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1976 was an Earth year concurrent to the Skaro-year 10,963. (PROSE: Earth-Skaro Timescale [+]Loading...["Earth-Skaro Timescale (feature)"])
Events
Dated
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 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)"])