INTRODUCTION:
   Greetings.  I am know in these parts as Marnal Gate and this is my totally irrelevant web page.  The purpose of this page is to air a few of my ideas on continuity in the Doctor Who universes.  This is my first web page so I tried to follow the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid). This page was created in March 1998.  
It was last updated in December, 2008.   

PURPOSE:
    I have  (shall we say 'an obsessive'?  Yes.  Yes, we shall) an obsessive interest in the history of the history of the Doctor's people from before the time of Rassilon  to its apparent destruction in the Time War with the Daleks.  The idea behind this web page is to trace all the little details about the Time Lord's past that we have been given over the decades.  I've also added a section on the Daleks (though it doesn't cover as much material as I'd like).  If you have any doubts as to the validity of the data presented, just check the color code chart at the top of each page.  I've been pretty religious about sticking to it.

Oh and the myspace page http://www.myspace.com/merlin_3055 has shamelessly STOLEN my material and posted it in his blog as his own.  May he rot in a black star!

The TARDIS Technical Index
An exhaustive collection of data on the Time Ships of Gallifrey
(the following links takes you to the home of my TARDIS Index at The Whoniverse)

THE HISTORY OF GALLIFREY
Exhaustive time lines of Gallifrey's history.
(the following links contains many spoilers for the TV series, audios, and novels)

PART I:  THE DARK TIME
(Event Zero & Ancient Gallifrey)

PART II:  THE TIME OF LEGEND
(Rassilon Omega and the Other)

PART III:  MIDDLE GALLIFREY
(The Pre-Doctor Era)

PART IV:  MODERN GALLIFREY
(The Doctor - Renegade Era)

PART V:  LATER GALLIFREY
(The Doctor - Time's Champion)

SOURCES:
    I've tried to base all my information off of reliable (or at least well thought out) sources.  These include the TV series, Novels, Audios, and numerous referance books.  The Whoniverse and The Cloister Library have also been essential.  Despite this it is likely that some people will disagree with the canocity of some sources or my interpretation.  I want to say that I accept Virgin's New/Missing Adventures, the  BBC's eighth/past Doctor Who books , and the Big Finish Audios as canon.  If you don't agree with this premise, then please don't fill my e-mail with complaints.  It is not my intention to offend anyone or to say that any other interpretation is invalid.  Basically I'm just trying to see if there's anyone who's actually interested in these topics.
    This list should be current up through the BBC novel Eigth Doctor novel The Gallifrey Chronicles. And all the Audios up through the first season of  Gallifrey.
   If you think I've forgotten some data or just want to give your opinion on my page, then please don't hesitate to E-Mail me at willbswift@hotmail.com . (If I don't respond after week then a cybership must have ate your email and you should send again).  

OTHER WEB PAGES BY WILLIAM B. SWIFT:

   

LINKS:
   Here a few web sites I've found useful/interesting/meaningful.                

   Distant Worlds.net ( http://www.distantworlds.net/viewstory.asp?ID=147 ) My first published short story can be found here. 

    Time Lady Hollycelestamelindar's Home Page ( http://www.oocities.org/hollycelestamelindar/ ) My wife's Web site.  Aren't Time Ladies wonderful!

    The Whoniverse ( http://www.whoniverse.org ) An AMAZING followup to the Discontinuity Guide book.  It attempts to cover all the novels and has lots of other goodies too.

    TARDIS Index File Wiki ( http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page ) A very nice Doctor Who Wiki with loads of info. 

   New Apocrypha (http://newapocrypha.wetpaint.com/ ) A wiki site with all sorts of Doctor Who continuity all nicely integrated. 

   New Apocrypha ( http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/newapocrypha/ )  A Yahoo group devoted to intense and obsessive analysis  of Whoniverse continuity issues.  They have been very helpful at proofreading parts of my website.  Its loosely connected to the New Apocrypha wiki.

   Amica Temporis ( http://www.crista-galli.com/temporis/ ) A very nice site with detailed speculative drawings of Time Lord anatomy and discussions of their biology.

    The DiscContinuity Guide ( http://www.tetrap.com/drwho/disccon/) Another great follow up to the book.  This one covers the audio adventures and the TV Movie.

    The Doctor Who Web Guide ( http://www.doctorwhowebguide.net/ ) The best guide to Doctor Who wesites on the web.  They were kind enough to give my site a Website Gold award.

    Outpost Gallifrey ( www.gallifreyone.com/ )  The definitive Who site.  Their unofficial time line carries on what Lance Parkin started with his book "A History of the Universe."

    Doctor Who Continuity Cops ( http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/DoctorWhoContinuity/ ) A Yahoo group devoted to analyzing continuity issues of Doctor Who, Faction Paradox and all the other Whoniverse titles. 

    Lush Aggressive Vegetation ( http://goofy.dreaming.org/dw/ )   John's site has a very clever theory as to how The Infinity Doctors fits into continuity.  The theory put forth in my timeline is really just a variation on his.

    Faction Paradox (http://web.archive.org/web/20050305165229/www.factionparadox.co.uk/homepage.htm)  An archived version of the definitive site for info about Lawrence Miles' Faction Paradox. Used to be at http://www.factionparadox.co.uk ) another version of it can be found here http://www.curufea.com/Wikka/wikka.php?wakka=FactionWebsite

    Fluid Link ( www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~abr/drwho/tardis/ )  An amazing speculative TARDIS Technical Manual.

    The Mistress of the Magical Bus ( http://www.iriswildthyme.thiswaydown.org/ ) A stylish site devoted Iris Wildthyme!

    Who3D (http://www.who3d.com/)   A great site filled with wonderful computer rendering of the 60's TARDIS.

   The Doctor Who Image Archive (http://www.shillpages.com/dw/dwia.htm)   As the name implies, a great site for Doctor Who pictures.  Many of the pictures on my site come from there.

   Timelink (www.oocities.org/jpreddle/timelink.html)   This is where you can obtain Jon Preddle's definitive guide to the chronology of the Doctor Who TV series.  It also has abunch of other great stuff too.  

   Journey through the Fourth Dimensions (http://members.tripod.co.uk/mattdurrant/)   And Nerva Graphics (www.nervagraphics.co.uk) A nifty Doctor Who site created by a friend of mine.  Check it out.

   Edgar Governo Historian of Things That Never Were (http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/history.html )   A wonderful site filled with chronologies to just about every Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror franchise every created.

LEGAL STUFF:
    I have no intention of infringing on anybody's ideas, property, or the copyrights of any of the above franchises, I only wish to promote a more detailed understanding and appreciation of their universes.  This Web page should be viewed as an advertisements for all the sources that went into making it.

Oh and the myspace page http://www.myspace.com/merlin_3055 has shamelessly stolen my material and posted it in his blog as his own.  May he rot in a black star!