Introduction

I have been thinking about doing this for a while but have never gotten around to it, so with a week off work I thought I would finally set this up.

There are a lot of websites out there that list Doctor Who stories including a few which have attempted to list the various media together to form a coherent time line but I have always wondered how much subjective time is supposed to pass for the Doctor and the various companions. This is difficult to estimate as some 6 part episodes take place over a couple of hours whereas some short stories take place over months. So I decided to make my own.


Stories Included

First of all I take no view over what is or isn't Doctor Who Cannon but I did need to set some rules over what I would be including in this project for the sake of sanity and availability of material. The main effect of this is that I have decided to exclude all of the comics. This isn't a comment on quality but this project is already unmanageable as it is and I didn't want to add to this. I have also excluded most stories not featuring the Doctor for now although I may come back to these depending on whether I get through these first. So the material that made it into the final cut is:

• The Television Series
• The Virgin New and Missing Adventures
• The BBC Eighth and Past Doctor Adventures
• The New Series Adventures, Novels, Audio and Quick Reads
• The Big Finish Main Audio Range
• The Big Finish Eighth Doctor  Range
• The Companion Chronicles
• Various Big Finish Specials, Magazine, Web, etc
• Short Story Anthologies, Decalog, Short Trips and Storybooks (but not annuals or year books)
• BBC Audio
• A Couple of Exceptions to this rule including Who Killed Kennedy and Campaign

How this is worked out

I have broken these down into episodes of approximately 25 minutes with each episode warranting an entry on the blog and have placed these into my own seasons. This does not exactly mirror any other website listing out there but is a combination of all of them plus my own tinkering with them. These are broken down into 151 series and 6126 episodes (but this will change as I will continue adding new material to this list). 

Each of the original episodes is maintained as one. New series episodes and Big Finish episodes are kept as one unless they run over 40 minutes in length at which point I have broken them down.

Each short story has been kept as one even though they vary in length considerably. The novels have been taken very roughly by word count and then broken down into 20 minute blocks at 350 words per minute.

At the beginning of each series I will list the episodes so that anyone wanting to join in will be able to follow along or read ahead. I am hoping that a lot of people will get involved as well and help point out the errors or omissions which will obviously creep in.