Nu-Who Viewing Order
Rules of the Viewing Order:
- This is not a timeline. It's a viewing order to help the viewer navigate their way through Doctor Who and its spin-offs, whilst ensuring the journey doesn't get tiring or boring. For that reason, where possible, the series alternate and intertwine before meeting where they should be.
- There will be no spoilers or explanations in this viewing order just in case someone wants to genuinely use it.
- Everything is categorised into years. For example, year one works with series one of Doctor Who. There is also a year zero to allow for prequel series that take place in that time period pre-Aliens of London. You'll see what I mean.
- Codes will be used, such as DW for Doctor Who, TW for Torchwood and so on. You'll get used to it, and forgive me if I forget to implement it from time to time. Feel free to remind me in my talkpage.
- This has been made so that you can pick and choose whatever parts of the universe you wish (which series you wish to watch/listen to/read).
Year Zero
- DW - Rose
- DW - Revenge of the Nestene
- TW - One Rule
- DW - The End of the World
- TW - New Girl/Through the Ruins/Uprising
- SJ - Comeback
- DW - The Unquiet Dead
- TW - The Law Machines/Blind Summit/9 to 5
- SJ - The Tao Connection
Year One
- DW - Aliens of London/World War Three
- DW - The Love Invasion
- DW - The Clockwise Man
- DW - The Monsters Inside
- DW - Winner Takes All
- DW - Art Attack
- DW - The Cruel Sea
- DW - The Window on the Moor
- DW - Dalek
- DW - The Other Side
- DW - The Long Game
- SJ - Test of Nerve
- DW - (Four Doctors)
- DW - A Groatsworth of Wit
- DW - (Death to the Doctor!)
- DW - The Red Bicycle
- DW - (Mystery Date/Endgame)
- TW - Sync
- SJ - Ghost Town
- CJ - Month 25
- Important character backstory.
- CJ - (The Sins of Captain John)
- More character backstory. If you prefer mystery, save for later. Perhaps better for second viewing.
- DW - The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
- DW - The Deviant Strain
- DW - Only Human
- DW - Titan Comics: Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor
- DW - Boom Town
- DW - The Stealer of Dreams
- TW - Moving Target
- SJ - Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre
- DW - Night of the Whisper
- DW - Titan Comics: Return of the Volsci
- DW - Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways
- SJ - Buried Secrets
- CJ - The Year After I Died
Year Two
- DW - Born Again
- DW - The Christmas Invasion
- DW - The Betrothal of Sontar
- DW - The Feast of the Drowned
- DW - The Lodger
- This is the comic story, not the television story.
- DW - New Earth
- SJ - Snow Blind
- DW - The Stone Rose
- TW - Overture
- TW - Retirement Plan
- DW - The Resurrection Casket
- SJ - Fatal Consequences
- CJ - Wednesday For Beginners
- DW - Tooth and Claw
- TW - Locker 15
- SJ - Dreamland
- This is the Sarah Jane audio, not the Doctor Who television episode.
- CJ - Crush
- DW - School Reunion
- DW - The Girl in the Fireplace
- DW - Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel
- DW - The Idiot's Lantern
- DW - The Taste of Death
- DW - The Nightmare of Black Island
- DW - Infamy of the Zaross
- TW - The Rockery
- TW - Deadbeat Escape
- DW - The Sword of the Chevalier
- DW - Cold Vengeance
- DW - The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit
- DW - The Art of Destruction
- DW - The Price of Paradise
- DW - Love & Monsters
- DW - Fear Her
- DW - Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
- TW - The Vigil
Year Three
- DW - The Runaway Bride
- TW - Everything Changes
- TW - Day One
- DW - Smith and Jones
- TW - Ghost Machine
- TW - Another Life
- TW - Border Princes
- TW - Slow Decay
- DW - The Shakespeare Code
- TW - Cyberwoman
- DW - Gridlock
- TW - Small Worlds
- DW - The Woman Who Sold the World
- DW - Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks
- TW - Countrycide
- TW - Greeks Bearing Gifts
- TW - Instant Karma
- DW - Backtrack
- DW - The Lazarus Experiment
- DW - Made of Steel
- DW - Sting of the Zygons
- DW - The Last Dodo
- DW - Wooden Heart
- TW - They Keep Killing Suzie
- TW - The Last Beacon
- TW - Random Shoes
- DW - 42
- TW - Out of Time
- DW - Forever Autumn
- DW - Story of Martha: The Weeping
- DW - The Infinite Quest
- DW - Sick Building
- DW - Human Nature/The Family of Blood
- TW - Combat
- TW - Captain Jack Harkness
- DW - Story of Martha: Breathing Space
- DW - Wetworld
- DW - Wishing Well
- DW - The Pirate Loop
- DW - Peacemaker
- DW - Blink
- DW - Agent Provocateur
- DW - Story of Martha: The Frozen Wastes
- DW - Revenge of the Judoon
- DW - Story of Martha: Star-Crossed
- DW - Martha in the Mirror
- DW - Snowglobe 7
- DW - The Many Hands
- TW - End of Days
- DW - Utopia/The Sound of Drums
- The main storyline of The Story of Martha takes place between The Sound of Drums and The Last of the Time Lords. While it isn't vital reading, it will give you more insight into this finale.
Year Four
- RT - The Endless Night/The Flood
- WC - Hounded
- RT - Ghost Machines
- DW - Time Crash
- DW - Voyage of the Damned
- RT - The Last Party on Earth
- DW - Partners in Crime
- TW - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
- TW - The Legacy of Torchwood One
- DW - The Fires of Pompeii
- TW - Sleeper
- TW - Serenity
- Direct sequel of Sleeper.
- DW - Planet of the Ood
- DW - Ghosts of India
- DW - The Doctor Trap
- DW - Shining Darkness
- TW - To the Last Man
- TW - Something in the Water
- TW - Trace Memory
- TW - Hidden
- TW - Everyone Says Hello
- TW - The Conspiracy
- DW - The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky
- TW - Fall to Earth
- TW - Uncanny Valley
- TW - Zone 10
- SJ - Invasion of the Bane
- TW - The Office of Never Was
- TW - torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor
- TW - Meat
- TW - The Twilight Streets
- TW - In the Shadows
- TW - Adam
- DW - The Doctor's Daughter
- SJ - Revenge of the Slitheen
- LT - Relative Time
- TW - Reset/Dead Man Walking
- DW - The Unicorn and the Wasp
- DW - The Forever Trap
- SJ - Eye of the Gorgon
- JN - Stolen Goods
- TW - A Day in the Death
- TW - Corpse Day
- TW - The Hope
- DW - Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
- TW - Pack Animals
- TW - Requiem
- DN - Out of this World
- JN - Prisoner of the Ood
- DN - Spinvasion
- JN - Neon Reign
- DN - The Sorcerer of Albion
- JN - Zero Space
- DN - The Chiswick Cuckoos
- DW - Technophobia
- DW - Time Reaver
- DW - In the Blood
- DW - Autopia
- DW - The Widow's Curse
- DW - Beautiful Chaos
- DW - Wild Pastures
- SJ - Warriors of the Kudlak
- DW - No Place
- DW - One Mile Down
- SJ - The Glittering Storm
- DW - The Creeping Death
- TW - Something Borrowed
- SJ - The Thirteenth Stone
- TW - Skypoint
- TW - Believe
- TW - From Out of the Rain
- DW - Midnight
- SJ - Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane Smith?
- TW - The Return of the Vostok
- TW - Adrift
- DW - Death and the Queen
- DW - Turn Left
- SJ - The Lost Boy
- TW - Fragments/Exit Wounds
- TW - Lost Souls
- TW - Expectant
- TW - Almost Perfect
- TW - Comics/Short Stories: Who by Fire; Captain Jack and the Selkie; The Man Who Dreamed of Stars; They Keep Killing Andy; Fated to Pretend; Ma and Par
- DW - The Stolen Earth/Journey's End
- TW - The Sin Eaters
Year Four continued
- DW - The Eyeless
- DW - The Sontaran Games
- DW - The Darksmith Legacy
- TW - Asylum
- TW - Golden Age
- TW - The Dead Line
- SJ - The Last Sontaran
- TW - Reflections
- SJ - The Day of the Clown
- TW - The Package
- DW - Music of the Spheres
- WC - Churchill Victorious
- SJ - Secrets of the Stars
- TW - Somebody Else's Problem: A Gwen Cooper Story
- SJ - The Time Capsule
- TW - Cultural Firsts
- SJ - The Ghost House
- SJ - The Mark of the Berserker
- NE - Escape from New New York
- NE - Death in the New Forest
- DW - The Next Doctor
- TW - Broken
- TW - Hell House
- TW - Various audios: Department X; Ghost Train; The Devil and Miss Carew; Submission
- TW - Outbreak
- NE - The Skies of New Earth
- SJ - The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
- TW - Dissected
- SJ - Enemy of the Bane
- DW - Planet of the Dead
- DW - Judgement of the Judoon
- DW - The Slitheen Excursion
- TW - Children of Earth
- TW - Shrouded
- SJ - Prisoner of the Judoon
- DW - The Waters of Mars
- TW - The House of the Dead
- SJ - The Mad Woman in the Attic
- DW - Out of Time
- CJ - What Have I Done?
- There is a scene during R&J that takes place directly after this story. However, it is recommended that this is not listened to until much later on.
- SJ - The Shadow People
- DW - The Shattered Hourglass
- SJ - Wraith World
- SJ - The White Wolf
- SJ - The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
- NE - The Cats of New Cairo
- DW - Numerous novels: Prisoner of the Daleks; The Taking of Chelsea 426; Autonomy; The Krillitane Storm
- DW - Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor
- DW - Majenta Pryce series
- DW - Dreamland
- DW - Last Chance
- WC - The Secret of Novice Hame
- DW - The End of Time
- CJ - One Enchanted Evening