Theory:Timeline - Clyde Langer

This page lists appearances of Luke Smith in the order he experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed that for each novel, comic, audio or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

Fan sources like the Doctor Who Reference Guide should not be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Bannerman Road gang begins

 * TV: Revenge of the Slitheen
 * Set in September 2008. A new school year has started at Park Vale Comprehensive School, and Clyde befriends Maria Jackson and Luke Smith, and joins the Bannerman Road gang while helpoing Sarah Jane Smith foil a plot by the Slitheen family. Luke and Clyde are classmates in form 10B.


 * TV: Eye of the Gorgon


 * TV: Warriors of Kudlak
 * Luke has been experimenting with jokes, and asks Clyde about girls after receiving his first kiss. Luke, Maria and Clyde go into space for the first time.


 * AUDIO: The Glittering Stone


 * AUDIO: The Thirteenth Stone


 * TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?


 * TV: The Lost Boy
 * Mr Smith reveals himself to be a Xylok with intentions of destroying the world, but he is rebooted into a benevolent being by the Armageddon virus. Sarah Jane meets Celeste Rivers at the Pharos Institute, and Clyde meets K9 for the first time.


 * GAME: Earth, Sun and Moon
 * Set immediately after The Lost Boy, and the day before Clyde's birthday on 5 June.


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * During the 21st century Dalek invasion between May and June in 2009, Clyde stays in his house to protect his mother. (TV: The Stolen Earth)

After the Dalek invasion

 * TV: The Last Sontaran
 * Maria and Alan move to Washington, DC in America six weeks after the Bannerman Road gang defeat Commander Kaagh of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet. Alien life is now common knowledge on Earth, implying a setting after Journey's End.

Rani joins the gang

 * TV: The Day of the Clown
 * Set in October 2009. Rani Chandra moves into 36 Bannerman Road and becomes a part of Sarah Jane's gang during their fight with the Pied Piper. While it has been a "while" since the disappearance of Park Vale Headmaster Greg Blakeman in Revenge of the Slitheen, Headmaster Haresh Chandra observes that Luke has shown impressive results over the "past year", but it is unclear if he is referring to the year date or the school year. Maria notes in an email that it "feels like only yesterday" that she left Bannerman Road. According to Luke, the Bannerman Road gang has saved the world "twelve times".


 * WC: Light
 * Set during The Day of the Clown.


 * AUDIO: The Time Capsule
 * Set at least a whole year after Invasion of the Bane, and shortly after The Day the Clown, with Rani not having had time to apply for work experience due to moving.


 * AUDIO: The Ghost House
 * Mr Smith recalls the recent events of The Lost Boy.


 * TV: Secrets of the Stars
 * According to Martin Trueman, Rani has still only "just moved house", setting this shortly after The Day of the Clown.


 * TV: The Mark of the Berserker
 * Clyde's father, Paul, returns from Germany to see Clyde, and falls under the sway of a Berserker pendant, though he is able to overcome it before he returns to Germany. Clyde is fifteen-years-old.


 * TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
 * Clyde recalls the events of Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? as happening "last year", and he helps Krislok the Graske escape his enslavement by the Trickster.


 * TV: Enemy of the Bane
 * As Luke would recount in Sarah Jane's Alien Files: Episode 3, the events of The Last Sontaran are still a recent affair. When Mrs Wormwood and Kaagh return for revenge, Sarah Jane visits Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart for the fist time in a "long time" to get his help in retrieving the Tunguska Scroll from the Black Archive. When Wormwood betrays Kaagh when she tries to find Horath, Kaagh drags her into anther dimension. UNIT do not know about Luke's origins, and Clyde shows an interest in joining them.


 * TV: From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love
 * Rani appears to already know K9.

Recording the Alien Files

 * TV: Prisoner of the Judoon
 * After they assist in the capture of Androvax, Clyde and Rani are issued an order of confinement to Earth by the Judoon Captain Tybo, effectively making them "grounded".


 * GAME: Material Properties
 * An alternative account of Prisoner of the Judoon.


 * TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic
 * When Rani is contacted by her old friend Samuel Lloyd, who she had told of her adventures with Sarah Jane, the Bannerman Road gang travel to Danemouth, where they help power Ship with the black hole K9 Mark IV is guarding, closing the singularity and allowing K9 to return to 13 Bannerman Road.


 * WC: Alien File: Eve
 * Clyde reviews the events of The Mad Woman in the Attic on the Alien Files.


 * COMIC: Monster Hunt
 * K9 has returned to 13 Bannerman Road, setting this after The Mad Woman in the Attic.


 * TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
 * Sarah Jane nearly marries Peter Dalton as part of a plot concocted by the Trickster. The Tenth Doctor arrives to foil his plans, meeting Clyde and Rani for the first time, as well as meeting Luke in person for the first time since Journey's End.


 * TV: The Eternity Trap


 * WC: Alien File: Erasmus Darkening
 * Clyde and Rani review the events of The Eternity Trap on the Alien Files.


 * TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge
 * Luke and Clyde are now in form 11T, as is Rani.


 * WC: Alien File: Mona Lisa
 * Clyde and Rani review the events of Mona Lisa's Revenge on the Alien Files.


 * TV: The Gift
 * Sarah Jane prevents the Slitheen-Blathereen family from poisoning the world with Rakweed. Luke is still only "fifteen".


 * GAME: Sound
 * Set during The Gift.


 * WC: Alien File: Blathereen
 * Clyde reviews the events of The Gift on the Alien Files.

Luke's final adventures

 * COMIC: Return of the Krulius
 * Sequel to Monster Hunt.


 * GAME: Teeth and Eating
 * Set after Prisoner of the Judoon.


 * GAME: Plants
 * Sequel to The Gift.


 * AUDIO: The Shadow People
 * Rani recalls meeting the Doctor, setting this after The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith.


 * AUDIO: The White Wolf
 * Set during November 2009.


 * AUDIO: Deadly Download
 * Set during November 2009.


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * Shortly after Christmas 2009, Luke talks about the Master Race with Clyde over the phone. (TV: The End of Time)


 * AUDIO: Wraith World


 * TV: The Nightmare Man
 * Though Luke has only just started Sixth form, setting this near September 2010, he takes his A levels a year early and leaves for Oxford University with K9.

After Luke left for university

 * TV: The Vault of Secrets
 * Luke has settled into Oxford, but Sarah Jane is still coping with his absence.


 * TV: Death of the Doctor
 * Set in 2010, at least six months after February. Luke has still only "just left for university". When the Claw Shansheeth fake the Doctor's death, Sarah Jane meets Jo Grant at the staged funeral, and the pair help the Eleventh Doctor foil their plans. Clyde has not seen the Doctor since The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, and has his first meeting with his eleventh incarnation.


 * GAME: Monster Morpher
 * The gang are aware of the Shansheeth, setting this after Death of the Doctor. Luke is at 13 Bannerman Road, presumably visiting from university.


 * TV: The Empty Planet
 * Clyde and Rani grow closer after being left the only two humans on Earth for an hour-and-a-half by two Automatons looking for a lost alien prince. In gratitude for them finding him, the prince makes them a Lord and a Lady.


 * TV: Lost in Time
 * Set on 23 November 2010. The Bannerman Road gang meet the Shopkeeper for the first time, and he sends Clyde to fight Nazis in 1941.


 * TV: SJAF 5


 * COMIC: Defending Bannerman Road
 * Sequel to Return of the Krulius. The Krulius has a photo from the events of Death of the Doctor.


 * TV: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
 * Luke visits from Oxford to help save Sarah Jane from a Qetesh called "Ruby White". While on the verge of apparent death, Clyde tries to confess something to Rani, with the implication that it an admittance of love towards her.


 * WC: Rani and Clyde
 * Clyde has drawn a Groske, setting this after Death of the Doctor.


 * WC: Chris Meets...


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * Sarah Jane, Clyde and Rani investigate a fossilised Silurian egg at the Pharos Institute. (TV: SJAF 6)

Sky joins the gang

 * TV: Sky
 * The Shopkeeper leaves a Fleshkind bio-weapon baby with Sarah Jane for safekeeping, and she is adopted as "Sky Smith". Rani is 17-years-old, and Sky is aged up to a 12-year-old.


 * TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer
 * Set "barely a month" after Sky. Clyde and Rani are still in sixth form. Due to a curse placed on him by Hetocumtek, Clyde is briefly forced into homelessness, where he forms a relationship with a girl called Ellie, but is forced to abandon her to stop Hetocumtek ending the world, and is unable to find her afterwards.


 * TV: The Man Who Never Was
 * Luke and Sky meet face-to-face for the first time, and come to embrace each other as siblings. Luke has begun pairing Clyde and Rani together, calling them "Clani".


 * AUDIO: Children of Steel


 * AUDIO: Judgement Day

Adapting his comics

 * WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane
 * After Sarah Jane passes away, Clyde attends her wake on a Spring day with friends of both hers and the Doctor, and helps repel a final attack from the Trickster. Luke, Clyde and Rani shut down Mr Smith when they lock up 13 Bannerman Road, as per Sarah Jane's last request. Though no date is given, Luke has been married to his husband for five years, and Jo is still alive, which would set this before 2028. Going by how little Luke, Rani and Clyde have aged, it is implied that Sarah Jane died in 2020, the year the story was released.


 * TV: Tales of the TARDIS: The Three Doctors
 * While working on a television adaptation of his Blood River City comics, Clyde finds himself reunited with Jo in the remembered TARDIS, where Jo tells him about The Three Doctors. He hasn't seen much of Luke and Rani since Sarah Jane's wake, suggesting a setting between Farewell, Sarah Jane and Here Today.

Working with Rani again

 * AUDIO: Here Today
 * Clyde is thirty years old, setting this in 2023 or 2024. Samira claims that "last year", palaeontologists discovered that dinosaurs had belly buttons. In the real world, this happened in 2022, suggesting that this story occurs in 2023. He hasn't seen Rani since the events of Farewell Sarah Jane and hasn't been to 13 Bannerman Road since either. Mr Smith is still closed up, setting this before Regrets. Gita phones Rani about a wedding invite, setting this shortly before Destination: Wedding.


 * AUDIO: Destination Wedding


 * AUDIO: The Witching Tree
 * Clyde decides to stick around Bannerman Road to help Rani with her further investigations after his partner, Phoenix Laight, is revealed to be an alien intent on taking over the world. Rani and Clyde are awkwardly dancing around their feelings for each other.