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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.

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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, 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

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

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

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

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

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Travels with Mel

• AUDIO: The Brink of Death

The Seventh Doctor's persona begins to emerge as his previous incarnation regenerates.

• TV: Time and the Rani

Immediately after regenerating from his previous incarnation, the Doctor is thrown into a confrontation with the Rani on Lakertya. He claims to be 953-years-old.

• PROSE: 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!

Set between Time and the Rani and Paradise Towers. 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

• PROSE: Special Weapons

Pex's sacrifice from Paradise Towers is still on Mel's mind.

• AUDIO: We Are The Daleks

• AUDIO: 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: Bang-Bang-a-Boom!

Set between Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen. The Doctor is carrying his red umbrella, setting this after The Warehouse.

• AUDIO: Flip-Flop

Set between Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen. 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

• PROSE: 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?

(REFERENCE)

The Doctor and Mel broker peace on Prosper. (AUDIO: Maker of Demons)

• AUDIO: The Devil's Footprints

• TV: Delta and the Bannermen

• PROSE: Uranus

The Doctor still acts lighthearted, but Mel is starting to feel alienated by him.

• AUDIO: The Fires of Vulcan

Set between Delta and the Bannermen and Dragonfire. The Doctor acts more brooding, something Mel claims to have never seen in him before.

• AUDIO: Red

Despite the Big Finish website placing this between Time and the Rani and Paradise Towers, 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

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

• TV: Remembrance of the Daleks

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)

• 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

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) 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)

• 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)

• PROSE: 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)

• WC: 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)

• PROSE: 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

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)

• TV: 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

In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Doctor finds Ace converted into a Cyberman during the events of Silver Nemesis.

• TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders due to a delay brought about by the 1988 Olympics.