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'''1976''' was a [[year]].


== Events ==
==Events==
=== [[January]] ===
===Dated===
* [[12 January|12]] - [[Agatha Christie]] died. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'')
[[File:Peeking.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Skarasen]] in the [[River Thames]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|part=four}})]]
In [[January]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|No Future (novel)}}) the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]], and [[Harry Sullivan]] went to [[Scotland]] to assist [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] and [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] in investigating the damages caused by a [[Skarasen]] which was attacking [[oil rig]]s and destroying them. They uncovered and stopped a [[Zygon]] plot to sabotage the [[International Energy Conference]] and turn Earth into a suitable replacement for their homeplanet [[Zygor]]. Harry decided to stay on Earth instead of continuing to travel with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Terror of the Zygons (TV story)}})


=== Summer ===
In the timelines where the Doctor never cured Harry of [[Werewolf|lycanthropy]], Sullivan transformed into a werewolf each [[full moon]] after returning to Earth. Three months after the Zygon incident, Harry killed [[Leslie Heron]] during a full moon. Shortly afterwards, Harry left UNIT to join [[NATO]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Wolfsbane (novel)}})
* The [[Vardan]]s attempted an invasion of [[Earth]] with [[the Monk]]'s assistance. ([[NA]]: ''[[No Future]]'')
* A [[meteorite]] landed in [[New York City]]'s [[Central Park]], temporarily giving [[Alice Trefusis]] super-powers. ([[AG]]: ''[[Starfall]]'')


=== Late summer or early autumn ===
On [[1 May]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)}}) the [[Third Doctor]], [[Jo Grant]], and UNIT prevented {{Delgado}} from gaining the power of [[Azal]], last of the [[Dæmon]]s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Dæmons (TV story)}}) The Master was imprisoned at the [[Ayelesbury Grange Detention Facility]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)}})
* Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] retired from [[UNIT]] and became a teacher at [[Brendon Public School]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]'')


=== Dates Unknown ===
On [[28 May]], [[Deborah Castle|Deborah]] and [[Barry Castle]] got married. Also on this day, the [[Eighth Doctor]] was currently with a young widow named [[Claudia (Father Time)|Claudia]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Father Time (novel)}})
* In [[San Francisco]], [[Carolyn McConnell]] met the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Sam Jones]], who were hunting [[vampire]]s. ([[EDA]]: ''[[Vampire Science]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
In [[June]], the [[Vardan]]s attempted an invasion of [[Earth]] with the assistance of {{Champion}}. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|No Future (novel)}})
=== [[January]] ===
 
* [[3 January|3]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
The [[summer]] of this year was regarded as the [[1976 British Isles heat wave|hottest on record]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|A Cold Snap (comic story)}})
* [[10 January|10]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
 
* [[15 January|15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster]]'' was first published.
At the height of [[summer]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] visited [[Blackpool]] and encountered the [[S'Qwatch]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|A Cold Snap (comic story)}})
* [[17 January|17]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
 
* [[24 January|24]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
On [[11 July]], a [[meteorite]] landed in [[New York City]]'s [[Central Park]], temporarily giving [[Alice Trefusis]] super-powers. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Starfall (audio story)}})
* [[31 January|31]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. This was the last serial to feature [[UNIT]] in a major way until [[1989]]'s [[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]''.
 
On [[25 July]], the [[space probe]] ''[[Viking 1]]'' [[photograph]]ed the [[Cydonia (Mars)|Cydonia]] region of [[Mars]], revealing a rock formation that looked eerily like a [[human]] [[face]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Traveller's Diary (novel)}})
 
===Undated===
According to some accounts, 1976 was among the years the [[Third Doctor]] spent [[Exile on Earth|exiled on Earth]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)}}) Other sources indicate that the exile had already ended by this year. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Mawdryn Undead (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|No Future (novel)}}, {{cs|Wolfsbane (novel)}}<ref>''Wolfsbane'' does not directly state that ''Terror of the Zygons'' occurs in 1976, but the events of the novel - which is set in [[1936]] - are repeatedly said to be forty years before the events of ''Terror of the Zygons''.</ref>)
 
[[Shirley Williams]] was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] in this year. ([[PROSE]]:
{{cs|No Future (novel)}}) [[James Callaghan]] of the [[Labour Party]] became Prime Minister in this year. He served in that position until [[1979]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)}})
 
In [[San Francisco]], [[Carolyn McConnell]] met the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Sam Jones]], who were hunting [[vampire]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Vampire Science (novel)}})
 
In some timelines, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Enfolded Time (short story)}}) Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] [[retire]]d from [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] and became a maths teacher at [[Brendon Public School]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Mawdryn Undead (TV story)}}) Just after telling the UN he was retiring, Lethbridge-Stewart was taken from time by [[the Accord]] and copied to help stabilise the temporal instability concerning the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]] being melded together. He was returned to his present time and retained no memory of the incident. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Enfolded Time (short story)}})
 
''[[How I Saved the World]]'' by [[Alexander Lullington-Smythe]] was published by [[Aphrodite Press]]. It was "very publicly discredited" in [[1978]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Salvation (novel)}})


=== [[February]] ===
[[File:Berlin Wall Conversion.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[John Jones]] ride a [[motorbike]] on the [[Berlin Wall]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Conversion (comic story)}})]]
* [[7 February|7]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[John Jones]] had a run-in with the [[East Germany|East German]] authorities while searching for [[Entity (The Friendly Place)|the Entity]] in [[Berlin]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Conversion (comic story)}})
* [[14 February|14]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[19 February|19]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion]]'' and [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet]]'' were first published, the latter being the first [[Target Books]]-commissioned novelisation of a solo [[First Doctor]] story (the initial three published in [[1973]] were in fact reprints of novels first published in the mid-[[1960s]]).
* [[21 February|21]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.
* [[28 February|28]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]'' Part 5 was first broadcast.


=== [[March]] ===
Two priests who were members of the [[Order of Saint Peter]] pursued a [[vampire]] from [[Poland]] to [[Los Angeles]] and destroyed it. One of them stayed behind to found a chapter of the order there, and later became the father of [[Becky Lee Kowalczyck]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Minuet in Hell (audio story)}})
* [[Campbell Singer]], who played the [[King of Hearts]], [[Sgt. Rugg]] and [[Joey the Clown]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'' died.
* [[6 March|6]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom]]'' Part 6 was first broadcast, ending [[Season 13]].
* [[18 March|18]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors]]'' was first published.


=== [[May]] ===
The portmanteau film ''[[Doctor Demonic's Tales of Terror]]'' was made in [[Britain]]. It starred Sir [[Jack Merrivale]], [[Nyssa]] and [[Johanna Bourke]]. The film was directed by [[Martin Ashcroft]]. The [[Fifth Doctor]] served as the film's historical adviser. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Special Features (audio story)}})
* [[20 May|20]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Revenge of the Cybermen]]'' was first published.


=== [[July]] ===
The novel ''[[The Hand of Time]]'' by [[Marnal]] was published. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)}})
* [[19 July|19]] - [[Benedict Cumberbatch]] born.
* [[22 July|22]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks]]'' was first published.


=== [[August]] ===
A young woman was abducted by the [[Sisters of St Matilda]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Cloisters of Terror (audio story)}})
* [[6 August|6]] - [[William Mervyn]] (Sir [[Charles Summer]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The War Machines]]'') died in [[London]].
* [[19 August|19]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Web of Fear]]'' was first published.


=== [[September]] ===
[[Peter Hutchings]] met his future wife [[Emily Hutchings|Emily West]] there when he ran over her with his [[bicycle]] after momentarily being distracted by [[Ace]]'s jacket. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)}})
* [[Doctor Who Annual 1977]] was published.
* [[Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1977]] was published.
* ''[[Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus]]'' was published.
* [[4 September|4]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast, starting [[Season 14]].
* [[11 September|11]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[18 September|18]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[23 September|23]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Space War]]'' was first published. This adaptation of [[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'' was the last [[Target Books]] novelisation to use a title significantly different from that of the source material (other than the practice of adding ''Doctor Who and...'' to the titles, which remained in place for several more years, and the occasional spelling deviation).
* [[25 September|25]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast.


=== [[October]] ===
[[Richard Hawton]] was taught by a [[student teacher]] who he remembered in a response to [[Doctor Who?]]'s request for sightings of the then missing [[Rose Tyler]] following the [[Dummy Massacre]] in [[2005]], commenting that she looked so much like his student teacher though he reasoned that it surely could not be her. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)}})
* [[2 October|2]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast.
* [[4 October|4]] - [[BBCR]]: A special radio story featuring [[Tom Baker]] and [[Elisabeth Sladen]] was broadcast by [[BBC Radio]] as part of its ''[[Exploration Earth]]'' series. This was the first made-for-radio ''Doctor Who'' adventure and the last of its kind until [[BBCR]]: ''[[Slipback]]'' in 1986.
* [[9 October|9]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
* [[16 October|16]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[21 October|21]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks]]'' was first published. Although not widely recognised, the original serials [[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Daleks]]'' formed one story arc. By [[Target Books]]' publishing the adaptation of ''Frontier'' (as [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Space War]]'') in September, followed by part 2 this month, these two books predated the two-volume novelisation of [[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' (widely considered the first occurrence of this).
* [[22 October|22]] - ''The New Avengers'' debuts on UK television. This was a revival of the series ''The Avengers'' created by [[Sydney Newman]], and predated both ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and ''Doctor Who'' as one of the first revivals of a "genre" TV series.
* [[23 October|23]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast. [[Elisabeth Sladen]] left the series. She returned to the series thirty years later in [[2006]]'s ''[[School Reunion]]''.
* [[30 October|30]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' Part 1 was first broadcast. [[The Master]] returned; this story was also the first (and to date, only) televised serial in which the Doctor did not share an adventure with a companion, or even a companion figure.


=== [[November]] ===
==Births and deaths==
* [[6 November|6]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' Part 2 was first broadcast.
On [[12 January]], [[John Dixon]] was born. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Cuddlesome (audio story)}})
* [[13 November|13]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' Part 3 was first broadcast.
* [[20 November|20]] - [[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' Part 4 was first broadcast. Following this episode, ''Doctor Who'' took a mid-season break that lasted six weeks (returning on 1st January 1977). This was the first time a season of ''Doctor Who'' was divided in such a fashion. The next time a mid-season break like this occurred was in [[2011]] with [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]] of the [[BBC Wales]] produced series.


=== [[December]] ===
==Other==
* [[16 December|16]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars]]'' was first published.
A [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] [[UNIT pass|pass]] carried by the [[Third Doctor]] while he was assisted by [[Jo Grant]] had expired "thirty years ago" from the perspective of a [[beefeater]] from [[25 December]] [[2006]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Christmas Inversion (short story)}})
** The second edition of [[REF]]: ''[[The Making of Doctor Who]]'' was published by [[Target Books]]; this was a revised version of an earlier book first released by another company, Piccolo Books, in [[1972]], but updated to include the [[Fourth Doctor]].
** ''[[The Doctor Who Dinosaur Book]]'' was first published.
* [[31 December|31]] - The ''Daily Mirror'' published an exclusive short story, ''[[Doctor Who and the Hell Planet]]''; this was the first original ''Doctor Who'' short story to be published in a newspaper or outside an Annual. The next original newspaper-exclusive short story wouldn't be published for another thirty years.


=== Unknown ===
== Behind the scenes ==
* ''[[Doctor Who and the Pescatons]]'' was released on LP by [[Argo Records]]. Discounting educational programmes, this was the first original audio drama based upon the franchise, predating the releases of [[Big Finish Productions]] by decades.
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*According to the "Earth-Skaro Timescale" of ''[[Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1976]]'', the [[Earth]] [[year]] 1976 is concurrent to [[Skaro-year]] 10,963.


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1976 was a year.

Events

Dated

The Skarasen in the River Thames. (TV: Terror of the Zygons (part four) [+]Loading...{"part":"four","1":"Terror of the Zygons (TV story)"})

In January, (PROSE: No Future [+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"]) the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, and Harry Sullivan went to Scotland to assist the Brigadier and UNIT in investigating the damages caused by a Skarasen which was attacking oil rigs and destroying them. They uncovered and stopped a Zygon plot to sabotage the International Energy Conference and turn Earth into a suitable replacement for their homeplanet Zygor. Harry decided to stay on Earth instead of continuing to travel with the Doctor. (TV: Terror of the Zygons [+]Loading...["Terror of the Zygons (TV story)"])

In the timelines where the Doctor never cured Harry of lycanthropy, Sullivan transformed into a werewolf each full moon after returning to Earth. Three months after the Zygon incident, Harry killed Leslie Heron during a full moon. Shortly afterwards, Harry left UNIT to join NATO. (PROSE: Wolfsbane [+]Loading...["Wolfsbane (novel)"])

On 1 May, (COMIC: The Man in the Ion Mask [+]Loading...["The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)"]) the Third Doctor, Jo Grant, and UNIT prevented the Master from gaining the power of Azal, last of the Dæmons. (TV: The Dæmons [+]Loading...["The Dæmons (TV story)"]) The Master was imprisoned at the Ayelesbury Grange Detention Facility. (COMIC: The Man in the Ion Mask [+]Loading...["The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)"])

On 28 May, Deborah and Barry Castle got married. Also on this day, the Eighth Doctor was currently with a young widow named Claudia. (PROSE: Father Time [+]Loading...["Father Time (novel)"])

In June, the Vardans attempted an invasion of Earth with the assistance of Mortimus. (PROSE: No Future [+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"])

The summer of this year was regarded as the hottest on record. (COMIC: A Cold Snap [+]Loading...["A Cold Snap (comic story)"])

At the height of summer, the Twelfth Doctor visited Blackpool and encountered the S'Qwatch. (COMIC: A Cold Snap [+]Loading...["A Cold Snap (comic story)"])

On 11 July, a meteorite landed in New York City's Central Park, temporarily giving Alice Trefusis super-powers. (AUDIO: Starfall [+]Loading...["Starfall (audio story)"])

On 25 July, the space probe Viking 1 photographed the Cydonia region of Mars, revealing a rock formation that looked eerily like a human face. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])

Undated

According to some accounts, 1976 was among the years the Third Doctor spent exiled on Earth. (COMIC: The Man in the Ion Mask [+]Loading...["The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)"]) Other sources indicate that the exile had already ended by this year. (TV: Mawdryn Undead [+]Loading...["Mawdryn Undead (TV story)"], PROSE: No Future [+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"], Wolfsbane [+]Loading...["Wolfsbane (novel)"][1])

Shirley Williams was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in this year. (PROSE: No Future [+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"]) James Callaghan of the Labour Party became Prime Minister in this year. He served in that position until 1979. (AUDIO: The Oseidon Adventure [+]Loading...["The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)"])

In San Francisco, Carolyn McConnell met the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones, who were hunting vampires. (PROSE: Vampire Science [+]Loading...["Vampire Science (novel)"])

In some timelines, (PROSE: The Enfolded Time [+]Loading...["The Enfolded Time (short story)"]) Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart retired from UNIT and became a maths teacher at Brendon Public School. (TV: Mawdryn Undead [+]Loading...["Mawdryn Undead (TV story)"]) Just after telling the UN he was retiring, Lethbridge-Stewart was taken from time by the Accord and copied to help stabilise the temporal instability concerning the 1970s and 1980s being melded together. He was returned to his present time and retained no memory of the incident. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time [+]Loading...["The Enfolded Time (short story)"])

How I Saved the World by Alexander Lullington-Smythe was published by Aphrodite Press. It was "very publicly discredited" in 1978. (PROSE: Salvation [+]Loading...["Salvation (novel)"])

The Eleventh Doctor and John Jones ride a motorbike on the Berlin Wall. (COMIC: Conversion [+]Loading...["Conversion (comic story)"])

The Eleventh Doctor and John Jones had a run-in with the East German authorities while searching for the Entity in Berlin. (COMIC: Conversion [+]Loading...["Conversion (comic story)"])

Two priests who were members of the Order of Saint Peter pursued a vampire from Poland to Los Angeles and destroyed it. One of them stayed behind to found a chapter of the order there, and later became the father of Becky Lee Kowalczyck. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell [+]Loading...["Minuet in Hell (audio story)"])

The portmanteau film Doctor Demonic's Tales of Terror was made in Britain. It starred Sir Jack Merrivale, Nyssa and Johanna Bourke. The film was directed by Martin Ashcroft. The Fifth Doctor served as the film's historical adviser. (AUDIO: Special Features [+]Loading...["Special Features (audio story)"])

The novel The Hand of Time by Marnal was published. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"])

A young woman was abducted by the Sisters of St Matilda. (AUDIO: The Cloisters of Terror [+]Loading...["The Cloisters of Terror (audio story)"])

Peter Hutchings met his future wife Emily West there when he ran over her with his bicycle after momentarily being distracted by Ace's jacket. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)"])

Richard Hawton was taught by a student teacher who he remembered in a response to Doctor Who?'s request for sightings of the then missing Rose Tyler following the Dummy Massacre in 2005, commenting that she looked so much like his student teacher though he reasoned that it surely could not be her. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]Loading...["The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"])

Births and deaths

On 12 January, John Dixon was born. (AUDIO: Cuddlesome [+]Loading...["Cuddlesome (audio story)"])

Other

A UNIT pass carried by the Third Doctor while he was assisted by Jo Grant had expired "thirty years ago" from the perspective of a beefeater from 25 December 2006. (PROSE: The Christmas Inversion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Inversion (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

This section needs a cleanup.

Should be Wikified like a standard source.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wolfsbane does not directly state that Terror of the Zygons occurs in 1976, but the events of the novel - which is set in 1936 - are repeatedly said to be forty years before the events of Terror of the Zygons.
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