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This page lists appearances of the Fifth Doctor in the order in which he 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 assumed, much like their TV story counterparts, that each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in[statement unclear]. There are also many gaps between stories.

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, Doc Oho's Book Reviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Databank, Whopix, the Big Finish forum, 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.

Limiting factors[[edit source]]

Companions[[edit source]]

Stories with Adric, Nyssa and Tegan travelling together must take place before TV: Earthshock, while any story with just Nyssa must be between TV: Time-Flight and TV: Arc of Infinity.

Any story with just Nyssa and Tegan must take place after Tegan's return in TV: Arc of Infinity and before TV: Mawdryn Undead. Any stories where they are accompanied by Marc must take place between AUDIO: Tartarus and AUDIO: Nightmare of the Daleks.

Any story where Tegan and Turlough are travelling with a younger and inexperienced Nyssa of Traken must take place between TV: Mawdryn Undead and TV: Terminus, whereas stories where they are travelling with an older Nyssa must take place between AUDIO: Cobwebs and AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger, where her age is reverted back to her 20s. Stories that feature this younger but experienced Nyssa outside of E-Space must take place between AUDIO: The Jupiter Conjunction and AUDIO: Prisoners of Fate.

Any story with just Tegan and Turlough must take place between TV: Terminus and TV: Resurrection of the Daleks. Any story with just Tegan can be placed during the epilogue of TV: Frontios, while with just Turlough must take place between TV: Resurrection of the Daleks and before TV: Planet of Fire. Any story where they are accompanied by Kamelion must take place between TV: The King's Demons and TV: Planet of Fire.

Stories with Peri Brown must occur after TV: Planet of Fire, while any story where Erimem accompanies them must take place between AUDIO: The Eye of the Scorpion and AUDIO: The Bride of Peladon.

Any story where the Doctor is travelling alone can be placed between AUDIO: The Burning Prince and AUDIO: The Elite, between AUDIO: Conversion and AUDIO: Madquake, and between AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard and AUDIO: The Gathering.

Costume[[edit source]]

The Fifth Doctor wore two distinct costumes, with the first debuting with him in TV: Castrovalva until it was replaced with the second in TV: The Awakening.

Sonic screwdriver[[edit source]]

After his sonic screwdriver was destroyed in TV: The Visitation, the Doctor elects not to replace it, setting any story where it utilizes the device as happening before The Visitation.

Timeline[[edit source]]

Previous page: Fourth Doctor

A new body[[edit source]]

With aid from the Watcher, the Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation in the company of Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka at the Pharos Project after a battle with the Tremas Master.
Set immediately after Logopolis, with the Doctor being helped back to the TARDIS by Nyssa and Tegan as Adric distracts the guards at the Pharos Project, though he ends up being captured by the Master. While the Doctor rests in the TARDIS Zero Room, the Master hijacks the ship and forces it into a collision course with Event One, with the TARDIS crew only escaping by jettisoning parts of the TARDIS, including the Zero Room. Still needing to recuperate, the Doctor instructs Nyssa and Tegan to take him to Castrovalva, though he finds it to be another trap by the Master. Once he fully recovers from the regeneration trauma, the Doctor saves Adric, and the Master is left trapped in Castrovalva as it collapses while the TARDIS crew escape.
Set during Castrovalva: Part 1, when the Doctor is resting in the Zero Room before the Master interferes with the TARDIS navigational systems.
The Doctor warns Nyssa 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, setting this shortly after Logopolis.

Early adventures[[edit source]]

Set two days after Logopolis, and shortly after Castrovalva. The Doctor promises to get Tegan back to Heathrow Airport so she can start her job as an air stewardess.
Set three days after Logopolis. The Doctor is still recovering from his recent regeneration, and fails to get Tegan to Heathrow. Despite evidence to the contrary in later releases, it is stated that Adric has only been travelling with the Doctor for "a couple of weeks".
The Doctor still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation. He is also still in need of the Zero Room, implying he is still recovering from his recent regeneration.
The Doctor still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation. He is travelling with only Adric, with no explanations given for the absence of Nyssa and Tegan.
The Doctor is travelling with only Adric, with no explanations given for the absence of Nyssa and Tegan.
Tegan is not concerned with using the Doctor's dream-manipulating machine, implying a setting before Kinda.
The Doctor has recently regenerated, and Tegan is still upset about his failure to return her to Heathrow, setting this before Divided Loyalties. Tegan says that she has not yet known the Doctor a full month.
The Doctor still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.
The Doctor appears to be travelling alone, but still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.
The Doctor still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.
The Fifth Doctor assists the crew of the the USS Swinetrek with a plot device. However, another account depicts the Tenth Doctor assisting the USS Swinetrek crew. He appears to be travelling alone, but still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.

Focused on arriving at Heathrow[[edit source]]

Set "barely weeks" after Logopolis, according to The Auton Infinity. The Doctor begins focusing more on trying to get the TARDIS to 1981 Heathrow Airport so Tegan can begin her job as an air hostess. Though, according to the novelisation, Tegan starts to feel that being in the TARDIS is "rather like being home" and is no longer "too worried" about where they end up next. After a showdown with Monarch, Nyssa collapses.
(FRAMING DEVICE)
Following Nyssa's collapse, the Doctor also passes out (AUDIO: Secrets of Telos) due to his timeline splintering. (AUDIO: The Auton Infinity) His splintered counterpart is then flung into his future, waking up in the Doctor's body on Hopper's rocket in the Telos system (AUDIO: Secrets of Telos) and 9th century Iceland, (AUDIO: God of War) before awakening in the body of an Auton duplicate of himself in 1980s Snowdonia. After helping his prime counterpart defeat the Nestene Consciousness and the Master, the splintered Doctor takes a final trip into his future before he fades away, meeting Peri Brown. (AUDIO: The Auton Infinity)
Following on from Four to Doomsday, the Doctor gives Nyssa a delta wave augmenter to help her sleep off her "mild mental disorientation" while he, Adric and Tegan spend two days saving the Kinda on Deva Loka from the Mara, though not before it possesses Tegan for a short while.
Set between Kinda and The Visitation, according to authorial intent.[1] The Doctor is out for a night stroll on his own, and he still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.
The TARDIS crew are still trying to get to Heathrow and Tegan wants to return to the TARDIS and try again after landing in Iceland. Adric is surprised that the Doctor is talking to him after he used the TSS[quote 1] and Tegan, who has not done much time travel nor knows that much about humanity's future, alludes to her recent possession by the Mara,[quote 2] setting this shortly after Kinda, with Adric also calling the events of Four to Doomsday as happening "a while ago". The Doctor is overtaken by his splintered counterpart.
Nyssa is using the delta wave augmenter to aid her sleep, setting this after Kinda, however the Doctor is still carrying his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation. Adric considers Tegan to be family to him.
Set almost immediately after Kinda, with the Doctor reprimanding Adric for his actions on Deva Loka, and Tegan still haunted by the Mara possessing her. Nyssa believes that Tegan is finding the idea of leaving the TARDIS more difficult than she expected it to be. When the TARDIS arrives in 1666 London, at where Heathrow will be built, the Doctor's sonic screwdriver is destroyed by the Terileptil leader, and the Doctor's defeat of them accidentally starts the Great Fire of London.
The TARDIS has just escaped the Great Fire of London, setting this immediately after The Visitation. The Doctor lets the TARDIS float in space to avoid another adventure. Tegan decides that she wants to remain with the TARDIS crew, and suggests that they take a holiday. According to other accounts, however, Tegan wouldn't decide to stay with them for some time yet and the TARDIS crew would continue aiming for Heathrow.
Tegan is still eager to get back to Heathrow, implying a setting prior to Ghost Walk. Adric recalls the recent events of The Visitation, such as the loss of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. Tegan has been planning her goodbyes for "days", suggesting as long has passed since Psychodrome.
The Doctor is still trying to get to Heathrow Airport.
The Doctor is still trying to get to Heathrow Airport, and Tegan is doubtful he will land there anytime soon. Nyssa begins to suspect that Tegan doesn't want to leave. The Doctor lost his sonic screwdriver "very recently", setting this shortly after The Visitation.
After her plan to trick Adric into piloting the TARDIS fails, Tegan gives up on the TARDIS's ability to get her back to Heathrow. She and Adric still believe that the Master died during Castrovalva, setting this before Smoke and Mirrors.
The Doctor has recently lost his sonic screwdriver, setting this shortly after The Visitation. Harry Houdini is the first historical figure that Tegan has met since beginning her travels with the Doctor, and the TARDIS crew encounter the Master for the first time since Castrovalva. Nyssa believes Tegan is beginning to enjoy her travels, something Tegan implies is correct. Nyssa is surprised to learn that the Master is alive, setting this before The Toy.
Tegan, after some hesitation, admits to Adric that she has begun to enjoy travelling in the TARDIS. She recalls her brief piloting of the TARDIS from Four to Doomsday.
The Doctor tries to get to Heathrow Airport, but Tegan has lost interest. Nyssa's psychic potential from Kinda is referenced.
Set sometime after The Visitation, with the Doctor looking for components to build a new sonic screwdriver. When Tegan is offered an opportunity to leave the TARDIS, she elects to remain with the crew.

Questing no more[[edit source]]

Nyssa refers to the events of The Visitation as having "just" happened,[quote 3] and Tegan reminds the Doctor of her newfound willingness to stay aboard the TARDIS for a while,[quote 4] setting this soon after Divided Loyalties and Ghost Walk. After they attend a party at Cranleigh Hall in 1925, the Doctor is gifted the Black Orchid book by Lady Cranleigh.
Set during Black Orchid: Part 1.
Tegan recalls the events of The Visitation and Black Orchid, with the implication being that these were the team's previous two adventures. Despite Tegan saying she doesn’t want to go back to Heathrow anymore in Black Orchid, they are still trying to get to Heathrow. After being reminded of how much his relationship with the Doctor has changed since his regeneration, Adric decides he wants to go home to his own universe.
No explanations are given about the absence of Adric and Nyssa. Tegan and the Doctor encounter the Master, setting this after Smoke and Mirrors.
The TARDIS crew recognise a Terileptil, setting this after The Visitation, and Nyssa makes a joke about Adric's eating habits, suggesting a setting after Black Orchid as well. Adric feels unappreciated in the TARDIS and is resentful towards Nyssa and Tegan's friendship. He decides to leave, but Nyssa convinces him to wait and think his decision over. Adric's death is alluded to by a being that can see into the future.
Adric, Nyssa and Tegan are kidnapped by Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame.
The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue his friends from Adam and the Tremas Master, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well.
Nyssa is initially unaware that the Doctor has family, setting this before The Toy.
Though they do not appear, the Doctor is currently travelling with Adric and Tegan.
The Doctor recalls the events of Black Orchid. Tegan claims that she made her peace with not getting back to Heathrow a while back.
Tegan recalls encountering the Terileptils, setting this after The Visitation. Tegan mentions that it's been a long time since she's walked on a wooden floor, meaning that she likely hasn't been to past or present-day Earth recently. The Doctor spends a few decades trapped in Beyond while Tegan, Nyssa and Adric are sent away in the TARDIS, although only a few minutes pass for them. The Doctor decides to begin taking better care of his companions. The TARDIS becomes trapped in an unknown location.

Final adventures with Adric[[edit source]]

The Dar Traders claim that "death follows [Adric] closely", and an older Nyssa recalls that Adric had "another death waiting" in the near future, setting this shortly before Earthshock.
Nyssa first started having dreams of the Master while under the influence of the Delta wave augmenter during the events of Kinda, and has continued to have the same dreams ever since. She neglects to tell the Doctor or Tegan about it due to their experiences with the Mara, and also doesn't feel as though she can confide in Adric due to him being "preoccupied lately", suggesting a setting shortly before Earthshock. Tegan has various mementos from her travels in the TARDIS and there is no indication that she wishes to return to Heathrow. Nyssa wonders if the Master is still alive, to which the Doctor replies that she already knows that he has a habit of surviving.
Adric feels unappreciated in the TARDIS, setting this shortly before Earthshock.
The Doctor has "finally gotten around to" reading the Black Orchid book, suggesting that some time has passed since Black Orchid, and Adric believes that none of the TARDIS crew take him seriously, setting this immediately before Earthshock.
The Doctor has only read the first few pages of Black Orchid. Nyssa explicitly encounters the Cybermen was the first time. While stopping the CyberNeomorphs from destroying the Earth, Adric dies in a spaceship explosion that triggers the extinction of the dinosaurs, with the Doctor unable to save him due to the TARDIS control console being damaged by the Cyber-Leader.
During an alternative timeline created by corruption during the Time War. The Fifth Doctor is instead able to save Adric and travels with him until his regeneration into the Sixth Doctor.
Set shortly after Earthshock, with the TARDIS control console having been repaired. The TARDIS crew are grieving for Adric, with Tegan failing to convince the Doctor to change history and save him. While trying to go to the Great Exhibition, the TARDIS finally lands at Heathrow Airport, where, after a battle with the Master, Tegan is left behind by the Doctor and Nyssa, due to both of them believing that Tegan wanted to remain on Earth.
During an alternative timeline created by corruption during the Time War. The Fifth Doctor lands at Heathrow only for it to be changed into a forest as its past is changed. Tegan is then kidnapped by the Ainley Master.

Coping with losses[[edit source]]

Set immediately after Time-Flight, with the Doctor and Nyssa still planning to visit the Great Exhibition, and Nyssa still reeling from the losses of Adric and Tegan. She also still has her latent psychic powers and has often thought about asking the Doctor to take her to Traken at an earlier point in its history, setting this before Primeval.
Nyssa recalls Tegan recently returning to Heathrow Airport after Adric's death, setting this shortly after Time-Flight. Nyssa still has her psychic powers, setting this before Primeval.
Nyssa refers to the Doctor's recent regeneration.
The Doctor has recently lost Adric and Tegan, setting this shortly after Time-Flight.
Tegan has recently departed the TARDIS, setting this shortly after Time-Flight.
Nyssa mentions the recent events from The Land of the Dead.
The recent events of The Land of the Dead have prompted Nyssa to fix the TARDIS proximity alarm. Nyssa encounters Daleks for the first time.
Several weeks have passed since Kinda. Nyssa has recently shown psychic sensitivity, setting this shortly after Time-Flight.
The Doctor and Nyssa haven't stopped to mourn Adric since Earthshock.
Nyssa mentions visiting Alaska, as she did in The Land of the Dead.
Nyssa knows very little of the history of Earth, and suggests they look up Tegan when they arrive back on Earth, though the Doctor says they should allow Tegan to live her own life and respect her decision to leave the TARDIS, setting this shortly after Time-Flight.
The Doctor is travelling with Nyssa, though she waits in the TARDIS for the duration of this adventure. The Doctor chooses not to share the fate of several teenage boys with Nyssa, as she is still mourning the death of Adric, setting this after Spare Parts.
The Doctor is using a sonic screwdriver, but is also haunted by a vision of Adric's ghost, setting this after Earthshock, despite the screwdriver's earlier destruction in The Visitation. His companion is taking a break from adventuring.
Nyssa recalls the events of Spare Parts.
Nyssa recalls visiting Heathrow Airport, and deeply misses Tegan, setting this a while after Time-Flight.
The Doctor recalls his visit to the school in Long Term as occurring "not long ago". He is also still bitter about Adric's untimely death.
Set after Creatures of Beauty.[2]
Having found things difficult recently, Nyssa attempts to propose that she and the Doctor separate for a while, though the Doctor convinces her that they should take a holiday instead.
The Doctor and Nyssa relax on Saturn, with Nyssa relieved that they're finally taking a break. Nyssa becomes upset by the Doctor's lack of empathy for the Saturnites, and he claims to be "about 800[-years-old]".

The time warp investigation[[edit source]]

(NOTE)
While Nyssa undertakes a solo expedition to 13th century Rhodes, (AUDIO: Renaissance of the Daleks) the Doctor volunteers for a mission from the Time Lords concerning disturbances in time, beginning his investigation in Stockbridge. (COMIC: 4-Dimensional Vistas)
While playing cricket in 1982 Stockbridge, the Doctor meets Sir Justin of Wells when fallout from Melanicus' Millennium Wars lands the medieval knight in the 1980s. As they venture to Gallifrey to understand the crisis better, the Doctor is tasked by the Higher Evolutionaries within the Matrix to reclaim the Event Synthesizer from Melanicus, sending their agent, Shayde, to assist him and Justin. The Doctor, Justin and Shayde are able to stop Melanicus, though Justin loses his life slaying the demon, and the Doctor is returned to his cricket match in Stockbridge.
Set shortly after The Tides of Time. Still in Stockbridge, the Doctor meets Maxwell Edison for the first time and takes him on a trip in the TARDIS to investigate a ghost ship before it burns up in the atmosphere above Stockbridge.
The Doctor learns that he accidentally brought the Elemental back to Stockbridge with him during the epilogue of Stars Fell on Stockbridge. After he and Shayde manage to entrap the being in the Matrix, the Doctor is put on trial by the Time Lords for both wasting his potential and endangering history with his travels, but he is ultimately released when Shayde destroys the evidence.
The Doctor ends up at the Events Library while trying to get directions.
Wanting to relax after the events of The Stockbridge Horror, the Doctor goes to an island in the Pacific Ocean during 1963 to do some fishing. Find World War II still being fought, the Doctor is taken prisoner by a Japanese soldier named Fuji, but he escapes when Fuji is killed by American pilot Gus Goodman.
Set immediately after Lunar Lagoon, with Gus joining the Doctor on his travels. The Doctor has not learnt how to swim, setting this before Warriors of the Deep. The Doctor and Gus discover that the disturbances in time that the Doctor had been investigating were caused by the First Monk using a time warp in his alliance with the Ice Warriors to built a super sonic cannon. With the aid of SAG 3, the Doctor and Gus are able to best the Monk by time ramming him into another dimension, and then the Doctor leaves to return Gus home.
When the Doctor and Gus arrive on Celeste, they make an enemy of business Josiah W. Dogbolter, who sends his assassin, the Moderator, after them. The Moderator catches up to them just as the Doctor drops Gus off, and Gus is killed in the resulting firefight.

Resumed travels with Nyssa[[edit source]]

The Doctor is tracked to the Savoy Hotel by General Tillington, and is reunited with Nyssa. After they defeat the Daleks, they resume their travels together.
The Doctor and Nyssa spend three weeks in Stockbridge. The Doctor has regularly played cricket in Stockbridge as a pastime, setting this after The Tides of Time.

Troubles with Thomas Brewster[[edit source]]

Set after Renaissance of the Daleks.[3] The Doctor is separated from Nyssa by a time breach and spends twelve months in London searching for her, while only a few hours pass from her perspective. Thomas Brewster steals the TARDIS, leaving the Doctor and Nyssa stranded in 1867 London.
(REFERENCE)
Using the pseudonym of "Dr. Walter", the Doctor sends a young George Litefoot the Yesterday Box, along with a letter with instructions on its use. He also sends a letter to a young Henry Gordon Jago, informing him of an opening for a master of ceremonies at the Regency Theater. The year is 1867, and "Dr Walter" is described as "a young gentleman with a pleasant open face", suggesting this is during the Fifth Doctor's stay in Victorian London. (AUDIO: The Year of the Bat)
Set five months after The Haunting of Thomas Brewster. Brewster is guided back to the Doctor and Nyssa by a mysterious voice in the TARDIS, and they allow Brewster to travel with them.
Set shortly after The Boy That Time Forgot, with the Doctor and Nyssa recovering the parts of the TARDIS that Brewster sold.
Brewster leaves the Doctor and Nyssa's company, staying in 2008 London. Nyssa is surprised that Brewster didn't stay with them for longer, suggesting a setting shortly after The Boy That Time Forgot.

Further travels with Nyssa[[edit source]]

The Doctor mentions Sir Justin of Wells from The Tides of Time.
Follows directly on from Castle of Fear.
Follows directly on from The Eternal Summer.
Nyssa is still thinking about her happy childhood on Traken, as she was The Demons of Red Lodge.
The Doctor refers to the events of The Demons of Red Lodge.
Nyssa mentions the prisons of Folly from Doing Time.
Nyssa recounts the events of My Brother's Keeper, The Interplanetarian, and Smuggling Tales.

Brief travels with Hannah[[edit source]]

After the TARDIS door is left open due to a malfunctioning latch, Hannah Bartholomew stows aboard the TARDIS as it takes off.
The Doctor finds out about Hannah stowing aboard the TARDIS, setting this immediately after Moonflesh.
On the SORDIDE Delta space station, Hannah is left in a robot-like state after being purged of all emotions. She decides to stay on the station instead of leaving with the Doctor and Nyssa.

Continued travels with Nyssa[[edit source]]

The Doctor and Nyssa are captured by the Daleks on Traxana, leading directly into Dalek Soul.
(FLASHBACK)
The Doctor and Nyssa are brought to Mojax by the Daleks, but they swiftly escape. However, numerous duplicates of them are created over a five year period. (AUDIO: Dalek Soul)
Nyssa says that she lost her father "a long time ago," setting this late into her travels with the Doctor.

The return of Omega[[edit source]]

During a scuffle with Omega in Amsterdam, the Doctor and Nyssa are reunited with Tegan, who rejoins them in the TARDIS.
Set during Arc of Infinity: Part 3, when the Doctor is floating in the Matrix.
Set between Arc of Infinity and Omega.
On behalf of the Time Lords, the Doctor is cleaning up after the events of Arc of Infinity.

Travelling alone[[edit source]]

While the Doctor is initially attempting to return to Amsterdam to pick up Nyssa and Tegan, he instead considers making the journey back to 1983 more of a "round trip".
The Doctor is traveling with an unidentified companion.
The events of The Visitation are mentioned.
The Doctor recalls the events of The Visitation.
The Doctor hasn't seen Steven since The Savages, setting this before The Five Companions.
The Doctor recalls visiting Heathrow Airport in 1981, setting this after Time-Flight.
After an encounter with the Racnoss, the Doctor decides to return a Time Lord combatant, Alayna, to Gallifrey.
The Doctor has Christmas dinner with his other incarnations.
The Fifth Doctor unites with his other incarnations to help a group of people seal the Time Fracture.

Travelling with Brooke and River[[edit source]]

(NOTE)
The Doctor is joined by Brooke, an assassin sent after him by Madame Kovarian to prevent the Siege of Trenzalore. (AUDIO: The Furies) The Doctor has numerous adventures with Brooke without finding out. (AUDIO: A Requiem for the Doctor)
The Doctor and Brooke are joined by River Song in their travels.
The Doctor reacts with curiosity when he hears River use the phrase "timey-wimey", suggesting a setting prior to Time Crash.
The Doctor has his memory of Brooke and River erased by River's hallucinogenic lipstick, but he is then shot with regeneration inhibitors by Brooke and dies.
Brooke 2 uses River's vortex manipulator to prevent her past incarnation from killing the Doctor by tricking her into killing Andrew Edwardson in his place, saving the Doctor. River mentions that the Doctor is on his way back to Amsterdam, and he agrees to drop O off at a galactic trading centre on his way.

Returning to Amsterdam[[edit source]]

The Doctor has no sonic screwdriver, setting this after The Visitation. He has started using the phrase "wibbly wobbly, timey wimey", setting this after Fallen Angels as well.
The Doctor is still trying to return to Amsterdam. He does not react to Jenny's use of the phrase "timey-wimey".
The Doctor recalls his trip to Heathrow, setting this after Time-Flight.
Though the Fifth Doctor is traveling alone at the moment, the Tenth Doctor implies that he is currently travelling with Tegan, and they both recall the events of Time Crash.
En route to Earth, the Doctor is instead brought to an old friend named Velar by the TARDIS, in their the first time meeting during the Doctor's fifth incarnation, setting this before Friendly Fire. Velar decides to join the Doctor in the TARDIS.

Renewed voyages with Tegan[[edit source]]

The Doctor returns to Amsterdam thirty seconds after he left to collect Nyssa and Tegan, saying that he had to run a "quick errand" for the Time Lords, as depicted in Omega.
According to one account, immediately after leaving Amsterdam, the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa encounter the Dark on Akoshemon's moon. The Doctor checks if the Time Lords installed a tracking device on his TARDIS during Arc of Infinity.
According to another account, immediately after leaving Amsterdam, the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa encounter the Daleks on Florana. Tegan suggests a trip to Brisbane to recover, leading directly into Hexagora.
The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa holiday in Brisbane for several days to recover from the events of The Elite.
Set immediately after Hexagora.
Set shortly after the events of Arc of Infinity, with Tegan having only recently returned to the TARDIS. The Doctor is overtaken by his splintered counterpart.
The Doctor and Tegan explore a planet whilst Nyssa remains behind in the TARDIS. Tegan is wearing her air stewardess uniform.
Tegan returns to Heathrow Airport to meet a friend, suggesting that she has been back with the Doctor for a while. In fact, all the Doctor Who Annual 1983 stories features the Doctor traveling with Nyssa and Tegan without Adric, but with Tegan still dressed as an air stewardess. Presumably, as hinted in The Elite, she is wearing her old uniform due to her inability to find other clothes in the TARDIS.
The Doctor, Tegan, and Nyssa are in good spirits, setting this after Tegan's return in Arc of Infinity.
The Doctor and Tegan are having an old argument about Adric's death and the Doctor's refusal to risk a paradox by going back in time and saving him.
Tegan mentions being in Amsterdam, and is still wearing the same clothes from when she was there, setting this after Arc of Infinity. The Doctor is still reluctant to speak about Adric, but does have another argument with Tegan about going back to save him.
Set between Arc of Infinity and Snakedance, according to the book's back cover. Tegan and Nyssa are both concerned about the Doctor's mental state and reluctance to speak about Adric's death. Nyssa confronts the Doctor about his grief over Adric's death for the first time.
The TARDIS crew visit the Necropolitan, and create a memorial to Adric.
Tegan is sceptical that a dream could manifest itself physically, setting this before Snakedance.
Set between Arc of Infinity and Snakedance, according to the writer's notes.Evidence yet to be determined for this placement.
Despite wearing his second outfit, the Doctor is currently travelling with Nyssa and Tegan. (DWM 475) He helps in the saving of Gallifrey on the last day of the Last Great Time War, and, in the novelisation, has a tea party with his other incarnations in the Under Gallery as a celebration.
Tegan and Nyssa visit Manchester, setting this after their first visit in Goth Opera. However, Tegan is aware of the Time Lords and Gallifrey only through what she has been told by Nyssa, suggesting a setting before Goth Opera and Blood Invocation.

Marc joins the crew[[edit source]]

Tegan and Nyssa can't remember the last time that the Doctor mentioned Adric, with Nyssa concluding that he is struggling to come to terms with his death. Marc joins the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa after being freed from slavery by Cicero.
Marc has only just joined the TARDIS crew, seeing outer space and sliding doors for the first time, setting this shortly after Tartarus.
Marc is partially cyber-converted by the Cybermen, and the Doctor vows not to allow them to take another friend from him after Adric, leading directly into Conversion.
The Doctor manages to save Marc's mind from cyber-conversion. He drops Tegan, Nyssa and Marc off on Callanna to recover, while he decides to take a break from his companions to give himself a chance to think.

Time apart from companions[[edit source]]

(EPILOGUE)
The Doctor visits Cicero to ensure that he doesn't include their adventure together in his letters. The Doctor alludes to something bad happening to Marc, presumably his near cyber-conversion. (AUDIO: Tartarus)
The Doctor responds to a summons from River Song at the Café de Paris in 2161, where he mentions his frequent attempts to visit the Eye of Orion. River drugs his tea in order to make him more suggestible and does not wipe his memory of their meeting, setting this after The Furies.

Lost in the Time War[[edit source]]

The Doctor is traveling alone when he arrives in 1930s Australia, where he meets Douglas Jardine, Flora Calderwood and Mrs. Calderwood. After they mysteriously disappear, the Doctor discovers the Daleks are involved and begins following their time trace, leading directly into Lightspeed.
The Doctor makes a comment about "not being able to get away from flight attendants", suggesting he has recently been traveling with Tegan.
Set immediately after The Bookshop at the End of the World.
The Doctor mentions that it has "been a long time since [he] used a broadsword".

Continued solitary exploits[[edit source]]

(LETTER)
The Doctor writes a note to River while visiting "a friend" in Egypt. (AUDIO: Expiry Dating)
After an encounter with the Eleventh Doctor, the Fifth Doctor decides to return to Tegan, Nyssa and Marc, leading directly into Madquake.

Final travels with Marc[[edit source]]

The Doctor reunites with Tegan, Nyssa and Marc on Callanna. Tegan and Nyssa recall the events of Kinda, but they don't mention the events of Snakedance, indicating that it hasn't happened yet.
Set directly after Madquake. While the Doctor claims that Adric died "not long ago", Tegan states that it was "a while back". Marc is still new to the TARDIS.
The Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Marc encounter the Daleks on planet XB93, where Marc decides to stay to invade the Dalek Pathweb and hold back their influence.

Continued voyages with Nyssa and Tegan[[edit source]]

The Doctor takes Tegan and Nyssa to meet his old friend Velar. Tegan mentions Daleks, setting this after Nightmare of the Daleks.
Tegan spends a year stranded in 1940 France, during which she runs the local inn and has a relationship with Armand Barbier.
The Doctor suggests either Tegan or Nyssa read out the coordinates for their next destination, leading directly into Snakedance.[quote 5]
After reading out the coordinates for their next destination while under the influence of the Mara, Tegan causes the TARDIS to land on the planet Manussa, where the Doctor manages to purge the Mara from her mind again.
Tegan is still recovering from her possession by the Mara, setting this immediately after Snakedance, and discovers that vampires are real, setting this before Blood Invocation. The Doctor has growing concerns that the Black Guardian will come after him again, foreshadowing the events of Mawdryn Undead. He expects that the Xeraphins "took care" of the Master.
The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa visit Gallifrey, where Tegan is briefly transformed into a vampire. Nyssa is still wearing her outfit from Snakedance. Despite being written by the same author, and depicting similar events, Blood Invocation is entirely unrelated to Goth Opera.[4]
Set between Snakedance and Mawdryn Undead. [5]

Joined by Turlough[[edit source]]

Set almost immediately after Snakedance, with Tegan sharing her concerns about the Mara returning with the Doctor.[quote 6] After nearly colliding with a ship in warp ellipse, the TARDIS crew find Vislor Turlough aboard and the Doctor returns him to 1983 Brendon Public School in a transmat capsule, where he meets up with Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart for the first time since his last regeneration, who reveals that Nyssa and Tegan arrived at the school in 1977 in the TARDIS. The Doctor learns that the ship belonged to Mawdryn, with him and his crew trapped in endless decaying regenerations due to a metamorphic symbiosis regenerator, and is almost forced into giving up his own remaining regenerations to heal them, until the Brigadiers from 1983 and 1977 cause a Blinovitch Limitation Effect that allows Mawdryn and his crew to die. Under orders from the Black Guardian, Turlough joins the Doctor in his travels so he may kill him for the Black Guardian.
Turlough has only just joined the TARDIS crew, setting this immediately after Mawdryn Undead.
The Doctor briefly visits the cloisters on Gallifrey in the company of Tegan, Nyssa and Turlough.
Set between Mawdryn Undead and Terminus, with a week having passed since Turlough joined the TARDIS crew. The events of Earthshock are referred to as recent. Turlough is only just learning that the crew rarely know where the TARDIS will land.
Turlough is shown his bedroom in the TARDIS, and is greatly disliked and distrusted by Tegan, setting this shortly after Mawdryn Undead, though she slowly starts warming to him. The TARDIS is severely damaged after Turlough tampers with the console on the orders of the Black Guardian, resulting in a crash-landing on Terminus. Nyssa decides to stay on Terminus to help treat the victims of Lazar's disease.
The Doctor is repairing the TARDIS, setting this immediately after Terminus. Turlough, with the Doctor's encouragement, defies the Black Guardian and is able to escape his agreement with him. Now free from the Black Guardian, Turlough decides that he wants to go home to Trion.
Set directly after Enlightenment, with the Doctor making brief and random stops on a roundabout trip to Turlough's home planet to evade the Black Guardian. When the TARDIS lands at 1905 Arizona, Turlough, feeling that the Doctor and Tegan don't trust him, leaves the TARDIS, and finds himself at Buzzard Creek, where he helps put an end to Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer's Elixir of Life scam. Upon reflecting on his adventure, Turlough realises he has gained a taste for travelling and decides to put off returning to Trion.
Turlough has an underlying fear that the Black Guardian will punish him for siding with the Doctor, though his relationship with Tegan appears to be amicable.

Reunited with Nyssa[[edit source]]

Set two days after Terminus. The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough reunite with Nyssa, roughly fifty years later from her perspective, and she rejoins the TARDIS crew, on the condition that they take her home, though she knows it might take some time. Tegan has an argument with the Doctor about his willingness to trust Turlough.
Set directly after Cobwebs. Tegan becomes possessed by the Mara once again, leading directly into The Cradle of the Snake.
Tegan encounters the Mara for the first time since Snakedance, and appears to be finally freed from its influence when it moves on to a new host.
The Doctor takes Tegan to Samur to rest after the events of The Cradle of the Snake. Tegan and Turlough encounter Sontarans for the first time.
Tegan, Nyssa and Turlough spend several days holidaying on Vektris while the Doctor repairs the TARDIS, which hasn't been working properly since the events of Terminus.
Nyssa and Tegan discuss the recent events of Heroes of Sontar and Kiss of Death. The TARDIS still isn't fully functional and the Doctor is struggling to take it beyond the 21st century.
Nyssa's body is reverted to that of her younger self at the time that she left the TARDIS crew. Tegan has known the Doctor for "years".
Set the morning after The Emerald Tiger, with Nyssa adjusting to her rejuvenated body.
Set between The Jupiter Conjunction and The Butcher of Brisbane, according to authorial intent.[6]
Nyssa and Turlough spend three years stranded on 51st century Earth, separated from the Doctor and Tegan. The Doctor encounters a young Magnus Greel, and poses as a Time Agent to hide his identity and protect the timeline.
Ending leads directly into Mistfall.

Trapped in E-Space[[edit source]]

Drawn off-course, the TARDIS passes through a CVE and traps the Doctor and his companions in E-Space. Ending leads directly into Equilibirum.
Tegan is kidnapped by space pirates, leading directly into The Entropy Plague.
Nyssa stays behind in E-Space to power a portal back to N-Space for the TARDIS.

Joined by Kamelion[[edit source]]

When the TARDIS lands at Fitzwilliam Castle in 1215 instead of Trion, Tegan wonders if they have fallen into a trap set by the Black Guardian. The Doctor encounters the Tremas Master for the first time since Time-Flight.[quote 7] The Doctor takes Kamelion with him in the TARDIS after liberating him from the Master, and sets the TARDIS coordinates for the Eye of Orion.
Set immediately after The King's Demons, with Kamelion having just joined the TARDIS crew and the Doctor trying to reach the Eye of Orion, though Tegan doesn't trust the Doctor's ability to get them there immediately.
Despite the events of The Cradle of the Snake, the Doctor encounters the Mara for the first time since Snakedance. Though he stays aboard, Kamelion is keen to leave the TARDIS with his fellow crew-members, but ends up being controlled by the Mara via Tegan's subconscious.
Set a few days after The King's Demons. The TARDIS is heavily damaged, and Kamelion is influenced by a strong mind and endangers his fellow travellers. He decides that he cannot be trusted and elects to remain within the TARDIS indefinitely. Tegan has been travelling with the Doctor for three years.
Kamelion has only recently joined the TARDIS crew, and Tegan does not yet trust him. The Doctor and Kamelion make repairs on the TARDIS console, including a refitting, setting this shortly before The Five Doctors. Kamelion does not fear leaving the TARDIS.
The Doctor has recovered from the back injury he received in Devil in the Mist. Kamelion begins to believe that he is a liability and should no longer travel with the Doctor. The TARDIS team decide to take a trip to New York, leading into Power Game.
Rather than New York, the TARDIS instead arrives in York. The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough spend three weeks searching for Kamelion after he goes missing. Kamelion receives a signal from his home planet, leading directly into The Kamelion Empire.
The TARDIS follows the signal to Kamelion's homeworld of Mekalion. The TARDIS console is destroyed, and Kamelion decides that he cannot be trusted and elects to remain within the TARDIS until his mental resistance is stronger. The TARDIS materialises on the Eye of Orion and the Doctor prepares to repair the TARDIS console, leading directly into The Five Doctors.

Reminders of the past[[edit source]]

(LETTER)
The Doctor writes a letter to River during his stay at the Eye of Orion. (AUDIO: Expiry Dating)
The TARDIS has a brand new console, and Turlough learns about the Doctor's binary vascular system. During the TARDIS crew's holiday on the Eye of Orion, the Doctor is drawn into the Game of Rassilon in the Death Zone with his first, second, and third incarnations. After using the Tremas Master's transmat recall device to escape some Cybermen, the Doctor discovers that Borusa is behind the scheme, aiming to claim the immortality promised by Rassilon by reaching the Tomb of Rassilon, and is enthralled by him using the Coronet of Rassilon. Taking Borusa to the Tower, the Doctor is freed by his earlier selves. After Rassilon deals with Borusa by trapping him in stone, the Doctor's past incarnations and their companions are permitted to leave, just as the Doctor is offered the Presidency by Flavia, though he chooses to abscond from Gallifrey again, leaving Flavia in charge.
Set during The Five Doctors, after the Doctor uses the Master's transmat recall device to escape the Cybermen.
Set immediately after The Five Doctors, with the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough returning to the Eye of Orion to resume their holiday. However, they are attacked by the various aliens from the Death Zone upon their arrival, but manage to defeat them with help from the Eighth Doctor, before they depart from the Eye of Orion.
The events of The Five Doctors were only "the other day". Kamelion is put inside a cupboard made from off-cuts of the TARDIS in order to protect him from mental signals.
The Doctor refers to the recent events of The Five Doctors.
The Doctor is inexplicably depicted as traveling alone.
Turlough is well adjusted to life in the TARDIS.
Set between The Five Doctors and Warriors of the Deep, according to the original Big Finish website,[7] with Tegan and Turlough are left trapped in the TARDIS while the Fifth Doctor assists his sixth and seventh incarnations in battling the Knights of Velyshaa.
Tegan hasn't seen the Master since The Five Doctors, setting this before Birth of a Renegade. Tegan still doesn't trust Turlough.
Tegan and Turlough spend a week travelling by train after being separated from the Doctor. Tegan still doesn't trust Turlough, even momentarily believing him capable of murder. However, they learn to trust each other more after growing closer over the course of the week.
Set several weeks after The Five Doctors, and before Warriors of the Deep.[8] The TARDIS has had troubles since leaving the Death Zone, and Turlough has been travelling with in the TARDIS for "months".
The TARDIS console has recently been rebuilt, setting this shortly after The Five Doctors, but is now supposedly working perfectly, suggesting a setting after Ringpullworld. Despite the events of Heroes of Sontar, Tegan and Turlough encounter the Sontarans for the first time.
Tegan and Turlough know Susan, setting this after The Five Doctors.
(LETTER)
After stopping a interplanetary war, the Doctor writes another letter to River Song, expressing further interest in meeting up. He mentions that Tegan has gotten sick of hearing him speak about River, to the extent that she pushed him up against the Zero Room wall and advised him to stop talking about River. (AUDIO: Expiry Dating)
Turlough has changed his mind about going home, deciding to continue traveling in the TARDIS, though the Doctor remains "a little doubtful about how resolute [he]'ll remain." After being forced to land in Sea Base 4, the Doctor stops the Silurians and the Sea Devils from escalating the hostilities of 2084 Earth into open warfare, though he is forced to poison them with hexachromite gas after they kill the personnel of Sea Base 4.
The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough decide to take a break in order to recover from the events on Sea Base 4, setting this immediately after Warriors of the Deep. Tegan still doesn't trust Turlough. The Doctor thinks about putting on a spare outfit after his first one is ruined by a Xaranti, and Tegan decides that she wants to visit her grandfather, leading into The Awakening.

Holiday in Little Hodcombe[[edit source]]

The Doctor has changed into a new outfit. He takes Tegan and Turlough to 1984 Little Hodcombe to visit Tegan's grandfather, Andrew Verney, only to find the village linked to 1643 by the Malus. The TARDIS team are able to defeat the Malus with the aid of Andrew, school teacher Jane Hampden and 17th century youngster Will Chandler, and then decide to stay in Little Hodcombe for a rest.
The Doctor received the Reborn Master's distress signal while in Little Hodcombe.
(REFERENCE)
The Doctor spends a month trying to return Will home to 1643. (PROSE: The King of Terror) They are accompanied by Jane on their adventures. (PROSE: The Hollow Men) Tegan and Turlough spend three weeks in Little Hodcombe while the Doctor is away. (PROSE: The King of Terror)

Continued adventures with Tegan and Turlough[[edit source]]

Set between The Awakening and Frontios, according to the back cover. The Doctor has recently spent a month returning Will to 1643. The Doctor learns that the Brigadier has rejoined UNIT by 1999, and comments that he was still retired the last time he saw him.
(SEGMENT)
The Doctor attends the third test at Headingley in 1981 with Tegan and Turlough. (PROSE: Graham Dilley Saves the World)
Kamelion makes a rare trip outside the TARDIS to help the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough.
The Doctor is depicted in his second outfit, setting this after Deep Blue.
(SEGMENT)
After receiving River's response to his previous letter, the Doctor drops Tegan and Turlough off on Metebelis III, and travels to the Café de Paris to meet River again. He helps her to steal a doomsday scroll from the Tenth Doctor, and she spikes his tea with memory agents afterwards, causing him to forget all his meetings with her. (AUDIO: Expiry Dating)
The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough encounter the Sontarans and Rutans, setting this after both Heroes of Sontar and Sontar's Little Helpers.
Turlough recalls telling the Doctor that he wished to stay aboard the TARDIS and learn more from him, setting this after Warriors of the Deep. Tegan is horrified by all of the death she witnesses, implying a setting close to Resurrection of the Daleks.

Solo adventures with Tegan[[edit source]]

While giving the TARDIS a cleaning, the crew find themselves forced onto Frontios in the far future by the Tractators, and help the human colonists save themselves from the Gravis by disconnecting him from the other Tractators. The Doctor and Tegan then leave Turlough behind on Frontios while they take to the Gravis away.
According to one account, the Doctor and Tegan drop a still dormant Gravis off on Kolkokron. The events of Frontios are their most recent adventure. Immediately after leaving Kolkokron, the Doctor takes Tegan to see the end of the world before making plans to return to Frontios. However, he speculates that their side trip may cause issues getting back to Frontios immediately.
According to another account, after travelling for twelve hours towards Kolkokron, the TARDIS is diverted to Queth, which the Doctor, Tegan and the Gravis briefly explore. After successfully transporting the Gravis to Kolkokron, the Doctor and Tegan then resolve to return the Queeth to Queth.
Set immediately after Life after Queth. The Doctor and Tegan have dropped off the Queeth and are still in the same time zone as Frontios, but are forced to take a detour to answer a distress call. The Doctor invites Vivash O'Connell aboard the TARDIS. The Doctor, Tegan and Vivash are forced to take another detour from returning to Frontios.
Attempting to return to Frontios, the TARDIS is forced to stop off on Artaris to rest. Tegan and the Doctor get into an argument about landing in the wrong place, prompting the Doctor to send Tegan to wait in the TARDIS for the whole of his adventure with the "Katy Manning" Iris.
The Doctor and Tegan go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby. However, the Doctor is unable to go through with the act and leaves.
(REFERENCE)
The Doctor and Tegan visit Glasst City on the planet Nocturne. (AUDIO: Nocturne)
Tegan is concerned that the Gravis might escape from Kolkokron, but she also acts annoyed when the Doctor claims they are going back to Frontios, as though he has said this many times before. The Doctor and Tegan are summoned to Gallifrey by Leela, where the Doctor is forced to become the President of the High Council until the fallout from Borusa's presidency is dealt with.
The Doctor and Tegan attend the coronation of Elizabeth II. Tegan is wearing her air hostess uniform, and the Doctor is depicted with his second outfit.

Final adventures with Tegan[[edit source]]

(EPILOGUE)
The Doctor and Tegan return to Frontios for Turlough after dropping the Gravis off on the uninhabited Kolkokron. The TARDIS gets caught in a time corridor immediately after they leave Frontios. (TV: Frontios)
Set directly after Frontios, with the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough escaping the time corridor and arriving in Wales, where they are reunited with the Brigadier. Facing the Master and the Autons, the Doctor encounters his splintered counterpart inhabiting an Auton duplicate of himself. Tegan is becoming sick of all the death and destruction she experiences during her travels with the Doctor, and the TARDIS is pulled back into a time corridor as soon as it leaves Wales, leading directly into Resurrection of the Daleks.
The time corridor lands the Doctor into a confrontation with Davros as he is liberated from his Prison Station by the Daleks to assist them in combating the Movellan virus, while the Black Dalek Leader intents for the Doctor to be duplicated to assassinate the High Council. However, Davros betrays the Daleks to form his own faction, causing a schism that allows the Doctor to escape and destroy the Daleks with the virus. Tegan, tired of all the death and violence she has witnessed recently, decides to remain on Earth, causing the Doctor to start rethinking his lifestyle.

Lone travels with Turlough[[edit source]]

Set directly after Resurrection of the Daleks, with Tegan having just departed the TARDIS crew. The Doctor checks to ensure that the Gravis did no lasting damage to the TARDIS in Frontios, having been unable to do so beforehand due to being trapped in the Dalek time corridor.
Wanting to make sure she made it back to Australia from London, the Doctor tracks down Tegan in 1987. He gives Tegan a few of her belongings from the TARDIS and comments that she left rather suddenly, suggesting that not long has passed since her departure in Resurrection of the Daleks.
Weeks have passed since Lords of the Storm, and the Doctor is still upset about Tegan's departure.
Set between Resurrection of the Daleks and Planet of Fire.[9]
Set between Resurrection of the Daleks and Planet of Fire.[10]
Turlough can operate the TARDIS accurately enough to move it forward in time by six months.
The Doctor is aided by a "red-haired young man", presumably Turlough.
The Doctor decides that he and Turlough need a holiday, somewhere "without so much sand".
The Doctor and Turlough are missing Tegan, although the Doctor admits that he should have moved on from her departure "by now".
While the Doctor despairs at the Daleks to cover his hurting on Tegan's departure,[quote 8] Kamelion suffers a mental attack, and the TARDIS is forced to land in 1984 Lanzarote, where Turlough saves Peri Brown from drowning. When Kamelion is completely taken over by the Master, he takes the TARDIS to Sarn, where Turlough finds his lost brother, Malkon. The Doctor is able to stop the Master from harnessing the Numismaton Gas on Sarn by apparently burning him to ash, but he also forced to destroy Kameleion in the effort. Turlough decides returns to his home planet with his brother, and Peri asks to join the Doctor in his travels aboard the TARDIS.

Early travels with Peri[[edit source]]

The Doctor asks Peri to stay in the TARDIS library when he believes that the destination they've arrived at is an unsuitable place for him to start showing her the wonders of the universe, setting this immediately after Planet of Fire. After seeing her still in the company of his next incarnation, the Doctor realises that he will regenerate soon.
While reflecting on his life, the Doctor recalls Turlough's departure, setting this after Planet of Fire. He is still haunted by Tegan's final words to him about how travelling with him "stopped being fun", leading him to wonder how long it will be before his own luck runs out.
Peri has only joined the Doctor "a few days" ago, and is still trying to figure out if she wants to stay with him, setting this shortly after Planet of Fire. The Doctor expresses a desire to watch Les Misérables, and decides to attempt a trip to Headingley Stadium In 1981 again.
It has been three days since the TARDIS left Sarn in Planet of Fire, and Peri recalls spending two days on N'Tia in the interim, setting this immediately after Light at the End of the Tunnel. After visiting Headingley Stadium together, the Doctor takes Peri shopping in London to recover from her encounter with the N'Tians. The Doctor and Peri watch Les Misérables.
It has only been a few days since the events of Planet of Fire. The Doctor gives his age as 850-years-old.
Peri is unfamiliar with the Ice Warriors, setting this before Red Dawn.
The Doctor has promised Peri "a tour of another alien world". Peri encounters the Ice Warriors for the first time.
The Doctor encounters the Master for the first time since Planet of Fire, which occurred a week ago for the Doctor and Peri. Peri recalls visiting Mars in Red Dawn and Gelsandor in The Ultimate Treasure.
Peri has been travelling with the Doctor for two weeks, and mentions her shopping trip in Black and White. Her only other experience of time travel was her trip to Regent Street in 1981.
The Doctor and Peri's previous trip was to Wembley Stadium in 1935, setting this immediately after The Church of Football.
Peri hasn't been time-travelling for long and is just getting used to the Doctor and the TARDIS. However, she is beginning to view the TARDIS as home. She is nineteen-years-old.
Peri hasn't been travelling with the Doctor for long, and spends months separated from him on Calleto. Her experiences on Calleto mature her from the "impetuous young girl" who first came aboard the TARDIS to a "measured, compassionate and empathetic woman" in the Doctor's eyes.

Joined by Erimem[[edit source]]

The Doctor gives Peri a tour of the TARDIS and she finds out about the food machine, setting this shortly after Planet of Fire. Erimem joins the TARDIS crew, with a cat she had adopted. The Doctor claims not to have been to Egypt recently, suggesting a setting before Never Seen Cairo.
Set immediately after The Eye of the Scorpion, with Erimem settling into the TARDIS, while the Doctor attempts to bring her to the Braxiatel Collection. Peri comments on how Erimem's hair has already started growing out and she now sports a buzz cut, suggesting that being aboard the TARDIS is accelerating her hair growth. Peri isn't accustomed to the rules of time travel. Erimem names her cat Antranak.
Set between The Church and the Crown and Nekromanteia, as Antranak appears and has already been named. The Doctor is giving Erimem a tour of the TARDIS. Erimem learns about the Time Lords and recalls attending a fancy dress party on Pralax with Peri.
Contradicting the account of her visit to Pralax in No Place Like Home, Erimem leaves Earth for the first time, and Antranak sacrifices his life saving the planet Talderun. Peri mentions that this is the first opportunity she has had to go shopping in weeks.
Peri has heard the Doctor use the alias "John Smith" before. Erimem's hair is starting to grow longer. Following their adventure in the American Civil War, the Doctor leaves Peri and Erimem at a place they can gather their thoughts in tranquility while he runs an errand. Peri begins to view Erimem as a sister.

Resolving unfinished business[[edit source]]

The Doctor spends eighteen months trying to return a woman to Earth. Nyssa and Tegan are mentioned as former companions of the Doctor, setting this after Resurrection of the Daleks.
The Doctor encounters six of his other incarnations, and hits a cricket ball off the head of his first incarnation.
The Fifth Doctor and his other incarnations are switched with the Seventh Doctor at Albert Square by the First Rani's time loop. He is wearing a unique jumper that borrows traits from the first and second designs. It is implied that he knows Peri, setting this after Planet of Fire.
The Doctor meets with Sarah Jane Smith, setting this after The Five Doctors, and appears to be travelling alone.
The Doctor salutes the Brigadier with his other incarnations.
The Doctor awakens in a Remembered TARDIS, and is reunited with Tegan, who he mentions missing "once or twice", setting this after Resurrection of the Daleks. After they reminisce over the events of Earthshock, the Doctor asks Tegan to tell him about her life after she left him, implying a setting prior to The Gathering.

Continued adventures with Peri and Erimem[[edit source]]

(EPILOGUE)
The Doctor returns to collect Peri and Erimem, with his hair having grown significantly longer. (PROSE: Blood and Hope)
Erimem does not have a TARDIS key, and Peri begins teaching her English.
Peri refers to the recent events of The Axis of Insanity, although Erimem's reading skills appear to have improved since then. Erimem's ability to cope with time travel and her burgeoning relationship with Peri is explored. Peri mentions that the Doctor broke his pocket watch "a month ago".
Erimem has taken to wearing a key around her neck, and is still recovering from the events of The Roof of the World. She and Peri ask the Doctor to take them to visit Earth.
Erimem is "glad to be back on Earth", suggesting a setting immediately after Three's a Crowd.
The Doctor takes Peri and Erimem to the National Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo to show Erimem what happened to her family after she left in the TARDIS. She has short hair.
Erimem visits England for the first time. She and Peri spend two years separated from the Doctor, but only a short time passes for him.

Alone time[[edit source]]

(REFERENCE)
The Doctor leaves Peri and Erimem in 1966 Monte Carlo to recover the Veiled Leopard. Erimem's hair has grown out, suggesting this takes place after her two year separation from the Doctor. (AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard)
The Doctor is depicted wearing his second outfit.
The Doctor is depicted in his second outfit, and appears to be travelling alone.
The Doctor is depicted in his second outfit.
The Doctor is illustrated in his second outfit, and is piloting the TARDIS with its The Five Doctors design.
The Doctor is depicted in his second outfit.
The Doctor attempts to visit the Ice Caves of Shabadabadon, but ends up arriving at the Gogglebox. He decides to solve the mystery of energy spikes appearing across time, originating in 1980s Baltimore, before collecting Peri and Erimem from Monte Carlo. During his investigation, he is reunited with Tegan Jovanka in 2006 Brisbane.

Final adventures with Erimem[[edit source]]

The Doctor, Peri and Erimem visit a cricket match together, setting this after The Roof of the World. They are also visiting England together, setting this after The Kingmaker. Erimem has short dark hair.
The Doctor, Peri and Erimem spend several weeks in London, setting this after The Kingmaker
The Doctor recalls the events of Blood and Hope.
The Doctor attends the inauguration of the three-bodied lustrousness of the Vix with Peri and Erimem.
Erimem is reasonably proficient in written English.
Erimem is considering leaving the TARDIS, and the Doctor suggests that perhaps their next destination will help her decide, suggesting this takes place immediately before The Bride of Peladon.
Erimem decides to leave the Doctor and Peri and remain on Peladon.

After Erimem's departure[[edit source]]

Set shortly after Erimem's departure in The Bride of Peladon. The events of The Mind's Eye and Son of the Dragon are in Peri's recent memories.
Peri has been traveling with the Doctor for "months" at the least, setting this before Warmonger. She has her own TARDIS key, setting this after The Axis of Insanity.
The Doctor and Peri are separated from each other for a year, during which time Peri becomes a guerrilla fighter on the planet Sylvana.

Missions surrounding the Wicked Sisters[[edit source]]

Set after Mission of the Viyrans, according to the Big Finish production codes. The Doctor has been intentionally separated from Peri until the Key to Time is found. He recalls the events of Red Dawn. The Doctor and Amy are ambushed by the Black Guardian, leading directly into The Destroyer of Delights.
The Doctor destroys the Key to Time in the Chaos Pool, and asks Amy to stay with him and help him find Peri, but she refuses and instead plans to return to Gallifrey with Romana II in order to attend the Time Lord Academy.
The Doctor recalls the events of Time in Office and The Chaos Pool. He is reunited with Leela, Abby and Zara. An age-scanning device identifies him as being almost 900-years-old. Ending leads directly into The Moonrakers.
The Doctor and Zara spend years on the Moon with the Sontarans. Ending leads directly into The People Made of Smoke.
The Doctor and Leela part ways with Abby and Zara after defeating the smoke people. The Doctor and Leela then continue travelling together.

Nearing the end[[edit source]]

The Doctor has been to Cairo, setting this after The Eye of the Scorpion.
The Doctor and Peri return to the setting of an adventure they had a month previously.
In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Doctor is forced to land the TARDIS on a Cyberman occupied Skaro.
The Doctor and Peri attempt to flee from the Cybermen following their arrival on Skaro in Prologue: The Fifth Doctor.

Death on Androzani Minor[[edit source]]

Ending leads directly into The Caves of Androzani.
(SEGMENT)
Just as the TARDIS lands on Androzani Minor, the Doctor is overtaken by his splintered counterpart, who speaks with Peri as he prepares himself for fading out of existence. (AUDIO: The Auton Infinity)
Landing on Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri are poisoned by unrefined spectrox and begin dying of spectrox toxaemia. Outwitting the dueling machinations of Sharaz Jek and Morgus, the Doctor is able to acquire the bat's milk needed to cure the illness, but is only able to get enough for one antidote. After he gets Peri to the safety of the TARDIS, the Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation after curing Peri of the poisoning.
Set during the Doctor's regeneration in The Caves of Androzani: Part 4.
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Currently unplaced[[edit source]]

These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of this Doctor's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.

Awaiting placement[[edit source]]

These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.

Quotes[[edit source]]

  1. ↑ THE DOCTOR: "It's nice to spend some time together, just the two of us, don't you think?"
    ADRIC: "I suppose so, though why you'd want to spend any time with me after what happened with the TSS unit, I don't know. You were so angry with me."
  2. ↑ TEGAN: "If anyone's mind should be all over the place right now, it's mine after what happened on Deva Loka."
  3. ↑ DOCTOR: "Shall we go outside?"
    NYSSA: "You think that wise, considering what we've just done to London?"
    DOCTOR: "Oh, that would have happened if we'd been there or not. All part of Earth's history."
  4. ↑ TEGAN: "I did say I wanted to stay with the crew for a while. You can stop trying to get me back to Heathrow."
  5. ↑ "Perhaps." The Doctor frowned as he fished for the key, then brightened. "If you want, one of you could read out the coordinates while I input our next destination."
  6. ↑ TEGAN: "Doctor? I am free of the Mara, aren't I? I'm still having terrible dreams."
    DOCTOR: "It's your mind's way of coping with the experience. You've suffered a great deal."
    TEGAN: "That could have been prevented if that Dojjen person had destroyed the Great Crystal."
    DOCTOR: "No, he couldn't. The Mara during the process of its becoming. It had to be trapped between modes of its being."
    TEGAN: "The feelings of hate. Doctor, I couldn't go through it again."
    DOCTOR: "Well, you're completely free of it now, Tegan. For you, the Mara is dead forever."
  7. ↑ DOCTOR: "You escaped from Xeriphas!"
  8. ↑ DOCTOR: "Daleks. I sometimes think those mutated misfits will terrorise the universe for the rest of time."
    TURLOUGH: "Doctor, you're becoming obsessed."
    DOCTOR: "Yes, obsessed and depressed."
    TURLOUGH: "You miss Tegan?"
    DOCTOR: "Well, we were together a long time."


Footnotes[[edit source]]

  1. ↑ https://mobile.twitter.com/TempleG/status/1403737377860898822
  2. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-game-232
  3. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-haunting-of-thomas-brewster-273
  4. ↑ "Just two months after the publication of my Virgin Books Doctor Who Missing Adventures novel Goth Opera, I was back using the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan in another story about vampires, a comic strip drawn by the great John Ridgway and... it's got nothing to do with the earlier novel. This time it's Tegan, not Nyssa, who becomes a vampire. Nobody comments on what bad luck that is, considering the earlier, or later, events. I'm boggled at why I would do that." (The Clockwise War: Commentary - Blood Invocation)
  5. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-fifth-doctor-adventures-in-the-night-2622
  6. ↑ https://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/1537/sst-monkey-house-spoilers
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20000305044754/http://www.doctorwho.co.uk/bf-1.htm
  8. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-companion-chronicles-ringpullworld-481
  9. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-phantasmagoria-620
  10. ↑ https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-loups-garoux-645
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