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== 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===
=== Early Life ===
* [[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]]''
: As a baby.
: Set on [[18 August]] [[1951]]. Sarah Jane is a newborn 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]]''
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=== Travels with the Third Doctor ===
=== Travels with the Third Doctor ===
==== Early exploits ====
* [[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.
: The Doctor meets [[Sarah Jane Smith]], who becomes a reluctant stowaway aboard the TARDIS.
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: Sarah Jane doesn't know much about the Doctor's origins.
: Sarah Jane doesn't know much about the Doctor's origins.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Thief (short story)|The Time Thief]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Thief (DWAN short story)|The Time Thief]]''
: The Doctor tells Sarah Jane about Gallifrey and the Time Lords.
: The Doctor tells Sarah Jane about Gallifrey and the Time Lords.


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* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Discourse of Flies (short story)|The Discourse of Flies]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Discourse of Flies (short story)|The Discourse of Flies]]''
: Sarah has already been to a number of alien worlds.
: 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]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]''
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* [[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]''


==== The Doctor's death on Dust ====
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]''
: Sarah Jane and the Doctor have just left [[Peladon]], setting this after ''The Monster of Peladon''.
: Sarah Jane and the Doctor have just left [[Peladon]], setting this after ''The Monster of Peladon''.
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:: ''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...]]'')''
:: ''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...]]'')''


==== Continued adventures ====
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Separation Day (short story)|Separation Day]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Separation Day (short story)|Separation Day]]''
: Sarah is wearing the leather jacket seen in ''The Monster of Peladon''.
: Sarah is wearing the leather jacket seen in ''The Monster of Peladon''.
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: 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]].
: 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===
=== 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.
: 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.
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* [[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]]: ''[[The Magic Box (short story)|The Magic Box]]''
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* [[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|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 Sarah behind.
: 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.


===After the Doctor===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ships (short story)|Ships]]''
* [[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 ===
=== Living in Moreton Harwood ===
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=== Return to London ===
=== Return to London ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' / [[PROSE]]: ''[[Punting (short story)|Punting]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Harry Sullivan's War (novel)|Harry Sullivan's War]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Harry Sullivan's War (novel)|Harry Sullivan's War]]''
: Set in May, 1983.
: Set in May 1983.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Farewells (short story)|Farewells]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Farewells (short story)|Farewells]]''
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* [[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]]: ''[[Girls' Night In (short story)|Girls' Night In]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Balloon Debate (short story)|Balloon Debate]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Balloon Debate (short story)|Balloon Debate]]''
: Sarah has K9 Mark III and is struggling with writer's block.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'' / ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]''
: Set in 1996.
: Set in 1996. K9 is still working.
 
*[[PROSE]]: ''[[Bullet Time (novel)|Bullet Time]]''
: Set in 1997. Sarah's death here is undone during the events of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Fond Memories (short story)|Fond Memories]]''
* [[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.
* [[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]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Dog's Life (short story)|A Dog's Life]]''
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* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Mutual Friend (short story)|A Mutual Friend]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Mutual Friend (short story)|A Mutual Friend]]''
: Set in the [[21st century]]. Sarah is a journalist.


===Natalie Redfern and Josh Townsend===
=== 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]]''
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* [[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]]''
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dreamland (audio story)|Dreamland]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dreamland (audio story)|Dreamland]]''


=== A New K9 ===
* [[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."
 
=== A new K9 ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]''.
: Set in Early 2007.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Dog's Life (short story)|A Dog's Life]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Dog's Life (short story)|A Dog's Life]]''
: Set during ''School Reunion'', while the [[Tenth Doctor]] is repairing K9.
: 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===
=== Bannerman Road gang begins ===
====Bannerman Road gang begins====
* [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]''  
: At least "a year and a half" following ''School Reunion''. Sarah Jane meets [[Maria Jackson]] adopts [[Luke Smith]], who was "born a thirteen year old boy".
: 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]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]''  
: Takes place shortly after ''Invasion of the Bane'' at the start of a new year at [[Park Vale Comprehensive School]]. Maria and Luke, who is now "fourteen", befriend [[Clyde Langer]]. Luke and Clyde are classmates in form [[10B]]
: 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]]: ''[[Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)|Eye of the Gorgon]]''  


* [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)|Warriors of Kudlak]]''  
* [[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 Stone]]''
* [[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]]''
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
:: ''"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]]: ''[[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?]]''
: 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 Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]''  
: Continues from ''Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?''.
: 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]]''
* [[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]]''
* [[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]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]''
: Maria moves away to [[America]].
: 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====
=== Rani joins the gang ===
* [[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]]''  
: [[Rani Chandra]] moves into Bannerman Road and becomes a part of Sarah Jane's gang.
: 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.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]''


* [[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]]''
: Rani meets Maria Jackson for the first time, via a video call.


* [[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]]''
: ''Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?'' took place "last year".
: 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]]''
: Rani appears to already know K9.


=== Recording the Alien Files ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Androvax (webcast)| Androvax]]''


* [[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''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow People (audio story)|The Shadow People]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wraith World (audio story)|Wraith World]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deadly Download (audio story)|Deadly Download]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Wolf (audio story)|The White Wolf]]''
 
* [[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 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 appears to foil his plans, meeting Luke, Clyde, and Rani for the first time as he does.
: 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]]: ''[[The Eternity Trap (TV story)|The Eternity Trap]]''  


* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Erasmus Darkening (webcast)|Alien File: Erasmus Darkening]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]''  


* [[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]''
: Luke and Clyde are now in form [[11T]].
: Sarah Jane prevents the [[Slitheen-Blathereen family]] from poisoning the world with [[Rakweed]]. Luke is still only "fifteen".


* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Mona Lisa (webcast)|Alien File: Mona Lisa]]''
=== Luke's final adventures ===
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Krulius (comic story)|Return of the Krulius]]''
: Sequel to ''Monster Hunt''.


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]''
* [[GAME]]: ''[[Plants (video game)|Plants]]''
: Luke is now "fifteen".
: Sequel to ''The Gift''.


* [[WC]]: ''[[Alien File: Blathereen (webcast)|Alien File: Blathereen]]''
* [[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''.


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Monster Hunt (comic story)|Monster Hunt]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow People (audio story)|The Shadow People]]''
: Rani recalls meeting the Doctor, setting this after ''The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith''.


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Krulius (comic story)|Return of the Krulius]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Wolf (audio story)|The White Wolf]]''
: Set during [[November]] [[2009]].


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deadly Download (audio story)|Deadly Download]]''
: Present day setting is 2009. Sarah Jane meets the Tenth Doctor again, and she has a photograph of herself and the Tenth Doctor from her wedding day to Peter Dalton, setting this between ''The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith'' and ''The End of Time''.
: Set during [[November]] [[2009]].


* [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''
: Sarah and Luke see the Tenth Doctor for the final time, with Sarah sensing that he is about to regenerate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')
: 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.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wraith World (audio story)|Wraith World]]''


====Luke leaves for university====
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]''  
: Luke leaves for [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] with K9.
: 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]]''
 
: 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]]: ''[[SJAF 2]]''


* [[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]''  
: Sarah Jane meets the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. She alludes to the events of ''School Reunion'', which she recalls took place "about four years ago".
: 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.


* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 3]]''
* [[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]]''
: Sequel to ''Return of the Krulius''. The Krulius has a photo from the events of ''Death of the Doctor''.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Lost in Time (TV story)|Lost in Time]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]''
: Set on [[23 November]] [[2010]].
: Luke visits from Oxford to help save Sarah Jane from a [[Qetesh]] called "[[Ruby White]]".


* [[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 5]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Chris Meets... (TV story)|Chris Meets...]]''
: Sarah Jane meets [[Chris (Chris Meets...)|Chris Johnson]] while investigating alien activity at the [[BBC Television Centre]].


* [[TV]]: ''[[Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith]]''
:: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
:: ''Sarah Jane investigates a fossilised [[Silurian]] egg at the Pharos Institute with Clyde and Rani. ([[TV]]: ''[[SJAF 6]]'')''


* [[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====
=== 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]]''
: "Barely a month" following ''Sky''.
: 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 has gone through seven [[mobile phone]]s in "the past two years.
: 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]]''
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=== Later life ===
=== Later life ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill (short story)|Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill]]''
* [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Visitors to the Vault (short story)|Visitors to the Vault]]''
: Sarah Jane catches up with the Eleventh Doctor, mentioning that she intends to meet with Luke in twenty minutes. The Doctor hands her a fez, instructing her to deliver it to Clyde for him.
: 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".


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lily (short story)|Lily]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lily (short story)|Lily]]''
: Sarah Jane has a granddaughter named Lily.
: Sarah Jane has a granddaughter named Lily.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)|Heroes of Earth]]''
: 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''.


* [[WC]]: ''[[Farewell, Sarah Jane (webcast)|Farewell, Sarah Jane]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Farewell, Sarah Jane (webcast)|Farewell, Sarah Jane]]''
: Friends of Sarah Jane and the Doctor attend Sarah's funeral.
: 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.


== Awaiting Placement ==
== Awaiting Placement ==


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Box of Terrors (audio story)|The Box of Terrors]]''
: Sarah is aware of the TARDIS' ability to tow large objects, setting this after ''The Gulf''. The Doctor sees Sarah in the company of his next incarnation, potentially setting this prior to ''The Children of the Future''. In a contradiction to ''The Touch of the Nurazh'', the Third Doctor is unable to recognise the "teeth and curls" of his fourth incarnation.


[[category:timey-wimey detector|timey-wimey detector]]
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Revolution in Space (audio story)|Revolution in Space]]''
: Sarah recalls the events of ''Death to the Daleks'' and ''The Monster of Peladon'', and believes that every place they visit seems to involve mining in some way. The Doctor and Sarah are on their way back to Earth, and Sarah learns that the Time Lords sometimes take control of the TARDIS and send the Doctor on missions.

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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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