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TARDIS Guide

Stories set in the Middle Ages

deltaandthebannermen

TARDIS Team

20th April 2025

8 minute read

The Middle Ages is generally considered to be the period from the 5th Century to the end of the 14th Century and the dawn of the Renaissance period. Doctor Who has explored this period with a wide range of adventures visiting every corner of the world. This guide will help you experience life in Medieval England, face Vikings and Caliphates and meet historical figures such as Marco Polo, King Richard and Robin Hood.

The Companion Chronicles S7 • Episode 10

The Library of Alexandria
3.76
 

410 – The Library of Alexandria:

The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan visit the great Library of Alexandria and find themselves meeting famed philosopher, Hypatia, but caught up in its destruction.

Main Range • Episode 163

Black and White
3.56
 

c505 & 521 – Black and White:

The legend of Beowulf and Grendel gets a Doctor Who twist in this tale which also involves the mystery of the Black and White TARDISes.

Doctor Who Adventures

An Ill Wind
Rating: ???
 

620 – An Ill Wind: 

The Eleventh Doctor and Decky Flamboon arrive in China to find a robotic dragon terrorising the locals.

Doctor Who Magazine Comics

Doctor Conkerer!
Rating: 2.63
 

c800 – Doctor Conkerer!:

The Seventh Doctor faces Vikings in his quest for a game of conkers.

The First Doctor Adventures Volume 3 • Episode 1

The Phoenicians
3.06
 

814 – The Phoenicians:

The First Doctor Adventures finds the TARDIS travellers arrive in Ancient Tyre where they become embroiled in the quarrel between King Pygmalion and Princess Elissa.

Main Range • Episode 118

The Destroyer of Delights
3.18
 

c855 – The Destroyer of Delights:

Accompanied by Amy, a human tracer, the Fifth Doctor is on the trail of the Key to Time again. The quest brings him to Sudan where a Djinn has plans.

Main Range • Episode 168a

1001 Nights
3.41
 

c875/878 – 1001 Nights

To save the Doctor’s life, Nyssa must tell the Sultan a series of tales.

Doctor Who S9 • Episode 5

The Girl Who Died
3.28
 

9th Century – The Girl Who Died:

The Twelfth Doctor and Clara are kidnapped by Vikings but find themselves with bigger problems when the Mire arrive in the village.

Main Range • Episode 173

The Lady of Mercia
3.67
 

918 – The Lady of Mercia: 

Tegan is transported to 10th Century Mercia by an experimental time machine at the University of Frodsham.

Eleventh Doctor – IDW Comics

They Think It’s All Over!
Rating: 3.79
 

966 – They Think It’s All Over: 

Heading to Wembley for the 1966 World Cup, the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory but end up mediating between Saxons and Vikings through the medium of a football match.

Graceless S3 • Episode 2

The Battle
3.45
 

991 – The Battle: 

The human tracers, Abby and Zara are on the Essex coast trying to help locals fearful of pirates.

Excelis • Episode 1

Excelis Dawns
3.25
 

c1001 – Excelis Dawns: 

On the planet Excelis, the Doctor and Iris Wildthyme are on a quest for a mysterious relic.

Doctor Who Magazine

Who Discovered America?
Rating: 2.85
 

1002 – Who Discovered America?:

The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan convince Erik the Red to allow them to accompany him to North America to help fix a faulty TARDIS by gathering plutonic rocks from Newfoundland.

The Eighth Doctor Adventures S4 • Episode 4

The Book of Kells
3.61
 

1006 – The Book of Kells:

The Eighth Doctor and Tamsin arrive at the isolated Abbey of Kells in Ireland, to discover some familiar faces are up to no good with possibly the most important book in the world.

Big Finish Short Trips

The Immortals
Rating: 3.30
 

1016 – The Immortals:

In Eastern Europe, the Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan are involved in conflict between Udilf’s people and an Asian tribe they fear.

The Nest Cottage Chronicles • Episode 4

A Sting in the Tale
3.58
 

1039 – Hornet’s Nest – A Sting in the Tale:

The Fourth Doctor and Mike Yates arrive at yet another abbey on the trail of the Swarm – alien hornets with mind control powers.

TV Comic

Woden’s Warriors
Rating: 2.36
 

1066 – Woden’s Warriors:

In 1066, the Doctor and Sarah Jane find themselves hiding from Vikings and warning local Saxons of an impending raid in this TV Comic strip.

Doctor Who Annuals

The Real Hereward
Rating: 2.75
 

1066 -The Real Hereward:

The Doctor and Peri discover the true identity of Hereward the Wake.

Classic Who S2 • Serial 9 · (4 episodes)

The Time Meddler
3.98
 

1066 – The Time Meddler:

The First Doctor, Vicki and Steven are also in England in 1066 and also caught between Vikings and Saxons. But someone else, from the Doctor’s home planet, is living in the local monastery and has plans to meddle with history.

Big Finish Short Trips

Illumination
Rating: ???
 

1070 – Illumination:

The Eighth Doctor and Izzy are captured by hunters in Sweden and meet Adam of Bremen, the famed historian.

BBC Books

The Krillitane Storm
Rating: 3.85
 

1139 – The Krillitane Storm:

The Tenth Doctor arrives in Worcester to find the population in hiding and under curfew, terrified of the Devil’s Huntsman.

Classic Who S2 • Serial 6 · (2/4 episodes intact)

The Crusade
3.04
 

1190 – The Crusade:

The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki become embroiled in court intrigue and religious war during the time of the Crusades. With the Doctor trying to survive King Richard’s court, Ian is on a quest to rescue Barbara from the clutches of El Akir.

Doctor Who S8 • Episode 3

Robot of Sherwood
3.24
 

1190 – Robot of Sherwood:

At around the time King Richard is fighting the Crusades, the Twelfth Doctor and Clara arrive in Sherwood Forest and meet none other the legendary outlaw, Robin Hood. But was is the secret of the Sheriff of Nottingham’s knights?

Krynoid

The Green Man
Rating: 2.50
 

1191 – The Green Man:

This audio drama from BBV finds medieval men fighting against the plant-like Krynoids.

Main Range • Episode 127

Castle of Fear
3.46
 

1199 – Castle of Fear:

What is the alien presence squatting in Stockbridge Castle? The Doctor and Nyssa travel from 1899 to 1199 to investigate the Doctor’s involvement in a Mummers play.

Doctor Who Adventures

Triskaidekaphobia
Rating: 2.84
 

1213 – Triskaidekaphobia:

The Doctor and Rose meet some Triskaidekaphobes on the 13th moon of the 13th planet in the 13th galaxy on the 13th January 1213.

Classic Who S20 • Serial 6 · (2 episodes)

The King’s Demons
2.77
 

1215 – The King’s Demons:

The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough find an imposter at the centre of King John’s court. Not even the king is who he seems to be.

BBC Books

Bunker Soldiers
3.38
 

1240 – Bunker Soldiers:

The First Doctor, Steven and Dodo face the onslaught of a powerful army when they arrive in Kiev in the 13th Century.

Virgin New Adventures

Sanctuary
3.48
 

1242 – Sanctuary:

The Seventh Doctor and Bernice evacuate the TARDIS in the Jade Pagoda and land in medieval France. Caught in the religious machinations of Templars, crusaders and heretics, Bernice meets Guy de Carnac, a mercenary.

New Series Adventures

Ruby Red
3.60
 

1242 – Ruby Red:

The Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby answer a distress call from medieval Russia where they find an alien girl caught in a battle between the forces of Estonia and Novgorod.

BBV Audio Dramas

The Quality of Mercy
Rating: 2.50
 

c1245 – The Quality of Mercy:

Guy de Carnac arrives in a town where the Inquisition are determined to solve the mystery of a foreign sailor.

Classic Who S11 • Serial 1 · (4 episodes)

The Time Warrior
3.91
 

c1273 – The Time Warrior:

The Third Doctor traces missing scientists to a medieval castle under the control of a Sontaran. Unbeknownst to him, journalist Sarah Jane Smith has stowed away aboard the TARDIS and thinks he is responsible for the disappearances.

BBC Books

Asylum
Rating: 3.08
 

1278 – Asylum:

The Fourth Doctor and Nyssa investigate a murdered friar in Oxford.

TV Comic

Challenge of the Piper
3.11
 

c1284 – The Challenge of the Piper:

The First Doctor and his grandchildren, John and Gillian, face the Pied Pier of fairy tale notoriety, who has stolen the children from the town of Hamelin.

Classic Who S1 • Serial 4 · (0/7 episodes intact)

Marco Polo
3.59
 

c1289 – Marco Polo:

Materialising on the ‘roof of the world’, the Doctor, Susan, Barbara and Ian find themselves forced to accompany famed explorer, Marco Polo on his journey to visit Kublai Khan. Can they escape the murderous intent of fellow traveller, Tegana and reclaim the TARDIS from Polo?

The Many Lives of Doctor Who

Return of the Volsci
Rating: 3.14
 

c1336 – Return of the Volsci:

The Ninth Doctor, Rose and Jack find themselves at the battle of Minatogawa.

Battles in Time

Plague Panic
Rating: 2.56
 

c1348 – Plague Panic:

In this Battles in Time comic, the Tenth Doctor finds himself fleeing from zombie-like plague victims but discovers an alien influence.

Undated stories set in the Middle Ages:

Big Finish Short Trips

The Thief of Sherwood
3.85
 

Big Finish Short Trips

On a Pedestal
Rating: 4.06
 

Main Range • Episode 217b

The Last Fairy Tale
3.33
 

Doctor Who Adventures

Samurai’s Secret
Rating: ???
 

TV Comic

The Magician
Rating: 3.13
 

Doctor Who Annuals

Myth Maker
Rating: ???
 

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