Sara Kingdom

This page chronicles the adventures of **Sara Kingdom** as played by Jean Marsh in the order in which she experienced them. Therefore the following timeline should not be seen as an accurate reading/listening order as some stories may have framing devices which take place later in another character's life.

The timeline is primarily derived from facts from within *Doctor Who* media, however authorial intent is taken into account as well. Occasionally, assumptions or speculations may be made where insufficient information is available, however these will always be marked as such for full transparency.

Most BBC licensed *Doctor Who* content is counted on this timeline, including but not limited to the TV series itself, Big Finish Productions, BBC Books and Virgin Books material. However, intentionally parodic content such as the Dr Men books, various Titan Comics backups and Doctor Whoah! should not be added to this particular chronology. Likewise, fanfiction and charity publications will also be avoided.

## Key

* **TV**: Television story
* **WC**: Online video story
* **AUDIO**: Audio drama, audio short story, or audio novel
* **COMIC**: Comic story
* **NOVEL**: Novel
* **NOVELLA**: Novella
* **SHORT**: Short written story
* **FEATURE**: A feature or featurette which doesn't explicitly tell a story

## Timeline

### Working for the SSS

NOTE: *There are two conflicting accounts of Sara's induction into the SSS.*

#### 1. Joining at seven

* (REFERENCE) - AUDIO: *The Sontarans*

Sara joins the Space Security Service at the age of seven. The SSS existed long before Sara was even born.

* AUDIO: *The Destroyers*

In this account, Sara is lower ranked than in *The Outlaw Planet*. She is on a mission with Mark Seven and Jason Corey, where they encounter the Daleks for the first time. Even Mark Seven appears to have never encountered the Daleks before, although he is aware of an incursion into human space 70 years prior. They discover that the Daleks intend to invade the Solar System, focusing on Earth.

#### 2. A founding member

* (REFERENCE) - FEATURE: *Top Secret*

In this account, at the age of 21, Sara's father is killed by space pirates and so she hunts down and destroys the pirate rocket. She then applies to join the SSS.

* SHORT: *The Outlaw Planet*

According to this account, Sara Kingdom is recruited as one of the Space Security Service's first members at the age of 21, and is made head of head of field operations. The agency is formed in anticipation of the growing Dalek threat. Shortly after Sara partakes in the agency's first ever mission, ending with the destruction of a Dalek fleet.

* COMIC: *Sara Kingdom: Space Security Agent*

Sara is described as a top level SSS agent. She goes on a mission to undermine the Dalek effort to take over Earth

* (REFERENCE) - FEATURE: *Top Secret*

Compuvac, the computer controlling the SSS, releases a previously classified document to the public detailing some of Sara's exploits and history. She is 23 at time of publication.

* COMIC: *The Brain Tappers*

The Daleks attempt to invade Earth but are repelled by Sara.

### Travels with the Doctor and Steven

* **TV: *The Traitors / Counter Plot* / *Coronas of the Sun***

Mavic Chen sends Sara to kill the First Doctor and Steven Taylor, but after they are accidentally teleported to the planet Mira by experimental technology, she befriends them instead, learning that Chen is the real traitor. Being drawn back to Kembel, they trick the Daleks and escape in the TARDIS, leading directly into *The Feast of Steven*.

* **TV: *The Feast of Steven***

The TARDIS briefly arrive in two Christmases: Liverpool in 1965 and Hollywood in 1921, before deciding to celebrate Christmas in the TARDIS.

* AUDIO: *The Anachronauts*

The travellers are still celebrating Christmas when the TARDIS collides with another timeship. While she makes self-repairs, the TARDIS places all the travellers in a dream state to distract them. The events of the dreams last several days, and Sara herself comments that she's not sure if she has known the Doctor and Steven for a few days to even a week, but these could all be artefacts of the dream.

* AUDIO: *The Little Drummer Boy*

An hour after leaving Hollywood, the TARDIS crew find themselves visiting further Christmases across the 19ths and 20th centuries, owing to the fact the TARDIS was (unbeknownst to them) following a time-travelling boy from the 1960s.

* AUDIO: *The Light at the End*

Sara observes an apparition of Charley Pollard briefly appear. Presumably in the TARDIS, given the context of the event. She introduces herself as "Sara Kingdom of the Space Security Service", suggesting a setting shortly after she joined the TARDIS.

* AUDIO: *The Guardian of the Solar System*

The TARDIS crew visit the Great Clock in 3999, with Sara meeting Bret Vyon and Mavic Chen. They accidentally set in motion the events leading to Chen's involvement in the Daleks' masterplan.

* AUDIO: *The Drowned World*

Before telling this story, Sara mentions several other adventures, including *The Guardian of the Solar System*, in an order which implies this story takes place after all of them. The TARDIS crew encounter a group of humans on an asteroid in the Red-O Belt.

* AUDIO: *Home Truths*

The TARDIS crew visit a sentient house on the isle of Ely in England in the distant future. Sara accidentally transfers a copy of her mind to the house before they all leave in the TARDIS.

* COMIC: *The Choice*

Sara is one of many companions kidnapped by Adam Mitchell and the Master, but they are all rescued by an assortment of the Doctor's incarnations in *Endgame*. Adam implies that all the companions were taken during their travels with the Doctor.

* AUDIO: *Men of War*

The TARDIS crew spend a few weeks in August 1916 in France during the Battle of the Somme. Sara sees a car for the first time, setting this before *An Ordinary Life*

* AUDIO: *An Ordinary Life*

Steven and Sara spend six months living in London in the 1950s. Sara mention that they've been on the run for so long.

* AUDIO: *The Sontarans*

The Doctor encounters the Sontarans and for the first time, learning about their nature and their war with the Rutans, although Sara and Steven are already aware of them. The encounter includes the SSS, and takes place in Sara's past, likely in the 40th century, some decades before the Daleks' Master Plan. Sara describes the events of *An Ordinary Life* as seeming like "a lifetime ago". They return to the TARDIS to discover they are being pursued by a time machine, presuming it to be the Daleks.

* **TV: *Volcano* / *Golden Death* / *Escape Switch* / *The Abandoned Planet* / *Destruction of Time***

The TARDIS crew attempts to escape by travelling further through time, arriving at a cricket match and the planet Tigus, where they discover it was The Monk following them. After travelling to 1966 New Years Eve in Trafalgar Square, they eventually arrive in Giza in Ancient Egypt, where the final face-off between the Doctor, the Monk and the Daleks occurs. The Daleks return to Kembel with the taranium core and the Monk loses his TARDIS directional unit, which the Doctor uses to pilot his TARDIS to Kembel, destroying the unit in the process. The Doctor manages to stop the Daleks by activating the time destructor on Kembel, but Sara is aged to death in the process.

### The House on Ely

* AUDIO: *Home Truths*

The sentient house on the Isle of Ely, which has the prime imperative of granting people's, takes on Sara's personality and identity following her visit to the house. It becomes a place where people come to hear stories, mostly those of Sara's life and especially her travels with the Doctor. One man, Robert, visits the house during an era where Earth had technologically regressed to a stage far before Sara's own time. His visit is on behalf of the elders in Cambridgeshire, who want to determine whether the house can be allowed to continue to exist. Sara tells Robert the story of Sara's visit to Ely, and Robert is convinced and returns to Cambridge.

* AUDIO: *The Drowned World*

Robert returns to the house with a phonograph to gain evidence, and attempts to record her story of Sara's visit to an asteroid in the Red-O Belt, but is not able to capture her voice and so wishes her to cease existing. Ten years later, with humanity stricken by disease and his daughter dying, Robert returns to Ely and brings her back into existence, agreeing to stay at the house forever in exchange for his daughter's life.

* AUDIO: *The Guardian of the Solar System*

Twenty-one years later, with Robert's daughter having left the island, Robert asks to take Sara's place as the consciousness of the house. As a result, Sara become corporeal one more. Robert then uses his power to bring the TARDIS back to the island, implying that the Doctor arriving is a later incarnation than the First.

* AUDIO: *The Five Companions*

Sara Kingdom is brought to the Death Zone by Borusa where she meets the Fifth DOctor.