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This page lists '''appearances of [[Charley Pollard]] in the order in which she 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 [[Charlotte Pollard]] in the order in which she 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://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], [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#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://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], [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.


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== Timeline ==
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]''
: 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.
: 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.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Be Good for Goodness's Sake (short story)|Be Good for Goodness's Sake]]''
: The Doctor is traveling with Charley, but she is at a disco during this adventure. Seeing as they are not spending Christmas together, it seems likely that this story is set early on in their travels, when their relationship is not as close as it later becomes.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Repercussions... (short story)|Repercussions...]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Repercussions... (short story)|Repercussions...]]''
: Charley has only been travelling with the Doctor for a few days.
: Charley has only been travelling with the Doctor for a few days. The recent events of ''Sword of Orion'' are mentioned.  


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (audio story)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (audio story)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]''
: Charley isn't familiar with the TARDIS [[translation circuits]], setting this during their early travels.
: Charley isn't familiar with the TARDIS [[translation circuits]], setting this before ''The Light at the End''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Letting Go (audio story)|Letting Go]]''
: 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.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]''
: 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.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Good Life (short story)|A Good Life]]''
: Charley still has the black eye and bruises she acquired in ''Minuet in Hell''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Best Seller (short story)|Best Seller]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Best Seller (short story)|Best Seller]]''
: Charley is still uncomfortable with wearing clothing that shows more flesh than she's used to, placing this early during her travels with the Doctor.
: 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.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mummy Speaks! (audio story)|The Mummy Speaks!]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eclipse (audio story)|Eclipse]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Slaying of the Writhing Mass (audio story)|The Slaying of the Writhing Mass]]''
: The Doctor mentions [[Guy (The Mummy Speaks!)|Guy]] and Charley complains about being replaced "again", setting this not long after ''The Mummy Speaks!''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Heart of Orion (audio story)|Heart of Orion]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Venus (short story)|Venus]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Venus (short story)|Venus]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Be Good for Goodness's Sake (short story)|Be Good for Goodness's Sake]]''
: The Doctor is traveling with Charley, but she is at a disco during this adventure.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[War in a Time of Peace (short story)|War in a Time of Peace]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[War in a Time of Peace (short story)|War in a Time of Peace]]''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Letting Go (audio story)|Letting Go]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password (short story)|You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password ]]''
: 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.
: Set over the course of nine days. [[Calabria]] has met Charley on several occasions, suggesting that Charley has been travelling with the Doctor for a while.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[They Fell (short story)|They Fell]]''
: "Sam" is listed as one of the Doctor's former companions by [[Gideon Crane]], either referencing [[Samantha Jones]] or [[Samson Griffin]].


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Good Life (short story)|A Good Life]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Faithful Friends: Part 3 (short story)|Faithful Friends: Part 3]]''
: Charley still has the black eye and bruises she acquired in ''Minuet in Hell''.
: Charley recalls meeting the Brigadier in ''Minuet in Hell''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Second Chances (ST short story)|Second Chances]]''
: Authorial intent places this "sometime during the second series of Charlotte Pollard Eighth Doctor adventures". Charley does not know about regeneration.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invaders from Mars (audio story)|Invaders from Mars]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invaders from Mars (audio story)|Invaders from Mars]]''
: 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 CIA are active in 1947. The Doctor decides to take Charley to [[Singapore]].
: 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]].


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]''
: The Doctor and Charley are trying to get 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.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Living Legend (audio story)|Living Legend]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Living Legend (audio story)|Living Legend]]''
: Authorial intents places this between ''The Chimes of Midnight'' and ''Seasons of Fear''.
: Authorial intents places this between ''The Chimes of Midnight'' and ''Seasons of Fear''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]''
: Authorial intent places this "sometime during the second series of Charlotte Pollard Eighth Doctor adventures". Charley does not know about regeneration.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]''
: The Doctor and Charley arrive in [[Singapore]], and discover that Benjamin Franklin is President.
: The Doctor and Charley arrive in [[Singapore]], and discover that [[Benjamin Franklin]] is President.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac (short story)|The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac]]''
: 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.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Aliens (audio story)|Enemy Aliens]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lady of the Snows (short story)|Lady of the Snows]]''
: Charley has an idea of what regeneration is.
: Charley mentions the events of ''Seasons of Fear''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embrace the Darkness (audio story)|Embrace the Darkness]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embrace the Darkness (audio story)|Embrace the Darkness]]''
: The Doctor is using a brand new model of sonic screwdriver, placing this after ''The Flood''. He also sees a flotilla of Type 70 TARDISes in the Time Vortex.  
: 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.  


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]]''
: The Toymaker refers to people from ''Invaders from Mars'', ''The Chimes of Midnight'', ''Seasons of Fear'', and ''Embrace the Darkness''.
: The Toymaker refers to people from ''Invaders from Mars'', ''The Chimes of Midnight'', ''Seasons of Fear'', and ''Embrace the Darkness''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password (short story)|You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password ]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy Aliens (audio story)|Enemy Aliens]]''
: Set after ''Minuet in Hell''.
: 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''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lady of the Snows (short story)|Lady of the Snows]]''
: Charley mentions the events of ''The Chimes of Midnight'', ''The Stones of Venice'', ''Minuet in Hell'', and ''Seasons of Fear''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[They Fell (short story)|They Fell]]''
: Set after ''Minuet in Hell''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death (short story)|Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Second Chances (ST short story)|Second Chances]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Faithful Friends: Part 3 (short story)|Faithful Friends: Part 3]]''
: Charley recalls meeting the Brigadier in ''Minuet in Hell''.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac (short story)|The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac]]''
: Charley recalls the events of ''The Chimes of Midnight'', ''The Stones of Venice'', and ''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.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]''
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|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''.
: 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.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''
: 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''.
: 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 ====
==== Exiled in the Divergent Universe ====
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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 completed 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 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''.


==== Return to the main universe ====
==== Return to the main universe ====
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Memory Lane (audio story)|Memory Lane]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Memory Lane (audio story)|Memory Lane]]''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Salva Mea (short story)|Salva Mea]]''
: On the American frontier, the Doctor plays poker with his future self.
 
:: ''On the American frontier, the Doctor plays poker with his future self. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'')''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Salva Mea (short story)|Salva Mea]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death (short story)|Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death]]''
: Charley has been travelling with the Doctor for "years", setting this late in her travels with the Doctor. C'rizz is absent, with no mention as to why.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Companion Piece (audio story)|Companion Piece]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Companion Piece (audio story)|Companion Piece]]''
: Charley has already met C'rizz.
: Charley has been kidnapped by [[the Nine]], during a time when she was travelling with the Doctor and C'rizz.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolution (BFA audio story)|Absolution]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolution (BFM audio story)|Absolution]]''
: C'rizz sacrifices his life saving the Doctor from the [[Absolver]], leaving Charley with a desire to leave the Doctor's company.
: C'rizz sacrifices his life saving the Doctor from the [[Absolver]], leaving Charley with a desire to leave the Doctor's company, leading directly into ''The Girl Who Never Was''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]''
: According to the Doctor, three-to-four subjective years have passed since he met Charley in ''Storm Warning''. During a fight with the Cybermen, the Doctor is separated from Charley when the TARDIS' HADS are activated in a collapsing [[Cyber-ship]]. Due to the Cybermen's attempt to convert him, the Doctor's memories are too scrambled for him to remember Charley's fate.
: According to the Doctor, three-to-four subjective years have passed since he met Charley in ''Storm Warning''. During a fight with the Cybermen, the Doctor is separated from Charley when the TARDIS' HADS is activated in a collapsing [[Cyber-ship]]. Due to the Cybermen's attempt to convert him, the Doctor's memories are too scrambled for him to remember Charley's fate.


=== Travels with the Sixth Doctor ===
=== Travels with the Sixth Doctor ===
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Condemned (audio story)|The Condemned]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Condemned (audio story)|The Condemned]]''
: The Sixth Doctor reluctantly Charley on as his companion.
: The Sixth Doctor reluctantly takes Charley on as his companion.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doomwood Curse (audio story)|The Doomwood Curse]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doomwood Curse (audio story)|The Doomwood Curse]]''
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Brotherhood of the Daleks (audio story)|Brotherhood of the Daleks]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Brotherhood of the Daleks (audio story)|Brotherhood of the Daleks]]''
: The Doctor has yet to meet [[Sigmund Freud]].


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red House (audio story)|The Red House]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red House (audio story)|The Red House]]''
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* [[WC]]: ''[[Prequel (The Legacy of Time)|Prequel - The Legacy of Time]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Prequel (The Legacy of Time)|Prequel - The Legacy of Time]]''
: Set Immediately after ''The Avenues of Possibility''. The Doctor and Charley decide to investigate the source of the temporal distortions, leading directly into ''Collision Course''. Although Charley isn’t heard, she is present with the Doctor.
: Set immediately after ''The Avenues of Possibility''. The Doctor and Charley decide to investigate the source of the temporal distortions.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[These Stolen Hours (audio story)|These Stolen Hours]]''
: Charley realises that when she eventually does tell the Doctor the truth about her identity, she will have to to leave him.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Return of the Krotons (audio story)|Return of the Krotons]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Return of the Krotons (audio story)|Return of the Krotons]]''
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Raincloud Man (audio story)|The Raincloud Man]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Raincloud Man (audio story)|The Raincloud Man]]''
: The Doctor and Charley consider the events of ''Return of the Krotons'' to be a recent happening.
: The Doctor and Charley consider the events of ''Return of the Krotons'' to be a recent happening.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]'': ''Part 1''
: After she contracts a virus, the Doctor puts Charley in the Zero Room while he tries to locate the source of the virus, and thus a cure.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]''
: After taking many years searching for a cure, the Doctor traces the virus to the Amethyst Viral Containment Station. While he confronts the Daleks, Charley awakens from her coma and is replaced in existence by [[Mila]].  
: After she contracts a virus, the Doctor puts Charley in the [[Zero Room]] while he tries to locate the source of the virus, and thus a cure. After taking many years searching for a cure, the Doctor traces the virus to the [[Amethyst Viral Containment Station]]. While he confronts the Daleks, Charley awakens from her coma and is replaced in existence by [[Mila]].  


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Paper Cuts (audio story)|Paper Cuts]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Paper Cuts (audio story)|Paper Cuts]]''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet (audio story)|Blue Forgotten Planet]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet (audio story)|Blue Forgotten Planet]]''
: While under the guise of Charley, Mila has already been travelling with the Doctor for some time before she is killed. In order to preserve future events, Charley has the Viyrans edit the Doctor's memory so that his memories of his time with her are replaced with the memory of Mila, as well as a more peaceful departure for her in place of her death.
: While under the guise of Charley, Mila has already been travelling with the Doctor for some time before she is killed. In order to preserve future events, Charley has the [[Viyran]]s edit the Doctor's memory so that his memories of his time with her are replaced with the memory of Mila, as well as a more peaceful departure for her in place of her death.
 
=== Working for the Viyrans ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[These Stolen Hours (audio story)|These Stolen Hours]]'' (Framing Narrative)
: Charley recalls a previous adventure with the Sixth Doctor to the Viyrans. She reveals that she travelled with the Sixth Doctor for a few months in total.
 
=== Escaping the Viyrans ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lamentation Cipher (audio story)|The Lamentation Cipher]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''The Shadow at the Edge of the World''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow at the Edge of the World (audio story)|The Shadow at the Edge of the World]]''
: Charley escapes into a [[Ever-and-Ever Prolixity|Prolixity]] portal, leading into ''The Fall of the House of Pollard''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]''
: The Viyrans recapture Charley, leading into ''The Viyran Solution''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Viyran Solution (audio story)|The Viyran Solution]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embankment Station (audio story)|Embankment Station]]''
: Set directly after ''The Viyran Solution'', with Charley, Robert and the Rogue Viyran escaping into the Ever and Ever Prolixity. They arrive on [[21st century]] [[Earth]]. Ending leads directly into ''Ruffling''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ruffling (audio story)|Ruffling]]''
: The Rogue Viyran begins transforming into a more humanoid appearance and Charley gives him the name "Bertram". Ending leads directly into ''Seed of Chaos''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seed of Chaos (audio story)|Seed of Chaos]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''The Destructive Quality of Life''.  


=== After the Doctor ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destructive Quality of Life (audio story)|The Destructive Quality of Life]]''
*[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lamentation Cipher (audio story)|The Lamentation Cipher]]''
: Charley and Robert spend ten years as prisoners of the [[Gelrasian]]s.
*[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow at the Edge of the World (audio story)|The Shadow at the Edge of the World]]''
*[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]''
*[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Viyran Solution (audio story)|The Viyran Solution]]''
*[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embankment Station (audio story)|Embankment Station]]''
*[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ruffling (audio story)|Ruffling]]''
*[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seed of Chaos (audio story)|Seed of Chaos]]''
*[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destructive Quality of Life (audio story)|The Destructive Quality of Life]]''


== Awaiting Placement ==
== Awaiting Placement ==

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This page lists appearances of Charlotte Pollard in the order in which she 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, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks databanks, 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.

Timeline

Travels with the Eighth Doctor

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 few days. The recent events of Sword of Orion are mentioned.
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.
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.
The Doctor mentions Guy and Charley complains about being replaced "again", setting this not long after The Mummy Speaks!.
The Doctor is traveling with Charley, but she is at a disco during this adventure.
Set over the course of nine days. Calabria has met Charley on several occasions, suggesting that Charley has been travelling with the Doctor for a while.
Charley recalls meeting the Brigadier in Minuet in Hell.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.

Return to the main universe

During an encounter with Davros, the Doctor saves Samson from Davros's control, but is unable to save Gemma, who is killed.
C'rizz has never been to Earth before, setting this before Salva Mea and Other Lives. The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac is considered a recent happening for the Doctor.
On the American frontier, the Doctor plays poker with his future self. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)
Charley has been travelling with the Doctor for "years", setting this late in her travels with the Doctor. C'rizz is absent, with no mention as to why.
Charley has been kidnapped by the Nine, during a time when she was travelling with the Doctor and C'rizz.
C'rizz sacrifices his life saving the Doctor from the Absolver, leaving Charley with a desire to leave the Doctor's company, leading directly into The Girl Who Never Was.
According to the Doctor, three-to-four subjective years have passed since he met Charley in Storm Warning. During a fight with the Cybermen, the Doctor is separated from Charley when the TARDIS' HADS is activated in a collapsing Cyber-ship. Due to the Cybermen's attempt to convert him, the Doctor's memories are too scrambled for him to remember Charley's fate.

Travels with the Sixth Doctor

The TARDIS seemingly returns to Charley only for her to be met by "someone else".
The Sixth Doctor reluctantly takes Charley on as his companion.
Charley has only recently joined the Doctor on his travels.
The Doctor has yet to meet Sigmund Freud.
Charley refers to the fictional highwaymen from The Doomwood Curse and the Marxist Daleks from Brotherhood of the Daleks.
The Doctor and Charley have been travelling together for weeks.
Set immediately after The Avenues of Possibility. The Doctor and Charley decide to investigate the source of the temporal distortions.
Charley realises that when she eventually does tell the Doctor the truth about her identity, she will have to to leave him.
The Doctor and Charley consider the events of Return of the Krotons to be a recent happening.
After she contracts a virus, the Doctor puts Charley in the Zero Room while he tries to locate the source of the virus, and thus a cure. After taking many years searching for a cure, the Doctor traces the virus to the Amethyst Viral Containment Station. While he confronts the Daleks, Charley awakens from her coma and is replaced in existence by Mila.
While under the guise of Charley, Mila has already been travelling with the Doctor for some time before she is killed. In order to preserve future events, Charley has the Viyrans edit the Doctor's memory so that his memories of his time with her are replaced with the memory of Mila, as well as a more peaceful departure for her in place of her death.

Working for the Viyrans

Charley recalls a previous adventure with the Sixth Doctor to the Viyrans. She reveals that she travelled with the Sixth Doctor for a few months in total.

Escaping the Viyrans

Ending leads directly into The Shadow at the Edge of the World.
Charley escapes into a Prolixity portal, leading into The Fall of the House of Pollard.
The Viyrans recapture Charley, leading into The Viyran Solution.
Set directly after The Viyran Solution, with Charley, Robert and the Rogue Viyran escaping into the Ever and Ever Prolixity. They arrive on 21st century Earth. Ending leads directly into Ruffling.
The Rogue Viyran begins transforming into a more humanoid appearance and Charley gives him the name "Bertram". Ending leads directly into Seed of Chaos.
Ending leads directly into The Destructive Quality of Life.
Charley and Robert spend ten years as prisoners of the Gelrasians.

Awaiting Placement

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