Susan

This page chronicles the adventures of **Susan** as played by Carole Ann Ford 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.

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.

## Timeline

### On Gallifrey

* (FLASHBACK) - AUDIO: *The Toy*

The Doctor and Susan attend a Prydonian ritual in Arcadia.

* SHORT: *The Longest Story in the World*

This story is told through a framing narrative about an old man and his granddaughter, implied to be the Doctor and Susan. Armed guards are sent after the old man after an "incident", setting this shortly before their departure from Gallifrey.

### Leaving Gallifrey

NOTE: *There are several accounts of the Doctor and Susan's departure from Gallifrey.*

* SHORT: *Birth of a Renegade* (1)

In an anomalous story told by the Master, the Doctor enters a TARDIS during a Gallifreyan civil war to find Susan inside, who he adopts as his granddaughter.

* (FLASHBACK) - NOVEL: *Nightshade* (2)

The Doctor meets a fellow Prydonian as he departs Gallifrey, discarding his house robes.

* (CAMEO) - SHORT: *Time & Time Again* (3)

The Doctor and Susan evade explosions on Gallifrey as they take the Hand of Omega with them into a TARDIS.

* SHORT: *The Exiles* (4)

The Doctor and Susan enter the TARDIS for the first time and explore the TARDIS' surroundings.

* AUDIO: *The Beginning* (5)

The Doctor and Susan escape Gallifrey in a TARDIS after evading the Chancellery Guard. They find they have inadvertently abducted a Quadrigger named Stoyn, and land on Earth's Moon. After departing the Moon, the two decide to visit Earth, but instead arrive on a mushroom planet.

* (CAMEO) - TV: *The Name of The Doctor*

Set during *The Beginning* as the Doctor and Susan enter a TARDIS before being redirected to another TARDIS. Unrevealed in that story, it is a Clara splinter who tells them to instead enter another TARDIS.

### Travels with the Doctor

* PROSE: *Frayed*

The Doctor and Susan adopt their names.

* AUDIO: *The Sleeping Blood*

Susan is still new to the TARDIS but has begun to call it home.

* (REFERENCE) - PROSE: *Tragedy Day: Prologue 1*

A story is told of the Doctor and Susan saving a planet from radiaton poisoning, taking a radiated fragment of a spaceship into the TARDIS.

* NOVEL: *All-Consuming Fire: Prologue & Epilogue*

The Doctor and Susan meet Siger Holmes in Jabalhabad in 1843

* SHORT: *Bide-a-Wee*

The Doctor is relatively familiar and comfortable with humanity. This is the first time he and Susan have spent time away from each other and is the Doctor's first holiday since leaving Gallifrey. Susan's prior experience with humanity appears to be limited to eras where they "[chopped] off the heads of anyone posh", setting this before any of her visits to 20th century Earth or later.

* (CAMEO) - SHORT: *Categorical Imperative*

Learning that a dictator would cause Earth's destruction, the Doctor and Susan go back in time to kill the dictator as a baby. However, the Doctor drops his weapon and is forced to flee before he even sees the baby.

* SHORT: *The Gift*

The Doctor meets Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart properly for the first time and recalls visiting his funeral.

* SHORT: *Childhood Living*

The Doctor and Susan are familiar enough with Earth to debate whether or not the Great Wall of China is visible from space.

* SHORT: *Indian Summer*

After attempting to "fine tune" the operation of the TARDIS, the Doctor finds himself partially-materialising in various times throughout 19th century India.

* SHORT: *Losing the Audience*

The Doctor and Susan briefly stop at 76 Totter's Lane in 1963 and the TARDIS turns into a police box for the first time. The Doctor retains the shape as the TARDIS lands in 1955, due to a malfunction he has to fix. Susan wonders if the TARDIS will ever return to 1963, while the Doctor expresses disdain for the school systems of Earth.

* SHORT: *A Big Hand for the Doctor*

The Doctor is familiar enough with human pop culture to reference Harry Potter, Blake's 7 and Artemis Fowl. He is not easily able to pay for his replacement hand, setting this before The Price of Conviction.

* COMIC: *Time Trick*

The Doctor is targeted by the people of Refkeet Nine for meddling with time.

* (CAMEO) - COMIC: *Endgame*

Susan is one of many companions kidnapped by Adam Mitchell and the Master, but is rescued by an assortment of the Doctor's incarnations. In *The Choice*, Adam implies that all the companions were taken during their travels with the Doctor.

* SHORT: *The Arboreal*

The Doctor and Susan visit a jungle world slated for human colonisation.

* (CAMEO) - COMIC: *Where's the Doctor*

The Doctor and Susan attend Elizabeth I's coronation

* SHORT: *The Price of Conviction*

The Doctor and Susan have been to Earth several times by now, and the Doctor is considering settling down somewhere for a period of time. He is currently using jewels from Aldebaran IV as a form of currency.

* SHORT: *Urrozdinee*

After leaving 2134 Urrozdinee, the Doctor says that he and Susan will "put down some roots" for a while and that he has a place in mind, implying that the next stop may be 1963.

* SHORT: *Life From Lifelessness*

According to the Fourth Doctor, Susan will be enrolled at an Earth school not long after the adventure in 16th century Prague.

* AUDIO: *The Alchemists*

The Doctor and Susan have already had many adventures in the 20th century, but have not seen much of the latter half of the century. The Doctor is looking for a place for him and Susan to settle down for a while. Telling the story during her adventures with Barbara and Ian, Susan recalls the Doctor's search for a suitable place to use a machine of his, implied to be the Hand of Omega, although, even in her narration, she is unaware of its name or purpose. She recalls the events of Quinnis as taking place during his search, setting this story shortly before or after Quinnis.

* AUDIO: *Quinnis*

Set "4 or 5 journeys" before *The Edge of Destruction*. The Doctor believes Susan needs friends her own age, stability and teachers. Telling the story after she settled on 22nd century Earth, Susan believes it to be her last adventure before settling in 1963 London.

* SHORT: *The Little Things*

The Doctor takes a brief trip to 1997 to check if the United Kingdom will remain a safe place to stay in the times to come. The Fourth Doctor recalls this being the last time the TARDIS' chameleon circuit worked before breaking in 1963 London.

### Living in 1963

* 1963 - (SEGMENT) - SHORT: *The Rag & Bone Man's Story*

The Doctor and Susan arrive in 1963 after using the blessing start to pilot the TARDIS to Totter's Lane, damaging the ship in the process.

* 1963 - SHORT: *Ash*

In story told much later by the Doctor to Steven, he and Susan have an adventure in 1963 London.

* March-April 1963 - NOVELLA: *Time and Relative*

Set from 27 March to 4 April 1963. The Doctor and Susan have been on Earth for five months and Susan is attending school. The Doctor uses the TARDIS to relocate the Cold, with five trips required to take The Cold to Pluto. After "a dozen or more" journeys, the Doctor finally returns to Totters Lane an instant after he had left. Something breaks when the Doctor journeys in the TARDIS, forcing him to fix it using 20th century parts. The Doctor begins to take an interest in protecting the human race.

* Summer 1963 - SHORT: *The Juror's Story*

The Doctor is on trial for killing a child who was actually a werewolf, with Susan attending the trial.

* October 1963 - COMIC: *Operation Proteus*

*Ground Zero* places this in October 1963.

* COMIC: *Ground Zero*

During the events of *Operation Proteus*, Susan is kidnapped by the Threshold but is eventually returned.

* October 1963 - AUDIO: *Hunters of Earth*

In this account Susan only joined Coal Hill at the beginning of the Easter Term, but has been at Coal Hill for four months. The Doctor and Susan are discovered to be aliens by a military officer called Rook, but after they help him stop a piece of alien tech from causing havoc, Rook decides to keep their secret.

* 1963 - AUDIO: *An Unearthly Woman*

Set during the first week back at school after half-term. Susan has been at Coal Hill for "a few months". The Doctor is still collecting parts for his TARDIS.

* 1963 - (RECORDING) - SHORT: *Press Play*

Susan leaves a message for her grandfather shortly before going to school.

### Travels with the Doctor, Barbara & Ian

* **TV: *An Unearthly Child***

* COMIC: *Supermacy of the Cybermen: Prologue: The First Doctor* (alternate timeline)
* NOVEL: *The Knight, The Fool and The Dead: First Interlude*

* **TV: *The Daleks***
* **TV: *The Edge of Destruction***
* **TV: *Marco Polo***
* NOVEL: *The Sorcerer's Apprentice*
* SHORT: *Who Discovered America?*
* COMIC: *In-Between Times*
* **TV: *The Keys of Marinus***
* SHORT: *Rennigan's Record*
* SHORT: *The Ruins of Time*
* COMIC: *The Forgotten: Amputation*
* COMIC: *The Many Lives of Doctor Who: The Path of Skulls*
* **TV: *The Aztecs***
* AUDIO: *The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance*
* AUDIO: *Farewell, Great Macedon*
* AUDIO: *The Masters of Luxor*
* AUDIO: *A Small Semblance of Home*

(EPILOGUE)
**TV: *The Aztecs***
* **TV: *The Sensorites***
* AUDIO: *The Transit of Venus*
* **TV: *The Reign of Terror***
* AUDIO: *Rise and Fall*
* AUDIO: *The Library of Alexandria*
* AUDIO: *Here There Be Monsters*
* AUDIO: *The Flames of Cadiz*
* AUDIO: *The Destination Wars*
* AUDIO: *The Great White Hurricane*
* AUDIO: *The Invention of Death*
* AUDIO: *The Barbarians and the Samurai*
* AUDIO: *The Phoenicians*
* AUDIO: *Tick-Tock World*
* AUDIO: *Return to Skaro*
* AUDIO: *Last of the Romananovs*
* AUDIO: *For the Glory of Urth*
* AUDIO: *The Hollow Crown*
* NOVEL: *Tragedy Day: Prologue 2*
* SHORT: *The Last Days*
* SHORT: *Nothing at the End of the Lane*
* SHORT: *Mire and Clay*
* SHORT: *The Duke's Folly*
* SHORT: *The Mother Road*
* SHORT: *Tell Me You Love Me*
* SHORT: *The Reign Makers*
* AUDIO: *A Star is Born*
* AUDIO: *The Wanderer*

* AUDIO: *The Light at the End*

The Doctor assists his seven succeeding incarnations in defeating the Master. At the end he is heard calling to Ian, Barbara and Susan to return to the ship after visiting Bob's house in 1963.

* AUDIO: *The Alchemists* (framing narrative)
* AUDIO: *Domain of the Voord*
* AUDIO: *The Age of Endurance*
* AUDIO: *E is for…*
* NOVEL: *City at World's End*
* SHORT: *The Thief of Sherwood*

* SHORT: *That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World Whilst Looking for a Dress*

* NOVEL: *The Witch Hunters*
* **TV: *Planet of Giants***
* NOVEL: *The Time Travellers*
* AUDIO: *Home Again, Home Again*
* **TV: *The Dalek Invasion of Earth***

* COMIC: *A Stitch in Time: Episode 3*

### Living on 22nd century Earth

* AUDIO: *After the Daleks*

* (FRAME) - AUDIO: *Here There Be Monsters*

* **TV: *The Five Doctors***

* TV: *Dimensions in Time*

Seemingly due to the Rani's influence, Susan is one of many companions cycled between as the Seventh Doctor and Ace are forcebly transported through time, with the companions and Doctors having shared memories of the ongoing events but distinct personalities.

* AUDIO: *An Earthly Child*

* AUDIO: *Quinnis* (framing narrative)

* AUDIO: *Relative Dimensions*

* AUDIO: *Lucie Miller / To the Death*

* AUDIO: *All Hands on Deck*

### Fighting in the Time War

* AUDIO: *Sphere of Influence*
* AUDIO: *The Uncertain Shore*
* AUDIO: *Assets of War*
* AUDIO: *The Shoreditch Intervention*