olympic Games, which were boycotted by the Soviet Union, were held in Los Angeles. (AUDIO: The Reaping [+]Loading...["The Reaping (audio story)"], The Gathering [+]Loading...["The Gathering (audio story)"])

H.C. Clements was bought by the Torchwood Institute. (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"])

With the TARDIS caught inside a time corridor, the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka and Turlough arrived in London at some point, where they encountered canisters of Movellan virus and duplicates of humans created by the Daleks. They travelled across the corridor to meet the Daleks and their creator Davros in the future. After witnessing a huge amount of bloodshed in the early days of the Dalek Civil War, Tegan departed from the TARDIS in this year. Commander Lytton escaped from the future alive with his two police guards. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Albert Marsden retired. He and his wife Peggy subsequently bought a cottage in the north of England. (AUDIO: Protect and Survive [+]Loading...["Protect and Survive (audio story)"])

The Reborn Master arrived in Hexford. (AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me [+]Loading...["And You Will Obey Me (audio story)"])

A Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform killed three farmers in Wetwang. Its claws were found and stored at the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum. (GAME: Security Bot [+]Loading...["Security Bot (video game)"])

There was a conflict in Ethiopia. (AUDIO: The Conspiracy [+]Loading...["The Conspiracy (audio story)"])

On Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's orders, Major Whitaker and her UNIT team were sent to Reykjavik, Iceland to inspect caverns with Dr Iskander to find the cause of sudden seismic activity. They discovered that Dominator Haag and the Quarks were attempting to use the Earth's core as a power source for the Dominators' star fleet. (COMIC: The Fires Down Below [+]Loading...["The Fires Down Below (comic story)"])

A Terpsivore spaceship which had crashed in Birmingham was luring in dancers to repair the ship by dancing on its living dancefloor. When Birmingham was redeveloped the secret entrance to the spaceship was sealed off, trapping the dancers inside. (COMIC: Death Disco [+]Loading...["Death Disco (comic story)"])

Indira Gandhi was serving as the Prime Minister of India during this year. As she told the Egyptian Pharaoh Erimem, Peri Brown considered her to be an effective female leader in contrast to her British counterpart and contemporary Margaret Thatcher. As Erimem was from the 14th century BC, she had unsurprisingly never heard of either Gandhi or Thatcher. (AUDIO: The Eye of the Scorpion [+]Loading...["The Eye of the Scorpion (audio story)"])

Alternate timelines

In an alternate timeline, Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was assassinated by her fellow Conservative Party politician Heathcliffe Bower. However, the proper timeline was restored by the Fifth Doctor. (PROSE: The Assassin's Story [+]Loading...["The Assassin's Story (short story)"])

In another alternate timeline, Germany reunified and joined the International Communist Republic of Mokoshia. (AUDIO: Red Planets [+]Loading...["Red Planets (audio story)"])

Births and deaths

Dated

Martha Jones was born in this year (COMIC: The Forgotten [+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"]) on 14 September. (PROSE: The Torchwood Archives [+]Loading...["The Torchwood Archives (novel)"]) Another account indicates she was born in 1986. (PROSE: The Frozen Wastes [+]Loading...["The Frozen Wastes (short story)"])

On 22 December, Ruby Sara Duvall was born. (PROSE: Iceberg [+]Loading...["Iceberg (novel)"])

Undated

Ethel Merman died. (AUDIO: The Reaping [+]Loading...["The Reaping (audio story)"])

Lucie Miller's maternal aunt Patricia Ryder, whom she called "Auntie Pat", was killed by Zygons and replaced by her Zygon husband Trevor. (AUDIO: The Zygon Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)"])

Janet Rae Tanner was born. (TV: The Middle Men [+]Loading...["The Middle Men (TV story)"])

Other

In 1964, Ken Temple believed that it would be possible to evacuate 1% of the human population to Venus by this year if all of Earth's fossil fuels and natural resources were used to create an interplanetary fleet. (AUDIO: The Pelage Project [+]Loading...["The Pelage Project (audio story)"])

The Sixth Doctor claimed that 1984 was "never as good as the book" of the same name by George Orwell. (AUDIO: The Reaping [+]Loading...["The Reaping (audio story)"])

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