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This page lists the appearances of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the order in which he experienced them
Timeline
Early Life
- PROSE: The Forgotten Son (flashbacks)
- Alistair is a 7-9-year-old child.
- Alistair is a 15-year-old boy.
- PROSE: Deadly Reunion (part 1)
- Set just after WWII.
- PROSE: The Lock-In (flashbacks)
- Set in 1956.
First Contact and HAVOC
- Direct prequel to Web of Fear
- Original appearance.
- Set directly after Web of Fear
- Concurrent with The Forgotten Son
- PROSE: One Cold Step
- PROSE: The Schizoid Earth
- PROSE: The Cult of the Grinning Man
- PROSE: Beast of Fang Rock
- PROSE: The Dogs of War
- PROSE: Mutually Assured Domination
- PROSE: House of Giants
- PROSE: The Black Eggs of Khufu
- PROSE: Moon Blink
- PROSE: The Band of Evil
- PROSE: The Showstoppers
- PROSE: Schädengeists Lot
- PROSE: The Grandfather Infestation
- PROSE: Exodus from Venus
- PROSE: The Last Duty
- PROSE: Times Squared
- PROSE: The Lost Skin
- Concurrent with Times Squared
- PROSE: Eve of the Fomorians
- PROSE: The Wishing Bazaar
- PROSE: Blood of Atlantis
- PROSE: Mind of Stone
- PROSE: The Feast of Evans
- PROSE: The Fright Before Christmas
- PROSE: Home for Christmas
The UNIT Years
- PROSE: The Playing Dead
- TV: The Invasion
- TV: Spearhead from Space
- COMIC: The Arkwood Experiments
- COMIC: The Multi-Mobile
- COMIC: Insect
- AUDIO: Vengeance of the Stones
- The Doctor has had Bessie for a relatively short period of time.
- The outcome of Doctor Who and the Silurians is still fresh on the Doctor's mind.
- Tentative placement in regards to the "recent" falling out between the Doctor and Brigadier over the Silurians.
- The Silurians occurred a few weeks earlier.
- Liz has been working with UNIT for "a few months", and her complaints about her job here are similar to those that the Brigadier cites as her reason for leaving. The TARDIS console has also been removed from within the ship, as it was in The Ambassadors of Death.
- This is the second time the Doctor has visited a zoo, setting this after The Arkwood Experiments.
- The Brigadier finds it doubtful that the Doctor can get the TARDIS to work, setting this before Inferno.
- The Last Post spans from Spearhead to just before Inferno.
- PROSE: Ashes of the Inferno
- COMIC: The Fishmen of Carpantha
- COMIC: Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus
- PROSE: The Science of Magic
- PROSE: The Eye of the Giant
- Mike Yates arrives at UNIT and sees inside the TARDIS for the first time, and the Doctor mentions visiting the parallel universe from Inferno.
- Liz decides to leave UNIT.
- Liz announces her intention to leave UNIT.
- Liz officially leaves UNIT, Yates is promoted to Captain Rank, and the Doctor is in a new laboratory.
- Liz has recently left UNIT.
- Liz is called back to UNIT, and has been absent long enough for the Doctor to admit missing her company.
- After Prisoners of the Sun as the Master is active, unbeknown to the Brigadier.
- Jo is still quite new to UNIT, and is unaware of the true nature of the TARDIS, setting it before The Claws of Axos.
- The Mega were aided by the Master.
- PROSE: Deadly Reunion (part 2)
- The Master has a working TARDIS, placing this after The Mind of Evil.
- No one has seen the Master since Deadly Reunion.
- Set immediately after The Dæmons.
- Set soon after The Dæmons.
- This is concurrent with The Curse of Peladon.
- For the third Doctor, this takes place immediately after the Sea Devils, but before Find and Replace.
- Jo recalls the Daleks and Ogrons, which places this firmly after Day of the Daleks. Likewise, the Doctor confesses that sheep have never filled him with dread before, placing this before Verdigris.
- TV: The Time Monster
- PROSE: Verdigris
- TV: The Three Doctors
- AUDIO: The Scorchies
- AUDIO: The Many Deaths of Jo Grant
- PROSE: Last of the Gaderene
- The takes place before the Green Death
- Takes place soon after the Green Death.
The Brig encounters the fifth Doctor while the Third is having a break from UNIT.
- The third Doctor returns from his Sabbatical from UNIT.
- TV: The Time Warrior
- AUDIO: The Paradise of Death
- TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
- COMIC: Prisoners of Time
- The Doctor is driving the "Whomobile", setting this after Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
- The Doctor senses that he will soon regenerate.
- PROSE: An Overture Too Early
- TV: Planet of the Spiders
- TV: Robot
- PROSE: Wolfsbane
- TV: Terror of the Zygons
- PROSE: No Future
- The seventh Doctor implants the idea of the Brigadier retiring.
Retirement
- 1977 Brigadier
1980s =
- 1983 Brigadier
- Set in 1989.
1990s
- Set January 1st 1990.
- Set in 1995.
- The Brig has married Doris.
- The Brigadier is in his 70's.
- Set in 1997.
New Millenium, New Challenges
- Set in 2001.
- Set in 2003.
- Set in 2009.
A New lease of Life
- Set in 2010. The Brigadier regains his youth.
- Set in 2012. He presumably spends many years in Avalon before reurning to Earth only a few years later.
- Doris has been dead for some years.
- Set in 2018.
Death
- The Brigadier is on his death-bed. He has a brandy out for the Doctor.
- The Brigadier is resurrected as a Cyberman.
Unsorted stories
- GAME: Destiny of the Doctors
- PROSE: Dancing the Code
- PROSE: Blood Heat
- PROSE: Heart of TARDIS
- PROSE: The King of Terror
- PROSE: The Algebra of Ice
- PROSE: The One Second Hour
- PROSE: Signal S.O.S.
- PROSE: The Magic Box
- PROSE: Smash Hit
- PROSE: A Wee Deoch an ...?
- PROSE: Listening Watch
- PROSE: Where the Heart Is
- PROSE: Honest Living
- PROSE: Still Lives
- PROSE: The Switching
- PROSE: Hidden Talent
- PROSE: The Touch of the Nurazh
- PROSE: UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass
- PROSE: A Visit from Saint Nicholas
- PROSE: Once upon a Time Machine
- PROSE: Prelude Transit
- COMIC: Undercover
- COMIC: Fogbound
- COMIC: Secret of the Tower
- COMIC: Doomcloud
- COMIC: Darkness Falling
- COMIC: Death to the Doctor!
- COMIC: The Forgotten