Stories set in the 1950s

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My History of the Universe marathon has finally finished with the 1940s and is about to step into the 1950s. I use Lance Parkin’s excellent AHistory but that is now already out of date by some margin (it was published before the Chibnall era) so I use TARDIS wiki to find anything more recent. Problem is, it often doesn’t list all the relevant stories on the pages for each year and so I can miss some.

So I thought I’d tap into the TARDIS Guide group mind and see if I have any glaring omissions:

1951: The British Invasion, The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith, The Cliff Face
1952: The Creeping Death, A Thousand Tiny Wings
1953: The Idiot’s Lantern
1954: The Good Soldier
1955: Rosa
1956: The Revenants
1958: Dreamland, Tuesday
1959: Delta and the Bannermen

NB: I don’t include novels or short stories in my marathon (it’s taken me about 13 years to get this far, starting at the Dawn of Time).

Thanks in advance!

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You can skip this one. It is not that great :wink:

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Do you want me to come to Sweden - cos I will, I will I tell you. And you won’t like me when I’m angry.

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An Ordinary Life from BF’s Early Adventures range is set in the 50s! I’m not sure exactly when.

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See - this is why you people are so useful :slight_smile: Yep, 1950s but it’s no more specific than that so I’ll probably drop it in the middle around 1955 or just at the end of the decade.

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is this including audios and spin-offs?

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I have to say, if that is all the 1950s set stories then you’ve got a fairly easy ride compared to the 1940s. I suspect that the next few decades will be considerably ‘busier’ though so that’s not a bad thing.

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That would be fun. Do you have someplace to stay? When are you coming?

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If I criticise Delta and the Bannermen some more, will you promise to come to Finland as well? It’s just a boat ride across the pond from where @Tian is!

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One of my best mates has just married a lovely Finnish lady (and he had a string of Finnish girlfriends prior to that). But she’s done the sensible thing and moved here to good old England. Otherwise, I’d actually have had a reason to visit…

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Absolutely (there are audios and spin offs in the list in the first post).

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I’m going to be rewatching a bunch of Quantum Leap episodes too and there are loads of those set in the 1950s! So as usual, making it more difficult for myself…

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I did wonder whether you’d also be including Quantum Leap again. Will you be including the new Quantum Leap series as well? I can’t remember if there were any 50s set episodes in that but I’m sure there must be at least one.

You could also include the Quatermass serials. Given that he gets a mention in Remembrance of the Daleks, Quarermass is practically a spin-off series anyway.

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In that case, all of Torchwood Soho (and most of the monthlies with Norton)

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I hadn’t originally included it because it wasn’t even a thing when I first made the spreadsheets 13 years ago!!! But we’ve recently watched it and it was superb (and cruelly cut short). I probably won’t include it because we’re ditching Paramount Plus in the New Year (it was a Christmas gift for my Mum to watch the new Frasier series but aside from Frasier and Quantum Leap we literally haven’t watched anything else on there. My eldest tried the Halo series but gave up).

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Ah yes - Torchwood Soho. Finances won’t allow purchase of all those box sets at the moment although I might treat myself to one with some of my left over birthday money. I’ll have to check if I have any of the monthlies with him (I know I have Ghost Mission but isn’t that ‘present day’?)

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Ghost machine is present day yeah, the 50s monthlies are:

  • Goodbye Piccadilly
  • Madam, I’m
  • The Black Knight

(There’s also Ghost Mission which is in the present, and The Restoration of Catherine which is further in the past so you can ignore those two)

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