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This page lists appearances of the Seventh 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, Doc Oho's Book Reviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks databanks, Whopix, the Big Finish forums and The Divergent Universe forum. 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 many BBC Past Doctor Adventures novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, but should not be viewed as the only placement for these novels.
Organisational aids
The Seventh Doctor's timeline is organised by companion, TARDIS, outfit, and personality. However, few indicators are absolute. His companions often leave and rejoin him, he switches TARDISes and TARDIS interiors multiple times, he sometimes explicitly wears the "wrong" outfit for a period, and his personality can be difficult to pin down. He's also seen removing his more "useless" memories in PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys, explaining errors in continuity he makes.
Stories where the Doctor travels alone are most often organised by personality: if he is more lighthearted, they can be placed early in his life or immediately before the end, while stories where he is more sombre are usually placed close to, but not immediately before, his death.
The Doctor switches from usually wearing his lighter jacket to usually wearing the darker one in AUDIO: 1963: The Assassination Games. His white linen suit is introduced in PROSE: White Darkness, though he might have worn it before. Stories where he wears his tweed jacket should be placed after PROSE: So Vile a Sin.
Stories where the Doctor travels in his alternate self's TARDIS take place after PROSE: Blood Heat and before PROSE: Happy Endings, but often which TARDIS he is using goes unmentioned, and what companions he is with are a more useful indicator. Stories where he travels in his black TARDIS take place after AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge and before AUDIO: Gods and Monsters. Stories where the TARDIS is white take place after AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari and before AUDIO: Gods and Monsters
Companions
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Mel Bush must take place between TV: Time and the Rani and TV: Dragonfire, while any story with her and Ace must follow AUDIO: A Life of Crime.
Any stories involving a younger Ace must take place from TV: Dragonfire to PROSE: Love and War, while any story where Ace has combat-training must take place after PROSE: Deceit.
Any stories where he travels with Bernice Summerfield must take place between PROSE: Love and War and PROSE: Deceit, or between PROSE: Set Piece and PROSE: Happy Endings. Any stories where Ace and Benny's relationship is non-antagonistic must take place after PROSE: No Future.
Any story with Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej as companions must take place between PROSE: Original Sin and PROSE: So Vile a Sin. Any story featuring just Chris as a companion must take place before PROSE: Lungbarrow.
Any story where the Doctor and Ace travel with Hex must take place between AUDIO: The Harvest and AUDIO: Signs and Wonders.
Complications
The Doctor edits his more "useless" memories in Timewyrm: Genesys, which can explain anything he's forgotten from previous incarnations and adventures.
The Doctor Who Magazine comics start off with the Doctor travelling with Frobisher, who acts like Peri Brown has just departed, before he himself leaves the series. The early comics also portray the Doctor as he acted in Time and the Rani, until Nemesis of the Daleks sees him act as the manipulator he had become in the latter part of his television tenure.
Ace
Ace loses some of her memories in Timewyrm: Genesys and The Prisoner's Dilemma, which can explain anything she's forgotten from her previous travels.
Throughout their travels together, Ace continued to mature and come to terms with her past and how she coped with it. The early audios that have her and the Doctor traveling with Raine Creevy generally follow the characteristics established by the television series; an immature rebel who enjoys explosives and is often in the dark about the Doctor's plans.
In the Virgin New Adventures, Ace undergoes major character development after a fallout with the Doctor. It is this version of Ace that develops with the Doctor and Bernice Summerfield in the VNA series, after returning from fighting the Daleks with Spacefleet; She often identifies herself as a soldier, and is abrasive toward the Doctor and Benny, at least until No Future, where the three resolve their differences. Ace then becomes less prone to using explosives, more dedicated to TARDIS-life, and more accepting of the Doctor's manipulative nature, until she leaves again to become Time's Vigilante.
David Bishop, when writing Enemy of the Daleks, based Ace on the combat-trained "New Ace" from the New Adventures; this potentially indicates that the audio is set after Deceit.
The biggest complication surrounding Ace is her death in Ground Zero, in which she is shown travelling with the Doctor as he is seen in Doctor Who.
TARDIS interior
At some point before The Armageddon Gambit, the Seventh Doctor gained another control room, with the time rotor connected to the ceiling instead of the floor. Following on from The Chameleon Factor, the TARDIS is changed to a beige design and retains it for most of the Doctor's continued travels.
While travelling in the TARDIS of an alternate universe version of his third incarnation, the Seventh Doctor had a transitional version of his Victorian parlour control room by Human Nature, as shown in the ebook art. Later, in Lungbarrow, his own TARDIS changes into a Victorian parlour design to resemble the Doctor's family estate in the House of Lungbarrow, and retains the look into Doctor Who.
However, in The Settling, the TARDIS is redecorated by the Doctor, Ace, and Hex to the Victorian parlour design seen in Doctor Who, though it reverts to the old design from Black and White to Gods and Monsters. In Signs and Wonders, the TARDIS is damaged and resets to a white room without a console. The Doctor claims that it needs time to rebuild and that he should be able to restore the configuration. Also, Excelis Decays claims that the Doctor apparently built the Victorian parlour design himself. In The Monsters of Gokroth and The Moons of Vulpana, set after the Doctor's travels with Ace, the TARDIS interior has the 80s TV sound effects before changing to the TV Movie sound effects in An Alien Werewolf in London.
Furthermore, in Ground Zero, the elderly Doctor is using his old interior design until the TARDIS is damaged and forced to change the interior design, with the authorial intent being that it changed to the Victorian parlour design in the lead up to Doctor Who.
Legal issues
Starting in 2020, Big Finish desisted with using images from the TV Movie for fear of legal repercussions from the rights holders in the USA,[source needed] thus the Doctor is depicted as being young on the cover of audios, even those that portray him as being his elderly self from the TV Movie.
Timeline
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A new body
- The Seventh Doctor's persona begins to emerge as his previous incarnation regenerates due to falling to "focused beams of radiation" lethal to Time Lords in an attack from Lakertya.
- Immediately after regenerating from his previous incarnation, the Doctor is thrown into a confrontation with the First Rani on Lakertya, where he and Mel, with aid from the Lakertyans, prevent her from harnessing the minds of several geniuses to harvest strange matter. The Doctor claims to be 953-years-old. After the Rani is defeated and taken away by her vengeful Tetrap minions, the Doctor and Mel make plans to return the Rani's victims home.
- Set almost immediately after Time and the Rani, with the Doctor bemoaning the loss of his scarf and umbrella on Lakertya, and still adjusting to his new body.
- Set shortly after Time and the Rani, with the Doctor writing in his diary about his defeat of the Rani.
The days like crazy paving
- The Doctor is still recovering from the effects of his recent regeneration, as shown by the large amount of the lindos hormone in his system, setting this almost immediately after Time and the Rani.
- The Doctor brings a new hatstand back into the TARDIS console room. He acts much like his sixth incarnation, suggesting he is still recovering from his regeneration.
- Having jettisoned the TARDIS swimming pool due to a leak, the Doctor takes Mel to Paradise Towers so she can use the swimming pool, where they unite the Kangs, Caretakers and Rezzies in stopping the Great Architect Kroagnon, though not without the Inbetween Pex sacrificing himself. The Doctor is made an honorary member of both the Red and Blue Kangs.
- Pex's sacrifice is still on Mel's mind, setting this shortly after Paradise Towers.
- The Doctor's umbrella is damaged, with him suggesting it is time he acquired a new one, setting this between Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen.
- Set between Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen.[1] The Doctor is carrying his red umbrella, setting this after The Warehouse.
- Set between Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen.[2] The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after The Warehouse. The two versions of the story detail what happens when the Doctor is coerced into changing the past, but offers no conclusion about which of the versions is the "correct" one.
- In a deleted scene, Mel recalls the events of Paradise Towers as being her and the Doctor's previous holiday attempt. [quote 1] The Doctor has replaced his whangee handled umbrella with one with a large red question mark designed handle. Mel claims to have "never won anything before" when she and the Doctor win a trip to 1959 Disneyland with Nostalgia Tours, only for their bus to be knocked off course to Shangri-La Wales, where they protect the last of the Chimeron, Delta and her daughter, from the Bannermen.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor and Mel visit Hugh and Janet in Llanfer Ceiriog. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark)
- The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after The Warehouse.
- The Doctor is carrying his question mark umbrella, setting this after The Warehouse.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor and Mel broker peace on Prosper. (AUDIO: Maker of Demons)
Final adventures with Mel
- (FLASHBACK)
- After they meet Emil Hartung in Cairo, the Doctor realises he will have to leave Mel soon, so that her morals don't compromise his agenda. Despite her travels with the Sixth Doctor showing otherwise, Mel claims that the Cairo visit is her first time traveling into Earth's past. (PROSE: Just War)
- The Doctor still acts light-hearted, but Mel is starting to feel alienated by him.
- Set between Delta and the Bannermen and Dragonfire.[3] The Doctor acts more brooding, something Mel claims to have never seen in him before.
- Despite the Big Finish website placing this between Time and the Rani and Paradise Towers[4], the Doctor acts more brooding around Mel, setting this after The Fires of Vulcan.
- The Doctor begins to suspect that he hasn't been himself since regenerating, and thinks that there might be more changes ahead for him in his current incarnation. The Doctor lets his manipulative side show for the first time when blackmailing a black market seller, making Mel question whether she wants to continue traveling with the Doctor.
- On the Iceworld colony of Svartos, the Doctor and Mel bump into Sabalom Glitz again, and also meet a time-displaced 16-year-old girl from Perivale named Ace, as they move to prevent Kane from obtaining the Dragonfire. While Mel decides to leave the TARDIS and travel with Glitz aboard the Nosferatu II, the Doctor offers to take Ace back to Perivale via "the scenic route".
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- Set during the ending of Dragonfire: Episode 1. The Doctor is compelled to throw himself off a cliff side by the Great Intelligence, but a Clara Oswald splinter snaps him out of the trance.
Early travels with Ace
- The Doctor warns Ace what she should do if she ever encounters the Pyromeths, which is implied to be a warning he gives to recent additions to the TARDIS, which would set this shortly after Dragonfire. He is wearing his cream jacket, but has no visible scarf or pullover.
- Ace feels the Doctor is showing off with his time travel shenanigans, implying that he is showing her how the TARDIS works for one of the first times.
- While out gift-shopping for Christmas, the Doctor mentions that Ace likes Charlton Athletic, implying that he bought her the Charlton Athletic badge on her jacket that she had by The Happiness Patrol.
- Ace wishes to spend Christmas with the Doctor, who is reluctant and fails to see why it is so important to her, setting this early in their travels together.
- The Doctor attends a Christmas dinner hosted by his first incarnation. Though she is absent, he is currently travelling with Ace.
- The Doctor takes Ace to Rome during Saturnalia as a Christmas surprise. The Doctor's main priority is teaching Ace and, when they encounter danger, the Doctor sends Ace back to the TARDIS, setting this during their early travels.
- The Doctor is wearing his off-white jacket. Ace is described as a teenager, and is wearing the Charlton Athletic badge on her jacket that she had by The Happiness Patrol
- Set soon after The Time and Tide.[source needed]
- Ace has "only just come on board" the TARDIS, though has been aboard long enough to use up several cans of deodorant, and is still exploring her new surroundings.
- The Doctor is wearing a waistcoat with a pocket watch attached. Ace is carrying her rucksack and a baseball bat, setting this before Remembrance of the Daleks.
- Ace still has her baseball bat and anger issues, setting this before Remembrance of the Daleks.
- COMIC: The Forgotten: Survival
- The Doctor is wearing his white coat. Ace is carrying her backpack and baseball bat, and the Doctor mentions her tape deck, suggesting a setting before it is destroyed in Remembrance of the Daleks.
The Shoreditch Incident
- The Doctor takes Ace to 1963 Shoreditch so he can trick the Imperial Daleks into taking the Hand of Omega to end the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War. However, the Renegade Daleks arrive first, and fight for the Hand. With the aid of Group Captain Ian Gilmore, Dr. Rachel Jensen and Allison Williams of the Intrusion Counter-Measures Group, the Doctor and Ace are able to get the Hand to the Imperial Daleks after a Special Weapons Dalek wipes out the Renegades, and the Doctor goads Davros into using it, causing him to destroy Skaro and the Imperial Dalek mothership, just as the Doctor had pre-programmed it too. Ace is allowed to drive a van, implying she is now 17-years-old. She also encounters the Daleks for the first time, and is carrying a baseball bat, which gets super-powered by the Hand of Omega, though it is swiftly destroyed, as is her tape deck. According to Head Games, the Shoreditch Incident was the first time Ace doubted the Doctor's motives.
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- Set during Remembrance of the Daleks: Part 2, just before the Doctor visits Harry's Café.
- (REFERENCE)
- As he and Ace depart from Shoreditch, the Doctor detects a temporal abnormality at Coal Hill School in 2016, but the TARDIS is attacked before he can tend to it. (AUDIO: In Remembrance)
- The Doctor remains in the TARDIS while Ace visits Judith Winters in 1993, thirty years after Remembrance of the Daleks.
- Despite having traveled with the Doctor to "many" places, Ace only now learns that the TARDIS is stuck with the police box exterior due to a broken chameleon circuit, and begins questioning the Doctor's intentions and motivations, setting this between Remembrance of the Daleks and The Happiness Patrol.
Based at Ercildoune
- (SEGMENTS)
- The Doctor and Ace visit 1926 Africa. The Doctor leaves Ace with an old friend, Naikosiai, while he attends to some business alone. (PROSE: Prelude Birthright) The Doctor takes up residence at Ercildoune in Scotland in the 13th century, using it as a base from which to set out on various travels for roughly two years. (PROSE: Birthright)
- The Doctor visits 1909 London, and saves Barbara Wright's grandfather, Ernie, from being arrested for a murder he did not commit. The Doctor claims that he has business to attend to in Soho, and then somewhere else "a long, long way away" from Soho.
- (SEGMENTS)
- The Doctor visits Margaret Waterfield at 39 Dean Street in Soho to warn her of Bernice Summerfield's imminent arrival. Next, he visits Coutts Bank in 1868 London with Victoria Waterfield. The Doctor asks Margaret what her favourite flowers are, knowing in advance the day she dies. (PROSE: Prelude Birthright) The Doctor arranges for flowers to be sent to Margaret Waterfield's funeral. (PROSE: Birthright)
- (REFERENCES)
- The Doctor visits the court of Elizabeth I, and persuades the Queen to send Jared Khan on a fool's errand, spends five years teaching Mikhail Popov English in St Petersburg, knowing that he would help Bernice in London and arranges for Herbert Asquith to have Bernice released from Holloway Prison. (PROSE: Birthright)
- The Doctor's profile picture is of him on Iceworld, setting this after Dragonfire.
- (FLASHBACK)
- The Doctor leaves Ercildoune for the last time, shortly before the Charl Queen arrives looking for the TARDIS. He asks Jared Khan to travel through the glen and leaves him with advice to "follow the bonny bonny road should anyone give him the choice". Khan would later strike a deal with the Charl Queen. (PROSE: Birthright)
- The Doctor returns to Africa to collect Ace. Though she tells him that he's been gone for hours, the Doctor responds that it "feels like years" for him. The Doctor and Ace leave for Terra Alpha, setting this immediately before The Happiness Patrol.
Further travels with Ace
- Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. Having heard "rumours of something evil" at Terra Alpha, the Doctor takes Ace to the colony so he can take down Helen A and her Happiness Patrol's dictatorship. He ponders taking Ace to the Cretaceous period for a "little visit".
- (FLASHBACK)
- After leaving Terra Alpha, Ace, still a recent addition to the TARDIS, asks the Doctor how he operates, as she is still figuring out how to be a companion in the TARDIS, and believes they come to an understanding. (PROSE: Head Games)
- Broadcasted out-of-production-order on Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate with the 25th anniversary of Doctor Who, explaining how Ace is wearing Flowerchild's earring despite acquiring it in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. The Doctor has built Ace a new tape deck to replace the one destroyed in Remembrance of the Daleks. While enjoying a jazz performance by Courtney Pine in Windsor, the Doctor receives a reminder to deal with the Nemesis before it destroys the Earth, but his plan is complicated by Lady Peinforte, the CyberIsomorphs and De Flores' Fourth Reich. Ultimately, the Cybermen annihilate the Fourth Reich before being taken out by Ace and the Doctor, and the Doctor destroys the Cyber-Fleet with the Nemesis after Peinfote merges with it. Ace encounters the Cybermen for the first time, and the Doctor realises that Fenric is orchestrating events in his favour when he spots a chess set in Lady Peinforte's home.
- Broadcasted out-of-production-order on Nathan-Turner's orders due to a delay brought about by the 1988 Olympic Games. The Doctor and Ace follow junk mail to Segonax to see the Psychic Circus, where they meet the Vulpanan werewolf Mags and free the circus from the Gods of Ragnarok. Ace recovers one of the late Flowerchild's earrings and starts wearing it on her jacket.
- The TARDIS has just left Segonax, setting this immediately after The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. The Doctor gives his white coat to Rebeekan, and begins thinking about changing it for a brown one.
- Resting in 1988, the Doctor reflects on the recent events of Remembrance of the Daleks, Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- The Doctor does not have much control over events, and his relationship with Ace is more trusting, setting this in their early travels. Ace has encountered Nazis during her travels with the Doctor, setting this after Silver Nemesis.
- The Doctor plays the spoons, which Master indicated he did less as he matured, setting this early in his travels with Ace.
- The Doctor and Ace spend a month attempting to defeat CEREBRA.
- In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Doctor finds Ace converted into a Cyberman while using Nemesis mines to destroy a Cyber-Fleet, setting this after Silver Nemesis.
- Ace visits New York City for the first time, setting this before Dalek Attack.
Continued travels with Ace
- According to Head Games, this is just a simulation created by the Land of Fiction. The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver that fires laser attacks, and is wearing his white safari jacket. He and Ace visit Paris, New York City and Tokyo while preventing Davros and the Emperor Dalek from turning Earth into a Dalek production planet with their army of Daleks, Robomen and Ogrons. They then infiltrate Skaro to reclaim a Time Ring stolen by Davros.
- Set between The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and Battlefield, according to the official script release. The Doctor works as an MP from June 1963 to October 1964. When he travels back to December 1963 to pick up Ace, Gilmore only notices that he has time travelled because he is wearing "a different jacket" by the time he returns, implied to be his brown coat from Battlefield.
- The Doctor is wearing his brown jacket, and the TARDIS has the console room from the television series. According to the introduction, the events of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy happened "not so long ago". Ace convinces Mags to take a trip in the TARDIS.
- The Doctor is wearing his brown coat. He has not yet told Ace about regeneration, and she doesn't know who the Master is, setting this before Survival.
- Ace has faced the Daleks and Cybermen. She knows the Doctor can regenerate, setting this after The Light at the End, and the Doctor knows her full name. Ace thinks that it is unlike the Doctor to steal things, setting this before their travels with Raine.
- The Doctor is currently travelling with Ace. (DWM 475) He helps in the saving of Gallifrey on the last day of the Last Great Time War, and, in the novelisation, has a tea party with his other incarnations in the Under Gallery as a celebration. Due to a "glitch" caused by the TARDISes surrounding each other, he briefly ages to his Doctor Who appearance when saving Gallifrey. (DWM 477)
- The Doctor and Ace attend the coronation of Elizabeth II.
- The Doctor and Ace trap an Elder God, setting this before Gods and Monsters. The Doctor is wearing his brown coat and plays the spoons.
- The Doctor and Ace recall the events of 1963: The Assassination Games.
Temporary companions
- (CONTEXT)
- After leaving Ace in the Cretaceous period, the Doctor spends some time travelling alone (COMIC: Train-Flight) before he reunites with his old friends Peri Brown and Frobisher. (COMIC: A Cold Day in Hell!) The Doctor and Frobisher eventually return Peri to Yrcanos on Thoros-Beta. (COMIC: Planet of the Dead)
- Peri has recently left the TARDIS to stay with Yrcanos, leaving Frobisher feeling melancholic and deciding to leave, since he believes that he isn't needed as much without her. After a final adventure together, Frobisher stays on A-Lux in the 41st century, while the Doctor departs with a female Dreilyn named Olla.
- Olla is handed over to Skaroux, whom she stole money from, leaving the Doctor alone to reflect on the recent losses of Peri and Frobisher.
- When he is time displaced with his third incarnation, the Doctor reunites with Jo Grant when he arrives in UNIT HQ.
Solo adventures
- After colliding with him in the Time Vortex, the Doctor uses a TCE to shrink Death's Head to human size and then sends him into the "robot universe".
- Feeling old and useless, the Doctor considers returning the Gallifrey for good. After saving the Culture, however, he feels a renewed sense of purpose and leaves looking for another adventure.
- The Doctor is playfully juggling miniature Daleks, suggesting that this is set before he dedicated himself to being "Time's Champion".
- The Doctor has Christmas dinner with his other incarnations, where he plays the spoons to entertain them.
- The Doctor begins trying to get to Maruthea for Bonjaxx's birthday, but accidently arrives on Mekrom during his first attempt.
- In another attempt to get to Marathea, the Doctor instead arrives on Tojana.
- The Doctor is depicted as wearing his cream jacket.
- The Doctor is depicted as wearing his cream jacket.
- The Doctor and Death's Head cross paths again, and come to an uneasy truce.
- The Doctor is still attempting to attend Bonjaxx's birthday, setting this between Echoes of the Mogor! and Nemesis of the Daleks.
- The Doctor is wearing his brown jacket, and traveling with a benevolent Cyberman mechanic.
- While still searching for Banjaxx's party, the Doctor meets Abslom Daak, a professional Dalek Killer. The Doctor thinks Davros is the Dalek Emperor, despite the Emperor questioning his statement, setting this after Remembrance of the Daleks. The Doctor decides to stop actively trying to get to the Marathea.
- The Doctor has begun wearing a dark brown variant of his jacket on a permanent basis.
- The Doctor is acting as a representative for the Time Lords.
- The Doctor is wearing his dark jacket.
- The Doctor is depicted with his brown coat. He gives his past incarnation the Hand of Omega, setting this after he sent it off to Gallifrey in Remembrance of the Daleks.
- The Doctor is wearing his dark jacket, and appears to be traveling alone.
- The Doctor is wearing his brown coat and paisley scarf.
- The Doctor is wearing his dark jacket, and appears to be traveling alone.
- The Doctor doesn't recognise the Eighth Doctor, setting this before The Shadow of the Scourge, where knew his successor's appearance.
- The Doctor is depicted in his brown coat on the cover and he has a more jovial outlook, implying a setting before Nightshade, where he becomes more dedicated to his plans.
- The Doctor is imprisoned at the Maximum security facility with his other incarnations.
- The Seventh Doctor unites with his other incarnations to help a group of people seal the Time Fracture.
Growing darker
- (REFERENCE)
- The Mandragora Helix reawakens inside the TARDIS, and begins gathering strength to ground the TARDIS on Earth. (COMIC: The Mark of Mandragora)
- It is hypothesised in The Mark of Mandragora that the Mandragora Helix was in control of the TARDIS here. The Doctor faces the Kalik with Sarah Jane Smith.
- The Doctor writes in his diary about having just defeated the Kalik in Train-Flight. Having felt distracted lately, the Doctor decides he needs to find a way to concentrate, and elects to pick up Ace after a stop in 5th century England.
- The Doctor retrieves Ace from the Cretaceous period, and the two resume travelling together.
- Broadcasted out-of-production-order on Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. It is hypothesised in The Mark of Mandragora that the Mandragora Helix engineered the TARDIS landing in 1997 Carbury in time for the Doctor and Ace to assist Ancelyn, Brigadier Winifred Bambera and UNIT-UK in stopping Morgaine from obtaining Excalibur. The Doctor learns he will one day become Merlin in another dimension. Ace meets Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart for the first time in her life, while it is implied that the Doctor is meeting him for the first time in his seventh incarnation.[quote 2] The Doctor stops Ace from buying an alcoholic drink, implying she is still below the legal drinking age of 18-years-old.
- Broadcasted out-of-production-order on Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. The Doctor gives Ace an "initiative test" by taking her to Gabriel Chase in 1883 Perivale, where they stop Josiah Samuel Smith's plan to assassinate Queen Victoria and take over the British Empire, only to then have to save the planet from Light.
- Authorial intent sets this during Season 26.[5] Gabriel Chase is fresh in Ace's mind, setting this shortly after Ghost Light. The Doctor is aware that he and Ace will soon be drawn into a "great battle", foreshadowing the events of The Curse of Fenric.
- Broadcasted out-of-production-order on Nathan-Turner's orders, as the serial's theme fitted well with the Halloween broadcast slot. The Doctor brings Ace to 1943 Maiden's Point so he can best Fenric's master plan to turn humanity into Haemovores. Ace meets her grandmother, Kathleen Dudman, and her mother as an infant, and learns that she is ultimately a pawn in Fenric and the Doctor's game, though the Doctor at least apologises for his deceptions. Ace is "not a little girl anymore", and is gifted an authentic cap insignia of the Red Army by Captain Sorin.
- While reflecting on his life, the Doctor laments over what he has put Ace through, suggesting a setting after The Curse of Fenric. He is still travelling with Ace, and recalls battling Daleks, Cybermen and "ancient Gods".
- While Ace is asleep, the Doctor travels back in time to apologise to baby Ace for the events of Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric, and for the pain "yet to come".
The Cheetah World gambit
- Broadcasted out-of-production-order on Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. The novelisation details how the Doctor and Ace have returned to Earth for the first time since The Curse of Fenric[quote 3], which was a week ago[quote 4], with Ace asking to return to Perivale to see her old friends, only to find them being taken to the Cheetah Planet by the Cheetah People to serve the needs of the Tremas Master. Ace also encounters the Master for the first time, and both become infected with a Cheetah virus that threatens to turn them into Cheetah People, though Ace begins to recover when the Cheetah Planet explodes with the Master still on it. With Perivale no longer in danger, the Doctor takes Ace "home" to the TARDIS, telling her they have "work to do".
- Set immediately after Survival, with the Master manifesting in the Doctor's TARDIS immediately upon the Cheetah Planet's destruction.
- (CONJECTURE)
- After the events surrounding the Cheetah Planet, the Doctor and Ace's timeline becomes blurred and contradictory, particularly accounts detailing Ace's departure from the TARDIS, (AUDIO: Assassins) due to the Doctor erasing his and Ace's memories, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys) the Council of Eight attacking their timelines (PROSE: Sometime Never...) and Irving Braxiatel manipulations Ace's timestream. (AUDIO: Assassins) Ace would later recall spending "years" dealing with temporal shifts and time changing around her by 2016. (AUDIO: In Remembrance)
Work to do
- Set shortly after Survival, with the last event that Zoe Heriot dreams before waking up being the Doctor's speech to Ace about having "work to do". The Doctor visits Zoe on a space station while Ace is distracted in the station's chemistry lab.
- Though the book's blurb would place this between The Curse of Fenric and Survival, the Doctor has it noted that he needs to go back and leave a settee for him to land on in Perivale, setting this after Survival.
- Ace refers to her meeting her grandmother during The Curse of Fenric, with the earthbound setting placing this after Survival. She still believes that there are no secrets between herself and the Doctor. Miss Gallowglass gives a cryptic warning to the Doctor and Ace about the upcoming events of Independence Day.
- Ace is familiar with the TARDIS and has been travelling with the Doctor for some time, but is surprised that the Doctor keeps secrets from her, suggesting a setting after Relative Dementias.
- Ace has a conversation echoing another that she had "not so long ago" in The Curse of Fenric, with the earthbound setting placing this after Survival.
- Months have passed since Ace left Perivale, and she recalls the events of The Curse of Fenric.
- It is hypothesised in The Mark of Mandragora that the Mandragora Helix was in control of the TARDIS here. Ace apparently visits Smithwood Manor for the first time, setting this before Cat's Cradle: Warhead.
- The Doctor mentions the difficulty he has had taking the TARDIS away from Earth that has been troubling him since Train-Flight, which was "weeks" ago. He suspects that the Mandragora Helix is still in the TARDIS and has been drawing it to Earth, alongside the threats from Train-Flight, Battlefield and Fellow Travellers. Ending leads directly into The Mark of Mandragora.
- The Doctor has been redecorating the TARDIS. The TARDIS is freed from the influence of the Mandragora Helix once and for all.
- The Doctor finally reaches Maruthea for Bonjaxx's birthday party, just as his predecessor is leaving. While Ace partakes in a pub brawl, the Doctor talks with a future incarnation of himself, and then leaves with Ace before his fourth incarnation arrives.
- The Doctor remembers that his real reason to come to Maruthea was to tidy up loose ends with Death's Head. He stuns the original Death's Head and wipes his memory of his encounter with Death's Head II.
- The Doctor locates his old signet ring in the TARDIS control console and decides to resume wearing it and to take Ace on holiday, leading directly into Seaside Rendezvous.
- The TARDIS' chameleon circuit is working, presumably due to the events of The Chameleon Factor, and has changed the TARDIS's form into a Cadillac. The Doctor takes Ace on holiday to 1950s America.
- The chameleon circuit fails once again, setting this shortly after The Good Soldier. The Doctor and Ace are trying to get to Middlesbrough.
- The Doctor and Ace arrive in Middlesbrough, setting this shortly after A Glitch in Time.
- Ace references the events of Ghost Light.
- The Doctor gives Clio a Blue Peter badge on Ace's behalf.
- The Doctor and Ace go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby, but they are unable to go through with it.
- Ace recalls the events of The Curse of Fenric, and has been travelling with the Doctor for "a few years".
- Ace is under 18-years-of-age and is familiar with UNIT and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, setting this after Battlefield. She also visits Prague for the first time, setting this before Sunday Afternoon, 848, 988.
- The Doctor is described as wearing a light jacket with a patterned sweater.
- Ace mentions the Daleks, setting this after Remembrance of the Daleks. The Doctor is wearing his beige jacket.
- The Doctor mentions that his current companion is having a hangover after a night testing drinks from the TARDIS food replicator. Given his companions at the time of publication, he is most likely talking about Ace, testing drinks after turning 18-years-old.
Missions surrounding Raine
- Set before The Harvest. (Vortex 48) Ace has her first encounter with an Ice Warrior. The Doctor claims to have never delivered a baby before he delivers baby Raine Creevy. The Doctor tries to get Ace accepted into the Time Lord Academy, but she turns down the offer and is also rejected by the Time Lords.
- Set almost immediately after Thin Ice, with the Doctor having kept an eye on Raine as she grew up. After defeating the Metatraxi, he offers her the chance to travel in the TARDIS, which she accepts as the Doctor plans to investigate Margrave University, leading directly into Animal.
- While at Margrave University in 2001, Raine discovers that her father has died. Upset by the revelation, Raine decides to stay at Margrave for a short time. The Doctor tells Ace he has a mission for them, leading directly into Earth Aid
- It has been some time since the Doctor and Ace last saw Raine in Animal, and she decides to return to the TARDIS.
- The Doctor, Ace and Raine have just left Smithwood Manor. The Doctor reminds Ace of their conversation about delta v in Earth Aid.
- (NOTE)
- Under unknown circumstances, Raine leaves the TARDIS again.
Adventures with Ace and K9
- The Doctor is switched with his previous incarnations, and Ace switched with various past companions, whilst facing the Rani's plot to use a Time Tunnel at Albert Square.
- The Doctor and Ace are traveling with K9. They have just left Albert Square, and are preparing to take part in "a game show", interlinking this between Dimensions in Time and Search Out Space.
- Ace and K9 participate in The Ultimate Challenge game show against Cedric, while the Doctor hosts the show.
- The Doctor drops in on a couple as they prepare to watch Dimensions in Time.
Avoiding Ace's death
- The Doctor and Ace have just left the Blitz, setting this immediately after Illegal Alien. Months have passed since Survival, though Ace is said to still be 17-years-old. The Valeyard uses the Dark Matrix to briefly reawaken the Cheetah virus within her, presumably amplifying her continued difficulties with the virus.
- Set immediately after Matrix.
- Ace is depicted with the same character traits she showed in Illegal Alien.
- Set sometime after Survival, according to the back cover. Ace is more experienced and confident, and knows more about future technology than she used too.
- Ace obtains a CD Walkman from Paul Tanner.
- The Doctor and Ace meet Bev Tarrant.
- Ace refers to the recent events of Storm Harvest and The Genocide Machine, and is beginning to forget about her birthday.[quote 5] The Doctor refers to his encounter with the Master from Stop the Pigeon. The Doctor discovers Ace's future dead body, and tries to keep her out of danger, leading into Heritage.
- It has been months since Ace went "anywhere interesting", and the Doctor is still paranoid about her potential death. Ace hasn't yet worn her special sunglasses from the New Adventures era, setting this before Timewyrm: Genesys. The Doctor learns that Mel has been murdered.
- Sequel to Illegal Alien. Set several weeks after Heritage, with the Doctor still recovering from learning of Mel's death. Ace is killed by George Limb, but the Doctor manipulates events so that, when Limb's plans are thwarted by James Dean, the timeline recreates itself with Ace still alive, though slightly altered. Ace is described in a newspaper report as being in her "late teens or early twenties", or simply "about eighteen".
The Quantum Anvil
- Ace recalls the events of Illegal Alien, and the Doctor has rebuilt her baseball bat following its destruction in Remembrance of the Daleks. Visiting a barren planet in 1990, the Doctor and Ace discover a Quantum Anvil, a weapon used to fracture a timeline into infinite possibilities. Ace is caught within the Quantum Anvil and sees several possible futures, such as the events of Ground Zero, the Virgin New Adventures, Gallifrey, the epilogue of Set Piece and a vision of herself flirting with a young man who could potentially be Hex or Jan Rydd. After discovering that the Doctor manipulated her into coming into contact with the Quantum Anvil, Ace decides that she will leave his company permanently soon, which, according to this account, she does before she can travel with another companion and when the TARDIS interior still has the console room from the television series.
- (CONJECTURE)
- Due to the machinations of either Braxiatel or the Council of Eight, a variant of Ace remains with the Doctor beyond the Quantum Anvil incident.
Continued adventures with Ace
- Set "more than twenty months" before Timewyrm: Revelation. Ace recalls the events of The Curse of Fenric.
- The events of Survival are referenced in the TARDIS data banks. The Doctor doesn't have a sonic screwdriver, but mentions that he has been meaning to make a new one for "years", and he is wearing his white jacket. The TARDIS console room is white.
- Ace recognises the Tremas Master, setting this after Survival. After thwarting the Mater's scheme, Ace is kidnapped by Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame. The TARDIS console room is the classic white one.
- The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue Ace from Adam and the Master, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well.
- The Doctor is depicted as wearing his brown jacket, and was travelling with Ace when a rift in time pulled him into a Multi-Doctor Event, though Ace later joins the adventure.
- Ace recognises the Tremas Master and the Cheetah People, setting this after Survival.
- Set after Battlefield, with Ace already acquainted with the Brigadier. She is depicted as still being quite young.
- Ace recalls facing Fenric, setting this after The Curse of Fenric. She has also been to London in so many different time periods that she has little difficulty navigating through the city in the 1540s, suggesting a setting late in her travels.
- Ace has been with the Doctor for a long time. She considers herself grown up, with her innocence and impulsivity having faded since she began her travels in the TARDIS, setting this after The Curse of Fenric. After being bitten by a Flitter, Ace is plagued by visions of the multiverse and her possible futures.
Ace begins maturing
- (CONJECTURE)
- The Doctor redesigns the TARDIS control room from the grey design to one with a yellow glow. He also acquires a new sonic screwdriver, possibly the one he claimed to have received as compensation from the Terileptils in GodEngine.
- Ace is described as being "about 20", and acts like a mentor to a group of teenagers.
- Ace is described as tanned, muscular and "more military than anything else". She and the Doctor are delivering a package to the Brigadier.
- The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver.
- The TARDIS has a large, yellow control room, and Ace is depicted more mature than in the television series. After defeating Kla-Shi-Kel, the Doctor and Ace are contacted by Group Captain Gilmore, leading directly into Operation Volcano.
- Ace recognises the Tremas Master, setting this after Survival. She also has the baseball bat seen in The Armageddon Gambit.
- The Doctor and Ace bump into Bev Tarrant again, and she leaves with them in the TARDIS after they defeat the Master. The Doctor intends to drop her off home.
- (REFERENCE)
- Bev is eventually "dumped" in the 26th century, three thousand years before her own time. (AUDIO: The Judas Gift)
- At Colditz Castle during the Second World War, the Doctor and Ace are confronted by Elizabeth Klein, a scientist from an alternate timeline, who escapes her defeat as an anomaly. Ace decides to go by "McShane" to show her growing maturity, and still has the CD Walkman from The Fearmonger.
- McShane references the recent events of Colditz and Dust Breeding, and meets her younger brother, Liam McShane, for the first time, having previously had no knowledge of his existence.
Joined by Hex
- McShane tells Hex that she has been travelling with the Doctor "for a surprisingly long time." The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver, and is convinced by McShane to let Hex join them in the TARDIS.
- Hex has recently joined the TARDIS and still isn't used to the idea of time travel. He is concerned that the Doctor and McShane don't trust him as much as they trust each other, and visits his first alien planet.
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- Set during the events of These Things Take Time.
- Hex sees aliens and spaceships for the first time.
- Set before LIVE 34, as Ace is still going by McShane.
- Set before LIVE 34, as Ace is still going by McShane.
- (FLASHBACK)
- Shortly after being joined by Hex, the Doctor battles the Cragvar. After returning to the TARDIS, Hex writes a letter to his grandmother and the Doctor informs him of their next destination, where he might "be on the news". (AUDIO: Afterlife)
- Prior to their arrival on Colony 34, McShane decided that "Ace" was her true name, and resumed using it. Reporter Ryan Wareing estimates Ace to be slightly older than Lula (LIVE 34), whom he estimated to be in her early-to-mid-twenties.
- The Doctor, Ace and Hex visit Világ. While Ace and Hex are shopping a few blocks away, the Doctor visits Evelyn Smythe in the hospital and tells her of his adventures with Hex.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor sends Hex and Ace to 1966 Monte Carlo to recover the Veiled Leopard. He has a brief encounter with his fifth incarnation, whom he argues with. (AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard)
- Authorial intent places this early on in Hex's travels with the Doctor and Ace.[source needed] The sound effects for the console room indicate that it still has its white interior, setting this before The Settling.
Continued adventures with Ace and Hex
- The TARDIS interior has recently been redecorated, and now uses the sound effects of the Victorian parlour design from Doctor Who.
- Ace and Hex mention the recent events of The Settling.
- Hex recalls the events of The Settling. According to this account, Hex first encounters the Daleks a few months into his travels with the Doctor and Ace.
- Set during the early days of Hex's travels with the Doctor and Ace. The TARDIS interior has its Victorian parlour design, setting this after The Settling. Ending leads directly into World Apart.
- Immediately after leaving Umbra, Ace and Hex become trapped on Nirvana for some time. Hex plans on revealing his romantic feelings for Ace.
- The TARDIS interior has its Victorian parlour design, setting this after The Settling.
- The TARDIS is depicted with the Victorian parlour interior design on the cover, setting this after The Settling.
- Nobody No-One has been pursuing the Doctor for the past few weeks, and is the cause of the number "45" being prevalent wherever the TARDIS landed since False Gods.
Battling the Elder Gods
- While battling the Toymaker, the Doctor sees a chess set in a sanatorium and realises Fenric is preparing his return.
- Despite the events of Natalie's Diary, Hex has his first encounter with the Daleks on Bliss. Ace has significant military and tactical knowledge.
- Hex is still reeling from what he saw on Bliss. The exterior shell of the TARDIS is shattered after the HADS is activated, and its colouration is stuck as white.
- Follows directly on from The Angel of Scutari. Hex leaves the TARDIS crew after discovering that the Doctor had previously been witness to his mother's death. After learning from Aristedes that there is a Time Lord sarcophagus in the Forge archive, the Doctor and Ace decide to investigate.
- Following directly on from Project: Destiny, with the Doctor and Ace investigating the Forge archive. Ace is incapable of flying the Doctor's TARDIS. Hex had been travelling with the Doctor and Ace for a few years, and rejoins the TARDIS at Evelyn Smythe's prompting. Evelyn passes away shortly after the TARDIS crew defeat Nobody No-One.
- The Doctor goes to Alaska.
- (FLASHBACK)
- Following their adventure in Alaska, Ace and Hex fall asleep in the TARDIS. While they sleep, the Doctor begins to grow the Black TARDIS. (AUDIO: Black and White)
- Using the Black TARDIS, the Doctor traps the Elder Gods Albert and Peggy Marsden in a time loop, hoping that they would learn what it means to be human. He mentions having two friends waiting for him.
- (FLASHBACK)
- The Doctor talks to the Black TARDIS about gods and monsters, and decides to take it on a test run to the Lorelei. (AUDIO: Black and White)
- The Doctor meets Liv Chenka on the Lorelei while testing his new black TARDIS.
- (FLASHBACK)
- After leaving the Lorelei, the Doctor decides that the Black TARDIS needs to learn to follow specific coordinates and sets course for the planet Celdor. (AUDIO: Black and White)
- The Doctor arrives on Celdor.
- (FLASHBACK)
- The Doctor reflects on his encounter with Nostradamus and notes that "sacrifices must be made." He then decides to visit 2020 London. (AUDIO: Black and White)
- The Doctor is joined in the Black TARDIS by Sally Morgan after she helps him defeat the Mi'en Kalarash in 2020 London.
- (FLASHBACK)
- Two weeks into their travels together, the Doctor takes Sally to a cemetery planet where they fight zombie lizards. The Doctor decides to introduce Sally to Forge operative Lysandra Aristedes. Shortly after they travel to London and fight the Sons of Kai, led by Kai'lizakia, Lysandra agrees to travel with the Doctor and Sally. (AUDIO: Black and White)
- (FLASHBACK)
- While Lysandra settles into the Black TARDIS, the Doctor stresses that she and Sally need to trust each other completely. (AUDIO: Black and White)
- The Doctor leaves Sally and Lysandra alone in the TARDIS, and is soon kidnapped by Garundel. Meanwhile Sally and Lynsandra are met by Ace and Hex in the Black TARDIS, picking up from the end of Protect and Survive. The TARDIS is restored to its prime condition, and the Black TARDIS is destroyed. Hex feels as though death has been following him for weeks, presumably since his near-death experience in The Angel of Scutari.
- Hex enters the Time Vortex to defeat Fenric, apparently killing himself in the process.
- Ace cannot remember her age. The Doctor has posited Lysandra to fight in a war in her native time, and Sally also leaves the TARDIS. The Doctor and Ace find Hex, living under the name "Hector Thomas", in Liverpool and take him with them in the TARDIS.
- A few weeks have passed since Afterlife, with the Doctor and Ace taking Hector on a tour of all the universe's beauty spots.
- The Doctor takes Ace and Hector to Greece to relax after the events of Revenge of the Swarm. After their vacation, Hector asks the Doctor to return him home, leading into Signs and Wonders.
- Hector leaves the TARDIS and settles down with Sally to raise a family. Ace glimpses various futures where she is wearing a high collar, riding a motorbike in Paris in the 19th century, being surrounded by the Lobri and dying of old age in the TARDIS. The TARDIS interior is destroyed, and uses sound effects that match those of the classic white console room when rebooted. The Doctor promises to teach Ace how to fly the TARDIS, leading directly into You Are The Doctor.
Reunited with Mel
- The Doctor begins teaching Ace how to fly the TARDIS, as he promised to do in Signs and Wonders.
- The Doctor realises that the ongoing events of You Are the Doctor, Come Die With Me and The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel have been the result of the TARDIS searching for someone and decides to help it find them, leading directly into A Life of Crime. Ace refers to Hex having just left, setting this shortly after Signs and Wonders, and the TARDIS interior sound effects again match those of the Victorian parlour interior.
- The TARDIS finds Mel on Ricosta. After being rescued from the Speravores, Mel rejoins the TARDIS crew.
- The Doctor, Mel and Ace have just left Ricosta, setting this immediately after A Life of Crime. The TARDIS interior has its Victorian parlour design.
- At least one week has passed since A Life of Crime.
- The TARDIS was on its way to a party on Maruthea when the Doctor decides to change course and head to 2085 Earth instead. The Doctor refers to his and Ace's recent encounter with the Galparians, setting this shortly after Dead to the World.
- Mel has started reading the TARDIS manual and the Doctor plans to give her and Ace more piloting lessons. Mel delivers the TARDIS to Josiah W. Dogbolter, leading directly into The Quantum Possibility Engine. The TARDIS interior sound effects now match those of the classic white console room.
- Ace meets Narvin for the first time and learns about the Celestial Intervention Agency.
Trouble with the Timewyrm
- (CONTEXT)
- The Doctor accidentally wipes the entirety of Ace's memories following an attempt to delete his own "less useful" memories, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys) while also redesigning the TARDIS interior to a beige design. (PROSE: The New Adventures Prologue)
- When the Doctor restores Ace's memories, the first thing that she recalls is the events of Survival, and believes that the TARDIS has just left Perivale. She still feels some of the after-effects of the Cheetah virus. She knows about regeneration, and is aware that the Doctor has regenerated six times.
- Set immediately after Timewyrm: Genesys.
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- The Seventh Doctor and Ace are observed visiting the Festival of Britain during Timewyrm: Exodus by an amnesiac Eighth Doctor.
- Ace sees an animal in the TARDIS, foreshadowing Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.
- The Doctor and Ace have "only just left Kirith", setting this immediately after Timewyrm: Apocalypse. Ace is in her early 20s.
- PROSE: The Algebra of Ice: Epilogue
- Visiting Ethan Amberglass whilst in hospital, the Doctor mentions the recent events of Timewyrm: Revelation. [quote 6]
The best of friends
- Ace recalls losing her memory, setting this after Timewyrm: Genesys.
- The Doctor is wearing his dark brown jacket underneath his duffle-coat, and Ace is described as looking no older than 20-years-old.
- Ace mentions the Timewyrm, setting this after Timewyrm: Revelation. She is beginning to get concerned about the Doctor's apathy to death in his plots for the "great good".
- Ace has already been traveling with the Doctor for several years.
- Ace has been traveling with the Doctor for years. The Doctor and Ace are joined on their travels by Neil Hilton, who spends years with them.
Beginnings as Time's champion
- Three years have passed since Ace left Perivale, and she hasn't seen her mother in the interim. The Doctor claims he has never been to Alaska, and Ace has learnt how to swear in eleven alien languages. The TARDIS is damaged following an explosion in the console room. The Doctor sends Ace on a mission to Turkey while he takes care of some business of his own.
- Ace spends at least three months in Turkey before she reunites with the Doctor, who has been operating out of Smithwood Manor, and claims that the TARDIS is "waiting" after Ace inquires about how it is, following the damage done to it in Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.
- Set immediately after Cat's Cradle: Warhead, with the Doctor and Ace leaving New York City. The Doctor is repairing the damage done to the TARDIS in Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible. Ace can still feel the biological effects of being on the Cheetah planet. The TARDIS gets infected by demonic protoplasm.
- An opening annotation places this story directly after the consecutive events of Memorial and Nightshade.
- Set after Survival.[6] The Doctor explains fixed points in time to Ace, and is manipulating events around one of them to get an outcome of his choosing, implying this is set during his time as "Time's Champion". The Doctor mentions having a granddaughter in front of Ace, setting this after Nightshade.
- Ace recalls the events of The Happiness Patrol. She is getting sick of the Doctor manipulating her, suggesting a setting shortly before Love and War.
- The Doctor is making a cube in his lab that Ace must not know about, setting this shortly before Love and War.
Visiting Heaven
- The Doctor is acquainted with Abslom Daak, setting this after Nemesis of the Daleks. Ace claims that the events of Nightshade occurred some months ago. In the audio adaptation, the Doctor uses a sonic screwdriver, and an idealised mental manifestation of Ace's mother mentions Liam to Ace, setting this after The Rapture.
- (NOTE)
- After saving Heaven, the weary Doctor travels alone in the Time Vortex for a long time, "visiting some worlds and drifting past others in the process." (PROSE: Love and War)
- The Doctor appears to be alone, and in need of reassurance that some of his plans have worked out as he intended.
- The Doctor is travelling alone without a companion and is trying to atone for his past mistakes.
- The Doctor is travelling alone, and is in an introspective mood. He offers a World War I soldier a place in the TARDIS, but is turned down.
- The Doctor is alone, wearing his dark jacket and in an introspective mood.
- (FLASHBACK)
- The Doctor watches Sonia Bannen being killed in a food riot. (PROSE: Parasite)
- The Doctor attends the Brigadier's funeral.
- The Doctor, wearing his cream jacket, salutes the Brigadier with his other incarnations.
- PROSE: Love and War: Epilogue
- Returning to the 26th century, Ace leaves the Doctor after realising that his manipulations resulted in the death of Jan Rydd, a man she had fallen in love with. Bernice Summerfield agrees to travel with the Doctor in her place, but only after he promises not to play games with her life.
First exploits with Benny
- Benny ponders whether or not she really wants to stay with the Doctor, eventually deciding that she does, setting this shortly after Love and War.
- The Doctor says that Benny has only just joined his company, setting this shortly after Love and War.
- The Doctor is alone with Bernice and wears his light jacket, setting this shortly after Pureblood.
- The Doctor sets up the events of the Shoreditch Incident for a past Davros and Dalek Empire with the aid of his sixth incarnation and Abslom Daak and his friends. The Doctor believes Davros perished during Remembrance of the Daleks.
- The Doctor and Benny decide to investigate a Fortean Flicker, leading directly into The Highest Science.
- According to Benny, the events of Love and War seem like "quite a while ago". The Doctor ponders why he never got around to building a new sonic screwdriver.
- As the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS, he calls out to Benny.
- The Doctor is wearing his brown coat, suggesting a setting before White Darkness.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor and Benny attend a Laurel and Hardy convention in 1980s Ulverston. (PROSE: The Pit)
- The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver, suggesting he built a new one after thinking about it in The Highest Science.
The return of Ace
- Several days following the events of The Pit, Benny wonders how much the destruction of the Seven Planets has affected the Doctor. Three years after leaving the Doctor on Heaven, Ace decides to return to the TARDIS, but no longer trusts the Doctor. The TARDIS is cured of the protoplasm infection from Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark.
- The Doctor bizarrely gives his age as 943-years-old.
- The Doctor begins wearing a cream linen suit and fedora.
- The Doctor is wearing the clothing introduced in White Darkness.
- Ace still keeps track of her age. The Doctor decides he needs a holiday, leading into Birthright.
- The Doctor gives Bernice the keys to the TARDIS, and leaves her in control, having arranged for it to crash in Victorian London, leading directly into Iceberg. The Doctor's deceptions cost him Benny's trust.
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- Set concurrently with the events of Birthright, with the events of both novels occurring at the same time for the Doctor and Ace and Benny.
- Ace recognises the Third Doctor.
Struggling with alternate timelines
- A few months have passed since Deceit, but the events of Birthright are recent. The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the Time Vortex, and the Doctor later realises that someone is toying with time. Ace briefly uses the sonic screwdriver among the possessions of the Doctor's deceased alternate third incarnation, though it is unclear what happens to the device afterwards. The Doctor takes his alternate self's TARDIS after his own TARDIS is lost in a tar pit.
- Ace still does not trust the Doctor, nor does the TARDIS from the alternate world. The Doctor discovers that the one who created the Silurian Earth has successfully altered the flow of time in N-Space.
- The Doctor fixes the chameleon circuit in his new TARDIS.
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- Set during The Left-Handed Hummingbird. The Doctor is hooked up to the EEG Machine, and has been for a few weeks.
- It has been a week since The Left-Handed Hummingbird, with the Doctor having spent most of the week in the TARDIS sick bay. Benny decides to stay with the Doctor after struggling with her inability to trust him. The Doctor learns history is going to change again, and he sets out to find the cause, leading into No Future.
- The Doctor discovers that Mortimus has been corrupting the timeline as a revenge stunt, but is able to defeat him and regain Ace's trust. He also smashes the chameleon circuit of his TARDIS with a hammer, destroying it. The Doctor thinks he killed the Master in Survival, despite having spoken of him in the present tense during Deceit, and comments that he recently built his new sonic screwdriver as a replacement, suggesting it is the same one from The Pit.
Amicable travels
- Set shortly after No Future, with the Doctor having found "a spring in [his] step" from his victory over Mortimus. The Doctor has had experience with delivering babies, setting this after Thin Ice.
- The TARDIS has been to Olleril recently, setting this shortly after Tragedy Day. As far as Ace knows, this is the first time she has seen an Ice Warrior. Benny, who has never been on Mars before, takes a temporary leave of absence from the TARDIS.
- Though the book's blurb would place this immediately after Survival, the Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit from White Darkness, and Ace is depicted with the confidence and general demeanour she had in the Virgin New Adventures. With Benny absent, this must take place during her brief leave-of-absence between Legacy and Theatre of War.
- The Doctor is wearing a "light suit", implied to be his linen suit. Though she is only heard from afar, the Doctor is currently travelling with Ace.
- Benny is absent, suggesting a setting between Legacy and Theatre of War. The Doctor and Ace visit an alien temple where they see an alternate timeline with versions of themselves known as the Dominie and Alice fought the Protectorate. Having no memory of these events, Ace wonders if time has been rewritten again after "all that timeline rubbish", suggesting a setting shortly after No Future.
- Benny returns to the TARDIS after her temporary leave-of-absence that started in Legacy.
- The Doctor has dust and soil from Menaxus on his clothes, suggesting that this is set immediately after Theatre of War.
- Ace refers to the recent events of No Future, and Benny recalls the Royal Beast of Peladon, setting this after Legacy.
- Set between All-Consuming Fire and Blood Harvest.[7]
- The Doctor is wearing his white suit from White Darkness, though the TARDIS console room is the one from before Final Genesis. The Doctor recalls the events of Blood Heat.
- Set after The Shadow of the Scourge.[8] After travelling for a while without her, the Doctor and Ace pick up Benny from the space station Orbos, where she was visiting Victor Farrison. When Remnex asks after Mel, the Doctor tells him that she is travelling with Sabalom Glitz, contradicting the events of Heritage and A Life of Crime.
- Ace's characterisation is same as in The Shadow of the Scourge. Ace encounters a Silurian, suggesting a setting after Blood Heat.
- (NOTE)
- The Doctor sends Ace and Benny on a mission to Antarctica. (PROSE: The Last Emperor)
- The Doctor, Benny and Ace spend a month in Liverpool in the early 1990s.
- The Doctor, Benny and Ace end up in E-Space, where they find Romana and return her to Gallifrey, where she opts to remain.
- Some time has passed since Blood Harvest, with Ace getting trigger-happy due to the lack of "dangerous adventures". The Doctor and Ace's relationship has been strained in recent months, but has improved following the events of No Future.
Final travels with Ace
- The Doctor and Ace encounter the Tremas Master, apparently for the first time since Survival. Ace fatally shoots the Master, but he is able to regenerate into a new body. Ace considers leaving the TARDIS.
- Ace has her head shaved clean.
- Ace's hair is still re-growing from the events of St Anthony's Fire.
- It has been at least a full year since No Future. Ace is still thinking about when she'll leave the Doctor.
- The Doctor visits Pietia Marichev in Russia and collects the Warlock mushrooms, setting this before Warlock.
- The Doctor, Ace and Benny have been at Smithwood Manor for almost a year.
- Ace is 26-years-old, and the Doctor celebrates his 1000th birthday. After an ordeal with the Robot Ants, Ace leaves the TARDIS crew to become "Time's Vigilante".
Lone exploits with Benny
- Benny hadn't seen the Doctor for a few days, as he is hiding away and recuperating from Ace's departure.
- Set Piece was the Doctor and Benny's previous adventure. The Doctor has spent the last few weeks only communicating to Benny through scribbles and notes, and his hair has started going grey.
- The TARDIS has only just left Gadrell Major, setting this immediately after Infinite Requiem.
- A few weeks have passed since Sanctuary, but the Doctor and Benny have avoided each other during the interim. The Doctor changes himself into a human named John Smith to understand Benny's grief over the death of Guy de Carnac. After he resumes his Time Lord identity, he is given a cat named Wolsey as a pet by Joan Redfern. The Doctor suggests taking Benny to the planet Oolis.
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- Set during Human Nature. "John Smith" has recently started working with Joan Redfern.
- The Doctor is wearing his linen suit, suggesting a setting after White Darkness.
- The Doctor and Benny have been getting used to a less combative and more contemplative dynamic in the TARDIS since Ace left, setting this after Set Piece.
Joined by Chris and Roz
- (REFERENCE)
- Shortly before arriving on Oolis, the Doctor rescues Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart from a slave ship while Benny is asleep in the TARDIS. (PROSE: The Also People)
- The Doctor takes Benny to Oolis, as he promised in Human Nature. He and Benny are joined by Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej, who wish to escape the corruption and manipulation rife on Earth in 2975.
- Three-odd subjective years have passed since Love and War. Two days have passed since Original Sin, though this time was spent inside the TARDIS.
- Set immediately after Sky Pirates!.
- Set two weeks after Toy Soldiers, and "many months" after Falls the Shadow. Ending leads directly into The Also People.
- Ending leads directly into Warchild.
- Set immediately after Sleepy. Jason Kane proposes to Benny, and she accepts, leading into Happy Endings.
- Benny leaves the Doctor's company after her wedding to Jason, and the Doctor retrieves his original TARDIS from the Charrl after it was lost to him during Blood Heat.
Lone travels with Chris and Roz
- The Doctor, Roz and Chris have only just left Benny and Jason's wedding, setting this immediately after Happy Endings.
- The Doctor, Roz and Chris have only just left Mars, setting this immediately after GodEngine.
- The Doctor, Chris and Roz spend several months infiltrating a terrorist cell.
- Chris admits to Roz that he views her and the Doctor as his family, and she agrees revealing that she understood it to be an unspoken bond. Roz hasn't seen her sister in a long time.
- The Doctor is carrying psychic paper.
Last travels with Roz
- The Doctor, Roz and Chris spend a couple of months in 21st century Earth. The Doctor hints to Benny that he knows the circumstances behind his upcoming regeneration. He wears a tweed jacket and burgundy waistcoat which Benny sees him wearing for the first time, although he later resumes wearing his more usual linen suit.
- Set between Return of the Living Dad and The Death of Art, according to the book's back cover. In the audio adaptation, the Doctor mentions the events of The Day of the Doctor, and also starts to recall the events of The Sirens of Time when comparing notes on previous Multi-Doctor Events with the Fifth Doctor, the implication being that he is remembering the incident from the perspective of his two previous incarnations that were also involved. The Doctor is wearing his linen suit.
- Chris unsuccessfully pretends to be the Fifth Doctor, setting this after Cold Fusion. It has only been a few days since they witnessed Benny's reunion with her father in Return of the Living Dad, and the Doctor has been wandering the TARDIS alone since. The Doctor is wearing his linen safari suit.
- When they arrive in New York City, the Doctor reassures Chris and Roz that the causal loop has been broken, setting this shortly after The Death of Art. The Doctor is wearing his linen suit. Ending leads directly into So Vile a Sin.
- Roz dies leading her sister's forces into battle against the army of Emperor Walid as part of Leabie's revolution. The Doctor suffers a one sided heart attack at her funeral, and has a vision of Death tormenting him about his coming demise, which he confirms he knows the circumstances involved. The Doctor is wearing his tweed jacket.
Final travels with Chris
- (EPILOGUE)
- The Doctor visits Ace in 1887 Paris, where they discuss the events at Maiden's Point. Years have passed since they last saw each other, and the Doctor is wearing a waistcoat. Ace tells the Doctor that she has fallen in love with Count Nikolai Sorin. (PROSE: The Curse of Fenric)
- Set several weeks after So Vile a Sin, but nothing much has happened in the interim. The Doctor is wearing his tweed jacket.
- Set shortly after Eternity Weeps, with Chris still traumatised by Liz Shaw's death. The Doctor believes he is 1003-years-old, and knows that "Time won't have her Champion for much longer." The Doctor is wearing a paisley waistcoat and tweed jacket. Chris claims that a "couple of years" have passed for him since he last saw Joel Mintz in Return of the Living Dad.
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- Authorial intent sets this during The Room With No Doors, just after the Doctor crawls out of his grave.[source needed] The Doctor is wearing his tweed jacket and red waistcoat when he first reunites with Sarah Jane Smith, but later changes into his linen suit and question mark pullover.
Champion's end
- (SEGMENT)
- The Doctor leaves Chris behind to take Penelope Gate and Joel Mintz back to their proper homes, but decides to give them a spin in the TARDIS first. (PROSE: The Room With No Doors)
- While the Doctor is waiting for someone at the Café in Glebe from Set Piece, he meets Robin Yeadon, and the two discuss Ace and the events of Nightshade. The Doctor knows when Ace will die.
- The Doctor catches up with a 37-year-old Ace following the defeat of the Voltranons.
- The Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit, setting this near Bullet Time.
- The Doctor obliquely claims to have lost someone in "a war", and to have kept someone else in it "for too long". He is most likely referring to Roz and Chris, respectively.
- The Doctor is wearing his white linen suit and appears to be travelling alone, with his mission being to talk a man with good intentions into killing himself because of foreknowledge of a possible future.
- The Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit, setting this near Bullet Time.
- The Doctor has an encounter with Victoria Waterfield, but she doesn't recognise him.
- (EPILOGUE)
- The Doctor reunites with Chris after returning Penelope and Joel home. (PROSE: The Room With No Doors)
- The Doctor returns to the House of Lungbarrow on Gallifrey, and also sees Ace there. Chris decides to travel alone using a Time Ring given to him by Romana. The Doctor is sent on a mission by the Time Lords to pick up the Old Master's remains on Skaro, and is also given a new sonic screwdriver by Romana. The Doctor is wearing his linen jacket and old question mark pullover.
Moving on
- The Doctor has recently encountered Romana, and the TARDIS has been redecorated after his trip to Gallifrey in Lungbarrow. He is wearing his linen suit and knows he will regenerate soon, but intends to resolve his unfinished business first. After recovering the portrait the Fourth Doctor drew of Romana in Paris, the Doctor has the TARDIS land at a destination where he intends to resume his mission, implied to be Skaro.
- The Doctor is wearing his linen suit, with a Santa hat for the festive season.
- The Doctor sets up a plan that involves using his eighth incarnation.
- The Doctor is wearing his fedora.
- The Doctor is wearing his tweed jacket and question mark pullover, and is using a sonic screwdriver.
- The Doctor is wearing his linen coat, and is using the Victorian parlour console room.
- The Doctor visits the Museum, coincidentally just after Benny had left.
- The TARDIS has its white interior design and the Doctor has his youthful appearance. Ace is a Time Lord, and has not seen the Doctor, who is traveling with Antimony, in a while. The Doctor appears to die in battle against Tannis, though later releases imply his death took place in a diffrent reality to N-Space.
Klein's revenge
- While authorial intent places this after Kingdom of Silver[9], the Doctor is depicted as young looking, is wearing his linen suit and is wistful about travelling alone. After bumping into Elizabeth Klein again, the Doctor insists on her accompanying him on his travels so that he can keep an eye on her, knowing she will continue to pose a threat to history.
- Set immediately after A Thousand Tiny Wings. The TARDIS is using its Victorian parlour interior.
- After travelling together for a while, Klein takes her chance of revenge on the Doctor by stealing his TARDIS and abandoning him on the planet of the Vrill.
- After Klein left him on the Vrill homeworld, the Doctor found time shifting around him until he arrived in an alternate timeline created by Klein, where he remained a prisoner for three days. After Klein is erased from history by the Time Lords, the Doctor visits UNIT to find a different version of Klein now working for them.
Old friends reunited
- The Doctor asks Benny to help him find Ace, who he had left on Gallifrey, setting this after Lungbarrow. While the Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit on the cover, dialogue describes him as wearing his question mark pullover.
- Ace asks the Doctor if she can stay with him until she is ready to return to Gallifrey, and the Doctor convinces Benny to join them for a while.
- (REFERENCE)
- Benny takes a break from the TARDIS to attend her son's wedding. (AUDIO: The Pyramid of Sutekh)
- Benny and Ace attempt to steal the Eye of Horus from a museum in Geneva and the Doctor is transported to Egypt. The TARDIS sound effects match his white console room.
- After almost twenty years in Ancient Egypt, the Doctor is reunited with Benny.
- The Doctor is pulled into a time loop with Sutekh, but is then pulled out by Isis. With Sutekh defeated, the Doctor, Benny and Ace leave in the TARDIS together.
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- Set during The Tears of Isis, showing the Doctor being pulled into the time loop from Benny's perspective.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor, Benny and Ace investigate a stolen Time Ring at the Trib Museum. They then monitor the thieves, Harmonious 14 Zink and his wife, 1V Magda. At some point afterwards, Benny leaves the TARDIS again. The Doctor sends Ace on a mission to stop Zink and Magda discovering the secrets of a cult before its time., with her following them to Erratoon. (AUDIO: The Prisoner's Dilemma)
- While on Erratoon, Ace's mind is completely wiped. She is rescued by the Doctor and he tells her that he can restore her memories. However, she does not entirely believe him and is unsure if she should trust him. Ace refers to Happy Endings and Nightshade, and vaguely remembers Benny, placing this explicitly after Set Piece. After her memory is restored, Ace worries that whole chunks of her life might be missing and she would never know.
- (REFERENCE)
- Ace ultimately leaves the TARDIS for good after she and the Doctor have a falling out due to the Doctor's manipulations. (TV: The Power of the Doctor)
Alone again
- A DWM review illustration depicts the Doctor wearing his cream jacket. The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room, and has a premonition of his upcoming death, though he doesn't recognise it as such. He has spent the past few years travelling with Cat, an android he created to act as his companion. The Doctor recalls the events of Loving the Alien, and also recalls the loneliness he had felt after parting ways with Ace.
- The Doctor is alone and refers to his "younger days", setting this around the time he started feeling old. The Doctor is depicted as wearing his cream jacket on the cover, and laments that he has not had a proper holiday in a while. The TARDIS has its Victorian parlour console room.
- The Doctor is carrying a sonic screwdriver.
- The TARDIS has its Victorian parlour interior, and the Doctor is depicted in his first outfit and youthful. His memory of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy appears to be hazy, setting this before The Monsters of Gokroth'
- (CONJECTURE)
- At some point, the Doctor changes the TARDIS' Victorian parlour interior back to its white interior design.
- The Doctor mentions having a best friend who is an archaeologist, referring to Benny. The TARDIS console room currently has roundels and the design on the cover matches his white console room.
- Follows on from The Unknown. The TARDIS console room sound effects are from the TV Movie.
- The Doctor is travelling alone, wearing his pullover jumper and has a sonic screwdriver.
Adventures with Mags
- The Doctor believes he is getting old, but not old enough to stop having new adventures and new companions. He has decided to revisit old friends and resolve "old business". Ace is "somewhere else" and has been for some time. Mags joins the Doctor on his travels.
- Mags has been in the TARDIS for a while, and the Doctor is helping her to control the wolf part of her.
- After she and the Doctor respond to a space-time telegraph sent by Ace from Earth, Mags is bitten by a Sin Eater, and her wolf side disappears, with Doctor theorising that it won't return for "about a year."
Resolving old business
- While visiting Peri Brown, the Doctor is described as being "small and old", implying he has his aged appearance from Doctor Who.
- The Doctor is depicted with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who, and encounters the Knights of Velyshaa for the first time. The TARDIS has its white interior design.
- The Doctor is older looking and is travelling with Ace, who is depicted as being as young as her early 20s. Ace is killed and the TARDIS's white interior is damaged, with the intent being that it is about to change into the Victorian parlour interior seen in Doctor Who. Any placement for this story will be contentious because of Ace's apparent death, though it is revealed in Sometime Never... that the Council of Eight were attempting to eliminate the Doctor's past companions, but they were thwarted by the Eighth Doctor, resulting in the restoration of multiple timelines and free will to the universe. Another explanation can be attributed to Braxiatel's manipulations that were established in Assassins.
- The TARDIS interior has been changed recently, and the Doctor is portrayed with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who.
- Set after Excelis Decays,[10] with the Doctor presented as older looking. He briefly considers returning to Gallifrey.
- The Doctor sombrely reflects on himself cleaning up after his previous incarnation.
- (FUTURE COUNTERPART)
- The Doctor traps Nobody No-One inside his head, but, after his younger self is killed, he "burns out of existence" when time catches up to him. He appears much more physically older than his younger counterpart. (AUDIO: A Death in the Family)
- The Doctor uses the alias "Vaughn Sutton", setting this after Excelis Decays. He also makes vague references to Benny, Chris and Roz, placing this after Original Sin as well. The Doctor has just "burned back into existence", setting this immediately after A Death in the Family.
- (CONTEXT)
- Wanting to "get one over on Death", the Doctor saves a tramp from killing himself and invites him aboard the TARDIS, though the Tramp refuses to accompany the Doctor outside the TARDIS. (PROSE: The Tramp's Story)
- The Doctor has stopped believing in the efficacy of imprisonment, setting this late in his life. He also starts a prison riot without thinking about the resulting injuries that will be caused because of it.
- After he is convinced to accompany him out the TARDIS, the Tramp helps the Doctor save a village from a tyrannical emperor and fight Mortimus in Salzburg. However, he leaves the Doctor after discovering the real reason why he saved him. The Doctor thinks back to his recent failures in Excelis Decays, Project: Lazarus and Master.
Attending to the universe
- Following his previous visit to Betton Court, the Doctor traveled alone for a prolonged period of time, and acknowledges that Klaus would have traveled with him if he hadn't died. He gives the memories of his travels since his first visit to the house to the spirit of Klaus.
- The Doctor refers to the events of Log 384 as happening "a long time ago".
- The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room. An encounter with the grey men makes the Doctor accept that they will be coming after him again, but he notes that time is on his side and begins preparing for the eventuality of their next encounter, which happens in his next incarnation.
- The Doctor is portrayed with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who. The Doctor decides to go into retirement, citing the fact that he seems to always been on call and can never settle in one place. The Doctor invites Jevvan to travel with him, but she declines.
- The Doctor is portrayed with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who. He suffers a bout of amnesia, but recognises that the names Ace, Hex and Mel are important to him. The Doctor takes Genevieve Marceau in the TARDIS with him, and although he drops her off a week after they departed, she implies that she spent much longer than that travelling with him.
- The Doctor spends "many years" in the Daleks' prison curing Light wave sickness while the Second Great Dalek Occupation is fought. The Doctor immediately recognises Kalendorf as a Knight of Velyshaa, setting this after The Sirens of Time.
- The Doctor and Nimrod refer to the events of Project: Lazarus.
- The Doctor has learned that he must earn the respect and trust of his friends, instead of treating them as pieces on a chessboard. He is travelling alone and helps someone else to realise that they must be able to earn the trust and respect of his team in order to be a good leader rather than simply demanding it.
- Set after Frozen Time.[11] Despite what is depicted on the CD cover, the Doctor is described as wearing his costume from Doctor Who. He says that he is personal friends with Death, whom he met for the first time in Timewyrm: Revelation, and invites Danika Meanwhile to travel with him after they defeat Decay, as he is "unaccustomed to travelling alone", but she turns him down. The TARDIS has its Victorian parlour interior design.
- Set directly after The Death Collectors, with the Doctor reflecting on being left alone with only Death for company once again, and checking the TARDIS for any remaining traces of Decay.
- Set after The Death Collectors.[12] The Doctor is portrayed with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who.
- The Doctor discovers the fate of Sara, setting this after Kingdom of Silver.
- Raine is travelling with an older Doctor, Ace is on Gallifrey, and the TARDIS is using its Victorian parlour console room. The Doctor encounters the Reborn Master for the first time, and is reunited with Elizabeth Klein, whom he has kept an eye on since the events of The Architects of History.
- The production code 7Z/I implies a setting after Kingdom of Silver. The Doctor checks up on the Drashani Empire fifty years following his previous visit. The TARDIS has its Victorian parlour interior sound effects. The Doctor meets Vienna Salvatori for the first time.
Search for the Persuasion machine
- Set after Dominion, with the TARDIS control room having the Victorian parlour console room design from Doctor Who. The Doctor is nearing the end of his current life, and has been trying to eradicate evil before his end. He is joined in his search for the persuasion machine by Klien and Will Arrowsmith.
- The Doctor recalls his previous encounter with Garundel in Black and White, which happened "a long time ago". The Doctor decides to track Kurt Schalk back to Earth, leading directly into Daleks Among Us.
- The Doctor, Klein and Will follow Schalk's trail back to Minos, where they are ambushed by the Daleks.
The missions continue
- The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room and recognises the Reborn Master, setting this after Dominion.
- Klein knows the circumstances of her birth and remembers being on a Dalek ship, setting this after Daleks Among Us. The Doctor is traveling alone.
- The Doctor is travelling alone and shares an adventure with Winston Churchill, who notes that the Doctor looks older than he did when they last met in The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill. The Doctor parts on bitter terms with Churchill after he orchestrates his defeat in the general election.
Returning to jolliness
- After having a "mid-life crisis" whilst dealing with his loneliness and approaching death, the Doctor is inspired to enjoy the time he has left after being rescued from an Eight Leg by his successor, who warns him that the events of Doctor Who will happen "soon". The Doctor then makes plans to reconfigure the TARDIS interior into "something more gothic", and begin rereading The Time Machine while he waits for the psychic message that his future self warned him about. He is wearing his brown jacket and Fair Isle pullover, and misses having a travelling companion.
- Having escaped the Daleks on the planet Thal "the other day", the Doctor visits Richard Orford at the Disney Club. His hair is considerably long in length, he is presented as being in high spirits, and he speaks of the TARDIS in the past tense.
- The Doctor visits Ace at the A Charitable Earth headquarters.
- The Doctor is wearing his cream jacket, but is visibly older. He visits Mel while in high spirits, implying a setting shortly after The Eight Doctors, and they decide to take a trip in the TARDIS together.
- The Doctor is illustrated with the aged appearance and clothing he had in Doctor Who, and is using the Victorian parlour console room.
- The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room, and recalls building it during Excelis Decays. The Doctor knows Benny, setting this after Love and War.
- The Doctor finds himself in the remembered TARDIS and is reunited with Ace. When Ace asks why he looks so old, the Doctor cryptically replies how "time streams are funny things" and that his regenerating is "all a matter of perspective", implying that he looks older due arriving in Ace's time stream at a point after his regeneration occured to her, similar to the Fifth Doctor in TV: Time Crash. After they reminisce about the events of The Curse of Fenric, the Doctor apologies to Ace, having come to regret his manipulations, and Ace asks if they can take a trip in the TARDIS for old time's sake.
Taking Harry and Naomi home
- The Doctor is wearing his clothes from Doctor Who. He bumps into his old companions Harry Sullivan and Naomi Cross in the 2010s and learns that his fourth incarnation left them in 21st century London. He invites Harry and Naomi back aboard the TARDIS, with the intention of taking them home after a few stops along the way.
- Set immediately after London Orbital, with Harry and Naomi settling back into the TARDIS. They answer a distress call that leads them to an encounter with the Daleks in 1969. The TARDIS has its Victorian parlour interior.
- The Doctor, Harry and Naomi are summoned to London during the Blitz by Winston Churchill to investigate deaths caused by the Vashta Nerada, leading Harry and Naomi to encounter the Forge for the first time. Naomi is unsure whether she wants to return home.
- Naomi decides she isn't ready to go home yet and elects to pursue further adventures with the Doctor, with Harry happy to tag along until he can return to home, which he remains keen to do.
Exploiting the Dark Universe
- The Doctor reunites with Ace twenty-years after their last meeting from her perspective, with the Doctor himself unable to remember how long it had been for him, implying a setting prior to The Promise. He recruits her to help him defeat the Eleven, but the depths of his machinations causes Ace to fall out with him once again. The Doctor learns from the Dark Citizen that his "last day" is soon approaching, with him bitterly replaying to he will then "get some rest".
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- Set during the end of Dark Universe: Part 4. While he is speaking with the Eleven in his cell, the Doctor is cryptically informed of a task he has to complete for the High Council.
- Set after Dark Universe, and intended to lead into Doctor Who.[13] Feeling that he can see the bigger picture and understand what sacrifices need to be made for the greater good, the Doctor uses the Dark Citizen to reinvent the universe to his own ends, though he is opposed by a faction of his old friends and enemies. He enlists the help of an alternate version of Ace, who becomes President of Earth in the 2040s and stops humans from becoming a space-faring race.
Death
- While lounging in his TARDIS, the Doctor is contacted by the Lord President of the Time Lords, whom is implied to be Romana, and instructed to use a mourning casket to retrieve the Old Master's ashes from Skaro following his trial and execution by the Daleks and return them to Gallifrey, although another account showed the Master himself making the same request. Regardless of whom told him to, the Doctor travels to Skaro and is able to claim the Master's ashes after escaping a Dalek sentry.
- The Doctor has got halfway through The Time Machine, setting this sometime after The Eighth Doctors. Transporting the Master's remains from Skaro to Gallifrey, the Doctor is shot in a San Francisco gang shootout when a timing malfunction forces the TARDIS into an emergency landing. Taken to Walker General Hospital by Chang Lee, the Doctor dies when Dr. Grace Holloway's exploratory surgery damages his circulatory system. Despite the anaesthesia halting the process, the Doctor is able to regenerate into his next incarnation in the morgue several hours later.
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- Set during Doctor Who, with the Doctor reflecting on his life as he inexplicably transports the Master's remains to San Francisco.
- Next page: Eighth Doctor
Currently unplaced
- These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of this Doctor's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.
- Whilst caught in the events of Lost in Time, the Doctor and Ace confront Sil, and the Grey Daleks.
Awaiting placement
- These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.
- The Doctor and Ace rescue Judy Maddox from an anti-robot protest that turned into a riot.
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Footnotes
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-bang-bang-a-boom-205
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-flip-flop-212
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-fires-of-vulcan-635
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-red-251
- ↑ https://twitter.com/BenTedds42/status/1478122799227183106
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/downloadsupplementarymedia/455
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-shadow-of-the-scourge-636
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-dark-flame-208
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-a-thousand-tiny-wings-296
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-project-lazarus-211
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-death-collectors-275
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-kingdom-of-silver-278
- ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-seventh-doctor-begins-the-last-day