Theory:Timeline - Mike Yates

This page lists appearances of Mike Yates in chronological order. 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.

In the RAF

 * AUDIO: Foreshadowing
 * After an encounter with the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard, Yates is assigned as a liaison to UNIT as they investigate a missing fighter jet, leading into Vengeance of the Stones.


 * AUDIO: Vengeance of the Stones
 * RAF Lieutenant Mike Yates is asked to join UNIT, with a promotion from lieutenant to captain.

UNIT career

 * PROSE: UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas
 * Liz has been working with UNIT for "a few months", and her complaints about her job here are similar to those that the Brigadier cites as her reason for leaving. The TARDIS console has also been removed from within the ship, as it was in The Ambassadors of Death.


 * PROSE: The Eye of the Giant
 * Captain Mike Yates sees inside the TARDIS for the first time, and the Doctor mentions visiting the parallel universe from Inferno.


 * AUDIO: The Blue Tooth
 * Liz decides to leave UNIT.


 * PROSE: The Scales of Injustice
 * Liz officially leaves UNIT, Yates is promoted to from sergeant to captain, and the Doctor is in a new laboratory.


 * PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun
 * Liz has just recently left UNIT.


 * AUDIO: The Rings of Ikiria
 * Set after Doctor Who and the Silurians.


 * PROSE: The Devil Goblins from Neptune
 * Liz is called back to UNIT, and has been absent long enough for the Doctor to admit missing her company.


 * PROSE: Country of the Blind
 * Liz has decided to tell the Doctor about her decision to officially leave UNIT, setting this after the Doctor found out from the Brigadier during Prisoner of the Sun.


 * TV: Terror of the Autons
 * Jo Grant joins UNIT as the Doctor's new assistant, just in time for UNIT's first open battle with . The Doctor steals a dematerialisation circuit from the Master's TARDIS, stranding his new enemy on Earth with him.


 * AUDIO: The Doll of Death
 * Though the audio's blurb places it between The Dæmons and Day of the Daleks, Jo is still quite new to UNIT, and is unaware of the true nature of the TARDIS, setting this before The Claws of Axos.


 * PROSE: The Claw


 * TV: The Mind of Evil
 * The Master reclaims his dematerialisation circuit, and promptly leaves in his TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Deadly Reunion
 * The Master has a working TARDIS, setting this after The Mind of Evil.


 * PROSE: UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce
 * The Doctor hasn't seen the Master since Deadly Reunion.


 * TV: The Claws of Axos
 * From a deal with the Master, the Doctor is able to restore his TARDIS back to working order, only to discover the Time Lords have programmed it to always return him to 20th century Earth.


 * AUDIO: The Mega
 * The Mega received advice from the Master, setting this after he got his TARDIS working in The Mind of Evil. The Nuton Power Complex is referenced, setting this after The Claws of Axos.


 * TV: The Dæmons
 * After his failed escape attempt upon his defeat in Devil's End, the Master is arrested by UNIT.


 * AUDIO: Gardeners' Worlds


 * AUDIO: The Magician's Oath
 * Set between The Dæmons and Day of the Daleks.


 * TV: Day of the Daleks


 * PROSE: Missing in Action
 * Set shortly after the events of Day of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: Harvest of Time
 * Set between The Dæmons and The Sea Devils, as the Master is still in prison. The Brigadier mentions the Daleks, setting this after Day of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: The Face of the Enemy
 * Set concurrently with The Curse of Peladon.


 * PROSE: The Switching
 * The Master changes the internal configuration of the Doctor's TARDIS, setting this after The Curse of Peladon, and before The Sea Devils, as the Master is sent to Fortress Island.


 * COMIC: The Forgotten
 * The Master is said to be locked up on a secure island, setting this shortly before The Sea Devils.


 * AUDIO: Prisoners of the Lake
 * Authorial intent places this between Day of the Daleks and The Time Monster.


 * PROSE: Where the Heart Is
 * Set three years after Spearhead from Space. The Doctor lists his work for the Time Lords, with The Mutants being the last one he mentions. This is also where UNIT acquires the manor house seen in The Three Doctors.


 * PROSE: Rags
 * Jo recalls the Daleks and Ogrons, setting this after Day of the Daleks. Likewise, the Doctor confesses that sheep have never filled him with dread before, setting this before Verdigris.


 * TV: The Time Monster
 * Jo comments on the TARDIS's new interior design, which the Doctor dismisses as a "redecoration".


 * PROSE: Verdigris
 * Ending leads directly into The Three Doctors.


 * AUDIO: The Defectors
 * The Doctor is switched with his seventh incarnation by . Jo refers to the crisis of The Three Doctors, but acts as if she hasn't travelled in the TARDIS yet, setting this shortly after that story.


 * COMIC: The Heralds of Destruction
 * The Doctor admits to Jo that he has come to find comfort in Earth since his exile was lifted, and that he reason he keeps returning is to see his friends there. Some of his abilities that were previously blocked by the Time Lords are still returning, setting this shortly after The Three Doctors.


 * AUDIO: The Havoc of Empires
 * The Doctor's exile has been rescinded recently by the Time Lords, setting this shortly after The Three Doctors. Jo and Mike plan to take trips into history for their dates, and Mike has accompanied the Doctor and Jo to other planets before, but is treating time travel as a new experience.


 * PROSE: Listen - The Stars


 * PROSE: Dancing the Code
 * Set a week after Planet of the Daleks. The Doctor and Jo have spent the past few weeks trying and failing to get to Metebelis III.


 * PROSE: Dr. Third
 * Jo knows the Ice Warriors, setting this after The Curse of Peledon. Liz is in the same area as the UNIT HQ, and is acquainted with Jo, setting this after The Wages of Sin.


 * AUDIO: Time Tunnel
 * Jo is familiar with the Doctor entering comas, setting this after Planet of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: Speed of Flight
 * The Doctor is attempting to take Jo and Mike to Karfel, leading into of Timelash.


 * The Doctor, Jo and Mike take a trip to Karfel, where they prevent the experiments of a scientist named Megelen on a local life form called Morloxes. (TV: Timelash)


 * PROSE: The Clean Air Act
 * Jo demonstrates her growing environmental awareness, setting this after Come Friendly Bombs....


 * PROSE: The Christmas Inversion
 * Mike is displeased to find himself traveling in the TARDIS, suggesting he has already travelled within it. The Doctor tells Jo that she will leave him when she feels the time is right.


 * PROSE: Last of the Gaderene
 * Set between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death.


 * TV: The Green Death
 * Jo leaves UNIT, and the Doctor's company, to marry ecologist Professor Clifford Jones.


 * Following the events of The Green Death, Yates goes on leave from UNIT. (AUDIO: Council of War)


 * PROSE: Deep Blue
 * Yates has returned to UNIT and encounters the Fifth Doctor while the Third is having a break from UNIT.


 * PROSE: The One Second Hour


 * TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

Aftermath

 * TV: Planet of the Spiders
 * PROSE: No Future
 * PROSE: Housewarming
 * PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?
 * In early 2005, Mr Yates warned other readers on the website Doctor Who? not to concern themselves with the Doctor.

Reunited with the Doctor

 * AUDIO: The Stuff of Nightmares
 * Yates is reunited with the Doctor in the late 2000s.


 * AUDIO: The Dead Shoes
 * AUDIO: The Circus of Doom
 * AUDIO: A Sting in the Tale
 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Yates attends Bernice Summerfield's wedding in April 2010.


 * AUDIO: Hive of Horror
 * AUDIO: The Relics of Time
 * Yates calls The Doctor and Mrs Wibbsey, who are in the year 46, from around 2010.


 * AUDIO: The Demon of Paris
 * Set in December, Yates is reunited with the Doctor once more.


 * AUDIO: A Shard of Ice
 * Yates joins the Doctor as his companion.


 * AUDIO: Starfall
 * AUDIO: Sepulchre
 * AUDIO: Tsar Wars
 * Yates is left on Earth while Mrs Wibbsey and the Doctor are sucked through a wormhole.

Rejoining UNIT

 * AUDIO: The Hexford Invasion
 * Set in 2012, Yates has been called back to UNIT.


 * AUDIO: Survivors in Space
 * Yates spends three months in a Hexford that's been dragged through a wormhole.


 * AUDIO: The Winged Coven
 * Mike has permanently retired to Hexford. He and Mrs Wibbsey haven’t seen the Doctor for two years.


 * PROSE: Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary
 * After Tish Madoc's novel that revealed information protected under the Official Secrets Act, Mike left Happenstance Village for good.


 * AUDIO: The Screaming Skull
 * Set in 2014, Yates is working for UNIT.


 * AUDIO: Second Sight
 * Follows on from The Screaming Skull.

Retirement

 * PROSE: Faithful friends: Part 3
 * Doris has been dead for some years. The Brigadier is a general and has already met Charley Pollard. Colonel Emily Chaudhry appears to be in charge of UNIT.


 * AUDIO: Call to Arms


 * AUDIO: United

Unplaced

 * PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow
 * PROSE: Listening Watch
 * AUDIO: The Penumbra Affair