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== Contemporary Doctor Who and other show stuff ==
== Russell T Davies era, ''Torchwood'' and ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' ==
This story/companion's era is considered to be set in the early [[21st century]], and can very likely be narrowed down to the [[2000s]]; however, there is conflicting narrative evidence as to which year ''specifically'' it is set. The writing team for the most part did not place a year in most of [the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' scripts set on contemporary Earth]/[''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''{{'}} scripts]/[''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''{{'}}s scripts], but to at least the contemporary television audience, the visual language shows the era is very clearly intended to be <!--[[-->Earth<!--]]--> in the present day. There has been conflicting narrative evidence as to which year and exactly how close to the air date the "present day" stories take place.


The ''<!--[[-->Doctor Who<!--]]-->'' television story ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' is noted in several subsequent narratives to have taken place in [[2005]]. Notably, in the ''Doctor Who'' television story ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'', the [[Ninth Doctor]] describes [[12005]] as ten thousand years into [[Rose Tyler|Rose]]'s future. The first story where Rose returns home after she starts travelling with the Ninth Doctor, the ''Doctor Who'' television story ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'', features missing posters for Rose clearly dated <!--6?--> March 2005. In the ''Doctor Who'' television story ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', the [[Tenth Doctor]] briefly meets Rose on [[1 January]] 2005 before she meets the Ninth Doctor and believes she will have a great year.
Following this, the "contemporary" early 21st century stories relative to Rose Tyler's home era have generally taken place a year after transmission, though few stories explicitly confirm or contradict this or outright state a year. Nonetheless, in the [[2006 (releases)|2006]] ''Doctor Who'' television story ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]'', [[Elton Pope]] directly describes the events of the [[2005 (releases)|2005]] ''Doctor Who'' television story ''Rose'' as "two years ago" and the 2005 ''Doctor Who'' Christmas special ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'' as "[[Christmas]] just gone". In the ''Doctor Who'' television story ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'', also from 2006, [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]] describes the [[Sycorax spaceship|giant ship]] over [[London]] from ''Invasion'' similarly as "Christmas just gone".
[Doctor Who] The ''Doctor Who'' television story ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'', featuring [[Donna Noble]], notes [[Battle of Canary Wharf|the Cyberman invasion in Canary Wharf]] from Rose's last regular appearance in the ''Doctor Who'' television stories ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' and ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'' as having happened, and describes ''The Christmas Invasion''{{'}}s robot Santas as being from "last year". This would set that story (along with Rose's "present" during [[Series 2 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 2]]) in [[2007]]. The ''Doctor Who'' Christmas special ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]'' also mentioned the people around the world standing on roofs from ''The Christmas Invasion'' taking place "[the] Christmas before last", and the [[Webstar|giant Christmas star over London]] and the draining of the [[River Thames|Thames]] from ''The Runaway Bride'' happening "last year", which both affirms the Martha Jones era (which mentions the Christmas star) and this episode as having taken place in 2008.
[Torchwood] Several ''Torchwood'' stories are explicitly set in the aftermath of the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]], which was Rose's last regular appearance as a companion. This would mean that up to and including  the ''Torchwood'' television story ''[[Out of Time (TV story)|Out of Time]]'', which is set around Christmas (and according to the ''Torchwood'' television story ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'', has [[Diane Holmes|Diane]] go through the Rift on [[24 December]]), [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|series 1]] is set in the year [[2007]]. The ''Torchwood'' television stories ''[[Combat (TV story)|Combat]]'' and ''Captain Jack Harkness'' are clearly not set immediately after ''Time'' and so the last episodes of series 1, including ''Combat'' and ''Harkness'', can be safely said to be set in [[2008]].
In [[Series 2 (Torchwood)|series 2]] of ''Torchwood'', ''[[Meat (TV story)|Meat]]'' is said to be a year after [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] is recruited to [[Torchwood Three]] (which happened in the series 1 premiere ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]''), while in the season finale ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'', [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], after being unearthed by Torchwood staff in [[1901]], asks to be frozen for 107 years. Both of these facts strongly seem to place all of series 2 in 2008.
However, in the ''Torchwood'' television story ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'' (set on the same day as ''Exit Wounds''), [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]]'s flashback to his recruitment to Torchwood is displayed in a caption as taking place 21 months, or one year nine months, ago. Based on earlier evidence, including a scene in ''Love & Monsters'' set in part in [[March]] 2007, and the ''Doctor Who'' television stories ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' and ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'' (set during the battle where Ianto loses his prior job at [[Torchwood One]]) having [[Ghost Shift|ghosts appearing]] for two months being news to the Tenth Doctor and Rose (which means that the Battle of Canary Wharf happened in ''at least'' May 2007), and assuming that Ianto joined Torchwood Three immediately after most of Torchwood One is wiped out, the "21 months earlier" flashback would mean that ''Fragments'' and ''Exit Wounds'' are set, at the very earliest, in February of ''2009''.
Confusing matters further, according to Gwen Cooper's [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] file in ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', Gwen joined Torchwood (as seen in ''Everything Changes'') in October ''2006''.
...
Certainly, we can say that discounting flashbacks, ''Torchwood'' is set in the "21st century" where everything changes.
[SJA] ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' television story ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'' is set at least 18 months after Sarah Jane's meeting with the Tenth Doctor and him building [[K9 Mark IV|a new model of K9]] following the destruction of [[K9 Mark III|Mark III]] in ''School Reunion''. The [[Series 2 (SJA)|series 2]] SJA story ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' also describes [[Series 1 (SJA)|the previous season]]'s ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'' (of which the season finale ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]'' picks up nearly immediately after) as having taken place "last year".
(Note: This isn't ''thorough'' per se... Not going through ''Doctor Who Adventures'' or ''Battles in Time'' issues for this list, nor am I going to ''really'' be able to find Cornell's Christmas stories. And the BBC Writer's Comics do not appear to work.)
== Nine and Rose on present-day Earth ==
* [[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'' / ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]''
: One year after ''Rose''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]''
: Six months after ''World War Three''.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Mr Nobody (comic story)|Mr Nobody]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Only Human (novel)|Only Human]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]''
: Set after the heart of the TARDIS was opened in ''Boom Town''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''
: Numerous outside stories backdate this to 2005.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Winner Takes All (novel)|Winner Takes All]]''
== Ten and Rose on present-day Earth ==
* [[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[F.A.Q. (comic story)|F.A.Q.]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Feast of the Drowned (novel)|The Feast of the Drowned]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Final Darkness (short story)|The Final Darkness]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Green-Eyed Monster (comic story)|The Green-Eyed Monster]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lodger (comic story)|The Lodger]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]''
: Story partially set in March. ''Rose'' was two years ago. ''The Christmas Invasion'' was the previous Christmas.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nightmare of Black Island (novel)|The Nightmare of Black Island]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]''
: Set "this year" according to Mickey.
* [[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]''
: ''The Christmas Invasion'' was the previous Christmas.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stone Rose (novel)|The Stone Rose]]''
== Post-Rose Ten on present-day Earth ==
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Corner of the Eye (short story)|Corner of the Eye]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]''
: ''The Christmas Invasion'' was the previous Christmas.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Warkeeper's Crown (comic story)|The Warkeeper's Crown]]''
== Ten and Martha on present-day Earth ==
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Bus Stop (comic story)|Bus Stop]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Forever Autumn (novel)|Forever Autumn]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Made of Steel (novel)|Made of Steel]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]''
: Martha mentions the spaceship flying into Big Ben, the Cybermen and [[Adeola Oshodi|Adeola]] going missing at Canary Wharf, placing this after ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story of Martha (novel)|The Story of Martha]]'' (linking material?)
* [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'' / ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'' / ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Wishing Well (novel)|Wishing Well]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Zombie Motel (short story)|Zombie Motel]]''
== Post Martha Ten on present-day Earth ==
* [[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]''
: Set two years after ''The Christmas Invasion'' and the year after ''The Runaway Bride''
== Ten and Donna on present-day Earth ==
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'' / ''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'' / ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Widow's Curse (comic story)|The Widow's Curse]]''
== Post-Donna Ten on present-day Earth ==
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Age of Ice (comic story)|The Age of Ice]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Code of the Krillitanes (novel)|Code of the Krillitanes]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Crimson Hand (comic story)|The Crimson Hand]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Don't Step on the Grass (comic story)|Don't Step on the Grass]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The End of the Rainbow (short story)|The End of the Rainbow]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Ghosts of the Northern Line (comic story)|Ghosts of the Northern Line]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Hotel Historia (comic story)|Hotel Historia]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]''
: The missing planets in the Earth's sky from ''The Stolen Earth'' are mentioned, and the story is set in Easter in the month of April.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Child (comic story)|The Stockbridge Child]]''
== Torchwood stories ==
* [[TV]]: ''[[Adam (TV story)|Adam]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Adrift (TV story)|Adrift]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Almost Perfect (novel)|Almost Perfect]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Another Life (novel)|Another Life]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Army of One (audio story)|Army of One]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Asylum (audio story)|Asylum]]''
<!--Discounting The Baby Farmers as it's said to be set in the 1800s-->
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Bay of the Dead (novel)|Bay of the Dead]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Beauty of Our Weapons (short story)|The Beauty of Our Weapons]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Black Water (short story)|Black Water]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Blood Line (TV story)|The Blood Line]]''
: According to [[User:SmallerOnTheOutside]], a date appears on one of Rex' texts, and it's not 9 September.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of Jahi (short story)|The Book of Jahi]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Border Princes (novel)|Border Princes]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Categories of Life (TV story)|The Categories of Life]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day One]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Two]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Three]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Combat (TV story)|Combat]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Consequences (short story)|Consequences]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Countrycide (TV story)|Countrycide]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[A Day in the Death (TV story)|A Day in the Death]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Day One (TV story)|Day One]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dead Line (audio story)|The Dead Line]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking (TV story)|Dead Man Walking]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Dead of Night (TV story)|Dead of Night]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Department X (audio story)|Department X]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil and Miss Carew (audio story)|The Devil and Miss Carew]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[End of the Road (TV story)|End of the Road]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Escape to LA (TV story)|Escape to LA]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Everyone Says Hello (audio story)|Everyone Says Hello]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Exodus Code (novel)|Exodus Code]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fallout (audio story)|Fallout]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[First Born (novel)|First Born]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[From Out of the Rain (TV story)|From Out of the Rain]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Gathering (TV story)|The Gathering]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Train (audio story)|Ghost Train]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Golden Age (audio story)|Golden Age]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hidden (audio story)|Hidden]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The House of the Dead (audio story)|The House of the Dead]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The House That Jack Built (novel)|The House That Jack Built]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Immortal Sins (TV story)|Immortal Sins]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[In the Shadows (audio story)|In the Shadows]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Into the Silence (novel)|Into the Silence]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Jetsam (comic story)|Jetsam]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Kaleidoscope (short story)|Kaleidoscope]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Long Time Dead (novel)|Long Time Dead]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lost Souls (audio story)|Lost Souls]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Meat (TV story)|Meat]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Men Who Sold the World (novel)|The Men Who Sold the World]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Middle Men (TV story)|The Middle Men]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]''
: Esther reads a CIA file which says that Gwen joined Torchwood in 2006.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Monster (short story)|Monster]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mr Invincible (audio story)|Mr Invincible]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Mrs Acres (short story)|Mrs Acres]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Out of Time (TV story)|Out of Time]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pack Animals (novel)|Pack Animals]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Plant Life (short story)|Plant Life]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Random Shoes (TV story)|Random Shoes]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Red Skies (audio story)|Red Skies]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Reset (TV story)|Reset]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Rift War! (comic story)|Rift War!]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Risk Assessment (novel)|Risk Assessment]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sin Eaters (audio story)|The Sin Eaters]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[SkyPoint (novel)|SkyPoint]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Sleeper (TV story)|Sleeper]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Small Worlds (TV story)|Small Worlds]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Something Borrowed (TV story)|Something Borrowed]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Something in the Water (novel)|Something in the Water]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Submission (audio story)|Submission]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)|They Keep Killing Suzie]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Trace Memory (novel)|Trace Memory]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twilight Streets (novel)|The Twilight Streets]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Undertaker's Gift (novel)|The Undertaker's Gift]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Virus (short story)|Virus]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Who by Fire (short story)|Who by Fire]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wrong Hands (short story)|The Wrong Hands]]''
== Sarah Jane Adventures stories ==
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Children of Steel (audio story)|Children of Steel]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Clyde Langer (TV story)|The Curse of Clyde Langer]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]''
: Maria's email has a date, according to [[User:SmallerOnTheOutside]].
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deadly Download (audio story)|Deadly Download]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Planet (TV story)|The Empty Planet]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Eternity Trap (TV story)|The Eternity Trap]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)|Eye of the Gorgon]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love (TV story)|From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ghost House (audio story)|The Ghost House]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Glittering Storm (audio story)|The Glittering Storm]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judgement Day (SJA audio story)|Judgement Day]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Lost in Time (TV story)|Lost in Time]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Berserker (TV story)|The Mark of the Berserker]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow People (audio story)|The Shadow People]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Sky (TV story)|Sky]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Thirteenth Stone (audio story)|The Thirteenth Stone]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time Capsule (audio story)|The Time Capsule]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Vault of Secrets (TV story)|The Vault of Secrets]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)|Warriors of Kudlak]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Wolf (audio story)|The White Wolf]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wraith World (audio story)|Wraith World]]''
== Series 6, 7 and 8 ==
The exact date of this era is difficult to ascertain, and is largely conflated by [[Kate Stewart]], a character from [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]' appearing with [[Clara Oswald]], and supposedly meaning that ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'' and ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'' are at some point afterwards.
While the apparent death of the [[Eleventh Doctor]] is dated in several stories in [[Series 6 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 6]] as [[22 April]] [[2011]], after this season the year is somewhat contradictory.
In the television ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'', the "present day" [[New York City|New York]] graveyard is explicitly in [[2012]]. However, there is nothing which specifies this trip is contemporary with the stories in Amy and Rory's home life in [[London]].
The [[soporific]] laced letter addressed to Clara from the television story ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'' is dated [[April]] [[2013]], which would also place the rest of series 7 around that time.
[[Clara Oswald]], who was born on [[23 November]] [[1986]] according to the television story ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', is said to be 27 years old in the television story ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', which means that as the last time Clara was at home was in the television story ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'' set on [[Christmas Day]] and immediately before ''Deep Breath'', would place both ''The Time of the Doctor'' and the final scene of ''Breath'' in Christmas 2013. [[Danny Pink]] becoming a teacher [[Coal Hill School]] in ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'' three weeks after ''Deep Breath'' would also mean that ''Into the Dalek'' is dated ''circa'' 15 January 2014.
== Amy and Rory on present day Earth ==
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Night Terrors (TV story)|Night Terrors]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Pond Life (webcast)|Pond Life]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]''
== Clara on present day Earth ==
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]''
: Set at Christmas.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]''
: Set shortly after ''The Time of the Doctor''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]''
: Set three weeks after Clara sent the Twelfth Doctor out for coffee.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Time Heist (TV story)|Time Heist]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]''
: Clara was born on 23 November 1986.

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This story/companion's era is considered to be set in the early 21st century, and can very likely be narrowed down to the 2000s; however, there is conflicting narrative evidence as to which year specifically it is set. The writing team for the most part did not place a year in most of [the Doctor Who scripts set on contemporary Earth]/[The Sarah Jane Adventures' scripts]/[Torchwood's scripts], but to at least the contemporary television audience, the visual language shows the era is very clearly intended to be Earth in the present day. There has been conflicting narrative evidence as to which year and exactly how close to the air date the "present day" stories take place.

The Doctor Who television story Rose is noted in several subsequent narratives to have taken place in 2005. Notably, in the Doctor Who television story The End of the World, the Ninth Doctor describes 12005 as ten thousand years into Rose's future. The first story where Rose returns home after she starts travelling with the Ninth Doctor, the Doctor Who television story Aliens of London, features missing posters for Rose clearly dated March 2005. In the Doctor Who television story The End of Time, the Tenth Doctor briefly meets Rose on 1 January 2005 before she meets the Ninth Doctor and believes she will have a great year.

Following this, the "contemporary" early 21st century stories relative to Rose Tyler's home era have generally taken place a year after transmission, though few stories explicitly confirm or contradict this or outright state a year. Nonetheless, in the 2006 Doctor Who television story Love & Monsters, Elton Pope directly describes the events of the 2005 Doctor Who television story Rose as "two years ago" and the 2005 Doctor Who Christmas special The Christmas Invasion as "Christmas just gone". In the Doctor Who television story School Reunion, also from 2006, Sarah Jane describes the giant ship over London from Invasion similarly as "Christmas just gone".

[Doctor Who] The Doctor Who television story The Runaway Bride, featuring Donna Noble, notes the Cyberman invasion in Canary Wharf from Rose's last regular appearance in the Doctor Who television stories Army of Ghosts and Doomsday as having happened, and describes The Christmas Invasion's robot Santas as being from "last year". This would set that story (along with Rose's "present" during series 2) in 2007. The Doctor Who Christmas special Voyage of the Damned also mentioned the people around the world standing on roofs from The Christmas Invasion taking place "[the] Christmas before last", and the giant Christmas star over London and the draining of the Thames from The Runaway Bride happening "last year", which both affirms the Martha Jones era (which mentions the Christmas star) and this episode as having taken place in 2008.

[Torchwood] Several Torchwood stories are explicitly set in the aftermath of the Battle of Canary Wharf, which was Rose's last regular appearance as a companion. This would mean that up to and including the Torchwood television story Out of Time, which is set around Christmas (and according to the Torchwood television story Captain Jack Harkness, has Diane go through the Rift on 24 December), series 1 is set in the year 2007. The Torchwood television stories Combat and Captain Jack Harkness are clearly not set immediately after Time and so the last episodes of series 1, including Combat and Harkness, can be safely said to be set in 2008.

In series 2 of Torchwood, Meat is said to be a year after Gwen is recruited to Torchwood Three (which happened in the series 1 premiere Everything Changes), while in the season finale Exit Wounds, Jack, after being unearthed by Torchwood staff in 1901, asks to be frozen for 107 years. Both of these facts strongly seem to place all of series 2 in 2008.

However, in the Torchwood television story Fragments (set on the same day as Exit Wounds), Ianto's flashback to his recruitment to Torchwood is displayed in a caption as taking place 21 months, or one year nine months, ago. Based on earlier evidence, including a scene in Love & Monsters set in part in March 2007, and the Doctor Who television stories Army of Ghosts and Doomsday (set during the battle where Ianto loses his prior job at Torchwood One) having ghosts appearing for two months being news to the Tenth Doctor and Rose (which means that the Battle of Canary Wharf happened in at least May 2007), and assuming that Ianto joined Torchwood Three immediately after most of Torchwood One is wiped out, the "21 months earlier" flashback would mean that Fragments and Exit Wounds are set, at the very earliest, in February of 2009.

Confusing matters further, according to Gwen Cooper's CIA file in The New World, Gwen joined Torchwood (as seen in Everything Changes) in October 2006.

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Certainly, we can say that discounting flashbacks, Torchwood is set in the "21st century" where everything changes.

[SJA] The Sarah Jane Adventures television story Invasion of the Bane is set at least 18 months after Sarah Jane's meeting with the Tenth Doctor and him building a new model of K9 following the destruction of Mark III in School Reunion. The series 2 SJA story The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith also describes the previous season's Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (of which the season finale The Lost Boy picks up nearly immediately after) as having taken place "last year".

(Note: This isn't thorough per se... Not going through Doctor Who Adventures or Battles in Time issues for this list, nor am I going to really be able to find Cornell's Christmas stories. And the BBC Writer's Comics do not appear to work.)

Nine and Rose on present-day Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

One year after Rose.
Six months after World War Three.
Set after the heart of the TARDIS was opened in Boom Town.
Numerous outside stories backdate this to 2005.

Ten and Rose on present-day Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

Story partially set in March. Rose was two years ago. The Christmas Invasion was the previous Christmas.
Set "this year" according to Mickey.
The Christmas Invasion was the previous Christmas.

Post-Rose Ten on present-day Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Christmas Invasion was the previous Christmas.

Ten and Martha on present-day Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

Martha mentions the spaceship flying into Big Ben, the Cybermen and Adeola going missing at Canary Wharf, placing this after Doomsday.

Post Martha Ten on present-day Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

Set two years after The Christmas Invasion and the year after The Runaway Bride

Ten and Donna on present-day Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

Post-Donna Ten on present-day Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

The missing planets in the Earth's sky from The Stolen Earth are mentioned, and the story is set in Easter in the month of April.

Torchwood stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

According to User:SmallerOnTheOutside, a date appears on one of Rex' texts, and it's not 9 September.
Esther reads a CIA file which says that Gwen joined Torchwood in 2006.

Sarah Jane Adventures stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Maria's email has a date, according to User:SmallerOnTheOutside.

Series 6, 7 and 8[[edit] | [edit source]]

The exact date of this era is difficult to ascertain, and is largely conflated by Kate Stewart, a character from Amy Pond and Rory Williams' appearing with Clara Oswald, and supposedly meaning that The Day of the Doctor and Death in Heaven are at some point afterwards.

While the apparent death of the Eleventh Doctor is dated in several stories in series 6 as 22 April 2011, after this season the year is somewhat contradictory.

In the television The Angels Take Manhattan, the "present day" New York graveyard is explicitly in 2012. However, there is nothing which specifies this trip is contemporary with the stories in Amy and Rory's home life in London.

The soporific laced letter addressed to Clara from the television story The Name of the Doctor is dated April 2013, which would also place the rest of series 7 around that time.

Clara Oswald, who was born on 23 November 1986 according to the television story Death in Heaven, is said to be 27 years old in the television story Deep Breath, which means that as the last time Clara was at home was in the television story The Time of the Doctor set on Christmas Day and immediately before Deep Breath, would place both The Time of the Doctor and the final scene of Breath in Christmas 2013. Danny Pink becoming a teacher Coal Hill School in Into the Dalek three weeks after Deep Breath would also mean that Into the Dalek is dated circa 15 January 2014.

Amy and Rory on present day Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

Clara on present day Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

Set at Christmas.
Set shortly after The Time of the Doctor.
Set three weeks after Clara sent the Twelfth Doctor out for coffee.
Clara was born on 23 November 1986.
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