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The majority of the stories in the long-running television series Doctor Who and its spin-offs include an element of time travel, with the settings taking place on dates across a wide span of time in the fictional universe of Doctor Who – the "Whoniverse". To date, 11 actors have portrayed the Doctor, with each receiving an ordinal number (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.). This list encompasses the adventures of all 11 Doctors and the spin-off series Torchwood (TW), The Sarah Jane Adventures (SJA) and K-9. It also includes the singular pilot episode of K-9 and Company. It does not cover audio dramas, such as those by Big Finish Productions, or novels.

Dating[edit]

Not all of these stories can have a possible date attributed to them. Some have none; some have more than one, and some have contradictory dating. For example, most of the adventures in Doctor Who featuring the fictional UNIT organisation contain information that would attribute various, often contradictory dates between the 1960s to the 1980s to them. Over the long period of production, different writers have suggested different dates on which the stories are set, resulting in some noted controversy regarding these stories. Other stories take place on the timeless fictional planet of Gallifrey; stories set there can be attributed to a distinct chronological order but cannot be attributed to any specific date.

Many stories and episodes depict or refer to events similar to historical events in real life, or involve characters identifiable as real-life historic individuals. Many dates or periods of time are given without specifying the calendar or units of time; they may be in the Gregorian calendar and the units of time are those in common, everyday usage in the real world.

Specific dating[edit]

BCE[edit]

Story[1] Story date(s) Doctor Year aired
Castrovalva[xr 1] The TARDIS travels briefly back to "Event One", which is described as "the hydrogen in-rush that preceded the creation of the universe".[2] 5th 1982
"The Pandorica Opens"[xr 2] (Planet One scene)[citation needed] When the Doctor travels to the oldest planet in the Universe he finds that the oldest writing in the universe is Dr. River Song's graffiti "Hello Sweetie". It leads them to the Roman Army on Earth. River Song therefore must have visited Planet One at a very early stage of the universe's existence. 11th 2010
"The Runaway Bride"[xr 3] (Earth's formation) 4.6 billion BCE[3] 10th 2006
City of Death[xr 4] (primeval Earth) (i) between 4.4 and 2.7 billion BCE[4] (ii) 400 million BCE[5] 4th 1979
The Hand of Fear[xr 5] (opening) c. 150 million BCE[6] 1976
Time-Flight[xr 1] (primeval Earth) c. 140 million BCE[3] 5th 1982
Earthshock[xr 6] (Adric's death) c. 65.5 million BCE[7]
An Unearthly Child c. 100,000 BCE (episodes 2–4) 1st 1963
The Myth Makers c. 1250 BCE[8] 1965

1st Millennium CE[edit]

Story Story date(s) Doctor Year aired
"Exit Wounds"[xr 7] (Jack's burial) 27[9] TW 2008
The Romans leading up to 18 July 64[10] 1st 1965
"The Fires of Pompeii" 23–24 August 79[3] (final scene, 6 months later[9]) 10th 2008
"The Pandorica Opens"[xr 2] & "The Big Bang"[xr 8] 102 [3] 11th 2010

2nd Millennium[edit]

Story Story date(s) Doctor Year aired
The Time Meddler Late Summer 1066[11] 1st 1965
The Crusade October 1191[12]
The Time Warrior (excluding UNIT scenes) early Plantagenet dynasty[13] 3rd 1973
The King's Demons 4 March 1215[14] 5th 1983
Marco Polo 1289[15][16] 1st 1964
The Aztecs 15th century
The Masque of Mandragora late 15th Century[3][nb 1] 4th 1976
City of Death[xr 4] (Da Vinci's workshop) 1505[17] 1979
"Lost in Time"[xr 9] (Rani & Queen Jane) 19–20 July 1553[9][18] SJA 2010
The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve 1572 (one scene set in 1966)[19] 1st 1966
"The Vampires of Venice" 1580[9] 11th 2010
"The Shakespeare Code" 1599[9] 10th 2007
Silver Nemesis (Lady Peinforte & Richard in the past)[xr 10] 23 November 1638[3] 7th 1988
"The Eternity Trap"[xr 9] 1665[9][nb 2] SJA 2009
The Visitation 5 September 1666[20] 5th 1982
The Smugglers 17th Century[3][21] 1st 1966
"The Impossible Astronaut" (the Doctor hiding under Matilda's skirt) mid-late 17th Century[22] 11th 2011
"The Girl in the Fireplace"[xr 11] (8 consecutive Reinette scenes) 1st: 1727[17][23]
2nd: months later[17]
3rd/4th: unspecified
5th: when aged 23[23]
6th/7th: 5 years prior to, and when aged 37[23]
8th: 1764, when aged 42[23]		 10th 2006
The Highlanders (i) 1745[24] (ii) shortly after 16 April 1746[25][nb 3] 2nd 1967
The Reign of Terror 5 days,[26] ending 27 July 1794[27] 1st 1964
"Greeks Bearing Gifts"[xr 12] (soldier and prostitute) 1812[9] TW 2006
The Mark of the Rani 1820s[28] 6th 1985
"The Next Doctor" 24 December 1851; flashback scenes occur 2 weeks before[17] 10th 2008
The Evil of the Daleks[xr 13] (episodes 2 to 6) 2 Jun 1866[17] 2nd 1967
"The Unquiet Dead" December 1869[3] 9th 2005
"Tooth and Claw" 1879[3] 10th 2006
The Chase[xr 14] (Mary Celeste scene) November 1872 [26][29] 1st 1965
The Gunfighters 26 October 1881 1966
Ghost Light 1883[3] 7th 1989
Attack of the Graske (partly) 25 December 1883[3] 10th 2005
Timelash[xr 15] (meeting HG Wells) summer 1885[3] 6th 1985
"The Unicorn and the Wasp" (Delhi flashback) 1885[17] 10th 2007
"Lost in Time"[xr 9] (Sarah Jane's plot) 1889[9][30] SJA 2010
"Vincent and the Doctor"[xr 16] 1–3 June 1890[17] 11th 2010
"The Pandorica Opens"[xr 2] (Vincent scene) 3 June - 30 July 1890[9][31]

For additional events that possibly occur in this period see [nb 4] [nb 5]

20th Century[edit]

Story Story date(s) Doctor Year aired
"Exit Wounds"[xr 7] (early Torchwood) 1901[9] TW 2008
"Small Worlds"[xr 17] (flashback) 1909[17] 2006
Pyramids of Mars[xr 18] 1911[17] 4th 1975
"Human Nature" & "The Family of Blood" 10 November 1913[33] and at least 2 more days[26]
Penultimate scene: between 4 August 1914 and 11 November 1918[34]		 10th 2007
"To the Last Man"[xr 17] (WWI hospital) 1918,[9] before 11 November[35] TW 2008
"From Out of the Rain"[xr 17] (early carnival) 1920s[36][nb 6]
"Blink"[xr 19] (Kathy in the past) 5 December 1920[33] 10th 2007
Black Orchid 11 June 1925[3] 5th 1982
"The Unicorn and the Wasp" 1926[3][26] 10th 2007
"Daleks in Manhattan" & "Evolution of the Daleks" 1 November 1930[33] 2007
"The Impossible Astronaut" (The Doctor appearing in The Flying Deuces) 1939[37] 11th 2011
"Captain Jack Harkness" (WWII dance hall) 20 January 1941[9] TW 2007
"The Empty Child" & "The Doctor Dances" 1941,[38] between 21 January and 10 May[26] 9th 2005
"Victory of the Daleks" 1941, during The Blitz[26] 11th 2010
"The Big Bang"[xr 2] (painted scene of "Lone Centurion" Rory)
"The Pandorica Opens"[xr 2] (Churchill and Bracewell scene) 1941[9]
Lost in Time (Clyde fighting the Waffen-SS) warm season of 1941[39] SJA 2010
"The Impossible Astronaut" (POW camp tunnel scene) 2nd World War 11th 2011
The Curse of Fenric 1943[40] 7th 1989
"The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith"[xr 17] (Foxgrove) 18 August 1951[33] SJA 2008
"A Christmas Carol" (Frank Sinatra's party) 24 December 1952[9] 11th 2010
"The Idiot's Lantern" 1–2 June 1953[41] 10th 2006
Dreamland c. June 1958 (teaser 13 June 1947)[9] 2009
Delta and the Bannermen 1959,[17][42] Wednesday & Thursday, c. 7 March[42] 7th 1987
An Unearthly Child 1963 (first episode) 1st 1963
Remembrance of the Daleks 22–23 November 1963[43] 7th 1988
The Cambridge Spy (they get transported to) 1963 K-9 2010
"Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?"[xr 20] (Maria in the past) 13 July 1964[17] SJA 2007
Children of Earth[xr 21] (first 456 encounter) 1965[9] TW 2009
The Daleks' Master Plan 1 January[44] 1966[17] 1st 1966
The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve one scene set in 1966 (majority set in 1572)[19] 1966
The Chase[xr 14] (Empire State Building scene) 1966 [17][29] 1965
The War Machines 13 July-20 July[17] 1966[45] 1966
The Faceless Ones, The Evil of the Daleks[xr 13] (episode 1)[nb 7] 20 July[3] 1966[17] 2nd 1967
The Web of Fear c. 1966[3] 2nd 1968
"The Impossible Astronaut" 8 April 1969 [3] 11th 2011
"Day of the Moon" July 1969[9] - 20 July 1969[46] (Child's regeneration in NYC soon thereafter)[47]
"Blink" 1969 10th 2007
The Invasion c. 1970 2nd 1968
Spearhead from Space 24-25 January 1970 3rd 1968
Doctor Who and the Silurians February 1970 1970
The Ambassadors of Death Early 1970s 1970
Inferno 1970
Terror of the Autons 1971
The Mind of Evil 1971
The Claws of Axos 1971
Colony in Space 1971
The Daemons 1971
Day of the Daleks 1972
The Mutants 1972
The Time Monster 1972
The Three Doctors 1973
The Green Death 1974 1973
The Time Warrior 1973-1974
Invasion of the Dinosaurs 1974
Planet of the Spiders 1974
Robot 4 April 1974 4th 1974-1975
Terror of the Zygons 1975 1975
The Android Invasion 6 July 1975 1975
The Seeds of Doom 1976 1975
The Five Doctors (the Brigadier's retirement) 1976 2nd 1983
Mawdryn Undead (Brig. & Tegan; unconscious Brig. returned) 1977, shortly prior to 6 June[48][49] 5th 1983
City of Death[xr 4] (Paris) 1979[3] 4th 1979
Logopolis 28 February 1981[3][50] 5th 1981
Four to Doomsday 1982
"A Girl's Best Friend" 18–25 December 1981[17] K-9 & Co. 1981
Mawdryn Undead (Turlough on Earth; Brig. & Fifth Doctor; final exteriors) 1983[48][51] 5th 1983
The Awakening, Resurrection of the Daleks[xr 22] (Docklands) 1984[3][nb 8] 1984
Attack of the Cybermen 1985[3][nb 8] 6th 1985
The Tenth Planet December 1986[52] 1st 1966
"Father's Day" 7 November 1987[17] 9th 2005
Silver Nemesis (modern day scenes)[xr 10] 23 November 1988[3] 7th 1988
The Chase[xr 14] (House of Horrors scene) 1996 [9][29] 1st 1965
"The Eleventh Hour" (young Amelia scenes) 1996[26] 11th 2010
"The Big Bang" (young Amelia and National Gallery scenes)
Doctor Who (1996 film) 30 December 1999 – 1 January 2000 (Pacific Standard Time)[17] 7th 1996
8th
"Fragments" (second Jack flashback) 31 December 1999 – 1 January 2000 (GMT)[17] TW 2008

For additional events that possibly occur in this period see [nb 9] [nb 10] [nb 11]

21st Century[edit]

Story Story date(s) Doctor Year aired
The End of Time[xr 23] (Rose scenes) 1 January 2005[17] 10th 2010
"Rose" 5–6 March 2005[56] 9th 2005
"Aliens of London" & "World War Three" March 2006[56] 2005
"Boom Town" September 2006 (6 months after "World War Three"[9]) 2005
"The Christmas Invasion" 24–25 December 2006[17] 10th 2005
"School Reunion" 2007[26] 2006
"Love & Monsters" 2007[57] 2006
"Army of Ghosts" & "Doomsday" 2007[58] 2006
"The Runaway Bride"[xr 3] 24 December 2007[26] 2006
"Blink"[xr 19] 2007[17] and final scene 1 year later[9][nb 12] 2007
"Smith and Jones" May 2008[26][59] 2007
"The Lazarus Experiment" May 2008[59] (12 hours after "Smith and Jones"[3]) 2007
"42" (Francine scenes) May 2008[59] (Election Day, 1 day before "The Sound of Drums"[17]) 2007
"The Sound of Drums" & "Last of the Time Lords" (after time reversal) May 2008[59] (4 days after "Smith and Jones"[17]) 2007
"The Eleventh Hour" 2008[60] and final scene 2 years later 11th 2010
"Voyage of the Damned" 24 December 2008[17] 10th 2007
"Partners in Crime" 2009[26] 2008
"The Sontaran Stratagem" & "The Poison Sky" April 2009[61] (few days after "Partners in Crime"[17]) 2008
"The Stolen Earth" & "Journey's End" May/June[61] 2009[26] 2008
"The Waters of Mars" [xr 24] (young Adelaide) 2009
The Last Sontaran, The Day of the Clown, Secrets of the Stars, The Mark of the Berserker, The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith,[xr 17] Enemy of the Bane consecutive, after The Lost Boy and previous entry [62][63]
Sontaran final scenes - 6 weeks later [9]
Clown only: circa 9 Oct [64]
Stars only: November 5–7 [65]
Judoon only: a Sun,[17] between 1 Oct 2008 and 30 Sep 2009 [66]
Wedding only: spans 2 weeks and 5 days [9]		 SJA 2008
"From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love", Prisoner of the Judoon, The Mad Woman in the Attic,[xr 25] The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, The Eternity Trap, [xr 9] flashback scene in The Nightmare Man[67] 2009
Children of Earth [xr 21] Mon-Fri or Tue-Sat, Sep 2009 [68] (final scenes 6 months later [9]) TW
The End of Time[xr 23] December 2009[26] 10th 2009–2010
"Planet of the Dead" Easter[17] 2010[69] 2009
Mona Lisa's Revenge, The Gift after previous entry, and within 2 years after Revenge of the Slitheen [70][71] SJA 2009
"The Eleventh Hour" (Amy's bedroom, final scene) 25–26 June 2010[9] 11th 2010
"Flesh and Stone" (Amy's bedroom)
"The Vampires of Venice" (Rory's stag party)
"The Pandorica Opens"[xr 2] (Amy's house) 26 June 2010 [9]
"The Big Bang" (Amy and Rory's wedding)
"Vincent and the Doctor" (Musée d'Orsay scenes)[xr 16] 2010,[3] between 17 March and 29 August[72]
"The Lodger" 2010[72]
The Nightmare Man, The Vault of Secrets, Death of the Doctor, The Empty Planet, Lost in Time (shop scenes), Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith 2010 (Lost in Time’s shop scenes take place on 23 November 2010.) SJA 2010
"The Impossible Astronaut" Spring 2011: Amy & Rory at home[17]
22 April 2011: the reunion picnic[73]		 11th 2011
"Dalek" 2012[3] 9th 2005
"Fear Her" 27 July 2012[3][74] 10th 2006
"The Hungry Earth" & "Cold Blood" 2020[3] 11th 2010
"Regeneration" 2050[17] K-9 2009
The Wheel in Space c. 2050[17] 2nd 1968
"The Mad Woman in the Attic"[xr 25] (old Rani, 2nd version) 2059[9][17] SJA 2009
"The Waters of Mars" 21 November 2059[17] 10th 2009
The Moonbase 2070[17] 2nd 1967
Warriors of the Deep c. 2084[3] 5th 1984

Post 21st Century[edit]

Story Story date(s) Doctor Year aired
The Dalek Invasion of Earth 2164 1st 1964
Colony in Space 2472[17] 3rd 1971
The Rescue 2493[75] 1st 1965
Earthshock[xr 6] 2526[17] 5th 1982
"Midnight" 27th century[76] 10th 2008
The Sensorites 28th century[17] 1st 1964
Terror of the Vervoids 2986[3] 6th 1986
The Mutants 30th century[3] 3rd 1972
"The Beast Below" 3295[3] 11th 2010
The Infinite Quest 40th century[3] 10th 2007
The Daleks' Master Plan 4000[17] 1st 1965–1966
"The Impossible Planet" & "The Satan Pit" Set no earlier than 200 years before "Planet of the Ood" 10th 2006
"Planet of the Ood" 4126[3] 2008
"The End of Time" (Ood scene) 4226 2010
"A Christmas Carol" 24–25 December 4398[77] 11th 2010
The Invisible Enemy c. 5000[3] 4th 1977
"The Girl in the Fireplace"[xr 11] (spaceship)[3] 51st century 10th 2006
"The Time of Angels" & "Flesh and Stone"[3] 11th 2010
"The Big Bang" (Doctor and Amy in the forest scene)
"Silence in the Library" & "Forest of the Dead"[3] 10th 2008
"Adam" and "Exit Wounds"[xr 7] (Jack's childhood on Boeshane Peninsula) TW 2008
"The Pandorica Opens"[xr 2] (Stormcage Containment Facility, Royal Collection and Maldovarium scenes) 5145 [9] 11th 2010
"The Impossible Astronaut" & "Day of the Moon" (Stormcage Containment Facility scenes) 52nd century[78] 11th 2011
"The Doctor's Daughter" 6012, July 24[9] 10th 2008
"The Time of Angels" (museum scenes) 171st century[3] 11th 2010
"The Long Game" 200,000[3] 9th 2005
"Bad Wolf" & "The Parting of the Ways" 200,100[3]
The Ark c. 10,000,000[3] and then 700 years later[17] 1st 1966
"The End of the World"[xr 26] 5,000,000,000[3] 9th 2005
"New Earth" 5,000,000,023[3] 10th 2006
"Gridlock" 5,000,000,053[3] 2007
"Utopia" 100,000,000,000,000[3]

Negated timelines[edit]

Some stories depict events occurring in timelines that are specifically stated as having been subsequently negated.

Story Possible Date(s) Doctor Year Aired
"Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?"[xr 20] (Trickster and teenage Andrea) contemporaneous with 1960s entry[26] SJA 2007
Pyramids of Mars[xr 18] (a future destroyed Earth) 1980[3] 4th 1975
"Turn Left" (5 successive time periods) right version of left/right choice: June 2007[79]
Christmas star: 24 December 2007[80]
Donna's dismissal: months later; between June and November 2008[81]
Christmas prize: 24–25 December 2008[82]
Leeds and TARDIS scenes: over 3 months later, spanning at least 3 weeks[83]		 10th 2008
"Last of the Time Lords" 1 year after "The Sound of Drums"[9] 2007
"Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?"[xr 20] (altered present) contemporaneous with 2000s entries[26] SJA
"The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith" (altered present) 2008
"The Mad Woman in the Attic"[xr 25] (old Rani, 1st version) 2059[9][17] 2009
Day of the Daleks 22nd Century[17] 3rd 1972

Parallel universes[edit]

Some stories depict events occurring in what is specifically stated to be a different, parallel universe.

Story Possible Date(s) Doctor Year Aired
Inferno contemporaneous with 1970s entry[3] 3rd 1970
"Rise of the Cybermen" & "The Age of Steel" 1 February 2007[17] 10th 2006
"Army of Ghosts" & "Doomsday" 3 years after the events of "The Age of Steel"[17] 2006
"Journey's End" (Dålig Ulv Stranden scene) several years after "Doomsday"[26] 2008

Vague or unspecified dates[edit]

Undated stories and episodes[edit]

Many of the stories do not give sufficient information to determine possible dates at which they might be set, though they can often be seen to be set in a contemporary period or at some future time.

Contemporary Future Unknown Doctor Year aired
Planet of Giants The Daleks The Keys of Marinus 1st 1964
The Web Planet,[84] The Chase (Mechanus)[29] Galaxy 4, The Space Museum, The Chase (Aridius scenes) 1965
The Daleks' Master Plan The Savages The Daleks' Master Plan The Celestial Toymaker 1966
The Power of the Daleks The story is set on a human extraterrestrial colony. 2nd
The Macra Terror,[85] The Ice Warriors,[86] The Enemy of the World[86][nb 13] 1967
The Invasion The Dominators, The Mind Robber 1968
The Space Pirates[87] The Krotons, The War Games (episodes 1–9) 1969
The Curse of Peladon[88] 3rd 1972
Carnival of Monsters 1973
Death to the Daleks,[89] The Monster of Peladon (50 years after The Curse of Peladon)[88] 1974
The Ark in Space/The Sontaran Experiment/Revenge of the Cybermen - several thousand years after the 30th C Genesis of the Daleks (millennia before Destiny of the Daleks[90]) 4th 1975
The Brain of Morbius[91] 1976
The Face of Evil, The Sun Makers The Robots of Death 1977
The Stones of Blood[92] The Ribos Operation[93] Underworld, The Pirate Planet 1978
Destiny of the Daleks (millennia after Genesis of the Daleks, 90 years before Resurrection of the Daleks[90]) The Armageddon Factor, The Creature from the Pit 1979
Meglos[94] State of Decay[95] The Horns of Nimon, Full Circle 1980
The Keeper of Traken Warriors' Gate 1981
Four to Doomsday,[96] Time-Flight[xr 1] (Heathrow Airport) Kinda[89] Castrovalva[xr 1] 5th 1982
Arc of Infinity (Amsterdam) (after Time-Flight (Heathrow Airport)[97]) Snakedance, Terminus, Enlightenment, The Five Doctors (First & Fourth Doctors and Eye of Orion scenes) 1983
Resurrection of the Daleks[xr 22] (Davros in prison)(90 years after Destiny of the Daleks),[90][98] Frontios[99] The Caves of Androzani 1984
The Twin Dilemma (a century year[100])[nb 14] 6th
The Two Doctors Timelash,[xr 15][101] Revelation of the Daleks (after Resurrection of the Daleks)[90] 1985
Time and the Rani, Dragonfire 7th 1987
The Happiness Patrol The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 1988
Battlefield,[nb 15][102] Survival[103] 1989
"The End of the World"[xr 26] (Jackie's phone call and ending[104]) 9th 2005
"42"[105] 10th 2007
"The Family of Blood" (Remembrance Sunday scene) 2007
"Turn Left" (fortune-teller) 2008
The End of Time[xr 23] (Jack, Mickey & Martha and Verity Newman scenes)[nb 16] 2010

Inside the TARDIS[edit]

The TARDIS's nature as a time machine makes it impossible to place adventures set solely in the ship to a specific date and locale. However, most of the adventures occur while the ship is in transit between two specifically mentioned locations.

Story In transit from Travelling towards Doctor Year aired
The Edge of Destruction Skaro Big Bang, later 1289 1st 1964
"The End of the World"[xr 26] 6 March 2005 5,000,000,000 via 2105 and 12005[106] 9th 2005
Doctor Who: Children in Need (aka "Born Again"[107]) 200,100 5006, later to Christmas 2006[3] 10th
Time Crash 2008[108] Christmas 2008[108] 2007
Music of the Spheres 2009 Christmas 1851 2008
"Amy's Choice" unknown, presumably 1580 unknown, later 2020 11th 2010
Space and Time unknown unknown 11th 2011

Gallifrey adventures[edit]

The time period in which these adventures take place is not specifically stated.[nb 17]

Story Doctor Year aired
The War Games (episode 10) 2nd 1969
Colony in Space 3rd 1971
The Three Doctors 1973
The Deadly Assassin 4th 1976
The Invasion of Time 1978
Arc of Infinity (partly), The Five Doctors (after Arc of Infinity[109]) 5th 1983
The Trial of a Time Lord (trial scenes and episodes 13–14) 6th 1986
"The Sound of Drums" (young Master flashback) 10th 2007
"The End of Time"[xr 23] (Time Lord President council scenes and young Master flashback) 2009–2010

See also[edit]

Notes and references[edit]

Internal cross-references
  1. ^ a b c d This story has entries in the "BCE" and "Undated stories and episodes" sections.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g This episode has entries in the "BCE", "1st Millennium CE", "2nd Millennium", "20th Century", "21st Century" and "Post 21st Century" sections. Cite error: The named reference "pand" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b This episode has entries in the "BCE" and "21st Century" sections. Cite error: The named reference "runawaybride" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b c This story has entries in the "BCE", "2nd Millennium" and "20th Century" sections.
  5. ^ This story has entries in the "BCE" and "20th Century" sections.
  6. ^ a b This story has entries in the "BCE" and "Post 21st Century" sections.
  7. ^ a b c This episode has entries in the "1st Millennium", "20th Century", "21st Century" and "Post 21st Century" sections. Cite error: The named reference "exitwounds" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  8. ^ This episode has entries in the "1st Millennium CE", "20th Century", "21st Century" and "Post 21st Century" sections.
  9. ^ a b c d This story has entries in the "2nd Millennium" and "21st Century" sections.
  10. ^ a b This story has entries in the "2nd Millennium" and "20th Century" sections.
  11. ^ a b This episode has entries in the "2nd Millennium" and "Post 21st Century" sections.
  12. ^ This episode has entries in the "19th Century" and "21st Century" sections.
  13. ^ a b This story has entries in the "19th Century" and "20th Century" sections.
  14. ^ a b c This story has entries in the "Undated stories and episodes", "2nd Millennium" and "20th Century" sections.
  15. ^ a b This story has entries in the "19th Century" and "Undated stories and episodes" sections.
  16. ^ a b This episode has entries in the "19th Century" and "21st Century" sections.
  17. ^ a b c d e This episode has entries in the "20th Century" and "21st Century" sections.
  18. ^ a b This story has entries in the "20th Century" and "Negated timelines" sections.
  19. ^ a b c This story has entries in the "20th Century", "21st Century" and twice in the "Negated timelines" sections.
  20. ^ a b This story has entries in the "20th Century" and "21st Century" sections.
  21. ^ a b This story has entries in the "20th Century" and "Undated stories and episodes" sections.
  22. ^ a b c d This story has two entries in the "21st Century" section and further entries in the "Post 21st Century", "Undated stories and episodes" and "Gallifrey adventures" sections.
  23. ^ This episode has entries in the '2000s' and '21st Century (post 2000s)' sections.
  24. ^ a b c This story has entries in the '2000s', '21st Century (post 2000s)' and 'Negated timelines' sections. Cite error: The named reference "tmwita" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  25. ^ a b c This episode has entries in the "Post 21st Century", "Inside the TARDIS" and "Undated stories and episodes" sections.
Notes
  1. ^ The novelisation gives the date as 1492.
  2. ^ Possibly set later rather than earlier in the year, as the portrait of Lord Marchwood and his children is itself dated to 1665.
  3. ^ The Info Text on the DVD of The War Games speculates that Jamie was confused as to the date by having shortly beforehand met a British soldier also involved in the Jacobite rising who said he had been taken from 1745.
  4. ^ Skaro's destruction by the Hand of Omega c. 963 (one of two alternative dates).[32]
  5. ^ The Torchwood Institute is founded by Queen Victoria in 1879 (shown in "Tooth and Claw"). A branch in Cardiff is formed by the century's end (shown in "Fragments").
    Captain Jack Harkness discovers he is immortal in 1892 (as he relates to the Doctor in "Utopia").
  6. ^ A young girl is given a carnival ticket. A ticket shown on the Torchwood website gives the date as 8 March 1925, but this does not appear on screen.
  7. ^ The Evil of the Daleks starts directly on from The Faceless Ones, to which episode the dates given refer.
  8. ^ a b Commander Lytton is stranded on contemporary Earth at the end of Resurrection of the Daleks and still is when he appears at the start of Attack of the Cybermen.
  9. ^ Ben Jackson and Polly both born in 1942 (according to the novel The Murder Game).
    Ace's maternal grandfather, merchant seaman Frank William Dudman, is killed in action in the North Atlantic in 1943 [53]
    Pilot Diane Holmes and her passengers Emma-Louise Cowell and John Ellis disappear aboard Holmes' twin-prop Sky Gypsy on 18 December 1953, and are assumed to have drowned at sea - only to reappear over fifty years later at the start of "Out of Time".
  10. ^ Sarah Jane Smith's home village of Foxgrove is demolished in 1964 (as detailed by Mr Smith in The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith).
  11. ^ Ace born c. 1970.[54]
    UNIT is founded by 4 June 1972 (Enemy of the Bane)
    Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart retires from UNIT in 1976 (according to the Brigadier in Mawdryn Undead).
    Gwen Cooper is born 14 February 1980 (as seen in her personnel file in Children of Earth Day Two).
    Owen Harper is born 16 August 1978 (as seen in his personnel file in "Exit Wounds").
    Sergeant Major Benton leaves the Army in 1979 and becomes a used car salesman (according to the Brigadier in Mawdryn Undead)
    Toshiko Sato is born 18 September 1981 (as seen in her personnel file in "Exit Wounds").
    Ace torches the house Gabriel Chase in 1983 after someone firebombs her friend Manisha's flat.[54]
    Ianto Jones born 19 August 1983 (stated by Captain Jack Harkness in "Fragments").[55]
  12. ^ The caption was seen on broadcast, but not on the DVD release.
  13. ^ The novelisation gives the date as 2030.
  14. ^ The script suggests the serial is set in 2300 (according to the Info Text on the story's DVD).
  15. ^ This story involves UNIT and aired between 1968 and 1989. Reference should be made to the UNIT dating controversy.
  16. ^ Midshipman Alonso Frame can be seen with Jack, he first appeared in "Voyage of the Damned". Martha states that she and Mickey are married; Gwen Cooper said that Martha was on her honeymoon in Children of Earth.
  17. ^ The television movie suggests that the fictional planet Gallifrey is set in the "Rassilon Era", while Earth is set in the "Humanian Era".
Citations
  1. ^ Early First Doctor stories had titles given to individual episodes (see List of Doctor Who serials). Only the story titles are included here.
  2. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - Castrovalva - Details". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av The time period is specifically stated by the Doctor in dialogue.
  4. ^ The Doctor says the Jagaroth ship's destruction initiates life on Earth. Scientific theory has that origin occurring on the real-life Earth sometime between 4.4 and 2.7 billion BCE.
  5. ^ The time period is specifically stated both by the Doctor and by one or more other characters in dialogue.
  6. ^ There are a number of dialogue references to Eldrad becoming dormant and his hand becoming embedded in Jurassic limestone 150 million years earlier.
  7. ^ The event that wiped out the dinosaurs is depicted as being caused by an Earth spaceship from the future crashing into Earth.
  8. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Myth Makers - Index". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad The date or elapsed time is specifically given in one or more captions.
  10. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Romans - Index". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  11. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Time Meddler - Index". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-04-09.
  12. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Crusade". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  13. ^ Sir Edward is Lord of Wessex; Irongron cannot read Sir Edward's "Norman scribbles"; Lady Eleanor wears a barbette, Sir Edward states that the unnamed king is away at war again.
  14. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The King's Demons - Index". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-04-09.
  15. ^ ""Doctor Who" Doctor Who: Marco Polo at BBC Shop". www.bbcshop.com. Retrieved 2010-04-09.
  16. ^ John Lucarotti, Marco Polo Episode 1 - The Roof of the World, Scene 5; : "DOCTOR: Er... what year is this and where are we, hmm? POLO: (surprised) You do not know? DOCTOR: Oh... that is why I'm asking you! POLO: How long have you been travelling? It is Twelve Hundred and Eighty Nine and this is the Plain of Pamir, known to those who travel to Cathay as The Roof of the World.""Marco Polo (1)". homepages.bw.edu. Retrieved 2010-04-09.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq The time period is specifically stated by a character other than the Doctor in dialogue.
  18. ^ Rani Chandra arives in the Tower of London on the final day of Queen Jane's reign.
  19. ^ a b "BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Massacre - Index". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  20. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Visitation". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-04-09.
  21. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who - Classic Series - Photonovels - The Smugglers". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
  22. ^ Charles' coat. stockings and long black wig; his guards' collars and hats; Matilda's dress - all late 17th Century; it is post-Restoration, as Amy reads that the king put the Doctor in the Tower.
  23. ^ a b c d The reckoning of Reinette's age is consistent with her actual year of birth and death only when her ages in the story are recognised as including her current incomplete year (See Ageing#Cultural_variations). Reinette's portrait on the ship gives the year of her birth as 1721. She states her age as 7 in what she tells the Doctor is the year 1727, though she would be six full years and some months. Rose told Reinette the clockwork droids would come for her in five years; they came for her when she was 37. The King says Reinette was 43 when she died. Consistent with the years stated on her portrait in the story, and the actual dates of her birth (29 Dec 1721) and death (15 Apr 1764), she was 42 years, 3 months, and 2.5 weeks old, in her 43rd year when she died.
  24. ^ Jamie McCrimmon meets the Doctor for the first time. In The War Games he says that this took place in 1745.
  25. ^ The story is set shortly after the Battle of Culloden, which in real life occurred on 16 April 1746.
  26. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p The time period over which the story is set can be deduced from the storyline as presented.
  27. ^ The story ends with Robespierre's downfall, the day before his execution.
  28. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Mark of the Rani". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  29. ^ a b c d Eps 1 & 2 were set on the planet Aridius, date not given. In ep 3 the TARDIS stops at the Empire State Building (Morton Dill gives the date as 1966) and onboard the Marie Celeste when the abandoning of the ship is shown (the final log entry was 24 Nov 1872 and the last entry on the ship's slate was the next day). In ep 4 the TARDIS crew unknowingly spend time at the Festival of Ghana - a sign shown on screen gives the date as 1996. Eps 5 and most of 6 are set on the planet Mechanus at some unknown date in Earth's future. The end of ep 6 shows Ian and Barbara returning to Earth. Ian sees that a car's tax disc, which are for a period no longer than 12 months, expires Dec 1965. Cite error: The named reference "chase" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  30. ^ Year stated in dialogue.
  31. ^ Vincent is aware of the Doctor, thus placing it on or after 3 June 1890; but is still alive, placing it on or before 30 July 1890.
  32. ^ As seen in Remembrance of the Daleks; the Doctor says to the Black Dalek "You are trapped...a trillion miles, and a thousand years, from a disintegrated home....", placing Skaro's destruction in either c. 963 or c. 2963 (although the Doctor could alternatively mean that the Black Dalek would take a thousand years to travel back to Skaro from Earth).
  33. ^ a b c d A newspaper gives the date.
  34. ^ A voiceover sets the scene on the Western Front in World War I.
  35. ^ The episode is set before the armistice with Germany.
  36. ^ From the fashions the early carnival scenes appear to be set in the 1920s.
  37. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010tb7q
  38. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/2005/emptychild.shtml
  39. ^ Year is stated in dialogue; characters and scenery depict warm months
  40. ^ Seeing the headphones worn by the women in the deciphering room, Ace remarks that she didn't know they had personal stereos in 1943.
  41. ^ The episode takes place on the eve and on the day of Elizabeth II's coronation.
  42. ^ a b The contemporary parts of the story can be seen to span two days, on the first of which is a dance where the entrance poster states it is 'Wednesday' and a banner reads 'Shangri-La 1959'. The issue of the Eagle comic being read by Murray the next morning is dated 7 Mar 1959 (according to the Info Text on the story's DVD).
  43. ^ This Story is set a few months after the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbra leave London in the TARDIS; the meta-reference in episode 2, "This is BBC television, the time is quarter past five and Saturday viewing continues with an adventure in the new science fiction series Do..." provides the date of 23 November 1963.
  44. ^ The TARDIS materialises in Trafalgar Square in the middle of people celebrating New Years Day.
  45. ^ Sir Charles only states the date, day of week and month, but in episode 1 of The Smugglers, the succeeding episode, Ben gives the date as 1966
  46. ^ Neil Armstrong's 20 July 1969 moonwalk
  47. ^ The dying timelord child has travelled from Florida to New York City
  48. ^ a b "BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - Mawdryn Undead". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  49. ^ The 1983 version of Brigadier Lethbrige-Stewart tells the Doctor they were preparing for the Queen's Silver Jubilee
  50. ^ Logopolis and Four to Doomsday both happen on the same date, as as the Doctor is trying to get Tegan to Heathrow in time for her flight
  51. ^ Year repeatedly stated in dialogue.
  52. ^ A calendar in the Tracking Room shows it is December 1986. The Cybermen's planet Mondas is destroyed at the end of the story; in Attack of the Cybermen the Sixth Doctor relates the event and confirms it occurs in 1986.
  53. ^ Ace's grandmother, Wren Kathleen Dudman, receives the telegram in The Curse of Fenric; Ace reads it aloud.
  54. ^ a b In Ghost Light, Ace states that she last saw (and burnt down) the house Gabriel Chase in 1983, the Doctor stating that she was 13 at the time.
  55. ^ In "Dalek", Rose says she would be 26 in 2012. This is consistent with the Doctor saying that Rose is 19 in "The Unquiet Dead", set wihin a few days of the events of "Rose" in Rose's personal timeline (Rose tells Mickey in "Aliens of London" that the events of that episode are only a few days for her after leaving him at the end of "Rose"), if the attributable date of 5–6 March 2005 for "Rose" is correct (the Doctor also gives her age as 19 in "Dalek"). However, the Doctor says in "Rise of the Cybermen" that Rose was 6 months old when her father died – on 7 November 1987 in "Father's Day", when she is depicted as a baby. Her exact date of birth is given as 24 April 1987 in her character guide in the 2005 Doctor Who Annual written by Russell T Davies.
  56. ^ a b Richards, Justin (2005). Doctor Who: The Legend Continues. BBC Books. ISBN 0-563-48640-6.
  57. ^ Set 2 years after "Rose", according to Elton's video blog
  58. ^ Set at least 2 months after "Love & Monsters" (the ghosts started appearing 2 months before Doctor's arrival according to Jackie)
  59. ^ a b c d Date from Doctor Who: The Enclyopedia by Gary Russell (BBC Books, 2007)
  60. ^ 2 years prior to Amy's wedding in 2010 as seen in Flesh and Stone
  61. ^ a b The novel Beautiful Chaos, set on 15 May 2009, takes place "one month after the skies had burnt". The Stolen Earth and Journey's End are said to take place within six weeks of the events of the novel, meaning May–June.
  62. ^ It is possible that the internal chronological order matches the order of dates of original transmission.
  63. ^ Maria and Alan Jackson were stated by Luke to be on holiday in Cornwall during "The Stolen Earth" and had not yet moved to Washington, D.C. as they do at the end of The Last Sontaran (TLS). They are shown living in the US in The Mark of the Berserker (TMotB) when Rani meets them for the first time (over a webcam). Rani and her family make their first appearances in The Day of the Clown (TDotC). In Enemy of the Bane (EotB), Sarah Jane recognises Commander Kaagh who himself refers to the events of TLS. In TLS Alan refers to the events of The Lost Boy (TLB) and Maria refers to the Xylok. Also, Professor Rivers of the Pharos Institute refers to "that business with Nathan Goss" (the child Slitheen in TLB) in TDotC. In Prisoner of the Judoon Rani refers to the events of EotB. In The Mad Woman in the Attic, present day Rani has flashbacks to TDotC, TMotB and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TToSJS); Luke has a flashback to TLS, and Sarah Jane has flashbacks to TDotC and TToSJS. In The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TWoSJS), Sarah Jane refers to the Trickster having previously used her parents against her, which happened in TToSJS. In TWoSJS, Rani and Clyde meet the Doctor for the first time; Clyde mentioned the Doctor "looked human" in The Eternity Trap.
  64. ^ Maria's email to Luke can be seen on screen as having been "Sent: 09 October 22:54".
  65. ^ The newspaper Clyde is reading at the end has a date of November 7, the events of the episode take place over the two previous days.
  66. ^ The tax disc on Sarah Jane's car, which are for a period no longer than twelve months, expires 30 Sep 2009.
  67. ^ On-screen caption refers to the flashback as a year before the bulk of the episode.
  68. ^ The story is stated to be set over 5 days, on all of which children are either shown at school or stated to be being kept home from school; normal school days in the UK being Mon-Fri. However, on the second of the five days Ianto reads a copy of that day's The Times newspaper dated 'Wednesday September 2009'. Jack (referring to the events of 1965) says that "the only consolation I had was that the deal seemed to work", to which Rhys responded "it worked for 44 years".
  69. ^ The events of The Stolen Earth and Journey's End are mentioned, which took place the previous year.
  70. ^ Luke Smith is said to be 14 by the Headmaster in Revenge of the Slitheen. Sarah Jane gives the same age in "Journey's End". She says that he is 15 in The Gift.
  71. ^ In "Planet of the Dead" Lady Christina steals the Cup of Athelstan from the International Gallery. In Mona Lisa's Revenge, Lional Harding, Curator of the International Gallery, says: "I told them security had to be improved ... after that Cup of Athelstan fiasco at Easter."
  72. ^ a b The postcard for the Van Gogh exhibition on Craig's fridge in The Lodger has the exhibition occur between these dates.
  73. ^ printed on the invitation held by Amy in "The Impossible Astronaut"
  74. ^ The episode takes place on the day of the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
  75. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - The Rescue". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  76. ^ Date from Doctor Who: The Time Traveller's Almanac by Steve Tribe (BBC Books, 2008)
  77. ^ Elliot Sardick 4305-4378. The Doctor states that Kazran's father died 20 years ago.
  78. ^ After similar scene in "The Pandorica Opens", as facility is placed on alert when a guard discovers that River Song is packing again.
  79. ^ Based on the attributable date for the 1st flashback in "The Runaway Bride".
  80. ^ Based on the attributable date for "The Runaway Bride", whose events are paralleled. Also, Donna meets Rose and later tells her that was on Christmas Eve.
  81. ^ Mr Chowdry refers to the Thames draining being a 'few months' earlier; June–November 2008 based on the attributable dates for "Smith and Jones", whose events are paralleled. Also, Donna tells Rose that next Christmas "is ages away". (The fact that Sarah Jane, Luke, Maria and Clyde died in the hospital could imply that the date is after that of Revenge of the Slitheen, but the datings may be different in the altered timeline.)
  82. ^ Based on the attributable date for "Voyage of the Damned", whose events are paralleled. Also, Sylvia says the second day was Christmas Day.
  83. ^ The homeless Nobles were told they could go to Leeds or "wait in the hostel for another 3 months". (Whilst in Leeds events paralling those of "Partners in Crime" and "The Poison Sky" occurred, though both the Nanny's and the Sontarans' plans, and probably therefore the dates, would have been changed by London's destruction.) Rose told Donna that she would be 'ready' in 3 weeks, which happened just before Donna saw the TARDIS.
  84. ^ The Animus intends to go to Earth to obtain mastery of space from the human race.
  85. ^ The pilot told the Doctor the colony "was founded many centuries ago".
  86. ^ a b The story is set on a future Earth.
  87. ^ Caven describes Madeleine Issigri as "the Head of the Issigri Mining Company and very important back on Earth". General Hermack says people like Milo Clancey were the first men to go into deep space.
  88. ^ a b Monster of Peladon is a sequel to Curse, with various references to it taking place 50 years later. In both stories, Earth is a member of the Galactic Federation.
  89. ^ a b The story involves a human expedition to another planet.
  90. ^ a b c d The Daleks are seen being created in Genesis of the Daleks. In Destiny of the Daleks (DotD), the Doctors says that the Daleks were created "thousands of years ago on Skaro". Also in DotD Tyssan served with Earth's deep space fleet and at the end a high security ship is to bring Davros back to Earth to stand trial and he is placed in a cryogenetic freezer, which puts him in a solid block of ice. He is apparently still in this state whilst imprisoned in Resurrection of the Daleks. Speaking to Lytton, Davros explains that his cryogenic sentence lasted for "90 years of mind-numbing boredom." In Revelation of the Daleks, Davros relates how he escaped the space station in Resurrection by escape pod, ending up on Necros.
  91. ^ Solon wonders if he will ever see Earth again. The Doctor knows Solon is a Terran neurosurgeon and that Solon's time is considerably after Sarah's.
  92. ^ Prof Rumford says that the Nine Travellers had been standing since "about 2000 BC, nearly 4,000 years." Vivian Fay later added: "...some kind of sisterhood, that's been worshipping these stones for – when was the convent founded? 12th Century was it? – for 700 odd years."
  93. ^ Garron is from Earth and familiar with interstellar travel and government.
  94. ^ The Gaztaks – who do not appear to have time travel capabilities – kidnap an ordinary Earth man who appears to be contemporary.
  95. ^ The Tower was the Earth spaceship Hydrax. The rebels said the Doctor was "their first real hope in a thousand years".
  96. ^ Bogon said he was from ancient Athens, and on the ship for 2,000 years.
  97. ^ In Arc of Infinity Tegan references the Doctor leaving her behind at the end of Time-Flight.
  98. ^ The story is set on a human space station.
  99. ^ The story is set in a human extraterrestrial colony.
  100. ^ The twins, Romulus and Remus, are from Earth. Their kidnapping is investigated by Hugo Lang, a member of a police service operating in space. Policewoman Elena’s computer screen says that last contact with freighter X.V.773 was on 12–99; she says the freighter "was reported missing, believed destroyed, 8 months ago."
  101. ^ The Doctor threatens to take Peri "back to 1985".
  102. ^ The Doctor tells Ace they are several years in her future.
  103. ^ Ace is referred to as being missing for 'a short while'.
  104. ^ Rose phones her mother. Jackie's dialogue, in that she does appear concerned as to Rose's welfare, implies that from her point of view the conversation takes place before "Rose". At the episode's end, the Doctor and Rose arrive in an apparently contemporary setting and he asks her if she wants to go home (in "Aliens of London" the Doctor says he intended to return Rose 12 hours after she left).
  105. ^ The story takes place on a human spaceship and reference is made to The Beatles and Elvis Presley.
  106. ^ Rose initially asks to go forward in time 100 years, but on arrival the Doctor says it's boring and moves to 12005 and then to the year 5,000,000,000.
  107. ^ Tribe, Steve (2009). Doctor Who: Companions and Allies. BBC Books. ISBN 1846077494.
  108. ^ a b This refers to the Tenth Doctor placement. The Fifth Doctor placement in "Time Crash" is unknown.
  109. ^ The Castellan appears in both stories. In Arc of Infinity he plays a role in the Doctor's 'execution', and in The Five Doctors he accuses the Doctor of seeking revenge. He is killed during the latter story.
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