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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? | 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? | ||
Has anyone considered what Adric said in "the Keeper of Traken"? He is reading the Doctor's old time Logs. "Well, look, I read about something that's just happened." | |||
The Doctor: And? | |||
Adric: Well, the next page says it didn't happen at all. | |||
The Doctor: So? | |||
Adric: Over this page it says it did happen, but many years ago. | |||
The Doctor: Ah, yes. Well, I suppose it is a bit above your head. | |||
And to Sarah Jane "That can't be. I'm from 1980!" and the Doctor replies "for every moment of time, there is an alternate. You've been to alternate time." | |||
They work together. Mawdryn undead simply refers to an incident like "The Two Doctors", where the second Doctor gets chosen by the Timelords to stop something and states to the 6th that he has "earned certain privileges" and that they are bound to bump into each other "in future and in past" in complete contradiction to the laws of the Timelords. Matt Smith in "The wedding of River Song" "crossing my own timestream. Best not." | |||
This is no different than what Adric saw and what the Doctor calls "the Time Web". Many different possibilities intersecting. One timeline meeting others. mawdryn Undead is simply from a different timeline - let's just say it's the same timeline as "The Two Doctors" and write them both off as fun adventures from elsewhen. | |||
