Theory:Timeline - TV story recommended viewing order
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This page lists most televised Doctor Who media placed in recommended viewing order.
Format:
- <full/main series stories>
- <short/supplementary stories>
Timeline[[edit source]]
First Doctor[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 1[[edit source]]
- TV: An Unearthly Child
- TV: The Daleks
- TV: The Edge of Destruction
- TV: Marco Polo
- TV: The Keys of Marinus
- TV: The Aztecs
- TV: The Sensorites
- TV: The Reign of Terror
Doctor Who Season 2[[edit source]]
- TV: Planet of Giants
- TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
- TV: The Rescue
- TV: The Romans
- TV: The Web Planet
- TV: The Crusade
- TV: The Space Museum
- TV: The Chase
- TV: The Time Meddler
Doctor Who Season 3[[edit source]]
- TV: Galaxy 4
- TV: Mission to the Unknown
- TV: The Myth Makers
- TV: The Daleks' Master Plan
- TV: The Massacre
- TV: The Ark
- TV: The Celestial Toymaker
- TV: The Gunfighters
- TV: The Savages
- TV: The War Machines
Doctor Who Season 4[[edit source]]
Second Doctor[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 4 (continued)[[edit source]]
- TV: The Power of the Daleks
- TV: The Highlanders
- TV: The Underwater Menace
- TV: The Moonbase
- TV: The Macra Terror
- TV: The Faceless Ones
- TV: The Evil of the Daleks
Doctor Who Season 5[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 6[[edit source]]
Third Doctor[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 7[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 8[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 9[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 10[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 11[[edit source]]
Fourth Doctor[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 12[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 13[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 14[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 15[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 16[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 17[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 18[[edit source]]
- TV: The Leisure Hive
- TV: Meglos
- TV: Full Circle
- TV: State of Decay
- TV: Warrior's Gate
- TV: The Keeper of Traken
- TV: Logopolis
K9 and Company[[edit source]]
Fifth Doctor[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 19[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 20[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 21[[edit source]]
Sixth Doctor[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 22[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 23[[edit source]]
Seventh Doctor[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 24[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 25[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Season 26[[edit source]]
Eighth Doctor[[edit source]]
TV movie[[edit source]]
Ninth Doctor[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Series 1[[edit source]]
- TV: Rose
- TV: The End of the World
- TV: The Unquiet Dead
- TV: Aliens of London
- TV: World War Three
- TV: Dalek
- TV: The Long Game
- TV: Father's Day
- TV: The Empty Child
- TV: The Doctor Dances
- TV: Boom Town
- TV: Bad Wolf
- TV: The Parting of the Ways
Tenth Doctor[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Series 2[[edit source]]
- TV: The Christmas Invasion
- TV: New Earth
- TV: Tooth and Claw
- TV: School Reunion
- TV: The Girl in the Fireplace
- TV: Rise of the Cybermen
- TV: The Age of Steel
- TV: The Idiot's Lantern
- TV: The Impossible Planet
- TV: The Satan Pit
- TV: Love & Monsters
- TV: Fear Her
- TV: Army of Ghosts
- TV: Doomsday
Torchwood Series 1[[edit source]]
- TV: Everything Changes
- TV: Day One
- TV: Ghost Machine
- TV: Cyberwoman
- TV: Small Worlds
- TV: Countrycide
- TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts
- TV: They Keep Killing Suzie
- TV: Random Shoes
- TV: Out of Time
- TV: Combat
- TV: Captain Jack Harkness
- TV: End of Days
Winter Specials 2006[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Series 3[[edit source]]
- TV: Smith and Jones
- TV: The Shakespeare Code
- TV: Gridlock
- TV: Daleks in Manhattan
- TV: Evolution of the Daleks
- TV: The Lazarus Experiment
- TV: 42
- TV: Human Nature
- TV: The Family of Blood
- TV: Blink
- TV: Utopia
- TV: The Sound of Drums
- TV: Last of the Time Lords
The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 1[[edit source]]
- TV: Revenge of the Slitheen
- TV: Eye of the Gorgon
- TV: Warriors of Kudlak
- TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
- TV: The Lost Boy
Winter Specials 2007[[edit source]]
Torchwood Series 2[[edit source]]
- TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
- TV: Sleeper
- TV: To the Last Man
- TV: Meat
- TV: TV story
- TV: Reset
- TV: Dead Man Walking
- TV: A Day in the Death
- TV: Something Borrowed
- TV: From Out of the Rain
- TV: Adrift
- TV: Fragments
- TV: Exit Wounds
Doctor Who Series 4[[edit source]]
- TV: Partners in Crime
- TV: The Fires of Pompeii
- TV: Planet of the Ood
- TV: The Sontaran Stratagem
- TV: The Poison Sky
- TV: The Doctor's Daughter
- TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp
- TV: Silence in the Library
- TV: Forest of the Dead
- TV: Midnight
- TV: Turn Left
- TV: The Stolen Earth
- TV: Journey's End
Doctor Who at the Proms[[edit source]]
The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 2[[edit source]]
- TV: The Last Sontaran
- TV: The Day of the Clown
- TV: Secrets of the Stars
- TV: The Mark of the Berserker
- TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
- TV: Enemy of the Bane
Christmas 2008 and Early 2009 Specials[[edit source]]
Torchwood: Children of Earth[[edit source]]
- TV: Children of Earth: Day One
- TV: Children of Earth: Day Two
- TV: Children of Earth: Day Three
- TV: Children of Earth: Day Four
- TV: Children of Earth: Day Five
The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 3[[edit source]]
- TV: Prisoner of the Judoon
- TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic
- TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
- TV: The Eternity Trap
- TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge
- TV: The Gift
Autumn/Winter Specials 2009[[edit source]]
Eleventh Doctor[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Series 5[[edit source]]
- TV: The Eleventh Hour
- HOMEVID: Meanwhile in the TARDIS (part 1)
- TV: The Beast Below
- TV: Victory of the Daleks
- TV: The Time of Angels
- TV: Flesh and Stone
- HOMEVID: Meanwhile in the TARDIS (part 2)
- TV: The Vampires of Venice
- TV: Amy's Choice
- TV: The Hungry Earth
- TV: Cold Blood
- TV: Vincent and the Doctor
- TV: The Lodger
- TV: The Pandorica Opens
- TV: The Big Bang
The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 4[[edit source]]
- TV: The Nightmare Man
- TV: The Vault of Secrets
- TV: Death of the Doctor
- TV: The Empty Planet
- TV: Lost in Time
- TV: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
Christmas and Comic Relief Specials[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Series 6 (Part 1)[[edit source]]
- TV: The Impossible Astronaut
- TV: Day of the Moon
- TV: The Curse of the Black Spot
- TV: The Doctor's Wife
- TV: The Rebel Flesh
- TV: The Almost People
- TV: A Good Man Goes to War
Torchwood: Miracle Day[[edit source]]
- TV: The New World
- TV: Rendition
- TV: Dead of Night
- TV: Escape to LA
- TV: The Categories of Life
- TV: The Middle Men
- TV: Immortal Sins
- TV: End of the Road
- TV: The Gathering
- TV: The Blood Line
Doctor Who Series 6 (Part 2)[[edit source]]
- TV: Let's Kill Hitler
- TV: Night Terrors
- TV: The Girl Who Waited
- TV: The God Complex
- TV: Closing Time
- TV: The Wedding of River Song
The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 5[[edit source]]
Night and the Doctor[[edit source]]
Christmas Special 2011[[edit source]]
2012 Minisodes[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Series 7 (Part 1)[[edit source]]
- TV: Asylum of the Daleks
- TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
- TV: A Town Called Mercy
- TV: The Power of Three
- TV: The Angels Take Manhattan
Christmas Special 2012[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Series 7 (Part 2)[[edit source]]
- TV: The Bells of Saint John
- TV: The Rings of Akhaten
- TV: Cold War
- TV: Hide
- TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
- TV: The Crimson Horror
- TV: Nightmare in Silver
- TV: The Name of the Doctor
2013 Specials[[edit source]]
Twelfth Doctor[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Series 8[[edit source]]
Doctor Who Series 9[[edit source]]
Class[[edit source]]
- TV: For Tonight We Might Die
- TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo
- TV: Nightvisiting
- TV: Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart
- TV: Brave-ish Heart
- TV: Detained
- TV: The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did
- TV: The Lost