Night was conventionally the period when the sun was not shining on the planet's surface and below the horizon. (PROSE: Goth Opera [+]Loading...["Goth Opera (novel)"]) 12:00 am was midnight. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird [+]Loading...["The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)"]) Whilst the "night" could extend through to the early hours of the morning, around 3:00 am. (TV: Nightvisiting [+]Loading...["Nightvisiting (TV story)"])
When night fell artificial lighting was deployed. (AUDIO: The Stones of Venice [+]Loading...["The Stones of Venice (audio story)"]) In cities streets were illuminated at night by streetlights. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird [+]Loading...["The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)"]
Sleep occurred during the night. (PROSE: Goth Opera [+]Loading...["Goth Opera (novel)"])
The Doctor's TARDIS from an alternate timeline would sometimes simulate a day-night cycle, dimming its lights to suggest that night had fallen. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird [+]Loading...["The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)"], Falls the Shadow [+]Loading...["Falls the Shadow (novel)"]) However travellers within the Doctor's TARDIS did not believe the TARDIS had a day or night, with no windows or natural light to suggest either way. (PROSE: Hope [+]Loading...["Hope (novel)"])
According to the Second Doctor, the Moon had "a fortnight of days and a fortnight of nights." (TV: The Moonbase [+]Loading...["The Moonbase (TV story)"])
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In the 1970s the Third Doctor and Jo Grant spend a night in the "haunted" Auderly House hoping for something unusual to occur to replicate or validate Sir Reginald Styles' visitation of time-travelling guerrillas from an alternate 22nd century. (TV: Day of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Day of the Daleks (TV story)"])
On Earth in 1993 Ruath created a Time Freeze creating a type of miniature time loop holding one side of the Earth in a permanent night. (PROSE: Goth Opera [+]Loading...["Goth Opera (novel)"])
On 2 April 2005, the new webmaster referred to when Rose Tyler disappeared as "the night of the accident". (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre [+]Loading...["The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)"])
After the Earth was moved to the Medusa Cascade it was plunged into an ongoing night (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"])
Night occurred in the time following the daylight activity hours when events like the Autumn Prom were held at Coal Hill Academy in 2016. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die [+]Loading...["For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)"])
"Vicky" once told Chris Cwej that he looked upset, asking if he'd had a bad night of sleep. Cwej responded that "you could say that. A nightmare. Fifty years. A nightmare, or something inbetween. Something down the middle.". (WC: Cwej: Down the Middle Coda [+]Loading...["Cwej: Down the Middle Coda (webcast)"])
By the time of the Megropolises on Pluto in the far future the human inhabitants there had no concept of night due to the implementation of multiple artificial suns. (TV: The Sun Makers [+]Loading...["The Sun Makers (TV story)"])