Talk:Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (TV story)

The Year

Not sure if this counts as the source, but the description of the episode on iPlayer states the year as 1903. However, knowing that this isn't stated in the episode - can we say that this story took place in 1903 for this reason or not? StevieGLiverpool ☎ 17:36, January 20, 2020 (UTC)

The simple answer is no, because that's an out-of-universe source for potential in-universe information. The Doctor's comment about Tesla coming from 1900 can inform our coverage, but details in official synopses that don't make it into the finished story, as broadcast, can't count for us as valid sources for in-universe information.
× SOTO (☎/✍/↯) 20:07, January 20, 2020 (UTC)

However, we CAN state it in the story notes section given events in the episode in reference to the real world, as it currently does. --DCLM ☎ 20:41, January 20, 2020 (UTC)

Before going to Wardenclyffe, the TARDIS scanner shows a newspaper with a headline about Tesla’s “signals from Mars”. A year is on the newspaper, but I could not tell whether it was 1900 or 1903. It would be fab if someone could determine that, but by itself would not give us an in-universe dating more definite than 1900s, given that the newspaper is from months before the story takes place. 192.0.133.244^{talk to me} 21:17, January 20, 2020 (UTC)