Doctor Who

Big Finish Chronology Guide

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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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