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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, Doc Oho's Book Reviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Databanks, Whopix, 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.
Limiting factors
Companions
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Peri Brown, specifically when Peri is young and more nervous, must take place between The Twin Dilemma and before Peri takes a leave of absence from the TARDIS at some point before The Shape Shifter. Any stories that feature a more mature and confident Peri traveling alone with the Doctor must take place between The World Shapers and Mindwarp. Any stories that feature Peri after she was left on Thoros Beta must follow The Widow's Assassin.
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Frobisher must take place between The Shape Shifter and Kane's Story or between The Maltese Penguin and The Age of Chaos.
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with Charlotte Pollard must take place between The Condemned and Patient Zero, while any stories featuring Mila must take place between Patient Zero and Blue Forgotten Planet.
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with the Land of Fiction recreation of Jamie McCrimmon must take place between City of Spires and Legend of the Cybermen.
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Flip Jackson must take place between The Curse of Davros and Scavenger.
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Constance Clarke must take place between Criss-Cross and Absolute Power, while any story with her and Flip must follow Quicksilver.
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with Mel Bush must take place after Business Unusual and before his regeneration in the beginning of Time and the Rani.
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, though only briefly.
- 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.
- During a battle with the Tremas Master, the Doctor is confronted by the Rani for the first time since he left Gallifrey. Peri wonders if the TARDIS is still malfunctioning, which the Doctor dismisses, claiming to have put "a lot of work" into fixing it.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Doctor claims to be 900-years-old. After dealing with Davros, the Doctor decides to take Peri to Blackpool, potentially leading into The Nightmare Fair.
Trial at Space Station Zenobia
- 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 during The Trial of a Time Lord, between Mindwarp and Terror of the Vervoids. The Doctor sees Evelyn Smythe when taking a glimpse into his future, and recalls an undocumented encounter with Charlotte Pollard.
- 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 brings Melanie to Pease Pottage, believing that she can reunite with "her Doctor" there, despite her protests that she had left him on Oxyveguramosa. The Doctor meets a future version of himself in the process, who recommends that he take a trip to Sheffield Hallam University.
- The Doctor returns Melanie to Oxyveguramosa as promised, reuniting her with his future self.
Travels with Evelyn Smythe
- 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.
- The Doctor has recently had a cold, caused by falling into the Thames in The Marian Conspiracy. 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 events of The Sirens of Time are referenced. The Doctor is aware that his status as Lord President has been revoked, and Evelyn encounters the Daleks for the first time.
- The Doctor switches his Technicolor frock coat for a blue coat. All stories with the Doctor wearing this coat must take place after this.
- The Doctor and Evelyn have just left the Clutch, setting this immediately after The Sandman.
- 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.
- 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 first confrontation with Dr. Robert Knox.
- Evelyn refers to her encounter with Dr. Robert Knox from Medicinal Purposes and the Doctor wears his technicolour coat.
- The Doctor hasn't had a sonic screwdriver since his fifth incarnation.
- Evelyn has witnessed the Doctor falling into the River Thames twice before, setting this after Project: Twilight.
- The Doctor, wearing his Technicolor coat and traveling with Evelyn, prevents Edward Grainger being falsely accused of treason in 1957. (PROSE: Old Boys)
- The Doctor and Evelyn join Bernice Summerfield's archaeological expedition. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)
- The Doctor and Evelyn spend a day flying kites. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)
- Evelyn refers to her encounters with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from My Own Private Wolfgang.
- The Doctor spends one hundred years travelling in the TARDIS with Evelyn, Jacob, Mary, and Peter Williams, while they recover from being frozen in time. Once they are unfrozen, the Doctor and Evelyn return the Williams family home.
- Evelyn is familiar with Gallifreyan politics, setting this after The Apocalypse Element. The Sixth Doctor once believed that his life would be "short, but sweet".
- Evelyn has made a habit of jumping from trains, setting this after The Nowhere Place.
- 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 demands that the Doctor takes him back to his own time, leading into Industrial Evolution.
- Brewster is returned to Victorian Lancashire by the Doctor and Evelyn, however they stick around for several weeks to investigate the brass mill.
- The Doctor is wearing his blue coat.
- On a return trip to Világ, Evelyn leaves the Doctor to marry Justice Rossiter. The Doctor reacts badly to the news and refuses to give a proper goodbye. (AUDIO: Thicker Than Water)
The Mystery of Charlotte Pollard
- Charley Pollard enters the TARDIS, having expected someone else to be inside. Ending leads directly into The Condemned.
- 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.
- The Doctor has yet to meet Sigmund Freud.
- Charley refers to the fictional highwaymen from The Doomwood Curse and the Marxist Daleks from Brotherhood of the Daleks.
- The Doctor and Charley have been travelling together for weeks.
- Set immediately after The Avenues of Possibility. The Doctor and Charley decide to investigate the source of the temporal distortions.
- The Doctor and Charley encounter the Krotons. Following this encounter, the Doctor decides to take Charley to breakfast, leading directly into The Raincloud Man.
- Set immediately after Return of the Krotons, with the Doctor and Charley having breakfast at a cafe, and Charley noting that they made it to their intended destination on the first attempt.
- 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. 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.
Return to 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 memory of him.
Adventures 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, and has recently started wearing his Technicolor coat around Flip, setting this before Antidote to Oblivion. The Doctor recalls the events of The Red House.
- Ending leads directly into Cortex Fire.
- The Doctor tells Flip that multiple versions of Peri exist, and that he wants to find out for sure what happened to her and reunite, setting this after Peri and the Piscon Paradox.
- Flip reminds the Doctor that he promised her a return to trip to Tranquility from Antidote to Oblivion.
- Flip reminds the Doctor that he promised her a return to trip to Tranquility from Antidote to Oblivion and the Doctor is still pining for Peri. Flip becomes separated from the Doctor in orbit around 2071 Earth.
- The Doctor is able to save Flip and return her to 2012 Earth. (AUDIO: The Widow's Assassin)
Reunited with Peri
- After he finds her on Krontep, the Doctor spends roughly ten years working to free Peri from a mind parasite, and she re-joins him as his companion. He mentions saving Flip after Scavenger, which was his previous adventure.
- Set shortly after The Widow's Assassin, with Peri noting that the Doctor and her are having a "fresh start" with their travels after being reunited. The Doctor recalls his adventures with Jamie McCrimmon and Rob Roy MacGregor, setting this after Legend of the Cybermen.
Travels with Mrs 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 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.
- Constance knows about the TARDIS translation circuits, which she found out about in Shield of the Jotunn.
- The Doctor mentions the "terraforming geo-machines" from Shield of the Jötunn.
- Constance has only taken a few trips with the Doctor. She decides to return to Bletchley, leading directly into Quicksilver.
Travels with Flip and Connie
Meeting Mel at last
- After a period of avoiding Melanie Bush 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 and Mel encounter the Vervoids on the Hyperion III.
- The Doctor is also depicted wearing the clothes he wore in Terror of the Vervoids, and Mel knows how to fly the TARDIS.
- According to the CD booklet, this audio is set after The One Doctor. Mel encounters the Daleks for the first time and spends two months separated from the Doctor on Lethe.
- According to the CD booklet, this audio is set after The Juggernauts. Mel spends six months at Hallam Hall, though she is amnesiac during this period and does not recall much of what happened in recent months.
- According to the CD booklet, this audio is set after Catch-1782. Second depiction of Mel meeting with Evelyn, and Evelyn's life after traveling aboard the TARDIS. Mel calls the Doctor out on his attitude and egotistical demeanour.
- The Doctor and Mel encounter the Wishing Beast for the first time. Mel asks the Doctor to take her somewhere fabulous, leading directly into The Vanity Box.
- The Doctor and Mel arrive in the 1960s, and encounter the Wishing Beast for a second time.
- 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 Technicolored coat.
- The Doctor recommends avoiding the work of agronomist Sarah Lasky, suggesting a post-Terror of the Vervoids setting.
- 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.