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'''1981''' was a [[year]].
== Events ==
== Events ==
=== Dated ===
==== January - June ====
[[File:He's watching you.jpg|left|thumb|The Watcher's appearance foreshadows the [[Fourth Doctor's regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Logopolis (TV story)}})]]
On [[21 January]], the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana II]] and [[K9 Mark II]] visited [[Norway]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|A Midsummer's Nightmare (short story)}})
On [[28 February]], the Fourth Doctor and [[Adric]] landed [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] by the side of a motorway to gain measurements of a [[police box]]. Air hostess [[Tegan Jovanka]] stumbled aboard the TARDIS on her way to work at [[London]]'s [[Heathrow Airport]]. Shortly after, Tegan's aunt [[Vanessa (Logopolis)|Vanessa]] went looking for Tegan but was killed by {{Ainley}}. Afterwards, the Master's actions on [[Logopolis]] caused [[heat death]] to spread through [[N-Space]] in the form of an [[entropy wave]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Logopolis (TV story)}})
On [[1 March]], the Doctor stopped the entropy wave by reopening a [[CVE]] in [[Cassiopeia]]. Soon afterwards, following a fall from the [[Pharos Project]]'s dish, the Fourth Doctor [[Fourth Doctor's regeneration|regenerated]] into his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Logopolis (TV story)}}) The newly regenerated Doctor and his companions Adric, [[Nyssa]] and Tegan, escaped in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Castrovalva (TV story)}})
On [[30 March]], [[John Hinckley Jr]] tried to [[assassination|assassinate]] [[American]] [[President]] [[Ronald Reagan]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Assassin's Story (short story)}})
==== July - December ====
[[Peter Tracey]] was given a suspended sentence for breaking and entering. ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)}})
The [[Fifth Doctor]] attended a [[cricket]] match in [[Leeds]] twice. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Graham Dilley Saves the World (short story)}})


===[[Doctor Who Universe]]===
A [[hailstorm]] struck [[Moreton Harwood]]. It lasted only thirteen seconds, but destroyed Commander [[Bill Pollock]]'s crops. ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)}})
====Date Unknown====
* [[Anne Travers]] becomes the cabinet's [[scientific advisor]]. ([[MA]]: ''[[Downtime]]'')


==== [[February]] ====
On [[22 October]], [[Welsh]] MP for [[Anglesey]] [[Ieuan Wyn Jones]] spoke at [[Westminster]], stressing that [[Dafydd Wigley]] was standing down for [[health]] reasons — and not because of a supposed [[UFO]] incursion shortly before. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The New World (TV story)}})
*[[28th February|28]] - [[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Adric]] land the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] by the side of a motorway to gain measurements of a [[police box]].  Air hostess [[Tegan Jovanka]] stumbles aboard [[the TARDIS]] on her way to work at [[London]]'s [[Heathrow]] Airport. A wave of [[entropy]] destroys most of the [[universe]].  
*[[28th February|28]] - [[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] tries to return [[Tegan Jovanka]] to her own time, but instead the TARDIS lands on [[Monarch]]'s ship. ([[DW]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'').


==== [[March]] ====
[[File:Sarah Jane, Brendan and K9.jpg|thumb|Sarah Jane, Brendan, and K9. ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)}})]]
*[[1st March|1]] - Following a lethal fall from the Pharos Project's dish, [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] [[regenerate]]s. ([[DW]]:''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor|regenerated Doctor]] and his companions, except for Adric, manage to escape.
From [[1 December]] to [[14 December]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]] was out of the country working for [[Reuters]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)}})


==== [[June]] ====
On [[4 December]], the [[Jex]] arrived on [[Earth]], taking shelter in [[California]]'s [[San Joaquin Valley]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The King of Terror (novel)}})
*[[Peter Tracey]] is given a suspended sentence for breaking and entering. ([[K-9 & Company]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend]]'')


==== [[September]] ====
On [[6 December]], [[Lavinia Smith]] departed [[Moreton Harwood]] for a lecture tour in the [[United States of America|United States]]. Before leaving, she arranged for a mysterious crate addressed to her niece, Sarah Jane Smith, to be left at Moreton Harwood. ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)}})
* A [[hailstorm]] strikes [[Moreton Harwood]]. It lasts only thirteen seconds, but destroys [[Commander Pollock]]'s crops. ([[K-9 & Company]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend]]'')


==== [[December]] ====
On [[10 December]], Lavinia Smith phoned her ward [[Brendan Richards]] to tell him that he would be spending [[Christmas]] with Sarah Jane. Brendan waited for Sarah to pick him up at [[Wellington College]] for over a week, unaware that she was out of the country. ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)}})
* ([[1st December|1]] - [[14th December |14]]) - [[Sarah Jane Smith]] is out of the country working for [[Reuters]]. ([[K-9 & Company]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend]]'')


* [[6th December|6]] - [[Lavinia Smith]] leaves [[Moreton Harwood]] for a lecture tour in [[America]]. Before departing, she arranges for a mysterious crate addressed to her niece, [[Sarah Jane Smith]] to be left at Moreton Harwood. ([[K-9 & Company]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend]]'')
On [[18 December]], Sarah Jane met Brendan for the first time. Shortly afterwards, she opened the crate addressed to her in Lavinia's house and activated [[K9 Mark III]], who had been left in her flat in [[Croydon]] by [[the Doctor]] in [[1978]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)}})


* [[10th December|10]] - Lavinia Smith phones [[Brendan Richards]] to tell him he will be spending [[Christmas]] with Sarah Jane. Brendan waits for Sarah to pick him up at school, unaware that she is out of the country. ([[K-9 & Company]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend]]'')
From [[20 December]] to [[21 December]], Brendan was kidnapped by the [[Hecate Cult]], who intended to use him as a [[human sacrifice]]. However, he was rescued by Sarah Jane Smith and K9 Mark III before this could happen. ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)}})


* [[18th December|18]] - [[22nd December|22]]) - . ([[K-9 & Company]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend]]'') - [[Sarah Jane Smith]] opens the crate left by Lavinia and activates [[K-9 Mark III]], who has been waiting for her since [[1978]].
On [[25 December]], Sarah Jane, Brendan and K9 Mark III spent Christmas Day with [[Howard Baker|Howard]] and [[Juno Baker]] as Sarah Jane's aunt Lavinia Smith was in the United States. ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)}})


* [[29th December|29]] - Members of the cult of [[Hecate]] at Moreton Harwood are tried for attempted murder. ([[K-9 & Company]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend]]'')
On [[29 December]], members of the Hecate Cult at Moreton Harwood were charged with attempted [[murder]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)}})


===Real World===
In December, the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Adric]], [[Nyssa]] and [[Tegan Jovanka]] encountered the [[I (Iterations of I)|I]] and the I Predator on [[Fleming's Island]] off the coast of [[Ireland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Iterations of I (audio story)}})
==== [[January]] ====
* [[2nd January |02]] - [[Victor Carin]], who played [[Virgil Earp]] in "[[The Gunfighters]]," dies from cancer in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]].
* [[3rd January | 03]] - ''[[Warriors' Gate]]'' Episode 1 First Broadcast
* [[5th January | 05]] - ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' debuts on BBC Television. A mini-series adaptation of [[Douglas Adams]]' radio play and novelisation, the series would include a cameo appearance by [[Peter Davison]] as "The Dish of the Day".
* [[10th January | 10]] - ''[[Warriors' Gate]]'' Episode 2 First Broadcast
* [[15th January | 15]] - ''[[Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit]]'' published. Beginning with this release and continuing through [[1991]], [[Target Books]] will begin commissioning the original teleplay authors to adapt their own scripts, whenever possible.
* [[17th January | 17]] - ''[[Warriors' Gate]]'' Episode 3 first broadcast.
* [[24th January | 24]] - ''[[Warriors' Gate]]'' Episode 4 first broadcast.
* [[31st January | 31]] - ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'' Episode 1 first broadcast.


==== [[February]] ====
=== Undated ===
* [[7th February | 07]] - ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'' Episode 2 first broadcast.
[[File:The Doctor hides behind Beano (TROA).jpg|thumb|The Eleventh Doctor hides behind ''[[the Beano]]'' while learning about the childhood of Clara Oswald. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)}})]]
* [[14th February | 14]] - ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'' Episode 3 first Broadcast
[[Anne Travers]] became the British Cabinet's chief [[scientific advisor]], succeeding her [[University of Cambridge]] lecturer and mentor [[Rachel Jensen|Professor Rachel Jensen]]. She served in that position until her death on [[31 December]] [[1999]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Millennial Rites (novel)}})
* [[21st February | 21]] - ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'' Episode 4 first Broadcast
* [[21st February | 21]] - Death of [[Doctor Who theme]] composer [[Ron Grainer]].
* [[28th February | 28]] - ''[[Logopolis (TV story) |Logopolis]]'' Episode 1 first broadcast.


[[Ellie Oswald|Ellie Ravenwood]] met her future husband, [[Dave Oswald]], after saving him from being hit by a car. Unbeknownst to them, they were watched by the [[Eleventh Doctor]], who was trying to figure out the history of [[Clara Oswald]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)}})


==== [[March]] ====
In some timelines, [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] retired from [[UNIT]] and began teaching at [[Brendon Public School]]. Just after telling the UN he was retiring, Lethbridge-Stewart was taken from time by [[the Accord]] and copied to help stabilise the temporal instability concerning the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]] being melded together. He was returned to his present time and retained no memory of the incident. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Enfolded Time (short story)}})
* [[7th March | 07]] - ''[[Logopolis (TV story) |Logopolis]]'' Episode 2 First Broadcast
* [[14th March | 14]] - [[Logopolis (TV story) |Logopolis]] Episode 3 First Broadcast
* [[21st March | 21]] - [[Logopolis (TV story) |Logopolis]] Episode 4 First Broadcast, ending in [[Tom Baker]]'s [[regeneration]] into [[Peter Davison]]. For the last time until [[2005]], the lead actor of the series is credited on screen as "Doctor Who" (beginning with the next season, the credit becomes "The Doctor").
* [[28th March |28]] - [[Gareth David-Lloyd]], who plays [[Ianto Jones]] is born in Newport, [[Wales]].


==== [[April]] ====
[[Joel (The Blood Furnace)|Joel]]'s father lost his job. He was still out of work in [[1991]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Blood Furnace (audio story)}})
* [[17th April | 17]] - ''[[Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World]]'' First Published. Written by series actor [[Ian Marter]], the book is controversial at the time of release for its use of adult language in a line of books officially considered children's literature. This was the last novelisation in the [[Target Books]] line to use [[Doctor Who logo#logo four|the "diamond logo"]] for a while.


==== [[October]] ====
An [[assassination]] attempt was made against the [[Pope]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Assassin's Story (short story)}})


* [[15th October | 15]] - ''[[Doctor Who and An Unearthly Child]]'', an adaptation of the [[An Unearthly Child|very first Doctor Who serial]], is first published. Its publication promotes the upcoming rebroadcast of the serial by [[BBC Two]] as part of the Five Faces of Doctor Who. The [[Target Books]] line switches to the then-current [[Doctor_Who_logo#Logo_Five|"neon tubing" series logo]] with this release.
[[Torchwood House]] was opened to the public. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Welcome to Torchwood House (feature)}})


==== [[November]] ====
== Births and deaths ==
* [[2nd November | 02]] - The Five Faces of Doctor Who special re-broadcast series commences with the third television broadcast of the first episode of ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'', the very first episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. It airs in the [[UK]] on [[BBC Two]].
On [[7 April]], [[Cassandra Schofield|Cassandra Elizabeth Schofield]], the mother of the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s companion [[Hex]], was born to [[Hilda Schofield]] in [[Royal Bolton Hospital]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Project Destiny (audio story)|Project: Destiny}})
* [[3rd November | 03]] - Second television Broadcast of "The Cave of Skulls" (the second episode of ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'') in the [[UK]] on [[BBC Two]]
* [[4th November | 04]] - Second television Broadcast of "The Forest of Fear" (the third episode of ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' in the [[UK]] on [[BBC Two]].
* [[5th November | 05]] - Second television Broadcast of "The Firemaker", the fourth and last episode of ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' in the [[UK]] on [[BBC Two]]


==== [[December]] ====
In [[August]], [[Martin Tuck]] was killed by the [[I Predator]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Iterations of I (audio story)}})
* [[28th December | 28]] - ''[[A Girl's Best Friend]]'', a pilot episode for the proposed spin-off ''[[K-9 & Company]]'' is first Broadcast. The pilot features [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and introduces [[K-9 Mark III]].


==== Unknown date ====
== Other ==
* [[Steven Scott]], who played [[Kebble]] in "[[The Power of the Daleks]]," dies.
[[Toshiko Sato]] was born in [[July]] [[1975]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)}}) but her [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]] records later gave her birth as [[19 September]] 1981 ([[TV]]: {{cs|The New World (TV story)}}) due to Toshiko changing the data while combatting a torrent file that threatened to corrupt the world. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Torchwood cascade CDRIP.tor (audio story)|torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor}})


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1981 was a year.

Events

Dated

January - June

The Watcher's appearance foreshadows the Fourth Doctor's regeneration. (TV: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"])

On 21 January, the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9 Mark II visited Norway. (COMIC: A Midsummer's Nightmare [+]Loading...["A Midsummer's Nightmare (short story)"])

On 28 February, the Fourth Doctor and Adric landed the TARDIS by the side of a motorway to gain measurements of a police box. Air hostess Tegan Jovanka stumbled aboard the TARDIS on her way to work at London's Heathrow Airport. Shortly after, Tegan's aunt Vanessa went looking for Tegan but was killed by the Tremas Master. Afterwards, the Master's actions on Logopolis caused heat death to spread through N-Space in the form of an entropy wave. (TV: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"])

On 1 March, the Doctor stopped the entropy wave by reopening a CVE in Cassiopeia. Soon afterwards, following a fall from the Pharos Project's dish, the Fourth Doctor regenerated into his fifth incarnation. (TV: Logopolis [+]Loading...["Logopolis (TV story)"]) The newly regenerated Doctor and his companions Adric, Nyssa and Tegan, escaped in the TARDIS. (TV: Castrovalva [+]Loading...["Castrovalva (TV story)"])

On 30 March, John Hinckley Jr tried to assassinate American President Ronald Reagan. (PROSE: The Assassin's Story [+]Loading...["The Assassin's Story (short story)"])

July - December

Peter Tracey was given a suspended sentence for breaking and entering. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend [+]Loading...["A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)"])

The Fifth Doctor attended a cricket match in Leeds twice. (PROSE: Graham Dilley Saves the World [+]Loading...["Graham Dilley Saves the World (short story)"])

A hailstorm struck Moreton Harwood. It lasted only thirteen seconds, but destroyed Commander Bill Pollock's crops. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend [+]Loading...["A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)"])

On 22 October, Welsh MP for Anglesey Ieuan Wyn Jones spoke at Westminster, stressing that Dafydd Wigley was standing down for health reasons — and not because of a supposed UFO incursion shortly before. (TV: The New World [+]Loading...["The New World (TV story)"])

Sarah Jane, Brendan, and K9. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend [+]Loading...["A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)"])

From 1 December to 14 December, Sarah Jane Smith was out of the country working for Reuters. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend [+]Loading...["A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)"])

On 4 December, the Jex arrived on Earth, taking shelter in California's San Joaquin Valley. (PROSE: The King of Terror [+]Loading...["The King of Terror (novel)"])

On 6 December, Lavinia Smith departed Moreton Harwood for a lecture tour in the United States. Before leaving, she arranged for a mysterious crate addressed to her niece, Sarah Jane Smith, to be left at Moreton Harwood. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend [+]Loading...["A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)"])

On 10 December, Lavinia Smith phoned her ward Brendan Richards to tell him that he would be spending Christmas with Sarah Jane. Brendan waited for Sarah to pick him up at Wellington College for over a week, unaware that she was out of the country. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend [+]Loading...["A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)"])

On 18 December, Sarah Jane met Brendan for the first time. Shortly afterwards, she opened the crate addressed to her in Lavinia's house and activated K9 Mark III, who had been left in her flat in Croydon by the Doctor in 1978. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend [+]Loading...["A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)"])

From 20 December to 21 December, Brendan was kidnapped by the Hecate Cult, who intended to use him as a human sacrifice. However, he was rescued by Sarah Jane Smith and K9 Mark III before this could happen. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend [+]Loading...["A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)"])

On 25 December, Sarah Jane, Brendan and K9 Mark III spent Christmas Day with Howard and Juno Baker as Sarah Jane's aunt Lavinia Smith was in the United States. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend [+]Loading...["A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)"])

On 29 December, members of the Hecate Cult at Moreton Harwood were charged with attempted murder. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend [+]Loading...["A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)"])

In December, the Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka encountered the I and the I Predator on Fleming's Island off the coast of Ireland. (AUDIO: Iterations of I [+]Loading...["Iterations of I (audio story)"])

Undated

The Eleventh Doctor hides behind the Beano while learning about the childhood of Clara Oswald. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten [+]Loading...["The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)"])

Anne Travers became the British Cabinet's chief scientific advisor, succeeding her University of Cambridge lecturer and mentor Professor Rachel Jensen. She served in that position until her death on 31 December 1999. (PROSE: Millennial Rites [+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"])

Ellie Ravenwood met her future husband, Dave Oswald, after saving him from being hit by a car. Unbeknownst to them, they were watched by the Eleventh Doctor, who was trying to figure out the history of Clara Oswald. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten [+]Loading...["The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)"])

In some timelines, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart retired from UNIT and began teaching at Brendon Public School. Just after telling the UN he was retiring, Lethbridge-Stewart was taken from time by the Accord and copied to help stabilise the temporal instability concerning the 1970s and 1980s being melded together. He was returned to his present time and retained no memory of the incident. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time [+]Loading...["The Enfolded Time (short story)"])

Joel's father lost his job. He was still out of work in 1991. (AUDIO: The Blood Furnace [+]Loading...["The Blood Furnace (audio story)"])

An assassination attempt was made against the Pope. (PROSE: The Assassin's Story [+]Loading...["The Assassin's Story (short story)"])

Torchwood House was opened to the public. (PROSE: Welcome to Torchwood House [+]Loading...["Welcome to Torchwood House (feature)"])

Births and deaths

On 7 April, Cassandra Elizabeth Schofield, the mother of the Seventh Doctor's companion Hex, was born to Hilda Schofield in Royal Bolton Hospital. (AUDIO: Project: Destiny [+]Loading...["Project Destiny (audio story)","Project: Destiny"])

In August, Martin Tuck was killed by the I Predator. (AUDIO: Iterations of I [+]Loading...["Iterations of I (audio story)"])

Other

Toshiko Sato was born in July 1975, (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts [+]Loading...["Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)"]) but her Torchwood records later gave her birth as 19 September 1981 (TV: The New World [+]Loading...["The New World (TV story)"]) due to Toshiko changing the data while combatting a torrent file that threatened to corrupt the world. (AUDIO: torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor [+]Loading...["Torchwood cascade CDRIP.tor (audio story)","torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor"])

Footnotes

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