Title: Tin Men - Chapter 1
Author: Me
Beta-Reader:
alouzonFandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3816
Disclaimer: Doctor Who and all its characters belong to the BBC. I own nothing - not even the Fourteenth Doctor.
Summary: Someone is kidnapping the Doctor's former companions. Who is behind all this... and why?
Author's note: An important warning on UNIT dating: No matter how hard a person might try, it will be impossible to combine all the evidence on dates and chronology of the UNIT years and make it coherent and non-paradoxal. The only way to make it work is either to omit any sort of reference to the year in which the fic is to take place or, when there's no way out from having to supply a date, to ignore some canon dating references in favour of others - and I'm afraid that, for
Tin Man to work, I had to take the latter route. So, for this fic, I'm following a combination of the dates and ages provided in
Invasion of the Dinosaurs (in which Sarah Jane says she's 23) and SJA's
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (in which it's stated that Sarah Jane was born in 1951), thus setting the UNIT years in around the time the serials were broadcast, rather than putting them a few years ahead in the future. Taking this into consideration,
Tin Men takes place in 1975, sometime between
The Android Invasion and
The Hand of Fear.
( Chapter 1. )