Doctor Who story chronology

This article outlines the fictional timeline of the stories from the entire Doctor Who saga, listed in chronological order from the perspective of the Doctor, the fictional character starring in the long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. These stories feature a renegade Time Lord, the Doctor, in his various travels in the TARDIS, his time machine and spaceship. As a time traveller, he personally experiences events in an order other than that of historical chronology.

The list includes the character's adventures in the "Doctor Who" television serials as well as stories from spin-off media, specifically novels and audio productions. The non-television stories frequently reference each other as well as specific television episodes in ways which indicate where they would fall in chronological relation to when the televised stories are set.

While not all of these stories' settings refer to any definite historical date, and have no distinctly recognisable chronological place relative to Earth years B.C. or A.D., they are known to occur in a given order relative to the personal experiences of the Doctor himself. Because stories in different media or from different publishers do not always indicate precisely when they occur relative to all other stories, their placement in the Doctor's personal timeline has been approximated by external sources. [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who.htm] [http://www.gallifreyone.com/guides-canon.php]

First Doctor

Before Season 1

eason 3

eason 5

Third Doctor

eason 7

eason 10

eason 13

eason 16

Season 16 formed a Story arc known as The Key to Time.

Fifth Doctor

eason 19

eason 21

Season 22b

These adventures are set in the gap between "Revelation of the Daleks" and "The Trial of a Time Lord". Some of these adventures were planned for season 23.

eason 25

Virgin New Adventures Seasons 1 to 3

Eighth Doctor

Early adventures

Big Finish Adventures Season 3

Big Finish New Eighth Doctor Adventures Season One

Eighth Doctor Adventures Seasons 5 to 8

New Series 3

Other adventures

Unknown or future Doctor

No Doctor is given, or the doctor stated is a "future doctor", so the stories cannot be placed relative to other stories.

Unclear placement

While these adventures feature television Doctors, they are of debated canoncity, and there are different attempts to bring them into the timeline.

References

;General
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who.htm Doctor Who reference Guide]
* [http://www.eyespider.freeserve.co.uk/drwho/compleat.html Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures]
* [http://www.gallifreyone.com/guides-canonguide1.php?id=typetval The Canon Keeper's Guide to Doctor Who] at Outpost Gallifrey
* [http://www.bigfinish.com/Doctor-Who-Monthly-Series Big Finish Guide]

;Specific

ee also

*Chronology of the Doctor Who universe
*List of Doctor Who serials