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== Timeline ==
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.
=== Pessimistic about his future ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Maltese Penguin (audio story)|The Maltese Penguin]]''
: The Doctor visits Frobisher three weeks after dropping him off, to ask if he's grown tired of playing detectives and wants to return to the TARDIS. His feelings hurt, Frobisher declines the offer.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Time of Your Life (novel)|Time of Your Life]]''
The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who.htm#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.
: After returning Melanie to his future self, the Doctor becomes a recluse on [[Torrok]] in order to prevent himself from becoming the Valeyard. However, the Time Lords manipulate him into saving Earth from [[Krllxk]]. After he helps the Doctor defeat a giant robot dinosaur in [[New Tokyo]], [[Grant Markham]] joins the Doctor as his companion.


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


:: ''A man resembling Grant is known to have been removed from history by the Doctor prior to ''[[Repercussions... (short story)|Repercussions...]]''.''
{{Doctor Who timelines}}
== 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.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Maltese Penguin (audio story)|The Maltese Penguin]]''
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 visits Frobisher a second time, but he once again declines to return to the TARDIS as he is busy with an ongoing investigation.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wormery (audio story)|The Wormery]]''
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]]''.
: Set shortly, but not immediately, after the Doctor's trial, with a much wearier Doctor, whose love for life has diminished somewhat. Though an adventure with [[Iris Wildthyme]] gets him out of his funk, he's still nevertheless a very lonely man by the end of it.  


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Excelis Rising (audio story)|Excelis Rising]]''
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]]''
: The Doctor is still portrayed as a recluse.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Spindle of Necessity (short story)|The Spindle of Necessity]]''
=== Companions ===
: In despair at becoming the Valeyard, the Doctor goes into isolation long enough to grow a goatee beard. After the Fates tell him that becoming the Valeyard is but one possible timeline, the Doctor decides to resume his travels, his desire to roam the universe restored.
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]]''.


=== The Doctor and the Detective ===
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]]''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Maltese Penguin (audio story)|The Maltese Penguin]]''
: The Doctor returns to ask Frobisher if he wants to travel with him again. This time, Frobisher accepts the offer.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Mission: Impractical (novel)|Mission: Impractical]]''
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]]''.
: The Doctor is still sedate and mistrusting after his trial.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Holy Terror (audio story)|The Holy Terror]]''
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]]''.


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]''
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]]''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Emperor (short story)|The Last Emperor]]''
== Complications ==
The Doctor edits his more "useless" memories in ''Timewyrm: Genesys'', which can explain anything he's forgotten from previous incarnations and adventures.


=== Optimistic travels ===
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.
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Trick or Treat (short story)|Trick or Treat]]''
: The Doctor considers the events of ''Timelash'' and ''Revelation of the Daleks'' to be recent happenings. Frobisher is among the [[Celestial Toymaker]]'s dolls, setting this at least after ''The Shape Shifter''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Death Sentences (short story)|Death Sentences]]''
=== Ace ===
: The Doctor tangles with a [[Logovore]], but is unable to defeat it.
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.


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]''
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.  
: The Doctor is wearing the waistcoat and cravat from ''The Trial of a Time Lord''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pass It On (short story)|Pass It On]]''
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.  
: The Doctors saves a busload of semi-comatose people from extra-terrestrials.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Death of Me (short story)|The Death of Me]]''
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 Doctor is traveling alone, has not yet worn his blue coat, and feels regret for an outburst.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Inquisitor's Story (short story)|The Inquisitor's Story]]''
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''.
: On a visit to Baspral, the Doctor prevents a Seer from drowning a young boy.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Her Final Flight (audio story)|Her Final Flight]]''
=== TARDIS interior ===
: The Doctor is unaware of the details of Peri's fate, but it is established that a considerable amount of time has passed since the Doctor was forced to leave her on Thoros Beta, and he resolves to start looking for her, after a brief time of recuperation.
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.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Loose Change (short story)|Loose Change]]''
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.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[I.D. (audio story)|I.D.]]''
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''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Peri and the Piscon Paradox (audio story)|Peri and the Piscon Paradox]]''
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 his search for her, the Doctor discovers that multiple versions of [[Peri Brown]] exist.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doctor's Coat (audio story)|The Doctor's Coat]]''
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.
: The Doctor contemplates visiting a version of [[Peri Brown]] who rules [[Krontep]], but decides she is too busy.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Acheron Pulse (audio story)|The Acheron Pulse]]''
Also, ''Excelis Decays'' claims that the Doctor apparently built the Victorian parlour design himself.
: The Doctor is wearing his Technicolor coat. The Big Finish production code places this after ''I.D.''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Trial of the Valeyard (audio story)|Trial of the Valeyard]]''
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''.
: Sequel story to ''The Trial of a Time Lord'', and the first time the Doctor has faced the Valeyard since then.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Carrionite Curse (audio story)|The Carrionite Curse]]''
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''.
: The [[Carrionite]]s use the name "[[Valeyard]]" to taunt the Doctor, but he insists that the Valeyard is only a potential future for him. The Doctor owns a signed copy of a book written by [[George Litefoot]].  


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]''
== Timeline ==


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fortunes of War (audio story)|Fortunes of War]]''
: ''Previous page: '''[[Theory:Timeline - Sixth Doctor|Sixth Doctor]]'''''
: The Doctor has been travelling alone for a while, but still greatly regrets the loss of Peri.


=== Old acquaintances ===
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* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Whiskey and Water (short story)|Whiskey and Water]]''
=== Travels with Mel ===
: The Doctor's clothes go uncommented upon, which, given the aggressiveness of the situation, suggests he is in his discreet blue coat.
* [[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]].
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Water's Edge (short story)|Water's Edge]]''
: The Doctor loses another blue coat during the Tangiwai Disaster.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrong Doctors (audio story)|The Wrong Doctors]]''
: Evelyn Smythe has recently left the TARDIS, with the Doctor finishing the final slice of her sponge cake and absentmindedly talking to her when he is admiring its taste. The Doctor vows to resume wearing his Technicolor coat more often in Mel's memory.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[She Won't Be Home (short story)|She Won't Be Home]]''
: The Doctor is melancholy following the recent departure of a companion, presumably Evelyn. He offers [[Linda Grainger]] a trip in the TARDIS, but she declines. The Doctor is wearing his Technicolor coat.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadow in the Glass (novel)|The Shadow in the Glass]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''
: The Doctor gives an uncomfortable pause when asked if he is traveling alone, and is noted by [[Claire Aldwych]] to have "a kind of sorrow about him". The Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier are already familiar with each other, setting this after ''The Spectre of Lanyon Moor''.  
: 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.


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Age of Chaos (comic story)|The Age of Chaos]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Useful Pile (short story)|The Useful Pile]]''
: Set after ''The Maltese Penguin'', with the Doctor, excited about seeing the universe again, looking to find out what happened to Peri on Thoros Beta. He and Frobisher then visit a version of Peri who has lived a long life as Queen of [[Krontep]].
: 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]]: ''[[The Ratings War (audio story)|The Ratings War]]''
* [[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''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas Special (ST short story)|Christmas Special]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Inquisitor's Story (short story)|The Inquisitor's Story]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Special Weapons (short story)|Special Weapons]]''
: On a return trip to Baspral, the Doctor is informed of the repercussions of his previous trip.
: [[Pex]]'s sacrifice from ''Paradise Towers'' is still on Mel's mind.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing (short story)|Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[We Are The Daleks (audio story)|We Are The Daleks]]''
: Whilst defeating an Auton invasion, the Doctor takes the time to teach a teenage Becky how to dance. For him, it has been eighty years since he last saw her.


=== History takes its course ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Warehouse (audio story)|The Warehouse]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Business Unusual (novel)|Business Unusual]]''
: 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.
: After a period of avoiding [[Melanie Bush]] out of fear that travelling with her would lead him on the path to becoming the Valeyard, the Doctor decides to bow down to destiny and accept her as his companion when circumstances lead him to [[Pease Pottage]] and Mel helps him defeat a Nestene invasion with [[the Brigadier]].


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Deal (short story)|The Deal]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror of the Sontarans (audio story)|Terror of the Sontarans]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Wee Deoch an ...? (short story)|A Wee Deoch an ...?]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bang-Bang-a-Boom! (audio story)|Bang-Bang-a-Boom!]]''
: The Doctor claims to be 991-years-old.
: 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''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Tourist Invasion (short story)|A Tourist Invasion]]''
* [[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]]: ''[[Fegovy (short story)|Fegovy]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Driftwood (short story)|Driftwood]]''
: Mel has been travelling with the Doctor for a few months. She is able to make sense of future programming code on a human spaceship.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The One Doctor (audio story)|The One Doctor]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pulling Strings (short story)|Pulling Strings]]''
: Mel knows how to fly the TARDIS.
: The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after ''The Warehouse''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up (short story)|The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up]]''
* [[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?]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Mortal Thoughts (short story)|Mortal Thoughts]]''
: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
:: ''The Doctor and Mel broker peace on [[Prosper]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Maker of Demons (audio story)|Maker of Demons]]'')''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Juggernauts (audio story)|The Juggernauts]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil's Footprints (audio story)|The Devil's Footprints]]''
: Set after ''The One Doctor''. Mel encounters the Daleks for the first time.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Catch-1782 (audio story)|Catch-1782]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)|Delta and the Bannermen]]''
: Set after ''The Juggernauts''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Sold Out (short story)|Sold Out]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Uranus (short story)|Uranus]]''
: Diamond Sharp references the Doctor's role in ''Terror of the Vervoids''.
: The Doctor still acts lighthearted, but Mel is starting to feel alienated by him.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thicker Than Water (audio story)|Thicker Than Water]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fires of Vulcan (audio story)|The Fires of Vulcan]]''
: Set after ''Catch-1782''. One depiction of Mel meeting with Evelyn, and Evelyn's life after traveling aboard the TARDIS. Mel calls the Doctor out on his attitude and egotistical demeanour.  
: 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.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Old Boys (short story)|Old Boys]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Red (audio story)|Red]]''
: The Doctor and Mel defeat the Rainbow.
: 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''.  


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Best Joke I Ever Told (short story)|The Best Joke I Ever Told]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]''
: Mel knows the Daleks, and feels she needs to brush up on her knowledge of future technology after finding herself unable to make sense of Dalek technology.
: 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.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eyes Have It (short story)|The Eyes Have It]]''
:: [[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.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wishing Beast (audio story)|The Wishing Beast]]''
=== Joined by Ace ===
: The Doctor and Mel encounter the Wishing Beast for the first time. Mel asks the Doctor to take her somewhere fabulous, leading directly into ''The Vanity Box''.
* [[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.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Vanity Box (audio story)|The Vanity Box]]''
:: [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Slyther of Shoreditch (short story)|The Slyther of Shoreditch]]''
: The Doctor and Mel arrive in the [[1960s]] after Mel asks the Doctor to take her somewhere fabulous. They encounter the Wishing Beast for a second time.  
:: Set during ''Remembrance of the Daleks: Part 2'', before the Doctor visits [[Harry (Remembrance of the Daleks)|Harry]]'s café.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spaceport Fear (audio story)|Spaceport Fear]]''
::''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]]'')
: Set immediately after ''The Vanity Box''. Although the Doctor is depicted wearing his blue coat on the CD cover, he is described in the story itself as wearing his multi-coloured one.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Seeds of War (audio story)|The Seeds of War]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[In the Community]]''
: The Doctor recommends avoiding the work of agronomist [[Sarah Lasky]], suggesting a pre-''Terror of the Vervoids'' setting.
: The Doctor remains in the TARDIS while Ace visits [[Judith Winters]] in 1993, thirty years after ''Remembrance of the Daleks''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Change Management (short story)|Change Management]]''
* [[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''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes (short story)|Swamp of Horrors]]''
=== 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]]'')''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Intuition (audio story)|Intuition]]''
* [[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.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Fairy Tale of New New York (short story)|Fairy Tale of New New York]]''
:: ''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]]'')''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mel-evolent (audio story)|Mel-evolent]]''
* [[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]].


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Loud and Proud (audio story)|Loud and Proud]]''
:: ''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]]'')''
: Mel enrolls the Doctor in an anger management class in Pease Pottage, setting this during the time she was helping him to improve himself.


=== Nearing the end ===
* [[WC]]: ''[[Doctors Assemble! (webcast)|Doctors Assemble!]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr Cadabra (short story)|Dr Cadabra]]''
: The Doctor's profile picture is of him on Iceworld, setting this after ''Dragonfire''.
: Mel and the Doctor are aiming for New Year's Eve 1999, setting this immediately before ''Millennial Rites''.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]''
:: ''The Doctor 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]]'')''
: The Doctor and Mel haven't encountered the [[Vervoid]]s yet. Mel has been travelling with the Doctor for a couple of years.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)|Terror of the Vervoids]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prelude Birthright (short story)|Prelude Birthright]]''
: The Doctor and Mel encounter the Vervoids on the [[Hyperion III]].
: 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''.


:: ''The Doctor and Mel take a trip to [[Oxyveguramosa]],([[PROSE]]: ''[[Business Unusual (novel)|Business Unusual]]'')  where Mel is taken by the Master to give testament at the Doctor's trial, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]'')  and later returned by the past Doctor after a brief stop at [[Pease Pottage]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrong Doctors (audio story)|The Wrong Doctors]]'')''
=== 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.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]''
:: (<u>FLASHBACK</u>)
: Mel recalls the events of ''Millennial Rites'', while the Doctor recalls the events of ''Terror of the Vervoids''. Mel has met the Master and the Valeyard before, setting this after ''The Ultimate Foe''.
:: ''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]]'')''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Instruments of Darkness (novel)|Instruments of Darkness]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]''
: Another depiction of Mel meeting with Evelyn, and Evelyn's life after traveling aboard the TARDIS. Mel mentions the events of ''Terror of the Vervoids''.
: 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.
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Curtain Call (short story)|Curtain Call]]''
: The Doctor and Mel have just visited [[Caliban]], setting this immediately prior to ''Spiral Scratch''.
 
=== Death ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Spiral Scratch (novel)|Spiral Scratch]]''
: In one depiction of his regeneration, while the Doctor is suffering from chronon energy starvation after his confrontation with the [[Lamprey]], the TARDIS is attacked by [[the Rani]] and the Doctor bangs his head, fatally injuring him. The Doctor and Mel visited [[Kolpasha]] in ''Instruments of Darkness'', a few weeks beforehand.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Brink of Death (audio story)|The Brink of Death]]''
: In another depiction of his regeneration, the Doctor is exposed to focused beams of a [[radiation]] lethal to Time Lords as a consequence of [[the Rani]]'s attack on the TARDIS, due to a future version of himself sending him a message on how to defeat [[the Valeyard]]'s master plan with his death.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (novelisation)|Time and the Rani]]''
:: [[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'' ''[[Prologue: The Seventh Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Seventh Doctor]]''
: Shortly after ''Millennial Rites'', the Doctor is influenced to kill himself by echoes of his [[Seventh Doctor|next incarnation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'') With the [[HADS]] deactivated, the TARDIS is attacked by [[the Rani]], and the Doctor suffers a fatal head injury in the attack.
:: 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]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''  
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]''
: The Doctor completes his [[regeneration]] into his [[Seventh Doctor|next incarnation]].
: 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.