Doctor Who in History and Space…
The Doctor travels through time and space with the T.A.R.D.I.S. – and has travelled more often to parallel universes and the future than to the past. When traveling back, the Doctor met several well-known people or events in the past, especially of the English history.
The visits are heavily influenced by modern times, as more than half of the time travels to the past took place between the Victorian Age and the present.
In total, there are 39 time travels to the past, with Doctor and companions respectively travelling twice to different pasts in two episodes each.
Doctor Who in History – the historical-chronological overview of the episodes
(Note 1: I use the periods of English historiography for the periodisation.)
(Note 2: Hush…. Spoilers! Includes Season 13.)
Prehistory
| Year/ Century | Place (current land) | Season. Episode | Title of the Episode | Screen Writer |
| 79 BC | Pompeji (Italy) | 04.02 | The Fires of Pompeii | James Moran |
Early Medieval
| Year/ Century | Place (current land) |
Season. Episode | Title of the Episode | Screen Writer |
| 800-1100 | Skandinavia | 09.05 | The Girl Who Died | Jamie Mathieson & Steven Moffat |
Medieval
| Year/ Century | Place (current land) |
Season. Episode | Title of the Episode | Screen Writer |
| End of 13th c. | Sherwood (England) | 08.03 | Robot in Sherwood | Mark Gatiss |
Tudor
| Year/ Century | Place (current land) |
Season. Episode | Title of the Episode | Screen Writer |
| 1562 | London (England) | Special | The Day of the Doctor | Steven Moffat |
| 16th c. | England | 03.02 | The Shakespeare Code | Gareth Roberts |
| End of 16th c. | Venice (Italy) | 05.06 | Vampires of Venice | Toby Whithouse |
Stuart
| Year/ Century | Place (current land) |
Season. Episode | Title of the Episode | Screen Writer |
| 1651 | London (England) | 09.06 | The Woman Who Lived | Catherine Tregenna |
| 17th c. | Ocean | 06.03 | The Curse of the Black Spot | Joy Wilkinson |
| 17th c. | Lancashire (England) | 11.08 | The Witchfinders | Stephen Thompson |
Georgian
| Year/ Century | Place (current land) |
Season. Episode | Title of the Episode | Screen Writer |
| 1727 | Paris (France)/ Space | 02.04 | The Girl in the Fireplace | Steven Moffat |
| 1810s | London (England) | 10.03 | Thin Ice | Sarah Dollard |
| 1816 | Am Genfersee (Schweiz) | 12.08 | The Haunting of Villa Diodati | Maxine Alderton, Chris Chibnall |
| 1834 | London (England) | 12.02 | Spyfall, pt. 2 | Lee Haven-Jones |
Victorian
| Year/ Century | Place (current land) |
Season. Episode | Title of the Episode | Screen Writer |
| 1855 | Crimea (Ukraine) | 13.02 | War of the Sontarans | Chris Chibnall |
| 1869 | Cardiff (Wales) | 01.03 | The Unquiet Dead | Mark Gatiss |
| c. 1870 | USA | 07.03 | A Town called Mercy | Toby Whithouse |
| 1879 | Sheffield (England) | 02.02 | Tooth and Claws | Russel R. Davies |
| 1890 | Auvers-sur-Oise (France) | 05.10 | Vincent and the Doctor | Richard Curtis |
| 1892 | England | 07 (S) | The Snowmen | Steven Moffat |
| 1893 | Yorkshire (England) | 07.12 | The Crimson Horror | Mark Gatiss |
| End of 19th c. | London (England) | 08.01 | Deep Breath | Steven Moffat |
| 1901 | Long Island (USA) | 12.04 | Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror | Nina Metivier |
| 1901 | Medderton (fictitious place in England) | 13.04 | Village of the Angels | Chris Chibnail, Maxine Alderton |
Edwardian
| Year/ Century | Place (current land) |
Season. Episode | Title of the Episode | Screen Writer |
| 1904 | Liverpool (England) | 13.01 | The Halloween Apocalypse | Chris Chibnall |
| 1904 | Mexico City (Mexico) | 13.05 | Survivors of the Flux | Chris Chibnall |
| 1904 | Constantinople (Turkey) | 13.05 | Survivors of the Flux | Chris Chibnall |
| 1904 | Upon a Hill in Nepal | 13.05 | Survivors of the Flux | Chris Chibnall |
| 1904 | Somewhere in China | 13.05 | Survivors of the Flux | Chris Chibnall |
| 1904 | Liverpool (England) | 13.05 | Survivors of the Flux | Chris Chibnall |
| 1913 | England | 03.08 | Human Nature | Paul Cornell |
| 1913 | England | 03.09 | The Family’s Blood | Paul Cornell |
Modern 1
| Year/ Century | Place (current land) |
Season. Episode | Title of the Episode | Screen Writer |
| 1926 | England | 04.07 | The Unicorn and the Wasp | Gareth Roberts |
| 1930s | Manhattan (USA) | 03.04 | Daleks in Manhattan | Helen Raynor |
| 1938 | Berlin (Deutschland) | 06.08 | Let’s kill Hitler | Steven Moffat |
| Early 1940s | London (England) | 05.03 | Victory of the Daleks | Mark Gatiss |
| Early 1940s | Southhampton/ London (England) | 12.02 | Spyfall, pt. 2 | Lee Haven-Jones |
| 1941 | London (England) | 01.09 | The Empty Child | Steven Moffat |
| 1941 | London (England) | 01.10 | The Doctor Dances | Steven Moffat |
Modern 2
| Year/ Century | Place (current land) |
Season. Episode | Title of the Episode | Screen Writer |
| 1947 | Punjab (India) | 11.06 | Demons of the Pubjab | Vinay Patel |
| 1953 | London (England) | 02.07 | The Idiot’s Latern | Mark Gatiss |
| 1955 | Montgomery (USA) | 11.03 | Rosa | Malorie Blackman, Chris Chibnall |
| 1958 | England | 13.05 | Survivors of the Flux | Chris Chibnall |
| 1963 | London | 14.02 | The Devil’s Chord | Russell T. Davies |
| 1967 | Medderton (fictitious place in England) | 13.04 | Village of the Angels | Chris Chibnail, Maxine Alderton |
| 1967 | England | 13.05 | Survivors of the Flux | Chris Chibnall |
| 1969 | Washington, DC (USA) | 06.01 | The Impossible Astronaut | Steven Moffat |
| 1969 | Washington, DC (USA) | 06.02 | Day of the Moon | Steven Moffat |
| 1974 | England | 07.09 | Hide | Neil Cross |
| 1983 | near to the North Pole | 07.08 | Cold War | Mark Gatiss |
| 2017 | England | 13.05 | Survivors of the Flux | Chris Chibnall |