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Seventh Doctor Timeline Tinkering
Travels with Mel
- The Seventh Doctor's persona begins to emerge as his previous incarnation regenerates.
- Immediately after regenerating from his previous incarnation, the Doctor is thrown into a confrontation with the Rani on Lakertya. He claims to be 953-years-old.
- 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.
- The Doctor's umbrella is damaged, with him suggesting it time he acquired a new one.
- The audio's blurb sets this between Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen, and the Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after The Warehouse as well.
- The Doctor has replaced his whangee handled umbrella with one with a large red question mark designed handle.
- The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after Delta and the Bannermen, and gets a proverb wrong, implying a pre–Bang-Bang-a-Boom! placement.
- The Doctor promises to stop mangling proverbs, setting this after Delta and the Bannerman.
- The Doctor acts more brooding, something Mel claims to have never seen in him before.
- On Iceworld, the Doctor and Mel bump into Sabalom Glitz again, and also meet a time-displaced 16-year-old girl named Ace. While Mel leaves to travel with Glitz, the Doctor offers to let Ace travel with him in the TARDIS, and she accepts.
- Set during the ending of Dragonfire: Episode 1.
Early travels with Ace
- Ace encounters the Daleks for the first time. According to Head Games, this is the first time she doubted the Doctor's motives.
- Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule.
- Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Doctor Who. Ace encounters the Cybermen for the first time. The Doctor spots a chess set in Lady Peinforte's home and realises that Fenric is orchestrating events in his favour.
- Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, due to a delay brought about by the 1988 Olympics, explained how Ace was wearing Flowerchild's earring in Silver Nemesis, despite acquiring it during this serial.
- The Doctor recalls his movements in 1963 from Remembrance of the Daleks and an unknown second adventure. At the conclusion, the Doctor changes into his chocolate brown jacket for the first time.
- The Doctor 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.
Ace in the Cretaceous
- After leaving Ace in the Cretaceous period, (COMIC: Train-Flight) 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. (PROSE: Birthright)
- The Doctor is travelling with Frobisher. Frobisher decides to leave the Doctor, claiming that he isn't needed as much without Peri. 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 again.
- After colliding with him in the Time Vortex, the Doctor uses a TCE to shrink Death's Head to human size.
- Feeling old and useless, the Doctor considers returning the Gallifrey for good. After saving the Culture, the Doctor feels a renewed sense of purpose and leaves looking for another adventure.
- The Doctor is still attempting to attend Bonjaxx's birthday on Marathea.
- While still searching for Banjaxx's party, the Doctor meets Abslom Daak, a professional Dalek killer. The Doctor believes Davros to be the Dalek Emperor, indicating that this is set after Remembrance of the Daleks for the Doctor.
- The Doctor is no longer trying to get to Maruthea, and is wearing his dark jacket.
- 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, presumably leading into his retrieval of Ace.
- The Doctor retrieves Ace from the Cretaceous period of Earth's pre-history, and the two resume travelling together.
Growing darker
- Ace meets the Brigadier for the first time in her life, while the Doctor meets him for the first time since his sixth regeneration.
- The novelisation details how the Doctor and Ace have returned to Earth for the first time since The Curse of Fenric, which was a week before. Ace encounters the Tremas Master for the first time on Cheetah World, and both become infected with the Cheetah virus, though Ace begins to recover by the serial's conclusion.
Work to do
- This is Ace's 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 rejected by the Time Lords.
- Set almost immediately after Thin Ice. After defeating the Metatraxi, the Doctor offers Raine Creevy the chance to travel in the TARDIS, which she accepts.
- Raine's first journey is to Margrave University in 2001, where, she discovers that her father has died. Upset by the revelation, Raine decides to stay at Margrave for a short time.
- It has been some time since the Doctor and Ace last saw Raine, who decides to return to the TARDIS.
- Under unknown circumstances, Raine leaves the TARDIS again.
Trouble with the Timewyrm
- When the Doctor restores Ace's memories, the first thing that she recalls is the events of Survival, and 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.
- 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", placing this immediately after Timewyrm: Apocalypse.
- PROSE: The Algebra of Ice: Epilogue
- Visiting Ethan Amberglass whilst in hospital, the Doctor mentions the recent events of Timewyrm: Revelation.
The best of friends
- Ace is 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.
- The Doctor and Ace meet Bev Tarrant.
- Ace refers to the recent events of Storm Harvest and The Genocide Machine. 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.
- Ace hasn't yet worn her special sunglasses from the New Adventures era, setting this before Timewyrm: Genesys at most.
- Sequel to Illegal Alien. 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.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor mentions that he's recently been unable to take the TARDIS away from Earth. He has also been redecorating the TARDIS and has discarded his question mark pullover.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor finally reaches Maruthea, just as his predecessor is leaving.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor locates his old signet ring in the TARDIS control console and decides to resume wearing it.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The TARDIS' chameleon circuit is inexplicably working, and has changed the TARDIS's form into a Cadillac.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. When listing the worst creatures she can imagine, Ace mentions the Daleks, the Timewyrm and the Cybermen.
- The Doctor hasn't been to Alaska, and Ace has learnt how to swear in eleven alien languages. The Doctor and Ace decide they should go their separate ways at the end.
Beginnings as Time's champion
- The Doctor and Ace reunite in Turkey.
- Set during Cat's Cradle: Warhead, according to Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- Ace can still feel the biological effects of being on the Cheetah planet. The TARDIS gets infected by demonic protoplasm.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- An opening annotation places this story directly after the consecutive events of Memorial and Nightshade, which is supported by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- 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.
- 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: 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.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor says that Benny has just joined his company.
- The Doctor is alone with Bernice and wears his light jacket, placing this shortly after Pureblood.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- The Doctor inexplicably has a sonic screwdriver.
Ace returns
- 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.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- The Doctor and an Old One are in an antagonistic relationship, setting this before their truce in Signs and Wonders. The Doctor begins wearing a cream linen suit and fedora.
- Ace still keeps track of her age. The Doctor decides he needs a holiday, leading into Birthright and Iceberg.
- 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.
- This novel takes place at the same time as Birthright, with the events of both novels occurring concurrently for the Doctor, Ace and Benny.
- This novel runs parallel with the events of Iceberg, with the Doctor being absent for the majority of Birthright. The Doctor's deceptions cost him Benny's trust.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
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. The Doctor acquires a new sonic screwdriver from the possessions of his deceased alternate third incarnation, and also takes that Doctor's TARDIS after his 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 the real universe.
- The Doctor fixes the chameleon circuit in his new TARDIS.
- 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 his enemy 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.
Amicable travels
- The Doctor has had experience with delivering babies.
- Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.
- 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 this point in her life, takes a temporary leave of absence from the TARDIS.
- Benny returns to the TARDIS after her temporary leave of absence that started in Legacy.
- The Big Finish website places this audio between All-Consuming Fire and Blood Harvest.
- The Big Finish website places this audio after The Shadow of the Scourge.
- The Doctor is wearing his white suit from White Darkness, though the TARDIS console room is the one from before Final Genesis.
- 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 encounter the Tremas Master for the first time since Survival. Ace fatally shoots the Master, but he is able to regenerate into Template:Frontier. Ace considers leaving the TARDIS.
- Ace has her head shaved clean.
- Ace's hair is still re-growing.
- It has been at least a full year since No Future. Ace is still thinking about when she'll leave the Doctor.
- 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".
Alone with Benny
- Set Piece was the Doctor's previous adventure.
- The TARDIS has only just left Gadrell Major, setting this immediately after Infinite Requiem.
- The Doctor changes himself into a human to understand Benny's grief over the death of Guy de Carnac, which happened in Sanctuary. After he resumes his Time Lord identity, he is given a cat named Wolsey as a pet.
- Ace has only just left the TARDIS.
Chris and Roz
- The Doctor and Benny are joined by Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej, who wish to escape the corruption and manipulation rife on Earth in their time.
- Three-odd subjective years have passed since Love and War.
- Set immediately after Sky Pirates!
- 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 Kane. The Doctor retrieves his original TARDIS from the Charrl after it was lost to him during Blood Heat.
- The Doctor, Roz and Chris have only just left Benny and Jason's wedding, setting this immediately after Happy Endings.
- The Doctor hints to Benny that he knows the circumstances of his regeneration.
- In the audio adaptation, the Doctor mentions the events of The Day of the Doctor and The Sirens of Time.
- Chris unsuccessfully pretends to be the Fifth Doctor, setting this story after Cold Fusion.
- 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 criteria behind. The Doctor begins wearing the clothes from Doctor Who.