2024

2024 in

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the DWU • production history • vital statistics • releases

2024 was a year.

General

Ruby Sunday was travelling with the Fifteenth Doctor by this year. (TV: The Devil's Chord ^[+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"], 73 Yards ^[+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"])

Events

Dated

February

Sasha (left) stuck in the Dark Times, and Darren (right) in February 2024. (WC: Incoming Transmission - February Update Video ^[+]Loading...{"timestamp":"2:25","1":"Incoming Transmission - February Update Video (webcast)"})

Sasha and Darren had been taken from their time-streams in November 2023 by the Entity; Darren was eventually returned to the present day, and in February 2024 received a transmission from Sasha, who was stuck in the Dark Times. She was soon returned to present day UNIT HQ by the Doctor. (WC: Incoming Transmission - February Update Video ^[+]Loading...["Incoming Transmission - February Update Video (webcast)"])

April

On 1 April, Arcbeatle Press published an article announcing their new series, The Noodle Man, focused upon the titular character. They announced that The Noodle Incident would be released that day, with Book 1: A Really Incredible Character’s Kaleidoscopically Reimagined, Out-there Lasagna Life available for preorder. (PROSE: "The Noodle Incident": Brand-New "The Noodle Man" Series Launches with Exclusive Arcbeatle Press Crossover Serial on April 1st ^[+]Loading...["\"The Noodle Incident\": Brand-New \"The Noodle Man\" Series Launches with Exclusive Arcbeatle Press Crossover Serial on April 1st (short story)"])

May

On 11 May, both Cory Maythers and Shawn Doltmann went to the Old Boathouse Cinema to watch the film Our Second Bridge, both attending the same 2PM showing. In the original, pre-Unravel timeline, neither of them met each other, being seated in different rows. (PROSE: {{esquivalience}} ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Prelude","chaptnum":"1","1":"esquivalience (novel)","2":"'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000000C-QINU`\"'esquivalience'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000000D-QINU`\"'"}) while following the Unravel, they were seated beside each other in the front row, and chatted on the way out. (PROSE: {{esquivalience}} ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Postlude","chaptnum":"3","1":"esquivalience (novel)","2":"'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000010-QINU`\"'esquivalience'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000011-QINU`\"'"})

September

In September, Cory Maythers and Shawn Doltmann both attended Tommy Kane's party. In the original, pre-Unravel timeline, neither of them caught each other's glances during this, (PROSE: {{esquivalience}} ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Prelude","chaptnum":"1","1":"esquivalience (novel)","2":"'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000014-QINU`\"'esquivalience'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000015-QINU`\"'"}) while following the Unravel, they met again and spoke which each other. (PROSE: {{esquivalience}} ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Postlude","chaptnum":"3","1":"esquivalience (novel)","2":"'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000018-QINU`\"'esquivalience'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000019-QINU`\"'"})

November

The Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday in Wales on 9 November 2024. (TV: 73 Yards ^[+]Loading...{"timestamp":"44:21","1":"73 Yards (TV story)"})

On 9 November, the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday landed on the Welsh coast. The Doctor stepped in a fairy circle and promptly vanished, creating a timeline where Ruby was haunted by a mysterious woman who stayed exactly 73 yards away from her and whose presence caused her to lead a life of isolation. Upon her death in that timeline, Ruby was sent back to the past and manifested as the woman herself. The younger Ruby seeing her older self was able to change events and prevent the Doctor from stepping in the circle, undoing the timeline. Ruby, however, retained some lingering memories of its existence. (TV: 73 Yards ^[+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"], PROSE: 73 Yards ^[+]Loading...["73 Yards (novelisation)"])

Undated

During the ultimate war kicked off by the Sontarans, the Daleks invaded Earth in 2024. (GAME: Legacy ^[+]Loading...["Legacy (video game)"])

The Eighth Doctor and his companions Fitz Kreiner and Trix visited Moscow. (PROSE: Emotional Chemistry ^[+]Loading...["Emotional Chemistry (novel)"])

The plasma rifle was invented on Earth in 2024. (PROSE: First Frontier ^[+]Loading...["First Frontier (novel)"])

The Doctor and Ruby visited UNIT headquarters to try and solve two mysteries: the identical women they had encountered throughout time and space, and the identity of Ruby's birth parents. On the same day, tech CEO Susan Triad, another of the identical women, planned to address the United Nations regarding free software she intended to give to the planet. Investigating Ruby's past using UNIT's Time Window, she and the Doctor discovered temporal interference on the night of her birth, and it was discovered that the god Sutekh, whom the Doctor had fought long before, had returned, hidden inside the Doctor's TARDIS. Sutekh unleashed a Dust of Death that spread across the universe to every location where he had planted one of his Angels of Death. The Doctor and Ruby escaped and were later able to destroy Sutekh and undo the devastation by dragging him through the Time Vortex. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday ^[+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"]/Empire of Death ^[+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"])

Afterwards, the Doctor and UNIT used information the Doctor had collected from 2046 to identify Ruby's birth parents as Louise Miller and William Benjamin Garnet. After meeting Louise and taking her to meet Carla and Cherry Sunday, Ruby decided to remain at home and stop travelling with the Doctor. (TV: Empire of Death ^[+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"])

An advertisement for BBC iPlayer's coverage of UEFA Euro 2024. (GAME: Wonder Chase ^[+]Loading...{"ed":"Football Soccer Update!","1":"Wonder Chase (video game)"})

UEFA Euro 2024 was an event which involved Germany. It had live coverage on BBC iPlayer. (GAME: Wonder Chase ^[+]Loading...{"ed":"Football Soccer Update!","1":"Wonder Chase (video game)"}) BBC Election 24 was a piece of media which featured Clive Myrie and Laura Kuenssberg. It was advertised in Wonder Central. (GAME: Wonder Chase ^[+]Loading...{"ed":"Larry The Cat Election Update!","1":"Wonder Chase (video game)"})

Other realities

Parallel universes

Willy McDuff's universe

In one universe, Willy McDuff ran a "chocolate factory" in Glasgow in 2024. One version of Jenny Everywhere shifted into her local counterpart, and found that it was 24 February 2024 by reading a newspaper. (PROSE: A World of Pure Unimagination ^[+]Loading...["A World of Pure Unimagination (short story)"])

Alternate timelines

World without music

London in an alternate June 2024. (TV: The Devil's Chord ^[+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])

The Fifteenth Doctor took Ruby Sunday to an alternate June 2024 after they encountered the god Maestro in 1963, which had been destroyed in a nuclear winter due to Maestro having erased all music from the world, to show her that the future was not guaranteed to survive because Ruby had lived it. Maestro confronted the two there, and the Doctor forced them to admit to the existence of a chord which could banish them from the universe. (TV: The Devil's Chord ^[+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])

Births and deaths

On 3 February, Imogen Kelly Quaye was born. (PROSE: Artificial Intelligence ^[+]Loading...["Artificial Intelligence (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

In non-valid sources

Mention of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Kate Shortman's shirt. (TV: The STARSHED is just too cool! ^[+]Loading...{"timestamp":"02:26","1":"The STARSHED is just too cool! (TV story)"})

Kate Shortman's shirt featured mention of the Paris 2024 Olympics. (TV: The STARSHED is just too cool! ^[+]Loading...["The STARSHED is just too cool! (TV story)"])