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Bonfire Night

Bonfire Night, also known as Guy Fawkes' Night, was a British celebration that took place on 5 November to celebrate the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, an event in which the Doctor became involved during their first, eleventh, and thirteenth incarnations. (PROSE: The Plotters; GAME: The Gunpowder Plot; PROSE: Black Powder)

Effigies of Guy Fawkes, a chief perpetrator, were commonly burned. As such, it was also known as Guy Fawkes' Night. (AUDIO: The Fall of the House of Pollard)

The Eleventh Doctor attended a Bonfire Night with Louie Rollins and Millie Peterson, when the effigies were animated by an alien force. (PROSE: The Night After Hallowe'en)

When pregnant Alice Parsons went to a Guy Fawkes' Night in 1959, her future daughter wriggled around and turned inside her like a Catherine Wheel. Alice decided to call her Catherine. (PROSE: The Stone House)

On Venus, in the company of the Rocketeers, Ian Chesterton smelt wet charcoal, which remined him of the smell of the bonfire the morning after Guy Fawkes Night. (PROSE: Venusian Lullaby)

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