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Listed below are various [[story arc]]s that have featured within ''Doctor Who'' canon, in order of story, season or series production which then lists the story arc present throughout those stories, season or series.
A '''story arc''' refers to a common thread that is carried through a series of stories forming an over reaching 'arc' throughout a series of stories. This can be a central subject that forms the stories together such as [[Season 16]] of ''Doctor Who'' that featured a central theme throughout the season; the hunt for the [[Key to Time]], each story in this season had a common on-going thread throughout it with each story continuing the story arc.


Throughout the novels published by [[Virgin Publishing]] and [[BBC Books]] each of the main ranges featuring the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Eighth Doctor]] (respectively) had on-going story arcs. During the [[Virgin New Adventures]]' first four novels a common thread of a being known as the [[Timewyrm]] flowed throughout the first four novels. This story arc was also created as a marketing vehicle to lure new readers into the series.{{fact}} The second series of novels which purported to also be a story arc was only very tenuously linked by it's title name 'Cat's Cradle' and the presence of a silver cat, this was far more a marketing ploy than a defined story arc.
==[[Doctor Who]]==
===[[List of Doctor Who television stories|Doctor Who television stories]]===
''Classic''
*[[Season 16]] - The [[Key to Time]]
*[[Season 18]] - Journey in [[E-Space]]
*[[Season 18]]/[[Season 19]] - The Return of the [[The Master|Master]]/ New Beginnings
*[[Season 20]] - [[Black Guardian|The Black Guardian]]
*[[Season 23]] - [[The Trial of a Time Lord]]
''Revival''
*[[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]] - [[Bad Wolf meme]]
*[[Series 2 (Doctor Who)|Series 2]] - [[Torchwood Institute]]
*[[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]] - [[Harold Saxon]]
*[[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]] - [[Shadow Proclamation]], [[Medusa Cascade]], [[Bee (race)|Disappearing Bees]], [[Stolen Planets|Lost Worlds]], [[Rose Tyler|The Return of Rose]], [[Prophecy|Prophecies]] and [[Bad Wolf meme]]
*[[2009 Specials]] - [[Tenth Doctor]]'s [[Regeneration]]
*[[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] - [[Cracks in Time]]


Throughout the Virgin New Adventures there were several story arcs that grouped several novels around ideas that flowed through sets of novels. The novels ''[[Blood Heat]]'', ''[[The Dimension Riders]]'', ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'', ''[[Conundrum]]'' and ''[[No Future]]'' had a common idea and a central character revealed only in the final novel of the story arc as the individual reponsible for events throughout the arc.
===[[Virgin New Adventures]]===
*[[Timewyrm: Genesys]], [[Timewyrm: Exodus]], [[Timewyrm: Apocalypse]], [[Timewyrm: Revelation]] - [[:Category:Timewyrm arc|Timewyrm arc]]
*[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]], [[Cat's Cradle: Warhead]], [[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]] - [[:Category:Cat's Cradle arc|Cat's Cradle arc]]
*[[Blood Heat]], [[The Dimension Riders]], [[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]], [[Conundrum]] and [[No Future]] - Alternate Universe arc


When ''Doctor Who'' was revived for television by [[BBC Wales]] [[Russell T Davies]] the show's exective producer and head writer introduced the first story arc for the new series of ''Doctor Who'', known now as the [[:Category:Bad Wolf arc|Bad Wolf arc]] it was the defined story arc which appeared throughout the [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|first series]] of the BBC Wales produced ''Doctor Who''.
===[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]===
*[[Alien Bodies]], [[Unnatural History]], [[Interference - Book One]], [[Interference - Book Two]], [[The Taking of Planet 5]], [[The Shadows of Avalon]], [[The Ancestor Cell]] - Time Lords' future war with [[The Enemy]]


The story arc has become a common feature of the new televised ''Doctor Who'' with each series revealing its own unique story arc carried throughout each series.
==[[Bernice Summerfield]]==
===[[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]]===
*[[Where Angels Fear]], [[The Mary-Sue Extrusion]], [[Dead Romance]], [[Return to the Fractured Planet]], [[Twilight of the Gods (BNA)|Twilight of the Gods]] - Dellahan gods arc


==See also==
===[[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series]]===
*[[List of story arcs]]
''to be added''


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==[[Torchwood]]==
[[Category:Terminology]]
===[[List of Torchwood television stories|Torchwood television stories]]===
[[Category:Story arcs|*]]
*[[Series 2 (Torchwood)|Series 2]] - [[Owen Harper|The Ressurection of Owen Harper]] - [[Reset (TV story)|Reset]], [[Dead Man Walking]] & [[A Day in the Death]]
[[Category:Real world lists]]

Revision as of 04:07, 12 July 2010

Listed below are various story arcs that have featured within Doctor Who canon, in order of story, season or series production which then lists the story arc present throughout those stories, season or series.

Doctor Who

Doctor Who television stories

Classic

Revival

Virgin New Adventures

BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures

Bernice Summerfield

Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series

to be added

Torchwood

Torchwood television stories

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