Theory:Timeline - Evelyn Smythe
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This page lists appearances of Evelyn Smythe in the order in which she experienced them. This timeline is based on observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events in each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is generally assumed, much like their TV story counterparts, that each novel, comic or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in.
The layout of this timeline is based in part on the observations on Doctor Who Reference Guide and Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as DocOhoReviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Databanks, the Big Finish forums, The Whoniverse and The Divergent Universe forum. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
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- Evelyn meets the Sixth Doctor at Sheffield Hallam University. After she helps him save her family history, Evelyn insists on joining the Doctor on his travels, and the Doctor accepts her company.
- The Doctor has recently had a cold, caused by falling into the Thames in The Marian Conspiracy.
- The Doctor is aware that his status as Lord President has been revoked, and Evelyn encounters the Daleks for the first time.
- One of the Doctor's thirteen patchwork coats is destroyed in an explosion. Evelyn refers to the time she and the Doctor had to swim the Thames in Project: Twilight. The Doctor meets Flip Jackson and Jared Ramon on Symbios after a London tube train slips through a temporal fissure, and has his first meeting with DI Patricia Menzies. Thomas Brewster, in a desperate attempt to return to his own time, sneaks into the TARDIS and holds the Doctor and Evelyn at gunpoint, leading directly into The Feast of Axos.
- The Doctor and Evelyn manage to disarm Brewster, and the Doctor refuses to return him home, as using his future knowledge would cause chaos and anarchy. While preventing Axos from escaping their time loop prison, the Doctor reacts with indifference to the death of Craig Swanson, implying a setting prior to Arrangements for War. After Axos is desfeated, Brewster demands that the Doctor takes him back to his own time, leading into Industrial Evolution.
- Brewster is returned to Victorian Lancashire by the Doctor and Evelyn, and they stick around for several weeks to investigate the brass mill.
- The Doctor switches his Technicolor frock coat for a blue coat. All stories with the Doctor wearing this coat must take place after this.
- The Doctor and Evelyn have just left the Clutch, setting this immediately after The Sandman.
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- While back in her present time, Evelyn finds an Elizabethan witch bottle with a letter from Patricia McBride warning the Doctor about Silkreth and arranges to have it sent Ron at a later date. (AUDIO: The Wrong Side of History)
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- Knowing from Patricia McBride's letter that the Doctor will eventually meet Hebe Harrison and Elise Kaplan, she gives both of them mobile phones capable of contacting the TARDIS with instructions to only use them in an emergency. (AUDIO: The Rotting Deep, Maelstrom)
- Sequel story to Project: Twilight. The tension between the Doctor and Evelyn on the death of Cassandra Schofield leads directly into Arrangements for War.
- The Doctor recalls meeting his successor during The Sirens of Time. Evelyn tells Rossiter about the recent events from Doctor Who and The Pirates and Project Lazarus.
- Evelyn has witnessed the Doctor falling into the River Thames twice before, setting this after Project: Twilight.
- The Doctor has his first confrontation with Dr. Robert Knox.
- The Doctor hasn't had a sonic screwdriver since his fifth incarnation.
- Evelyn refers to her encounter with Dr. Robert Knox from Medicinal Purposes and the Doctor wears his technicolour coat.
- Evelyn is familiar with the Daleks, and recalls being on board a Dalek spaceship, setting this after Jubilee. The Doctor's need to warn her to play along with their out-of-sequence meeting with Newton suggests this takes place early in her travels.
- The Doctor, wearing his Technicolor coat and traveling with Evelyn, prevents Edward Grainger being falsely accused of treason in 1957. (PROSE: Old Boys)
- The Doctor and Evelyn join Bernice Summerfield's archaeological expedition. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)
- Evelyn is familiar with Gallifreyan politics, setting this after The Apocalypse Element. The Sixth Doctor once believed that his life would be "short, but sweet".
- The Doctor spends one hundred years travelling in the TARDIS with Evelyn, Jacob, Mary, and Peter Williams, while they recover from being frozen in time. Once they are unfrozen, the Doctor and Evelyn return the Williams family home.
- The Doctor and Evelyn spend a day flying kites. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)
- Evelyn refers to her encounters with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from My Own Private Wolfgang.
- Evelyn has made a habit of jumping from trains, setting this after The Nowhere Place.
- The Doctor is wearing his blue coat.
- On a return trip to Világ, Evelyn leaves the Doctor to marry Justice Rossiter. The Doctor reacts badly to the news and refuses to give a proper goodbye. (AUDIO: Thicker Than Water)
- Evelyn meets Melanie Bush.
- Evelyn dies.
