The Sontarans’ Timeline

Here is ‘The Sontarans’ 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 adventure games into this list for now.

The (TV); (Audio) and (Video Game) stories are highlighted in PURPLE.

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

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

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

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
*NSA – New Series Adventures
*BB – BBC Books
*QR – Quick Reads

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
**BVAD – BBV Audio Drama

Here is a list of abbreviations for some of the (Audio) stories and what they mean.

• (DRS) – ‘The Diary of River Song’

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 3 phases
1. The Origins of the Sontarans
2. Classic Series Sontarans
3. New Series Sontarans

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1. The Origins of the Sontarans

The creation of the Sontarans according to ‘The First Sontarans’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Pureblood (Comic)

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2. Classic Series Sontarans

• The Sontarans (Audio) – BFAB**

The Sontarans’ appearance in ‘The Empire of Glass’ (Book) – VMA* takes place here.

• Peepshow (DRS) (Audio) – BFAD**
  
• The Time Warrior (TV)
• The Sontaran Experiment (TV)
• The King of Sontar (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Invasion of Time (TV)
• The Final Quest (Comic)

The Sontarans’ cameo in ‘Black Leg’ (Comic) takes place here.

• The Outsider (Comic)
• Dragon’s Claw (Comic)
• Black Sun Rising (Comic)
• The Gods Walking Among Us (Comic)
• Minatorius (Comic)

‘In Their Nature’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) takes place here.

• Heroes of Sontar (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Five Companions (Audio) – BFAD**
• The Stockbridge Terror
• Time Burp

The Sontarans’ appearance in ‘The Eight Doctors’ (Book) – EDA* takes place here.
‘Sontar’s Little Helpers’ (Penguin/Audio) – PAB**

• The Two Doctors (TV)

‘A Fix With Sontarans’ (TV) takes place during ‘The Two Doctors’ (TV).

• The First Sontarans (Audio) – BFAD**
• The End Dilemma (Z)
• Terror of the Sontarans (Audio) – BFAD**
• Conflict of Interests (Comic)
• Lords of the Storm (Book) – VMA*
• Shakedown (Book/VHS/Audio) – VNA*+BAB**
• Mindgame (DVD)
• Mindgame Trilogy (DVD)
• Destiny of the Doctors (Video Game)
• Silent Warrior (S) (Audio) – BVAD**
• Old Soldiers (S) (Audio) – BVAD**
• Conduct Unbecoming (S) (Audio) – BVAD**
• Starlight Robbery (Audio) – BFAD**
• Unnatural Born Killers (Comic)
  

‘Master of the Daleks’ from ‘Dark Eyes 4’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• The Betrothal of Sontar (Comic)

‘The Halloween Apocalypse’, ‘War of the Sontarans’, ‘Survivors of the Flux’ and ‘The Vanquishers’ from ‘Flux’ (TV) take place here.

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3. New Series Sontarans

‘The Moonrakers’ from ‘Wicked Sisters’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here. 

• The Sontaran Ordeal (Audio) – BFAD**

‘The Eternity Cage’ from ‘Agents of Chaos’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky (TV)
• The Last Sontaran (SJA) (TV)
• Enemy of the Bane (SJA) (TV)

‘Blind Terror’ (DW File)

• The Sontaran Games (Book) – QR*
• The Taking of Chelsea 426 (Book/Audio) – NSA*+BAB**
• Portrait of a Lady (LC) (Audio) – BFAD**

Jask’s appearance in ‘The End of Time’ (TV) takes place here.
The Sontarans’ appearance with the Pandorica Alliance in ‘The Pandorica Opens’ from ‘The Pandorica Opens’/’The Big Bang’ (TV) takes place here.
‘The Gunpowder Plot’ (Adventure Game)

• When Worlds Collide (Comic)

A Sontaran’s visit to the hotel/spaceship in ‘The God Complex’ (TV) takes place here.
The Sontaran’s appearance in ‘Pond Life’ (Webcast) takes place here.
 The Sontarans’ attack on Trenzalore in ‘The Time of the Doctor’ (TV) takes place here.
The Sontarans’ appearance in ‘Supremacy of the Cybermen’ (Comic) takes place here.‘Defiance of the New Bloods’ (M&L)
‘The Sontaran Project’ from ‘Encounters’ (U) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• The Instruments of War (Comic)

A Sontaran’s cameo in ‘Face the Raven’ (TV) takes place here.

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