Theory:Timeline - Second Doctor

This page lists appearances of the Second Doctor in the order in which he experienced them. This timeline is based on observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events in each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. There are also many gaps between stories.

The layout of this timeline is based in part on the observations on Doctor Who Reference Guide and Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Companions
The Second Doctor had an unusual history of companions. Every set overlapped from beginning to end. This makes time placement both easier and harder than with any other Doctors. Any story featuring only Ben Jackson and Polly Wright must take place before DW: The Faceless Ones; any story featuring Jamie McCrimmon must take place after DW: The Highlanders. Any story with Victoria Waterfield must take place after DW: The Faceless Ones and before DW: Fury from the Deep. Any story with Zoe Heriot must be set after DW: The Wheel in Space.

This creates a problem in stories in which the Doctor travels alone or with a strange combination of companions. For instance, if the Doctor travels alone, if he only has Jamie or if he travels with John and Gillian, this does not meet any of the criteria above. These stories must then be set during Season 6B, which occurred after the Doctor's trial on Gallifrey in The War Games. Due to this almost "strategic" set up, stories that have an unknown placement are rare.

Series basics
The Second Doctor's stories can be sorted roughly by which companions he travels with and also the medium in which the companions first appeared together.

TV created

 * Ben Jackson, Polly Wright
 * Ben, Polly, Jamie McCrimmon
 * Jamie, Victoria Waterfield
 * Jamie, Zoe Heriot
 * Jamie

Comic created

 * John and Gillian

Novels created

 * Serena

Timeline

 * DW: The Tenth Planet
 * DW: The Power of the Daleks
 * DW: The Highlanders
 * DW: The Underwater Menace
 * DW: The Moonbase
 * DW: The Macra Terror
 * DW: The Faceless Ones
 * DW: The Evil of the Daleks
 * DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen
 * DW: The Abominable Snowmen
 * DW: The Ice Warriors
 * DW: The Enemy of the World
 * DW: The Web of Fear
 * DWMS: Bringer of Darkness
 * Victoria states that they had just been underground.


 * DW: Fury from the Deep
 * DW: The Wheel in Space
 * DW: The Dominators
 * DW: The Mind Robber / DWM: Time & Time Again
 * DW: The Invasion
 * IDW: The Forgotten
 * DW: The Krotons
 * DWM: Land of the Blind
 * CC: Prison in Space
 * DW: The Seeds of Death
 * DW: The Space Pirates
 * CC: Prison in Space
 * DW: The War Games
 * EDA: The Eight Doctors
 * ST: War Crimes
 * The Eight Doctors and War Crimes occurs during The War Games
 * The Doctor was sent into a forced regeneration at the end of The War Games. It would later be revealed that the Doctor had in fact began working for the Time Lords on missions, and that his regeneration had Ben faked.


 * PDA: World Game
 * PDA: Players
 * World Game is the first story in the series of Season 6B. Early in the book, the Doctor asks to be sent to World War II to see if the Time Lords have really sent the soldiers from the War Games home, and Players occurs here. After Players, the Doctor returns to Gallifrey to continue the events of World Game. At the end of World Game, the Doctor blackmails the Time Lords into letting him travel with Jamie McCrimmon as his companion once more.


 * DW: The Two Doctors
 * World Game leads directly into The Two Doctors


 * ST: The Time Eater
 * The Doctor has his Stattenheim remote control


 * CC: Helicon Prime
 * ST: That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World Whilst Looking for a Dress
 * TVC: The Killer Wasps
 * TVC: Ice Cap Terror
 * TVC: Jungle of Doom
 * TVC: Father Time
 * TVC: Martha the Mechanical Housemaid
 * TVC: Invasion of the Quarks
 * Due to the fact that Season 6B starts with the Doctor with Jamie and ends with him alone, the only logical order for these TVC line is in many ways backwards. Thus, here, the stories with Jamie are listed first, with the story with Jamie and John and Gillian next, and the John and Gillian only stories last.
 * In other words, the Doctor soon picked up his companions John and Gillian once more to travel in the TARDIS, and soon afterward Jamie was returned to his home, with his memories intact.


 * TVC: The Extortioner
 * TVC: The Trodos Ambush
 * TVC: The Doctor Strikes Back
 * TVC: The Zombies
 * TVC: Master of Spiders
 * TVC: The Exterminator
 * TVC: Barnabus
 * TVC: Jungle Adventure
 * TVC: The Monsters from the Past
 * TVC: The TARDIS Worshippers
 * TVC: Space War Two
 * TVC: Egyptian Escapade
 * TVC: The Coming of the Cybermen
 * TVC: The Faithful Rocket Pack
 * TVC: Flower Power
 * TVC: The Witches
 * TVC: Cyber-Mole
 * TVC: The Sabre-Toothed Gorillas
 * TVC: The Cyber Empire
 * TVC: The Dyrons
 * TVC: Return of the Witches
 * TVC: Masquerade
 * TVC: Dr. Who and the Space Pirates
 * TVC: Car of the Century
 * TVC: The Jokers
 * TVC: Attack of the Daleks
 * TVC: Pursued by the Trods
 * TVC: The Time Museum
 * Sometime after this adventure with John and Gillian, the Doctor began traveling alone again.


 * TVC: The Duellists
 * TVC: Eskimo Joe
 * TVC: Peril at 60 Fathoms
 * TVC: Operation Wurlitzer
 * DW: The Three Doctors
 * DW: The Five Doctors
 * VG: Destiny of the Doctors
 * TVC: The Champion
 * TVC: The Entertainer
 * TVC: The Electrodes
 * TVC: Death Race
 * TVC: Test Flight
 * DWY: Loop the Loup
 * ST: All of Beyond
 * ST: The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas
 * ST: Mother's Little Helper
 * ST: Blue Road Dance
 * ST: Scientific Adviser
 * ST: The Steward's Story
 * The Doctor in this story is vague. It is either the Second Doctor or the Seventh. If the Second, this story is set during Season 6B.


 * ST: Golem
 * ST: All of Beyond
 * ST: Dust
 * ST: Reunion
 * MA: Who Killed Kennedy
 * The Doctor in this book is vague. It is either the Second Doctor or the Seventh. If the Second, this story is set during Season 6B.
 * The Time Lords eventually attempted once more to exile the Doctor on Earth, also attempting to change his face again. The Doctor escaped, living out his regeneration for just a little while longer.


 * TVC: Action in Exile
 * TVC: The Mark of Terror
 * TVC: The Brotherhood
 * TVC: U.F.O.
 * TVC: The Night Walkers
 * The Time Lords finally caught the Doctor and forced him to finish out his regeneration.

Unplaced

 * CC: The Great Space Elevator
 * CC: Resistance
 * CC: The Glorious Revolution
 * CC: The Emperor of Eternity
 * CC: The Three Companions
 * CC: Echoes of Grey
 * CC: The Forbidden Time
 * CC: The Memory Cheats
 * CC: The Selachian Gambit
 * ST: A Stain of Red in the Sand
 * ST: The Way Forwards
 * ST: Seven to One
 * ST: The Five Dimensional Man
 * ST: ''Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
 * ST: The Old Rogue (flashback)
 * NA: Timewyrm: Apocalypse
 * MA: The Menagerie
 * MA: Invasion of the Cat-People
 * MA: Downtime
 * MA: Twilight of the Gods
 * MA: The Dark Path
 * PDA: The Murder Game
 * PDA: The Roundheads
 * PDA: 'Dreams of Empire''
 * PDA: The Final Sanction
 * PDA: Independence Day (flashback cameo)
 * PDA: Heart of TARDIS
 * PDA: Dying in the Sun
 * PDA: Combat Rock
 * PDA: The Colony of Lies
 * PDA: The Indestructible Man
 * TN: Foreign Devils
 * TN: Wonderland
 * DWAN: The Sour Note
 * DWAN: The Dream Masters
 * DWAN: The Word of Asiries
 * DWAN: Only a Matter of Time
 * DWAN: Planet of Bones
 * DWAN: When Starlight Grows Cold
 * DWAN: H.M.S. TARDIS
 * DWAN: The King of Golden Death
 * DWAN: Lords of the Galaxy
 * DWAN:  Follow the Phantoms
 * DWAN: Mastermind of Space
 * DWAN:  The Celestial Toyshop
 * DWAN: Valley of Dragons
 * DWAN: Planet from Nowhere
 * DWAN:  Happy as Queeg
 * DWAN: World of Ice
 * DWAN:  The Microtron Men
 * DWAN: Death to Mufl
 * DWAN: The Dragons of Kekokro
 * DWAN: The Singing Crystals
 * DWAN: The Mystery of the Marie Celeste
 * DWAN: Grip of Ice
 * DWAN: Man Friday
 * DWAN: Slave of Shran
 * DWAN: Run the Gauntlet
 * DWAN: A Thousand & One Doors
 * DWAN: The Sleeping Beast
 * DWY: Briefly Noted
 * BE: Future Imperfect
 * BE: Dream a Little Dream For Me
 * VD: Fallen Angel
 * VD: Vortex of Fear
 * VD: Aliens and Predators
 * ST: uPVC
 * ST: Please Shut the Gate
 * ST: Twin Piques
 * ST: Constant Companion
 * ST: Five Card Draw
 * ST: Face-Painter
 * ST: The Astronomer's Apprentice
 * ST: The Glass Princess
 * ST: Greenaway
 * ST: One Small Step...
 * ST: The Age of Ambition
 * ST: The Farmer's Story
 * ST: Screamager
 * ST: The Last Emperor
 * ST: Goodwill Toward Men
 * ST: That Which Went Away
 * ST: Undercurrents
 * ST: Visiting Hours
 * ST: Mercury
 * ST: Pluto
 * ST: The Feast
 * ST: The Revolutionaries
 * ST: Saint Nicholas's Bones
 * ST: Father Figure
 * ST: The Lost
 * ST: The Avant Guardian
 * ST: The Time Eater
 * ST: Across Silent Seas
 * ST: The Cutty Wren
 * ST: The Christmas Presence
 * ST: Lepidoptery for Beginners
 * ST: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
 * ST: Homework
 * ST: The Slave War
 * ST: On a Pedestal
 * ST: Outstanding Balance
 * ST: Lares Domestici
 * ST: Mirth, or Walking Spirits
 * ST: Favourite Star
 * ST: Pass It On
 * DWAN: The Tests of Trefus
 * DWAN: World Without Night
 * DWAN: Atoms Infinite
 * DWAN: Freedom by Fire
 * DWAN: The Vampire Plants
 * DWAN: Robot King