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This page lists '''appearances of [[The Doctor's early life]] in the order in which they 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, comic story and audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. This does not apply to short stories which are often ambiguous about their placement. There are also many gaps between stories.
This page lists '''appearances of [[the Doctor's early life]] in the order in which they 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, comic story and 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.


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=== The Timeless Child ===
=== The Timeless Child ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]''
: The [[Shobogan (species)|Shobogan]]s are the indigenous inhabitants of Gallifrey. [[Tecteun]], the first space traveller, crosses [[the Boundary]] to another [[galaxy]] and finds the abandoned [[Timeless Child]], who becomes the source of the [[regenerative]] process.
: The [[Shobogan (species)|Shobogan]]s are the indigenous inhabitants of Gallifrey. The [[First Tecteun]], the first space traveller, crosses [[the Boundary]] to another [[galaxy]] and finds the abandoned [[Timeless Child]], who becomes the source of the [[regenerative]] process.


=== The Division ===
=== The Division ===
:: ''[[Timeless Child|The Child]] is recruited into the [[Division]] by [[Solpado]], having achieved better test results than any other potential recruit.'' ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'')
:: ''[[Timeless Child|The Child]] is recruited into [[the Division]] by [[Solpado]], having achieved better test results than any other potential recruit. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'')''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]''
=== The Other ===
: [[Patience's husband]] has recently regenerated into a new, taller and hairier incarnation. He feels he is getting old and is preparing for the birth of his first grandchild.
: '' See main page '''[[Theory:Timeline - The Other|Timeline - The Other]]'''''
 
=== Later life ===
:: ''[[The Other]] is eventually re-[[loom]]ed into the Doctor some ten million years after their death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')''
 
:* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]''
:: ''Patience becomes the Doctor's Tutor''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Island of Aeons]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Knocking in the Mineshaft]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Seven Scholars and the Storyteller]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Kelda]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Hand of Night and Shadow]]''
: The Doctor regenerates for a first time


:: ''[[The Doctor (Fugitive of the Judoon)|A female incarnation of the Doctor]] abandons her job working for [[Gat]] and goes into hiding on [[Earth]] under the identity of Ruth Clayton using a [[Chameleon Arch]]. She is accompanied and protected by [[Lee Clayton|her companion]].'' ([[TV]]: ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]'')
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|House of Images]]''


* [[TV]]: ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Hounds of War]]''
: Following an encounter with the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], Ruth Clayton resumes her true identity as the Doctor. Lee Clayton and Gat are both killed during the ordeal, while the Doctor escapes in her TARDIS.


=== Growing up again ===
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Night of the Angel]]''
:: ''[[The Doctor's early life]] is erased from his mind and he is forcibly regenerated into a young body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'')''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Rosewell Incident]]''
: The Doctor is "born from the [[Loom]] of the [[House of Lungbarrow]]" on [[Gallifrey]].


:: ''As a [[Time Tot]], the Doctor plays [[hide and seek]] with [[the Rani]] for forty-two years. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story)|Weapons of Past Destruction]]'')''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Country of the Young]]''


:: ''The Doctor is told the story of [[Grandfather Paradox]] by [[the Doctor's mother|his mother]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') and sees [[Fly|flies]] swarm around the corpse of an elderly lady who had been covered in veils, giving him nightmares for years. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'')''
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Changing Face of Dr Who]]''
:: ''The Doctor regenerates for a second time''
:: ''The Doctor becomes human and falls in love with [[Joan Redfern]]


* [[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]''
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Scientific Advisor]]''
: The Doctor hasn't joined the Academy yet. He is weeping in a [[Barn (The Day of the Doctor)|barn]] located in the [[Drylands]].
:: ''Events of the story told by the Doctor''


:: ''Facing "the blackest day of his life," the Doctor visits [[K'anpo Rimpoche|the hermit]] on the side of the mountain from his family's house, who assists the Doctor with an epiphany by pointing at "the daisiest daisy". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')''
:* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)]]''
:: ''The Odyssey''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Cross of Venus]]''
: At the age of eight, the Doctor is taken from his caretakers for the selection process into the Academy. The Doctor reacts by running away.


:: ''The Doctor attends the [[Time Lord Academy]] as a member of the [[Prydonian Chapter]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') befriending the likes of [[the Master]], and [[the Rani]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') He is personally taught by [[Borusa]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'')''
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Changing Face of Dr Who]]''
:: ''Loch Ness Monster Meeting''


:: ''The Doctor spends four days trapped in the [[Cloisters]], where he talks to the [[Cloister Wraith]]s, who tell him of the prophecy of "[[the Hybrid]]," and show him a secret passage out. According to his [[twelfth incarnation]], the experience drove him "completely mad," and he was "never right in the head again" afterwards. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The First Englishman]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Three Paths (short story)|The Three Paths]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Perfect Planet]]''
: At the age of thirty, the Doctor asks [[K'anpo Rimpoche]] the name of the mountain on which he dwells. He is attending the Academy, and has made several friends.


:: ''At the age of forty-five, the Doctor leaves the Gallifreyan equivalent of primary school. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'') At the age of fifty-eight, the Doctor ruins [[Valyes]]' summer project. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') At the age of ninety, he visits the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'')''
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Changing Face of Dr Who]]''
:: ''Fall of Atlantis''


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Scientific Advisor]]''
: The Doctor is scolded by Borusa for his lack of respect, but is also taught how to appear to respect the traditions he loathes.
: ''The Doctor tells the story to Cedric and Jilly''


:: ''The Doctor conducts an experiment that creates a [[bacteria]] known as [[the Ablative]], with the ensuing scandal nearly getting him expelled until it is covered up by the Academy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet of the Rani (audio story)|Planet of the Rani]]'')''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Swan Song]]''
: The Doctor regenerates for a third time


:: ''The Doctor skips his time-travel proficiency lesson, and rejects an offer to retake the lesson, leaving him unqualified to operate a [[TARDIS]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Festival of Death (novel)|Festival of Death]]'')''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Gauntlet of Absolution]]''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Demons of Dog Street]]''
: Having been forced to kill [[Torvic|their bully]] to protect [[the Master]], the Doctor makes a deal with [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]] to have the memory transferred to the Master, and then has the exchanged erased from his memories.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Tomb of Valdemar (novel)|Tomb of Valdemar]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Force From the Future]]''
: The Doctor and the Master travel into Gallifrey's past in search of [[Valdemar]].


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Hive Minders Part 1]]''
: The Doctor and the Master work on the ''[[Consolidator]]'' together.


:: ''The Doctor and the Rani both attend the [[Prydonian Academy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'')''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Swan and the Flame]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)]]''
: While studying at the [[Prydonian Academy]], the Doctor crosses wits with the [[Celestial Toymaker]] for the first time, but his friends [[Rallon]] and [[Millennia]] are apparently killed. The Doctor is expelled from the Academy as punishment.
: Marriage with Patience


:: ''The Doctor attends "Time Lord University". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Friendly Place (comic story)|The Friendly Place]]'') He leaves education with the lowest possible pass mark on his second attempt. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'')''
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Changing Face of Dr Who]]''
:: ''Battle with the Witch of the White House, the Doctor regenerates for a fourth time''


=== Life on Gallifrey ===
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Past Lives]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]''
:: [[Space War II]] Flashback
: The Doctor is disinherited from his ancestral House.


:: ''The Doctor works as a [[Scrutationary Archivist]] in the [[Bureau of Possible Events]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') and slowly rises high in the ranks of the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'') When he learns about the [[miniscope]]s, he successfully campaigns to have them banned from the galaxy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'')''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Past Lives]]''


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Flashback (comic story)|Flashback]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Leverage]]''
: The Doctor saves a glowing life form from being killed by [[Magnus (Flashback)|an old friend]], but ruins his friendship with him as a result. The Doctor still has superior ranking on [[Gallifrey]].


:: ''The Doctor fights in a war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sontarans (audio story)|The Sontarans]]'')''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Grand Alliance]]''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]''
: Traveling back in time, the Doctor rescues [[Patience (Cold Fusion)|Patience]] and [[Susan Foreman|her granddaughter]] from a danger on Ancient Gallifrey. The Doctor later marries Patience, and the two have thirteen children together.
: [[Patience's husband]] has recently regenerated into a new, taller and hairier incarnation. He feels he is getting old and is preparing for the birth of his first grandchild.
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Hope Springs]]''
 
:* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Rose]]''
:: ''Photograph taken''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Trail of a Time Lord]]''
: The Doctor regenerates for a fifth time
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Valhalla Must Fall!]]''
 
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Hope Springs]]''
:: ''Epilogue''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|In the Land Beyond the River]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Construction of Time]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Scene to Uncover]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Admission to the Unknown]]''
: The Doctor regenerates for a sixth time
 
:* [[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]''
:: ''During [[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Admission to the Unknown]], as [[Martin Jurgens]], ID stolen by the Master''
 
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Changing Face of Dr Who]]''
:: ''Species Creation''
 
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Other Side]]''
:: ''Ortmeir Flashbacks''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Other Side]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Who Needs Enemies]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Hive Minders Part 2]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Zero Hour]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Borrowed Time]]''
: The Doctor regenerates for a Seventh time
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Doctor Crocus and the Pages of Fear]]''
 
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Lungs of the Birastrop]]''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Toy (audio story)|The Toy]]''
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Changing Face of Dr Who]]''
: The Doctor brings his granddaughter to watch him and a group of Prydonians perform a ritual in [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]].
:: ''Creation of the Time Path Detector''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Longest Story in the World (short story)|The Longest Story in the World]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|Doctor Crocus and the Factory of the Future]]''
: The Doctor is living in a small house on a mountain with his "adopted granddaughter", who tells him tales of him "building" the TARDIS and leaving Gallifrey. When the [[High Council]] hear of her tales, and after "an incident" takes place outside the Capitol, they send armed guards after the Doctor.


=== Leaving Gallifrey ===
:* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Rose]]''
:: ''Due to conflicting accounts, each telling of the Doctor's fateful escape have been listed in order of release.''
:: ''Photograph taken''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Lively Planet]]''
: In a story told by {{Ainley}}, the Doctor decides to leave Gallifrey in the midst of a civil war. He enters a TARDIS alone, and finds a young lady inside, who he adopts as his granddaughter.


* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]''
:* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Other Side]]''
: The Doctor and Susan escape from an explosion on Gallifrey, determent to keep the [[Hand of Omega]] safe.
:: ''As Oz''


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]''
* [[NOTCOVERED]]: ''[[Charity publication#Forgotten Lives|The Queen of Bohemia and the Laughing TARDIS]]''
: A flashback shows a lone Doctor discarding his Prydonian robes as he is departing Gallifrey after a meeting with likewise hooded elderly men.
: The Doctor regenerates for an eighth time


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]''
:: ''[[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|The Doctor]] lives through at least eight consecutive incarnations before having their mind wiped. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'', ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'')''
: After an argument with his cousin, [[Glospin]], the Doctor leaves Gallifrey with the Hand of Omega, and travels back to the Old Time, where he adopts Susan, the granddaughter of [[the Other]].


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]''
:: ''All the Doctor's memories are erased from their mind, and they are forcibly regenerated into [[First Doctor|a young body]], to begin anew. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'')''
: Set during ''The Beginning: The First Flight'', after Susan step inside the first TARDIS, and before the Doctor takes her into a second one.
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* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]''
: ''Next page: '''[[Theory:Timeline - First Doctor|First Doctor]]'''''
: The Doctor, already with Susan and wearing Victorian era clothing, is being pursued by the [[Chancellery Guard]] whilst fleeing Gallifrey with a flying trunk containing the Hand of Omega.


== Currenty Unplaced ==
== Currently Unplaced ==
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]''

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This page lists appearances of the Doctor's early life in the order in which they 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, comic story and 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.

Limiting Factors[[edit source]]

Timeline[[edit source]]

The Timeless Child[[edit source]]

The Shobogans are the indigenous inhabitants of Gallifrey. The First Tecteun, the first space traveller, crosses the Boundary to another galaxy and finds the abandoned Timeless Child, who becomes the source of the regenerative process.

The Division[[edit source]]

The Child is recruited into the Division by Solpado, having achieved better test results than any other potential recruit. (TV: The Timeless Children)

The Other[[edit source]]

See main page Timeline - The Other

Later life[[edit source]]

The Other is eventually re-loomed into the Doctor some ten million years after their death. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)
Patience becomes the Doctor's Tutor
The Doctor regenerates for a first time
The Doctor regenerates for a second time
The Doctor becomes human and falls in love with Joan Redfern
Events of the story told by the Doctor
The Odyssey
Loch Ness Monster Meeting
Fall of Atlantis
The Doctor tells the story to Cedric and Jilly
The Doctor regenerates for a third time
Marriage with Patience
Battle with the Witch of the White House, the Doctor regenerates for a fourth time
Space War II Flashback
Patience's husband has recently regenerated into a new, taller and hairier incarnation. He feels he is getting old and is preparing for the birth of his first grandchild.
Photograph taken
The Doctor regenerates for a fifth time
Epilogue
The Doctor regenerates for a sixth time
During Admission to the Unknown, as Martin Jurgens, ID stolen by the Master
Species Creation
Ortmeir Flashbacks
The Doctor regenerates for a Seventh time
Creation of the Time Path Detector
Photograph taken
As Oz
The Doctor regenerates for an eighth time
The Doctor lives through at least eight consecutive incarnations before having their mind wiped. (TV: The Brain of Morbius, The Timeless Children)
All the Doctor's memories are erased from their mind, and they are forcibly regenerated into a young body, to begin anew. (TV: The Timeless Children)
Next page: First Doctor

Currently Unplaced[[edit source]]

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