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

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 information in Lance Parkin's AHistory which allow us to make observations on placement of stories, such as Doctor Who Reviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Databank, the Big Finnish forums, The Whoniverse and the Divergent Universe forums. 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 of Virgin Missing Adventures and BBC Past Doctor Adventures novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, and should be viewed as the only placing for these novels.

Limiting factors

Before An Unearthly Child

Any stories featuring only the First Doctor and Susan travelling or otherwise are generally set before An Unearthly Child where it's established that the TARDIS isn't functioning correctly and where they pick up Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright.

Story placement

Due to how the early-60s stories were told, with one story leading into another there are fewer "gaps" between which stories can be placed. It is often easier to say when television stories do not have a cliffhanger that directly continues into another than when they do.

Many novels and short stories, are therefore set between in the gap between stories at the end and start of seasons;

Season 1 and Season 2

• Between TV: The Reign of Terror and Planet of Giants

Season 2 and Season 3

• Between TV: The Time Meddler and Galaxy 4

Season 3 and Season 4

• Between TV: The War Machines and The Smugglers

Additionally some stories, in particular The Companion Chronicles and others are set during particularly long stories such as TV: The Daleks' Master Plan.

There are several other smaller gaps between stories such as between TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth and The Rescue.

TV Comics placement

The First Doctor's travels with John and Gillian are very problematic to place in the Doctor's timeline, as between The Experimenters and The Extortioner, the Doctor is inexplicitly replaced by his second incarnation.

The stories Conundrum and The Land of Happy Endings hypothesise that these adventures are either stories created by The Master of the Land of Fiction or the Doctor's dreams.

Companions

Story placement can also be narrowed down by which companions are travelling with the Doctor, see Series basics below.

Timeline

Life on Gallifrey

• PROSE: Lungbarrow

The Doctor is born from the Loom of the House of Lungbarrow on Gallifrey.

• TV: Listen

The Doctor hasn't joined the Academy yet.

• PROSE: Lungbarrow

The Doctor is disinherited from his ancestral House.

• AUDIO: Master

Having been forced to kill his bully to protect his friend, the Doctor makes a deal with Death.

• PROSE: Divided Loyalties

While studying at the Academy, the young Doctor crosses wits with the Celestial Toymaker for the first time.

• PROSE: Tomb of Valdemar

The Doctor and the Master travel into Gallifrey's past in search of Valdemar.

• PROSE: Harvest of Time

The Doctor and the Master work on the Consolidator .

• AUDIO: The Toy

The Doctor brings Susan to watch him and a group of Prydonians performed a ritual in Arcadia.

• COMIC: Flashback

The Doctor still has superior ranking on Gallifrey.

• PROSE: Cold Fusion

Traveling back in time, the Doctor rescues Patience and her granddaughter from a danger on Gallifrey.

Leaving Gallifrey

Due to conflicting accounts, each telling of the Doctor's fateful escape have been listed in order of release.

• PROSE: Birth of a Renegade

In a story told by the Tremas Master, the Doctor decides to leave Gallifrey in the midst of a civil war. He enters a TARDIS alone, and finds a young lady inside, who he adopts as his granddaughter.

• COMIC: Time & Time Again

The Doctor and Susan escape from an explosion on Gallifrey, determent to keep the Hand of Omega safe.

• PROSE: Nightshade

A flashback shows a lone Doctor discarding his Prydonian robes as he is departing Gallifrey after a meeting with likewise hooded elderly men.

• PROSE: Lungbarrow

After an argument with his cousin, Glospin, the Doctor leaves Gallifrey with the Hand of Omega, and travels back to the Old Time, where he adopts Susan, the granddaughter of the Other.

• TV: The Name of the Doctor

Set during The Beginning: The First Flight, after Susan step inside the first TARDIS, and before the Doctor takes her into a second one.

• AUDIO: The Beginning

The Doctor, already with Susan and wearing Victorian era clothing, is being pursued by the Chancellery Guard whilst fleeing Gallifrey with a flying trunk containing the Hand of Omega.

First flight

• PROSE: The Exiles

The Doctor has just escaped Gallifrey. Susan is exploring the TARDIS for the first time.

• PROSE: Frayed

This is the Doctor and Susan's first experience with humanity. Controversially, it even sees them take the names of "the Doctor" and "Susan".

• AUDIO: The Beginning

Already going by "the Doctor" and "Susan", the wanderers have their first experience with humanity during their first trip to the Solar system.

Wanderers in the fourth dimension

• PROSE: First Meetings

"El Jefe" has quickly become disillusioned after leaving the "Lords Temporal", but after " Alison" steals Iris Wildthyme's diaries, he is inspired.

• PROSE: The Five O'Clock Shadow

The Doctor is telling a bedtime story to Susan.

• AUDIO: The Sleeping Blood

Susan feels enough familiarity with the TARDIS to begin calling it home.

• AUDIO: Seven to One

• COMIC: Time Trick

• PROSE: The Arboreals

The chameleon circuit is operational.

• PROSE: Dr. First

The Doctor and Susan land in London, much to the Doctor's chagrin. The Doctor recognises the Cybermen.

• PROSE: Indian Summer

• PROSE: All-Consuming Fire

The Doctor and Susan visit Jabalhabad.

• PROSE: Childhood Living

The Doctor and Susan are familiar enough with Earth to debate whether or not the Great Wall of China is visible from space.

• PROSE: Categorical Imperative

Learning that a dictator would cause Earth's destruction, the Doctor and Susan go back in time to kill the dictator as a baby. However, the Doctor drops his weapon and is forced to flee before he even sees the baby.

• PROSE: Life from Lifelessness

The chameleon circuit is operational.

• PROSE: The Price of Conviction

The chameleon circuit is operational. The Doctor and Susan have been on Earth several times by now.

• PROSE: The Gift

• PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor

The Doctor is familiar enough with human pop culture to reference Harry Potter, Blake's 7 and Artemis Fowl.

• PROSE: Bide-a-Wee

The Doctor is relatively familiar and comfortable with humanity, but he and Susan have not yet settled in 1960s London.

• PROSE: Losing the Audience

• AUDIO: Quinnis

Set "4 or 5 journeys" before The Edge of Destruction. The chameleon circuit is operational. The Doctor believes Susan needs friends her own age, stability and teachers.

• PROSE: Urrozdinee

The chameleon circuit is operational. At the end of the story, the Doctor says that he and Susan will "put down some roots" for a while, implying that the next stop may be 1963.

• AUDIO: The Alchemists

The Doctor and Susan have already had many adventures in the 20th century, but have not seen much of the latter half of the century. The Doctor is looking for a place for him and Susan to settle down for a while.

• PROSE: The Little Things

The Doctor takes a brief trip to 1997 to check if the United Kingdom will remain a safe place to stay in the times to come.

Hiding on Earth

• PROSE: The Rag & Bone Man's Story

The Doctor arrives in 1960s London, and Susan begins attending Coal Hill School. The TARDIS is damaged by the Blessing Star.

• PROSE: Echoes of Future Past

The Doctor has only recently arrived in London 1963, and Susan is already in education.

• PROSE: Time and Relative

Set on 1 April 1963. The Doctor and Susan have been on Earth for some time, Susan is attending school and something breaks when the Doctor journeys in the TARDIS, forcing him to fix it using 20th century parts. The Doctor begins to take an interest in protecting the human race.

In Time and Relative, the Doctor takes the Cold away from Earth, and then logically spends several adventures trying to get back to Susan.

• PROSE: The Sons of the Crab

The Crab Nebula is the farthest the TARDIS has travelled up to this point, making it one of the earliest adventures. Susan is absent, and the TARDIS is in police box form, setting this after Time and Relative.

• PROSE: The Lost Ones

Set before The Web Planet, since this is the Doctor's first visit to Vortis, and he does not recognise the Zarbi. Susan is absent, and the Doctor claims that he is from the planet Earth.

• PROSE: The Monsters from Earth

Set before The Sensorites, since the Doctor does not recognize the Sensorites. Susan is absent, and the TARDIS is in police box form, placing this after Time and Relative.

• PROSE: Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space

The Doctor is alone and unable to control the TARDIS's navigation systems; he also claims that he's from Earth.

• COMIC: Time & Time Again

As the Doctor walks through 1963 Shoreditch, he thinks of where to hide the Hand of Omega, setting this before he buried it during late October.

• PROSE: The Juror's Story

The Doctor begins calling himself "Dr. Foreman".

• PROSE: Ash

• COMIC: Operation Proteus

Set on 22 October 1963.

• AUDIO: Hunters of Earth

The Doctor and Susan have been on Earth for four months, setting it one month prior to the events of An Unearthly Child.

Meeting Ian and Barbara

• COMIC: Prologue: The First Doctor

In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Doctor is captured by the Cyberman immediately before the events of An Unearthly Child.

• TV: An Unearthly Child

On 22 November 1963, Susan's curious teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, follow her home and force themselves into the TARDIS, and the Doctor flies the ship in a panic, bringing the teachers with him and Susan to 100,000 BC. Ending leads directly into The Daleks.

• PROSE: The Eight Doctors

Takes place during An Unearthly Child: The Forest of Fear, just after Ian prevents the Doctor from stoning Za to death.

• TV: The Daleks

The Doctor encounters the Daleks and the Thals for the first time. He also explains that he can't properly fly the TARDIS and can't return to 76 Totter's Lane. Ending leads directly into The Edge of Destruction.

• TV: The Edge of Destruction

The TARDIS' sentience is brought up for the first time. After realising that his paranoia got the best of him, the Doctor makes amends to better himself in the future. Ending leads directly into Marco Polo.

• COMIC: The Secrets of the Tardis

The Doctor explains how the TARDIS works to Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, setting this during The Edge of Destruction: The Brink of Disaster .

Further adventures

• TV: Marco Polo

• PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The TARDIS crew have just left China, setting this immediately after Marco Polo.

• PROSE: Who Discovered America?

• PROSE: The Ruins of Time

Ian and Barbara are still trying to grasp some of the more alien concepts in their travels, and the Doctor is not yet on a first name basis with them.

• TV: The Keys of Marinus

• COMIC: The Forgotten

The Doctor is using the cane he received from Kublai Khan in Marco Polo. Ian has changed out of his Chinese gown.

• AUDIO: The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance

• AUDIO: Farewell, Great Macedon

Set before The Aztecs, as the idea of changing history is new to Ian and Barbara.

• AUDIO: The Masters of Luxor

Set directly after Farewell, Great Macedon, with the events from The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance being mentioned.

• TV: The Aztecs

The Doctor warns Barbara about the consequences of altering the course of history.

• TV: The Sensorites

Susan unlocks a deeper telepathic ability than the Doctor thought she had. Barbara has fully recovered from her ordeal from The Aztecs.

• AUDIO: The Transit of Venus

Set explicitly between The Sensorites and The Reign of Terror.

• TV: The Reign of Terror

Starts from where The Sensorites left off, with the Doctor still arguing with Ian and Barbara.

• AUDIO: Rise and Fall

Ian refers to the events from The Reign of Terror as the travellers' latest trip.

• AUDIO: The Wanderer

Ian remembers the Doctor saying that the travellers' "destiny is in the stars", which he said in The Reign of Terror. Barbara and Ian still believe that history can't be changed.

• PROSE: The Mother Road

Susan knows of Barbara's familiarity with Cortez and the Mexican civilisations, setting this after The Aztecs.

• PROSE: The Duke's Folly

Barbara refers to the Doctor's warning about interfering with history from The Aztecs.

• AUDIO: The Alchemists

Susan is writing a letter for Ian and Barbara to read after she's gone. She mentions the Doctor's warning of the immutability of history from The Aztecs, but feels the need to explain that it's wrong, presumably setting this before The Library of Alexandria and The Flames of Cadiz.

• PROSE: Tell Me You Love Me

• AUDIO: The Library of Alexandria

Ian refers to the events from The Transit of Venus. He and Barbara begin to think that the Doctor has been deceitful with them about changing history.

• AUDIO: A Star is Born

• AUDIO: The Flames of Cadiz

Ian refers to his encounter with Captain James Cook from The Transit of Venus. He and Barbara aren't surprised when the Doctor thinks that history can be changed.

• PROSE: Rennigan's Record

• PROSE: The Last Days

Barbara refers to her attempts to save the Aztecs.

• AUDIO: The Light at the End

• PROSE: Mire and Clay

• PROSE: Room for Improvement

Barbara and Susan are mentioned, setting this before The Dalek Invasion of Earth.

• PROSE: The Reign Makers

Set shortly before Planet of Giants.

• AUDIO: Domain of the Voord

Sequel story to The Keys of Marinus.

• AUDIO: The Age of Endurance

• AUDIO: Flywheel Revolution

Though he is currently separated from them, the Doctor is travelling with Susan, Ian, and Barbara.

• PROSE: City at World's End

Susan mentions the human-colonised planet from The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The removal of the life pod from the TARDIS begins to affect its dimensional stability, setting this shortly before Planet of Giants.

• PROSE: The Witch Hunters

Susan is still troubled with the telepathic powers she demonstrated in The Sensorites, and Ian and Barbara's experiences during The Reign of Terror are mentioned.

• AUDIO: Here There Be Monsters

Susan is beginning to realise she will need to leave the Doctor soon and make her own life.

• PROSE: The Thief of Sherwood

The TARDIS begins suffering from space pressure, leading directly into Planet of Giants.

• TV: Planet of Giants

• PROSE: The Time Travellers

Set immediately after Planet of Giants.

Leaving Susan behind

• TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth

The Doctor encounters the Daleks for the first time since "The Daleks". Susan falls in love with rebel David Campbell, and the Doctor decides to leave her behind so she can grow into her own person.

• PROSE: Venusian Lullaby

The TARDIS crew have just left 22nd century Earth, and the Doctor still adapting to life without Susan.

• PROSE: The Book of Shadows

The Doctor is still thinking about gold for a wedding ring for Susan, as he was in Venusian Lullaby.

• COMIC: Doctor Who in ''Lilliput''

• PROSE: The True and Indisputable Facts in the Matter of the Ram's Skull

• COMIC: On the Planet Vortis

Ending leads directly into The Zarbi Are Destroyed.

• COMIC: The Zarbi Are Destroyed

• PROSE: A Long Night

It has been roughly a year since Ian and Barbara were abducted by the Doctor.

• COMIC: Dr. Who in the Spider's Web

• COMIC: Dr. Who on the Aqua Planet

• COMIC: The Ice-Age Monster

• COMIC: Dr. Who Meets the Watermen

• COMIC: The Daleks Destroy the Zomites

• COMIC: Escape from the Aquafien

• COMIC: Where Diamonds Are Worthless

• COMIC: The Prehistoric Monster

• COMIC: Dr. Who and the Nerve Machine

• COMIC: The Daleks Are Foiled

• COMIC: Rescued from the Daleks

• COMIC: The Defeat of the Daleks

• AUDIO: The Revenants

Ian's first trip to Scotland, therefore set before Set in Stone. According to him, Susan left "a while ago".

• PROSE: Set in Stone

• PROSE: The Nine-Day Queen

More companions

• TV: The Rescue

The Doctor, Ian and Barbara are joined by Vicki. After leaving Dido, the TARDIS falls from a cliff, leading directly into The Romans.

• PROSE: Byzantium!

• PROSE: Romans Cutaway

Romans Cutaway and Byzantium! are both set after the TARDIS materialises and falls off the cliff at the end of The Rescue, and before the travellers settle down in Rome at the start of The Romans.

• TV: The Romans

• AUDIO: Starborn

According to Vicki, the travellers have just left Rome, and are still wearing their Roman clothes when they arrive in London.

• PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger

The Doctor is trying to make the shortest journey possible away from Rome, setting this directly after The Romans.

• TV: The Web Planet

• AUDIO: The Fifth Traveller

Ian mentions the recent travels to Vortis, Rome, Byzantium, and China.

• PROSE: White Man's Burden

The Doctor is mentioned as being in the TARDIS with a fever.

• AUDIO: The Dark Planet

• AUDIO: 1963

• AUDIO: The Rocket Men

• COMIC: Unnatural Selection

Serves as a sequel to The Web Planet. After assisting Thomas Huxley fight off the Animus and the Zarbi, Ian, Barbara and Vicki are kidnapped Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame.

• COMIC: Endgame

The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue Ian, Barbara and Vicki from Adam and the Tremas Master, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well.

• TV: The Crusade

Ending leads directly into The Space Museum.

• TV: The Space Museum

• PROSE: Every Day

The Doctor is still working on the Time-Space Visualiser he picked up in The Space Museum.

• COMIC: A Religious Experience

Ian refers to his encounter with the Saracens from The Crusade.

• PROSE: The Plotters

The Doctor refers to the Menoptera from The Web Planet.

• PROSE: All I Want for Christmas

Barbara has a feeling she and Ian will find a way home soon.

• AUDIO: The Sleeping City

Ian mentions being knighted by Richard the Lionheart, setting this after The Crusade.

• AUDIO: The Unwinding World

• AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale

Ian used his himself as "Sir Ian of Jaffa", setting this story after The Crusade.

• TV: The Chase

The Doctor meets and frees spaceship pilot Steven Taylor from the Mechanoids. Ian and Barbara use a Dalek time machine to return to their home time period, and the Doctor and Vicki find Steven in the TARDIS immediately afterwards.

• TV: The Time Meddler

The Doctor invites Steven aboard the TARDIS, and battles with Template:Butterworth for the first time.

• COMIC: Are You Listening?

Vicki and Steven are wearing their outfits from The Time Meddler.

• AUDIO: The Suffering

Steven mutters that his last meal was in 1066, setting this directly after The Time Meddler.

• AUDIO: Frostfire

Vicki mentions that Steven has only recently joined the TARDIS crew.

• AUDIO: Upstairs

The Doctor mentions that everywhere the TARDIS arrives can't be a fun fair, alluding to the events of Frostfire.

• AUDIO: The Bounty of Ceres

The Doctor is experimenting with the component he stole from the Monk's TARDIS in The Time Meddler.

• AUDIO: The Ravelli Conspiracy

• AUDIO: Fields of Terror

Time briefly becomes distorted.

• AUDIO: The Light at the End

The Doctor, Steven and Vicki briefly encounter an apparition of a Charley Pollard from an alternate timeline.

• AUDIO: The Founding Fathers

• AUDIO: The Secret History

The Doctor is switched with his fifth incarnation by the Monk. Steven has not yet been given a TARDIS key, setting this before The Empire of Glass.

• TV: The Three Doctors

• PROSE: The Empire of Glass

Set immediately after The Three Doctors, with the Doctor being returned from the Omega crisis with his memory of the events wiped.

• PROSE: Corridors of Power

• PROSE: The Schoolboy's Story

• AUDIO: Etheria

• AUDIO: Across the Darkened City

Time briefly becomes distorted.

• AUDIO: The Suffering

Vicki prepares to give Steven a haircut, setting up the opening scene for "Galaxy 4".

• TV: Galaxy 4

• PROSE: Planet of the Bunnoids

The Doctor tells the brain-creature that Vicki and Steven have faced Daleks, Vikings and Chumblies.

• PROSE: Snowman in Manhattan

• PROSE: Mars

Vicki thinks to herself that she's not a child anymore.

• PROSE: The Power Supply

• PROSE: The Long Step Backward

• TV: The Myth Makers

Vicki leaves the TARDIS to stay in Ancient Greece with Troilus, and the Doctor and Steven are joined by Katarina. Ending leads directly into The Daleks' Master Plan.

• PROSE: Scribbles in Chalk

Takes place directly between The Myth Makers and The Daleks Master Plan.

Fighting the Daleks

• TV: The Daleks' Master Plan (The Nightmare Begins–The Feast of Steven)

Katarina loses her life in a hostage situation, and Sara Kingdom joins the TARDIS crew in her place.

• AUDIO: The Anachronauts

The Doctor, Steven and Sara celebrate Christmas together in the TARDIS' control room after visiting Liverpool on 25 December 1965. Sara has not yet been told about interfering with history, setting before The Little Drummer Boy.

• PROSE: Katarina in the Underworld

After Katrina's death, the sleeping Doctor is summoned by Persephone to help Katrina in the afterlife.

• PROSE: The Little Drummer Boy

Robert grabs the taranium that the Doctor stole in The Daleks' Master Plan: Day of Armageddon.

• AUDIO: The Drowned World

• AUDIO: The Guardian of the Solar System

Sara recalls Robert dying in her arms during The Little Drummer Boy.

• AUDIO: Home Truths

Although this is the first story that was told to Robert, it is the last of the adventures that the Home Truths recalls from Sarah's life, setting it after the previous two stories in the trilogy.

• AUDIO: An Ordinary Life

After their ordinary life is over, the Doctor decides to return to Kembel, leading the TARDIS crew back into the events of The Daleks' Master Plan.

• AUDIO: The Sontarans

The Doctor battles the Sontarans for the first time, and learns about their war with the Rutan Host. Another time machine begins pursuing the TARDIS, leading directly into Volcano.

• TV: The Daleks' Master Plan (Volcano–Destruction of Time)

Sara dies as a result of the Time Destructor.

• PROSE: Ash

The Doctor and Steven are recovering from Sara and Katarina's deaths.

Oliver Harper

• AUDIO: The Perpetual Bond

The Doctor returns to I.M. Foreman's junkyard for the first time since departing in An Unearthly Child. Steven recalls the recent deaths of Katarina, Bret Vyon, and Sara Kingdom from The Daleks' Master Plan.

• AUDIO: The Cold Equations

This is Oliver's first trip in the TARDIS.

• AUDIO: The First Wave

Oliver sacrifices his life to save the Doctor and Steven from the Vardans.

Time alone

• PROSE: Roses

The Doctor and Steven are taking a break after the events of The Daleks' Master Plan. Roses leads directly into The Five Doctors.

• TV: The Five Doctors

• PROSE: The Witch Hunters

The Doctor has begun travelling on his own with the ability to pilot the TARDIS effectively, as a favour granted to him by Rassilon in The Five Doctors, allowing him to tie up some loose ends before his first regeneration.

• PROSE: Troilus and Cressida

The Doctor mentions his visited to Troy from The Myth Makers.

• PROSE: The Vardon Horse

• PROSE: The Lair of Zarbi Supremo

The Doctor is able to pilot the TARDIS to Vortis, setting this after The Five Doctors.

• PROSE: Peril in Mechanistria

There are references to the Daleks, and since the Doctor never heard of them prior to The Daleks, this adventure must takes place afterwards.

• PROSE: The Fishmen of Kandalinga

Sequel story to The Keys of Marinus.

• TV: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor leads his other incarnations in the saving of Gallifrey on the last day of the Last Great Time War. He is able to pilot the TARDIS to Gallifrey, setting this after The Five Doctors.

• GAME: Destiny of the Doctors

• COMIC: Day of the Tune

• PROSE: The Cloud Exiles

The Doctor uses his jewelled ring to open the lock on the epitomiser cubicle, as he had done to the TARDIS lock in The Daleks' Master Plan.

• PROSE: The Sons of Grekk

• PROSE: Terror on Tiro

Follows directly on from The Sons of Grekk. The Doctor is able to pilot the TARDIS to Tiro, setting this after The Five Doctors.

• COMIC: Mission for Duh

• PROSE: The Devil-Birds of Corbo

• PROSE: The Playthings of Fo

Follows directly on from The Devil Birds of Corbo. The Doctor is able to pilot the TARDIS to Rhoos, setting this after The Five Doctors.

• PROSE: Justice of the Glacians

• PROSE: Ten Fathom Pirates

• COMIC: Dr. Who on the Planet Zactus

• PROSE: iNtRUsioNs

The Doctor is deliberately involved in this situation, setting this after The Five Doctors.

• PROSE: The End

The Doctor has deliberately come to the end of the universe to meet his eighth incarnation, setting this after The Five Doctors.

• PROSE: All Our Christmases

The Doctor is learning about a disturbance in the timeline. As he would need a deliberate effort to do this, this most likely takes place after The Five Doctors.

• PROSE: Doctor Who and the Daleks

The Doctor is alone and seems to know the Voord, setting this after The Keys of Marinus. He is also able to pilot the TARDIS to Marinus, setting this after The Five Doctors.

John and Gillian

Returning to Earth, the Doctor bases himself in another junkyard in England, and makes arrangements to meet his other grandchildren, John and Gillian.

• COMIC: The Klepton Parasites

John and Gillian find their grandfather's address, enter the TARDIS and join him on their travels when the TARDIS takes off with them. Presumably, John messing with the controls causes the navigation circuits to break again.

• COMIC: The Therovian Quest

• COMIC: The Hijackers of Thrax

• COMIC: On the Web Planet

The Doctor recalls that he has visited Vortis before, as depicted in The Web Planet

• COMIC: Untitled

The Doctor fights with a police officer who will not allow him entrance into a police box he is guarding. If this box actually is the TARDIS is unclear.

• COMIC: The Gyros Injustice

• COMIC: Prisoners of Gritog

• COMIC: Challenge of the Piper

• COMIC: Moon Landing

• COMIC: Time in Reverse

• COMIC: Lizardworld

• COMIC: Prisoners of the Kleptons

• COMIC: The Caterpillar Men

• COMIC: The Ordeals of Demeter

• COMIC: Enter: The Go-Ray

• COMIC: Shark Bait

• COMIC: A Christmas Story

• COMIC: Untitled

The Doctor almost walks into a police box, but is stopped by a police officer.

• COMIC: The Didus Expedition

• COMIC: Space Station Z-7

• COMIC: Plague of the Black Scorpi

• COMIC: The Trodos Tyranny

• COMIC: Guests of King Neptune

• COMIC: The Gaze of the Gorgon

• COMIC: The Secret of Gemino

• COMIC: The Haunted Planet

• COMIC: The Hunters of Zerox

• COMIC: The Underwater Robot

• COMIC: Deadly Vessel

• COMIC: Kingdom of the Animals

• COMIC: Return of the Trods

• COMIC: The Galaxy Games

• COMIC: The Experimenters

It is unclear what circumstances caused the Doctor to leave John and Gillian, but they later began traveling with his second incarnation, whom they addressed as "Dr. Who" instead of "Grandfather".

Accompanied again

After some time alone, the Doctor returns to Steven and the two continue to travel together again.

• PROSE: Making History

• PROSE: Waiting for Jeremy

Steven mentions the Omwanadar, setting this after Making History.

• PROSE: Greenaway

The Doctor and Steven stop an alien invader on a nearby beach with the help of Greenaway, who loses his legs and part of his skull and ends up in a coma.

• PROSE: Do You Smell Carrots?

• PROSE: White on White

• TV: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

After storming out of the TARDIS due to an argument with the Doctor, Steven returns immediately after Dodo Chaplet walks into the TARDIS, joining the two in their travels.

• PROSE: Salvation

Set immediately after The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, as Dodo is on her first trip in the TARDIS.

• TV: The Ark

Ending leads directly into The Celestial Toymaker.

• TV: The Celestial Toymaker

Ending leads directly into The Gunfighters.

• TV: The Gunfighters

• AUDIO: Mother Russia

Steven voices his surprised that the Doctor wants another holiday so soon after The Gunfighters.

• PROSE: Murder in the Dark

References are made to The Ark, The Celestial Toymaker and The Gunfighters.

• PROSE: The Dream

The Doctor is travelling with Steven and Dodo, but became separated from them while on Vortis.

• AUDIO: This Sporting Life

• COMIC: Death to the Doctor!

• PROSE: The Golden Door

• AUDIO: Tales from the Vault

The Doctor investigates a crashed spaceship during the Boer War.

• AUDIO: Return of the Rocket Men

Steven mentions when the crew where living in Russia, setting this after Mother Russia.

• PROSE: 64 Carlysle Street

Steven mentions Tombstone, setting this after The Gunfighters.

• PROSE: Bunker Soldiers

• AUDIO: The War to End All Wars

Steven decides that the next place the TARDIS lands is where he wants to make a lasting impression.

• TV: The Savages

Steven leaves to mediate a peace between the Elders and the Savages.

• PROSE: Tarnished Image

• AUDIO: The Horror at Bletchington Station

Steven's departure is a recent event, but the Doctor and Dodo have had several adventures since he left.

• PROSE: The Man in the Velvet Mask

• PROSE: There are Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden

Dodo is more wounded and mistrustful of the Doctor, setting this after The Man in the Velvet Mask.

• TV: The War Machines

The Doctor's battle with WOTAN causes Dodo to have a break down, and he sends her to the country to recuperate.

• PROSE: The Rag & Bone Man's Story

Set during The War Machines: Episode 4, after the Doctor has defeated WOTAN. He thinks that Dodo will want to stay in London.

Alone again

According to The Rag & Bone Man's Story the Doctor goes on to travel alone, before returning to London.

• PROSE: The Massacre

It has been "eons" since the Doctor travelled with Ian, Barbara, and Susan, and "centuries" since he last spoke French. During an imposed "celestial retirement", the Doctor recounts the events of The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve to the Time Lords.

• PROSE: The Meeting

Set after The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve. The Doctor is alone, so after The Rag & Bone Man's Story as well.

• PROSE: The Glass Princess

Nearing the end

• TV: The War Machines

After informing the Doctor of Dodo's decision to stay behind, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright board the TARDIS while attempting to return the Doctor's spare key.

• TV: The Smugglers

Ben and Polly's first journey in the TARDIS, and the Doctor accepts their company.

• AUDIO: The Bonfires of the Vanities

Set immediately after The Smugglers. Time briefly becomes distorted.

• COMIC: Food for Thought

Ben is wearing his sailor outfit from The Smugglers.

• PROSE: Ten Little Aliens

The Doctor comments that he shall soon feel a whole new person, referring to his upcoming regeneration.

• PROSE: Five Card Draw

The Doctor feels he will regenerate soon.

• PROSE: Cambridge Previsited

The Doctor is traveling with companions, but they remained in the TARDIS.

• AUDIO: The Plague of Dreams

The time distortions are revealed to be caused by the Daleks trying to invade the First Doctor's timeline and prevent his regeneration at the South Pole. The Player is able to prevent the Daleks' victory, setting things up for The Tenth Planet.

• AUDIO: Falling

An older Polly recalls how this was her last trip in the TARDIS before The Tenth Planet.

• PROSE: The Three Paths

The Doctor is pulled back to Gallifrey and is aware that his next adventure will result in his regeneration.

Last stand at Snowcap base

• TV: The Tenth Planet

• AUDIO: The Locked Room

This story occurs during The Tenth Planet: Episode 3.

• TV: The Tenth Planet

• TV: The Doctor Falls

• AUDIO: The First Wave

Before entering the TARDIS during The Tenth Planet: Episode 4, the Doctor catches a glimpse of his deceased companion, Oliver Harper.

• TV: The Tenth Planet: Epilogue

With much of his life force having been absorbed by the planet Mondas, the Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation in the TARDIS.