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==[[Doctor Who Universe]]==
'''1990''' was a [[year]].
==Real World==


===[[January]]===
==Events==
===Dated===
On [[1 January]], [[human]]ity subconsciously realised that there had been temporal discrepancies in the last two decades. [[Amara Essy]], president of the [[United Nations Security Council]], attended a secret briefing with [[Brigadier]]s [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] and [[Charles Crichton]] in [[Geneva]] to establish a [[dating protocol]] for the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Enfolded Time (short story)}})


*[[UK]] Release of [[DW]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' on video
On [[17 January]], [[Ed Morgan]] was released from a [[Asylum (hospital)|mental asylum]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Ghost Machine (TV story)}})
*[[14th January|14]] - [[John Witty]] (the voice of the Computer in [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death]]'') dies in [[Bristol]].
*[[18th January|18]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Planet of Giants (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Planet of Giants]]'' is first published. With this release, all serials of the [[First Doctor]] era were now novelised.
*[[20th January|20]] - [[John Maxim]], who played [[Frankenstein's Monster]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Chase]]'', as well as a Cyberman in [[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'' (under the name '''John Wills'''), dies in [[Brighton]].


===[[February]]===
On [[14 February]], [[Owen Harper]]'s tenth birthday, his mother declared that she did not have to like him, only love him. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Adam (TV story)}})


*[[Target Books]] begins republishing selected novelisations with new cover designs by [[Alister Pearson]]. Other than the covers, these reprints are identical to earlier editions. A number of the reprints will be issued to coincide with video releases (which often used the same cover art) and rebroadcasts. The reissues are also in most cases retitled from their original publication, either with the "Doctor Who and the ..." title format being dropped, or the book's title being changed to reflect the original broadcast title. The first two novelisations republished in the new format are [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the War Games|Doctor Who - The War Games]]'' and [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child|Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child]]''.
In [[June]], free democratic elections were held in [[Czechoslovakia]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Broken Man (comic story)}})
*[[15th February|15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Happiness Patrol]]'' is first published.


===[[March]]===
At 6:00pm on [[27 September]], [[Elizabeth Klein]] met with her assistant [[Will Arrowsmith]] in the [[Huntsman Pub]] in [[London]] to talk about possibly moving him out of field work and into office work at [[UNIT]]. The [[Seventh Doctor]] then arrived, and forced Klein on a trip to [[Germany]] in [[May]] [[1945]]. Will, disobeying her orders to stay away, accidentally ended up stowing away in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and joining them. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Persuasion (audio story)}})


*[[15th March|15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Space Pirates (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Space Pirates]]'' is first published. Final [[Target Books]] novelisation by [[Terrance Dicks]].
On [[12 November]], [[Tim Berners-Lee]] published his proposal for a "[[World Wide Web|WorldWideWeb]]", which he envisioned as a less [[evil]] version of [[WOTAN]]'s [[plan]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Traveller's Diary (novel)}})


===[[April]]===
On [[24 December]], [[Linda Grainger]] was dumped by her boyfriend in the [[White Rabbit (London)|White Rabbit]] in [[London]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|She Won't Be Home (short story)}})


*[[27th April|27]] - ''[[Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer (graphic novel)|Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer]]'' graphic novel is first published by [[Marvel Comics]].
===Undated===
The [[Llanfairfach]] coal mine was converted into a tourist attraction. A [[giant maggot]] was unearthed during the process. It was taken and stored at the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Security Bot (video game)}})


===[[May]]===
The [[Tenth Doctor]] attended a [[Barry Manilow]] concert in [[Madison Square Garden]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Forever Autumn (novel)}})


*[[1st May|1]] - [[Brian Vaughan]], who played [[Watts|Lt. Commander Watts]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'', dies.
[[West Germany (football team)|West Germany]] won the [[1990 World Cup]] [[1990 World Cup Final|Final]], led by coach and former star player [[Franz Beckenbauer]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Extra Time (novel)}})
*[[15th May|15]] - Writer and director [[Peter Grimwade]] dies from leukemia.
*[[16th May|16]] - [[Thomas Sangster]], who played [[Tim Latimer]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]'', is born in South [[London]].


===[[June]]===
A member of [[Faction Paradox]] known as [[Jamie (Office Politics)|Jamie]] became stranded in [[Stevenage]]. He attempted to get back to the [[Eleven-Day Empire]] by infiltrating a consumer finance office, merging his colleagues into a [[Matryoska Gestalt]], and sacrificing the gestalt to tear a hole in space-time. Everything went almost entirely to plan, but he was overpowered by the gestalt and it survived. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Office Politics (short story)}})


*[[15th June|15]] - [[Leonard Sachs]], who played Admiral [[Gaspard de Coligny]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve]]'' and [[Lord President]] [[Borusa]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story) |Arc of Infinity]]'', dies in [[London]].
[[Paul Magrs (in-universe)|Paul Magrs]] started going out with [[Paul Magrs' boyfriend|his first boyfriend]] in 1990. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Story of Fester Cat (novel)}})
*[[21st June|21]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' is first published.
*[[23rd June|23]] - [[Frank Gatliff]] dies.


===[[July]]===
==Births and deaths==
===Dated===
In [[September]], [[Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] was born to [[Kate Stewart|Kate Lethbridge-Stewart]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Downtime (home video)}})


*[[REF]]: ''[[Encyclopedia of The Worlds of Doctor Who: L-R]]'' is first published. The series is abandoned after this release, and no paperback of this volume is issued.
===Undated===
* ''Pertwee in Person: Jon Pertwee Talks with David Banks'' is released on cassette by [[Silver Fist Productions]].
According to one account, the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s companion [[Heather McCrimmon]] was born in [[Scotland]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Chromosome Connection (comic story)}}) Another account dated her birth to [[1992]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|We Will Rock You (comic story)}})
*[[19th July|19]] - [[TME]]: ''[[Mission to Magnus|Doctor Who - Mission to Magnus]]'' first published. Third and final release in the "Missing Episodes" line, and the last "original" Doctor Who novel until the [[Virgin New Adventures]] line launches a year later.


===[[August]]===
Child genius [[Luke Rattigan]] was born in the [[United States of America]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)}})


*[[2nd August|2]] - [[Edwin Richfield]], who appeared as Captain [[John Hart (The Sea Devils)|John Hart]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'' and [[Mestor]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'', dies from cancer in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK.
[[Benedict Summerfield I]] was born. He was a distant ancestor of the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s companion [[Bernice Summerfield]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dead Romance (novel)}})
*[[17th August|17]] - [[Graham Williams]], who produced Seasons 15-17 (1977-79) is killed in a shooting accident in Devon, England.


===[[September]]===
[[Conall Lethbridge-Stewart|Conall Wilson]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Enfolded Time (short story)}})


*[[20th September|20]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Ghost Light (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Ghost Light]]'' is first published.
==Other==
** Paperback edition of [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'' is published; the new edition is expanded from the 1988 original.
[[New York City]]'s total population was 7,322,554. 2,032,531 of whom were foreign-born. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Gathering (TV story)}})


===[[October]]===
[[ArcHivist]] [[Hegelia]] suggested that the [[CyberNomad]]s had spent roughly two hundred [[year]]s, from around 1990 to [[2190]], proliferating throughout [[Mutter's Spiral]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Cyber Nomads (audio story)}})
 
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*[[18th October|18]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Survival (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Survival]]'' is first published, adapting the final serial of the original 1963-89 series.
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*[[Bernard Finch]] dies.
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===[[November]]===
 
*[[10th November|10]] - [[Dudley Jones]], who played [[John Dyson]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'', dies.
*[[15th December|15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Curse of Fenric]]'' is first published.
*[[21st November|21]] - ''[[Search Out Space]]'', an episode of ''Search Out Science'' in which [[Sylvester McCoy]] and [[Sophie Aldred]] appear as [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Ace]] and [[John Leeson]] provides the voice of [[K-9 Mark II]], is first broadcast. Not generally considered part of continuity, this would be McCoy and Aldred's last official appearances as the Doctor and Ace until [[DW]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'' in 1993.
*[[23rd November|23]] - [[Mostyn Evans]] ([[Dai Evans]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Green Death]]'' and the [[High Priest (Death to the Daleks)|High Priest]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'') dies.
 
===[[December]]===
 
*[[28th December |28]] - [[Edward Brayshaw]], who played [[Léon Colbert]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror]]'' and [[the War Chief]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]'', dies.
 
===Unknown date===
 
*[[DWN]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' published in [[Germany]] under the title ''Doctor Who Und Das Kind Van Der Sternen''.
*After months of speculation, the [[BBC]] announces that it will not air a 27th season of ''Doctor Who'' in 1990, and at some point during the year the Doctor Who Production Office closes down. Although [[Sophie Aldred]], in the later documentary ''[[More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS]]'' would say she was told the series had been cancelled, no actual public announcement of this is made by the BBC. Over the next few years the show's fate remains a matter of debate.
*Around the time of the BBC's announcement, [[Virgin Books]], which has purchased [[Target Books]], announces plans to launch a series of original novels continuing ''Doctor Who'' from the events of [[DW]]: ''[[Survival]]''; the line is scheduled to launch in [[1991]]. It is also announced that the traditional Target novelisation format would also come to an end in 1991, with all but a few stories left to be adapted.
*[[Anthony Steven]] dies.
*[[Neville Simons]] dies.
 
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1990 was a year.

Events

Dated

On 1 January, humanity subconsciously realised that there had been temporal discrepancies in the last two decades. Amara Essy, president of the United Nations Security Council, attended a secret briefing with Brigadiers Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and Charles Crichton in Geneva to establish a dating protocol for the 1970s and 1980s. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time [+]Loading...["The Enfolded Time (short story)"])

On 17 January, Ed Morgan was released from a mental asylum. (TV: Ghost Machine [+]Loading...["Ghost Machine (TV story)"])

On 14 February, Owen Harper's tenth birthday, his mother declared that she did not have to like him, only love him. (TV: Adam [+]Loading...["Adam (TV story)"])

In June, free democratic elections were held in Czechoslovakia. (COMIC: The Broken Man [+]Loading...["The Broken Man (comic story)"])

At 6:00pm on 27 September, Elizabeth Klein met with her assistant Will Arrowsmith in the Huntsman Pub in London to talk about possibly moving him out of field work and into office work at UNIT. The Seventh Doctor then arrived, and forced Klein on a trip to Germany in May 1945. Will, disobeying her orders to stay away, accidentally ended up stowing away in the TARDIS and joining them. (AUDIO: Persuasion [+]Loading...["Persuasion (audio story)"])

On 12 November, Tim Berners-Lee published his proposal for a "WorldWideWeb", which he envisioned as a less evil version of WOTAN's plan. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])

On 24 December, Linda Grainger was dumped by her boyfriend in the White Rabbit in London. (PROSE: She Won't Be Home [+]Loading...["She Won't Be Home (short story)"])

Undated

The Llanfairfach coal mine was converted into a tourist attraction. A giant maggot was unearthed during the process. It was taken and stored at the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum. (GAME: Security Bot [+]Loading...["Security Bot (video game)"])

The Tenth Doctor attended a Barry Manilow concert in Madison Square Garden. (PROSE: Forever Autumn [+]Loading...["Forever Autumn (novel)"])

West Germany won the 1990 World Cup Final, led by coach and former star player Franz Beckenbauer. (PROSE: Extra Time [+]Loading...["Extra Time (novel)"])

A member of Faction Paradox known as Jamie became stranded in Stevenage. He attempted to get back to the Eleven-Day Empire by infiltrating a consumer finance office, merging his colleagues into a Matryoska Gestalt, and sacrificing the gestalt to tear a hole in space-time. Everything went almost entirely to plan, but he was overpowered by the gestalt and it survived. (PROSE: Office Politics [+]Loading...["Office Politics (short story)"])

Paul Magrs started going out with his first boyfriend in 1990. (PROSE: The Story of Fester Cat [+]Loading...["The Story of Fester Cat (novel)"])

Births and deaths

Dated

In September, Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was born to Kate Lethbridge-Stewart. (HOMEVID: Downtime [+]Loading...["Downtime (home video)"])

Undated

According to one account, the Tenth Doctor's companion Heather McCrimmon was born in Scotland. (COMIC: The Chromosome Connection [+]Loading...["The Chromosome Connection (comic story)"]) Another account dated her birth to 1992. (COMIC: We Will Rock You [+]Loading...["We Will Rock You (comic story)"])

Child genius Luke Rattigan was born in the United States of America. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem [+]Loading...["The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)"])

Benedict Summerfield I was born. He was a distant ancestor of the Seventh Doctor's companion Bernice Summerfield. (PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)"])

Conall Wilson was born. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time [+]Loading...["The Enfolded Time (short story)"])

Other

New York City's total population was 7,322,554. 2,032,531 of whom were foreign-born. (TV: The Gathering [+]Loading...["The Gathering (TV story)"])

ArcHivist Hegelia suggested that the CyberNomads had spent roughly two hundred years, from around 1990 to 2190, proliferating throughout Mutter's Spiral. (AUDIO: The Cyber Nomads [+]Loading...["The Cyber Nomads (audio story)"])

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