Emily was the wife of Peter Hutchings. They had met in Greenwich Park in 1976 when Peter, distracted by Ace's jacket, accidentally ran into Emily on his bicycle. In 1992 she had a miscarriage, and was informed by the doctors that she would never be able to bear another child. On 20 December of that year, they attended Reverend Ernest Trelaw's service at St Christopher's Church in Cheldon Bonniface, at which the Seventh Doctor handed her a baby. Shortly afterwards, they and the church were transported to the Moon by the Timewyrm, where the Seventh Doctor gave them a temporal link before going inside his own mind to battle the Timewyrm.