1968 1968 was an important year for the Time Lord s . Cuthbert Simpson learned the randomiser code for the Doctor ' s TARDIS from Susan Seymour , ( PROSE : " The Banquo Legacy " ) allowing the Time Lords to track down the Eighth Doctor . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) Paul VI was the Pope of the Catholic Church in this year . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) The United Nations had established protocols for first contact with alien life by this time . ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " ) Igrix intended to stop the Vietnam War in 1968 . ( COMIC : " The Love Invasion " ) According to some accounts , the London Event occurred in 1968 , ( PROSE : " Downtime " , " Revolution Man " , HOMEVID : " Global Conspiracy ? " ) leading to the formation of UNIT by the end of the year . ( PROSE : " The Left - Handed Hummingbird " , " Revolution Man " ) Dated events . January - June . On 14 February , the " San Francisco Chronicle " reported that Revolution Man ' s symbol had appeared on both towers of the Golden Gate Bridge . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) On 21 February , the Sixth Doctor left Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoot in the Red Tavern in London , mistakenly believing that it was the 1890s . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to the New World " ) On 15 March , " La Stampa " reported the Revolution Man ' s symbol had appeared on the floor of St Peter ' s Cathedral . Pope Paul VI claimed that this was " the most serious of crimes . " On 28 April , the Revolution Man ' s symbol appeared in the Red Square . In response to this , Leonid Brezhnev said that the " forces of imperialist and capitalist aggression " would be punished for their " provocative action " against the " heroic Soviet people . " On 29 April , the " Pravda " reported about the Red Square ' s vandalism . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) According to one account , ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) the Great Intelligence invaded London sometime before June . It took over most of the London Underground with a deadly web and began spreading upwards into the streets . The city was evacuated and the military were sent into the Underground to stop the web at its source . The Second Doctor , Jamie McCrimmon , and Victoria Waterfield were brought to Earth by the Intelligence . With the help of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge - Stewart , the Doctor was able to defeat the Intelligence . ( TV : " The Web of Fear " ) Before June , the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce was formed in response to the London Event . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) In June , India and East Pakistan were damaged by a series of extreme tidal wave s . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) On 3 June , Andy Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanis . The Eighth Doctor , Samantha Jones , and Iris Wildthyme were present for the events surrounding the shooting . ( PROSE : " Femme Fatale " ) On 5 June , the Eighth Doctor and Samantha Jones came to England and met up with Jean - Pierre Rex . After their visit , Rex was psychically attacked by Ed Hill and decapitated and drowned in a pond . Hill then took Rex ' s place as the Revolution Man . Also on 5 June , the Chinese army came to Tibet to steal the psychic drug Om - Tsor from a group of monks . Fitz Kreiner and Madeline Burton were with the Monks the time of the attack . Madeline managed to escape with the help of the Eighth Doctor , but Fitz was taken by the Chinese . For the rest of the year , Fitz was brainwashed into becoming loyal to the Chinese . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) On 21 June , the cryogenic ally frozen World War I soldier Tommy Brockless was revived , as he was on this date every year since 1919 . Exploring the outside world , he was intrigued by the short skirts worn by young women . In 2008 , he claimed it was as if all of his Christmas es had come at once . ( TV : " To the Last Man " ) July - December . On 1 July , the " Times of India " reported that the Indian government had accused China of a deliberate attack on Indian territory . The Indian army was mobilised along in the provinces of Assam and Bengal . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) On 18 July , Lucia Moretti , a lover of Jack Harkness and the eventual mother of his daughter , began her work as a Torchwood agent . ( TV : " " ) In early August , the Great Mother came to London with Sanjaya Starr to impregnate people with her eggs . The children of the great mother secreted mind - altering hormones which the Great Mother used to make cooks put her eggs into their food . She decided to impregnate Henry Gordon Jago with the next Great Mother . Jago was almost eaten from the inside by the next Great Mother , but George Litefoot made Jago drink a medicine that killed the new Great Mother . Litefoot then did the same thing for the rest of the Great Mother ' s victims . After Jago recovered , he was shown his new studio for " Those Were the Days " : the Palace Theatre . ( AUDIO : " The Case of the Gluttonous Guru " ) On 11 November , Ed Hill used his powers to destroy US aircraft carrier Constitution . He then carved the Revolution Man symbol on the broken metal of the ship . On 12 November , " The Times " reported on the destruction of the Constituition and its implications for the future of the Vietnam War . ( PROSE : " Revolution Man " ) In December , the BBC science fiction series " Nightshade " starring Edmund Trevithick as the title character was rebroadcast on BBC2 . ( PROSE : " Nightshade " , PROSE : " The Left - Handed Hummingbird " ) During the filming of the " Those Were the Days " Christmas special , Guinevere Godiva reconstituted the mind of Magnus Greel using a Venusian crystal . He took possession of Detective Inspector Dave Sacker to continue living . When Greel was killed by Jago and Litefoot , Jago and Litefoot used the preprogrammed time cabinet to travel from 1968 to 1893 again . ( AUDIO : " The Final Act " ) On 20 December , Cristián Alvarez met the Seventh Doctor in London . At this time , the Doctor began transforming into Huitzilin . Hamlet Macbeth found the Doctor and , with the help of Ace and Bernice Summerfield , he brought the Doctor to a UNIT laboratory . The Doctor spent the next three weeks recovering . ( PROSE : " The Left - Handed Hummingbird " ) On 23 December , the Sentience began stirring in Crook Marsham . ( PROSE : " Nightshade " ) On 24 December , the Seventh Doctor and Ace arrived in Crook Marsham and became involved in the fight against the Sentience . ( PROSE : " Nightshade " ) On 25 December , the final battle against the Sentience took place . It departed Crook Marsham . Actor Edmund Trevithick died in the incident . ( PROSE : " Nightshade " ) Unknown dates . The Monk deposited £200 in a London bank , and collected a fortune with compound interest by travelling forward in time to 2168 . ( TV : " The Time Meddler " ) The 1968 Olympic Games were held in Mexico . ( TV : " The Underwater Menace " ) An attempt by the Cybermen to build a Cyber City on Earth was defeated by the Second Doctor , John and Gillian . ( COMIC : " The Cyber Empire " ) The Master planted the Necronomicon on Jamie McCrimmon in London . It then took the Doctor ' s TARDIS to the Nameless City . ( PROSE : " The Nameless City " ) The London police announced that they would be scrapping all police box es . ( PROSE : " The Nameless City " ) Martin Luther King was assassinated . This led to many riots in the United States of America . ( AUDIO : " The Age of Revolution " ) Simon Jenkins was born . ( PROSE : " Damaged Goods " ) Alex , Helen , Mikey and Janine were born . ( AUDIO : " And You Will Obey Me " ) Jack Harkness was present for the Paris ian student riots . ( PROSE : " The Book of Jahi " ) Ross Bevan was born . ( AUDIO : " One Rule " ) Shirley1968 was born . ( PROSE : " Lonely " ) Linda Grainger was born . ( PROSE : " Childhood Living " ) The space capsule Apollo 7 was launched . It orbited the Earth . It was later an exhibit in the Time Museum visited by the Second Doctor , John and Gillian . ( COMIC : " The Time Museum " ) Alternate timelines . In an aborted timeline , the Eighth Doctor prevented Valerie Solanis from shooting Andy Warhol by jumping into the line of fire because he was unaware that Warhol was supposed to be shot . The Doctor and Samantha Jones became trapped on Earth . Iris Wildthyme travelled back in time and prevented this version of history from occurring . ( PROSE : " Femme Fatale " ) Behind the scenes . The history section on the UNIT website also states that UNIT was formed in this year shortly after the London Incident .