1955 was a year exactly 30 years before 1985. Life was simplier when compared to 1985 or even 2015, though not as antiquated as 1885.
In this year, the Clock Tower functioned until it was struck by lightning on November 12 of that year.
Events
- Saturday, November 5th:
- Doc Brown slips off his toilet whilst hanging a clock and has a vision of the flux capacitor. He hurriedly sketches his vision.
- Marty arrives in 1955 from the original 1985, on Otis Peabody's farm (a.k.a. Twin Pines Ranch) on the future site of the Twin Pines Mall. Marty knocks down one of Old Man Peabody's two pine trees.
- Marty interferes with the meeting of George McFly and Lorraine Baines.
- Marty finds Doc and shows him the DeLorean time machine.
- Sunday, November 6th: Doc realizes that Marty has interfered with his parents' first meeting and that he and his siblings will be erased from existence unless Marty can get them together.
- Monday, November 7th: Marty, as "Calvin Klein", goes to Hill Valley High School to try and get George and Lorraine together, but she has a crush on Marty instead of George!
- Tuesday, November 8th:
- Marty, in a radiation suit as "Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan", visits George to try and convince him to take Lorraine to the dance that Saturday.
- Marty defeats Biff Tannen in a skateboard chase around Courthouse Square.
- Lorraine asks Marty to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.
- Wednesday, November 9th: Marty and George come up with a plan for Saturday night that will see George become a "fighter" for Lorraine.
- Saturday, November 12th:
- At 6am, 1985 Doc and Marty (Marty B) arrive in 1955 from 1985-A;
- 2015 Biff arrives with the sports almanac and gives it to his younger self;
- Marty (Marty A) takes Lorraine to the dance, but Biff interferes and George punches Biff, saving Lorraine and causing her to fall in love with him;
- Marty B also keeps Biff's gang from jumping Marty A, without the latter noticing;
- Marty B gets the almanac from Biff and burns it, erasing the alternate future and returning the timeline to normal. The 1985 Doc, in the DeLorean, gets struck by lightning and sent back to 1885. A car approaches a moment later with a Western Union man, who gives Marty a letter from Doc in 1885. Marty hurries back downtown, to see the 1955 Doc;
- At 10:04pm, lightning strikes the clocktower, Marty A goes back to 1985, but Marty B scares 1955 Doc by "returning" seconds after Marty A was sent back to the future.
- Sunday, November 13th: 1955 Doc reads the letter his older self in 1885 has written.
- Monday, November 14th: Marty and Doc uncover the DeLorean from the Delgado mine at the Boot Hill Cemetery, where the 1985 Doc was buried in 1885.
- Tuesday, November 15th: Doc repairs the DeLorean.
- Wednesday, November 16th: Marty leaves 1955 and heads back to 1885 to rescue Doc.