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Year meter

Reading the year meter, the Second Doctor confirms that the TARDIS has landed in 2135 AD (COMIC: The Doctor Strikes Back [+]Roger Noel Cook, TVC comic stories (1967).)

The yearometer, or year meter, (COMIC: The Doctor Strikes Back [+]Roger Noel Cook, TVC comic stories (1967).) was an instrument in the Doctor's TARDIS that showed the TARDIS' position in time and space. It stopped calculating properly after the First Doctor left England in November 1963. (TV: "The Cave of Skulls" [+]Part of An Unearthly Child, Anthony Coburn, adapted from The Pilot Episode (Anthony Coburn), Doctor Who season 1 (BBC tv, 1963).) According to another account, the yearometer had been damaged on a previous expedition. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks [+]David Whitaker, adapted from The Daleks (Terry Nation), Target novelisations (Frederick Muller Ltd, 1964).)

When the TARDIS arrived at Byzantium, the yearometer gave the date as 14 March 64. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Keith Topping, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2001).)

When the TARDIS arrived at Marpling, the yearometer gave the date as 27 August 1933, though Anji Kapoor was incredulous that it was named this. (PROSE: Eater of Wasps [+]Trevor Baxendale, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2001).)

When Bill Potts questioned if they really were in an alternate 2017, and not the 22nd century, the Twelfth Doctor assured her that the TARDIS had a yearometer. (AUDIO: Emancipation of the Daleks [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

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