The U.N.I.T. Timeline

Here is ‘The U.N.I.T. 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 novels/comics and short stories into this list for now.

The (TV) and (Audio) stories are highlighted in BOLD and GREEN.

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

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

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

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
*VB – Virgin Books

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

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

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
• (DWA) – ‘Doctor Who Adventures’

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 7 phases
1. The 1960s
2. The 1970s
3. The 1980s
4. The 1990s
5. The 2000s
6. The 2010s
7. The 2020s

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1. The 1960s

• The Invasion (TV)

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2. The 1970s

• Spearhead From Space (TV)
• Vengeance of the Stones (DOTD) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV)

‘Walls of Confinement’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas’ (ST)

• Old Soldiers (Audio) – BFAB**
• Shadow of the Past (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Ambassadors of Death (TV)
• The Last Post (Audio) – BFAB**
• Inferno (TV)
• The Eye of the Giant (Book) – VMA*
• The Blue Tooth (Audio) – BFAB**
• Binary (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Scales of Injustice (Book/Audio) – VMA*+BAB**
• The Rings of Ikiria (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Devil Goblins From Neptune (Book) – PDA*
• Terror of the Autons (TV)
• Deadly Reunion (Book) – PDA*

‘UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce’ (ST)

• The Mind of Evil (TV)
• The Claws of Axos (TV)
• The Mega (Audio) – BFAB**

The 1970s scenes in ‘The Sacrifice of Jo Grant’ from ‘The Legacy of Time’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
The Brigadier’s brief appearance in ‘Colony In Space’ (TV) takes place here.

• The Daemons (TV)
• The Doll of Death (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Man in the Ion Mask (Comic)

‘Degrees of Truth’ (ST/Audio) – BAB**
‘Freedom’ (ST/Audio) – BAB**

• Harvest of Time (Book/Audio) – BB*+BAB**
• The Magician’s Oath (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Switching’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
U.N.I.T.’s appearance in ‘The Forgotten’ (Comic) takes place here.
‘The Clean Air Act’ (TS) – TB*

• Day of the Daleks (TV)
• Prisoners of the Lake (Audio) – BFAD**
• Verdigris (Book) – PDA*
• Who Killed Kennedy (Book) – VB*
• The Face of the Enemy (Book) – PDA*

‘The Eight Doctors’ (Book) – EDA* scenes featuring the Brigadier take place here.
The Third Doctor and Jo’s appearance in ‘Tales From The Vault’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.
‘The Other Woman’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

• Rags (Book) – PDA*
• The Time Monster (TV)
• Find and Replace (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Three Doctors (TV)
• The Scorchies (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Heralds of Destruction (Comic)
• The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (Audio) – BFAB**

The events of ‘The Defectors’ (Audio) – BFAD** occur here.
‘The Piper’ (SS)
‘Hidden Talent’ (ST)
‘Time Tunnel’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Spear of Destiny’ (Puffin/Audio) – PAB**

• The Matter of Reality (Z)
• Dancing the Code (Book) – VMA*

Jo’s and U.N.I.T.’s appearance in ‘The Monkey House’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.

• Last of the Gaderene (Book/Audio) – PDA*+BAB**
• The Green Death (TV)
• Deep Blue (Book) – PDA*
• Council of War (Audio) – BFAB**

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

• The Time Warrior (TV)
• The Paradise of Death (Audio) – BAD**
• Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV)

‘In With The Tide’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) takes place here.

• Planet of the Spiders (TV)
• Robot (TV)
• Terror of the Zygons (TV)
• The Android Invasion (TV)
• The Seeds of Doom (TV)

‘The Oseidon Adventure’ from ‘Trail of the White Worm’/’The Oseidon Adventure’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
‘UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass’ (ST)
 ‘UNITed We Fall’ (VD)

• No Future (Book) – VNA*
• Wartime (DVD)

The ‘Mawdryn Undead’ (TV) 1977 scenes take place here.

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3. The 1980s

The 1980 scenes from ‘The Fires of Vulcan’ (Audio) – BFAD** take place here.

• Evening’s Empire (Comic)

The ‘Mawdryn Undead’ (TV) 1983 scenes take place here.

• The Five Doctors (TV)
• The Fires Down Below (Comic)
• Skywatch-7 (Comic)

An unseen adventure with the Eighth Doctor and the Brigadier from ‘The Dying Days’ (Book) – VNA* takes place here.
‘The Helliax Rift’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place in 1984.
The brief past scene from ‘Warlock’s Cross’ (Audio) – BFAD** set between ‘The Helliax Rift’ (Audio) – BFAD** and ‘Hour of the Cybermen’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place in 1986.
‘Hour of the Cybermen’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place in 1989 after ‘The Helliax Rift’ (Audio) – BFAD** but before ‘U.N.I.T. Dominion’ (Audio) – BFAD**. 

• U.N.I.T. Dominion (Audio) – BFAD**

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4. The 1990s

The 1991 scenes of Elizabeth Klien and Will Arrowsmith from ‘Persuasion’ (Audio) – BFAD** take place here.

• Downtime (DVD/Book) – VMA*

‘Warlock’s Cross’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place in 1994.

• Battlefield (TV)
• The Dying Days (Book) – VNA*
• The Mark of Mandragora (Comic)

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5. The 2000s

• Animal (Audio) – BFAD**
• Auton (VHS)
• Auton 2: Sentinel (VHS)
• Auton 3 (VHS)
• The Coup (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  
• Time Heals (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  
• Snake Head (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  
• The Longest Night (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  
• The Wasting (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  

U.N.I.T.’s involvement with Toshiko Sato in 2004 from ‘Fragments’ (TW) (TV) takes place here.

• Aliens of London/World War Three (TV)
  
• The Christmas Invasion (TV)
  
• The Warkeeper’s Crown (Comic)
• Death to the Doctor (Comic)

The Brigadier’s narration of ‘Old Soldiers’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.
‘The Sound of Drums’ (TV) from ‘Utopia’/’The Sound of Drums’/’Last of the Time Lords’ (TV) takes place here.
Martha Jones’ appearance in ‘Reset’ (TW) (TV) takes place here.
Martha Jones’ appearance in ‘Dead Man Walking’ (TW) (TV) takes place here.
Martha Jones’ appearance in ‘A Day in the Death’ (TW) (TV) takes place here.

• The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky (TV)

U.N.I.T’s appearance from the parallel universe in ‘Turn Left’ (TV) takes place here.

• The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End (TV)

Martha Jones and U.N.I.T.’s involvement in ‘Lost Souls’ (TW) (Audio) – BAD** takes place here.

• Enemy of the Bane (SJA) (TV)
  
• Planet of the Dead (TV)
  
• Submission (TW) (Audio) – BAD**
  
• Children of Earth (TW) (TV)
  

1. Day One
3. Day Three
4. Day Four
5. Day Five

‘Liberty Hall’ (DVD) takes place here.

• The Age of Ice (Comic)
• The Three Companions (Audio) – BFAB**
  

‘The Genius Trap’ (DWA Comic)

• The End of Time (TV)
  

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6. The 2010s

‘The Turn of the Screw’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Tactics of Defeat’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB** 

• Death of the Doctor (SJA) (TV)
• Happy Endings (Book) – VNA*
• The Shadows of Avalon (Book) – EDA*
• The Golden Ones (Comic)
• Tales From The Vault (Audio) – BFAB**
  
• The Power of Three (TV)
  

U.N.I.T.’s appearance in ‘The Bells of Saint John’ (TV) takes place here.

• Mastermind (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Worlds of Doctor Who: The Screaming Skull (Audio) – BFAD**
• Extinction (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  

1. Vanguard
2. Earthfall
3. Bridgehead
4. Armageddon

• Shutdown (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  

1. Power Cell
2. Death in Geneva
3. The Battle of the Tower
4. Ice Station Alpha

• Silenced (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  

1. House of Silents
2. Square One
3. Silent Majority
4. In Memory Alone

• Assembled (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  

1. Call To Arms
2. Tidal Wave
3. Retrieval
4. United

• Encounters (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  

1. The Dalek Transaction
2. Invocation
3. The Sontaran Project
4. False Negative

• Cyber-Reality (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  

1. Game Theory
2. Telepresence
3. Code Silver
4. Master of Worlds

• Revisitations (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  

1. Hosts of the Wirrn
2. Breach of Trust
3. Open the Box

• It Takes A Thief (LC) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Skin Deep (LC) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Portrait of a Lady (LC) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Death on the Mile (LC) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Incursions (U) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. This Sleep of Death
2. Tempest
3. The Power of River Song

The 2010s scenes in ‘The Sacrifice of Jo Grant’ from ‘The Legacy of Time’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• The Day of the Doctor (TV)

‘Death in Heaven’ from ‘Dark Water’/’Death In Heaven’ (TV) takes place here.
‘The Magician’s Apprentice’ from ‘The Magician’s Apprentice’/’The Witch’s Familiar’ (TV) takes place here.
‘Big in Japan’ (DWA Comic)

• The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion (TV)
  

‘Narcissus’ from ‘The Eighth of March’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
‘Yes, Missy’ (Annual)
U.N.I.T.’s appearance at the end of ‘The Return of Doctor Mysterio’ (TV) takes place here.
Kate Stewart and U.N.I.T.’s cameo in ‘Farewell, Sarah Jane’ (SJA) (Webcast) takes place here.

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7. The 2020s

U.N.I.T.’s involvement in ‘Project: Destiny’ (Audio) – BFAD** and ‘A Death in the Family’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

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