Serials and episodes[]
- Doctor Who:
- "City of Death" (in part)
- "The Five Doctors" (in part)
- "Shada" (in part)
Events[]
- Sarah Jane Smith meets Bill Pollock for the first time. (K9C: "A Girl's Best Friend")
- John Benton leaves the British Army. (DW: "Mawdryn Undead")
- China invades Vietnam. (DW: "Tooth and Claw")
- The Muppet Movie is released. (DW: "Tooth and Claw")
- Margaret Thatcher begins her tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (DW: "Tooth and Claw")
- Skylab falls to Earth. (DW: "Tooth and Claw")
- Alex Arwyn is born. (TOR: "They Keep Killing Suzie")
- Eugene Jones is born. (TOR: "Random Shoes")
- 21 January - Dan Hodges is born. (TOR: "Combat")
- October - (DW: "The Five Doctors")
Notes[]
- According to dialogue in "The Invasion", this is the earliest year in which that story can take place, with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart noting that the events of "The Web of Fear" (set, at the earliest, in 1975) took place four years ago. This date is consistently contradicted later on, most notably by the year of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's retirement established in "Mawdryn Undead".