20th century/1940s

This page chronicles stories set in the **1940s** in the order in which they occurred. 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 the timeline of the species. Although technically incorrect, a decade is defined as starting in the year ending -0 and continuing until the year ending -9. This results in two decades, namely the first decades of the 1st centuries BCE and CE, having just 9 years.

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, short story, or 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

### 1940

* **29 May** - AUDIO: *Fugitives*

DOCTOR: The twenty-ninth of May, nineteen forty, to be precise.

* **27-28 August** - AUDIO: *Their Finest Hour*

CHURCHILL: Ah yes, of course. The 27th of August 1940. DOCTOR: On your feet, Jan. Wake up!

* **24-25 December** - SHORT: *Tell Me You Love Me*

‘And, believe me, there isn’t a cell in my body that doesn’t want my father here. It’s Christmas, I’m a long way from home and I want my Daddy, I really do. I could even accept that he might recognise me even though I’m over twenty years older than the little girl he should know.

### 1941

* **20 January** - TV: *Captain Jack Harkness*

POSTER: 1941 Kiss The Boys Goodbye Dance, Saturday 20th January 1941 7.30pm

* AUDIO: *The Doomsday Chronometer*

RIVER: May 1941. The Blitz

* AUDIO: *The Vaults of Osiris*

ACE: It was 1941 when my Doctor died

* TV: *Ghost Machine*

TOM: No. Lived here sixty-six years and still sound like a barrow boy. I was evacuated during the war. 1941. The Germans bombing the hell out of the East End.

* TV: *The Empty Child* / *The Doctor Dances*

DOCTOR: I make it 1941. You lot shouldn't even be in London. You should've been evacuated to the country by now.

* TV: *The Pandorica Opens*

TEXT: Cabinet War Rooms, London 1941

* **24-25 December** - TV: *The Doctor the Widow and the Wardrobe*

MADGE: England, 1941. And there's a war on.

### 1942

* **15 January** - AUDIO: *The Girl Who Never Was*

DOCTOR: What happened here on the night of the fifteenth of January 1942?

* **February** - AUDIO: *The Forsaken*

"In the second week of February, 1942, the Japanese invaded Singapore."

* AUDIO: *The Night Witches*

SYNOPSIS: "When the TARDIS materialises north of Stalingrad in 1942, the Doctor, Jamie, Ben and Polly are captured by the Night Witches..."
NOTE: The real world siege of Stalingrad began 23 August 1942.

### 1943

* TV: *The Curse of Fenric*

ACE: I didn't know they had personal stereos in 1943.

* TV: *Spyfall*

NOOR: Paris, 1943.

* **26 October** - AUDIO: *The Macros*

* **November-December** TV: *Rosa*

TEXT: Montomgery, Alabama 1943
NOTE: Real world date

### 1944

* **February** - AUDIO: *Resistance*

"I looked nervously at my ticket again, and noted the date: February 1944."

* **May** - AUDIO: *Criss-Cross*

DOCTOR: At least the whole thing will be over this time next year [In reference to world war 2.]

* **October** - AUDIO: *Colditz*

SUMMARY: October 1944. As World War Two draws towards its conclusion, a Nazi defeat begins to seem almost inevitable.

* (FLASHBACK) - NOVEL: *Dying in the Sun*

Three years previously, Leonard De Sande stood in an ice cave near the airstrip and smiled.

### 1945

* **9 May** - AUDIO: *Casualties of War*

DOCTOR: On the contrary, Ace. It's lively because today is the ninth of May, 1945.

### 1947

* AUDIO: *The Incherton Incident*

VIRGINIA: You serious? Two years isn't that long.
DOCTOR: Two, 1947 then.

* **13 June** - TV: *Dreamland*

TEXT: NEW MEXICO DESERT - JUNE 13, 1947

* **17-18 August** - AUDIO: *Demons of the Punjab*

DOCTOR: It's the 17th of August.
PREM: Same year you have in England, 1947.

* **October** - NOVEL: *Dying in the Sun*

Chate saw the date: 12 October 1947. ‘You seen today’s news?’ Revere asked as he began to flick through the pages.

### 1948

* **14-18 July** - NOVEL: *The Time Travellers*

"14 July, 1948 - There's just time to grasp for air before you crash down into the water."
"17 July, 1948 - Their patience is wearing thin, too busy with their work to worry about you"

* **29 September** - NOVEL: *The Time Travellers*

"29 September, 1948 - Food. That's all you can think about. Every day, that's all that matters."

* AUDIO: *Lost and Found*

SYNOPSIS: The post-war London of 1948 is rebuilding, the people are recovering, and Ben and Polly have arrived with an old friend with a new face.

### Unsorted

* **Between 1940-42** - AUDIO: *The Scapegoat*

LUCIE MILLER: Oh. On the twenty-fifth of August, a member of the ... Oh no.
THE DOCTOR: A member of the German High Command was murdered by persons unknown. By way of reprisal I have ordered once more that fifty hostages be shot. Signed, General Ernst Schaumburg, Commandant of Greater Paris.
NOTE: General Ernst Schaumberg served as Commandant from 31 July 1940-30 April 1943.

* **1940-1945** - AUDIO: *The Survivor*

SYNOPSIS: At the height of the Second World War...
JUDGE: Alice Pritchard, you stand charged of high treason, in accordance with the 1940 treachery act, of conspiring with the enemy in a time of war.

* **1940-1945** - AUDIO: *The Jabari Countdown*

DOCTOR: Judging by the clothing it's 1940s Earth. War time.