Theory:Timeline - Doctor Who

This page lists the order of stories in that contain references and appearances of the Doctor Who series that exists within the the Doctor's universe. Stories that are explicitly set in meta-fiction universes should be entered on the respective timeline.

19th century

 * c. 1845 - PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor
 * The Fourth Doctor sends two letters more than a century prior to the first publication of Doctor Who Weekly to ensure his letters arrive in time.

1960s

 * 26 March 1963 - PROSE: Stop, Thief!
 * Winston Churchill pitches the idea of a series about the Doctor to Sydney Newman.


 * c. 1963 - NOTVALID: Verity
 * Verity Lambert begins work on Doctor Who for the BBC, despite some of the males' sexist opinions.


 * 30 November 1963 - TV: Remembrance of the Daleks
 * The first broadcast of Doctor Who.
 *  Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks is published. (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion)

1970s

 * 1970s - WC: U.N.I.T. On Call
 * A Doctor Who fan in 2020 gets in touch with U.N.I.T. and Terrance Dicks.


 * c. 1971 - The serial The Claws of Axos is broadcast. (TV: The Doctor Appears)


 * c. 1974 - PROSE: Fanboys (mention)
 * The serial Planet of the Spiders is broadcast, depicting the regeneration of the Third Doctor into the Fourth Doctor.


 * 25 December 1977 - PROSE: The Story of Fester Cat (flashback)
 * Paul Magrs gets a Doctor Who jigsaw for Christmas.


 * c. 1978 - PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion (flashback)
 * The is sent by the Ministry to investigate Geoff Love's reworkings of classic sci-fi themes, and she helps him create his remixed Doctor Who theme.


 * 25 December 1979 - PROSE: Party Like it's 1979
 * Paul Magrs gets a Dr Who Paint-by-Numbers kit.

1980s

 * January 1981 - PROSE: Fanboys
 * Two brothers, David and Chris, are major fans of Doctor Who


 * December 1981 - PROSE: The Story of Fester Cat (mention)
 * K9 and Company'' is broadcast around Christmas.


 * c. 1980s - TV: Untitled
 * The Sixth Doctor attempts to murder Ron Rat for insulting Doctor Who.

1990s

 * 1993 - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 379
 * Production on The Dark Dimension is cancelled.


 * c. 1995 - The Doctor Who Yearbook 1995 is published. (NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 384)


 * 1996 - PROSE: Afterword
 * Steven Moffat writes an afterword for Decalog 3: Consequences, as dictated to by Professor Candy.


 * c. 1996 - the book Doctor Who: The Eighties is published. (NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 375)


 * 1996 - PROSE: Hospitality
 * The Doctor Who TV movie is released.


 * c. late 1990s - NOTVALID: The Kidnappers
 * Two Doctor Who fans kidnap Peter Davison.


 * 12 March 1999 - PROSE: Who's After Your Cash
 * A letter from the Ninth Doctor, in which he details his knowledge of a Comic Relief TV special which depicts a version of his adventures, is published.


 * 12 March 1999 - NOTVALID: Appeal
 * A televised appeal from the Ninth Doctor, speaking on Tersurus, telling his audience to donate money via a telephone number, is broadcast.

2000s

 * c. 2002 - PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide
 * The Dalek Survival Guide is published no more than 50 years after the launch of the first communications satellites and Yuri Gagarin's historic space flight.


 * c. 2000s - NOTVALID: Doctor What 4
 * Christopher Eccleston is cast as the Doctor.


 * c. Christmas 2000s - NOTVALID: Attack of the Graske
 * Aware that they have been watching his adventures, the Tenth Doctor recruits the viewer to play Attack of the Graske.


 * c. 2000s - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah 371
 * The Tenth Doctor and Rose meet Victoria and David Beckham. David mistakes the Doctor for Christopher Eccleston and asks him to sign his Doctor Who books.


 * c. 2000s - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 370
 * New Earth is being filmed. By this point, the Doctor is being played by David Tennant.


 * c. 2000s - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 380
 * ITV tries to knock Doctor Who out of the ratings.


 * c. 2000s - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 383
 * Smith and Jones has just aired.


 * c. 2000s - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 391
 * Voyage of the Damned is being filmed.


 * c. 2000s - PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion
 * Paul Magrs writes a prose piece about his inspirations, including Doctor Who.


 * 2005 - NOTVALID: The Trip of a Lifetime (trailer)
 * The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler promote the broadcast of Series 1 on BBC One.


 * Christmas 2005 - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 369
 * The Christmas Invasion is being filmed.


 * 2006 - NOTVALID: Think You've Seen It All... Think Again! (trailer)
 * The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler promote the broadcast of Series 2 on BBC One.


 * 2006 - COMIC: A Groatsworth of Wit
 * Doctor Who annuals are seen.


 * c. 2007 - TV: Everything Changes
 * The Doctor Who Exhibition is advertised in Cardiff.


 * 2007 - NOTVALID: When Two Worlds Collide (trailer)
 * The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones promote the broadcast of Series 3 on BBC One.


 * October 2007 - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 389
 * A Children in Need special is being filmed.


 * c. 2007 - NOTVALID: Extras: The Special
 * Andy Millman plays an alien on an episode of Doctor Who.


 * 2008 - NOTVALID: Doctor What 1
 * Danny, Withnail and I are all cast as the Doctor.


 * 2008 - NOTVALID: Campfire (trailer)
 * The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble promote the broadcast of Series 4 on BBC One.


 * Christmas c. 2008 (The Year That Never Was) - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 390
 * The Doctor is wearing a wig that belonged to William Hartnell.


 * 2008 - PROSE: The Story of Fester Cat
 * Paul Magrs writes scripts for Doctor Who CDs, which features Tom Baker.


 * c. 2009 - NOTVALID: Untitled
 * John Barrowman acts out a skit with a fan on the TARDIS set.

2010s

 * By the 2010s, Matt Smith is an actor in the series. (TV: The Doctor Drops In, The Doctor Appears)


 * c. 2010s - PROSE: The Terror of the Umpty Ums


 * c. 2010s - NOTVALID: Inside Family Guy
 * An episode featuring the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler, called Doctor Who Farted, airs.


 * 2010 - NOTVALID: Death of the Doctor (trailer)
 * The Eleventh Doctor promotes the broadcast of Death of the Doctor on CBBC.


 * May 2012 - PROSE: The Stones of Spookiness


 * 21 June 2012 - NOTVALID: Monster Escape
 * A live news broadcast outside of the Doctor Who Exhibition is interrupted when many of the alien props on display turn out to be real, and they start attacking.


 * Summer 2012 - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 450
 * Matt Smith carries the Olympic Flame before passing it on to the Tenth Doctor.


 * Red Nose Day 2013 - TV: The Doctor Appears
 * The Eleventh Doctor visits Dermot O'Leary and Claudia Winkleman while they talk about Doctor Who live on air.
 * Later that year, The Day of the Doctor is broadcast.


 * c. 2013 - NOTVALID: Eleventh Doctor Ident Interruptions
 * In the run up to The Day of the Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor interrupts idents on BBC One.


 * 2013 - NOTVALID: Cinema Introduction
 * The Eleventh and Tenth Doctors, and Strax, introduce a cinema screening of The Day of the Doctor.


 * c. 2013 - PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor
 * Peter Capaldi is cast as the Twelfth Doctor, and he writes a letter to DWM


 * c. 2014 - NOTVALID: Twelfth Doctor Ident Interruptions
 * In the run up to Series 8, the Twelfth Doctor interrupts idents on BBC One.


 * November 2014 - TV: In the Forest of the Night
 * An advert for the series is seen on the side of a bus.


 * October 2015 - WC: The Zygon Isolation (mention)
 * The ninth series is broadcast.


 * 29 April 2016 - PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor
 * Peter Capaldi writes a letter to be printed in the 500th issue of Doctor Who Magazine.


 * 26 May 2016 - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 500
 * Issue 500 of Doctor Who Magazine is released.


 * c. December 2016 - NOTVALID: 2016 BBC Christmas ident
 * A child watches Heaven Sent.


 * 1 July 2017 - NOTVALID: Cyberman Ident Interruption
 * A Mondasian Cyberman takes over the continuity announcement preceeding The Doctor Falls.


 * 18 June 2019 - WC: The Trial

2020s

 * c. 2020 - NOTVALID: Strax Saves the Day
 * Strax introduces viewers to a new screening of The Day of the Doctor.


 * 10 May 2020 - WC: The Zygon Isolation
 * Petronella Osgood and her Zygon duplicate watch Doctor Who.


 * c. late 2020 - WC: U.N.I.T. On Call
 * A Doctor Who fan manages to contact U.N.I.T. in the 1970s for advice concerning COVID-19.


 * December 2020 - NOTVALID: A New Year's message from the Doctor...
 * The Thirteenth Doctor and everybody at Doctor Who wishes their audience "love and luck for 2021".


 * 2021 - WC: Tom Baker stars in John Lloyd's lost Doctor Who adveture, The Doomsday Contract
 * Big Finish release the audio drama, The Doomsday Contract.

2060s

 * c. 2063 - Doctor Who's 100th Anniversary Special is released in "12-D". It features "all fifty-seven" Doctors. (NOTVALID: Cinema Introduction)


 * 2065 - PROSE: Lady Penelope Investigates the stars of the Sensational new film Dr. Who and the Daleks!
 * William Hartnell plays the Doctor in the series, while films starring Peter Cushing are produced.

2070s

 * 2072 - NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 381
 * Cosgrove Hall recreate lost episodes of the Doctor Who cartoon.

26th century

 * 2596 - PROSE: Twilight of the Gods
 * Chris Cwej and Clarence watch re-runs of Doctor Who.

Currently unplaced

 * TV: The Doctor Drops In
 * PROSE: Extracts from the Doctor's 500 Year Diary
 * COMIC:  Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 B.C.
 * COMIC: The (Final) Doctor Who History Tour
 * NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 392
 * NOTVALID: Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time