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
Reviving in Victorian times, Vastra is prevented from exacting her revenge for the loss of her sisters on tunnel diggers in the London Underground by an unidentified incarnation of the Doctor. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War) She meets Jenny Flint, the life of whom is saved by the Doctor. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)

1886

 * COMIC: The Lost Dimension
 * Vastra and Jenny are met by the Ninth Doctor.

1888

 * TV: A Good Man Goes to War
 * Summoned by the Eleventh Doctor, Vastra and Jenny meet Strax as they participate in the Battle of Demons Run.


 * TV: The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later
 * Two days later, Vastra and Jenny recover Strax from Demons Run and take him home with them.

1892

 * PROSE: Devil in the Smoke
 * TV: The Great Detective
 * The Doctor has retired.


 * WEBCAST: Vastra Investigates: A Christmas Prequel
 * TV: The Snowmen
 * The Paternoster Gang faces the Great Intelligence and Clara Oswald, a native of this time who is killed in the incident. Knowing her from the future, the Doctor leaves to pursue the mystery of Clara.

1893

 * TV: The Crimson Horror
 * The Paternoster Gang find the Doctor in the company of a Clara Oswald from the 21st century.


 * TV: The Name of the Doctor
 * Following a conference call with Clara and River Song, the Paternoster Gang are led to Trenzalore, where the ensuing confrontation with the Great Intelligence reveals that Clara splintered herself through the Doctor's time stream to save him.


 * COMIC: The Crystal Throne
 * PROSE: The Tudor Engagement
 * PROSE: The Case of the Curious Fugitive

1894

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


 * PROSE: The Singular Case of the Blue Men of the Minch
 * PROSE: The Curious Case of the Misery Diary
 * PROSE: The Phantom of the Music Hall
 * Set in June.


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


 * The Spectre of Paternoster Row
 * Set in November.


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

1895

 * PROSE: The Confounding Case of the Planetary Prankster
 * AUDIO: The Haunting
 * Placement in early 1895 is based on The Haunting's placement in Theory:Timeline - Jago & Litefoot.


 * PROSE: The Importance of Being Strax
 * Set on St Valentine's Day.


 * PROSE: The Pernicious Plots of the Big Game Hunter
 * PROSE: The Dangerous Dilemma of the Dream Doorway
 * Vastra uses her sonic hatpin.

1897

 * PROSE: The Giant's Heart
 * Set in the summer.


 * PROSE: The Terror of the Thames
 * Set in Autumn.

Unplaced

 * TV: Deep Breath
 * The Paternoster Gang reunite with Clara who they find to be in the company of the newly regenerated Twelfth Doctor.


 * PROSE: Silhouette
 * PROSE: The Pest of Paternoster Row
 * COMIC: The Adventures of Strax and the Time Shark