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* H.C. Clements is bought by the [[Torchwood Institute]].
'''1984''' was a [[year]].
* The [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Tegan]] and [[Turlough]] arrive in [[London]] where they encounter canisters of [[Movellan]] virus and Dalek dupicates. ([[DW]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')


== ''Doctor Who'' Episode Guide ==
==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 Olympics|1984 Olympic Games]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})


=== [[January]] ===
[[File:Turlough doctor goodbye.jpg|left|thumb|Turlough says goodbye to the Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of Fire (TV story)}})]]
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)}})


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)}})


* [[5th January | 05]] - [[Warriors of the Deep]] Episode 1 First Broadcast
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)}})


* [[6th January | 06]] - [[Warriors of the Deep]] Episode 2 First Broadcast
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)}})


* [[12th January | 12]] - [[Warriors of the Deep]] Episode 3 First Broadcast
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)}})


* [[13th January | 13]] - [[Warriors of the Deep]] Episode 4 First Broadcast
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)}})


* [[19th January | 19]] - [[The Awakening]] Episode 1 First Broadcast
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)}})


* [[20th January | 20]] - [[The Awakening]] Episode 2 First Broadcast
===Undated===
[[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)}})]]
The [[Fifth Doctor]] defeated the [[Malus]] in [[Little Hodcombe]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Awakening (TV story)}})


* [[26th January | 26]] - [[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]] Episode 1 First Broadcast
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)}})


* [[27th January | 27]] - [[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]] Episode 2 First Broadcast
[[H.C. Clements]] was bought by the [[Torchwood Institute]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}})
::[[Douglas Camfield]] Dies


=== [[February]] ===
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)}})


[[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)}})


* [[2nd February | 02]] - [[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]] Episode 3 First Broadcast
{{Macqueen|The Master}} arrived in [[Hexford]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|And You Will Obey Me (audio story)}})


* [[3rd February | 03]] - [[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]] Episode 4 First Broadcast
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)}})


* [[8th February | 08]] - [[Resurrection of the Daleks]] Episode 1 First Broadcast
There was a conflict in [[Ethiopia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Conspiracy (audio story)}})


* [[15th February | 15]] - [[Resurrection of the Daleks]] Episode 2 First Broadcast
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)}})


* [[23rd February | 23]] - [[Planet of Fire]] Episode 1 First Broadcast
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)}})


* [[24th February | 24]] - [[Planet of Fire]] Episode 2 First Broadcast
[[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)}})


=== [[March]] ===
===Alternate timelines===
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)}})


In another alternate timeline, [[Germany]] reunified and joined the International Communist Republic of [[Mokoshia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Red Planets (audio story)}})


* [[1st March | 01]] - [[Planet of Fire]] Episode 3 First Broadcast
==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)}})


* [[2nd March | 02]] - [[Planet of Fire]] Episode 4 First Broadcast
On [[22 December]], [[Ruby Duvall|Ruby Sara Duvall]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Iceberg (novel)}})


* [[8th March | 08]] - [[The Caves of Androzani]] Episode 1 First Broadcast
===Undated===
[[Ethel Merman]] died. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})


* [[9th March | 09]] - [[The Caves of Androzani]] Episode 2 First Broadcast
[[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)}})


* [[15th March | 15]] - [[The Caves of Androzani]] Episode 3 First Broadcast
[[Janet Rae Tanner]] was born. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Middle Men (TV story)}})


* [[16th March | 16]] - [[The Caves of Androzani]] Episode 4 First Broadcast
==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)}})


* [[17th March | 17]] - [[John Dearth]], who provided the voice of [[BOSS]] in [[The Green Death]] and portrayed [[Lupton]] in [[Planet of the Spiders]] dies.
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)}})


* [[22nd March | 22]] - [[The Twin Dilemma]] Episode 1 First Broadcast
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* [[27th March |27]] - [[Derek Francis]], who played [[Nero]] in "[[The Romans (TV story) |The Romans]]," dies from a heart attack in [[Wimbledon]].
 
* [[29th March | 29]] - [[The Twin Dilemma]] Episode 3 First Broadcast
 
* [[30th March | 30]] - [[The Twin Dilemma]] Episode 4 First Broadcast
 
=== [[April]] ===
 
=== [[May]] ===
 
=== [[June]] ===
 
=== [[July]] ===
 
 
* [[11th July | 11]] - [[Hugh Morton]], who played Sir [[James Gregson]] in [[The Seeds of Death]] dies.
 
=== [[August]] ===
 
=== [[September]] ===
 
=== [[October]] ===
 
 
* [[10th October | 10]] - [[Joan Young]], who played [[Catherine de Medici]] in [[The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve]] dies.
::[[Alan Lake]] ([[Herrick]] in [[Underworld]]) commits suicide.
 
=== [[November]] ===
 
* [[7th November | 7]] - [[Hayden Jones]], who provided the [[Auton]] voice in [[Terror of the Autons]] as well as playing [[Vosper]] in the following story, [[The Mind of Evil]] dies.
 
* [[20th November | 20]] - [[Peter Welch]], who played the [[Sergeant (The Highlanders)|Sergeant]] in "[[The Highlanders]]" and [[Mr. Morgan]] in "[[The Android Invasion]]," dies in [[Wikipedia:Hammersmith |Hammersmith]], [[England]].
 
=== [[December]] ===
 
 
 
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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)"])