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This page lists '''appearances of the [[Third Doctor]] in the order in which he experienced them'''. This timeline is based upon observations of the ''Doctor Who'' universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed, much like its TV story counterparts that for each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. This does not apply to short stories which are often ambiguous about their placement. There are also many gaps between stories. | |||
This page lists '''appearances of the [[Third Doctor]] in the order in which he experienced them'''. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed, much like its TV story counterparts that for each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. This does not apply to short stories which are often ambiguous about their placement. There are also many gaps between stories. | |||
The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who.htm Doctor Who Reference Guide] and [http://www.eyespider. | The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who.htm#3RD Doctor Who Reference Guide] and [http://www.eyespider.org.uk/drwho/jp/list.html Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures], as well as Lance Parkin's ''[[AHistory]]'' and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as [http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/third-doctor-spearhead-from-910-dr-who.html DocOhoReviews], [http://docohosreviews.blogspot.com/p/contents-page.html Doc Oho's Book Reviews], [http://www.doctorwhoreviews.altervista.org/Third%20Doctor.htm The History of Doctor Who], [http://www.whoniverse.net/discontinuity The Discontinuity Guide], [http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/ Clive Banks Databank], [https://whopix.wordpress.com/chronology/3rd-doctor/ Whopix], [http://forums.bigfinish.com/threads/6064-The-Third-Doctor-s-Timeline Big Finish forums], [http://www.whoniverse.net/biography/timeline03 The Whoniverse] and [http://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/110/3-third-doctors-timeline The Divergent Universe forums]. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories. | ||
Additionally there are statements on the back of [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] and many [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, and should be viewed as the only placing for these novels. | Additionally there are statements on the back of [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] and many [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, and should be viewed as the only placing for these novels. | ||
== Limiting factors == | == Limiting factors == | ||
Any stories involving the Doctor travelling around several destinations in his TARDIS should take place following [[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', prior to this he is limited to travels "on assignment" for the Time Lords. Any limited trip with [[Jo Grant]] must take place after [[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space | Any stories involving the Doctor travelling around several destinations in his TARDIS should take place following [[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', prior to this he is limited to travels "on assignment" for the Time Lords. Any limited trip with [[Jo Grant]] must take place after [[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]''. | ||
Any story where he is not on assignment but travelling freely with Jo must take place after [[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]''. Any story with [[Sarah Jane Smith]] must take place after [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''. | |||
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=== | === A new body === | ||
:: (<u>NOTE</u>) | |||
:: ''The [[Second Doctor]] is captured by the [[Time Lord]]s and [[The Doctor's trial (The War Games)|put on trial]], where he is sentenced to an [[exile on Earth]] in the [[20th century]] and an forced [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') However, he is able to stay the execution for a time, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') and manages to be exiled without regenerating. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Action in Exile (comic story)|Action in Exile]]'')'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers (comic story)|The Night Walkers]]'' | |||
*[[ | : The Time Lords are able to find and trap the Second Doctor, executing him with [[Animated scarecrow (The Night Walkers)|animated scarecrows]] that also set his TARDIS to dematerialise [[UNIT dating controversy|somewhere in the 20th century]], as the Doctor's regeneration begins to conclude. | ||
*[[ | * [[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'' | ||
: Following directly on from ''The Night Walkers'', the Doctor completes his [[regeneration]] from his [[Second Doctor|previous incarnation]], but falls into a [[coma]] after his TARDIS lands in [[Oxley Woods]] during [[October]] of [[UNIT dating controversy|a disputable year]]. Upon awakening, he assists [[UNIT]] in combating the [[Nestene Consciousness]]'s [[Auton]] [[Black Thursday|invasion]] and is asked by [[Brigadier]] [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] to become UNIT's [[scientific advisor]] with Dr. [[Liz Shaw]], and he accepts in return for a car and [[UNIT HQ laboratory|the proper facilities]] to repair his TARDIS in. | |||
=== UNIT career begins === | |||
*[[ | :: (<u>FLASHBACK</u>) | ||
*[[ | :: ''The Brigadier unveils the promised car to the Doctor, who names her [[Bessie]] and begins work on refurbishment. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bessie Come Home (audio story)|Bessie Come Home]]'')'' | ||
*[[ | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Arkwood Experiments (comic story)|The Arkwood Experiments]]'' | |||
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[ | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Multi-Mobile (comic story)|The Multi-Mobile]]'' | |||
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[ | |||
:Liz | * [[COMIC]]: ''[[Insect (comic story)|Insect]]'' | ||
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[ | |||
: | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghouls of Grestonspey (short story)|The Ghouls of Grestonspey]]'' | ||
*[[ | |||
*[[ | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[Caught in the Web (short story)|Caught in the Web]]'' | ||
*[[ | : Liz is examining the leftovers of the Auton invasion, setting this shortly after ''Spearhead from Space''. | ||
*[[TV]]: ''[[ | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[Invaders Invisible (short story)|Invaders Invisible]]'' | ||
: The Doctor has not yet had an adventure on Earth without the Brigadier since his exile began. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Planet (short story)|The Dark Planet]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Caverns of Horror (short story)|Caverns of Horror]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Universe Called Fred (short story)|A Universe Called Fred]]'' | |||
*[[ | |||
: | * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Vengeance of the Stones (audio story)|Vengeance of the Stones]]'' | ||
*[[ | : RAF Lieutenant [[Mike Yates]] is asked to join UNIT, with a promotion from lieutenant to captain, setting this before ''Shadow of the Past'', although, in a contradiction, Benton is already a sergeant. The Doctor uses [[Venusian aikido]] for the first time in his third incarnation, setting this before ''Landbound''. | ||
*[[AUDIO]]: ''[[ | |||
:: (<u>FLASHBACK</u>) | |||
:: ''Shortly before his first encounter with the Silurians, the Doctor hooks Bessie up to the TARDIS during his repairs, unintentionally bestowing consciousness and reasoning to Bessie in the process. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bessie Come Home (audio story)|Bessie Come Home]]'')'' | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'' | |||
*[[ | : Set in [[November]], according to [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Post (audio story)|The Last Post]]''. The Doctor finishes tinkering with [[Bessie]], including adding the [[number plate]] ''[[WHO 1]]'', and takes the car for its first test drive<ref group = quote>LIZ: ''"Are you really going to drive about in it?"''<br>DOCTOR: ''"Yes, certainly. I've nearly finished my modifications. I thought we'd take her out for a trial run in a minute."''</ref>, despite Liz's disbelief in its capabilities on the road, setting this before any story where Liz sees the Doctor driving Bessie. The Doctor encounters the [[Silurian]]s for the first time, but, to his dismay, they are killed and their city at [[Wenley Moor]] destroyed on the Brigadier's orders after [[Morka|a young Silurian]] release a [[Silurian virus]] on humanity. | ||
*[[ | |||
:'' | === After the Wenley Moor massacre === | ||
:: (<u>SEGMENT</u>) | |||
:: ''Immediately after seeing the Silurian city destroyed, the Doctor leaves UNIT. After Bessie runs out of petrol in [[Whitby]], the Doctor saves Captain [[Ronald Henderson]] from attackers, and, learning of the loss of Henderson's ship, decides to return to UNIT. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Landbound (audio story)|Landbound]]'')'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[AWOL (audio story)|AWOL]]'' | |||
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[ | : After leaving Whitby, the Doctor travels to [[Peru]], leaving enough of a trail behind for the Brigadier to follow. After they talk it out, the Doctor is convinced to return to UNIT. In a contradiction to the shorter time-span depicted in other stories, it is mentioned that "about a month" has passed since the events of ''Doctor Who and the Silurians''. | ||
: | |||
*[[ | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mind Extractors (short story)|The Mind Extractors]]'' | ||
*[[ | |||
: Explicitly dated to December in the opening narration of the story. | |||
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[ | * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Old Soldiers (CC audio story)|Old Soldiers]]'' | ||
: | : Set between ''Doctor Who and the Silurians'' and ''Ambassadors of Death''.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-old-soldiers-463</ref> A few weeks have passed since the [[Wenley Moor Affair]] and the Doctor is still angry at the Brigadier for destroying the Silurians. | ||
*[[ | |||
: | * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shadow of the Past (audio story)|Shadow of the Past]]'' | ||
: Set between ''The Silurians'' and ''Ambassadors of Death''.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-shadow-of-the-past-485</ref> The Doctor is still unhappy about the outcome of ''Doctor Who and the Silurians'', which Liz recalls as having happened "a few weeks" ago. Liz mentions Captain Yates, setting this after ''Vengeance of the Stones''. Following the death of Sergeant [[Robin Marshall]], Corporal Benton is promoted to Sergeant. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Annihilators (audio story)|The Annihilators]]'' | |||
: Set "slap bang in the middle of Season 7".<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-third-doctor-faces-the-annihilators</ref> The Doctor is reinstalling the TARDIS console into the control room after removing it, but the timeline is reset after he fights off an alien invasion with the [[Second Doctor]], leaving him unsuccessful in reinstalling the console, setting this before ''The Ambassadors of Death''. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death (TV story)|The Ambassadors of Death]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is still upset with the Brigadier for the outcome of ''Doctor Who and the Silurians''.<ref group = quote>DOCTOR: ''"Oh well, I suppose he's got to do something to occupy his mind now that he's blown up the Silurians."''</ref> He has removed the [[control console]] from the [[TARDIS control room]] and set it up in his lab to get it working again. Corporal [[John Benton]] has been promoted to Sergeant. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Post (audio story)|The Last Post]]'' | |||
: Set between ''The Ambassadors of Death'' and ''Inferno'', according to the back cover. Although the story begins during the events of ''Spearhead from Space'' and concludes just before ''Inferno'', the segments featuring the Doctor take place shortly after ''The Ambassadors of Death'', with the Doctor mentioning that he's "just [got] back from space". The TARDIS console is still located in the laboratory, setting this before ''The Unzal Incursion''. According to the Doctor, the Inferno Project hasn't started drilling yet. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas (short story)|UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas]]'' | |||
: Set on [[Christmas Eve]]. Liz has been working with UNIT for "a few months", and her complaints about her job here are similar to those that the Brigadier cites in ''Terror of the Autons'' as her reason for leaving. Benton is a Sergeant, setting this after ''Shadow of the Past''. The TARDIS console has also been removed from within the ship and is located in the Doctor's laboratory, setting this before ''The Unzal Incursion''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Christmas Dimension (audio story)|The Christmas Dimension]]'' | |||
: Set on [[Christmas Day]]. The Doctor, Liz and Benton are part of a skeleton crew manning UNIT HQ over the festive period. Benton is a sergeant, setting this after ''Shadow of the Past''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Unzal Incursion (audio story)|The Unzal Incursion]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Liz recall the recent events of ''Doctor Who and the Silurians'', which the Doctor is still resentful towards the Brigadier for. [[Sergeant]] [[Nicola Attah]] is seconded into UNIT to replace the recently promoted Sergeant Benton. The Doctor moves the TARDIS console from the lab to the garage and the Brigadier is surprised that the console works, setting this between ''The Ambassadors of Death'' and ''Inferno''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prelude White Darkness (short story)|Prelude White Darkness]]'' | |||
: The Brigadier finds it doubtful that the Doctor can get the TARDIS to work, setting this before ''Inferno''. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'' | |||
: In an attempt to get his TARDIS working, the Doctor is transported to [[Inferno Earth|a different dimension]], where the Earth is destroyed as a result of the [[Inferno Project]]. Returning to his own dimension before the destruction, the Doctor is able to prevent the Inferno Project from destroying his Earth, but is unable to stop several people from being mutated into [[Primord]]s. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Still Lives (short story)|Still Lives]]'' | |||
: Set immediately after ''Inferno'', with the Doctor discovering that his experiment with the TARDIS caused Corporal [[Helen Martin]] to be transported into another universe, though UNIT suspects that she was turned into a Primord. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back (short story)|The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back]]'' | |||
: The outcome of ''Doctor Who and the Silurians'' is still fresh on the Doctor's mind. He has been working with UNIT for "months" and the Brigadier has warned Liz about her tone before, suggesting a setting after ''Inferno''. The TARDIS console is still disconnected from the control room. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rivers of Light (audio story)|Rivers of Light]]'' | |||
: The Doctor returns to UNIT after hunting for [[Sensorite]]s across Europe for several months. [[River Song]] has been acting as UNIT's scientific advisor in the meantime and has reinstalled the TARDIS console, setting this between ''Inferno'' and ''Terror of the Autons''. | |||
=== Continued work with Liz === | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Home From Home (audio story)|A Home From Home]]'' | |||
: Six months have passed since ''Spearhead from Space'', setting this in [[April]]. The Doctor spends several weeks investigating [[Cardle Muir]] without Liz or UNIT. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Metal Eaters (comic story)|The Metal Eaters]]'' | |||
: Liz sees the Doctor driving Bessie, setting this after ''Doctor Who and the Silurians''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fishmen of Carpantha (comic story)|The Fishmen of Carpantha]]'' | |||
* [[GAME]]: {{cs|TV Terrors Autograph Hunt (game)}} | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Assassin from Space (comic story)|Assassin from Space]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Undercover (comic story)|Undercover]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus]]'' | |||
: The Doctor alludes to the events of ''The Ambassadors of Death''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Soldiers from Zolta (short story)|Soldiers from Zolta]]'' | |||
: It is summer. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Science of Magic (short story)|The Science of Magic]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Liz are forced to hide in [[Ireland]] for a month when the Witch-Queen [[Carolina Thorne]] invades London with an army of magical beings. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Walls of Confinement (audio story)|Walls of Confinement]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[A Stitch in Time (CC comic story)|A Stitch in Time]]'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Blame Game (audio story)|The Blame Game]]'' | |||
: It has been "months" since ''Spearhead from Space'', and {{Hound}} also mentions the events of ''Doctor Who and the Silurians''. Liz has heard the Doctor's TARDIS materialise before, setting this after ''Inferno''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blue Boxes (audio story)|Blue Boxes]]'' | |||
: The events of ''The Ambassadors of Death'' are referred to. | |||
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>) | |||
:: ''The Doctor and Liz go to [[Stegmoor]] to investigate reports of a crashed [[Voord spaceship]], but find nothing. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beachhead (audio story)|Beachhead]]'')'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Intelligence for War (audio story)|Intelligence for War]]'' | |||
: Liz has missed a full academic year at Cambridge during her time with UNIT, and feels that she would return to Cambridge if the Doctor were to fix the TARDIS and return to his travels, due to the military life not being for her. | |||
=== Liz's last days with UNIT === | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Devil Goblins from Neptune (novel)|The Devil Goblins from Neptune]]'' | |||
: Set after ''Inferno'', according to the back cover. According to Liz, thirteen months have passed since ''Spearhead from Space'', setting this in November. Liz volunteers for a mission to Cambridge for a few days, as an opportunity to catch up with old friends. She claims that she is "always on the verge of leaving" UNIT. According to the Brigadier, the last time he was in Geneva was when he reported on the Inferno Project eight months ago, suggesting as long has passed since ''Inferno''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Blue Tooth (audio story)|The Blue Tooth]]'' | |||
: Liz has been working with UNIT for "about a year". An older Liz recalls that her experience with the [[Cybermen]] was the first of many factors that lead to her decision to leave UNIT, although she specifies that the decision wasn't "one that was made overnight." | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Reconnaissance (short story)|Reconnaissance]]'' | |||
: After a fight with the Doctor, Liz begins thinking about leaving the Doctor and returning to Cambridge. Remaining behind at the lab while the Doctor and the Brigadier attend a conference, she meets {{Delgado}}, who hypnotises her into revealing details about her adventures with the Doctor since joining UNIT. The Master wipes her memory of their meeting and leaves, planning to make contact with the Nestene Consciousness. Liz decides that she will soon return to Cambridge, but will leave without saying goodbye to the Doctor when she does, in order to stop him from talking her into staying. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Binary (audio story)|Binary]]'' | |||
: Set after ''Inferno''.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-binary-509</ref> Having had enough of being under-utilised by UNIT, Liz has decided that she will quit UNIT and return to Cambridge after her assignment to repair an alien computer. However, after uncovering the computer's sentience and allowing it to go free, Liz changes her mind and elects to stay with UNIT, deciding that she has a unique perspective that is of value to them. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eye of the Giant (novel)|The Eye of the Giant]]'' | |||
: In a contradiction to ''Vengeance of the Stones'', the Doctor meets Sergeant Mike Yates for the first time. Mike sees inside the TARDIS for the first time, and the Doctor mentions visiting the parallel universe from ''Inferno''. The TARDIS console has been moved back into the laboratory, but is still disconnected. | |||
=== Liz leaves UNIT === | |||
:: ''Due to conflicting information, each telling of Liz's exit from UNIT have been listed in order of release.'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Country of the Blind (short story)|Country of the Blind]]'' | |||
: According to this account, Liz is offered a position working at [[CERN]] and decides to tell the Doctor about the opportunity. However, after he reacts badly to the news, she decides that she must put her career first, and immediately leaves UNIT without saying goodbye to him. The Doctor is using the UNIT lab from ''Terror of the Autons''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoners of the Sun (short story)|Prisoners of the Sun]]'' | |||
: Set one month after the events of ''Inferno'' and immediately after Liz's farewell party. The Doctor is aware that Liz is leaving UNIT, which she believes he found out from the Brigadier. The Time Lords send the Doctor on a mission to stop Liz from becoming a dictator in the future, and then decide to release the Master from Shada in order to keep the Doctor busy. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice (novel)|The Scales of Injustice]]'' | |||
: Liz officially leaves UNIT, Yates is promoted to from sergeant to captain, and the Doctor is in a new laboratory. Yates recalls the recent events of ''The Eye of the Giant'', which was the first time he had worked closely with the Doctor, and the Doctor reinstalls the TARDIS console back into the control room. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Hiccup in Time (short story)|Hiccup in Time]]'' | |||
: One of the Doctor's attempts to repair the TARDIS sends Liz back in time to [[1539]]. She is rescued and returned by the Doctor's future self, but is forced to return to Cambridge a day earlier than planned and avoid saying goodbye to the Doctor in order to fulfil the destiny trap. | |||
=== Working without an assistant === | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Castaway (comic story)|Castaway]]'' | |||
: Set during the "[[summer]] months", with the Doctor and the Brigadier having taken "a few weeks away" from UNIT on a private cruise to the [[Caribbean]]. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Levitation (comic story)|Levitation]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Robot (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Robot]]'' | |||
: The Doctor implies that he has been exiled to Earth for "years", or at least that [[Professor]] [[Carl Readon]] has been an friend of his for "a long time". | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Trial of Fire (comic story)|Trial of Fire]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Kingdom Builders (comic story)|The Kingdom Builders]]'' | |||
: The Doctor says he has traveled "a thousand years into the future" when is told that [[John Henderson]]'s time traveling [[bulldozer]] has arrived in [[2971]], and the text bubble explicitly says he returns to [[1971]]. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Change of Mind (comic story)|Change of Mind]]'' | |||
: The date is given as [[January]] [[1971]]. The Doctor attends a [[conference]] with Liz, and they discus her departure from UNIT. Jo's absence implies a setting prior to ''Terror of the Autons''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Danse Macabre (short story)|Danse Macabre]]'' | |||
: With no travelling companion, the Doctor meets [[Horatio Nelson]], whom he refers to as a personal friend in ''The Sea Devils''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rings of Ikiria (audio story)|The Rings of Ikiria]]'' | |||
: Set between ''Inferno'' and ''Terror of the Autons''.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-the-rings-of-ikiria-512</ref> | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Taken For Granted (audio story)|Taken For Granted]]'' | |||
: Set shortly before ''Terror of the Autons''. The Doctor reprimands Sergeant Benton outside [[Jack Canning]]'s office when he sees Benton dressed up like him. | |||
=== Battles with the Master === | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'' | |||
: The Doctor has been moved to [[UNIT HQ laboratory|a new laboratory]]. [[Jo Grant]] joins UNIT as the Doctor's new assistant, just in time for UNIT's first open battle with {{Delgado}}. The Doctor steals the [[dematerialisation circuit]] from [[the Master's TARDIS]], stranding his old enemy on Earth with him after his failed alliance with the [[Nestene Consciousness]] forces him to flee. | |||
:* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Master Plan (comic story)|The Master Plan]]: Issue #4'' | |||
:: Set during ''Terror of the Autons: Episode 2''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sentinels of the New Dawn (audio story)|The Sentinels of the New Dawn]]'' | |||
: Months have passed for Liz since she left UNIT, and the Doctor now has a new assistant, setting this shortly after ''Terror of the Autons''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doll of Death (audio story)|The Doll of Death]]'' | |||
: Though the audio's blurb places this between ''The Dæmons'' and ''Day of the Daleks'', Jo is still quite new to UNIT, and is unaware of the true nature of the TARDIS, setting this before ''The Claws of Axos''. According to this account, Jo is 18-years-old, despite other accounts giving her age as 19 during ''Terror of the Autons''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dark Intruders (short story)|Dark Intruders]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[War in the Abyss (short story)|War in the Abyss]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Hunt to the Death (short story)|Hunt to the Death]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doorway into Nowhere (short story)|Doorway into Nowhere]]'' | |||
: The Master is still trapped on Earth, setting this before ''The Mind of Evil''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Claw (short story)|The Claw]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Saucer of Fate (short story)|Saucer of Fate]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Phaser Aliens (short story)|The Phaser Aliens]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'' ''[[Prologue: The Third Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Third Doctor]]'' | |||
: In an alternate timeline created by {{Sumpter}} and the [[Cybermen]], the Doctor senses a time distortion during a brawl with the Master. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sacrifice of Jo Grant (audio story)|The Sacrifice of Jo Grant]]'' | |||
: Set on [[20 June]], ostensibly in [[1972]], during Jo's first year at UNIT. The Doctor doesn't have the TARDIS working yet, and UNIT considers the Master a threat to Earth safety, setting this between ''Terror of the Autons'' and ''The Claws of Axos''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Damascus (audio story)|Damascus]]'' | |||
: Set on [[1 July]], ostensibly in [[1972]]. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'' | |||
: The events of ''Inferno'' were "some time ago".<ref group = quote>DOCTOR: ''"Well, some time ago, Jo, I witnessed a terrible catastrophe. A whole world just... just disappeared in flames."''</ref> While using the [[Keller Machine]] to interfere with the First [[World Peace Conference]], the Master manages to reclaim his dematerialisation circuit from the Doctor and promptly leaves Earth in his TARDIS, stopping only to give the Doctor a taunting phone call. Benton hears the Master's voice for the first time. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'' | |||
: The Master has a working TARDIS, setting this after ''The Mind of Evil''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Angel (short story)|Angel]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is visibly chafing at his confinement to 20th century Earth. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce (short story)|UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce]]'' | |||
: Set around [[Christmas]] time, a year after ''UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas''. The Doctor hasn't seen the Master since ''Deadly Reunion''. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and UNIT face [[Axos]] at the [[Nuton Power Complex]] after the Master directs them to Earth to escape from them, forcing the two Time Lords to team up to trap Axos in a [[time loop]], though the Master gets away in time. By tricking the Master into fixing it, as well as Axos unlocking the correct equations in his mind, the Doctor is able to restore his TARDIS back to working order, only to discover that the Time Lords had pre-programmed it to always return him to 20th century Earth in case he managed to escape his exile, turning him into a "galactic yo-yo". | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Thousand Years of Christmas (short story)|The Thousand Years of Christmas]]'' | |||
: The Doctor has just discovered that he will be drawn back to Earth even now he can depart with the TARDIS, setting this shortly after ''The Claws of Axos''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mega (audio story)|The Mega]]'' | |||
: The Mega received advice from the Master, setting this after he got his TARDIS working in ''The Mind of Evil''. The Nuton Power Complex is referenced, setting this after ''The Claws of Axos'' as well. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tip of the Mind (short story)|The Tip of the Mind]]'' | |||
: The Doctor incorrectly believes that the Time Lords have lifted his exile, setting this between ''The Claws of Axos'' and ''Colony in Space''. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'' | |||
: The [[UNIT HQ laboratory]] has been relocated to a smaller room. Jo sees inside the TARDIS for the first time when the Doctor is assigned a mission to [[2472]] [[Uxarieus]] by the Time Lords to keep the Master from harnessing the [[Doomsday Weapon]], while also helping some [[colonist]]s in their struggle against the [[Interplanetary Mining Corporation]]. After the Master is forced to retreat empty handed, the Time Lords return the Doctor and Jo to [[UNIT HQ]] the moment after they left. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q" (short story)|Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q"]]'' | |||
: Jo travels in the TARDIS, setting this after ''Colony in Space''. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'' | |||
: Set primarily on [[1 May]]. Drawn to [[Devil's End]] by news of a dig during [[Beltane]], the Doctor, Jo and the UNIT team find the Master trying to strike an alliance with the [[Dæmon]] [[Azal]]. With help from the White Witch [[Olive Hawthorne]], the Doctor and Jo are able to destroy Azal. With his plan foiled, the Master fails to escape and is finally arrested by UNIT. | |||
:* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Bert the Landlord (short story)|Bert the Landlord]]'' | |||
:: Set during ''The Dæmons: Episode 4''. | |||
=== After the Master's arrest === | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Freedom (short story)|Freedom]]'' | |||
: Set after the Master's arrest in ''The Dæmons''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Degrees of Truth (audio story)|Degrees of Truth]]'' | |||
: Set shortly the Master's arrest in ''The Dæmons'', and the events of ''Freedom'' are mentioned. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Court Hearing – Top Secret and Confidential (short story)|Court Hearing – Top Secret and Confidential]]'' | |||
: The Doctor attends [[the Master's trial]], where he is tricked into acknowledging his intelligence in front of the world leaders, allowing the Master to talk his way out of the death sentence by showing his usefulness as a living prisoner. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Magician's Oath (audio story)|The Magician's Oath]]'' | |||
: Set between ''The Dæmons'' and ''Day of the Daleks'',<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-the-magician-s-oath-474</ref> and in July. The Doctor investigates the reports of freak weather conditions UNIT have been receiving since the events of ''The Claws of Axos''. Not long has passed since Mike joined UNIT in ''Vengeance of the Stones''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Visit to the Cinema (short story)|A Visit to the Cinema]]'' | |||
: During some unexpected free time from UNIT, the Doctor visits the cinema to see [[Dr. Who and the Daleks (Peaceful Thals Ambushed!)|the latest]] [[Peter Cushing (Peaceful Thals Ambushed!)|Peter Cushing]] films. He mentions Jo, setting this at least after ''Terror of the Autons''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gardeners' Worlds (audio story)|Gardeners' Worlds]]'' | |||
: Jo knows about the Inferno Project, setting this after ''The Mind of Evil''. | |||
* [[POEM]]: ''[[The Flower Sour (poem)|The Flower Sour]]'' | |||
=== Taking a break === | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Still Life (audio story)|Still Life]]'' | |||
: The TARDIS is not in working order, setting this before ''The Three Doctors''. Jo takes a break from UNIT due to the effects of the Time Keeper. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Gemini Plan (comic story)|Gemini Plan]]'' | |||
: The Doctor has relocated to a [[Welsh]] mountainside so that he can focus on repairing the TARDIS in solitude, and has been doing so for the past two days, implying a setting after the Master's arrest, when the Doctor could relax more. He manages to rebuild the dematerialisation circuit and is able to pilot the TARDIS to [[Australia]]. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Timebenders (comic story)|Timebenders]]'' | |||
: After driving Bessie to [[Dartmoor]] to find some peace and quiet while he continues to work out his TARDIS repairs, the Doctor is transported to [[1942]], where he claims to have come from [[1971]], despite possessing a [[coin]] from [[1972]]. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Thing from Outer Space (short story)|The Thing from Outer Space]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Vogan Slaves (comic story)|The Vogan Slaves]]'' | |||
: The Doctor completes his repairs on the TARDIS and takes a trip to the planet of the [[Vogan (The Vogan Slaves)|Vogan]]s, implying a setting after ''The Claws of Axos''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Celluloid Midas (comic story)|The Celluloid Midas]]'' | |||
: After returning to Earth following the events of ''The Vogan Slaves'', the Doctor rents [[The Doctor's cottage|a cottage]] in the countryside and decides to take a short holiday. However, on the first day of his holiday, he is called into action by [[Oswald Holland]]. He decides to continue his holiday by taking a trip to the past so that he can't be interrupted again, leading directly into ''Backtime''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Backtime (comic story)|Backtime]]'' | |||
: The Doctor visits [[1863]] London and meets young pickpocket [[Charlie Fisher]], who he takes to [[Ballarat]] to pursue a better life. The Doctor also meets [[Abraham Lincoln]] in-person for the first time. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Eternal Present (comic story)|The Eternal Present]]'' | |||
: Having seen enough on his own, the Doctor decides to take the TARDIS back to 1971 England, but is swiftly abducted by the [[time police]] and taken to [[3550]] [[New Britain]]. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[And Now for My Next Trick... (short story)|And Now for My Next Trick...]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Sub Zero (comic story)|*Sub Zero]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Planet of the Daleks (comic story)|The Planet of the Daleks]]'' | |||
: Set directly after ''*Sub Zero'', with the Daleks seeking revenge. The Doctor is still staying at a cottage in the English countryside, presumably the same one he was renting in ''The Celluloid Midas''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Plant Master (comic story)|The Plant Master]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Ride to Nowhere (comic story)|Ride to Nowhere]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hungry Planet (comic story)|The Hungry Planet]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[A Stitch in Time (TVA comic story)|A Stitch in Time]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Enemy from Nowhere (comic story)|The Enemy from Nowhere]]'' | |||
: A mysterious force takes control of the TARDIS, leading directly into ''The Ugrakks''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ugrakks (comic story)|The Ugrakks]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Steelfist (comic story)|Steelfist]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Zeron Invasion (comic story)|Zeron Invasion]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is still staying at the cottage he began renting in ''The Celluloid Midas''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Countdown to TV Action (short story)|Countdown to TV Action]]'' | |||
: Set between ''Zeron Invasion'' and ''Deadly Choice''.<sup>''Evidence yet to be determined for this placement.''</sup> The Doctor recalls the recent events of ''The Vogan Slaves'', ''*Sub Zero'' and ''The Ugrakks''. | |||
:: (<u>EPILOGUE</u>) | |||
:: ''Jo returns to UNIT after several weeks. Shortly afterwards, her father passes away. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Still Life (audio story)|Still Life]]'')'' | |||
=== Missions in time === | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'' | |||
: Set around [[13 September]]. Before she is correct by the Doctor, Jo was under the impression that the TARDIS had been in working order since the events of ''Colony in Space'', but the Doctor confirms that he still does not have full control over it.<ref group = quote>JO: ''"I thought the TARDIS was working again."''<br>DOCTOR: ''"What gave you that idea?"''<br>JO: ''"Oh, being dragged off to an alien planet five hundred years in the future, for example. Oh, you know, all that business with the miners and the colonists."''<br>DOCTOR: ''"My dear Jo, the TARDIS was being operated then under remote control by the High Council of the Time Lords."''</ref> The TARDIS control console has been removed from the control room again, and the Doctor is working in yet another laboratory. Jo encounters the [[Dalek]]s and the [[Ogron]]s for the first time when they try to disrupt the Second [[World Peace Conference]] to ensure the the [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth]], but the Doctor is able to break the [[bootstrap paradox]] and stop them. | |||
:* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'' | |||
:: Set during ''Day of the Daleks: Episode 1''. | |||
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Regenerations|Regenerations]] | |||
:: During an alternative timeline created by corruption during the Time War. The Third Doctor is instead trapped in a bootstrap paradox in which he joins up with the resistance to the [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth]] and becomes a temporal assassin who is then killed and examined by his own past self. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'' | |||
: The Doctor saves journalist [[James Stevens]] from an [[Ogron]] immediately after the events of ''Day of the Daleks''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)|The Man in the Ion Mask]]'' | |||
: Set sometime after ''The Dæmons'', and not long before ''The Face of the Enemy'', as the Master is being held in [[Aylesbury Grange Detention Centre]]. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'': ''Prologue'' | |||
: Set immediately prior to ''The Curse of Peladon'', with the Doctor and Jo leaving in the TARDIS. Jo hasn't had a trip in the TARDIS since ''Colony in Space''. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'' | |||
: The Doctor visits [[Peladon]] for the first time while taking the TARDIS on its first test run since he "got it working again", though he comes to suspects the Time Lords were responsible for his arrival on Peladon. Jo encounters the [[Ice Warrior]]s for the first time, and has a brief romance with King [[Peladon of Peladon]]. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sommerton Fetch (short story)|The Sommerton Fetch]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo are still wearing their clothes from ''The Curse of Peladon''. The TARDIS is hit be a [[temporal wake]] that drags it off course. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'': ''Epilogue'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo return to UNIT almost immediately after ''The Curse of Peladon''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Horrors of War (audio story)|Horrors of War]]'' | |||
: Set between ''The Dæmons'' and ''The Sea Devils'', as the Master is still imprisoned. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'' | |||
: Set between ''The Dæmons'' and ''The Sea Devils'', as the Master is still in prison. The Brigadier mentions the Daleks, setting this after ''Day of the Daleks''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Switching (short story)|The Switching]]'' | |||
: Set between ''The Curse of Peladon'' and ''The Sea Devils'', as the Master, while having switched his body with the Doctor's, changes the internal configuration of his TARDIS and arranges for himself to be sent to Fortress Island. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'': ''Renewal'' | |||
: The Master is said to be locked up on a secure island, setting this shortly before ''The Sea Devils''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Salt of the Earth (short story)|Salt of the Earth]]'' | |||
: Prior to their visit to [[2028]] [[Australia]], Jo had spent long enough time inside the Doctor's lab to get pale skin. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'' | |||
: Aided by the [[Sea Devil]]s, whom the Doctor is encountering for the first time, the Master is able to escape his prison sentence on [[Fortress Island]]. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'' | |||
: Set immediately after ''The Sea Devils''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Find and Replace (audio story)|Find and Replace]]'' | |||
: Despite the back cover placing this story between ''Planet of the Daleks'' and ''The Green Death'', the Doctor is still in exile and explicitly cannot travel freely, setting this before ''The Three Doctors''. The Doctor is working on a device that would help him to locate the whereabouts of the Master, suggesting a setting between ''The Sea Devils'' and ''The Time Monster'', detecting him in [[North London]] and setting [[Huxley (Ringpullworld)|Huxley the Noveliser]] onto him. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'' | |||
: The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo to [[30th century]] [[Solos]] to deliver a [[message pod]] to [[Ky]] to ensure the freedom of the [[Solonian]]s from the [[Marshal of Solos]]. The Doctor has been relocated to yet another UNIT laboratory. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Where the Heart Is (short story)|Where the Heart Is]]'' | |||
: Set three years after ''Spearhead from Space''. The Doctor lists his work for the Time Lords, with ''The Mutants'' being the last one he mentions. This is also where UNIT acquires the manor house headquarters first seen in ''The Three Doctors''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Monster in the Woods (short story)|The Monster in the Woods]]'' | |||
: Set on [[31 October]]. The Doctor is still trying to escape his exile, and refers to the events of ''Day of the Daleks''. UNIT are using Doc Dantalion's manor house as their headquarters, setting this after ''Where the Heart Is''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Rags (novel)|Rags]]'' | |||
: Set between early [[May]] and [[20 June]]. Jo recalls the Daleks and Ogrons, setting this after ''Day of the Daleks''. The Doctor confesses that [[sheep]] have "never filled [him] with dread before", setting this before ''Verdigris''. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is once again using a completely new UNIT laboratory. Jo comments on the TARDIS's new interior design, which the Doctor dismisses as a "redecoration". The Doctor and Jo travel to Ancient [[Atlantis]] to stop the Master harnessing the power of [[Kronos]] the [[Chronovore]]. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Morphology (short story)|Morphology]]'' | |||
: According to an attached footnote, this is set after ''The Time Monster'', with the Doctor recalling how the TARDIS "took a bit of a tumble during [his] recent battle against the Master." | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[The Roleplaying Game: Second Edition|Invasion of the Chronovores]]'' | |||
: Set shortly after ''The Time Monster'', with the Doctor having scavenged components from the Master's TARDIS to put together a device that will restore functionality to his own. However, during a test, he accidentally rips a hole in the Time Vortex, freeing the Master and a swarm of baby Chronovores. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Prisoners of the Lake (audio story)|Prisoners of the Lake]]'' | |||
: While authorial intent would place this between ''Day of the Daleks'' and ''The Time Monster'',<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/JJCRichards/status/640915990029668352</ref> the Doctor uses Bessie's [[super drive]] function, which he demonstrated for the first time in ''The Time Monster''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm of the Horofax (audio story)|Storm of the Horofax]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is still in exile, and refers to the events of ''Colony in Space'' and ''The Mutants''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Poison of the Daleks (audio story)|Poison of the Daleks]]'' | |||
: The Doctor mentions Peladon, setting this after ''The Curse of Peladon''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Operation: Hellfire (audio story)|Operation: Hellfire]]'' | |||
: Jo has faced the Ogrons before, setting this after ''Day of the Daleks''. The Doctor's TARDIS is still limited in its capabilities, and the Doctor is sent on a mission by the Time Lords, setting this before ''The Three Doctors''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is using the control room from ''The Time Monster''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Firelight (comic story)|Firelight]]'' | |||
: The Doctor warns Jo what she should do if she ever encounters the [[Pyrometh]]s, and is using the control room from ''The Time Monster''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Master Plan (comic story)|The Master Plan]]: Issue #1'' | |||
: Still in his exile, the Doctor uses a previously unseen [[TARDIS control console]] to contact the [[Stormcage Containment Facility]] to get an update on the Master, implicitly setting this between ''The Time Monster'' and ''The Three Doctors''. He recalls the events of ''Colony in Space''. | |||
=== Reunion with Liz === | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Primord (audio story)|Primord]]'' | |||
: Jo recalls the events of ''The Sea Devils''. Jo and Liz meet for the first time, and the Doctor and Liz last saw each other in ''The Sentinels of the New Dawn''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr. Third (novel)|Dr. Third]]'' | |||
: Jo is aware of Bessie's super drive function, setting this after ''The Time Monster''. Liz is in the same area as the UNIT HQ, and is acquainted with Jo, setting this after ''Primord''. | |||
=== Last days in exile === | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Jigsaw (short story)|Jigsaw]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo visit the year [[2006]], having travelled from [[December]] [[1972]] in the TARDIS. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Scream of Ghosts (audio story)|The Scream of Ghosts]]'' | |||
: Jo recalls her recent encounter with Liz, setting this shortly after ''Primord''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Under Pressure (comic story)|Under Pressure]]'' | |||
: Set between ''The Sea Devils'' and ''The Touch of the Nurazh'', as Jo fails to recognise the [[Fourth Doctor]] when he helps repel an attack by the Sea Devils. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Target Practice (comic story)|Target Practice]]'' | |||
: Set between ''The Sea Devils'' and ''The Three Doctors'', as the Doctor is still in exile and a Sea Devil statue is included in the UNIT rogues gallery. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Honest Living (short story)|Honest Living]]'' | |||
: Set after ''Day of the Daleks''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Seismologist's Story (short story)|The Seismologist's Story]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Steward's Story (short story)|The Steward's Story]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Touch of the Nurazh (short story)|The Touch of the Nurazh]]'' | |||
: The events of ''The Mutants'' are mentioned. The Doctor briefly regenerates into his [[fourth incarnation]], but the regeneration is aborted due to the [[Nurazh]]'s interference. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Spoilsport (short story)|Spoilsport]]'' | |||
: The Doctor recalls the events of ''The Curse of Peladon''. | |||
:: (<u>SEGMENT</u>) | |||
:: ''The Doctor investigates a mysterious infantryman's jacket. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tales from the Vault (audio story)|Tales from the Vault]]'')'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Other Woman (audio story)|The Other Woman]]'' | |||
: Set after ''The Mutants'', as Jo hasn't been in the TARDIS very often, the Master is free and the Doctor is anticipating being freed from his exile soon. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Where's the Doctor? (comic story)|Where's the Doctor?]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo attend the [[coronation]] of [[Elizabeth II]] in [[Bessie]]. | |||
* [[WC]]: ''[[Doctors Assemble! (webcast)|Doctors Assemble!]]'' | |||
: The Doctor doesn't have use of his TARDIS, setting this before ''The Three Doctors''. He recognises his next incarnation on sight due to his "teeth and curls", setting this after ''The Touch of the Nurazh''. | |||
* [[WC]]: ''[[U.N.I.T. On Call (webcast)|U.N.I.T. On Call]]'' | |||
: The Doctor recalls the events of ''Day of the Daleks''.<ref group = quote>DOCTOR: ''"Watch for the greatest of all qualities within human beings. That's your ability for kindness, compassion, humour, friendship, generosity, unrestricted access to the wine cellar of Sir Reginald Styles!"''</ref> He has not heard the phrase "[[Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey|timey wimey]]" before, setting this before ''The Heralds of Destruction'' as well. | |||
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>) | |||
:: ''The Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier corner the Master in the [[Tower of London]] during his attempt to steal the [[British Crown Jewels]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')'' | |||
:: (<u>FLASHBACK</u>) | |||
:: ''The Doctor visits Professor Child's dig. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Suns of Caresh (novel)|The Suns of Caresh]]'')'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Verdigris (novel)|Verdigris]]'' | |||
: Set in [[May]] [[1973]]. Ending leads directly into ''The Three Doctors''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deathworld (TLS audio story)|Deathworld]]'' | |||
: After defeating Death's challenge with his past selves, the Doctor is told memories of this encounter will fade and similar events will take its place. He, Jo and the Brigadier discuss the disappearance of [[Arthur Ollis|Mr Ollis]] and Dr [[Tyler (The Three Doctors)|Tyler]]'s visit, leading directly into ''The Three Doctors.'' | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'' | |||
: Set five years after ''Spearhead from Space'', according to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]''. [[UNIT HQ]] is shown to a manor house for the first time, and the Doctor is now in his permanent [[UNIT HQ laboratory]], and has also redecorated the TARDIS control room again. Benton and the Brigadier enter the Doctor's TARDIS for the first time, and Jo learns about [[regeneration]] when the Time Lords summon the [[Second Doctor]] to assist them in combating [[Omega]] in the [[anti-matter universe]], with the [[First Doctor]] providing advice from a [[time eddy]]. As a reward for defending them from Omega, the Time Lords restore the Doctor's knowledge of time travel, bringing his exile to an end. However, due to needing to fix up the TARDIS further, he doesn't leave immediately.<ref group = quote>JO: ''"I suppose you'll be rushing off, then."''<br>DOCTOR: ''"No, not straight away, Jo. Of course not. I've got to build a new force field generator first."''</ref> | |||
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Unbound|Doctor Turncoat]]'' | |||
:: During an alternative timeline, Omega escapes the anti-matter universe and the Third Doctor regenerates prematurely into an alternative fourth incarnation. The Fourth Doctor appears to join Omega's side as he invades Earth but in reality uses his double agent status to travel back in time and avert Omega's escape, restoring the original course of events. | |||
=== Working on the TARDIS === | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Verdigris (novel)|Verdigris]]'': ''Epilogue'' | |||
: Set directly after ''The Three Doctors'', with the Doctor's exile having just been rescinded. He plugs in his new dematerialisation circuit, and takes Jo to meet Iris and Tom for drinks. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Scorchies (audio story)|The Scorchies]]'' | |||
: The [[Scorchie]]s song mentions the [[Gell guard]]s, setting this after ''The Three Doctors''. The Doctor is repairing the TARDIS' trans-dimensional stabilisers. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Defectors (audio story)|The Defectors]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is switched with his [[seventh incarnation]] by {{Garden}}. Jo recalls the events of ''The Three Doctors''. The TARDIS is back in working order, but the Doctor is still tinkering with it. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Hidden Realm (audio story)|The Hidden Realm]]'' | |||
: Jo is aware of the Doctor's regenerative abilities, setting this after ''The Three Doctors'', but the TARDIS is not currently operational, suggesting that this occurs before the Doctor completes his repairs and begins travelling with Jo. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Heralds of Destruction (comic story)|The Heralds of Destruction]]'' | |||
: The Doctor admits to Jo that he has come to find comfort in Earth since his exile was lifted, and that the reason he hasn't left entirely is because of his friends there. However, after defeating [[Ramón Salamander]], he decides that it is finally time he resumed his travels again, and invites Jo to join him. Some of his abilities that were previously blocked by the Time Lords are still returning, setting this shortly after ''The Three Doctors''. | |||
=== Testing his newfound freedom === | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wages of Sin (novel)|The Wages of Sin]]'' | |||
: The Doctor goes on his first test flight into the past since his time travel knowledge was returned in ''The Three Doctors'', taking Liz and Jo with him. | |||
:: (<u>EPILOGUE</u>) | |||
:: ''With the TARDIS in his control again, the Doctor rescues Liz from [[1539]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hiccup in Time (short story)|Hiccup in Time]]'')'' | |||
:: (<u>SEGMENT</u>) | |||
:: ''With his TARDIS working again after being restored to working order by the Time Lords, the Doctor visits Captain Henderson, months after their last meeting, to take him back to witness the loss of his ship. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Landbound (audio story)|Landbound]]'')'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mists of Time (audio story)|The Mists of Time]]'' | |||
: Jo recalls that the events of this story occurred "sometime after" the events of ''The Doll of Death'', and also recalls the events of ''Day of the Daleks''. The Doctor, freed from his exile, takes the TARDIS on a test flight, suggesting a setting shortly after ''The Three Doctors'', which, according to Jo, they do not immediately return home from. | |||
* [[GAME]]: ''[[The Orphans of the Polyoptra (video game)|The Orphans of the Polyoptra]]'' | |||
: The Doctor has only recently been freed from his exile, and Jo mentions that they are taking the TARDIS for a "test run", setting this shortly after ''The Three Doctors''. The Doctor was aiming for the [[Acteon Galaxy]], the home galaxy of Metebelis III. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'' | |||
: According to [[Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters (novelisation)|the novelisation]], the Doctor and Jo are taking the TARDIS for a test flight shortly after the events of ''The Three Doctors''. Attempting to visit [[Metebelis III]], the Doctor and Jo instead arrive on [[Inter Minor]], where they are trapped in [[Vorg (Carnival of Monsters)|Vorg]]'s [[miniscope]]. Jo is skeptical of the Doctor's ability to pilot the TARDIS, suggesting that he has only just had his ability to fly it returned to him. | |||
:* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Peepshow (audio story)|Peepshow]]'' | |||
:: Set during the epilogue of ''Carnival of Monsters''. The Doctor is approached by [[River Song]], who tells him he is "about to have his hearts broken", referring to Jo's upcoming departure from his company in ''The Green Death''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Suns of Caresh (novel)|The Suns of Caresh]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo are still aiming for Metebelis III. The Doctor tries to recalibrate the TARDIS' navigational system, and Jo mentions the events of ''Carnival of Monsters''. After his attempt to travel directly to Metebelis III resulted in the TARDIS arriving on [[Inter Minor]], the Doctor attempts several shorter hops to planets closer to the Earth, though these visits do not lead to any adventures. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Listen - The Stars (short story)|Listen - The Stars]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Out of the Green Mist (short story)|Out of the Green Mist]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Time Thief (comic story)|The Time Thief]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Fathom Trap (short story)|The Fathom Trap]]'' | |||
: The Doctor's exile has been recently lifted, setting this shortly after ''The Three Doctors''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Menace of the Molags (comic story)|Menace of the Molags]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Talons of Terror (short story)|Talons of Terror]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Old Father Saturn (short story)|Old Father Saturn]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Galactic Gangster (short story)|Galactic Gangster]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Deep Stretch (short story)|Deep Stretch]]'' | |||
: The Doctor's exile has been recently lifted, but he still feels uneasy when it is mentioned, setting this shortly after ''The Three Doctors''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (audio story)|The Many Deaths of Jo Grant]]'' | |||
: Set between ''Carnival of Monsters'' and ''Frontier in Space'', according to the Big Finish website. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Spear of Destiny (short story)|The Spear of Destiny]]'' | |||
: The Doctor has had his ability to pilot the TARDIS returned to him recently, and his exile is still a sore subject of conversation for him, setting this shortly after ''The Three Doctors''. | |||
=== Roaming the universe === | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Losing Track of Time (short story)|Losing Track of Time]]'' | |||
: Jo is still new to time travel, but the Doctor has complete control of the TARDIS, setting this after ''The Three Doctors''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Come Friendly Bombs... (short story)|Come Friendly Bombs...]]'' | |||
: The Doctor can control his TARDIS' flight, and Jo has apparently taken numerous lengthy trips in the TARDIS. The Doctor attempts to take Jo on a "proving trip" to a destination of her choice, suggesting a setting shortly after ''The Three Doctors''. This story also demonstrates her awakening social conscience from ''The Green Death''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy (novel)|Legacy]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo visit [[Pakha]]. The Doctor notices for the first time that Jo has grown up a lot since their first meeting. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Categorical Imperative (short story)|Categorical Imperative]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby. However, the Doctor sees his [[sixth incarnation]] doing the same, and leaves him to do it. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Carpenter Butterfly Baronet (short story)|/Carpenter/Butterfly/Baronet]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo visit the [[2040s]] after the Doctor fails to take Jo on a trip to see [[World War II]]. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Death to the Doctor! (comic story)|Death to the Doctor!]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Rock Star (short story)|Rock Star]]'' | |||
: According to a note in the ''About the Authors'' section of the ''[[Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership]]'' anthology, this is set between ''Carnival of Monsters'' and ''Frontier in Space'', | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lost and Founded (short story)|Lost and Founded]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Once upon a Time Machine (short story)|Once upon a Time Machine]]'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pop-Up (audio story)|Pop-Up]]'' | |||
: Jo sees the TARDIS food machine for the first time. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seven to One (audio story)|Seven to One]]'' | |||
: Jo recalls the events of ''The Three Doctors''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lost in the Wakefield Triangle (audio story)|Lost in the Wakefield Triangle]]'' | |||
:: (<u>SEGMENT</u>) | |||
:: ''The Doctor and Jo briefly encounter an apparition of a [[Charley Pollard]] from an alternate timeline. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')'' | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is currently travelling with Jo. ([[DWM 475]]) He helps in the saving of [[Gallifrey]] on the last day of the [[Last Great Time War]], and, in [[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|the novelisation]], has a tea party with his other incarnations in the [[Under Gallery]] as a celebration. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Waiting for Gadot (audio story)|Waiting for Gadot]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo visit the planet [[Erindra]]. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sphinx Lightning (audio story)|Sphinx Lightning]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo are travelling freely together in the TARDIS, setting this between ''The Three Doctors'' and ''The Green Death''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Same Face (audio story)|The Same Face]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Horn of a Dilemma (comic story)|The Horn of a Dilemma]]'' | |||
=== Returning to Earth === | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo have been trying to return to Earth for some time.<ref group = quote>JO: ''"That TARDIS of yours. I mean, you're supposed to be getting me back to Earth, right? And we keep landing up in one terrible situation after the other."''</ref> The Doctor has [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver#The Third, Fourth and Fifth Doctors' sonic screwdriver|a new sonic screwdriver]] model. The Doctor and Jo find themselves in the [[Draconia-Terra skirmishes]] of the [[Human-Draconian War]], and discover that the Master is exacerbating the conflict with the Ogrons as part of an alliance with the Daleks. Once they expose the deceit to the humans and [[Draconian]]s, the Doctor is accidentally shot by the Master. Jo then takes him into the TARDIS, where he sends a distress message to the Time Lords. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'' | |||
: Following directly on from ''Frontier in Space'', the Time Lords lead the TARDIS to [[Spiridon]], just as the Doctor enters a healing coma. After he awakens, he assists some [[Thal]]s in stopping the Daleks harnessing the [[invisibility]] of the [[Spiridon (species)|Spiridons]] and from awakening a frozen Dalek army. After leaving Spiridon, Jo asks the Doctor to take them back to Earth. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conquest of Far (audio story)|The Conquest of Far]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo have just left Spiridon, setting this immediately after ''Planet of the Daleks''. Jo asks the Doctor if the TARDIS is always "going to go wrong" and arrive at the wrong destination, suggesting she is still new to travelling in the TARDIS without the Time Lords in control of it. After defeating the Daleks on Far, the Doctor and Jo resolve to return to Earth once more. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Catastrophea (novel)|Catastrophea]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo have just left Spiridon, setting this immediately after ''Planet of the Daleks''. The Doctor realises that Jo has matured since they first met, setting this after ''Legacy'', and expects that she will leave him soon. Following an adventure on [[Catastrophea]], the Doctor sets a course for Earth. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Tyrants of Logic (audio story)|The Tyrants of Logic]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is still adjusting to his newfound freedom, but speaks fondly of his time in exile. He has promised to get Jo back to Earth and gives her his [[TARDIS key]], setting this shortly after ''Planet of the Daleks''. | |||
=== Back on Earth === | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dancing the Code (novel)|Dancing the Code]]'' | |||
: Set the week after ''Planet of the Daleks''. The Doctor and Jo have spent the past few weeks trying and failing to get to [[Metebelis III]]. The Doctor begins work on a new navigational unit for the TARDIS, and Mike tells Jo that UNIT was left feeling defenceless during her and the Doctor's extended absence. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Piper (short story)|The Piper]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo have recently returned to UNIT from Spiridon, setting this after ''Planet of the Daleks''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Josephine and the Argonauts (novel)|Josephine and the Argonauts]]'' | |||
: Set between ''Planet of the Daleks'' and ''The Green Death'',<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CwSjxgVIim8/ Paul Magrs on Instagram: "Placement, for those who need to know."]</ref> and in October of ostensibly 1973. The Doctor claims he’s been keeping his ear to ground for the Master coming back to Earth since he and Jo returned from Spiridon. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Hidden Talent (short story)|Hidden Talent]]'' | |||
: Jo becomes a contestant on ''[[Make a Star]]'', a reality which unbeknownst to her is part of a plan orchestrated by the Master. The Doctor has wistfully come to believe that Jo will leave him eventually, and asks her if she regrets not staying with [[Latep]], setting this after ''Planet of the Daleks''. However, Jo reassures him that, although she has enjoyed being back on Earth for a bit during her time on ''Make a Star'', she is keen to resume their travels in the TARDIS. | |||
=== Coming and going again === | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightdreamers (novel)|Nightdreamers]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo are aiming for Metebelis III again. Jo wishes for a holiday after what happened on Spiridon in ''Planet of the Daleks''. Jo is reminded of her romance with Latep and muses on whether she made the right choice to leave him, but soon dismisses the thought, even though she does think that her time with the Doctor might be coming to an end, implying a setting after ''Hidden Talent''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The House That Jack Built (short story)|The House That Jack Built]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is trying to repair the TARDIS dimensional direction unit. He and Jo are kidnapped from Earth in the middle of making the repairs. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Revenge of the Phantoms (short story)|Revenge of the Phantoms]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Dead on Arrival (comic story)|Dead on Arrival]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Fugitives from Chance (short story)|Fugitives from Chance]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[After the Revolution (comic story)|After the Revolution]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Battle Within (short story)|The Battle Within]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo have been traveling in the TARDIS for some time. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Echoes (ST short story)|Echoes]]'' | |||
: The Doctor seems able to control the TARDIS, and, although he speaks of Jo in the present tense, she is not traveling with him at the moment. Possibly set before ''Last of the Gaderene'' or ''Speed of Flight'', where the Doctor is shown returning to UNIT after taking some solo trips. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Speed of Flight (novel)|Speed of Flight]]'' | |||
: According to the back cover, this is set between ''Planet of the Daleks'' and ''The Green Death''. The Doctor is attempting to take Jo and Mike to Karfel for a date after Mike expressed interest in TARDIS travel during ''Dancing the Code'', which is still fresh in both Mike and Jo's minds. Jo is beginning to grow unsure whether she wants to travel with the Doctor anymore. | |||
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>) | |||
:: ''The Doctor, Jo and Mike take a trip to [[Karfel]], where they prevent the experiments of a scientist named [[Megelen]] on a local life form called [[Morlox]]es. ([[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'')'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bad Guy (short story)|The Bad Guy]]'' | |||
: Jo lost her locket on her previous trip, suggesting a setting immediately after their visit to Karfel. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Havoc of Empires (audio story)|The Havoc of Empires]]'' | |||
: Set shortly after the Doctor's exile was rescinded by the Time Lords in ''The Three Doctors'', according to the narrator. Although the synopsis states that this is Mike's first trip in the TARDIS, the Doctor comments that he and Jo have taken Mike to other planets before, suggesting a setting after ''Speed of Flight''. Mike is still new to travelling in the TARDIS, while Jo is used to the TARDIS ending up in the wrong place. The Doctor runs maintenance on the TARDIS, which allows it to arrive at its destination much quicker than before. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dragon of Hyacinth Lodge (short story)|The Dragon of Hyacinth Lodge]]'' | |||
: Jo mentions her ability to resist Time Lord hypnosis, which she first demonstrated during ''Frontier in Space''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[...And Eternity in an Hour (short story)|...And Eternity in an Hour]]'' | |||
: Jo is familiar with the Doctor's trances that make his skin ice-cold, setting this after ''Planet of the Daleks''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Last of the Gaderene (novel)|Last of the Gaderene]]'' | |||
: Set between ''Planet of the Daleks'' and ''The Green Death'', according to the book's back cover. Jo recalls the Doctor's various attempts to take her to Metebelis III. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost in the Machine (audio story)|Ghost in the Machine]]'' | |||
: Jo refers to the events of ''Planet of the Daleks''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time Tunnel (audio story)|Time Tunnel]]'' | |||
: Jo is familiar with the Doctor entering comas, setting this after ''Planet of the Daleks''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Transcendence of Ephros (audio story)|The Transcendence of Ephros]]'' | |||
: The Doctor recalls the events of ''Frontier in Space'', and gave the TARDIS navigation systems an overhaul "a few days ago". Jo is becoming fed up with all her and the Doctor's trips in the TARDIS going wrong and putting them in danger. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rise of the New Humans (audio story)|The Rise of the New Humans]]'' | |||
: The Doctor mentions [[Lava Worm]]s, setting this after ''The Transcendence of Ephros''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Conspiracy in Space (audio story)|Conspiracy in Space]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo return to Draconia, setting this after ''Frontier in Space''. They leave [[UNIT HQ]] at the beginning of the story, setting this after ''The Tyrants of Logic'' as well. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Escape the Daleks! (audio story)|Escape the Daleks!]]'' | |||
: Set between ''Planet of the Daleks'' and ''The Green Death''. ([[DWM 599]]) | |||
=== Final adventures with Jo === | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Hide and Seek (short story)|Hide and Seek]]'' | |||
: The Doctor notes that Jo is beginning to grow up. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Christmas Inversion (short story)|The Christmas Inversion]]'' | |||
: Mike is displeased to find himself traveling in the TARDIS, suggesting he has already travelled within it. The Doctor tells Jo that she will leave him when she feels the time is right. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Clean Air Act (short story)|The Clean Air Act]]'' | |||
: Jo demonstrates her growing environmental awareness, setting this after ''Come Friendly Bombs...'' and shortly before ''The Green Death''. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'' | |||
: In [[Doctor Who and the Green Death (novelisation)|the novelisation]], the Doctor implies that he is 725-years-old. While Jo goes to [[South Wales]] to help ecologist Professor [[Clifford Jones]] in his fight against [[Global Chemicals]] at [[Llanfairfach]], the Doctor is finally able to get the TARDIS to [[Metebelis III]], where takes a [[Metebelis crystal]]. Upon his return, he joins the UNIT team at Llanfairfach to stop [[giant maggot]]s overrunning Llanfairfach, with Mike Yates suffering a minor breakdown while under hypnosis. Once the [[BOSS]] computer of Global Chemicals is stopped, Jo leaves UNIT, and the Doctor's company, to marry Clifford, with the Doctor giving them the Metebelis crystal as a wedding gift. | |||
:* [[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]'' | |||
:: Set during ''The Green Death: Episode 1'', after the Doctor leaves Metebelis III and before he returns to UNIT, as the Doctor still has the Metebelis crystal in his possession. | |||
=== Travelling alone === | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[She Knew (short story)|She Knew]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is reflecting on Jo's departure at a pub near [[Llanfairfach]], setting this immediately after ''The Green Death''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Midnight in the Café of the Black Madonna (short story)|Midnight in the Café of the Black Madonna]]'' | |||
: Jo has just recently left the Doctor, setting this shortly after ''The Green Death''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Three Companions (audio story)|The Three Companions]]'' | |||
: Set shortly after ''The Green Death'', with the Doctor still forlorn in the wake of Jo's departure. He takes the Brigadier on a trip in the TARDIS, his first since ''The Three Doctors''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Prisoner of Peladon (audio story)|The Prisoner of Peladon]]'' | |||
: The Doctor still misses Jo after she left in ''The Green Death''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Landbound (audio story)|Landbound]]'' | |||
: The Doctor refers to Jo leaving him, setting this shortly after ''The Green Death''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Council of War (audio story)|Council of War]]'' | |||
: Benton refers to the events of ''The Green Death''. | |||
:: (<u>EPILOGUE</u>) | |||
:: ''After spending years inventing a device to save Jo from the time distortion, the Doctor travels to the [[2010s]] and leaves the device with [[Petronella Osgood]], along with a farewell letter for Jo. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sacrifice of Jo Grant (audio story)|The Sacrifice of Jo Grant]]'')'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror of the Master (audio story)|Terror of the Master]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is still saddened by Jo's recent departure, setting this shortly after ''The Green Death''. He has begun work on the [[Whomobile]], but it is not yet ready for use. | |||
=== Reunited with Jo === | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Supernature (audio story)|Supernature]]'' | |||
: The Doctor has been travelling alone since leaving Llanfairfach in ''The Green Death''. Despite wanting to avoid Earth, the Doctor is brought to the [[Isle of Wight]] in the [[2020s]] by the TARDIS, where he is reunited with Jo, nearly fifty years after they parted ways from her perspective and shortly after Cliff's passing. As they are both feeling lonely, the Doctor and Jo decide to renew their travels together. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conservitors (audio story)|The Conservitors]]'' | |||
: Jo takes her first renewed trip in the TARDIS, setting this directly after ''Supernature''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Iron Shore (audio story)|The Iron Shore]]'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Quintessence (audio story)|The Quintessence]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Jo encounter the Mondasian Cybermen. | |||
=== Solo actions === | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Deadly Choice (comic story)|Deadly Choice]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Who is the Stranger (comic story)|Who is the Stranger]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glen of Sleeping (comic story)|The Glen of Sleeping]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Threat from Beneath (comic story)|The Threat from Beneath]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Back to the Sun (comic story)|Back to the Sun]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Fogbound (comic story)|Fogbound]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Smash Hit (short story)|Smash Hit]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Secret of the Tower (comic story)|Secret of the Tower]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Labyrinth (comic story)|The Labyrinth]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Spoilers (comic story)|The Spoilers]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The One Second Hour (short story)|The One Second Hour]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Vortex (comic story)|The Vortex]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Unheard Voice (comic story)|The Unheard Voice]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is on his way back to Earth, and arrives in the North west coast of Scotland. | |||
=== Temporary companions === | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Children of the Evil Eye (comic story)|Children of the Evil Eye]]'' | |||
: On a mission for the [[Time Lord]]s, the Doctor is taken prisoner on [[32nd century]] [[Earth]], and assisted in his escape by a young boy named [[Arnold (Children of the Evil Eye)|Arnold]]. After overthrowing the young tyrant, [[Oswald (Children of the Evil Eye)|Oswald]], the Doctor invites Arnold to travel with him as he takes Oswald away from the vengeful Earth citizens. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Nova (TVC comic story)|Nova]]'' | |||
: Follows directly on from ''Children of the Evil Eye'', with the Doctor and Arnold leaving Oswald on another planet as his punishment. The Doctor begins the return journey to Earth to return Arnold to his home. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Amateur (comic story)|The Amateur]]'' | |||
: The Doctor returns Arnold to his home so as not to alienate him from his time. | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[The Game of Time & Space (game)|The Game of Time & Space]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is traveling with Liz. | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[The Appliance of Science (home video)|The Appliance of Science]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is acting as a spokesman for [[Zanussi]] with a robot named [[Boris (The Appliance of Science)|Boris]]. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Shrink (TV story)|The Shrink]]'' | |||
: Advertisement for ''The Ultimate Adventure'', with the Doctor mentioning his plans to visit [[Mold]], [[Birmingham]], [[Manchester]], [[Oxford]] and [[Bristol]], all locations where the play was performed. | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[The Ultimate Adventure]]'' | |||
: According to one account, shortly after he saves the [[Marquis de Saint Epiman de Sinee de la Tour]] from the [[French Revolution]], the Third Doctor and the Marquis, who renames himself "Jason", meet [[Crystal (The Ultimate Adventure)|Crystal]] while stopping the Cybermen from kidnapping a US Envoy from the ''Number 10'' nightclub, and she helps them combat the [[Dalek Emperor]], and then joins them in the TARDIS with [[Zog (The Ultimate Adventure)|Zog]], a slave from [[Deneb IV]] she had befriended. Other accounts, however, depict Jason and Crystal meeting the [[Sixth Doctor]] instead. | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[The Skivers (audio skit)|The Skivers]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is looking for a new companion. | |||
=== Travels with Joshua Douglas === | |||
:: <u>(REFERENCE) </u> | |||
:: ''The Doctor meets Lord [[Joshua Douglas]], who leaves his family behind to join the Doctor on an extended trip in the TARDIS. Amongst their adventures, they visit [[1953]] [[Nova Scotia]], where Joshua wins a swimming certificate. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Catalyst (audio story)|The Catalyst]]'')'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time Vampire (audio story)|The Time Vampire]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Joshua part ways after ten years of companionship. | |||
=== Alone again === | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Disintegrator (comic story)|The Disintegrator]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Is Anyone There? (comic story)|Is Anyone There?]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Size Control (comic story)|Size Control]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Magician (comic story)|The Magician]]'' | |||
: Set directly after ''Size Control'', with the Doctor reaching Earth after deciding to visit in the previous story. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Metal-Eaters (comic story)|The Metal-Eaters]]'' | |||
: Set immediately after ''The Magician''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Test of Time (comic story)|The Test of Time]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Comic Relief Comic (comic story)|Comic Relief Comic]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Untitled (DWY94 comic story)|Grim Realisation of a Time Lord...]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime (novelisation)|Downtime]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Glass Princess (short story)|The Glass Princess]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Juror's Story (short story)|The Juror's Story]]'' | |||
* [[POEM]]: ''[[The Feast of Seven... Eight and Nine (poem)|The Feast of Seven... Eight (and Nine)]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dream Devils (short story)|Dream Devils]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Faithful Friends: Part 1 (short story)|Faithful Friends: Part 1]]'' | |||
: The Doctor celebrates Christmas with the Brigadier. They haven't heard from Jo since her departure in ''The Green Death'' and wonder how she is doing. There is no indication that the Doctor has met Sarah Jane Smith yet, suggesting a setting before ''The Time Warrior''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Potential (short story)|Potential]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill (short story)|The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill]]'' | |||
: The Doctor visits [[Winston Churchill]] using the TARDIS without a companion. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A True Gentleman (audio story)|A True Gentleman]]'' | |||
* [[GAME]]: ''[[Legacy (video game)|Legacy]]'' | |||
: The Doctor recalls the events of ''Day of the Daleks''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Day of the Tune (comic story)|Day of the Tune]]'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Collision Course (audio story)|Collision Course]]'' | |||
: The Doctor was in the middle of making adjustments to [[Bessie]] when he was picked up by [[Bernice Summerfield]]. He has knowledge of TARDIS travel and recalls his attempts to get to [[Metebelis III]], setting this after ''The Green Death''. | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[The Daft Dimension (DWM 550 comic story)|The Daft Dimension 550]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is imprisoned at the [[Maximum security facility]] with his other incarnations. | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[The Daft Dimension (DWM 559 comic story)|The Daft Dimension 559]]'' | |||
: The Doctor has Christmas dinner with his other incarnations. | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Time Fracture (stage play)|Time Fracture]]'' | |||
: The Third Doctor unites with his other incarnations to help a group of people seal the [[Time Fracture]]. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Imaginary Friends (novel)|Imaginary Friends]]'' | |||
: The Doctor meets with Gerry in [[1968]] to rectify the mistake his first incarnation made with the TARDIS telepathic circuits in [[1963]]. Despite other accounts placing his work with the organisation during the 1970s at the earliest, the Doctor is seen working for UNIT in the 1960s, potentially setting this after his exile ended in ''The Three Doctors''. | |||
=== First voyages with Sarah === | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'' | |||
: While helping the Brigadier investigate missing scientists at a research centre, the Doctor meets [[Sarah Jane Smith]], who becomes a reluctant stowaway aboard the TARDIS when he travels to the [[13th century]], where he finds the [[Sontaran]] [[Linx]] is kidnapping the scientists to repair his ship at [[Irongron]]'s castle. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Paradise of Death (audio story)|The Paradise of Death]]'' | |||
: According to this account, the Doctor and Sarah reunite for the first time since the events of ''The Time Warrior'' when Sarah tracks the Doctor down at UNIT HQ for an interview. She meets the Brigadier for the first time and decides to officially join the Doctor's company. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'' | |||
: This account also depicts the Doctor returning Sarah home to London from the events of ''The Time Warrior''.<ref group=quote>DOCTOR: ''"Well, I told you I'd get you back home safely, didn't I?"''<br>SARAH: ''"We set off from the Research Centre."''<br>DOCTOR: ''"Well, there's no point in going back there. No, I set course for UNIT HQ."''</ref> The Doctor drives the [[Whomobile]] for what seems to be the first time. Mike betrays UNIT due to his faith in [[Operation Golden Age]], but the Brigadier allows him to quietly resign instead of being imprisoned. The Doctor proposes taking Sarah on a trip to [[Florana]], leading directly into ''Death to the Daleks''. According to the [[dating protocol]], Sarah is 23-years-old in [[1974]]. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)|Heroes of Time]]'' | |||
: While reflecting on his life, the Doctor comments on Sarah Jane being the "new girl", suggesting a setting shortly after ''The Time Warrior''. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks (TV story)|Death to the Daleks]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Sarah are traveling to Florana for a holiday, setting this almost immediately after ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''. When the TARDIS is drawn to [[Exxilon]] by the power draining beacon in the [[Great City of the Exxilons]], Sarah has her first encounter with the [[Dalek]]s. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ghosts of N-Space (audio story)|The Ghosts of N-Space]]'' | |||
: According to [[The Ghosts of N-Space (novelisation)|the novelisation]], the TARDIS has returned immediately back to UNIT HQ following ''Death to the Daleks'' and is still recovering from the energy drainage sustained on Exxilon.<ref group=quote>''"As you'll remember"'', he went on, continuing his work, ''"the TARDIS energy banks were totally drained by the beacon of the Exxilon City –"'' Sarah shuddered as she remembered their escape from the Daleks; and another curler slipped from its moorings. ''"–and although she was able to generate enough temporal thrust to take us home, she's by no means back to normal, poor old thing."''</ref> Sarah recalls "every time" she has travelled in the TARDIS with the Doctor as only being her trips in ''The Time Monster'', ''The Paradise of Death'' and ''Death to the Daleks''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kaleidoscope (audio story)|Kaleidoscope]]'' | |||
: The Doctor shows the Brigadier the Whomobile for the first time, and refers to it as his "new car", implicitly setting this shortly after ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'', and Sarah has encountered the Daleks, setting this after ''Death to the Daleks''. The Doctor still plans on visiting Florana, setting this before ''The Hungry Bomb''. | |||
=== Continued voyages with Sarah === | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Crime at the Cinema (audio story)|Crime at the Cinema]]'' | |||
: Sarah has been travelling with the Doctor for only a few weeks. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Doomcloud (comic story)|Doomcloud]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Perils of Paris (comic story)|Perils of Paris]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Who's Who? (comic story)|Who's Who?]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Signal S.O.S. (short story)|Signal S.O.S.]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Before the Legend (short story)|Before the Legend]]'' | |||
: Sarah doesn't know much about the Doctor's origins, setting this before ''The Time Thief''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Thief (DWAN short story)|The Time Thief]]'' | |||
: The Doctor tells Sarah about Gallifrey and the Time Lords. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Scorched Earth (short story)|Scorched Earth]]'' | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Doctor Who Pinball: Time Streams]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is traveling Sarah Jane, as well as the Brigadier and Sergeant Benton. He drives the Whomobile, setting this after ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Discourse of Flies (short story)|The Discourse of Flies]]'' | |||
: Sarah has already been to a number of alien worlds. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Primitives (short story)|Primitives]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Neptune (short story)|Neptune]]'' | |||
: The Doctor has been trying to get Sarah to Florana since they left London, but has failed to get her there several times already.<ref group=quote>''"Is this better than Florana, then?"'' asked Sarah, skipping to catch up. The Doctor had been promising to take her to Florana ever since they had left London, but somehow the TARDIS always seemed to have other plans.</ref> | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dead Man's Story (short story)|The Dead Man's Story]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is travelling with [[Jeremy Fitzoliver]]. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Sedna (short story)|Sedna]]'' | |||
: Sequel to ''Neptune''. The Doctor is still traveling with Jeremy, setting this immediately after ''The Dead Man's Story''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lampblack Wars (short story)|The Lampblack Wars]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Numb (short story)|Numb]]'' | |||
: Sarah is still adjusting to her new life in the TARDIS, and has been avoiding the Doctor for the past few days, while he has been busy in his laboratory with delta particles. However, after making some repairs to the [[Helmic regulator]], he invites her on a test flight in the TARDIS and they visit a human colony four-hundred years in the future, and then Africa millions of years in the past, where Sarah is able to relax for the first time in the seven weeks that have passed since ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''. <ref group=quote>''It had all changed seven weeks earlier. [Sarah's] discovery of the existence of the government's nuclear shelters in Sir Charles Grover's Whitehall offices had piqued her curiosity about what other Cold War projects were still under wraps and patiently awaiting her investigation.''</ref> | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Generation Gap (short story)|Generation Gap]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Visit from Saint Nicholas (short story)|A Visit from Saint Nicholas]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interesting Times (short story)|Interesting Times]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Sarah are on their way back to UNIT HQ. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[In With the Tide (comic story)|In With the Tide]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is driving the Whomobile, setting this after ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''. The Doctor and Sarah have been absent from UNIT long enough for it to have been infiltrated by the [[Remoraxian]]s. Liz, Sarah and the Brigadier are kidnapped by [[Adam Mitchell]], leading directly into ''Endgame''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (POT comic story)|Endgame]]'' | |||
: The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue his friends from Adam and {{Ainley}}, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'' | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill (short story)|Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Invasion of the Scorpion Men (comic story)|Invasion of the Scorpion Men]]'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Decline of the Ancient Mariner (audio story)|Decline of the Ancient Mariner]]'' | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scourge of the Cybermen (audio story)|Scourge of the Cybermen]]'' | |||
: Set between ''Death to the Daleks'' and ''The Monster of Peladon''. <ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-scourge-of-the-cybermen-2443</ref> | |||
=== The Game of Rassilon === | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'' | |||
: Set immediately before ''The Five Doctors'', with a [[Clara Oswald splinter]] calling out to the Doctor just before he is sent to the Death Zone. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' | |||
: While out for a ride in [[Bessie]], the Doctor is kidnapped by {{Latham}} to play [[Game of Rassilon (The Five Doctors)|the Game of Rassilon]] in the [[Death Zone]] with his first, second and [[fifth incarnation]]s. The Doctor recognises Sarah Jane when he encounters her in the Death Zone, setting this after ''The Time Warrior'', while Sarah Jane, having been taken to the Death Zone years after she left the TARDIS, tells the Doctor she will be present when he regenerates. After [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon]] deals with Borusa at the First Doctor's urging, the Doctors and their friends are returned to their [[time stream]]s. | |||
=== Death on Dust === | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]'' | |||
: The Doctor returns to [[Peladon]] fifty years after the events of ''The Curse of Peladon'', and notes that it has been "ages" since his own last visit. While helping [[Queen]] [[Thalia]] dispense with [[Eckersley|a Federation traitor]], the Doctor sees Aggedor perish. The Doctor claims that "the scanner is still on the blink", presumably since the TARDIS was damaged in ''Death to the Daleks''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'' | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'' | ||
: Sarah | : The Doctor and Sarah use the TARDIS to find [[Sputnik 2]] and retrieve the body of [[Laika]], which the Doctor then buries on the planet [[Quiescia]]. | ||
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference | |||
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference: Shock Tactic]]'' | ||
:The Doctor and | : Set immediately after ''Alien Bodies'', with the Doctor and Sarah having just left Quiescia, and the Doctor also recalls that their previous landing before Quiescia was on Peladon during ''The Monster of Peladon''. The Doctor discovers a door within the TARDIS that leads to his [[eighth incarnation]], who attempts to warn him of [[Faction Paradox]]. The TARDIS lands on the planet [[Dust (planet)|Dust]] during the [[War in Heaven]], on the same day when [[I.M. Foreman's Travelling Show]] arrived and the [[Faction Paradox warship]]s approached the planet, leading directly into ''Interference: The Hour of the Geek''. | ||
:: | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference: The Hour of the Geek]]'' | |||
: The Doctor defeats the [[Remote]] invasion, and resolves the apparent [[paradox]] of Foreman's original encounter with his future selves. However, due to the interference of Faction Paradox, he is shot by [[Magdelana Bishop]], and begins to [[regenerate]] into his [[Fourth Doctor|next incarnation]] prematurely. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'' | |||
: Aware of the perversion of history, the Third Doctor's "ghost" remains in the TARDIS until the [[Eighth Doctor]] confronts [[Grandfather Paradox]] during the [[Faction Paradox invasion of Gallifrey]]. The Third Doctor assists the Eighth Doctor in destroying [[Gallifrey]] and [[Kasterborous]], forcing the universe to choose which is the real timeline. | |||
:: (<u>NOTE</u>) | |||
:: ''The Eighth Doctor was uncertain which timeline would become real. [[Compassion]] initially told [[Fitz Kreiner]] that the Doctor's visit to Dust and the War in Heaven had been unwritten from [[history]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') However, when the Eighth Doctor eventually regained contact with the greater universe, history had been rewritten so that Gallifrey had never even existed, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') suggesting that the War had not been erased, but actually continued and ended in some other way. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'', ''[[The Story So Far... (short story)|The Story So Far...]]'')'' | |||
: ''Next page: '''[[Theory:Timeline - Fourth Doctor|Fourth Doctor]]''''' | |||
=== Further voyages with Sarah === | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Amorality Tale (novel)|Amorality Tale]]'' | |||
: Set shortly after ''The Monster of Peladon'', with the Doctor feeling morbid after his brush with death on Peladon. The Doctor and Sarah spend a few weeks investigating a mystery in [[1952]]. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Separation Day (short story)|Separation Day]]'' | |||
: Sarah is wearing her leather jacket from ''The Monster of Peladon''. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[An Overture Too Early (short story)|An Overture Too Early]]'' | |||
: Set "weeks" before the events of ''Planet of the Spiders''. The Brigadier informs the Doctor that Jo is sending back the Metebelis crystal he gave her. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]'' | |||
: Sarah mentions her vacation in Sicily, setting this after ''The Ghosts of N-Space''. In a moment of feeling his age, the Doctor wonders if his regeneration is "around the corner". | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Glorious Goodwood (audio story)|Glorious Goodwood]]'' | * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Glorious Goodwood (audio story)|Glorious Goodwood]]'' | ||
: Sarah | : Sarah recalls meeting Aggedor on Peladon, setting this after ''The Monster of Peladon''. | ||
*[[TV]]: ''[[ | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Link (short story)|Link]]'' | |||
: Sarah recalls visiting Peladon, setting this after ''The Monster of Peladon''. However, she also claims that the only other alien planet she has visited is Exxilon.<ref group=quote>''"For someone whose previous experience of alien worlds was limited to the dank surface of Exxilon and Peladon's grim caverns, the scene was irresistible."''</ref> | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gulf (audio story)|The Gulf]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Sarah are on their way back to Earth when the TARDIS is diverted, and they arrive on a rig on an ocean planet and face the Gulf. The Doctor informs Sarah that the TARDIS is capable of towing an entire planet. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil's Hoofprints (audio story)|The Devil's Hoofprints]]'' | |||
=== Time alone === | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Billy Smart's Children's Circus (TV story)|Billy Smart's Children's Circus]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is driving the Whomobile, setting this after ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Lords of the Ether (comic story)|Lords of the Ether]]'' | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Wanderers (comic story)|The Wanderers]]'' | |||
: Set immediately after ''Lords of the Ether''. | |||
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Petrified (TVC comic story)|Petrified]]'' | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Future Is At Your Fingertips (TV story)|The Future Is At Your Fingertips]]'' | |||
: The exterior of the Doctor's TARDIS is inexplicably in the form of a red [[telephone box]]. | |||
* [[TV]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]'' | |||
: The Third Doctor and his other incarnations are switched with the [[Seventh Doctor]] at [[Albert Square]] by the [[First Rani]]'s [[time loop]]. He recognises Sarah Jane, setting this after ''The Time Warrior''. | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Introduction to Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Introduction to Dimensions in Time]]'' | |||
: The Third Doctor meets with [[Noel Edmonds]] to introduce the broadcast of ''Dimensions in Time''. | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Vodafone advertisement]]'' | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Surprise Surprise! special (TV story)|Surprise Surprise! special]]'' | |||
: Standing in for ''[[Doctor Who (N-Space)|Doctor Who]]'' star [[Jon Pertwee (Surprise Surprise! special)|Jon Pertwee]], the Doctor gives a docile [[Dalek]] to [[David Peta]] as a pet. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Five Card Draw (short story)|Five Card Draw]]'' | |||
: The Doctor recalls the events of ''The Time Warrior'', although Sarah Jane is not accompanying him on this trip.<ref group=quote>''"Primitive humans,"'' the aristocrat said. ''"It reminds me of the time Sarah and I-"''''</ref> | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dateline to Deadline (short story)|Dateline to Deadline]]'' | |||
: The Doctor is travelling alone with a fully functioning TARDIS. He recalls that he hasn't "had a Christmas since all that nonsense at UNIT HQ", suggesting a setting after ''A Visit from Saint Nicholas'', a previous story in the same anthology which featured the Doctor and Sarah attending a UNIT Christmas party. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'' | |||
: The Doctor attends [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart's funeral|the Brigadier's funeral]]. | |||
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Doctor Whoah! (DWM 433 comic story)|Doctor Whoah! 433]]'' | |||
: The Doctor salutes the Brigadier with his other incarnations. | |||
=== Nearing the end === | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The House That Hoxx Built (audio story)|The House That Hoxx Built]]'' | |||
: As he explores the [[end of the world]] with Sarah, the Doctor feels that his regeneration is approaching. Sarah recalls the events of ''The Gulf'' and ''The Monster of Peladon'', and the Doctor still owes her a trip to Florana, setting this before ''The Hungry Bomb''. | |||
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Children of the Future (audio story)|The Children of the Future]]'' | |||
: Set over a week after ''The House That Hoxx Built'', with the Doctor having been stationary on Earth since returning from the end of the world, secretly gathering components after being tricked by [[Rutan]]s disguised as time displaced [[Earth Defence Force]] agents from [[1994]]. On the day before the Brigadier's birthday, which multiple accounts would credit as being [[21 February]], Sarah and the the Brigadier, having grown suspicious of the Doctor's behaviour, follow him to the "agents'" base at Irongron's castle, where they discover the Rutan's deceit. After they thwart the Rutans' invasion attampt, the Doctor admits that he is nearing the end of his life, and worries if his next incarnation will be able to cope without having the Brigadier and UNIT to help him. | |||
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hungry Bomb (short story)|The Hungry Bomb]]'' | |||
: The Doctor and Sarah finally make it to Florana. | |||
== | === A slow demise === | ||
*[[TV]]: ''[[ | * [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'' | ||
: | : "Months" after the events of ''The Green Death'', Jo has the [[Metebelis crystal]] returned to the Doctor at the UNIT, just as he is undergoing research in psychic energy. The [[Eight Legs]] of [[Metebelis III]] then attack Earth to reclaim the crystal and the Doctor, wanting to atone for his theft having caused the attack, goes to confront [[The Great One (Planet of the Spiders)|the Great One]] in the caves of Metebelis III, where he receives a lethal dose of radiation when the crystal destroys the Great One, though he is able to escape to the TARDIS. | ||
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>) | |||
:: ''Suffering severe radiation poisoning, the Doctor is stuck wandering around the Time Vortex for ten years due to lacking the energy to properly pilot the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War]]'')'' | |||
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[ | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ancient Whispers (short story)|Ancient Whispers]]'' | ||
: Slowly dying from radiation sickness, the Doctor is trying to find his way back to UNIT HQ from Metebelis III. | |||
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[The | * [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller (short story)|The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller]]'' | ||
: The Doctor is dying after being exposed to radiation. | |||
*[[ | * [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'': ''Epilogue'' | ||
: After the TARDIS finally lands back at his [[UNIT HQ laboratory]], the Doctor, after a final goodbye to the Brigadier and Sarah Jane, is able to [[Regeneration|regenerate]] into his [[Fourth Doctor|next incarnation]] with assistance from [[Cho-Je]], the latest incarnation of [[the Hermit]]. | |||
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== Currently unplaced == | |||
:: ''These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of this Doctor's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.'' | |||
*[[ | * [[GAME]]: ''[[Lost in Time (video game)|Lost in Time]]'' | ||
: The recent events of ''The Three Doctors'' are mentioned. Jo recalls the Doctor's attempts to take her to Metebelis III. | |||
*[[ | :* [[GAME]]: ''[[Lost in Time (video game)/Events#Reverse the Polarity|Reverse the Polarity]]'' | ||
:: Whilst caught in the events of ''Lost in Time'', the Doctor helps [[Kate Stewart]], [[Petronella Osgood]], [[Ace McShane]] and [[Tegan Jovanka]] defeat the [[Ice Warrior]]s in the [[2020s]]. | |||
== Awaiting placement == | |||
:: ''These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.'' | |||
*[[ | * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Box of Terrors (audio story)|The Box of Terrors]]'' | ||
: Sarah is aware of the TARDIS' ability to tow large objects, setting this after ''The Gulf''. The Doctor sees Sarah in the company of his next incarnation, potentially setting this prior to ''The Children of the Future''. In a contradiction to ''The Touch of the Nurazh'', the Third Doctor is unable to recognise the "teeth and curls" of his fourth incarnation. | |||
*[[ | * [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Revolution in Space (audio story)|Revolution in Space]]'' | ||
: Sarah recalls the events of ''Death to the Daleks'' and ''The Monster of Peladon'', and believes that every place they visit seems to involve mining in some way. The Doctor and Sarah are on their way back to Earth, and Sarah learns that the Time Lords sometimes take control of the TARDIS and send the Doctor on missions. | |||
== Quotes == | |||
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== Footnotes == | |||
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This page lists appearances of the Third Doctor in the order in which he experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed, much like its TV story counterparts that for each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. This does not apply to short stories which are often ambiguous about their placement. There are also many gaps between stories.
The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who Reference Guide and Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as DocOhoReviews, Doc Oho's Book Reviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Databank, Whopix, Big Finish forums, The Whoniverse and The Divergent Universe forums. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
Additionally there are statements on the back of Virgin Missing Adventures and many BBC Past Doctor Adventures novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, and should be viewed as the only placing for these novels.
Limiting factors[[edit source]]
Any stories involving the Doctor travelling around several destinations in his TARDIS should take place following TV: The Three Doctors, prior to this he is limited to travels "on assignment" for the Time Lords. Any limited trip with Jo Grant must take place after TV: Colony in Space.
Any story where he is not on assignment but travelling freely with Jo must take place after TV: The Three Doctors and before TV: The Green Death. Any story with Sarah Jane Smith must take place after TV: The Time Warrior and before TV: Planet of the Spiders.
Timeline[[edit source]]
- Previous page: Second Doctor
A new body[[edit source]]
- (NOTE)
- The Second Doctor is captured by the Time Lords and put on trial, where he is sentenced to an exile on Earth in the 20th century and an forced regeneration. (TV: The War Games) However, he is able to stay the execution for a time, (PROSE: World Game) and manages to be exiled without regenerating. (COMIC: Action in Exile)
- The Time Lords are able to find and trap the Second Doctor, executing him with animated scarecrows that also set his TARDIS to dematerialise somewhere in the 20th century, as the Doctor's regeneration begins to conclude.
- Following directly on from The Night Walkers, the Doctor completes his regeneration from his previous incarnation, but falls into a coma after his TARDIS lands in Oxley Woods during October of a disputable year. Upon awakening, he assists UNIT in combating the Nestene Consciousness's Auton invasion and is asked by Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart to become UNIT's scientific advisor with Dr. Liz Shaw, and he accepts in return for a car and the proper facilities to repair his TARDIS in.
UNIT career begins[[edit source]]
- (FLASHBACK)
- The Brigadier unveils the promised car to the Doctor, who names her Bessie and begins work on refurbishment. (AUDIO: Bessie Come Home)
- Liz is examining the leftovers of the Auton invasion, setting this shortly after Spearhead from Space.
- The Doctor has not yet had an adventure on Earth without the Brigadier since his exile began.
- RAF Lieutenant Mike Yates is asked to join UNIT, with a promotion from lieutenant to captain, setting this before Shadow of the Past, although, in a contradiction, Benton is already a sergeant. The Doctor uses Venusian aikido for the first time in his third incarnation, setting this before Landbound.
- (FLASHBACK)
- Shortly before his first encounter with the Silurians, the Doctor hooks Bessie up to the TARDIS during his repairs, unintentionally bestowing consciousness and reasoning to Bessie in the process. (AUDIO: Bessie Come Home)
- Set in November, according to AUDIO: The Last Post. The Doctor finishes tinkering with Bessie, including adding the number plate WHO 1, and takes the car for its first test drive[quote 1], despite Liz's disbelief in its capabilities on the road, setting this before any story where Liz sees the Doctor driving Bessie. The Doctor encounters the Silurians for the first time, but, to his dismay, they are killed and their city at Wenley Moor destroyed on the Brigadier's orders after a young Silurian release a Silurian virus on humanity.
After the Wenley Moor massacre[[edit source]]
- (SEGMENT)
- Immediately after seeing the Silurian city destroyed, the Doctor leaves UNIT. After Bessie runs out of petrol in Whitby, the Doctor saves Captain Ronald Henderson from attackers, and, learning of the loss of Henderson's ship, decides to return to UNIT. (AUDIO: Landbound)
- After leaving Whitby, the Doctor travels to Peru, leaving enough of a trail behind for the Brigadier to follow. After they talk it out, the Doctor is convinced to return to UNIT. In a contradiction to the shorter time-span depicted in other stories, it is mentioned that "about a month" has passed since the events of Doctor Who and the Silurians.
- Explicitly dated to December in the opening narration of the story.
- Set between Doctor Who and the Silurians and Ambassadors of Death.[1] A few weeks have passed since the Wenley Moor Affair and the Doctor is still angry at the Brigadier for destroying the Silurians.
- Set between The Silurians and Ambassadors of Death.[2] The Doctor is still unhappy about the outcome of Doctor Who and the Silurians, which Liz recalls as having happened "a few weeks" ago. Liz mentions Captain Yates, setting this after Vengeance of the Stones. Following the death of Sergeant Robin Marshall, Corporal Benton is promoted to Sergeant.
- Set "slap bang in the middle of Season 7".[3] The Doctor is reinstalling the TARDIS console into the control room after removing it, but the timeline is reset after he fights off an alien invasion with the Second Doctor, leaving him unsuccessful in reinstalling the console, setting this before The Ambassadors of Death.
- The Doctor is still upset with the Brigadier for the outcome of Doctor Who and the Silurians.[quote 2] He has removed the control console from the TARDIS control room and set it up in his lab to get it working again. Corporal John Benton has been promoted to Sergeant.
- Set between The Ambassadors of Death and Inferno, according to the back cover. Although the story begins during the events of Spearhead from Space and concludes just before Inferno, the segments featuring the Doctor take place shortly after The Ambassadors of Death, with the Doctor mentioning that he's "just [got] back from space". The TARDIS console is still located in the laboratory, setting this before The Unzal Incursion. According to the Doctor, the Inferno Project hasn't started drilling yet.
- Set on Christmas Eve. Liz has been working with UNIT for "a few months", and her complaints about her job here are similar to those that the Brigadier cites in Terror of the Autons as her reason for leaving. Benton is a Sergeant, setting this after Shadow of the Past. The TARDIS console has also been removed from within the ship and is located in the Doctor's laboratory, setting this before The Unzal Incursion.
- Set on Christmas Day. The Doctor, Liz and Benton are part of a skeleton crew manning UNIT HQ over the festive period. Benton is a sergeant, setting this after Shadow of the Past.
- The Doctor and Liz recall the recent events of Doctor Who and the Silurians, which the Doctor is still resentful towards the Brigadier for. Sergeant Nicola Attah is seconded into UNIT to replace the recently promoted Sergeant Benton. The Doctor moves the TARDIS console from the lab to the garage and the Brigadier is surprised that the console works, setting this between The Ambassadors of Death and Inferno.
- The Brigadier finds it doubtful that the Doctor can get the TARDIS to work, setting this before Inferno.
- In an attempt to get his TARDIS working, the Doctor is transported to a different dimension, where the Earth is destroyed as a result of the Inferno Project. Returning to his own dimension before the destruction, the Doctor is able to prevent the Inferno Project from destroying his Earth, but is unable to stop several people from being mutated into Primords.
- Set immediately after Inferno, with the Doctor discovering that his experiment with the TARDIS caused Corporal Helen Martin to be transported into another universe, though UNIT suspects that she was turned into a Primord.
- The outcome of Doctor Who and the Silurians is still fresh on the Doctor's mind. He has been working with UNIT for "months" and the Brigadier has warned Liz about her tone before, suggesting a setting after Inferno. The TARDIS console is still disconnected from the control room.
- The Doctor returns to UNIT after hunting for Sensorites across Europe for several months. River Song has been acting as UNIT's scientific advisor in the meantime and has reinstalled the TARDIS console, setting this between Inferno and Terror of the Autons.
Continued work with Liz[[edit source]]
- Six months have passed since Spearhead from Space, setting this in April. The Doctor spends several weeks investigating Cardle Muir without Liz or UNIT.
- Liz sees the Doctor driving Bessie, setting this after Doctor Who and the Silurians.
- GAME: TV Terrors Autograph Hunt [+]Loading...["TV Terrors Autograph Hunt (game)"]
- The Doctor alludes to the events of The Ambassadors of Death.
- It is summer.
- The Doctor and Liz are forced to hide in Ireland for a month when the Witch-Queen Carolina Thorne invades London with an army of magical beings.
- It has been "months" since Spearhead from Space, and the Monk also mentions the events of Doctor Who and the Silurians. Liz has heard the Doctor's TARDIS materialise before, setting this after Inferno.
- The events of The Ambassadors of Death are referred to.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor and Liz go to Stegmoor to investigate reports of a crashed Voord spaceship, but find nothing. (AUDIO: Beachhead)
- Liz has missed a full academic year at Cambridge during her time with UNIT, and feels that she would return to Cambridge if the Doctor were to fix the TARDIS and return to his travels, due to the military life not being for her.
Liz's last days with UNIT[[edit source]]
- Set after Inferno, according to the back cover. According to Liz, thirteen months have passed since Spearhead from Space, setting this in November. Liz volunteers for a mission to Cambridge for a few days, as an opportunity to catch up with old friends. She claims that she is "always on the verge of leaving" UNIT. According to the Brigadier, the last time he was in Geneva was when he reported on the Inferno Project eight months ago, suggesting as long has passed since Inferno.
- Liz has been working with UNIT for "about a year". An older Liz recalls that her experience with the Cybermen was the first of many factors that lead to her decision to leave UNIT, although she specifies that the decision wasn't "one that was made overnight."
- After a fight with the Doctor, Liz begins thinking about leaving the Doctor and returning to Cambridge. Remaining behind at the lab while the Doctor and the Brigadier attend a conference, she meets the Master, who hypnotises her into revealing details about her adventures with the Doctor since joining UNIT. The Master wipes her memory of their meeting and leaves, planning to make contact with the Nestene Consciousness. Liz decides that she will soon return to Cambridge, but will leave without saying goodbye to the Doctor when she does, in order to stop him from talking her into staying.
- Set after Inferno.[4] Having had enough of being under-utilised by UNIT, Liz has decided that she will quit UNIT and return to Cambridge after her assignment to repair an alien computer. However, after uncovering the computer's sentience and allowing it to go free, Liz changes her mind and elects to stay with UNIT, deciding that she has a unique perspective that is of value to them.
- In a contradiction to Vengeance of the Stones, the Doctor meets Sergeant Mike Yates for the first time. Mike sees inside the TARDIS for the first time, and the Doctor mentions visiting the parallel universe from Inferno. The TARDIS console has been moved back into the laboratory, but is still disconnected.
Liz leaves UNIT[[edit source]]
- Due to conflicting information, each telling of Liz's exit from UNIT have been listed in order of release.
- According to this account, Liz is offered a position working at CERN and decides to tell the Doctor about the opportunity. However, after he reacts badly to the news, she decides that she must put her career first, and immediately leaves UNIT without saying goodbye to him. The Doctor is using the UNIT lab from Terror of the Autons.
- Set one month after the events of Inferno and immediately after Liz's farewell party. The Doctor is aware that Liz is leaving UNIT, which she believes he found out from the Brigadier. The Time Lords send the Doctor on a mission to stop Liz from becoming a dictator in the future, and then decide to release the Master from Shada in order to keep the Doctor busy.
- Liz officially leaves UNIT, Yates is promoted to from sergeant to captain, and the Doctor is in a new laboratory. Yates recalls the recent events of The Eye of the Giant, which was the first time he had worked closely with the Doctor, and the Doctor reinstalls the TARDIS console back into the control room.
- One of the Doctor's attempts to repair the TARDIS sends Liz back in time to 1539. She is rescued and returned by the Doctor's future self, but is forced to return to Cambridge a day earlier than planned and avoid saying goodbye to the Doctor in order to fulfil the destiny trap.
Working without an assistant[[edit source]]
- Set during the "summer months", with the Doctor and the Brigadier having taken "a few weeks away" from UNIT on a private cruise to the Caribbean.
- The Doctor implies that he has been exiled to Earth for "years", or at least that Professor Carl Readon has been an friend of his for "a long time".
- The Doctor says he has traveled "a thousand years into the future" when is told that John Henderson's time traveling bulldozer has arrived in 2971, and the text bubble explicitly says he returns to 1971.
- The date is given as January 1971. The Doctor attends a conference with Liz, and they discus her departure from UNIT. Jo's absence implies a setting prior to Terror of the Autons.
- With no travelling companion, the Doctor meets Horatio Nelson, whom he refers to as a personal friend in The Sea Devils.
- Set between Inferno and Terror of the Autons.[5]
- Set shortly before Terror of the Autons. The Doctor reprimands Sergeant Benton outside Jack Canning's office when he sees Benton dressed up like him.
Battles with the Master[[edit source]]
- The Doctor has been moved to a new laboratory. Jo Grant joins UNIT as the Doctor's new assistant, just in time for UNIT's first open battle with the Master. The Doctor steals the dematerialisation circuit from the Master's TARDIS, stranding his old enemy on Earth with him after his failed alliance with the Nestene Consciousness forces him to flee.
- COMIC: The Master Plan: Issue #4
- Set during Terror of the Autons: Episode 2.
- Months have passed for Liz since she left UNIT, and the Doctor now has a new assistant, setting this shortly after Terror of the Autons.
- Though the audio's blurb places this between The Dæmons and Day of the Daleks, Jo is still quite new to UNIT, and is unaware of the true nature of the TARDIS, setting this before The Claws of Axos. According to this account, Jo is 18-years-old, despite other accounts giving her age as 19 during Terror of the Autons.
- The Master is still trapped on Earth, setting this before The Mind of Evil.
- In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Doctor senses a time distortion during a brawl with the Master.
- Set on 20 June, ostensibly in 1972, during Jo's first year at UNIT. The Doctor doesn't have the TARDIS working yet, and UNIT considers the Master a threat to Earth safety, setting this between Terror of the Autons and The Claws of Axos.
- The events of Inferno were "some time ago".[quote 3] While using the Keller Machine to interfere with the First World Peace Conference, the Master manages to reclaim his dematerialisation circuit from the Doctor and promptly leaves Earth in his TARDIS, stopping only to give the Doctor a taunting phone call. Benton hears the Master's voice for the first time.
- The Master has a working TARDIS, setting this after The Mind of Evil.
- The Doctor is visibly chafing at his confinement to 20th century Earth.
- Set around Christmas time, a year after UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas. The Doctor hasn't seen the Master since Deadly Reunion.
- The Doctor and UNIT face Axos at the Nuton Power Complex after the Master directs them to Earth to escape from them, forcing the two Time Lords to team up to trap Axos in a time loop, though the Master gets away in time. By tricking the Master into fixing it, as well as Axos unlocking the correct equations in his mind, the Doctor is able to restore his TARDIS back to working order, only to discover that the Time Lords had pre-programmed it to always return him to 20th century Earth in case he managed to escape his exile, turning him into a "galactic yo-yo".
- The Doctor has just discovered that he will be drawn back to Earth even now he can depart with the TARDIS, setting this shortly after The Claws of Axos.
- The Mega received advice from the Master, setting this after he got his TARDIS working in The Mind of Evil. The Nuton Power Complex is referenced, setting this after The Claws of Axos as well.
- The Doctor incorrectly believes that the Time Lords have lifted his exile, setting this between The Claws of Axos and Colony in Space.
- The UNIT HQ laboratory has been relocated to a smaller room. Jo sees inside the TARDIS for the first time when the Doctor is assigned a mission to 2472 Uxarieus by the Time Lords to keep the Master from harnessing the Doomsday Weapon, while also helping some colonists in their struggle against the Interplanetary Mining Corporation. After the Master is forced to retreat empty handed, the Time Lords return the Doctor and Jo to UNIT HQ the moment after they left.
- Jo travels in the TARDIS, setting this after Colony in Space.
- Set primarily on 1 May. Drawn to Devil's End by news of a dig during Beltane, the Doctor, Jo and the UNIT team find the Master trying to strike an alliance with the Dæmon Azal. With help from the White Witch Olive Hawthorne, the Doctor and Jo are able to destroy Azal. With his plan foiled, the Master fails to escape and is finally arrested by UNIT.
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- Set during The Dæmons: Episode 4.
After the Master's arrest[[edit source]]
- Set after the Master's arrest in The Dæmons.
- Set shortly the Master's arrest in The Dæmons, and the events of Freedom are mentioned.
- The Doctor attends the Master's trial, where he is tricked into acknowledging his intelligence in front of the world leaders, allowing the Master to talk his way out of the death sentence by showing his usefulness as a living prisoner.
- Set between The Dæmons and Day of the Daleks,[6] and in July. The Doctor investigates the reports of freak weather conditions UNIT have been receiving since the events of The Claws of Axos. Not long has passed since Mike joined UNIT in Vengeance of the Stones.
- During some unexpected free time from UNIT, the Doctor visits the cinema to see the latest Peter Cushing films. He mentions Jo, setting this at least after Terror of the Autons.
- Jo knows about the Inferno Project, setting this after The Mind of Evil.
Taking a break[[edit source]]
- The TARDIS is not in working order, setting this before The Three Doctors. Jo takes a break from UNIT due to the effects of the Time Keeper.
- The Doctor has relocated to a Welsh mountainside so that he can focus on repairing the TARDIS in solitude, and has been doing so for the past two days, implying a setting after the Master's arrest, when the Doctor could relax more. He manages to rebuild the dematerialisation circuit and is able to pilot the TARDIS to Australia.
- After driving Bessie to Dartmoor to find some peace and quiet while he continues to work out his TARDIS repairs, the Doctor is transported to 1942, where he claims to have come from 1971, despite possessing a coin from 1972.
- The Doctor completes his repairs on the TARDIS and takes a trip to the planet of the Vogans, implying a setting after The Claws of Axos.
- After returning to Earth following the events of The Vogan Slaves, the Doctor rents a cottage in the countryside and decides to take a short holiday. However, on the first day of his holiday, he is called into action by Oswald Holland. He decides to continue his holiday by taking a trip to the past so that he can't be interrupted again, leading directly into Backtime.
- The Doctor visits 1863 London and meets young pickpocket Charlie Fisher, who he takes to Ballarat to pursue a better life. The Doctor also meets Abraham Lincoln in-person for the first time.
- Having seen enough on his own, the Doctor decides to take the TARDIS back to 1971 England, but is swiftly abducted by the time police and taken to 3550 New Britain.
- Set directly after *Sub Zero, with the Daleks seeking revenge. The Doctor is still staying at a cottage in the English countryside, presumably the same one he was renting in The Celluloid Midas.
- A mysterious force takes control of the TARDIS, leading directly into The Ugrakks.
- The Doctor is still staying at the cottage he began renting in The Celluloid Midas.
- Set between Zeron Invasion and Deadly Choice.Evidence yet to be determined for this placement. The Doctor recalls the recent events of The Vogan Slaves, *Sub Zero and The Ugrakks.
- (EPILOGUE)
- Jo returns to UNIT after several weeks. Shortly afterwards, her father passes away. (AUDIO: Still Life)
Missions in time[[edit source]]
- Set around 13 September. Before she is correct by the Doctor, Jo was under the impression that the TARDIS had been in working order since the events of Colony in Space, but the Doctor confirms that he still does not have full control over it.[quote 4] The TARDIS control console has been removed from the control room again, and the Doctor is working in yet another laboratory. Jo encounters the Daleks and the Ogrons for the first time when they try to disrupt the Second World Peace Conference to ensure the the 2150s Dalek invasion of Earth, but the Doctor is able to break the bootstrap paradox and stop them.
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- Set during Day of the Daleks: Episode 1.
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- During an alternative timeline created by corruption during the Time War. The Third Doctor is instead trapped in a bootstrap paradox in which he joins up with the resistance to the 2150s Dalek invasion of Earth and becomes a temporal assassin who is then killed and examined by his own past self.
- The Doctor saves journalist James Stevens from an Ogron immediately after the events of Day of the Daleks.
- Set sometime after The Dæmons, and not long before The Face of the Enemy, as the Master is being held in Aylesbury Grange Detention Centre.
- PROSE: The Face of the Enemy: Prologue
- Set immediately prior to The Curse of Peladon, with the Doctor and Jo leaving in the TARDIS. Jo hasn't had a trip in the TARDIS since Colony in Space.
- The Doctor visits Peladon for the first time while taking the TARDIS on its first test run since he "got it working again", though he comes to suspects the Time Lords were responsible for his arrival on Peladon. Jo encounters the Ice Warriors for the first time, and has a brief romance with King Peladon of Peladon.
- The Doctor and Jo are still wearing their clothes from The Curse of Peladon. The TARDIS is hit be a temporal wake that drags it off course.
- PROSE: The Face of the Enemy: Epilogue
- The Doctor and Jo return to UNIT almost immediately after The Curse of Peladon.
- Set between The Dæmons and The Sea Devils, as the Master is still imprisoned.
- Set between The Dæmons and The Sea Devils, as the Master is still in prison. The Brigadier mentions the Daleks, setting this after Day of the Daleks.
- Set between The Curse of Peladon and The Sea Devils, as the Master, while having switched his body with the Doctor's, changes the internal configuration of his TARDIS and arranges for himself to be sent to Fortress Island.
- COMIC: The Forgotten: Renewal
- The Master is said to be locked up on a secure island, setting this shortly before The Sea Devils.
- Prior to their visit to 2028 Australia, Jo had spent long enough time inside the Doctor's lab to get pale skin.
- Aided by the Sea Devils, whom the Doctor is encountering for the first time, the Master is able to escape his prison sentence on Fortress Island.
- Set immediately after The Sea Devils.
- Despite the back cover placing this story between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death, the Doctor is still in exile and explicitly cannot travel freely, setting this before The Three Doctors. The Doctor is working on a device that would help him to locate the whereabouts of the Master, suggesting a setting between The Sea Devils and The Time Monster, detecting him in North London and setting Huxley the Noveliser onto him.
- The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo to 30th century Solos to deliver a message pod to Ky to ensure the freedom of the Solonians from the Marshal of Solos. The Doctor has been relocated to yet another UNIT laboratory.
- Set three years after Spearhead from Space. The Doctor lists his work for the Time Lords, with The Mutants being the last one he mentions. This is also where UNIT acquires the manor house headquarters first seen in The Three Doctors.
- Set on 31 October. The Doctor is still trying to escape his exile, and refers to the events of Day of the Daleks. UNIT are using Doc Dantalion's manor house as their headquarters, setting this after Where the Heart Is.
- Set between early May and 20 June. Jo recalls the Daleks and Ogrons, setting this after Day of the Daleks. The Doctor confesses that sheep have "never filled [him] with dread before", setting this before Verdigris.
- The Doctor is once again using a completely new UNIT laboratory. Jo comments on the TARDIS's new interior design, which the Doctor dismisses as a "redecoration". The Doctor and Jo travel to Ancient Atlantis to stop the Master harnessing the power of Kronos the Chronovore.
- According to an attached footnote, this is set after The Time Monster, with the Doctor recalling how the TARDIS "took a bit of a tumble during [his] recent battle against the Master."
- Set shortly after The Time Monster, with the Doctor having scavenged components from the Master's TARDIS to put together a device that will restore functionality to his own. However, during a test, he accidentally rips a hole in the Time Vortex, freeing the Master and a swarm of baby Chronovores.
- While authorial intent would place this between Day of the Daleks and The Time Monster,[7] the Doctor uses Bessie's super drive function, which he demonstrated for the first time in The Time Monster.
- The Doctor is still in exile, and refers to the events of Colony in Space and The Mutants.
- The Doctor mentions Peladon, setting this after The Curse of Peladon.
- Jo has faced the Ogrons before, setting this after Day of the Daleks. The Doctor's TARDIS is still limited in its capabilities, and the Doctor is sent on a mission by the Time Lords, setting this before The Three Doctors.
- The Doctor is using the control room from The Time Monster.
- The Doctor warns Jo what she should do if she ever encounters the Pyromeths, and is using the control room from The Time Monster.
- COMIC: The Master Plan: Issue #1
- Still in his exile, the Doctor uses a previously unseen TARDIS control console to contact the Stormcage Containment Facility to get an update on the Master, implicitly setting this between The Time Monster and The Three Doctors. He recalls the events of Colony in Space.
Reunion with Liz[[edit source]]
- Jo recalls the events of The Sea Devils. Jo and Liz meet for the first time, and the Doctor and Liz last saw each other in The Sentinels of the New Dawn.
- Jo is aware of Bessie's super drive function, setting this after The Time Monster. Liz is in the same area as the UNIT HQ, and is acquainted with Jo, setting this after Primord.
Last days in exile[[edit source]]
- Jo recalls her recent encounter with Liz, setting this shortly after Primord.
- Set between The Sea Devils and The Touch of the Nurazh, as Jo fails to recognise the Fourth Doctor when he helps repel an attack by the Sea Devils.
- Set between The Sea Devils and The Three Doctors, as the Doctor is still in exile and a Sea Devil statue is included in the UNIT rogues gallery.
- Set after Day of the Daleks.
- The events of The Mutants are mentioned. The Doctor briefly regenerates into his fourth incarnation, but the regeneration is aborted due to the Nurazh's interference.
- The Doctor recalls the events of The Curse of Peladon.
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- The Doctor investigates a mysterious infantryman's jacket. (AUDIO: Tales from the Vault)
- Set after The Mutants, as Jo hasn't been in the TARDIS very often, the Master is free and the Doctor is anticipating being freed from his exile soon.
- The Doctor and Jo attend the coronation of Elizabeth II in Bessie.
- The Doctor doesn't have use of his TARDIS, setting this before The Three Doctors. He recognises his next incarnation on sight due to his "teeth and curls", setting this after The Touch of the Nurazh.
- The Doctor recalls the events of Day of the Daleks.[quote 5] He has not heard the phrase "timey wimey" before, setting this before The Heralds of Destruction as well.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier corner the Master in the Tower of London during his attempt to steal the British Crown Jewels. (AUDIO: Masterful)
- (FLASHBACK)
- The Doctor visits Professor Child's dig. (PROSE: The Suns of Caresh)
- After defeating Death's challenge with his past selves, the Doctor is told memories of this encounter will fade and similar events will take its place. He, Jo and the Brigadier discuss the disappearance of Mr Ollis and Dr Tyler's visit, leading directly into The Three Doctors.
- Set five years after Spearhead from Space, according to PROSE: Transit. UNIT HQ is shown to a manor house for the first time, and the Doctor is now in his permanent UNIT HQ laboratory, and has also redecorated the TARDIS control room again. Benton and the Brigadier enter the Doctor's TARDIS for the first time, and Jo learns about regeneration when the Time Lords summon the Second Doctor to assist them in combating Omega in the anti-matter universe, with the First Doctor providing advice from a time eddy. As a reward for defending them from Omega, the Time Lords restore the Doctor's knowledge of time travel, bringing his exile to an end. However, due to needing to fix up the TARDIS further, he doesn't leave immediately.[quote 6]
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- During an alternative timeline, Omega escapes the anti-matter universe and the Third Doctor regenerates prematurely into an alternative fourth incarnation. The Fourth Doctor appears to join Omega's side as he invades Earth but in reality uses his double agent status to travel back in time and avert Omega's escape, restoring the original course of events.
Working on the TARDIS[[edit source]]
- Set directly after The Three Doctors, with the Doctor's exile having just been rescinded. He plugs in his new dematerialisation circuit, and takes Jo to meet Iris and Tom for drinks.
- The Scorchies song mentions the Gell guards, setting this after The Three Doctors. The Doctor is repairing the TARDIS' trans-dimensional stabilisers.
- The Doctor is switched with his seventh incarnation by the Monk. Jo recalls the events of The Three Doctors. The TARDIS is back in working order, but the Doctor is still tinkering with it.
- Jo is aware of the Doctor's regenerative abilities, setting this after The Three Doctors, but the TARDIS is not currently operational, suggesting that this occurs before the Doctor completes his repairs and begins travelling with Jo.
- The Doctor admits to Jo that he has come to find comfort in Earth since his exile was lifted, and that the reason he hasn't left entirely is because of his friends there. However, after defeating Ramón Salamander, he decides that it is finally time he resumed his travels again, and invites Jo to join him. Some of his abilities that were previously blocked by the Time Lords are still returning, setting this shortly after The Three Doctors.
Testing his newfound freedom[[edit source]]
- The Doctor goes on his first test flight into the past since his time travel knowledge was returned in The Three Doctors, taking Liz and Jo with him.
- (EPILOGUE)
- With the TARDIS in his control again, the Doctor rescues Liz from 1539. (PROSE: Hiccup in Time)
- Jo recalls that the events of this story occurred "sometime after" the events of The Doll of Death, and also recalls the events of Day of the Daleks. The Doctor, freed from his exile, takes the TARDIS on a test flight, suggesting a setting shortly after The Three Doctors, which, according to Jo, they do not immediately return home from.
- The Doctor has only recently been freed from his exile, and Jo mentions that they are taking the TARDIS for a "test run", setting this shortly after The Three Doctors. The Doctor was aiming for the Acteon Galaxy, the home galaxy of Metebelis III.
- According to the novelisation, the Doctor and Jo are taking the TARDIS for a test flight shortly after the events of The Three Doctors. Attempting to visit Metebelis III, the Doctor and Jo instead arrive on Inter Minor, where they are trapped in Vorg's miniscope. Jo is skeptical of the Doctor's ability to pilot the TARDIS, suggesting that he has only just had his ability to fly it returned to him.
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- Set during the epilogue of Carnival of Monsters. The Doctor is approached by River Song, who tells him he is "about to have his hearts broken", referring to Jo's upcoming departure from his company in The Green Death.
- The Doctor and Jo are still aiming for Metebelis III. The Doctor tries to recalibrate the TARDIS' navigational system, and Jo mentions the events of Carnival of Monsters. After his attempt to travel directly to Metebelis III resulted in the TARDIS arriving on Inter Minor, the Doctor attempts several shorter hops to planets closer to the Earth, though these visits do not lead to any adventures.
- The Doctor's exile has been recently lifted, setting this shortly after The Three Doctors.
- The Doctor's exile has been recently lifted, but he still feels uneasy when it is mentioned, setting this shortly after The Three Doctors.
- Set between Carnival of Monsters and Frontier in Space, according to the Big Finish website.
- The Doctor has had his ability to pilot the TARDIS returned to him recently, and his exile is still a sore subject of conversation for him, setting this shortly after The Three Doctors.
Roaming the universe[[edit source]]
- Jo is still new to time travel, but the Doctor has complete control of the TARDIS, setting this after The Three Doctors.
- The Doctor can control his TARDIS' flight, and Jo has apparently taken numerous lengthy trips in the TARDIS. The Doctor attempts to take Jo on a "proving trip" to a destination of her choice, suggesting a setting shortly after The Three Doctors. This story also demonstrates her awakening social conscience from The Green Death.
- The Doctor and Jo visit Pakha. The Doctor notices for the first time that Jo has grown up a lot since their first meeting.
- The Doctor and Jo go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby. However, the Doctor sees his sixth incarnation doing the same, and leaves him to do it.
- The Doctor and Jo visit the 2040s after the Doctor fails to take Jo on a trip to see World War II.
- According to a note in the About the Authors section of the Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership anthology, this is set between Carnival of Monsters and Frontier in Space,
- Jo sees the TARDIS food machine for the first time.
- Jo recalls the events of The Three Doctors.
- (SEGMENT)
- The Doctor and Jo briefly encounter an apparition of a Charley Pollard from an alternate timeline. (AUDIO: The Light at the End)
- The Doctor is currently travelling with Jo. (DWM 475) He helps in the saving of Gallifrey on the last day of the Last Great Time War, and, in the novelisation, has a tea party with his other incarnations in the Under Gallery as a celebration.
- The Doctor and Jo visit the planet Erindra.
- The Doctor and Jo are travelling freely together in the TARDIS, setting this between The Three Doctors and The Green Death.
Returning to Earth[[edit source]]
- The Doctor and Jo have been trying to return to Earth for some time.[quote 7] The Doctor has a new sonic screwdriver model. The Doctor and Jo find themselves in the Draconia-Terra skirmishes of the Human-Draconian War, and discover that the Master is exacerbating the conflict with the Ogrons as part of an alliance with the Daleks. Once they expose the deceit to the humans and Draconians, the Doctor is accidentally shot by the Master. Jo then takes him into the TARDIS, where he sends a distress message to the Time Lords.
- Following directly on from Frontier in Space, the Time Lords lead the TARDIS to Spiridon, just as the Doctor enters a healing coma. After he awakens, he assists some Thals in stopping the Daleks harnessing the invisibility of the Spiridons and from awakening a frozen Dalek army. After leaving Spiridon, Jo asks the Doctor to take them back to Earth.
- The Doctor and Jo have just left Spiridon, setting this immediately after Planet of the Daleks. Jo asks the Doctor if the TARDIS is always "going to go wrong" and arrive at the wrong destination, suggesting she is still new to travelling in the TARDIS without the Time Lords in control of it. After defeating the Daleks on Far, the Doctor and Jo resolve to return to Earth once more.
- The Doctor and Jo have just left Spiridon, setting this immediately after Planet of the Daleks. The Doctor realises that Jo has matured since they first met, setting this after Legacy, and expects that she will leave him soon. Following an adventure on Catastrophea, the Doctor sets a course for Earth.
- The Doctor is still adjusting to his newfound freedom, but speaks fondly of his time in exile. He has promised to get Jo back to Earth and gives her his TARDIS key, setting this shortly after Planet of the Daleks.
Back on Earth[[edit source]]
- Set the week after Planet of the Daleks. The Doctor and Jo have spent the past few weeks trying and failing to get to Metebelis III. The Doctor begins work on a new navigational unit for the TARDIS, and Mike tells Jo that UNIT was left feeling defenceless during her and the Doctor's extended absence.
- The Doctor and Jo have recently returned to UNIT from Spiridon, setting this after Planet of the Daleks.
- Set between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death,[8] and in October of ostensibly 1973. The Doctor claims he’s been keeping his ear to ground for the Master coming back to Earth since he and Jo returned from Spiridon.
- Jo becomes a contestant on Make a Star, a reality which unbeknownst to her is part of a plan orchestrated by the Master. The Doctor has wistfully come to believe that Jo will leave him eventually, and asks her if she regrets not staying with Latep, setting this after Planet of the Daleks. However, Jo reassures him that, although she has enjoyed being back on Earth for a bit during her time on Make a Star, she is keen to resume their travels in the TARDIS.
Coming and going again[[edit source]]
- The Doctor and Jo are aiming for Metebelis III again. Jo wishes for a holiday after what happened on Spiridon in Planet of the Daleks. Jo is reminded of her romance with Latep and muses on whether she made the right choice to leave him, but soon dismisses the thought, even though she does think that her time with the Doctor might be coming to an end, implying a setting after Hidden Talent.
- The Doctor is trying to repair the TARDIS dimensional direction unit. He and Jo are kidnapped from Earth in the middle of making the repairs.
- The Doctor and Jo have been traveling in the TARDIS for some time.
- The Doctor seems able to control the TARDIS, and, although he speaks of Jo in the present tense, she is not traveling with him at the moment. Possibly set before Last of the Gaderene or Speed of Flight, where the Doctor is shown returning to UNIT after taking some solo trips.
- According to the back cover, this is set between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death. The Doctor is attempting to take Jo and Mike to Karfel for a date after Mike expressed interest in TARDIS travel during Dancing the Code, which is still fresh in both Mike and Jo's minds. Jo is beginning to grow unsure whether she wants to travel with the Doctor anymore.
- Jo lost her locket on her previous trip, suggesting a setting immediately after their visit to Karfel.
- Set shortly after the Doctor's exile was rescinded by the Time Lords in The Three Doctors, according to the narrator. Although the synopsis states that this is Mike's first trip in the TARDIS, the Doctor comments that he and Jo have taken Mike to other planets before, suggesting a setting after Speed of Flight. Mike is still new to travelling in the TARDIS, while Jo is used to the TARDIS ending up in the wrong place. The Doctor runs maintenance on the TARDIS, which allows it to arrive at its destination much quicker than before.
- Jo mentions her ability to resist Time Lord hypnosis, which she first demonstrated during Frontier in Space.
- Jo is familiar with the Doctor's trances that make his skin ice-cold, setting this after Planet of the Daleks.
- Set between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death, according to the book's back cover. Jo recalls the Doctor's various attempts to take her to Metebelis III.
- Jo refers to the events of Planet of the Daleks.
- Jo is familiar with the Doctor entering comas, setting this after Planet of the Daleks.
- The Doctor recalls the events of Frontier in Space, and gave the TARDIS navigation systems an overhaul "a few days ago". Jo is becoming fed up with all her and the Doctor's trips in the TARDIS going wrong and putting them in danger.
- The Doctor mentions Lava Worms, setting this after The Transcendence of Ephros.
- The Doctor and Jo return to Draconia, setting this after Frontier in Space. They leave UNIT HQ at the beginning of the story, setting this after The Tyrants of Logic as well.
- Set between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death. (DWM 599)
Final adventures with Jo[[edit source]]
- The Doctor notes that Jo is beginning to grow up.
- Mike is displeased to find himself traveling in the TARDIS, suggesting he has already travelled within it. The Doctor tells Jo that she will leave him when she feels the time is right.
- Jo demonstrates her growing environmental awareness, setting this after Come Friendly Bombs... and shortly before The Green Death.
- In the novelisation, the Doctor implies that he is 725-years-old. While Jo goes to South Wales to help ecologist Professor Clifford Jones in his fight against Global Chemicals at Llanfairfach, the Doctor is finally able to get the TARDIS to Metebelis III, where takes a Metebelis crystal. Upon his return, he joins the UNIT team at Llanfairfach to stop giant maggots overrunning Llanfairfach, with Mike Yates suffering a minor breakdown while under hypnosis. Once the BOSS computer of Global Chemicals is stopped, Jo leaves UNIT, and the Doctor's company, to marry Clifford, with the Doctor giving them the Metebelis crystal as a wedding gift.
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- Set during The Green Death: Episode 1, after the Doctor leaves Metebelis III and before he returns to UNIT, as the Doctor still has the Metebelis crystal in his possession.
Travelling alone[[edit source]]
- The Doctor is reflecting on Jo's departure at a pub near Llanfairfach, setting this immediately after The Green Death.
- Jo has just recently left the Doctor, setting this shortly after The Green Death.
- Set shortly after The Green Death, with the Doctor still forlorn in the wake of Jo's departure. He takes the Brigadier on a trip in the TARDIS, his first since The Three Doctors.
- The Doctor still misses Jo after she left in The Green Death.
- The Doctor refers to Jo leaving him, setting this shortly after The Green Death.
- Benton refers to the events of The Green Death.
- (EPILOGUE)
- After spending years inventing a device to save Jo from the time distortion, the Doctor travels to the 2010s and leaves the device with Petronella Osgood, along with a farewell letter for Jo. (AUDIO: The Sacrifice of Jo Grant)
- The Doctor is still saddened by Jo's recent departure, setting this shortly after The Green Death. He has begun work on the Whomobile, but it is not yet ready for use.
Reunited with Jo[[edit source]]
- The Doctor has been travelling alone since leaving Llanfairfach in The Green Death. Despite wanting to avoid Earth, the Doctor is brought to the Isle of Wight in the 2020s by the TARDIS, where he is reunited with Jo, nearly fifty years after they parted ways from her perspective and shortly after Cliff's passing. As they are both feeling lonely, the Doctor and Jo decide to renew their travels together.
- Jo takes her first renewed trip in the TARDIS, setting this directly after Supernature.
- The Doctor and Jo encounter the Mondasian Cybermen.
Solo actions[[edit source]]
- The Doctor is on his way back to Earth, and arrives in the North west coast of Scotland.
Temporary companions[[edit source]]
- On a mission for the Time Lords, the Doctor is taken prisoner on 32nd century Earth, and assisted in his escape by a young boy named Arnold. After overthrowing the young tyrant, Oswald, the Doctor invites Arnold to travel with him as he takes Oswald away from the vengeful Earth citizens.
- Follows directly on from Children of the Evil Eye, with the Doctor and Arnold leaving Oswald on another planet as his punishment. The Doctor begins the return journey to Earth to return Arnold to his home.
- The Doctor returns Arnold to his home so as not to alienate him from his time.
- The Doctor is traveling with Liz.
- Advertisement for The Ultimate Adventure, with the Doctor mentioning his plans to visit Mold, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford and Bristol, all locations where the play was performed.
- According to one account, shortly after he saves the Marquis de Saint Epiman de Sinee de la Tour from the French Revolution, the Third Doctor and the Marquis, who renames himself "Jason", meet Crystal while stopping the Cybermen from kidnapping a US Envoy from the Number 10 nightclub, and she helps them combat the Dalek Emperor, and then joins them in the TARDIS with Zog, a slave from Deneb IV she had befriended. Other accounts, however, depict Jason and Crystal meeting the Sixth Doctor instead.
- The Doctor is looking for a new companion.
Travels with Joshua Douglas[[edit source]]
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor meets Lord Joshua Douglas, who leaves his family behind to join the Doctor on an extended trip in the TARDIS. Amongst their adventures, they visit 1953 Nova Scotia, where Joshua wins a swimming certificate. (AUDIO: The Catalyst)
- The Doctor and Joshua part ways after ten years of companionship.
Alone again[[edit source]]
- Set directly after Size Control, with the Doctor reaching Earth after deciding to visit in the previous story.
- Set immediately after The Magician.
- The Doctor celebrates Christmas with the Brigadier. They haven't heard from Jo since her departure in The Green Death and wonder how she is doing. There is no indication that the Doctor has met Sarah Jane Smith yet, suggesting a setting before The Time Warrior.
- The Doctor visits Winston Churchill using the TARDIS without a companion.
- The Doctor recalls the events of Day of the Daleks.
- The Doctor was in the middle of making adjustments to Bessie when he was picked up by Bernice Summerfield. He has knowledge of TARDIS travel and recalls his attempts to get to Metebelis III, setting this after The Green Death.
- The Doctor is imprisoned at the Maximum security facility with his other incarnations.
- The Doctor has Christmas dinner with his other incarnations.
- The Third Doctor unites with his other incarnations to help a group of people seal the Time Fracture.
- The Doctor meets with Gerry in 1968 to rectify the mistake his first incarnation made with the TARDIS telepathic circuits in 1963. Despite other accounts placing his work with the organisation during the 1970s at the earliest, the Doctor is seen working for UNIT in the 1960s, potentially setting this after his exile ended in The Three Doctors.
First voyages with Sarah[[edit source]]
- While helping the Brigadier investigate missing scientists at a research centre, the Doctor meets Sarah Jane Smith, who becomes a reluctant stowaway aboard the TARDIS when he travels to the 13th century, where he finds the Sontaran Linx is kidnapping the scientists to repair his ship at Irongron's castle.
- According to this account, the Doctor and Sarah reunite for the first time since the events of The Time Warrior when Sarah tracks the Doctor down at UNIT HQ for an interview. She meets the Brigadier for the first time and decides to officially join the Doctor's company.
- This account also depicts the Doctor returning Sarah home to London from the events of The Time Warrior.[quote 8] The Doctor drives the Whomobile for what seems to be the first time. Mike betrays UNIT due to his faith in Operation Golden Age, but the Brigadier allows him to quietly resign instead of being imprisoned. The Doctor proposes taking Sarah on a trip to Florana, leading directly into Death to the Daleks. According to the dating protocol, Sarah is 23-years-old in 1974.
- While reflecting on his life, the Doctor comments on Sarah Jane being the "new girl", suggesting a setting shortly after The Time Warrior.
- The Doctor and Sarah are traveling to Florana for a holiday, setting this almost immediately after Invasion of the Dinosaurs. When the TARDIS is drawn to Exxilon by the power draining beacon in the Great City of the Exxilons, Sarah has her first encounter with the Daleks.
- According to the novelisation, the TARDIS has returned immediately back to UNIT HQ following Death to the Daleks and is still recovering from the energy drainage sustained on Exxilon.[quote 9] Sarah recalls "every time" she has travelled in the TARDIS with the Doctor as only being her trips in The Time Monster, The Paradise of Death and Death to the Daleks.
- The Doctor shows the Brigadier the Whomobile for the first time, and refers to it as his "new car", implicitly setting this shortly after Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and Sarah has encountered the Daleks, setting this after Death to the Daleks. The Doctor still plans on visiting Florana, setting this before The Hungry Bomb.
Continued voyages with Sarah[[edit source]]
- Sarah has been travelling with the Doctor for only a few weeks.
- Sarah doesn't know much about the Doctor's origins, setting this before The Time Thief.
- The Doctor tells Sarah about Gallifrey and the Time Lords.
- The Doctor is traveling Sarah Jane, as well as the Brigadier and Sergeant Benton. He drives the Whomobile, setting this after Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
- Sarah has already been to a number of alien worlds.
- The Doctor has been trying to get Sarah to Florana since they left London, but has failed to get her there several times already.[quote 10]
- The Doctor is travelling with Jeremy Fitzoliver.
- Sequel to Neptune. The Doctor is still traveling with Jeremy, setting this immediately after The Dead Man's Story.
- Sarah is still adjusting to her new life in the TARDIS, and has been avoiding the Doctor for the past few days, while he has been busy in his laboratory with delta particles. However, after making some repairs to the Helmic regulator, he invites her on a test flight in the TARDIS and they visit a human colony four-hundred years in the future, and then Africa millions of years in the past, where Sarah is able to relax for the first time in the seven weeks that have passed since Invasion of the Dinosaurs. [quote 11]
- The Doctor and Sarah are on their way back to UNIT HQ.
- The Doctor is driving the Whomobile, setting this after Invasion of the Dinosaurs. The Doctor and Sarah have been absent from UNIT long enough for it to have been infiltrated by the Remoraxians. Liz, Sarah and the Brigadier are kidnapped by Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame.
- The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue his friends from Adam and the Tremas Master, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well.
- Set between Death to the Daleks and The Monster of Peladon. [9]
The Game of Rassilon[[edit source]]
- Set immediately before The Five Doctors, with a Clara Oswald splinter calling out to the Doctor just before he is sent to the Death Zone.
- While out for a ride in Bessie, the Doctor is kidnapped by Borusa to play the Game of Rassilon in the Death Zone with his first, second and fifth incarnations. The Doctor recognises Sarah Jane when he encounters her in the Death Zone, setting this after The Time Warrior, while Sarah Jane, having been taken to the Death Zone years after she left the TARDIS, tells the Doctor she will be present when he regenerates. After Rassilon deals with Borusa at the First Doctor's urging, the Doctors and their friends are returned to their time streams.
Death on Dust[[edit source]]
- The Doctor returns to Peladon fifty years after the events of The Curse of Peladon, and notes that it has been "ages" since his own last visit. While helping Queen Thalia dispense with a Federation traitor, the Doctor sees Aggedor perish. The Doctor claims that "the scanner is still on the blink", presumably since the TARDIS was damaged in Death to the Daleks.
- The Doctor and Sarah use the TARDIS to find Sputnik 2 and retrieve the body of Laika, which the Doctor then buries on the planet Quiescia.
- Set immediately after Alien Bodies, with the Doctor and Sarah having just left Quiescia, and the Doctor also recalls that their previous landing before Quiescia was on Peladon during The Monster of Peladon. The Doctor discovers a door within the TARDIS that leads to his eighth incarnation, who attempts to warn him of Faction Paradox. The TARDIS lands on the planet Dust during the War in Heaven, on the same day when I.M. Foreman's Travelling Show arrived and the Faction Paradox warships approached the planet, leading directly into Interference: The Hour of the Geek.
- The Doctor defeats the Remote invasion, and resolves the apparent paradox of Foreman's original encounter with his future selves. However, due to the interference of Faction Paradox, he is shot by Magdelana Bishop, and begins to regenerate into his next incarnation prematurely.
- Aware of the perversion of history, the Third Doctor's "ghost" remains in the TARDIS until the Eighth Doctor confronts Grandfather Paradox during the Faction Paradox invasion of Gallifrey. The Third Doctor assists the Eighth Doctor in destroying Gallifrey and Kasterborous, forcing the universe to choose which is the real timeline.
- (NOTE)
- The Eighth Doctor was uncertain which timeline would become real. Compassion initially told Fitz Kreiner that the Doctor's visit to Dust and the War in Heaven had been unwritten from history. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) However, when the Eighth Doctor eventually regained contact with the greater universe, history had been rewritten so that Gallifrey had never even existed, (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street) suggesting that the War had not been erased, but actually continued and ended in some other way. (PROSE: The Book of the War, The Story So Far...)
- Next page: Fourth Doctor
Further voyages with Sarah[[edit source]]
- Set shortly after The Monster of Peladon, with the Doctor feeling morbid after his brush with death on Peladon. The Doctor and Sarah spend a few weeks investigating a mystery in 1952.
- Sarah is wearing her leather jacket from The Monster of Peladon.
- Set "weeks" before the events of Planet of the Spiders. The Brigadier informs the Doctor that Jo is sending back the Metebelis crystal he gave her.
- Sarah mentions her vacation in Sicily, setting this after The Ghosts of N-Space. In a moment of feeling his age, the Doctor wonders if his regeneration is "around the corner".
- Sarah recalls meeting Aggedor on Peladon, setting this after The Monster of Peladon.
- Sarah recalls visiting Peladon, setting this after The Monster of Peladon. However, she also claims that the only other alien planet she has visited is Exxilon.[quote 12]
- The Doctor and Sarah are on their way back to Earth when the TARDIS is diverted, and they arrive on a rig on an ocean planet and face the Gulf. The Doctor informs Sarah that the TARDIS is capable of towing an entire planet.
Time alone[[edit source]]
- The Doctor is driving the Whomobile, setting this after Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
- Set immediately after Lords of the Ether.
- The exterior of the Doctor's TARDIS is inexplicably in the form of a red telephone box.
- The Third Doctor and his other incarnations are switched with the Seventh Doctor at Albert Square by the First Rani's time loop. He recognises Sarah Jane, setting this after The Time Warrior.
- The Third Doctor meets with Noel Edmonds to introduce the broadcast of Dimensions in Time.
- Standing in for Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee, the Doctor gives a docile Dalek to David Peta as a pet.
- The Doctor recalls the events of The Time Warrior, although Sarah Jane is not accompanying him on this trip.[quote 13]
- The Doctor is travelling alone with a fully functioning TARDIS. He recalls that he hasn't "had a Christmas since all that nonsense at UNIT HQ", suggesting a setting after A Visit from Saint Nicholas, a previous story in the same anthology which featured the Doctor and Sarah attending a UNIT Christmas party.
- The Doctor attends the Brigadier's funeral.
- The Doctor salutes the Brigadier with his other incarnations.
Nearing the end[[edit source]]
- As he explores the end of the world with Sarah, the Doctor feels that his regeneration is approaching. Sarah recalls the events of The Gulf and The Monster of Peladon, and the Doctor still owes her a trip to Florana, setting this before The Hungry Bomb.
- Set over a week after The House That Hoxx Built, with the Doctor having been stationary on Earth since returning from the end of the world, secretly gathering components after being tricked by Rutans disguised as time displaced Earth Defence Force agents from 1994. On the day before the Brigadier's birthday, which multiple accounts would credit as being 21 February, Sarah and the the Brigadier, having grown suspicious of the Doctor's behaviour, follow him to the "agents'" base at Irongron's castle, where they discover the Rutan's deceit. After they thwart the Rutans' invasion attampt, the Doctor admits that he is nearing the end of his life, and worries if his next incarnation will be able to cope without having the Brigadier and UNIT to help him.
- The Doctor and Sarah finally make it to Florana.
A slow demise[[edit source]]
- "Months" after the events of The Green Death, Jo has the Metebelis crystal returned to the Doctor at the UNIT, just as he is undergoing research in psychic energy. The Eight Legs of Metebelis III then attack Earth to reclaim the crystal and the Doctor, wanting to atone for his theft having caused the attack, goes to confront the Great One in the caves of Metebelis III, where he receives a lethal dose of radiation when the crystal destroys the Great One, though he is able to escape to the TARDIS.
- (REFERENCE)
- Suffering severe radiation poisoning, the Doctor is stuck wandering around the Time Vortex for ten years due to lacking the energy to properly pilot the TARDIS. (PROSE: Love and War)
- Slowly dying from radiation sickness, the Doctor is trying to find his way back to UNIT HQ from Metebelis III.
- The Doctor is dying after being exposed to radiation.
- TV: Planet of the Spiders: Epilogue
- After the TARDIS finally lands back at his UNIT HQ laboratory, the Doctor, after a final goodbye to the Brigadier and Sarah Jane, is able to regenerate into his next incarnation with assistance from Cho-Je, the latest incarnation of the Hermit.
- Next page: Fourth Doctor
Currently unplaced[[edit source]]
- These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of this Doctor's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.
- The recent events of The Three Doctors are mentioned. Jo recalls the Doctor's attempts to take her to Metebelis III.
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- Whilst caught in the events of Lost in Time, the Doctor helps Kate Stewart, Petronella Osgood, Ace McShane and Tegan Jovanka defeat the Ice Warriors in the 2020s.
Awaiting placement[[edit source]]
- These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.
- Sarah is aware of the TARDIS' ability to tow large objects, setting this after The Gulf. The Doctor sees Sarah in the company of his next incarnation, potentially setting this prior to The Children of the Future. In a contradiction to The Touch of the Nurazh, the Third Doctor is unable to recognise the "teeth and curls" of his fourth incarnation.
- Sarah recalls the events of Death to the Daleks and The Monster of Peladon, and believes that every place they visit seems to involve mining in some way. The Doctor and Sarah are on their way back to Earth, and Sarah learns that the Time Lords sometimes take control of the TARDIS and send the Doctor on missions.
Quotes[[edit source]]
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Footnotes[[edit source]]
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-old-soldiers-463
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-shadow-of-the-past-485
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-third-doctor-faces-the-annihilators
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-binary-509
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-the-rings-of-ikiria-512
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-the-magician-s-oath-474
- ↑ https://mobile.twitter.com/JJCRichards/status/640915990029668352
- ↑ Paul Magrs on Instagram: "Placement, for those who need to know."
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-scourge-of-the-cybermen-2443