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* [[8 March]] 201X - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Narcissus (audio story)|Narcissus]]''
  
* [[8 March]] 201X - [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Narcissus (audio story)|Narcissus]]''
 
: Jacqui McGee recalls [[The Silence]]. UNIT has already lost one Osgood. The Zygon Osgood labels herself as replaceable whereas the other Osgood isn't, indicating that the first Zygon Osgood was the one killed in ''Death in Heaven''.
  
: Jacqui McGee recalls [[The Silence]]. UNIT has already lost one Osgood. The Zygon Osgood labels herself as replaceable whereas the other Osgood isn't, indicating that the first Zygon Osgood was the one killed in ''Death in Heaven''.
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Field Trip (audio story)|Field Trip]]''
   
 
* [[18 October|18]]-[[24 October]] [[2016]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Yes, Missy (short story)|Yes, Missy]]''
  
* [[18 October|18]]-[[24 October]] [[2016]] - [[PROSE]]: ''[[Yes, Missy (short story)|Yes, Missy]]''

Revision as of 11:33, 15 February 2020

Index → Timey-wimey detector → Timeline - UNIT
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This page lists appearances of UNIT 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.

Note that the placing of UNIT stories is especially complicated due to the UNIT dating controversy.

20th Century Timeline

Origin

The Third Doctor Years

Liz Shaw

The outcome of Doctor Who and the Silurians is still fresh on the Doctor's mind.
Tentative placement in regards to the "recent" falling out between the Doctor and Brigadier over the Silurians.
The Doctor has had Bessie for a relatively short period of time. RAF Lieutenant Mike Yates is asked to join UNIT, with a promotion from lieutenant to captain.
The Silurians occurred a few weeks earlier.
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.
This is the second time the Doctor has visited a zoo, setting this after The Arkwood Experiments.
The Brigadier finds it doubtful that the Doctor can get the TARDIS to work, setting this before Inferno.
The Last Post spans from Spearhead to just before Inferno.
Mike Yates arrives at UNIT and sees inside the TARDIS for the first time, and the Doctor mentions visiting the parallel universe from Inferno.
Liz decides to leave UNIT.
Liz announces her intention to leave UNIT.
Liz officially leaves UNIT, Yates is promoted to Captain Rank, and the Doctor is in a new laboratory.
Liz has recently left UNIT.
Liz is called back to UNIT, and has been absent long enough for the Doctor to admit missing her company.
After Prisoners of the Sun as the Master is active, unbeknown to the Brigadier.

Jo Grant

Jo is still quite new to UNIT, and is unaware of the true nature of the TARDIS, setting it before The Claws of Axos.
The Master has a working TARDIS, placing this after The Mind of Evil.
No one has seen the Master since Deadly Reunion.
The Mega were aided by the Master. The events of The Claws of Axos are referred to.
Set soon after The Dæmons.
Set immediately after The Dæmons.
This is concurrent with The Curse of Peladon.
Rough dating from the Twelfth Doctor. (COMIC: Clara Oswald and the School of Death)
For the Third Doctor, this takes place immediately after The Sea Devils, but before Find and Replace.
Jo recalls the Daleks and Ogrons, which places this firmly after Day of the Daleks. Likewise, the Doctor confesses that sheep have never filled him with dread before, placing this before Verdigris.
The takes place before the Green Death
Takes place soon after The Green Death.

The Brig encounters the Fifth Doctor while the Third is having a break from UNIT.

  • PROSE: Faithful Friends: Part 1
The Third Doctor returns from his Sabbatical from UNIT.

Sarah Jane Smith

Conflicting dates provided by UNIT's dating protocol. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time)
The Doctor is driving the "Whomobile", setting this after Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
The Doctor senses that he will soon regenerate.
As witnessed by the Brigadier and Sarah Jane, the Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation.

The Later Years

Follows Planet of the Spiders. The Fourth Doctor leaves with Sarah Jane and Harry Sullivan.
The Seventh Doctor implants the idea of the Brigadier retiring.
Klein recognises the Doctor, but only based on the fact he arrived in his TARDIS. She indicates that it's two years since he worked for UNIT.
Since the Seventh Doctor visited Klein in The Architects of History, he has been keeping an eye on her, causing Klein to think that he's stalking her. The Brigadier has retired, and Klein says she was promoted to Scientific advisor "a few years back" after the Fourth Doctor retired from UNIT.

21st Century Timeline

2000s

Five years prior to her death in 2008, Toshiko Sato is arrested by UNIT but freed by Jack Harkness, who offers her a place at Torchwood Three.
The Ninth Doctor identifies a group of alien experts from the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.
First contact with the Toclafane is hosted on the UNIT aircraft carrier Valiant, designed by Harold Saxon.
UNIT command radio the Valiant after the President of the United States is assassinated.
Sarah Jane Smith arranges for UNIT to clean up Coldfire Construction after defeating the Slitheen.
UNIT is now known as the Unified Intelligence Taskforce.

Science Leads

Having defeated a Cyberman incursion in the Arctic, the Eleventh Doctor predicts that UNIT will clean up.
Captain Matheson tells Warrant Office Sato about the Terravore incursion in the London Underground in 2010.
As noted by Jack Harkness, UNIT seals off the Blessing after "the Miracle" is negated.
Kate Stewart meets the Doctor, in his eleventh incarnation, for the first time. The Brigadier has already passed away, setting this after December 2011.
Charlie Sato refers to the Thames Mead Massacre in London in 2012.

Shindi's injury

According to Big Finish, Extinction is between The Power of Three and The Day of the Doctor. Josh Carter is a new recruit in Vanguard, placing this definitively as the start of the UTNS timeline. Shindi is injured fighting the Autons.
Osgood imagines the Eleventh Doctor visiting the Tower of London after allowing her mind to wander while showing Jay the thought projector, however it is left unclear as to whether or not she has met him.
Osgood recalls fighting Autons in the Gobi Desert, setting this after UNIT: Extinction.
Atkins is guarding the Black Archive.
The Antarctic winter won't end for another three weeks, setting this around August.
Shindi has recovered from his injury but is still using a wheelchair. Kate is doing extra weapons training following her encounter with Cerberus in UNIT: Shutdown. Shindi mentions that Osgood was away in Antarctica while he was recovering from his injury.
Set one month after Square One.
In Memory Alone is set several months after the end of Silent Majority. Sam Bishop claims that "Osgoods can't be duplicated", setting this before The Day of the Doctor. Shindi is no longer using a wheelchair.

Fighting the Silurians

Osgood believes that meeting Three Doctors at once would be a once in a lifetime experience, setting this before The Day of the Doctor.

Dealing With the Auctioneers

Jacqui McGee is now an established ally to UNIT, following the events of In Memory Alone. UNIT learn that a group known as the Auctioneers are selling alien technology on the black market.
Invocation occurs during Halloween.
The events of Encounters are recent and Shindi makes reference to the Shakri cubes.
Colonel Shindi is unfamiliar with the sight of flying Cybermen, while Osgood is thrilled to have survived meeting The Master, suggesting this takes place before Death in Heaven. The Master leaves UNIT with a parting gift, leading directly into Host of the Wirrn.
The Master's parting gift is revealed to be a Wirrn egg, which he took from the Auctioneers.
Lady Christina de Souza catches the attention of UNIT and Sam Bishop is sent to investigate her.
After being called by Lady Christina de Souza, Sam Bishop cleans up after the Amber.
Sam is leading the clean-up operation following the events of The Sontaran Project and refers to the fall of the Auctioneers, setting this after Cyber-Reality
Sam Bishop recalls his previous encounter with Lady Christina in Portrait of a Lady. Sam and Jacqui McGee are familiar with one another.

Further threats

Osgood mentions the Sontaran incident, setting this after The Sontaran Project. The year is given as "20 odd years" after 1999, setting this story sometime around 2019.
Sam mentions that they have survived Daleks and Cybermen, setting this after both Encounters and Cyber-Reality.
UNIT knows little about River Song and Kate Stewart meets her for the first time, setting this before Day of the Doctor where UNIT know more about River and possess a picture of Kate and River together. Upon arriving in the past, Osgood notes that none of the car number plates go beyond 1973. She also mentions that she is "40-odd years" in the past, setting this story around 2013. However Kate also mentions that 2091 is 70 years in the future suggesting a 2021 setting. River says that 2091 is "nearly 80 years" in the future, and Osgood also mentions this, indicating an early 2010s setting.
Osgood and Jo are close friends, setting this after UNIT: Assembled.

The Two Osgoods

Osgood and Kate meet the Eleventh Doctor as well as the War Doctor and the Tenth Doctor. Preventing the discovery of a Zygon incursion from erupting into war, the three Doctors force UNIT and the Zygons to make a truce which will become Operation Double. Befriending her Zygon copy, there are now two Osgoods. According to the novelisation, Atkins was killed by the Zygon Kate Stewart.
Set in 2014. Osgood is away investigating a UFO sighting, but has recently started wearing bow ties instead of her scarf and has yet to meet the Twelfth Doctor.
Kate has her first encounter with the Twelfth Doctor and Missy, the latter of whom murders the Zygon Osgood.
The Doctor claims they have arrived in Summer 2015. Authorial intent places this between Last Christmas and The Magician's Apprentice
By this point, Kate is more than comfortable wielding a gun. The Zygon group Truth or Consequences attempt to break the ceasefire until the Twelfth Doctor convinces them to stand down. Their leader, Bonnie, joins and assumes the form of the surviving Osgood, who still refuses to disclose whether or not she is herself human or Zygon until the time comes when it does not matter.
Two Osgoods are present, placing this after the events of The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Invasion
Set after The Zygon Inversion.
Jacqui McGee recalls The Silence. UNIT has already lost one Osgood. The Zygon Osgood labels herself as replaceable whereas the other Osgood isn't, indicating that the first Zygon Osgood was the one killed in Death in Heaven.
Kate and Osgood meet the Doctor, now based at St Luke's University with companions Nardole and Bill Potts.
Kate is familiar with Bill Potts, placing this after The Lost Dimension.

Uncertain Future

UNIT has had their funding temporarily suspended.
The Thirteenth Doctor believes UNIT to be gone.
Although they don't appear, UNIT are called in to help deal with the fallout of the Contaminants.

Post-21st century

Unplaced

The Doctor and Liz last met in Sentinels of the New Dawn. Jo and Liz meet for the first time.
Set in 1972, during Jo's first year at UNIT.
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