20th Century
| Story | Story date(s) | Doctor | Year aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Exit Wounds" (early Torchwood) | 1901 | TW | 2008 |
| "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" (Riddell on African plains) | 1902 | 11th | 2012 |
| Enlightenment | November 1902 | 5th | 1983 |
| Horror of Fang Rock | c. 1901-1910 | 4th | 1977 |
| "Small Worlds" (Lahore) | 1909 | TW | 2006 |
| Pyramids of Mars | 1911 | 4th | 1975 |
| "Rose" (Doctor at Southampton) | 9 April 1912 (the eve of RMS Titanic's voyage) | 9th | 2005 |
| "Human Nature" | 10 November 1913 & at least 2 more days | 10th | 2007 |
| "The Family of Blood" | |||
| "Pond Life: April" (Mata Hari's boudoir in Paris) | sometime presumably between late 1914 & mid-1916 | 11th | 2012 |
| "The Family of Blood" (penultimate scene of WWI) | sometime between 4 Aug. 1914 and 11 Nov. 1918 | 10th | 2007 |
| "To the Last Man" (WWI hospital) | sometime between 11 April & 11 Nov. 1918 | TW | 2008 |
| "Blink" (Kathy & Ben in Hull) | 5 December 1920 | 10th | 2007 |
| "From Out of the Rain" (early carnival) | 1920s | TW | 2008 |
| "Golden Age" (perpetually repeated day) | 24 February 1924 | 2009 | |
| Black Orchid | 11 June 1925 | 5th | 1982 |
| Carnival of Monsters (perpetual S.S. Bernice day) | 4 June 1926 | 3rd | 1973 |
| "The Unicorn and the Wasp" | 23 November 1926 (church & library scenes) 3 December 1926 (majority) 4 December 1926 (Agatha Christie's car discovered at Silent Pool & she arrives in Harrogate) |
10th | 2008 |
| The Daleks' Master Plan (Hollywood) | c. 1925-1930 | 1st | 1965 |
| "Immortal Sins" (New York scenes) | July 1927 (majority) summer 1928 (after Angelo's release) |
TW | 2011 |
| "Daleks in Manhattan" | 1 November 1930 | 10th | 2007 |
| "Evolution of the Daleks" | |||
| The Abominable Snowmen | c. 1935 | 2nd | 1967 |
| "The Angels Take Manhattan" | before 3 April 1938 (Sam Garner) night of 3 April 1938 (Doctor & Williamses) |
11th | 2012 |
| "Let's Kill Hitler" (Berlin scenes) | 1938 | 2011 | |
| "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" (space battle & looking for TARDIS) | 24 December 1938 | ||
| "The Impossible Astronaut" (Doctor in The Flying Deuces) | July or August 1939 | ||
| "Captain Jack Harkness" (WWII dance hall) | 20 January 1941 | TW | 2007 |
| "The Empty Child" | between 21 January and 10 May 1941 | 9th | 2005 |
| "The Doctor Dances" | |||
| "Ghost Machine" (railway station scenes) | 1941, during the Blitz | TW | 2006 |
| "Victory of the Daleks" | 11th | 2010 | |
| "The Big Bang" (painted scene of "Lone Centurion") | |||
| "The Pandorica Opens" (Churchill & Bracewell) | 1941, after "Victory of the Daleks" | ||
| Lost in Time (Clyde fighting the Waffen-SS) | warm season of 1941 | SJA | |
| "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" (majority) | 20–25 December 1941 | 11th | 2011 |
| "The Impossible Astronaut" (POW camp tunnel scene) | Second World War | ||
| The Curse of Fenric | 1943 | 7th | 1989 |
| "Death is the Only Answer" (Einstein's perspective) | 18 September 1945, approx. 2:00 | 11th | 2011 |
| "P.S." (Amy, Rory, & Anthony in New York) | 1946 | 2012 | |
| "Dreamland" (Roswell cold open) | 13 June 1947 | 10th | 2009 |
| "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith" (Foxgrove) | 18 August 1951 | SJA | 2008 |
| "A Christmas Carol" (Frank Sinatra's party) | 24 December 1952 | 11th | 2010 |
| "The Idiot's Lantern" | 1–2 June 1953 | 10th | 2006 |
| "Out of Time" (Diane's & passengers' perspective) | 1953 | TW | |
| "Dreamland" | c. June 1958 | 10th | 2009 |
| Delta and the Bannermen | Wednesday & Thursday, c. 7 March 1959 | 7th | 1987 |
| "Random Shoes" (Christie & Halliday filming A for Andromeda) | late summer 1961 | TW | 2006 |
| "Ghost Machine" (Lizzie Lewis' rape & murder) | 29 March 1963 | ||
| "City of the Daleks" (Sylvia at the end) | 1963 | 11th | 2010 |
| An Unearthly Child | shortly before 22 November 1963 | 1st | 1963 |
| "Rose" (Doctor in Dallas) | 22 November 1963 | 9th | 2005 |
| Remembrance of the Daleks | 22–23 November 1963 | 7th | 1988 |
| "The Cambridge Spy" (scenes in the past) | 23 November 1963 | K-9 | 2010 |
| "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?" (pier) | 13 July 1964 | SJA | 2007 |
| The Daleks' Master Plan (Cricket match) | presumably sometime 18–23 July 1964 | 1st | 1965 |
| The Chase | 10 April 1965 (The Beatles on Top of the Pops) 1965 (Ian & Barbara return home to London) |
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| Children of Earth (first 456 encounter) | November 1965 | TW | 2009 |
| The Daleks' Master Plan | 25 December 1965 (police station) 1 January 1966 (New Year celebrations) |
1st | 1965-66 |
| The Chase (Empire State Building scene) | 1966 | 1965 | |
| The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve (final scene) | 1966 | ||
| The War Machines | 12–20 July 1966 | ||
| The Faceless Ones | 19–20 July 1966 | 2nd | 1967 |
| The Evil of the Daleks (episode 1) | 20 July 1966 | ||
| The Web of Fear | August 1966 | 1968 | |
| "Blink" (DI Shipton, Martha & the Doctor) | March or April 1969 | 10th | 2007 |
| "The Impossible Astronaut" | 8 April 1969 | 11th | 2011 |
| The Invasion | spring 1969 | 2nd | 1968 |
| Spearhead from Space | 3rd | 1970 | |
| Doctor Who and the Silurians | early summer 1969 | ||
| The Ambassadors of Death | summer 1969 | ||
| "Day of the Moon" (excluding final scenes) | July 1969, before 16th, through 19th (local on American East Coast) (early morning of 20th, UDT) | 11th | 2011 |
| Inferno | 23–25 July 1969 | 3rd | 1970 |
| "Day of the Moon" (Melody's regeneration) | January 1970 | 11th | 2011 |
| The Underwater Menace | c. 1970 (not long after 1968), close to 21 March | 2nd | 1967 |
| Terror of the Autons | late summer 1970 | 3rd | 1971 |
| The Mind of Evil | Autumn 1970 | ||
| The Claws of Axos | c. November 1970 | ||
| Colony in Space (Earth) | c. late 1970 / early 1971 | ||
| The Dæmons | 30 April - 1 May 1971 | ||
| Day of the Daleks (present day) | 11–14 September 1971 | 1972 | |
| The Sea Devils | Autumn 1971 | ||
| The Time Monster | few days on and about 29 September 1971 | ||
| The Three Doctors (UNIT & Minsbridge scenes) | c. November 1971 | 1st | 1972-73 |
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| The Green Death | February 1972 | 3rd | 1973 |
| The Time Warrior (UNIT research facility scenes) | September 1972 | 1973-74 | |
| Invasion of the Dinosaurs | c. October 1972 or c. 1974 | 1974 | |
| Planet of the Spiders (Earth scenes) | March or April 1973 (majority) 3 weeks later (final scene) |
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| Robot | 4–5 April 1973 | 4th | 1974-75 |
| Terror of the Zygons | c. May/June 1973 | 1975 | |
| The Android Invasion | Friday, 6 July 1973 | ||
| The Seeds of Doom | c. late 1973 | 1976 | |
| The Hand of Fear (excluding opening) | early 1974 | ||
| Mawdryn Undead (Brig.&Tegan; unconscious Brig. return) | 1977, shortly before 6 June | 5th | 1983 |
| Image of the Fendahl | Lammas Eve (31 July) 1977 | 4th | 1977 |
| City of Death (Paris) | 1979, sometime between 26 January & 31 May | 1979 | |
| The Five Doctors (Fourth Doctor & Romana in Cambridge) | October 1979 | 1st | 1983 |
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| Shada | 4th | 2003 | |
| Logopolis | 28 February 1981 | 1981 | |
| Four to Doomsday | 5th | 1982 | |
| "A Girl's Best Friend" | December 1981, from ~11th thru 25th | K-9 & Co. | 1981 |
| Mawdryn Undead (Turlough on Earth; Brig. & Fifth Doctor; final exteriors) | 1983 | 5th | 1983 |
| The Five Doctors (Sarah Jane, K-9, & Brig on Earth) | c. 1983-84 | 1st | 1983 |
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| The Awakening | 1984 | 5th | 1984 |
| Resurrection of the Daleks (Docklands) | |||
| "A Fix with Sontarans" | 23 February 1985 | 1985 | |
| Planet of Fire | 1985 | 1984 | |
| Attack of the Cybermen | 6th | 1985 | |
| The Tenth Planet | December 1986 | 1st | 1966 |
| "Father's Day" | 7 November 1987 | 9th | 2005 |
| Silver Nemesis (modern day scenes) | 23 November 1988 | 7th | 1988 |
| Search Out Science ep. "Search Out Space" | 21 November 1990 | 1990 | |
| "Random Shoes" (Eugene Jones' childhood) | 1992 | TW | 2006 |
| "Father's Day" (young Rose at home) | early 1990s | 9th | 2005 |
| "Good Night" (end, fairground) | 1994 | 11th | 2011 |
| "The Eleventh Hour" (young Amelia scenes) | night of 7 April 1996 | 2010 | |
| "The Pandorica Opens (young Amelia saying her prayers) | |||
| "The Big Bang" (young Amelia's garden & bedroom) | overnight 7–8 April 1996 | ||
| "The Angels Take Manhattan" (Amelia epilogue) | morning of 8 April 1996 | 2012 | |
| The Chase (House of Horrors scene) | 1996 | 1st | 1965 |
| "The Big Bang" (young Amelia & National Museum) | 11th | 2010 | |
| "Let's Kill Hitler" (Amelia, Rory & Mels as children) | c. 1997-1998 | 2011 | |
| Doctor Who (1996 film) | 30 December 1999 – 1 January 2000 (PST) | 7th | 1996 |
| 8th | |||
| "Fragments" (second Jack flashback) | 31 December 1999 – 1 January 2000 (GMT) | TW | 2008 |
Many stories airing between 1968 and 1989 involved an organisation called UNIT. The dating of these stories is uncertain (see UNIT dating controversy).
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