Theory:Timeline - Torchwood

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This page lists appearances of Captain Jack Harkness in the order 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, audio or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

Limiting factors

As he joins him late in his sole Doctor Who season before being left behind, Jack's travels with the Ninth Doctor in prose are limited to being between DW: The Doctor Dances and Bad Wolf. Also, due to the nature of Torchwood series 1's ending cliffhanger and the opening of series 2, no story involving Jack with Torchwood Three can be set in between.

Overview

Captain Jack Harkness was briefly a companion of the Ninth Doctor, travelling through time and space on Doctor Who television and BBC New Series Adventures prose. After being trapped with a broken vortex manipulator in 1869, with few opportunities to time travel over the next century, he later joins Torchwood Three, though the majority of his stories told are set after Gwen Cooper's recruitment to Torchwood in 2007 and before Torchwood Hub's destruction 2009 in Torchwood television, BBC Torchwood novels and audiobooks, and Torchwood short stories and comic stories, mostly told in Torchwood Magazine, with remaining stories or scenes set in between told in flashback.

His adventures with 21st century Torchwood Three and the related Torchwood team in America that was formed after the destruction of the Hub can be categorised as:

Timeline

Takes place before Boom Town due to Jack mentioning he has not visited the Ninth Doctor's companion Rose Tyler's era (the 21st century).
Rose phones her mother Jackie and tells her about the events of Boom Town
Jack is left behind on Satellite 5.
Set in the late 19th century.
Set in 1909.
Set in 1927 and 1928
Set in 1965
Set over the course of the late 20th and early 21st century before Gwen Cooper is recruited to Torchwood Three
Gwen is recruited.
Gwen's first day on the job.
Gwen is still inexperienced with weapons.
Several references are made to the events of Cyberwoman.
Set three months after Everything Changes.
Owen is visibly upset by the events of Out of Time in this story. He calls off his affair with Gwen.
Continues where Captain Jack Harkness left off. Jack disappears from Torchwood.
Gwen has started taking charge more in Jack's absence, in comparison to Captain Jack Harkness, where Owen was said to be second-in-command. Gwen is now engaged to Rhys.
Continues where Reset left off. Owen is resurrected, but with no lifesigns.
Set three days after Reset.
Exit Wounds continues where Fragments left off. Owen and Tosh die. All TV stories between A Day in the Death and Exit Wounds (apart from Adrift) reference Owen's condition following his resurrection.
Martha meets Jack for the first time since Owen and Tosh's funeral.
The House of the Dead is set in the six-month gap at the end of Children of Earth: Day Five. Jack leaves Earth at the end of Children of Earth: Day Five. Days One through Five flow into one another.
Jack returns to Earth.
Jack and Gwen are taken to America.
Jack and Gwen return to the UK, along with Esther after End of the Road. The New World through End of the Road flow into one another.
Takes place a few months after End of the Road.
Continues where The Gathering left off.

Unplaced

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