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== History of the Doctor Who Universe==
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'''1997''' was a [[year]].


=== [[April]] ===
== Events ==
=== Dated ===
==== January - July ====
In the spring, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] visited London to find that it was frozen by [[abominable alien]]s. The Doctor took his TARDIS to the aliens' base in the ice-solid [[River Thames]] and attached it to the machine the aliens used to freeze London. The TARDIS reversed the temporary winter and the aliens left Earth. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Wintervention (comic story)}})


* [[30th April|30]] - [[Bernice Summerfield]] is dropped off at [[the Doctor]]'s house. ([[NA]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]'')
On [[30 April]], [[Bernice Summerfield]] was dropped off at [[the Doctor]]'s [[Smithwood Manor|house]], whereupon she discovered he had [[regenerated]] into his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]]. On [[6 May]], Bernice first met the Doctor in his eighth incarnation. [[Britain]] sent the [[Mars Orbiter]] to [[Mars]] and the three [[astronaut]]s on the surface stumbled across the [[Ice Warrior]] tomb of the [[Kyruul|Great Marshall Kyruul]] of the [[Argyre Clan]] under the sands of the [[Mare Sirenum]] and were killed. The [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] of the [[United Kingdom]] was assassinated in [[Washington DC|Washington]]. [[Xznaal|Lord Xznaal]]'s ship arrived over [[London]] and ordered the [[country]] to submit to his rule. On [[7 May]], [[Alexander Christian]] escaped from his military captors and contacted [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]. The [[United Kingdom]] submitted to Martian rule and set up a Provisional Government.


=== [[May]]===
Around this time, [[Queen]] [[Elizabeth II]] was deposed and Xznaal was crowned [[King]]. She had a second coronation on [[23 November]], at which the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana II]] and [[K9 Mark II]] were present. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dying Days (novel)}})


* [[6th May|Tuesday 6]] - Bernice first meets the Doctor in his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth body]]. [[Britain]] sends the [[Mars 97 Orbiter]] onto the surface of [[Mars]] and the three astronauts on the surface stumble across the [[Ice Warrior]] tomb of the [[Great Marshall Kyruul]] of the [[Argyre Clan]] under the sands of the [[Mare Sirenum]] and are killed. The [[Prime Minister]] of the [[United Kingdom]] is assassinated in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]. [[Xznaal|Lord Xznaal]] arrives over [[London]] and orders the country to submit to his rule. ([[NA]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]'')
Shortly after the [[Mars 97]] incident, [[Carolyn McConnell]] summoned the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones to [[San Francisco]] to assist her with [[vampire]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Vampire Science (novel)}}) During the adventure, Sam asked UNIT to contact her parents. When a UNIT soldier came to the Jones residence, he learned that Sam hadn't yet begun travelling with the Doctor and then told Sam's parents to not tell Sam that he had come. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Unnatural History (novel)}})
[[File:Dying days001.jpg|thumb|left|The Eighth Doctor, shortly after destroying an Ice Warrior spaceship. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dying Days (novel)}})]]


* [[7th May|7]] - [[Alexander Christian]] escapes from his military captors and manages to contact [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]. The [[United Kingdom]] submits to Martian rule and sets up a Provisional Government. ([[NA]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]'')
On [[14 May]], the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s companion [[Ace]] met her younger brother [[Liam McShane]] for the first time in [[San Antonio, Spain|San Antonio]] on [[Ibiza]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Rapture (audio story)}})


* ''Unknown date'' - [[Queen Elizabeth II]] is deposed and the [[Ice Warrior]] [[Xznaal]] is crowned [[King]].
Before the end of the [[Coal Hill School]] year, in one version of history, the [[Eighth Doctor]] came to [[76 Totter's Lane]] shortly after his regeneration. [[Sam Jones]] was in the junkyard at the time getting drugs. Due to the fact that the Doctor had recently regenerated, [[Faction Paradox]] were able to use his [[biodata]] to change Sam's life to make her into a suitable companion for the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Unnatural History (novel)}})


=== [[November]] ===
In another version of history, the Eighth Doctor met Sam Jones in Totter's Lane while she was trying to stop a group of kids from dealing drugs. The Doctor, who was suffering from amnesia due to a trap left for him by {{Roberts}}, scared off the drug dealers and picked up their [[cocaine]]. The [[Coal Hill]] police saw him with the cocaine and assumed that he was the drug dealer. The Doctor was taken in for questioning, but he quickly escaped and ran back to Totter's Yard, where Sam was being attacked by the drug dealers. The Doctor ran into his TARDIS and left without saving her. After meeting all his past selves, the Doctor came back and brought Sam into the TARDIS. She began travelling with him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Eight Doctors (novel)}})


* [[23rd November|23]] - The Re-coronation of [[Queen Elizabeth II]] of the [[United Kingdom]], at which the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana II]] and [[K-9]] are present. ([[NA]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]'')
Before [[August]], Sam Jones' parents received the first of many postcards from Sam. This postcard came from [[Fleeble 14]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Unnatural History (novel)}})


=== Dates unknown ===
==== August - December ====
*After [[7th May]] but before [[23rd November]] - [[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Ace]] encounter Arthurian knights in [[Carbury]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'')
On [[1 August]], Sam's parents received a letter which had been kept in the mail system since [[1894]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Unnatural History (novel)}})
*After [[7th May]] but before [[23rd November]]; after the events of ([[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'') - Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is promoted to General Lethbridge-Stewart.
* The [[Torchwood Institute]] shoots down a [[Jathaa sunglider]] over the [[Shetland Islands]]. They begin to reverse-engineer its technology. ([[DW]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'')
*[[Sam Jones]] joins [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]] on his travels. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'')
*A Friday - [[Carolyn McConnell]] summons [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Sam Jones]] to [[San Francisco]] to assist her with [[vampire]]s. ([[EDA]]: ''[[Vampire Science]]'')


== History of ''Doctor Who'' ==
On [[11 October]], [[Mary Barton]] killed her mother. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|There's Something About Mary (short story)}})


Before the [[First Doctor]] and [[Susan Foreman]] settled down in [[Shoreditch]] in [[1963]], they took a brief trip to [[St Albans]] on [[17 December]] 1997 to ensure that the [[United Kingdom]] would remain safe during and after the [[1960s]]. Unbeknownst to either of them, the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9 Mark II were in the vicinity on the same day. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Little Things (short story)}})


=== [[January]] ===
=== Undated ===
[[File:SeventhBrigBessie.jpg|thumb|The Seventh Doctor and the Brigadier with Bessie. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}})]]
The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] encountered Arthurian knights in [[Carbury]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}) Afterwards, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart was promoted to General. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dying Days (novel)}})


[[Torchwood One]] shot down a [[Jathaa sunglider]] over the [[Shetland Islands]] around this time. They began reverse-engineering its technology. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Army of Ghosts (TV story)}})


* [[Eternity Weeps]] First Published
''[[It's a Mystery]]'' by [[T. Wilcox]] was published. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Terror from the Sky! (short story)}})


* [[Burning Heart]] First Published
=== Alternate universes ===
In the [[Unbound Universe]], [[Unbound Doctor|the Third Doctor]] was [[Exile on Earth|exiled to Earth]], as he was in [[N-Space]] but only arrived on arrived on [[30 June]] 1997 in [[Hong Kong (Unbound Universe)|Hong Kong]], the day the [[city]] was to be handed over to [[China]] from the [[British Empire]]. The Doctor discovered [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Unbound Universe)|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] living in the city, who told him of the dark turn [[Earth (Unbound Universe)|Earth]] had taken since the [[1960s]] without the Doctor to aid against the extra-normal. When the two set out to investigate the crashing of an invisible plane, they came across [[Unbound Master|the Master]] stuck on Earth since the [[1970s]]. The Doctor and the Master struck a deal to leave Earth together only for the Master to renege on the deal. Having anticipated this, the Doctor double-crossed the Master and left him stranded, instead leaving Earth and 1997 with the Brigadier. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)}})


* [[8th January | 8]] - [[Tom Bowman]], who portrayed the part of a sentry in [[The Highlanders]], dies.
According to one account, the Doctor and the Brigadier left Earth to never return, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Masters of War (audio story)}}) while another had them return to Hong Kong and enjoy a peaceful retirement. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)}})


* [[30th January | 30]] - [[Nicholas Mallett]], who directed [[The Mysterious Planet]], [[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]] and [[The Curse of Fenric]] dies.
== Births and deaths ==
[[Carys Fletcher]]'s mother was killed in a [[car crash]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Day One (TV story)}})


=== [[February]] ===
[[Rose Tyler]]'s maternal grandfather [[Prentice (Army of Ghosts)|Prentice]] died when his [[heart]] gave out. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Army of Ghosts (TV story)}})


[[James Stewart]] died. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Interference - Book Two (novel)}})


* [[The Room With No Doors]] First Published
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* [[8th February | 8]] - [[Elroy Josephs]], who played [[Jamaica]] in "[[The Smugglers]]," dies.
 
=== [[March]] ===
 
 
* [[Lungbarrow]] First Published
 
* [[The Dark Path]] First Published
 
* [[Arthur Hewlett]] ([[Kalmar]] in [[State of Decay]] and [[Kimber]] in [[Terror of the Vervoids]]) dies in England.
 
=== [[April]] ===
 
 
* [[The Dying Days]] First Published. This was the final book commission in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] line, but not the last published. It was the first and only book in the NA line to feature the [[Eighth Doctor]] and marked the final appearance to date of [[Bernice Summerfield]] with the Doctor.
 
* [[The Well-Mannered War]] First Published, the last release in the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] line.
 
=== [[May]] ===
 
 
* [[So Vile a Sin]] First Published. Although scheduled for release earlier in the year, manuscript issues resulted in its release this month. As such it became the final book in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] line featuring the Doctor to see print, and the last to feature the [[Seventh Doctor]]. The series would continue featuring [[Bernice Summerfield]].
 
* [[Oh No It Isn't!]] is first published, continuing the Virgin New Adventures line as the [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]]. Featuring companion [[Bernice Summerfield]] the NA books from here on in are devoid of overt references to ''Doctor Who''.
 
* [[Decalog 4: Re-Generations]] First Published
 
=== [[June]] ===
 
 
* [[The Eight Doctors]] First Published, launching the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] line.
 
* [[The Devil Goblins from Neptune]] First Published, launching the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] line
 
* [[Dragons' Wrath]] First Published
 
=== [[July]] ===
 
 
* [[Vampire Science]] First Published
 
* [[The Murder Game]] First Published
 
* [[Beyond the Sun (novel)|Beyond the Sun]] First Published
 
* [[7th July | 7]] - [[Royston Tickner]], who played [[Steinberger P. Green]] in "[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]" and [[Robbins (The Sea Devils)|Robbins]] in "[[The Sea Devils]]," dies.
 
* [[16th July | 16]] - [[Hugh Martin]], who appeared as [[Munro]] in [[Terror of the Zygons]] and the [[Priest]] in [[Vengeance on Varos]] dies from a heart operation.
 
=== [[August]] ===
 
 
* [[The Bodysnatchers]] First Published
 
* [[The Ultimate Treasure]] First Published
 
* [[Ship of Fools]] First Published
 
=== [[September]] ===
 
 
* [[Genocide]] First Published
 
* [[Business Unusual]] First Published
 
* [[Decalog 5: Wonders]] First Published - this short story collection features very little connection to ''Doctor Who'' save for one story featuring [[Bernice Summerfield]]
 
* [[Down]] First Published
 
* [[7th September | 7]] - News reporter turned actor [[Alex MacIntosh]], who made a cameo as himself in [[Day of the Daleks]], dies.
 
=== [[October]] ===
 
 
* [[War of the Daleks]] First Published
 
* [[Illegal Alien]] First Published
 
* [[Deadfall]] First Published
 
*[[6th October | 6]] - [[Adrienne Hill]], who played [[List of companions|companion]] [[Katarina]], dies from cancer.
 
* [[30th October | 30]] - [[Sydney Newman]], the creator of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', dies from a heart attack in [[Toronto]], [[Canada]] aged 80.
 
=== [[November]] ===
 
 
* [[Alien Bodies]] First Published
 
* [[The Roundheads]] First Published
 
* [[Ghost Devices]] First Published
 
=== [[December]] ===
 
* [[Mean Streets]] First Published
 
=== Unknown dates ===
* ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'', a home computer adventure game, is released. The game uses newly recorded audio of all surviving Doctor actors (except [[Paul McGann]]), and features [[Anthony Ainley]] in newly shot video footage as [[The Master]], his final appearance in this role.
 
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1997 was a year.

Events

Dated

January - July

In the spring, the Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald visited London to find that it was frozen by abominable aliens. The Doctor took his TARDIS to the aliens' base in the ice-solid River Thames and attached it to the machine the aliens used to freeze London. The TARDIS reversed the temporary winter and the aliens left Earth. (COMIC: Wintervention [+]Loading...["Wintervention (comic story)"])

On 30 April, Bernice Summerfield was dropped off at the Doctor's house, whereupon she discovered he had regenerated into his eighth incarnation. On 6 May, Bernice first met the Doctor in his eighth incarnation. Britain sent the Mars Orbiter to Mars and the three astronauts on the surface stumbled across the Ice Warrior tomb of the Great Marshall Kyruul of the Argyre Clan under the sands of the Mare Sirenum and were killed. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was assassinated in Washington. Lord Xznaal's ship arrived over London and ordered the country to submit to his rule. On 7 May, Alexander Christian escaped from his military captors and contacted Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The United Kingdom submitted to Martian rule and set up a Provisional Government.

Around this time, Queen Elizabeth II was deposed and Xznaal was crowned King. She had a second coronation on 23 November, at which the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9 Mark II were present. (PROSE: The Dying Days [+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"])

Shortly after the Mars 97 incident, Carolyn McConnell summoned the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones to San Francisco to assist her with vampires. (PROSE: Vampire Science [+]Loading...["Vampire Science (novel)"]) During the adventure, Sam asked UNIT to contact her parents. When a UNIT soldier came to the Jones residence, he learned that Sam hadn't yet begun travelling with the Doctor and then told Sam's parents to not tell Sam that he had come. (PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"])

The Eighth Doctor, shortly after destroying an Ice Warrior spaceship. (PROSE: The Dying Days [+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"])

On 14 May, the Seventh Doctor's companion Ace met her younger brother Liam McShane for the first time in San Antonio on Ibiza. (AUDIO: The Rapture [+]Loading...["The Rapture (audio story)"])

Before the end of the Coal Hill School year, in one version of history, the Eighth Doctor came to 76 Totter's Lane shortly after his regeneration. Sam Jones was in the junkyard at the time getting drugs. Due to the fact that the Doctor had recently regenerated, Faction Paradox were able to use his biodata to change Sam's life to make her into a suitable companion for the Doctor. (PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"])

In another version of history, the Eighth Doctor met Sam Jones in Totter's Lane while she was trying to stop a group of kids from dealing drugs. The Doctor, who was suffering from amnesia due to a trap left for him by the Bruce Master, scared off the drug dealers and picked up their cocaine. The Coal Hill police saw him with the cocaine and assumed that he was the drug dealer. The Doctor was taken in for questioning, but he quickly escaped and ran back to Totter's Yard, where Sam was being attacked by the drug dealers. The Doctor ran into his TARDIS and left without saving her. After meeting all his past selves, the Doctor came back and brought Sam into the TARDIS. She began travelling with him. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)"])

Before August, Sam Jones' parents received the first of many postcards from Sam. This postcard came from Fleeble 14. (PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"])

August - December

On 1 August, Sam's parents received a letter which had been kept in the mail system since 1894. (PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"])

On 11 October, Mary Barton killed her mother. (PROSE: There's Something About Mary [+]Loading...["There's Something About Mary (short story)"])

Before the First Doctor and Susan Foreman settled down in Shoreditch in 1963, they took a brief trip to St Albans on 17 December 1997 to ensure that the United Kingdom would remain safe during and after the 1960s. Unbeknownst to either of them, the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9 Mark II were in the vicinity on the same day. (PROSE: The Little Things [+]Loading...["The Little Things (short story)"])

Undated

The Seventh Doctor and the Brigadier with Bessie. (TV: Battlefield [+]Loading...["Battlefield (TV story)"])

The Seventh Doctor and Ace encountered Arthurian knights in Carbury. (TV: Battlefield [+]Loading...["Battlefield (TV story)"]) Afterwards, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart was promoted to General. (PROSE: The Dying Days [+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"])

Torchwood One shot down a Jathaa sunglider over the Shetland Islands around this time. They began reverse-engineering its technology. (TV: Army of Ghosts [+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"])

It's a Mystery by T. Wilcox was published. (PROSE: Terror from the Sky! [+]Loading...["Terror from the Sky! (short story)"])

Alternate universes

In the Unbound Universe, the Third Doctor was exiled to Earth, as he was in N-Space but only arrived on arrived on 30 June 1997 in Hong Kong, the day the city was to be handed over to China from the British Empire. The Doctor discovered Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart living in the city, who told him of the dark turn Earth had taken since the 1960s without the Doctor to aid against the extra-normal. When the two set out to investigate the crashing of an invisible plane, they came across the Master stuck on Earth since the 1970s. The Doctor and the Master struck a deal to leave Earth together only for the Master to renege on the deal. Having anticipated this, the Doctor double-crossed the Master and left him stranded, instead leaving Earth and 1997 with the Brigadier. (AUDIO: Sympathy for the Devil [+]Loading...["Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)"])

According to one account, the Doctor and the Brigadier left Earth to never return, (AUDIO: Masters of War [+]Loading...["Masters of War (audio story)"]) while another had them return to Hong Kong and enjoy a peaceful retirement. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)"])

Births and deaths

Carys Fletcher's mother was killed in a car crash. (TV: Day One [+]Loading...["Day One (TV story)"])

Rose Tyler's maternal grandfather Prentice died when his heart gave out. (TV: Army of Ghosts [+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"])

James Stewart died. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two [+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)"])

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