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On an overcast day, on a mid-winter evening, at the [[1990s|turn of the millenia]], a man is feeling bitter as he locks up the soon-to-be-closed observatory at [[Greenwich]] where he has worked as a research scientist since the [[1960s]]. Walking home, he is befriended by a [[Seventh Doctor|strange little man]] who confides in him that the [[King]] will have it open again soon and reflects on the passing of time. They chat further as the little man walks him back to the village, both taking shelter under his umbrella from the rain. The little man, who seems somehow familiar, explains that while his friend [[Ace]] was shopping for a pair of Doc Martens he had decided to call on an old friend who happened to be out at the time.
On an overcast day, on a mid-winter evening, at the [[1990s|turn of the millenia]], a man is feeling bitter as he locks up the soon-to-be-closed observatory at [[Greenwich]] where he has worked as a research scientist since the [[1960s]]. Walking home, he is befriended by a [[Seventh Doctor|strange little man]] who confides in him that the [[King]] will have it open again soon and reflects on the passing of time. They chat further as the little man walks him back to the village, both taking shelter under his umbrella from the rain. The little man, who seems somehow familiar, explains that while his friend [[Ace]] was shopping for a pair of Doc Martens he had decided to call on an old friend who happened to be out at the time.


Before they go their separate ways, the little man is asked if they've met before. With a smile, he says "Perhaps — [[Ian Chesterton|when you were a teacher]]", and walks off, leaving the man to go home to his wife. A short while later, seated by an open fire, his wife [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]] hands over a present that was left for him earlier in the day by a strange man. Inside is a [[Coal Hill School tie]] — a reminder of his first teaching job and the [[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|strange events]] that had first brought the two of them together.
Before they go their separate ways, the little man is asked if they've met before. With a smile, he says, "Perhaps — [[Ian Chesterton|when you were a teacher]]", and walks off, leaving the man to go home to his wife. A short while later, seated by an open fire, his wife [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]] hands over a present that was left for him earlier in the day by a strange man. Inside is a [[Coal Hill School tie]] — a reminder of his first teaching job and the [[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|strange events]] that had first brought the two of them together.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* As in most other stories depicting or describing Ian and Barbara's lives after they left [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] in [[1965]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase]]'') they appear noticeably older, contradicting the rumour that they had not aged since the [[1960s]], as related by [[Sarah Jane Smith]] to [[Clyde Langer]] and [[Rani Chandra]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'')
* As in most other stories depicting or describing Ian and Barbara's lives after they left [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] in [[1965]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase]]'') they appear noticeably older, contradicting the rumour that they had not aged since the [[1960s]], as related by [[Sarah Jane Smith]] to [[Clyde Langer]] and [[Rani Chandra]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]'')
* Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright have previously met another 'future' incarnation of the Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]'')
* Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright have previously met another "future" incarnation of the Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]'')
* The [[First Doctor]] destroyed Ian's [[Coal Hill School tie]] in an acid pool on [[Vortis]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web Planet]]'')
* The [[First Doctor]] destroyed Ian's [[Coal Hill School tie]] in an acid pool on [[Vortis]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web Planet]]'')


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