Personal timeline
Many accounts asserted that the universe was comprised of many timelines; therefore, individuals had their own personal timelines, (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"], AUDIO: The Dead Shoes [+]Loading...["The Dead Shoes (audio story)"]) or relative timelines, (PROSE: TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual [+]Loading...["TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)"]) as did planets, species (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"]) and objects. (TV: The Big Bang [+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"])
Many accounts used the terms "time stream" (TV: The Name of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"], etc.) and "life-stream" synonymously with "timeline". (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Sabotage at the Space Probe","name":"\"terror\"","chaptnum":"2","1":"Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)"})
Accounts were often inconsistent on whether or not an individual's personal timeline could be altered by themself.
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Ability to alter a personal timeline
Unable
In some accounts, if an individual altered their own personal timeline, a time paradox would be created.
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Able
In some accounts, individuals could alter their own personal timelines without issue.
Amy Pond was once able to alter her own timeline without adverse effects when she gave her younger self a new ice cream after she dropped her first. (HOMEVID: Good Night [+]Loading...["Good Night (home video)"])
External forces
External forces typically faced little issue manipulating or altering individual timelines.
The vortex energy inside the Doctor's TARDIS could "reverse" a person's time stream. (PROSE: "Technology" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Loading...{"namedpart":"Technology","1":"Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)"}) The Time Lords similarly possessed the ability to reverse an individual's life-stream. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Sabotage at the Space Probe","name":"\"terror\"","chaptnum":"2","1":"Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)"}) The Resurrectionists were able to reverse time for the recently deceased, returning them to an earlier point in their time stream and psychically directing them away from the actions that lead to their death. (AUDIO: You Are the Doctor [+]Loading...["You Are the Doctor (audio story)"])
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General
Professor Chronotis's TARDIS could interfere with an individual's time stream. (TV: Shada [+]Loading...["Shada (TV story)"], WC: Shada [+]Loading...["Shada (webcast)"])
Captain Carter explained to the Eleventh Doctor that the Justice Department's Teselecta extracted criminals near the end of their established timelines before they punished them. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler [+]Loading...["Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)"])
On Gallifrey, the Time Lords had access to the timelines/time streams of individuals, (TV: The Three Doctors [+]Loading...["The Three Doctors (TV story)"], Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"], etc.) sometimes extracting them with temporal energy, (TV: The Three Doctors [+]Loading...["The Three Doctors (TV story)"]) Time Scoops, (PROSE: "Technology" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Loading...{"namedpart":"Technology","1":"Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)"}, TV: The Five Doctors [+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (TV story)"]) and extraction chambers. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])
Combining the resources of time travel with their memory extraction techniques, the Testimony Foundation lifted the near-dead momentarily from their time streams in order to duplicate their memories before returning their physical selves to the moment of their dissolution without pain, distress or any recall of the process. (TV: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])
Specific timelines
Ace's timeline
- Main article: Ace's timeline
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Dalek Caan's timeline
Dalek Caan crossed his own timeline (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Brave New World","page":"47","chaptnum":"2","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"page":"355","ed":"2011 edition","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}) when he used an emergency temporal shift going from Manhattan in 1930 (TV: Evolution of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)"]) back through the time lock into the Last Great Time War, where he retrieved Davros from his command ship. This act drove him insane but allowed him to see the future. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"])
The Doctor's timeline
- Main article: The Doctor's time stream
As Tasha Lem explained to the Eleventh Doctor, the Kovarian Chapter travelled back along his timeline in an ultimately vain attempt to prevent him from reaching Trenzalore. (TV: The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]) Missy told the Twelfth Doctor that she had been "up and down his timeline", meeting people who had died for him. (TV: Death in Heaven [+]Loading...["Death in Heaven (TV story)"]) The whole of the Doctor's time stream could be accessed from his tomb on Trenzalore. (TV: The Name of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"])
The Ninth Doctor explained to Rose Tyler that he could not go back and warn humanity of a Dalek invasion because once the TARDIS landed he became part of events, "stuck in the timeline". Soon after, he apparently realised that he could indeed "cross [his] own timeline", however, this was but a ruse to get Rose into the TARDIS to safety. (TV: The Parting of the Ways) Similarly, the Tenth Doctor told Wilfred Mott that he could not go back in time and catch the Saxon Master yesterday as he could not go back within "[his] own timeline", that he had to stay relative to the Master within the causal nexus. (TV: The End of Time)
Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver's time stream
Provided with the Doctor's sonic screwdriver by a future version of the Eleventh Doctor, Rory Williams used it to release the Doctor from the Pandorica. Touching it with the sonic screwdriver on his person, the Doctor confirmed from the resulting a spark of temporal energy that the two were the same sonic screwdriver from different points in its time stream. (TV: The Big Bang [+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"])
Alistair Gryffen's timeline
When Taphony, a Time Blank, artifically accelerated Professor Alistair Gryffen's physical age, she had caused a major disruption in his timeline, which would only stop if Taphony was removed from the space-time continuum prior to his birthday, at which point the condition would become permanent. Ultimately, the disruption caused by Taphony was negated when she agreed to depart to another time continuum through the Space-Time Manipulator, reversing time to just prior to her arrival at Gryffen Manor. (TV: Taphony and the Time Loop [+]Loading...["Taphony and the Time Loop (TV story)"])
Jack Harkness's timeline
In 1901, having been buried alive since 27, Jack Harkness told Torchwood Cardiff operatives Alice Guppy and Charles Gaskell that, as he had crossed his own timeline by being brought back in time to this point by John Hart, he could not be allowed to meet his past self, so he requested to be cryofrozen for the next hundred and seven years. (TV: Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"])
Catching up with the Tenth Doctor, Jack revealed that he had spent over a century waiting for a version of the Doctor that coincided with his own timeline. He also admitted that he had went to see Rose Tyler at the Powell Estate before she had met him, Jack cited "timelines and all that" as he clarified that he did not approach her. (TV: Utopia [+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"], PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"page":"149","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"})
Adolf Hitler's timeline
After the Justice Department vehicle Teselcta travelled through time to punish Adolf Hitler, Jim reported that they were too early as they were in 1938 and so needed to go later in his time stream. The Teselecta was crashed into by the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS before this could be done. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler [+]Loading...["Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)"])
Gallifrey's time stream
- Main article: Gallifrey's time stream
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Gareth Jenkins's time-stream
After Sixth Doctor, Tegan, and Gareth Jenkins defeated Group Marshal Nathan and his subordinate from the Tenth Sontaran Battle Brigade, (HOMEVID: A Fix with Sontarans [+]Loading...["A Fix with Sontarans (home video)"]) within the space of a few hours, the Sixth Doctor returned Gareth to his correct time-stream. (PROSE: Fixing a Hole [+]Loading...["Fixing a Hole (short story)"])
Sam Jones's timeline
- Main article: Sam Jones's timeline
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Yasmin Khan's timeline
Discovering the presence of Thijarians in 1947 Punjab, the Thirteenth Doctor abandoned her mantra of not interfering to ensure that nothing would happen to Umbreen so that Yasmin Khan's timeline wouldn't be erased. (TV: Demons of the Punjab [+]Loading...["Demons of the Punjab (TV story)"])
Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart's timeline
In his encounter with the First Doctor, the Twelfth Doctor interfered in the timeline of Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart by not returning him to the moment when he would have been killed by a German soldier at Ypres, but at the start of the Christmas truce a few hours later. Whilst the Doctor justified this action as being just one less dead body on a battlefield, the Time Lords noted that the survival of Lethbridge-Stewart and the subsequent lineage that resulted from it had a significant impact on events that occured on Earth from that point on. (PROSE: TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual [+]Loading...["TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)"], TV: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])
The Master's timeline
By one account, at the time of his arrival on Earth, the Time Lords had intended to throw the Master's life-stream into reverse such that he would have never existed. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Sabotage at the Space Probe","name":"\"terror\"","chaptnum":"2","1":"Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)"})
Missy explained to the Saxon Master that the two of them coming into contact "put the timelines out of sync". As a result, the Master would not retain his memory of the event and so Missy would not remember having met herself. However, Missy did evidently remember enough to keep a spare dematerialisation circuit, (TV: The Doctor Falls [+]Loading...["The Doctor Falls (TV story)"]) and her theory was disputed by yet other accounts. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)"], TV: Time Crash [+]Loading...["Time Crash (TV story)"])
Donna Noble's timeline
- Main article: Donna Noble's timeline
Donna Noble's timeline was manipulated by Dalek Caan (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"], etc.) and, once, disrupted by the Time Beetle. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"132","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded [+]Loading...{"page":"41","1":"The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded (reference book)"})
Dalek Caan manipulated it to ensure that she would reunite with the Tenth Doctor and bring about the downfall of the New Dalek Empire (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"], etc.) and the Time Beetle altered it to feed off the time energy caused by the disruption, (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"132","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"]) resulting in the creation of a parallel world. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])
Clara Oswald's timeline
The Twelfth Doctor once attempted to prove his theory that everyone's shared dream kf waking up in the middle of the night to be grabbed by an unseen hand was a genuine phenomenon, he had Clara Oswald place her fingers into the telepathic circuits so that the TARDIS could extrapolate her entire timeline so that the memory of her own nightmare could guide them to the event itself. Later, due to Danny Pink bsing a part of her timeline, the traces left in the telepathic circuits led the Doctor to Orson Pink, a time traveller from Clara's future. (TV: Listen [+]Loading...["Listen (TV story)"])
After the death of Danny, the Doctor induced a dream state around Clara to see how far she'd be willing to go to convince the Doctor to rewrite time; in this state, he refused to, stating that her timeline would disintegrate under the paradox loop. However, after the dream state ended, the Doctor did attempt to save Danny by instead searching for any sort of afterlife he could be in. Clara connected herself to the telepathic circuits again, and TARDIS brought them to the 3W Institute, as it was where Clara's timeline had a high chance of intersecting with Danny's. (TV: Dark Water [+]Loading...["Dark Water (TV story)"])
After Clara was extracted from the end of her time stream by the extraction chamber, mere moments before her death by Quantum Shade, the Doctor deceived the Time Lords into believing that she could give them details about the Hybrid. She appeared in the Capitol's extraction chamber 7, after which the Doctor attempted to flee Gallifrey with her in a stolen TARDIS. Inside, the Doctor asked Clara to check her pulse, hoping her timeline had restarted. Ultimately, Clara used a neural block to erase the Doctor's memory of her before returning "the long way round" to meet her fate on Gallifrey. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])
Rosa Parks's timeline
Rosa Parks's timeline was targeted by Krasko, in a bid to prevent Rosa from becoming a "legend of the civil rights movement." (PROSE: All About Yaz [+]Loading...{"page":"13","1":"All About Yaz (short story)"}) Krasko's plans were foiled by the Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan, Graham O'Brien and Ryan Sinclair, ensuring history took its proper course. (TV: Rosa [+]Loading...["Rosa (TV story)"])
Danny Pink's timeline
Danny Pink's timeline had a high chance of intersecting with Clara Oswald's at the 3W Institute; the Twelfth Doctor had the TARDIS travel to this point via Clara's connection to the telepathic circuits. (TV: Dark Water [+]Loading...["Dark Water (TV story)"])
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson's timeline
The timeline of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson in pre-Revolutionary France was connected at various points through spatio-temporal hyperlinks to the SS Madame de Pompadour in the 51st century. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Great and Bountiful Human Empires","page":"168","chaptnum":"4","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, "You were my life" [+]Part of Companions and Allies, Loading...{"page":"72","namedpart":"You were my life","1":"Companions and Allies (reference book)"}, TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])
Amy Pond's timeline
After Rory Williams was erased by the time field, Amy Pond's own history changed and thus she had to exert effort in order to maintain the memories of Rory, but she was distracted and failed. (TV: Cold Blood [+]Loading...["Cold Blood (TV story)"])
The Eleventh Doctor once hijacked the temporal engines in the Two Streams Facility to fold Amy's timeline to bring the past version of her forwards in time to thr same point as her aged counterpart. (TV: The Girl Who Waited [+]Loading...["The Girl Who Waited (TV story)"])
Rigsy's timeline
During Rigsy's phonecall to Clara Oswald about a mysterious tattoo he had no memory of getting, she told him that neither she nor the Twelfth Doctor would take him down his timeline to avert its creation. (TV: Face the Raven [+]Loading...["Face the Raven (TV story)"])
River Song's timeline
In his attempt to recruit River Song for the Battle of Demons Run, Rory Williams acknowledged time streams when he asked her if she had met him yet. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War [+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"]) more to be added
Stor's timeline
The Fourth Doctor repelled the Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey by using the De-mat Gun to destroy the Sontaran Commander Stor, rewriting history to eradicate his timeline. (PROSE: The Whoniverse [+]Loading...["The Whoniverse (novel)"], TV: The Invasion of Time [+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"])
Ernestina Stott's timeline
After Percy Noggins stopped being a threat to the Fourth Doctor, he went home to look after his elderly grandmother, Ernestina Stott. After discovering a mention of Ernestina in an old almanac that stated that she had a strange experience in Cromer after being stung by a hornet, he followed Ernestina's personal timeline back to this event. (AUDIO: The Dead Shoes [+]Loading...["The Dead Shoes (audio story)"])
Timewyrm's timestream
When the Timewyrm appeared in Great Britain in 1981, it stated the timestream was in flux before becoming trapped in puterspace by the Seventh Doctor. (COMIC: The Last Word [+]Loading...["The Last Word (comic story)"])
Rose Tyler's timeline
Rose Tyler crossed her own timeline when she had the Ninth Doctor take her back to see the car accident which killed her father, Pete Tyler, a second time, causing a weak point in time. When she stepped in to save her father's life, this weak point became a wound in time through which the Reapers came through to sterilise it. They were stopped when Pete, in act of self-sacrifice, allowed himself to be hit by the car that had killed him, having been suspended in a small time loop after Rose saved him. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"], TV: Father's Day [+]Loading...["Father's Day (TV story)"])
Iris Wildthyme's timeline
- Main article: Iris Wildthyme's timeline
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Rory Williams's time stream
In his attempt to recruit River Song for the Battle of Demons Run, Rory Williams acknowledged time streams when he asked her if she had met him yet. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War [+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"])
