Susan’s Timeline

Here is ‘Susan’s Timeline’.

I’ve referred to

to help me put this version of the timeline together.

I’ve included all the TV stories, audios; books; comics and the Puffin e-book ‘A Big Hand For The Doctor’ into this list for now.

The (TV) and (Audio) stories are highlighted in BOLD and SEA GREEN.

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

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

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

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

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’
  • (DWM) – ‘Doctor Who Magazine’
  • (RT Special) – Radio Times Special
  • (AIL) – ‘Adventures In Lockdown’
  • (YB) – Yearbook
  • (PT) – Perfect Timing
  • (PT2) – Perfect Timing 2

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 5 phases
1. Susan with the First Doctor
2. Susan with the First Doctor, Ian and Barbara
3. Susan after ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’
4. Susan with the Eighth Doctor (BBC Books)
5. Susan with the Eighth Doctor (Big Finish)


1. Susan with the First Doctor

The First Doctor and Susan’s flashback of fleeing Gallifrey in ‘Time & Time Again’ (Comic) takes place here before ‘The Beginning’ (Audio) – BFAB**.

The First Doctor and Susan’s appearance in ‘The Name of the Doctor’ (TV) takes place during ‘The Beginning’ (Audio) – BFAB**.
‘The Exiles’ (ST) takes place during ‘The Beginning’ (Audio) – BFAB**.

  • The Sleeping Blood (Audio) – BFAB**

‘Frayed’ (Novella)
‘The Five O’Clock Shadow’ (ST)
‘Childhood Living’ (ST)
‘A Big Hand For The Doctor’ (Puffin/Audio) – PAB**
‘Indian Summer’ (ST)
The First Doctor and Susan’s appearance in ‘All-Consuming Fire’ (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD** takes place here.
The First Doctor and Susan’s appearance in ‘Categorical Imperative’ (ST) takes place here.

  • The Alchemists (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Arboreals’ (SS)
The First Doctor and Susan saving the planet Lemaria from the Megrati according to ‘The Constant Doctor’ (SS) takes place here.  
‘Urrozdinee’ (YB)
‘The Prince of Conviction’ (ST)
‘Bide-a-Wee’ (ST)
‘The Gift’ (ST)
The First Doctor and Susan’s appearance in ‘Where’s The Doctor’ (Annual Comic) takes place here.

  • Quinnis (Audio) – BFAB**

The First Doctor and Susan’s visit to Akhaten takes place here.

  • An Unearthly Woman (DRS) (Audio) – BFAD**

‘The Juror’s Story’ (ST)

  • Operation Proteus (Comic)

‘Losing the Audience’ (ST)
‘Bear Paw Adventures’ (PT)
‘Darkness Before Me’ (PT2)
The First Doctor and Susan’s appearance in ‘Nameless’ (PT2) takes place here.
The First Doctor and Susan’s appearance in the Free Comic Book Day 2022 prequel to ‘Origins’ (Comic) takes place here.

‘Echoes of Future’s Past’ (DWM)
‘Time and Relative’ (Novella)

‘Endgame’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) takes place here.


2. Susan with the First Doctor, Ian and Barbara

‘Playtime’ (DWM) takes place during the first episode of ‘An Unearthly Child’ (TV).
‘Prologue: The First Doctor’ from ‘Supremacy of the Cybermen’ (Comic) occurs during ‘An Unearthly Child’ (TV).
The First Doctor’s appearance in ‘The Eight Doctors’ (Book) – EDA* takes place during ‘An Unearthly Child’ (TV).
The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan’s interlude in ‘The Knight, the Fool and the Dead’ (TLV) (Book) – NSA* takes place during ‘An Unearthly Child’ (TV).

Susan writing a letter to Barbara in ‘The Alchemists’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.

  • The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Book) – VMA*
  • In-Between Times (Comic)

‘A Star Is Born’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Who Discovered America’ (DWM)
‘The Ruins of Time’ (ST)
‘Tell Me You Love Me’ (ST)
‘The Path of Skulls’ from ‘The Many Lives of Doctor Who’ (Comic) takes place here.

The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan’s appearance in ‘The Forgotten’ (Comic) takes place here.

‘Rise and Fall’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan’s cameo in ‘The Horror of Time’ (Z) takes place during ‘The Zondor Robbers’ (Z).

  • The Destination Wars (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Great White Hurricane (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Invention of Death (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Barbarians and the Samurai (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Phoenicians (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Tick-Tock World (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Return to Skaro (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Last of the Romanovs (Audio) – BFAD**
  • For the Glory of Urth (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Hollow Crown (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Campaign (Book)
  • The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance (Audio) – BFAB**
  • Farewell Great Macedon (Audio) – BFAB**
  • The Masters of Luxor (Audio) – BFAB**
  • The Wanderer (Audio) – BFAB**
  • The Library of Alexandria (Audio) – BFAB**
  • The Flames of Cadiz (Audio) – BFAB**

‘A Small Semblance of Home’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘Rennigan’s Records’ (DWM)
‘The Last Days’ (ST)
The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan’s appearance in ‘The Light At The End’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
‘Mire and Clay’ (ST)
‘The Duke’s Folly’ (ST)
‘The Mother Road’ (ST)
‘Room For Improvement’ (ST)
‘The Reign Makers’ (ST)

‘Flywheel Revolution’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

  • The Witch Hunters (Book/Audio) – PDA*+BAB**
  • City at World’s End (Book) – PDA*
  • Here There Be Monsters (Audio) – BFAB**
  • Stardust and Ashes (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Thief of Sherwood’ (ST)
Susan’s recording of a message for the Thirteenth Doctor to find in ‘Press Play’ (AIL) takes place here.

‘Home Again, Home Again’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

The First Doctor and Susan’s appearance in ‘A Stitch in Time’ (Comic) takes place during ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’ (TV).
The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan’s appearance in ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ takes place during the sixth and final episode of ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’ (TV).


3. Susan after ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’

‘Birth of a Renegade’ (RT Special)


4. Susan with the Eighth Doctor (BBC Books)

  • Legacy of the Daleks (Book) – EDA*

5. Susan with the Eighth Doctor (Big Finish)

‘Ghost of Christmas Past’ (Penguin/Audio) – PAB**

Susan’s narration of ‘Quinnis’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.
Susan’s narration of ‘Stardust and Ashes’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.

  • Relative Dimensions (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Lucie Miller/To The Death (Audio) – BFAD**

‘All Hands on Deck’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
The older Susan’s appearance in ‘Tick-Tock World’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

  • Susan’s War (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Sphere of Influence
2. The Uncertain Shore
3. Assets of War
4. The Shoreditch Intervention

‘Fellow Traveller’ (AIL)

  • The Interstellar Song Contest (TV)

Susan’s cameo in ‘Wish World’ from ‘Wish World’/’The Reality War’ (TV) takes place here.


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