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== [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]] ==
'''1990''' was a [[year]].


== 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)}})


=== [[February]] ===
On [[17 January]], [[Ed Morgan]] was released from a [[Asylum (hospital)|mental asylum]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Ghost Machine (TV story)}})
* [[14 February|14]] - On [[Owen Harper]]'s tenth birthday, his mother declared that she did not have to like him, only love him. ([[TW]]: ''[[Adam (TV story)|Adam]]'')


== Unknown date ==
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)}})
* Child genius [[Luke Rattigan]] was born. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
In [[June]], free democratic elections were held in [[Czechoslovakia]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Broken Man (comic story)}})
=== [[January]] ===
* [[DW]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' was first released on video in the [[UK]].
* [[14 January|14]] - [[John Witty]] (the voice of the Computer in [[DW]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death]]'') died in [[Bristol]].
* [[18 January|18]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Planet of Giants (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Planet of Giants]]'' was first published. With this release, all serials of the [[First Doctor]] era were now novelised.
* [[20 January|20]] - [[John Maxim]], who played [[Frankenstein's Monster]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Chase]]'', as well as a [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'' (under the name '''John Wills'''), died in [[Brighton]].


=== [[February]] ===
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)}})
* [[Target Books]] began republishing selected novelisations with new cover designs by [[Alister Pearson]]. Other than the covers, these reprints were identical to earlier editions. A number of the reprints were issued to coincide with video releases (which often used the same cover art) and rebroadcasts. The reissues were 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 were [[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]]''.
* [[15 February|15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Happiness Patrol]]'' was first published.


=== [[March]] ===
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)}})
* [[15 March|15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Space Pirates (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Space Pirates]]'' was first published. It was the final [[Target Books]] novelisation by [[Terrance Dicks]].


=== [[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)}})
* [[Brian Vaughan]], who played [[Watts|Lt. Commander Watts]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'', died.
* [[27 April|27]] - ''[[Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer (graphic novel)|Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer]]'' graphic novel was first published by [[Marvel Comics]].


=== [[May]] ===
=== Undated ===
* [[Anthony Steven]] died.
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)}})
* [[15 May|15]] - Writer and director [[Peter Grimwade]] died from leukemia.
* [[16 May|16]] - [[Thomas Sangster]], who played [[Tim Latimer]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]'', was born in South [[London]].


=== [[June]] ===
The [[Tenth Doctor]] attended a [[Barry Manilow]] concert in [[Madison Square Garden]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Forever Autumn (novel)}})
* [[15 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]]'', died in [[London]].
* [[21 June|21]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' was first published.
* [[23 June|23]] - [[Frank Gatliff]] died.


=== [[July]] ===
[[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)}})
* [[REF]]: ''[[Encyclopedia of The Worlds of Doctor Who: L-R]]'' was first published. The series was abandoned after this release, and no paperback of this volume was issued.
* ''Pertwee in Person: Jon Pertwee Talks with David Banks'' was released on cassette by [[Silver Fist Productions]].
* [[12 July|12]] - [[PBS|WHYY]] aired ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' as the final PBS ''Doctor Who'' broadcast.
* [[19 July|19]] - [[TME]]: ''[[Mission to Magnus (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Mission to Magnus]]'' was first published. It was the third and final release in the "Missing Episodes" line, and the last "original" ''Doctor Who'' novel until the [[Virgin New Adventures]] line launched a year later.


=== [[August]] ===
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)}})
* With no plans for a 27th season in sight, the BBC closed the ''Doctor Who'' Production Office.
* [[2 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]]'', died from cancer in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK.
* [[17 August|17]] - [[Graham Williams]], who produced Seasons 15-17 (1977-79), was killed in a shooting accident in Devon, England.


=== [[September]] ===
[[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)}})
* [[20 September|20]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Ghost Light (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Ghost Light]]'' was first published.
** The paperback edition of [[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'' was published; the new edition was expanded from the 1988 original.


=== [[October]] ===
== Births and deaths ==
* [[18 October|18]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[Survival (novelisation)|Doctor Who - Survival]]'' was first published, adapting the final serial of the original 1963-89 series.
=== Dated ===
* [[24 October|24]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]] made his TV acting debut in the TV movie ''Blood Rights''.
In [[September]], [[Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] was born to [[Kate Stewart|Kate Lethbridge-Stewart]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Downtime (home video)}})
* [[Bernard Finch]] died.


=== [[November]] ===
=== Undated ===
* [[10 November|10]] - [[Dudley Jones]], who played [[John Dyson]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'', died.
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)}})
* [[15 December|15]] - [[DWN]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (novelisation)|Doctor Who - The Curse of Fenric]]'' was first published.
* [[21 November|21]] - ''[[Search Out Space]]'', an episode of ''Search Out Science'' in which [[Sylvester McCoy]] and [[Sophie Aldred]] appeared as the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] and [[John Leeson]] provided the voice of [[K9 Mark II]], was first broadcast. Not generally considered part of continuity, this was McCoy and Aldred's last official appearances as the Doctor and Ace until [[DW]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'' in 1993.
* [[23 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]]'') died.


=== [[December]] ===
Child genius [[Luke Rattigan]] was born in the [[United States of America]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)}})
* [[28 December|28]] - [[Edward Brayshaw]], who played [[Léon Colbert]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror]]'' and [[the War Chief]] in [[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]'', died.


=== Unknown date ===
[[Benedict Summerfield I]] was born. He was a distant ancestor of the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s companion [[Bernice Summerfield]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dead Romance (novel)}})
* [[DWN]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'' was published in [[Germany]] under the title ''Doctor Who und das Kind von den Sternen''.
* Around the time of the BBC's announcement that no twenty-seventh season would be commissioned, [[Virgin Books]], which had purchased [[Target Books]], announced plans to launch a series of original novels continuing ''Doctor Who'' from the events of [[DW]]: ''[[Survival]]''; the line was scheduled to launch in [[1991]]. It was 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.


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[[Conall Lethbridge-Stewart|Conall Wilson]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|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]]: {{cs|The Gathering (TV story)}})
 
[[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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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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