Jamie McCrimmon

This page chronicles the adventures of **Jamie McCrimmon** as played by Frazer Hines in the order in which he 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

### Living in 18th century Scotland

* FLASHBACK) - 1730s - AUDIO: *The Phantom Piper*

Jamie visits his grandparents. He is less than 10 years old.

* (FLASHBACK) - 1740s - AUDIO: *The Phantom Piper*

Jamie attends a Clan celebration for the day Jamie became a Piper, just like his father and grandfather. Present at the ceremony is Jamie's mother.

* (FLASHBACK) - 1746 - AUDIO: *The Phantom Piper*

Jamie's best friend Jimmy Drummond dies in his arms at the battle of Culloden.

### Travels with the Doctor, Polly and Ben

* 1746 - **TV: *The Highlanders***

The TARDIS lands in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden in 1746, where they meet a group of Highlanders of Clan McLaren, including the piper **Jamie McCrimmon**. They are captured and about to be executed, when Solictor Grey acquires them and takes them to Aberdeen to attempt to sell them into slavery in Barbados. The Doctor, Ben and Polly work to free themselves and the highlanders, who set sale for France. Jamie stays behind and joins the quickly joins the TARDIS as British soldiers close in on them.

* **TV: *The Underwater Menace***

Follows on directly from *The Highlanders*, with Jamie learning about the TARDIS for the first time. They land in Atlantis sometime after 1968 to find the city still standing. The mad scientist Hermann Zaroff has convinced King Thous that he plans to raise Atlantis, but in actuality he's just trying to destroy the world for a laugh. He is stopped by the Doctor, of course. Upon their return to the TARDIS, the Doctor tries to prove that he can control the TARDIS by piloting her to Mars, but the TARDIS suddenly jolts, leading into *The Moonbase*.

* **TV: *The Moonbase***

The crew discover they have actually landed on the Moon in the year 2070, having been drawn there by the a moonbase operating a gravitron. They discover the Cybermen survived the destruction of Mondas in *The Tenth Planet*. The Cybermen from this invasion of the moon base are flung out into space and the crew return to the TARDIS. After dematerialising, the Doctor uses the time scanner (which he hasn't used much due to its unreliability) to get a glimpse of their future, and they see a large claw, leading into *The Macra Terror*.

* COMIC: *Supremacy of the Cybermen: Prologue: The Second Doctor*

In an alternate timeline, the Doctor finishes his "there are some corners of the universe" speech with "they must be... like us!", revealing to Polly that he has been partially Cyber-converted.

* **TV: *The Macra Terror***

Arriving on a human colony planet, crew face off against the Macra. At the refreshing department, Polly has her hair cut short They meet the Macra for the first time and liberate the colony from their influence.

* PROSE: *Something at the Door*

Ben, Polly and Jamie are exploring the TARDIS when they come upon the secondary control room. Ben and Polly have apparently been with the Doctor for a few weeks, while the Doctor's regeneration was recent. Jamie seems to realise the true vastness of the TARDIS for the first time, with Ben and Polly recalling their own exploration of the TARDIS when they first joined, with the implication that this is the same for Jamie.

* PROSE: *The Roundheads*

The TARDIS lands in London in December 1648 during the English Civil War, where the crew encounter figures such as Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax. Despite Polly being described as having long hair, Jamie is clearly new to the TARDIS, being unused to travelling in time by this point. He does realise he is starting to think of the TARDIS as home though and has explored the corridors of the ship, setting this after *Something at the Door*. Apparently Polly and Ben have been constantly going on about getting back to 1966.

* AUDIO: *The Mouthless Dead*

The TARDIS materialises in Kent 1920, seemingly returning to the planet after some time away. The TARDIS is hit by a train shortly after arrival, damaging the telepathic circuits and causing the appearance of psychic apparitions. Jamie learns about world wars for the first time (specifically world war one, but the entire concept is new to him), likely setting this before *The Forsaken*. He also learns about trains for the first time.

* AUDIO: *The Forsaken*

The crew land on the island of Kenga, near Singapore, in February 1942. Jamie is relatively new to the TARDIS, consistently asking Ben for clarification of modern terms and ideas. Ben also mentions not having known Jamie that long. Ben meets his father, Private James Jackson.

* PROSE: *The Slave War*

The TARDIS lands in 71 BCE during the slave rebellion in Rome led by Spartacus. They stay there for several months, from Winter to Autumn, with Polly, Ben and Jamie fighting for the rebellion while the Doctor was trying to trick the leader of the Romans while posing as a Roman noble.

* AUDIO: *Resistance*

Landing on a train line in Southern France in February 1944, the others try to tell Jamie what a train is, but he seems to know already, suggesting a setting after *The Mouthless Dead*. Regardless it's set during a World War, so it has to be after that story. Polly meets a man pretending to be her uncle, Randolph Wright, who died during the war. After a week in France, the four reunite when the Doctor spends six hours under the TARDIS console while Ben and Jamie check the likely routes Polly would've taken to Spain. They seem to get there in one go, impressively. As they leave, the Doctor cryptically tells Polly that he thinks fate was on their side that day, based on something he saw on the TARDIS scanner.

* AUDIO: *The Three Companions: Polly's Story*

The TARDIS lands in Cosmic Finance Central Five, where they meet a man called Gerry Lenz.

* AUDIO: *The Forbidden Time*

The TARDIS lands in a Shadow version of London in 35 years before 2011, making it 1976. Jamie has seen cars before and recalls the first time he saw them as if it was some time ago. Ben recognises that they're after his time period when he recognises a particular type of car.

* AUDIO: *The Selachian Gambit*

The Doctor, Ben and Polly encounter the Selachians again on the Galacti-Bank, with this being Jamie's first encounter with them. The Selachians plan once again to steal a weapon from the vault of the bank. Ben refers to his and Jamie's escape from the Milese in occupied France, setting this after *Resistance*.

* AUDIO: *House of Cards*

The crew visit a Sidewinder Syndicate casino, run at this point by Fortune, a seemingly extra-dimensional being. Jamie refers to his encounter with the Selachians in *The Selachian Gambit*. Jamie describes himself as being well equipped with fighting "metal beasties".

* AUDIO: *The Yes Men*

Attempting to teach his three companions how to pilot the TARDIS, the Doctor attempts to take Ben and Polly back to 1966 using the fast return switch. But he ends up going too far back in the flight log, to a planet he visited with Dodo called New Houston. He says this means the fast return won't be an option for returning them home any more but it does suggest slightly improved control of the ship. Jamie is described as being "perhaps a year older" than the 22-year-old Jamie fighting at Culloden in the Yes Men simulation. So this is set around a year after *The Highlanders*. Polly has never been in a flying car before.

* AUDIO: *The Night Witches*

Set shortly after *The Yes Men*, with the crew discussing their recent failed piloting to New Houston and the team upset that the Doctor wouldn't let them pilot the TARDIS again. The Doctor does let Polly hit the final lever though in attempting to land at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1782, but they instead land in 1942 outside Stalingrad during the Nazi siege of the city. Polly meets a doppelgänger. Jamie is told of the TARDIS translation circuitry for the first time. Upon departure, the Doctor sets coordinates for Spain.

* AUDIO: *The Outliers*

The TARDIS lands on an asteroid in 7691. The crew see possible futures of theirs after they leave the TARDIS.

* AUDIO: *The Morton Legacy*

The crew spend a few days with Josiah and Jemma Morton in the 1860s before finding the TARDIS and leaving.

* COMIC: *Card Conundrum*

The four of them encounter an insectoid species resembling playing cards.

* AUDIO: *The Home Guard*

The crew land on a human colony being used as an experiment by the Master. They soon all come under his psychic influence and are forced into the experiment, but eventually they overcome his control and defeat him. The Doctor thought the Master was dead by this point. The Master is left in the hands of the colony people, and is due to stand trial before Galactic authority. While Polly is described as having short hair, the events of *The Yes Men* are referred to and the crew seem close-knit and Jamie appears experienced in time travel.

* **TV: *The Faceless Ones***

Landing in London on 20 July 1966, the crew discover that the so-called Chameleons are infiltrating Earth airports and kidnapping young people to steal their identities. Jamie once again refers to planes as "flying beasties". After stopping the Chameleon plot, the Doctor sends the Chameleons away with better ideas for gaining their faces back. Ben and Polly decide to stay in London, now they've returned to their own time, while the Doctor and Jamie discover the TARDIS is missing, leading into *The Evil of the Daleks*.

## Footnotes

1. ↑ Set during *The Moonbase: Episode Two*
2. ↑ This scene is removed from the animation, where her hair is short from the beginning, including the Moonbase recap. It occurs at 7:55 in the recon.