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

The layout of this timeline is based in part on the observations on Doctor Who Reference Guide and Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as DocOhoReviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Databanks, the Big Finish forums, The Whoniverse and The Divergent Universe forum. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

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Timeline

Dark beginnings

The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation.
Set immediately after The Caves of Androzani, with the Doctor suffering severe bouts of post-regeneration trauma, such as mood swings and deliriousness.
In the past couple of days, the Doctor has recovered from his regeneration, but is still haunted by "the bleakness of Jaconda", setting this shortly after The Twin Dilemma. The Doctor begins carrying a sonic lance. The chameleon circuit within the Doctor's TARDIS is rendered operational.
The Doctor tells Peri that the TARDIS' chameleon circuit has been disconnected following the unsuccessful attempts to repair it in Attack of the Cybermen.
The Doctor and Peri foil the invasion attempt of the telepathic worms. Peri is described as wearing the clothes she wore in Attack of the Cybermen.
The Doctor convinces an RWR Mark II android to deactivate itself by pointing out it has no purpose.
Peri is still shaken by the Doctor's recent regeneration, but the Doctor himself has adjusted fairly well.
The Doctor suggests that the microbes infected the TARDIS after he experimented with changing its appearance, setting this shortly after Attack of the Cybermen.
The Doctor is still tinkering with the TARDIS's systems, setting this shortly after Attack of the Cybermen. Visiting Varos to complete the TARDIS's repairs, the Doctor encounters Sil the Mentor for the first time.
The Doctor has just left Varos.
Set shortly after Vengeance on Varos, since the Doctor refers to the acquisition of zeiton-7 ore as only the first step in repairing the TARDIS.
Set after Vengeance on Varos, with the Doctor still carrying out repairs on the TARDIS. Peri receives a scar on Dorsill.
Set immediately after Grave Matter, with the Skin Deep process removing Peri's scar. Also set after Moon Graffiti, as the Doctor is still "fiddling around" with the zeiton-7 ore he acquired in Vengeance on Varos.
Peri's most recent traumatic memories include being momentarily transformed into an avian hybrid during Vengeance on Varos.
The Doctor and Peri are very abrasive to each other, setting this during early Season 22.
Set early in their travels, as Peri recalls the Doctor's resigned attitude towards the TARDIS stalling in Vengeance on Varos, which accorded the previous month.
During a battle with the Tremas Master, the Doctor is confronted by the Rani for the first time since he left Gallifrey.
According to Peri, this story is set directly after The Mark of the Rani.
Set between The Mark of the Rani and The Two Doctors. Peri complains about the punishment dome from Vengeance on Varos.
Set before The Two Doctors, as the Doctor is depicted eating meat.
The Doctor and Peri go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby. However, the Doctor is unable to go through with the act and leaves.
In an act of self-preservation, a wounded Doctor is forced to kill Shockeye with his bare hands to prevent the Androgum from hunting him down. After the ordeal, the Doctor resolves to begin a vegetarian diet.
After struggling with his violent tendencies, the Doctor decides to change his ways.

Mellowing out

The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
Peri recognises the Second Doctor on sight, placing this after The Two Doctors. The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor is a vegetarian, setting this after The Two Doctors. Peri is wrestling with the decision of whether or not to leave the Doctor, presumably setting this before Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing & Davros, where she has some alone time away from the Doctor.
Enjoying a vegetarian lasagne while Peri visits some friends, the Doctor meets Becky, who teaches him to dance.
During Doctor Who Annual 1985, the Doctor and Peri are well acquainted with one another but there's still a lot of bickering between them, setting this between Blue Box and Davros. The Doctor is also depicted wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
Set between The Two Doctors and Timelash. Peri is attending a botany symposium on the other side of the galaxy while the Doctor answers his summons from Willis.
The Doctor and Peri are arguing, setting this early in their travels.
Peri recalls her last encounter with the Rani being in The Mark of the Rani.
Peri hasn't had the chance to relax in a while. According to her, The Doctor hasn't been to 12th century Earth since his regeneration.
Set between The Two Doctors and Revelation of the Daleks; Peri doesn't react when te Doctor mentions Davros, implying she has yet to meet him.
Peri mentions that she has recently been to Karfel, setting this after Timelash.
Peri refers to her encounter with H. G. Wells on Karfel from Timelash. The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Recorded Time and Other Stories anthology is set between Timelash and Revelation of the Daleks.
The Doctor decides to take Peri to Blackpool, potentially leading into The Nightmare Fair.
The Doctor still has the broken watch from Revelation of the Daleks.
Set after Revelation of the Daleks, though the Doctor and Peri are still bickering.
The events of Revelation of the Daleks occurred a week before this story, and Peri has had the pocket watch she broke repaired.
Peri recalls meeting Yy in The Ruins of Heaven.
The Doctor still has the entry visa for heaven, setting this after The Ruins of Heaven.
The Doctor and Peri arrive in Blackpool, though by accident, setting this after Revelation of the Daleks.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
Follows directly on from Mission to Magnus, with Peri suggesting that the TARDIS' navigation was tampered with by Sil and Rana Zanduthia.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor and Peri both refer to the events of The Hollows of Time. The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22. The Doctor and Peri consider the events of The Mark of the Rani to be a recent happening. The Doctor also claims that the Elizabethan era is the earliest point in Earth's history that Peri has visited during her travels in the TARDIS, despite evidence to the contrary.
The Doctor refers to his regeneration as having been recent. He is also illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22. Peri wants to visit her mother and her stepfather to let them know that she is alright after she left them in Lanzarote to travel with the Doctor. She also refers to the events of Point of Entry.
During Doctor Who Annual 1986, the Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore in throughout Season 22.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Mindwarp, but Peri has her short hairstyle.
Set after Whispers of Terror. The Doctor is illustrated wearing the clothes he wore throughout Season 22.
Set after …ish, and the Doctor is illustrated wearing a red cravat. While only four months have passed on Earth since Peri disappeared in Lanzarote, to her it seems closer to years. Peri leaves the Doctor to live with her mother again, but the Doctor immediately goes back to get her after learning her mother was murdered.
The Doctor and Peri are getting along by this point.
Set between State of Change and CHAOS.

Travelling alone

After leaving a homesick Peri in 1985 New York City, the Doctor starts traveling on his own.
The Doctor is willing to work with the Time Lords, setting this before The Trial of a Time Lord.
The Doctor is unable to escape his bonds, setting this before he perfects his escapology in Voyager. He also showcases the egotistical persona he had in his early lifetime.
Originally intended for the Sixth Doctor's Magazine tenure. The Doctor is on Gallifrey, answering a summons from an old friend, without question, implying a setting before The Trial of a Time Lord.

Adventures that were wiped from history

The Doctor meets William in a fishing shop, and invites him to go fishing. After competing in a fishing contest, the Doctor and William decide to travel together.
In order to stop Flora Millrace embarking on her murder spree, the Eighth Doctor prevents his sixth incarnation from meeting William.

Meeting Frobisher

The Doctor is confronted by Whifferdill private investigator Avan Tarklu, who brings him to Josiah W. Dogbolter for a bounty. However, after the two agree to split the money and escape, Tarklu decides to remain aboard the TARDIS as the Doctor's companion.
Avan Tarklu decides to settle on the form of a penguin, and to go by the name "Frobisher", as it sounds British enough for the Doctor to like. He and the Doctor are then assigned by the cosmic being known as Voyager to find Astrolabus, a renegade Time Lord who has stolen important star-charts.
The Doctor leaves the money he and Frobisher stole from Intra-Venus, Inc. in The Shape Shifter with Ivan Asimoff. Frobisher is kidnapped by Astrolabus, leading directly into Once Upon a Time Lord.
The Doctor saves Frobisher from Astrolabus, who is then killed by Voyager, ending his threat and freeing the Doctor from Voyager's services.

The return of Peri

The Doctor retrieves Peri from 1985 New York City.
The Doctor and Frobisher are traveling with a short-haired Peri, and Frobisher can shapeshift, placing this before Exodus. On the advice of a future Doctor, Frobisher tricks Adam Mitchell into kidnapping him instead of Peri, setting up the climax of Endgame. However, the real Peri is later captured by Adam, as she appears as his prisoner in The Choice.
The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue Peri from Adam and the Tremas Master, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well.
Frobisher becomes ill-stricken with mono-morphia, trapping him in the form of a penguin.
Although she is mentioned several times, Peri is absent from this story, as she is enjoying a baseball game at the Dodger’s Stadium in 1985.
Peri begins wearing the hairstyle and outfit that she would wear in The Mysterious Planet.
Frobisher is beginning to recover from the mono-morphia in his system.
Set "a couple of years" after The Two Doctors.
Sometime after witnessing Jamie's demise, Frobisher decides to leave the TARDIS to become a detective, leaving the Doctor and Peri to travel onwards alone.
Peri is depicted with the hairstyle she had during The Mysterious Planet.
Peri is illustrated with the hairstyle she had during The Mysterious Planet, and the Doctor has the blue cravat from that story. Peri is friends with H. G. Wells, setting this after Timelash.
Peri is described as having the hairdo she sported in The Mysterious Planet.
Though she is absent, the Doctor is currently traveling with Peri and last encountered Davros in Revelation of the Daleks. In Emperor of the Daleks, the Doctor remarks that he got the Dalekanium wire from Frobisher.
The Doctor and Peri land on the planet Ravolox, and discover that it is a devastated Earth, relocated two light-years away from its proper position.
The Doctor and Peri have a much friendlier relationship, placing this late in their travels.
The Doctor is described as wearing the clothes he wore in Mindwarp.
The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Mindwarp.
On Thoros Beta, the Doctor is forcibly separated from Peri when the Time Lords overtake his mind, guide him back to his TARDIS and have him depart from Thoros Beta to stand trial, leading directly into The Trial of a Time Lord.

On trial

After learning that he was deposed as Lord President for neglecting his duties, the Doctor is forced to stand trial against the Time Lords on Space Station Zenobia. Representing himself against his prosecutor, the Valeyard, the Doctor observes the events of The Mysterious Planet, Mindwarp & Terror of the Vervoids via the Matrix, and suffers an emotional blow when he witnesses Peri's apparent death on Thoros Beta.
Set immediately after the Terror of the Vervoids section, and features a Sixth Doctor from an alternative timeline.
The Master arrives at the trial as a surprise witness, and reveals to the Doctor that the Time Lords are responsible for the Ravolox conspiracy, and that his trial is a farce put on to discredit him. Providing Melanie Bush and Sabalom Glitz as witnesses to the Doctor's innocence, the Master also lets slip that the Valeyard is a future personification of the Doctor using the trial for his own agenda. After foiling the plots of his various adversaries, the Doctor learns from Inquisitor Darkel that Peri has survived to become the Warrior Queen of the Krontep, and departs Space Station Zenobia with Melanie.
The Doctor returns Melanie Bush to Pease Pottage, meeting a future version of himself in the process, who recommends that he take a trip to Sheffield Hallam University.

Pessimistic about his future

The Doctor becomes a recluse on Torrok in order to prevent himself from becoming the Valeyard. However, the Time Lords manipulate him into saving Earth from Krllxk. After he helps the Doctor defeat a giant robot dinosaur in New Tokyo, Grant Markham joins the Doctor as his companion.
This is Grant's first trip in the TARDIS.
As the Doctor had only promised Grant one trip in Time of Your Life, it can be assumed he returned Grant home after Killing Ground.
Set shortly, but not immediately, after the Doctor's trial, with a much wearier Sixth Doctor whose love for life has diminished somewhat. Though an adventure with Iris Wildthyme gets him out of his funk, he's still nevertheless a very lonely man by the end of it.
The Doctor is still portrayed as a solitary reclusiveness.
In despair at becoming the Valeyard, the Doctor goes into isolation long enough to grow a goatee beard. After the Fates tell him that becoming the Valeyard is but one possible timeline, the Doctor decides to resume his travels, his desire to roam the universe restored.

Optimistic travels

The Doctor tangles with a Logovore, but is unable to defeat it.
The Doctor is wearing the waistcoat and cravat from The Trial of a Time Lord.
The Doctor defeats the Krotons.
The Doctors saves a busload of semi-comatose people from extra-terrestrials.
The Doctor is wearing his Technicolor coat.
The Doctor is traveling alone, has not yet worn his blue coat, and feels regret for an outburst.
On a visit to Baspral, the Doctor prevents a Seer from drowning a young boy.
The Doctor is unaware of the details of Peri's fate, but it is established that a considerable amount of time has passed since the Doctor was forced to leave her on Thoros Beta, and he resolves to start looking for her, after a brief time of recuperation.
In his search for her, the Doctor discovers that multiple versions of Peri Brown exist.

Travelling with an historian

The Doctor meets history lecturer Evelyn Smythe at Sheffield Hallam University. After she helps him save her family history, Evelyn insists on joining the Doctor on his travels, and the Doctor accepts her company.
Set shortly after The Marian Conspiracy, as the Doctor has recently had a cold, caused by falling into the Thames in that story. From the Doctor's perspective, this is the first time that he has met the Brigadier during his sixth incarnation.
Evelyn was in the TARDIS while the Doctor was at the Kurgon Wonder, as revealed in Instruments of Darkness. The Sixth Doctor would encounter these Time Lords again in The Apocalypse Element.
The Doctor is aware that his status as Lord President has been revoked, and Evelyn encounters the Daleks for the first time.
The Doctor and Evelyn have just left the Clutch, setting this immediately after The Sandman.
The Doctor, wearing his Technicolor coat and traveling with Evelyn, prevents Edward Grainger being falsely accused of treason in 1957.
Evelyn is familiar with the Daleks, and recalls being on board a Dalek spaceship, setting this after Jubilee. The Doctor's need to warn her to play along with their out-of-sequence meeting with Newton suggests this takes place early in her travels.
The first of the Doctor's thirteen Technicolor coats are destroyed in an explosion. Evelyn refers to the time she and the Doctor had to swim the Thames in Project: Twilight. The Doctor meets Flip Jackson and Jared Ramon on Symbios after a London tube train slips through a temporal fissure, and has his first meeting with DI Patricia Menzies. Thomas Brewster, in a desperate attempt to return to his own time, sneaks into the TARDIS and holds the Doctor and Evelyn at gunpoint, leading directly into The Feast of Axos.
The Doctor and Evelyn manage to disarm Brewster, and the Doctor refuses to return Brewster home, as using his future knowledge would cause chaos and anarchy.
Brewster is left behind by the Doctor in Victorian Lancashire.
The Doctor switches his Technicolor frock coat for a blue coat. All stories with the Doctor wearing this coat must take place after this.
Sequel story to Project: Twilight. The tension between the Doctor and Evelyn on the death of Cassandra Schofield leads directly into Arrangements for War.
The Doctor recalls meeting his successor during The Sirens of Time. Evelyn tells Rossiter about the recent events from Doctor Who and The Pirates and Project Lazarus.
The Doctor has his fist confrontation with Dr. Robert Knox.
Evelyn refers to her encounter with Dr. Robert Knox from Medicinal Purposes.
The Doctor hasn't had a sonic screwdriver since his fifth incarnation.
Evelyn has made a habit of jumping from trains, setting this after The Nowhere Place.
The Doctor and Evelyn join Bernice Summerfield's archaeological expedition.
The Doctor and Evelyn spend a day flying kites.
Evelyn refers to her encounters with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from My Own Private Wolfgang.
Evelyn is familiar with Gallifreyan politics, setting this after The Apocalypse Element.
Set just after Assassin in the Limelight.
On a return trip to Világ, Evelyn leaves the Doctor to marry Rossiter. The Doctor reacts badly to the news and refuses to give a proper goodbye.

Old acquaintances

The Doctor is melancholy following the recent departure of a companion, presumably Evelyn. He offers Linda Grainger a trip in the TARDIS, but she declines.
The Doctor visits Frobisher to ask if he's grown tired of playing detectives and wants to return to the TARDIS. His feeling hurt, Frobisher declines the offer.
The Doctor's clothes go uncommented upon, which, given the aggressiveness of the situation, suggests he is in his discreet blue coat.
The Doctor loses another blue coat during the Tangiwai Disaster.
Evelyn Smythe has recently left the TARDIS, with the Doctor finishing the final slice of her sponge cake and absentmindedly talking to her when he is admiring its taste. The Doctor vows to resume wearing his Technicolor coat in Mel's memory.
The Doctor gives an uncomfortable pause when asked if he is traveling alone, and is noted by Claire Aldwych to have "a kind of sorrow about him".
Sequel story to The Trial of a Time Lord, and the first time the Doctor has faced the Valeyard since then.
The Doctor returns to ask Frobisher if he wants to travel with him again. This time, Frobisher accepts the offer.
The Doctor is still sedate and mistrusting after his trial.
Set after The Maltese Penguin, with the Doctor, excited about the universe again, looking to find out what happened to Peri after Thoros Beta. He and Frobisher then visit a version of Peri who has lived a long life as Queen of Krontep.
On a return trip to Baspral, the Doctor is informed of the repercussions of his previous trip.
Whilst defeating an Auton invasion, the Doctor takes the time to teach a teenage Becky how to dance. For him, it has been eighty years since he last saw her.

New friends

While on the trail of "the Darkness", the Doctor is saved from a mugging by Will Hoffman and Emily Chaudhry. Aided by UNIT, the Doctor stops the Darkness and agrees to take Emily and Will home via the TARDIS.
En route to UNIT HQ, the Doctor gets side-tracked by a distress signal.
The Doctor returns Emily and Will home after a run in with Agent Ronnie Tillyard in 1957.
The Doctor rescues Jason from the guillotine during French Revolution, and he becomes his companion.
While stopping the Cybermen from kidnapping a US Envoy from the Number 10 nightclub, the Doctor and Jason meet Crystal, who helps them combat the Dalek Emperor and then joins them in the TARDIS with Zog, a slave from Deneb IV she had befriended. The Doctor possesses a sonic screwdriver, and Peri and Evelyn are mentioned as former companions of his. The Doctor speaks fondly of Evelyn, suggesting this takes place a while after their bitter departing.
Zog stops traveling with the Doctor, Jason and Crystal.

The companion from the future

Charley Pollard enters the TARDIS, having expected someone else to be inside.
The Doctor is wearing his blue coat and was travelling alone before reluctantly taking Charley on as his companion. The Doctor has his second encounter with DI Menzies, though it is their first time together from her perspective.
Charley has only recently joined the Doctor on his travels.
Charley refers to the fictional highwaymen from The Doomwood Curse and the Marxist Daleks from Brotherhood of the Daleks.
The Doctor and Charley consider the events of Return of the Krotons to be a recent happening.
After she contracts a virus, the Doctor puts Charley in the Zero Room while he tries to locate the source of the virus, and thus a cure.
Set after Urgent Calls.
The Doctor contemplates visiting a version of Peri Brown who rules Krontep, but decides she is too busy. The Doctor loses one of his three blue coats, possibly leading to him wearing them less.
After taking many years searching for a cure, the Doctor traces the virus to the Amethyst Viral Containment Station. While he confronts the Daleks, Charley awakens from her coma and is replaced in existence by Mila.
While under the guise of Charley, Mila has already been travelling with the Doctor for some time before she is killed. In order to preserve future events, Charley has the Viyrans edit the Doctor's memory so that his memories of his time with her are replaced with the memory of Mila, as well as a more peaceful departure for her in place of her death.

The Land of Fiction

Arriving in Scotland, the Doctor is reunited with an amnesiac Jamie McCrimmon and, after an adventure during the Battle of Culloden, Jamie accepts the Doctor's offer to travel with him.
The Doctor has recently defeated the Red Caps in Scotland, setting this immediately after City of Spires.
Jamie refers to his recent encounter with the Kelpie from Night's Black Agents. Ending leads directly into Legend of the Cybermen.
The Doctor and Jamie discover that they have been in the Land of Fiction all along, and that Jamie is a fictional character created by Zoe Heriot, the new Master of the Land, as a mystery for the Doctor to solve, while Zoe uses them to combat an invasion by the Cybermen. After their adventure, Jamie decides to remain in the Land, while the Doctor returns Zoe to the Space Station W3, saddened at the fact that she would once again fall under the Time Lords' conditioning and lose all memories of him.

Living in Victorian London

As revealed in The Hourglass Killers, the Doctor crash landed in Victorian London due to the temporal experiments performed by Professor Elliot Payne, which caused him to become stranded.
Using the alias "Professor Claudius Dark", the Doctor attempts to convince Johnny Skipton of Payne's intentions.
"Professor Dark" tells Ellie Higson that he is enquiring after Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoot.
The Doctor employs the services of an electric supplier to fix the TARDIS.
The Doctor is forced to sink the TARDIS into the Thames embankment to stop Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick from stealing it.
The Doctor invites Jago and Litefoot to meet with him, but chooses not to reveal his identity, raising their suspicion.
"Professor Dark" warns Jago and Litefoot of the approaching Sandmen, and suggests to Leela that she take them to Brighton
"Professor Dark" gives Jago, Litefoot and Leela tickets to Oscar Wilde's new show.
The Doctor saves Jago and Litefoot from a train trapped in a time loop, and reveals his true identity to them.
Having retrieved his TARDIS, the Doctor offers Jago and Litefoot the chance to travel with him, which they accept.

Voyages with Jago and Litefoot

This is Jago and Litefoot's first trip in the TARDIS, and the ending leads directly into Voyage to the New World.
The Doctor leaves Jago and Litefoot at the Red Tavern, but in the 1960s instead of the 1890s.

Travelling with Flip Jackson

Forced to switch bodies with Davros to save the Battle of Waterloo, the Doctor is assisted by Flip Jackson, and, when he gets his body back, Flip decides to travel with the Doctor.
In regards to Flip, the Doctor says he wasn't expecting to take on a new companion so soon, suggesting that he has only just parted ways with a previous companion.
The Doctor explains the concept of regeneration to Flip.
The Doctor tells Flip that multiple versions of Peri exist, and that he wants to find one of them to reunit with.
Flip becomes separated from the Doctor in orbit around 2071 Earth.
During The Widow's Assassin, the Doctor mentions that he was able to save Flip and return her to 2012 Earth.

Reunited with Peri

The Doctor finds Peri on Krontep, but is imprisoned by her out of revenge for abandoning her. Five years later, the Doctor saves Peri from a mind parasite, and she re-joins him as his companion.
Peri mentions spending a long time apart from the Doctor on Krontep in the 24th century, setting this after The Widow's Assassin.
The Doctor has already travelled with Flip Jackson.

Companionless travels

The Doctor mentions meeting Zoe and a fictional version of Jamie in the Land of Fiction, setting this after Legend of the Cybermen.
The Doctor refers to Jago and Litefoot as good friends.
Set after Stage Fright.
Late-Victorian Britain is one of the Doctor's favourite times and places, as long as he doesn't have to visit the dentist whilst he's there, suggesting that he has spent an exceeded amount of time there in the past.

Constance Clarke

The Doctor is joined in his travels by Bletchley Park WREN Constance Clarke, who wants to be taken back to her duties once she decides to finish travelling.
The Doctor recognises this incarnation of the Rani from The Rani Elite.
The Doctor and Constance have been traveling with each other for quite a while, with Constance stating that the TARDIS is always getting them lost.

Preparing for the end

The Doctor discovers that he will die within two days' time, though it is left unclear is this is according to his time stream or by the universal timeline.
Set after The Book of My Life, as the Doctor knows his end is drawing near, and makes it a priority to clear up any unfinished business he has.
The Doctor is travelling alone, and has been championing the cause of Malean mutants for some time. Pursued by Myklos, he is accompanying a pair of mutants to the Sanctuary on Bukol, and unintentionally gets his first incarnation involved when he is hospitalised.
The Doctor comments about tackling the legal system when he was "a younger man", implying that this takes place some years after The Trial of a Time Lord.
Feeling his death drawing near, the Doctor tells the elderly Rebecca he's been travelling alone for a very long time since he last met her.

History takes its course

After a period of avoiding Mel out of fear that travelling with her would lead him on the path to becoming the Valeyard, the Doctor decides to bow down to destiny and accept her as his companion when circumstances lead him to Pease Pottage and Mel helps him defeat a Nestene invasion with the Brigadier.
The Doctor is described as wearing the clothes he wore in Business Unusual.
The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Business Unusual.
Mel encounters the Daleks for the first time.
The Doctor recommends avoiding the work of agronomist Sarah Lasky, suggesting a pre-Terror of the Vervoids setting. The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Business Unusual.
The Doctor is illustrated as wearing the clothes he wore in Business Unusual.
Mel and the Doctor are aiming for New Year's Eve, setting this immediately before Millennial Rites.
The Doctor and Mel haven't encountered the Vervoids yet.
Second depiction of Mel meeting with Evelyn, and Evelyn's life after traveling aboard the TARDIS. The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Business Unusual.
The Doctor is on a diet at Mel's insistence, setting this near Terror of the Vervoids.
The Doctor attributes his good eyesight in the dark to lots of carrot juice, meaning he is on the diet Mel had him on in Terror of the Vervoids. He is also depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Terror of the Vervoids.
Around this time, the Doctor and Mel take a trip to Oxyveguramosa, where Mel is taken by the Master to give testament at the Doctor's trial, (PROSE: Business Unusual) and later returned by the past Doctor after a brief stop at Pease Pottage. (AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors)
Diamond Sharp references the Doctor's role in Terror of the Vervoids.
Mel knows the Daleks, and feels she needs to brush up on her knowledge of future technology.
The Doctor and Mel defeat the Rainbow.
Set after The Best Joke I Ever Told, as Mel has updated her knowledge of future technology. She has been travelling in the TARDIS for several months by now.
According to the audio's blurb, this story is set sometime after Thicker Than Water. The Doctor claims that his cavalier days are long since passed, setting this after Terror of the Vervoids, where Mel states that she hasn't seen the Doctor on guard before.
Set immediately after The Wishing Beast.
Set immediately after The Vanity Box. Although the Doctor is depicted wearing his blue coat on the CD cover, he is described in the story itself as wearing his multi-coloured one.
Set after The Vanity Box.
Mel recalls the events of Millennial Rites. The Doctor is depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Time and the Rani.
First depiction of Mel meeting with Evelyn, and Evelyn's life after traveling aboard the TARDIS. Mel mentions the events of Terror of the Vervoids.
In Paradise Towers, Mel recalls the Doctor jettisoning the leaking swimming pool from the TARDIS, suggesting she was inside the TARDIS during this story.
Set immediately prior to Spiral Scratch.

Death

Shortly after Millennial Rites, the Doctor is influenced to kill himself by echoes of his next incarnation. (PROSE: Head Games) With the HADS deactivated, the TARDIS is attacked by the Rani, and the Doctor suffers a fatal head injury in the attack.
In the second depiction of his regeneration, while the Doctor is suffering from chronon energy starvation after his confrontation with the Lamprey, the TARDIS is attacked by the Rani and the Doctor bangs his head, fatally injuring him. The Doctor and Mel had recently visited Kolpasha in Instruments of Darkness beforehand.
In the third depiction of his regeneration, the Doctor is exposed to focused beams of a radiation lethal to Time Lords as a consequence of the Rani's attack on the TARDIS, due to a future version of himself sending him a message on how to defeat the Valeyard's master plan with his death.
The Doctor completes his regeneration into his next incarnation.
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