#doctor who chronology

[carbohydratechild]

how to watch the 2005 reboot of doctor who in the correct order (more or less)

i couldn't find a good enough list for my friend, so i made my own using everything i could find! i put all of the sources i used at the end of the doc.

many articles skip certain mini-episodes and specials. lists that show up on google can be intimidating and confusing, or lackluster, so i tried to make it comprehensive and pretty!

i also took the time to find the best links for everything not on bbc iplayer!

it could save beginner viewers so much frustration and ensure that they actually get to see these wonderful mini-episodes!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14zyvAC9PFwOhQ3Epho73OtlUnL33tusm03SO3wKDs8I

i didn't include classic who or anything outside the realm of official/official-adjacent video because i'm not really qualified to and it's outside the scope of this particular list.

some of the decisions for the order and for what was included/excluded are my own informed opinions, but feel free to disagree and i'll change things if i'm convinced! it's not technically chronological or even perfectly by release, but that goes out the window with a time travel show on this scale! this is the order that makes the most sense. also, i didn't add the release years of things because it would've been too confusing with the sheer amount of stuff.

please feel free to take full use of it and spread it around as much as you want! i think it's SO GOOD and i had to share it with the world!

[yesokayiknow]

happy birthday to the worst girl in the universe (23 november 1986 - 2016 (eventually))

[terranceholdsapencil]

I sometimes think its weird that everyone must have a 'favourite doctor'. I get the appeal, but how its so wide spread baffles me.

Theyre all one person, in the end, with each regeneration being all that came before and more, and a little different due to the experiences they had and the people theyve met, just how I am different from when I was 15 years old, but still the same.

I have a favourite doctor for conveniency reasons, mostly, 12- but even then, whats a 'favourite doctor'. My favourite performance? My favourite to have a fun time with? My favourite to make me aspire to be better? My favourite to laugh, my favourite to cry for? Theyre all different. I love 12 as much as I love 1 or 2 or 3 or 4. Maybe I have incarnations I dont feel as strongly for, but thats usually out of unfamiliarity with all they went through and by such an inability to truly grasp who the doctor was when they wore that face (e.g. my only experience with 8 being the tv movie) or because they amplify parts of the doctor Im less fond of (e.g. six being a little mean).

But in the end, theyre all of it anyway? All of the Doctor is mean, whether its the first doctor or the sixth or the tenth, all doctors are kind, whether its the second or fourth or 12th or 14th, all of the doctor has experienced grief, all of them is strong willed, brave, afraid.

I like the idea of having a 'favourite'. To me its a little like your favourite actors role, I love david tennants hamlet more than I like his alec hardy, but I still love his acting, period.

But this obsession of needing a favourite doctor, of needing to love one part of this beautiful, incredible character more than others, often it feels unfair to who they are. This grand person being reduced to a few years of their endlessly long life. To a single face.

Maybe that's what feels so real about thoschei. Companions tend to get attached to a face. To this one part. To the master the current doctor's body is secondary.

"Doesn't matter which face he was wearing, they're all the Doctor to me."

And they are, in fact, all the Doctor.

[iceinherheart-kissonherlips]

“That old reflex never died; the little pang of Don't go, just stay. Settle over me like the tide, cover me like a blanket, wrap around me like the sun. 

Don't go, don't go, don't go.” [x]

[callhimnowmarisamylove]

And they both lived happily ever after... 

[oldtvandcomics]

Must a Doctor Who episode make sense? Isn't it enough for it to be camp AF and kind of hit you over the head with a political message of "we should be nice to one another"?

[windchimesofglass]

What order to listen to the 8th Doctor Big Finish Audio Drama

So I've seen lots of people asking what order to listen to the 8th Doctor audio dramas produced by Big Finish. There are some really good listening guides out there, but they're out of date.

So I present to you the 2024 8th Doctor Episode Chronology!

If you love the 8th Doctor or want to explore his stories but have no idea where to start, this is the list for you!

This is a living document. I haven't listened to everything yet, so some bits may need editing. It follows 8's personal timeline from his travels with Charley Pollard to his experiences in the Time War.

Comments are welcome and please share this link around :D

[quarks-pussy]

It appears we have some things in common after all 🤔

[waffowo]

Tears in my eyes as I admit that I really like Timelash and I would have given it a 9/10 if Peri wasn’t treated quite awfully for the second part of the episode (it’s a 7/10 but I consider this high since I’m not super into Classic tbh)

[florida3exclamationpoints]

Well. That was fun (lying). See you tomorrow for The Name of The Doctor.

[haventacluewhatimdoing]

SHIT JAMIE DOESN'T KNOW WHO ROBERT BURNS IS

[arttitude130]

me when my (current) interpretation of younger doctor/theta is not blond or happy <- guy who took Listen seriously

[v-thinks-on]

The Future History of Humanity According to the First Doctor:

1966 - WOTAN supercomputer tries to take over the world by hypnotizing people to build war machines, the streets of London are overrun with robots that are fought off by the British military.

1986 - Earth's sister planet, Mondas, suddenly appears piloted by Cybermen, who try to steal all of the Earth's energy.

c. 2164 - Earth is conquered by the Daleks, destroying all human civilization, but they are unseated by a human rebellion.

2400's - Space travel and interplanetary settlement is commonplace, education is carried out subliminally.

At some point an interplanetary war occurs.

c. 4000 - Peace is maintained by the Guardian of the Solar System, there is a UN Deep Space Force and Space Security Service, the Daleks try to take over with an alliance of several alien races.

c. 10,000,000 - Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by solar flares, most of humanity has been miniaturized for the ~1000 year journey across space to a new home planet.

[oodlyenough]

the traditional doctor who uglyass dvd cover

[poppiesforthirteen]

I'm listening to the Big Finish audios in such a weird order I'm just going for whichever clip showed up on my dash recently

[cough-droplet]

One thing I can tell you from watching all this classic Doctor Who and also being the kind of person who's really interested in where aspects of the lore and worldbuilding originate

TARDIS Wiki is one of those websites that is so comprehensive it's functionally completely useless most of the time