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This page lists appearances of the Ninth 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 that for each novel, comic or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.
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, and the Big Finish forums. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
Limiting factors[[edit source]]
Any story featuring Callen Lennox and Doyle must take place between AUDIO: Red Darkness and AUDIO: The Green Gift.
Any story featuring Rose Tyler must be after TV: The End of the World, while stories featuring Captain Jack Harkness must be after TV: The Doctor Dances.
Likewise, any story featuring Adam Mitchell must take place between TV: Dalek and TV: The Long Game, and any story with Tara Mishra traveling alongside Rose and Jack must come after COMIC: Official Secrets, while any story with Tara that Jack is not present for must take place between COMIC: Slaver's Song and COMIC: Secret Agent Man.
Timeline[[edit source]]
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A new start[[edit source]]
Born from the Eighth Doctor[[edit source]]
- Previous page: Eighth Doctor
- The newly regenerated Doctor takes in his first moments of life after regenerating from his eighth incarnation at the conclusion of the Last Great Time War.
- (REFERENCE)
- Wearing an Edwardian outfit, the Doctor grapples with being the last of the Time Lords while wandering a building development on Totter's Lane, where he is watched by Steven Hudson. He later dumps his previous incarnations' clothes into a tip and tries to sell an old chess set to an antique shop on Church Street, London and trade his Edwardian gear for a pair of jeans and trainers with H.J. Hardeman at an Oxfam in Sheffield. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- Christopher Eccleston's character in the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, a homeless man in the 1980s claiming to be Roman philosopher Boethius in disguise, is retroactively implied to be the Ninth Doctor in Arnold Bocklin's entry on whoisdoctorwho.co.uk. If so, his lacking of his leather jacket would place his cameo prior to With All Awry.
- After sometime lodging at the Eighth Doctor's Camden flat with his eighth incarnation and "Reg" during 1969, the Ninth Doctor is evicted and given a lift to Earl's Court by Little Sister Ceol of Faction Paradox.
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- Set during Now or Thereabouts. While leaving the Camden flat, the Doctor takes Fitz Kreiner's leather jacket and TARDIS key, and departs back to reality in the TARDIS from Earl's Court.
Born from the War Doctor[[edit source]]
- Previous page: War Doctor
- (SEGMENT)
- The Doctor regenerates from his war incarnation at the conclusion of the Last Great Time War. According to the novelisation, he smashes every mirror in the TARDIS afterwards, vowing never to look at his new face. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
Skulking in the shadows[[edit source]]
- The Doctor is hunting down a relic from the Time War to prevent a species from inadvertently wiping themselves out. While he is protecting those standing near him, the Doctor is more reclusive and neutral to the wider battle around him, and has some lingering fury on matters of the Time War. He notes that he is "getting old".
- Authorial intent states that the Doctor is still "fresh from the Time War", setting this shortly after The Day of the Doctor.[1] Indeed, the Doctor is noted to be weary from "his own people's conflict".
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- Still hiding from the pain of the Time War, the Doctor saves a robot clown and, after a week of trying to repair it, sets it loose in the TARDIS corridors. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)
- Having still only just regenerated,[quote 1] the Doctor is still trying to forget his war incarnation, but has a much jollier mood to him,[quote 2] setting this sometime after The Day of the Doctor.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor visits 1944 and assures a young girl that World War II would end the next day. He then goes to Auschwitz, where he is shot and imprisoned by Samuel Preston's grandfather when he is mistaken for a Nazi attempting to escape following Germany's defeat, but the Doctor is able to escape back to his TARDIS. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor spends a week admitted inside a psychiatric institution during the summer of 1962, disappearing with the psychiatric ward's head, Sirius Drake, after a "mysterious fire" destroys Drake's private quarters. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
Healing from the Time War[[edit source]]
- The Doctor is searching for somewhere to relax and forget the regret he feels for his role in the Time War. He is even still using the War Doctor's sonic screwdriver, but dismantles it to seal the rift at the heart of Galen. The Doctor believes he is still being punished for his role in the Time War, "even after all [this] time", implying that some time has passed since The Day of the Doctor. The Doctor offers the psychic Adriana Jarsdel a chance to travel in the TARDIS, but she sacrifices herself to free the Compassionate when she sees the presence of "someone else" in the Doctor's future.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor is present at the assassination of John F. Kennedy. (TV: Rose)
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor commandeers the 68 bus to Bolton, letting all but one of the passengers off "about a quarter of a mile" away and then drives down Lancaster Road. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor queues to see Star Wars with a very tall woman in 1977 Aberystwyth, and later buys all the Star Wars action figures in an Asda in 1979. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- Travelling alone, the Doctor finds a compost bin made from a Dalek casing in the Blue Peter garden after having "searched for [it] across time and space", and destroys it with a Blue Peter badge.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor gives a cup of tea from a drinks machine to Doris Spelgar during a visit to a hospital, bumps into a man without apologising, is seen in a department store by Aaron Smith, and is given advice from Geoff Cliff on what to buy in HMV whilst looking for a drum and bass CD as a present for someone, though doesn't buy anything. He later visits B&Q to buy a tin of cosmos blue paint, though is unable to get the over 65s 10% discount. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- The Doctor attends the Brigadier's funeral.
- The Doctor salutes the Brigadier with his other incarnations.
- The Doctor tries to dispose of a Time War artifact at 1883 Krakatoa, but becomes trapped in a time loop with Dr. Althea Bryce.
- Cleaning up damage from the Time War, the Doctor restores Gernica to existence.
Embracing a second chance[[edit source]]
- While still plagued by the Time War, the Doctor has his blue-emitter sonic screwdriver, setting this after The Bleeding Heart. He becomes a guest of the Daniels family after crash landing in their back garden. Though he still feels hardened by the Time War, meeting Connie Daniels helps the Doctor to feel like himself for the "first time in ages", presumably since The Night of the Doctor. The Doctor is convinced by Connie to make the most of his second chance following the Time War, and he likes her use of the word "fantastic".
- The Doctor recalls the recent events of The Day of the Doctor, and is trying to find an adventure, implying a setting immediately after Battle Scars. The TARDIS' mirrors are still destroyed, due to the TARDIS respecting the Doctor's wish to not see his face, setting this before Rose. The Doctor misses having a companion, and still feels lost with Gallifrey gone, but finds a postcard with an image of Earth on it and is inspired to visit the planet.
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- The Doctor talks with a giraffe at Chester Zoo, speaks to a shopkeeper in Arabic during a visit to Marrakesh, scribbles 23 6 801 on a wall, and visits a school in Surrey, and tells the students in a painting class, such as Andrew Wooding, to paint their dreams. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
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- The Doctor visits the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 during the American Civil War, and finds himself wearing a Union Army captain's uniform and Confederate colonel's uniform while standing next to a "slightly out of place" converted field hospital, and injuring his arm. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
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- The Doctor speaks with Polly in Eastbourne, shares tea with Reginald Jones, investigates houses with stairs, (PROSE: Rose sighting confirmed) helps Skeith find their dad, (PROSE: Hoax This!) and spends six months in Glasgow after parking the TARDIS on Buchanan Street. (PROSE: Alien landing confirmed)
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- The Doctor is seen outside an antique shop by Arbuthnot Posseton, talks with a donkey in 1948 Devon, tries to engage Ray Payne in a philosophical talk about time in New Cross a pub, visits the Gates of the Khyber Pass in Northern Pakistan, tries to sell early Spider-Man comics to a comic book shop, visits a a teashop in Baghdad and asks the locals about their telephone system, plays Pac Man and Galaga in an arcade in the 1980s, visits the Manhattan Project, and orders a Chicken Tikka Masala from a curry house in Bradford. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
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- The Doctor asks Lizzie for directions to the Sheffield Winter Garden from a Debenhams, encourages a teenaged boy to stay in Fettes College's drama group as opposed to a career in politics in 1972, reads a dictionary at Waterloo Station, gives Steve-O advice on electrons for his A levels, visits 1914 Sarajevo during the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, admires someone's tattoos outside The Blue Angel in Islington on 6 January 1995, acts as one of Marillion's support acts by playing guitar the night Fish "mysteriously left the band" in 1987, stands next to a village war memorial in 1946, poses as a photo-journalist in the North East during the mid-1990s, helps the authorities with "ghost stories" and is involved in a church being burned to the ground, helps Katharine with her human anatomy PGCE course in Walsall, and gives Ian a silver cross to give to his daughter after she is born on 27 November 2004. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- The Doctor has Christmas dinner with his other incarnations. He is wearing a Christmas hat, implying that he is in a cheerier mood than in The Daft Dimension 507.
- The Ninth Doctor unites with his other incarnations to help a group of people seal the Time Fracture.
- The Doctor meets a teenage Martha Jones while dealing with a Time Termite invasion. However, he is forced to wipe both of their memories to stop the Time Termites from returning.
Investigating time eddies[[edit source]]
- Set before Rose.[2] The Doctor investigates a series of time eddies appearing across history, and enlists Sphere of Freedom galley chef Nova to help him find who's responsible for them. However, Nova is taken by a time eddy, just before the Doctor discovers Audrey Mohinson is behind the rogue time eddies. He attempts to escape, but Audrey uses a time eddy to send him to a neutron star, leading directly into Cataclysm.
- The Doctor is able to pilot the TARDIS away from the neutron star, and tracks down Nova through the time eddy. When they go to confront Audrey, the Doctor accidentally crosses his own time stream, unleashing the Ravagers from the neutron star. Travelling to the past to stop Audrey, the Doctor and Nova only manage to provoke Audrey, leading directly into Food Fight.
- The Doctor travels down his own time stream to prevent himself from crossing his time stream in regards to his confrontation with Audrey, allowing him to help her peacefully return the Ravagers to their neutron star. With the timelines reset, the Doctor offers Nova a trip through time and space, which, despite her not properly remembering him, she accepts. According to the Doctor, the Time Lords are "long dead", setting this a long time after The Day of the Doctor.
Drawn to Scotland[[edit source]]
- The Doctor lands in Scotland. He is reluctant to hug a stranger, setting this long before The Long Game.
- Artie Berger senses a lingering grief within the Doctor, and the Doctor himself claims that he is "still trying to remind [him]self" of who he is.
- Although he claims to currently be a solo traveller, the Doctor does invite Fred aboard the TARDIS, though she turns him down in favour of her other duties. The Doctor spends ninety years immobilised as a statue.
- The Doctor was aiming for 1925 when he ended up arriving at Duberry Hall in 1936. He rides a horse for the first time in his ninth incarnation.
- The Doctor notes that he is in Scotland "again", suggesting a setting shortly after Girl, Deconstructed.
- The Doctor finally arrives in 1925 to visit the set of Metropolis, where he sees a Cyberman being used as the Machine Man. The Doctor recalls having a tough time getting to 1925, alluding to the events of The Hunting Season and The Curse of Lady Macbeth.
- After fixing a glitch at Fond Farewell, the Doctor decides to visit Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, leading directly into Way of the Burryman.
- The Doctor reunites with the Brigadier for the first time since the Time War, and also meets Sam Bishop. He encounters the scouting partner of the Cyberman from Monsters in Metropolis, who unleashes a Cyber-Army onto Scotland from the River Forth bridge, leading directly into The Forth Generation. The Doctor wonders if his trips to Scotland in Girl, Deconstructed and The Curse of Lady Macbeth were due to the presence of the Cyberman.
- While the Doctor still wishes to travel alone, and claims to enjoy the solitude, the Brigadier convinces him to look for a new companion.
Making new friends[[edit source]]
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- The Doctor poses as an "independent consultant" for the council Pete Lambert worked in following an industrial accident that was "hushed up", saves two kids from "lizard people" in the Peak District of Castleton and returns them to their parent, buys a battery from Antonio Spinozzi for his mobile phone, exchanges words with Mr Nifty outside the London Underground, carries fruit and vegetables through the Los Angeles fashion district, was on a boat with a group of Irish immigrants in 1892 and visits a base in Foggia during World War I and steals a Spad XIII after getting ingratiated with the commanding officer. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- Set before Auld Lang Syne.[3] The Doctor intends to take Dr. Lenni Fisk and her son to meet "the real Santa" after their adventure together above Venus.
- The Doctor recalls spending "a wild Christmas" on Venus and Lapland recently, referring to the events of Break the Ice. He invites Mandy Litherland to travel with him, but she declines.
- The Doctor mentions that Titan "isn't half as cold as where [he] was recently", alluding to the events of Break the Ice.
- The Doctor is reunited with Liv Chenka and Tania Bell. Liv advises the Doctor to consider finding a new travelling companion.
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- The Doctor helps Adrian J Andrews when his dog falls ill after eating some weeds bought at the local garden centre, and then sets fire to an aisle of imported tropical plants at the garden centre. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- The Doctor encounters the Vermine for the first time.
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- The Doctor visits Las Palmas and advises Stephen Norris against being friends with Anthony Wallenda and supporting Liverpool, serves as the best man at the wedding of Dave Tonbridge's parents, is caught in the background of a photograph taken of David Grant's father, meets JR's mum in 1977, is greeted by Edward J Green while buying an issue of Heat from a newsagents, goes fishing by Trent Bridge in Nottingham, and plays the spoons with Marcus Butler's father and his skiffle band in the 1960s. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
Finding Callen a home[[edit source]]
- The Doctor defeats an alliance between the Vashta Nerada and the Vermine, setting this after The Colour of Terror. He invites Callen Lennox and Doyle aboard the TARDIS until he can find them a new home.
- After defeating giant maggots on The Greenwood, the Doctor finds Callen and Doyle a new home on New Earth.
Travelling in hope[[edit source]]
- The Doctor takes a visit to the Space Museum on Xeros, where he admires the Hall of Monsters. He alludes the events of The Colour of Terror, The Blooming Menace and Red Darkness.
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- The Doctor, with blood on his face, runs up to A. Fergus while he is report on the fifth birthday of the London Eye for 60 Seconds and tells his crew to run. He later argues with his seventh incarnation at a university campus, is kicked off a train due to his season ticket not being valid until 2009, is photographed with Queen Victoria, borrows money off Riccy Unwin when he is unable to buy a cup of tea from a café in Cambridge due to having outdated currency, fails to stop an old cinema in Salford from being pulled down, is photographed in 1978 New Zealand by a newspaper for an article about UFO sightings, and carries a "large silver metal ball" through Mornington Crescent underground station in 1999, and then rushes of in the direction of Camden. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
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- The Doctor admires the Mona Lisa while visiting the Louvre in Paris, is seen wandering around Wetherby police station in Yorkshire by Nigel Dawson, talks about early reggae records with "Eddie Duggan" in 1999 Prague, [[protest]s for the West Pier in Brighton to be saved a few months before it burns down under "mysterious circumstances", steals Richard Greenleaf's wheelie bin, and meets rewboss at 1991 Wolverhampton, and then travels back to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 when rewboss says they had already met there. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
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- The Doctor vanishes behind Lonnie Donegan during his performance of "Putting On The Donegan", gives Xandra Lenea-Ashford a spade and a flowerpot, saves a child from being hit by a VW Beetle at 1987 Southport, is involved in a boiler explosion at C. S.'s school, is seen wandering around Royal Tunbridge Wells by Karen, visits W H Smith's to buy a Classic Rock issue with a Ł10 piece, visits football matches at Bury and Highbury, watches the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer outside St Paul's in 1981, and asks Kaleigh O'Connor and her associate for directions to the Washington Irving Museum from Sleepy Hollow, New York. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- While tracking Time War fallout, the Doctor gets caught up in a paradox and separated from the TARDIS when the Korravin discover the weapon he was tracking. The Doctor joins an expedition with Bernice Summerfield to stop the Korravin. The Doctor recalls the conclusion of the Time War as being "a while back", setting this some time after The Day of the Doctor, but he is still figuring himself out and is reluctant to discuss the details of the war with Bernice, who suggests that he should talk to a friend. The Doctor gives Benny his sonic screwdriver as a gift and intends to have the TARDIS grow a replacement. The Doctor hopes he doesn’t run into another Archaelogist, implicitly leading into Swipe Right.
Encounters with River Song[[edit source]]
- The Doctor encounters River Song for the first time and together they stop an AI from controlling the population of Crell. The Doctor believes that he is incapable of romantic love in his current incarnation.
- The Doctor and River are reunited when River's face is spread across history by a rogue bank computer. The Doctor is distrustful of River and they share a combative relationship.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor attends a party with River Song. (AUDIO: A Brave New World)
- The Doctor's encounters with River Song are erased from history after they are caught in a time storm. The Doctor recalls the events of The Curse of Lady Macbeth and The Running Men. The Doctor becomes aware of a situation on Crell, and prepares to investigate before heading to Fortuna in the newly established timeline, suggesting these events happen again River-less.
A busy few weeks[[edit source]]
- PROSE: Becky's Impossible Day [+]Loading...["Becky's Impossible Day (short story)"]
- Set directly before Rose, with the Doctor investigating the Autons at Henrik's.
- (SEGMENTS)
- While "in command" as "a man who knows himself, (DWM 485) the Doctor still isn't familiar with his new body when he saves Rose Tyler from Autons at Henrik's, seemingly catching his first glimpse of his face in Rose's mirror when he goes to the Powell Estate to retrieve an Auton's arm. (TV: Rose)
- (REFERENCE)
- Still bearing the cuts from his fight with the Auton arm at the Powell Estate, the Doctor fights a pterodactyl. (PROSE: Rose)
- (REFERENCE)
- After asking E.D. Beckly about history books at a library, the Doctor visits the British Library Cosmology Section and amends the works on the creation of the universe, but leaves when a librarian asks him for identification. He then goes to the York Central Library to erased parts of numerous biographies and put in his own "scribbles", until he is banned by senior librarian Millicent Davies. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor reads The Da Vinci Code in a W H Smith, and then tells people it was his idea while serving fried eggs at a staff canteen. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor receives Sally Sparrow's Christmas homework after swordfighting with Sontarans. (PROSE: What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow)
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor delivers letters for Peri Brown and Erimem from his fifth incarnation to Clarrie. (AUDIO: The Kingmaker)
- Trapped in 1985, the Doctor uses Sally's homework to retrieve his TARDIS.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor inspects military archives and suits of metal armour around Carrick Castle in Northern Ireland, visits Pompeii, has a statue made of him in 2500BC Egypt, asks Mark B if he is interested in time shares during his holiday in Tunisia, talks with Dan Nycia in a disused quarry, saves domonic hyde from the Rendlesham Forest incident, plays a Jimi Hendrix song on the stage of a Mississippi blues bar in the mid-1940s, sings opera off-key to a bush in Matt Bull's local park, saves Wake U. Sooka from a turtle-like creature, takes Bessie for a drive until she breaks down, watches the Boston Red Sox game of 1998, and reads A Brief History of Time on the tube. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- The Doctor tends to Honoré Lechasseur's injuries.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor attends King George VI's coronation in 1936, donates to a British Heart Foundation charity shop, visits the Star Trek-Science Exhibition at the Science Museum, jumps out of a Routemaster bus on Tottenham Court Road at the corner of New Oxford Street, goes to a roller-disco in 1973, talks with various Buddhist monks in Tibet, buys a Dandy annual and a pair of opera glasses from an Age Concern charity shop in Northampton, compliments Steve Hrad for listening to Britney Spears, talks about Halley's Comet at the London Planetarium during the 1980s, does contract work for Helva Soprano's firm of architects using designs with dimensional transcendentalism, visits Chepstow Castle and disputes what the the tour guide says, and convinces Jenn to take her A-Levels despite not revising. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
Welcoming Rose aboard[[edit source]]
- Weeks after first meeting her, at least according to the novelisation[quote 3], the Doctor is reunited with Rose Tyler when he thwarts the Nestene Consciousness's invasion attempt on 5 March 2005. He offers Rose a place in the TARDIS, but she declines.
- Immediately after being rejected by Rose in Rose, the TARDIS alerts the Doctor to the threat of the Starman. Ali convinces him to go back for Rose, leading directly into the final scene of Rose.
- (EPILOGUE)
- The Doctor returns to the moment he left Rose, in order to inform her that the TARDIS also travels in time. Rose then says goodbye to her boyfriend, Mickey Smith, and joins the Doctor inside the TARDIS. (TV: Rose)
- The Doctor informs a new companion, presumably Rose, of the dangers and joys that come with traveling in the TARDIS.
Early adventures with Rose[[edit source]]
- Rose takes her first trip in time, going into the future, where she witnesses the Earth come to a natural end in 5.5/Apple/26 aboard Platform One, while the Doctor stops Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17 from murdering the other spectators for financial gain. Rose learns about the TARDIS translation circuits translating alien languages for her. After the ordeal, the Doctor opens up to Rose about the outcome of the Time War as they go for chips.
- Rose is taking her first trip into the past, meeting Charles Dickens on Christmas Eve 1869 in Cardiff. The Doctor's battle with the Gelth, specifically their destruction by Gwyneth, causes severe damage to a time rift in the Cardiff area. According to the Doctor, Rose is 19-years-old.
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- The Doctor and Rose are photographed while they walk around 1869 Cardiff during The Unquiet Dead.
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- Alternative account of Rose sighting confirmed.
- COMIC: The Forgotten: Revelation
- Following the pattern of The End of the World and The Unquiet Dead, the Doctor takes Rose to the 1914 Christmas truce to show her more of Earth's history, instead of taking her back to the Powell Estate, implying a setting prior to Aliens of London, with Rose also still uncomfortable with the idea of the Doctor being an alien.
- The Doctor warns Rose 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 The End of the World.
- Rose is familiar with the Cardiff Space-Time Rift, setting this after The Unquiet Dead. She wants to return home, implicitly leading into Aliens of London.
Return to the Powell Estate[[edit source]]
- Set "a few days" after Rose. Due to a miscalculation in the TARDIS coordinates, the Doctor returns Rose to the Powell Estate on March 2006, a full year after she left. Rose's mother, Jackie, discovers that Rose has been travelling with the Doctor. The Doctor claims to be 900-years-old, setting this roughly one-hundred-years after The Day of the Doctor. The Doctor and Rose are taken to 10 Downing Street when an alien spacecraft crashes into the River Thames, and discover that aliens have infiltrated the Houses of Parliament, leading directly into World War Three.
- The Doctor is formally introduced to the Slitheen family by the one posing as Margaret Blaine, and to Harriet Jones by Rose, following brief encounters during Aliens of London. After he helps them destroy Downing Street to stop the Slitheen instigating World War III, the Doctor invites Mickey onboard the TARDIS, but he declines.
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- Set during World War Three, with the Doctor being caught in a paradox caused by the Sontarans altering history while dealing with the Slitheen. He unites with his other incarnations to resolve the problem.
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- Set during World War Three, while the Doctor, Rose and Harriet are being chased by Slitheen.
Continued adventures with Rose[[edit source]]
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor and Rose trap something in a Megalithic tomb in Newgrange, serve as best man and witness to Charlie Pocket's Las Vegas wedding in 1992, knock over Matt due to being distracted with shouting at each other while running, visit the lower observation deck of Tokyo Tower in 1991, and run past the Green Man on Cheltenham High Street. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
- The Doctor and Rose spend a few days in 1924 London to visit the British Empire Exhibition, setting this after Aliens of London. Rose is still thinking of Gwyneth, implying a setting shortly after The Unquiet Dead.
- Rose visits her first alien planet when the TARDIS arrives on Justicia. She and the Doctor both recall the events of World War Three, and encounter the Slitheen family again.
- During a visit to an alien planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside, Rose is briefly stunted when she and and the Doctor travel forwards in time to the funeral of someone they just met, suggesting that she is still adjusting to time travel, which would set this early in her travels.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor and Rose attend a wedding during the 1920s, are added to the Bayeaux Tapestry, get separated at the Lake District, run injured down the streets of Lincoln, visit a lush shop to buy bathboms, and go to a party in Islington. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre)
- The Doctor's dreamscape for Rose includes the Powell Estate and Jackie, setting this after World War Three. The Doctor and Rose visit an alien planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside.
- The Doctor and Rose visit another planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside.
- (REFERENCE)
- The Doctor and Rose are seen under the clock in Guildford, investigate a sand castle in 2005 Margate, go to the Great Tower of London, eat hamburgers at Tasy Bite on Kingsley Road in Hounslow, and save the town castle of Berkhamsted. (PROSE: Rose sighting confirmed)
- The Doctor has a curry night with Rose, Mickey, an Auton and the burping wheelie bin from Rose.
- Rose is used to being trapped in alien prisons, suggesting a setting after The Monsters Inside, where she was imprisoned on Justicia.
- Rose recalls the events of The Unquiet Dead, and thinks it wouldn't matter if she changed history to save one man, setting this before Father's Day. Rose has yet to visit anywhere in time and space where people weren't suffering, and claims that she will "never get tired of the TARDIS translation circuits", implying that she has already had several adventures in which they came into use, further supported when she realises for the first time how much her travels with the Doctor have changed her.
- Set between World War Three and Dalek. (DWM 569) Rose knows little about the Doctor and has yet to talk to him about the Time War in any depth.
Temporary association with Adam[[edit source]]
- Inside the Vault of Henry van Statten in 2012 Utah, the Doctor encounters a Dalek for the first time since The Day of the Doctor. On Rose's suggestion, the Doctor lets Adam Mitchell enter the TARDIS.
- Follows directly on from Dalek, with the Doctor trying to return Adam home. However, after Adam proves his worth against the Bygone Horde, the Doctor decides to keep him around. The Doctor decides to take Adam to the far future, leading into The Long Game.
- Adam takes his first trip into the future, going to the year 200,000, where he tries to filch information, causing the Doctor to return him to 2012 in disgrace when he refuses to take responsibility for his actions. Finding the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire has been replaced by a series of news outlets, the Doctor theorises that someone is using Satellite Five to play a long game on the human race by providing a ninety year setback to their development, though he feels it will snap back after he destroys the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe.
Further adventures with Rose[[edit source]]
- (EPILOGUE)
- Shortly after expelling Adam from the TARDIS[4], the Doctor reunites with Althea Bryce the day after he stole the atmosphere destroyer from her. (AUDIO: Her Own Bootstraps)
- The Robot Rose recalls a series of past adventures up to The Long Game, suggesting a setting shortly afterwards.
- The Doctor takes Rose to 1987 to be with her father, Pete Tyler, as he dies, but she tries to change history by saving him, resulting in a brief falling out between them. They make up when Pete ensures his demise to set history back on track and expel the Reapers back into the Time Vortex.
- The Doctor is entertaining Rose in a café, most likely setting this after her emotional ordeal in Father's Day.
- Although he is depicted as travelling alone, the Doctor alludes to having a friend, presumably Rose, that he needs to pick up from the Spice Girls world tour of 1998 when he leaves Lichyrwick. He most likely left Rose there as a treat following her emotional ordeal in Father's Day.
- (REFERENCE)
- During a visit to London during 2004 Christmastime, the Doctor tells Lee to "make the most of [Big Ben] while you can" after having a laugh, thinking of the damage done to the Clock Tower during the 6 March 2006 London UFO crash. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])
- Rose points out the frequency at which aliens seem to invade Earth, implying a setting after World War Three, and has been traveling with the Doctor long enough to notice her habit of reaching for light switches in times prior to electricity.
- The Doctor and Rose visit an alien planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside.
- The Doctor and Rose visit Mars in the 22nd century, which Rose claims is the first time she's visited a different planet in the Solar system.
- The Doctor alludes to the "big row" he and Rose had in Father's Day.
- The Doctor and Rose visit an alien planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside.
- The Doctor and Rose visit the Powell Estate, setting this after World War Three.
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- After the Doctor properly explains the Laws of Time to her, Rose purchases a Stranglers album her mother had always wanted from 1977 Piccadilly Circus and sneaks it into young Jackie's room, slightly altering history, but with no lasting effects. (PROSE: The Red Bicycle)
- Adam returns for revenge on the Doctor by kidnapping Rose, leading directly into Endgame. The Doctor and Rose visit an alien planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside.
- The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue Rose from Adam and the Tremas Master, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well.
The Kotturuh crisis[[edit source]]
- The Doctor and Rose visit an alien planetoid in the Dark Times, setting this after The Monsters Inside. Rose is turned into a Vampire. The Doctor is able to create an antidote, and leaves her on an isolated jungle moon to recover with Centia.
- Accompanied by vampires on a coffin ship, the Ninth Doctor teams up with the Eighth Doctor in order to stop the Tenth Doctor's alterations to history in the Dark Times.
- PROSE: All Flesh is Grass (Chapters 1-3)
- Immediately after The Knight, The Fool and The Dead, the three Doctors engage in the Battle of Mordeela.
- Set during All Flesh is Grass, after the Battle of Mordeela.[5] The Doctor is travelling with the Vampires.
- The Daleks attack the coffin ship, but the Doctor is able to escape the attack with his eighth incarnation.
- The Eighth and Ninth Doctors are searching for the "Time Lord Victorious" together.
- PROSE: All Flesh is Grass (Chapters 4-16)
- Several weeks after the Battle of Mordeela, the Ninth Doctor and his eighth incarnation track down the Tenth Doctor, and then have to pull their resources to protect Gallifrey and the Space Lords from the Dalek Time Squad. After a successful Defence of Gallifrey, the Vampires settle on Birinji and the Doctor parts company with them.
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- The Doctor, battered and bruised, returns to collect Rose from the moon he left her on after she has recovered from her vampirism. (COMIC: Monstrous Beauty)
- Set immediately after Monstrous Beauty, with Rose still recovering from her ordeal with the Great Vampires. To cheer her up, the Doctor tells her the story of the tailor's son and Death, as told to him by Barbara Wright during his first incarnation. The Doctor and Rose have a conversation about death being fixed, setting this after Father's Day.
More adventures with Rose[[edit source]]
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- The Doctor begrudgingly buys spam and corned beef from a supermarket for Rose, and later took a cache of Tudor parchments that cast Henry VIII's right to the throne into doubt from C.J. Sansom so Rose won't be put on the rack. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])
- Jackie knows about Rose travelling with the Doctor, setting this after World War Three. Rose hasn't had a need for money in "months", suggesting that is how long she has been travelling with the Doctor.
- The Doctor is currently travelling with Rose. (DWM 475) He helps in the saving of Gallifrey on the last day of the Time War, and, in the novelisation, has a tea party with his other incarnations in the Under Gallery as a celebration.
- A few weeks after Rose's gifting of the Stranglers album to young Jackie, the Doctor slips away from Rose at the Zaggit Zagoo bar bar and travels back to the Powell Estate in 1998 to experiment with changing history for himself. As a Christmas present, he leaves Rose the red bicycle that she always wanted, but could never get due to Jackie being unable to afford one, with the Doctor coming to appreciate how difficult it was for Jackie to raise Rose as a single-mother after the events of Father's Day.
- After visiting the Moons of Fordice, the Doctor and Rose return to the Powell Estate to visit Jackie. The Doctor jokingly compares Jackie to a Dalek, suggesting a setting after Dalek, and they still have an antagonistic relationship, though they soften towards each other after they foil Tycho Fairbank's Glubby Glubs plot.
- The Doctor and Rose attend the coronation of Elizabeth II.
- The Doctor runs into Doom of the Lesser Order of Oberon when he responds to an alert about a Kraal simulation. Doom later contacts him while he is checking up on Satellite Five following the events of The Long Game to request they meet, and he takes Doom to a London café in June 2006, roughly three months after the events of World War Three. He recalls his visit to Justicia as being his last encounter with a Slitheen, setting this between The Monster's Inside and Doctormania, and remains in London when he and Doom parts ways.
- Rose recalls the events of Dalek and is the Doctor's sole travelling companion, setting this between The Long Game and The Empty Child.
- The Doctor recalls various languages that the TARDIS translation circuits have translated for Rose, including Gelth, Dalek and pig latin, setting this after Dalek.
Joined by Jack[[edit source]]
- In pursuit of a Chula ambulance, the Doctor and Rose arrive in 1941 London during the Blitz. Rose indicates that she hasn't been on Earth for at least five days,[quote 4] and is rethinking her relationship with Mickey. While the Doctor investigates a strange child, Rose meets rogue Time Agent Jack Harkness when he saves her from a barrage balloon. The Doctor learns from Nancy and Dr. Constantine that a plague has been turning people "empty" with gas masks fused to their faces. The Doctor meets up with Rose and Jack at Albion Hospital, where the "Gas Mask Zombies" begin to swarm them, leading directly into The Doctor Dances.
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- Set during The Empty Child, just after the Doctor realises Rose has wondered off.
- The Doctor scolds the "Gas Mask Zombies" back to their beds, and deduces that the Chula ambulance Jack had dumped on London had used their nanogenes to revive a deceased child, and then used his dead body as a template for what humans should be, starting the "Empty Child" plague. As Jack takes away a bomb before it can destroy the ambulance and spread the nanogenes further, the Doctor cures the Empty Child by bringing his mother, Nancy, to him and showing the nanogenes the "parent DNA", restoring him and the other "Gas Mask Zombies" to normal. The Doctor then saves Jack from his doomed ship and he joins the TARDIS team. The Doctor apparently dances for the first time in his ninth incarnation.
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- Set during The Doctor Dances.
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- During an alternative timeline created by corruption during the Time War. The War Doctor gets a glimpse of a future in which the Ninth Doctor never discovers that Nancy is the child's mother and instead is forced to give Time Lord regeneration abilities to those afflicted by the nanogenes in order to save them.
A TARDIS trio[[edit source]]
- The Doctor is abrasive towards Jack, setting this early in their travels together.
- Jack visits 21st century London for the first time, and the Doctor is still abrasive towards him.
- The Doctor is traveling with Jack, setting this after The Doctor Dances, and the pair combat an Auton attack in the 21st century, setting this after Only Human as well. Controversially, the Doctor and Rose appear to meet each other in this story, with the book ending with Rose being brought aboard the TARDIS with the astonished reaction to the size inside, but this can be seen as taking place before she met the Doctor in Rose from her perspective.
Memory fiasco[[edit source]]
- Jack tells the Unon that he has only just met the Doctor and Rose, setting this shortly after The Doctor Dances. The Doctor places his mind up for auction on Fluren's World.
- Set soon after Weapons of Past Destruction, according to the introduction of Doctormania.
- The Doctor and Rose bring Jack to the 21st century, setting this after Only Human.
- According to the introduction, some time has passed since Weapons of Past Destruction, and the Doctor refers to the events of Hacked. After dealing with Slist Fayflut Marteveerthon Slitheen's impersonation of him, the Doctor is called to 2016 San Francisco by an older Mickey, leading directly into The Transformed.
- The Doctor helps Mickey deal with a gargoyle mutation caused by a wormhole, but one gargoyle that Rose befriended goes through the wormhole, leading into Official Secrets.
- Jack finds a picture of himself dressed as a 17th century priest among the UNIT files. Tara Mishra stows away in the TARDIS, becoming a member of the TARDIS crew.
- Set immediately after Official Secrets, with the TARDIS crew investigating the painting found in the UNIT files, and taking Tara on her first trip. Rose is annoyed by Tara's presence, being jealous of her comradery with the Doctor. After finding out someone he had assassinated may still be alive, Jack takes his leave of the TARDIS team.
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- The Doctor learns of the Sin-Eaters and frames himself for Tara's alleged murder to go undercover at the Hesguard Institute. (COMIC: Sin-Eaters) He is quickly arrested by the Judoon. (COMIC: Slaver's Song)
- Tara is still a new addition to the TARDIS crew, and Rose is still hurt by Jack's recent departure.
- Jack's absence places this between Slaver's Song and Secret Agent Man. Rose is less hostile towards Tara, but she is still considered a recent addition to the team.
- The Doctor, Rose and Tara use Memgram to track down Jack. Ending leads directly into The Bidding War.
- While connected to the Memgram, Rose has a vision of her cyber-conversion from Supremacy of the Cybermen. After defeating the Cybermen, Jack rejoins the TARDIS and Tara decides to remain on Nomicae to help nurse those injured in the attack.
- The Doctor takes Rose to be healed from the events of The Bidding Wars, while Jack picks up Tara from Monicae. The Doctor and Rose meet Vastra and Jenny Flint, while Jack and Tara end up on Skaro after the Doctor and his other incarnations end the threat of the Type 1 TARDIS.
Final adventures[[edit source]]
- Prior to the events of Boom Town, the Doctor, Jack and Rose eat Kronkburgers together, and Jack saves the Doctor from an assassination attempt by River Song.
- Jack meets Mickey for the first time when the TARDIS lands at Cardiff Bay to siphon energy of the Cardiff rift in September 2006. The Doctor realises that the words "Bad Wolf" have been following him since The End of the World for the first time. After a fight with Mickey that ends with them officially breaking up, Rose learns that the heart of the TARDIS can be used to fulfill desires. While arresting the Margaret Blaine Slitheen, and leaning her name is really Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, the Doctor's TARDIS severely damages the Cardiff rift. With Blon regressed back into an egg by the heart of the TARDIS, the Doctor intends to take her to a hatchery on Raxacoricofallapatorius.
- The Doctor has just dropped Blon's egg off on Raxacoricofallapatorius, setting this immediately after Boom Town.
- Jackie mentions the events of Boom Town.
- Rose has visited Woman Wept and Raxacoricofallapatorius, setting this after Boom Town. The TARDIS crew spend a month on 23rd century New Vegas investigating the Whisper.
Last stand on Satellite Five[[edit source]]
- Being abducted from the TARDIS after he "just escaped" 1336 Kyoto, the Doctor finds himself in the Big Brother House, where he escapes with Lynda Moss and learns that he is back on Satellite Five. Jack is able to find the Doctor, but they are unable to save Rose from apparently being disintegrated on The Weakest Link. After the Doctor launches a successful coupe, Jack discovers the disintegrator is actually a teleport for the Daleks, having survived the Time War and been the ones responsible for the Jagrafess's actions in The Long Game. The Doctor vows to rescue Rose as the Daleks begin their attack on Satellite Five, leading directly into The Parting of the Ways.
- Finding that the Dalek Emperor from the Time War has resurrected the Daleks by converting the human race, the Doctor sends Rose home to protect her from a delta wave he intends to use to kill both the humans and Daleks. Jack, Lynda and everyone else on Satellite Five are killed by the Daleks. Before the Doctor can be killed, Rose, having used the heart of the TARDIS to absorb the Time Vortex, returns and destroys the Dalek fleet, and restores Jack to life. To save Rose from the power of the vortex, the Doctor absorbs the energy, causing cellular damage to his body, forcing him to regenerate into his next incarnation.
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- Set concurrently with The Parting of the Ways, showing the Doctor's confrontations with the Dalek Emperor from the Emperor's perspective.
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- Set during The Parting of the Ways, just after the Doctor sent Rose home. Reflecting on his life, he decides that he is a coward rather than a killer.
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- Set during The Parting of the Ways, after the Doctor tells Jack the delta wave will kill both humans and Daleks alike.
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- Set during The Parting of the Ways, when the Doctor threatens to activate the Delta wave generator. He decides not to do so after a mental conversation with the Moment.
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- Set shortly before the Doctor's regeneration in The Parting of the Ways, as he looks back on his life.
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Awaiting placement[[edit source]]
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