Bonfire Night
Bonfire Night, also known as Guy Fawkes' Night, was a British celebration that took place on 5 November to celebrate the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, an event in which the Doctor became involved during their first, eleventh, and thirteenth incarnations. (PROSE: The Plotters [+]Loading...["The Plotters (novel)"]; GAME: The Gunpowder Plot [+]Loading...["The Gunpowder Plot (video game)"]; PROSE: Black Powder [+]Loading...["Black Powder (short story)"])
Effigies of Guy Fawkes, a chief perpetrator, were commonly burned. As such, it was also known as Guy Fawkes' Night. (AUDIO: The Fall of the House of Pollard [+]Loading...["The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)"])
The Eleventh Doctor attended a Bonfire Night with Louie Rollins and Millie Peterson, when the effigies were animated by an alien force. (PROSE: The Night After Hallowe'en [+]Loading...["The Night After Hallowe'en (short story)"])
When pregnant Alice Parsons went to a Guy Fawkes' Night in 1959, her future daughter wriggled around and turned inside her like a Catherine Wheel. Alice decided to call her Catherine. (PROSE: The Stone House [+]Loading...["The Stone House (novel)"])
On Venus, in the company of the Rocketeers, Ian Chesterton smelt wet charcoal, which reminded him of the smell of the bonfire the morning after Guy Fawkes Night. (PROSE: Venusian Lullaby [+]Loading...["Venusian Lullaby (novel)"])
Ruby Sunday saw and heard fireworks above Glyngatwg on 9 November 2024, which she saw as the final flurry of fireworks in the weekend after Guy Fawkes Night. (PROSE: 73 Yards [+]Loading...{"page":"23-24","1":"73 Yards (novelisation)"})
