Theory:Timeline - 20th century

This page lists the order of stories in the Doctor Who Universe timeline from 1 January 1900 to 31 December 1999. (For the purposes of this timeline, 1900 will be considered part of the 20th century given the 0|"Year 0" discrepancy.) This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as Doctor Who Reviews, Clive Banks databanks, and LegoK9's timeline. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Timeline rules:
 * Only list stories. References to dates that the story does not take place in are to be excluded.
 * Stories without any clear indication of an era should be omitted. (e.g. TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)
 * Many stories will contradict each other, so these contradictions should be noted but treated equally. (e.g. TV: The Enemy of the World and other stories set in 2018)
 * Direct quotes indicating the time period the story takes place should be provided. (Quotes sourced from another story should indicate the story it is from.)

Format (list all available):
 * Day Month Year - MEDIUM: Story title
 * CHARACTER/TEXT/NOTE: Indication of time period

Prime Timeline

 * Previous page: Universe Timeline - 19th century

1900s

 * 1900 - PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor
 * "The Strand, London, 1900"


 * 1900 - AUDIO: The Grel Escape
 * 1900 - AUDIO: Tales from the Vault
 * 1900 - PROSE: Warring States Prologue
 * 1900 - PROSE: Warring States
 * July 1900 - AUDIO: Upstairs
 * December 1900 - PROSE: Foreign Devils
 * "The Doctor examined the strange procession of cuneiform figures that danced across the top of the screen. ‘England, December 1900 . . . That’s interesting.’"


 * 1901 - TV: Exit Wounds
 * TEXT: Torchwood Hub - 1901
 * JACK: Now I need you to put me in the morgue. Freeze me. Set the alarm to defrost in a hundred and seven years time.


 * 20 October 1901 - AUDIO: Cryptobiosis
 * 12 December 1901 - PROSE: Walking to Babylon / AUDIO: Walking to Babylon
 * "He hesitated, then answered, ‘December the twelfth, 1901. That’s Anno Domini,’ he added helpfully."


 * 190X - TV: Horror of Fang Rock / PROSE: Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock
 * REUBEN: Last time that beast was seen on Fang Rock, eighty year ago now, two men died that very same night.
 * VINCE: 'Ere, Reuben. You don't really think what happened before, back in the twenties, you don't really think it's happening again, do you?


 * 1902 - PROSE: Beast of Fang Rock
 * SUMMARY: What connects a shooting star, ghosts of men killed in 1902 and the beast that roamed Fang Rock in 1823?


 * 1902 - AUDIO: False Gods
 * 1902 - PROSE: Ghosts of New York
 * 1902 - PROSE: Revenge of the Judoon
 * SUMMARY: The TARDIS brings the Tenth Doctor and Martha to Balmoral in 1902.


 * 1902 - TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
 * African Plains 1902 A.D.


 * December 1902 - PROSE: Eye of Heaven
 * "Horace Stockwood, MRGS - Easter Island, Earth - December 1902"


 * 24 December 1902 - PROSE: Behind You
 * "He swivelled the monitor around to face Ceri. ‘24 December 1902’ flashed in red."


 * Between 1903-1915 - TV: Pond Life
 * DOCTOR: Met Mata Hari in a Paris hotel room. What an interesting woman.


 * 1903 - AUDIO: The Wanderer
 * NOTE: While the synopsis stated that the story takes place at the end of the 19th century, the turn of the century is mentioned in the story. As the story states that Rasputin (1869-1916) is in his early 30s, the story must also take place after 1899. Grigori Rasputin became a pilgrim in 1901 and arrived in St Petersburg in 1903.


 * 1903 - AUDIO: Wet Walls
 * 8 August, 27 November, 19-25 December 1903 - PROSE: Mirth, or Walking Spirits
 * "Extracts from the diary of William Cuthbertson": "8 August 1903"; "27 November 1903"; "19 December 1903" to "25 December 1903"


 * 24-25 December 1903 - PROSE: The Sleep of Reason
 * "Extract from the Diary of Dr Thomas Christie Thursday 24th December 1903"
 * "Extract from the Diary of Dr Thomas Christie Friday 25th December 1903"


 * 3 May 1904 - PROSE: The Sleep of Reason
 * "Extract from the Diary of Dr Thomas Christie Tuesday 3rd May 1904"


 * 1904 - PROSE: Gudok
 * ‘It’s 1904. The Wright brothers have barely flown sixty feet yet, never mind starting a passenger service across two continents.’


 * 1904 - AUDIO: Iris Rides Out
 * 1905 - AUDIO: Freakshow
 * SUMMARY: The TARDIS arrives in Arizona 1905, where travelling showman Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer is offering the residents of Buzzard Creek the elixir of life.


 * 18 April 1906 - PROSE: All-Consuming Fire / AUDIO: All-Consuming Fire
 * "'California,' said Ace quietly. 'Nineteen-oh-six. The great San Francisco earthquake.'"


 * 15 June 1906 - PROSE: Wildthyme and the Wolf
 * 24-25 June 1906 - PROSE: Forgotten
 * "Sunday 24 June 1906"
 * "Monday 25 June 1906"


 * 25 June 1906 - PROSE: Prologue
 * "Monday 25 June 1906"


 * 1906 - COMIC: Final Sacrifice
 * TEXT: Oxford University, 1906.


 * 1906 - AUDIO: The Gift
 * SUMMARY: The TARDIS deposits its crew on Earth in San Francisco, 1906.


 * 1906 - AUDIO: Mastermind
 * 24 December 1906 - AUDIO: The Chimes of Midnight
 * DOCTOR: Christmas Eve, then. The kitchen should be buzzing with action.... Charley, it's Nineteen Hundred And Six. It's six years before you were even born.


 * After 25 December 1906 - PROSE: The Cutty Wren
 * "Isiah looked up from the pamphlet he’d been perusing – Middleton Old Glory Morrismen, Cutty Wren Outing 1906 – and gave a start."
 * "‘We need all your power, all at once, if we’re going to give the wren a late Christmas present.’"


 * 15 November 1907 - COMIC: The Darkness of Glass
 * SUMMARY: It is 1907, and members of the Caversham Society have gathered on the hundredth anniversary of the death of Mannering Caversham, the greatest Magic Lanternist who ever lived.


 * 30 June 1908 - PROSE: The Wages of Sin
 * "It was June 30th 1908. The world would not hear of this devastation for another thirteen years."


 * 30 June 1908 - COMIC: Follow That TARDIS!
 * DEADBEAT: Tunguska...1908? That rings a bell!


 * 1908 - AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger
 * 1908 - COMIC: The Fairest of Them All
 * 1908 - COMIC: The Time Stealer / The Battle for Time
 * TEXT: The TARDIS has landed in the grounds of an English manor in 1908 ...


 * 3 February 1909 - PROSE: Birthright (novel)
 * "London, 2.30 a.m., Wednesday 3 February AD 1909"


 * 1909 - PROSE: Prelude Birthright
 * "39 Dean Street, Soho, London 1909"


 * 6 March 1909 - COMIC: Clara Oswald and the School of Death
 * TEXT: The Raven Peninsula, Scotland, 1909


 * 15-24 April 1909 - PROSE: Birthright (novel)
 * "London, 7.15 a.m., Thursday 15 April 1909" to "7.30 a.m., Saturday 24 April AD 1909"


 * 1909 - AUDIO: Birthright
 * NOTE: This audio drama adaptation of Birthright had major alterations from the novel, namely Aces's role being replace with Jason Kane.


 * 1909 - TV: Small Worlds
 * TEXT: Lahore, 1909


 * 16 September 1909 - AUDIO: Gallery
 * "Martha took the paper and checked the date. ‘September 16th nineteen-oh-nine,’ she read aloud, with a pointed look at the Doctor."

1910s

 * 7 May 1910 - PROSE: In Case of Emergencies
 * "It was a Saturday in May, and the hotel was sombre and quiet. The King had died the day before. Edward VII had finally given out and given up."
 * "‘Do you see it as a coincidence, then?’ I snapped. ‘Edward dying now, in 1910? The world is changing so much, and the man who’s given the last decade its name dies –’ "


 * 13, 16-17 October 1910 - PROSE: Paradox Lost
 * "London, 13 October 1910" and "London, 16 October 1910" to "London, 17 October 1910"


 * 2 January 1911 - PROSE: The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill
 * June 1911 - AUDIO: The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber
 * June 1911 - AUDIO: Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379)
 * 1911 - TV: Pyramids of Mars / PROSE: Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars
 * SARAH: But he didn't, did he. I mean, we know the world didn't end in 1911.


 * 1911 - COMIC: Hitching Point
 * October 1911 - AUDIO: Moonflesh
 * SUMMARY: One wouldn't normally expect to find elephants, gorillas and rhinoceroses roaming free in Suffolk in the year 1911.


 * 24 December 1911 - TV: Echoes
 * "The Doctor shook his head. 'Now that would be silly, Peggy. It's 1911. He's only, what, five? Six? How could I possibly know him'"
 * "She and the other children had spent Christmas Eve dashing about, making noise and laughing. Helen had spent the day alone in her room."


 * 14 April 1912 - COMIC: Follow That TARDIS!
 * DOCTOR: I think we're somewhere in the Atlantic, 1912... [The Titanic sinks]


 * 10-11 November 1913 - TV: Human Nature / The Family of Blood
 * MARTHA: I can prove that wrong for you, sir. Here's the morning paper. It's Monday, November tenth, nineteen thirteen, and you're completely human, sir. As human as they come.


 * 21 August 1914 - COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons
 * TEXT: 21st August, 1914


 * 25 December 1914 - COMIC: The Forgotten
 * DOCTOR: We're in France, Christmas day, 1914.


 * 25 December 1914 - TV: Twice Upon a Time
 * DOCTOR: Any other day it wouldn't make any difference, but this is Christmas 1914, and a human miracle is about to happen. The Christmas Armistice.


 * 1916 - COMIC: Time Bomb!
 * TEXT: And just before the First Battle of the Somme, 1916...


 * July 1916 - COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons
 * TEXT: July, 1916


 * 20 August 1916 - COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons
 * TEXT: The town of St. Michael, The Somme. August 1916
 * NEW YORK TIMES: Friday, August, 1916


 * 1918 - TV: To the Last Man
 * TOMMY: Take me. I'm in there in the ward in 1918. You have to take me so I can be here now. Just take me!

1920s

 * November 1920 - AUDIO: The Mouthless Dead
 * DOCTOR: Ah, here we are. Gregorian! It's November 1920.


 * 5 December 1920 - TV: Blink
 * The Hull Times, 5th December 1920


 * 1921 - TV: The Daleks' Master Plan
 * QUOTE? [Hollywood scene with Charlie Chaplin and Bing Crosby]


 * 1923 - COMIC: Four Doctors
 * TEXT: Paris, 1923


 * 11 June 1925 - TV: Black Orchid
 * DOCTOR: Three o'clock, June the 11th, 1925.


 * 1925 - COMIC: Theatre of the Mind
 * TEXT: New York, 1925


 * 192X - AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors
 * NOTE: Harry Houdini in his 40s.


 * 1926 - COMIC: The Gods Walk Among Us
 * TEXT: Egypt, 1926. Fired by the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, archaeologists dug many new sites in their search for history... fame... or fortune.


 * 1926 - COMIC: Silver Scream
 * TEXT: Hollywood, 1926. The party of one Archibald Maplin, ESQ.


 * March 1926 - PROSE: Prelude Birthright
 * TEXT: The Great Rift Valley, March 1926


 * 8 December 1926 - TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp
 * DOCTOR: No policewomen in 1926.


 * 1927 - TV: Immortal Sins
 * TEXT: Ellis Island, New York City, USA - 1927


 * 1928 - TV: Immortal Sins
 * TEXT: Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA - 1928


 * c. 1928 - COMIC: The Jazz Monster / Music Man
 * PHOTO (Old Girl): The Storyville Players Circa 1928

1930s

 * 4-5 October 1930 - AUDIO: Storm Warning
 * DOCTOR: The year wouldn't happen to be 1930, would it? ... And the month, October?
 * VANSELL (Neverland): ...And all despite having died in Beauvais, France on the fifth of October 1930, in the wreck of a dirigible known as the R101.


 * 1 November 1930 - TV: Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks
 * MARTHA: November first, 1930


 * 31 December 1930 - AUDIO: Seasons of Fear
 * DOCTOR: It was at the Singapore Hilton, on the cusp of years 1930 and 1931, that I first met Mister Sebastian Grayle. I was sitting in the Tea Gardens at midnight on that New Year's Eve...


 * 1931 - COMIC: What He Wants...
 * TEXT: Dockery Plantation, Mississippi, 1931.


 * 12 April 1932 - COMIC: Briarwood
 * TO-DO LIST (The Pictures of Josephine Day): Briarwood House, April 12th, 1932. 7PM


 * 5 December 1933 - PROSE: Prelude Blood Harvest
 * TEXT: Chicago 5th December 1933


 * 1935 - TV: The Abominable Snowmen
 * DOCTOR: That attack in 1630, what was the outcome?
 * THOMNI: It disappeared three hundred years ago.
 * ANNE (The Web of Fear): Yes. Yes, he seems to. And you met him, when was it you said? In 1935? In Tibet?


 * 1935 - AUDIO: Enemy Aliens
 * NARRATOR: Early of an evening towards the less distinguished end of 1935, the alien Time Lord known as the Doctor bounded back inside his time traversing TARDIS.


 * 3 April 1938 - TV: The Angels Take Manhattan
 * AMY: Yes, hang on. Oh, April 3rd, 1938.


 * 1938 - TV: Let's Kill Hitler
 * JIM: Hang on! This is 1938. We're too early. We need to go later in his time stream.


 * 30-31 October 1938 - AUDIO: Invaders from Mars
 * BIX BIRO: October Thirty-First, 1938.


 * 24 December 1938 - WC: Prequel / TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
 * MADGE: Oh, don't be silly. It's Christmas Eve. No one should be alone at Christmas.

1940s

 * 194X - COMIC: The Tides of Time
 * TEXT: On the same village green... forty years previously... [World War II training]


 * 20 January 1941 - TV: Captain Jack Harkness
 * POSTER: 1941 Kiss The Boys Goodbye Dance, Saturday 20th January 1941 7.30pm


 * 1941 - TV: Ghost Machine
 * NOTE: Gwen's flashback to Tom being sent to Cardiff.
 * TOM: No. Lived here sixty-six years and still sound like a barrow boy. I was evacuated during the war. 1941. The Germans bombing the hell out of the East End.


 * 1941 - TV: The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances
 * DOCTOR: I make it 1941. You lot shouldn't even be in London. You should've been evacuated to the country by now.


 * 1941 - TV: Victory of the Daleks
 * QUOTE?


 * 1941 - TV: The Pandorica Opens
 * Cabinet War Rooms, London 1941


 * 24-25 December 1941 - TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
 * MADGE: England, 1941. And there's a war on.


 * 1943 - TV: The Curse of Fenric
 * ACE: I didn't know they had personal stereos in 1943.


 * 26 October 1943 - AUDIO: The Macros
 * PERI: We could go back in time and try and persuade the powers that be in 1943 that it's a bad idea to go ahead with the experiment.
 * ANNE: Oh, I see. It's October 26th.


 * 1943 - TV: Rosa
 * TEXT: Montomgery, Alabama 1943


 * 1944 - AUDIO: Criss-Cross
 * DOCTOR: At least the whole thing will be over this time next year (in reference to world war 2)


 * October 1944 - AUDIO: Colditz
 * SUMMARY: October 1944. As World War Two draws towards its conclusion...


 * Before 8 May 1945 - PROSE: Tip of the Tongue
 * "Jonny... gave the bulk of his wages to his mother, of course; they needed every penny now that his dad was overseas fighting this war against Hitler."
 * 'Yes, Nyssa,' the man said. 'But this is Earth, 1945.'


 * 5 December 1945 - COMIC: Follow That TARDIS!
 * DEADBEAT: Don't tell me... Bermuda, 1945!


 * 20 December 1945 - COMIC: Memorial
 * SIMON: December 20th, 1945. I am 12 years old. My brother is dead.


 * 1947 - TV: Dreamland
 * Roswell crash


 * c. 1947 - TV: Knock Knock (flashabck)
 * DOCTOR: He's been keeping her alive with the bugs for about 70 years.


 * 17-18 August 1947 - TV: Demons of the Punjab
 * DOCTOR: It's the 17th of August.
 * GRAHAM: Sorry, I don't mean to sound stupid, what year is it, exactly?
 * PREM: Same year you have in England, 1947.

1950s

 * 195X (projection) - AUDIO: Zagreus
 * CHARLEY: And in the 1950s on Earth, a scientist will accidentally find a way to reopen the divergent universe, and give them a momentary glimpse of our universe. ... I saw something similar in 1951.


 * 1952 - TV: A Christmas Carol
 * Hollywood 1952.


 * 1 June 1953 - TV: The Idiot's Lantern / WC: Tardisode 7
 * DOCTOR: Oh! Is this 1953?


 * Mid 195X - COMIC: Quiet on the Set
 * DOCTOR: Judging by the truck, I'd say mid-1950s, or else the groundskeepers here are desperately in need of a trade in.


 * c. 195X - COMIC: The Boy With the Displaced Smile
 * NOTE: References to Commies and Beatniks.


 * 30 November-1 December 1955 - TV: Rosa
 * DOCTOR: Today is Wednesday, November 30th, 1955. Tomorrow Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat.


 * 1958 - TV: Dreamland
 * 11 years after the Roswell crash in 1947


 * 1959 - TV: Delta and the Bannermen
 * TOLLMASTER: Your prize. Hang about. You have won our fabulous Fifties tour. A week, a whole week, in Disneyland, planet Earth. And this time, they're going back to 1959. The rock and roll years.

1960s

 * 1962 - COMIC: Escape into Alcatraz
 * TEXT: Alcatraz Prison, 1962


 * 1962 - COMIC: What He Wants...
 * TEXT: 1962. A couple streets away.


 * 1962 - COMIC: The Comfort of the Good
 * TEXT: 1962. A couple streets away.


 * 27 March-4 April 1963 - PROSE: Time and Relative
 * "The Diary of Susan Foreman: Wednesday, March 27th, 1963" ... "Wednesday, April 4th, 1963"


 * 29 March 1963 - TV: Ghost Machine
 * NOTE: Owen's flashback to Elizabeth Lewis' murder.
 * TOSH: Elizabeth Lewis. Lizzie. Only child of Mabel Ann Lewis of Hafod Street. Died March 29th, 1963.


 * 1963 - COMIC: Gangland
 * TEXT: Judoon Containment Facility. Earth-Time: 1963
 * TEXT: The Nevada Desert, 1963


 * October 1963 - PROSE: Ghost Ship
 * October 1963 - AUDIO: Hunters of Earth
 * MAVIS: It is 1963 after all!


 * 10-23 November 1963 - AUDIO: 1963: The Space Race
 * 22 November 1963 - TV: An Unearthly Child
 * IAN: So that when we go out of that door, we won't be in a junkyard in London in England in the year 1963?
 * Who Killed Kennedy: "As a bullet blew open his head in Dallas, Texas, it was 12.30 p.m. on Friday 22 November 1963.... In the Shoreditch suburb of East London, two school teachers left the local Coal Hill School together."


 * 22 November 1963 - PROSE: Playtime
 * NOTE: Right before Ian and Barbara enter the junkyard.


 * 23 November 1963 - AUDIO: 1963
 * DOCTOR: Mr Chesterton, and Miss Wright. Might I be the first to welcome you to London on the 23rd of November, 1963?


 * 23 November 1963 - TV: The Cambridge Spy
 * 29-30 November 1963 - TV: Remembrance of the Daleks
 * ACE: But this is Earth, 1963. Well, someone would have noticed. I'd have heard about it.
 * Who Killed Kennedy: "The Shoreditch Incident took place just one week after the assassination of America's President John F Kennedy."


 * November 1963 - AUDIO: 1963: The Assassination Games
 * SYNOPSIS: London. The end of November, 1963.
 * Note: Occurs after Remembrance of the Daleks.


 * 1964 - AUDIO: Threshold
 * 1964 - AUDIO: Artificial Intelligence
 * GILMORE: I met the doctor in Berlin, 1950. She helped some of my men after the airlift.
 * GILMORE: A person can change considerably in 14 years, sir, I couldn't say.


 * 1964 - AUDIO: Wave of Destruction
 * ROMANA: I thought this was the 30s
 * DOCTOR: I don't think so. Ooh, 1964.


 * 1964 - COMIC: Gangland
 * TEXT: Las Vegas, 1964


 * 1965 - TV: The Chase
 * IAN: London, 1965!


 * November 1965 - TV: Children of Earth: Day Four
 * NOTE: Clem's flashback to the first 456 event.
 * IANTO (Children of Earth: Day Three): And they had a Clement MacDonald. He was taken into care, April 1965, after his mother died. No father on record. In November 1965, he was transferred, along with.


 * 25 December 1965 - TV: The Daleks' Master Plan
 * DOCTOR: Oh, Christmas. Oh, is it? Of course. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That accounts for the holly in the hall.


 * 1966 - TV: The Chase
 * MORTON: 1966 Ma'am. Say, you wouldn't be trying to have a bit of fun with me now, would you?


 * 1966 - AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard
 * SUMMARY: Monte Carlo, 1966


 * 1966 - AUDIO: Dead Air
 * DOCTOR: 1966! It's the bobbles, dead giveaway.


 * 20 July 1966 - TV: The War Machines
 * SUMMER: Gentleman, ladies, may I have your attention please? Well, you're heard the backroom boys, now it's about time you my turn. C Day, that is Computer Day, will be next Monday, July the 16th, that is in four days time.


 * 20 July 1966 - TV: The Faceless Ones
 * BEN: Don't you see, Duchess? July the 20th, 1966 is when it all began! We're back to when it all started. Well, I think.


 * 20 July 1966 - TV: The Evil of the Daleks
 * Picks up from The Faceless Ones


 * 1966 - COMIC: The Love Invasion
 * TEXT: 1966. It's a good time to be alive.
 * NOTE: Ben is seen proposing to Polly, setting this after their departure in The Faceless Ones.


 * 14-21 May 1967 - COMIC: Operation Volcano
 * PHOTOGRAPH: 14 May 1947, Thalia
 * TELEGRAM: 21-05-67: 1412 HRS


 * 7 November 1967 - AUDIO: Thin Ice
 * ACE: Is it May day?
 * DOCTOR: November? No. It's 1967, the 50th anniversary of the October revolution.


 * 1968 - TV: Fury from the Deep
 * QUOTE?


 * 1968 - PROSE: The Nameless City
 * "London, 1968"


 * 1968 (Time Anomaly) - COMIC: The Tragical History Tour
 * TEXT: 1968


 * 24 December 1968 - PROSE: Three Wise Men
 * "Christmas Eve, 1968. 200,000 miles from Earth"


 * After 1968 - TV: The Underwater Menace
 * BEN: Mexico Olympiad....That's right, it wasn't due till 1968.
 * POLLY: Right, so now is any time later than that.


 * March or April 1969 - WC: Prequel (The Impossible Astronaut)
 * NIXON (The Impossible Astronaut): It's a direct call every time. Every day for the last two weeks, usually late at night.


 * 8 April 1969 - TV: The Impossible Astronaut
 * AMY: Washington D.C., April the eighth, 1969. So why haven't we landed?


 * 1969 - COMIC: The Zombies
 * MAN: It is 1969, the year of the Zagbors... I am one of their slaves!


 * 1969 - TV:  Blink
 * DOCTOR: 1969. Not bad, as it goes. You've got the moon landing to look forward to.


 * June 1969 - TV: Planet of Giants
 * Date according to PROSE: House of Giants


 * 20 July 1969 - TV: Day of the Moon
 * Three months later - July 1969.

UNIT Dating

 * UNIT stories set in the 1970s and/or 1980s should be placed here. See UNIT dating controversy and Timeline - UNIT


 * Before 1979? - COMIC: The World Shapers
 * NOTE: Marinus is Planet 14 and becomes Mondas? [Before The Invasion]


 * c. 1975? - TV: The Web of Fear
 * ANNE: Yes. Yes, he seems to. And you met him, when was it you said? In 1935? In Tibet?
 * TRAVERS: But it can't be. Why, that's over forty years ago.


 * 7 June 1977 - TV: Mawdryn Undead
 * DOCTOR: June the seventh, 1977. Well done, Brigadier. Come on.
 * NOTE: Despite being promoted between The Web of Fear and The Invasion, the Brigadier retired in 1976 and became a maths teacher.


 * c. 1979? - TV: The Invasion
 * BRIGADIER: That's right, McCrimmon, in the underground. Must be four years ago now.

Liz Shaw era

 * 19XX - TV: Spearhead from Space
 * 19XX - TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians
 * 19XX - AUDIO: Old Soldiers
 * 19XX - AUDIO: Vengeance of the Stones
 * 19XX - TV: The Ambassadors of Death
 * 19XX - TV: Inferno

Jo Grant era

 * 19XX - TV: Terror of the Autons
 * 19XX - TV: The Mind of Evil
 * 19XX - TV: The Claws of Axos
 * 19XX - AUDIO: The Mega
 * 19XX - TV: The Dæmons
 * 19XX - TV: The Sea Devils
 * 19XX - AUDIO: Prisoners of the Lake
 * 19XX - TV: The Three Doctors
 * 19XX - AUDIO: The Scorchies
 * Summer 1973 - PROSE: The Spear of Destiny
 * "And with that he pushed his way out of the TARDIS, and back into the safe warmth of the British summer in 1973."
 * NOTE: The TARDIS has it's dematerialisation circuit.


 * 19XX - TV: The Green Death

Sarah Jane Smith era

 * 19XX - TV: The Time Warrior
 * 19XX- TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
 * 1974 - COMIC: In With the Tide
 * TEXT: UNIT Headquarters. London, England. 1974
 * NOTE: The Whomobile makes an appearance.


 * c. 1980 - TV: Planet of the Spiders
 * c. 1980 - TV: Robot
 * SARAH JANE (Pyramids of Mars): Oh, that's just the Doctor. We travel in time, Mister Scarman. I'm really from 1980.


 * c. 1980 - TV: Terror of the Zygons
 * c. 1980 - TV: The Android Invasion
 * c. 1980 - TV: The Seeds of Doom
 * c. 1980 - TV: The Hand of Fear
 * c. 1980 - COMIC: The Transformed
 * TEXT: Bristol, England. Sometime in the 1970s. Or maybe the '80s.


 * c. 1980 - COMIC: Official Secrets
 * DOCTOR: The 70s. Maybe 80s. Does it matter?

1970s

 * 1970 - TV: Day of the Moon
 * MELODY: It's all right. It's quite alright. I'm dying. But I can fix that. It's easy, really. See?


 * 1970 - COMIC: Cyber-Mole
 * CAPTION: It is the year 1970 and a rocket whistles through the night sky above Earth, heading for a patch of woodland not far from London...


 * 1970 - COMIC: Ice Cap Terror
 * CAPTION: The year 1970...


 * 20-22 July 1970 - COMIC: Moon Landing
 * NEWSPAPER: Monday, July 20th, 1970
 * TEXT: Two Days Later...


 * 1972 - COMIC: The Highgate Horror
 * CLARA: We're a bit behind the times. Which is kinda weird because it's 1972...


 * 1972 - COMIC: The Pestilent Heart
 * JESS: Six months!


 * 1972 - COMIC: Moving In
 * DOCTOR: 1972. They haven't invented Space Invaders yet.


 * 1972 - COMIC: Bloodsport
 * 25-25 December 1972 - COMIC: Be Forgot
 * TEXT: 23rd December 1972, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Morning.


 * 1973 - COMIC: Doorway to Hell
 * DOCTOR: I keep forgetting. 1973: A technological backwater.


 * 1974 - AUDIO: Urgent Calls
 * SUMMARY: Earth, 1974. An innocent phone call. Okay, it was a wrong number, but there can't be any harm in that. Can there?


 * 25 November 1974 - TV: Hide
 * PALMER: Excellent, then. Excellent. Caliburn House, night four, November 25th, 1974. 11:04 PM.


 * Winter 1974 - AUDIO: Horror of Glam Rock
 * LUCIE: I've never seen snow like it.
 * DOCTOR: It's 1974.


 * 1976 - COMIC: Conversion
 * TEXT: Berlin, 1976


 * c. 1976 or 1977 - TV: Love & Monsters
 * ELTON (memory): What was it? I must have been three or four years old. Middle of the night, went downstairs, and there was this man.
 * NOTE: A deleted scene put Elton’s birthday as 1973.


 * 1977 - TV: Image of the Fendahl
 * NOTE: Not said on screen, only in a trailer.


 * 1977 - AUDIO: Suburban Hell
 * BELINDA: OK, I admit it, I was adopted. I never knew my realy parents. And yeah, they found me on the steps of the hospital in Wood Street in 1977.


 * 1977 - AUDIO: The Cloisters of Terror
 * DOCTOR: The last few disappearances: 1969, 1973, 1975, 1976
 * EMILY: Last year?


 * 24 December 1977 - AUDIO: Damaged Goods (prologue/epilogue)
 * BEV: I remember that night like it was yesterday. Christmas eve 1977.


 * 4 June 1978 - PROSE: The Death Pit
 * "Bryony Mailer was quite possibly the most important human alive on Earth at that time, which was 11.26 a.m. on 4 June 1978."


 * 1978 - TV: The Pirate Planet
 * QUOTE?


 * 1978? - TV: The Stones of Blood
 * QUOTE?


 * 1979 - AUDIO: Trail of the White Worm / The Oseidon Adventure
 * SYNOPSIS: When the Doctor and Leela arrive in the wilds of Derbyshire, only to get caught up in the hunt for a missing girl, they soon discover that the legend of the Worm is very much alive - even now, in 1979.


 * 1979 - TV: City of Death
 * DOCTOR: Ah well, yes. It's 1979 actually. More of a table wine, shall we say. Ha! The randomiser's a useful device but it lacks true discrimination. Should we sip it and see?


 * 1979 - COMIC: Beneath the Waves
 * TEXT: Seaton Bay, 1979


 * August 1979 - PROSE: The Persistence of Memory
 * "Loch Ness in the summer of nineteen seventy-nine it is them... Scotland in August. Nowhere finer."


 * October 1979 - TV: Shada
 * CHRONOTIS: Yes! Young Parsons. Born 1956, graduated 1978, honours degree in chemistry, currently engaged in sigma particles.
 * DOCTOR: It's October.


 * December 1979 - PROSE: The Persistence of Memory
 * "Slade's Merry Christmas, Everybody' has been on the radio... The coin was dated 1987 — eight years in the future!"


 * 197X - COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion
 * TEXT: Opening with Stockbridge invaded by the Ninth Legion.

1980s

 * 1980 - AUDIO: The Labyrinth of Buda Castle
 * ROMANA: Where do you recommend that still exists in 1980?


 * c. 1980 - COMIC: Doctor Who and the Star Beast
 * c. 1980 - COMIC: The Collector
 * DOCTOR: Twentieth century Blackcastle, England, Earth!


 * 198X - COMIC: The Tides of Time
 * And forty years hence... That confusion is echoed... [From World War II training]


 * 198X - COMIC: Stars Fell on Stockbridge
 * 198X - COMIC: The Stockbridge Horror
 * 198X - COMIC: 4-Dimensional Vistas
 * 1980 - TV: The Leisure Hive
 * QUOTE?


 * 1980 - TV: Meglos
 * QUOTE?


 * 1980 - TV: Before the Flood
 * DOCTOR: (The Doctor wets a finger and holds it up.) 1980.


 * 1981 - TV: The Keeper of Traken
 * QUOTE?


 * 28 February 1981 - TV: Logopolis
 * DOCTOR (Four to Doomsday): When was your flight again? ... February the twenty eighth, 1981. Oh, you'll have time for a cup of tea. It's only sixteen fifteen hours.


 * 1981 - TV: Four to Doomsday
 * QUOTE?


 * Autumn 1981 - TV: The Rings of Akhaten
 * Clara’s parents meet: The Doctor is hiding behind the Beano Summer Special 1981


 * December 1981 - TV: A Girl's Best Friend
 * K9: No available data. What is the Earth year?
 * SARAH JANE: 1981. December 18th.


 * 1982 - TV: Time-Flight
 * TEGAN (The Waters of Amsterdam): I met him about a year ago now. After you and the Doctor left me at Heathrow, I took up my job as a stewardess for Air Australia.
 * NOTE: The Waters of Amsterdam is set in 1983, so this story is set in 1982.


 * c. 1982 - AUDIO: The Hollows of Time
 * PERI: Doctor, we have stepped back into the past.
 * DOCTOR: A year or two for you. For me, well, it's all the same to me, of course. Early 1980s, but it could well be the 1880s.


 * 1983 - TV: Arc of Infinity
 * 1983 - AUDIO: The Waters of Amsterdam
 * NOTE: follows directly on from Arc of Infinity
 * KYLE: The year 1983


 * 1983 - TV: Mawdryn Undead
 * DOCTOR: If these readings are correct, it's 1983 on Earth.


 * 1983 - TV: Cold War
 * CLARA: Yeah, but the world didn't end in 1983, did it, or I wouldn't be here.


 * Summer 1983 - COMIC: City of Devils
 * SARAH JANE: Summer, 1983. This is my latest trip to see my Aunt Lavinia in Oxfordshire...


 * 1984 - TV: The Awakening
 * TURLOUGH: We're not. I checked the time monitor. It is 1984.


 * 1984 - TV: Resurrection of the Daleks
 * DOCTOR: Well, the instruments are still affected by turbulence, but I think it's 1984, London. Found it!


 * 1984 - COMIC: The Fires Down Below
 * TEXT: Rekjavik, Iceland, 1984: Atop long extinct shaefels.


 * 9 May 1984 - TV: Planet of Fire
 * NOTE: Date according to AUDIO: The Reaping.


 * Summer 1984 - PROSE: Nothing O'Clock
 * "It was the summer of 1984..."


 * 1985 - TV: Attack of the Cybermen
 * DOCTOR: Can't be far, the signal is very strong.... Strange. It's coming from Earth. In 1985?


 * c. 1985 - TV: The Two Doctors
 * QUOTE?


 * 1985 - AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair
 * SYNOPSIS: The TARDIS has been drawn to Blackpool in the year 1985


 * 198X - COMIC: Skywatch-7
 * QUOTE? 12/12/85 according to the wiki?


 * 1985 - COMIC: Time Lady of Means
 * DOCTOR 12: New York. 1985. Not a classic year. But nonetheless one where you were needed...


 * 1985 - COMIC: Kane's Story
 * TEXT: New York, 1985


 * 1985 (Time Anomaly) - COMIC: The Tragical History Tour
 * TEXT: Muswell Hill, London - 1985


 * January 1986 - PROSE: Time Wake
 * DOCTOR: The Wake extends between the present day...
 * PERI: January, 1986.
 * DOCTOR: Yes, and 1720.


 * c. 23 November 1986 - TV: The Rings of Akhaten
 * CYBERMAN (Death in Heaven): [Clara Oswald was] born 23rd November, 1986.


 * Before 1986 - AUDIO: Spare Parts
 * NOTE: Mondas before The Tenth Planet.


 * December 1986 - TV: The Tenth Planet, The Doctor Falls, Twice Upon a Time
 * CALENDAR: December 1986.
 * POLLY: 1986! Oh no, and I thought we'd be able to get home.


 * 26 July 1987 - AUDIO: Damaged Goods
 * NEWS READER: They are the headlines on Sunday the 26th of July.


 * 7 November 1987 - TV: Father's Day
 * DOCTOR: November the 7th?
 * ROSE: 1987.


 * 1988 - COMIC: The Faithful Rocket Pack
 * CAPTION: The Tardis whirls through time and space, when suddenly it materialises in the middle of the Arizona desert, the year 1988.


 * 23 November 1988 - TV: Silver Nemesis
 * DOCTOR: In a matter of months since I was last here, he's calculated the exact time and date when a comet called Nemesis will land on this planet. The twenty third of November.
 * ACE: 1988


 * 198X - TV: The Rings of Akhaten
 * Toddler Clara.


 * 1989 - COMIC: Car of the Century
 * CAPTION: Suddenly [The TARDIS] materialises in the middle of the 1989 Interplanetry Motor Racing Meeting being held on the planet Velon...


 * June 1989 - TV: Survival
 * Summer 1989 - COMIC: Business as Usual
 * DOCTOR: So when six strangely-shaped meteorites fell from the skies on that summer night in 1989, one might almost have said it was...

1990s

 * After 1970s or 80s - COMIC: The Forgotten
 * DOCTOR: I acquired that house in the seventies while working for UNIT. Or was it the Eighties?


 * c. 1990 - COMIC: Train-Flight
 * QUOTE?


 * c. 1990 - AUDIO: Dominion
 * June 1990 - COMIC: Business as Usual
 * TEXT: Stage one of the invasion was complete. It was June, 1990.


 * 27 September 1990 - AUDIO: Persuasion
 * NOTE: The Seventh Doctor returns to Elizabeth Klein after the events of Dominion.


 * 199X - TV: The Bells of Saint John
 * Primary school age Clara


 * 1992 - COMIC: Invaders from Gantac!
 * DOCTOR: This is London, isn't it? What year?
 * LEAPY: 1992, of course!


 * 1992 - COMIC: Time Fraud
 * TEXT: Cuzco, Peru. 1992


 * c. 1992 - TV: Father's Day
 * NOTE: Young Rose in her flashback was portrayed by Julia Joyce, born in 1998, was 6 in 2005. Rose was born in 1986.


 * 24 December c. 1992 - TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio
 * DOCTOR: Ho-ho-ho-ho. Merry Christmas, Grant!
 * DOCTOR: Grant, how long have you known this woman?
 * GRANT: Since elementary school. Twenty four years.


 * 8 May 1993 - PROSE: Touched by an Angel (Epilogue)
 * 1994 - TV: Good Night
 * DOCTOR: Your saddest ever memory was at a fairground in 1994.


 * 10-12 June 1994 - PROSE: Touched by an Angel (Chapter Two to Six)
 * Mid 199X - TV: Listen
 * DOCTOR: The West Country Children's Home. Gloucester. By the ozone level and the drains, mid-nineties. You must have been here when you had the dream.


 * 2 April 1995 - PROSE: Touched by an Angel (Chapter Seven)
 * 20 December 1995 - COMIC: Memorial
 * ACE: The TARDIS chronometer read December 20th, 1995. What's that the anniversary of?


 * 17 February 1996 - PROSE: Touched by an Angel (Chapter Seven)
 * 7 April 1996 - TV: The Eleventh Hour
 * AMELIA: Dear Santa. Thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you, but honest, it is an emergency.


 * 7 April 1996 - TV: The Angels Take Manhattan
 * AMY: There's a little girl waiting in a garden. She's going to wait a long while, so she's going to need a lot of hope. Tell her this is the story of Amelia Pond. And this how it ends.


 * 7 April 1996 - TV: The Big Bang
 * DOCTOR: Amelia's house. When she was seven. The night she waited.


 * 1996 - TV: The Chase
 * TICKET BOOTH: Festival of Ghana 1996


 * 3 September 1996 - PROSE: The Time Savers
 * PERI: Earth, September 3rd, 1996.


 * 19 December 1996 - COMIC: Endgame
 * MAX: Six days 'til Christmas -- and all's well in Stockbridge.
 * TEXT (Oblivion): Stockbridge, December 19th, 1996...


 * 199X - TV: Let's Kill Hitler
 * Amy, Rory, and Mels in primary school.


 * 1997 - TV: Battlefield
 * DOCTOR: Earth. A few years in your future.
 * NOTE: Date from PROSE: The Dying Days.

14-15 May 1997 - AUDIO: The Rapture
 * SUMMARY: Ibiza, 1997, and thousands of young people are acting like mindless zombies.


 * 16 December 1997 - PROSE: Touched by an Angel (Chapter Seven)
 * Late 1990s - TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio
 * GRANT: A couple of years after high school...


 * 11-12 August 1998 - PROSE: Touched by an Angel (Chapter Eight and Nine)
 * 24 December 1998 - PROSE: The Red Bicycle
 * "So, as the Doctor regarded the Powell Estate in South East London on a winter's day in 1998..."


 * 29, 31 October 1999 - PROSE: Touched by an Angel (Chapter Ten)
 * 31 December 1999 - COMIC: Plastic Millenium
 * TEXT: December 31st 1999 A Happy New Year


 * 31 December 1999 - TV: Fragments
 * TEXT: New Year's Eve 1999. 01:59:89 [Counting down to midnight.]
 * REPORTER: Some parts of the world have already welcomed in the New Year. Our cameras, of course, have been out in force across the UK tonight. Let's take you first to Cardiff.


 * 30-31 December 1999 - PROSE: Millennial Rites
 * "On 5 November 1999, Chapel delivered the biggest firework of them all: as of Thursday, December the thirtieth, ACL would cease trading as part of the Ashley Chapel Holding Corporation.... And now it was 30 December."
 * 'We are in London, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the galaxy. And today is 31 December 1999!'


 * 30-31 December 1999 - 1 January 2000 - TV: Doctor Who
 * BRUCE: December thirtieth.
 * LEE: 1999.


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