Theory:Timeline - Jack Harkness

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This page lists appearances of Captain Jack Harkness in the order 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 that for each novel, comic, audio or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

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Limiting factors

Any story with the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler must be after TV: The Doctor Dances and before TV: Bad Wolf. Any story with Jack waiting on 19th and 20th century Earth must be after TV: The Parting of the Ways and before TV: Everything Changes. Any story with Gwen, Ianto, Owen and Tosh must be after TV: Everything Changes and before TV: End of Days or after TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and before TV: Exit Wounds. Any story where Owen is dead, but still mobile must be set after TV: Dead Man Walking and before TV: Exit Wounds. Any story where Gwen is married to Rhys must be after TV: Something Borrowed. Any story with Gwen and Ianto must be after TV: Exit Wounds and before TV: Children of Earth: Day One.

Overview

Captain Jack Harkness was briefly an original Doctor Who television companion of the Ninth Doctor, travelling with him through time and space. After being rendered immortal and trapped with a broken vortex manipulator in 1869, with few opportunities to time travel over the next century, he later joins Torchwood Three, though the majority of his stories told are set after Gwen Cooper's recruitment to Torchwood in 2007 in the premiere episode of Torchwood, with remaining stories or scenes set before then occurring in flashback.

His adventures with 21st century Torchwood Three and the related Torchwood team in America that was formed after the destruction of the Hub can be categorised as these original to Torchwood television lineups:

• With Gwen, Owen, Ianto and Tosh in Torchwood Three
• With Gwen and Ianto in Torchwood Three
• With Gwen, Ianto and associate Rhys Williams following the Torchwood Hub's destruction
• With Gwen, Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond as part of a new team codenamed Torchwood

Timeline

Childhood

Javic plays on the beach with his father and brother. (TV: Adam)

An unknown enemy invades Javic's homeland, killing many of its inhabitants. His father told Javic to flee with Gray, while he went back for their mother. As they ran, Gray stumbled and Javic let go of his hand. Javic continued to run, thinking Gray behind him. Javic hid in a bush while the invaders flew overhead. He returns home hoping to find his brother, but found only his distraught mother sitting beside his dead father. (TV: Adam)

• AUDIO: R&J

Javic Piotr Thane is an orphan, setting this some time after the attack on the Boeshane Peninsula. He is rescued from an attack on his orphanage by River Song, who teaches him that the monsters will never catch him so long as he keeps running.

The Time Agency

• AUDIO: R&J

Javic investigates a time disturbances in 15th century England. He finds that River Song is posing as Elizabeth I and together they fight android duplicates. Upon his return to the Time Agency, Javic finds that River is there posing as is new boss. She calls him "Jack Harkness", a name which he decidedly likes before wiping his memory with Hallucinogenic lipstick.

• COMIC: Station Zero

In 5067, Jack and John are sent by the Time Agency to Mogar and encounter Vervoids.

• COMIC: Secret Agent Man

Jack is working for the Time Agency and goes undercover on a space cruiser to steal plans for a Pulsar manipulator. He is known by the name "Captain Harkness".

• COMIC: Secret Agent Man

On the Dragana pleasure planet, Captain Harkness assassinates Zloy Volk with an Eradicator X7, on the orders of the Time Agency.

• COMIC: Secret Agent Man

Captain Harkness fights Krillitane in the Wild West.

• COMIC: Secret Agent Man

Captain Harkness faces a horde of Weeping Angels with John Hart.

• COMIC: Secret Agent Man

Captain Harkness discovers that Zloy Volk wasn’t a criminal and instead was developing free time travel for everyone.

• COMIC: Secret Agent Man

Having discovered the Time Agency's corruption, Captain Harkness is warned off by the Shadow Architect. Harkness initially tries to keep in line following his slap on the wrist, but eventually begins questioning everything about the Time Agency.

• AUDIO: Month 25

Javic Piotr Thane is working as a Time Agent. He discovers that two years of his memory is missing. He meets - and later sleeps with - his future self.

• AUDIO: The Restored

• AUDIO: Escape from Nebazz

• AUDIO: Peach Blossom Heights

Captain John draws attention to the fact these stories are taking place before he and Jack have assumed their aliases.

• AUDIO: Darker Purposes

• COMIC: Secret Agent Man

Harkness confronts John Hart about his missing memories.

Working as a con man

• AUDIO: R&J

Jack Harkness is stationed in London during World War II. He recognises River faintly from their previous encounters. They fight vortex wraiths together before River uses her hallucinogenic lipstick on him once again.

Joining The Doctor and Rose

• TV: The Empty Child

Rose and the Doctor meet rogue Time Agent Jack Harkness while dealing with a plague in 1941 London. Ending leads directly into The Doctor Dances.

• TV: The Doctor Dances

Intending to sacrifice himself to destroy the Empty Child plague, Jack is saved by the Doctor and joins the TARDIS team.

• PROSE: The Deviant Strain

The Doctor is abrasive towards Jack, setting this early in their travels together.

• PROSE: Only Human

Jack visits 21st century London for the first time and the Doctor is still abrasive towards him.

Recovering his missing memories

• COMIC: Weapons of Past Destruction

Jack tells the Unon that he has only just met the Doctor and Rose, setting this shortly after The Doctor Dances. The Doctor places his mind up for auction on Fluren's World.

• COMIC: Hacked

Taggani mentions the Doctor putting his mind up for sale during Weapons of Past Destruction. According to Doctormania, this is set soon after Weapons of Past Destruction.

• COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen

The Doctor and Rose bring Jack to the 21st century, setting this after Only Human.

• COMIC: Doctormania

According to the previously bio, some time has passed since Weapons of Past Destruction. The Doctor refers to the events of Weapons of Past Destruction and Hacked. After dealing with Slist Fayflut Marteveerthon Slitheen's impersonation of him, the Doctor is called to San Francisco by Mickey Smith, leading directly into The Transformed.

• COMIC: The Transformed

The Doctor helps Mickey deal with a gargoyle mutation caused by a wormhole, but one gargoyle that Rose befriended goes through the wormhole, leading into Official Secrets.

• COMIC: Official Secrets

Jack finds a picture of himself dressed as a 17th century priest among the UNIT files. Tara Mishra stows away in the TARDIS, thus becoming a member of the TARDIS crew.

• COMIC: Slaver's Song

Set immediately after Official Secrets, with the TARDIS crew investigating the painting found in the UNIT files and taking Tara on her first trip back in time. After finding out someone he had assassinated may still be alive, Jack takes his leave of the TARDIS team.

• COMIC: Secret Agent Man

The Doctor, Rose and Tara use Memgram to track down Jack. Ending leads directly into The Bidding War.

• COMIC: The Bidding War

While connected to the Memgram, Rose has a vision of her cyber-conversion in Supremacy of the Cybermen. Addison Delamar tricks Jack using a Sin-Eater. After defeating the Cybermen, Jack rejoins the TARDIS and Tara decides to temporarily remain on Nomicae to help nurse those injured in the cyber-attack.

• COMIC: The Lost Dimension

The Doctor takes Rose to be healed from the events of The Bidding Wars, while Jack picks up Tara. The Doctor and Rose meet Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint, while Jack and Tara end up on Skaro.

Final adventures with the Doctor and Rose

• AUDIO: R&J

Prior to the events of Boom Town, the Doctor, Jack and Rose eat Kronkburgers together, and Jack saves the Doctor from an assassination attempt by River Song.

• TV: Boom Town

While reencountering the Margaret Blaine Slitheen, the Doctor's TARDIS severely damages the Cardiff rift. After a fight with Mickey, Rose learns that the heart of the TARDIS can be used to fulfill desires. With Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen regressed back into an egg, the Doctor intends to take her to a hatchery on Raxacoricofallapatorius.

• AUDIO: R&J

The Ninth Doctor is on his "date" with Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen. River leaves as soon as the earthquake starts.

• PROSE: The Stealers of Dreams

Jackie mentions the events of Boom Town.

• AUDIO: Night of the Whisper

Rose has visited Woman Wept and Raxacoricofallapatorius, setting this after Boom Town. The TARDIS team spend a month on 23rd century New Vegas investigating the Whisper.

• COMIC: Return of the Volsci

Set immediately before Bad Wolf, with the TARDIS team visiting Kyoto, Japan in 1336.

• TV: Bad Wolf

Ending leads directly into The Parting of the Ways.

• TV: The Parting of the Ways

Finding that the Dalek Emperor has resurrected the Daleks by converting the human race, the Doctor sends Rose home to protect her from a delta wave he intends to use to kill both the humans and Daleks. Jack and the inhabitants of Satellite Five are all killed by the Daleks. Before the Doctor can be killed, Rose, having used the heart of the TARDIS to absorb the Time Vortex, returns and atomises the Dalek fleet, and restores Jack to life.

Discovering his Immortality

• AUDIO: The Year After I Died

Eventually Jack decided to use his vortex manipulator to travel back to 21st century Cardiff, the site of the space-time rift, in order to wait for the Doctor. However his vortex manipulator malfunctioned and he became stranded in the 19th century. (TV: Utopia)

Association with Torchwood

• AUDIO: The Death of Captain Jack

After being killed in a bar fight, Jack is discovered following his resurrection by Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd. They recruit Jack into Torchwood Three while he waits for the Doctor to turn back up in Cardiff. (TV: Fragments)

• AUDIO: The Victorian Age

Set in 17 May 1899. Jack is temporarily seconded to Torchwood One.

• PROSE: The Baby Farmers

• AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive

In 1900, Nicholas I causes the creation of the Committee. He gifts Object 1 to Victoria who enters it into the Torchwood Archive. Later that year, she gives it to Jack to dispose of, who takes it to Cardiff where he plans to wait for the Doctor.

• COMIC: Hell House (flashback sequence)

Set in 1902.

In 1909 while travelling through Lahore, Jack witnesses a troop of fifteen men killed by the Fairies after they accidentally ran over a Chosen One the previous week. (TV: Small Worlds)

• AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive

In 1914, Jack throws the red key into the Rift and causes the creation of the Weevils.

• AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive

Torchwood India sends Object 1 to Jack in 1924

Jack meets Angelo Colasanto in 1927 New York City. They develop a romantic relationship and Angelo becomes Jack's companion. However after a betrayal of trust, Jack leaves Angelo behind. (TV: Immortal Sins)

• COMIC: Overture

Set in August 1941.

• COMIC: Time Fraud

Set in 1965, Jack is walking with a woman and Clement McDonald when he discovers a de-aged Scott Thrower, whom he decided will be the twelfth child to give to the 456, leading into the Children of Earth flashbacks.

In 1965 Jack gives twelve children to the The 456 in exchange for an antidote to a mutated strain of Indonesian influenza. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four)

On New Year's Eve 1999, Alex Hopkins hands Torchwood Three over to Jack and subsequently kills himself, unwilling to face the threats to come in the 21st century. (TV: Fragments)

• AUDIO: Piece of Mind

Jack has spent one hundred years waiting for the Doctor and is now at the point where he is actively searching for him, suggesting an early 21st century placement. He has met River Song. Jack recalls having been to the Red Dragon Centre, which was named in the real world in the year 2000.

Assembling a New Torchwood Three

In 2003 or 2004, Toshiko Sato is imprisoned by UNIT after stealing plans for a Sonic modulator and building one herself. Jack Harkness rescues her and offers her a job at Torchwood Three, which she accepts. (TV: Fragments)

In 2004, Suzie Costello calls Yvonne Hartman to inform her about the Ovid sex dolls. Suzie and Jack plan to get rid of Object 1 by passing it on to Torchwood One. Yvonne speaks to Ianto, setting this after the Blind Summit flashback. (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive)

• TV: Fragments (Owen Harper Flashback)

In November 2006, Jack takes Idris Hopper out for dinner a month after the events of Boom Town. He retcons Idris to forget about him and the Doctor. (PROSE: The Twilight Streets)

Day trips with Jackie Tyler

• AUDIO: Wednesdays For Beginners

Set in 2007 while Rose Tyler is travelling with the Tenth Doctor. Jack is hanging around the Powell Estate incase the Doctor and Rose come back. He meets Jackie Tyler for the first time.

• AUDIO: Crush

Jack has visited Jackie Tyler several times since the events of Wednesdays for Beginners. He takes her into space for the first time.

• AUDIO: R&J

Jack stops by the Powell Estate to visit Jackie, but finds River Song already there.

Leading Torchwood Three

After the Battle of Canary Wharf, Ianto Jones seeks out a new job at Torchwood Three. Initially he is rejected by Jack, but after Ianto helps to capture a rogue Pterodactyl, Jack welcomes him into the team. (TV: Fragments)

• TV: Everything Changes

Gwen is recruited.

• TV: Day One

Gwen's first day on the job.

• TV: Ghost Machine

Gwen is still inexperienced with weapons. Set 66 years after 1941.

Set in Cardiff, 2007. Gwen has recently joined Torchwood. (AUDIO: Army of One)

• PROSE: Another Life

Rhys mentions a co-worker called Lucy who has been on a diet recently, foreshadowing Slow Decay. Gwen has been working for Torchwood for a few weeks now and has experience with weapons, setting this after Ghost Machine.

• PROSE: Border Princes

Set in October 2007.

• PROSE: Slow Decay

Ianto keeps something secret in the hub.

• TV: Cyberwoman

Ianto first enters the ferret the night after Lisa dies. A few days later Jack takes Ianto out to hunt Weevils. Later when Ianto returns to the Ferret, he is given advice by Mandy. The next day, Jack is contacted by Estelle Cole and takes Gwen with him instead of Ianto, leading directly into Small Worlds. (AUDIO: Broken)

• TV: Small Worlds

Jack and Ianto fight Scorchies at the Millennium Centre. Ianto opens up to Jack about his life before the battle of Canary Wharf and how the loss of Lisa has affected him. This leads to him being invited on a mission to the Brecon Beacons for a few days, leading into Countrycide. (AUDIO: Broken)

• TV: Countrycide

Horrified by what he witnessed in Countrycide, Ianto attempts suicide before being talked down by Mandy. He returns to work the following day. (AUDIO: Broken)

• TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts

Ianto visits the Ferret on the night that Jack killed Mary. Jack enters the Ferret on the same night investigating rift activity. (AUDIO: Broken)

• TV: They Keep Killing Suzie

Set three months after Everything Changes.

• AUDIO: Hidden

Torchwood Three don't know that Jack is immortal yet, setting this before End of Days, and Owen recalls the events of Ghost Machine.

• TV: Random Shoes

• AUDIO: The Conspiracy

Jack has left Torchwood before.

• AUDIO: Uncanny Valley

Jack decides to return to Torchwood Three.

• TV: Out of Time

• TV: Web of Lies

Jack is kidnapped while he and Gwen are on patrol.

• TV: Combat

Owen is visibly upset by the events of Out of Time in this story. He calls off his affair with Gwen.

• AUDIO: Hidden

Jack and Ianto are in a relationship, setting this after Broken. The team don’t know that Jack is immortal yet, setting this before Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

• TV: Captain Jack Harkness

• TV: End of Days

Continues where Captain Jack Harkness left off. Jack disappears from Torchwood.

The Year That Never Was

• TV: Utopia

• TV: The Sound of Drums

• PROSE: The Story of Martha

Set during the events of Last of the Time Lords.

• AUDIO: R&J

River visits Jack during his incarceration aboard the valiant. She provides him with a means to escape so he can join Martha in her final stand against the Master.

• TV: Last of the Time Lords

Return To Torchwood Three

• TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Gwen has started taking charge more in Jack's absence, in comparison to Captain Jack Harkness, where Owen was said to be second-in-command. Gwen is now engaged to Rhys.

• COMIC: The Legacy of Torchwood One!

• TV: Sleeper

Torchwood deals with an attack by Cell 114, and are made aware that other sleeper agents are on Earth.

• AUDIO: Serenity

Set after Sleeper, Jack and Ianto spend a period of some weeks undercover to destroy the last of Cell 114.

• TV: To the Last Man

Occurs on Friday 20th of June, 114 years after 1894.

• PROSE: Something in the Water

Tosh recalls To the Last Man but Rhys does not yet know about Torchwood.

• PROSE: Trace Memory

Set in 2008. To the Last Man is referenced and Rhys does not appear to be aware of Torchwood.

• AUDIO: Everyone Says Hello

Set between Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and Reset.

• TV: Meat

• PROSE: Mend Me

Set 4 July 2008. Rhys knows about Torchwood, setting this after Meat. However Owen is still alive, setting this before Reset.

• PROSE: Unplugged

• AUDIO: In the Shadows

Jack gives Gwen two plane tickets to Paris, setting this shortly before Adam

• TV: Adam

Gwen has just returned from a trip to Paris with Rhys.

• COMIC: Jetsam

• COMIC: Rift War!

Rhys knows about Torchwood, setting this after Meat. However Owen has not died yet, setting this before Reset.

• PROSE: Black Water

Owen has not died yet, setting this before Reset.

• AUDIO: Tropical Beach Sounds and Other Relaxing Seascapes #4

Jack, Gwen, Ianto, Owen and Tosh are all present in the hub. Jack and Ianto are in a relationship. Owen does not appear to be dead.

• PROSE: The Twilight Streets

Set in August 2008. 22 months have passed since Jack last encountered Idris Hopper. Rhys is aware of the existence of Torchwood, setting this after Meat. However Owen is still alive, setting this before Reset.

• TV: Reset

• TV: Dead Man Walking

Continues where Reset left off. Owen is resurrected, but with no lifesigns.

• TV: A Day in the Death

Set three days after Reset.

• PROSE: Mrs Acres

Gwen is engaged, setting this between Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Something Borrowed.

• PROSE: The Beauty of Our Weapons

The team know that Jack is immortal, setting this after Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

• PROSE: The Book of Jahi

Owen is undead, setting this after A Day in the Death. Gwen is about to get married, setting this before Something Borrowed.

• PROSE: Requiem

Set Halloween, 2008.

• PROSE: Pack Animals

Set on Halloween night and into early November. Owen is undead, setting this after A Day in the Death. However Gwen and Rhys are finalising plans for their wedding, setting this before Something Borrowed.

• TV: Something Borrowed

Gwen and Rhys get married.

• PROSE: Plant Life

Set during the first day after Gwen’s return from honeymoon.

• PROSE: Skypoint

Gwen and Rhys have just returned from their honeymoon and two weeks have passed since Something Borrowed. Toshiko is working on the Time lock. Gwen has been with Torchwood for roughly a year. Two years have passed since Owen joined Torchwood, while a couple of months have passed since Reset. It is mentioned several times that it is September, however this conflicts with several other dates given.

• PROSE: Harm's Way

Rhys recalls an alien appearing at his wedding, setting this after Something Borrowed.

• AUDIO: Believe

Gwen mentions the Nostrovite, placing this story after Something Borrowed.

• TV: From Out of the Rain

• TV: Adrift

• PROSE: Monster

Owen is undead, setting this after A Day in the Death. The team know that people can be taken away by the rift, setting this after Adrift.

• TV: Fragments

At least 21 months after the battle of Canary Wharf, according to Ianto's flashback.

• TV: Exit Wounds

Continues where Fragments left off. Owen and Tosh die. In 1901, Jack asks to be frozen for 107 years so that he'd wake up in what he'd consider 'the present', setting this in 2008.

Coping without Tosh and Owen

• AUDIO: Lost Souls

Martha meets Jack for the first time since Owen and Tosh's funeral. In the real world, The Large Hadron Collider was switched on, on the 10 September 2008 which was also the date this story was released. However no dialogue in the story supports this placement and it conflicts with other dates given.

• AUDIO: Expectant

The events of Exit Wounds are recent. Jack and Ianto are left to run Torchwood alone while Gwen is holidaying in Tenerife.

• PROSE: Almost Perfect

• PROSE: Who by Fire

• COMIC: The Selkie

• PROSE: Gordian

• PROSE: The Man Who Dreamed of Stars

• PROSE: Closing Time

• PROSE: Stakes on a Plane

• PROSE: I May Be Some Time

• PROSE: They Keep Killing Andy

Andy is still a PC. 1909 was “nearly one hundred years ago, setting this around 2008.

• PROSE: Flotsam and Jetsam

• COMIC: Fated to Pretend

The Torchwood Trio

• PROSE: Happy New Year

Jack, Gwen and Ianto celebrate New Year's Eve together. This story conflicts Fragments being set in 2009.

• PROSE: Photo Finish

• COMIC: Ma and Par

Its still early in the new year.

• COMIC: Escape To Penhaxico

Two months have passed since the events of Voyage of the Damned, setting this in February 2009. Jack is reunited with The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones.

• PROSE: Into the Silence

Torchwood meet Nina Rogers.

• PROSE: Bay of the Dead

• PROSE: The House That Jack Built

• TV: The Stolen Earth

• TV: Journey's End

• AUDIO: The Sin Eaters

The door to the Hub is still damaged from the Dalek attack. Torchwood Three have a boat called the Sea Queen. It is destroyed by the end of the story.

• AUDIO: Asylum

• AUDIO: Golden Age

• AUDIO: The Dead Line

• PROSE: The Last Voyage of Osiris

Preview to Risk Assessment.

• PROSE: Risk Assessment

Set in 2009. Torchwood Three have replaced the Sea Queen with the Sea Queen II.

• PROSE: The Undertaker's Gift

• PROSE: Consequences: The Wrong Hands

• PROSE: Consequences: Virus

• PROSE: Consequences: Consequences

Nina Rogers recalls the Dalek Invasion. She is 21 years old and Ianto is still alive, setting this at some point between July and September 2009.

• PROSE: Postcards from the Rift

• PROSE: Reflections

• PROSE: Rare Earth

• PROSE: The Package

• PROSE: Ashes to Ashes

• PROSE: Rift-Raff

• PROSE: Lockdown

• PROSE: Everything's True

• COMIC: Somebody Else's Problem: A Gwen Cooper Story

• PROSE: The Secret of Crow Island

• PROSE: Red-Handed

• PROSE: Cultural Firsts

Ianto has done Opera, setting this after Into the Silence.

• COMIC: Broken

Takes place 140 years after 1869 setting this in 2009.

• COMIC: Hell House

• PROSE: The Mind's Eye

• AUDIO: Department X

• AUDIO: Ghost Train

• AUDIO: The Devil and Miss Carew
• AUDIO: Submission

• AUDIO: Outbreak

Norton Folgate is aware that Ianto will die soon.

• AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive

Jack is watched by The Committee while he plays with his dog, Untitled.

The 456 return

• September 2009 - TV: Day One

• TV: Day Two

• TV: Day Three

• TV: Day Four

Ianto is killed after The 456 Flood Thames House with a virus that kills everyone inside the building.

• TV: Day Five

Time away from Earth

• AUDIO: The House of the Dead

Six months have passed since Ianto died, setting this in March 2010. Jack decides to leave Earth.

In March 2010, six months after the 456 incident, Jack leaves Earth. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five)

• AUDIO: What Have I Done?

Jack saves a soldier in Gallipoli. Set shortly after Ianto's death.

• AUDIO: R&J

Immediately after the events of What Have I Done?, Jack is visited by River where she reveals to him that she can’t die until she visits a particular restaurant. Jack and River get married, but the ceremony is interrupted by Snorvlast. The vortex wraiths appear and feast on Snorvlast. Jack and River then visit the end of Time for their honeymoon.

• TV: The End of Time

The Doctor sets Jack up with Midshipman Alonso Frame. Ending leads directly into One Enchanted Evening.

• AUDIO: One Enchanted Evening

Jack and Alonso are separated after the space station they are on is attacked.

Battling the Three Families

• TV: The New World

Jack returns to Earth.

• TV: Rendition

Jack and Gwen are taken to America.

• TV: Dead of Night

• TV: Escape to LA

• TV: The Categories of Life

• TV: The Middle Men

• TV: Immortal Sins

• TV: End of the Road

Jack and Gwen return to the UK, along with Esther after End of the Road. The New World through End of the Road flow into one another.

• TV: The Gathering

Takes place a few months after End of the Road.

• TV: The Blood Line

Continues where The Gathering left off.

Working alone

• AUDIO: R&J

River meets Jack on Darillium towards the end of her 24 year stay, and River reveals to him that the Doctor is her husband.

• AUDIO: Red Skies

Jack visits Cotter Paluni's World and has a vision of Gwen dying.

• AUDIO: Mr Invincible

Set shortly after Red Skies with Jack returning to Cardiff to check on Gwen following his vision.

Joining the Ice Maiden

• PROSE: Exodus Code

The Miracle ended a few months ago. Jack joins the crew of the Ice Maiden.

• COMIC: The Choice

Jack, wearing his Torchwood "World War II" coat, is kidnapped by Adam Mitchell among companions of the Doctor but is soon freed by Frobisher. Leads into Endgame.

• COMIC: Endgame

The first eleven Doctors rescue their companions from Adam and the Tremas Master.

• AUDIO: Forgotten Lives

Set five years after Jack and Gwen last saw each other, setting this around 2016.

• COMIC: Cindy, Cleo and the Magic Sketchbook

Set in November 2016. Ending leads directly into Arena of Fear.

• COMIC: Arena of Fear

After escaping Mr Ebonite, Jack considers setting up a new Torchwood Base of operations underneath the Rockefeller Center.

• COMIC: World Without End

Gwen is acting-head of Torchwood Three, while Jack is serving with the crew of the Ice Maiden. Ending leads directly into Station Zero.

• COMIC: Station Zero

Ending leads directly into The Culling.

• COMIC: The Culling

Jack and Gwen part ways once again after defeating the Vervoids.

• AUDIO: R&J

Jack Harkness unknowingly visits his own funeral looking for River.

• AUDIO: Driving Miss Wells

Set at least after The End of Time. Jack is back working for Torchwood. UNIT and Torchwood are still running.

Aliens Among Us

• AUDIO: Changes Everything

Having been "dumped" by the crew of the Ice Maiden, Jack has returned to duty at Torchwood Cardiff.

• AUDIO: Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy

Gwen murders a suspicious Mary Cooper.

• AUDIO: Orr

Gwen and Rhys attend Mary's funeral. Torchwood meet Orr for the first time. Changes Everything was a few weeks ago.

• AUDIO: Superiority Complex

After helping Torchwood investigate a new hotel, Orr joins the team permanently.

• AUDIO: Love Rat

Orr has only just joined the team. Rhys believes that Gwen hasn’t been herself for weeks, since before Mary died.

• AUDIO: A Kill to a View

• AUDIO: The Empty Hand

Ending leads directly into Poker Face.

• AUDIO: Poker Face

Yvonne Hartman replaces Jack as leader of Torchwood and tells him to join Red Doors to put them to better use.

• AUDIO: Tagged

Jack is working with Red Doors.

• AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn

A few months have passed since Changes Everything. Poker Face was a few days ago. Jack works with Orr to stop Red Doors after losing control of them and discovers the truth about Gwen and Ng.

God Among Us

• AUDIO: Future Pain

Set a few weeks after Herald of the Dawn. Orr persuades Jack to rejoin Torchwood.

• AUDIO: See No Evil

Jack believes he's become mortal since events of Herald of the Dawn. Ending leads directly into Night Watch.

• AUDIO: Night Watch

Set weeks after Future Pain. Ending leads directly into Flight 405.

• AUDIO: Flight 405

Jack believes his immortality was restored during Night Watch.

• AUDIO: Hostile Environment

• AUDIO: The Green Life

Jack is unequivocally immortal and mentions there being a team he can call upon.

• AUDIO: Another Man's Shoes

The Empty Hand took place the previous year. Set weeks after Flight 405.

• AUDIO: Eye of the Storm

• AUDIO: A Mother's Son

Set around two months after Eye of the Storm.

• AUDIO: Day Zero

Ending leads directly into Thoughts and Prayers.

• AUDIO: Thoughts and Prayers

The Hub is destroyed again, and Torchwood go on the run from the Committee.

Ng mentions that Jack is missing and Torchwood are unable to find him. (AUDIO: Aliens Next Door, Misty Eyes)

Encountering the Thirteenth Doctor

• TV: Fugitive of the Judoon

Jack meets Team TARDIS and learns that the Doctor is now a woman. Promising that he will see the Doctor when she needs him, he passes on a warning regarding the Lone Cyberman.

Learning that the Doctor has been imprisoned, Jack commits a number of crimes in order to be incarcerated in the same prison. (TV: Revolution of the Daleks)

• TV: Revolution of the Daleks

Breaking the Doctor out of jail, Jack accompanies her as she returns to Team TARDIS in early 2021. After helping save the Earth from a Dalek attack, Jack parts ways with the Doctor and is keeping in touch with Gwen.

• PROSE: The Ruby's Curse

Jack rescues River from deep space when the Doctor is unavailable to help her. He mentions being needed for a lot of jailbreaks recently, setting this shortly after Revolution of the Daleks.

Jack gives Andy Davidson his vortex manipulator and sends him to the 1950s to stop Norton Folgate from dying early and creating temporal instabilities. (AUDIO: Parasite)

Far Future

• AUDIO: Mighty and Despair

Jack's hair has gone grey and he has become a mythical figure and legend within the universe.

The Face of Boe

In the year 200000, The Face of Boe claims to have fallen pregnant with Boemina. (TV: The Long Game)

• PROSE: From Wildthyme with Love

The Face of Boe comes from the year 5000000000 to attend a party held in Hobbes End by Iris Wildthyme.

• TV: The End of the World

In the year 5000000000, the Face of Boe was the sponsor of an event to safely witness the destruction of the Earth by the expansion of the Sun. The hot water in his room on the platform observing the "Earth death" was not working. The event was sabotaged by Lady Cassandra, but the Face was among the remaining survivors.

• TV: New Earth

By 5,000,000,023, the Face of Boe was hospitalised in Ward 26 of the hospital run by the Sisters of Plenitude on New Earth. By this time, he was the last of Boekind. The Face of Boe promises to reveal his final message to the Doctor during their third and last meeting.

• TV: Gridlock

The Face of Boe had his final meeting with the Doctor in the year 5,000,000,053. Boe revealed his last secret with his dying breath after sacrificing himself to save the city of New New York: "You are not alone".

• AUDIO: R&J

The Face of Boe's funeral is held by the Sisterhood of Plenitude. River Song attends the funeral, and Jack Harkness briefly visits while looking for River.

Unplaced

• PROSE: First Born (flashback)

• PROSE: Long Time Dead (flashback)

• PROSE: Best Friends

• COMIC: The Return of the Vostok

• AUDIO: The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood

At least after Superiority Complex, Jack and Orr go to Brent Hayden's speech.

• AUDIO: R&J

Jack encounters River on a beach waiting for the Doctor To turn up for one of their dates. River tells him that her days with the Doctor are numbered as one of them is going to die soon. He asks her to run away with him. Jack and River are synchronised in their timelines and both recall their encounters with vortex wraiths.

• AUDIO: R&J

Jack races dinosaurs with River Song in the Jurassic period. River tells Jack that her husband has left her to fight a war and won’t see him for a while.

• AUDIO: R&J

Jack orders four duplicate robots of River song only for the real River to show up and promptly destroy them. They intend to talk their relationship through properly.

• AUDIO: R&J

In 1969 New York, Jack Harkness shares a pizza with a homeless Melody Pond.

• AUDIO: R&J

Jack, under the name Hark Jackness, fills in Bernice Summerfield's lecture at Luna University, which River is attending. Despite his alias and faux accent, River recognises him from their previous encounter. Together they fight off the vortex wraiths.

• AUDIO: R&J

Jack Rescues River from an assassin while she is being transported to Stormcage. Jack to take her away from Stormcage, but she uses her Hallucinogenic lipstick on him and insists that she needs to stay.

• WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane

Jack attends the funeral of Sarah Jane Smith.

• GAME: Legacy

Jack knows the Saxon Master and uses the TARDIS to retrieve Ianto, but also tries to dissuade the War Doctor from averting Cinder's death, implying that Ianto is currently alive, setting this between Last of the Time Lords and Children of Earth.

• GAME: Bigger on the Inside

Set during Legacy.

• GAME: Sonic Adventure

Follows directly on from Legacy.

• NOTVALID: I Bring Life

Set immediately after The Parting of the Ways.

• NOTVALID: A Missed Appointment

• NOTVALID: Letters From Home

Jack response to a letter from Gwen. It has been ten years since Ianto's death.

• NOTVALID: The Battle of Floor 499

• NOTVALID: The Lone Survivors

Set almost immediately after The Parting of the Ways.

• AUDIO: The Restoration of Catherine

Jack calls Andy from the 21st century when he is transported to the 1660s to warn him of a time paradox.