The Doctor's Timeline

The Third Doctor

Jon Pertwee

This is a list of recorded adventures featuring the Third Doctor placed in chronological order. For a description of the events in these adventures, and the reasons why we've placed stories in the order we have, click on the links to the full biography.

Season Seven

Full Biography: Season Seven

Story Companions Notes
Spearhead from Space
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Liz Shaw

Doctor Who and the Silurians
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Liz Shaw

The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back
(Decalog)
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Liz Shaw

The Ambassadors of Death
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Liz Shaw,
Sergeant Benton

Inferno
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Liz Shaw,
Sergeant Benton

Prisoners of the Sun
(Decalog)
 Liz Shaw,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

The Eye of the Giant
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Liz Shaw,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

The Scales of Injustice
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Liz Shaw,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

Follows on from The Eye of the Giant
The Devil Goblins from Neptune
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Liz Shaw,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

The Tip of the Mind
(Short Trips: Companions)
 Zoe Heriot

Season Eight

Full Biography: Season Eight

Story Companions Notes
Colony in Space
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

The Dæmons
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

Degrees of Truth
(Short Trips)
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Follows on from The Daemons
Freedom
(Short Trips)

Terror of the Autons
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Jo Grant,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

The Mind of Evil
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Jo Grant,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

The Claws of Axos
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Jo Grant,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

Season Nine

Full Biography: Season Nine

Story Companions Notes
Face of the Enemy
(prologue)

The Curse of Peladon
 Jo Grant

Follows on from Face of the Enemy prologue
Face of the Enemy
 Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates,
Ian Chesterton,
Barbara Wright,
Harry Sullivan

Concurrent with The Curse of Peladon
The Sea Devils
 Jo Grant

The Eight Doctors
(Third Doctor)
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton

Follows on from The Sea Devils
Rags
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

The Mutants
 Jo Grant

Where the Heart Is
(Decalog 2)
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Mike Yates

The Time Monster
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

Verdigris
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

Day of the Daleks
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

Who Killed Kennedy
(chapters 21-24)

Follows on from Day of the Daleks
Honest Living
(More Short Trips)
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Season Ten

Full Biography: Season Ten

Story Companions Notes
Carnival of Monsters
 Jo Grant

Frontier in Space
 Jo Grant

Planet of the Daleks
 Jo Grant

Follows on from Frontier in Space
Catastrophea
 Jo Grant

...And Eternity in an Hour
(Decalog 3)
 Jo Grant

Dancing the Code
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

Speed of Flight
 Jo Grant,
Mike Yates

Hdden Talent
(Short Trips: Companions)
 Jo Grant

Last of the Gadarene
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

Legacy
(prologue)
 Jo Grant

The Green Death
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

The Three Doctors
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton

The Wages of Sin
 Jo Grant,
Liz Shaw

Verdigris
(chapter 25)
 Jo Grant,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Season Eleven

Full Biography: Season Eleven

The events of Interference are a change to the Doctor's timeline, which causes him to regenerate earlier than he would otherwise have been. These changes were negated in The Ancestor Cell. Therefore, stories that happened after that point presumably happened to both the Third Doctor and the Fourth Doctor.

Story Companions Notes
Death to the Daleks
 Sarah Jane Smith

Follows on from Invasion of the Dinosaurs
The Ghosts of N-Space
 Sarah Jane Smith,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Jeremy Fitzoliver

The Five Doctors
(Third Doctor)
 Sarah Jane Smith

Downtime
(Chapter 34)

The Monster of Peladon
 Sarah Jane Smith

Alien Bodies
(prologue)
 Sarah Jane Smith

Interference: Book One
(Third Doctor)
 Sarah Jane Smith

Follows on from Alien Bodies prologue. Negated timeline.
Interference: Book Two
(Third Doctor)
 Sarah Jane Smith

Follows on from Interference: Book One. Negated timeline.
Planet of the Spiders
 Sarah Jane Smith,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

The Time Warrior
 Sarah Jane Smith,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

The Paradise of Death
 Sarah Jane Smith,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Jeremy Fitzoliver

Invasion of the Dinosaurs
 Sarah Jane Smith,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart,
Sergeant Benton,
Mike Yates

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