Theory:Timeline - Doctor Who universe/The Programme Guide

This page lists the linear order of classic series television stories in the Doctor Who universe timeline as given the original second volume of The Doctor Who Programme Guide. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

Timeline

 * c. 2500 B.C. - TV: "Golden Death"/"Escape Switch" (Egypt)
 * c. 1200 B.C. - TV: ''The Myth Makers'
 * 64 - TV: The Romans
 * 1066 - TV: The Time Meddler
 * 1190 - TV: The Crusade
 * c. 1200 - TV: The Aztecs
 * c. 1300 - TV: Marco Polo
 * c. 1500 - TV: The Masque of Mandragora
 * c. 1500 - TV: City of Death
 * 1572 - TV: The Massacre
 * c. 1650 - TV: The Smugglers
 * 1746 - TV: The Highlanders
 * 1794 - TV: The Reign of Terror
 * 1866 - TV: The Evil of the Daleks
 * 1872 - TV: "Flight Through Eternity"
 * 1881 - TV: The Gunfighters
 * 1889 - TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
 * 1909 - TV: Horror of Fang Rock
 * 1911: TV: Pyramids of Mars
 * 1926 - TV: Carnival of Monsters
 * 1935 - TV: The Abominable Snowmen
 * 1963 - TV: An Unearthly Child''
 * 1964 - TV: The Giants
 * 1965 - TV: "Flight Through Eternity", "The Planet of Decision"
 * 25 December 1965 - TV: "The Feast of Steven"
 * 1966 - TV: The War Machines/The Faceless Ones
 * 1970-1975 - TV: The Underwater Menace
 * 1970-1975 - TV: Fury from the Deep
 * 1975-1980 - TV: The Web of Fear
 * 1975-1980 - TV: The Invasion
 * 1975-1980 - TV: The Tenth Planet


 * 1980-1990 - TV: Spearhead from Space-Terror of the Zygons, The Android Invasion, The Seeds of Doom, The Hand of Fear, Image of the Fendahl, The Stones of Blood

The Future

 * 1990-2000 - TV: The Wheel in Space
 * c. 2000 - TV: The Seeds of Death
 * 2030 - TV: The Enemy of the World
 * c. 2050: The first contacts with other star systems and the first interstellar expeditions are made. From these come the Hydrax, (TV: State of Decay) a Starliner which crashed on Alzarius, (TV: Full Circle) the ship which crashed on Metebelis III, (TV: Planet of the Spiders) and the Mordee expedition. (TV: The Face of Evil)


 * 2070 - TV: The Moonbase
 * c. 2100 - TV: Day of the Daleks (alternate timeline)
 * TV: The Macra Terror
 * 2164 - TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
 * c. 2200: The first colonisation attempts outside the solar system include Metebelis III, (TV: Planet of the Spiders) Mordee (TV: The Face of Evil) and Mechanus. (TV: The Chase)
 * On Earth, the depletion of natural resources, already drained to a considerable extent by the Daleks, forces mankind to accept the economic domination of the Company, the Usurians' tool of conquest. Mankind is forced to move to Mars, and then to Pluto. (TV: The Sun Makers)
 * c. 2300: Fall of the Company and return of the human race to Earth. (TV: Underworld) Outside the solar system, mankind's colonies expand. (TV: The Leisure Hive'')
 * c. 2400: The Galactic Cyberwars are fought. Mankind utilises the enormous gold resources of Voga to destroy the Cybermen Empire. Beginning of the Earth Empire.


 * c. 2450 - TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen
 * c. 2500 - TV: Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks
 * c. 2600: Earth's period of colonial expansion leads to conflicts with other races including the Macra, (TV: The Macra Terror) the Wirrn (TV: The Ark in Space) and the Sensorites. (TV: The Sensorites) It is also the age of the space pirates. (TV: The Space Pirates'')


 * c. 2800 - TV: Death to the Daleks
 * c. 2900 - TV: Revenge of the Cybermen
 * c. 3000 - TV: The Ice Warriors
 * c. 3100 - TV: The Mutants
 * c. 3200: Beginnings of the Galactic Federation.


 * c. 3500 - TV: The Curse of Peladon
 * c. 3550 - TV: The Monster of Peladon
 * c. 3700: Both the Federation and Earth grow in influence. (TV: Carnival of Monsters, The Ribos Operation)


 * c. 4000 - TV: Mission to the Unknown/The Daleks' Master Plan
 * c. 4300 - TV: The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment
 * c. 4500 - TV: Destiny of the Daleks
 * c. 5000 - TV: The Invisible Enemy
 * c. 30,000 - TV: Planet of Evil, The Robots of Death, The Evil of the Daleks