User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Reference Desk/@comment-5959773-20130106175347/@comment-188432-20130106232923

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Reference Desk/@comment-5959773-20130106175347/@comment-188432-20130106232923 Well, Theband65 never used the word official, only comprehensive. There can never be an "official" timeline because there is no such thing as canon. But there certainly can be, and are, several unofficial timelines.

None of them are exhaustive, because you'd have to devote your whole life to that endeavour, given the fact that easily 100 new stories are officially released every year.

A truly accurate timeline is also absolutely impossible, because so many of the adventures are completely undated. We don't really know — and will never know — when, for example, the Fourth Doctor Short Trips take place relative to each other. We can say that this story with Leela had to take place before this other story with Adric, because we know when those two companions travelled with the Doctor relative to each other. But we don't know when this story with Leela took place relative to this other story with Leela.

And in fact, we don't even know when some televised stories take palace relative to each other. The note we get for Carnival of Monsters is simply that it's "placed in broadcast order". That happens a lot on fan timelines, like the ones at Whoniverse and, of course, the Doctor Who Reference Guide. There's absolutely no reason to assume that Carnival of Monsters takes place between The Three Doctors and Frontier in Space. It's just that we assume the adventures take place in broadcast order. I've never understood why fans just accept that, since it was disproven by Season 25, which is demonstrably broadcast out of narrative order. But they regularly accept — for some reason — that a show about a time traveller broadcasts its stories in narrative order.

All that said, the people over at The Whoniverse have created something you'll want to look at, given your stated interests. This site is not a valid source for the writing of our articles. But it's along the lines of what you were asking for.

Also, if you go on the Wayback Machine, you can probably still find the remnants of the old Outpost Gallifrey timeline, which stopped between the 2005 and 2006 series. Click here. Again, this is not a valid source for the writing of our articles. But it is fun.