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
**BS – BBC Sounds
**PAB – Puffin Audio Book
Regarding the (Comic) stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows in the KEY below.
KEY
***Annual – ‘Doctor Who Annual’
***DWM – ‘Doctor Who Magazine’
***IDW – IDW Publishing
***Titan – Titan Comics
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 8 phases
1. The 1950s
2. The 1960s
3. The 1970s
4. The 1980s
5. The 1990s
6. The 2000s
7. The 2010s
8. The 2020s
1. The 1950s
The 1958 scene from ‘Survivors of the Flux’ from ‘Flux’ (TV) takes place here.
2. The 1960s
The 1967 scene from ‘Survivors of the Flux’ from ‘Flux’ (TV) takes place here.
3. The 1970s
‘Walls of Confinement’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
- Vengeance of the Stones (DOTD) (Audio) – BFAB**
- Shadow of the Past (Audio) – BFAB**
- The Ambassadors of Death (TV)
- The Unzal Incursion (Audio) – BFAD**
- New Recruit (DRS) (Audio) – BFAD**
1. The Blood Woods
2. Terror of the Suburbs
3. Never Alone
4. Rivers of Light
‘UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas’ (ST)
- 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*
- The Annihilators (Audio) – BFAD**
- Terror of the Autons (TV)
‘Dark Intruders’ (Annual/Audio) – BAB**
- Deadly Reunion (Book) – PDA*
‘UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce’ (ST)
The U.N.I.T. scenes in ‘The Master Plan’ (Comic) – Titan*** takes place here.
- 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 Dæmons (TV)
- The Doll of Death (Audio) – BFAB**
- The Man in the Ion Mask (Comic) – DWM***
‘Freedom’ (ST/Audio) – BAB**
‘Degrees of Truth’ (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) – IDW*** takes place here.
‘The Clean Air Act’ (TS) – TB*
‘U.N.I.T. Dating’ from ‘Stranded 2’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
- Verdigris (Book) – PDA*
- Who Killed Kennedy (Book) – VB*
- The Face of the Enemy (Book) – PDA*
‘Honest Living’ (ST)
The Third Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier’s appearance in ‘The Eight Doctors’ (Book) – EDA* takes place directly after ‘The Sea Devils’ (TV).
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 Time Thief’ (Comic) – Annual***
- The Three Doctors (TV)
- The Scorchies (Audio) – BFAB**
- The Heralds of Destruction (Comic) – Titan***
- The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (Audio) – BFAB**
- The Matter of Reality (Z)
The events of ‘The Defectors’ (Audio) – BFAD** occur here.
‘The Piper’ (SS)
The 1970s U.N.I.T.’s involvement in ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ takes place here.
‘Time Tunnel’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Spear of Destiny’ (Puffin/Audio) – PAB**
- 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)
- Terror of the Master (Audio) – BFAB**
- Deep Blue (Book) – PDA*
- Council of War (Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Three Companions: The Brigadier’s Story’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.
‘In With The Tide’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) – IDW*** takes place here.
- The Devil’s Hoofprints (Audio) – BFAD**
- Kaleidoscope (Audio) – BFAD**
‘A Visit from Saint Nicholas’ (ST)
- The Children of the Future (Audio) – BFAD**
- 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.
4. The 1980s
The 1980 scenes from ‘The Fires of Vulcan’ (Audio) – BFAD** take place here.
- Evening’s Empire (Comic) – DWM***
The ‘Mawdryn Undead’ (TV) 1983 scenes take place here.
- The Five Doctors (TV)
- The Fires Down Below (Comic) – DWM***
- Skywatch-7 (Comic) – DWM***
- The Auton Infinity (Audio) – BFAD**
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.
The 1987 scenes from ‘Survivors of the Flux’ from ‘Flux’ (TV) takes place here.
‘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**
5. The 1990s
The 1991 scenes of Elizabeth Klien and Will Arrowsmith from ‘Persuasion’ (Audio) – BFAD** take place here.
- Downtime (Film/Book) – VMA*
‘Warlock’s Cross’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place in 1994.
- Auton (Film)
- Battlefield (TV)
- Brave New World – Seabird One (U) – BFAD**
1. Rogue State
2. Time Flies
3. Dark Side of the Moon
- The Dying Days (Book) – VNA*
The 1990s U.N.I.T.’s involvement in ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ takes place here.
- Auton 2: Sentinel (Film)
- Auton 3 (Film)
- The Mark of Mandragora (Comic) – DWM***
- Brave New World – Visitants (U) – BFAD**
1. The Frequency
2. Haunt
3. The Last Line of Defence
6. The 2000s
The 2000 scenes in ‘The Last Line of Defence’ from ‘Brave New World – Visitants’ (U) – BFAD** takes place here.
- Brave New World – Fractures (U) – BFAD**
1. Kaiju
2. Debrief
3. Shatterpoint
- Brave New World – Knightfall (U) – BFAD**
1. TBA
2. TBA
3. TBA
- Animal (Audio) – BFAD**
- 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) – DWM***
- Death to the Doctor! (Comic) – DWM***
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.
N.B.: U.N.I.T. changes its name from United Nations Intelligence Taskforce to UNified Intelligence Taskforce by 2009.
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.
U.N.I.T’s appearance from the parallel universe in ‘Turn Left’ (TV) takes place here.
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)
The 2000s U.N.I.T.’s involvement in ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ takes place here.
- 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) – DWM***
- The Three Companions (Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Genius Trap’ (DWA Comic)
7. 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) – DWM***
- Tales From The Vault (Audio) – BFAB**
- The Hexford Invasion (Audio) – BAB**
- Survivors In Space (Audio) – BAB**
- 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 Screaming Skull’ from ‘The Worlds of Doctor Who’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
- 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.
- Nemesis – Between Two Worlds (U) – BFAD**
1. The Enemy Beyond
2. Fire and Ice
3. Eleven’s Eleven
4. The Curator’s Gambit
- Nemesis – Agents of the Vulpreen (U) – BFAD**
1. The Man From Gallifrey
2. Power of the Dominators
3. The War Factory
4. Ten Minutes in Hell
- Nemesis – Objective: Earth (U) – BFAD**
1. The Vulpreen Encounter
2. By Jacqui McGee
3. Axos Unleashed
4. Time of the Vulpreen
- Past Lives (O&F) (Audio) – BFAD**
- 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)
- Nemesis – Masters of Time (U) – BFAD**
1. One Way or Another
2. Traitors’ Gate
3. The Destiny Labyrinth
4. True Nemesis
The 2010s U.N.I.T.’s involvement in ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ takes place here.
‘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.
The 2017 scenes from ‘Survivors of the Flux’ from ‘Flux’ (TV) takes place here.
8. The 2020s
The Osgoods’ appearance in ‘The Zygon Isolation’ (Webcast) takes place here.
Osgood’s appearance in ‘The Lonely Assassins’ (Video Game) takes place here.
‘Angels’, ‘Interrogation’, ‘Recruits’ and ‘Requiem’ from ‘Redacted’ (Audio) – BS** takes place in 2022.
Kate Stewart and U.N.I.T.’s cameo in ‘Farewell, Sarah Jane’ (SJA) (Webcast) takes place here.
Kate Stewart and U.N.I.T.’s appearance in ’73 Yards’ (TV) takes place in an alternative timeline.
- The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death (TV)
- Lucky Day (TV)
- Wish World/The Reality War (TV)
- The War Between the Land and the Sea (TV)
1. Homo Aqua
2. Plastic Apocalypse
3. The Deep
4. The Witch of the Waterfall
5. The End of the War
U.N.I.T.’s involvement in ‘Project: Destiny’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place in 2026.
U.N.I.T.’s involvement in ‘A Death in the Family’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place in 2026.
U.N.I.T.’s involvement in ‘A Death in the Family’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place in 2027.
U.N.I.T.’s involvement in ‘A Death in the Family’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place in 2028.
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Please add the Auton trilogy.
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Hi Okiku.
Consider it done. I’ve also added ‘Wartime’ to the timeline.
Tim. 🙂
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There’s also the short stories “Yes, Missy” from the 2017 Annual (probably takes place after the Zygon two-parter) and the DWM comics “The Fires Down Below” and “Skywatch-7”. I’d place them in 1984, after The Five Doctors.
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UNIT appear at the end of “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”.
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Thanks jamsterx. Tim. 🙂
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I know it’s only just come out and it’s set in another timeline but are you going to be adding ’73 Yards’ to this timeline?
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Hi Benji,
I’ve added ’73 Yards’ to U.N.I.T.’s timeline as well as to Earth’s timeline.
Many thanks,
Tim 🙂
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I don’t know if it’s worth adding but in the game “The Lonely Assassins” we see Osgood and an old friend of hers from UNIT helping with the Weeping Angel situation. I know it’s technically not UNIT themselves in this but it could be worth considering adding. Osgood also appears in the Lockdown short “The Zygon Isolation”. I don’t know if you want to add any of these or not, I do understand if you don’t though.
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Hi Benji,
Technically, ‘The Lonely Assassin’ and ‘The Zygon Isolation’ aren’t actually U.N.I.T. stories and I tend to be reluctant to add these in, but then again, I’ve added ‘Mawdryn Undead’ to the U.N.I.T. timeline, so I might as well add these for argument’s sake.
Thanks for pointing them out.
Tim 🙂
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Hey, Tim, do you have a notion of where UNIT’s initials change from “United Nations Intelligence Taskforce” to “Unified Intelligence Taskforce”, relative to the timeline?
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Hi Wolfie,
In ‘Doctor Who’ terms, I believe U.N.I.T. changed its name from ‘United Nations Intelligence Taskforce’ to ‘UNified Intelligence Taskforce’ by 2009 circa ‘The Sontaran Strategem’/’The Poison Sky’. I’ve just made this point clear in the U.N.I.T. timeline in-between ‘The Sound of Drums’ and the three ‘Torchwood’ stories featuring Martha Jones, including ‘Reset’, ‘Dead Man Walking’ and ‘A Day In The Death’.
Many thanks,
Tim 🙂
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hi Tim, any placement here for brave new world: fractures? Also I can’t see any of brigadier bambera audios here either?
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Hi Tygar,
I’ve added the ‘Brave New World’ stories to the U.N.I.T. timeline as well as to Earth’s timeline. I’ve added a temporary placement for the next audio anthology ‘Knightfall’, as the titles for the episodes aren’t announced yet.
Many thanks,
Tim 🙂
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