Theory:Timeline - 13 Bannerman Road

This page lists appearances of 13 Bannerman Road in chronological order. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed that for each novel, comic, audio or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

Fan sources like the Doctor Who Reference Guide should not be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Limitations
Any story with Maria, Luke and Clyde on the team must be after TV: Revenge of the Slitheen and before TV: The Last Sontaran. Any story with Clyde and Rani must be after TV: The Last Sontaran. Any story with K9 Mark IV defending the black hole must be between TV: Invasion of the Bane and TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic. Any story with K9 freely around in Bannerman Road must be after TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic and before TV: The Nightmare Man. Any story with Luke at Oxford with K9 must be after TV: The Nightmare Man. Any story with Sky must be after TV: Sky.

Bannerman Road gang begins

 * TV: Invasion of the Bane
 * Set in August 2008. Sarah Jane meets Maria Jackson and adopts Luke Smith, who was "born a thirteen year old boy" due to being made artificially by the Bane. K9 has been guarding a black hole for "a year and a half".


 * TV: Revenge of the Slitheen
 * Set in September 2008, shortly after Invasion of the Bane. A new school year has started at Park Vale Comprehensive School, and Maria and Luke, who is now "fourteen", befriend Clyde Langer, who joins the Bannerman Road gang hile foiling a plot by the Slitheen family. Luke and Clyde are classmates in form 10B. Sarah Jane begins letting Luke call her his mother, at Clyde's urging.


 * TV: Eye of the Gorgon
 * Alan tells Chrissie that it has been six months since she "took [their] home apart".


 * TV: Warriors of Kudlak
 * Luke has been experimenting with jokes, and asks Clyde about girls after receiving his first kiss. Luke, Maria and Clyde go into space for the first time.


 * AUDIO: The Glittering Stone


 * AUDIO: The Thirteenth Stone


 * TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
 * Sarah Jane fights the Trickster for the first time. Alan fights a Graske and demands answers from Sarah Jane, leading directly into The Lost Boy.


 * TV: The Lost Boy
 * Set five months after Invasion of the Bane at the most. Despite the initial shock, Alan gives Maria his blessing to continue having her adventures with Sarah Jane. Mr Smith reveals himself to be a Xylok with intentions of destroying the world, but he is rebooted into a benevolent being by the Armageddon virus. Sarah Jane meets Celeste Rivers at the Pharos Institute, and Clyde meets K9 for the first time.


 * TV: The Stolen Earth
 * Set in 2009, between May and June. With Maria and Alan in Cornwall, and Clyde staying to protect his mother, Sarah Jane and Luke join with Torchwood Three, Martha Jones and Harriet Jones on the Sub-Wave Network to summon the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble to Earth after it is moved to the Medusa Cascade by the New Dalek Empire. Leaving Luke under Mr Smith's protection, Sarah Jane goes to find the Doctor, only to be ambushed by the Daleks, leading directly into Journey's End.


 * TV: Journey's End
 * Sarah Jane is saved by Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler, and they are taken to the Crucible, where the Metacrisis Tenth Doctor destroys the Daleks. Luke, Mr Smith and K9 then assist in returning the Earth to its proper location, and Sarah Jane returns to them. Luke is still "fourteen".

After the Dalek invasion

 * TV: The Last Sontaran
 * Maria and Alan move to Washington, DC in America six weeks after the Bannerman Road gang defeat Commander Kaagh of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet. Alien life is now common knowledge on Earth, implying a setting after Journey's End. While Chrissie's hair is noticeably longer, she implies that Alan has only recently moved to Bannerman Road.

Rani joins the gang

 * TV: The Day of the Clown
 * Set in October 2009. Rani Chandra moves into 36 Bannerman Road and becomes a part of Sarah Jane's gang during their fight with the Pied Piper. While it has been a "while" since the disappearance of Park Vale Headmaster Greg Blakeman in Revenge of the Slitheen, Headmaster Haresh Chandra observes that Luke has shown impressive results over the "past year", but it is unclear if he is referring to the year date or the school year. Maria notes in an email that it "feels like only yesterday" that she left Bannerman Road. According to Luke, the Bannerman Road gang has saved the world "twelve times".


 * WC: Light
 * Set during The Day of the Clown.


 * TV: Secrets of the Stars
 * According to Martin Trueman, Rani has still only "just moved house", setting this shortly after The Day of the Clown. Luke is given an official birthday.


 * AUDIO: The Time Capsule


 * AUDIO: The Ghost House


 * TV: The Mark of the Berserker
 * While Sarah Jane is tracking down Travast Polong in Tarminster, Clyde's father, Paul, returns from Germany to see Clyde, and falls under the sway of a Berserker pendant, though he is able to overcome it before he returns to Germany. Rani meets Maria for the first time, although via a video call. Clyde is fifteen-years-old.


 * TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
 * Rani and Luke experience time travel for the first time when the Trickster tries to manipulate Sarah Jane into preventing her parents' deaths in 1951, only for them to sacrifice their lives to stop him. Clyde recalls the events of Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? as happening "last year", and he helps Krislok the Graske escape his enslavement by the Trickster.


 * TV: Enemy of the Bane
 * When Mrs Wormwood and Kaagh return for revenge, Sarah Jane visits Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart for the fist time in a "long time" to get his help in retrieving the Tunguska Scroll from the Black Archive. When Wormwood betrays Kaagh when she tried to find Horath, Kaagh drags her into anther dimension. UNIT do not know about Luke's origins, and Clyde shows an interest in joining them. Kaagh destroy the sonic lipstick, but Sarah Jane reveals that she has a spare.


 * TV: From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love
 * Rani appears to already know K9.

Recording the Alien Files

 * TV: Prisoner of the Judoon
 * After they assist in the capture of Androvax, Clyde and Rani are issued an order of confinement to Earth by the Judoon Captain Tybo, effectively making them "grounded".


 * WC: Alien File: Androvax
 * Rani reviews the events of Prisoner of the Judoon on the Alien Files.


 * TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic
 * When Rani is contacted by her old friend Samuel Lloyd, who she had told of her adventures with Sarah Jane, the Bannerman Road gang travel to Danemouth, where they help power Ship with the black hole K9 Mark IV is guarding, closing the singularity and allowing K9 to return to 13 Bannerman Road. Luke, who is now roughly "fifteen", has fully grasped the concept of deception, and Sarah Jane is told she will soon be reunited with the Doctor.


 * WC: Alien File: Eve
 * Clyde reviews the events of The Mad Woman in the Attic on the Alien Files.


 * AUDIO: The Shadow People


 * AUDIO: Wraith World


 * AUDIO: Deadly Download


 * AUDIO: The White Wolf


 * TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
 * Sarah Jane nearly marries Peter Dalton as part of a plot concocted by the Trickster. The Tenth Doctor arrives to foil his plans, meeting Clyde and Rani for the first time, as well as meeting Luke in person for the first time since Journey's End.


 * WC: Alien File: The Doctor
 * Rani notes that the events of The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith were only "the other day".


 * TV: The Eternity Trap


 * WC: Alien File: Erasmus Darkening
 * Clyde and Rani review the events of The Eternity Trap on the Alien Files.


 * TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge
 * Luke and Clyde are now in form 11T, as is Rani.


 * WC: Alien File: Mona Lisa
 * Clyde and Rani review the events of Mona Lisa's Revenge on the Alien Files.


 * TV: The Gift
 * Sarah Jane prevents the Slitheen-Blathereen family from poisoning the world with Rakweed. Luke is still only "fifteen".


 * WC: Alien File: Blathereen
 * Clyde reviews the events of The Gift on the Alien Files.

Luke's final adventures

 * COMIC: Monster Hunt


 * COMIC: Return of the Krulius


 * COMIC: Vortex Butterflies
 * Present day setting is 2009. Sarah Jane meets the Tenth Doctor again, and she has a photograph of herself and the Tenth Doctor from her wedding day to Peter Dalton, setting this between The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith and The End of Time.


 * TV: The End of Time
 * Shortly after Christmas 2009, Luke is saved from being struck by a car by the Doctor, who quickly leaves without speaking a word. Sarah Jane senses that he is about to regenerate when they lock eyes.


 * TV: The Nightmare Man
 * Though Luke has only just started Sixth form, setting this near September 2010, he takes his A levels a year early and leaves for Oxford University with K9.

After Luke left for university

 * TV: SJAF 1


 * TV: The Vault of Secrets
 * Despite the cracks in time removing all memory of alien life to the public, Gita still recalls the events of Prisoner of the Judoon. However, her memories of aliens are erased by Mister Dread after Gita comes face-to-face with Androvax again. Luke has settled into Oxford, but Sarah Jane is still coping with his absence.


 * TV: SJAF 2


 * TV: Death of the Doctor
 * Set in 2010, at least six months after February. The events of School Reunion took place "about four years ago", and Luke has still only "just left for university". UNIT is now aware of Sarah Jane having Mr Smith in her attic. When the Claw Shansheeth fake the Doctor's death, Sarah Jane meets Jo Grant at the staged funeral, and the pair help the Eleventh Doctor foil their plans. The Bannerman Road gang has not seen the Doctor since either The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith or The End of Time, and have their first meeting with his eleventh incarnation.


 * TV: SJAF 3


 * TV: The Empty Planet
 * Clyde and Rani grow closer after being left the only two humans on Earth for an hour-and-a-half by two Automatons looking for a lost alien prince. In gratitude for them finding him, the prince makes them a Lord and a Lady.


 * TV: SJAF 4


 * COMIC: Defending Bannerman Road


 * TV: Lost in Time
 * Set on 23 November 2010. The Bannerman Road gang meet the Shopkeeper for the first time, and he sends Sarah Jane to help a paranormal investigator in 1889, Clyde to fight Nazis in 1941, and Rani to save Queen Jane Grey from an assassination in 1553. When pressed by Jane, Rani implies she has developed feelings for Clyde.


 * TV: SJAF 5


 * TV: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
 * Luke visits from Oxford to help save Sarah Jane from a Qetesh called "Ruby White". While on the verge of apparent death, Clyde tries to confess something to Rani, with the implication that it an admittance of love towards her.


 * TV: SJAF 6


 * WC: Attic Padz
 * Clyde has drawn a Groske, setting this after Death of the Doctor.


 * WC: Rani and Clyde


 * WC: Chris Meets...

Adopting Sky

 * TV: Sky
 * The Shopkeeper leaves a Fleshkind bio-weapon baby with Sarah Jane for safekeeping, and she is adopted as "Sky Smith". Rani is 17-years-old, and Sky is aged up to a 12-year-old.


 * TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer
 * Set "barely a month" after Sky. Clyde is still in sixth form.


 * TV: The Man Who Never Was
 * Luke has gone through seven mobile phones in "the past two years.


 * AUDIO: Children of Steel


 * AUDIO: Judgement Day

Later life

 * PROSE: Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill
 * Sarah Jane catches up with the Eleventh Doctor, mentioning that she intends to meet with Luke in twenty minutes. The Doctor hands her a fez, instructing her to deliver it to Clyde for him.


 * WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane
 * Friends of Sarah Jane and the Doctor attend Sarah's funeral.


 * TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic
 * Set in 2059. Rani, now a grandmather, is living at 13 Bannerman Road.