THE UNEXPLAINED
What did Ian and Barbara say they’d been doing between 1963 and 1965?
In The Chase (1965), Ian and Barbara are returned to London in 1965, two years after they left. As far as their colleagues at Coal Hill School were concerned, they would have disappeared without explanation. So how did they account for their absence? The answer is that they didn’t need to. Immediately after they left, the Daleks arrived, took over the staff using brain implants, and then after a month the whole place was closed down, following the events of Remembrance of the Daleks (1988). Ian and Barbara would have returned to find they were both out of a job.