“Rest and Re-Creation” (DWM Yearbook 1994)
“Return of the Daleks” (DWW #1-4, eight hundred years after previous Dalek invasion)
“Room with a Déjà vu” (IDW DW one-shot #5)
“Run, Doctor, Run” (IDW DW Annual 2011)
“Salad Daze” (DWM #117)
“Ship Called Sudden Death, A” (DWM Summer Special 1982)
“Silent Knight” (IDW DW Vol. 2, #12; arguably non-canonical, a bit of holiday silliness)
“Sins of the Fathers” (DWM #343-345)
“Spam Filtered” (IDW DW Vol. 2 #1, unnamed in single issue, entitled in trade paperback)
“Stairway to Heaven” (DWM #156)
“Tesseract” (IDW Vol. 1, #7-8)
“Time and Tide” (DWM #145-146)
“Time of My Life, The” (DWM #399, Zyglot courtship, swamp, clock creature, vampire goth cannibals, psychic parasite and Donna goodbye message sequences)
“Timeslip” (DWW #17-18)
“To Sleep, Perhance to Scream” (IDW DW Annual 2010)
“Touchdown on Deneb 7” (DWM #48)
“TV Action” (DWM #283)
“Uninvited Guest” (DWM #211)
“Universal Monsters” (DWM #391-393)
“Uroborous” (DWM #319-322)
“Whispering Gallery, The” (IDW DW one-shot #1)
“Woman Who Sold the World, The” (DWM #381-384)
“Your Destiny Awaits” (IDW DW Annual 2011, desert planet and “Kevin chases aliens” sequences)
Bibliography
The following is a list of useful resources for anyone interested in the “fictional facts” of Doctor Who.
• The Making of Doctor Who. (Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks: first edition Piccolo/Pan Books, April 1972; second edition Target/Tandem Books, November 1976) - The earliest source of dates, often direct from BBC material.
• Dr Who Special. (edited by David Driver, Jack Lundin: BBC, November 1973) - The tenth anniversary Radio Times special, including many previously unpublished story details. This magazine perpetuated the “incorrect” story titles, used by many fans.
• The Doctor Who Programme Guide. (Jean-Marc Lofficier: first edition [2 vols] WH Allen, May 1981, second edition [2 vols] Target/WH Allen, October 1981, second edition has separate volume titles “The Programmes” and “What’s What and Who’s Who”) Doctor Who - The Programme Guide. (Jean-Marc Lofficier: third edition Target/WH Allen, December 1989) Doctor Who - The Terrestrial Index. (Jean-Marc Lofficier: Target/Virgin Publishing, November 1991) Doctor Who - The Universal Databank. (Jean-Marc Lofficier: Doctor Who Books/Virgin Publishing, November 1992) Doctor Who Programme Guide. (Jean-Marc Lofficier: fourth edition Doctor Who Books/Virgin Publishing, June 1994) - The standard reference work, with most fans owning a copy of at least one of these books. A good starting point.
• Doctor Who Monthly. (Marvel Comics Ltd.) - Richard Landen wrote a series of pseudohistories in the twentieth anniversary year: Issues 75-83 (April 1983 - December 1983) featured The TARDIS Logs, a list of TARDIS landings riddled with annoying little errors; issue 77 had a more concise list Travels with the Doctor, and a good attempt at “A History of the Daleks”; “A History of the Cybermen” (issue 83, with Michael Daniels) and Shades of Piccolo (UNIT history, issue 80) were both sensible, simple treatments of potential minefields.
• The Doctor Who Role Playing Game. (FASA Corporation [US], 1985; Supplements published 1985-6) - Various dates, including much invented for the game’s purposes.
• Doctor Who. (Marvel Comics Group [US]) - Pseudo-histories written by Patrick Daniel O’Neill: “A Probable History of the Daleks” (issue 9, June 1985), “A Probable History of the Cybermen” (issue 10, July 1985) and “The Master Log” Parts I and II (issues 14, 15, November, December 1985). Enthusiastic but ill-researched.
• The Doctor Who File. (Peter Haining: WH Allen, September 1986) - Pages 223 to 228 contain a table listing the Doctor’s adventures and where / when they took place.
• Encyclopedia of the Worlds of Doctor Who. (David Saunders: Piccadilly/Knight Press 1986, 1989, 1990) - An A-Z of the series with many entries giving dates.
• The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book. (John Peel & Terry Nation: St Martin’s Press [US], April 1989) - Dalek history, including various other sources (comic strips etc). Approved by Terry Nation.
• In-Vision 11: UNIT Special. (CMS, December 1988) - Includes Down to Earth, a history of UNIT, by Garry Bradbury. Each issue of In-Vision is a comprehensive analysis of an individual story, and the magazine is an indispensable reference work.
• Doctor Who - Cybermen. (David Banks, with Andrew Skilleter, Adrian Rigelsford and Jan Vincent-Rudzki: Who Dares, November 1988; Virgin Publishing, September 1990) - Comprehensive, if elaborate, history of the Cybermen. The first, and still best, reference book of its kind.
• Doctor Who Magazine. (Marvel Comics Ltd) - issue 174: The TARDIS Special (June 12th 1991) features “Journies” by Andrew Pixley, a superbly researched list of every landing made by the TARDIS. Issue 176 (August 7th 1991) contains an addendum.
• The Gallifrey Chronicles. (John Peel: Doctor Who Books/Virgin Publishing, October 1991) - Gallifreyan history and other information. (This isn’t the same book as The Gallifrey Chronicles, the 2005 EDA.)
• Doctor Who Magazine Winter Special 1991 - UNIT Exposed. (Marvel Comics Ltd, 28th November, 1991) - Includes an excellent UNIT chronology by John Freeman and Gary Russell, as well as “UNIT Exposed” by Andrew Dylan.
• The Doctor Who Writers’ Guide. (Peter Darvill-Evans, Rebecca Levene & Andy Bodle: Virgin Publishing, 1991) - The guidelines for prospective authors of New and Missing Adventures. Includes notes on Gallifreyan history.
• Apocrypha. (Adrian Middleton: 1993-95). Fan published chronology drawing together everything the author can get his hands on: comic strips, novelisations, role-playing scenarios and so on.
• The Discontinuity Guide. (Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping: Virgin Publishing, May 1994) - Survey of the series’ continuity and continuity mistakes. Many interesting fan theories, all marked as such.
• I, Who vols. 1-3. (Lars Pearson, Mad Norwegian Press, 1999 - 2003) - A book-by-book and audio-by-audio survey of the novels and BF audios, including spin-offs and detailed breakdowns of the stories.
• Timelink (Jon Preddle, TSV Books, 2000) - A massive fan-produced survey of the television series’ continuity. With extensive quotes, and a story-by-story breakdown. Timelink (Jon Preddle, Telos, 2011) - Massively updated version of the TSV publication, now in two volumes.
• Doctor Who - The Legend. (Justin Richards, BBC Books, 2003) - Hardback introduction to Doctor Who, with a story-by-story section that lists dates where they are known.
• About Time. (Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood, Mad Norwegian Press, 2004 - present) - A series of books that place Doctor Who in a cultural context and offer opinions and essays on continuity matters, including some chronological ones like UNIT Dating.
• Who’s Next. (Mark Clapham, Eddie Robson and Jim Smith, Virgin Publishing, 2005) - A one-volume guide to Doctor Who on television, with a breakdown of continuity.
• The Time Traveller’s Almanac: The Ultimate Intergalactic Fact-Finder. (Steve Tribe, BBC Books, 2008) - Relates information about the historical events and characters seen in New Who.
• Torchwood: The Official Magazine Yearbook. (uncredited: Titan Books, 2008) - Behind-the-scenes details on Torchwood Series 1, with short stories.
• The Torchwood Archives. (Gary Russell: BBC Books, 2008) - Presented as archive of files and other material pertaining to Torchwood Series 1 and 2.
• The Brilliant Book 2011. (Edited by Clayton Hickman, BBC Books, 2010) - Behind-the-scenes details on Series 5, with short stories.
• The Brilliant Book 2012. (Edited by Clayton Hickman, BBC Books, 2011) - Behind-the-scenes details on Series 6, with short stories.
• Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia. (Gary Russell, BBC Books, 2011) - Immense A-Z on New
Who, up through Series 6.
Acknowledgements
Lance wishes to thank... A great many people have been involved with this book. This is the fifth version. The first - The Doctor Who Chronology - was produced by Seventh Door Fanzines. It covered the television series. The second - A History of the Universe - was published by Virgin in 1996, and covered the television series plus the New and Missing Adventures up to Happy Endings and The Sands of Time respectively. It proved very popular. Nearly ten years on, the third version was published by Mad Norwegian Press, and covered roughly twice as many stories as the Virgin edition. This is the second update of that.
Thanks first and foremost to my editors at Virgin - Mark Jones, Rebecca Levene and Simon Winstone - and, for the Mad Norwegian versions, my co-writer Lars Pearson.
Thanks to the many other people who have offered information, comments, help, material, corrections or just said nice things. In alphabetical order, these are: Ben Aaronovitch, Nadir Ahmed, Keith Ansell, John Binns, Jon Blum, David Brunt, Graeme Burk, Andy Campbell, Andrew Cartmel, Shaun Chmara, Mark Clapham, Finn Clark (big, big thanks for his comics expertise), Paul Cornell, Alex Dante, Jeremy Daw, Martin Day, Zoltan Dery, Jonathan Evans, Michael Evans, Simon Forward, Martin Foster, Gary Gillatt, Donald and Patricia Gillikin, Craig Hinton, David Howe, Edward Hutchinson, Alison Jacobs, William Keith, Andy Lane, Paul Lee, Steve Maggs, Daniel O’Mahony, Steven Manfred, April McKenna, Iain McLaughlin, Adrian Middleton, Lawrence Miles, Steve Mollmann, Kate Orman, David Owen, David Pitcher, Andrew Pixley, Marc Platt, Jon Preddle, Justin Richards, Gareth Roberts, Trevor Ruppe, Gary Russell, Jim Smith, Robert Smith?, Shannon Sullivan, Dimity Telfer, Richard Thacker, Lynne Thomas, Michael Thomas, Steve Traylen, Stephen James Walker, Peter Ware, Martin Wiggins, Gareth Wigmore, Guy Wigmore, Alex Wilcock and Anthony Wilson. I’m genuinely sorry if I missed anyone.
Thanks most of all to the innumerable people involved with the production of Doctor Who, in any and every form ... past, present and future.
Lars wishes to thank... First and foremost, a shout-out is due to Lance - for his vast Doctor Who knowledge, writing skill, professionalism, humour and for putting up with manic phone calls in which I desperately needed to puzzle through (say) the terraforming of Mars. I’ve learned a hell of a lot from working with him. In fact, it’s only now - eight years (!!!) after Mad Norwegian was given the honour of taking up the reins of Ahistory - that I’ve finally achieved the threshold of having written half the text you’re holding, which is to say that you have to run damn, damn fast if you want to keep up with Lance Parkin.
Big thanks are also due to Christa Dickson, not just for the tremendous cover and overall design of this Third Edition, but for being patient with my mood swings in the time it took to complete the text therein. You know how the partners / spouses of coaches have to exert extra understanding with their stressed-out, doom-slathered mates during sports season? Now imagine that, but that it essentially goes on for two and a half years. Similarly, Robert Smith? and Josh Wilson went to exceeding lengths to keep me at least half-sane, and a man could not ask for better friends and colleagues.
A great many people assisted with my research, but I seemed to most often approach the highly prolific Simon Guerrier, Jonathan Morris and Gary Russell for help, so thanks to them for their insightful responses. Big thanks to everyone at Big Finish - particularly Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery - for their continued enthusiasm and support for this project. Thanks to our beta-testing team (Barnaby Edwards, Stephen Gray, Steve Manfred, Cody Quijano-Schell and John Seavy) for the number of times that they saved us from ourselves. Valued research help was also given to me by Andrew Cartmel, Martin Day, Stuart Douglas, Paul Ebbs, James Goss, David Richardson, Eddie Robson, Alan Stevens and Damian Taylor. I’m sure I’ve failed to mention someone, for which I’m desperately embarrassed.
Appreciation in one form or another is due to Sophie Aldred, Jeremy Bement, Josh Bertaki, Jim Boyd, Graeme Burk, Dan and Allison Chibnall, Gwyn Cox, Jen M.F. Dixon, Sacha Dzuba, Marc Eby, Sigrid Ellis, Laura Gerald, John Gibney, Brandon and Kelli Griffis, Toby Hadoke, James Houston, Maggie Howe, Shari Hrdina, Hannah Hudson, James and Renee Juneau, Matt Jesson, Al Kennedy and Paul O’Brien at the House to Astonish podcast, Paul Kirkley, Shawne Kleckner, Michael Lee, Catherine Lowe, Shaun Lyon, Dylan Lyons, Cameron and Stephanie McCoy, Sylvester McCoy, Tiff Morgan, K.O. Myers, L.M. Myles, Dave Owen, Lars Pearson (no relation, but you can imagine how schizophrenic our Facebook discussions can seem), Chris Purcell, Cassie Sampson, Robert Shearman, Katy Shuttleworth, Deborah Stanish, Lynne Thomas, Jason Stormageddon Tucker, Peter Ware, Cathleen Young (God, the blueberry muffins this woman makes; that’s not a euphemism, by the way) and that nice lady who sends me newspaper articles.
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Credits
LANCE PARKIN
... is a British author now living in the United States. He is best-known for his Doctor Who novels and other writing on that series, including Ahistory, a vast work charting the timeline of the Doctor Who universe. He was a storyline writer for the top-rated soap opera Emmerdale, and has written half a dozen books about that series. He has also written or co-written books on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, Alias and Star Trek. He wrote a guidebook to the work of comics author Alan Moore and is the author of a forthcoming definitive biography on the same subject.
LARS PEARSON
... is a former newspaper editor who wrote/edited stories about such lively diversions as a burning brothel, nude skydiving and an E. coli outbreak. For three years, he was an editor at Wizard Entertainment, working on such magazines as Wizard: The Guide to Comics, ToyFare and InQuest Gamer. Since founding Mad Norwegian Press in 2001, he has overseen publication of projects such as About Time, Running Through Corridors and the company's essay collections on women and fandom (including the 2011 Hugo-Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords, and the 2013 Hugo-nominated Chicks Dig Comics and Chicks Unravel Time). He is co-writer with Lance Parkin on the seminal Doctor Who timeline Ahistory, which is now 30,000 words longer than War and Peace.
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents (main)
Search by Story
Search by Historical Era
Sidebars and Footnote Features
Table of Contents (detailed)
Introduction
Pre-History
The Dawn of Time
“The Dark Time, the Time of Chaos”
The Dark Times and the First of the Time Lords
The Ancient Past
Life on Earth
The Age of the Dinosaurs
The Age of the Reptile People
The Birth of the Cybermen
The Origins of Man
The First Ice Age and Cavemen
Cavemen Days
The Ice Warrior Civilisation Collapses
Pre-History Section Sidebars
When Did the Silurians Rule the Earth?
The Creation of the Cybermen
History
Ancient Egypt
The Osirians
Ancient Mesopotamia
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