Theory:Timeline - Paternoster Gang

This page lists the order of stories featuring the Paternoster Gang, consisting of Vastra, Jenny Flint, and/or Strax. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

Timeline

 * In the 1880s, Silurian warrior Vastra is awaken during the construction of an extension of the London Underground, and is convinced not to give into revenge by the Doctor, and instead integrates herself into humanity's culture. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War) She gains the title of "Madame" and takes up residence at Paternoster Row after saving Queen Victoria from a Zygon plot. (COMIC: The Lost Dimension) Jenny Flint is hired as her maid after her life is saved by the Doctor, and she and Vastra eventually start a romance. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

1886

 * COMIC: The Lost Dimension
 * Set in 1886. Vastra and Jenny discover an island of quarantined Silurians with the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler.

1888

 * TV: A Good Man Goes to War
 * Set in 1888. After consuming Jack the Ripper, Vastra and Jenny are recruited by the Eleventh Doctor to partake in the Battle of Demons Run, alongside Rory Williams, Strax, Dorium Maldovar, and the crew of the Fancy. During the battle, the Headless Monks decapitate Dorium and kill Strax. Strax claims to be nearly 12-years-old.


 * WC: The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later
 * Shortly after A Good Man Goes to War, Vastra and Jenny revive Strax, and invite him to join them in Victorian London, an offer he accepts after some hesitation.


 * PROSE: The Red-Eyed League
 * While the story is claimed to be set in 1884, Strax is living at 13 Paternoster Row, setting this after A Good Man Goes to War, which took place in 1888. Vastra and Jenny are celebrating their second anniversary as a couple.


 * COMIC: Love Thy Neighbor
 * Strax is traveling with the Doctor, going with him to visit Amy Pond and Rory Williams.


 * COMIC: Time Gentlemen, Please!
 * Strax is traveling with the Doctor, going on a "pub crawl" across the universe with him and Rory Williams.

1889

 * COMIC: The Crystal Throne
 * Vastra has a sonic screwdriver, and Strax claims to nearly be 13-years-old, setting this almost a year after The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later.

1892

 * TV: The Great Detective
 * Set during winter 1892. After he retires from adventuring, the Paternoster Gang try to rouse the Doctor's spirits, but he continues to mourn the loss of his companions.


 * PROSE: Devil in the Smoke
 * Strax is still talking about his Moonite theory, setting this shortly after The Great Detective.


 * WC: Vastra Investigates: A Christmas Prequel
 * After a case involving identical twins, a poison undetectable to science and an ancient Egyptian curse, Jenny notices it is snowing in the absences of the clouds, setting this shortly before The Snowmen. According to Jenny, Strax is still "new" to dealing with people.


 * TV: The Snowmen
 * Set during Christmas 1892. While facing down Walter Simeon and the Great Intelligence, the Doctor assists the Paternoster Gang with the aid of Clara Oswin Oswald, but she dies in the process of defeating the Intelligence. However, at Clara's funeral, the Doctor tells Vastra and Jenny that she had died before, and then left in his TARDIS. Vastra says that she and Jenny are married.

1893

 * PROSE: The House of Sorrows
 * Set in 1893.


 * TV: The Crimson Horror
 * Set in 1893. While infiltrating Sweetville, Jenny finds the Doctor in the company of Clara Oswald, and exact double of the deceased Clara Oswin Oswald.


 * PROSE: The Tudor Engagement
 * Set in 1893.


 * TV: The Name of the Doctor
 * Set in 1893. Given the space-time co-ordinates to the Doctor's tomb on Trenzalore, the Paternoster Gang are kidnapped by the Great Intelligence, facing the villain for the first time since The Snowmen. After the Intelligence enters the Doctor's time stream, Clara follows to defeat it, scattering herself throughout history, though the Doctor is able to save her.


 * PROSE: The Case of the Curious Fugitive
 * Set in 1893.

1894

 * PROSE: The Curious Case of the Miniature Menaces
 * Set during February 1894.


 * PROSE: The Singular Case of the Blue Men of the Minch
 * Set during spring 1894.


 * PROSE: The Phantom of the Music Hall
 * Set in June 1894.


 * PROSE: The Singular Case of the Time Machine
 * Set during September 1894.


 * PROSE: The Curious Case of the Misery Diary
 * Set in early Autumn 1894.


 * PROSE: The Spectre of Paternoster Row
 * Set on 15 November 1894.


 * PROSE: The Evolution Episode
 * Set on 12 December 1894.


 * PROSE: The Case of the Dissolving Man
 * Set during December 1894.

1895

 * PROSE: The Importance of Being Strax
 * Set on 14 February 1895.


 * AUDIO: The Haunting
 * Strax spends some time with Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot in 1895.


 * PROSE: The Pernicious Plots of the Big Game Hunter
 * Set in 1895.


 * PROSE: The Pneuman League
 * Set in 1895.

1896-1897

 * PROSE: The Inscrutable Illusionist
 * Set during early 1896.


 * PROSE: The Confounding Case of the Planetary Prankster


 * PROSE: The Fear Factory


 * PROSE: The Insidious Ideas of the Danger Thinkers


 * PROSE: The Howling on the Hills


 * PROSE: Assassin on the Railroads


 * PROSE: The Curious Case of the Weirdling Woods


 * PROSE: The Giant's Heart
 * Set during summer 1897.


 * PROSE: The Terror of the Thames
 * Set during autumn 1897.

1898

 * TV: Prequel to Deep Breath
 * While guiding a crashing spaceship away from London, Vastra is alerted to a dinosaur appearing in the Thames, leading directly into Deep Breath.


 * TV: Deep Breath
 * Information displayed by the adverts in the The Times can be used to place this story between January and September 1898. The Paternoster Gang meet the Twelfth Doctor for the first time, and help him and Clara recover from his thirteenth regeneration.


 * PROSE: The Pest of Paternoster Row
 * Strax uses his sonic lorgnette from Deep Breath.


 * PROSE: The Dangerous Dilemma of the Dream Doorway
 * Vastra uses her sonic hat-pin from Deep Breath.


 * PROSE: Silhouette
 * Set during January. The Paternoster Gang solve a case with the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, setting this after Deep Breath.


 * COMIC: The Adventures of Strax & the Time Shark

1899

 * AUDIO: Young Winston
 * Vastra meets Winston Churchill in 1899.

Awaiting placement

 * These entries are placed here until evidence presents itself that provides a clue as to where they happen in relation to other entries. Some of these are part of ongoing storylines that could present evidence towards the end of the plot.


 * AUDIO: Inside Every Warrior
 * Set Thursday 8 March, giving the possible in-range years as 1888, 1894, and 1900. Jenny uses her Sonic gauntlet, and Vastra uses her Sonic hat-pin from Deep Breath. Vastra says that Jenny is "getting the hang of this" implying that this story is set early in their detective work together.


 * AUDIO: Prelude Heritage


 * AUDIO: The Cars That Ate London!
 * The works of H. G. Wells are referred to, setting this at least after 1895 when The Time Machine was first published, but probably later to accommodate his other works.


 * AUDIO: A Photograph to Remember


 * AUDIO: The Ghosts of Greenwich
 * 3 September was three weeks ago.