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'''1980''' was a [[year]].


==Events==
== Events ==
=== Dated ===
On [[3 February]], [[Isley]] was sent by the [[United States of America]] to [[Assassination|assassinate]] a target in [[Cuba]]. When her [[android]] nature was discovered, she "eliminated" fifty witnesses, causing a major diplomatic incident and the suspension of the US' robot-making programs. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Nuclear Time (novel)}})


===[[February]]===
On [[8 June]], [[UNIT]] began observing the [[Time Fracture]] at [[coordinate]]s 51°30'47.7"N 0°08'51.9"W. ([[WC]]: {{cs|14682 UNIT Field Log (webcast)}})
* [[14th February|14]] - Dr. [[Owen Harper]], [[Torchwood Three]] operative, was born. ([[TW]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'', [[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.co.uk]]'')


===[[April]]===
The [[science fiction]] film ''[[Prey for a Miracle]]'', which was inspired by a [[UFO]] / [[god]]s scare caused by the [[Latter-Day Pantheon]] in [[New York City]] in [[March]] and [[April]] [[1965]], was released. It was directed by a newcomer named [[Anthony Jones]]. The film's screenplay was based on the book ''[[How I Saved the World]]'' by [[Alexander Lullington-Smythe]], which was published by [[Aphrodite Press]] in [[1976]] and was "very publicly discredited" in [[1978]]. The veteran science fiction and horror star [[Peter Cushing (in-universe)|Peter Cushing]] played the lead role of "the mysterious government adviser, [[Doctor Who (Salvation)|Doctor Who]]", a character loosely based on the [[First Doctor]]. However, a film critic for the magazine ''[[Film in Focus]]'' noted that Cushing's "endearingly eccentric professor [was] as fictional as the rest of ''Prey for a Miracle''" as what little was known about the real life "Doctor" suggested that he was "a shadowy, manipulative figure". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Salvation (novel)}})
* [[15th April|15]] - Birth of [[Samantha Jones]], future companion of the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[EDA]]: ''[[Unnatural History]]'')


=== [[December]] ===
In [[December]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] visited [[New Zealand]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Autaia Pipipi Pia (short story)}})
* [[8th December|8]] - Knowing of the impending assassination of former member of [[The Beatles]] [[John Lennon]], [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]] travelled to [[New York City]]. [[Mark David Chapman]], influenced by [[the Blue]], shots and killed him anyway. ([[NA]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'')
* [[25th December |25]] - Professor [[Edward Travers]], CBE, died. ([[MA]]: ''[[Downtime]]'')


=== Unknown dates ===
On [[8 December]], knowing of the impending [[assassination]] of former [[The Beatles|Beatle]] [[John Lennon]], the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]] travelled to [[New York City]]. [[Mark David Chapman]], influenced by [[Huitzilin|the Blue]], shot and killed him anyway. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)}})
* [[Victoria Waterfield]] visited [[Det-Sen Monastery]] in [[Tibet]], believing she was following a summons from her father. ([[MA]]: ''[[Downtime]]'').
* [[Sarah Jane Smith]] claimed to [[Laurence Scarman]] that she had come from the year 1980. ([[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]''; see [[UNIT dating controversy]]).


===Negated timeline===
=== Undated ===
* [[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] took [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Laurence Scarman]] from [[1911]] and showed them what 1980 would look like if [[Sutekh]] had succeeded in freeing himself; a lifeless [[Earth]] orbiting a dead [[sun]]. This example of [[alternate time]] convinced Sarah that they had to return to 1911 and stop Sutekh. ([[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'')
[[Victoria Waterfield]] visited [[Det-Sen Monastery]] in Tibet, believing that she was obeying a summons from her father [[Edward Waterfield]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Downtime (novelisation)}})


==Behind the scenes==
An earthquake damaged [[Pompeii]] and uncovered the buried [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. Captain [[Muriel Frost]] called in the [[Fifth Doctor]] to inform him of the discovery. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Fires of Vulcan (audio story)}})
=== [[January]] ===
*[[5th January|5]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Horns of Nimon]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
*[[12th January|12]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Horns of Nimon]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast, bringing an end to the season six weeks earlier than planned due to the cancellation of [[DW]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]''. This was the final story to feature the original 1960s arrangement by [[Delia Derbyshire]] of the Doctor Who theme music, specifically the arrangement introduced in the [[1967]] serial [[DW]]: ''[[The Macra Terror]]''. Also final use of the diamond-shaped series logo and [[Bernard Lodge]] "tunnel" opening sequence. This story also brought to a close [[Graham Williams]]' involvement as producer and of [[Douglas Adams]] as a member of the writing team. Also, this was [[David Brierley]]'s final televised performance as the voice of [[K9]] (although he also voiced the character for the incomplete ''Shada'').
* [[24th January|24]] [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Underworld]]'' was first published.
**American edition of [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Android Invasion]]'' was published by [[Pinnacle Books]].


=== [[February]] ===
''[[Jodie's Law]]'' was released. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}})


* [[4th February|4]] - Former [[Script Editor]] and writer [[David Whitaker]] died in [[Australia]].
A cult, which believed that [[God]] was an impossibly long number, took up residence on [[Fleming's Island]] off the coast of [[Ireland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Iterations of I (audio story)}})
* [[21st February|21]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time]]'' was first published.


=== [[March]] ===
[[Iris Wildthyme]] acquired a [[ficus]] while starring in a [[Pornography|porn]] [[film]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Wildthyme (short story)}})
* [[20th March|20]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood]]'' was first published.
** Target Books reissues the [[1976]] non-fiction book [[REF]]: ''[[The Making of Doctor Who]]''.
* American edition of [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom]]'' published by [[Pinnacle Books]]. This was the last re-print of a ''Doctor Who'' novelisation by Pinnacle, and as of 2009 stands as the last American edition of a Doctor Who novel to date.


=== [[April]] ===
[[File:Fisher King flood.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Fisher King]] caught in the [[flood]] of [[Краснодар]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Before the Flood (TV story)}})]]
In [[Scotland]], the town of [[Краснодар]] in [[Caithness]] was flooded. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] visited the town before the flood, and encountered [[Albar Prentis]], who was killed by the alien warlord known as the [[Fisher King]]. The Doctor succeeded in stopping the Fisher King and advancing the flood so the underwater [[mining]] base [[the Drum]] could be built in the future. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Before the Flood (TV story)}})


* [[24th April|24]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Androids of Tara]]'' was first published.
The Fourth Doctor and [[Romana II]] encountered the [[vampire]] [[Zoltán Frid]] in [[Budapest]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (audio story)}})


=== [[May]] ===
[[Umpty-nine]] was rediscovered in a [[black market]] [[auction]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Painting on the Stair (short story)}})


* [[26th May | 26]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Power of Kroll]]'' was first published.
Tensions between [[Iran]] and the western world were ratcheting up, with the menace of [[atomic bomb|atomic warfare]] looming large. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Dr. Who's Time Tales (DWM 32 comic story)}})


=== [[June]] ===
=== Alternate timelines ===
The Fourth Doctor took Sarah Jane and [[Laurence Scarman]] from [[1911]] and showed them what 1980 (which Sarah Jane told Scarman was the time she came from) would look like if [[Sutekh]] freed himself when Sarah told him they knew the evil Osirian hadn't managed to escape, though the Doctor was dubious: a lifeless [[Earth]] orbiting a dead [[sun]]. This [[alternate timeline]] convinced Sarah that they had to return to 1911 and stop Sutekh and prevented the timeline they'd seen coming to pass. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Pyramids of Mars (TV story)}})


* The BBC announces that [[K9 Mark II|K9]] would be leaving ''Doctor Who'' during the next season. According to ''The Television Companion'' by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker, the response to this announcement by fans inspires [[John Nathan-Turner]] to pitch the idea of a spin-off series featuring the character, which later became ''[[K9 and Company]]''.
== Births and deaths ==
* [[4th June|4]] - [[Philip Olivier]] born.
=== Dated ===
* [[26th June|26]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor]]'' was first published. Due to the inability of [[Target Books]] to come to an agreement with [[Douglas Adams]], this would ultimately be the last of the ''[[Key to Time]]''- arc serials to be novelised. The remaining serial, [[DW]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet]]'', would not be officially novelised.
On [[14 February]], [[Doctor|Dr]] [[Owen Harper]], [[Torchwood Three]] operative, was born. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Exit Wounds (TV story)}})
** [[DWN]]: ''[[Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius]]'' was first published. This was a short version of [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius]]'' and was the second of two such books released (a paperback edition of [[DWN]]: ''[[Junior Doctor Who and the Giant Robot]]'' was also released in 1980). Reportedly the book was originally to have been released in [[1978]].
* ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' begins publishing ''Doctor Who''-universe comics written by future comics superstar writer [[Alan Moore]].


=== [[August]] ===
On [[15 April]], [[Sam Jones]], future [[companion]] of the [[Eighth Doctor]], was born. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Alien Bodies (novel)}}, {{cs|Unnatural History (novel)}}, {{cs|The Taint (novel)}})


* [[Doctor Who Annual 1981]] published. Beginning this year the annual, previously published each September, moves to August.
On [[25 December]], [[Professor]] [[Edward Travers]], CBE, died in [[Tibet]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Downtime (novelisation)}})
* [[6th August|6]] - [[Barry Justice]] (King [[Charles IX]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve]]'') died in [[London]].
* [[7th August|7]] - Final issue of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine|Doctor Who Weekly]]'', which changes to a monthly magazine in September.
* [[21st August|21]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus]]'' and [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden]]'' are first published. For the first time in several years, [[Target Books]] has released more than one book on the same day.
* [[30th August|30]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast, launching a longer-than-usual [[Season 18]] that was [[Tom Baker]]'s final season and the first series produced by [[John Nathan-Turner]]. Among the numerous changes evident with this episode was the introduction of a radically different arrangement of the [[Doctor Who theme]] by [[Peter Howell]] and a new neon-tubing style [[Doctor Who logo|series logo]]. A modified costume was also introduced for the Doctor. Season 18 would be the last truly "season-long" series, as during the Davison era the show would air from January to March only (two episodes per week), and be subject to an ever-decreasing number of episodes thereafter.


=== [[September]] ===
=== Undated ===
* ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' began publishing as a monthly publication, initially changing its title from ''Doctor Who Weekly'' to ''Doctor Who: A Marvel Monthly''.
[[Alice (Swan Song)|Alice]] was born. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Swan Song (audio story)}})
* [[John Nathan-Turner]] approaches [[Peter Davison]] about taking over from [[Tom Baker]] as the star of ''Doctor Who''.
* [[6th September|6]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[13th September|13]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[20th September|20]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
* [[27th September|27]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Meglos (TV story) |Meglos]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast, featuring the return of [[Jacqueline Hill]] to ''Doctor Who'', albeit as another character. [[John Leeson]] returns as the voice of [[K9]].


=== [[October]] ===
[[Ted O'Brien]]'s son died of a [[drug]] overdose. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Head of State (novel)}})


* [[4th October|4]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Meglos (TV story)|Meglos]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
== Other ==
* [[11th October|11]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Meglos (TV story)|Meglos]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
[[New York City]]'s total population was 7,071,639, 1,670,199 of whom were foreign-born. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Gathering (TV story)}})
* [[16th October|16]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon]]'' was first published. (Although the series branding has changed to [[Doctor_Who_logo#Logo_Five|a new logo]], the [[Doctor_Who_logo#Logo_Four|the previous logo]] was still used by [[Target Books]] for several more volumes.
* [[18th October|18]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Meglos (TV story)|Meglos]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
* [[24th October|24]] - At a press conference, the BBC announces that [[Tom Baker]] will be leaving ''Doctor Who'' at the end of the current season.
* [[25th October|25]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Full Circle]]'' Episode 1 was first broadcast, launching what would become known as the [[E-Space]] Trilogy. [[Matthew Waterhouse]] debuts as new companion [[Adric]].


=== [[November]] ===
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* Publication of [[REF]]: ''[[A Day with a TV Producer]]'', a non-fiction work profiling [[John Nathan-Turner]] and the production of [[DW]]: ''[[The Leisure Hive]]''.
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* [[1st November|1]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Full Circle]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[8th November|8]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Full Circle]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[13th November|13]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius]]'' published in paperback.
* [[15th November|15]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Full Circle]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
* [[22nd November|22]] - [[DW]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[29th November|29]] - [[DW]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
 
=== [[December]] ===
 
* [[4th December|4]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon]]'' was first published.
* [[6th December|6]] - [[DW]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[8th December|8]] - Ex-[[The Beatles|Beatle]] [[John Lennon]], who appeared as himself in [[DW]]: ''[[The Chase]]'', was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman outside his home in [[New York City]].
* [[13th December|13]] - [[DW]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
* [[30th December|30]] - [[Tom Baker]] and [[Lalla Ward]] marry; Baker was in the midst of filming [[DW]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'', while Ward's final episodes as [[Romana II|Romana]] have yet to be broadcast.
* ''[[Marvel Premiere]]'' issue 57 was published by [[Marvel Comics]] in the United States. This comic, featuring [[Fourth Doctor]] comic strip reprints from ''[[Doctor Who Weekly]]'', was the first American comic ever published based upon the ''Doctor Who'' TV series (a previous comic published in the mid-60s by another US publisher was based upon the ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'' movie, not the TV series). This comic, and three other issues that follow, lead to the launching of a monthly ''[[Doctor Who (Marvel Comics)|Doctor Who]]'' title by Marvel in 1984.
 
=== Unknown dates ===
 
*[[The Adventures of K9]], a children's book series by [[David Martin]], was published by [[Sparrow Books]].
* [[Tom Baker]] and [[Lalla Ward]] appeared as [[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Romana II|Romana]] in a series of commercials for Australian television, advertising Prime Computers (room-sized computer system for business). While most of the commercials featured them in their standard character roles, the final commercial in the series has Romana flirting with the Doctor and ends with the Doctor proposing marriage to her!

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1980 was a year.

Events

Dated

On 3 February, Isley was sent by the United States of America to assassinate a target in Cuba. When her android nature was discovered, she "eliminated" fifty witnesses, causing a major diplomatic incident and the suspension of the US' robot-making programs. (PROSE: Nuclear Time [+]Loading...["Nuclear Time (novel)"])

On 8 June, UNIT began observing the Time Fracture at coordinates 51°30'47.7"N 0°08'51.9"W. (WC: 14682 UNIT Field Log [+]Loading...["14682 UNIT Field Log (webcast)"])

The science fiction film Prey for a Miracle, which was inspired by a UFO / gods scare caused by the Latter-Day Pantheon in New York City in March and April 1965, was released. It was directed by a newcomer named Anthony Jones. The film's screenplay was based on the book How I Saved the World by Alexander Lullington-Smythe, which was published by Aphrodite Press in 1976 and was "very publicly discredited" in 1978. The veteran science fiction and horror star Peter Cushing played the lead role of "the mysterious government adviser, Doctor Who", a character loosely based on the First Doctor. However, a film critic for the magazine Film in Focus noted that Cushing's "endearingly eccentric professor [was] as fictional as the rest of Prey for a Miracle" as what little was known about the real life "Doctor" suggested that he was "a shadowy, manipulative figure". (PROSE: Salvation [+]Loading...["Salvation (novel)"])

In December, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith visited New Zealand. (PROSE: Autaia Pipipi Pia [+]Loading...["Autaia Pipipi Pia (short story)"])

On 8 December, knowing of the impending assassination of former Beatle John Lennon, the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield travelled to New York City. Mark David Chapman, influenced by the Blue, shot and killed him anyway. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird [+]Loading...["The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)"])

Undated

Victoria Waterfield visited Det-Sen Monastery in Tibet, believing that she was obeying a summons from her father Edward Waterfield. (PROSE: Downtime [+]Loading...["Downtime (novelisation)"])

An earthquake damaged Pompeii and uncovered the buried TARDIS. Captain Muriel Frost called in the Fifth Doctor to inform him of the discovery. (AUDIO: The Fires of Vulcan [+]Loading...["The Fires of Vulcan (audio story)"])

Jodie's Law was released. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"])

A cult, which believed that God was an impossibly long number, took up residence on Fleming's Island off the coast of Ireland. (AUDIO: Iterations of I [+]Loading...["Iterations of I (audio story)"])

Iris Wildthyme acquired a ficus while starring in a porn film. (PROSE: Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Wildthyme [+]Loading...["Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Wildthyme (short story)"])

The Fisher King caught in the flood of Краснодар. (TV: Before the Flood [+]Loading...["Before the Flood (TV story)"])

In Scotland, the town of Краснодар in Caithness was flooded. The Twelfth Doctor visited the town before the flood, and encountered Albar Prentis, who was killed by the alien warlord known as the Fisher King. The Doctor succeeded in stopping the Fisher King and advancing the flood so the underwater mining base the Drum could be built in the future. (TV: Before the Flood [+]Loading...["Before the Flood (TV story)"])

The Fourth Doctor and Romana II encountered the vampire Zoltán Frid in Budapest. (AUDIO: The Labyrinth of Buda Castle [+]Loading...["The Labyrinth of Buda Castle (audio story)"])

Umpty-nine was rediscovered in a black market auction. (PROSE: The Painting on the Stair [+]Loading...["The Painting on the Stair (short story)"])

Tensions between Iran and the western world were ratcheting up, with the menace of atomic warfare looming large. (COMIC: Dr. Who's Time Tales 32 [+]Loading...["Dr. Who's Time Tales (DWM 32 comic story)"])

Alternate timelines

The Fourth Doctor took Sarah Jane and Laurence Scarman from 1911 and showed them what 1980 (which Sarah Jane told Scarman was the time she came from) would look like if Sutekh freed himself when Sarah told him they knew the evil Osirian hadn't managed to escape, though the Doctor was dubious: a lifeless Earth orbiting a dead sun. This alternate timeline convinced Sarah that they had to return to 1911 and stop Sutekh and prevented the timeline they'd seen coming to pass. (TV: Pyramids of Mars [+]Loading...["Pyramids of Mars (TV story)"])

Births and deaths

Dated

On 14 February, Dr Owen Harper, Torchwood Three operative, was born. (TV: Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"])

On 15 April, Sam Jones, future companion of the Eighth Doctor, was born. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)"], Unnatural History [+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"], The Taint [+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"])

On 25 December, Professor Edward Travers, CBE, died in Tibet. (PROSE: Downtime [+]Loading...["Downtime (novelisation)"])

Undated

Alice was born. (AUDIO: Swan Song [+]Loading...["Swan Song (audio story)"])

Ted O'Brien's son died of a drug overdose. (PROSE: Head of State [+]Loading...["Head of State (novel)"])

Other

New York City's total population was 7,071,639, 1,670,199 of whom were foreign-born. (TV: The Gathering [+]Loading...["The Gathering (TV story)"])

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