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 Forgotten Son (flashbacks)
 * Alistair is a 7-9-year-old child.


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


 * 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: The Black Eggs of Khufu
 * PROSE: Moon Blink
 * PROSE: The Band of Evil
 * PROSE: The Showstoppers
 * PROSE: The Fright Before Christmas

The UNIT Years

 * TV: The Invasion
 * TV: Spearhead from Space
 * TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians
 * 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
 * TV: Inferno
 * AUDIO: The Last Post
 * The Last Post spans from Spearhead to just before Inferno.


 * 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
 * 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.


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


 * TV: Day of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: Find and Replace
 * TV: The Time Monster
 * TV: The Three Doctors
 * AUDIO: The Scorchies
 * AUDIO: The Many Deaths of Jo Grant
 * TV: The Green Death
 * AUDIO: Council of War
 * Takes place soon after the Green Death.

The Brig encounters 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
 * TV: Planet of the Spiders
 * TV: Robot
 * TV: Terror of the Zygons
 * PROSE: No Future
 * Te seventh Doctor implants the idea of the Brigadier retiring.

Retirement

 * TV: Mawdryn Undead
 * 1977 Brigadier

1980s

 * TV: Mawdryn Undead
 * 1983 Brigadier


 * AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
 * TV: The Five Doctors
 * PROSE: Business Unusual
 * Set in 1989.

1990s

 * PROSE: The Enfolded Time
 * Set January 1st 1990.


 * HOMEVID: Downtime
 * Set in 1995.


 * TV: Battlefield
 * PROSE: The Gift
 * The Brigadier is in his 70's.


 * PROSE: The Dying Days
 * Set in 1997.

New Millenium, New Challenges

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


 * AUDIO: Minuet in Hell
 * Set in 2003.


 * COMIC: The Warkeeper's Crown
 * AUDIO: The Coup


 * TV: Enemy of the Bane

A New lease of Life

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


 * PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon
 * Set in 2012. He presumably spend many years in Avalon before reurning to Earth only a few years later.


 * PROSE: Not in My Back Yard
 * Set in 2018.

Death

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


 * TV: Death in Heaven
 * The Brigadier is ressurected as a Cyberman.

Unsorted stories

 * AUDIO: The Three Companions
 * Vengeance of the Stones
 * Walls of Confinement
 * GAME: Destiny of the Doctors
 * PROSE: Dancing the Code
 * PROSE: Downtime
 * PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy
 * PROSE: Blood Heat
 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * PROSE: Deadly Reunion
 * PROSE: The Face of the Enemy
 * PROSE: Rags
 * PROSE: Verdigris
 * PROSE: Last of the Gaderene
 * PROSE: Island of Death
 * PROSE: Heart of TARDIS
 * PROSE: The King of Terror
 * PROSE: Wolfsbane
 * PROSE: The Algebra of Ice
 * PROSE: Harvest of Time
 * PROSE: The One Second Hour
 * PROSE: Signal S.O.S.
 * PROSE: The Magic Box
 * PROSE: Smash Hit
 * PROSE: A Wee Deoch an ...?
 * PROSE: Listening Watch
 * PROSE: The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back
 * PROSE: Where the Heart Is
 * PROSE: Freedom
 * PROSE: Honest Living
 * PROSE: Still Lives
 * PROSE: The Switching
 * PROSE: Hidden Talent
 * PROSE: An Overture Too Early
 * PROSE: The Touch of the Nurazh
 * PROSE: UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas
 * PROSE: UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce
 * PROSE: UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass
 * PROSE: Faithful Friends: Part 2
 * PROSE: Faithful Friends: Part 3
 * PROSE: A Visit from Saint Nicholas
 * PROSE: The Science of Magic
 * PROSE: Once upon a Time Machine
 * PROSE: Prelude White Darkness
 * PROSE: Prelude Transit
 * COMIC: The Arkwood Experiments
 * COMIC: The Multi-Mobile
 * COMIC: Insect
 * COMIC: The Fishmen of Carpantha
 * COMIC: Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus
 * COMIC: Undercover
 * COMIC: Castaway
 * COMIC: Levitation
 * COMIC: Fogbound
 * COMIC: Secret of the Tower
 * COMIC: Doomcloud
 * COMIC: Darkness Falling
 * COMIC: Death to the Doctor!
 * COMIC: The Forgotten
 * COMIC: Prisoners of Time