Loose Ends 2: The 1960s (short story)
Loose Ends 2: The 1960s was the second short story in the Loose Ends segment of Doctor Who Magazine, depicting "what really happened" during unseen gaps in the televised Doctor Who stories.
Plot
Scenes Unseen
- The Faceless Ones [+]Loading...["The Faceless Ones (TV story)"], Episode 6
Immediately after parting ways with Ben Jackson and Polly Wright in 1966 Heathrow Airport, Jamie McCrimmon brings the Second Doctor's attention to a TV news report in the corner of the Chameleon Tours office. It reports a large robot attacking a telephone box and advises viewers to stay calm; Jamie asks if they should go and help, but the Doctor coyly replies that he "may have, er, already dealt with that problem".
Suddenly, they are interrupted by a young woman who asks to find the departure lounge, explaining that Sir Charles Summer has agreed for her to take some time out on the Costa Brava. The Doctor does not immediately recognise her and asks if she booked with Chameleon Tours. Unbeknownst to them, a man called Kennedy is watching them from a nearby photo booth - he speaks into a radio confirming he has found the Doctor and is told to "find the police box" next.
Where Are They Now?
- Mrs Hayward from Village of the Angels [+]Loading...["Village of the Angels (TV story)"]
Mrs Hayward states that she provided ample warning to everyone in Medderton to leave before the "awful angel statues" took them all, but nobody would listen to an old woman. She explains that everyone finally acknowledged her once the village was plucked out of time and space, but adds that once the Doctor was taken and the village was returned, everyone evacuated en masse, reasoning that if the angels could attack twice, they could again. She concludes by saying that the army has occupied the now-deserted Medderton and she has moved away to a quiet little village with no chance of being attacked by living statues - called Devil's End.
Characters
Worldbuilding
- Dodo Chaplet is described as having "traces of both Mancunian and cockney accents".
Notes
- This instalment was released to commemorate the upcoming airing of TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"].
- This short story also features a short non-fiction article titled The Unexplained, asking "How did the Daleks land their shuttle outside Coal Hill School in 1963 without anyone noticing?", referencing the events of TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"].
Continuity
- For the Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon, Scenes Unseen takes place immediately after the events of TV: The Faceless Ones [+]Loading...["The Faceless Ones (TV story)"] and leads into TV: The Evil of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)"]. For Dodo Chaplet, it takes place after TV: The War Machines [+]Loading...["The War Machines (TV story)"], which occurs concurrently.
- Jamie notices a news report about the events of The War Machines, which the Doctor states he has already dealt with.
- Frank Kennedy begins reporting on the Doctor and Jamie's movements to Edward Waterfield, which he would continue doing in The Evil of the Daleks.
- Mrs Hayward recaps the events of TV: Village of the Angels [+]Loading...["Village of the Angels (TV story)"] and states what happened to it next, previously mentioned in TV: Survivors of the Flux [+]Loading...["Survivors of the Flux (TV story)"].
- Mrs Hayward moves to Devil's End to avoid attacks from living statues, which ironically would go on to happen with Bok in TV: The Dæmons [+]Loading...["The Dæmons (TV story)"].
