B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (353 page)

[
392
]
Logopolis
- although it was working until
An Unearthly Child
.

[
393
]
Mindwarp

[
394
]
The Doctor’s Wife
. The Doctor was 909 in
The Impossible Astronaut
, a couple of episodes earlier, so was around 209 when he stole the TARDIS.

[
395
]
The Infinity Doctors

[
396
]
The Gallifrey Chronicles

[
397
]
Lungbarrow

[
398
]
The Eight Doctors

[
399
]
Remembrance of the Daleks
,
Silver Nemesis
,
An Unearthly Child
.

[
400
]
The Sensorites

[
401
]
The Time Meddler
. The Doctor says the Monk left their home planet fifty years after he did.

[
402
] “Time and Time Again”

[
403
] Seen in “Timeslip”.

[
404
]
The Twin Dilemma
,
The Mark of the Rani
,
Planet of the Spiders
respectively.

[
405
]
The Doctor’s Wife

[
406
]
Spiral Scratch

[
407
] The Doctor says he comes from “fifty years earlier” than the Monk in
The Time Meddler
. The War Chief remembers him leaving his home planet in
The War Games
. The Master is first seen in
Terror of the Autons
.

[
408
] We first meet Irving Braxiatel in
Theatre of War
, but he’s also present at the Armageddon Convention in
The Empire of Glass
, which occurs first chronologically. The Braxiatel Collection was first mentioned in
City of Death
.

[
409
]
Neverland

[
410
]
The Brain of Morbius. Gallifrey: The Inquiry
establishes that the non-interference doctrine in its current hardline form is a development within the Doctor’s lifetime, so the rebellion led by Morbius would seem to be against recent policy, rather than an ancient dogma.

[
411
] Dating
Warmonger
(PDA #53) - It is never stated in
The Brain of Morbius
how long ago Morbius ruled Gallifrey. The Doctor recognises Morbius, but Morbius doesn’t recognise the Doctor.

In his novelisation of the story, Terrance Dicks states that Morbius came to power after the Doctor left Gallifrey, and that the Doctor heard of Morbius on his travels. In
Warmonger
, also by Dicks, the Doctor (who has travelled into Gallifrey’s past) muses that Borusa might be in his first incarnation (p166), and that this is the first time Borusa has met him, almost certainly setting it before the Doctor was born - but this is directly contradicted just a few pages later (p173), when it’s made clear that it’s after the Doctor stole a TARDIS and has left Gallifrey.

Neverland
places it before the Master steals the files on the Doomsday Weapon.
FP: The Book of the War
has its “the Imperator Presidency” occurring between 870 and 866 years before the War starts, so (almost certainly) after the Doctor left Gallifrey.
Timelink
prefers the idea that Morbius rose after
The Three Doctors
.

[
412
] According to
FP: The Book of the War
, the Order of the Weal was formed during the “Imperator Presidency” - the
Faction Paradox
term for Morbius’ tenure as President. Presumably the ancient Celestial Intervention Agency concerned itself with external issues, not Gallifreyan politics.

[
413
] Fandom has tended to assume that Morbius was President of the Time Lords, although this isn’t stated in his TV story.
The Vengeance of Morbius
, though, makes reference to his presidential robes of office.

[
414
] While everyone is happy to call him “Lord President” in
Warmonger
, Saran is only Acting President until elections are held (p175). The Doctor thinks of Saran as “a very minor figure in Time Lord history” (p166), so we can probably infer that he lost the election. We can also speculate that the President who is elected at this point is the one seen in
The Three Doctors
and (after regenerating) the one assassinated in
The Deadly Assassin
. The Doctor never met the President killed in
The Deadly Assassin,
according to that story, but he had known Saran before originally leaving Gallifrey.

[
415
]
Interference
and
FP: The Book of the War
, the latter of which clarifies that the genesis of Faction Paradox lies in the founding of House Paradox two hundred and fifty-two years beforehand. Lawrence Miles, upon reading an advance draft of
Ahistory
(First Edition) verified that while Morbius and Grandfather Paradox were close contemporaries, “... It’s the long-term effects of the Morbius/Imperator crisis that lead to the rise of the Faction, rather than its direct aftermath”.

[
416
]
Interference
,
FP: The Book of the War
- see the events of 1752 in the main timeline.

[
417
]
The Ancestor Cell.
The online Faction Paradox timeline suggests that this Presidency fell between
The Deadly Assassin
and
The Invasion of Time.

[
418
]
FP: The Book of the War

[
419
]
FP: Newtons Sleep
and
FP: The Book of the War
, the latter of which says the Zo La Domini incident occurs three hundred eighty years before the War in Heaven, and twelve years after Grandfather Paradox’s imprisonment.

[
420
]
Terror of the Autons

[
421
] Season 6B

The second Doctor’s status in
The Two Doctors
- that he’s an agent working on the behest of the Time Lords - looks like a major contradiction of the established facts, as it’s made clear in
The War Games
that the Doctor has fled his home planet and is terrified of any contact with his people. Fans don’t seem so worried that the Time Lords also contacted the first and second Doctors in
The Three Doctors
.

One theory that has gained currency since appearing in
The Discontinuity Guide
is that after
The War Games
, the Doctor wasn’t regenerated straight away but was reunited with Jamie and Victoria (who is mentioned in
The Two Doctors
) and sent on missions for the Time Lords. Supporting evidence for this is that the second Doctor seems to remember
The War Games
in
The Five Doctors
. It also ties in with
TV Comic
, which had the second Doctor exiled to Earth for a time before he became his third incarnation. Two novels by Terrance Dicks (
Players
and
World Game
) explicitly have sequences that, from the Doctor’s point of view, occur during Season 6B.

[
422
]
The War Games.
The event is recalled and dated in
The Deadly Assassin
, the Doctor’s exile begins in
Spearhead from Space
(continuing until
The Three Doctors
), and we learn the Tribunal is still monitoring the Doctor in
Terror of the Autons
. A number of accounts have taken their lead from
The Auton Invasion
(the novelisation of
Spearhead from Space
) and the first edition of
The Making of Doctor Who
, and stated that the Doctor is also punished for stealing the TARDIS. This is not established on television. The Time Lords have the opportunity to confiscate the TARDIS, but send the Doctor to Earth with it.

[
423
]
Circular Time:
“Spring”, in reference to
The War Games
.

[
424
]
World Game

[
425
]
The Two Doctors

[
426
]
Terror of the Autons.
The files are referred to in
Colony in Space
and
The Sea Devils
. Presumably, although this is never stated on TV, the Master also finds out about many of his other future allies and accomplices from these files.

[
427
]
Neverland

[
428
]
The Quantum Archangel
, with reference to (respectively)
The Mind of Evil
,
Colony in Space
,
The Daemons
,
The Sea Devils
,
The Time Monster
,
Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks
,
The Keeper of Traken
,
Survival
,
Falls the Shadow
,
GodEngine
and
Doctor Who - The Movie.

[
429
] In the television series, the Time Lords sending the Doctor on missions is a rare occurrence after the Doctor’s exile is lifted - it only happens in
Genesis of the Daleks
and (the Doctor suspects)
The Brain of Morbius
. In the other media, it’s far more common, particularly the
TV Comic
strip (not included in this chronology), where it’s almost taken for granted that every time the Doctor uses the TARDIS, the Time Lords are controlling it at least to some extent.

[
430
] When Was Romana Born?

Like the Doctor, Romana doesn’t give a consistent account of her age - she’s “nearly 140” in
The Ribos Operation
, “125” in
City of Death
and “150” in
The Leisure Hive
. Potentially throwing another spanner into the works,
Heart of TARDIS
has her (between
The Stones of Blood
and
The Androids of Tara
) spending fifteen if not thirty years travelling through a nexus with the Doctor.