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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, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks databanks, 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 and complications

The 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.

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 he had in the more developed television series.

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.

Outfit

In Season 24 and Season 25, the Doctor wears a light coloured jacket. He begins wearing a darker one in 1963: The Assassination Games.

The Doctor primarily wears a cream linen suit starting in White Darkness, though he may have worn it before and still occasionally wears his old outfit.

Any story where the Doctor wears the outfit with a tweed jacket introduced in Doctor Who should be placed after So Vile a Sin.

TARDIS

In Iceberg and Sanctuary, the Doctor travels in the Jade Pagoda - the TARDIS's small "escape pod."

The Doctor starts travelling in the TARDIS off an alternate version of his third incarnation in Blood Heat, and doesn't switch back until Happy Endings.

In The Angel of Scutari, the TARDIS turns white. It stays that way until Gods and Monsters.

After Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge and until Gods and Monsters (when it is destroyed) the Doctor also travels in a second, black TARDIS - the daughter of the proper, white one.

Following on from The Chameleon Factor, the TARDIS interior is changed to a beige design.

The change from the TARDIS's white interior to the Doctor Who one is depicted or referred to several times.

• In Lungbarrow, the TARDIS changes into a Victorian parlour design to resemble the Doctor's family estate in the House of Lungbarrow.
• Notre Dame du Temps references the change being recent, and also refers to meeting Romana (in Lungbarrow).
• The Settling follows a period where the Doctor and companions are separated, and says that they've just redecorated. From that point on, monthlies with Ace have Doctor Who TARDIS sound effects.
• From Black and White to Gods and Monsters, the proper TARDIS temporarily reuses the white interior and the black one has the Doctor Who one.
• The interior very temporarily reverts in Signs and Wonders.
• In Ground Zero, the TARDIS (with white interior) is damaged, and it's implied that it's going to change.
• In Excelis Decays, the Doctor has just redone the console room. From that point on "old Seventh Doctor" audios use Doctor Who sound effects.

Companions

Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Melanie Bush must take place between Time and the Rani and Dragonfire, while any story with her and Ace must follow A Life of Crime.

Any stories involving a younger Ace must take place from Dragonfire to Love and War, while any story where Ace has combat-training must take place after Deceit.

Any stories where he travels with Bernice Summerfield only must take place between Love and War and Deceit, or between Set Piece and Happy Endings. Any stories where Ace and Benny's relationship is non-antagonistic must take place after No Future.

Any story with Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej as companions must take place between Original Sin and So Vile a Sin. Any story featuring just Chris as a companion must take place before Lungbarrow.

Any story where the Doctor and Ace travel with Hex/Hector must take place between The Harvest and Signs and Wonders.

Ace

Ace loses some of her memories in Timewyrm: Genesys and again in The Prisoner's Dilemma, which can explain anything she's forgotten from her previous travels.

Ace's characterisation is complicated and inconsistent. It can be roughly divided into a few versions, though:

• TV Ace. Ace is immature, enjoys explosives, and is not always given a large role in the Doctor's plans. She is often exasperated or hurt by the Doctor's manipulation of her and reticence about the situation and his plans - see The Curse of Fenric, Thin Ice, Nightshade, and Love and War. She is characterised like this on TV, in the "Season 27" Lost Stories, in some of the early New Adventures, and in a variety of short stories. Some writers revert to this characterisation in spite of chronologically earlier stories where she is more mature: In Cat's Cradle: Warhead she is capable and the Doctor trusts her, but she is immature in Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark. Most of her early monthlies also make her more mature and capable (in line with developments of TV and in the New Adventures) but in The Rapture Joe Lidster indulges his soap opera tendencies and her decision to start going by "McShane" comes off as very immature.
• "New Ace." After her return to the TARDIS in Deceit, Ace is even more angsty and gung-ho. Sophie Aldred deliberately makes her sound younger on audio. She often identifies herself as a soldier, and is abrasive toward Benny and (especially) the Doctor, at least until No Future, when they resolve their differences. She is also depicted like this in Random Ghosts/The Lights of Skaro and Enemy of the Daleks.
• Older Ace. Ace matures gradually, becoming more capable, more familiar with the Doctor, and is given larger roles in the Doctor's plans. This is seen in Cat's Cradle: Warhead and most of her early monthly audios. It become especially prominent once Hex is introduced (from The Harvest on) and she becomes less prone to use explosives, more dedicated to TARDIS-life, a mentor figure to Hex, and more accepting of the Doctor's manipulative nature.

The comic Ground Zero depicts Ace (dressed as she was on TV) dying while travelling with the Doctor, who wears the outfit he wore in Doctor Who. This was intended to deliberately contradict other DWM comics and the New Adventures, but can be made to fit anyway.

Timeline

Regeneration and Mel

• AUDIO: The Brink of Death

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

• TV: Time and the Rani

The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation, and is immediately thrown into a confrontation with the Rani on Lakertya.

• PROSE: The Useful Pile

Set immediately 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 while he replaces his lost items.

• AUDIO: Unregenerate!

The Doctor is still recovering from the effects of his recent regeneration, as indicated by the large amount of the lindos hormone in his system.

• PROSE: Daisy Chain

The Doctor brings a new hat stand back into the TARDIS console room. He acts much like his immediate predecessor, suggesting he is still recovering from the regeneration.

• COMIC: Plastic Millenium

Mel is wearing the same clothes she wore in Paradise Towers.

• PROSE: 24 Crawford Street

Mel is wearing the same clothes she wore in Paradise Towers.

• TV: Paradise Towers
• PROSE: Special Weapons

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

• PROSE: The Invertebrates of Doom
• AUDIO: We Are The Daleks
• AUDIO: The Warehouse

The Doctor's whangee umbrella is damaged, and he says he'll get a new one. All stories where the Doctor has his red question mark umbrella should be placed after this one.

• AUDIO: Terror of the Sontarans
• AUDIO: Flip-Flop

The audio's blurb sets this between Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen, and 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.

• TV: Delta and the Bannermen

The Doctor is using an umbrella with a large red question mark designed handle.

• PROSE: Driftwood

Set after Delta and the Bannermen.

• AUDIO: Red

The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, so this is placed after The Warehouse, and gets a proverb wrong, so this is placed before Bang-Bang-a-Boom!

• PROSE: Pulling Strings

The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after Delta and the Bannermen.

• PROSE: Uranus

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

• AUDIO: Bang-Bang-a-Boom!

The Doctor promises to stop mangling proverbs, so this is placed after Delta and the Bannerman.

• AUDIO: The Fires of Vulcan

The Doctor acts more brooding, something Mel claims to have never seen in him before.

• PROSE: Have You Tried Turning It Off and Then Back On Again?
• PROSE: Just War (one scene, not main narrative)

The Doctor and Melanie meet Emil Hartung. The Doctor realises he will have to leave Mel soon, or else her morals compromise his agendas.

• TV: Dragonfire

• TV: The Name of the Doctor

On Iceworld, the Doctor and Mel bump into Sabalom Glitz again, and also meet a time-displaced 16 year old girl named Ace. Mel leaves the Doctor to travel with Glitz. The Doctor offers to let Ace travel with him in the TARDIS, and she accepts.

Ace

• PROSE: Echo

Ace has "only just come on board" the TARDIS, and is exploring her new surroundings.

• PROSE: Ante Bellum

The Doctor does not have much control over events, and his relationship with Ace is more trusting, so this has been placed in their early travels.

• PROSE: Categorical Imperative

The Doctor and Ace go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby, but is unable to go through with it.

• PROSE: It's Only a Game

The Doctor is beginning to act more manipulative. He gives away his white coat, and begins thinking about changing it for a brown one.

• PROSE: The Grotto
• PROSE: The Ghost's Story

The Doctor plays the spoons, with Master indicating he did this less as he matured, setting this early in his travels with Ace.

• PROSE: A Yuletide Tail

Ace is carrying around the baseball bat that was destroyed in Remembrance of the Daleks.

• PROSE: The Glass Princess

The Doctor gives Clio a Blue Peter badge on Ace's behalf.

• PROSE: Three Steps to the Left

Ace feels the Doctor is showing off with his time travel shenanigans.

• PROSE: uPVC

Ace is familiar with the TARDIS, but is surprised that the Doctor keeps secrets, so this has been placed early in their travels.

• TV: Remembrance of the Daleks

Ace encounters the Daleks for the first time. According to Head Games, this story was the first time she doubted the Doctor's motives.

• PROSE: A Rose by Any Other Name
• PROSE: The Ripple Effect

Ace learns that the TARDIS is stuck with the police box exterior due to a broken chameleon circuit and begins questioning the Doctor's intentions and motivations.

• PROSE: Prelude Birthright

The Doctor and Ace leave for Terra Alpha, setting this immediately before The Happiness Patrol.

• TV: The Happiness Patrol

Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule.

• PROSE: Head Games (one scene, not whole story)

After The Happiness Patrol, Ace asks the Doctor how he operates, and believes they come to an understanding.

• TV: Silver Nemesis

Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Doctor Who. 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: Seven to One
• PROSE: In the Community

The Doctor remains in the TARDIS while Ace visits Judith Winters in 1993, thirty years after Remembrance of the Daleks.

• PROSE: Christmas Every Day?

The Doctor, out gift-shopping for a friend, mentions that Ace likes Charlton Athletic, which he learnt in Silver Nemesis.

• PROSE: The Best of Days

Set just before The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

• TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, due to a delay brought about by the 1988 Olympics, explained how Ace was wearing Flowerchild's earring in Silver Nemesis, despite acquiring it during this serial.

• PROSE: Evitability

Set after The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

• PROSE: The Time and Tide

The Doctor is wearing his off-white jacket.

• PROSE: One Card for the Curious

Set soon after The Time and Tide.

• COMIC: The Forgotten: Survival
• PROSE: Private Investigations

The Doctor is described as wearing a light jacket with a patterned sweater.

• AUDIO: 1963: The Assassination Games

The Doctor recalls his movements in 1963 from Remembrance of the Daleks and an unknown second adventure. At the conclusion, the Doctor changes into his chocolate brown jacket for the first time.

• AUDIO: The Light at the End

The Doctor has not yet told Ace about regeneration, and she doesn't know who the Master is, setting this before Survival.

• AUDIO: Dark Convoy
• AUDIO: Shockwave

Ace has faced the Daleks and Cybermen. She knows the Doctor can regenerate, so this must be after The Light at the End.

Ercildoune

After leaving Ace in the Cretaceous period, (COMIC: Train-Flight) 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. (PROSE: Birthright)

• COMIC: A Cold Day in Hell!

The Doctor is travelling with Frobisher. Frobisher decides to leave the Doctor, claiming that he isn't needed as much without Peri. At the end of the story, Frobisher stays on A-Lux in the 41st century, while the Doctor departs with a female Dreilyn named Olla.

• COMIC: Redemption!

Olla is handed over to Skaroux, whom she stole money from, leaving the Doctor alone again.

• COMIC: The Crossroads of Time

After colliding with him in the Time Vortex, the Doctor uses a TCE to shrink Death's Head to human size.

• COMIC: Claws of the Klathi!
• COMIC: Culture Shock!

Feeling old and useless, the Doctor considers returning the Gallifrey for good. After saving the Culture, the Doctor feels a renewed sense of purpose and leaves looking another adventure.

• COMIC: Keepsake
• COMIC: Planet of the Dead
• PROSE: Scream of the Silent
• PROSE: Birthright

The Doctor visits Victorian London, and saves Barbara Wright's grandfather, Ernie Wright, from being arrested for a murder he did not commit.

• TV: The Day of the Doctor

Due to a "glitch" caused by the TARDISes surrounding each other, the Doctor briefly ages to his Doctor Who appearance.

• AUDIO: The Defectors
• COMIC: Echoes of the Mogor!

The Doctor begins trying to get to Maruthea for Bonjaxx's birthday.

• COMIC: Time and Tide
• COMIC: Follow That TARDIS!
• COMIC: Invaders from Gantac!
• COMIC: Time Bomb!

The Doctor and Death's Head cross paths again, and come to an uneasy truce.

• PROSE: The Infinity Season

The Doctor is still attempting to attend Bonjaxx's birthday on Marathea.

• COMIC: Nemesis of the Daleks

While still searching for Banjaxx's party, the Doctor meets Abslom Daak, a professional Dalek killer. The Doctor believes Davros to be the Dalek Emperor, indicating that this is after Remembrance of the Daleks for the Doctor.

• COMIC: Once in a Lifetime
• COMIC: Hunger from the Ends of Time!
• COMIC: War World
• COMIC: Technical Hitch

The Doctor has begun wearing a dark brown variant of his jacket.

• COMIC: A Switch in Time
• COMIC: The Sentinel
• COMIC: Who's That Girl!

The Doctor is acting as a representative for the Time Lords.

• COMIC: The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise
• COMIC: Slimmer
• COMIC: Nineveh
• COMIC: Stairway to Heaven

The Doctor is no longer trying to get to Maruthea, and is wearing his dark jacket.

• PROSE: Echoes of Future Past

The Doctor is depicted with his brown coat. He gives his past incarnation the Hand of Omega, so this must be after he sent it off to Gallifrey in Remembrance of the Daleks.

• PROSE: Birthright

The Doctor leaves Ercildoune for the last time, shortly before the Charl Queen arrives looking for the TARDIS.

Returning to Ace

• AUDIO: The Four Doctors

Accompanying images show the Doctor as on television - young, in his dark jacket. He doesn't recognise his next incarnation.

• COMIC: Train-Flight
• COMIC: Doctor Conkerer!

The Doctor writes in his diary about having just defeated the Kalik in Train-Flight. Having felt distracted lately, the Doctor decides he needs to find a way to concentrate, presumably leading into his retrieval of Ace.

• PROSE: Living in the Past

The Doctor retrieves Ace from the Cretaceous period of Earth's pre-history, and the two resume travelling together.

• AUDIO: The Riparian Ripper
• PROSE: The Anchorite's Echo
• TV: Battlefield

Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. Ace meets the Brigadier for the first time in her life, while the Doctor meets him for the first time since his sixth regeneration.

• PROSE: Instead of You

Set after Battlefield.

• TV: Ghost Light

Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule.

• PROSE: Fable Fusion

Ace is under 18. She is familiar with UNIT and the Brigadier, so this is after Battlefield.

• TV: The Curse of Fenric

Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, as the episode's theme fitted well with the Halloween broadcast slot. Fenric's master plan reaches its climax, but the Doctor is able to best his foe again. Ace is gifted an authentic cap insignia of the Red Army by Captain Sorin.

• PROSE: The Hollow Men

Back cover places this story between Fenric and Survival, while the Doctor has a "To Do List" reminding him to leave a settee in Perivale, implying this occurs after Survival, but the Sixth Doctor already left it for himself in Nemesis of the Daleks.

• TV: Survival

Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. The novelisation details how the Doctor and Ace have returned to Earth for the first time since The Curse of Fenric, which was a week before. Ace encounters the Tremas Master for the first time on Cheetah World, and both become infected with the Cheetah virus, though Ace begins to recover by the serial's conclusion.

• PROSE: Séance
• PROSE: Hymn of the City

Set "not so long [after]" The Curse of Fenric.

• PROSE: The Colony of Lies

Ace references Ghost Light.

• PROSE: One Minute Fourteen Seconds
• PROSE: Monsters
• PROSE: Ace of Hearts

While Ace is asleep, the Doctor travels back in time to apologise to baby Ace for the events of Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric, and for the pain "yet to come".

• COMIC: Terror from the Deep
• PROSE: Anti-Matter with Fries
• COMIC: Cat and Mouse

Ace recognises the Master, so this is after Survival for her. After thwarting the Master's scheme, Ace is kidnapped Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame.

• COMIC: Endgame
• PROSE: But Once a Year
• PROSE: The Devil Like a Bear
• PROSE: Last Rites
• AUDIO: Thin Ice

This is Ace's first encounter with an Ice Warrior. The Doctor claims to have never delivered a baby before he delivers baby Raine Creevy. The Doctor tries to get Ace accepted into the Time Lord Academy, but she turns down the offer when offered.

• AUDIO: Crime of the Century

Set almost immediately after Thin Ice. After defeating the Metatraxi, the Doctor offers Raine Creevy the chance to travel in the TARDIS, which she accepts.

• AUDIO: Animal

Raine's first journey is to Margrave University in 2001, where, she discovers that her father has died. Upset by the revelation, Raine decides to stay at Margrave for a short time.

• PROSE: The Algebra of Ice

Set "more than twenty months" before Timewyrm: Revelation.

• AUDIO: Police and Shreeves
• AUDIO: The Shadow Trader
• AUDIO: Crystal Ball
• AUDIO: Earth Aid

It has been some time since the Doctor and Ace last saw Raine, who decides to return to the TARDIS.

• PROSE: The Girl Who Stole the Stars

Raine appears.

• PROSE: Illegal Alien
• PROSE: Stop the Pigeon

Ace is depicted with the same character traits she showed in Illegal Alien.

• PROSE: Matrix

Ace is 17. The Valeyard uses the Dark Matrix to briefly reawaken the Cheetah virus within her, presumably amplifying her continued difficulties with the virus.

• PROSE: Storm Harvest

Set immediately after Matrix.

• AUDIO: The Genocide Machine

The Doctor and Ace meet Bev Tarrant.

• PROSE: Prime Time

Ace refers to the recent events of Storm Harvest and The Genocide Machine. The Doctor refers to his encounter with the Master in Stop the Pigeon. The Doctor discovers Ace's future dead body, and tries to keep her out of danger, leading into Heritage.

• PROSE: Heritage

Ace hasn't yet worn her special sunglasses from the New Adventures era, placing this before Timewyrm: Genesys at most.

• PROSE: Loving the Alien

Sequel to Illegal Alien. Ace is killed by George Limb, but the Doctor manipulates events so that, when Limb's plans are thwarted by James Dean, the timeline recreates itself with Ace still alive, though slightly altered.

• PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys

When the Doctor restores the Ace's memories, the first thing that she recalls is the events of Survival, and she still feels some of the after-effects of the Cheetah Virus. She knows about regeneration, and is aware that the Doctor has regenerated six times.

• PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus

Set immediately after Timewyrm: Genesys.

• PROSE: Endgame (cameo)

The amnesiac Eighth Doctor observes the Seventh Doctor and Ace visiting the Festival of Britain during Timewyrm: Exodus.

• PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse

Ace sees an animal in the TARDIS, foreshadowing Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.

• PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation

The Doctor and Ace have "only just left Kirith", placing this immediately after Timewyrm: Apocalypse.

• PROSE: The Algebra of Ice: Epilogue

Visiting Ethan Amberglass whilst in hospital, the Doctor mentions the recent events of Timewyrm: Revelation.

• PROSE: Teenage Kicks
• COMIC: Fellow Travellers

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• PROSE: Untitled
• COMIC: Distractions / The Mark of Mandragora

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor mentions that he's recently been unable to take the TARDIS away from Earth. He has also been redecorating the TARDIS and has discarded his question mark pullover.

• COMIC: Under Pressure

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• COMIC: Party Animals

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor finally reaches Maruthea, just as his predecessor is leaving.

• COMIC: The Chameleon Factor

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor locates his old signet ring in the TARDIS control console and decides to resume wearing it.

• COMIC: Seaside Rendezvous

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• COMIC: The Good Soldier

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The TARDIS' chameleon circuit is inexplicably working, and has changed the TARDIS's form into a Cadillac.

• PROSE: Atom Bomb Blues
• COMIC: A Glitch in Time

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• COMIC: Evening's Empire

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• PROSE: Untitled

The Doctor is wearing his dark brown jacket underneath his duffle-coat, and Ace looks older than her television counterpart.

• COMIC: The Grief

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. When listing the worst creatures she can imagine, Ace mentions the Daleks, the Timewyrm and the Cybermen.

• PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible

The Doctor hasn't been to Alaska, and Ace has learnt how to swear in eleven alien languages. The Doctor and Ace decide they should go their separate ways at the end.

Time alone

• COMIC: A Religious Experience

The Doctor is wearing his dark jacket, and appears to be traveling alone.

• COMIC: Memorial

The Doctor carries a Telphin life-seed to Earth.

• GAME: Destiny of the Doctors

The Doctor has Excalibur in his TARDIS, placing this after Battlefield.

• PROSE: Birthright

The Doctor visits the court of Elizabeth I, and persuades the Queen to send John Dee on a fool's errand.

• PROSE: There's Something About Mary
• PROSE: Front Line
• PROSE: Separation
• AUDIO: Harvest of the Sycorax

The Doctor is depicted in his brown coat on the cover. He notes that people in the past have doubted his plans, placing this at least after Remembrance of the Daleks, where Ace first had doubts. He has a more jovial outlook, so this has been placed before Nightshade, where he becomes more dedicated to his plans. He is travelling alone. He implies he is working for the Time Lords, but it may be untrue.

Reunited with Ace again

• PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead

The Doctor and Ace reunite in Turkey.

• COMIC: Ravens

Set during Cat's Cradle: Warhead, according to Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark

Ace can still feel the biological effects of being on the Cheetah planet. The TARDIS gets infected by demonic protoplasm.

• PROSE: Sunday Afternoon, AD 848,988

Ace has already been traveling with the Doctor for several years.

• PROSE: Closing the Account
• COMIC: Metamorphosis

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• COMIC: Memorial

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• PROSE: Nightshade
• COMIC: Cat Litter

An opening annotation places this story directly after the consecutive events of Memorial and Nightshade, which is supported by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• PROSE: Meridians
• PROSE: Relative Dementias

Ace refers to her escape from the underwater spaceship in Battlefield, and meeting her grandmother during The Curse of Fenric. She is still under the legal drinking age. Miss Gallowglass gives a cryptic warning to the Doctor and Ace about the upcoming events of Independence Day.

• AUDIO: Washington Burns
• PROSE: Cathedral Heart

The Doctor is making a cube in his lab that Ace must not know about, setting this shortly before Love and War.

• PROSE: Independence Day

Ace has more experienced and confident, and knows more about future technology than she used too, placing this shortly before Love and War.

• PROSE: Love and War

The Doctor is acquainted with Abslom Daak, placing this after Nemesis of the Daleks. Ace claims that the events of Nightshade occurred some months ago.

Interim

After saving Heaven, the weary Doctor travels alone in the Time Vortex for a long time, visited some worlds and drifting past others in the process.

• PROSE: A Time & a Place

The Doctor is travelling alone without a companion and is trying to atone for his past mistakes.

• PROSE: The Gallery

The Doctor is alone, wearing his dark jacket and in an introspective mood.

• PROSE: Affirmative

The Doctor appears to be alone, and in need of reassurance that some of his plans have worked out as he intended.

• PROSE: Nobody's Gift
• PROSE: Love and War: Epilogue

Returning to the 26th century, Ace leaves the Doctor after realising that his manipulations resulted in the death of Jan Rydd, a man she had fallen in love with. Bernice Summerfield agrees to travel with the Doctor in her place, but only after he promises not to play games with her life.

• PROSE: An Unfulfilled Dream

The Doctor mentions that his companion is having a hangover after a night testing drinks from the TARDIS food replicator, suggesting that he is referring to Benny.

• PROSE: Transit
• COMIC: Pureblood

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor says that Benny has just joined his company.

• COMIC: Younger and Wiser

The Doctor is alone with Bernice and wears his light jacket, placing this shortly after Pureblood.

• COMIC: Flashback

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• PROSE: The Highest Science
• PROSE: Playback

As the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS, he calls out to Benny.

• PROSE: The Pit

The Doctor inexplicably has a sonic screwdriver.

• PROSE: Continuity Errors
• PROSE: How You Get There

New Ace

• PROSE: Deceit

Three years after leaving the Doctor on Heaven, Ace decides to return to the TARDIS, but no longer trusts the Doctor. The TARDIS is cured of the protoplasm infection from Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark.

• PROSE: Lucifer Rising
• PROSE: Cold War

Ace more curt and aggressive, setting this not long after her return in Deceit.

• COMIC: Final Genesis

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• PROSE: White Darkness

The Doctor and an Old One are in an antagonistic relationship, setting this before their truce in Signs and Wonders. The Doctor begins wearing a cream linen suit and fedora.

• PROSE: Shadowmind

Ace still keeps track of her age. The Doctor decides he needs a holiday, leading into Birthright and Iceberg.

• PROSE: Birthright

The Doctor gives Bernice the keys to the TARDIS, and leaves her in control, having arranged for it to crash in Victorian London, leading directly into Iceberg.

• PROSE: Iceberg

This novel takes place at the same time as Birthright, with the events of both novels occurring concurrently for the Doctor, Ace and Benny.

• PROSE: Birthright

This novel runs parallel with the events of Iceberg, with the Doctor being absent for the majority of Birthright. The Doctor's deceptions cost him Benny's trust.

• PROSE: Parasite

The Doctor watches Sonia Bannen being killed in a food riot.

• COMIC: Time & Time Again

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• COMIC: Cuckoo

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

Alternate universe cycle

• PROSE: Blood Heat

A few months have passed since Deceit, but the events of Birthright are recent. The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the Time Vortex, and the Doctor later realises that someone is toying with time. The Doctor acquires a new sonic screwdriver from the possessions of his deceased alternate third incarnation, and also takes that Doctor's TARDIS after his is lost in a tar pit.

• PROSE: The Dimension Riders

Ace still does not trust the Doctor, nor does the TARDIS from the alternate world. The Doctor discovers that the one who created the Silurian Earth has successfully altered the flow of time in the real universe.

• PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird

The Doctor fixes the chameleon circuit in his new TARDIS.

• PROSE: Conundrum

Benny decides to stay with the Doctor after struggling with her inability to trust him. The Doctor learns history is going to change again, and he sets out to find the cause, leading into No Future.

• PROSE: No Future

The Doctor discovers that the Monk has been corrupting the timeline as a revenge stunt, but is able to defeat his enemy and regain Ace's trust. He also smashes the chameleon circuit of his TARDIS with a hammer, destroying it. The Doctor thinks he killed the Master in Survival, despite having spoken of him in the present tense during Deceit.

Amicable travels

• PROSE: Tragedy Day

The Doctor has had experience with delivering babies.

• PROSE: Question Mark Pyjamas

Ace refers to the TARDIS team's recent encounter with the Monk in No Future.

• COMIC: Uninvited Guest

Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

• PROSE: Legacy

The TARDIS has been to Olleril recently, setting this shortly after Tragedy Day. As far as Ace knows, this is the first time she has seen an Ice Warrior, though she did encounter them in Thin Ice. Benny, who has never been on Mars before this point in her life, takes a temporary leave of absence from the TARDIS.

• PROSE: Citadel of Dreams

Though the book's blurb would place this immediately after Survival, the Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit from White Darkness, and Ace is depicted with the confidence and general demeanour she had in the Virgin New Adventures. With Benny absent, this must take place during her brief leave-of-absence.

• PROSE: Theatre of War

Benny returns to the TARDIS after her temporary leave of absence that started in Legacy.

• PROSE: All-Consuming Fire
• AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge

The Big Finish website places this audio between All-Consuming Fire and Blood Harvest.

• COMIC: The Last Word

The Doctor is wearing his white suit from White Darkness, though the TARDIS console room is the one from before Final Genesis.

• PROSE: Virgin Lands
• AUDIO: The Dark Flame

The Big Finish website places this audio after The Shadow of the Scourge.

• PROSE: The Last Emperor

The Doctor sends Ace and Benny on a mission to Antarctica.

• PROSE: Blood Harvest

The Doctor, Benny and Ace end up in E-space, where they find Romana and return her to Gallifrey, where she opts to remain.

• PROSE: Strange England

Some time has passed since Blood Harvest, with Ace getting trigger-happy due to the lack of dangerous adventures.

• PROSE: First Frontier

The Doctor and Ace encounter the Tremas Master for the first time since Survival. Ace fatally shoots the Master, but he is able to regenerate into Template:Frontier. Ace considers leaving the TARDIS.

• PROSE: St Anthony's Fire

Ace has her head shaved clean.

• PROSE: Falls the Shadow

Ace's hair is till re-growing.

• PROSE: Parasite

It has been at least a full year since No Future. Ace is still thinking about when she'll leave the Doctor.

• PROSE: Warlock

The Doctor, Ace and Benny have been at Smithwood Manor for almost a year.

• PROSE: Set Piece

Ace is 26-years-old. After an ordeal with the Robot Ants, Ace leaves the TARDIS crew to become Time's Vigilante.

Just Benny

• AUDIO: Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code

Ace has only just left the TARDIS.

• PROSE: Infinite Requiem

Set Piece was the Doctor's last previous adventure.

• PROSE: Sanctuary

The TARDIS has only just left Gadrell Major, setting this immediately after Infinite Requiem.

• PROSE: Human Nature

The Doctor changes himself into a human to understand Benny's grief over the death of Guy de Carnac, which happened in Sanctuary. After he resumes his Time Lord identity, he is given a cat named Wolsey as a pet.

• PROSE: The Also People

The Doctor rescues Kadiatu from a slave ship.

• PROSE: Of the Mermaid and Jupiter
• PROSE: The Trials of Tara
• PROSE: Larkspur

Chris and Roz

• PROSE: Original Sin

The Doctor and Benny are joined by Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej, who wish to escape the corruption and manipulation rife on Earth in their time.

• PROSE: Sky Pirates!

Three-odd subjective years have passed since Love and War.

• PROSE: Zamper

Set immediately after Sky Pirates!

• PROSE: Utopia

The dark-attitude Doctor is wearing his white linen suit, with his mission being to talk a man with good intentions into killing himself because of foreknowledge of a possible future.

• PROSE: Toy Soldiers
• PROSE: Head Games

Ending leads directly into The Also People.

• PROSE: The Also People
• PROSE: Too Rich for My Blood
• PROSE: Shakedown
• PROSE: Just War

Ending leads directly into Warchild.

• PROSE: Warchild
• PROSE: Sleepy
• PROSE: Death and Diplomacy

Set immediately after Sleepy. Jason Kane proposes to Benny, and she accepts, leading into Happy Endings.

• PROSE: Happy Endings

Benny leaves the Doctor's company after her wedding to Jason Kane. The Doctor retrieves his original TARDIS from the Charrl after it was lost to him during Blood Heat.

• PROSE: GodEngine

The Doctor, Roz and Chris have only just left Benny and Jason's wedding, placing this immediately after Happy Endings.

• PROSE: The Nuclear Option
• PROSE: Anteus
• PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet
• PROSE: Return of the Living Dad
• PROSE: Cold Fusion
• PROSE: The Death of Art

Chris unsuccessfully pretends to be the Fifth Doctor, setting this story after Cold Fusion.

• PROSE: Damaged Goods
• PROSE: So Vile a Sin

Set immediately after Damaged Goods. Roz dies leading her sister's forces into battle against the army of Emperor Walid as part of Leabie's revolution. The Doctor suffers a one sided heart attack at her funeral, and has a vision of Death tormenting him about his coming demise. The Doctor begins wearing the clothes from Doctor Who.

• PROSE: Bad Therapy

Little time has passed since So Vile a Sin.

• PROSE: Culture War
• PROSE: The Southwell Park Mermaid

The Doctor and Chris have recovered from the shock of Roz' death.

• PROSE: No Room
• PROSE: Eternity Weeps
• PROSE: The Room With No Doors

Set shortly after Eternity Weeps, with Chris still traumatised by the events. The Doctor knows that his regeneration grows nearer. He thinks of his next of kin and family, leading into Lungbarrow.

The Doctor leaves Chris behind to take Penelope Gate and Joel Mintz back to their proper homes, and spends some time traveling on his own for a while afterwards.

• PROSE: Bullet Time

Set during The Room With No Doors, when the Doctor leaves Chris and travels on his own.

• PROSE: Never Seen Cairo

The Doctor obliquely claims to have lost someone in a war, and to have kept someone else in it for too long. He is most likely referring to Roz and Chris, respectively.

• AUDIO: The Story of Extinction

The Doctor has an encounter with Victoria Waterfield, but she doesn't recognise him.

• PROSE: Death Sentences

The Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit, setting this near Bullet Time.

• PROSE: Spookasem

The Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit, setting this near Bullet Time.

• PROSE: Lungbarrow

The Doctor returns to the House of Lungbarrow. Chris decides to travel alone using a Time ring given to him by Romana. The Doctor is sent on a mission by the Time Lords to pick up the Bruce Master's remains on Skaro, and is also given a new sonic screwdriver by Romana.

Many stories, such as Notre Dame du Temps and The Eleven, unambiguously establish that the Doctor does not immediately head for Skaro.

Moving on

• PROSE: Notre Dame du Temps

The Doctor has redecorated the TARDIS interior after his trip to Gallifrey in Lungbarrow, and is wearing his VNA suit and fedora.

• PROSE: Log 384

The Doctor is wearing his VNA fedora.

• PROSE: Perfect Present

The Doctor saves Montague Manor, at the coat of a servant's life.

• PROSE: Not in My Back Yard

The Doctor sets up a plan that involves using his eighth incarnation.

• AUDIO: The Shadow Heart
• PROSE: Omegamorphosis

The Doctor is wearing his clothes from Lungbarrow, and is using the sonic screwdriver he acquired in that story.

• PROSE: Last Christmas

The Doctor is wearing his linen suit, with a Santa Claus hat for the festive season.

Old friends reunited

• PROSE: Set Piece: Epilogue

The Doctor catches up with an older Ace following the defeat of the Voltranons.

• AUDIO: Many Happy Returns

The Doctor is trying to find Benny.

• AUDIO: The Revolution

The Doctor finds Benny. He has left Ace on Gallifrey in his future, at a point after Romana opens the Academy to aliens. Ace's life on Gallifrey can be blamed for the anomalies in her aging or sterility, such as with Leela and Chris Cwej. The Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit on the cover, but dialogue describes him in his question mark pullover.

• AUDIO: Good Night, Sweet Ladies
• AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro
• AUDIO: The Pyramid of Sutekh
• AUDIO: The Vaults of Osiris

Ace had a TARDIS driving lesson on Gallifrey.

• AUDIO: The Eye of Horus
• AUDIO: The Tears of Isis
• AUDIO: The Prisoner's Dilemma

Ace refers to Happy Endings, but she is travelling with the Doctor without Benny. She loses her memory, which the Doctor does his best to restore.

• AUDIO: Critical Mass

The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver.

• AUDIO: The Fearmonger

Ace obtains a CD Walkman from Paul Tanner.

• AUDIO: Dust Breeding

The Doctor and Ace bump into Bev Tarrant again, after meeting her in The Genocide Machine, and she leaves with them in the TARDIS after they defeat the Master.

Bev travels with the Doctor and Ace for some time, before eventually being left in the 26th century. (AUDIO: The Judas Gift)

• AUDIO: Colditz

At Colditz Castle during the Second World War, the Doctor and Ace are confronted by Elizabeth Klein, a scientist from an alternate timeline, who escapes her defeat as an anomaly. Ace decides to be called "McShane" from this story on.

• PROSE: Relativity

Set after Colditz.

• AUDIO: The Rapture

McShane references the recent events of Colditz and Dust Breeding.

Hex joins

• AUDIO: The Harvest

McShane tells Hex that she has been travelling with the Doctor "for a surprisingly long time." The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver, and is convinced by McShane to let Hex join them in the TARDIS.

• PROSE: These Things Take Time

Hex has only just joined the TARDIS crew, and visits his first alien world.

• PROSE: The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac

Set during These Things Take Time for the Seventh Doctor.

• AUDIO: Dreamtime

Hex sees aliens and spaceships for the first time.

• AUDIO: Afterlife (Hex's letter)

The Doctor battles the Cragvar.

• PROSE: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Set before LIVE 34, as Ace is still going by her surname.

• AUDIO: LIVE 34

McShane decides that "Ace" is her true name, and resumes using it. Reporter Ryan Wareing estimates Ace's age to be in her mid-to-late twenties. Ace refers to her brother from The Rapture.

• PROSE: Presence
• AUDIO: Night Thoughts
• AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard
  • AUDIO: Thicker Than Water

  The Doctor has dropped Ace and Hex off in 1966 Monte Carlo with instructions to steal the Veiled Leopard, (AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard) while he visits Evelyn Smythe.

  • AUDIO: The Sirens of Time

  The TARDIS makes TV sounds, but The Apocalypse Element places it after Romana becomes President.

• AUDIO: The Settling

This is Hex's first visit to Earth's past. The TARDIS interior has been redecorated to as it will be in Doctor Who.

• AUDIO: No Man's Land

Ace and Hex mention the recent events of The Settling.

• AUDIO: Nocturne
• PROSE: The Report
• AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor
• PROSE: Natalie's Diary

Set a few months after The Harvest. Hex mentions killing a man during The Settling.

• AUDIO: The Dark Husband
• AUDIO: False Gods
• AUDIO: Order of Simplicity
• AUDIO: Casualties of War
• AUDIO: The Word Lord

Battling the Elder Gods

• AUDIO: The Magic Mousetrap

The Doctor sees a chess set in the sanatorium, and realises Fenric is preparing his return.

• AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks

Ace has significant military and tactical knowledge, implying a post-Deceit setting. This is Hex's his first encounter with the Daleks.

• AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari

Hex is still reeling from the events that he witnessed on Bliss with the Daleks. The exterior shell of the TARDIS is shattered after the HADS are activated, and its colouration is stuck as white.

• AUDIO: Project: Destiny

Follows directly on from The Angel of Scutari. Hex leaves the TARDIS crew after discovering that the Doctor had previously been witness to his mother's death.

• AUDIO: A Death in the Family

Ace is incapable of flying the TARDIS. Hex rejoins the TARDIS at Evelyn Smythe's prompting, before Evelyn passes away.

• AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge

The Doctor goes to Alaska, so this is after Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.

• AUDIO: Robophobia

The Doctor is testing is black TARDIS. He seems to be evaluating Liv as a potential companion. Black and White says that he left Ace and Hex after Alaska.

• AUDIO: The Doomsday Quatrain
• AUDIO: House of Blue Fire

The Doctor is joined in the Black TARDIS by Sally Morgan after she helps him defeat the Mi'en Kalarash.

• AUDIO: Project: Nirvana

After a battle against the Kai'lizakia, Forge operative Lysandra Aristedes joined the Doctor and Sally in the Black TARDIS.

• AUDIO: Protect and Survive
• AUDIO: Black and White

The TARDIS is restored to its prime condition, and the Black TARDIS is destroyed.

• AUDIO: Gods and Monsters

Hex enters the Time Vortex to defeat Fenric, apparently killing himself in the process.

• AUDIO: Afterlife

Ace no longer knows her age, so this is after Set Piece, where she knew for a fact she was 26. Sally and Lysandra leave.

• AUDIO: Revenge of the Swarm
• AUDIO: Mask of Tragedy

The Doctor had decided to take Ace and Hector to Greece to relax after the events of Revenge of the Swarm. After their vacation, Hector asks the Doctor to return him home, leading into Signs and Wonders.

• AUDIO: Signs and Wonders

Hector leaves the TARDIS and settles down with Sally to raise a family. Ace's glimpses herself wearing a high collar, riding a motorbike in Paris in the 19th century, and being surrounded by the Lobri in her future. The TARDIS control room is temporarily changed to a white configuration after To'Koth uses it to return to the home dimension of the Elder Gods.

After Hex

• AUDIO: You Are the Doctor

The Doctor begins teaching Ace how to fly the TARDIS, as he promised to do in Signs and Wonders, also placing this after Deceit.

• AUDIO: Come Die With Me
• AUDIO: The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel
• AUDIO: Dead to the World

Ace refers to Hex having left.

• AUDIO: A Life of Crime

The TARDIS finds who it's been looking for; Mel, who rejoins the TARDIS crew.

• AUDIO: Fiesta of the Damned

The TARDIS interior has its Victorian parlour design.

• AUDIO: Maker of Demons
• COMIC: Ground Zero

The Doctor is wearing his Doctor Who outfit, and traveling with Ace, who wears her TV outfit. The TARDIS has its white interior, so presumably reverted at some point. Ace is killed and the TARDIS is damaged, implying that it is about to change to the Doctor is using the Victorian parlour interior seen in Doctor Who.

Alone

• AUDIO: Excelis Decays

The TARDIS interior has been changed recently, and the Doctor has his Doctor Who outfit on the cover.

• AUDIO: Return of the Daleks

The Doctor spends a couple of decades in the Daleks' prison, which can explain why he looks older in later stories. He refers to Mel, Ace and Hex - placed here, he has travelled with all three recently.

• AUDIO: Project: Lazarus
• AUDIO: A Death in the Family

Directly after Project: Lazarus. After the Doctor's younger self is killed, he "burns out of existence" when time catches up to him. He and the young Doctor agree that "burning into existence" will be painful. He look older than the young Doctor. He implies that something bad will happen to Ace.

• AUDIO: Master

The Doctor uses the alias "Vaughn Sutton," so this is after Excelis Decays. He also makes vague references to Benny, Chris and Roz, placing this after Original Sin as well. The Doctor arrives screaming, in pain, and singed, i.e. he "burned into existence", so this is placed immediately after A Death in the Family.

• PROSE: The Tramp's Story

The Doctor thinks back to his recent failures in Excelis Decays, Project: Lazarus and Master.

• AUDIO: The Death Collectors

The Doctor says that he is personal friends with Death. This placement is shortly after their encounter in Master.

• AUDIO: Spider's Shadow

Set after The Death Collectors.

• PROSE: Monitor

The Doctor is serving on a medical ship, saving lives, in order to atone for his recent actions, which is possibly a reference to Love and War, or Master. Given the amount of time the Doctor has spent on the ship, the latter seems the most plausible.

• PROSE: Twilight's End

The Doctor and Nimrod catch up after Project: Lazarus and Project: Destiny/A Death in the Family.

Klein's revenge

• AUDIO: A Thousand Tiny Wings

The Doctor is wearing his White Darkness outfit and is wistful about travelling alone. He knows Klein from Colditz.

• AUDIO: Klein's Story

Set immediately after A Thousand Tiny Wings. The Doctor is using the TARDIS interior from Doctor Who.

• AUDIO: Survival of the Fittest

After travelling together for a while, Klein takes her chance of revenge on the Doctor by stealing his TARDIS and abandoning him on the planet of the Vrill.

• AUDIO: The Architects of History

After Klein is erased from history by the Time Lords, the Doctor visits UNIT to find a different version of Klein now working there. The Doctor's hair is depicted as tufts growing out of the side of his head on the cover.

Unfinished business

• PROSE: Testament

The Doctor refers to the events of Log 384 as happening a long time ago.

• PROSE: Dream a Little Dream for Me
• PROSE: Perfect Present

The Doctor has had many solo adventures by this point.

• AUDIO: UNIT: Dominion

Raine Creevy is travelling with an older Doctor than normal. The TARDIS is using its Doctor Who interior. Ace is on Gallifrey, and must be meeting the Doctor asynchronously. The Doctor has travelled with the Nazi Klein.

• AUDIO: Valhalla

The Doctor is depicted with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who.

• AUDIO: Kingdom of Silver

The Doctor is portrayed with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who.

• AUDIO: Keepsake

Set after Kingdom of Silver.

• PROSE: The Shopping Trolleys of Doom
• PROSE: Running on Empty
• PROSE: Stolen Days
• AUDIO: Frozen Time

The Doctor is portrayed with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who.

• PROSE: Inmate 280

The Doctor has stopped believing in the efficacy of imprisonment.

• AUDIO: The Wormery

The Doctor is disposing of the evidence of his predecessor's adventure.

• PROSE: Policy to Invade

The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room.

• PROSE: Reunion

The Doctor is portrayed with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who.

• PROSE: Christmas in Toronto
• AUDIO: The Two Masters

The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room, and recognises the Reborn Master from UNIT: Dominion.

Search for the Persuasion machine

• AUDIO: Persuasion

Set after UNIT: Dominion, with the TARDIS control room having the Victorian parlour console room design from Doctor Who. The Doctor is nearing the end of his current life, and has been trying to eradicate evil before his end.

• AUDIO: Starlight Robbery
• AUDIO: Daleks Among Us

Nearing the end

• PROSE: Companion Piece

The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room, and has a premonition of his upcoming death, though he doesn't recognise it as such.

• PROSE: Peaceable Kingdom
• PROSE: The Celestial Harmony Engine
• AUDIO: Last of the Titans

The Doctor is alone. He refers to his "younger days." He is sadder than in earlier stories, placing this story before his renewed sense of happiness in The Eight Doctors.

• PROSE: The Eight Doctors

After having a "mid-life crisis" whilst dealing with his approaching death, the Doctor is inspired to enjoy the time he has left after being rescued from an Eight Leg by his successor.

• PROSE: Clean-up on Aisle Two

The Doctor has abandoned his manipulative ways, and helps someone else realises how such ways only results in everyone leaving him when it matters.

• PROSE: The Hunting of the Slook

The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room.

• AUDIO: The Eleven (prologue)

On Gallifrey, the Doctor is given a task. Presumably the Time Lords want him to complete his task with the Master's remains.

• TV: Doctor Who

The Doctor regenerates.