TIMELINE :: Lethbridge-Stewart

The Haisman Estate Approved Multiverse Timeline:

PLEASE NOTE: This page contains SPOILERS for the Lethbridge-Stewart novels.

Lethbridge-Stewart exists as part of the Multiverse of Doctor Who, various timelines that exist side by side, wherein key events echo each other, while other events exist exclusively to particular timelines. All realities spin-off from the ‘prime’ timeline of the television series.

The following list only includes stories considered part of the official Haisman Literary Estate approved multiverse timeline for the characters that fall under their intellectual property rights* (the Lethbridge-Stewart family, the Travers family, the Dominators, the Great Intelligence, and subsidiary characters).

NB* Outside of the official Doctor Who television series and Big Finish, the Haisman Estate reserves the right to pick which unauthorised uses of their properties they consider part of the official multiverse timeline.

STORY LIST

(The below list is not exhaustive, many titles still need to be considered and their inclusion weighed up.)

Key:

1603: The Soothsayer [L-S]
1815: The Bone Merchant [L-S]
1815: The Dreamer’s Lament [L-S]
1822: Beast of Fang Rock [L-S]
1842-1892: The Snowmen [BBC]
1890: As the Son Falls [L-S]
1902: Beast of Fang Rock [L-S]
1902: Horror of Fang Rock [BBC]
1914 (December): Twice Upon a Time [BBC]
1917 (December): What’s Past is Prologue [L-S]
1935 (October): The Abominable Snowmen [BBC]
1935 (October): The Creatures in the Cave [L-S]
1935 (October): Time and Again/Travers & Wells [L-S]
1937: Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets/Alistair and the Bledoe Cadets [L-S/LW]
1937 (July): The Bledoe Cadets and the Bald Man of Pengriffen [L-S]
1937 (September)-1938 (March): The Forgotten Son (chapter eleven) [L-S]
1942 (April): The Flaming Soldier [L-S]
1942: Vampires of the Night [L-S]
1943: The War Romance [L-S]
1945 (April)-1961 (October): Schädengeist’s First Love [L-S]
1945 (February-September): In His Kiss [L-S]
1945 (May): The Note [L-S]
1950-1952: On His Majesty’s National Service [L-S]
1957: A Funny Turn [L-S]
1959 (Inferno-Earth): The Schizoid Earth [L-S]
1967: The Dominators [BBC]
1968 (August): Mind of Stone (interludes) [L-S]
1969 (February): Fear of the Web [L-S]
1969 (February): The Web of Time [BF]
1969 (February): Ambush! [L-S]
1975/1969 (February): The Web of Fear [BBC]
1969 (March): The Forgotten Son [L-S]
1969 (March): The Contented Mind [L-S]
1969: (March): The Forgotten Son (epilogue) [L-S]
1969 (April): One Cold Step [L-S]
1969 (April): The Schizoid Earth [L-S]
1969 (May): The Cult of the Grinning Man [L-S]
1969 (May): Beast of Fang Rock [L-S]
1969 (May): The Dogs of War [L-S]
1969 (May-June): Mutually Assured Domination [L-S]
1969 (June): Planet of Giants [BBC]
1969 (June): The House of Giants [L-S]
1969 (July): Moon Blink (prologue) [L-S]
1969 (July): The Black Eggs of Khufu [L-S]
1969 (July): Moon Blink [L-S]
1969 (July): The Band of Evil [L-S]
1969 (August): The Showstoppers [L-S]
1969 (September): The Grandfather Infestation Read [L-S]
1969 (September): The Runaway Bomb [L-S]
1969 (September): The Last Duty [L-S]
1969 (October 25-26): Times Squared [L-S]
1969 (October 25-27): The Lost Skin [L-S]
1969 (October 31): Eve of the Fomorians [L-S]
1969 (November): Blood of Atlantis [L-S]
1969 (November): The Wishing Bazaar [L-S]
1969 (December): Mind of Stone [L-S]
1969 (December 23-25): The Feast of Evans [L-S]
1969 (December 24): The Fright Before Christmas [L-S]
1969 (December 24-26): Together at Christmas [L-S]
1969 (December 26): Mind of Stone (epilogue) [L-S]
1969 (December 28): Slouching Towards Det-Sen [L-S]
1970 (January 2): United in Blood [L-S]
1970 (January 17-22): Night of the Intelligence [L-S]
1970 (January 25-27): Brother Where Art Thou? [L-S]
1970 (January 27): Night of the Intelligence (epilogue) [L-S]
1970 (March): The Life of Evans [L-S]
1970 (February 21-23, 25): The Daughters of Earth [L-S]
1970 (March): The Cruel Oil [L-S]
1970 (March): Piece of Mind [L-S]
1970: (March) Cowpats and Comfort [LS]
1970 (March 8-23): The Dreamer’s Lament [L-S]
1970 (April): All the Kings Men [L-S]
1970 (April): The Flaming Soldier [L-S]
1970 (May): The Great Magician and the Spirits of the Vasty Deep [L-S]
1970 (May) A Very Private Haunting [L-S]
1970 (June 19-26): The New Unusual [L-S]
1970 (June 28): The Playing Dead [L-S]
1970: (July 3-8): Remnant of a Haunting [L-S]
1970: (July 8-9): The Beast of Braidwood Gate [L-S]
1970 (August 28-30): The Man from Yesterday [L-S]
1970 (October): Tall Tales [L-S]
1971: Inheritance [L-S]
1971: The Last Daughter [L-S]
1971 (September) ’48 Crash [L-S]
1979/1973: The Invasion [BBC]
1979/1973 (October): Spearhead from Space [BBC]
1979/1973: Doctor Who and the Silurians [BBC]
1979/1973: The Ambassadors of Death [BBC]
1973 (November): Rise of the Dominator [L-S]
1973: The Last Post [BF]
1980/1974 (July): Inferno [BBC]
1974 (July): Ashes of the Inferno [L-S]
1970s: Binary [BF]
1970s (April): The Arrival [L-S]
1970s: The Eye of the Giant [N]
1970s: Vengeance of the Stones [BF]
1970s: The Blue Tooth [BF]
1970s: The Scales of Injustice [N]
1970s: The Devil-Goblins of Neptune [N]
1970s: Terror of the Autons [BBC]
1970s: The Mind of Evil [BBC]
1970s: The Claws of Axos [BBC]
1970s: Colony in Space [BBC]
1974: The Time of the Intelligence [BF]
1970s: The Daemons [BBC]
1970s: The Sentinels of the New Dawn [BF]
1970s: The Doll of Death [BF]
1970s: The Scorchies [BF]
1970s: Day of the Daleks [BBC]
1970s: The Harvest of Time [N]
1970s: The Face of the Enemy [N]
1970s: The Time Monster [BBC]
1970s: Storm of the Horofax [BF]
1979: Rags [N]
1970s: Find and Replace [BF]
1970s: Verdigris [N]
1970s: The Three Doctors [BBC]
1970s: The Heralds of Destruction [C]
1970s: The Wages of Sin [N]
1970s: Prisoners of the Lake [BF]
1970s: The Hidden Realm [BF]
1970s: The Defectors [BF]
1970s: The Many Deaths of Jo Grant [BF]
1970s: Dancing the Code [N]
1970s: Last of the Gaderene [N]
1970s: The Green Death [BBC]
1970s: The Rings of Ikiria [BF]
1970s: Deep Blue [N]
1970s: The Three Companions [BF]
1970: Council of War [BF]
1974/1979: The Time Warrior [BBC]
1974/1979: The Paradise of Death [R]
1974/1979: The Invasion of the Dinosaurs [BBC]
1974/1979: The Ghosts of N-Space [R]
1974/1979: Planet of the Spiders Read [BBC]
1974/1979: Robot [BBC]
1980: Terror of the Zygons [BBC]
1980s/1970s: Official Secrets [C]
1981/1976: The Android Invasion [BBC]
1981: Wartime [V]
1981: Scary Monsters [L-S]
1981: The Revisionists [BF]
1981: The Lost Boy [L-S]
1981/1976: The Seeds of Doom [BBC]
1981: K9 & Company [BBC]
1977/1982: Mawdryn Undead [BBC]
1982: The Case of the Missing Fairy [L-S]
1982: Boys Don’t Cry [L-S]
1983: Mawdryn Undead [BBC]
1983: The Five Doctors [BBC]
1989: Business Unusual [N]
1989: The Slow Invasion [L-S]
1989 (September-December): Of the Future [L-S]
1990 (January): The Enfolded Time [L-S]
1990 (June): Hide No More [L-S]
1990 (September): Of the Future [L-S]
1995 (September): Downtime [V]
1997: Battlefield [BBC]
1997: The Dying Days [N]
1997: Vampire Science [N]
1999 (July): Dominion [N]
1999: The Danger Men [L-S]
1999: Millennial Rites [N]
2000 (October): The Spectre of Lanyon Moor [BF]
2000 (Winter): The Two Brigadiers [L-S]
2001: The Shadow in the Glass [N]
2003: Minuet in Hell [BF]
2003 (October): Dæmos Rising [V]
2004 (September): Downtime – Children of the New World [L-S]
2005: UNIT: The Coup [BF]
2005: UNIT: Time Heals [BF]
2005: UNIT: The Wasting [BF]
2009: The Enemy of the Bane [SJA]
2011 (September): Lucy Wilson [L-S]
2011 (November): The Laughing Gnome – Scary Monsters [L-S]
2011 (November): The Laughing Gnome – Fear of the Web [L-S]
2011 (November): The Laughing Gnome – The Danger Men [L-S]
2011 (November): The Laughing Gnome – Rise of the Dominator [L-S]
2011 (November): The Laughing Gnome – Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets [L-S]
2011 (October-December 16th): Acceptance, And Then Understanding [L-S]
2011 (October-December): The Lock-In
2012 (January): The Laughing Gnome – Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets (coda) [L-S]
2012 (January): The Laughing Gnome – On His Majesty’s National Service [L-S]
2012: The Wedding of River Song [BBC]
2013: The Bells of St John [BBC]
2013: Name of the Doctor [BBC]
2014: The Power of Three [BBC]
2015: UNIT Extinction [BF]
2015: UNIT Shutdown [BF]
2015: UNIT Silenced [BF]
2015: UNIT Assembled [BF]
2015: UNIT Encounters [BF]
2015: Day of the Doctor [BBC]
2016: The Story of Rhys Rubery [L-S]
2016: Dark Water/Death in Heaven [BBC]
2017: The Magician’s Apprentice [BBC]
2017: The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion [BBC]
2017 (September): Avatars of the Intelligence [LW]
2017 (October): The Curse of the Mirror Clowns [LW]
2017 (November): The Midnight People [LW]
2017 (November): The Arcade of Doom [L-S]
2017 (December) The Christmas Cracker Conundrum! [LW]
2018: (February): Past, Present and Yet to Come [LW]
2018: (February): The Bandril Invasion [LW]
2018 (March): The Brigadier and the Bledoe Cadets [LW]
2019 (October): A Visitor Calls [L-S]

Note on dating: Dates given are taken from both the television series or the Lethbridge-Stewart series (the primary source is the first date given). Often times the dates are contradictory within the television series itself. For a way to understand why such contradictions exist, read the short story, The Enfolded Time. Also, please note, some ‘events’ are rounded up, via oblique references, until they are locked down when explicitly dated in a given piece of work.

TIMELINE OF EVENTS:

All events occur in the multiverse, events echoing throughout the parallel timelines.

NOTE: The following timeline includes spoilers for products released up until the end of 2018.

1603: William Stewart and Mary Lethbridge are married, and they hyphenate their surnames becoming the first Lethbridge-Stewarts.

circa 1605: Mary Lethbridge-Stewart dies in childbirth. Her son, Henry John, is born, becoming the first-born Lethbridge-Stewart.

1630: The immortal entity known as the Buddha Padmasambhava returns to the corporeal plane and takes up resident at Det-Sen Monastery. He meets the (first) Doctor for the first time.

1730: The consciousness that was once Mahasamatman encounters Padmasambhava on the astral plane, possesses his body, and Padmasambhava christens it the (current) Great Intelligence.

1822: Anne Travers (from 1969) finds herself on Fang Rock, working alongside her ancestors Archibald Goff and Jacob Travers.

1842: After years of drifting in the astral plane, an amnesiac Great Intelligence (from the far future) lands on Earth in the form of sentient snow, and bonds with Walter Simeon.

1892: The Great Intelligence/Walter Simeon is defeated by the (eleventh) Doctor, but remains on Earth for over a hundred years.

1889 (August): Herbert George Wells finds himself dragged into a parallel world (in 1899) and teams up with Edward Travers (from 1935) They soon work out that it’s a Kontron crystal that binds them; the one Wells carried (given to him by Meena on Karfel) and the fragment of one that is embedded in Travers’ ring (a family heirloom given to him by his father). It’s the Kontron crystal that is dragging them through time, towards Karfel.

1899 (May): Edward (and twin, Vincent) Travers is born.

1902: While Alistair Conall Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart is away working, his brother, Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart, comforts Lillian Lethbridge-Stewart (Alistair’s wife) and a night of indiscretion follows. Nine months later Gordon Conall Lethbridge-Stewart is born. Everybody assumes he is the son of Alistair and Lillian. Elsewhere, Owain Vine and Lance Corporal William Bishop astral project from 1969 to Fang Rock, and observe Ben Travers and the arrival of the Rutan, and the (fourth) Doctor’s TARDIS.

1914: At Christmas, Archibald Lethbridge-Stewart meets the Doctor (in two incarnations), but does not retain the memory of the meeting.

1916: George Vine is born.

1917: It is becoming clear to Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart that Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart is not his son, but Archibald’s. The secret is kept by all involved.

1921: Eileen Le Croissette is born July 4th.

1923: Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart meets Mary Gore, and they are married later in the year. Ian Gilmore is born.

1925: Gordon and Mary Lethbridge-Stewart move to the Cornish village of Bledoe. November that year, Raymond is born to Harold and Eileen Phillips.

1926: Gordon James (who will go on to be known as James) is born on April 2nd to Gordon and Mary Lethbridge-Stewart. In May, Henry is born to Jonathan and Maureen Barns.

1928: Jemima is born to Lee and Lesley Fleming in July. Rachel Jensen is born.

1929: Alistair Gordon is born to Gordon and Mary Lethbridge-Stewart on February 2nd. Joy is born to Lee and Lesley Fleming in May. Sir Alistair, Dame Anne Bishop and Brigadier William Bishop (originally from 2011) all find themselves in 1929 after jumping from 1969. For the first time, Sir Alistair is in the body of another person, a thirteen-year-old George Vine.

1930: Patrick Lanahan is born to Mick Gibney and Kathy Lanahan on July 14th.

1931: Michael Gibney is born to Mick and Bridie Gibney in April. The following month, Walter Douglas is born.

1932: Jane is born to Jonathan and Maureen Barns.

1933: Emily is born to Harold and Eileen Phillips. Edward Travers marries Margaret Goff in August.

1935: After a few drinks, Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart talks to his ‘uncle’ Archibald Lethbridge-Stewart and explains that he’s worked out that Archibald is actually his father. Edward Travers first meets the (Second) Doctor, and the (current) Great Intelligence in October. Padmasambhava is finally freed of the Great Intelligence. Edward Travers travels forward in time to 1965 and spends four years in the future before returning to 1935 – and his memory of his future excursion is blocked from his mind. (En route back to 1935, he is duplicated and dragged off course by a Kontron crystal and ends up on a parallel Earth alongside Herbert George Wells.)

1936: Samson is born to Wesley and Lucia Ware in April. Gwynfor is born to Dyfan and Norma Evans in June. Alun is born to Edward and Margaret Travers in July. During the summer a gang of ten-year-old boys from Bledoe (James Lethbridge-Stewart, Henry Barns, Raymond Phillips, Edwin Stone, Terry Thompson, Nobby, ‘Smiffy’ Gloyne) form the Bledoe Cadets, and start using the barn at Puckator Farm as their gang hut. The gang grows in number over the next year (including Jason Starling). But despite his best efforts, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is refused admission.

1937: Early in the year, the Bledoe Cadets are joined on an adventure by Lucy Wilson and Hobo (from 2018). In the summer, although only nine, Jemima Fleming is allowed to join the Cadets because Henry Barns fancies her, but she fancies James Lethbridge-Stewart. Henry is held captive by the Bald Men in the Pengriffen fogou. Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart helps save him, and for the first time Henry is nice to Alistair, but he is still not allowed to be a Cadet. James, Raymond Phillips and Alistair encounter the Hollow Man in Draynes Wood; really the (future) Great Intelligence’s Walter Simeon avatar. The Intelligence plans on killing the Doctor’s greatest ally, Alistair, but is instead pulled into James – who it recognises, too late, as the first incarnation of its own immortal soul. The Great Intelligence becomes trapped in James. By the end of the year, Alistair is allowed to join the Cadets by Raymond, who misses the ever-absent James.

1938: In March, a week before his twelfth birthday, James Lethbridge-Stewart begins acting out, and is driven by Maha to commit suicide by throwing himself off Golitha Falls. On Sunday 27th, in a moment of lucidity, he apologises to Raymond Phillips and Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, before jumping. This does not free the (future) Great Intelligence as it had hoped, instead it finds its essence trapped in nearby Remington Manor. All it has done is create a slightly divergent timeline. The funeral is arranged quickly, and Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart is allowed home for a few days. As a coping mechanism, Raymond begins to write ghost stories. Shortly after James’ funeral, Gordon writes a letter to his father, which reveals he knows that Archibald is his biological father, although he still considers Alistair Snr his real father. The letter is given to the family solicitor, only to be handed to Alistair Snr on the event of Gordon’s death. On his eighth birthday, Patrick Lanahan discovers that Michael Gibney is his half-brother. Michael accidentally kills his father to protect Patrick. On October 28th, Anne is born to Edward and Margaret Travers. [On the Inferno-Earth, it is Alistair who dies at Golitha Falls, and not James, as in that reality there was no interference from the Great Intelligence.]

1939: In March, Sally is born to Dyfan Evans and Kathleen Wright. Allison Williams is born.

1940: Eileen le Croissette experiences the London Blitz, which leads her to join the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. By the end of the year, Patrick Lanahan and Michael Gibney are separated and put into different foster homes.

1941: During the war, Anne and Alun Travers spend much time with their uncle and aunty. It is in their garden, when Edward Travers explains about static electricity, that three-year-old Anne decides she is going to be a scientist. Edward Travers is brought into the Fourth Operational Corps by Tobias Kinsella. Eileen le Croissette is commissioned as an assistant section officer in November.

1942: Eileen le Croissette is promoted to section officer. Edward Travers meets Eileen for the first time in April. He recommends her for the Fourth Operational Corps and she is promptly transferred.

1943: After a long illness, Margaret Travers dies in April.

1944: Eileen le Croissette marries physical training instructor Peter Younghusband, cousin of Derek Younghusband.

1945: In February, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart has his first kiss, with Jemima Fleming. By May, Mary Lethbridge-Stewart is informed that Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart is MIA, believed dead. A memorial is held for Gordon in April, and the Lethbridge-Stewart family descends on Bledoe, including Alistair Conall Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart and his wife, Lillian Lethbridge-Stewart, and Archibald Lethbridge-Stewart and his wife. Alistair Snr receives the note Gordon wrote in 1938, and finally talks to Archibald about Gordon’s birth. On August 14th, William Daniel Michael is born to Anthony and Susan Bishop in Mitcham, London. In September, Mary passes her home onto the Phillips’, and she and Alistair leave Bledoe. As they drive from Bledoe, the (future) Great Intelligence reaches out from Remington Manor and blocks all memory of James from Alistair and Mary.

1946: It is during this year that Gordon James Lethbridge-Stewart was supposed to in the original timeline. Despite the promise, Raymond Phillips receives only two letters from Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart. He doesn’t hear from Alistair for another twenty-four years. Mary Lethbridge-Stewart suffers a breakdown, and disappears for some months, leaving Alistair in the care of his aunt and uncle, Isobel and Tommy Davies.

1947: After Mary Lethbridge-Stewart recovers from her breakdown, she moves to Coleshill with Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, who begins studying to become a maths teacher.

1949: Henry Barns marries Jemima Fleming.

1950: Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart performs his National Service in Korea, and briefly meets Private Walter Douglas. Starts as a private, but is breveted a second lieutenant and first meets Spencer Pemberton. George Vine marries Shirley Hatt. Henry Barns does his two years of National Service, but never goes beyond private.

1951: Owain (and twin, Lewis) is born to George and Shirley Vine on April 16th. He is the reincarnated soul of Gordon James Lethbridge-Stewart.

1952: Henry Barns returns from National Service to his family. He vows never to serve again. In September, Patrick Lanahan discovers his brother living in London, now under the name Harold Barrington Chorley.

1953: After much consideration, and advice from Mary Lethbridge-Stewart, Spencer Pemberton and Alistair Conall Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart accepts his lineage and enters Sandhurst to become a military officer. There he re-meets Officer Cadet Walter Douglas, and meets Officer Cadet Leslie Johnston. The become the ‘holy trinity’. Raymond Phillips sells his first story, The Hollow Man of Carrington Lodge, and begins a moderately successful career as an author. Jonathan (JB) is born to Jemima and Henry Barns. George and Shirley Vine move to Bledoe. Owain Vine’s arrival in Bledoe awakens the (future) Great Intelligence, but it is still too weak, but it soon realises that Owain is the reincarnation of Gordon James Lethbridge-Stewart. It begins to formulate a plan to bring about its freedom.

1954: Second Lieutenant Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart passes out from Sandhurst. In October, Patrick Lanahan officially changes his name to Larry Greene and attempts to reunite with his brother. Harold Chorley wants nothing to do with him, blaming Larry for the murder of their father – having convinced himself of that truth. They have sporadic contact over the following fifteen years.

1955: Second Lieutenant Leslie Johnston, after an altercation with a NCO, is given a dishonourable discharge from military service; partly blaming Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart. James (Jimmy) is born to Jemima and Henry Barns. Alistair is promoted to full lieutenant.

1956: Lieutenant Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Scots Guards, moves into a small flat in Pimlico, London. He first meets Sergeant Samson Ware, and they build up an easy friendship. After an altercation with a cab-driver who disrespects Samson, he is shipped out to Cyprus, while Alistair is severely punished for hitting the cabbie. Clive is born to Peter and Eileen Younghusband.

1957: The (future) Great Intelligence makes a move on newly promoted Captain Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart‘s life, but fails. It travels back to 1937, to strike before Alistair becomes a man.

1958: Sergeant Samson Ware is given an honourable discharge from the Armed Forces.

1959: [On the Inferno-Earth, Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart arrives from 1969, and spends several months there, meeting that world’s version of his dead brother, First Major James Lethbridge-Stewart. They travel to a middle-world and rescue Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart, who is then taken under the wing of Director Gordon Conall Lethbridge-Stewart.] In the real world, alt-James arrives from Inferno-Earth, having escaped from that world’s 1969 with his nine-year-old son, Dylan Jensen Lethbridge-Stewart. Winifred Bambera is born.

1960: Alt-James Lethbridge-Stewart sets himself up as James Gore (his maternal grandfather’s name, thus distancing himself from his father), and begins to bed himself in with influential minsters and corruptible military officers. He hides his son form the world, and changes his name to Simon Gore. Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is promoted to major.

1963: Ian Gilmore is promoted to group captain. The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group is formed, and Rachel Jensen is drafted into it.

1964: Ian Gilmore and Rachel Jensen marry.

1965: Raymond Phillips sells his last story, and settles on doing odd-jobs around Bledoe. Edward Travers arrives from 1935, and after visiting Det-Sen, he returns home to London surprised to find it is 1965. He is devastated to learn of his wife’s death, and from afar he espies his future children, Anne and Alun Travers. And studiously avoids interacting with his future self. In Coleshill, after many years of holding on to the memory of her marriage, Mary Lethbridge-Stewart decides to resume using her maiden name, Gore. The Intrusion Counter-Measures Group is shut down. Ian and Rachel Gilmore have their first son.

1966: Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is promoted to lieutenant colonel. Ian Gilmore is promoted to air commodore.

1967: Vincent Travers dies. Driver Gwynfor Evans’ mother returns after his father’s death, and he learns about his half-sister, Sally Wright. Samson Ware enters the entertainment industry as a television stuntman. The Dominators, under Director Vaar, arrive on Earth and create Dominex Industries.

1968: The Vault is founded by the Ministry of Technology, and is run by General James Gore. Dominex Industries which is incorporated January 5th. In March, Lieutenant Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is first introduced to Sally Wright by Major Walter Douglas In August, following an incident with the alien rock, Colonel Spencer Pemberton is brought in with Captain Ben Knight to help in creating the Special Forces Support Group. At the same time, Alistair has a weekend tryst with Doris Bryden in Brighton. Doris unknowingly ends up pregnant. In September, Alistair and Sally start dating. While serving in Libya, Alistair is promoted to colonel in December.

1969: Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is brought back to the UK to serve as Colonel Spencer Pemberton‘s 2-in-C during the London Event. Loses his jacket in a skirmish, and ends up wearing a lieutenant colonel’s jacket found at Elm Park Command. Larry Greene is chosen to cover events in London, but he suggests Harold Chorley is the best man for the job – although his brother knows nothing of this. A future version of Alistair (from 2011) is sharing his body, and he subtlety works to ensure events happen according to history. Dame Anne Bishop (also from 2011) inhabits the body of Rachel Ashcroft, the girlfriend of Malachi Silverstein. She hits upon a plan to rescue her father. Meanwhile, the (current) Great Intelligence sets a trap for the (second) Doctor. Alistair saves John James from a Yeti, and Sir Alistair realises something he did not originally know in 1969, the boy will one day father his grandson in 1989. Neither future Alistair nor Anne have any impact on the timeline, and are spirited away, just as Alistair first meets the Doctor. With the assistance of Anne Travers and Edward Travers, the Doctor and Alistair defeat the Great Intelligence and save London. After monitoring the Great Intelligence’s attack on London, 1935-Edward Travers follows the Intelligence to America and sets himself up as the proprietor of Ebron Books. There he begins to prepare for the Intelligence’s next attack. Ian Gilmore is promoted to air vice-marshal.

In March, the (future) Great Intelligence sets it plan into motion, first by making contact with Owain Vine while masquerading at the ghost of Gordon James Lethbridge-Stewart, and then by pulling both Mary Gore and Staff Sergeant Arnold to Bledoe. Alistair follows in their trail, enlisting the help of Rifleman William ‘Bill’ Bishop along the way. He reunites with Henry Barns and Ray Phillips, and is confronted by the fact that he has a dead brother he can’t remember. The old Bledoe Cadets work together, with Bill and Anne, to defeat the (future) Intelligence once and for all. Alistair decides to remain in touch with his old friends in Bledoe, who can fill in the gaps of his missing memories, and discovers Owain in the reincarnation of James. They decide to look at each other as uncle and nephew. Alistair and Sally Wright get engaged.
The following month, Alistair gets dragged back in time to 1959 and another reality, the Inferno-Earth. Greene is called upon to investigate, while Anne and Travers work together to find a way to bring Alistair It is during April that Albert is born to Doris Bryden; she intends to tell Alistair about his son, but never gets around to sending the letter after learning that Alistair is now engaged.
In May, Alistair, Bill and Anne travel to Fang Rock to solve a mystery there. Owain assists them, and Anne travels back to 1823. Afterwards, Alistair meets up with Air Vice-Marshal Gilmore and learns about the Home-Army Fourth Operational Corps, the Doctor’s various involvements on Earth, and he also learns more about the Vault and the mysterious General who runs it. [On the Inferno-Earth, Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart has become the dictatorial Leader of the British Republic, and Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart has been brainwashed into the perfect fascist soldier. To escape them, alt-James uses Axon technology to travel across reality with his son, Dylan Jensen Lethbridge-Stewart.]
In June, Chorley investigates Dominex Industries and calls in Alistair. They expose and defeat the Dominators, to the cost of Chorley’s sanity after he is brainwashed by the Dominator leader, Director Vaar. Major General Oliver Hamilton authorises the formation of the Home-Army Fifth Operational Corps, with Alistair Dolerite Base, beneath Edinburgh Castle, is given to the Fifth. Gradually troops are assigned, and Alistair’s key staff are assembled, including Bill, Anne and Colonel Walter Douglas. Driver Gwynfor Evans is assigned to the Fifth, now holding the rank of private. Chorley, haunted by dreams of Dominators, starts stalking Alistair to find answers. In August, Alistair comes across Samson Ware while investigating LWT, and convinces him to join the Fifth, to help with training the greener troops. He’s given the rank of sergeant major. Alistair is promoted to brigadier. And Sally shortcuts Alistair and gets assigned to Fifth in Scotland, much to Alistair’s disapproval. Captain Derek Younghusband, of Military Intelligence, is assigned to the Fifth, and Alistair sends Private Evans to Imber for Younghusband to sort out.
While holidaying in New York with Sally and Owain in October, Alistair encounters the time-displaced Travers, and works with him and Captain Adrienne Kramer to defeat the (current) Great Intelligence. Owain meets Simon Gore, and they almost become romantically involved. But Simon disappears, continuing to observe Owain from afar over the following months, on orders from General Gore. Now four years older, Travers is returned to 1935. Meanwhile, in Scotland, Chorley is waylaid in John o Groats with Greene, following Samson and the contemporary Travers. Chorley is confronted with the truth about his father’s murder, when Greene dies in his arms.
In November, Owain is nearly kidnapped on Santorini, and Alistair meets Captain Bugayev for the first time. Later in the month, Alistair is sentenced to Wormwood Scrubs Prison. It’s all a ruse to investigate the gangster, Hugh Godfrey. Leslie Johnston attempts to kill Alistair, and is later killed instead by General Gore for the unauthorised attempt on the life of his ‘brother’. The command staff of the Fifth celebrate Christmas together, while Chorley finally contacts Greene’s wife, his sister-in-law, and gets to meet his niece and nephew. Travers heads of to Tibet, and is kidnapped by General Gore’s people, but his mind escapes on the astral plane with the help of Abbot Thonmi.

1970: Owain Vine is kidnapped in Japan, just after reuniting with Simon Gore. He is brought to the Vault, and General Gore plans on using both Owain and Edward Travers to access the void and find a way to save his wife from the Inferno-Earth. General Gore reveals himself to Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, who refuses to accept him as his brother. Memories of his past life start coming back to him, and Owain remembers being James and meeting a girl called Lucy Wilson, and her friend, Hobo. Owain is contacted by Padmasambhava, and they use the Great Intelligence to seal the void, saving the entire universe from temporal annihilation. Travers is lost on the astral plane, and Abbot Thonmi helps Anne Travers to say goodbye to him. Simon and Owain make their peace, and Simon turns on General Gore, retaking his real name of Dylan Lethbridge-Stewart. General Gore is removed from the Vault. The Great Intelligence is trapped in the body of Travers which, Alistair is promised, will be buried in concrete beneath the Vault. After a visit to Bledoe, Owain and Dylan get new papers, and Owain takes on the Lethbridge-Stewart name.

In February, following Sally Wright’s time with the Daughters of Earth, Alistair and she agree to end their engagement. She is reassigned to Imber Base, no longer directly under Alistair’s command. After much consideration, and dancing around each other for almost a year, Anne asks Corporal William Bishop on a date. Gwynfor Evans is finally promoted to lance corporal. In March, Harold Chorley calls on Alistair and the two men end up trapped in the Keynsham Triangle. There they stop the Loa, while Anne finally tells her brother about their father’s death. In thanks for Chorley’s help, Alistair gives him a clue that will help Chorley find Director Vaar. A private funeral is held for Edward Travers, even though they don’t have his body to bury. Alistair meets Eileen Younghusband for the first time. For the next few months Anne finds herself shutting off, and realises she can’t play this game anymore, and seriously thinks about leaving the Fifth. Bill isn’t happy about it, but he understands how much her father’s death has affected her.
In late June, Owain and Dylan’s travels bring them to Australia and into contact with the dream eggs. The eggs are also in Scotland, and soon Alistair, Anne and Bill join Owain in Australia. Owain’s mind escapes onto the astral plane when his mind is attacked by a dream egg. His body falls into a coma, and is placed in the Warehouse for safe keeping when it becomes clear he will not be returning to it anytime soon. In July, Dylan, now at a loose end without Owain, eventually decides to return to Bledoe and JB. In August, Air Commander Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart returns to Earth, having spent the last twenty-five years fighting a war in the Realm of Light. He reconnects with Alistair and Mary Gore, and General Gore kidnaps him, thinking he may have a way to return General Gore to Inferno-Earth and rescue his wife. He convinces Anne that he has secreted the body of Travers away somewhere. Once it is clear that Gordon will not help him, General Gore confesses he was lying to assure her help. Gordon says goodbye to Alistair properly this time, and returns to the Realm of Light to help win the war. Finally having enough, Anne hands in her resignation letter. Alistair returns to his mother’s and tells her, at last, all about James, her forgotten son.
For a time, Anne goes freelance, and investigates her father’s missing body. But nobody can tell her where the body of Travers Anne makes it her life goal to map the astral plane, to find both her father and Owain. Chorley finally tracks down Director Vaar, but something goes disastrously wrong for Bill, and Sally is killed. Evans asks to be the one to inform Sally’s mother, realising he waited too long to make his peace with his half-sister.

1971: Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart re-meets Fiona Campbell, and a romance quickly sparks up. Doris Bryden marries George Wilson, who takes two-year-old Albert Bryden on as his own, and his name is changed to Albert Wilson. During a mission Sergeant Major Samson Ware is killed in action. Alistair Conall Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart dies, and his son Matthew Lethbridge-Stewart takes over the family estate in Appin, Scotland. Captain William Bishop marries Anne Travers

1972: . Tamara (Wilson) is born in May that year. In November, Professor Edward Travers returns from his travels with HG Wells and finds himself in 1972. He is a man out of time, and Anne refuses to accept him as her father, especially as he’s only seven years older than her. He gives her his Kontron ring, to prove he’s really who he says he is. She thinks of him as Ted, the name her husband often used for her father. Circa1972 Kate Lethbridge-Stewart is born.

1973/1979: UNIT (the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) is officially activated, and Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart takes command. Colonel Walter Douglas is made commander of the Fifth Operational Corps, and promoted to brigadier, and Major Leopold is promoted to lieutenant colonel and second in command. After over four months of Ted Travers being the UK, Anne Bishop asks a favour of Alistair, and it agreed he will work in the US with UNIT. Anne spends some time in the US with him, helping set up the scientific arm of UNIT-US with Major Kramer. Bill is promoted to major. The (second) Doctor assists UNIT in defeating the Cybermen. Alistair is ordered by Major General Hamilton to ensure the Doctor’s services are retained should he return again. Months later, the (third) Doctor is exiled to Earth and joins UNIT. Alistair is given explicit orders to not discuss the Fifth with the Doctor; the alien must not become aware of what hides behind UNIT. Air Vice-Marshal Ian Gilmore retires from active military service. Derek Younghusband is promoted to major, and commander of Imber Base. While contemporary Alistair is dealing with the missing Mars Probe Seven, Sir Alistair from 2011 inhabits the body of the Matador, and finally reunites with Dame Anne and Brigadier Bishop who are in the bodies of two police officers. They finally uncover something they never knew; how Director Vaar rose to power again. At the same time, the contemporary Anne and Bill are at Niagara Falls celebrating their first wedding anniversary.

1974: Anne Bishop finally makes contact with Owain Lethbridge-Stewart on the astral plane, and he helps her construct a ‘ghost phone’ so his family can contact him if they wish to. The (third) Doctor travels to Inferno-Earth and witnesses first the death of Brigade Leader Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart, and then the entire UK. General Gore feels the death throws of his world, and convinces Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart to take him to Eastchester. There, the bullet that killed Alastair crosses realities and kills him, too. He dies in Alistair’s arms. [Professor Edward Travers lives in London, with his carer (his great nephew) Reece Goff, and assists the Counter-Measures team in fighting the Great Intelligence.]

1975: Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and Fiona Lethbridge-Stewart get divorced, and Kate Lethbridge-Stewart remains with her mother. Anne Bishop agrees to resume helping the Fifth, only if she can have free use of the Warehouse’s resources.

1974/1979: Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart witnesses the Doctor regenerate for the first time.

1980/1975: Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and the (fourth) Doctor part regular company in Scotland. The body of Edward Travers is brought to Det-Sen by the Great Intelligence, and an official obituary for him appears in a UK paper, which attracts the attention of Anne Bishop. Lieutenant Douglas Cavendish lead an investigation into the destruction of the Det-Sen Monastery, and comes under the influence of the (current) Great Intelligence. Later, Anne Bishop visits the ruins, and finds her father’s ring (the duplicate of the one she already owns), and it proves to her that the Great Intelligence is still using his body.

1981/1976: Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart spends a lot of time in Geneva, but undertakes one last mission before he retires, and teams-up with Major Bugayev once again. It is during this time that Sir Alistair (from 2011) inhabits his body and relives that mission. Immediately after, while back at Geneva, Alistair encounters Leela and meets the (fourth) Doctor again. He finally retires from UNIT, and begins teaching at Brendan School for Boys. William Bishop is promoted to lieutenant colonel.

1977: Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is reunited with the (Fifth) Doctor, and meets his future self. His memory of the event is lost.

1983: Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is reunited with the (fifth) Doctor, and meets his past self. His memory of 1977 is restored, and so are vague memories of James. It is around this time that Gwynfor Evans finally achieves a commission as an officer, and becomes a second lieutenant.

1988: Samuel is born to William and Anne Bishop.

1989: Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart assists the (sixth) Doctor against SeneNet. While at Uni in Reading, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart falls for her lecturer, Jonathan ’John’ James. They engage in a relationship, and in December she discovers she is pregnant. She decides to tell her dad, but a visit to Brendon School shows Kate why she can’t allow her unborn child to a part of Alistair’s world. She doesn’t speak to him again for almost six years. William Bishop is promoted to colonel and second in command of the Fifth Operational Corps. Leaving Owain Lethbridge-Stewart’s body in the care of Liz Shaw, Anne Bishop goes to America with Ted Travers (whom she has finally accepted).

1990: After a New Year party with old friends and colleagues, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is taken out of time by the Accord and learns that the past twenty years of Earth [1969-1989] history have been condensed into ten years of overlapping events because of the Doctor’s damaged TARDIS. A temporal marker is placed on him, so when he’s returned to Earth certain people become aware of the discrepancies. He meets with UNIT to discuss new dating protocols. Albert Wilson turns up at Brendon, and reveals himself to his father. His girlfriend is pregnant, and he wants Alistair to be a part of his unborn child’s life. Later that year Alistair reunites with Doris Wilson, and over the next couple of years they begin to formally court each other. Albert and Tamara marry, although Tamara’s father misses the wedding. Alistair is there for the birth of his first grandchild. Conall is born to Albert and Tamara Wilson on June 15th. Alistair finally meets Tamara’s father, much to his surprise. Unknown to Alistair, on September 25th a second grandson is born, Gordon James II to Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Jonathan James. He becomes known as Gordy.

1993: Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Jonathan James split up, since Kate refuses to marry him. He’s also bothered by how over-protective of Gordy Lethbridge-Stewart she is. He leaves them shortly before Gordy’s third birthday.

1995: In September, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart faces off against the Great Intelligence once again, and is reunited with Kate Lethbridge-Stewart. Edward Travers’ body is finally destroyed by the Intelligence after twenty-five years of use. After much consideration, Kate allows Alistair to meet Gordy Lethbridge-Stewart. Alistair introduces them to the rest of their family; Albert, Tamara and Conall Wilson. Captain Douglas Cavendish, no longer under the Intelligence’s control, is dismissed from UNIT, but Kate takes pity of him and the two stay in contact.

1996: Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart marries Doris Wilson, and their wedding is attended by their families.

1997: Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart reunites with the (seventh) Doctor. As a result of the battle against Morgaine, Alistair becomes restless and realises he misses the adventures. He starts telling Conall Lethbridge-Stewart about his adventures, which only serves to bring him and his son, Albert Wilson, closer too.

1999: Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is knighted, and Anne Bishop is made a Dame Commander. Nick is born to Albert and Tamara Wilson on August 21st. Brigadier William Bishop (from 2011) finds himself in the body of Calum Bence of Department M; he bumps into the contemporary Sir Alistair, Dame Anne and himself! Bill arranges a meeting between Sir Alistair and Brigadier Bambera about seeing if there is any way Sir Alistair could become involved again. The meeting does not go well.

2000: In October, while Doris Lethbridge-Stewart is visiting relatives in Devon, Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart investigates the strange goings-on at Lanyon Moor. There he reunites with the (sixth) Doctor. Once the mystery is solved, he visits nearby Bledoe where Doris meets him for a brief holiday. In the winter, William Bishop is promoted to brigadier and commander of the Fifth Operational Corps, with Shaun Miles promoted to colonel and his 2-in-C. Dame Anne Bishop goes missing in Wales, and Bill calls on Sir Alistair’s assistant in finding her.

2003: Brigadier William Bishop from 2011, temporarily ends up in the body of Gideon Crane in the new US state of Malebolgia. Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart attends the event, secretly working on behalf of the UN and reunites with the (eighth) Doctor. Dame Anne Bishop (from 2011) inhabits the body of nurse Claire Thompson. In October, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart helps Douglas Cavendish when he feels his home is haunted. She leaves Gordy Lethbridge-Stewart with Sir Alistair and Doris Lethbridge-Stewart.

2004: Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and Dame Anne Bishop team up to help Kate Lethbridge-Stewart when Conall Wilson and Gordy Lethbridge-Stewart are kidnapped. Sir Alistair is asked to be Special Envoy the United Nations Security Council.

2005: Lucy Marie is born to Albert and Tamara Wilson on June 2nd.

2005-2007: ICIS temporarily take over UNIT operations, but Alistair helps uncover the corruption of ICIS, and the organisation is terminated. As a result, the UN opts to shut down UNIT, however, Brigadier William Bishop gets support to integrate the Fifth Operational Corps, UNIT and various other UK organisations. It takes a good two years, but eventually the integration occurs and they are rebranded as the Unified Intelligence Taskforce (but continue to operate under the UNIT moniker).

2008: In September, cousins Conall Wilson and Gordy Lethbridge-Stewart go out on the town to celebrate their eighteenth birthdays, much to their parents’ chagrin.

2009: Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is stranded in Peru. He later assists Sarah Jane Smith against the Bane Mother, Mrs Wormwood, before returning to Peru on behalf of the UN.

2010: Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is still in Peru when the (eleventh) Doctor is believed to be dead, and is thus not there to meet the Doctor when he reunites with Sarah Jane Smith and Jo Grant. Brigadier William Bishop retires from active military service and becomes a military advisor on the United Nations Security Council.

2011: In September, Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart visits his family in London, feeling his health slipping. Things have soured between him and his son. He gives his granddaughter, Lucy Wilson, a special gift and tells her to never forget she is a Lethbridge-Stewart. Shortly after, he is placed in a funeral home to live out his final days in comfort. Conall Wilson begins dating Dean Howard, and tells him that he’s planning on changing his name to Lethbridge-Stewart as a Christmas gift to his grandfather. In November, at the funeral of Joan Pemberton, Sir Alistair picks up a strange looking gnome and takes it back to nursing home with him. The gnome sends him back to 1981, to a mission he barely remembers. Upon his return, he barely gets to tell Dame Anne Bishop and Brigadier William Bishop about it before all three of them are cast through time. Shortly after, they return; barely any time has passed in 2011, but for them they’ve been away for months (in fourteen different bodies). Everything settles down again, and Sir Alistair is visited by Conall who reveals to his grandfather he is gay, and tells him about Dean, who he plans to marry. He also has a photograph for his grandfather; the (thirteenth) Doctor popped by Conall’s home to drop it off, as she couldn’t cross her own time-path. While there Conall spots a photograph of a girl who seems to be Lucy, only it shows her with Sir Alistair and his brother, James. Sir Alistair won’t explain it. Sir Alistair dies a few weeks later, on December 16th, aged eighty-two. It is the same day that Conall’s name change to Lethbridge-Stewart is made legal. He hears of his grandfather’s death via a phone call from Kate Lethbridge-Stewart. The body of Sir Alistair is laid in-state until after the new year.

2012: The funeral of Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is held on Saturday 7th January.

2013: The (future) Great Intelligence sets the ultimate trap for the (eleventh) Doctor, and travels down his timestream, undoing every defeat. Clara follows the Intelligence and is splintered across time, restoring the timeline. The Intelligence refuses to be defeated and jumps a time track to travel down Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart’s timeline. If it can kill him, the Doctor’s greatest ally, it can have the ultimate victory.

2014: Conall Lethbridge-Stewart marries Dean Howard.

2015: Kate Lethbridge-Stewart meets the (eleventh) Doctor for the first time.

2016: Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is resurrected as a Cyberman, and saves Kate Lethbridge-Stewart. He salutes the (twelfth) Doctor, fulfilling a vision he saw way back in 1969, and flies off. Conall and Dean Lethbridge-Stewart adopt a daughter, Hannah. Eileen Younghusband dies on September 2nd, at the age of ninety-five.

2017: The Wilsons move to Ogmore-by-Sea. Lucy Wilson meets Hobo, and during a commemorative event in London for Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, they become embroiled in another attack of the (current) Great Intelligence. They have help from Dame Anne Bishop. Once the Intelligence is defeated, Dame Anne passes onto Lucy a ring with a Kontron crystal in it – a time ring, the one previously worn by Ted Travers. Anne had her own ring, that which belonged to her father, Edward Travers. Lucy uses the ring, unintentionally, and pays a very brief visit to Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart in 2011, and she spots a picture on his mantle; a picture of her and Hobo and two others from the 1930s. Lucy embraces her Lethbridge-Stewart heritage, and along with Hobo, she fashions herself as the defender of Ogmore.

2018: Lucy Wilson and Hobo visit Bledoe and are whisked back in time to 1937, where they meet the Bledoe Cadets. Lucy is exposed to potential futures, including one where she is a major in the British Army. Brigadier William Bishop dies at the age of seventy-three.

2041: Dame Anne Bishop dies peacefully in her sleep, aged 103, watched over by Ruby the Rutan.

Circa 11,926: The Great Intelligence is born of the ascended soul called Mahasamatman on the planet Sathanasi. It travels on the astral plane, and eventually meets Padmasambhava circa 1730.