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This page lists appearances of the Eighth 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, two Big Finnish forums and the Divergent Universe forum. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Limiting factors

Companions

Costume

Sonic screwdriver

Any story where the Doctor uses his silver Sonic Screwdriver must take place either between Doctor Who and The Flood, where it is destroyed, or after Natural Regression and before The Night of the Doctor if the story takes place during the Time War. Any story where the Doctor is using the wooden handled screwdriver must take place after The Flood and up to Natural Regression.

Complications

Split continuities

Following the release of Doctor Who, both Doctor Who Magazine and BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures took to continuing the Eighth Doctor's adventures in 1997, to be joined by Big Finish Productions in 2001. Logically, each company storyline would follow one anther, or at least be contained separately. However, the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures debut novel, The Eight Doctors, follows immediately on from the telemovie, while Doctor Who Magazine depicts a stable Eighth Doctor in fiction, even though he was advertised at the time as being newly regenerated. As such, it is easier to believe that, after the telemovie, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures happened, followed by Doctor Who Magazine, and then continued with Big Finish Productions, who show the development of the Doctor that lead to The Night of the Doctor.

However, Radio Times published a comic mini-series before Doctor Who Magazine, and the Virgin New Adventures concluded with The Dying Days before The Eight Doctors was released, though both can be placed in a time-gap presented in Vampire Science.

Gallifrey

Anything involving Gallifrey must take place either before PROSE: The Ancestor Cell (when Gallifrey is destroyed the first time related to the War), additionally anything involving Romana II, must take place before PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon (as this is the first novel to mention Romana's third incarnation).

Alternatively anything involving Gallifrey must take place after PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles, following this story the Doctor regains his memory (which he lost following events in The Ancestor Cell) and it is implied in the novel he goes on to restore Gallifrey.

Timeline

New adventures

The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation, but suffers complete amnesia. Seeking aid from Dr. Grace Holloway, the Doctor is able to recover his memory during a final fight with the Bruce Master, who is absorbed into the TARDIS through the Eye of Harmony.
Continues directly on from Doctor Who, with the Doctor completing his reading of The Time Machine. After a second bout with amnesia, the Doctor rescues a 16-year-old girl named Sam Jones from being attacked by drug dealers, and welcomes her company in his travels.
This is Sam's first trip in the TARDIS.
The Doctor is still adjusting to his new personality.
Sam has little experience with time travel, placing this early in her time as a companion.
The Doctor leaves Sam at a Greenpeace rally, intending to pick her up after a few hours, during which time he has plenty of adventures of his own. (PROSE: Vampire Science) All stories where the Doctor is still adjusting to his new body and persona must take place during this period.
The Doctor sees the results of his tampering with the TARDIS model train set.
The Doctor mentions that he is new to his body.
Set before The Dying Days, as the Doctor still has his predecessor's umbrella. The Doctor mentions Bazima from Nettles.
The Doctor mentions that he is still new to his body.
The Doctor meets up with Bernice Summerfield and the Brigadier for the first time since his regeneration. He gives Wolsey to Bernice so that she can watch over him.
The Doctor spends five months in Spain repenting for the actions of his previous incarnation.

Stacy and Ssard

The Doctor states he has "only just begun getting used to" his head, referring to his recent regeneration. He rescues Stacy Townsend when her ship is attacked by the Cybermen, and she decides to join him on his travels.
The Doctor and Stacey befriend an Ice Warrior named Ssard while investigating the treachery of High Lord Artix and Luass. After helping them, Ssard accepts an offer from the Doctor to travel with him and Stacey.
Stacy and Ssard eventually left the TARDIS and decided to live in Ssard's time period. (PROSE: Placebo Effect)

Solo travels

All stories where the Doctor has adjusted to his new incarnation and has all his memories intact can take place in this period.
The Doctor is travelling alone, but still identifies himself as a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, placing this before The Ancestor Cell.
Set before Repercussions....
Mention is made of The Dying Days. The Doctor believes that Time Lords would never enslave their TARDISes, placing this before The Shadows of Avalon.
The Doctor has memories of his past regenerations and is travelling alone.
The Doctor has all his memories and his travelling alone. He is horrified by a threat that had the power to destroy the Time Lords, suggesting that this takes place before The Ancestor Cell.
Set immediately after Thinking Warrior. The Doctor is described as looking young and remembers his past.

The War with the Enemy

The Doctor collects Sam from the Greenpeace rally. It has been three years since the Doctor regenerated in Doctor Who.
Sam is 17-years-old.
Six months have passed since Vampire Science, and Sam has her first encounter with the Daleks.
The Doctor meets the Faction Paradox and the Celestis at an auction for a mysterious Relic, which he learns is his own corpse while uncovering a future war between the Time Lords and a nameless Enemy.
When the Doctor appears to die saving the Moonbase, Sam gets taken away by Anstaar, separating her from the Doctor when he recovers.
Set immediately after Longest Day, with the Doctor searching for Sam.
Set immediately after Legacy of the Daleks. The Doctor catches a glimpse of Sam from a distance, leading into Seeing I.
The Doctor and Sam are reunited, with four years having past for Sam, while the Doctor spends three years being locked away as a prisoner of the Oliver Bainbridge Functional Stabilisation Centre.
Stacy Townsend and Ssard from the Radio Times comic stories appear.
The Doctor recalls the events of The Dying Days.
The Doctor mentions the events of The Scarlet Empress.
The Doctor and Sam are joined by Fitz Kreiner, as the Doctor took pity on the fugitive due to the death of his mother.
Fitz leaves the TARDIS for two years, but only a week passes for the Doctor and Sam.
The events of Revolution Man are still fresh in Fitz's mind. Sam is 22-years-old.
A dark-haired Sam encounters a dimensional scar that alters her timeline, reworking it, giving her blonde hair, and creating the established timeline she experienced with the Doctor. The Doctor loses his shadow.
Sam decides to leave the TARDIS, and asks the Doctor to drop her somewhere near 1997, leading into Interference.
Unnatural History occurred "a couple of months ago" for Sam. Fitz becomes stranded on 2593 Ordifica after being trapped in the Cold for six hundred years, and joins the Faction Paradox.
Sam choses to leave the Doctor while on 1996 Earth, and the Doctor decides to travel alone for a time after a traumatic battle with the Faction Paradox, which sees Fitz separates a part of his memories into a Remembrance Tank to become Father Kreiner, while the re-remembered Fitz agrees to join the Doctor and Compassion, a fellow remembered who was a member of the Remote.
The Doctor returns Litefoot's fowling piece. He is still upset about Sam leaving his company.
The Doctor meets up with Joseph Liebermann in Salt Lake City.
The Doctor, in his green frockcoat, runs past a version of Clara Oswald.
The Doctor ponders if Iris was created by the Faction Paradox, implying this takes place before their easement in The Ancestor Cell.
The Doctor's eyes change colour, showing that his biodata has been altered by Faction Paradox as shown in Alien Bodies and Unnatural History.
The Doctor sees Isabella place Malson's consciousness into the infant Jeff.
The Eighth Doctor still has his memory.
Set "a long time" after From Little Acorns.
The Doctor is familiar with Peter Summerfield, placing this after Benny's Story.
The Doctor meets up with Fitz and Compassion to travel in the TARDIS once again. To protect Compassion from harmful signals she might encounter during their travels, the Doctor interfaces her receiver with the TARDIS systems.
Compassion begins to transform into a TARDIS.
The Doctor and Fitz appear alone in this story, placing this immediately before The Shadows of Avalon, with Compassion learning to be human on Earth while the Doctor and Fitz are temporarily travelling alone.
The Doctor loses his TARDIS after it collides between the dimensional barriers, but Compassion evolves into a sentient TARDIS due to its systems warping her biodata, and allows the Doctor and Fitz to travel within her. With the Time Lords wishing to use Compassion to breed more sentient TARDISes, the trio go on the run from them.
To better avoid the Time Lords, the Doctor installs a Randomiser into Compassion without her permission, but she forgives him for this eventually.
The Doctor discovers that his TARDIS restored itself above Gallifrey in the shape of a Flower of Remembrance. In order to thwart the Grandfather Paradox's plan, the Doctor causes the TARDIS's dimensional interface to collapse, resulting in the destruction of Gallifrey and the easement of the Faction Paradox from history. As the TARDIS collapses down into a small cube, the Doctor again loses his memories and is left with the regenerating TARDIS cube in 19th-century England by Compassion and Fitz. Compassion also leaves Fitz in the year 2000, and then goes to explore the universe with Nivet, a Gallifreyan technician.

Walking the Earth

In 1894, the Doctor finds a note telling him to meet Fitz at St. Louis on February 8, 2001.
Set in the early 20th century.
Set in 1918.
In 1935, the Doctor serves as a sailor aboard the Sarah Gail.
Set in 1936.
In 1938, the Doctor buys Fitz's journal in a bookshop on the Euston Road.
Occurs from 1943 to 1945.
In 1951, the Doctor gets his hair cut.
Set during the 1950s.
The Doctor studies at an ancient Khmer temple.
In 1962, the Doctor spends some time in a monastery.
In 1977, the Doctor witnesses Eva Dalloway being caught shoplifting.
During the 1980s, the Doctor raises an adopted daughter, Miranda Dawkins. The TARDIS outer shell has fully regenerated, and the Doctor keeps it in his garden.

Combating the Council of Eight

In 2001, the TARDIS grows back to its full power, and the control room rearranges itself to resemble a mixture of the white room and the Victorian parlour design with an octagonal control console. The Doctor is reunited with Fitz, leaving with him in the TARDIS for new adventures, along with Anji Kapoor. The Doctor's memories are still shaky.
Set immediately after Escape Velocity.
The TARDIS has only just visited New Jupiter from EarthWorld.
The Doctor takes a cat to a new life in Wales.
The Doctor is traveling with Fitz and Anji, and remembers his travels with Sam Jones.
During his wedding to Scarlette, the bearded Doctor's second heart is removed by his best man, Sabbath, allegedly to cure the Doctor of an illness caused by the heart's attempt to connect the Doctor to Gallifrey.
The Doctor shaves off the beard he grew during The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.
The Doctor claims to only have one heart and that his companions are waiting for him in the TARDIS, setting this between The Adventuress of Henrietta Street and Camera Obscura.
Set two days after the events of Hope.
The TARDIS control console is now pentagonal.
The Doctor learns to dance.
The Doctor only has one heart, placing this between The Adventuress of Henrietta Street and Camera Obscura.
The Doctor starts regrowing a second heart.
After dropping off Fitz and Anji, the Doctor, with his second heart almost completely regrown, travels alone for a time.
The Doctor returns to help Jeff on his 18th birthday.
The Doctor meets Fey Truscott-Sade in an adventure involving psychic weasels in Russell Square. After the ordeal ends, the Doctor gives Fey a Stattenheim Summoner to contact him if she needs his help.
The Doctor, with his second heart completely regrown, returns for Fitz and Anji. Trix MacMillan, a con artist hired by Sabbath, asks to join the TARDIS crew, but is denied by the Doctor.
Ending leads directly into The Domino Effect.
Ending leads directly into Reckless Engineering.
Ending leads directly into The Last Resort.
Ending leads directly into Timeless.
The Doctor discovers that Trix MacMillan has been hiding in the TARDIS since the events of Time Zero, and invites her to stay aboard as his companion. Anji leaves the TARDIS to take care of a surviving Time Lady named Chloe. Ending leads directly into Emotional Chemistry.
Reuniting with Miranda due to the threat of the Council of Eight, the Doctor watches his adopted daughter kill herself to avoid being used as a hostage against him.
Looking through the Tomorrow Windows into his future, the Doctor sees the events of Seasons of Fear.
The Bruce Master is still trapped in the Eye of Harmony.
The Doctor regains his memories from before The Burning, and, after defeating the Vore, Fitz and Trix leave the TARDIS to start a family together. The TARDIS interior has been changed again, but is then destroyed containing the explosion of a cold fusion generator.

Fight against the Threshold

The TARDIS is shown to have its Victorian parlour interior design. On a return visit to Stockbridge, the Doctor is reunited with Maxwell Edison and meets Izzy, a seventeen-year-old science fiction fan and amateur paranormal investigator. After they help him defeat the Celestial Toymaker, he offers them companionship; Max declines, but Izzy gleefully accepts.
The Doctor and Izzy are summoned by Fey to an island in the Indian Ocean during 1939. Ending leads directly into The Final Chapter.
Ending leads directly into Wormwood.

Controller of the Glory

Izzy mentions the events of Wormwood.
In 17th century Japan, the Doctor makes an immortal out of Samurai Katsura Sato.
The Doctor and Izzy are joined by Kroton.
Kroton places the Bruce Master back in imprisonment, and ensures that he can't influence the TARDIS, placing this after The Gallifrey Chronicles.

Final adventures with Izzy

Izzy knows Fey, setting this after Wormwood.
On Ophidius, the Doctor's green frockcoat is destroyed, and Izzy has her body switched with Destrii, who is apparently disintegrated before they can switch back.
The Doctor has replaced his destroyed frockcoat with a blue jacket.
Izzy is kidnapped by members of the Horde, leading into Uroboros.
Set during Uroboros: Part 1, before the Doctor calls Fey for help.
Returning to Ophidius with Fey, the Doctor finds Destrii alive and forces her to accompany him in his search for Izzy, leading into Oblivion.
Having been returned to her rightful body, Izzy makes peace with her identity and returns home to her adopted parents.

Time off

On the advice of a kind barman, the Doctor decides to go on holiday. All stories where the Doctor is trying to get to a relaxing destination, or is already on a holiday, can be placed in the period.
The Doctor is still feeling down due to Izzy's departure.
Authorial intent places this story between The Dying Days and Storm Warning.
The Doctor recalls meeting Iris during The Scarlet Empress.

Temporary companions

The Doctor encounters Jodafra and Destrii in 1875 North America, where Destrii sides with the Doctor against her uncle, who beats her to near-death, leading into Sins of the Fathers.
Having helped him repel a Zeronite attack on Hippocrates Base, the Doctor decides to give Destrii the chance to travel with him in the TARDIS.
The Doctor's blue jacket and sonic screwdriver are destroyed.
Destrii would eventually stop travelling with the Doctor, though under unknown circumstances.
After meeting them in the Folkestone Library, the Doctor starts travelling with Gemma and Samson Griffin when they follow him into the TARDIS.
Having left Gemma and Samson in Vienna, the Doctor answers his future self's distress signal, and meets an 18-year-old Mary Shelley, who leaves to travel with him.
The Doctor and Mary travel to Vienna to pick up Gemma and Samson, but arrive in the wrong year. After Mary breaks his sonic screwdriver, the Doctor mentions he has a room full of replacements, explain how he replaced the one destroyed in The Flood.
Mary requests to be returned home, and she and the Doctor part on good terms.
The Doctor refers to his time traveling with Mary Shelley, specifically when he, Mary, Chronotis and Lord Byron spent a weekend together at Lake Geneva.
The Doctor, Romana and K9 have just returned from the events of Shada.
The Doctor successfully returns to Vienna to collect Gemma and Samson.
Gemma recalls the events of The Long Midwinter.
Investigating a Nekkistani time vessel, Gemma is ensnared by Davros and, taking Samson, forces the Doctor to take Davros to Earth and then alters his memories to forget her and Samson before sending him away.

A broken web of time

Landing on the doomed airship R101, the Doctor violates the Laws of Time by saving the life of stowaway Charley Pollard, and takes her aboard the TARDIS as his new companion. The TARDIS has its Victorian parlour interior design.
The Doctor is traveling with Charley, but she is at a disco during this adventure. Seeing as they are not spending Christmas together, it seems likely that this story is set early on in their travels, when their relationship is not as close as it later becomes.
Charley has only been travelling with the Doctor for a few days.
Charley is still uncomfortable with wearing clothing that shows more flesh than she's used to, placing this early during her travels with the Doctor.
Charley recalls the events of Sword of Orion. She has only been travelling with the Doctor for a few weeks, but has already realised that she has fallen in love with him.
"Sam" is listed as one of the Doctor's former companions by Gideon Crane, either referencing Samantha Jones or Samson Griffin.
Charley still has the black eye and bruises she acquired in Minuet in Hell.
Authorial intent places this "sometime during the second series of Charlotte Pollard Eight Doctor adventures". Charley does not know about regeneration.
The Doctor learns that Orson Welles is ignorant of William Shakespeare's identity, that there are forty-nine states in the USA, and that the CIA are active in 1947. The Doctor decides to take Charley to Singapore.
The Doctor and Charley are trying to get to Singapore.
Authorial intents places this between The Chimes of Midnight and Seasons of Fear.
The Doctor and Charley arrive in Singapore, and discover that Benjamin Franklin is President.
Charley has an idea of what regeneration is.
The Doctor is using a brand new model of sonic screwdriver, placing this after The Flood. He also sees a flotilla of Type 70 TARDISes in the Time Vortex.
The Toymaker refers to people from Invaders from Mars, The Chimes of Midnight, Seasons of Fear, and Embrace the Darkness.
Set after Minuet in Hell.
Charley mentions the events of The Chimes of Midnight, The Stones of Venice, Minuet in Hell, and Seasons of Fear.
Set after Minuet in Hell.
Charley recalls meeting the Brigadier in Minuet in Hell.
Charley recalls the events of The Chimes of Midnight, The Stones of Venice, and Seasons of Fear. The Doctor is becoming unable to deny the truth about the effect that Charley’s paradoxical survival is having on the Universe.
The Doctor uncovers why Welles didn't know of Shakespeare in Invaders from Mars.
The Doctor and Charley are returning William Shakespeare home, setting this immediately after The Time of the Daleks.
Set after The Time of the Daleks, with the Doctor having just returned William Shakespeare home.
The Doctor and Charley go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby. However, the Doctor gets caught in the act before he can strike a fatal blow, and has to be rescued by the Fourth Doctor, though he succeeds in showing the mother how to properly care for the baby. Charley seems comfortable with the Doctor's methods, placing it closer to Neverland.
The Doctor uncovers the cause of the time disruptions from Invaders from Mars, Seasons of Fear and The Time of the Daleks, and discovers why there were Type 70 TARDISes in the Time Vortex during Embrace the Darkness; Charley has become a portal into a world of anti-time, causing cracks in the Web of Time. Ending leads directly into Zagreus.
Fighting off an infection of Anti-Time, the Doctor is exiled to the Divergent Universe by Romana, with Charley following him. Rassilon leaves the Matrix, placing this after The Final Chapter.

Exiled in the Divergent Universe

Set immediately after Zagreus, with the Doctor and Charley adjusting to their new environment in the Divergent Universe. They also get separated from the TARDIS.
The Doctor and Charley are joined by a grieving Eutermesan named C'rizz.
The Doctor is on a quest to find Rassilon and the TARDIS.
The Doctor recovers his TARDIS.
The Doctor recalls the events of Tooth and Claw. The Anti-time is completed purged from the Doctor by Rassilon. The Doctor, Charley and C'rizz escape the Divergent Universe to N-Space, and run into Davros, leading directly into Terror Firma.

Return to the main universe

During an encounter with Davros, the Doctor saves Samson from Davros's control, but is unable to save Gemma, who is killed.
C'rizz has never been to Earth before, so before Salva Mea and Other Lives. The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac is considered a recent happening for the Doctor.
On the American frontier, the Doctor plays poker with his future self.
C'rizz sacrifices his life saving the Doctor from the Absolver, leaving Charley with a desire to leave the Doctor's company.
According to the Doctor, three-to-four subjective years have passed since he met Charley in Storm Warning. During fight with the Cybermen, the Doctor is separated from Charley when the TARDIS' HADS are activated in a collapsing Cyber-ship. Due to the Cybermen previously attempting to convert him, the Doctor's memories are too scrambled for him to remember Charley's fate.

Alone again

Charley has only recently left the Doctor after C'rizz's death, and he is still depressed about it.
This is the Doctor's last visit to Edward Grainger, therefore placing it after Dear John. The Master escapes from the TARDIS and the Doctor has his memories intact, setting this after The Gallifrey Chronicles as well.

Travels with Lucie

The Doctor is entrusted to keep Lucie Miller safe in a "witness protection scheme". He tries to get rid of her, but finds that the TARDIS will keep returning to her every time he leaves without Lucie. The TARDIS has its Victorian parlour interior design.
After attempting to return Lucie to 21st century Blackpool, the Doctor asks her to become his official companion, which she accepts.
Lucie gets kidnapped by the Headhunter, leading directly into Human Resources.
The Doctor has reconciled with the Time Lords following the events of Zagreus. He learns that Lucie was mistakenly given to him by the Time Lords, but the two, having become firm friends, continue to travel together.
On the American frontier, the Doctor plays poker with his past self.
Set before Dead London.
The Doctor and Lucie spend a month in 1974.
The Doctor mentions the events of The Bodysnatchers. While fighting the Zygons, the Doctor witnesses the murder of Lucie's Auntie Pat, and, to spare Lucie's feelings, agrees to keep it secret while a Zygon poses as Pat.
Ending leads directly into Orbis.
The Doctor spends six hundred years looking for Lucie on Orbis. After this story, a stellar manipulator follows the Doctor's TARDIS until Eight Truths. Any story where the Doctor and Lucie stay in one location for longer than a few days cannot take place here.
The Doctor is still recovering from the events of Orbis.
Exhausted from their fight against the Eight Legs, Lucie and the Doctor decide to spend Christmas in Blackpool.
Whilst visiting Blackpool for Christmas, Lucie discovers that the Doctor had hidden the death of her Auntie Pat from her, and decides to leave his company due to the absence of trust.

Searching for a friend

Set between Death in Blackpool & Situation Vacant. The Doctor meets up with Susan, and is introduced to his great-grandson, Alex Campbell.
The Doctor discovers an advertisement offering individuals the chance to travel with him. Without finding out the organiser, he selects Tamsin Drew as his new companion.
The Doctor references his meeting with Edgar Allan Poe during his second exile on Earth between The Burning and Father Time. On a mission for the Time Lords, the Doctor deduces that another Renegade Time Lord is manipulating him.
The Doctor discovers that the Monk was responsible for the events of Situation Vacant & Nevermore.
While Tamsin departs with the Monk, the Doctor is joined by Lucie again, and decides to treat her to the perfect Christmas.
After hosting a Christmas dinner with Susan and Alex Campbell, Lucie decides to stay on Earth as Alex's companion.
The Eighth Doctor has knowledge of his past selves and of the Daleks.

Losing everything

After escaping from a six year imprisonment, the Doctor receives a summons from Lucie.
Answering Lucie's distress call, the Doctor is thrusted into a Dalek invasion, where Alex, Tamsin and Lucie are killed. Psychologically broken, the Doctor enters a deep depression.

Looking for hope

Still broken with grief, the Doctor accepts a mission to World War I, where he walks into a mustard gas attack, but is healed by Nurse Molly O'Sullivan, who is being hunted by the Daleks.
On the run from the Daleks with Molly, the Doctor's frockcoat and trousers are ruined in 1940 Dunkirk, and switched for a blue leather jacket and jeans. The Doctor also gets his wavy hair cut short.
The Doctor and Molly discover that a former Time Lord called Kotris is masterminding the plot to destroy the Time Lords, and that Molly is a critical component in his plan.
After his plan is foiled, Kotris is erased from time when the Dalek Time Controller kills his younger self; Straxus. The threat over, the Doctor returns Molly home and travels on alone, a little more hopeful.

Fighting the Eminence

The Doctor is reunited with Molly while investigating the Viyrans.
The Doctor and Molly encounter Liv Chenka and the Eminence at the edge of the universe.
The Doctor, Molly and Liv encounter the Reborn Master during their fight with the Eminence. To best the Master, the Doctor teaches the Eminence how to pilot a TARDIS, and it leaves with the Master in his TARDIS.
Set during Eyes of the Master, when the Doctor goes to ally himself with the Dalek Time Controller to defeat the Eminence.
The Doctor learns from Narvin that the Master is using Molly to exploit the Eminence for his own ends.
Narvin sends Liv to aid the Doctor in his search for the Master.
The Doctor manages to significantly damage the Eminence, but has to stop travelling with Molly because them being together is threatening the universe. However, Liv joins him as his new companion.
After failing to find Molly, the Doctor and Liv find out that the TARDIS has been stolen.
The Doctor and Liv retrieve the TARDIS from the Dalek Time Controller, but the damage to its systems causes the TARDIS to begin crashing.
Recovering from the crash in Moscow, the Doctor steals the Master's TARDIS to rescue Liv and Molly from the Eye of Orion.
At a Dalek facility on the Eye of Orion, the Doctor plays a part in the Eminence's creation, and witnesses Molly sacrifice her life to end the threat of the Eminence.

Facing the Eleven

The Doctor and Liv battle the Doctor's old foe, the Eleven, but are unable to prevent his escape. The Doctor's hair has grown back to its old length and style.
Hunting the Eleven, the Doctor and Liv get side-tracked fighting the Red Lady with the aid of Helen Sinclair, who joins them in the TARDIS.
The Eleven targets the Doctor for assassination, but is defeated by an unknown power and forced to flee.
The Doctor learns from the Voord that the timeline is being interfered with, and sets out to learn why.
Seeking the cause of Voord homeworld's ruination, the Doctor is tricked by Time Lady Caleera into helping her escape the Time Vortex.
Crash-landing in San Francisco, the Doctor has his hair cut again, though not as short as it was in Fugitives.
Following mysterious coordinates to planet Syra, the Doctor thwarts Caleera's plan to destroy Syra, but fails to stop her escaping with the Eleven.

Time alone

All stories where the Doctor shows signs of aging and is world weary must take place during this period.
The Doctor is world weary.
The Doctor's hair is beginning to grey.
The Doctor has flecks of grey in his hair and his body is "wearing thin" and has "little fight left in it". He recalls scattering Isaac's ashes in Second Contact.
The Doctor wonders if his lack of memory means he will soon regenerate. Upon meeting his first incarnation at the end of the universe, the Doctor's spirits are rejuvenated, and he feels up for some new adventures.
As the Last Great Time War begins, the Doctor makes an attempt to save Davros at the Gates of Elysium, but appears to fail.
Wearing a old, worn-out Victorian attire, the Doctor attempts to find a way to end the Time War with the Key of Rassilon.

Following a to-do list

The Doctor is traveling alone after "an intense period in his life." He is wearing his clothes from The Night of the Doctor, though they are much cleaner here, and his hair is depicted as extremely long, placing this before he got his hair cut in Natural Regression. After finding her squatting in his old house, the Doctor invites Josie Day to travel with him when he finds a list of places to visit.
The Doctor feels weary of war, and shows contempt for soldiers, further implying this takes place during the Time War. The TARDIS is shown to have its Victorian parlour interior design.
The Doctor learns from Josie that she is a sentient painting, bought at an auction by one of his future incarnations and brought to his old house to meet the Eighth Doctor with the list of destinations. Having accepted Josie as a friend, the Doctor allows Josie to live in his old house, and offers to let her travel with him to Epsilon Eridani.

Role in the Time War

The Doctor knows that he is going to regenerate soon, but says that he must do something first, something which involves the Daleks.
The Doctor is willingly working with the Time Lords and possesses the Ninth Doctor's sonic screwdriver while dealing with a "storm in heaven".
The Doctor has recently had his hair cut short again, is still using his wooden handled sonic screwdriver, and the TARDIS has its Victorian parlour interior design.
The Doctor is trying to minimise the damage caused by the Time War.
The Doctor is not taking part in the Last Great Time War, but just helping around. He has, by this point, resumed using his silver sonic screwdriver.
The Doctor mentions Gemma, Charley, Ssard, Compassion, Trix, Destrii, Lucie, and Alex as past companions. His TARDIS regenerates after being damaged by a "storm in heaven".
Failing to save a woman from a crashing spaceship, the Doctor is killed in said crash, but is temporality revived by the Sisterhood of Karn. Encouraged to choose how his regeneration will influence his behaviour, the Doctor decides to become a warrior to end the Time War. Drinking an Elixir of Life, the Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation.
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