Big Finish Doctor Who chronology
The Big Finish Doctor Who chronology lists the intended placement of the Big Finish Productions line of audio adventures based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
In the original television series run from 1963–1989, each serial was assigned a production code. For their plays, Big Finish assigns each one a similar production code which aids its placement in the programme's sequence of stories.
The vast majority of audio plays serve to fill unexplained gaps in the series, such as the (apparently long) period between Season 23 and Season 24, the period between the final television season in 1989 and the Fox Network Doctor Who television movie in 1996, and the period between that movie and the revivial of Doctor Who on television in 2005.
Other plays are produced as "side steps" or take place in alternative realities, referencing material from other spin-off material like the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip and the Virgin New Adventures novels. It should be noted that, as with all spin-off media, the precise canonicity of the audio plays is unclear.
In the listing of production codes and stories below, the audio plays are listed in bold.
Peter Davison
Season 19 (1982)
:*5Z - Castrovalva
:*5W - Four to Doomsday
:*5Y - Kinda
:*5X - The Visitation
:*6A - Black Orchid
:*6B - Earthshock
:*6C - Time-Flight
Big Finish Season 19a
Stories set in a period where Tegan Jovanka left the TARDIS crew.
:*6CA - The Land of the Dead
:*6CB - Winter for the Adept
:*6CC - The Mutant Phase
:*6CD - Primeval
:*6CE - Spare Parts
:*6CF - Creatures of Beauty
:*6CG - The Game
:*6CH - Circular Time
:*6CI - Renaissance of the Daleks
Season 20 (1983)
:*6E - Arc of Infinity
:*6EA - Omega
:*6D - Snakedance
:*6F - Mawdryn Undead
:*6G - Terminus
:*6H - Enlightenment
:*6J - The King's Demons
:*6K - The Five Doctors
:*7Z - The Sirens of Time (Fifth Doctor portion)
Season 21 (1984)
:*6L - Warriors of the Deep
:*6M - The Awakening
:*6N - Frontios
::*EX01 - Excelis Dawns
:*6P - Resurrection of the Daleks
:*6PA - Phantasmagoria
:*6PB - Loups-Garoux
:*6PC - Singularity
:*6Q - Planet of Fire
:*6QA - Red Dawn
Stories involving new companion Erimem
:*6QB - The Eye of the Scorpion
:*6QC - The Church and the Crown
:*6QD - Nekromanteia
:*6QE - The Axis of Insanity
:*6QF - The Roof of the World
:*6QG - Three's a Crowd
:*6QH - The Council of Nicaea
:*6QI - The Kingmaker
:*6QJ - The Gathering (Does not feature Peri or Erimem, but revisits an older Tegan)
::*DWM07 - The Veiled Leopard (Peri and Erimem without the Fifth Doctor)
Some time before "Androzani" Erimem leaves the Doctor's company
:*6R - The Caves of Androzani
Colin Baker
Season 21 (1984) — continued
:*6S - The Twin Dilemma
Season 22 (1985)
:*6T - Attack of the Cybermen
:*6V - Vengeance on Varos
:*6X - The Mark of the Rani
:*6W - The Two Doctors
:*6WA - Davros
:*6WB - Cryptobiosis
:*6Y - Timelash
:*6YA - The Year of the Pig
:*6Z - Revelation of the Daleks
:*6ZA - Whispers of Terror
:*6ZB - ...ish
:*6ZC - The Reaping
Season 23 (1986)
:*7A - The Mysterious Planet
:*7B - Mindwarp
:*7A-C - The Trial of a Time Lord (Court scenes)
:*7C - The Ultimate Foe
:*7CPRE-A - Her Final Flight
Side-step adventures
Stories involving comic strip and novel elements.
:*SS5 - The Wormery
:*SS3 - The Maltese Penguin
:*SS2 - The Holy Terror
Big Finish Season 23a
Stories with new companion Evelyn Smythe.
:*7CA - The Marian Conspiracy
:*7CB - The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
:*7CC - The Apocalypse Element
:*7CD - Bloodtide
:*7CE - Project: Twilight
:*BBCi01 - Real Time
:*7CF - The Sandman
:*7CG - Jubilee
:*7CH - Doctor Who and the Pirates
:*7CJ - Project: Lazarus (Sixth Doctor portion)
:*7CK - Arrangements for War
:*7CL - Medicinal Purposes
:*7CMA - Pier Pressure
:*7CMB - The Nowhere Place
:*7CU - Thicker than Water (Flashback scene when Evelyn leaves)
Big Finish Season 23b
Stories set prior to the Sixth Doctor's regeneration. Mel officially joins the Doctor's company.
:*7C - Terror of the Vervoids
:*7CR - The One Doctor
:*7CS - The Juggernauts
:*7CT - Catch-1782
:*7CU - Thicker than Water
Sylvester McCoy
Season 24 (1987)
:*7D - Time and the Rani
:*7DA - Unregenerate!
:*7DB - Red
:*7E - Paradise Towers
:*7EA - Bang-Bang-a-Boom!
:*7EB - Flip-Flop
:*7F - Delta and the Bannermen
:*7FA - The Fires of Vulcan
:*7G - Dragonfire
Season 25 (1988)
:*7H - Remembrance of the Daleks
:*7L - The Happiness Patrol
:*7K - Silver Nemesis
:*7J - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Season 26 (1989)
:*7N - Battlefield
:*7Q - Ghost Light
:*7M - The Curse of Fenric
:*7P - Survival
Big Finish Season 26a
First narrative thread, continuing from the end of the television series.
:*7R - The Fearmonger
:*7S - The [...] Machine
:*7T - Dust Breeding
:*7U - Colditz
:*7V - The Rapture
Big Finish Season 26b
Second narrative thread, involving new companion Hex.
:*7W - The Harvest
:*7WA - Dreamtime
:*7WB - LIVE 34
:*7WC - Night Thoughts
:*7WD - The Settling
:*7WE - No Man's Land
:*7WF - Nocturne
Side-step adventures
Stories set among the Virgin New Adventures novels
:*SS1 - The Shadow of the Scourge
:*SS4 - The Dark Flame
Big Finish Season 26c
Stories set toward the end of the Seventh Doctor's life.
:*7Z- The Sirens of Time (Seventh Doctor portion)
:*7X- Project: Lazarus (Seventh Doctor portion)
:*7Y- Master
Paul McGann
Doctor Who (1996)
:*8A - Doctor Who
:*BBCi02 - Shada
Big Finish Season 27
:*8B - Storm Warning
:*8C - Sword of Orion
:*8D - The Stones of Venice
:*8E - Minuet in Hell
Big Finish Season 28
:*8F - Invaders from Mars
:*8G - The Chimes of Midnight
:*DWM05 - Living Legend
:*8H - Seasons of Fear
:*8J - Embrace the Darkness
:*8K - The Time of the Daleks
:*8L - Neverland
Big Finish Season 29
:*8M - Zagreus
:*8N - Scherzo
:*8P - The Creed of the Kromon
:*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
Stories set after the fourth McGann audio season.
:*8W - Terror Firma
:*8X - Scaredy Cat
:*8Y - Other Lives
:*8YA - Time Works
:*8YB - Something Inside
:*8YC - Memory Lane
Uncertain placement
The following stories are of unconfirmed placement.
Fifth Doctor Adventures
:*DWM03 - No Place Like Home
Sixth Doctor Adventures
:*7Z - The Sirens of Time (Sixth Doctor portion)
:*DWM02 - The Ratings War
:*EX02 - Excelis Rising
Seventh Doctor Adventures
:*DWM01 - Last of the Titans
:*EX03 - Excelis Decays
:*DWM07 - The Veiled Leopard (Ace and Hex without the Doctor)
BBC7 Eighth Doctor original dramas
:*Blood of the Daleks
:*Horror of Glam Rock
:*Immortal Beloved
:*Phobos
:*No More Lies
:*Human Resources
See also
- List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish
- List of Doctor Who serials
External links
- Doctor Who Reference Guide - an attempt to place every Doctor Who story, television, audio play, book or comic strip into chronological order, with detailed synopses.