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Pure historical
Pure historicals are Doctor Who stories that are set in in a historical time period and feature no science fiction anachronisms other than the TARDIS team. (DWM 194)
Pure historicals were common in televised Doctor Who until The Highlanders in 1996. The only pure historical since then was Black Orchid in 1982.
The Time Meddler was the first "pseudo-historical" story with the Monk being the science fiction anachronism.
Television
| Title | Doctor | Era | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Unearthly Child (parts 2-4) | 1st | 100,000 BC | |
| Marco Polo | 1289 | ||
| The Aztecs | After 1430 | ||
| The Reign of Terror | 1794 | ||
| The Romans | 64 | ||
| The Crusade | 1190s | ||
| The Myth Makers | 1200 BC | ||
| The Massacre | 1572 | ||
| The Gunfighters | 1881 | ||
| The Smugglers | 17th century (1690s?) | ||
| The Highlanders | 2nd | 1746 | |
| Black Orchid | 5th | 1925 |
Mini-episodes
| Title | Doctor | Era | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel | 11th | 1990s | 23 March 2013 |
| The Doctor's Meditation | 12th | 1138 | 15 September 2015 |
Comics
| Title | Doctor | Era | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backtime | 3rd | 1863 | 2 October - 13 November 1971 |
| Who is the Stranger | 3rd | c. 1940-1944 | 10 February 1973 |
| Perils of Paris | 3rd | 1880 | 1974 |
| Treasure Trail | 4th | 1944 | 20 March - 1 May 1976 |
| Woden's Warriors | 4th | ??? | 1976 |
| The Sky Warrior | 4th | 16th century | 1977 |
| Doctor Conkerer! | 7th | 5th or 8th century[1] | 14 June 1990 |
| The Submariners | 10th | 1944 | 19 February 2009 |
| They Think It's All Over | 11th | 966 | 25 May 2011 |
| The Doctor Shops for Comics | 11th | 1923 | 12 August 2015 |
Novels
Short stories
Audio dramas
Titles
- Voyage of the Damned (TV story)
- Touched by an Angel
- Destination:
- Stranger on the Train
- Ascension (Torchwood Soho audio story)
- Under Pressure (comic story)
- The ____ at the End of the World
- About a Girl (short story)
- Dark Side of the Moon
- The Scarlet Empress (novel)
Taskmaster
| Series | Actor | Doctor Who role |
|---|---|---|
| Taskmaster | Greg Davies | King Hydroflax |
| Series 1 | Frank Skinner | Perkins |
| Series 2 | Ben "Doc Brown" Bailey-Smith | Durkas Cicero |
| Series 4 | Mel Giedroyc | Jemima-Katy |
| Series 5 | Aisling Bea | Sarah |
| Series 6 | Liza Tarbuck | Captain Kaliko Lysette Barclay |
| Series 7 | Jessica Knappett | Dr Ruth Horwitz |
| Kerry Godliman | Karen Coltraine | |
| Series 9 | Katy Wix | Rhiannon Davies Belinda |
| Series 10 | Katherine Parkinson | Danika Meanwhile |
| Mawaan Rizwan | Mr Castavillian | |
| Richard Herring | Taylor Renchard | |
| NYT | Nicola Coughlan | Joy |
| Shirley Ballas | A dancer | |
| Series 11 | Charlotte Ritchie | Lin |
| Lee Mack | Daniel Cooper | |
| Series 13 | Ardal O'Hanlon | Thomas Kincade Brannigan |
| NYT III | Greg James | Carlos |
| NYT IV | Lenny Rush | Morris Gibbons |
| Series 17 | Steve Pemberton | Strackman Lux |
Played themselves
| Series | Actor | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Series 4 | Mel Giedroyc | Herself |
| NYT II | Claudia Winkleman | Herself |
| Jonnie Peacock | Himself | |
| Series 16 | Sue Perkins | Herself |
| NYT IV | Zöe Ball | Herself |
- In the episode "Fear of failure", Greg calls Doc Brown "the shit Dalek".
- In the episode "A very nuanced character", Greg says he would "look like a Doctor Who monster".
- In the episode "A novel about Russian gulags", Greg says Joe Thomas's fake mustache looks like K9.
- In the episode "Join our cult", David Baddiel steps out of a telephone box dressed as the Thirteenth Doctor.
- Series 12 contestant Alan Davies was the inspiration for the "scruffy student" Ninth Doctor seen in The Tomorrow Windows.
Nations
- North America/Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda?
- Dominica
- Honduras
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Europe
- Oceania
- Asia
- Africa
Adventures in the Doctor's past
| Story | Doctor | Mentioned in | Doctor | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | TV: An Unearthly Child | 1st | DOCTOR: Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension? Have you? To be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet, without friends or protection. | |
| 1st | TV: Remembrance of the Daleks | 7th | ||
| AUDIO: Quinnis | 1st | TV: The Edge of Destruction | 1st | SUSAN: Oh, I recognise that. That's where we nearly lost the Tardis, four or five journey's back. DOCTOR: Yes, the planet Quinnis, of the fourth universe. |
| PROSE: Cambridge Previsited | 1st | TV: Shada | 4th | DOCTOR: Did I really? I was here in 1958. WILKIN: Were you, sir? DOCTOR: Yes, but in a different body. |
| PROSE: The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor | 4th | TV: City of Death | 4th | DOCTOR: Take arms against a sea of troubles? That's a mixed. I told him that was a mixed metaphor and he would insist. |
| PROSE: Three Wise Men | War | TV: The Stolen Earth | 10th | DOCTOR: But you were destroyed. In the very first year of the Time War, at the Gates of Elysium. I saw your command ship fly into the jaws of the Nightmare Child. |
| COMIC: The Whole Thing's Bananas | War | TV: The Doctor Dances | 9th | DOCTOR: Sonic blaster, 51st century. Weapon Factories of Villengard? ... There's a banana grove there, now. I like bananas. Bananas are good. |
| TV: The Day of the Doctor | War | TV: Doomsday | 10th | DOCTOR: By fighting. On the front line. I was there at the fall of Arcadia. |
| AUDIO: Battle Scars | 9th | TV: Rose | 9th | CLIVE: This was taken the day before they were due to sail off for the New World on the Titanic, and for some unknown reason, they cancelled the trip and survived. |
| AUDIO: Her Own Bootstraps | 9th | TV: Rose | 9th | CLIVE: This one washed up on the coast of Sumatra on the very day Krakatoa exploded. |
| PROSE: The Red Bicycle | 9th | TV: The Doctor Dances | 9th | ROSE: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas. DOCTOR: Who says I'm not, red bicycle when you were twelve? |
| COMIC: Return of the Volsci | 9th | TV: Bad Wolf | 9th | DOCTOR: Then we went to Kyoto. That's right, Japan in 1336, and we only just escaped. |
| PROSE: The Lonely Computer | 10th | TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp | 10th | DOCTOR: You know, I've been to Belgium. Yeah. I remember I was deep in the Ardennes, trying to find Charlemagne. He'd been kidnapped by an insane computer. |
| AUDIO: Out of Time | 10th | TV: The End of Time | 10th | DOCTOR: I saw the Phosphorous Carousel of the Great Magellan Gestalt |
| COMIC: Old Girl | 10th | TV: The End of Time | 10th | DOCTOR: ...saved a planet from the Red Carnivorous Maw |
| AUDIO: The Shattered Hourglass | 10th | TV: The End of Time | 10th | DOCTOR: ...named a galaxy Alison. |
| TV: The Day of the Doctor | 10th | TV: The End of Time | 10th | DOCTOR: Got married. That was a mistake. Good Queen Bess. And let me tell you, her nickname is no longer. Ahem. |
Adventures in the Doctor's future
| Story | Doctor | Mentioned in | Doctor | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PROSE: One Fateful Knight | 8th | TV: Battlefield | 7th | ACE: Are you Merlin? DOCTOR: No. But I could be, in the future. That is, my personal future. Which could be the past. |
| TV: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone | 11th | TV: Forest of the Dead | 10th | RIVER: So, er, crash of the Byzantium. Have we done that yet? Obviously ringing no bells. |
| PROSE: Picnic at Asgard | 11th | TV: Silence in the Library | 11th | RIVER: Oh, picnic at Asgard. Have we done Asgard yet? Obviously not. |
| TV: The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang | 11th | TV: Flesh and Stone | 11th | RIVER: No sneak previews. Well, except for this one. You'll see me again quite soon, when the Pandorica opens. |
| PROSE: Lorna's Escape | 11th | TV: A Good Man Goes to War | 11th | LORNA: I met you once, in the Gamma Forests. You don't remember me. |
| TV: The Husbands of River Song | 12th | TV: Forest of the Dead | 10th | RIVER: You turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit. You took me to Darillium to see the Singing Towers. What a night that was. The Towers sang, and you cried. |
List of stories set in a future now in the past
This is a list of Doctor Who stories that were set in a future that is now in the past.
Stories relating to the UNIT dating controversy are included only if they are explicitly dated to a year in the then-future.
Stories relating to the Aliens of London dating controversy and The Power of Three dating controversy are excluded for the sake of brevity.
Television
| Story | Released in | Set in | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chase: "Journey into Terror" | 1965 | 1996 | 31 years |
| The Tenth Planet | 1966 | 1986 | 20 years |
| The Power of the Daleks | 1966 | 2020[nb 1] | 54 years |
| The Enemy of the World | 1968 | 2018 | 50 years |
| Battlefield | 1989 | 1997[nb 2] | 8 years |
| Dimensions in Time | 1993 | 2013 | 20 years |
| Doctor Who | 1996 | 1999 | 3 years |
| Dalek | 2005 | 2012 | 7 years |
| Fear Her | 2006 | 2012 | 6 years |
| Amy's Choice | 2010 | 2015 (dream) | 5 years |
| Cold Blood / The Hungry Earth | 2010 | 2020 | 10 years |
Comics
| Story | Released in | Set in | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moon Landing | 1965 | 1970 | 5 years |
| The Faithful Rocket Pack | 1967 | 1988 | 21 years |
| Cyber-Mole | 1968 | 1970 | 2 years |
| Car of the Century | 1968 | 1989 | 21 years |
| Ice Cap Terror | 1968 | 1970 | 2 years |
| Business as Usual | 1980 | 1989-1990 | 9-10 years |
| Skywatch-7 | 1981 | 1985 | 4 years |
| Invaders from Gantac! | 1989 | 1992 | 3 years |
| The Cast Iron Contract | 1989 | 2020 | 31 years |
| The Mark of Mandragora | 1991 | 1999 | 8 years |
| The Lunar Strangers | 1994 | 2015 | 21 years |
| Plastic Millenium | 1994 | 1999 | 5 years |
| Nightmare on the Boulevard | 2008 | 2012 | 4 years |
| The Greed of the Gavulav | 2009 | 2018 | 9 years |
| Arctic Eclipse | 2010 | 2019 | 9 years |
| Lucky Heather | 2010 | 2014 | 4 years |
| The Dalek Project | 2012 | 2017 | 5 years |
Prose
| Story | Released in | Set in | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet | 1976 | 2000 | 24 years |
| Timewyrm: Revelation | 1991 | 2018 | 27 years |
| Iceberg | 1993 | 2006 | 13 years |
| System Shock | 1995 | 1998 | 3 years |
| Happy Endings | 1996 | 2010 | 14 years |
| Eternity Weeps | 1997 | 2003 | 6 years |
| The Shadows of Avalon | 2000 | 2012 | 12 years |
| Mad Dogs and Englishmen | 2002 | 2010 | 8 years |
| Emotional Chemistry | 2003 | 2024 | 21 years |
| Kitsune | 2004 | 2020 | 16 years |
| Not in My Back Yard | 2005 | 2017 | 12 years |
| Conscription | 2008 | 2012 | 4 years |
| Instead of You | 2008 | 2023 | 15 years |
| Autonomy | 2009 | 2013 | 4 years |
| Life on Mars on Mars | 2015 | 2020 | 5 years |
Cat's Cradle: Warhead c. 2000s, Warlock c. 2014
Damaged Goods 1999, 2015, 2017
Audio
| Story | Released in | Set in | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harvest | 2004 | 2021 | 17 years |
| The Grel Escape | 2004 | 2022 | 18 years |
| Frozen Time | 2007 | 2012 | 5 years |
| The Eight Truths / Worldwide Web | 2009 | 2015 | 6 years |
| The Sentinels of the New Dawn | 2011 | 2014 | 3 years |
| House of Blue Fire | 2011 | 2020 | 9 years |
| Project: Nirvana | 2012 | 2015 | 3 years |
Designs
| Winning design | Creator | Story | Issue | Reveal Issue | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DWA 250 | DWA 257 | Draw my next hat! | |||
| TBA | TBA | N/A | DWA 306 | DWA 324 | Design your own stink monster |
| TBA | TBA | N/A | DWA 310 | DWA 325 | Design a room in the TARDIS |
| TBA | TBA | N/A | DWA 319 | DWA 324 | Design a red monster |
| TBA | TBA | N/A | DWA 321 | DWA 324 | Create your own monster |
| TBA | TBA | N/A | DWA 323 | DWA 326 | Design a fruit monster |
Notes
- ↑ Only stated in the trailer: "Dr. Who begins a new adventure on the planet Vulcan in the year 2020."
- ↑ Exact year from The Dying Days
- ↑ In the original printing of DWM 162, this story is dated to the 5th century. This was changed to the more historically accurate 8th century in The Mark of Mandragora.