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  About This Chronology I started this candidly insane project in 2002, before the Welsh Series was a Cambrian gleam in Big Russell’s eye. I had of course read A History of the Universe and Ahistory by Lance Parkin, the giant upon whose shoulders more than any others I precariously perch. He observed in the forward to Ahistory that including all the short stories and comic strips into a chronology would be too time-consuming an exercise. He was right. It has been. This unfinishable chronology, then, aims to encompass all the professionally broadcast, released and published Doctor Who stories, plus the more notable stories written for charity or simply left online, plus all those not featuring the Doctor but relating to Doctor Who narrative. Obviously, the spin-offs: the Daleks, Benny, Faction Paradox, every cheeky plate Big Finish has set spinning; Iris Wildthyme, that is evidence that Doctor Who fascinates those with a very different sensibility to my own as, gawd help us, is Tor