Big Finish Chronology Guide

First Doctor (William Hartnell)

Season 1

The Doctor and Susan are traveling alone.

• CC5.6 - Quinnis
• A - An Unearthly Child

Ian and Barbara join the TARDIS crew.

• B - The Daleks
• C - The Edge of Destruction
• D - Marco Polo
• E - The Keys of Marinus
• F - The Aztecs
• G - The Sensorites
• CC3.7 - Transit of Venus
• H - The Reign of Terror
• ? - Farewell, Great Macedon
• ? - The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance
• CC3.1 - Here there be Monsters

Season 2

• J - Planet of Giants
• K - The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Susan leaves the Doctor's company.

• L - The Rescue

Vicki joins the TARDIS crew.

• M - The Romans
• N - The Web Planet
• P - The Crusade
• Q - The Space Museum
• R - The Chase

Ian and Barbara leave; Steven joins.

• S - The Time Meddler

Season 3

• CC1.1 - Frostfire
• CC4.7 - The Suffering
• T - Galaxy 4
• T/A or DC - Mission to the Unknown
• U - The Myth Makers

Vicki leaves the TARDIS crew; Katarina joins.

• V - The Daleks' Master Plan ep1-4

Katarina departs the TARDIS crew; Sara Kingdom visits.

• V - The Daleks' Master Plan ep5-7
• CC3.5 - Home Truths
• CC4.1 - The Drowned World
• CC5.1 - The Guardian of the Solar System
• V - The Daleks' Master Plan ep8-12

Sarah Kingdom departs the TARDIS crew.

• W - The Massacre

Dodo joins the TARDIS crew.

• X - The Ark
• Y - The Celestial Toymaker
• Z - The Gunfighters
• CC2.1 - Mother Russia
• AA - The Savages

Steven leaves the TARDIS crew.

• BB - The War Machines

Dodo leaves the Doctor; Ben and Polly join his company.

Season 4

• CC - The Smugglers
• DD - The Tenth Planet

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Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton)

Season 4, continued

• EE - The Power of the Daleks
• FF - The Highlanders

Jamie joins the TARDIS crew.

• GG - The Underwater Menace
• HH - The Moonbase
• JJ - The Macra Terror
• CC3.9 - Resistance
• KK - The Faceless Ones

Ben and Polly leave the TARDIS crew.

• LL - The Evil of the Daleks

Victoria joins the TARDIS crew.

Season 5

• MM - The Tomb of the Cybermen
• CC3.2 - The Great Space Elevator
• CC4.8 - The Emperor of Eternity
• NN - The Abominable Snowmen
• OO - The Ice Warriors
• PP - The Enemy of the World
• QQ - The Web of Fear
• RR - Fury from the Deep

Victoria leaves the TARDIS crew.

• SS - The Wheel in Space

Zoe joins the TARDIS crew.

Season 6

• CC1.2 - Fear of the Daleks
• TT - The Dominators
• UU - The Mind Robber
• VV - The Invasion
• WW - The Krotons
• XX - The Seeds of Death
• CC4.2 - The Glorious Revolution
• CC5.2 - Echoes of Grey
• YY - The Space Pirates
• ZZ - The War Games

Jamie and Zoe leave the Doctor's company.

Season 6a

• PPP - The Three Doctors (Second Doctor portion)
• 6K - The Five Doctors (Second Doctor portion)

Jamie and Victoria rejoin the Doctor's company.

• CC2.2 - Helicon Prime
• 6W - The Two Doctors (Second Doctor portion)

Jamie and Victoria leave the Doctor's company.

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Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee)

Season 7

UNIT personnel include: The Brigadier, Liz Shaw, Sgt. Benton.

• AAA - Spearhead from Space
• BBB - The Silurians
• CC2.3 - Old Soldiers
• CC4.9 - Shadow of the Past
• CCC - The Ambassadors of Death
• DDD - Inferno
• CC1.3 - The Blue Tooth

Liz Shaw leaves her UNIT post

Season 8

Mike Yates joins the UNIT team

• EEE - Terror of the Autons

Jo Grant joins the Doctor's company.

• FFF - The Mind of Evil
• GGG - The Claws of Axos
• HHH - Colony in Space
• JJJ - The Dæmons

Season 9

• CC3.3 - The Doll of Death
• CC3.10 - The Magician's Oath
• KKK - Day of the Daleks
• LLL - The Curse of Peladon
• MMM - The Sea Devils
• NNN - The Mutants
• OOO - The Time Monster
• CC5.3 - Find and Replace

Season 10

• PPP - The Three Doctors
• QQQ - Carnival of Monsters
• RRR - Frontier in Space
• SSS - Planet of the Daleks
• TTT - The Green Death

Jo leaves the Doctor's company.

• CC4.3 - The Prisoner of Peladon

Season 11

• UUU - The Time Warrior

Sarah Jane joins the Doctor's company.

• WWW - Invasion of the Dinosaurs
• XXX - Death to the Daleks
• YYY - The Monster of Peladon
• ZZZ - Planet of the Spiders

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Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)

Season 12

• 4A - Robot

Harry joins the TARDIS crew.

• 4C - The Ark in Space
• 4B - The Sontaran Experiment
• 4E - Genesis of the Daleks
• 4D - Revenge of the Cybermen
• 4F - Terror of the Zygons

Harry leaves the TARDIS crew.

Season 13

• 4G - Pyramids of Mars
• 4H - Planet of Evil
• 4J - The Android Invasion
• 4K - The Brain of Morbius
• 4L - The Seeds of Doom

Season 14

• 4M - The Masque of Mandragora
• 4N - The Hand of Fear

Sarah Jane leaves the Doctor's company.

• 4P - The Deadly Assassin
• 4Q - The Face of Evil

Leela joins the Doctor's company.

• 4R - The Robots of Death
• 4S - The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• CC3.11 - The Mahogany Murders
• CC2.4 - The Catalyst
• CC3.4 - Empathy Games

Season 15

• 4V - Horror of Fang Rock
• 4T - The Invisible Enemy

K-9 joins the TARDIS crew.

• 4X - Image of the Fendahl
• 4W - The Sun Makers
• 4Y - Underworld
• CC4.10 - The Time Vampire
• 4Z - The Invasion of Time

Leela and K-9 leave the Doctor's company; K-9 MkII joins.

Season 16

Romana joins the TARDIS crew.

• 5B - The Pirate Planet
• 5C - The Stones of Blood
• 5D - The Androids of Tara
• 5E - The Power of Kroll
• 5F - The Armageddon Factor
• CC3.12 - Stealers from Saiph
• CC4.12 - Ferril's Folly

Season 17

Romana regenerates.

• 5J - Destiny of the Daleks
• 5H - City of Death
• 5G - The Creature from the Pit
• 5K - Nightmare of Eden
• CC1.4 - The Beautiful People
• 5L - The Horns of Nimon
• 5M - Shada
• CC4.4 - The Pyralis Effect

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Season 18

• 5N - The Leisure Hive
• 5Q - Meglos
• 5R - Full Circle

Adric joins the TARDIS crew.

• 5P - State of Decay
• CC5.4 - The Invasion of E-Space
• 5S - Warriors' Gate

Romana and K-9 MkII leave the TARDIS crew.

• 5T - The Keeper of Traken
• 5V - Logopolis

Nyssa and Tegan join the TARDIS crew.

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Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison)

Season 19

• 5Z - Castrovalva
• 5W - Four to Doomsday
• 5Y - Kinda
• 5X - The Visitation
• 6A - Black Orchid
• CC3.6 - The Darkening Eye
• 6B - Earthshock

Adric departs the TARDIS crew.

• 6C - Time-Flight

Tegan leaves the TARDIS crew.

Big Finish Season 19a

• 6C/A - The Land of the Dead
• 6C/B - Winter for the Adept
• 6C/C - The Mutant Phase
• 6C/D - Primeval
• 6C/E - Spare Parts
• 6C/F - Creatures of Beauty
• 6C/G - The Game
• 6C/H - Circular Time
• 6C/I - Renaissance of the Daleks
• 6C/J - Return to the Web Planet

Big Finish Season 19b

• 6C/K - The Haunting of Thomas Brewster

Brewster joins the TARDIS crew.

• 6C/L - The Boy that Time Forgot
• 6C/Ma - Time Reef
• 6C/Mb - A Perfect World

Brewster leaves the TARDIS crew.

Big Finish Season 19c

• 6C/N - Castle of Fear
• 6C/O - The Eternal Summer
• 6C/P - Plague of the Daleks

Season 20

• 6E - Arc of Infinity

Tegan rejoins the TARDIS crew.

• 6E/A - Omega
• 6D - Snakedance
• 6F - Mawdryn Undead

Turlough joins the TARDIS crew.

• 6G - Terminus

Nyssa leaves the TARDIS crew.

• 6H - Enlightenment

Nyssa rejoins the TARDIS crew.

• 6H/A - Cobwebs
• 6H/B - The Whispering Forest
• 6H/C - The Cradle of the Snake
• 6H/D - TBA
• 6H/E - TBA
• 6H/F - TBA

Nyssa releaves the TARDIS crew.

• 6J - The King's Demons
• 6K - The Five Doctors
• 7Z - The Sirens of Time (Fifth Doctor portion)
• CC4.5 - Ringpullworld

Season 21

• 6L - Warriors of the Deep
• 6M - The Awakening
• 6N - Frontios
• EX01 - Excelis Dawns
• 6P - Resurrection of the Daleks

Tegan releaves the TARDIS crew.

• 6P/A - Phantasmagoria
• 6P/B - Loups-Garoux
• 6P/C - Singularity
• 6Q - Planet of Fire

Turlough leaves the Doctor; Peri joins his company.

• 6Q/A - Red Dawn
• 6Q/AA1 - Exotron
• 6Q/AA2 - Urban Myths

Big Finish Season 21a

• 6Q/B - The Eye of the Scorpion

Erimem joins the TARDIS crew.

• 6Q/C - The Church and the Crown
• DWM03 - No Place Like Home
• 6Q/D - Nekromanteia
• 6Q/E - The Axis of Insanity
• 6Q/F - The Roof of the World
• 6Q/G - Three's a Crowd
• 6Q/H - The Council of Nicaea
• 6Q/I - The Kingmaker
• 6Q/J - The Gathering
• DWM07 - The Veiled Leopard (Peri and Erimem portion)
• 6Q/K - Son of the Dragon
• 6Q/L - The Mind's Eye
• 6Q/M - The Bride of Peladon

Erimem leaves the TARDIS crew.

• 6Q/N - Mission of the Viyrans

Big Finish Season 21b

• 6R/A - The Judgment of Isskar
• 6R/B - The Destroyer of Delights
• 6R/C - The Chaos Pool

Season 21, continued

• 6R - The Caves of Androzani

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Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker)

Season 21, continued

• 6S - The Twin Dilemma

Season 22

• 6T - Attack of the Cybermen
• 6V - Vengeance on Varos
• 6X - The Mark of the Rani
• 6W - The Two Doctors
• 6W/A - Davros
• 6W/B - Cryptobiosis
• 6Y - Timelash
• 6Y/A - Year of the Pig
• 6Z - Revelation of the Daleks

Season 22a

• 6Y/AA - The Nightmare Fair
• 6Y/AB - Mission to Magnus
• 6Y/AC - Leviathan
• 6Y/AD - The Hollows of Time
• 6Y/AE - Paradise 5
• 6Y/AF - Point of Entry
• 6Y/AG - The Macros
• 6Y/AH - The Space Whale
• 6Z/A - Whispers of Terror
• 6Z/B - ...ish
• 6Z/C - The Reaping

Season 23

• 7A - The Mysterious Planet
• 7B - Mindwarp

Peri leaves the Doctor.

• 7A~C - The Trial of a Time Lord (Court scenes)
• 7C-2 - The Ultimate Foe
• 7C/PRE-A - Her Final Flight
• 7C/PRE-A/A1 - I.D.
• 7C/PRE-A/A2 - Urgent Calls
• 7Z - The Sirens of Time (Sixth Doctor portion)
• EX02 - Excelis Rising

Side-step adventures

Stories involving comic and novel elements.

• SS5 - The Wormery
• SS3 - The Maltese Penguin
• SS2 - The Holy Terror
• DWM02 - The Ratings War

Big Finish Season 23a

• 7C/A - The Marian Conspiracy

Evelyn joins the Doctor's company.

• 7C/B - The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
• 7C/C - The Apocalypse Element
• 7C/D - Bloodtide
• 7C/E - Project: Twilight
• 7C/EA - Real Time
• 7C/F - The Sandman
• 7C/G - Jubilee
• 7C/H - Doctor Who and the Pirates
• 7C/J - Project: Lazarus (Sixth Doctor portion)
• 7C/K - Arrangements for War
• 7C/L - Medicinal Purposes
• 7C/MA - Pier Pressure
• 7C/MB - The Nowhere Place
• 7C/MC - 100
• 7C/MD - Assassin in the Limelight
• CC5.5 - A Town Called Fortune

Brewster rejoins the TARDIS crew.

• 7C/ME - The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
• 7C/MF - The Feast of Axos
• 7C/MG - Industrial Evolution

Brewster releaves the TARDIS crew.

• 7C/U - Thicker than Water (Flashback scene)

Evelyn leaves the Doctor.

Big Finish Season 23b

Charlie joins the Sixth Doctor's company.

• 7C/PA - The Condemned
• 7C/PB - The Doomwood Curse
• 7C/PC - Brotherhood of the Daleks
• 7C/PD - Return of the Krotons
• 7C/PE - The Raincloud Man
• 7C/PF - Patient Zero
• 7C/PG - Paper Cuts
• 7C/PH - Blue Forgotten Planet

Charliei leaves the Doctor's company.

Big Finish Season 23c

• 7C/PI - City of Spires

Jamie joins the Sixth Doctor's company.

• CC4.11 - Night's Black Agents
• 7C/PJ - The Wreck of the Titan
• 7C/PK - Legend of the Cybermen

Jamie leaves the Doctor's company.

Big Finish Season 23d

Companion is: Mel.

• 7C-1 - Terror of the Vervoids
• 7C/R - The One Doctor
• 7C/S - The Juggernauts
• 7C/T - Catch-1782
• 7C/U - Thicker than Water
• 7C/V1 - The Wishing Beast
• 7C/V2 - The Vanity Box

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Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy)

Season 24

• 7D - Time and the Rani
• 7D/A - Unregenerate!
• 7D/B - Red
• 7E - Paradise Towers
• 7E/A - Bang-Bang-a-Boom!
• 7E/B - Flip-Flop
• 7F - Delta and the Bannermen
• 7F/A - The Fires of Vulcan
• 7G - Dragonfire

Mel leaves the Doctor; Ace joins his company.

Season 25

• 7H - Remembrance of the Daleks
• 7J - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• 7L - The Happiness Patrol
• 7K - Silver Nemesis

Season 26

• 7N - Battlefield
• 7Q - Ghost Light
• 7M - The Curse of Fenric
• 7P - Survival

Big Finish Season 26a

• 7R - The Fearmonger
• 7S - The Genocide Machine
• 7T - Dust Breeding
• 7U - Colditz
• 7V - The Rapture

Big Finish Season 26b

• 7W - The Harvest

Hex joins the TARDIS crew.

• 7W/A - Dreamtime
• 7W/B - LIVE 34
• 7W/C - Night Thoughts
• DWM07 - The Veiled Leopard
• 7W/D - The Settling
• 7W/E - No Man's Land
• 7W/F - Nocturne
• 7W/G - The Dark Husband
• 7W/HA - False Gods
• 7W/HB - Order of Simplicity
• 7W/HC - Casualties of War
• 7W/HD - The Word Lord
• 7W/J - The Magic Mousetrap
• 7W/K - Enemy of the Daleks
• 7W/L - The Angel of Scutari
• 7W/M - Project: Destiny

Hex leaves the TARDIS crew.

7W/N - A Death in the Family
• 7W/O - Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge

Side-step adventures

Stories set amongst the Virgin New Adventures novels.

• SS1 - The Shadow of the Scourge
• SS4 - The Dark Flame
• CC4.6 - The Criminal Code
• CC3.8 - The Prisoner's Dilemma

Big Finish Season 26c

The Doctor travels alone.

• EX03 - Excelis Decays
• 7X - Project: Lazarus
• 7Y - Master
• 7Y/A - Return of the Daleks
• 7Z - The Sirens of Time
• 7Z/A - Valhalla
• 7Z/B - Frozen Time
• 7Z/CA - The Death Collectors
• 7Z/CB - Spider's Shadow
• 7Z/DA - Kingdom of Silver
• 7Z/DB - Keepsake
• DWM01 - Last of the Titans

Big Finish Season 26d

• 7Z/E - A Thousand Tiny Wings

Klein joins the Doctor's company.

• 7Z/F - Klein's Story
• 7Z/G - Survival of the Fittest

Klein leaves the Doctor's company.

• 7Z/H - The Architects of History

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Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann)

Special Broadcasts

• 8A - Doctor Who
• 8Zd - Mary's Story
• 8A/A - Shada

Big Finish Season 27

Charlie joins the Doctor's company.

• 8B - Storm Warning
• 8C - Sword of Orion
• 8D - The Stones of Venice
• 8E - Minuet in Hell
• 8F - Invaders from Mars

Big Finish Season 28

• 8G - The Chimes of Midnight
• DWM05 - Living Legend
• 8H - Seasons of Fear
• 8J - Embrace the Darkness
• CC4.12 - Solitaire
• 8K - The Time of the Daleks
• 8L - Neverland

Big Finish Season 29

• 8M - Zagreus
• 8N - Scherzo
• 8P - The Creed of the Kromon

C'rizz joins the TARDIS crew.

• 8Q - The Natural History of Fear
• 8R - The Twilight Kingdom

Big Finish Season 30

• 8S - Faith Stealer
• 8T - The Last
• 8U - Caerdroia
• 8V - The Next Life

Big Finish Season 30a

• 8W - Terror Firma
• 8X - Scaredy Cat
• 8Y - Other Lives
• 8Y/A - Time Works
• 8Y/B - Something Inside
• 8Y/C - Memory Lane
• 8Y/D - Absolution

C'rizz departs the TARDIS crew.

• 8Y/E - The Girl Who Never Was

Charlie leaves the Doctor.

New EDA Season One

• 1.1-1.2 - "Blood of the Daleks"

Lucie joins the Doctor's company.

• 1.3 - "Horror of Glam Rock"
• 1.4 - "Immortal Beloved"
• 1.5 - "Phobos"
• 1.6 - "No More Lies"
• 1.7-1.8 - "Human Resources"

New EDA Season Two

• 2.1 - "Dead London"
• 2.2 - "Max Warp"
• 2.3 - "Brave New Town"
• 2.4 - "The Skull of Sobek"
• 2.5 - "Grand Theft Cosmos"
• 2.6 - "The Zygon who Fell to Earth"
• 2.7-2.8 - "Sisters of the Flame" / "Vengeance of Morbius"

New EDA Season Three

• 3.1 - "Orbis"
• 3.2 - "Hothouse"
• 3.3 - "The Beast of Orlok"
• 3.4 - "Wirm Dawn"
• 3.5 - "The Scapegoat"
• 3.6 - "The Cannibalists"
• 3.7-3.8 - "The Eight Truths " / "Worldwide Web"

New EDA Season Four

• 4.1 - "Death in Blackpool"

Lucie leaves the Doctor's company.

• IX - An Earthly Child
• 4.2 - "Situation Vacant"

Tamsin joins the Doctor's company.

• 4.3 - "Nevermore"
• 4.4 - "The Book of Kells"
• 4.5-4.6 - "Deimos" / "The Resurrection of Mars"
• 4.7 - "Relative Dimensions"
• 4.8 - "Prisoner of the Sun"
• 4.9-4.10 - "Lucie Miller" / "To the Death"

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Uncertain placement

The following stories are of unconfirmed placement.

• DWM09 - Cuddlesome
• DWM10 - The Mists of Time
• VIII - The Three Companions
• 8Za - Benny's Story
• 8Zb - Fitz's Story
• 8Zc - Izzy's Story

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