The Second Doctor’s Timeline

Here is ‘The Second Doctor’s Timeline’.

I’ve referred to

• ‘The History of the Doctor’ website – http://www.doctorwhoreviews.altervista.org/Index.html

and

• The Eyespider ‘Doctor Who’ site index – http://eyespider.org.uk/drwho/compleat.html

to help me put this version of the timeline together.

I’ve included all the TV stories, audios; books; graphic novel/comics, short trips, annual stories and the Puffin e-book ‘The Nameless City’ into this list for now.

The (TV) and (Audio) stories are highlighted in BOLD and NAVY

The (Book) stories are to remain un-highlighted for now.

The short stories are highlighted in NAVY and/or ITALICS; and are CENTRED.

The stories with links to reviews by me on my blog are highlighted in BOLD and NAVY.

Regarding the (Book) stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows in the KEY below.

KEY
*VNA – Virgin New Adventures
*VMA – Virgin Missing Adventures
*EDA – Eighth Doctor Adventures
*PDA – Past Doctor Adventures
*BB – BBC Books
*CJB – Candy Jar Books
*TB – Target Books

Regarding the (Audio) stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows in the KEY below.

KEY
**BAB – BBC Audio Book
**BFAD – Big Finish Audio Drama
**BFAB – Big Finish Audio Book
**PAB – Puffin Audio Book

Regarding the (Comic) stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows in the KEY below.

KEY
***Annual – ‘Doctor Who Annual’
***DWM – ‘Doctor Who Magazine’
***IDW – IDW Publishing
***Titan – Titan Comics
***TVC – TV Comic

Regarding the short stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows with abbreviations.

• (ST) – Short Trip (either Big Finish or BBC)
• (SS) – ‘The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who’
• (VD) – Virgin Decalog
• (TS) – Target Storybook
• (TT) – Time Trips
• (YB) – Yearbook
• (PT) – Perfect Timing
• (PT2) – Perfect Timing 2
• (DVW) – Divergent Wordsmiths

Please feel free to ask questions about this timeline, as I intend to revisit this and add new stories to the list as time goes on.

I’ve divided the timeline into 13 phases
1. The Second Doctor with Ben and Polly
2. The Second Doctor with Ben, Polly and Jamie
3. The Second Doctor with Jamie and Victoria (1)
4. The Second Doctor with Jamie (1)
5. The Second Doctor with Jamie and Victoria (2)
6. The Second Doctor with Jamie (2)
7. The Second Doctor with Jamie and Zoe
8. The Second Doctor Alone (1)
9. The Second Doctor with Older Jamie
10. The Second Doctor Alone (2)
11. The Second Doctor with John and Gillian
12. The Second Doctor with Jamie (3)
13. The Second Doctor Alone (3)

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1. The Second Doctor with Ben and Polly

The Second Doctor’s introduction in ‘The Tenth Planet’ (TV) takes place before ‘The Power of the Daleks’ (TV).

• The Power of the Daleks (TV)

The Second Doctor, Ben and Polly’s cameo in ‘The Light At The End’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
The flashback of the Second Doctor, Ben and Polly in ‘The Chameleon Factor’ (Comic) – DWM*** takes place here.
A cameo of The Second Doctor in ‘Timewyrm: Apocalypse’ (Book) – VNA* takes place here.
‘Pluto’ (ST)
‘The Sour Note’ (Annual/Audio) – BAB**
‘The Dream Masters’ (Annual)
‘The Tests of Trefus’ (Comic) – Annual***
‘The Word of Asiries’ (Annual)
‘Only a Matter of Time’ (Annual/Audio) – BAB**
‘Planet of Bones’ (Annual)
‘When Starlight Grows Cold’ (Annual)
‘World Without Night’ (Comic) – Annual***
‘H.M.S. TARDIS’ (Annual)
‘The King of Golden Death’ (Annual/Audio) – BAB**

• Invasion of the Cat-People (Book) – VMA*
• The Curator’s Egg (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Murder Game (Book) – PDA*
• Dying in the Sun (Book) – PDA*

‘Wonderland’ (Novella)
‘The Feast’ (ST)
‘Lost and Found’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Venusian Sunset’ (PT)

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2. The Second Doctor with Ben, Polly and Jamie

• The Highlanders (TV)

‘Something at the Door’ (Penguin/Audio) – PAB**

• The Underwater Menace (TV)
• The Moonbase (TV)

‘Prologue: The Second Doctor’ from ‘Supremacy of the Cybermen’ (Comic) – Titan*** takes during ‘The Moonbase’ (TV).
The Second Doctor’s appearance in ‘Supremacy of the Cybermen’ (Comic) – Titan*** takes place here.

• The Macra Terror (TV)
• The Mouthless Dead (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Yes Men (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Roundheads (Book/Audio) – PDA*+BAB**

‘The Slave War’ (ST)

• Resistance (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Three Companions: Polly’s Story’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.

• The Forbidden Time (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Selachian Gambit (Audio) – BFAB**
• House of Cards (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Forsaken (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Night Witches (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Outliers (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Morton Legacy (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Home Guard (Audio) – BFAB**

‘Card Conundrum’ from ‘The Many Lives of Doctor Who’ (Comic) – Titan*** takes place here.

• The Faceless Ones (TV)

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3. The Second Doctor with Jamie and Victoria (1)

• The Evil of the Daleks (TV)
• The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV)

The events of ‘Return to Telos’ (Audio) – BFAD** take place here.
‘The Age of Ambition’ (ST)
‘The Way Forward’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

• Dumb Waiter (Audio) – BFAB**

‘Lords of the Galaxy’ (Annual)
‘Follow the Phantoms’ (Annual/Audio) – BAB**
‘Mastermind of Space’ (Annual/Audio) – BAB**
‘Freedom by Fire’ (Comic) – Annual***
‘The Celestial Toy-Shop’ (Annual)
‘Valley of Dragons’ (Annual)
‘Planet from Nowhere’ (Annual)
‘Happy As Queeg’ (Annual)
‘Atoms Infinite’ (Comic) – Annual***
‘World of Ice’ (Annual)
‘The Microtron Men’ (Annual)
‘Death to Mufl’ (Annual)
The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria’s appearance in ‘Heart of TARDIS’ (Book) – PDA* takes place here.
The flashback scene featuring the Second Doctor in ‘Independence Day’ (Book) – PDA* takes place here.
‘The Lost’ (ST)

• The Abominable Snowmen (TV)
• The Ice Warriors (TV)
• The Black Hole (Audio) – BFAB**

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4. The Second Doctor with Jamie (1)

• Helicon Prime (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Time Eater’ (ST)
‘Across Silent Seas’ (ST)
The Second Doctor and Jamie’s appearance in ‘The Two Doctors’ (TV) takes place here.
‘The Nameless City’ (Puffin/Audio) – PAB**
The Second Doctor and Jamie’s appearance in ‘Categorical Imperative’ (ST) takes place here.
The Second Doctor’s appearance in ‘Seven to One’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.
Flashback scene of ‘The Old Rogue’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.

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5. The Second Doctor with Jamie and Victoria (2)

The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria’s appearance in ‘The Last Emperor’ (ST) takes place here.

• Dreams of Empire (Book) – PDA*
• Combat Rock (Book) – PDA*

‘Face-Painter’ (ST)
‘The Farmer’s Story’ (ST)
‘Saint Nicholas’s Bones’ (ST)
‘On a Pedestal’ (ST)

• The Story of Extinction (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Elysian Blade (Audio) – BAB**

‘Year of the Drex Olympics’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
A cameo of The Second Doctor in ‘Timewyrm: Apocalypse’ (Book) – VNA* takes place here.

• The Enemy of the World (TV)
• The Web of Fear (TV)

‘Father Figure’ (ST)

• Bringer of Darkness (Comic) – DWM***
• The Great Space Elevator (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Emperor of Eternity (Audio) – BFAB**

Victoria and the Second Doctor’s appearance in ‘The Robots of Lonmar’ take place here.

• Twilight of the Gods (Book) – VMA*
• The Dark Path (Book) – VMA*

‘From the Cutting Room Floor: Excerpts from Dark Path’ (PT) takes place during ‘The Dark Path’ (Book) – VMA.
‘The Cutty Wren’ (ST)
‘The Astronomer’s Apprentice’ (ST)
‘Screamager’ (ST)
The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria’s appearance in ‘The Once and Future Crisis’ (DVW) takes place here.

• Fury From The Deep (TV)

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6. The Second Doctor with Jamie (2)

‘The Last Day at Work’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB** 
‘Deleted Scenes’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

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7. The Second Doctor with Jamie and Zoe

• The Wheel In Space (TV)
• Fear of the Daleks (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Dominators (TV)
• The Mind Robber (TV)

The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe’s appearance in ‘Time & Time Again’ (Comic) – DMW*** takes place during ‘The Mind Robber’ (TV).
‘The Horror of Hy-Brasil’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

• The Invasion (TV)
• The Isos Network (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Wreck of the World (Audio) – BFAB**

‘Future Imperfect’ (YB)
‘Briefly Noted’ (YB)

• Prison In Space (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Rosemariners (Audio) – BFAB**
• Shadow of Death (DOTD) (Audio) – BFAB**

The Second Doctor’s appearance in ‘The Three Doctors’ (TV) takes place here.
‘Little Doctors’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Anti-Hero’ (TT)
‘Undercurrents’ (ST)
‘Foreign Devils’ (Novella)

• The Integral (Audio) – BFAB**

‘Fallen Angel’ (VD)
‘That Which Went Away’ (ST)
‘Goodwill Toward Men’ (ST)
‘The Avant Guardian’ (ST)
The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe’s appearance in ‘The Forgotten’ (Comic) – IDW*** takes place here.
The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe’s appearance in ‘The Light At The End’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• The Krotons (TV)

‘Brain and Heart’
‘The Five Doctors At Christmas: The Second Doctor’s Story’
The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe’s appearance in ‘The Five Doctors At Christmas: The Five Doctors’ Story’ takes place here.
The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe’s cameo in ‘The Prime Factor’ takes place here.

• The Deepening Rain (Z)

The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe’s cameo in ‘The Horror of Time’ (Z) takes place during ‘The Deepening Rain’ (Z).

• Land of the Blind (Comic) – DMW***

The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe’s appearance in ‘uPVC’ (ST) takes place here.

• The Indestructible Man (Book) – PDA*

‘Outstanding Balance’ (ST)
‘Penny Wise, Pound Foolish’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘A Comedy of Terrors’ (Penguin/Audio) – PAB**
‘The Dragons of Kekokro’ (Annual)
‘The Singing Crystals’ (Annual)
‘The Mystery of the Marie Celeste’ (Annual)
‘The Vampire Plants’ (Comic) – Annual***
‘Grip of Ice’ (Annual)
‘Man Friday’ (Annual)
‘Robot King’ (Comic) – Annual***
‘Slave of Shran’ (Annual)
‘Run the Gauntlet’ (Annual)
‘A Thousand & One Doors’ (Annual)
‘One Small Step…’ (ST)
‘Visiting Hours’ (ST)
‘Mercury’ (ST)
‘Homework’ (ST)
‘Mirth and Walking Spirits’ (ST)

• The Memory Cheats (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Jigsaw War (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Uncertainty Principle (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Five Dimensional Man’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

• The Seeds of Death (TV)

‘The Room With All The Doors’ (SS) takes place during ‘The Seeds of Death’ (TV).
‘Lepidoptery for Beginners’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe’s appearance in ‘Tales From The Vault’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.
The prelude of ‘First Frontier’ (Book) – VNA* takes place here.

• The Queen of Time (Audio) – BFAB**
• Lords of the Red Planet (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Iron Maid (Audio) – BFAB**

‘Vortex of Fear’ (VD)
‘Aliens and Predators’ (VD)
‘Bazaar Adventures’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) – IDW*** takes place here.
‘Endgame’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) – IDW*** takes place here.

• The Final Sanction (Book) – PDA*

‘Please Shut the Gate’ (ST)
‘Favourite Star’ (ST)

• The Glorious Revolution (Audio) – BFAB**
• Echoes of Grey (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Apocalypse Mirror (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Way of the Empty Hand’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

• The Wheel of Ice (Book/Audio) – BB*+BAB**
• The Space Pirates (TV)
• The Menagerie (Book) – VMA*
• The Colony of Lies (Book) – PDA*
• The Dying Light (Audio) – BFAB**

The events of ‘Last of the Cybermen’ (Audio) – BFAD** occur here.

• Second Chances (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Edge (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The British Invasion’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

• The Tactics of Defeat (Audio) – BFAB**
• Daughter of the Gods (Audio) – BFAB**

‘Constant Companion’ (ST)
‘Thicket of Thieves’ (PT)

• The War Games (TV)

The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe’s appearance in ‘The Eight Doctors’ (Book) – EDA* takes place during ‘The War Games’ (TV).
The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe’s appearance in ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ takes place during ‘The War Games’ (TV).
‘War Crimes’ (ST) takes place during the final episode of ‘The War Games’ (TV).
The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe’s flashback cameo in ‘The Thousand Years of Christmas’ (ST) takes place here.

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8. The Second Doctor Alone (1)

‘The Man He Shouldn’t Know’ (DVW)

• The Final Beginning (Audio) – BFAD**
• Wrath of the Ice Warriors (Audio) – BFAD**
  

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9. The Second Doctor with Older Jamie

• Jamie (Audio) – BFAD**

The Second Doctor and Jamie’s appearance in ‘The Annihilators’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• The Green Man (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Shroud (Audio) – BFAD**

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10. The Second Doctor Alone (2)

‘Save Yourself’ (TS) – TB*

• World Game (Book) – PDA*

The Second Doctor’s flashback in ‘Players’ (Book) – PDA* occurs during ‘World Game’ (Book) – PDA*.
The Second Doctor’s appearance in ‘Collision Course’ from ‘The Legacy of Time’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

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11. The Second Doctor with John and Gillian

• The Extortioner (Comic) – TVC***
• The Trodos Ambush (Comic) – TVC***
• The Doctor Strikes Back (Comic) – TVC***
• The Zombies (Comic) – TVC***
• Master of Spiders (Comic) – TVC***
• The Exterminator (Comic) – TVC***
• Barnabus (Comic) – TVC***
• Jungle Adventure (Comic) – TVC***
• The Monsters from the Past (Comic) – TVC***
• The TARDIS Worshippers (Comic) – TVC***
• Space War Two (Comic) – TVC***
• Egyptian Escapade (Comic) – TVC***
• Attack of the Daleks (Comic) – TVC***
• Pursued by the Trods (Comic) – TVC***
• The Coming of the Cybermen (Comic) – TVC***
• The Faithful Rocket Pack (Comic) – TVC***
• Flower Power (Comic) – TVC***
• The Witches (Comic) – TVC***
• Cyber-Mole (Comic) – TVC***
• The Sabre Toothed Gorillas (Comic) – TVC***
• The Cyber Empire (Comic) – TVC***
• The Dyrons (Comic) – TVC***
• Return of the Witches (Comic) – TVC***
• Masquerade (Comic) – TVC***
• Dr. Who and the Space Pirates (Comic) – TVC***
• Car of the Century (Comic) – TVC***
• The Jokers (Comic) – TVC***
• The Time Museum (Comic) – TVC***
• The Electrodes (Comic) – TVC***
• Invasion of the Quarks (Comic) – TVC***

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12. The Second Doctor with Jamie (3)

• The Killer Wasps (Comic) – TVC***
• Ice Cap Terror (Comic) – TVC***
• Jungle of Doom (Comic) – TVC***
• Father Time (Comic) – TVC***
• Martha the Mechanical Housemaid (Comic) – TVC***

‘Time Ruins’ (PT)
The Second Doctor and Jamie’s appearance in ‘Nameless’ (PT2) takes place here.
The Second Doctor and Jamie’s appearance in ‘Where’s The Doctor’ (Comic) – Annual*** takes place here.
‘The Christmas Presence’ (ST)
‘That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World whilst Looking for a Dress’ (ST)
‘Twin Piques’ (ST)
‘The Revolutionaries’ (ST)
‘All of Beyond’ (ST)

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13. The Second Doctor Alone (3)

‘A Stain of Red in the Sand’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Lares Domestici’ (ST)
The Second Doctor’s appearance in ‘The Day of the Doctor’ (TV)takes place here.
The Second Doctor’s appearance in ‘The Glass Princess’ (ST) takes place here.
‘Blue Road Dance’ (ST)
‘The Piltdown Men’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
The Second Doctor’s appearance in ‘The Lost Dimension’ (Comic) –Titan*** takes place here.

• The Duellists (Comic) – TVC***
• Eskimo Joe (Comic) – TVC***
• Peril at 60 Fathoms (Comic) – TVC***
• The Champion (Comic) – TVC***
• The Entertainer (Comic) – TVC***
• Operation Wurlitzer (Comic) – TVC***

‘The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas’ (ST)

• Death Race (Comic) – TVC***
• Test Flight (Comic) – TVC***

The Second Doctor’s appearance in ‘The Five Doctors’ (TV) takes place here.
The Second Doctor and the Brigadier’s cameo in ‘Punting’ (TS) – TB* takes place during ‘The Five Doctors’ (TV).
The Second Doctor’s cameo in ‘The Name of the Doctor’ (TV) takes place here.
The Second Doctor’s appearance during the trailer of the celebration of the Brigadier’s life in ‘Avatars of the Intelligence’ (LWM) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
‘Loop the Loup’ (YB)
‘Mother’s Little Helper’ (ST)
‘Reunion’ (ST)
The Second Doctor’s appearance in ‘Five Card Draw’ (ST) takes place here.
‘Dust’ (ST)
‘Golem’ (ST)
‘Pass It On’ (ST)
‘Scientific Adviser’ (ST)

• Action in Exile (Comic) – TVC***
• The Mark of Terror (Comic) – TVC***
• The Brotherhood (Comic) – TVC***
• U.F.O. (Comic) – TVC***
• The Night Walkers (Comic) – TVC***

‘Devious’ (Film) occurs simultaneously with the cameo of the Second Doctor in ‘Timewyrm: Apocalypse’ (Book) – VNA* and after ‘The Night Walkers’ (Comic) – TVC*** before his regeneration.
A cameo of The Second Doctor in ‘Timewyrm: Apocalypse’ (Book) – VNA* takes place during his regeneration.

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‘Genesis of the Dustbins: A Report By Zoe Heriot’ (PT2) takes place in an alternative timeline.

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The possibility of the Second Doctor regenerating into the Unbound Doctor takes place here, starting off with the earliest entry – ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ (Audio) – BFAD**.

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