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'''1984''' was a [[year]].


==Events==
==Events==
===Dated===
[[Peri Brown]] and [[Katherine Chambers]] graduated from high school in [[Fell's Point]], [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]].


===[[May]]===
On [[8 May]], the [[Soviet Union]] withdrew from the [[1984 Olympics|1984 Olympic Games]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})
*The [[Fifth Doctor]] defeated the [[Malus]] in [[Little Hodcombe]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Awakening]]'')
*[[9 May]] - Turlough returned to [[Trion (planet)|Trion]], [[Peri Brown]] joined the Fifth Doctor on his travels and [[Kamelion]] was destroyed. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'', [[BFA]]: ''[[The Reaping]]'')


===Summer===
[[File:Turlough doctor goodbye.jpg|left|thumb|Turlough says goodbye to the Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of Fire (TV story)}})]]
* Between [[9 May]] and [[28 September]] - [[Peri Brown]]'s [[Janine Foster|mother]] and [[Howard Foster|stepfather]] divorced. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Reaping]]'')
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)}})


===[[September]]===
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)}})
*[[28 September]] - The burial of [[Anthony Chambers]] was attended by [[Peri Brown]] and the [[Sixth Doctor]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Reaping]]'')


===Unknown dates===
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)}})
* [[H.C. Clements]] was bought by the [[Torchwood Institute]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')
* With [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] caught inside a [[time corridor]], the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Tegan]] and [[Turlough]] arrived in [[London]], 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. ([[DW]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')
* [[Lucie Miller]]'s Auntie Pat was killed by [[Zygon]]s and replaced by her Zygon husband Trevor. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Grand Theft Cosmos]]'')


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)}})


== Behind the scenes ==
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)}})


=== [[January]] ===
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)}})


* [[5th January | 05]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast, launching [[Season 21]] and marking the return of both the [[Sea Devil]]s and the [[Silurian]]s, races not seen since the [[Jon Pertwee]] era.
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)}})
* [[6th January | 06]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[12th January | 12]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
** [[DWN]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Mawdryn Undead]]'' was first published.
** The final studio recording session for [[DW]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' was held, concluding [[Peter Davison]]'s time as the [[Fifth Doctor]].
* [[13th January | 13]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
* [[19th January | 19]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Awakening]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. This was the final two-part ''Doctor Who'' story produced using the 25-minute-Part format.
* [[20th January | 20]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Awakening]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[26th January | 26]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[27th January | 27]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
** [[Douglas Camfield]] died


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


* ''Doctor Who Monthly'' changed its title to ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''.
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)}})
* [[2nd February | 02]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[3rd February | 03]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
* [[7th February | 07]] - Production commences on [[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'', the first story of the [[Colin Baker]] era.
* [[8th February | 08]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. Due to a scheduling issue relating to the 1984 Winter Olympics, ''Resurrection of the Daleks'' was re-edited into two 50-minute episodes rather than the usual 4 25-minute episodes. These are the first "double-length" episodes; the format would be adopted full time in the next season.
* [[15th February | 15]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast. [[Janet Fielding]] leaves the series with this Part.
* [[23rd February | 23]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. [[Nicola Bryant]] debuted as new companion [[Peri Brown]].
* [[24th February | 24]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.


=== [[March]] ===
[[H.C. Clements]] was bought by the [[Torchwood Institute]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}})


* [[1st March | 01]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
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)}})
* [[2nd March | 02]] - [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of Fire]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast. [[Kamelion]] was destroyed and [[Mark Strickson]] leaves the series.
* [[8th March | 08]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[9th March | 09]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[15th March | 15]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
:: [[DWN]]: ''[[Kinda (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Kinda]]'' was first published. This was the last fully photographic [[Peter Davison]] cover.
* [[16th March | 16]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast, ending in [[Peter Davison]]'s [[regeneration]] into [[Colin Baker]]
* [[17th March | 17]] - [[John Dearth]], who provided the voice of [[BOSS]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Green Death]]'' and portrayed [[Lupton]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'' died.
* [[22nd March | 22]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast, launching the [[Colin Baker]] era. A slight modification was made to the series logo, adding a prism effect (which creates the effect of it being curved); the logo used for merchandising, however, remains as per the version introduced in [[1980]]. This was the first time since the switchover from [[William Hartnell]] to [[Patrick Troughton]] that a regeneration occurred before the end of a season, allowing the new Doctor to finish the year.
* [[23rd March | 23]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[27th March |27]] - [[Derek Francis]], who played [[Nero]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Romans]]'', died from a heart attack in [[Wimbledon]].
* [[29th March | 29]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[30th March | 30]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast, concluding Season 21. This was the last half-hour Part until 1986 as [[Season 22]] moves to a new format of 45-minute Parts. The 1984 season also marks the end of the show's 24-Part long seasons. Beginning in 1985 the number of Parts was reduced to 13, later 14. A similar Part count would persist when the series returned in 2005.


=== [[April]] ===
[[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)}})
* [[15th April | 15]] - Magician and comic [[wikipedia:Tommy Cooper|Tommy Cooper]], who at one point was considered a contender to play the Doctor, suffered a heart attack during a live TV performance and died backstage.
* [[22nd April | 22]] - [[Michelle Ryan]] was born.
* [[26th April | 26]] - ''Dr. Who'' films and Gerry Anderson composer [[Barry Gray]] died.


=== [[May]] ===
{{Macqueen|The Master}} arrived in [[Hexford]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|And You Will Obey Me (audio story)}})


* [[3rd May | 03]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Snakedance (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Snakedance]]'' was first published. With this release, [[Target Books]] returns to using artistic covers, although for this and the next [[Fifth Doctor]] novelisation, a modified series logo incorporating a photograph of [[Peter Davison]] was utilised.
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)}})
* [[15th May | 15]] - [[Tom Baker]] guest stars in the American TV series, ''Remington Steele'', in the Part "Hounded Steele".
* [[24th May | 24]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Enlightenment (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Enlightenment]]'' was first published. A rare occasion where more than one novelisation has been published at different times within the same calendar month. Second and last use of the modified logo-and-photo branding for a [[Fifth Doctor]] novelisation, and the final use of a photographic element on a ''Doctor Who'' fiction book until the [[1988]] novelisation of [[DWN]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (novelisation)|Time and the Rani]]''. As Target was not allowed to feature artistic renderings of [[Peter Davison]] at the time, this was the last appearance of an image of the Fifth Doctor on a new novelisation, although Target would finally be allowed to feature drawings of Davison when it issued new editions of many of its novelisations in the early 1990s. Target subsequently chose not to include images of the [[Sixth Doctor]] on initial releases of any of that era's novelisations; therefore, an image of the current Doctor would not appear again on the cover of a newly issued Target novelisation until [[DWN]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (novelisation)|Paradise Towers]]'' was published in December 1988.


=== [[June]] ===
There was a conflict in [[Ethiopia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Conspiracy (audio story)}})
* [[14th June | 14]] - BBC Broadcasting Research issues a Viewing Panel Report gauging response to [[Season 21]] of ''Doctor Who'', which had included the changeover from [[Fifth Doctor]] [[Peter Davison]] to [[Sixth Doctor]] [[Colin Baker]]. The season receives an Appreciation Index of 57, while newcomer Baker has received a "rather cool reception" from viewers.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/changingwho/10322.shtml BBC - Archive - The Changing Face of Doctor Who - Audience Response Report on 'Doctor Who' in 1984]</ref>


=== [[July]] ===
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)}})


* [[11th July | 11]] - [[Hugh Morton]], who played Sir [[James Gregson]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death]]'' died.
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)}})


* [[19th July | 19]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Dominators (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Dominators]]'' was first published. First non-[[Fifth Doctor]] novelisation in two years.
[[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)}})


=== [[August]] ===
===Alternate timelines===
* [[Doctor Who Annual 1985]] was published.
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)}})
* [[16th August | 16]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Warriors of the Deep]]'' was first published. First fully-artistic [[Fifth Doctor]] novelisation cover and the first to use the new white-outline version of the Target Books logo.


=== [[September]] ===
In another alternate timeline, [[Germany]] reunified and joined the International Communist Republic of [[Mokoshia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Red Planets (audio story)}})
* [[20th September | 20]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Aztecs (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Aztecs]]'' was first published. Last book to use the colour version of the Target Books logo.
** [[REF]]: ''[[The Key to Time|Doctor Who: The Key to Time]]'' was first published.


=== [[October]] ===
==Births and deaths==
* [[10th October | 10]] - [[Joan Young]], who played [[Catherine de Medici]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve]]'' died.
===Dated===
** [[Alan Lake]] ([[Herrick]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Underworld]]'') commits suicide.
[[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)}})
* [[18th October | 18]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Inferno (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Inferno]]'' was first published.
*[[REF]]: ''[[The Doctor Who Pattern Book]]'' was first published.
*[[Marvel Comics]] in the United States launches the monthly comic book ''[[Doctor Who (Marvel Comics)|Doctor Who]]'', featuring colourised reprints of comic strips and other features from ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. Initially, [[Fourth Doctor]] material was featured, with [[Fifth Doctor]] material following the next year.


=== [[November]] ===
On [[22 December]], [[Ruby Duvall|Ruby Sara Duvall]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Iceberg (novel)}})


* [[7th November | 7]] - [[Hayden Jones]], who provided the [[Auton]] voice in [[DW]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'', as well as playing [[Lenny Vosper]] in the following story, [[DW]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'', died.
===Undated===
* [[15th November | 15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Highlanders (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Highlanders]]'' was first published.
[[Ethel Merman]] died. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Reaping (audio story)}})
** [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Brain Teasers and Mind Benders]]'' was first published by [[Target Books]], written by 16-year-old fan [[Adrian Heath]].
* [[20th November | 20]] - [[Peter Welch]], who played the [[Sergeant (The Highlanders)|Sergeant]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Highlanders]]'' and [[Morgan (The Android Invasion)|Morgan]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Android Invasion]]'', died in [[Hammersmith]], [[England]].


=== [[December]] ===
[[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)}})
* [[10th December | 10]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Frontios (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Frontios]]'' was first published.
* [[25th December|25]] - [[Georgia Moffett]], daughter of [[Peter Davison]] was born. After unsuccessfully trying out for the role of [[Rose Tyler]], Moffett would later play [[Jenny]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]''.


=== Unknown dates ===
[[Janet Rae Tanner]] was born. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Middle Men (TV story)}})
* [[Dennis Cleary]], who took the part of a peasant in [[DW]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror]]'', died.


==Footnotes==
==Other==
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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)}})
 
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)}})
 
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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)"])

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