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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]''
: The Doctor recalls the events of ''Tooth and Claw''. The anti-time is completely purged from the Doctor by Rassilon. The Doctor, Charley and C'rizz escape the Divergent Universe to N-Space, and run into Davros, leading directly into ''Terror Firma''.
: The Doctor recalls the events of ''Tooth and Claw''. The anti-time is completely purged from the Doctor by Rassilon. The Doctor, Charley and C'rizz escape the Divergent Universe to N-Space, and run into Davros, leading directly into ''Terror Firma''.
=== Travels with Lucie ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blood of the Daleks (audio story)|Blood of the Daleks]]''
: After some time traveling alone, the Doctor is entrusted to keep [[Lucie Miller]] safe in a "witness protection scheme". He tries to get rid of her, but finds that the TARDIS will keep returning to her every time he leaves without Lucie. The TARDIS has its Victorian parlour interior design.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Horror of Glam Rock (audio story)|Horror of Glam Rock]]''
: After attempting to return Lucie to 21st century [[Blackpool]], the Doctor asks her to become his official companion, which she accepts.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Immortal Beloved (audio story)|Immortal Beloved]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Phobos (audio story)|Phobos]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[No More Lies (audio story)|No More Lies]]''
: Lucie gets kidnapped by the [[Headhunter]], leading directly into ''Human Resources''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]''
: The Doctor has reconciled with the Time Lords following the events of ''Zagreus''. He learns that Lucie was mistakenly given to him by the Time Lords, but the two, having become firm friends, continue to travel together.
:: ''Immediately after defeating the Cybermen, Lucie begins recording a diary on an old cassette tape she finds in the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Trap (audio story)|The Dalek Trap]]'')''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Remain in Light (short story)|Remain in Light]]''
:: ''On the American frontier, the Doctor plays poker with his past self. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'')''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Decorative Purposes (short story)|Decorative Purposes]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[All the Fun of the Fair (audio story)|All the Fun of the Fair]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Late Night Shopping (audio story)|Late Night Shopping]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Young Lions (audio story)|The Young Lions]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Caves of Erith (audio story)|The Caves of Erith]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flashpoint (audio story)|Flashpoint]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Trap (audio story)|The Dalek Trap]]''
: Set between ''Human Resources'' and ''Dead London''.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/lucie-miller-returns</ref> Some months have passed since ''Blood of the Daleks''. The Doctor is affected by an unknown power and spends the story in a trance-like state.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Revolution Game (audio story)|Revolution Game]]''
: The Doctor takes Lucie to celebrate her birthday on [[Castus Sigma]].
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The House on the Edge of Chaos (audio story)|The House on the Edge of Chaos]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''Island of the Fendahl''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Island of the Fendahl (audio story)|Island of the Fendahl]]''
: Set three weeks after ''The Dalek Trap''. The Doctor discovers he has been under the influence of the [[Fendahl]].
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dead London (audio story)|Dead London]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Max Warp (audio story)|Max Warp]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Brave New Town (audio story)|Brave New Town]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Great Escapes (short story)|The Great Escapes]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Skull of Sobek (audio story)|The Skull of Sobek]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Grand Theft Cosmos (audio story)|Grand Theft Cosmos]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (audio story)|The Zygon Who Fell to Earth]]''
: The Doctor mentions the events of ''The Bodysnatchers''. While fighting the [[Zygon]]s, the Doctor witnesses the murder of Lucie's Auntie Pat, and, to spare Lucie's feelings, agrees to keep it secret while a Zygon poses as Pat.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sisters of the Flame (audio story)|Sisters of the Flame]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''The Vengeance of Morbius''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)|The Vengeance of Morbius]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''Orbis''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Orbis (audio story)|Orbis]]''
: The Doctor spends six hundred years looking for Lucie on Orbis. After this story, a [[stellar manipulator]] follows the Doctor's TARDIS until ''The Eight Truths''. Any story where the Doctor and Lucie stay in one location for longer than a few days cannot take place after this point.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hothouse (audio story)|Hothouse]]''
: The Doctor is still recovering from the events of ''Orbis''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beast of Orlok (audio story)|The Beast of Orlok]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wirrn Dawn (audio story)|Wirrn Dawn]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Scapegoat (audio story)|The Scapegoat]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cannibalists (audio story)|The Cannibalists]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of the Fugue (audio story)|The Curse of the Fugue]]''
: Lucie spends two weeks in [[1974]]. The Doctor recalls visiting [[Paris]] during [[World War II]], setting this after ''The Scapegoat''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eight Truths (audio story)|The Eight Truths]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''Worldwide Web''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Worldwide Web (audio story)|Worldwide Web]]''
: Exhausted from their fight against the Eight Legs, Lucie and the Doctor decide to spend Christmas in Blackpool, leading into ''Death in Blackpool''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death in Blackpool (audio story)|Death in Blackpool]]''
: Whilst visiting Blackpool for Christmas, Lucie discovers that the Doctor had hidden the death of her Auntie Pat from her, and decides to leave his company due to the losing faith in him.
=== Searching for a friend ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]''
: Set before ''Situation Vacant''. The Doctor meets up with [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], and is introduced to his great-grandson, [[Alex Campbell]].
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Quantum Heresy (audio story)|Quantum Heresy]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Running Out of Time (audio story)|Running Out of Time]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Situation Vacant (audio story)|Situation Vacant]]''
: The Doctor discovers an advertisement offering individuals the chance to travel with him. Without finding out the organiser, he selects [[Tamsin Drew]] as his new companion.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nevermore (audio story)|Nevermore]]''
: The Doctor references his meeting with [[Edgar Allan Poe]] during his second exile on Earth between ''The Burning'' and ''Father Time''. On a mission for the Time Lords, the Doctor deduces that another Renegade Time Lord is manipulating him.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Book of Kells (audio story)|The Book of Kells]]''
: The Doctor discovers that {{Garden}} was responsible for the events of ''Situation Vacant'' & ''Nevermore''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deimos (audio story)|Deimos]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''The Resurrection of Mars''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)|The Resurrection of Mars]]''
: While Tamsin departs with the Monk, the Doctor is joined by Lucie again, and decides to treat her to the perfect Christmas.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]''
: After hosting a Christmas dinner with Susan and Alex Campbell, Lucie decides to stay on Earth as Alex's companion.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Forgotten (short story)|Forgotten]]''
: This is the Doctor's last visit to [[Edward Grainger]], setting this after ''Dear John''. {{Fallen|n}} escapes from the TARDIS and the Doctor has his memories intact, setting this after ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' as well.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prologue (ST short story)|Prologue]]''
: Set during the events of ''Forgotten''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]''
: The Eighth Doctor has knowledge of his past selves and of the Daleks.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tuesday (audio story)|Tuesday]]''
: Authorial intent places this between ''Relative Dimensions'' and ''Dark Eyes''.  [http://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/5108/tuesday-december-2018-spoilers-allowed]
=== Losing everything ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Sun (audio story)|Prisoner of the Sun]]''
: After escaping from a six year imprisonment, the Doctor receives a summons from Lucie, leading directly into ''Lucie Miller''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lucie Miller (audio story)|Lucie Miller]]''
: Answering Lucie's distress call, the Doctor is thrusted into another Dalek invasion of Earth. Ending leads directly into ''To the Death''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]''
: Watching Alex, Tamsin and Lucie get killed fighting the Daleks, the Doctor enters a deep depression.
=== Looking for hope ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Great War (audio story)|The Great War]]''
: Still broken with grief, the Doctor accepts a mission to [[World War I]], where he walks into a [[mustard gas]] attack, but is healed by [[Nurse]] [[Molly O'Sullivan]], who is being hunted by the Daleks. Ending leads directly into ''Fugitives''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]''
: On the run from the Daleks with Molly, the Doctor's frockcoat and trousers are ruined in [[1940]] [[Dunkirk]], and switched for a blue leather jacket and jeans. The Doctor also gets his wavy hair cut short. Ending leads directly into ''Tangled Web''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tangled Web (audio story)|Tangled Web]]''
: The Doctor and Molly discover that a former Time Lord called [[Kotris]] is masterminding the plot to destroy the Time Lords, and that Molly is a critical component in his plan. Ending leads directly into ''X and the Daleks''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]''
: After his plan is foiled, Kotris is erased from time when the [[Dalek Time Controller]] kills his younger self; [[Straxus]]. The threat over, the Doctor returns Molly home and travels on alone, a little more hopeful.
=== Fighting the Eminence ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Room (audio story)|The White Room]]''
: The Doctor is reunited with Molly while investigating the [[Viyran]]s.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time's Horizon (audio story)|Time's Horizon]]''
: The Doctor and Molly encounter [[Liv Chenka]] and [[the Eminence]] at the edge of the universe.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]''
: The Doctor, Molly and Liv encounter {{Macqueen}} during their fight with the Eminence. To best the Master, the Doctor teaches the Eminence how to pilot a TARDIS, and it leaves with the Master in his TARDIS. Meanwhile, the Doctor leaves Liv and Molly on Earth while he goes to [[Nixyce VII]] in order to sync up his timeline with Liv, leading directly into ''The Traitor''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Traitor (audio story)|The Traitor]]''
: Set during ''Eyes of the Master'', when the Doctor goes to ally himself with the Dalek Time Controller to defeat the Eminence.
:: ''The Doctor is freed from Dalek imprisonment, and flees in his TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eyes of the Master (audio story)|Eyes of the Master]]'')''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The World Beyond the Trees (audio story)|The World Beyond the Trees]]''
: Liv and Molly are staying at [[Baker Street]] in the [[1970s]] while the Doctor is away investigating the Eminence. The Doctor visits Liv in a dream.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Hope (audio story)|The Death of Hope]]''
: Following ''Eyes of the Master'', the Doctor has been investigating Eminence attacks. After being arrested by the Time Lords, he learns from [[Narvin]] that the Master has kidnapped Molly from Baker Street and is using Molly to exploit the Eminence for his own ends.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reviled (audio story)|The Reviled]]''
: Narvin sends Liv to aid the Doctor in his search for the Master.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterplan (audio story)|Masterplan]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]''
: The Doctor manages to significantly damage the Eminence, but has to stop travelling with Molly because them being together is threatening the universe. However, Liv joins him as his new companion.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life in the Day (audio story)|A Life in the Day]]''
: Following on from ''Rule of the Eminence'', the Doctor and Liv spend two weeks in [[1921]] [[London]] trying to find Molly. After failing to find her, the Doctor and Liv find out that the TARDIS has been stolen, leading directly into ''The Monster of Montmartre''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Monster of Montmartre (audio story)|The Monster of Montmartre]]''
: The Doctor and Liv retrieve the TARDIS from the [[Dalek Time Controller]], but the damage to its systems causes the TARDIS to begin crashing, leading directly into ''Master of the Daleks''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master of the Daleks (audio story)|Master of the Daleks]]''
: Recovering from the crash in [[Moscow]], the Doctor steals [[the Master's TARDIS]] to rescue Liv and Molly from the [[Eye of Orion]], leading directly into ''Eye of Darkness''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eye of Darkness (audio story)|Eye of Darkness]]''
: At a Dalek facility on the Eye of Orion, the Doctor plays a part in the Eminence's creation, and witnesses Molly sacrifice her life to end the threat of the Eminence.
=== Facing the Doom Coalition ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven (audio story)|The Eleven]]''
: The Doctor and Liv battle the Doctor's old foe, [[the Eleven]], but are unable to prevent his escape.nThe Doctor's hair has grown slightly longer, and Liv has been traveling with him for "years". The Time Lords detect an anomaly caused by the Eleven in [[1960s]] [[London]] and sends the Doctor and Liv to investigate, leading directly into ''The Red Lady''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red Lady (audio story)|The Red Lady]]''
: Hunting the Eleven to [[1963]], the Doctor and Liv get side-tracked fighting [[the Red Lady]] with the aid of [[language]] [[scholar]] [[Helen Sinclair]], who joins them in the TARDIS after they inadvertently get her fired from her job.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Galileo Trap (audio story)|The Galileo Trap]]''
: This is Helen's first trip in the TARDIS, setting this immediately after ''The Red Lady''. Ending leads into ''The Satanic Mill''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Satanic Mill (audio story)|The Satanic Mill]]''
: The Eleven targets the Doctor for assassination, but is defeated by an unknown power and forced to flee. The Doctor decides that they need a holiday, leading into ''Beachhead''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beachhead (audio story)|Beachhead]]''
: Going to [[Stegmoor]] to recuperate from the events of ''The Satanic Mill'', the Doctor learns from the Voord that the timeline is being interfered with, and sets out to learn why, leading directly into ''Scenes From Her Life''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scenes From Her Life (audio story)|Scenes From Her Life]]''
: Seeking the cause of [[Voord homeworld]]'s ruination, the Doctor is tricked by [[Time Lady]] [[Caleera]] into helping her escape the Time Vortex, leading directly into ''The Gift''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gift (audio story)|The Gift]]''
: Crash-landing in San Francisco, the Doctor has his hair cut again, though not as short as it was in ''Fugitives''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sonomancer (audio story)|The Sonomancer]]''
: Following mysterious coordinates to planet [[Syra]], the Doctor thwarts Caleera's plan to destroy Syra, but fails to stop her escaping with the Eleven, leading directly into ''Absent Friends''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absent Friends (audio story)|Absent Friends]]''
: Failing to reach Gallifrey and alert [[Padrac]] of the Eleven, the Doctor finds a piece of the [[Doomsday Chronometer]] in [[Calcot]], leading into ''The Eighth Piece''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eighth Piece (audio story)|The Eighth Piece]]''
: The Doctor, Liv and Helen are searching for pieces of the Doomsday Chronometer in separate locations. The Doctor finds [[the Clocksmith]] in the court of [[Henry VIII]], but gets caught by [[Thomas Cromwell]] and sentenced to execution by the Clocksmith's suggestion, leading directly into ''The Doomsday Chronometer''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doomsday Chronometer (audio story)|The Doomsday Chronometer]]''
: The Doctor is saved from execution by [[Risolva]]. The Doomsday Chronometer is fully assembled by the Doctor, Liv, Helen and [[River Song]], who the Doctor goes with to find Doomsday in the deceased Clocksmith's TARDIS.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crucible of Souls (audio story)|The Crucible of Souls]]''
: Follows directly on from ''The Doomsday Chronometer''. The Doctor discovers that Padrac is the leader of the [[Doom Coalition]] the Eleven is in league with, and he, Liv, and Helen get trapped in a [[space capsule]] heading to the [[end of the Universe]] in a disintegrating Time Vortex. Liv explains regeneration to Helen.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ship in a Bottle (audio story)|Ship in a Bottle]]''
: The Doctor, Liv and Helen escape the Vortex by destroying the capsule and riding the shockwave back into normal time, leading directly into ''Songs of Love''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Songs of Love (audio story)|Songs of Love]]''
: Authorial intend places this a long time before ''The Night of the Doctor''. ([[VOR 97]]) Separated from Liv and Helen, the Doctor is rescued by River and sent to find [[Cardinal]] [[Ollistra]], leading directly into ''The Side of the Angels''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Side of the Angels (audio story)|The Side of the Angels]]''
: Destroying an alliance made between Ollistra, {{Hound}} and the [[Weeping Angel]]s, the Doctor uses a burst of temporal energy caused by the Eleven to return the TARDIS to Gallifrey, leading directly into ''Stop the Clock''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stop the Clock (audio story)|Stop the Clock]]''
: When the Eleven takes her hostage in a Battle TARDIS to foil the Doctor's plan to defeat Padrac, Helen rams the Battle TARDIS into the [[Resonance Engine]], foiling Padrac's scheme and turning Caleera into the Red Lady. Convinced of her survival, the Doctor and Liv go searching for Helen.
=== Searching for Helen ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Their Finest Hour (audio story)|Their Finest Hour]]''
: The Doctor and Liv are summoned by [[Winston Churchill]] as they begin their search for Helen, setting this immediately after ''Stop the Clock''. The TARDIS is calculating the route most likely taken by the Eleven's Battle TARDIS.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[How to Make a Killing in Time Travel (audio story)|How to Make a Killing in Time Travel]]''
: The TARDIS is dragged off the course taken by the Eleven's Battle TARDIS by a disturbance in the vortex.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[World of Damnation (audio story)|World of Damnation]]''
: The Doctor and Liv find Helen with the Eleven at [[Rykerzon]]. Ending leads directly into ''Sweet Salvation''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sweet Salvation (audio story)|Sweet Salvation]]''
: Defeating the Eleven and the [[Kandyman]]'s plan take over [[Colony 23]], the Doctor and Liv welcome Helen back on to the TARDIS, though with the Doctor suspicious of how her time with the Eleven has affected her. The Doctor decides that the TARDIS crew are in need of a holiday and promises to take them "somewhere special", leading into ''Escape from Kaldor''.
=== Relaxed travels with Liv and Helen ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Escape from Kaldor (audio story)|Escape from Kaldor]]''
: Seeking a holiday after the recent events of ''Sweet Salvation'', the Doctor brings Liv and Helen to [[Kaldor]], where Liv opts to stay for a year to reconcile with [[Tula Chenka|her sister]]. After he and Helen jump forward a year in the TARDIS to collect Liv, the Doctor decides that the TARDIS crew should celebrate Christmas on Earth, leading into ''Better Watch Out''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Better Watch Out (audio story)|Better Watch Out]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''Fairytale of Salzburg''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fairytale of Salzburg (audio story)|Fairytale of Salzburg]]''
=== Running from the Ravenous ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seizure (audio story)|Seizure]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''Deeptime Frontier''. The TARDIS is stolen by the Eleven.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deeptime Frontier (audio story)|Deeptime Frontier]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''Companion Piece''. The Eleven joins the TARDIS crew.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Companion Piece (audio story)|Companion Piece]]''
: The Eleven gives the Doctors directions on where to find Liv and Helen.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[L.E.G.E.N.D. (audio story)|L.E.G.E.N.D.]]''
: Set immediately after ''Companion Piece'', with Liv and Helen still reacting to the Eleven's presence in the TARDIS.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Odds Against (audio story)|The Odds Against]]''
: Liv has met three legends in one week, setting this shortly after ''L.E.G.E.N.D.''

Revision as of 13:42, 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.

Stacy and Ssard

The Doctor states he has "only just begun getting used to" his head, referring to his recent regeneration. He rescues Stacy Townsend when her ship is attacked by the Cybermen, and she decides to join him on his travels.
The Doctor and Stacey befriend an Ice Warrior named Ssard while investigating the treachery of High Lord Artix and Luass.
After helping them on Mars, Ssard accepts an offer from the Doctor to travel with him and Stacey.
After traveling with the Doctor for "a few months", Stacy and Ssard leave the TARDIS and decide to live in Ssard's time period. (PROSE: Placebo Effect)

Fight against the Threshold

The TARDIS is shown to have its Victorian parlour interior design. On a return visit to Stockbridge, the Doctor is reunited with Maxwell Edison and meets Izzy, a seventeen-year-old science fiction fan and amateur paranormal investigator. After they help him defeat the Celestial Toymaker, he offers them companionship; Max declines, but Izzy gleefully accepts.
On Izzy's first trip into the future, the Doctor follows an SOS to the Keep, where he is forced by Marquez to bond with Crivello's Cauldron so it can be sent off to form a new star system.
The TARDIS is still recovering from the events of A Life of Matter and Death. Lured to Crivello's Cauldron at Icarus Falling, the Doctor and Izzy discover that Marquez was working for the Daleks, and become embroiled in the Threshold's plot to destroy the Daleks to acquire the secrets of a box with the Seal of Rassilon on it. During his endeavour, the Doctor's link to the Cauldron is severed.
The Doctor and Izzy are summoned by Fey to an island in the Indian Ocean during 1939, where the Doctor injects himself with poison to defeat a Cucurbite, forcing Fey and Izzy to take him to Gallifrey, leading into The Final Chapter.
Whilst his body heals on Gallifrey, the Doctor ventures into the Matrix, where he learns from Rassilon why he hired the Threshold. The Doctor also catches up with Shayde, leading into Wormwood.
Having switched places with Shayde, the Doctor goes undercover in the Threshold, witnessing their destruction by the Pariah. Shayde is injured in the battle, but is saved from death when Fey bonds with him, becoming a singular entity, and returns to Gallifrey.

Controller of the Glory

The Doctor bumps into Grace, and discovers the fallout of his influence on her.
In 17th century Japan, the Doctor makes an immortal out of Samurai Katsura Sato.
The Doctor is beginning to notice the TARDIS's recent difficulties finding its destination. He and Izzy are joined by Kroton, a Cyberman with his emotions intact.
According to the Master, the events of The Fallen, The Road to Hell and The Company of Thieves took place in the past few months. Landing on Paradost, the Doctor, Izzy and Kroton find Sato Katsura leading the Church of the Glorious Dead, and in the services of the Master in his bid to win the contest with the Doctor for the Glory, however, it eventually transpires that the contest is really between Sato and Kroton, with Kroton emerging the winning. With the power of the Glory, Kroton kills Sato, and undoes the Master's recent atrocities before placing him in imprisonment, which is presumably the Eye of Harmony, because Forgotten presents him escaping from the Eye of Harmony. Esterath also removes the Master's ability to influence the TARDIS, setting this after The Gallifrey Chronicles.

Final adventures with Izzy

Izzy knows Fey, setting this after Wormwood
Izzy mentions the events of Wormwood.
Izzy recalls meeting Vampire monkeys, setting this after Tooth and Claw.
On the Ophidius, the Doctor's green frockcoat is destroyed, and Izzy has her body switched with Destrii, who is apparently disintegrated before they can switch back.
While Izzy deals with the fallout of the events of Ophidius, the Doctor replaces his destroyed frockcoat with a blue jacket.
Izzy is kidnapped by Destrii's pursuers, leading into Uroboros.
Set during Uroboros: Part 1, before the Doctor calls Shayde for help.
Returning to Ophidius with Fey, the Doctor finds Destrii alive and forces her to accompany him in his search for Izzy, leading into Oblivion.
Having been returned to her rightful body, Izzy makes peace with her identity and returns home to her adopted parents. Destrii kills her mother, and then departs her home world with her uncle, Jodafra, in a chronon capsule.

Time off

On the advice of a kind barman, the Doctor decides to go on holiday. All stories where the Doctor is trying to get to a relaxing destination, or is already on a holiday, can be placed in this period. The Doctor is wearing his green coat, revealing that he has acquired a new one since the previous was destroyed in Ophidius.
The Doctor is trying to get to Egypt and has resumed wearing his blue coat again.
Despite boating down the River Nile, the Doctor is still feeling down due to Izzy's departure.
Having missed Les Huguenots in 1840, the Doctor is beginning to yearn for company.
The Doctor visits John and Gillian in his dreams.

Travels with Destrii

The Doctor encounters Jodafra and Destrii while fighting the Windigo in 1875 North America. Destrii sides with the Doctor against her uncle, who beats her to near-death, leading into Sins of the Fathers.
Having helped him repel a Zeronite attack on Hippocrates Base, the Doctor decides to give Destrii the chance to travel with him in the TARDIS.
While fighting a Cyber-Fleet from the far future with MI6, the Doctor's blue jacket and sonic screwdriver are destroyed. To defeat the fleet, the Doctor joins with the Time Vortex, but abandons its power to save Destrii.
Destrii would eventually stop travelling with the Doctor, though under unknown circumstances. (COMIC: The Stockbridge Showdown)

Samson, Gemma and Mary

After meeting them in the Folkestone Library, the Doctor starts travelling with Gemma and Samson Griffin when they follow him into the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Terror Firma)
Having left Gemma and Samson in Vienna, the Doctor answers his future self's distress signal, and meets an 18-year-old Mary Shelley, who leaves to travel with him.
The Doctor and Mary travel to Vienna to pick up Gemma and Samson, but arrive in the wrong year. After Mary breaks his sonic screwdriver, the Doctor mentions he has a room full of replacements, explaining how he replaced the one destroyed in The Flood.
Mary requests to be returned home, and she and the Doctor part on good terms.
The Doctor refers to his time traveling with Mary Shelley, specifically when he, Mary, Chronotis and Lord Byron spent a weekend together at Lake Geneva.
The Doctor, Romana and K9 have just returned from the events of Shada.
The Doctor successfully returns to Vienna to collect Gemma and Samson. (AUDIO: Mary's Story)
Gemma recalls the events of The Long Midwinter.
Investigating a Nekkistani time vessel, Gemma is ensnared by Davros and, taking Samson, forces the Doctor to take Davros to Earth and then alters his memories to forget her and Samson before sending him away. (AUDIO: Terror Firma)

A broken web of time

Landing on the doomed airship R101, the Doctor violates the Laws of Time by saving the life of stowaway Charley Pollard, and takes her aboard the TARDIS as his new companion. The TARDIS has its Victorian parlour interior design.
Charley has only been travelling with the Doctor for a matter of days. Immediately after the recent events of Sword of Orion, Charley goes to the TARDIS library to research future history.
Charley isn't familiar with the TARDIS translation circuits, setting this before The Light at the End.
Charley recalls the events of Sword of Orion. She has only been travelling with the Doctor for a few weeks, but has already realised that she has fallen in love with him.
The Doctor and Charley have just left Venice, setting this immediately after The Stones of Venice. "Sam" is listed as one of the Doctor's former companions by Gideon Crane, either referencing Sam Jones or Samson Griffin. Charley sees a television for the first time.
Charley still has the black eye and bruises she acquired in Minuet in Hell, which was their previous adventure.
Charley is still uncomfortable with wearing clothing that shows more flesh than she's used to, setting this during her early travels with the Doctor. Charley watches television, setting this after Minuet in Hell.
The Doctor is traveling with Charley, but she is at a disco during this adventure.
Charley visits Prague for the first time, setting this before Lady of the Snows.
The Doctor learns that Orson Welles is ignorant of William Shakespeare's identity, that there are forty-nine states in the USA, and that the Central Intelligence Agency are active in 1947. The Doctor decides to take Charley to Singapore.
Charley still wants to get to Singapore, however the Doctor decides to let the TARDIS take them to where it wants to go, citing that he has been too methodical recently and that they will get to Singapore eventually.
Authorial intents places this between The Chimes of Midnight and Seasons of Fear.[source needed]
Authorial intent places this "sometime during the second series of Charlotte Pollard Eighth Doctor adventures". Charley does not know about regeneration.
The Doctor and Charley arrive in Singapore, and discover that Benjamin Franklin is President.
The events of Storm Warning were "a long time ago".
Charley recalls the events of Seasons of Fear. The Doctor is becoming unable to deny the truth about the effect that Charley's paradoxical survival is having on the Universe.
Charley mentions the events of Seasons of Fear.
Set over the course of nine days. Calabria has met Charley on several occasions, suggesting that Charley has been traveling with the Doctor for a while.
Charley recalls meeting the Brigadier in Minuet in Hell.
The Doctor is using a brand new model of sonic screwdriver, setting this after The Flood. He also sees a flotilla of Type 70 TARDISes in the Time Vortex.
The Toymaker refers to people from Invaders from Mars, The Chimes of Midnight, Seasons of Fear, and Embrace the Darkness.
Charley has an idea of what regeneration is and knows that her survival on the R101 has affected the Web of Time, setting this after Seasons of Fear.
The Doctor uncovers why Welles didn't know of Shakespeare in Invaders from Mars.
The Doctor and Charley are returning William Shakespeare home, setting this immediately after The Time of the Daleks.
Set after The Time of the Daleks, with the Doctor having just returned William Shakespeare home.
The Doctor and Charley go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby. However, the Doctor gets caught in the act before he can strike a fatal blow, and has to be rescued by his fourth incarnation, though he succeeds in showing the mother how to properly care for the baby. Charley seems comfortable with the Doctor's methods, placing this closer to Neverland.
The Doctor uncovers the cause of the time disruptions from Invaders from Mars, Seasons of Fear and The Time of the Daleks, and discovers why there were Type 70 TARDISes in the Time Vortex during Embrace the Darkness; Charley has become a portal into a world of anti-time, causing cracks in the Web of Time. Ending leads directly into Zagreus. It is Charley's nineteenth birthday and she and the Doctor have been travelling together for six months.
Fighting off an infection of anti-time, the Doctor is exiled to the Divergent Universe by Romana, with Charley following him. Rassilon leaves the Matrix, setting this after The Final Chapter.

Exiled in the Divergent Universe

Set immediately after Zagreus, with the Doctor and Charley adjusting to their new environment in the Divergent Universe. They also get separated from the TARDIS.
The Doctor and Charley are joined by a grieving Eutermesan named C'rizz.
The Doctor is on a quest to find Rassilon and the TARDIS.
The Doctor recovers his TARDIS.
The Doctor recalls the events of Tooth and Claw. The anti-time is completely purged from the Doctor by Rassilon. The Doctor, Charley and C'rizz escape the Divergent Universe to N-Space, and run into Davros, leading directly into Terror Firma.

Travels with Lucie

After some time traveling alone, the Doctor is entrusted to keep Lucie Miller safe in a "witness protection scheme". He tries to get rid of her, but finds that the TARDIS will keep returning to her every time he leaves without Lucie. The TARDIS has its Victorian parlour interior design.
After attempting to return Lucie to 21st century Blackpool, the Doctor asks her to become his official companion, which she accepts.
Lucie gets kidnapped by the Headhunter, leading directly into Human Resources.
The Doctor has reconciled with the Time Lords following the events of Zagreus. He learns that Lucie was mistakenly given to him by the Time Lords, but the two, having become firm friends, continue to travel together.
Immediately after defeating the Cybermen, Lucie begins recording a diary on an old cassette tape she finds in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Dalek Trap)
On the American frontier, the Doctor plays poker with his past self. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)
Set between Human Resources and Dead London.[1] Some months have passed since Blood of the Daleks. The Doctor is affected by an unknown power and spends the story in a trance-like state.
The Doctor takes Lucie to celebrate her birthday on Castus Sigma.
Ending leads directly into Island of the Fendahl.
Set three weeks after The Dalek Trap. The Doctor discovers he has been under the influence of the Fendahl.
The Doctor mentions the events of The Bodysnatchers. While fighting the Zygons, the Doctor witnesses the murder of Lucie's Auntie Pat, and, to spare Lucie's feelings, agrees to keep it secret while a Zygon poses as Pat.
Ending leads directly into The Vengeance of Morbius.
Ending leads directly into Orbis.
The Doctor spends six hundred years looking for Lucie on Orbis. After this story, a stellar manipulator follows the Doctor's TARDIS until The Eight Truths. Any story where the Doctor and Lucie stay in one location for longer than a few days cannot take place after this point.
The Doctor is still recovering from the events of Orbis.
Lucie spends two weeks in 1974. The Doctor recalls visiting Paris during World War II, setting this after The Scapegoat.
Ending leads directly into Worldwide Web.
Exhausted from their fight against the Eight Legs, Lucie and the Doctor decide to spend Christmas in Blackpool, leading into Death in Blackpool.
Whilst visiting Blackpool for Christmas, Lucie discovers that the Doctor had hidden the death of her Auntie Pat from her, and decides to leave his company due to the losing faith in him.

Searching for a friend

Set before Situation Vacant. The Doctor meets up with Susan, and is introduced to his great-grandson, Alex Campbell.
The Doctor discovers an advertisement offering individuals the chance to travel with him. Without finding out the organiser, he selects Tamsin Drew as his new companion.
The Doctor references his meeting with Edgar Allan Poe during his second exile on Earth between The Burning and Father Time. On a mission for the Time Lords, the Doctor deduces that another Renegade Time Lord is manipulating him.
The Doctor discovers that the Monk was responsible for the events of Situation Vacant & Nevermore.
Ending leads directly into The Resurrection of Mars
While Tamsin departs with the Monk, the Doctor is joined by Lucie again, and decides to treat her to the perfect Christmas.
After hosting a Christmas dinner with Susan and Alex Campbell, Lucie decides to stay on Earth as Alex's companion.
This is the Doctor's last visit to Edward Grainger, setting this after Dear John. The Master escapes from the TARDIS and the Doctor has his memories intact, setting this after The Gallifrey Chronicles as well.
Set during the events of Forgotten.
The Eighth Doctor has knowledge of his past selves and of the Daleks.
Authorial intent places this between Relative Dimensions and Dark Eyes. [1]

Losing everything

After escaping from a six year imprisonment, the Doctor receives a summons from Lucie, leading directly into Lucie Miller.
Answering Lucie's distress call, the Doctor is thrusted into another Dalek invasion of Earth. Ending leads directly into To the Death.
Watching Alex, Tamsin and Lucie get killed fighting the Daleks, the Doctor enters a deep depression.

Looking for hope

Still broken with grief, the Doctor accepts a mission to World War I, where he walks into a mustard gas attack, but is healed by Nurse Molly O'Sullivan, who is being hunted by the Daleks. Ending leads directly into Fugitives.
On the run from the Daleks with Molly, the Doctor's frockcoat and trousers are ruined in 1940 Dunkirk, and switched for a blue leather jacket and jeans. The Doctor also gets his wavy hair cut short. Ending leads directly into Tangled Web.
The Doctor and Molly discover that a former Time Lord called Kotris is masterminding the plot to destroy the Time Lords, and that Molly is a critical component in his plan. Ending leads directly into X and the Daleks.
After his plan is foiled, Kotris is erased from time when the Dalek Time Controller kills his younger self; Straxus. The threat over, the Doctor returns Molly home and travels on alone, a little more hopeful.

Fighting the Eminence

The Doctor is reunited with Molly while investigating the Viyrans.
The Doctor and Molly encounter Liv Chenka and the Eminence at the edge of the universe.
The Doctor, Molly and Liv encounter the Reborn Master during their fight with the Eminence. To best the Master, the Doctor teaches the Eminence how to pilot a TARDIS, and it leaves with the Master in his TARDIS. Meanwhile, the Doctor leaves Liv and Molly on Earth while he goes to Nixyce VII in order to sync up his timeline with Liv, leading directly into The Traitor.
Set during Eyes of the Master, when the Doctor goes to ally himself with the Dalek Time Controller to defeat the Eminence.
The Doctor is freed from Dalek imprisonment, and flees in his TARDIS. (AUDIO: Eyes of the Master)
Liv and Molly are staying at Baker Street in the 1970s while the Doctor is away investigating the Eminence. The Doctor visits Liv in a dream.
Following Eyes of the Master, the Doctor has been investigating Eminence attacks. After being arrested by the Time Lords, he learns from Narvin that the Master has kidnapped Molly from Baker Street and is using Molly to exploit the Eminence for his own ends.
Narvin sends Liv to aid the Doctor in his search for the Master.
The Doctor manages to significantly damage the Eminence, but has to stop travelling with Molly because them being together is threatening the universe. However, Liv joins him as his new companion.
Following on from Rule of the Eminence, the Doctor and Liv spend two weeks in 1921 London trying to find Molly. After failing to find her, the Doctor and Liv find out that the TARDIS has been stolen, leading directly into The Monster of Montmartre.
The Doctor and Liv retrieve the TARDIS from the Dalek Time Controller, but the damage to its systems causes the TARDIS to begin crashing, leading directly into Master of the Daleks.
Recovering from the crash in Moscow, the Doctor steals the Master's TARDIS to rescue Liv and Molly from the Eye of Orion, leading directly into Eye of Darkness.
At a Dalek facility on the Eye of Orion, the Doctor plays a part in the Eminence's creation, and witnesses Molly sacrifice her life to end the threat of the Eminence.

Facing the Doom Coalition

The Doctor and Liv battle the Doctor's old foe, the Eleven, but are unable to prevent his escape.nThe Doctor's hair has grown slightly longer, and Liv has been traveling with him for "years". The Time Lords detect an anomaly caused by the Eleven in 1960s London and sends the Doctor and Liv to investigate, leading directly into The Red Lady.
Hunting the Eleven to 1963, the Doctor and Liv get side-tracked fighting the Red Lady with the aid of language scholar Helen Sinclair, who joins them in the TARDIS after they inadvertently get her fired from her job.
This is Helen's first trip in the TARDIS, setting this immediately after The Red Lady. Ending leads into The Satanic Mill.
The Eleven targets the Doctor for assassination, but is defeated by an unknown power and forced to flee. The Doctor decides that they need a holiday, leading into Beachhead.
Going to Stegmoor to recuperate from the events of The Satanic Mill, the Doctor learns from the Voord that the timeline is being interfered with, and sets out to learn why, leading directly into Scenes From Her Life.
Seeking the cause of Voord homeworld's ruination, the Doctor is tricked by Time Lady Caleera into helping her escape the Time Vortex, leading directly into The Gift.
Crash-landing in San Francisco, the Doctor has his hair cut again, though not as short as it was in Fugitives.
Following mysterious coordinates to planet Syra, the Doctor thwarts Caleera's plan to destroy Syra, but fails to stop her escaping with the Eleven, leading directly into Absent Friends.
Failing to reach Gallifrey and alert Padrac of the Eleven, the Doctor finds a piece of the Doomsday Chronometer in Calcot, leading into The Eighth Piece.
The Doctor, Liv and Helen are searching for pieces of the Doomsday Chronometer in separate locations. The Doctor finds the Clocksmith in the court of Henry VIII, but gets caught by Thomas Cromwell and sentenced to execution by the Clocksmith's suggestion, leading directly into The Doomsday Chronometer.
The Doctor is saved from execution by Risolva. The Doomsday Chronometer is fully assembled by the Doctor, Liv, Helen and River Song, who the Doctor goes with to find Doomsday in the deceased Clocksmith's TARDIS.
Follows directly on from The Doomsday Chronometer. The Doctor discovers that Padrac is the leader of the Doom Coalition the Eleven is in league with, and he, Liv, and Helen get trapped in a space capsule heading to the end of the Universe in a disintegrating Time Vortex. Liv explains regeneration to Helen.
The Doctor, Liv and Helen escape the Vortex by destroying the capsule and riding the shockwave back into normal time, leading directly into Songs of Love.
Authorial intend places this a long time before The Night of the Doctor. (VOR 97) Separated from Liv and Helen, the Doctor is rescued by River and sent to find Cardinal Ollistra, leading directly into The Side of the Angels.
Destroying an alliance made between Ollistra, the Monk and the Weeping Angels, the Doctor uses a burst of temporal energy caused by the Eleven to return the TARDIS to Gallifrey, leading directly into Stop the Clock.
When the Eleven takes her hostage in a Battle TARDIS to foil the Doctor's plan to defeat Padrac, Helen rams the Battle TARDIS into the Resonance Engine, foiling Padrac's scheme and turning Caleera into the Red Lady. Convinced of her survival, the Doctor and Liv go searching for Helen.

Searching for Helen

The Doctor and Liv are summoned by Winston Churchill as they begin their search for Helen, setting this immediately after Stop the Clock. The TARDIS is calculating the route most likely taken by the Eleven's Battle TARDIS.
The TARDIS is dragged off the course taken by the Eleven's Battle TARDIS by a disturbance in the vortex.
The Doctor and Liv find Helen with the Eleven at Rykerzon. Ending leads directly into Sweet Salvation.
Defeating the Eleven and the Kandyman's plan take over Colony 23, the Doctor and Liv welcome Helen back on to the TARDIS, though with the Doctor suspicious of how her time with the Eleven has affected her. The Doctor decides that the TARDIS crew are in need of a holiday and promises to take them "somewhere special", leading into Escape from Kaldor.

Relaxed travels with Liv and Helen

Seeking a holiday after the recent events of Sweet Salvation, the Doctor brings Liv and Helen to Kaldor, where Liv opts to stay for a year to reconcile with her sister. After he and Helen jump forward a year in the TARDIS to collect Liv, the Doctor decides that the TARDIS crew should celebrate Christmas on Earth, leading into Better Watch Out.
Ending leads directly into Fairytale of Salzburg.

Running from the Ravenous

Ending leads directly into Deeptime Frontier. The TARDIS is stolen by the Eleven.
Ending leads directly into Companion Piece. The Eleven joins the TARDIS crew.
The Eleven gives the Doctors directions on where to find Liv and Helen.
Set immediately after Companion Piece, with Liv and Helen still reacting to the Eleven's presence in the TARDIS.
Liv has met three legends in one week, setting this shortly after L.E.G.E.N.D.