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{{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.
This page lists '''appearances of the [[Seventh 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 [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.
The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who.htm#7TH Doctor Who Reference Guide] and [http://www.eyespider.org.uk/drwho/sm/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/timeline07 The Whoniverse], [http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/seventh-doctor.html Doctor Who Reviews], [http://docohosreviews.blogspot.com/p/contents-page.html Doc Oho's Book Reviews], [http://www.doctorwhoreviews.altervista.org/Seventh%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/7th-doctor/ Whopix], [http://forums.bigfinish.com/threads/5950-The-Seventh-Doctor-s-Timeline the Big Finish forums] and [http://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/114/7-seventh-doctors-timelne The Divergent Universe forum]. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
 
Additionally there are statements on the back many [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, but should not be viewed as the only placement for these novels.


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== Organisational aids ==
The Seventh Doctor's timeline is organised by companion, TARDIS, outfit, and personality. However, few indicators are absolute. His companions often leave and rejoin him, he switches TARDISes and TARDIS interiors multiple times, he sometimes explicitly wears the "wrong" outfit for a period, and his personality can be difficult to pin down. He's also seen removing his more "useless" memories in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|Timewyrm: Genesys]]'', explaining errors in continuity he makes.
Stories where the Doctor travels alone are most often organised by personality: if he is more lighthearted, they can be placed early in his life or immediately before the end, while stories where he is more sombre are usually placed close to, but not immediately before, his death.
The Doctor switches from usually wearing his lighter jacket to usually wearing the darker one in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: The Assassination Games (audio story)|1963: The Assassination Games]]''. His white linen suit is introduced in [[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness (novel)|White Darkness]]'', though he might have worn it before. Stories where he wears his tweed jacket should be placed after [[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]''.
Stories where the Doctor travels in his alternate self's TARDIS take place after [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'' and before [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'', but often which TARDIS he is using goes unmentioned, and what companions he is with are a more useful indicator. Stories where he travels in his black TARDIS take place after [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (audio story)|Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge]]'' and before [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]''. Stories where the TARDIS is white take place after [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Angel of Scutari (audio story)|The Angel of Scutari]]'' and before [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]''
=== Companions ===
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just [[Mel Bush]] must take place between [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'', while any story with her and [[Ace]] must follow [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life of Crime (audio story)|A Life of Crime]]''.
Any stories involving a younger Ace must take place from [[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'' to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'', while any story where Ace has combat-training must take place after [[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]''.
Any stories where he travels with [[Bernice Summerfield]] must take place between [[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'', or between [[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Piece (novel)|Set Piece]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''. Any stories where Ace and Benny's relationship is non-antagonistic must take place after [[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]''.


== Limiting factors ==
Any story with [[Roz Forrester]] and [[Chris Cwej]] as companions must take place between [[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin]]''. Any story featuring just Chris as a companion must take place before [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]''.
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.


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]]''.
Any story where the Doctor and Ace travel with Hex must take place between [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Signs and Wonders (audio story)|Signs and Wonders]]''.


== Complications ==
== Complications ==
=== Split continuities ===
The Doctor edits his more "useless" memories in ''Timewyrm: Genesys'', which can explain anything he's forgotten from previous incarnations and adventures.
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''.


There are very few exceptions to this general rule:
The ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comics start off with the Doctor travelling with [[Frobisher]], who acts like [[Peri Brown]] has just departed, before he himself leaves the series. The early comics also portray the Doctor as he acted in ''Time and the Rani'', until ''Nemesis of the Daleks'' sees him act as the manipulator he had become in the latter part of his television tenure.
* 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]]''.


=== Gallifrey ===
=== Ace ===
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''.
Ace loses some of her memories in ''Timewyrm: Genesys'' and ''The Prisoner's Dilemma'', which can explain anything she's forgotten from her previous travels.


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.
Throughout their travels together, Ace continued to mature and come to terms with her past and how she coped with it. The early audios that have her and the Doctor traveling with [[Raine Creevy]] generally follow the characteristics established by the television series; an immature rebel who enjoys explosives and is often in the dark about the Doctor's plans.
 
In the [[Virgin New Adventures]], Ace undergoes major character development after a fallout with the Doctor. It is this version of Ace that develops with the Doctor and [[Bernice Summerfield]] in the VNA series, after returning from fighting the [[Dalek]]s with [[Spacefleet]]; She often identifies herself as a soldier, and is abrasive toward the Doctor and Benny, at least until ''No Future'', where the three resolve their differences. Ace then becomes less prone to using explosives, more dedicated to TARDIS-life, and more accepting of the Doctor's manipulative nature, until she leaves again to become Time's Vigilante.
 
David Bishop, when writing ''Enemy of the Daleks'', based Ace on the combat-trained "New Ace" from the New Adventures; this potentially indicates that the audio is set after ''Deceit''.
 
The biggest complication surrounding Ace is her death in ''Ground Zero'', in which she is shown travelling with the Doctor as he is seen in ''Doctor Who''.
 
=== TARDIS interior ===
Following on from ''The Chameleon Factor'', the TARDIS is changed to a beige design and retains it for most of the Doctor's continued travels.
 
At some point before ''The Armageddon Gambit'', the Seventh Doctor gained another control room, with the time rotor connected to the ceiling instead of the floor.
 
While travelling in the TARDIS of an alternate universe version of his [[third incarnation]], the Seventh Doctor had a transitional version of his Victorian parlour control room by ''Human Nature'', as shown in the ebook art. Later, in ''Lungbarrow'', his own TARDIS changes into a Victorian parlour design to resemble the Doctor's family estate in the [[House of Lungbarrow]], and retains the look into ''Doctor Who''.
 
However, in ''The Settling'', the TARDIS is redecorated by the Doctor, [[Ace]], and [[Hex]] to the Victorian parlour design seen in ''Doctor Who'', though it reverts to the old design from ''Black and White'' to '' Gods and Monsters''.
 
In ''Signs and Wonders'', the TARDIS is damaged and resets to a white room without a console. The Doctor claims that it needs time to rebuild and that he should be able to restore the configuration. 
 
Also, ''Excelis Decays'' claims that the Doctor apparently built the Victorian parlour design himself.
 
Furthermore, in ''Ground Zero'', the elderly Doctor is using his old interior design until the TARDIS is damaged and forced to change the interior design, with the authorial intent being that it changed to the Victorian parlour design in the lead up to ''Doctor Who''.
 
In ''The Monsters of Gokroth'' and ''The Moons of Vulpana'', set after the Doctor's travels with Ace, the TARDIS interior has the 80s TV sound effects before changing to the TV Movie sound effects in ''An Alien Werewolf in London''.


== Timeline ==
== Timeline ==
=== New adventures ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''
: 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]]''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]''
: ''Previous page: '''[[Theory:Timeline - Sixth Doctor|Sixth Doctor]]'''''
: 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.
 
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=== Travels with Mel ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Brink of Death (audio story)|The Brink of Death]]''
: The Seventh Doctor's persona begins to emerge as his [[Sixth Doctor|previous incarnation]] [[Regeneration|regenerates]].
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''
: Immediately after regenerating from his previous incarnation, the Doctor is thrown into a confrontation with {{O'Mara}} on [[Lakertya]]. He claims to be 953-years-old.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Useful Pile (short story)|The Useful Pile]]''
: Set directly after ''Time and the Rani'', with the Doctor bemoaning the loss of his scarf and umbrella on Lakertya, and still adjusting to his new body.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate!]]''
: Set between ''Time and the Rani'' and ''Paradise Towers''. <ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-unregenerate-236</ref> The Doctor has recently regenerated, as shown by the large amount of the [[lindos]] hormone in his system, setting this shortly after ''Time and the Rani''.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Special Weapons (short story)|Special Weapons]]''
: [[Pex]]'s sacrifice from ''Paradise Towers'' is still on Mel's mind.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[We Are The Daleks (audio story)|We Are The Daleks]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Warehouse (audio story)|The Warehouse]]''
: The Doctor's umbrella is damaged, with him suggesting it time he acquired a new one, setting this before ''Delta and the Bannermen'', where the Doctor had replaced his whangee handled umbrella with one with a large red question mark designed handle.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror of the Sontarans (audio story)|Terror of the Sontarans]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bang-Bang-a-Boom! (audio story)|Bang-Bang-a-Boom!]]''
: Set between ''Paradise Towers'' and ''Delta and the Bannermen''.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-bang-bang-a-boom-205</ref> The Doctor is carrying his red umbrella, setting this after ''The Warehouse''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flip-Flop (audio story)|Flip-Flop]]''
: Set between ''Paradise Towers'' and ''Delta and the Bannermen''.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-flip-flop-212</ref> The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after ''The Warehouse''. The two versions of the story detail what happens when the Doctor is coerced into changing the past, but offers no conclusion about which of the versions is the "correct" one.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Driftwood (short story)|Driftwood]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pulling Strings (short story)|Pulling Strings]]''
: The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after ''The Warehouse''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Have You Tried Turning It Off and Then Back On Again? (short story)|Have You Tried Turning It Off and Then Back On Again?]]''
 
: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
:: ''The Doctor and Mel broker peace on [[Prosper]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Maker of Demons (audio story)|Maker of Demons]]'')''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil's Footprints (audio story)|The Devil's Footprints]]''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)|Delta and the Bannermen]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Uranus (short story)|Uranus]]''
: The Doctor still acts lighthearted, but Mel is starting to feel alienated by him.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fires of Vulcan (audio story)|The Fires of Vulcan]]''
: Set between ''Delta and the Bannermen'' and ''Dragonfire''.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-fires-of-vulcan-635</ref> The Doctor acts more brooding, something Mel claims to have never seen in him before.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Red (audio story)|Red]]''
: Despite the Big Finish website placing this between ''Time and the Rani'' and ''Paradise Towers''<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-red-251</ref>, the Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after ''Delta and the Bannermen''. The Doctor acts more brooding around Mel, setting this after ''The Fires of Vulcan''.
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]''
: On [[Iceworld]], the Doctor and Mel bump into [[Sabalom Glitz]] again, and also meet a time-displaced 16-year-old girl named [[Ace]]. While Mel leaves to travel with Glitz, the Doctor offers to let Ace travel with him in the TARDIS, and she accepts.
 
:: [[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]''
:: Set during the ending of ''Dragonfire: Episode 1''. The Doctor is compelled to throw himself off a cliff side by the [[Great Intelligence]], but an echo of [[Clara Oswald]] snaps him out of the trance.
 
=== Joined by Ace ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''
: Ace encounters the [[Dalek]]s for the first time. She is carrying a [[Ace's baseball bat|baseball bat]], which is super-powered by the Doctor via the Hand of Omega. It is later destroyed however. According to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games]]'', this was the first time she doubted the Doctor's motives.
 
:: [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Slyther of Shoreditch (short story)|The Slyther of Shoreditch]]''
:: Set during ''Remembrance of the Daleks: Part 2'', before the Doctor visits [[Harry (Remembrance of the Daleks)|Harry]]'s café.
 
::''Immediately following Remembrance of the Daleks, the Doctor detects [[Coal Hill Space-Time Rift|temporal abnormality]] at [[Coal Hill School]] in [[2016]]. However, the TARDIS is attacked before he and Ace can tend to it.'' ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Remembrance (audio story)|In Remembrance]]'')
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[In the Community]]''
: The Doctor remains in the TARDIS while Ace visits [[Judith Winters]] in 1993, thirty years after ''Remembrance of the Daleks''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ripple Effect (short story)|The Ripple Effect]]''
: Ace learns that the TARDIS is stuck with the police box exterior due to a broken [[chameleon circuit]], and begins questioning the Doctor's intentions and motivations. Her previous encounter with the Daleks was during ''Remembrance of the Daleks''.
 
=== Ercildoune ===
::''The Doctor and Ace visit [[1926]] [[Africa]]. The Doctor leaves Ace with an old friend, [[Naikosiai]], while he attends to some business alone. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prelude Birthright (short story)|Prelude Birthright]]'') The Doctor takes up residence at Ercildoune in Scotland in the [[13th century]], using it as a base from which to set out on various travels for roughly two years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'')''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]''
: The Doctor visits [[1909]] [[London]], and saves [[Barbara Wright]]'s grandfather, [[Ernie Wright]], from being arrested for a murder he did not commit. The Doctor claims that he has business to attend to in Soho, and then somewhere else "a long, long way away" from Soho.
 
:: ''The Doctor visits [[Margaret Waterfield]] at [[39 Dean Street]] in [[Soho]] to warn her of Benny's imminent arrival. Next, he visits [[Coutts Bank]] in [[1868]] London with [[Victoria Waterfield]]. The Doctor asks Margaret what her favourite flowers are, knowing in advance the day she dies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prelude Birthright (short story)|Prelude Birthright]]'') The Doctor arranges for flowers to be sent to Margaret Waterfield's funeral. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'')''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prelude The Dimension Riders (short story)|Prelude The Dimension Riders]]''
: The Doctor deletes the scan of his mind from the [[APC Net]] on [[Gallifrey]].
 
:: ''The Doctor visits the court of [[Elizabeth I]], and persuades the Queen to send [[Jared Khan]] on a fool's errand, spends five years teaching [[Mikhail Popov]] English in [[St Petersburg]], knowing that he would help Bernice in London and arranges for [[Herbert Asquith]] to have [[Bernice Summerfield]] released from [[Holloway Prison]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'')''
 
* [[WC]]: ''[[Doctors Assemble! (webcast)|Doctors Assemble!]]''
: The Doctor's profile picture is of him on Iceworld, setting this after ''Dragonfire''.
 
:: ''The Doctor leaves Ercildoune for the last time, shortly before the Charl Queen arrives looking for the TARDIS. He asks Jared Khan to travel through the glen and leaves him with advice to "follow the bonny bonny road should anyone give him the choice". Khan would later strike a deal with the Charl Queen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'')''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prelude Birthright (short story)|Prelude Birthright]]''
: The Doctor returns to Africa to collect Ace. Though she tells him that he's been gone for hours, the Doctor responds that it "[felt] like years" for him. The Doctor and Ace leave for Terra Alpha, setting this immediately before ''The Happiness Patrol''.
 
=== Travels with Ace ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol (TV story)|The Happiness Patrol]]''
: Broadcasted out-of-production-order on [[John Nathan-Turner]]'s orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule.
 
:: (<u>FLASHBACK</u>)
:: ''After leaving Terra Alpha, Ace asks the Doctor how he operates, and believes they come to an understanding. She is still new to the TARDIS at this point. The TARDIS arrives at its next destination, with the implication being that this leads into ''Silver Nemesis''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'')''
 
* [[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]''
: Broadcasted out-of-production-order on [[John Nathan-Turner]]'s orders, to accommodate with the twenty-fifth anniversary of ''Doctor Who'', explaining how Ace is wearing [[Flowerchild]]'s [[earring]] despite acquiring it in ''The Greatest Show in the Galaxy''. Ace encounters the [[Cybermen]] for the first time. The Doctor spots a chess set in Lady [[Peinforte]]'s home and realises that [[Fenric]] is orchestrating events in his favour.
 
:: [[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'' ''[[Prologue: The Seventh Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Seventh Doctor]]''
:: In an alternate timeline created by [[Rassilon]] and the [[Cybermen]], the Doctor finds Ace converted into a Cyberman during the events of ''Silver Nemesis''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bounty (audio story)|Bounty]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]''
: Sam takes her first trip in the TARDIS.
: Broadcasted out-of-production-order on [[John Nathan-Turner]]'s orders due to a delay brought about by the 1988 Olympics.

Latest revision as of 13:01, 1 March 2022

This page lists appearances of the Seventh 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, the 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.

Additionally there are statements on the back many BBC Past Doctor Adventures novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, but should not be viewed as the only placement for these novels.

Organisational aids[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Seventh Doctor's timeline is organised by companion, TARDIS, outfit, and personality. However, few indicators are absolute. His companions often leave and rejoin him, he switches TARDISes and TARDIS interiors multiple times, he sometimes explicitly wears the "wrong" outfit for a period, and his personality can be difficult to pin down. He's also seen removing his more "useless" memories in PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys, explaining errors in continuity he makes.

Stories where the Doctor travels alone are most often organised by personality: if he is more lighthearted, they can be placed early in his life or immediately before the end, while stories where he is more sombre are usually placed close to, but not immediately before, his death.

The Doctor switches from usually wearing his lighter jacket to usually wearing the darker one in AUDIO: 1963: The Assassination Games. His white linen suit is introduced in PROSE: White Darkness, though he might have worn it before. Stories where he wears his tweed jacket should be placed after PROSE: So Vile a Sin.

Stories where the Doctor travels in his alternate self's TARDIS take place after PROSE: Blood Heat and before PROSE: Happy Endings, but often which TARDIS he is using goes unmentioned, and what companions he is with are a more useful indicator. Stories where he travels in his black TARDIS take place after AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge and before AUDIO: Gods and Monsters. Stories where the TARDIS is white take place after AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari and before AUDIO: Gods and Monsters

Companions[[edit] | [edit source]]

Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Mel Bush must take place between TV: Time and the Rani and TV: Dragonfire, while any story with her and Ace must follow AUDIO: A Life of Crime.

Any stories involving a younger Ace must take place from TV: Dragonfire to PROSE: Love and War, while any story where Ace has combat-training must take place after PROSE: Deceit.

Any stories where he travels with Bernice Summerfield must take place between PROSE: Love and War and PROSE: Deceit, or between PROSE: Set Piece and PROSE: Happy Endings. Any stories where Ace and Benny's relationship is non-antagonistic must take place after PROSE: No Future.

Any story with Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej as companions must take place between PROSE: Original Sin and PROSE: So Vile a Sin. Any story featuring just Chris as a companion must take place before PROSE: Lungbarrow.

Any story where the Doctor and Ace travel with Hex must take place between AUDIO: The Harvest and AUDIO: Signs and Wonders.

Complications[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor edits his more "useless" memories in Timewyrm: Genesys, which can explain anything he's forgotten from previous incarnations and adventures.

The Doctor Who Magazine comics start off with the Doctor travelling with Frobisher, who acts like Peri Brown has just departed, before he himself leaves the series. The early comics also portray the Doctor as he acted in Time and the Rani, until Nemesis of the Daleks sees him act as the manipulator he had become in the latter part of his television tenure.

Ace[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ace loses some of her memories in Timewyrm: Genesys and The Prisoner's Dilemma, which can explain anything she's forgotten from her previous travels.

Throughout their travels together, Ace continued to mature and come to terms with her past and how she coped with it. The early audios that have her and the Doctor traveling with Raine Creevy generally follow the characteristics established by the television series; an immature rebel who enjoys explosives and is often in the dark about the Doctor's plans.

In the Virgin New Adventures, Ace undergoes major character development after a fallout with the Doctor. It is this version of Ace that develops with the Doctor and Bernice Summerfield in the VNA series, after returning from fighting the Daleks with Spacefleet; She often identifies herself as a soldier, and is abrasive toward the Doctor and Benny, at least until No Future, where the three resolve their differences. Ace then becomes less prone to using explosives, more dedicated to TARDIS-life, and more accepting of the Doctor's manipulative nature, until she leaves again to become Time's Vigilante.

David Bishop, when writing Enemy of the Daleks, based Ace on the combat-trained "New Ace" from the New Adventures; this potentially indicates that the audio is set after Deceit.

The biggest complication surrounding Ace is her death in Ground Zero, in which she is shown travelling with the Doctor as he is seen in Doctor Who.

TARDIS interior[[edit] | [edit source]]

Following on from The Chameleon Factor, the TARDIS is changed to a beige design and retains it for most of the Doctor's continued travels.

At some point before The Armageddon Gambit, the Seventh Doctor gained another control room, with the time rotor connected to the ceiling instead of the floor.

While travelling in the TARDIS of an alternate universe version of his third incarnation, the Seventh Doctor had a transitional version of his Victorian parlour control room by Human Nature, as shown in the ebook art. Later, in Lungbarrow, his own TARDIS changes into a Victorian parlour design to resemble the Doctor's family estate in the House of Lungbarrow, and retains the look into Doctor Who.

However, in The Settling, the TARDIS is redecorated by the Doctor, Ace, and Hex to the Victorian parlour design seen in Doctor Who, though it reverts to the old design from Black and White to Gods and Monsters.

In Signs and Wonders, the TARDIS is damaged and resets to a white room without a console. The Doctor claims that it needs time to rebuild and that he should be able to restore the configuration.

Also, Excelis Decays claims that the Doctor apparently built the Victorian parlour design himself.

Furthermore, in Ground Zero, the elderly Doctor is using his old interior design until the TARDIS is damaged and forced to change the interior design, with the authorial intent being that it changed to the Victorian parlour design in the lead up to Doctor Who.

In The Monsters of Gokroth and The Moons of Vulpana, set after the Doctor's travels with Ace, the TARDIS interior has the 80s TV sound effects before changing to the TV Movie sound effects in An Alien Werewolf in London.

Timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]

Previous page: Sixth Doctor

Travels with Mel[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Seventh Doctor's persona begins to emerge as his previous incarnation regenerates.
Immediately after regenerating from his previous incarnation, the Doctor is thrown into a confrontation with the the Rani on Lakertya. He claims to be 953-years-old.
Set directly after Time and the Rani, with the Doctor bemoaning the loss of his scarf and umbrella on Lakertya, and still adjusting to his new body.
Set between Time and the Rani and Paradise Towers. [1] The Doctor has recently regenerated, as shown by the large amount of the lindos hormone in his system, setting this shortly after Time and the Rani.
Pex's sacrifice from Paradise Towers is still on Mel's mind.
The Doctor's umbrella is damaged, with him suggesting it time he acquired a new one, setting this before Delta and the Bannermen, where the Doctor had replaced his whangee handled umbrella with one with a large red question mark designed handle.
Set between Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen.[2] The Doctor is carrying his red umbrella, setting this after The Warehouse.
Set between Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen.[3] The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after The Warehouse. The two versions of the story detail what happens when the Doctor is coerced into changing the past, but offers no conclusion about which of the versions is the "correct" one.
The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after The Warehouse.
(REFERENCE)
The Doctor and Mel broker peace on Prosper. (AUDIO: Maker of Demons)
The Doctor still acts lighthearted, but Mel is starting to feel alienated by him.
Set between Delta and the Bannermen and Dragonfire.[4] The Doctor acts more brooding, something Mel claims to have never seen in him before.
Despite the Big Finish website placing this between Time and the Rani and Paradise Towers[5], the Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after Delta and the Bannermen. The Doctor acts more brooding around Mel, setting this after The Fires of Vulcan.
On Iceworld, the Doctor and Mel bump into Sabalom Glitz again, and also meet a time-displaced 16-year-old girl named Ace. While Mel leaves to travel with Glitz, the Doctor offers to let Ace travel with him in the TARDIS, and she accepts.
TV: The Name of the Doctor
Set during the ending of Dragonfire: Episode 1. The Doctor is compelled to throw himself off a cliff side by the Great Intelligence, but an echo of Clara Oswald snaps him out of the trance.

Joined by Ace[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ace encounters the Daleks for the first time. She is carrying a baseball bat, which is super-powered by the Doctor via the Hand of Omega. It is later destroyed however. According to PROSE: Head Games, this was the first time she doubted the Doctor's motives.
PROSE: The Slyther of Shoreditch
Set during Remembrance of the Daleks: Part 2, before the Doctor visits Harry's café.
Immediately following Remembrance of the Daleks, the Doctor detects temporal abnormality at Coal Hill School in 2016. However, the TARDIS is attacked before he and Ace can tend to it. (AUDIO: In Remembrance)
The Doctor remains in the TARDIS while Ace visits Judith Winters in 1993, thirty years after Remembrance of the Daleks.
Ace learns that the TARDIS is stuck with the police box exterior due to a broken chameleon circuit, and begins questioning the Doctor's intentions and motivations. Her previous encounter with the Daleks was during Remembrance of the Daleks.

Ercildoune[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor and Ace visit 1926 Africa. The Doctor leaves Ace with an old friend, Naikosiai, while he attends to some business alone. (PROSE: Prelude Birthright) The Doctor takes up residence at Ercildoune in Scotland in the 13th century, using it as a base from which to set out on various travels for roughly two years. (PROSE: Birthright)
The Doctor visits 1909 London, and saves Barbara Wright's grandfather, Ernie Wright, from being arrested for a murder he did not commit. The Doctor claims that he has business to attend to in Soho, and then somewhere else "a long, long way away" from Soho.
The Doctor visits Margaret Waterfield at 39 Dean Street in Soho to warn her of Benny's imminent arrival. Next, he visits Coutts Bank in 1868 London with Victoria Waterfield. The Doctor asks Margaret what her favourite flowers are, knowing in advance the day she dies. (PROSE: Prelude Birthright) The Doctor arranges for flowers to be sent to Margaret Waterfield's funeral. (PROSE: Birthright)
The Doctor deletes the scan of his mind from the APC Net on Gallifrey.
The Doctor visits the court of Elizabeth I, and persuades the Queen to send Jared Khan on a fool's errand, spends five years teaching Mikhail Popov English in St Petersburg, knowing that he would help Bernice in London and arranges for Herbert Asquith to have Bernice Summerfield released from Holloway Prison. (PROSE: Birthright)
The Doctor's profile picture is of him on Iceworld, setting this after Dragonfire.
The Doctor leaves Ercildoune for the last time, shortly before the Charl Queen arrives looking for the TARDIS. He asks Jared Khan to travel through the glen and leaves him with advice to "follow the bonny bonny road should anyone give him the choice". Khan would later strike a deal with the Charl Queen. (PROSE: Birthright)
The Doctor returns to Africa to collect Ace. Though she tells him that he's been gone for hours, the Doctor responds that it "[felt] like years" for him. The Doctor and Ace leave for Terra Alpha, setting this immediately before The Happiness Patrol.

Travels with Ace[[edit] | [edit source]]

Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule.
(FLASHBACK)
After leaving Terra Alpha, Ace asks the Doctor how he operates, and believes they come to an understanding. She is still new to the TARDIS at this point. The TARDIS arrives at its next destination, with the implication being that this leads into Silver Nemesis. (PROSE: Head Games)
Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Doctor Who, explaining how Ace is wearing Flowerchild's earring despite acquiring it in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. Ace encounters the Cybermen for the first time. The Doctor spots a chess set in Lady Peinforte's home and realises that Fenric is orchestrating events in his favour.
COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen Prologue: The Seventh Doctor
In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Doctor finds Ace converted into a Cyberman during the events of Silver Nemesis.
Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders due to a delay brought about by the 1988 Olympics.
  1. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-unregenerate-236
  2. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-bang-bang-a-boom-205
  3. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-flip-flop-212
  4. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-fires-of-vulcan-635
  5. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-red-251
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