Chronology of the Doctor Who universe

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The following is a list of Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures serials and episodes (and the singular K9 and Company episode) by their era and date, when known. It is intended roughly to give a description of the extent of the Doctor's time travels.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Historical

[edit] BCE

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The Runaway Bride (one scene)	4.6 billion BCE^[1]	10th	2006
City of Death, episode 4	stated as c. 400 million BCE (probably intended to be c. 4 billion BCE)	4th	1979
Time-Flight	c. 140 million BCE	5th	1982
Earthshock, Part Four	65 million BCE	5th	1982
An Unearthly Child, episodes 2-4	c. 100,000 BCE	1st	1963
The Time Monster	c. 10,000 BCE	3rd	1972
The Daleks' Master Plan, episode 9	c. 2500 BCE	1st	1966
The Myth Makers	c. 1250 BCE	1st	1965

[edit] 1st Millennium

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The Romans	18 June(?) 64 - 18 July 64 ^[2]	1st	1965

[edit] Early 2nd Millennium

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The Time Meddler	1066	1st	1965
The Crusade	1191	1st	1965
The Time Warrior	between 1189 and 1199	3rd	1974
The King's Demons	1215	5th	1983
Marco Polo	1289	1st	1964
The Aztecs	around 1450 ^[3]	1st	1964
The Masque of Mandragora	around 1475	4th	1976

[edit] Mid 2nd Millennium

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
City of Death, episodes 2-3	1505	4th	1979
The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve	1572	1st	1966
The Shakespeare Code	1599^[4]	10th	2007
Silver Nemesis	1638	7th	1988
The Visitation	September 2,1666 ^[5]	5th	1982
The Smugglers	between 1680 and 1700	1st	1966
The Highlanders	1746	2nd	1967
The Girl in the Fireplace	c. 1730 - 1764 ^[6]	10th	2006
The Reign of Terror	1794	1st	1964
The Mark of the Rani	1820s	6th	1985

[edit] Victorian era

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The Evil of the Daleks	1866	2nd	1967
The Unquiet Dead	December 24, 1869 ^[7]	9th	2005
The Chase	November 25, 1872 ^[8]	1st	1965
Tooth and Claw	1879 ^[9]	10th	2006
The Gunfighters	1881	1st	1966
Ghost Light	1883	7th	1989
Timelash	1885	6th	1985
The Talons of Weng-Chiang	between 1889 and 1901	4th	1977

[edit] Early 20th Century

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
Horror of Fang Rock	between 1901 and 1910	4th	1977
Enlightenment	between 1901 and 1910 ^[10]	5th	1983
Pyramids of Mars	1911 ^[11]	4th	1975
Human Nature/The Family of Blood	1913	10th	2007
Black Orchid	1925	5th	1982
Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks	1930s^[12]	10th	2007
The Abominable Snowmen	1935	2nd	1967

[edit] World War II

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
Captain Jack Harkness	January 3^[13], 1941	TW	2007
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances	January 20-21, 1941^[14]	9th	2005
The Curse of Fenric	c. 1943	7th	1989

[edit] 1950s

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The Idiot's Lantern	June 2, 1953 ^[15]	10th	2006
Delta and the Bannermen	1959	7th	1987

[edit] Contemporary

[edit] 1960s

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
An Unearthly Child, episode 1	October 1963	1st	1963
Remembrance of the Daleks	late November 1963 around the 23rd ^[16]	7th	1988
Planet of Giants	1964	1st	1964
The War Machines The Faceless Ones The Evil of the Daleks (episode 1)	July 20, 1966	1st 2nd 2nd	1964 1966 1966
Fury from the Deep	late 1960s	2nd	1967
The Underwater Menace	20th century, after 1968^[17]	2nd	1967

[edit] 1970s

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The Hand of Fear	February 1974	4th	1976
Image of the Fendahl	July 1974	4th	1977
The Stones of Blood	between 1975 and 1980	4th	1978
Mawdryn Undead	1977	5th	1983
City of Death	1979 ^[18]	4th	1979

[edit] 1980s

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
Meglos	1980s	4th	1980
The Keeper of Traken	1981	4th	1981
Logopolis	28 February 1981	4th	1981
Four to Doomsday	28 February 1981	5th	1982
A Girl's Best Friend	Late December, 1981	K-9	1981
Time-Flight	1982	5th	1982
Arc of Infinity	January 1983	5th	1983
Mawdryn Undead	February 1983	5th	1983
The Awakening	January 1984	5th	1984
Resurrection of the Daleks	February 1984	5th	1984
Attack of the Cybermen	January 1985	6th	1985
Planet of Fire	1985	5th	1984
The Two Doctors	Sometime in the 1980s	2nd/6th	1985
The Tenth Planet	December 1986	1st	1966
Father's Day	November 7, 1987	9th	2005
Silver Nemesis	November 23, 1988	7th	1988
Survival	1989	7th	1989

[edit] 1990s

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
Doctor Who (television movie)	December 30, 1999 - January 1, 2000	7th/8th	1996

[edit] UNIT Adventures (late 20th Century)

The adventures that revolve around UNIT have been a highly discussed issue for decades. There is no clear evidence as to when all of these adventures took place, though evidence obviously suggests late 20th century. (See UNIT dating controversy for more info.) Below is a list, in order of transmission, of those adventures:

Episode/Serial	Doctor
The Web of Fear	2nd
The Invasion	2nd
Spearhead from Space	3rd
Doctor Who and the Silurians	3rd
The Ambassadors of Death	3rd
Inferno	3rd
Terror of the Autons	3rd
The Mind of Evil	3rd
The Claws of Axos	3rd
Colony in Space	3rd
The Dæmons	3rd
Day of the Daleks	3rd
The Sea Devils	3rd
The Time Monster	3rd
The Three Doctors	3rd
The Green Death	3rd
The Time Warrior	3rd
Invasion of the Dinosaurs	3rd
Planet of the Spiders	3rd
Robot	4th
Terror of the Zygons	4th
The Android Invasion	4th
The Seeds of Doom	4th
Battlefield	7th

[edit] 2000s

The beginning of the 2005 series. The series starts in line with the airdate, until Aliens of London, where all dates are approximately one year further on than their airdates. By 2006, the general human population has evidence of the existence of aliens, although various governments have dismissed this as a hoax. Harriet Jones is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Blaine is the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Mr. Saxon is running for the general election. The Torchwood Institute operates in Britain, studying and augmenting alien technology for the benefit of the British Empire.

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
Rose	March 2005 ^[19]	9th	2005
Aliens of London/World War Three	March 2006 ^[20]	9th	2005
Boom Town	c. September 2006 ^[21]	9th	2005
The Parting of the Ways	c October or November 2006 ^[22]	9th	2005
The Christmas Invasion	December 24/25, 2006 ^[23]	10th	2005
Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel	February 1, 2007 (alternate timeline)^[24]	10th	2006
School Reunion	Before July 12, 2007 ^[25]^[26]	10th	2006
Love & Monsters	2007 ^[27]	10th	2006
Army of Ghosts / Doomsday	2007 ^[28]	10th	2006
Everything Changes to Out of Time	Late 2007^[29]	TW (10th)	2006
The Runaway Bride	December 24, 2007 ^[30]	10th	2006
Combat to End of Days	Early 2008^[29]	TW (10th)	2006
Invasion of the Bane	January 10-11 2009^[26]	SJA	2007

[edit] Future

[edit] 2010s

Little is known about the world during this period, but it is implied that nothing is particularly unusual about Earth.

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
Dalek	2012 ^[31]	9th	2005
Fear Her	July, 2012 ^[32]	10th	2006
The Enemy of the World	early 21st century	2nd	1967

[edit] Late 21st Century

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The Moonbase	2070	2nd	1967
The Wheel in Space	between 2070 and 2164	2nd	1968
Warriors of the Deep	2084	5th	1984
Paradise Towers	late 21st century	7th	1987
The Seeds of Death	end of 21st century	2nd	1969

[edit] 22nd Century

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
Nightmare of Eden	c. 2116	4th	1979
The Dalek Invasion of Earth	2164 ^[33]	1st	1964
Day of the Daleks	between 2164 and 2200, alternate timeline	3rd	1972
The Twin Dilemma	2200	6th	1984

[edit] Mid to Late 3rd Millennium

Space travel is commonplace for humans.

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The Leisure Hive	c. 2290	4th	1980
Vengeance on Varos	about 2300	6th	1985
The Androids of Tara	2370s	4th	1978
Mindwarp	July 3, 2379 ^[34]	6th	1986
Colony in Space	2472	3rd	1971
The Rescue	2493	1st	1965
Earthshock	2526	5th	1982
Frontier in Space	c. 2540	3rd	1973
Planet of the Daleks	c. 2540	3rd	1973
The Tomb of the Cybermen	c. 2600	2nd	1967
The Sensorites	28th century	1st	1964
Revenge of the Cybermen	about 2875	4th	1975
State of Decay	2929	4th	1980
The Mutants	30th century	3rd	1972
Terror of the Vervoids	2986	6th	1986

[edit] Thousands

The Ninth Doctor notes that by this time the human civilization has occupied half of the Milky Way galaxy. Also noted on The Talons of Weng-Chiang, the 5000s is an important era in the series; K-9 and Jack Harkness are from this time era, time travel among humans is possible, and humans start to leave the Earth to live elsewhere in the Universe.

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The Ice Warriors	4th millennium	2nd	1967
Mission to the Unknown	3999	1st	1965
The Daleks' Master Plan	4000	1st	1965-66
The Invisible Enemy	5000	4th	1977
The Girl in the Fireplace	c. 5000	10th	2006

[edit] Tens of Thousands

Earth has been heavily damaged and civilization had to be rebuilt from a small number of individuals.

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The End of the World^[35]	12,005	9th	2005
Planet of Evil	37,166	4th	1975

[edit] Hundreds of Thousands

The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire: Earth is at the peak of civilisation, covered with mega cities, orbited by five moons and containing population of 96 billion, acting as the centre of a galactic domain that stretches across a million planets and species. During this time, however, the Daleks have been covertly controlling the Earth using broadcasts from Satellite Five (later the Gamestation) for at least several generations prior to The Long Game.

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The Long Game	200,000	9th	2005
Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways	200,100	9th	2005

[edit] Millions

Earth has been abandoned by humans.

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The Mysterious Planet	c. 2,000,000	6th	1986
The Ark	c. 10,000,000	1st	1966
Frontios	c. 10,000,000	5th	1984

[edit] Billions

The year 5.5/Apple/26. Earth and its sun have died. Humans live on other planets, though all of them have either bred with aliens, mutated, evolved, or are genetically engineered. Trees and cats have evolved into humanoids.

Episode/Serial	Year	Doctor	Year Aired
The End of the World	c. 5,000,000,000 (called 5.5/Apple/26)	9th	2005
New Earth	c. 5,000,000,023	10th	2006

[edit] Unknown future year

Episode/Serial	Planet	Doctor	Year Aired
The Daleks	Skaro	1st	1963
The Keys of Marinus	Marinus	1st	1964
The Web Planet	Vortis	1st	1965
The Space Museum	Xeros	1st	1965
Galaxy 4	planet of Rills	1st	1965
The Celestial Toymaker	Toymaker realm	1st	1966
The Savages	a distant planet	1st	1966
The Power of the Daleks	Vulcan	2nd	1966
The Macra Terror	colony of Earth	2nd	1967
The Dominators	Dulkis	2nd	1968
The Mind Robber	Land of Fiction	2nd	1968
The Krotons	planet of Gonds	2nd	1969
The Space Pirates	deep space	2nd	1969
The Curse of Peladon	Peladon (Earth's future) ^[36]	3rd	1972
Carnival of Monsters	in a miniscope on Inter Minor	3rd	1973
Planet of the Daleks	Spiridon	3rd	1973
Death to the Daleks	Exxilon	3rd	1974
The Monster of Peladon	Peladon (Earth's future) ^[36]	3rd	1974
The Sontaran Experiment	Earth	4th	1975
Genesis of the Daleks	Skaro	4th	1975
The Brain of Morbius	Karn	4th	1976
The Face of Evil	jungle planet	4th	1977
The Robots of Death	desert planet	4th	1977
The Sun Makers	Pluto (Earth's future) ^[37]	4th	1977
Underworld	deep space	4th	1978
The Ribos Operation	Ribos	4th	1978
The Pirate Planet	Zanak	4th	1978
The Armageddon Factor	Atrios	4th	1979
Destiny of the Daleks	Skaro	4th	1979
The Creature from the Pit	Chloris	4th	1979
The Horns of Nimon	Skonnos	4th	1980
Full Circle	Alzarius	4th	1980
Warriors' Gate	null space	4th	1981
Kinda	Deva Loka	5th	1982
Snakedance	Manussa	5th	1983
Terminus	deep space	5th	1983
The Caves of Androzani	Androzani Minor	5th	1984
Revelation of the Daleks	Necros	6th	1985
Time and the Rani	Lakertya	6th/7th	1987
Dragonfire	Svartos	7th	1987
The Happiness Patrol	Terra Alpha	7th	1988
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy	Segonax	7th	1988
The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit	Krop Tor	10th	2006

[edit] Inside the TARDIS

Episode/Serial	Doctor
The Edge of Destruction	1st
Children in Need special	10th

[edit] Adventures on (or dealing with) Gallifrey

Episode/Serial	Doctor
The War Games ep 10	2nd
The Three Doctors ep 1	3rd
The Deadly Assassin	4th
The Invasion of Time	4th
Castrovalva	5th
Arc of Infinity ep 1	5th
The Five Doctors	5th
The Trial of a Time Lord	6th

[edit] Notes on the dating

Some dating information on this page is taken from BBC Doctor Who website.

^ The time period is specifically stated in dialogue
^ Vicki mentioned that they have been here for a month. The Great Fire of Rome started on July 18 64
^ The Aztecs novelisation gives the date as 1507, but this was not stated on screen
^ Shakespeare Sorted. bbc.co.uk (2006-09-03). Retrieved on 2006-12-26.
^ The Great Fire of London started on this date.
^ In The Girl in the Fireplace, Reinette gives the date as 1727 on her first meeting with the Doctor; she later says that she has known him since she was seven years old. It therefore follows that when she is 37 (which is when the climax of the episode takes place) the date is approximately 1757. The date of birth and death of Madame de Pompadour are also known.
^ The date is specifically stated in dialogue.
^ The date of the final log for the Marie Celeste.
^ The year is specifically stated in dialogue. They had meant to go to Sheffield on November 21, 1979, to see Ian Dury.
^ This is the date the sailors were abducted to sail on the Edwardian racing yacht. The eternals also captured people from other time periods. The date when the race took place is unknown.
^ The year is specifically given in dialogue.
^ Nathan, Sara. "The Doc is rocked in new series", The Sun, 2006-12-27. Retrieved on 2006-12-27.
^ [1] notes that Harkness was killed "yesterday". The episode takes place the night before the real Jack's death.
^ Torchwood - Everything Changes
^ The year is specifically stated in dialogue, and a historical event in that year (the televised coronation of Elizabeth II) forms a major part of the plot.
^ The serial is set shortly after the events of An Unearthly Child. A calendar showing the month as November 1963 is visible, and an in-joke reference is made to the premier of a BBC t.v. programme which from context may be inferred to be Doctor Who itself.
^ There is a faux Aztec piece that reads "Mexico Olympiad" on it.
^ The year is specifically stated in dialogue.
^ A poster seen in Aliens of London/World War Three dates the event of Rose to March 2005, which was also when the episode was broadcast.
^ Aliens of London / World War Three are said to be one year after the events of Rose, and therefore take place in March 2006.
^ Boom Town is set six months after World War Three, as stated at the beginning of the episode.
^ The section of The Parting of the Ways where Rose returns to her mother and Mickey presumably takes place shortly after the events of Boom Town, as Rose says the last time she met Mickey was "when [they] fought the Slitheen".
^ The Christmas Invasion features Harriet Jones, and is therefore set after the events of World War Three, therefore the Christmas mentioned is Christmas 2006, factoring in later events.
^ Rise of the Cybermen is set on February 1st, on Jackie Tyler's 40th birthday. From the episode she is a year older than Cuba Gooding, Jr.
^ School Reunion is less than a year after The Christmas Invasion: Sarah Jane refers to the events therein as taking place at the Christmas just gone.
^ ^a ^b Maria's alarm clock specifically states that most of Invasion of the Bane takes place on 11th January, however, no year is given. K-9 has also been fixing a black hole for "a year and a half", therefore, the earliest it can take place in continuity is July 1, 2008, eighteen months after the earliest date School Reunion could have taken place on.
^ The episode is set after the events of The Christmas Invasion, but presumably before Army of Ghosts.
^ The episodes are set at least "two months" after the Doctor and Rose's last visit to contemporary Earth. The year is confirmed by Jackie saying that Pete had been dead 20 years (he had died in 1987 as shown in Father's Day). However, in the parallel world, three years have passed since the events of Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel.
^ ^a ^b Torchwood is established to have taken place after Doomsday, and the final of Strictly Come Dancing is referenced in Ghost Machine, a show that airs in Autumn. Continuity errors occasionally place it in 2008 (Greeks Bearing Gifts) and 2006 (Random Shoes and Out of Time), with some episodes set approaching Christmas 2007 and some which would logically follow it. Other official Torchwood sources confirm the 2007-2008 setting.
^ The Doctor makes reference to the Sycorax invasion happening the Christmas before, and the events of the episode happen in the space of one day.
^ The year is specifically given in dialogue.
^ The year is specifically mentioned in Fear Her. The month appears on the missing children posters. The episode depicts the 2012 Summer Olympics. The opening ceremony, depicted in the episode, is currently planned for July 27, 2012.
^ A calendar by the protagonists gives the year as 2164.
^ Mindwarp was said to take place in the 24th century, last quarter, fourth year, seventh month, third day.
^ The TARDIS briefly stops at this date, the time of the "New Roman Empire"
Reference: "The End of the World". Russell T. Davies (writer) and Euros Lyn (director). Doctor Who (2005). BBC. BBC One. 2005-04-02. No. 2, season 1. c. 5 minutes in.
^ ^a ^b The Federation is mentioned.
^ Humans have moved from the Earth to Pluto.

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Contents

[edit] Historical

[edit] BCE

[edit] 1st Millennium

[edit] Early 2nd Millennium

[edit] Mid 2nd Millennium

[edit] Victorian era

[edit] Early 20th Century

[edit] World War II

[edit] 1950s

[edit] Contemporary

[edit] 1960s

[edit] 1970s

[edit] 1980s

[edit] 1990s

[edit] UNIT Adventures (late 20th Century)

[edit] 2000s

[edit] Future

[edit] 2010s

[edit] Late 21st Century

[edit] 22nd Century

[edit] Mid to Late 3rd Millennium

[edit] Thousands

[edit] Tens of Thousands

[edit] Hundreds of Thousands

[edit] Millions

[edit] Billions

[edit] Unknown future year

[edit] Inside the TARDIS

[edit] Adventures on (or dealing with) Gallifrey

[edit] Notes on the dating

[edit] See also

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