User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Reference Desk/@comment-60605-20140919101627/@comment-188432-20140924071523

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Reference Desk/@comment-60605-20140919101627/@comment-188432-20140924071523

Bwburke94 wrote: Lost in Time is also definitively dated to 23 November 2010, due to a newspaper showing that date.

Exactly why this is all an exercise in madness. That puts Lost in Time pretty much at its broadcast date, which means that the broadcast year + 1 theory doesn't work for SJA. But that would seem impossible, since Sarah Jane is personally caught up in the dynamics of by +1, since she met Rose in what absolutely had to be the by +1 episode of School Reunion.

The Lost in Time newspaper makes a total nonsense of trying to figure out not just SJA dates, but cross-series dates as a whole. We're much better off as a wiki just saying "approximately broadcast date" in the infobox, and then explaining any nuancing details, like this newspaper, in the body of the text.