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This page lists appearances of the Fifth 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 assumed, much like their TV story counterparts, that each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in[statement unclear]. There are also many gaps between stories.
The layout of this timeline is based in part on the observations on Doctor Who Reference Guide and Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
Limiting factors
Companions
Any story with Adric must take place before TV: Earthshock. Any story with Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka must take place before TV: Time-Flight, after TV: Arc of Infinity and before TV: Terminus, or after AUDIO: Cobwebs. Any story with just Nyssa must be after TV: Time-Flight and before TV: Arc of Infinity. Any story with Tegan and Turlough must take place after TV: Mawdryn Undead and before TV: Resurrection of the Daleks. Any story with just Turlough must take place after TV: Resurrection of the Daleks and before TV: Planet of Fire. Any story with Peri Brown must take place after TV: Planet of Fire. Any story where the Doctor is travelling alone must be set during Renaissance of the Daleks.
Series basics
The Fifth Doctor's stories can be sorted roughly by which companions he travels with and also the medium in which the companions first appeared together.
TV created
- Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka
- Nyssa, Tegan
- Nyssa
- Nyssa, Tegan
- Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough
- Tegan, Turlough
- Turlough
- Peri Brown
Audio created
- Nyssa, Thomas Brewster
- Nyssa, Hannah Bartholemew
- Peri, Erimem
- Amy
Timeline
Early adventures
- The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation.
- Set during Castrovalva.
- Set immediately after Castrovalva.
- The Doctor is still recovering from the effects of his recent regeneration.
Attempts to return to Heathrow
- TV: Four to Doomsday / PROSE: Four to Doomsday
- TV: Kinda / PROSE: Kinda
- The Doctor has recently met the Terileptils from The Visitation.
- The Doctor has recently lost his sonic screwdriver.
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- Set during the Doctors Cricket match
- Takes place shortly after Black Orchid.
- The Dar Traders predict Adrics death
- TV: Earthshock / PROSE: Earthshock
Nyssa and Tegan
- The crew of the TARDIS are mourning the death of Adric.
- PROSE: Danger Down Below
- PROSE: The God Machine
- PROSE: The Armageddon Chrysalis
- PROSE: The Haven
- PROSE: The Penalty
- PROSE: Night Flight to Nowhere
- Night Flight to Nowhere leads into Time-Flight with the TARDIS arriving at Heathrow.
Two's company
- Adric and Tegan have recently left
- The Doctor has recently lost two friends of his
- AUDIO: The Land of the Dead
- AUDIO: Winter for the Adept
- AUDIO: The Mutant Phase
- AUDIO: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men
- Nyssa believes it would be impossible for her to travel back into Traken's past, placing this before Primeval.
- AUDIO: Primeval
- AUDIO: Spare Parts
- AUDIO: Creatures of Beauty
- AUDIO: The Game
- AUDIO: Spring
- AUDIO: Summer
- AUDIO: Autumn
Stockbridge
- The Doctor already knows Shayde when he meets him in No Place Like Home, so these comic strips must take place before that story. Renaissance of the Daleks shows a period where the Doctor travels alone while Nyssa goes on a solo expedition to Rhodes.
Temporary companions
- COMIC: Lunar Lagoon
- COMIC: 4-Dimensional Vistas
- COMIC: The Moderator
- TV: The Day of the Doctor
- PROSE: Time on a Vine
Troubles with Thomas Brewster
- The Doctor continues to travel with Nyssa.
- AUDIO: Return to the Web Planet
- AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
- AUDIO: The Boy That Time Forgot
- AUDIO: Time Reef
- AUDIO: A Perfect World
Further travels with Nyssa
- AUDIO: Castle of Fear
- AUDIO: The Eternal Summer
- AUDIO: Plague of the Daleks
- AUDIO: The Demons of Red Lodge
- AUDIO: The Entropy Composition
- AUDIO: Doing Time
- AUDIO: Special Features
- AUDIO: 1001 Nights
- AUDIO: My Brother's Keeper
- AUDIO: The Interplanetarian
- AUDIO: Smuggling Tales
- PROSE: Long Term
- PROSE: Artificial Intelligence
- The Doctor mentions his visit to the school in Long Term.
Old foes return
- Set directly after Arc of Infinity.
- The Doctor is clearing up after the events of Arc of Infinity.
- The Doctor is attempting to Amsterdam to pick up Nyssa and Tegan.
- The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa have just left Amsterdam.
- PROSE: Fear of the Dark
- AUDIO: Hexagora
- AUDIO: The Children of Seth
- PROSE: The Sands of Time
- PROSE: Zeta Major
- TV: Snakedance / PROSE: Snakedance
- TV: Time Crash
- The Tenth Doctor recalls being embroiled in adventures involving Nyssa and Tegan, the Time Lords at the Mara at this point.
- Tegan is still recovering from her possession
- TV: Mawdryn Undead / PROSE: Mawdryn Undead
- AUDIO: Gardens of the Dead
- TV: Terminus / PROSE: Terminus
- TV: Enlightenment / PROSE: Enlightenment
- AUDIO: Freakshow
- Set just after Enlightenment.
Nyssa returns
- Set two days after Nyssa initially left the TARDIS.
- AUDIO: The Whispering Forest
- AUDIO: The Cradle of the Snake
- AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar
- AUDIO: Kiss of Death
- AUDIO: Rat Trap
- AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger
- AUDIO: The Jupiter Conjunction
- AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane
- AUDIO: Eldrad Must Die!
- AUDIO: The Lady of Mercia
- AUDIO: Prisoners of Fate
- AUDIO: Mistfall
- AUDIO: Equilibrium
- AUDIO: The Entropy Plague
Tegan and Turlough
- Kamelion is aboard the TARDIS, which is heavily damaged, leading to the new console in Five Doctors.
- The Doctor is trying to reach the Eye of Orion.
- The Eight Doctors takes place just after The Five Doctors
- At the end of this story the cloister bell starts ringing.
- The web of time is threatened when Margaret Thatcher is assassinated during her first year as Prime Minister, explaining why the TARDIS cloister bell was ringing.
Violent times
- TV: Warriors of the Deep / PROSE: Warriors of the Deep
- PROSE: Deep Blue
- TV: The Awakening / PROSE: The Awakening
- PROSE: The King of Terror
- TV: Frontios / PROSE: Frontios
- Takes place during Frontios while the Doctor is transporting the Gravis from Frontios to Kolkokron.
- The Gravis is finally dropped on Kolkokron, and the Doctor and Tegan share a brief adventure before returning to collect Turlough.
Changed ways
- PROSE: Lords of the Storm
- PROSE: Imperial Moon
- AUDIO: Phantasmagoria
- AUDIO: Loups-Garoux
- AUDIO: Singularity
- TV: Planet of Fire / PROSE: Planet of Fire
- PROSE: Five Card Draw
- The Doctor is trying to find a good first trip for Peri
- This is Peri's first trip in the TARDIS
Second quest for the Key to Time
- The Doctor is separated from Peri until he finds the Key to Time.
- The Doctor has recently visited Mars
Adventures with Peri and Erimem
- The Doctor expresses a desire to visit Egypt.
- Erimem joins the TARDIS crew.
- Erimem is new to the TARDIS.
- AUDIO: Nekromanteia
- PROSE: The Gangster's Story
- AUDIO: The Axis of Insanity
- AUDIO: The Roof of the World
- AUDIO: Three's a Crowd
- AUDIO: The Council of Nicaea
- AUDIO: The Kingmaker
- AUDIO: The Gathering
- This adventure occurs while Erimem and Peri are involved in The Veiled Leopard.
- The Doctor is still travelling alone.
- The Doctor is again travelling with Peri and Erimem.
- Erimem leaves the Doctor.
Final travels
- The final lines indicate that this story is set directly prior to Androzani.
- The Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation.
- Set during the Doctor's regeneration.
Unplaced
- PROSE: Blood and Hope
- PROSE: The Key of Vaga
- PROSE: Planet of Fear
- PROSE: The Oxaqua Incident
- PROSE: Winter on Mesique
- PROSE: The Creation of Camelot
- PROSE: Class 4 Renegade
- PROSE: The Volcanis Deal
- PROSE: The Nemertines
- PROSE: Fungus
- PROSE: Birth of a Renegade
- PROSE: A Victorian Interlude
- PROSE: Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat
- PROSE: One Last Try
- PROSE: Fascination
- PROSE: Lackaday Express
- PROSE: Lonely Days
- PROSE: Past Reckoning
- PROSE: Zeitgeist
- PROSE: The Parliament of Rats
- PROSE: The Eternity Contract
- PROSE: Hot Ice
- PROSE: A Town Called Eternity
- PROSE: Hearts of Stone
- PROSE: Qualia
- PROSE: The Canvey Angels
- PROSE: Soul Mate
- PROSE: Confabula
- PROSE: The Glass Princess
- PROSE: No Exit
- PROSE: Greenaway
- PROSE: The Immortals
- PROSE: Graham Dilley Saves the World
- PROSE: White Man's Burden
- PROSE: Observation
- PROSE: Lant Land
- PROSE: The Juror's Story
- PROSE: Flashpoint
- PROSE: Categorical Imperative
- PROSE: Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life
- PROSE: In the TARDIS: Christmas Day
- PROSE: Lily
- PROSE: The 57th
- PROSE: A Life in the Day
- PROSE: One Wednesday Afternoon
- PROSE: Saturn
- PROSE: Rome
- PROSE: The Church of Saint Sebastian
- PROSE: Comforts of Home
- PROSE: The Velvet Dark
- PROSE: Black and White
- PROSE: Falling from Xi'an
- PROSE: The Church of Football
- PROSE: First Born
- PROSE: Resonance
- PROSE: Suspension and Disbelief
- PROSE: Leap Second
- PROSE: Men of the Earth
- PROSE: The Misadventure of Mark Thorne
- PROSE: There's Something About Mary
- PROSE: Piecemeal
- PROSE: Do You Believe in the Krampus?
- PROSE: Far Away in a Manger
- PROSE: Keeping It Real
- PROSE: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
- PROSE: Goths and Robbers
- PROSE: God Send Me Well to Keep
- PROSE: Gudok
- PROSE: Tweaker
- PROSE: Methuselah
- PROSE: Curiosity
- PROSE: The Man on the Phone
- PROSE: Do You Smell Carrots?
- PROSE: The Fall of the Druids
- AUDIO: The Deep
- AUDIO: Seven to One
- AUDIO: Wet Walls
- AUDIO: The Lions of Trafalgar
- AUDIO: The Three Companions
- GAME: Destiny of the Doctors
- The Doctor is in his first outfit, and events from The King's Demons are alluded too.
- COMIC: On the Planet Isopterus
- COMIC: The Lunar Strangers
- COMIC: The Curse of the Scarab
- COMIC: The Stockbridge Child (flashback)
- COMIC: Blood Invocation
- COMIC: The Forgotten (flashback)
- COMIC: Prisoners of Time