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Fan sources like the Doctor Who Reference Guide should '''not''' be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
Fan sources like the Doctor Who Reference Guide should '''not''' be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
{{Doctor Who timelines}}


== Limitations ==
== Limitations ==
Any story with her and the [[Third Doctor]] travelling together must be before [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''. Any story with the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Harry Sullivan]] must be after [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'', though due to the nature of travel throughout [[season 12]], any story featuring TARDIS travel with Harry (other than [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'') must take place after [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]''. Any story with just Sarah Jane and the Fourth Doctor must be after [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]''. Any story featuring [[K9 Mark III]] must be after [[TV]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)|A Girl's Best Friend]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]''.
Any story with her and the [[Third Doctor]] travelling together must be before [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''. Any story with the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Harry Sullivan]] must be after [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'', though due to the nature of travel throughout [[Season 12 (Doctor Who 1963)|season 12]], any story featuring TARDIS travel with Harry (other than [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'') must take place after [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]''. Any story with just Sarah Jane and the Fourth Doctor must be after [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]''. Any story featuring [[K9 Mark III]] must be after [[TV]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)|A Girl's Best Friend]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]''.


Any story with [[Maria Jackson|Maria]], [[Luke Smith|Luke]] and [[Clyde Langer|Clyde]] on her team must be after [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]''. Any story with Clyde and [[Rani Chandra|Rani]] must be after [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]''. Any story with [[K9 Mark IV]] defending the [[black hole]] must be between [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]''. Any story with K9 freely around in [[Bannerman Road]] must be after [[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]''. Any story with Luke at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] with K9 must be after [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]''. Any story with [[Sky Smith|Sky]] must be after [[TV]]: ''[[Sky (TV story)|Sky]]''.
Any story with [[Maria Jackson|Maria]], [[Luke Smith|Luke]] and [[Clyde Langer|Clyde]] on her team must be after [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]''. Any story with Clyde and [[Rani Chandra|Rani]] must be after [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]''. Any story with [[K9 Mark IV]] defending the [[black hole]] must be between [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]''. Any story with K9 freely around in [[Bannerman Road]] must be after [[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'' and before [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]''. Any story with Luke at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] with K9 must be after [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]''. Any story with [[Sky Smith|Sky]] must be after [[TV]]: ''[[Sky (TV story)|Sky]]''.
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== Timeline ==
== Timeline ==
=== Early Life ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
: Set on [[18 August]] [[1951]]. Sarah Jane is a newborn baby.


===Early Life===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
: As a baby.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]''
: As a child.
: As a child.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Wolf (audio story)|The White Wolf]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Wolf (audio story)|The White Wolf]]''
: As a child, about 8 years old.
: As a child, about 8 years old.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Playtime (short story)|Playtime]]''
: Sarah Jane is about 12 years old.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]''
: As a teenager.
: As a teenager.


===Travels with the Doctor===
=== Travels with the Third Doctor ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]''
: The Doctor meets [[Sarah Jane Smith]], who becomes a reluctant stowaway aboard the TARDIS.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Paradise of Death (audio story)|The Paradise of Death]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Paradise of Death (audio story)|The Paradise of Death]]''
:Set just after ''The Time Warrior'', as that is Sarah Jane's only adventure with the Doctor before this story.
: Set immediately after ''The Time Warrior'', with the Doctor returning Sarah home. She decides to officially join the Doctor's company.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Before the Legend (short story)|Before the Legend]]''
: Sarah Jane doesn't know much about the Doctor's origins.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Thief (DWAN short story)|The Time Thief]]''
: The Doctor tells Sarah Jane about Gallifrey and the Time Lords.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Scorched Earth (short story)|Scorched Earth]]''
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Doomcloud (comic story)|Doomcloud]]''
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Perils of Paris (comic story)|Perils of Paris]]''
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Who's Who? (comic story)|Who's Who?]]''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Neptune (short story)|Neptune]]''
: The Doctor has been trying to get Sarah Jane to [[Florana]] since they left [[London]] in ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs'', but has failed to get her there several times already.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks (TV story)|Death to the Daleks]]''
* [[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''. Sarah Jane has her first encounter with the [[Dalek]]s.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ghosts of N-Space (audio story)|The Ghosts of N-Space]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ghosts of N-Space (audio story)|The Ghosts of N-Space]]''
: The TARDIS is still recovering from the energy drainage sustained in ''Death to the Daleks''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hungry Bomb (short story)|The Hungry Bomb]]''
: The Doctor and Sarah finally make it to [[Florana]], setting this after ''Death to the Daleks''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interesting Times (short story)|Interesting Times]]''
: Set after ''Death to the Daleks''.{{source}}
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Signal S.O.S. (short story)|Signal S.O.S.]]''
* [[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 Jane and the Brigadier are kidnapped [[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.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Numb (short story)|Numb]]''
: Set seven weeks after ''Invasion of the Dinosaurs''.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Invasion of the Scorpion Men (comic story)|Invasion of the Scorpion Men]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Discourse of Flies (short story)|The Discourse of Flies]]''
: Sarah has already been to a number of alien worlds.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gulf (audio story)|The Gulf]]''
: The Doctor and Sarah are on their way back to Earth.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil's Hoofprints (audio story)|The Devil's Hoofprints]]''
* [[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>
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]''
: Sarah mentions her vacation in Sicily, setting this after ''The Ghosts of N-Space''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]''
:Sarah and the Doctor have just left Peladon.
: Sarah Jane and the Doctor have just left [[Peladon]], setting this after ''The Monster of Peladon''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'' / ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'' (events set on [[Dust (planet)|Dust]])
 
:Occurs directly after the events of ''Alien Bodies''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference: Shock Tactic]]''
: Set immediately after ''Alien Bodies'', with the Doctor and Sarah intending to return to [[Earth]]. 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, the Doctor is shot by [[Magdelana Bishop]], and begins to [[regenerate]] into his [[Fourth Doctor|next incarnation]].
 
:: ''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...]]'')''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Separation Day (short story)|Separation Day]]''
: Sarah is wearing the leather jacket seen in ''The Monster of Peladon''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Amorality Tale (novel)|Amorality Tale]]''
: Set between ''The Monster of Peladon'' and ''Planet of the Spiders'', with the Doctor feeling morbid after his brush with death on Peladon.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Link (short story)|Link]]''
: Set after ''The Monster of Peladon''.{{source}}
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Glorious Goodwood (audio story)|Glorious Goodwood]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Glorious Goodwood (audio story)|Glorious Goodwood]]''
:Sarah Jane has been to Peladon at least once.
: Sarah recalls meeting Aggedor on Peladon, setting this after ''The Monster of Peladon''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Visit from Saint Nicholas (short story)|A Visit from Saint Nicholas]]''
: Set after ''The Monster of Peladon''.{{source}}
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Primitives (short story)|Primitives]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lampblack Wars (short story)|The Lampblack Wars]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Generation Gap (short story)|Generation Gap]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[An Overture Too Early (short story)|An Overture Too Early]]''
: Set shortly before '' Planet of the Spiders''.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''
: Confronting [[The Great One (Planet of the Spiders)|the Great One]] of the [[Eight Legs]], the Doctor receives a lethal dose of radiation, but is able to escape in the TARDIS. After the TARDIS finally lands back at [[UNIT HQ]], the Doctor is able to [[Regeneration|regenerate]] into his [[Fourth Doctor|next incarnation]] with assistance from [[K'anpo Rimpoche]].
=== Travels with the Fourth Doctor ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]''
: Set immediately after ''Planet of the Spiders'', with the Doctor's regeneration stabilising. Though he intends a fresh start by leaving UNIT behind, the Doctor accepts Sarah's offer to let her travel with him. UNIT doctor [[Harry Sullivan]] follows them into the TARDIS.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]''
: Harry is taking his first trip in the TARDIS, setting this directly after ''Robot''. The TARDIS crew arrive at the ''[[Nerva Beacon]]'' due to Harry fiddling with TARDIS, and volunteer to beam down to Earth to do repairs, leading directly into ''The Sontaran Experiment''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]''
: The TARDIS crew fix the faulty equipment on Earth and beam back to the ''Nerva Beacon''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]''
: Set immediately after ''The Sontaran Experiment''. The [[Time Lord]]s intercept to transmat beam and give the Doctor a [[Time Ring]] and a mission on [[Skaro]], where the Doctor meets [[Davros]] and witnesses the [[creation of the Daleks]].
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Device of Death (novel)|A Device of Death]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Device of Death (novel)|A Device of Death]]''
:The Doctor, Sarah and Harry have just left Skaro.
: The Doctor, Sarah and Harry are scattered across the [[Adelphine Cluster]] due to temporal disruption interfering with the Time Ring, setting this immediately after ''Genesis of the Daleks''. The Doctor claims to be 748-years-old.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Thing You Ever See (short story)|The Last Thing You Ever See]]''
: The Doctor, Sarah and Harry are still using the Time Ring, setting this shortly after ''Genesis of the Daleks''.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Thing You Ever See (short story)|The Last Thing You Ever See]]''
: Just as they retrieve the TARDIS from the ''Nerva Beacon'', the TARDIS crew receive a summons from the Brigadier, leading into ''Terror of the Zygons''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Nanomorphosis (short story)|Nanomorphosis]]''
: The TARDIS still needs time to recover from the solar flare radiation from ''Revenge of the Cybermen''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[HarrySullivan (audio story)|#HarrySullivan]]''
: The Doctor is attempting to travel to Scotland, but the TARDIS is knocked off course and arrives on the ''Zephyr'' instead.
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Black Destiny (comic story)|Black Destiny]]''
: The Doctor and his companions expect to find the Loch Ness on exiting the TARDIS, setting this shortly before ''Terror of the Zygons''.
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Ground Zero (comic story)|Ground Zero]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Wolfsbane (novel)|Wolfsbane]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Wolfsbane (novel)|Wolfsbane]]''
: The Doctor, Sarah and Harry are wearing their costumes from ''Terror of the Zygons''. The TARDIS is knocked off course after an attempt to get to [[Scotland]]. After returning [[Godric]] to the arthurian times, the TARDIS makes its way to Scotland, leading into ''Terror of the Zygons''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Toil and Trouble (short story)|Toil and Trouble]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''Terror of the Zygons''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]''
: The TARDIS crew make it to Scotland, and Harry decides to remain on Earth with UNIT.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil (TV story)|Planet of Evil]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil (TV story)|Planet of Evil]]''
: Set immediately after ''Terror of the Zygons'', with the TARDIS having just left Loch Ness for London.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Republican's Story (short story)|The Republican's Story]]''
: The Doctor claims to have travelled over 30,000 years to get to the [[17th century]], implying that this takes place immediately after ''Planet of Evil''. The Doctor is blamed for the [[Great Fire of London]], setting this before ''Pyramids of Mars''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Rights (short story)|Rights]]''
: Sarah and the Doctor are still wearing the clothes they wore in ''Planet of Evil''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]''
: The Doctor and Sarah are still trying to get back to London.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Scarab of Death (short story)|Scarab of Death]]''
: Set immediately after ''Pyramids of Mars''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Old Flames (short story)|Old Flames]]''
: The Doctor is wearing a burgundy coat, and Sarah observes that he has been moody as of late, setting this shortly after ''Pyramids of Mars''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion (TV story)|The Android Invasion]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion (TV story)|The Android Invasion]]''
: The Doctor and Sarah make it to London after leaving for it in ''Terror of the Zygons'', and enduring side-tracks during ''Planet of Evil'' and ''Pyramids of Mars''.
:: ''The Doctor and Sarah Jane return to UNIT HQ, and base themselves on Earth, with the Doctor staying at a cottage and resuming use of [[Bessie]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Death Flower (comic story)|Death Flower]]'', ''[[Return of the Daleks (TVC comic story)|Return of the Daleks]]'') while Sarah Jane continues working as an investigative reporter. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hoaxers (comic story)|The Hoaxers]]'') However, they frequently take side trips, and are often accompanied by Harry. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A New Life (1976 short story)|A New Life]]'', ''[[The Hospitality on Hankus (short story)|The Hospitality on Hankus]]'')''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Death Flower (comic story)|Death Flower]]''
: The Doctor and Sarah Jane both comment on getting used to the Doctor's new face.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Daleks (TVC comic story)|Return of the Daleks]]''
: The TARDIS is captured by a [[Renegade Time Lord]] called [[Shazar]], however, with the Time Lords' help, the Doctor is able to retrieve his ship.
:: ''While working with UNIT, the Doctor does research into [[Richard III of England|Richard III]] for his book, ''Doctor Who Discovers Historical Mysteries''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Kingmaker (audio story)|The Kingmaker]]'')''
* [[PROSE]]: [[A New Life (1976 short story)|''A New Life'' (1976)]]
: The Doctor and Sarah leave UNIT HQ to take a trip in the TARDIS. The Brigadier is not happy and questions Harry on their whereabouts.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Managra (novel)|Managra]]''
: Though the book's blurb places this between ''Planet of Evil'' and ''Pyramids of Mars'', the Doctor and Sarah aren't trying to get to London.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Gaze of the Medusa (comic story)|Gaze of the Medusa]]''
: The Doctor and Sarah have faced Sutekh, and the TARDIS has its primary interior, setting this between ''Pyramids of Mars'' and ''The Masque of Mandragora''. The Doctor claims the Brigadier will be angry if he returns without Sarah, and Sarah is excited to see the look on Harry's face when they tell him they met his great-grandparents.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lost Generation (short story)|The Lost Generation]]''
: Sarah recalls the events of ''The Android Invasion''.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Wreckers (comic story)|The Wreckers]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Emperor's Spy (comic story)|The Emperor's Spy]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Scratchman (novelisation)|Scratchman]]''
: The Doctor alludes to the recent events of  ''Terror of the Zygons'' and ''The Android Invasion''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hospitality on Hankus (short story)|The Hospitality on Hankus]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Psychic Jungle (comic story)|The Psychic Jungle]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sinister Sponge (short story)|The Sinister Sponge]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Sinister Sea (comic story)|The Sinister Sea]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Woden's Warriors (comic story)|Woden's Warriors]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Neuronic Nightmare (comic story)|Neuronic Nightmare]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Avast There! (short story)|Avast There!]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mission (short story)|The Mission]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Space Ghost (comic story)|The Space Ghost]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[War on Aquatica (short story)|War on Aquatica]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cyclone Terror (short story)|Cyclone Terror]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Snatch (short story)|The Time Snatch]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Body Snatcher (comic story)|The Body Snatcher]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eye-Spiders of Pergross (short story)|The Eye-Spiders of Pergross]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Detour to Diamedes (short story)|Detour to Diamedes]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Double Trouble (short story)|Double Trouble]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Menace on Metalupiter (comic story)|Menace on Metalupiter]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Secret of the Bald Planet (short story)|Secret of the Bald Planet]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Heat-Seekers (short story)|The Heat-Seekers]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[To Kill a Nandi Bear (short story)|To Kill a Nandi Bear]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Broadcast (short story)|The Last Broadcast]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dragons of Prague (short story)|The Dragons of Prague]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[How to Win Planets and Influence People (audio story)|How to Win Planets and Influence People]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Vampires of Crellium (short story)|The Vampires of Crellium]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[On the Slippery Trail (short story)|On the Slippery Trail]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dalek Revenge (comic story)|The Dalek Revenge]]''
: The Time Lords take control of Bessie, and send the Doctor on a mission to defeat the Daleks on the planet [[Ercos]].
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Virus (comic story)|Virus]]''
: The Time Lords direct the TARDIS to a synthetic jungle inside a space station.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Treasure Trail (comic story)|Treasure Trail]]''
: The Time Lords direct the TARDIS to a vineyard in [[Italy]] so that the Doctor can save some art treasures.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]''
: The Doctor complains about the Time Lords "messing about with the TARDIS", setting this after the comic stories set between ''Return of the Daleks'' and ''Treasure Trail'', where the Time Lord had been doing so.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Evolution (novel)|Evolution]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Evolution (novel)|Evolution]]''
:Sarah mentions Karn and other events from ''The Brain of Morbius''.
: Sarah refers to the recent events of ''The Brain of Morbius''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Sarah Jane and the Temple of Eyes (short story)|Sarah Jane and the Temple of Eyes]]''
: Set shortly after ''The Brain of Morbius''.
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Hubert's Folly (comic story)|Hubert's Folly]]''
: Set a few days after ''Treasure Trail''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[All Done with Mirrors (short story)|All Done with Mirrors]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Duke of Dominoes (short story)|The Duke of Dominoes]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Observer Effect (short story)|Observer Effect]]''
: Sarah understands that it takes time for radio waves to travel between Mars and Earth, setting this after ''Pyramids of Mars''.
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Counter-Rotation (comic story)|Counter-Rotation]]''
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Mind Snatch (comic story)|Mind Snatch]]''
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hoaxers (comic story)|The Hoaxers]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Conscription (short story)|Conscription]]''
: Sarah claims it is Christmas in her time period.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass (short story)|UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blessed Are the Peacemakers (short story)|Blessed Are the Peacemakers]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Chain Reaction (audio story)|Chain Reaction]]''
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Tansbury Experiment (comic story)|The Tansbury Experiment]]''
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Mutant Strain (comic story)|The Mutant Strain]]''
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Double Trouble (comic story)|Double Trouble]]''
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Dredger (comic story)|Dredger]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wondrous Box (audio story)|The Wondrous Box]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Collector's Item (audio story)|Collector's Item]]''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom (TV story)|The Seeds of Doom]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Doom (TV story)|The Seeds of Doom]]''
: The [[Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom (novelisation)|novelisation]] states that Sarah has been the Doctor's special assistant for two years.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Magic Box (short story)|The Magic Box]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Which Way Out? (short story)|Which Way Out?]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[System Shock (novel)|System Shock]]''
: Set between ''The Seeds of Doom'' and ''The Masque of Mandragora''. It has been one month from her perspective since Sarah Jane has seen Harry.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Pescatons (audio story)|Doctor Who and the Pescatons]]''
: Set between ''The Seeds of Doom'' and ''The Masque of Mandragora''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sleeping Beast (short story)|The Sleeping Beast]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sands of Tymus (short story)|The Sands of Tymus]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Rival Robots (comic story)|The Rival Robots]]''
* [[PROSE]]: [[A New Life (1978 short story)|''A New Life'' (1978)]]
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Traitor (comic story)|The Traitor]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sea of Faces (short story)|The Sea of Faces]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Categorical Imperative (short story)|Categorical Imperative]]''
: The Doctor and Sarah go back in time to save the [[Eighth Doctor]] after he fails to kill a dictator as a baby.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr. Fourth (novel)|Dr. Fourth]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]''
: The Doctor begins using the secondary control room in the TARDIS.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Jackals of Space (comic story)|Jackals of Space]]''
: The Doctor is using the secondary control room, setting this after ''The Masque of Mandragora''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Android Maker of Calderon IV (short story)|The Android Maker of Calderon IV]]''
: Sarah recalls the events of ''The Masque of Mandragora''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity (short story)|Eternity]]''
: The Doctor is using the secondary control room, setting this after ''The Masque of Mandragora''.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Autaia Pipipi Pia (short story)|Autaia Pipipi Pia]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Hello Goodbye (short story)|Hello Goodbye]]''
: The Doctor is using the secondary control room, setting this after ''The Masque of Mandragora''.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Where's the Doctor? (comic story)|Where's the Doctor?]]''
: The Doctor and Sarah attend the [[coronation]] of [[Elizabeth II]].
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exploration Earth (audio story)|Exploration Earth: The Time Machine]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Naked Flame (comic story)|The Naked Flame]]''
: Sarah is wearing her Andy Pandy clothes, setting this shortly before ''The Hand of Fear''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]''
:Sarah Jane is left on [[Earth]].
: Sarah decides she has had enough of life in the TARDIS, and the Doctor receives a summons from Gallifrey, forcing him to leave her behind.
 
=== After leaving the TARDIS ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Past Lives (audio story)|Past Lives]]''
:: Set directly after ''The Hand of Fear''. Sarah Jane is kidnapped by the Monk and reunited with a degenerated Doctor. She meets Kate Stewart and Osgood for the first time.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ships (short story)|Ships]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Suitors, Inc. (short story)|Suitors, Inc.]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Suitors, Inc. (short story)|Suitors, Inc.]]''
:Set in 1979.
: Set in 1979. Sarah recalls the events of ''Old Flames''.
 
=== Living in Moreton Harwood ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)|A Girl's Best Friend]]''
: Set in 1981.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Still Need a Title! (short story)|Still Need a Title!]]''
: Sarah believes the Doctor did not live past his fourth life, until K9 tells her that he did regenerate, setting this before ''The Five Doctors''.


===Sarah and K9===
* [[TV]]: ''[[A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)|A Girl's Best Friend]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[K9 and Company (novelisation)]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Powerstone (short story)|Powerstone]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Powerstone (short story)|Powerstone]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shroud of Azaroth (short story)|The Shroud of Azaroth]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shroud of Azaroth (short story)|The Shroud of Azaroth]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Hound of Hell (short story)|Hound of Hell]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Hound of Hell (short story)|Hound of Hell]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Monster of Loch Crag (short story)|The Monster of Loch Crag]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Monster of Loch Crag (short story)|The Monster of Loch Crag]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Horror Hotel (short story)|Horror Hotel]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Horror Hotel (short story)|Horror Hotel]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Curse of Kanbo-Ala (short story)|The Curse of Kanbo-Ala]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Curse of Kanbo-Ala (short story)|The Curse of Kanbo-Ala]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[City of Devils (comic story)|City of Devils]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sow in Rut (short story)|The Sow in Rut]]''
=== Return to London ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Harry Sullivan's War (novel)|Harry Sullivan's War]]''
: Set in May 1983.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Farewells (short story)|Farewells]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Train-Flight (comic story)|Train-Flight]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Train-Flight (comic story)|Train-Flight]]''
:Set in 1990.
: In 1990, Sarah Jane meets the [[Seventh Doctor]] for the first time.  
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming (short story)|Housewarming]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Housewarming (short story)|Housewarming]]''
:Sarah remembers meeting the Master in ''The Five Doctors''.
: Sarah remembers meeting the Master in ''The Five Doctors''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Fond Memories (short story)|Fond Memories]]''
 
* [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]''
* [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]''
:Set in 1995.
: Set in 1995.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'' / ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]''
 
:Set in 1996.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Balloon Debate (short story)|Balloon Debate]]''
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[Bullet Time (novel)|Bullet Time]]''
: Sarah has K9 Mark III and is struggling with writer's block.
:Set in 1997. Sarah's death here is undone during the events of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]''
: Set in 1996. K9 is still working.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Bullet Time (novel)|Bullet Time]]''
: Set in 1997. Sarah is killed at the end of the story. However this was orchestrated by the [[Council of Eight]] and was undone when the [[Eighth Doctor]] defeated them in ''Sometime Never...''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Moving On (short story)|Moving On]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Moving On (short story)|Moving On]]''
:K9 is beginning to break down.
: K9 is beginning to break down.


===Natalie Redfern and Josh Townsend===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Girls' Night In (short story)|Girls' Night In]]''
: Sarah Jane meets up with [[Tegan Jovanka]], [[Liz Shaw]], [[Jo Grant]] and [[Ace McShane]]. She is a published author who has turned her adventures with the Doctor into novels.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Dog's Life (short story)|A Dog's Life]]''
: K9 shuts down.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Mutual Friend (short story)|A Mutual Friend]]''
: Set in the [[21st century]]. Sarah is a journalist.
 
=== Targeted by the Orbus Postramo ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Comeback (audio story)|Comeback]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Comeback (audio story)|Comeback]]''
: Set in [[2002]].
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Tao Connection (audio story)|The Tao Connection]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Tao Connection (audio story)|The Tao Connection]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Test of Nerve (audio story)|Test of Nerve]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Test of Nerve (audio story)|Test of Nerve]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Town (audio story)|Ghost Town]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Town (audio story)|Ghost Town]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre (audio story)|Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre (audio story)|Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Have You Seen This Man? (short story)|Have You Seen This Man?]]''
: In [[March]] [[2005]], Sarah Jane asked anybody who had seen the Doctor on the website [[Doctor Who?]] to contact her as she wanted to get in contact with the Doctor.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Buried Secrets (audio story)|Buried Secrets]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Buried Secrets (audio story)|Buried Secrets]]''
: Set in [[2006]].
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Snow Blind (audio story)|Snow Blind]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Snow Blind (audio story)|Snow Blind]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fatal Consequences (audio story)|Fatal Consequences]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fatal Consequences (audio story)|Fatal Consequences]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dreamland (audio story)|Dreamland]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dreamland (audio story)|Dreamland]]''


===Bannerman Road===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]
* [[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]''
: Sarah Jane mentions witnessing the Sycorax Ship "Christmas just gone" and thinking that she "bet [the Doctor] is up there."
* [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (novelisation)|Invasion of the Bane]]''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (novelisation)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]''
=== A new K9 ===
: Takes place shortly after ''Invasion of the Bane''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)|Eye of the Gorgon]]''' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (novelisation)|Eye of the Gorgon]]''
: Set in Early 2007.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)|Warriors of Kudlak]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (novelisation)|Warriors of Kudlak]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Glittering Storm (audio story)|The Glittering Stone]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Dog's Life (short story)|A Dog's Life]]''
: Set during ''School Reunion'', while the [[Tenth Doctor]] and Sarah Jane are repairing K9.
 
:''Sarah Jane meets [[General]] [[Sanchez]] of [[UNIT-US]].'' ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
 
=== Bannerman Road gang begins ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]''  
: Set in [[August]] [[2008]]. Sarah Jane meets [[Maria Jackson]] and adopts [[Luke Smith]], who was "born a thirteen year old boy" due to being made artificially by the [[Bane (Invasion of the Bane)|Bane]]. K9 has been guarding a black hole for "a year and a half".
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]''  
: Set in [[September]] [[2008]], shortly after ''Invasion of the Bane''. A new school year has started at [[Park Vale Comprehensive School]], and Maria and Luke, who is now "fourteen", befriend [[Clyde Langer]], who joins the [[Bannerman Road gang]] while foiling a plot by the [[Slitheen family]]. Sarah Jane begins letting Luke call her his mother, at Clyde's urging.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)|Eye of the Gorgon]]''  
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)|Warriors of Kudlak]]''  
: Luke has been experimenting with [[joke]]s, and asks Clyde about girls after receiving his first [[kiss]]. Luke, Maria and Clyde go into space for the first time.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Glittering Storm (audio story)|The Glittering Storm]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Thirteenth Stone (audio story)|The Thirteenth Stone]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Thirteenth Stone (audio story)|The Thirteenth Stone]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (novelisation)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'' ([[2008]])
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lost Boy (novelisation)|The Lost Boy]]''
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
: Continues from ''Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?''{{'}}s cliffhanger.
:: ''"The other week" relative to ''Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?'', Sarah Jane and Maria help a [[Verron soothsayer]] to get home. Sarah Jane receives a [[Verron puzzle box]] and a [[warp star]] from the soothsayer.'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'', ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'' / ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]''
 
: Maria is still in [[England]] and Rani is not mentioned, likely placing it before ''The Last Sontaran''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (novelisation)|The Last Sontaran]]''
: Sarah Jane fights [[the Trickster]] for the first time. Alan fights a [[Graske]] and demands answers from Sarah Jane, leading directly into ''The Lost Boy''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[Day of the Clown (novelisation)|Day of the Clown]]''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]''  
: Set five months after ''Invasion of the Bane'' at the most. Despite the initial shock, Alan gives Maria his blessing to continue having her adventures with Sarah Jane. Mr Smith reveals himself to be a [[Xylok]] with intentions of destroying the world, but he is rebooted into a benevolent being by the [[Armageddon virus]]. Sarah Jane meets [[Celeste Rivers]] at the [[Pharos Institute]], and Clyde meets K9 for the first time.
 
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Chute! Episode 9 (TV story)|Chute! Episode 9]]''
: Broadcast between ''The Lost Boy'' and ''The Stolen Earth''. Maria is still part of the gang.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]''
: Set in [[2009]], between [[May]] and [[June]]. With Maria and Alan in [[Cornwall]], and Clyde staying to protect his mother, Sarah Jane and Luke join with [[Torchwood Three]], [[Martha Jones]] and [[Harriet Jones]] on the [[Sub-Wave Network]] to summon the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble]] to [[Earth]] after it is moved to the [[Medusa Cascade]] by the [[New Dalek Empire]]. Leaving Luke under Mr Smith's protection, Sarah Jane goes to find the Doctor, only to be ambushed by the Daleks, leading directly into ''Journey's End''.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]''
: Sarah Jane is saved by [[Mickey Smith]] and [[Jackie Tyler]], and they are taken to the ''[[Crucible]]'', where the [[Metacrisis Tenth Doctor]] destroys the Daleks. Luke, Mr Smith and K9 then assist in returning the Earth to its proper location, and Sarah Jane returns to them. Luke is still "fourteen".
 
=== After the Dalek invasion ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]''
: Maria and Alan move to [[Washington DC|Washington, DC]] in [[America]] six weeks after the Bannerman Road gang defeat [[Commander]] [[Kaagh]] of the [[Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet]]. Alien life is now common knowledge on Earth, implying a setting after ''Journey's End''. While Chrissie's hair is noticeably longer, she implies that Alan has only recently moved to Bannerman Road.
 
=== Rani joins the gang ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]''  
: Set in [[October]] [[2009]]. [[Rani Chandra]] moves into 36 Bannerman Road and becomes a part of Sarah Jane's gang during their fight with the [[Pied Piper]]. While it has been a "while" since the disappearance of Park Vale [[Headmaster]] [[Greg Blakeman]] in ''Revenge of the Slitheen'', Headmaster [[Haresh Chandra]] observes that Luke has shown impressive results over the "past year", but it is unclear if he is referring to the year date or the school year. Maria notes in an email that it "feels like only yesterday" that she left Bannerman Road. According to Luke, the Bannerman Road gang has saved the world "twelve times", indicating three currently unmentioned other adventures.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time Capsule (audio story)|The Time Capsule]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time Capsule (audio story)|The Time Capsule]]''
: Set at least a whole year after ''Invasion of the Bane'', and shortly after ''The Day the Clown'', with Rani not having had time to apply for work experience due to moving.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ghost House (audio story)|The Ghost House]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ghost House (audio story)|The Ghost House]]''
: Mr Smith recalls the recent events of ''The Lost Boy''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]''
: According to [[Martin Trueman]], Rani has still only "just moved house", setting this shortly after ''The Day of the Clown''. Luke is given an official birthday.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Berserker (TV story)|The Mark of the Berserker]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Berserker (TV story)|The Mark of the Berserker]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
: Rani and Luke experience time travel for the first time when the Trickster tries to manipulate Sarah Jane into preventing her parents' deaths in [[1951]], only for them to sacrifice their lives to stop him. Clyde recalls the events of ''Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?'' as happening "last year", and he helps [[Krislok]] the Graske escape his enslavement by the Trickster.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane (TV story)|Enemy of the Bane]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane (TV story)|Enemy of the Bane]]''
: As Luke would recount in ''Sarah Jane's Alien Files: Episode 3'', the events of ''The Last Sontaran'' are still a recent affair. When Mrs Wormwood and Kaagh return for revenge, Sarah Jane visits [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] for the fist time in a "long time" to get his help in retrieving the [[Tunguska Scroll]] from the [[Black Archive]]. When Wormwood betrays Kaagh when she tries to find [[Horath]], Kaagh drags her into anther dimension. UNIT do not know about Luke's origins, and Clyde shows an interest in joining them. Kaagh destroy the [[sonic lipstick]], but Sarah Jane reveals that she has a spare.
* [[TV]]: ''[[From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love (TV story)|From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love (TV story)|From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[Judoon Afternoon (novelisation)|Judoon Afernoon]]''
: Rani appears to already know K9.
* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Androvax (webcast)|Alien File Androvax]]''
 
=== Recording the Alien Files ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]''
: The black hole [[K9 Mark IV]] guarded is swallowed up.
: When Rani is contacted by her old friend [[Samuel Lloyd]], who she had told of her adventures with Sarah Jane, the Bannerman Road gang travel to [[Danemouth]], where they help power [[Ship (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Ship]] with the black hole [[K9 Mark IV]] is guarding, closing the singularity and allowing K9 to return to 13 Bannerman Road. Luke, who is now roughly "fifteen", has fully grasped the concept of deception, and Sarah Jane is told she will soon be reunited with the Doctor.
* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Eve (webcast)|Alien File: Eve]]''
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Monster Hunt (comic story)|Monster Hunt]]''
: K9 has returned to 13 Bannerman Road, setting this after ''The Mad Woman in the Attic''.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
: Sarah Jane nearly marries [[Peter Dalton]] as part of a plot concocted by the Trickster. The Tenth Doctor arrives to foil his plans, meeting Clyde and Rani for the first time, as well as meeting Luke in person for the first time since ''Journey's End''.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Eternity Trap (TV story)|The Eternity Trap]]''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]''  
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]''
: Sarah Jane prevents the [[Slitheen-Blathereen family]] from poisoning the world with [[Rakweed]]. Luke is still only "fifteen".
 
=== Luke's final adventures ===
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Krulius (comic story)|Return of the Krulius]]''
: Sequel to ''Monster Hunt''.
 
* [[GAME]]: ''[[Plants (video game)|Plants]]''
: Sequel to ''The Gift''.
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]''
: Sarah Jane meets the Tenth Doctor again, and has a photograph of them from her wedding, setting this between ''The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith'' and ''The End of Time''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow People (audio story)|The Shadow People]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow People (audio story)|The Shadow People]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wraith World (audio story)|Wraith World]]''
: Rani recalls meeting the Doctor, setting this after ''The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Wolf (audio story)|The White Wolf]]''
: Set during [[November]] [[2009]].
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deadly Download (audio story)|Deadly Download]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deadly Download (audio story)|Deadly Download]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Wolf (audio story)|The White Wolf]]''
: Set during [[November]] [[2009]].
* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: The Doctor (webcast)|Alien File: The Doctor]]''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Eternity Trap (TV story)|The Eternity Trap]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Haunted House (novelisation)|The Haunted House]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Erasmus Darkening (webcast)|Alien File: Erasmus Darkening]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[Painting Peril (novelisation)|Painting Peril]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Mona Lisa (webcast)|Alien File: Mona Lisa]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blathereen Dream (novelisation)|Blathereen Dream]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Blathereen (webcast)|Alien File: Blathereen]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Monster Hunt (comic story)|Monster Hunt]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Krulius (comic story)|Return of the Krulius]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''
: This is the last time Sarah Jane sees the Doctor before he returns in his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]] in ''Death of the Doctor''. Luke is still living on Bannerman Road.
: Shortly after [[Christmas]] [[2009]], Luke is saved from being struck by a car by the Doctor, who quickly leaves without speaking a word. Sarah Jane senses that he is about to regenerate when they lock eyes.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (novelisation)|The Nightmare Man]]''
 
: Luke leaves for [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] with K9.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wraith World (audio story)|Wraith World]]''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]''  
: Though Luke has only just started [[Sixth form]], setting this near [[September]] [[2010]], he takes his [[A levels]] a year early and leaves for [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] with K9.
 
=== After Luke left for university ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 1]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 1]]''
: Sarah Jane begins recording her [[Alien Files]] in more detail for use of future defenders of Earth. She mentions how Luke has left for Oxford.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Vault of Secrets (TV story)|The Vault of Secrets]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Vault of Secrets (TV story)|The Vault of Secrets]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 2]]''
: Despite the [[cracks in time]] removing all memory of alien life to the public, Gita still recalls the events of ''Prisoner of the Judoon''. However, her memories of aliens are erased by [[Mister Dread]] after Gita comes face-to-face with Androvax again. Luke has settled into Oxford, but Sarah Jane is still coping with his absence.
* [[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (novelisation)|Death of the Doctor]]''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 3]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]''  
: Set in [[2010]], at least seven months after [[February]], to account for Luke leaving in September 2010. The events of ''School Reunion'' took place "about four years ago", and Luke has still only "just left for university". UNIT is now aware of Sarah Jane having Mr Smith in her attic. When the [[Claw Shansheeth]] fake the Doctor's death, Sarah Jane meets [[Jo Grant]] at the staged funeral, and the pair help the [[Eleventh Doctor]] foil their plans. Sarah Jane has not seen the Doctor since ''The End of Time'', and has her first meeting with his eleventh incarnation.
 
* [[GAME]]: ''[[Monster Morpher (video game)|Monster Morpher]]''
: The gang are aware of the Shansheeth, setting this after ''Death of the Doctor''. Luke is at 13 Bannerman Road, presumably visiting from university.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Planet (TV story)|The Empty Planet]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Planet (TV story)|The Empty Planet]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 4]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 4]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Lost in Time (TV story)|Lost in Time]]''
: Set on [[23 November]] [[2010]]. The Bannerman Road gang meet [[The Shopkeeper (Lost in Time)|the Shopkeeper]] for the first time, and he sends Sarah Jane to help [[Emily Morris|a paranormal investigator]] in [[1889]].
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Defending Bannerman Road (comic story)|Defending Bannerman Road]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Defending Bannerman Road (comic story)|Defending Bannerman Road]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Lost in Time (TV story)|Lost in Time]]''
: Sequel to ''Return of the Krulius''. The Krulius has a photo from the events of ''Death of the Doctor''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 5]]''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 6]]''
: Luke visits from Oxford to help save Sarah Jane from a [[Qetesh]] called "[[Ruby White]]".
 
* [[WC]]: ''[[Chris Meets... (TV story)|Chris Meets...]]''
: Sarah Jane meets [[Chris (Chris Meets...)|Chris Johnson]] while investigating alien activity at the [[BBC Television Centre]].
 
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
:: ''Sarah Jane investigates a fossilised [[Silurian]] egg at the Pharos Institute with Clyde and Rani. ([[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 6]]'')''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill (short story)|Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill]]''
: Sarah Jane catches up with the Eleventh Doctor, mentioning that she intends to meet with Luke in "twenty minutes", though Sky goes unmentioned, implying a setting before ''Sky''. The Doctor hands her a fez, instructing her to deliver it to Clyde for him as a gift.
 
=== Adopting Sky ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Sky (TV story)|Sky]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Sky (TV story)|Sky]]''
: Sky is adopted by Sarah Jane
: The Shopkeeper leaves a [[Fleshkind (Sky)|Fleshkind]] bio-weapon baby with Sarah Jane for safekeeping, and, after she is aged up to a 12-year-old, she is adopted as "[[Sky Smith]]".
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Clyde Langer (TV story)|The Curse of Clyde Langer]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Clyde Langer (TV story)|The Curse of Clyde Langer]]''
: Set "barely a month" after ''Sky''.
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was (TV story)|The Man Who Never Was]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Man Who Never Was (TV story)|The Man Who Never Was]]''
: Luke and Sky meet face-to-face for the first time, and come to embrace each other as siblings.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Children of Steel (audio story)|Children of Steel]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Children of Steel (audio story)|Children of Steel]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judgement Day (SJA audio story)|Judgement Day]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judgement Day (SJA audio story)|Judgement Day]]''


== Unplaced ==
=== Later life ===
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Doomcloud (comic story)|Doomcloud]]''
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Visitors to the Vault (short story)|Visitors to the Vault]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Perils of Paris (comic story)|Perils of Paris]]''
: In [[2017]], Sarah Jane and Jo visit the [[Twelfth Doctor]] at [[St Luke's University]]. Sarah Jane is now living on her own at 13 Bannerman Road, with Luke, Clyde, and Rani having long since "flown the nest".
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Who's Who? (comic story)|Who's Who?]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Thief (short story)|The Time Thief]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lily (short story)|Lily]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Before the Legend (short story)|Before the Legend]]''
: Sarah Jane has a granddaughter named Lily.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Scorched Earth (short story)|Scorched Earth]]''
 
* [[COMIC]]: [[A New Life (1976)|''A New Life'' (1976)]]
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)|Heroes of Earth]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hospitality on Hankus (short story)|The Hospitality on Hankus]]''
: Sarah Jane writes a letter to Luke and Sky, reflecting on her life and letting her children know that it's okay to let her go and move on with their lives, suggesting a setting shortly before ''Farewell, Sarah Jane''.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Psychic Jungle (comic story)|The Psychic Jungle]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sinister Sponge (short story)|The Sinister Sponge]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Farewell, Sarah Jane (webcast)|Farewell, Sarah Jane]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Neuronic Nightmare (comic story)|Neuronic Nightmare]]''
: After Sarah Jane passes away, both her friends, and friends of the Doctor, attend her wake on a [[spring]] day, and repel a final attack from the Trickster. Though no date is given, Luke has been married to [[Sanjay (Death of the Doctor)|his husband]] for five years, and Jo is still alive, which would set this before [[2028]]. Going by how little Luke, Rani and Clyde have aged, it is implied that Sarah Jane died in [[2020]], the year the story was released.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Avast There! (short story)|Avast There!]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mission (short story)|The Mission]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[War on Aquatica (short story)|War on Aquatica]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cyclone Terror (short story)|Cyclone Terror]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Snatch (short story)|The Time Snatch]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Body Snatcher (comic story)|The Body Snatcher]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eye-Spiders of Pergross (short story)|The Eye-Spiders of Pergross]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Detour to Diamedes (short story)|Detour to Diamedes]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Double Trouble (short story)|Double Trouble]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Menace on Metalupiter (comic story)|Menace on Metalupiter]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Secret of the Bald Planet (short story)|Secret of the Bald Planet]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sleeping Beast (short story)|The Sleeping Beast]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sands of Tymus (short story)|The Sands of Tymus]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Rival Robots (comic story)|The Rival Robots]]''
* [[PROSE]]: [[A New Life (1978 short story)|''A New Life'' (1978)]]
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Traitor (comic story)|The Traitor]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sea of Faces (short story)|The Sea of Faces]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Signal S.O.S. (short story)|Signal S.O.S.]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Magic Box (short story)|The Magic Box]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Which Way Out? (short story)|Which Way Out?]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Death Flower (comic story)|Death Flower]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Daleks (TVC comic story)|Return of the Daleks]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Wreckers (comic story)|The Wreckers]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Emperor's Spy (comic story)|The Emperor's Spy]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Sinister Sea (comic story)|The Sinister Sea]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Woden's Warriors (comic story)|Woden's Warriors]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Space Ghost (comic story)|The Space Ghost]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dalek Revenge (comic story)|The Dalek Revenge]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Virus (comic story)|Virus]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Treasure Trail (comic story)|Treasure Trail]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Hubert's Folly (comic story)|Hubert's Folly]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Counter-Rotation (comic story)|Counter-Rotation]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Mind Snatch (comic story)|Mind Snatch]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hoaxers (comic story)|The Hoaxers]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Tansbury Experiment (comic story)|The Tansbury Experiment]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Mutant Strain (comic story)|The Mutant Strain]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Double Trouble (comic story)|Double Trouble]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Jackals of Space (comic story)|Jackals of Space]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Dredger (comic story)|Dredger]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exploration Earth (audio story)|Exploration Earth]]''
* ''[[The Vampires of Crellium (short story)|The Vampires of Crellium]]''
* ''[[On the Slippery Trail (short story)|On the Slippery Trail]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Harry Sullivan's War (novel)|Harry Sullivan's War]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Heat-Seekers (short story)|The Heat-Seekers]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Black Destiny (comic story)|Black Destiny]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Ground Zero (comic story)|Ground Zero]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ships (short story)|Ships]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Girls' Night In (short story)|Girls' Night In]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Playtime (short story)|Playtime]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Fond Memories (short story)|Fond Memories]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Farewells (short story)|Farewells]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[City of Devils (comic story)|City of Devils]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hungry Bomb (short story)|The Hungry Bomb]]''
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Naked Flame (comic story)|The Naked Flame]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[System Shock (novel)|System Shock]]''
== Awaiting Placement ==
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Managra (novel)|Managra]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Duke of Dominoes (short story)|The Duke of Dominoes]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Box of Terrors (audio story)|The Box of Terrors]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Scarab of Death (short story)|Scarab of Death]]''
: 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.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Old Flames (short story)|Old Flames]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Revolution in Space (audio story)|Revolution in Space]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Rights (short story)|Rights]]''
: 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.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sow in Rut (short story)|The Sow in Rut]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Android Maker of Calderon IV (short story)|The Android Maker of Calderon IV]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Balloon Debate (short story)|Balloon Debate]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Discourse of Flies (short story)|The Discourse of Flies]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[An Overture Too Early (short story)|An Overture Too Early]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity (short story)|Eternity]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[All Done with Mirrors (short story)|All Done with Mirrors]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[To Kill a Nandi Bear (short story)|To Kill a Nandi Bear]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Primitives (short story)|Primitives]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Republican's Story (short story)|The Republican's Story]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Categorical Imperative (short story)|Categorical Imperative]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Observer Effect (short story)|Observer Effect]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lily (short story)|Lily]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass (short story)|UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Broadcast (short story)|The Last Broadcast]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Neptune (short story)|Neptune]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lampblack Wars (short story)|The Lampblack Wars]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Separation Day (short story)|Separation Day]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Nanomorphosis (short story)|Nanomorphosis]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dragons of Prague (short story)|The Dragons of Prague]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Numb (short story)|Numb]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Generation Gap (short story)|Generation Gap]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Link (short story)|Link]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Visit from Saint Nicholas (short story)|A Visit from Saint Nicholas]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Autaia Pipipi Pia (short story)|Autaia Pipipi Pia]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interesting Times (short story)|Interesting Times]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Conscription (short story)|Conscription]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Hello Goodbye (short story)|Hello Goodbye]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blessed Are the Peacemakers (short story)|Blessed Are the Peacemakers]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Amorality Tale (novel)|Amorality Tale]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Dog's Life (short story)|A Dog's Life]]''
[[category:timey-wimey detector|timey-wimey detector]]

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This page lists appearances of Sarah Jane Smith in the order she 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 that for each novel, comic, audio or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

Fan sources like the Doctor Who Reference Guide should not be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Limitations[[edit source]]

Any story with her and the Third Doctor travelling together must be before TV: Planet of the Spiders. Any story with the Fourth Doctor and Harry Sullivan must be after TV: Robot and before TV: Terror of the Zygons, though due to the nature of travel throughout season 12, any story featuring TARDIS travel with Harry (other than TV: The Ark in Space) must take place after TV: Revenge of the Cybermen. Any story with just Sarah Jane and the Fourth Doctor must be after TV: Terror of the Zygons and before TV: The Hand of Fear. Any story featuring K9 Mark III must be after TV: A Girl's Best Friend and before TV: School Reunion.

Any story with Maria, Luke and Clyde on her team must be after TV: Revenge of the Slitheen and before TV: The Last Sontaran. Any story with Clyde and Rani must be after TV: The Last Sontaran. Any story with K9 Mark IV defending the black hole must be between TV: Invasion of the Bane and TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic. Any story with K9 freely around in Bannerman Road must be after TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic and before TV: The Nightmare Man. Any story with Luke at Oxford with K9 must be after TV: The Nightmare Man. Any story with Sky must be after TV: Sky.

Series basics[[edit source]]

Sarah Jane's adventures can be broadly be divided into these various eras;

  • Her travels with the Doctor (original to television)

Her setup of allies can be further divided into:

Timeline[[edit source]]

Early Life[[edit source]]

Set on 18 August 1951. Sarah Jane is a newborn baby.
As a child.
As a child, about 8 years old.
Sarah Jane is about 12 years old.
As a teenager.

Travels with the Third Doctor[[edit source]]

The Doctor meets Sarah Jane Smith, who becomes a reluctant stowaway aboard the TARDIS.
Set immediately after The Time Warrior, with the Doctor returning Sarah home. She decides to officially join the Doctor's company.
Sarah Jane doesn't know much about the Doctor's origins.
The Doctor tells Sarah Jane about Gallifrey and the Time Lords.
The Doctor has been trying to get Sarah Jane to Florana since they left London in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, but has failed to get her there several times already.
The Doctor and Sarah are traveling to Florana for a holiday, setting this almost immediately after Invasion of the Dinosaurs. Sarah Jane has her first encounter with the Daleks.
The TARDIS is still recovering from the energy drainage sustained in Death to the Daleks.
The Doctor and Sarah finally make it to Florana, setting this after Death to the Daleks.
Set after Death to the Daleks.[source needed]
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 Jane and the Brigadier are kidnapped 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 seven weeks after Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
Sarah has already been to a number of alien worlds.
The Doctor and Sarah are on their way back to Earth.
Set between Death to the Daleks and The Monster of Peladon. [1]
Sarah mentions her vacation in Sicily, setting this after The Ghosts of N-Space.
Sarah Jane and the Doctor have just left Peladon, setting this after The Monster of Peladon.
Set immediately after Alien Bodies, with the Doctor and Sarah intending to return to Earth. 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, the Doctor is shot by Magdelana Bishop, and begins to regenerate into his next incarnation.
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...)
Sarah is wearing the leather jacket seen in The Monster of Peladon.
Set between The Monster of Peladon and Planet of the Spiders, with the Doctor feeling morbid after his brush with death on Peladon.
Set after The Monster of Peladon.[source needed]
Sarah recalls meeting Aggedor on Peladon, setting this after The Monster of Peladon.
Set after The Monster of Peladon.[source needed]
Set shortly before Planet of the Spiders.
Confronting the Great One of the Eight Legs, the Doctor receives a lethal dose of radiation, but is able to escape in the TARDIS. After the TARDIS finally lands back at UNIT HQ, the Doctor is able to regenerate into his next incarnation with assistance from K'anpo Rimpoche.

Travels with the Fourth Doctor[[edit source]]

Set immediately after Planet of the Spiders, with the Doctor's regeneration stabilising. Though he intends a fresh start by leaving UNIT behind, the Doctor accepts Sarah's offer to let her travel with him. UNIT doctor Harry Sullivan follows them into the TARDIS.
Harry is taking his first trip in the TARDIS, setting this directly after Robot. The TARDIS crew arrive at the Nerva Beacon due to Harry fiddling with TARDIS, and volunteer to beam down to Earth to do repairs, leading directly into The Sontaran Experiment.
The TARDIS crew fix the faulty equipment on Earth and beam back to the Nerva Beacon.
Set immediately after The Sontaran Experiment. The Time Lords intercept to transmat beam and give the Doctor a Time Ring and a mission on Skaro, where the Doctor meets Davros and witnesses the creation of the Daleks.
The Doctor, Sarah and Harry are scattered across the Adelphine Cluster due to temporal disruption interfering with the Time Ring, setting this immediately after Genesis of the Daleks. The Doctor claims to be 748-years-old.
The Doctor, Sarah and Harry are still using the Time Ring, setting this shortly after Genesis of the Daleks.
Just as they retrieve the TARDIS from the Nerva Beacon, the TARDIS crew receive a summons from the Brigadier, leading into Terror of the Zygons.
The TARDIS still needs time to recover from the solar flare radiation from Revenge of the Cybermen.
The Doctor is attempting to travel to Scotland, but the TARDIS is knocked off course and arrives on the Zephyr instead.
The Doctor and his companions expect to find the Loch Ness on exiting the TARDIS, setting this shortly before Terror of the Zygons.
The Doctor, Sarah and Harry are wearing their costumes from Terror of the Zygons. The TARDIS is knocked off course after an attempt to get to Scotland. After returning Godric to the arthurian times, the TARDIS makes its way to Scotland, leading into Terror of the Zygons.
Ending leads directly into Terror of the Zygons.
The TARDIS crew make it to Scotland, and Harry decides to remain on Earth with UNIT.
Set immediately after Terror of the Zygons, with the TARDIS having just left Loch Ness for London.
The Doctor claims to have travelled over 30,000 years to get to the 17th century, implying that this takes place immediately after Planet of Evil. The Doctor is blamed for the Great Fire of London, setting this before Pyramids of Mars.
Sarah and the Doctor are still wearing the clothes they wore in Planet of Evil.
The Doctor and Sarah are still trying to get back to London.
Set immediately after Pyramids of Mars.
The Doctor is wearing a burgundy coat, and Sarah observes that he has been moody as of late, setting this shortly after Pyramids of Mars.
The Doctor and Sarah make it to London after leaving for it in Terror of the Zygons, and enduring side-tracks during Planet of Evil and Pyramids of Mars.
The Doctor and Sarah Jane return to UNIT HQ, and base themselves on Earth, with the Doctor staying at a cottage and resuming use of Bessie, (COMIC: Death Flower, Return of the Daleks) while Sarah Jane continues working as an investigative reporter. (COMIC: The Hoaxers) However, they frequently take side trips, and are often accompanied by Harry. (PROSE: A New Life, The Hospitality on Hankus)
The Doctor and Sarah Jane both comment on getting used to the Doctor's new face.
The TARDIS is captured by a Renegade Time Lord called Shazar, however, with the Time Lords' help, the Doctor is able to retrieve his ship.
While working with UNIT, the Doctor does research into Richard III for his book, Doctor Who Discovers Historical Mysteries. (AUDIO: The Kingmaker)
The Doctor and Sarah leave UNIT HQ to take a trip in the TARDIS. The Brigadier is not happy and questions Harry on their whereabouts.
Though the book's blurb places this between Planet of Evil and Pyramids of Mars, the Doctor and Sarah aren't trying to get to London.
The Doctor and Sarah have faced Sutekh, and the TARDIS has its primary interior, setting this between Pyramids of Mars and The Masque of Mandragora. The Doctor claims the Brigadier will be angry if he returns without Sarah, and Sarah is excited to see the look on Harry's face when they tell him they met his great-grandparents.
Sarah recalls the events of The Android Invasion.
The Doctor alludes to the recent events of Terror of the Zygons and The Android Invasion.
The Time Lords take control of Bessie, and send the Doctor on a mission to defeat the Daleks on the planet Ercos.
The Time Lords direct the TARDIS to a synthetic jungle inside a space station.
The Time Lords direct the TARDIS to a vineyard in Italy so that the Doctor can save some art treasures.
The Doctor complains about the Time Lords "messing about with the TARDIS", setting this after the comic stories set between Return of the Daleks and Treasure Trail, where the Time Lord had been doing so.
Sarah refers to the recent events of The Brain of Morbius.
Set shortly after The Brain of Morbius.
Set a few days after Treasure Trail.
Sarah understands that it takes time for radio waves to travel between Mars and Earth, setting this after Pyramids of Mars.
Sarah claims it is Christmas in her time period.
The novelisation states that Sarah has been the Doctor's special assistant for two years.
Set between The Seeds of Doom and The Masque of Mandragora. It has been one month from her perspective since Sarah Jane has seen Harry.
Set between The Seeds of Doom and The Masque of Mandragora.
The Doctor and Sarah go back in time to save the Eighth Doctor after he fails to kill a dictator as a baby.
The Doctor begins using the secondary control room in the TARDIS.
The Doctor is using the secondary control room, setting this after The Masque of Mandragora.
Sarah recalls the events of The Masque of Mandragora.
The Doctor is using the secondary control room, setting this after The Masque of Mandragora.
The Doctor is using the secondary control room, setting this after The Masque of Mandragora.
The Doctor and Sarah attend the coronation of Elizabeth II.
Sarah is wearing her Andy Pandy clothes, setting this shortly before The Hand of Fear.
Sarah decides she has had enough of life in the TARDIS, and the Doctor receives a summons from Gallifrey, forcing him to leave her behind.

After leaving the TARDIS[[edit source]]

Set directly after The Hand of Fear. Sarah Jane is kidnapped by the Monk and reunited with a degenerated Doctor. She meets Kate Stewart and Osgood for the first time.
Set in 1979. Sarah recalls the events of Old Flames.

Living in Moreton Harwood[[edit source]]

Set in 1981.
Sarah believes the Doctor did not live past his fourth life, until K9 tells her that he did regenerate, setting this before The Five Doctors.

Return to London[[edit source]]

Set in May 1983.
In 1990, Sarah Jane meets the Seventh Doctor for the first time.
Sarah remembers meeting the Master in The Five Doctors.
Set in 1995.
Sarah has K9 Mark III and is struggling with writer's block.
Set in 1996. K9 is still working.
Set in 1997. Sarah is killed at the end of the story. However this was orchestrated by the Council of Eight and was undone when the Eighth Doctor defeated them in Sometime Never...
K9 is beginning to break down.
Sarah Jane meets up with Tegan Jovanka, Liz Shaw, Jo Grant and Ace McShane. She is a published author who has turned her adventures with the Doctor into novels.
K9 shuts down.
Set in the 21st century. Sarah is a journalist.

Targeted by the Orbus Postramo[[edit source]]

Set in 2002.
In March 2005, Sarah Jane asked anybody who had seen the Doctor on the website Doctor Who? to contact her as she wanted to get in contact with the Doctor.
Set in 2006.
Sarah Jane mentions witnessing the Sycorax Ship "Christmas just gone" and thinking that she "bet [the Doctor] is up there."

A new K9[[edit source]]

Set in Early 2007.
Set during School Reunion, while the Tenth Doctor and Sarah Jane are repairing K9.
Sarah Jane meets General Sanchez of UNIT-US. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)

Bannerman Road gang begins[[edit source]]

Set in August 2008. Sarah Jane meets Maria Jackson and adopts Luke Smith, who was "born a thirteen year old boy" due to being made artificially by the Bane. K9 has been guarding a black hole for "a year and a half".
Set in September 2008, shortly after Invasion of the Bane. A new school year has started at Park Vale Comprehensive School, and Maria and Luke, who is now "fourteen", befriend Clyde Langer, who joins the Bannerman Road gang while foiling a plot by the Slitheen family. Sarah Jane begins letting Luke call her his mother, at Clyde's urging.
Luke has been experimenting with jokes, and asks Clyde about girls after receiving his first kiss. Luke, Maria and Clyde go into space for the first time.
(REFERENCE)
"The other week" relative to Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, Sarah Jane and Maria help a Verron soothsayer to get home. Sarah Jane receives a Verron puzzle box and a warp star from the soothsayer. (TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, Journey's End)
Sarah Jane fights the Trickster for the first time. Alan fights a Graske and demands answers from Sarah Jane, leading directly into The Lost Boy.
Set five months after Invasion of the Bane at the most. Despite the initial shock, Alan gives Maria his blessing to continue having her adventures with Sarah Jane. Mr Smith reveals himself to be a Xylok with intentions of destroying the world, but he is rebooted into a benevolent being by the Armageddon virus. Sarah Jane meets Celeste Rivers at the Pharos Institute, and Clyde meets K9 for the first time.
Broadcast between The Lost Boy and The Stolen Earth. Maria is still part of the gang.
Set in 2009, between May and June. With Maria and Alan in Cornwall, and Clyde staying to protect his mother, Sarah Jane and Luke join with Torchwood Three, Martha Jones and Harriet Jones on the Sub-Wave Network to summon the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble to Earth after it is moved to the Medusa Cascade by the New Dalek Empire. Leaving Luke under Mr Smith's protection, Sarah Jane goes to find the Doctor, only to be ambushed by the Daleks, leading directly into Journey's End.
Sarah Jane is saved by Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler, and they are taken to the Crucible, where the Metacrisis Tenth Doctor destroys the Daleks. Luke, Mr Smith and K9 then assist in returning the Earth to its proper location, and Sarah Jane returns to them. Luke is still "fourteen".

After the Dalek invasion[[edit source]]

Maria and Alan move to Washington, DC in America six weeks after the Bannerman Road gang defeat Commander Kaagh of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet. Alien life is now common knowledge on Earth, implying a setting after Journey's End. While Chrissie's hair is noticeably longer, she implies that Alan has only recently moved to Bannerman Road.

Rani joins the gang[[edit source]]

Set in October 2009. Rani Chandra moves into 36 Bannerman Road and becomes a part of Sarah Jane's gang during their fight with the Pied Piper. While it has been a "while" since the disappearance of Park Vale Headmaster Greg Blakeman in Revenge of the Slitheen, Headmaster Haresh Chandra observes that Luke has shown impressive results over the "past year", but it is unclear if he is referring to the year date or the school year. Maria notes in an email that it "feels like only yesterday" that she left Bannerman Road. According to Luke, the Bannerman Road gang has saved the world "twelve times", indicating three currently unmentioned other adventures.
Set at least a whole year after Invasion of the Bane, and shortly after The Day the Clown, with Rani not having had time to apply for work experience due to moving.
Mr Smith recalls the recent events of The Lost Boy.
According to Martin Trueman, Rani has still only "just moved house", setting this shortly after The Day of the Clown. Luke is given an official birthday.
Rani and Luke experience time travel for the first time when the Trickster tries to manipulate Sarah Jane into preventing her parents' deaths in 1951, only for them to sacrifice their lives to stop him. Clyde recalls the events of Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? as happening "last year", and he helps Krislok the Graske escape his enslavement by the Trickster.
As Luke would recount in Sarah Jane's Alien Files: Episode 3, the events of The Last Sontaran are still a recent affair. When Mrs Wormwood and Kaagh return for revenge, Sarah Jane visits Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart for the fist time in a "long time" to get his help in retrieving the Tunguska Scroll from the Black Archive. When Wormwood betrays Kaagh when she tries to find Horath, Kaagh drags her into anther dimension. UNIT do not know about Luke's origins, and Clyde shows an interest in joining them. Kaagh destroy the sonic lipstick, but Sarah Jane reveals that she has a spare.
Rani appears to already know K9.

Recording the Alien Files[[edit source]]

When Rani is contacted by her old friend Samuel Lloyd, who she had told of her adventures with Sarah Jane, the Bannerman Road gang travel to Danemouth, where they help power Ship with the black hole K9 Mark IV is guarding, closing the singularity and allowing K9 to return to 13 Bannerman Road. Luke, who is now roughly "fifteen", has fully grasped the concept of deception, and Sarah Jane is told she will soon be reunited with the Doctor.
K9 has returned to 13 Bannerman Road, setting this after The Mad Woman in the Attic.
Sarah Jane nearly marries Peter Dalton as part of a plot concocted by the Trickster. The Tenth Doctor arrives to foil his plans, meeting Clyde and Rani for the first time, as well as meeting Luke in person for the first time since Journey's End.
Sarah Jane prevents the Slitheen-Blathereen family from poisoning the world with Rakweed. Luke is still only "fifteen".

Luke's final adventures[[edit source]]

Sequel to Monster Hunt.
Sequel to The Gift.
Sarah Jane meets the Tenth Doctor again, and has a photograph of them from her wedding, setting this between The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith and The End of Time.
Rani recalls meeting the Doctor, setting this after The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith.
Set during November 2009.
Set during November 2009.
Shortly after Christmas 2009, Luke is saved from being struck by a car by the Doctor, who quickly leaves without speaking a word. Sarah Jane senses that he is about to regenerate when they lock eyes.
Though Luke has only just started Sixth form, setting this near September 2010, he takes his A levels a year early and leaves for Oxford University with K9.

After Luke left for university[[edit source]]

Sarah Jane begins recording her Alien Files in more detail for use of future defenders of Earth. She mentions how Luke has left for Oxford.
Despite the cracks in time removing all memory of alien life to the public, Gita still recalls the events of Prisoner of the Judoon. However, her memories of aliens are erased by Mister Dread after Gita comes face-to-face with Androvax again. Luke has settled into Oxford, but Sarah Jane is still coping with his absence.
Set in 2010, at least seven months after February, to account for Luke leaving in September 2010. The events of School Reunion took place "about four years ago", and Luke has still only "just left for university". UNIT is now aware of Sarah Jane having Mr Smith in her attic. When the Claw Shansheeth fake the Doctor's death, Sarah Jane meets Jo Grant at the staged funeral, and the pair help the Eleventh Doctor foil their plans. Sarah Jane has not seen the Doctor since The End of Time, and has her first meeting with his eleventh incarnation.
The gang are aware of the Shansheeth, setting this after Death of the Doctor. Luke is at 13 Bannerman Road, presumably visiting from university.
Set on 23 November 2010. The Bannerman Road gang meet the Shopkeeper for the first time, and he sends Sarah Jane to help a paranormal investigator in 1889.
Sequel to Return of the Krulius. The Krulius has a photo from the events of Death of the Doctor.
Luke visits from Oxford to help save Sarah Jane from a Qetesh called "Ruby White".
Sarah Jane meets Chris Johnson while investigating alien activity at the BBC Television Centre.
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Sarah Jane investigates a fossilised Silurian egg at the Pharos Institute with Clyde and Rani. (TV: SJAF 6)
Sarah Jane catches up with the Eleventh Doctor, mentioning that she intends to meet with Luke in "twenty minutes", though Sky goes unmentioned, implying a setting before Sky. The Doctor hands her a fez, instructing her to deliver it to Clyde for him as a gift.

Adopting Sky[[edit source]]

The Shopkeeper leaves a Fleshkind bio-weapon baby with Sarah Jane for safekeeping, and, after she is aged up to a 12-year-old, she is adopted as "Sky Smith".
Set "barely a month" after Sky.
Luke and Sky meet face-to-face for the first time, and come to embrace each other as siblings.

Later life[[edit source]]

In 2017, Sarah Jane and Jo visit the Twelfth Doctor at St Luke's University. Sarah Jane is now living on her own at 13 Bannerman Road, with Luke, Clyde, and Rani having long since "flown the nest".
Sarah Jane has a granddaughter named Lily.
Sarah Jane writes a letter to Luke and Sky, reflecting on her life and letting her children know that it's okay to let her go and move on with their lives, suggesting a setting shortly before Farewell, Sarah Jane.
After Sarah Jane passes away, both her friends, and friends of the Doctor, attend her wake on a spring day, and repel a final attack from the Trickster. Though no date is given, Luke has been married to his husband for five years, and Jo is still alive, which would set this before 2028. Going by how little Luke, Rani and Clyde have aged, it is implied that Sarah Jane died in 2020, the year the story was released.

Awaiting Placement[[edit source]]

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.
  1. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-scourge-of-the-cybermen-2443
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