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Maybe when Travers said 'The Abominable Snowman' happened 40 years ago he was wrong. He was an old man and could have gotten the dates wrong. Similarly characters could simply slip up when talking, making mistakes with dates.{{unsigned|Cynical Classicist}} | Maybe when Travers said 'The Abominable Snowman' happened 40 years ago he was wrong. He was an old man and could have gotten the dates wrong. Similarly characters could simply slip up when talking, making mistakes with dates.{{unsigned|Cynical Classicist}} | ||
But there were other people there, and no one corrected him. The Daily Mail ran interviews with Sherwin and Pertwee and they both stated "the 1980's". Certainly Season 7 could not possibly have been set in 1969, 1970 or 1975. Remember in 1969 NASA announced that after the Moon Landing they were planning on sending a man to Mars in the early 80's, and everyone believed it. Likewise, the novelisation of the Sea Devils(a 1972 serial) refers to 1977 as "years ago". The BBC had been planning to set up BBC3 in the late 70's. So '''everything''' pointed to "1980's". The two errors were Sarah stating "1980" rather than "the 1980's" and of course Mawdryn Undead. But Pyramids of Mars and Mawdryn Undead were both made after "The UNIT Years". Pyramids was made when UNIT were rapidly fading into the background, while Mawdryn was made many years later. And both were made by totally different production teams to the people who created UNIT. So should you believe the people who created UNIT, explicitly stated the dates both on-screen and off-screen, deliberately made things look "futuristic"....or do you believe ONE story made many years later by different people, who later admitted that they'd made a cock-up? | |||
