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1985 was a year.
Properties
It was recorded as 72,693 in the TL dating system. (PROSE: The Cyber Files [+]Loading...["The Cyber Files (novel)"])
Events
Dated
On Christmas Eve, the Ninth Doctor was trapped near a Christmas party at Sally Sparrow's aunt's house in Devon, when the TARDIS "burped" and jumped ahead in time 20 years. Using her Christmas essay from 2005, the Doctor wrote messages on the walls and in photographs during the party for Sally Sparrow to read and recorded a video instructing her to pilot the TARDIS back to him in 2005. Sally's future self arrived in the TARDIS, telling her to hit the TARDIS reset button to bring her to the Doctor. The Doctor told the Sally in 2005 to write the essay that she would later (from her point of view) give to him first. (PROSE: What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow [+]Loading...["What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow (short story)"])
In December, a Zygon landed in Antarctica, near UNIT Arctic base Skywatch-7. Several people stationed there were killed, but the survivors were able to drive it into the icy water where it perished. (COMIC: Skywatch-7 [+]Loading...["Skywatch-7 (comic story)"])
Undated
Gustave Lytton contacted the Cybermen in the London sewers after being stranded on Earth for two years already. Lytton had substituted his mercenary profession for bank robbery. The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown, searching for a distress signal, were ambushed by the Cybermen, apparently aided by Lytton, and the Doctor was forced to pilot his TARDIS to Telos. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)"])
While in London, Australian actress Jody Lockhart accidentally stumbled into Rollo's TARDIS, then disguised as an elevator, and caused it to take off before Rollo could explain the situation. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
Lieutenant Roderick Mitchell of the US Army was transferred to Special Forces. A few years later, he would be transferred a second time, this time to UNIT. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Legions of Death, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Legions of Death (game)"})
Barbara Chesterton wrote a GCSE textbook called Journeys Through History: A Sourcebook for GCSE for the Associated Exam Board with Ian Martin in which Lady Jane Grey's nine day reign from 10 July to 19 July 1553 was covered. She, the First Doctor and her future husband Ian Chesterton had met Lady Jane shortly after she was deposed by Queen Mary I. (PROSE: The Nine-Day Queen [+]Loading...["The Nine-Day Queen (short story)"])
Konstantin Chernenko, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, died. He was succeeded by the considerably more moderate Mikhail Gorbachev. (AUDIO: Protect and Survive [+]Loading...["Protect and Survive (audio story)"])
The Long Coolth of Summer was released. Seeing that it was going to be a box office failure, Michael Brookhaven remade the film in 1953, turning the 1985 film into a successful "remake". (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"])
Karen Kuykendall created the Tarot of the Cat-People. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Cat-People (novel)"])
After the death of the former actress and animal expert Sheena Sown, a conservation charity was established in her name. (PROSE: Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes [+]Loading...["Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes (short story)","Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes"])
The plumber Pietro Rossi was transported across dimensions when he entered a house on the outskirts of Rome and tried to fix a blockage in the pipes. (COMIC: Dungeon of the Lost [+]Loading...["Dungeon of the Lost (comic story)"])
Gideon Barrow began writing Apex for Spitfire Comics. (PROSE: The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy [+]Loading...["The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy (short story)"])
The Fourth Doctor and Romana II came to New York City to retrieve a psychic sales voucher that had fallen into hands of Mrs Oppenheimer-Mason. (COMIC: Time Lady of Means [+]Loading...["Time Lady of Means (comic story)"])
Bernie Wilson wrote a letter to Erica Forsyth, which he hid in his bedroom drawer instead of sending. (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"])
The Iytean Menace by J. A. Keith was published by FASA. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
Other realities
In an alternative timeline created by the Elder Gods in the hope of destroying Earth, Konstantin Chernenko was succeeded as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union by the militant hardliner Vladimir Kryuchkov. This ultimately led to the outbreak of World War III on 9 November 1989 between the Soviet Union on the one hand and the United States and its allies including the United Kingdom on the other hand. As nuclear weapons were used by both sides, hundreds of millions of people were killed in the conflict. This timeline was ultimately negated by the Seventh Doctor. (AUDIO: Protect and Survive [+]Loading...["Protect and Survive (audio story)"])
In another alternative timeline in which the Beatles did not break up in 1970, the Eighth Doctor's companion Fitz Kreiner saw the band perform at Live Aid. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"])
Births and deaths
Dated
Claire Brown was born on 13 May. (TV: Village of the Angels [+]Loading...["Village of the Angels (TV story)"])
Undated
Steven Ballard was born. (AUDIO: In the Shadows [+]Loading...["In the Shadows (audio story)"])
Mickey Smith once indicated he was around a year older than Rose Tyler, placing his birth year around 1985. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]Loading...["The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"]) According to other accounts, he was born in 1983 (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"]) or on 22 May 1984. (PROSE: "Mickey Data" [+]Part of Mickey, Loading...{"name":"\"data\"","page":"6","namedpart":"Mickey Data","1":"Mickey (reference book)"})
Other
The Doctor didn't consider 1985 to be a "classic" year, but nonetheless one where they were needed. (COMIC: The Many Lives of Doctor Who [+]Loading...["The Many Lives of Doctor Who (comic story)"], Time Lady of Means [+]Loading...["Time Lady of Means (comic story)"])