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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.
This page lists '''appearances of the [[Sixth Doctor]] in the order in which he experienced them'''. This timeline is based on observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events in each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is generally assumed, much like their TV story counterparts, that each novel, comic or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in, although the audio stories that use the [[Peter Howell]] theme are often set before audio stories the [[Dominic Glynn]] theme. There are also many gaps between stories


The layout of this timeline is based in part on the observations on [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who.htm#6TH Doctor Who Reference Guide] and [http://www.eyespider.org.uk/drwho/cb/list.html Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures], Lance Parkin's ''[[AHistory]]'' and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as [http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/sixth-doctor.html DocOhoReviews], [http://docohosreviews.blogspot.com/p/contents-page.html Doc Oho's Book Reviews], [http://www.doctorwhoreviews.altervista.org/Sixth%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/6th-doctor/ Whopix], [http://forums.bigfinish.com/threads/6085-The-Sixth-Doctor-s-Timeline the Big Finish forums], [http://www.whoniverse.net/biography/timeline06 The Whoniverse] and [http://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/113/6-sixth-doctors-timeline The Divergent Universe forum]. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who.htm#7TH Doctor Who Reference Guide] and [http://www.eyespider.org.uk/drwho/sm/list.html Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures], as well as Lance Parkin's ''[[AHistory]]'' and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as [http://www.whoniverse.net/biography/timeline07 The Whoniverse], [http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/seventh-doctor.html Doctor Who Reviews], [http://docohosreviews.blogspot.com/p/contents-page.html Doc Oho's Book Reviews], [http://www.doctorwhoreviews.altervista.org/Seventh%20Doctor.htm The History of Doctor Who], [http://www.whoniverse.net/discontinuity The Discontinuity Guide], [http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/ Clive Banks databanks], [https://whopix.wordpress.com/chronology/7th-doctor/ Whopix], [http://forums.bigfinish.com/threads/5950-The-Seventh-Doctor-s-Timeline the Big Finish forums] and [http://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/114/7-seventh-doctors-timelne The Divergent Universe forum]. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
 
Additionally there are statements on the back many [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, but should not be viewed as the only placement for these novels.


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


== Limiting factors ==
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.
=== Companions ===
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just [[Peri Brown]], specifically when Peri is young and more nervous, must take place between ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'' and before Peri takes a leave of absence from the TARDIS at some point before ''[[The Shape Shifter (comic story)|The Shape Shifter]]''. Any stories that feature a more mature and confident Peri traveling alone with the Doctor must take place between ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'' and ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]''. Any stories that feature Peri after she was left on [[Thoros Beta]] must follow ''[[The Widow's Assassin (audio story)|The Widow's Assassin]]''.


Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just [[Frobisher]] must take place between ''[[The Shape Shifter (comic story)|The Shape Shifter]]'' and ''[[Kane's Story (comic story)|Kane's Story]]'' or between ''[[The Maltese Penguin (audio story)|The Maltese Penguin]]'' and ''[[The Age of Chaos (comic story)|The Age of Chaos]]''.
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]]''.


Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with [[Charlotte Pollard]] must take place between ''[[The Condemned (audio story)|The Condemned]]'' and ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]'', while any stories featuring [[Mila]] must take place between ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]'' and ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet (audio story)|Blue Forgotten Planet]]''.
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]]''


Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with the [[Land of Fiction]] recreation of [[Jamie McCrimmon (City of Spires)|Jamie McCrimmon]] must take place between ''[[City of Spires (audio story)|City of Spires]]'' and ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]''.
=== Companions ===
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just [[Mel Bush]] must take place between [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'', while any story with her and [[Ace]] must follow [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life of Crime (audio story)|A Life of Crime]]''.


Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just [[Flip Jackson]] must take place between ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'' and ''[[Scavenger (audio story)|Scavenger]]''.  
Any stories involving a younger Ace must take place from [[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'' to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'', while any story where Ace has combat-training must take place after [[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]''.


Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just [[Constance Clarke]] must take place between ''[[Criss-Cross (audio story)|Criss-Cross]]'' and ''[[Absolute Power (audio story)|Absolute Power]]'', while any story with her and Flip must follow ''[[Quicksilver (audio story)|Quicksilver]]''.
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]]''.


Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with [[Mel Bush]] must take place after ''[[Business Unusual (novel)|Business Unusual]]'' and before his regeneration in the beginning of ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''.
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]]''.


== Timeline ==
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]]''.
=== Dark beginnings ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]''  
: The Doctor [[Regeneration|regenerates]] from his [[Fifth Doctor|previous incarnation]].


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]''
== Complications ==
: Set immediately after ''The Caves of Androzani'', with the Doctor suffering severe bouts of post-regeneration trauma, such as mood swings and deliriousness.
The Doctor edits his more "useless" memories in ''Timewyrm: Genesys'', which can explain anything he's forgotten from previous incarnations and adventures.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]''
The ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comics start off with the Doctor travelling with [[Frobisher]], who acts like [[Peri Brown]] has just departed, before he himself leaves the series. The early comics also portray the Doctor as he acted in ''Time and the Rani'', until ''Nemesis of the Daleks'' sees him act as the manipulator he had become in the latter part of his television tenure.
: In the past couple of days, the Doctor has recovered from his regeneration, but is still haunted by "the bleakness of Jaconda", setting this shortly after ''The Twin Dilemma''. The Doctor begins carrying a [[sonic lance]]. The [[chameleon circuit]] within [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] is rendered operational, though only briefly.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Vengeance on Varos (TV story)|Vengeance on Varos]]''
=== Ace ===
: The Doctor is still tinkering with the TARDIS's systems, setting this shortly after ''Attack of the Cybermen''. Visiting [[Varos]] to complete the TARDIS's repairs, the Doctor encounters [[Sil]] the [[Mentor]] for the first time.
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 Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]''
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.  
: During a battle with {{Ainley}}, the Doctor is confronted by [[the Rani]] for the first time since he left [[Gallifrey]]. Peri wonders if the TARDIS is still malfunctioning, which the Doctor dismisses, claiming to have put "a lot of work" into fixing it.  


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]''
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.  
: In an act of self-preservation, a wounded Doctor is forced to kill [[Shockeye]] with his bare hands to prevent the [[Androgum]] from hunting him down. After the ordeal, the Doctor resolves to begin a vegetarian diet.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]''
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''.
: Peri hasn't had the chance to relax in a while. According to her, the Doctor hasn't been to [[12th century]] Earth since his regeneration.


* [[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]''
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''.
: The Doctor claims to be 900-years-old. After dealing with Davros, the Doctor decides to take Peri to [[Blackpool]], potentially leading into ''The Nightmare Fair''.


=== Trial At Zenobia Space Station ===
=== TARDIS interior ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Season 23|The Trial of a Time Lord]]''
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.
: After learning that he was deposed as Lord President for neglecting his duties, the Doctor is forced to stand trial against the Time Lords on ''[[Space Station Zenobia]]''. Representing himself against his prosecutor, [[the Valeyard]], the Doctor observes the events of ''The Mysterious Planet'', ''Mindwarp'' & ''Terror of the Vervoids'' via the Matrix, and suffers an emotional blow when he witnesses Peri's apparent death on Thoros Beta.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interstitial Insecurity (short story)|Interstitial Insecurity]]''
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.
: Set during ''The Trial of a Time Lord'', between ''Mindwarp'' and ''Terror of the Vervoids''. The Doctor sees [[Evelyn Smythe]] when taking a glimpse into his future, and recalls an undocumented encounter with [[Charlotte Pollard]].


* [[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]''
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''.
: The Master arrives at the trial as a surprise witness, and reveals to the Doctor that the Time Lords are responsible for the Ravolox conspiracy, and that his trial is a farce put on to discredit him. Providing [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Sabalom Glitz]] as witnesses to the Doctor's innocence, the Master also lets slip that the Valeyard is a future personification of the Doctor using the trial for his own agenda. After foiling the plots of his various adversaries, the Doctor learns from Inquisitor [[Darkel]] that Peri has survived to become the Warrior Queen of the [[Krontep]], and departs ''Space Station Zenobia'' with Melanie.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrong Doctors (audio story)|The Wrong Doctors]]''
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''.
: The Doctor brings Melanie to [[Pease Pottage]], believing that she can reunite with "her Doctor" there, despite her protests that she had left him on [[Oxyveguramosa]]. The Doctor meets a future version of himself in the process, who recommends that he take a trip to [[Sheffield Hallam University]].


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (novelisation)|The Ultimate Foe]]''
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 returns Melanie to [[Oxyveguramosa]] as promised, reuniting her with his future self.


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


=== Travels with Evelyn Smythe ===
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''.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Marian Conspiracy (audio story)|The Marian Conspiracy]]''
: The Doctor meets history lecturer [[Evelyn Smythe]] at [[Sheffield Hallam University]]. After she helps him save her family history, Evelyn insists on joining the Doctor on his travels, and the Doctor accepts her company.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (audio story)|The Spectre of Lanyon Moor]]''
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 Doctor has recently had a cold, caused by falling into the Thames in ''The Marian Conspiracy''. From the Doctor's perspective, this is the first time that he has met [[the Brigadier]] during his sixth incarnation.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time (audio story)|The Sirens of Time]]''
== Timeline ==
: Evelyn was in the TARDIS while the Doctor was at the [[Kurgon Wonder]], as revealed in ''Instruments of Darkness''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]''
: ''Previous page: '''[[Theory:Timeline - Sixth Doctor|Sixth Doctor]]'''''
: The events of ''The Sirens of Time'' are referenced. The Doctor is aware that his status as Lord President has been revoked, and Evelyn encounters the Daleks for the first time.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bloodtide (audio story)|Bloodtide]]''
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=== Travels with Mel ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Twilight (audio story)|Project: Twilight]]''
* [[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]].
* [[WC]]: ''[[Real Time (webcast)|Real Time]]''
: The Doctor switches his Technicolor frock coat for a blue coat. All stories with the Doctor wearing this coat must take place after this.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sandman (audio story)|The Sandman]]''
 
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Jupiter (short story)|Jupiter]]''
: The Doctor and Evelyn have just left the Clutch, setting this immediately after ''The Sandman''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jubilee (audio story)|Jubilee]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''
: Immediately after regenerating from his previous incarnation, the Doctor is thrown into a confrontation with {{O'Mara}} on [[Lakertya]]. He claims to be 953-years-old.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eighth Wonder of the World (short story)|The Eighth Wonder of the World]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Useful Pile (short story)|The Useful Pile]]''
: Evelyn is familiar with the Daleks, and recalls being on board a Dalek spaceship, setting this after ''Jubilee''. The Doctor's need to warn her to play along with their out-of-sequence meeting with Newton suggests this takes place early in her travels.
: 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]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Pirates (audio story)|Doctor Who and the Pirates]]''
* [[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''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project Lazarus]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]''
: Sequel story to ''Project: Twilight''. The tension between the Doctor and Evelyn on the death of [[Cassandra Schofield]] leads directly into ''Arrangements for War''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Arrangements for War (audio story)|Arrangements for War]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Special Weapons (short story)|Special Weapons]]''
: The Doctor recalls meeting his successor during ''The Sirens of Time''. Evelyn tells Rossiter about the recent events from ''Doctor Who and The Pirates'' and ''Project Lazarus''.
: [[Pex]]'s sacrifice from ''Paradise Towers'' is still on Mel's mind.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Medicinal Purposes (audio story)|Medicinal Purposes]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[We Are The Daleks (audio story)|We Are The Daleks]]''
: The Doctor has his first confrontation with Dr. [[Robert Knox]].


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Diplomat's Story (short story)|The Diplomat's Story]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Warehouse (audio story)|The Warehouse]]''
: The Doctor's umbrella is damaged, with him suggesting it time he acquired a new one, setting this before ''Delta and the Bannermen'', where the Doctor had replaced his whangee handled umbrella with one with a large red question mark designed handle.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on the Moon (short story)|Christmas on the Moon]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror of the Sontarans (audio story)|Terror of the Sontarans]]''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pier Pressure (audio story)|Pier Pressure]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bang-Bang-a-Boom! (audio story)|Bang-Bang-a-Boom!]]''
: Evelyn refers to her encounter with Dr. Robert Knox from ''Medicinal Purposes'' and the Doctor wears his technicolour coat.
: Set between ''Paradise Towers'' and ''Delta and the Bannermen''.<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-bang-bang-a-boom-205</ref> The Doctor is carrying his red umbrella, setting this after ''The Warehouse''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nowhere Place (audio story)|The Nowhere Place]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flip-Flop (audio story)|Flip-Flop]]''
: The Doctor hasn't had a [[sonic screwdriver]] since his fifth incarnation.
: 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]]: ''[[Mortlake (short story)|Mortlake]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Driftwood (short story)|Driftwood]]''
: Evelyn has witnessed the Doctor falling into the [[River Thames]] twice before, setting this after ''Project: Twilight''.


:: ''The Doctor, wearing his Technicolor coat and traveling with Evelyn, prevents [[Edward Grainger]] being falsely accused of treason in [[1957]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Old Boys (short story)|Old Boys]]'')''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pulling Strings (short story)|Pulling Strings]]''
: The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after ''The Warehouse''.


:: ''The Doctor and Evelyn join [[Bernice Summerfield]]'s archaeological expedition. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'')''
* [[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?]]''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[My Own Private Wolfgang (audio story)|My Own Private Wolfgang]]''
: (<u>REFERENCE</u>)
:: ''The Doctor and Mel broker peace on [[Prosper]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Maker of Demons (audio story)|Maker of Demons]]'')''


:: ''The Doctor and Evelyn spend a day flying kites. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'')''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil's Footprints (audio story)|The Devil's Footprints]]''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[100 BC (audio story)|100 BC]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)|Delta and the Bannermen]]''
: Evelyn refers to her encounters with [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] from ''My Own Private Wolfgang''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bedtime Story (audio story)|Bedtime Story]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Uranus (short story)|Uranus]]''
: The Doctor spends one hundred years travelling in the TARDIS with Evelyn, [[Jacob Williams|Jacob]], [[Mary (Bedtime Story)|Mary]], and [[Peter Williams]], while they recover from being frozen in time. Once they are unfrozen, the Doctor and Evelyn return the Williams family home.  
: The Doctor still acts lighthearted, but Mel is starting to feel alienated by him.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fires of Vulcan (audio story)|The Fires of Vulcan]]''
: Evelyn is familiar with Gallifreyan politics, setting this after ''The Apocalypse Element''. The Sixth Doctor once believed that his life would be "short, but sweet".  
: 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]]: ''[[The Crackers (short story)|The Crackers]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Red (audio story)|Red]]''
: Despite the Big Finish website placing this between ''Time and the Rani'' and ''Paradise Towers''<ref>https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-red-251</ref>, the Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after ''Delta and the Bannermen''. The Doctor acts more brooding around Mel, setting this after ''The Fires of Vulcan''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Assassin in the Limelight (audio story)|Assassin in the Limelight]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]''
: On [[Iceworld]], the Doctor and Mel bump into [[Sabalom Glitz]] again, and also meet a time-displaced 16-year-old girl named [[Ace]]. While Mel leaves to travel with Glitz, the Doctor offers to let Ace travel with him in the TARDIS, and she accepts.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Final Star (short story)|The Final Star]]''
:: [[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.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Revellers of Doom (short story)|Revellers of Doom]]''
=== Joined by Ace ===
* [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''
: Ace encounters the [[Dalek]]s for the first time. She is carrying a [[Ace's baseball bat|baseball bat]], which is super-powered by the Doctor via the Hand of Omega. It is later destroyed however. According to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games]]'', this was the first time she doubted the Doctor's motives.


* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Trial by Fire (short story)|Trial by Fire]]''
:: [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Slyther of Shoreditch (short story)|The Slyther of Shoreditch]]''
:: Set during ''Remembrance of the Daleks: Part 2'', before the Doctor visits [[Harry (Remembrance of the Daleks)|Harry]]'s café.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Town Called Fortune (audio story)|A Town Called Fortune]]''
::''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]]'')
: Evelyn has made a habit of jumping from trains, setting this after ''The Nowhere Place''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (audio story)|The Crimes of Thomas Brewster]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[In the Community]]''
: The first of the Doctor's thirteen Technicolor coats are destroyed in an explosion. Evelyn refers to the time she and the Doctor had to swim the Thames in ''Project: Twilight''. The Doctor meets [[Flip Jackson]] and [[Jared Ramon]] on [[Symbios]] after a London tube train slips through a temporal fissure, and has his first meeting with DI [[Patricia Menzies]]. [[Thomas Brewster]], in a desperate attempt to return to his own time, sneaks into the TARDIS and holds the Doctor and Evelyn at gunpoint, leading directly into ''The Feast of Axos''.
: The Doctor remains in the TARDIS while Ace visits [[Judith Winters]] in 1993, thirty years after ''Remembrance of the Daleks''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Feast of Axos (audio story)|The Feast of Axos]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ripple Effect (short story)|The Ripple Effect]]''
: The Doctor and Evelyn manage to disarm Brewster, and the Doctor refuses to return Brewster home, as using his future knowledge would cause chaos and anarchy. Brewster demands that the Doctor takes him back to his own time, leading into ''Industrial Evolution''.
: 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''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Industrial Evolution (audio story)|Industrial Evolution]]''
=== Ercildoune ===
: Brewster is returned to Victorian Lancashire by the Doctor and Evelyn, however they stick around for several weeks to investigate the brass mill.
::''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]]: ''[[Mission Improbable (audio story)|Mission Improbable]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]''
: The Doctor is wearing his blue coat.
: 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.


:: ''On a return trip to [[Világ]], Evelyn leaves the Doctor to marry [[Justice Rossiter]]. The Doctor reacts badly to the news and refuses to give a proper goodbye. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thicker Than Water (audio story)|Thicker Than Water]]'')''
:: ''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]]'')''


=== The Mystery of Charlotte Pollard ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prelude The Dimension Riders (short story)|Prelude The Dimension Riders]]''
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]''
: The Doctor deletes the scan of his mind from the [[APC Net]] on [[Gallifrey]].  
: [[Charley Pollard]] enters the TARDIS, having expected [[Eighth Doctor|someone else]] to be inside. Ending leads directly into ''The Condemned''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Condemned (audio story)|The Condemned]]''
:: ''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]]'')''
: The Doctor is wearing his blue coat and was travelling alone before reluctantly taking Charley on as his companion. The Doctor has his second encounter with DI Menzies, though it is their first time together from her perspective.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doomwood Curse (audio story)|The Doomwood Curse]]''
* [[WC]]: ''[[Doctors Assemble! (webcast)|Doctors Assemble!]]''
: Charley has only recently joined the Doctor on his travels.
: The Doctor's profile picture is of him on Iceworld, setting this after ''Dragonfire''.


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


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red House (audio story)|The Red House]]''
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prelude Birthright (short story)|Prelude Birthright]]''
: Charley refers to the fictional highwaymen from ''The Doomwood Curse'' and the Marxist Daleks from ''Brotherhood of the Daleks''.
: 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''.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Avenues of Possibility (audio story)|The Avenues of Possibility]]''
=== Travels with Ace ===
: The Doctor and Charley have been travelling together for weeks.
* [[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.


* [[WC]]: ''[[Prequel (The Legacy of Time)|Prequel - The Legacy of Time]]''
:: (<u>FLASHBACK</u>)
: Set immediately after ''The Avenues of Possibility''. The Doctor and Charley decide to investigate the source of the temporal distortions.
:: ''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]]'')''


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Return of the Krotons (audio story)|Return of the Krotons]]''
* [[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]''
: The Doctor and Charley encounter the [[Kroton (species)|Kroton]]s. Following this encounter, the Doctor decides to take Charley to breakfast, leading directly into ''The Raincloud Man''.
: 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.


* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Raincloud Man (audio story)|The Raincloud Man]]''
:: [[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'' ''[[Prologue: The Seventh Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Seventh Doctor]]''
: Set immediately after ''Return of the Krotons'', with the Doctor and Charley having breakfast at a cafe, and Charley noting that they made it to their intended destination on the first attempt.
:: In an alternate timeline created by [[Rassilon]] and the [[Cybermen]], the Doctor finds Ace converted into a Cyberman during the events of ''Silver Nemesis''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Patient Zero (audio story)|Patient Zero]]''
: 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]]: ''[[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 [[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.
 
=== Return to the Land of Fiction ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[City of Spires (audio story)|City of Spires]]''
: Arriving in Scotland, the Doctor is reunited with an amnesiac [[Jamie McCrimmon (Land of Fiction)|Jamie McCrimmon]] and, after an adventure during the [[Battle of Culloden]], Jamie accepts the Doctor's offer to travel with him.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Night's Black Agents (audio story)|Night's Black Agents]]''
: The Doctor has recently defeated the Red Caps in Scotland, setting this immediately after ''City of Spires''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wreck of the Titan (audio story)|The Wreck of the Titan]]''
: Jamie refers to his recent encounter with the Kelpie from ''Night's Black Agents''. Ending leads directly into ''Legend of the Cybermen''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]''
: The Doctor and Jamie discover that they have been in the [[Land of Fiction]] all along, and that Jamie is a fictional character created by [[Zoe Heriot]], the new Master of the Land, as a mystery for the Doctor to solve, while Zoe uses them to combat an invasion by the [[Cybermen]]. After their adventure, Jamie decides to remain in the Land, while the Doctor returns Zoe to the ''Space Station W3'', saddened at the fact that she would once again fall under the Time Lords' conditioning and lose all memory of him.
 
=== Adventures with Flip Jackson ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]''
: Forced to switch bodies with [[Davros]] to save the [[Battle of Waterloo]], the Doctor is assisted by Flip Jackson, and, when he gets his body back, Flip decides to travel with the Doctor.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fourth Wall (audio story)|The Fourth Wall]]''
: In regards to Flip, the Doctor says he wasn't expecting to take on a new companion so soon, suggesting that he has only just parted ways with a previous companion.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wirrn Isle (audio story)|Wirrn Isle]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Stage Fright (audio story)|Stage Fright]]''
: The Doctor explains the concept of regeneration to Flip, and has recently started wearing his Technicolor coat around Flip, setting this before ''Antidote to Oblivion''. The Doctor recalls the events of ''The Red House''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Vortex Ice (audio story)|Vortex Ice]]''
: Ending leads directly into ''Cortex Fire''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cortex Fire (audio story)|Cortex Fire]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Antidote to Oblivion (audio story)|Antidote to Oblivion]]''
: The Doctor tells Flip that multiple versions of Peri exist, and that he wants to find out for sure what happened to her and reunite, setting this after ''Peri and the Piscon Paradox''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Brood of Erys (audio story)|The Brood of Erys]]''
: Flip reminds the Doctor that he promised her a return to trip to Tranquility from ''Antidote to Oblivion''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scavenger (audio story)|Scavenger]]''
: Flip reminds the Doctor that he promised her a return to trip to Tranquility from ''Antidote to Oblivion'' and the Doctor is still pining for Peri. Flip becomes separated from the Doctor in orbit around 2071 Earth.
 
:: ''The Doctor is able to save Flip and return her to 2012 Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Widow's Assassin (audio story)|The Widow's Assassin]]'')''
 
=== Reunited with Peri ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Widow's Assassin (audio story)|The Widow's Assassin]]''
: After he finds her on [[Krontep]], the Doctor spends roughly ten years working to free Peri from a mind parasite, and she re-joins him as his companion. He mentions saving Flip after ''Scavenger'', which was his previous adventure.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masters of Earth (audio story)|Masters of Earth]]''
: Set shortly after ''The Widow's Assassin'', with Peri noting that the Doctor and her are having a "fresh start" with their travels after being reunited. The Doctor recalls his adventures with [[Jamie McCrimmon (Land of Fiction)|Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Rob Roy MacGregor]], setting this after ''Legend of the Cybermen''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]''
 
=== Travels with Mrs Clarke ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Criss-Cross (audio story)|Criss-Cross]]''
: The Doctor is joined in his travels by [[Bletchley Park]] WREN [[Constance Clarke]], who wants to be taken back to her duties once she decides to finish travelling.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet of the Rani (audio story)|Planet of the Rani]]''
: The Doctor recognises the Rani from ''The Rani Elite''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shield of the Jötunn (audio story)|Shield of the Jötunn]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The End of the Line (audio story)|The End of the Line]]''
: The Doctor and Constance have been traveling with each other for quite a while, with Constance stating that the TARDIS is always getting them lost.
 
*[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Darkened Earth (audio story)|The Darkened Earth]]''
: Constance knows about the TARDIS translation circuits, which she found out about in ''Shield of the Jotunn''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Order of the Daleks (audio story)|Order of the Daleks]]''
: The Doctor mentions the "terraforming geo-machines" from ''Shield of the Jötunn''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Absolute Power (audio story)|Absolute Power]]''
: Constance has only taken a few trips with the Doctor. She decides to return to Bletchley, leading directly into ''Quicksilver''.
 
=== Travels with Flip and Connie ===
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Quicksilver (audio story)|Quicksilver]]''
: The Doctor is reunited with Flip in [[1948]] [[Vienna]].
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Behemoth (audio story)|The Behemoth]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Middle (audio story)|The Middle]]''
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Static (audio story)|Static]]''
 
=== Meeting Mel at last ===
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Business Unusual (novel)|Business Unusual]]''
: 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]].
 
* [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)|Terror of the Vervoids]]''
: The Doctor and Mel encounter the Vervoids on the [[Hyperion III]].
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The One Doctor (audio story)|The One Doctor]]''
: The Doctor is also depicted wearing the clothes he wore in ''Terror of the Vervoids'', and Mel knows how to fly the TARDIS.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Juggernauts (audio story)|The Juggernauts]]''
: According to the CD booklet, this audio is set after ''The One Doctor''. Mel encounters the Daleks for the first time and spends two months separated from the Doctor on [[Lethe]].
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Catch-1782 (audio story)|Catch-1782]]''
: According to the CD booklet, this audio is set after ''The Juggernauts''. Mel spends six months at [[Hallam Hall]], though she is amnesiac during this period and does not recall much of what happened in recent months.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thicker Than Water (audio story)|Thicker Than Water]]''
: According to the CD booklet, this audio is set after ''Catch-1782''. Second 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.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wishing Beast (audio story)|The Wishing Beast]]''
: 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''.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Vanity Box (audio story)|The Vanity Box]]''
: The Doctor and Mel arrive in the [[1960s]], and encounter the Wishing Beast for a second time.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spaceport Fear (audio story)|Spaceport Fear]]''
: 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 Technicolored coat.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Seeds of War (audio story)|The Seeds of War]]''
: The Doctor recommends avoiding the work of agronomist [[Sarah Lasky]], suggesting a post-''Terror of the Vervoids'' setting.
 
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Brink of Death (audio story)|The Brink of Death]]''
: In the third 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.


* [[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.

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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.

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 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.
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The Doctor and Mel broker peace on Prosper. (AUDIO: Maker of Demons)
The Doctor still acts lighthearted, but Mel is starting to feel alienated by him.
Set between Delta and the Bannermen and Dragonfire.[4] The Doctor acts more brooding, something Mel claims to have never seen in him before.
Despite the Big Finish website placing this between Time and the Rani and Paradise Towers[5], the Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after Delta and the Bannermen. The Doctor acts more brooding around Mel, setting this after The Fires of Vulcan.
On Iceworld, the Doctor and Mel bump into Sabalom Glitz again, and also meet a time-displaced 16-year-old girl named Ace. While Mel leaves to travel with Glitz, the Doctor offers to let Ace travel with him in the TARDIS, and she accepts.
TV: The Name of the Doctor
Set during the ending of Dragonfire: Episode 1. The Doctor is compelled to throw himself off a cliff side by the Great Intelligence, but an echo of Clara Oswald snaps him out of the trance.

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

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

Ercildoune[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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

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