"My" Doctor Who Timeline: Dates Unknown

(Continued from "The Far Future")

The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright visit the planet Skaro, where they aid the Thals against their enemies, the Daleks. The Doctor and his friends leave Skaro, believing the Daleks to have been destroyed, utterly.

("The Daleks")
Only the second story, and we're running up against a question of dates. To my recollection, there's nothing in the story that indicates when these events are occurring relative to Earth. I do think it has to be well before the present day on Earth. As far as the Daleks surviving, I figure either a)Not all of the Daleks in the city were killed, or b)There were other Dalek settlements elsewhere on Skaro.
Interesting Question I'm Not Going To Try To Answer Just Now : If the Daleks go on to play such a major part in universal history, how is it that the Doctor seems not to have heard of them?

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The First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright visit Marinus, an Earth colony, where they help to prevent the Voords from gaining control of the computer known as the "Conscience of Marinus".

("The Keys of Marinus")
To the best of my knowledge there's nothing in the story that indicates when it is set.

("The Web Planet")
No date is given in the story. I am fairly certain it is in Earth's future, since reference is made to humanity having "mastery of space".

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The First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki visit the desert planet Aridius, where they discover that they are being pursued by Daleks who have developed a time machine of their own. ("The Chase")
To my knowledge, no date is given for the visit to Aridius.

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The First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki visit the planet Xeros, where they help the Xeron overthrow the tyrannical Moroks.

("The Space Museum")
No specific date is given, apparently there are hints in the story that this is set sometime after Vicki's time.

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The First Doctor, Vicki and Steven Taylor visit a distant planet, where they help save the Rills from the war-like Drahvins.

("Galaxy 4")
No specific date is given, I think it's in Earth's future since from what little I know if it, the Rills seem to recognize the time travelers as being from the Solar system.

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The First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet visit the Celestial Toyroom, where they must contend with the Celestial Toymaker for their freedom.

("The Celestial Toymaker")
Considering this takes place outside of normal spacetime, I see no way to fix a specific date on it.

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The First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet visit a distant planet wracked by a conflict between two groups called the Elders and the Savages. Steven remains on the planet to help the two groups learn to live together.

("The Savages")
Another one that's hard to date.

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The Second Doctor, Ben Jackson, Polly and Jamie MacCrimmon help liberate an Earth colony from the control of the Macra.

("The Macra Terror")
Another hard to date stor - the colonists are said to have left Earth centuries ago.

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The Second Doctor, Jamie MacCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield are brought to Skaro, where they meet the Emperor Dalek. The Doctor infuses a number of Daleks with the "Human Factor", sparking a civil war on Skaro, leading to what the Doctor calls "the final end".

("The Evil of the Daleks")
Another one that's hard to date. I figure it has to be the far future - a time when the Daleks view humanity as a serious threat.

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The Second Doctor, Jamie MacCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield visit Earth during a new Ice Age, where they help defeat an newly-awakened invasion force of Ice Warriors.

("The Ice Warriors")
Hard to date, but definitely in Earth's future.

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The Second Doctor, Jamie MacCrimmon and Zoe Heriot visit the planet Dulkis, where they help stop an invasion by the Dominators.

("The Dominators")
Another one where no specific date is mentioned.

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The Second Doctor, Jamie MacCrimmon and Zoe Heriot visit the planet of the Gonds, where they help defeat the invading Krotons.

("The Krotons")
Another one that's hard to date.

("The Mind Robber")
Another one outside of normal spacetime, so it's hard to fix a date on it.

("The Space Pirates")
Another one with no specific date - it's obviously in Earth's future.

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The Second Doctor, Jamie MacCrimmon and Zoe Heriot battle the War Lord and the War Chief. The Doctor calls on the Time Lords for help. He is brough home for trial. Jamie and Zoe are returned to their own times, and the Doctor is exiled to Earth, and forcibly regenerated.

("The War Games")
I don't see a way to tie this to an Earth date.

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The Third Doctor and Jo Grant are caught in an introscope illegally in use on the planet Inter Minor, and must battle to escape it.

("Carnival of Monsters")
Hard to date.

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The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith visit the planet Exxilon, where they defeat a Dalek attempt to exploit a space plague.

("Death to the Daleks")
It's obviously Earth's future, but I see no way to tie it to a specific date.

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The Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan battle the Wirrn aboard Nerva Beacon.

("The Ark in Space")
Another one that's hard to date, I know it's in the far future.

("The Sontaran Experiment")
Following on from "The Ark in Space"

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A Time Lord sends the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan to Skaro at the time of the Daleks' creation, charging them with preventing the creatures' creation or finding some inherent weakness. They meet the Daleks' creator, Davros, and manage to inhibit their progress somewhat before leaving Skaro.

("Genesis of the Daleks")
One that's hard to tie to an Earth date, although my feeling is that it has to be well before the present day. My preferred take on this story is that the Doctor did not change history, but instead merely enabled history as it was to proceed - that is, if the Doctor hadn't've gone back, the Daleks would've been even more powerful. I also think that the Time Lord (or the faction that he represented) intended this all along. I'm also not 100% sure that I trust that Time Lord. If they'd wanted the Daleks gone, why not just send an assassin back to kill Davros in the cradle? Anyway, it does mean that in this case, the Doctor merely preserved established history, instead of re-writing it.

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The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith battle Solon and Morbius on the planet Karn.

("The Brain of Morbius")
Another one that it's hard to tie a date to.

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The Fourth Doctor returns to Gallifrey, where he battles a plot by the Master to control the Eye of Harmony.

("The Deadly Assassin")
In general, it's hard to tie the Gallifrey stories to a specific date.

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On a distant planet that he has visited before, the Fourth Doctor and Leela of the Sevateem battle the mad computer Xoanon. Leela joins the TARDIS crew.

("The Face of Evil")
Another one that's hard to date - we know it's well after the year 5000.

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The Fourth Doctor and Leela arrive aboard a sandminer on a distant planet, where they battle the deranged roboticist, Taren Capel.

("Robots of Death")
No idea what the date is on this one.

("The Sun-Makers")
Another one that's hard to date. It's definitely sometime in the far future.

("Underworld")
This is a tough one to date - it's 100,000 years after the Time Lords adopted their policy of non-interference, whenever that was.

("The Invasion of Time")
Another hard-to-date Gallifrey story.

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Having been commissioned by the White Guardian to gather the segments of the Key to Time, The Fourth Doctor, K-9 II and the newly-arrived Romana seek the first segment on the planet Ribos, despite the opposition of the Graff Vynda-K.

("The Ribos Operation")
Another one that it's hard to tie a date to.

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Seeking the second segment of the Key to Time, the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K-9 II battle the Captain and Queen Xanxia on the planet Zanak.

("The Pirate Planet")
While Earth is mentioned, there's no way to tie this to a specific Earth date.

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The Fourth Doctor, Romana and K-9 II find the fourth segment of the Key to Time on the planet Tara, but must battle the evil Count Grendel to escape.

("The Androids of Tara")
Another hard to date story - I'm assuming it's the far future.

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The Fourth Doctor and Romana find the fifth segment of the Key to Time on Delta III, where they encounter the monstrous Kroll.

("The Power of Kroll")
It's in Earth's future, but hard to tie to a specific date.

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The Fourth Doctor, Romana and K-9 II seek the final segment of the Key to Time on the war-torn planets Atrios and Zeos, where they battle the Shadow for possession of it. The Doctor assembles the Key to Time, sees off the Black Guardian, then disperses it.

("The Armageddon Factor")
Another one that it's hard to tie a date to.

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The Fourth Doctor and the newly-regenerated Romana II visit Skaro, where they get caught up in a battle between the Daleks and the Movellans for possession of the newly-revived Davros.

("Destiny of the Daleks")
Another hard to date episode - it's definitely in Earth's future.

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The Fourth Doctor and Romana II visit the planet Chloris, where they battle Lady Adrasta.

("The Creature from the Pit")
Another hard-to-date one.

("The Horns of Nimon")
Another hard-to-date one.

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The TARDIS falls into E-Space, where the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K-9 II encounter the Marshmen of Alzarius.

("Full Circle")
Another one that's hard to tie to an Earth date.

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In E-Space, the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K-9 II battle the last of the Great Vampires. Adric joins the TARDIS crew.

("State of Decay")
Another one that's hard to date, except that it has to be far in Earth's future.

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In E-Space, the Fourth Doctor, Romana II, K-9 II and Adric battle to free the Tharils from human slavers. Romana II and K-9 II leave the TARDIS crew.

("Warrior's Gate")
Hard to give a date, except that it's in Earth's future.

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The Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa of Traken and Tegan Jovanka battle the Master on Castrovalva. ("Castrovalva")
Another hard-to-date one.

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On the planet Deva Loka, the Fifth Doctor, Adric and Tegan Jovanka battle the Mara.

("Kinda")
Hard to date, except that it's in Earth's future.

("Snakedance")
Another hard to date story, but I imagine quite some time after "Kinda".

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The Fifth Doctor, Nyssa of Traken, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough encounter the victims of Lazar's Disease aboard the space station Terminus. Nyssa of Traken leaves the TARDIS crew.

("Terminus")
It's tough to tie this one to a particular date.

("Enlightenment")
Another one that's tough to tie to a particular date.

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The First, Second, Third and Fifth Doctors, alongside Susan Foreman, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane Smith, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough battle the Master and President Borusa on Gallifrey. The Fourth Doctor and Romana II are caught in the time vortex during these events.

("The Five Doctors")
It's always hard to date the Gallifrey stories.

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The Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough battle the Daleks and Davros in space. ("Resurrection of the Daleks")
Hard to date - Davros says it is 90 years after the events of "Destiny of the Daleks".

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The Fifth Doctor and Peri Brown vist Androzani Minor, where they get caught up in the battle between Sharaz Jek and Morgus. The Doctor regenerates.

("The Caves of Androzani")
Another Hard to date story, but it's definitely in Earth's future.

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The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown battle Mestor and the Gastropods on Joconda.

("The Twin Dilemma")
Another hard-to-date story, but it's obviously in Earth's future.

("Timelash")
Another hard to date story,but we know it's in Earth's future.

("Revelation of the Daleks")
Hard to date - but certainly some time after "Resurrection of the Daleks".

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The Sixth Doctor is put on trial for his life. He battles the Master and the Valeyard, a being constructed from the Doctor's own darker side. Peri Brown leaves the TARDIS crew. Melanie (known as "Mel") joins the TARDIS crew.

("The Trial of a Time Lord", "The Ultimate Foe")
Again, hard to date the Time Lord stories. As far as I'm concerned, after the events of "The Ultimate Foe", the Doctor returned Mel to her proper place in his timeline, then went on to "meet" her in correct chronological order, perhaps blocking out his own memories, so that he will not have dangerous foreknowledge.

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The TARDIS is caught by an unknown energy beam, which causes the Doctor to regenerate for the sixth time. Landing on the planet Lakertya, the Seventh Doctor and Mel Bush battle the Rani.

("Time and the Rani")
Don't see a way to tie this to a particular date.

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The Hand of Omega destroys Skaro.

("Remembrance of the Daleks")
Hard to date - but after "Revelation of the Daleks".

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The Seventh Doctor and Ace visit the planet Terra A, where they help to overthrow the tyrant Helen A. ("The Happiness Patrol")
Another hard to date story - it's obviously in Earth's future.

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The Seventh Doctor and Ace visit the planet Segonax, where they battle the Gods of Ragnarok.

("The Greatest Show in the Galaxy:)
Another hard to date story - it's obviously in Earth's future.

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The Tenth Doctor and the Fifth Doctor briefly cross each other's timelines.

("Time Crash")

Another one that it's hard to tie a date to.

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The Tenth Doctor battles an unknown creature on the planet Midnight.

("Midnight")
It's obviously in Earth's future, but no specific date is given.

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On the planet Shan Shen, Donna Noble encounters one of the Trickster's Brigade.

("Turn Left")
It seems to be some kind of an Earth colony, but apart from that I don't see a way to tie it to a particular date.

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The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams battle the Dream Lord.

("Amy's Choice")
Since most of the events of this were not "real" except the scene in the TARDIS in the end, it's hard to fix this to a particular date.

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The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, Rory Williams and the TARDIS itself battle the living asteroid known as "House".

("The Doctor's Wife")
I don't see any way to tie this to a particular date.

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The Eleventh Doctor and Rory Williams must work to free Amy Pond from the Two Streams Facility on Apalapucia.
("The Girl Who Waited")
I don't see any way to tie this to a particular date.

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The Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald battle a monstrous parasite in the Rings of Akhaten.

("The Rings of Akhaten")

I don't see a way to tie this to a specific date.

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The Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald struggle to survive after an encounter with a space salvage ship causes the TARDIS to malfunction.

("Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS")

No specific date is given, although it's obviously in Earth's far future.

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The Eleventh Doctor, Clara Oswald and Angie and Artie Maitland battle the Cybermen on Hedgewick's World.

("Nightmare in Silver")

No specific date is given, although it's obviously in Earth's far future.

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The Eleventh Doctor, Clara Oswald, Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, Strax and River Song battle the Great Intelligence on Trenzalore. Clara and the Doctor enter the Doctor's own timeline, where they encounter a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor.

("The Name of the Doctor")

No specific date is given.

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The Eighth Doctor crashlands on Karn, and is killed. The Sisterhood revive him, and persuade him to take part in the Time war. They give him a a potion that causes him to regenerate into a "warrior" incarnation, becoming the unknown incarnation that Clara saw in the Doctor's timeline. (Hereafter the "War Doctor"). He renounces the name "Doctor."

("The Night of the Doctor")

No specific date is given. Presumably it is in Earth's future.

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During the Time War, the War Doctor witnesses the Fall of Arcadia on Gallifrey, then steals the sentient weapon known as "the Moment", intending to use it to destroy the Daleks and TIme lords both, Through the Moment's intervention, he is shown two of his future selves, the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. The Moment allows the two future Doctors (and Clara Oswald) to intervene in the War Doctor's decision. They summon all of his previous selves (and one future self - the Twelfth Doctor), and together they freeze Gallifrey outside of time, preserving it and causing the Daleks besieging the planet to destroy one another.

("The Day of the Doctor")

No specific time relative to Earth is given.

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The Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald visit the town of Christmas and the planet Trenzalore, where the Doctor gets caught up in a centuries-long battle to defend the town from alien forces - especially the Daleks - who are determined to prevent the Time Lords from re-emerging into the universe. At the battle's climax, the Time Lords grant the Doctor a new regenerative cycle, and he regenerates, becoming the Twelfth Doctor.

("The Time of the Doctor")

No specific date is given. Presumably it is in Earth's future.

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The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald encounter a dinosaur that swallows the TARDIS.

("Deep Breath"

No specific date given. Presumably sometime in Earth's prehistory.

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The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald help human resistance fighters deal with a Dalek attack, and attempt to repair a damaged Dalek.

("Into the Dalek")

No specific date given. Presumably sometime in Earth's future.

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The Twelfth Doctor encounters Colonel Orson Pink, who is stranded near the end of time. Subsequently, he brings Clara Oswald there as well.

("Listen")

No specific date given, although it's obviously the far future.

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Clara Oswald encounters the boy who will grow up to be the Doctor. ("Listen")

No way to date this, although it's obviously far in Gallifrey's past.

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The Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald, Psi and Saibra rob the Bank of Karabraxos. "Time Heist")

No specific date is given. Presumably in Earth's future.

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The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald battle the Foretold on the Orient Express in space. ("Mummy on the Orient Express")

No date is given in the episode, although it's presumably in Earth's future.

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The Twelfth Doctor saves the boy Davros during the Time War on Skaro. Much later, he confronts the adult Davros there.

("The Magician's Apprentice"/"The Witch's Familiar")

I see no way to date the events on Skaro in relation to Earth.

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The Twelfth Doctor escapes from his confession dial and then confronts the Time Lords on Gallifrey. Later, he meets with Ashildr near the end of time.

("Face the Raven"/"Heaven Sent"/"Hell Bent")

I see no way to assign a specific date to these events.

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While fleeing from a sentient oil puddle, the Twelfth Doctor, Nardole and Bill visit a distant planet in the far future and a battle during the Dalek-Movellan War.

("The Pilot")

No way to tie these to a specific date. The Doctor describes the distant planet as being in the future, and the Dalek-Movellan War as being in the past. I'm not sure how you would reconcile this with the "The Destiny of the Daleks", which is definitely set in Earth's future. Perhpas the Daleks fought the Movellans for a long time, or maybe the Doctor meant "the past" in relation to the planet they had just visited.

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The Twelfth Doctor and Bill Potts visit Gliese 581d, where they prevent human colonists from being wiped out by the Vardy.

("Smile")

The Doctor says it is the far future. Given certain similarities between these colonists and those in "The Ark in Space", I suspect that they come from a similar timeframe.

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The Twelfth Doctor, Nardole and Bill Potts defeat a plot to wipe out workers at Chasm Forge.

("Oxygen")

No way to tie this to a specific date, although it's obviously in Earth's far future.

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The First and Twelfth Doctors encounter Rusty the Dalek on Villengard.

("Twice Upon A Time"

No specific date given, but it's in Earth's far future.

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The Thirteenth Doctor, Graham O'Brien, Yasmin Khan and Ryan Sinclair encounter the Remnants on the planet Desolation and recover the Doctor's TARDIS.

("The Ghost Monument")

No specific date attached to this episode.

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The Thirteenth Doctor, Graham O'Brien, Yasmin Khan and Ryan Sinclair travel to Kerblam! headquarters, where they uncover Charlie Duffy's terror plot.

(Kerblam!")

No specific date attached to this episode, probably in Earth's far future.

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The Thirteenth Doctor, Graham O'Brien, Yasmin Khan and Ryan Sinclair battle the Dregs on a far future Earth.

("Orphan 55")

No specific date given.

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The Thirteenth Doctor, Graham O'Brien, Yasmin Khan and Ryan Sinclair battle the Cybermen and the Master on the Boundary Planet and on Gallifrey

("Ascension of the Cybermen"/"The Timeless Children")

No specific date given, but definitely in the far future.

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