Theory:Timeline - The Brigadier

This page lists the appearances of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the order in which he experienced them

Early Life

 * PROSE: The Bledoe Cadets and the Bald Man of Pengriffen
 * Alistair is 7 years years old (James is still alive).


 * PROSE: The Forgotten Son (flashbacks)
 * Alistair is a 7-year-old child and has his 8th birthday (and James dies).


 * PROSE: In His Kiss
 * Alistair is a 15-year-old boy.


 * PROSE: Deadly Reunion (part 1)
 * Set just after WWII.


 * PROSE: The Lock-In (flashbacks)
 * Set in 1956.

First Contact and HAVOC

 * PROSE: The Ambush!
 * Direct prequel to Web of Fear


 * TV: The Web of Fear
 * Original appearance.


 * PROSE: The Forgotten Son
 * Set directly after Web of Fear


 * PROSE: Legacies
 * Concurrent with The Forgotten Son


 * PROSE: One Cold Step
 * PROSE: The Schizoid Earth
 * PROSE: The Cult of the Grinning Man
 * PROSE: Beast of Fang Rock
 * PROSE: The Dogs of War
 * PROSE: Mutually Assured Domination
 * PROSE: House of Giants
 * PROSE: The Black Eggs of Khufu
 * PROSE: Moon Blink
 * PROSE: The Band of Evil
 * PROSE: The Playing Dead
 * PROSE: The Showstoppers
 * PROSE: Schädengeist's First Love
 * PROSE: The Grandfather Infestation
 * PROSE: The Runaway Bomb
 * PROSE: Exodus from Venus
 * PROSE: The Last Duty
 * PROSE: Times Squared
 * PROSE: The Lost Skin
 * Concurrent with Times Squared


 * PROSE: Eve of the Fomorians
 * PROSE: The Wishing Bazaar
 * PROSE: Blood of Atlantis
 * PROSE: Mind of Stone
 * PROSE: The Feast of Evans
 * PROSE: The Fright Before Christmas
 * PROSE: Home for Christmas
 * PROSE: United in Blood
 * PROSE: Night of the Intelligence
 * PROSE: The Daughters of Earth
 * PROSE: The Dreamer's Lament

The UNIT Years

 * TV: The Invasion
 * TV: Spearhead from Space
 * COMIC: The Arkwood Experiments
 * COMIC: The Multi-Mobile
 * COMIC: Insect
 * AUDIO: Vengeance of the Stones
 * The Doctor has had Bessie for a relatively short period of time.


 * TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians
 * PROSE: The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back
 * The outcome of Doctor Who and the Silurians is still fresh on the Doctor's mind.


 * AUDIO: Old Soldiers
 * Tentative placement in regards to the "recent" falling out between the Doctor and Brigadier over the Silurians.


 * AUDIO: Shadow of the Past
 * The Silurians occurred a few weeks earlier.


 * TV: The Ambassadors of Death
 * PROSE: UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas
 * Liz has been working with UNIT for "a few months", and her complaints about her job here are similar to those that the Brigadier cites as her reason for leaving. The TARDIS console has also been removed from within the ship, as it was in The Ambassadors of Death.


 * AUDIO: Walls of Confinement
 * This is the second time the Doctor has visited a zoo, setting this after The Arkwood Experiments.


 * PROSE: Prelude White Darkness
 * The Brigadier finds it doubtful that the Doctor can get the TARDIS to work, setting this before Inferno.


 * TV: Inferno
 * AUDIO: The Last Post
 * The Last Post spans from Spearhead to just before Inferno.


 * PROSE: Ashes of the Inferno
 * COMIC: The Fishmen of Carpantha
 * COMIC: Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus
 * PROSE: The Science of Magic
 * PROSE: The Eye of the Giant
 * Mike Yates arrives at UNIT and sees inside the TARDIS for the first time, and the Doctor mentions visiting the parallel universe from Inferno.


 * AUDIO: The Blue Tooth
 * Liz decides to leave UNIT.


 * AUDIO: Binary
 * Liz announces her intention to leave UNIT.


 * PROSE: The Scales of Injustice
 * Liz officially leaves UNIT, Yates is promoted to Captain Rank, and the Doctor is in a new laboratory.


 * PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun
 * Liz has recently left UNIT.


 * AUDIO: The Rings of Ikiria
 * COMIC: Castaway
 * COMIC: Levitation
 * PROSE: The Devil Goblins from Neptune
 * Liz is called back to UNIT, and has been absent long enough for the Doctor to admit missing her company.


 * Reconnaissance
 * After Prisoners of the Sun as the Master is active, unbeknown to the Brigadier.


 * TV: Terror of the Autons
 * TV: The Mind of Evil
 * AUDIO: The Doll of Death
 * Jo is still quite new to UNIT, and is unaware of the true nature of the TARDIS, setting it before The Claws of Axos.


 * AUDIO: The Mega
 * The Mega were aided by the Master.


 * PROSE: Deadly Reunion (part 2)
 * The Master has a working TARDIS, placing this after The Mind of Evil.


 * PROSE: UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce
 * No one has seen the Master since Deadly Reunion.


 * TV: The Claws of Axos
 * TV: Colony in Space
 * TV: The Dæmons
 * AUDIO: Degrees of Truth
 * Set immediately after The Dæmons.


 * PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy
 * PROSE: Freedom
 * Set soon after The Dæmons. The Master has been imprisoned at Stangmoor Prison. He attempts to escape, but fails and is send to another holding facility.


 * PROSE: The Switching
 * The Master attempts to escape prison, but fails and is sent to another holding facility.


 * TV: Day of the Daleks
 * PROSE: The Face of the Enemy
 * This is concurrent with The Curse of Peladon.


 * PROSE: Harvest of Time
 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * For the third Doctor, this takes place immediately after the Sea Devils, but before Find and Replace.


 * AUDIO: Find and Replace
 * PROSE: Rags
 * Jo recalls the Daleks and Ogrons, which places this firmly after Day of the Daleks. Likewise, the Doctor confesses that sheep have never filled him with dread before, placing this before Verdigris.


 * TV: The Time Monster
 * PROSE: Verdigris
 * TV: The Three Doctors
 * AUDIO: The Scorchies
 * AUDIO: The Many Deaths of Jo Grant
 * PROSE: Last of the Gaderene
 * The takes place before the Green Death


 * TV: The Green Death
 * AUDIO: Council of War
 * Takes place soon after the Green Death.

The Brig encounters the fifth Doctor while the Third is having a break from UNIT.
 * PROSE: Deep Blue
 * PROSE: Faithful Friends: Part 1
 * The third Doctor returns from his Sabbatical from UNIT.


 * TV: The Time Warrior
 * AUDIO: The Paradise of Death
 * TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
 * AUDIO: The Ghosts of N-Space
 * PROSE: Island of Death
 * PROSE: An Overture Too Early
 * COMIC: Prisoners of Time
 * The Doctor is driving the "Whomobile", setting this after Invasion of the Dinosaurs.


 * TV: Planet of the Spiders
 * TV: Robot
 * TV: Terror of the Zygons
 * COMIC: Official Secrets
 * PROSE: No Future
 * The seventh Doctor implants the idea of the Brigadier retiring.

Retirement

 * PROSE: Scary Monsters
 * Story concludes with the Brigadier visiting the bar at the Hotel de Rois, leading directly into The Revisionists.


 * AUDIO: The Revisionists
 * The Brigadier visits Geneva to finalise the details of his retirement. He has left Colonel Cosworth to run UNIT in his absence.


 * TV: Mawdryn Undead
 * 1977 Brigadier

1980s

 * TV: Mawdryn Undead
 * 1983 Brigadier


 * TV: The Five Doctors
 * The Brigadier attends a UNIT reunion and meets with his successor, Colonel Crichton.


 * PROSE: Business Unusual
 * Set in 1989.


 * PROSE: Of the Future
 * Set in 1989. The Brigadier is visited by Kate, who tells him that she’s pregnant.

1990s

 * PROSE: The Enfolded Time
 * Set January 1st 1990. The Brigadier discovers that he has a son with Doris Wilson.


 * PROSE: A Wee Deoch an ...?
 * The Sixth Doctor accidentally orchestrates a reunion between the Brigadier and Doris.


 * HOMEVID: Downtime / PROSE: Downtime
 * Set in 1995, The Brigadier hasn’t seen Kate since 1989.


 * TV: Battlefield
 * Set in 1997. The Brigadier has retired from teaching and is married to Doris.


 * PROSE: A Romantic Evening
 * The Brigadier and Doris reminisce over their wedding photographs, only to discover that the Seventh Doctor has changed the timeline so that he could be there.


 * PROSE: The Algebra of Ice
 * The Brigadier has already met the Seventh Doctor. The Brigadier appears to have returned to active duty, but is not yet a general, setting this before The Dying Days.


 * PROSE: Faithful Friends: Part 2
 * The Brigadier has come out of retirement to aid Brigadier Bambera. He spends Christmas with Doris and his nephew’s family.


 * PROSE: The Dying Days
 * Set in 1997. The Brigadier is promoted to the rank of General.


 * COMIC: Darkness Falling
 * Set in 1999.


 * PROSE: The King of Terror
 * Set in 1999. The Brigadier has met Nine Incarnations of the Doctor.

New Millenium, New Challenges

 * AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
 * Set in 2000.


 * PROSE: The Gift
 * The Brigadier is in his 70s and has retired again. He buys a speed boat, but the First Doctor warns him about it, hinting that it could cause a death in the future.


 * PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass
 * Set in 2001.


 * AUDIO: Minuet in Hell
 * Set in 2003.


 * COMIC: The Warkeeper's Crown
 * AUDIO: The Coup
 * AUDIO: The Wasting
 * TV: Enemy of the Bane
 * AUDIO: The Three Companions
 * Set in 2009.


 * HOMEVID: Liberty Hall
 * The Brigadier is retired and still married to Doris. He refers to his encounter with the Eighth Doctor in Malebolgia in 2003.

A New lease of Life

 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Set in 2010. The Brigadier regains his youth.


 * PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon
 * Doris passed away in a boating accident some time before 2012. He presumably spends many years in Avalon before reurning to Earth only a few years later.


 * PROSE: Faithful Friends: Part 3
 * Doris has been dead for some years. The Brigadier is a general and has already met Charley Pollard. Colonel Emily Chaudhry appears to be in charge of UNIT.


 * PROSE: Not in My Back Yard
 * Set in 2017.

Death

 * PROSE: Lucy Wilson
 * Set in 2011. The Brigadier visits his Granddaughter, Lucy.


 * PROSE: The Lock-In
 * Set between November and December 2011.


 * PROSE: The Forgotten Son original opening
 * The Brigadier is on his death-bed. He has a brandy out for the Doctor.


 * PROSE: Acceptance, and then Understanding
 * Set on Friday 16th December 2011. The Brigadier passes away.


 * TV: Death in Heaven
 * Set in 2014. The Brigadier is resurrected as a Cyberman.

Silurian Earth

 * PROSE: Blood Heat
 * When The Monk meddled with the timeline and caused the Doctor to be killed during his first encounter with the Silurians, a parallel universe cameinto existence. In this universe the Silurians took back control of the planet Earth. An alternate version of the Brigadier inhabited this universe.

Wolfsbane

 * PROSE: Wolfsbane
 * In a timeline where Harry Sullivan turned into a werewolf and killed Sarah Jane Smith, the Doctor responded to The Brigadier’s distress call in Scotland alone.

Unsorted stories

 * GAME: Destiny of the Doctors
 * PROSE: Dancing the Code
 * PROSE: Heart of TARDIS
 * PROSE: The One Second Hour
 * PROSE: Signal S.O.S.
 * PROSE: The Magic Box
 * PROSE: Smash Hit
 * PROSE: Listening Watch
 * PROSE: Where the Heart Is
 * PROSE: Honest Living
 * PROSE: Still Lives
 * PROSE: Hidden Talent
 * PROSE: The Touch of the Nurazh
 * PROSE: UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass
 * PROSE: A Visit from Saint Nicholas
 * PROSE: Once upon a Time Machine
 * COMIC: Undercover
 * COMIC: Fogbound
 * COMIC: Secret of the Tower
 * COMIC: Doomcloud
 * COMIC: Death to the Doctor!
 * COMIC: The Forgotten
 * PROSE: Prelude Transit
 * The Brigadier passes away.


 * AUDIO: The Scream of Ghosts