The Brigadier’s Timeline

Brigadier

Here is ‘The Brigadier’s Timeline’.

I’ve referred to

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to help me put this version of the timeline together.

I’ve included all the TV stories, audios; books; graphic novels/comics and the Puffin e-book ‘The Spear of Destiny’ into this list for now.

The (TV) and (Audio) stories are highlighted in BURNT ORANGE.

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

The short stories are highlighted in BURNT ORANGE and/or ITALICS; and are CENTRED.

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

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
*NSA – New Series Adventures
*BB – BBC Books
*VB – Virgin Books
*CJB – Candy Jar Books
*TB – Target 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
**BBVAD – BBV Audio Drama
**PAB – Puffin Audio Book
**FFAB – Fantom Films 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
  • (TS) – Target Storybook

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 Brigadier’s Beginnings
2. The Brigadier in the 1960s
3. The Brigadier in the 1970s
4. The Brigadier in the 1980s
5. The Brigadier in the 1990s
6. The Brigadier in the 2000s
7. The Brigadier in the 2010s
8. The Brigadier in the 2050s

1. The Brigadier’s Beginnings

The Brigadier as a little boy from ‘The Warkeeper’s Crown’ (Comic) – DWM*** takes place here.
‘The Bledoe Cadets and the Bald Man of Pengriffen’ (L-S) – CJB* takes place during the Brigadier’s child in the summer of 1937.
‘Vampires of the Night’ (L-S) – CJB*takes place in 1942.
‘The War Romance’ (L-S) – CJB*takes place in 1943.
‘In His Kiss’ (L-S) – CJB* takes place in 1945.
‘The Note’ (L-S) – CJB* takes place in 1945.

  • On His Majesty’s National Service (L-S) (Book) – CJB*

‘A Funny Turn’ (L-S) – CJB* takes place in 1957.

2. The Brigadier in the 1960s

‘The Ambush!’ (L-S) – CJB* takes place during ‘The Web of Fear’ (TV) and leada up to the Brigadier’s first appearance in ‘Episode Three’.
‘Legacies’ (L-S) – CJB* takes place in alternative timeline two weeks after ‘The Web of Fear’ (TV).
The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘The Forgotten Son’ (L-S) (Book/Audio) – CJB*+FFAB** takes place here.
‘The Contented Mind’ (L-S) – CJB*

  • The Schizoid Earth (L-S) (Book/Audio) – CJB*+FFAB**

‘The Cult of the Grinning Man’ (L-S) – CJB* takes place between ‘The Schizoid Earth’ (L-S) (Book/Audio) – CJB*+FFAB** and the 1960s segments of ‘Beast of Fang Rock’ (L-S) (Book/Audio) – CJB*+FFAB**.
The 1960s segments of ‘Beast of Fang Rock’ (L-S) (Book/Audio) – CJB*+FFAB** take place here.
‘The Dogs of War’ (L-S) – CJB* takes place three days after the 1960s segments of ‘Beast of Fang Rock (L-S) (Book/Audio) – CJB*+FFAB**.

  • Mutually Assured Domination (L-S) (Book/Audio) – CJB*+FFAB**

‘House of Giants’ (L-S) – CJB*

  • Moon Blink (L-S) (Book) – CJB*

‘The Black Eggs of Khufu’ (L-S) – CJB* takes place between the prologue and first chapter of ‘Moon Blink’ (L-S) (Book) – CJB*.
‘The Band of Evil‘ (L-S) – CJB*

  • The Showstoppers (L-S) (Book) – CJB*
  • The Grandfather Infestation (L-S) (Book) – CJB*

‘The Runaway Bomb’ (L-S) – CJB*
‘The Last Duty’ (L-S) – CJB*

  • Times Squared (L-S) (Book) – CJB*
  • The Lost Skin (L-S) (Book) – CJB*
  • Blood of Atlantis (L-S) (Book) – CJB*

‘The Wishing Bazaar’ (L-S) – CJB*

  • Mind of Stone (L-S) (Book) – CJB*

‘The Feast of Evans’ (L-S) – CJB*
‘The Fright Before Christmas’ (L-S) (Book) – CJB*
‘Home for Christmas’ (L-S) – CJB*
‘United in Blood’ (L-S) – CJB*

  • Night of the Intelligence (L-S) (Book) – CJB*

‘Brother, Where Art Thou’ (L-S) – CJB*

  • The Life of Evans (L-S) (Book) – CJB*
  • The Daughters of Earth (L-S) (Book) – CJB*

‘The Cruel Oil’ (L-S) – CJB*
‘Piece of Mind’ (L-S) – CJB*
‘Cowpats and Comfort’ (L-S) – CJB*
The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘The Dreamer’s Lament’ (L-S) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
‘All the Kings Men’ (L-S) – CJB*
The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘The Flaming Soldier’ (L-S) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
‘The Great Magician and the Spirits of the Vasty Deep’ (L-S) – CJB*

  • A Very Private Haunting (L-S) (Book) – CJB*
  • The New Unusual (L-S) (Book) – CJB*

‘The Playing Dead’ (L-S) – CJB*

  • The Man from Yesterday (L-S) (Book) – CJB*

3. The Brigadier in the 1970s

”48 Crash’ (L-S) – CJB*

N.B. The following stories that feature the Brigadier in the Unbound Third Doctor’s universe are open to interpretation. They do not fit in with the main continuity of the Brigadier’s timeline and are only listed as alternatives on what would have happened had the Doctor not been exiled to Earth in the 1970s and ended up in the 1990s instead. Therefore, the following stories aren’t numbered.

‘Walls of Confinement’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Blood Woods’ and ‘Rivers of Light’ from ‘New Recruit’ (DRS) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
‘UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas’ (ST)
The Third Doctor’s appearance during the trailer of the celebration of the Brigadier’s life in ‘Avatars of the Intelligence’ (LWM) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
‘The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back’ (VD)

‘Still Lives’ (ST)
‘Ashes of the Inferno’ (L-S) – CJB* takes place after ‘Inferno’ (TV).

  • The Fishmen of Carpantha (TV Comic)
  • Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus (TV Comic)
  • Intelligence For War (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Eye of the Giant (Book) – VMA*
  • The Blue Tooth (Audio) – BFAB**
  • Binary (Audio) – BFAB**

‘The Science of Magic’ (ST)

  • The Scales of Injustice (Book/Audio) – VMA*+BAB**
  • Castaway (TV Comic)
  • Levitation (TV Comic)
  • The Rings of Ikiria (Audio) – BFAB**
  • The Devil Goblins From Neptune (Book) – PDA*
  • The Annihilators (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Terror of the Autons (TV)

The prelude to ‘White Darkness’ (Book) – VNA* takes place here.
‘Dark Intruders’ (Annual/Audio) – BAB**
‘The Claw’ (Annual)
‘Saucer of Fate’ (Annual)

  • Deadly Reunion (Book) – PDA*

‘UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce’ (ST)

The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘The Master Plan’ (Comic) – Titan*** takes place here.

  • The Mega (Audio) – BFAB**

The Brigadier’s cameo 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.

‘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**
The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘The Forgotten’ (Comic) – IDW*** takes place here.
‘The Clean Air Act’ (TS) – TB*

The Brigadier’s cameo in ‘Prisoners of the Lake’ (Audio) – BFAD** via narration takes place here.
‘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 Other Woman’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Touch of the Nurazh’ (ST)

  • Rags (Book) – PDA*
  • Primord (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Scream of Ghosts (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Poison of the Daleks (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Time Monster (TV)

The Brigadier’s cameo appearance in ‘Find and Replace’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.
‘Where the Heart Is’ (VD)
‘The Monster in the Woods’ (Penguin/Audio) – PAB**
‘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 Third Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier’s appearance in ‘Deathworld’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

‘Once Upon a Time Machine’ (ST)

  • Josephine and the Argonauts (Book) – BB*

‘The Piper’ (SS)
 ‘Time Tunnel’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**
‘The Spear of Destiny’ (Puffin/Audio) – PAB**

The flashback scene featuring the Third Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier from ‘Death to the Doctor!’ (Comic) – DWM*** takes place here.

‘The One Second Hour’ (TV Action)
‘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.
‘In Their Nature’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) – IDW*** takes place here.
‘The Choice’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) – IDW*** takes place here.
‘Endgame’ from ‘Prisoners of Time’ (Comic) – IDW*** takes place here.

‘Signal S.O.S’ (TVC)

  • Kaleidoscope (Audio) – BFAD**

‘A Visit from Saint Nicholas’ (ST)

  • The Children of the Future (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Island of Death (Book) – PDA*

‘An Overture Too Early’ (ST)
The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘Part One’ of ‘Faithful Friends’ (ST) takes place here.

The scenes where Kate Stewart sees the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith with her dad, the Brigader, according to ‘The Day of the Doctor’ (TV) novelization/audiobook takes place here.

‘Double Trouble’ (Annual/Audio) – BAB**
‘UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass’ (ST)
The Brigadier and the Fourth Doctor’s appearance from the trailer of the celebration of the Brigadier’s life in ‘Avatars of the Intelligence’ (LWM) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
‘The Magic Box!’ (TV Comic)
‘UNITed We Fall’ (VD)
The 1970s/80s section of ‘Scary Monsters’ (L-S) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
‘The Revisionists’ (ST/Audio) – BFAB**

  • Cry of the Banshee (Audio) – BFAD**
  • No Future (Book) – VNA*
  • Heart of TARDIS (Book) – PDA*

The 1977 scenes from ‘Mawdryn Undead’ (TV) take place here.
‘Necessary Force’ (TBA) (Audio) – BBVAD** takes place after the 1977 scenes of ‘Mawdryn Undead’ for the Brigadier.

4. The Brigadier in the 1980s

The 1983 scenes from ‘Mawdryn Undead’ (TV) take place here.

The Second Doctor and the Brigadier’s cameo in ‘Punting’ (TS) – TB* takes place during ‘The Five Doctors’ (TV).
The Brigadier and the Second Doctor’s appearance from the trailer of the celebration of the Brigadier’s life in ‘Avatars of the Intelligence’ (LWM) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
The Brigadier and the Fifth Doctor’s appearance from the trailer of the celebration of the Brigadier’s life in ‘Avatars of the Intelligence’ (LWM) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘The Nemertines’ (Annual/Audio) – BAB** takes place here.

An unseen adventure with the Eighth Doctor and the Brigadier from ‘The Dying Days’ (Book) – VNA* takes place here.

  • Business Unusual (Book) – PDA*

5. The Brigadier in the 1990s

‘The Enfolded Time’ (L-S) – CJB* takes place here.
‘Scientific Adviser’ (ST)

  • Downtime (Film/Book) – VMA*
  • Battlefield (TV)
  • Memories of Tomorrow (TBA) (Audio) – BBVAD**
  • New Pastures (TBA) (Audio) – BBVAD**
  • The Fall of Shield Sentai (TBA) (Audio) – BBVAD**
  • The Man Inside (TBA) (Audio) – BBVAD**
  • Translation (TBA) (Audio) – BBVAD**
  • Darkness, Falling (Comic) – DWM***
  • The Dying Days (Book) – VNA*
  • The King of Terror (Book) – PDA*

The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ takes place here.
The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘Part Two’ of ‘Faithful Friends’ (ST) takes place here.

6. The Brigadier in the 2000s

  • The Grey Man of the Mountain (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Shadow in the Glass (Book/Audio) – PDA*+BAB**
  • Minuet In Hell (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Algebra of Ice (Book) – PDA*
  • The Coup (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  • Time Heals (U) (Audio) – BFAD**
  • The Wasting (U) (Audio) – BFAD*
  • The Warkeeper’s Crown (Comic) – DWM***

The Brigadier’s narration of ‘Old Soldiers’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.
‘Way of the Burryman’ and ‘The Forth Generation’ from ‘Old Friends’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

  • Enemy of the Bane (SJA) (TV)

‘Liberty Hall’ (DVD) takes place here.

7. The Brigadier in the 2010s

The 2011 section of ‘Scary Monsters’ (L-S) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
The Brigadier and the Eleventh Doctor’s appearance from the trailer of the celebration of the Brigadier’s life in ‘Avatars of the Intelligence’ (LWM) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
The Brigadier and the Thirteenth Doctor’s appearance from the trailer of the celebration of the Brigadier’s life in ‘Avatars of the Intelligence’ (LWM) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.

  • Happy Endings (Book) – VNA*
  • The Shadows of Avalon (Book) – EDA*

‘The Gift’ (ST)
The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘Part Three’ of ‘Faithful Friends’ (ST) takes place here.
The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘Fear of the Web‘ (L-S) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
‘The Lock-In’ (L-S) – CJB*
The Brigadier’s appearance in ‘Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets’ (L-S) (Book) – CJB* takes place here.
‘Death in Heaven’ from ‘Dark Water’/’Death In Heaven’ (TV) takes place here.^
The Brigadier and Doris meeting the Eighth Doctor in Cheldon Bonniface on Christmas Day in 2017 in ‘Not in My Back Yard’ (ST) takes place here here.

8. The Brigadier in the 2050s

The Brigadier’s retirement home scenes in ‘The Shadow of Avalon’ (Book) – EDA* take place here.
The prelude to ‘Transit’ (Book) – VNA* takes place here.
The Brigadier’s death according to ‘The Wedding of River Song’ (TV) takes place here.
The Brigadier’s funeral as seen in ‘Shroud of Sorrow’ (Book/Audio) – NSA*+BAB** takes place here.

^Possibly a clone Brigadier according to Andrew J Brook on the Big Finish Forum

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