Hour
An hour was a unit of time, 24 of which typically composed one day on Earth. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
The space hour was used by the Tyrryxians. (COMIC: Size Control)
The Fifth Doctor once retrieved the Key to Time in less than one galactic hour. (GAME: The First Adventure)
According to Ashildr, ten thousand hours was all it took to master any skill and, after over a hundred thousand hours, one became the best there had ever been. (TV: The Woman Who Lived)
In the 1950s, hours of television broadcast in the United Kingdom were strictly limited by the British government, and each evening's broadcasts from Alexandra Palace ended between 10.30 and 11pm with the National Anthem. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac)
Met by Sunday Mirror journalist Vivien Rook at 10 Downing Street, First Lady Lucy Saxon rhetorically asked if she could have an hour to herself, however, she was convinced to give a twenty minute interview. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
Joanne Marsden was half an hour late to work after the Ninth Doctor hijacked the 68 to Bolton. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
Behind the scenes
- In an early draft of The End of Time, Russell T Davies had the Tenth Doctor address the "half-human" statement the Eighth Doctor made in the 1996 TV movie, dismissing it as "a forty-eight-hour bug". The line was cut by Davies for several stated reasons, including the fact it would have confused viewers who were only familiar with the events of TV: Human Nature. (REF: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter)
