Theory:Timeline - TV story recommended viewing order

This page lists most televised Doctor Who media placed in recommended viewing order.

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Doctor Who Season 1

 * TV: An Unearthly Child
 * TV: The Daleks
 * TV: The Edge of Destruction
 * TV: Marco Polo
 * TV: The Keys of Marinus
 * TV: The Aztecs
 * TV: The Sensorites
 * TV: The Reign of Terror

Doctor Who Season 2

 * TV: Planet of Giants
 * TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
 * TV: The Rescue
 * TV: The Romans
 * TV: The Web Planet
 * TV: The Crusade
 * TV: The Space Museum
 * TV: The Chase
 * TV: The Time Meddler

Doctor Who Season 3

 * TV: Galaxy 4
 * TV: Mission to the Unknown
 * TV: The Myth Makers
 * TV: The Daleks' Master Plan
 * TV: The Massacre
 * TV: The Ark
 * TV: The Celestial Toymaker
 * TV: The Gunfighters
 * TV: The Savages
 * TV: The War Machines

Doctor Who Season 4

 * TV: The Smugglers
 * TV: The Tenth Planet

Doctor Who Season 4 (continued)

 * TV: The Power of the Daleks
 * TV: The Highlanders
 * TV: The Underwater Menace
 * TV: The Moonbase
 * TV: The Macra Terror
 * TV: The Faceless Ones
 * TV: The Evil of the Daleks

Doctor Who Season 18

 * TV: The Leisure Hive
 * TV: Meglos
 * TV: Full Circle
 * TV: State of Decay
 * TV: Warrior's Gate
 * TV: The Keeper of Traken
 * TV: Logopolis

K9 and Company

 * TV: A Girl's Best Friend

Doctor Who Season 19

 * TV: Castrovalva

Doctor Who Season 26

 * TV: Battlefield
 * TV: Ghost Light
 * TV: The Curse of Fenric
 * TV: Survival

TV movie

 * TV: Doctor Who

Doctor Who Series 1

 * TV: Rose
 * TV: The End of the World
 * TV: The Unquiet Dead
 * TV: Aliens of London
 * TV: World War Three
 * TV: Dalek
 * TV: The Long Game
 * TV: Father's Day
 * TV: The Empty Child
 * TV: The Doctor Dances
 * TV: Boom Town
 * TV: Bad Wolf
 * TV: The Parting of the Ways

Doctor Who Series 2

 * TV: Children in Need Special
 * TV: The Christmas Invasion
 * TV: New Earth
 * TV: Tooth and Claw
 * TV: School Reunion
 * TV: The Girl in the Fireplace
 * TV: Rise of the Cybermen
 * TV: The Age of Steel
 * TV: The Idiot's Lantern
 * TV: The Impossible Planet
 * TV: The Satan Pit
 * TV: Love & Monsters
 * TV: Fear Her
 * TV: Army of Ghosts
 * TV: Doomsday

Torchwood Series 1

 * TV: Everything Changes
 * TV: Day One
 * TV: Ghost Machine
 * TV: Cyberwoman
 * TV: Small Worlds
 * TV: Countrycide
 * TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts
 * TV: They Keep Killing Suzie
 * TV: Random Shoes
 * TV: Out of Time
 * TV: Combat
 * TV: Captain Jack Harkness
 * TV: End of Days

Winter Specials 2006

 * TV: The Runaway Bride
 * TV: Invasion of the Bane

Doctor Who Series 3

 * TV: Smith and Jones
 * TV: The Shakespeare Code
 * TV: Gridlock
 * TV: Daleks in Manhattan
 * TV: Evolution of the Daleks
 * TV: The Lazarus Experiment
 * TV: 42
 * TV: The Infinite Quest
 * TV: Human Nature
 * TV: The Family of Blood
 * TV: Blink
 * TV: Utopia
 * TV: The Sound of Drums
 * TV: Last of the Time Lords

The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 1

 * TV: Revenge of the Slitheen
 * TV: Eye of the Gorgon
 * TV: Warriors of Kudlak
 * TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
 * TV: The Lost Boy

Winter Specials 2007

 * TV: Time Crash
 * TV: Voyage of the Damned

Torchwood Series 2

 * TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
 * TV: Sleeper
 * TV: To the Last Man
 * TV: Meat
 * TV: TV story
 * TV: Reset
 * TV: Dead Man Walking
 * TV: A Day in the Death
 * TV: Something Borrowed
 * TV: From Out of the Rain
 * TV: Adrift
 * TV: Fragments
 * TV: Exit Wounds

Doctor Who Series 4

 * TV: Partners in Crime
 * TV: The Fires of Pompeii
 * TV: Planet of the Ood
 * TV: The Sontaran Stratagem
 * TV: The Poison Sky
 * TV: The Doctor's Daughter
 * TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp
 * TV: Silence in the Library
 * TV: Forest of the Dead
 * TV: Midnight
 * TV: Turn Left
 * TV: The Stolen Earth
 * TV: Journey's End

Doctor Who at the Proms

 * TV: Music of the Spheres

The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 2

 * TV: The Last Sontaran
 * TV: The Day of the Clown
 * TV: Secrets of the Stars
 * TV: The Mark of the Berserker
 * TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
 * TV: Enemy of the Bane

Christmas 2008 and Early 2009 Specials

 * TV: The Next Doctor
 * TV: From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love''
 * TV: Planet of the Dead

Torchwood: Children of Earth

 * TV: Children of Earth: Day One
 * TV: Children of Earth: Day Two
 * TV: Children of Earth: Day Three
 * TV: Children of Earth: Day Four
 * TV: Children of Earth: Day Five

The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 3

 * TV: Prisoner of the Judoon
 * TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic
 * TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
 * TV: The Eternity Trap
 * TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge
 * TV: The Gift

Autumn/Winter Specials 2009

 * TV: The Waters of Mars
 * TV: Dreamland
 * TV: The End of Time

Doctor Who Series 5

 * TV: The Eleventh Hour
 * HOMEVID: Meanwhile in the TARDIS (part 1)
 * TV: The Beast Below
 * TV: Victory of the Daleks
 * TV: The Time of Angels
 * TV: Flesh and Stone
 * HOMEVID: Meanwhile in the TARDIS (part 2)
 * TV: The Vampires of Venice
 * TV: Amy's Choice
 * TV: The Hungry Earth
 * TV: Cold Blood
 * TV: Vincent and the Doctor
 * TV: The Lodger
 * TV: The Pandorica Opens
 * TV: The Big Bang

The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 4

 * TV: The Nightmare Man
 * TV: The Vault of Secrets
 * TV: Death of the Doctor
 * TV: The Empty Planet
 * TV: Lost in Time
 * TV: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith

Christmas and Comic Relief Specials

 * TV: A Christmas Carol
 * TV: Space
 * TV: Time

Doctor Who Series 6 (Part 1)

 * WC: Prequel (The Impossible Astronaut)
 * TV: The Impossible Astronaut
 * TV: Day of the Moon
 * WC: Prequel (The Curse of the Black Spot)
 * TV: The Curse of the Black Spot
 * TV: The Doctor's Wife
 * TV: The Rebel Flesh
 * TV: The Almost People
 * WC: Prequel (A Good Man Goes to War)
 * TV: A Good Man Goes to War

Torchwood: Miracle Day

 * TV: The New World
 * TV: Rendition
 * TV: Dead of Night
 * TV: Escape to LA
 * TV: The Categories of Life
 * TV: The Middle Men
 * TV: Immortal Sins
 * TV: End of the Road
 * TV: The Gathering
 * TV: The Blood Line

Doctor Who Series 6 (Part 2)

 * WC: Prequel (Let's Kill Hitler)
 * TV: Let's Kill Hitler
 * TV: Night Terrors
 * TV: The Girl Who Waited
 * TV: The God Complex
 * TV: Closing Time
 * WC: Prequel (The Wedding of River Song)
 * TV: The Wedding of River Song
 * TV: Death is the Only Answer

The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 5

 * TV: Sky
 * TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer
 * TV: The Man Who Never Was

Night and the Doctor

 * HOMEVID: Bad Night
 * HOMEVID: Good Night
 * HOMEVID: First Night
 * HOMEVID: Last Night
 * HOMEVID: Up All Night

Christmas Special 2011

 * WC: Prequel (The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)
 * TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

2012 Minisodes

 * TV: Good as Gold
 * WC: Pond Life

Doctor Who Series 7 (Part 1)

 * WC: Asylum of the Daleks Prequel
 * TV: Asylum of the Daleks
 * HOMEVID: The Inforarium
 * TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
 * WC: The Making of the Gunslinger
 * TV: A Town Called Mercy
 * TV: The Power of Three
 * TV: The Angels Take Manhattan
 * HOMEVID: Rain Gods

Christmas Special 2012

 * TV: The Great Detective
 * WC: Vastra Investigates: A Christmas Prequel
 * WC: The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Later
 * TV: The Snowmen

Doctor Who Series 7 (Part 2)

 * WC: The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel
 * TV: The Bells of Saint John
 * HOMEVID: Clara and the TARDIS
 * TV: The Rings of Akhaten
 * TV: Cold War
 * TV: Hide
 * TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
 * TV: The Crimson Horror
 * TV: Nightmare in Silver
 * WC: She Said, He Said: A Prequel
 * HOMEVID: Clarence and the Whispermen
 * TV: The Name of the Doctor

2013 Specials

 * TV: The Night of the Doctor
 * TV: The Last Day
 * TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * TV: The Time of the Doctor

Class

 * TV: For Tonight We Might Die
 * TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo
 * TV: Nightvisiting
 * TV: Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart
 * TV: Brave-ish Heart
 * TV: Detained
 * TV: The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did
 * TV: The Lost

Christmas Specials 2015-16

 * TV: The Husbands of River Song
 * TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio