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== Timeline ==
{{forumheader|Timey-wimey detector}}This page lists '''appearances of the [[Eighth Doctor]] in the order in which he experienced them'''. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed, much like its TV story counterparts that for each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. This does not apply to short stories which are often ambiguous about their placement. There are also many gaps between stories.
=== Pessimistic about his future ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Maltese Penguin (audio story)|The Maltese Penguin]]''
: The Doctor visits Frobisher three weeks after dropping him off, to ask if he's grown tired of playing detectives and wants to return to the TARDIS. His feelings hurt, Frobisher declines the offer.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Time of Your Life (novel)|Time of Your Life]]''
The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who.htm#8TH Doctor Who Reference Guide] and [http://www.eyespider.org.uk/drwho/pm/list.html Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures], as well as [[Lance Parkin]]'s ''[[AHistory]]'' and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as [http://www.whoniverse.net/biography/timeline08 The Whoniverse], [http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/eighth-doctor.html Doctor Who Reviews], [http://docohosreviews.blogspot.com/p/contents-page.html Doc Oho's Book Reviews], [http://www.doctorwhoreviews.altervista.org/Eighth%20Doctor.htm The History of Doctor Who], [http://www.whoniverse.net/discontinuity The Discontinuity Guide], [http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/ Clive Banks databanks], [https://whopix.wordpress.com/chronology/8th-doctor/ Whopix], [http://forums.bigfinish.com/threads/6103-The-Eighth-Doctor%E2%80%99s-Timeline two] [http://forums.bigfinish.com/threads/6095-The-Eighth-Doctor-s-Timeline(inspired-by-Billy2) Big Finish forums] and [http://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/115/8-eighth-doctors-timeline the Divergent Universe forum]. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
: After returning Melanie to his future self, the Doctor becomes a recluse on [[Torrok]] in order to prevent himself from becoming the Valeyard. However, the Time Lords manipulate him into saving Earth from [[Krllxk]]. After he helps the Doctor defeat a giant robot dinosaur in [[New Tokyo]], [[Grant Markham]] joins the Doctor as his companion.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]''
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: Grant takes his first trip in the TARDIS. By the end of this adventure the Doctor offers Grant full companionship.


:: ''A man resembling Grant is known to have been removed from history by the Doctor prior to ''[[Repercussions... (short story)|Repercussions...]]''.''
== Limiting factors ==
Any story with the Doctor’s silver Sonic Screwdriver must take place either between ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'', where it is destroyed, or (if the story takes place during the [[Last Great Time War]]) after ''[[Natural Regression (short story)|Natural Regression]]'' and before ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]''. Between ''The Flood'' and ''Natural Regression'', the Doctor uses a wooden sonic.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Maltese Penguin (audio story)|The Maltese Penguin]]''
Any story featuring [[Romana II]] must take place either before her regeneration in ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'' or after her regeneration is undone in ''[[Enemy Lines (audio story)|Enemy Lines]]''.
: The Doctor visits Frobisher a second time, but he once again declines to return to the TARDIS as he is busy with an ongoing investigation.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wormery (audio story)|The Wormery]]''
== Complications ==
: Set shortly, but not immediately, after the Doctor's trial, with a much wearier Doctor, whose love for life has diminished somewhat. Though an adventure with [[Iris Wildthyme]] gets him out of his funk, he's still nevertheless a very lonely man by the end of it.  
=== Split continuities ===
Following the release of ''Doctor Who'', both ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' and ''[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' took to continuing the Eighth Doctor's adventures in [[1997 (releases)|1997]]; they were joined by [[Big Finish Productions]] in [[2001 (releases)|2001]]. For the most part, each of these storylines should not be interrupted or intertwined: in other words, there are few gaps in each series' storyline where the Doctor could feasibly take a break from one set of companions and to travel with a different set of companions from another series. Both the ''BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures'' books and ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comics advertised themselves as continuing directly from the TV Movie, but only the novels actually portrayed an newly-regenerated Eighth Doctor, with ''Doctor Who Magazine'' instead depicting an Eighth Doctor that was comfortable with his body and personality. For this reason, the most commonly accepted framework is that, after the telemovie, ''BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures'' happened, followed by ''Doctor Who Magazine'', and then continued with Big Finish Productions, who show the development of the Doctor that leads to ''The Night of the Doctor''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Excelis Rising (audio story)|Excelis Rising]]''
There are very few exceptions to this general rule:
: The Doctor is still portrayed as a recluse.
* In the BBC Books novel ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'', companion [[Sam Jones]] mentions that the Doctor once dropped her off at a [[Greenpeace]] rally and had (what he told her was) a year's worth of adventures before picking her up again. ''[[Radio Times]]''{{'}}s comic mini-series with the Eighth Doctor takes place in at least part of this gap, as the events are referenced in ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'' a few books later.
* A gap of unknown size takes place between the Eighth Doctor's travels with [[Charlotte Pollard]] in Big Finish's [[Main Range]] and his adventures with [[Lucie Miller]] in the ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]''.
* A gap of unknown size takes place between the "What Happened on Earth" and "Foreman’s World" narratives of the novel ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Spindle of Necessity (short story)|The Spindle of Necessity]]''
=== Gallifrey ===
: In despair at becoming the Valeyard, the Doctor goes into isolation long enough to grow a goatee beard. After the Fates tell him that becoming the Valeyard is but one possible timeline, the Doctor decides to resume his travels, his desire to roam the universe restored.
During the [[War in Heaven]], multiple [[Nine Gallifreys|duplicate Gallifreys]] were created, each believing themselves to be the original. One of these, [[Romana III's Gallifrey]], was destroyed in ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]''; anything involving Romana III must therefore take place before ''The Ancestor Cell'' or the reversal of Romana II's regeneration in ''Enemy Lines''.


=== The Doctor and the Detective ===
Alternatively, anything involving Gallifrey could take place either on a different duplicate Gallifrey or sometime after a hypothetical recreation of Romana III's Gallifrey following ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''. However, such a restoration is never mentioned in the comics or audios.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Maltese Penguin (audio story)|The Maltese Penguin]]''
: The Doctor returns to ask Frobisher if he wants to travel with him again. This time, Frobisher accepts the offer.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Mission: Impractical (novel)|Mission: Impractical]]''
== Timeline ==
: The Doctor is still sedate and mistrusting after his trial.
=== New adventures ===
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Holy Terror (audio story)|The Holy Terror]]''
: The Doctor [[Regeneration|regenerates]] from his [[Seventh Doctor|previous incarnation]], but suffers complete [[amnesia]]. Seeking aid from Dr. [[Grace Holloway]], the Doctor is able to recover his memory during a final fight with {{Roberts}}, who is absorbed into the TARDIS through the [[Eye of Harmony]]. After parting ways with Grace, the Doctor settles down to read ''[[The Time Machine]]''.
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Emperor (short story)|The Last Emperor]]''
 
=== Optimistic travels ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Trick or Treat (short story)|Trick or Treat]]''
: The Doctor considers the events of ''Timelash'' and ''Revelation of the Daleks'' to be recent happenings. Frobisher is among the [[Celestial Toymaker]]'s dolls, setting this at least after ''The Shape Shifter''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Death Sentences (short story)|Death Sentences]]''
: The Doctor tangles with a [[Logovore]], but is unable to defeat it.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]''  
: The Doctor is wearing the waistcoat and cravat from ''The Trial of a Time Lord''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pass It On (short story)|Pass It On]]''
: The Doctors saves a busload of semi-comatose people from extra-terrestrials.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Death of Me (short story)|The Death of Me]]''
: The Doctor is traveling alone, has not yet worn his blue coat, and feels regret for an outburst.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Inquisitor's Story (short story)|The Inquisitor's Story]]''
: On a visit to Baspral, the Doctor prevents a Seer from drowning a young boy.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Her Final Flight (audio story)|Her Final Flight]]''
: The Doctor is unaware of the details of Peri's fate, but it is established that a considerable amount of time has passed since the Doctor was forced to leave her on Thoros Beta, and he resolves to start looking for her, after a brief time of recuperation.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Loose Change (short story)|Loose Change]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[I.D. (audio story)|I.D.]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Peri and the Piscon Paradox (audio story)|Peri and the Piscon Paradox]]''
: In his search for her, the Doctor discovers that multiple versions of [[Peri Brown]] exist.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doctor's Coat (audio story)|The Doctor's Coat]]''
: The Doctor contemplates visiting a version of [[Peri Brown]] who rules [[Krontep]], but decides she is too busy.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Acheron Pulse (audio story)|The Acheron Pulse]]''
: The Doctor is wearing his Technicolor coat. The Big Finish production code places this after ''I.D.''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trial of the Valeyard (audio story)|Trial of the Valeyard]]''
: Sequel story to ''The Trial of a Time Lord'', and the first time the Doctor has faced the Valeyard since then.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Carrionite Curse (audio story)|The Carrionite Curse]]''
: The [[Carrionite]]s use the name "[[Valeyard]]" to taunt the Doctor, but he insists that the Valeyard is only a potential future for him. The Doctor owns a signed copy of a book written by [[George Litefoot]].
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fortunes of War (audio story)|Fortunes of War]]''
: The Doctor has been travelling alone for a while, but still greatly regrets the loss of Peri.
 
=== Old acquaintances ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Whiskey and Water (short story)|Whiskey and Water]]''
: The Doctor's clothes go uncommented upon, which, given the aggressiveness of the situation, suggests he is in his discreet blue coat.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Water's Edge (short story)|Water's Edge]]''
: The Doctor loses another blue coat during the Tangiwai Disaster.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrong Doctors (audio story)|The Wrong Doctors]]''
: Evelyn Smythe has recently left the TARDIS, with the Doctor finishing the final slice of her sponge cake and absentmindedly talking to her when he is admiring its taste. The Doctor vows to resume wearing his Technicolor coat more often in Mel's memory.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[She Won't Be Home (short story)|She Won't Be Home]]''
: The Doctor is melancholy following the recent departure of a companion, presumably Evelyn. He offers [[Linda Grainger]] a trip in the TARDIS, but she declines. The Doctor is wearing his Technicolor coat.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadow in the Glass (novel)|The Shadow in the Glass]]''
: The Doctor gives an uncomfortable pause when asked if he is traveling alone, and is noted by [[Claire Aldwych]] to have "a kind of sorrow about him". The Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier are already familiar with each other, setting this after ''The Spectre of Lanyon Moor''.
 
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Age of Chaos (comic story)|The Age of Chaos]]''
: Set after ''The Maltese Penguin'', with the Doctor, excited about seeing the universe again, looking to find out what happened to Peri on Thoros Beta. He and Frobisher then visit a version of Peri who has lived a long life as Queen of [[Krontep]].
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ratings War (audio story)|The Ratings War]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas Special (ST short story)|Christmas Special]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Inquisitor's Story (short story)|The Inquisitor's Story]]''
: On a return trip to Baspral, the Doctor is informed of the repercussions of his previous trip.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing (short story)|Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing]]''
: Whilst defeating an Auton invasion, the Doctor takes the time to teach a teenage Becky how to dance. For him, it has been eighty years since he last saw her.
 
=== History takes its course ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Business Unusual (novel)|Business Unusual]]''
: After a period of avoiding [[Melanie Bush]] out of fear that travelling with her would lead him on the path to becoming the Valeyard, the Doctor decides to bow down to destiny and accept her as his companion when circumstances lead him to [[Pease Pottage]] and Mel helps him defeat a Nestene invasion with [[the Brigadier]].
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deal (short story)|The Deal]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Wee Deoch an ...? (short story)|A Wee Deoch an ...?]]''
: The Doctor claims to be 991-years-old.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Tourist Invasion (short story)|A Tourist Invasion]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Fegovy (short story)|Fegovy]]''
: Mel has been travelling with the Doctor for a few months. She is able to make sense of future programming code on a human spaceship.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The One Doctor (audio story)|The One Doctor]]''
: Mel knows how to fly the TARDIS.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up (short story)|The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Mortal Thoughts (short story)|Mortal Thoughts]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Juggernauts (audio story)|The Juggernauts]]''
: Set after ''The One Doctor''. Mel encounters the Daleks for the first time.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Catch-1782 (audio story)|Catch-1782]]''
: Set after ''The Juggernauts''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Sold Out (short story)|Sold Out]]''
: Diamond Sharp references the Doctor's role in ''Terror of the Vervoids''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thicker Than Water (audio story)|Thicker Than Water]]''
: Set after ''Catch-1782''. One depiction of Mel meeting with Evelyn, and Evelyn's life after traveling aboard the TARDIS. Mel calls the Doctor out on his attitude and egotistical demeanour.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Old Boys (short story)|Old Boys]]''
: The Doctor and Mel defeat the Rainbow.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Best Joke I Ever Told (short story)|The Best Joke I Ever Told]]''
: Mel knows the Daleks, and feels she needs to brush up on her knowledge of future technology after finding herself unable to make sense of Dalek technology.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eyes Have It (short story)|The Eyes Have It]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wishing Beast (audio story)|The Wishing Beast]]''
: The Doctor and Mel encounter the Wishing Beast for the first time. Mel asks the Doctor to take her somewhere fabulous, leading directly into ''The Vanity Box''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Vanity Box (audio story)|The Vanity Box]]''
: The Doctor and Mel arrive in the [[1960s]] after Mel asks the Doctor to take her somewhere fabulous. They encounter the Wishing Beast for a second time.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spaceport Fear (audio story)|Spaceport Fear]]''
: Set immediately after ''The Vanity Box''. Although the Doctor is depicted wearing his blue coat on the CD cover, he is described in the story itself as wearing his multi-coloured one.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Seeds of War (audio story)|The Seeds of War]]''
: The Doctor recommends avoiding the work of agronomist [[Sarah Lasky]], suggesting a pre-''Terror of the Vervoids'' setting.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Change Management (short story)|Change Management]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes (short story)|Swamp of Horrors]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Intuition (audio story)|Intuition]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Fairy Tale of New New York (short story)|Fairy Tale of New New York]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mel-evolent (audio story)|Mel-evolent]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Loud and Proud (audio story)|Loud and Proud]]''
: Mel enrolls the Doctor in an anger management class in Pease Pottage, setting this during the time she was helping him to improve himself.
 
=== Nearing the end ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr Cadabra (short story)|Dr Cadabra]]''
: Mel and the Doctor are aiming for New Year's Eve 1999, setting this immediately before ''Millennial Rites''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]''
: The Doctor and Mel haven't encountered the [[Vervoid]]s yet. Mel has been travelling with the Doctor for a couple of years.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)|Terror of the Vervoids]]''
: The Doctor and Mel encounter the Vervoids on the [[Hyperion III]].
 
:: ''The Doctor and Mel take a trip to [[Oxyveguramosa]],([[PROSE]]: ''[[Business Unusual (novel)|Business Unusual]]'')  where Mel is taken by the Master to give testament at the Doctor's trial, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'')  and later returned by the past Doctor after a brief stop at [[Pease Pottage]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrong Doctors (audio story)|The Wrong Doctors]]'')''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]''
: Mel recalls the events of ''Millennial Rites'', while the Doctor recalls the events of ''Terror of the Vervoids''. Mel has met the Master and the Valeyard before, setting this after ''The Ultimate Foe''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Instruments of Darkness (novel)|Instruments of Darkness]]''
: Another depiction of Mel meeting with Evelyn, and Evelyn's life after traveling aboard the TARDIS. Mel mentions the events of ''Terror of the Vervoids''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Curtain Call (short story)|Curtain Call]]''
: The Doctor and Mel have just visited [[Caliban]], setting this immediately prior to ''Spiral Scratch''.
 
=== Death ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Spiral Scratch (novel)|Spiral Scratch]]''
: In one depiction of his regeneration, while the Doctor is suffering from chronon energy starvation after his confrontation with the [[Lamprey]], the TARDIS is attacked by [[the Rani]] and the Doctor bangs his head, fatally injuring him. The Doctor and Mel visited [[Kolpasha]] in ''Instruments of Darkness'', a few weeks beforehand.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Brink of Death (audio story)|The Brink of Death]]''
: In another depiction of his regeneration, the Doctor is exposed to focused beams of a [[radiation]] lethal to Time Lords as a consequence of [[the Rani]]'s attack on the TARDIS, due to a future version of himself sending him a message on how to defeat [[the Valeyard]]'s master plan with his death.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (novelisation)|Time and the Rani]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]''
: Shortly after ''Millennial Rites'', the Doctor is influenced to kill himself by echoes of his [[Seventh Doctor|next incarnation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'') With the [[HADS]] deactivated, the TARDIS is attacked by [[the Rani]], and the Doctor suffers a fatal head injury in the attack.
: Continues directly on from ''Doctor Who'', with the Doctor completing his reading of ''The Time Machine''. After a second bout with amnesia, the Doctor rescues a 16-year-old girl named [[Sam Jones]] from being attacked by drug dealers, and welcomes her company in his travels.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''  
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bounty (audio story)|Bounty]]''
: The Doctor completes his [[regeneration]] into his [[Seventh Doctor|next incarnation]].
: Sam takes her first trip in the TARDIS.

Revision as of 11:15, 6 October 2019

This page lists appearances of the Eighth Doctor in the order in which he experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed, much like its TV story counterparts that for each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. This does not apply to short stories which are often ambiguous about their placement. There are also many gaps between stories.

The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who Reference Guide and Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as The Whoniverse, Doctor Who Reviews, Doc Oho's Book Reviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks databanks, Whopix, two Big Finish forums and the Divergent Universe forum. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Limiting factors

Any story with the Doctor’s silver Sonic Screwdriver must take place either between Doctor Who and The Flood, where it is destroyed, or (if the story takes place during the Last Great Time War) after Natural Regression and before The Night of the Doctor. Between The Flood and Natural Regression, the Doctor uses a wooden sonic.

Any story featuring Romana II must take place either before her regeneration in The Shadows of Avalon or after her regeneration is undone in Enemy Lines.

Complications

Split continuities

Following the release of Doctor Who, both Doctor Who Magazine and BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures took to continuing the Eighth Doctor's adventures in 1997; they were joined by Big Finish Productions in 2001. For the most part, each of these storylines should not be interrupted or intertwined: in other words, there are few gaps in each series' storyline where the Doctor could feasibly take a break from one set of companions and to travel with a different set of companions from another series. Both the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures books and Doctor Who Magazine comics advertised themselves as continuing directly from the TV Movie, but only the novels actually portrayed an newly-regenerated Eighth Doctor, with Doctor Who Magazine instead depicting an Eighth Doctor that was comfortable with his body and personality. For this reason, the most commonly accepted framework is that, after the telemovie, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures happened, followed by Doctor Who Magazine, and then continued with Big Finish Productions, who show the development of the Doctor that leads to The Night of the Doctor.

There are very few exceptions to this general rule:

  • In the BBC Books novel Vampire Science, companion Sam Jones mentions that the Doctor once dropped her off at a Greenpeace rally and had (what he told her was) a year's worth of adventures before picking her up again. Radio Times's comic mini-series with the Eighth Doctor takes place in at least part of this gap, as the events are referenced in Placebo Effect a few books later.
  • A gap of unknown size takes place between the Eighth Doctor's travels with Charlotte Pollard in Big Finish's Main Range and his adventures with Lucie Miller in the Eighth Doctor Adventures.
  • A gap of unknown size takes place between the "What Happened on Earth" and "Foreman’s World" narratives of the novel Interference.

Gallifrey

During the War in Heaven, multiple duplicate Gallifreys were created, each believing themselves to be the original. One of these, Romana III's Gallifrey, was destroyed in The Ancestor Cell; anything involving Romana III must therefore take place before The Ancestor Cell or the reversal of Romana II's regeneration in Enemy Lines.

Alternatively, anything involving Gallifrey could take place either on a different duplicate Gallifrey or sometime after a hypothetical recreation of Romana III's Gallifrey following The Gallifrey Chronicles. However, such a restoration is never mentioned in the comics or audios.

Timeline

New adventures

The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation, but suffers complete amnesia. Seeking aid from Dr. Grace Holloway, the Doctor is able to recover his memory during a final fight with the Bruce Master, who is absorbed into the TARDIS through the Eye of Harmony. After parting ways with Grace, the Doctor settles down to read The Time Machine.
Continues directly on from Doctor Who, with the Doctor completing his reading of The Time Machine. After a second bout with amnesia, the Doctor rescues a 16-year-old girl named Sam Jones from being attacked by drug dealers, and welcomes her company in his travels.
Sam takes her first trip in the TARDIS.