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A '''bank holiday''' was a day of leisure, usually held on a [[Monday]], observed at least in the [[United Kingdom]]. [[2 January]] was a bank holiday in [[Scotland]]. ([[PROSE]]: | A '''bank holiday''' was a day of leisure, usually held on a [[Monday]], observed at least in the [[United Kingdom]]. [[2 January]] was a bank holiday in [[Scotland]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time Traveller's Diary (novel)}}) The [[Seventh Doctor]] called [[August bank holiday]] a "silly [[pagan]] festival". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lungbarrow (novel)}}) The holiday caused a great amount of [[road traffic]], particularly in [[Norfolk]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Instruments of Darkness (novel)}}) | ||
According to a story she once told [[Merry Gejelh]], [[Clara Oswald]] once had a life-changing moment on a bank holiday spent in [[Blackpool]]. There, on a crowded beach, she got separated from [[Ellie Oswald|her mother]]. Clara was afraid, but her mother's reassurances after the event allowed her to conquer the fear of getting lost. ([[TV]]: | According to a story she once told [[Merry Gejelh]], [[Clara Oswald]] once had a life-changing moment on a bank holiday spent in [[Blackpool]]. There, on a crowded beach, she got separated from [[Ellie Oswald|her mother]]. Clara was afraid, but her mother's reassurances after the event allowed her to conquer the fear of getting lost. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)}}) | ||
[[Jackie Tyler]] regularly used her bank holiday Mondays to watch [[Cliff Richard]] movies. This inadvertently helped her daughter, [[Rose Tyler|Rose]], fit in better when she visited [[1950s]] [[Britain]], because the movies familiarised her with some of the "lingo" of that era. ([[TV]]: | [[Jackie Tyler]] regularly used her bank holiday Mondays to watch [[Cliff Richard]] movies. This inadvertently helped her daughter, [[Rose Tyler|Rose]], fit in better when she visited [[1950s]] [[Britain]], because the movies familiarised her with some of the "lingo" of that era. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)}}) | ||
[[Ernie Evans]] remembered his mother taking him to [[Margate]] on a hot bank holiday, the scorching [[sun]] making the [[sand]] almost too hot to bear. ([[PROSE]]: | [[Ernie Evans]] remembered his mother taking him to [[Margate]] on a hot bank holiday, the scorching [[sun]] making the [[sand]] almost too hot to bear. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Amorality Tale (novel)}}) [[Ben Jackson]] sarcastically offered "Margate on a rainy bank holiday Monday" as their possible location instead of the [[planet]] [[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)}}) | ||
[[Martin (The Glarn Strategy)|Martin]] was forced to watch ''[[Gone With the Wind]]'' every bank holiday. ([[PROSE]]: | [[Martin (The Glarn Strategy)|Martin]] was forced to watch ''[[Gone With the Wind]]'' every bank holiday. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Glarn Strategy (short story)}}) [[Ace]] recalled [[Sergeant]] [[Drew Smith]] bringing in a [[parachute]] team to [[Perivale Youth Centre]] one cold, [[rain]]y bank holiday. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Nightshade (novel)}}) | ||
While looking for the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Minnie Hooper]] told [[Wilfred Mott]] and the rest of the [[Silver Cloak]] that she'd been locked inside a [[police box]] during the [[August]] bank holiday of [[1962]] and that she was "misbehaving". ([[TV]]: | While looking for the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Minnie Hooper]] told [[Wilfred Mott]] and the rest of the [[Silver Cloak]] that she'd been locked inside a [[police box]] during the [[August]] bank holiday of [[1962]] and that she was "misbehaving". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}}) | ||
The [[Fourth Doctor]]'s [[Five Hundred Year Diary]] had details on a bank holiday spent in [[Denmark]]. ([[PROSE]]: | The [[Fourth Doctor]]'s [[Five Hundred Year Diary]] had details on a bank holiday spent in [[Denmark]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Not-So-Sinister Sponge (short story)}}) | ||
When the Seventh Doctor and Ace found [[Oxford]] on [[Thursday]] [[18 November]] [[1993]] to be too quiet, Ace considered that it might be a bank holiday. The Doctor confirmed that it was not. ([[PROSE]]: | When the Seventh Doctor and Ace found [[Oxford]] on [[Thursday]] [[18 November]] [[1993]] to be too quiet, Ace considered that it might be a bank holiday. The Doctor confirmed that it was not. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dimension Riders (novel)}}) | ||
Bank holiday weekend in the year [[2000]] did not end until [[Tuesday]] [[4 January]]. It started at some point before [[1 January|the new year]]. ([[PROSE]]: | Bank holiday weekend in the year [[2000]] did not end until [[Tuesday]] [[4 January]]. It started at some point before [[1 January|the new year]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Millennium Shock (novel)}}) | ||
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] took [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] to [[Florana]] for a family holiday, but they got stuck in heavy bank holiday space traffic on the way. ([[COMIC]]: | The [[Eleventh Doctor]] took [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] to [[Florana]] for a family holiday, but they got stuck in heavy bank holiday space traffic on the way. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Summer Wholiday (comic story)}}) | ||
During the [[2013]] [[Zygon invasion of Earth]], [[Kate Stewart]] revealed to [[Clara Oswald]] that [[UNIT]] had tried to suppress the existence of two [[film]]s which starred [[Peter Cushing (in-universe)|Peter Cushing]] as [[the Doctor (fictional character)|the Doctor]], but that they kept showing up on bank holidays. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}) | During the [[2013]] [[Zygon invasion of Earth]], [[Kate Stewart]] revealed to [[Clara Oswald]] that [[UNIT]] had tried to suppress the existence of two [[film]]s which starred [[Peter Cushing (in-universe)|Peter Cushing]] as [[the Doctor (fictional character)|the Doctor]], but that they kept showing up on bank holidays. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}) | ||
