1953 In 1953 , Queen Elizabeth II was crowned . The Tenth Doctor considered it a great year , citing Technicolor , the climbing of Mount Everest and all food finally coming off the ration as his favourite bits . ( TV : " The Idiot ' s Lantern " ) The Eighth Doctor had similar sentiments , and wished to rewatch the Queen ' s Christmas speech with his granddaughter Susan on the Time - Space Visualiser . ( AUDIO : " Relative Dimensions " ) On 1 June - 2 June , Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster in London , an event which the Wire attempted to exploit by absorbing the identities of everyone watching the event on live television . The Tenth Doctor stopped and trapped her . ( TV : " The Idiot ' s Lantern " ) No one in the Welsh village of Llanfer Ceiriog had a television , so the townsfolk travelled by bus to Doctor Snape ' s house in Gwydyr to watch it on his set . ( PROSE : " " ) On 18 December , the airplane " Sky Gypsy " vanished . It actually time travel led to 2007 . ( TV : " Out of Time " ) On 25 December , Queen Elizabeth II made her second annual Christmas speech . While his granddaughter Susan Campbell and great - grandson Alex Campbell were celebrating Christmas in the TARDIS with him and Lucie Miller , the Eighth Doctor wanted to watch this particular Christmas speech using the Time - Space Visualiser . ( AUDIO : " Relative Dimensions " ) John Ellis bought a football annual for his son Alan Ellis for Christmas . However , he was unable to give it to him due to his disappearance the previous week . ( TV : " Out of Time " ) Arthur Miller ' s play " The Crucible " , based on the witch trials at Salem Village , was written . The First Doctor , his granddaughter Susan Foreman , Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright saw a production of the play in Bristol on 9 November 1954 . ( PROSE : " The Witch Hunters " ) Alistair Gordon Lethbridge - Stewart began his military career . ( TV : " Mawdryn Undead " ) The BBC science fiction television series " Nightshade " , starring Edmund Trevithick as the title character , was first broadcast . It ran for five years and was rebroadcast on BBC2 in December 1968 . ( PROSE : " Nightshade " , PROSE : " The Left - Handed Hummingbird " ) A spacecraft carrying Rivesh Mantilax on a mission to rescue his wife , Seruba Velak , was shot down over Area 51 in the United States . He was rescued by a group of Native American s led by Night Eagle and kept hidden from American authorities for the next five years . ( TV : " Dreamland " ) The Mau Mau Uprising against the rule of the British Empire took place in British Kenya . ( AUDIO : " A Thousand Tiny Wings " ) It was discovered that the Piltdown Man was not the missing link in human evolution but a human cranium and a filed down ape jaw . ( AUDIO : " The Suffering " ) In Scotland , Clement McDonald was born . ( TV : " " ) The last known sighting of the Ilin Island cloudrunner occurred this year . In reality , the last one was sent to the Museum of the Last Ones . ( PROSE : " The Last Dodo " ) In the FA Cup Final between Blackpool FC and Bolton Wanderers , Blackpool was down 3 - 1 when their player Stanley Matthews did three set - ups in the last 20 minutes , which allowed his team to score . Bill Perry scored the final goal of the match and Blackpool won 4 - 3 . John Ellis charged his son Alan Ellis ' friends a shilling each to watch the match on his new television . Alan enjoyed the match a great deal , punching the air when Perry scored the winning goal . He joked that Perry had wings on his feet , which was why he was called a winger . ( TV : " Out of Time " ) Adrian Cooper played Romeo in David Owen ' s film adaptation of " Romeo and Juliet " . Cooper , who was famous for his ego , demanded that the script be rewritten so that Romeo survived and got the girl . ( PROSE : " Swamp of Horrors ( 1957 ) - Viewing Notes " ) Laura Price was born . ( AUDIO : " Special Features " ) Alternative timeline . In an alternative timeline in which Nazi Germany won World War II and eventually conquered Africa as a result of the Seventh Doctor and Ace accidentally leaving laser technology in Colditz Castle in October 1944 , the Mau Mau Uprising against Nazi rule took place in Kenya . The " Luftwaffe " was sent in immediately . On the orders of the Führer Adolf Hitler , they proceeded to carpet - bomb the tribal areas and wipe out most of the native population . Within three years , a virulent plague had broken out in Kenya which killed many German soldiers . In 1957 , Hitler placed Elizabeth Klein in command of a team of medical doctors and scientists who attempted to discover the cause of the plague . However , they were unable to do so . ( AUDIO : " A Thousand Tiny Wings " )