Season 6B
Season 6B is a revision and expansion to televised Doctor Who canon which places new adventures for the Second Doctor between The War Games and his regeneration into the Third Doctor at the start of Spearhead from Space, during which time he worked for the Time Lord's covert organisation, the Celestial Intervention Agency. The Past Doctor Adventures and subsequent works have incorporated the theory in continuity.
The theory
To account to continuity discrepancies, Paul Cornell proposed the theory in The Discontinuity Guide which he wrote with Martin Day and Keith Topping.
During this time, the Second Doctor apparently regains Jamie and Victoria Waterfield, acquires a Stattenheim remote control device to summon his TARDIS, and undertakes the mission which was related in The Two Doctors. Eventually, either the Time Lords tire of keeping the Doctor on a leash, or the Doctor rebels and attempts to escape once more. This results in the exile which begins in Spearhead from Space.
To explain why the Sixth Doctor does not remember his own past in The Two Doctors, it is also suggested that the Time Lords wiped the Second Doctor's memory of the events of Season 6B (the Third Doctor did claim significant memory loss in Spearhead).
Televised stories in references to Season 6B
The Three Doctors
The Second Dcotor is called on by the [Time Lords to help the Third Doctor. But the fact that gives this away is that the Doctor is alone so it could be placed before The War Games but if this is so then when the Third Doctor makes contact with the Second, then the Second should know about his trial, his exile and regeneration. If this takes place after it, then this contradicts the aftermath of The War Games, as he is seen regenerating but otherwise, these events could have been prevented by the CIA.
The Five Doctors
The Second Doctor claims that Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot should not recognise the Brigadier, as they had their memories wiped. Some evidence in dialogue confirm that this story happens after The Three Doctors. Since the Second Doctor would not be aware of the memory wipe if he was taken before The War Games, there is no easy way that he can know this, and still be the Second Doctor.1
The Two Doctors
The Two Doctors shows an aged Second Doctor traveling with Jamie on a mission for the Time Lords. However, Jamie was not aware of the Time Lords until The War Games (This was confirmed as an error by the The Two Doctor's writer, Robert Holmes.) The aged appearance of the two actors also suggests it is after The War Games.
Stories taking place during this period
Novels
- Players (a [[Sixth Doctor] featuring a flashback to the Season 6B period]
- World Game
Short stories
Notes
1. The actual explanation is a re-write. The original plan was to have Zoe and Victoria Waterfield as the two illusions, and Victoria would give it away by naming the Brigadier, as she only met him as "Colonel" in The Web of Fear.
External Links
- The original Season 6B essay
- Season 6B timeline at Outpost Gallifrey (does not include World Game or The Two Doctors)
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