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This page lists appearances of the Twelfth Doctor in the order in which he experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed that for each novel, comic, audio or television series, they're published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as Doctor Who Reviews, Clive Banks databanks, Whopix, and the Big Finish forums. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Limiting factors[[edit source]]

Characteristics[[edit source]]

Through Series 8, the Twelfth Doctor is depicted as gruff and confrontational to others, even doubting if he is a "good man" as he hides his nicer qualities behind his grumpy exterior, with his rage notoriously targeted at military figures. Cynical to the point of insensitivity, he could be seen as callous and dismissive, not even enjoying hugs. However, he still acted for the protection of others against aggressors, even when he knew that he only had hard decision to make that had unavoidable loss of life.

By Series 9, the Twelfth Doctor had started to embrace his wacky characteristics, just as playing his guitar for enjoyment and using cue cards to improve his socialising. He noticeably become more open to hugging, but only on his terms. However, his fierce anger would still flare up when the need for practicality arose, though he made more an effort to avoid such callousness unless it was truly necessary.

In the extended universe material published during the year long between Series 9 and 10, such as Doctor Who Magazine and Doctor Who Adventures, the Doctor was depicted with the same qualities as Series 9, albeit with his negative qualities turned down, having the Doctor appear as an adventurous gentleman with a habit of telling off anyone who plighted him.

In Series 10, having been in self-exile at St Luke's University for a number of years, the Doctor was shown with a wanderlust for traveling for the sheer joy of it and to educate Bill. He also made friends easier due to no longer trying to lord his superiority over others, and valiantly saw himself as Earth's protector, even answering distress signals to show people the universe still had kindness within it. However, his willingness to see the universe away from St. Luke's made him act impulsively and make reckless actions that left his guard down.

Companions[[edit source]]

Any story featuring Clara Oswald must come after TV: Deep Breath and before TV: Face the Raven.

Any story featuring Nardole must come after the flashback in TV: Extremis and before TV: World Enough and Time. Any story featuring Bill Potts must come after TV: The Pilot and before TV: World Enough and Time.

Sonic devices[[edit source]]

During his first season, the Twelfth Doctor continues to use the Eleventh Doctor's green crystalline sonic screwdriver model. In his second season, however, he decides to replace his sonic screwdriver with a pair of sonic sunglasses after losing the screwdriver in TV: The Magician's Apprentice, until the TARDIS gifts him a new sonic screwdriver with a blue metal design at the end of TV: Hell Bent. Logically, this would put every story where the Doctor utilises the green crystalline model before The Magician's Apprentice, and every story where he uses the blue metal model after Hell Bent.

However, during the Titan Publishing Group Year 2 comic Clara Oswald and the School of Death, confirmed to be set at least after TV: The Zygon Inversion by the appearance of two Osgoods, the Doctor reacquires a spare green crystalline model he had lent to Clara during COMIC: The Fractures, explaining how he is able to possess his green crystalline sonic screwdriver in expanded media stories set during Series 9.

Timeline[[edit source]]

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Early experiences[[edit source]]

The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation in the TARDIS after escaping the Siege of Trenzalore with Clara Oswald, but the TARDIS starts crashlanding.
Immediately after his regeneration, the Doctor decides to "take matters into [his] own hands" upon discovering that he still isn't ginger.
Following on from The Time of the Doctor, the Doctor manages to bring the TARDIS to 1898 London after it is swallowed by a Tyrannosaurus rex, which is killed by the Half-Face Man while the Paternoster Gang and Clara help the Doctor recover from his regeneration, and as Clara adjusts to the change. According to Strax, Clara is 27-years-old. After fending off the Clockwork Droids with the Paternoster Gang, the Doctor leaves Clara behind for a few hours while he refurbishes the TARDIS console room, such as changing the blue neon piping in the time rotor to amber. When he returns, Clara initially makes to leave due to distrusting the Doctor, until a phone call from the Eleventh Doctor convinces her to give his twelfth incarnation a chance. As he begins to ponder who gave her the TARDIS phone number, Clara sends the Doctor for coffee in 2014 Glasgow.
The Doctor helps in the saving of Gallifrey on the last day of the Last Great Time War, and, in the novelisation, travels to the War Room to coordinate disaster relief for Gallifrey. He is alone, has short hair, and his console room is glowing blue, suggesting a setting during Deep Breath, after he leaves Clara in Victorian London and before he redecorated the TARDIS.
Set shortly after Deep Breath, with the Doctor writing in his diary about defeating the Half-Face Man.
Depicts the diary entry from The Doctor's Diary, albeit with a few modifications, implying that the Doctor documented the events in two separate journals.
The Doctor is getting coffee at the Intergalactic Coffee Roasting Station for Clara, setting this immediately after Deep Breath.
En route to delivering the coffee to Clara, the Doctor saves Journey Blue from the Daleks, and is asked to venture into a broken Dalek, whom he nicknames "Rusty", to see if they can be redeemed. The Doctor picks up Clara from Coal Hill School, three weeks after Deep Breath from her perspective, to help him, as he is unsure if he is still a "good man". After Rusty sees hatred in him, the Doctor returns Clara to Coal Hill, both still unsure if he is "good", but convinced he is trying to be. Clara meets Danny Pink for the first time.
The Doctor is contemplating what he would be like as a Dalek, setting this immediately after Into the Dalek.
(DIARY ENTRY)
The Doctor writes up about his encounter with Rusty in his diary. (PROSE: The Doctor's Diary)

New adventures with Clara[[edit source]]

Clara resumes her ongoing travels with the Doctor.
The Doctor and Clara share chips together.
The Doctor mentions the chips that he and Clara recently shared in Untitled, and the TARDIS gets a scratch.
The Doctor has just removed the scratch on the TARDIS, setting this immediately after Planet of the Diners.
The Doctor is still assessing what kind of person he has become, setting this shortly after Into the Dalek.
The Doctor entertains the idea of letting Clara decide their next destination, suggesting a setting prior to Robot of Sherwood. Clara also worries that the Doctor is mistaking her for Jenny Flint when he sees the Paternoster Gang behind her during a trip to Victoria London, suggesting a setting shortly after Deep Breath.
Deciding to let Clara choose their next destination, the Doctor ends up meeting Robin Hood and his Merry Men in 1190 Sherwood Forest, and assists them in overthrowing the Sheriff of Nottingham when they learn that he has allied with Robot Knights from outer space. Having developed a vitriolic friendship with Robin, the Doctor reunites him with Maid Marian as he and Clara depart Sherwood Forest.
Set during Robot of Sherwood, before the archery contest.
The Doctor is dragged into a Multi-Doctor event during his fight with the Sheriff in Robot of Sherwood.
Clara is friendly with Danny, but does not call him her boyfriend, setting this before their date in Listen.
(SEGMENT)
Diana Winter uses a Gallifreyan calling card to summon the Doctor and Clara to help her find her pet cat. The Doctor, who's hostile nature is in full force, hasn't met the Winter family before. (AUDIO: The Gods of Winter)
Immediate prequel to Listen.
Clara goes on her first date with Danny as the Doctor tries to prove his theory of the "perfect hider", beings responsible for the uneasy feeling of being watched when alone and responsible for the universal nightmare of someone being grabbed from under their bed. Wanting to go down Clara's timeline with the telepathic circuits to the night she had such a nightmare, the Doctor accidently goes into Danny's timeline when Clara thinks of him, and ends up saving Orson Pink from the end of the universe, though he is forced to abandon his theory when Clara insists upon it.
Clara describes Danny as her "potential boyfriend", suggesting a setting between their first date in Listen and their second date in Time Heist.
The Doctor is picking Clara up for some adventures while she prepares for another date with Danny, but a call from Madame Karabraxos leads them to recruit augmented human Psi and mutant human Saibra to break into the Bank of Karabraxos during a solar storm to free the Teller and it's mate from Karabraxos' younger self.
The Doctor is picking Clara up from Coal Hill School.
(SEGMENT)
The Doctor and Clara are left to the mercy of sand piranhas while chained to posts on a desert planet. (TV: The Caretaker)
The Doctor was dropping Clara off at Coal Hill School.
(SEGMENT)
The Doctor picks up Clara from her flat to go on an adventure with fish people, and then immediately returns her home for a date with Danny, though with seaweed on her hair. (TV: The Caretaker)
Though he is using a blue-emitter sonic screwdriver, authorial intent places this early in the Twelfth Doctor's life.[1] Indeed, he expresses the distaste for soldiers he had in Series 8, and is traveling alone.
(SEGMENT)
The Doctor and Clara outrun soldiers to get to the TARDIS so that Clara can be on time for a jog with Danny. (TV: The Caretaker)
Clara recalls the events of Robot of Sherwood.
While facing a Skovox Blitzer at Coal Hill School, the Doctor meets Danny for the first time and learns he's Clara's boyfriend after the two get off on the wrong foot due to Danny's military service triggering the Doctor, and not helped by their conflicting ideologies on combating the Skovox Blitzer, though they agree to disagree once the Skovox Blitzer is dealt with. The Doctor takes delinquent student Courtney Woods on a brief trip in the TARDIS to dispose of the Skovox Blitzer.

Continued adventures with Clara[[edit source]]

Clara recalls facing the Skovox Blitzer, setting this after The Caretaker.
Clara says she would do anything to reclaim someone she lost, setting this before Dark Water.
Set before Dark Water, with cryptic references to Clara betraying the Doctor's trust.
Set during Four Doctors.
Set during Four Doctors.
Authorial intent sets this between The Caretaker and Kill the Moon.[2] The Doctor is traveling alone.
Set between The Caretaker and Mummy on the Orient Express,[3] with Danny knowing that Clara is travelling in the TARDIS, setting this before Kill the Moon. The Doctor takes Danny on a trip in the TARDIS and they come to a mutual understanding with each other, though the Doctor loses his memory of their bonding.
Enough time has passed since The Caretaker for Courtney to have increased her disruptive behaviour, allegedly due to the Doctor being dismissive of her. After taking Courtney to the Moon in 2049 leads to a dilemma about ending an unborn life that the Doctor leaves her to sort out, Clara falls out with the Doctor, and tells him to leave her alone.

Time away from Clara[[edit source]]

(FLASHBACK)
The Doctor has several adventures with Gertie, before dropping her off in 1986 and promising to return. (COMIC: Super Gran)

Resumed travels with Clara[[edit source]]

Several weeks after Kill the Moon, Clara and the Doctor meet up to have a last adventure together on the Orient Express spacecraft, which leads to them making up after the Doctor proves himself by saving Maisie Pitt from the Foretold. Inspired by a talk she had with Maisie, Clara begins lying to Danny about no longer travelling in the TARDIS and having ended things with the Doctor.
Clara is considering what kind of companion she is, probably because of her recent fall out with the Doctor in Kill the Moon.
After the TARDIS exterior shrinks with him still inside, the Doctor has Clara carry the shrunken TARDIS in her handbag while they and Rigsy deal with the Boneless trying to invade Bristol. During his predicament, the Doctor learns that Clara has been lying to him and Danny after the events of Mummy on the Orient Express. After the TARDIS is returned to normal, the Doctor begins to suspect that Clara has started to act too much like himself.
During a battle with the Umbra aboard the Pollyanna while it orbits the Sun, Clara risks the life of Rudy Zoom when she realises his narcissism could make him poisonous to the Umbra, leading the Doctor to come to a definite conclusion to his theory of Clara starting to think like him, setting this shortly after Flatline.
According to Clara, the events of Time of the Doctor were "ages ago", and she mentions "carrying [the Doctor] around next to [her] hairbrush and keys last week", setting this shortly after Flatline. Clara has come to see the Doctor as a "good man".
Authorial intent places this towards the end of Series 8.[4]
Three months have passed since Mummy on the Orient Express, and the Doctor was traveling alone when Maebh Arden found him parked by Nelson's Column while the world is overrun by trees, which is soon revealed to be a lifeforce within the planet preparing to protect itself from a coming solar flare. Danny discovers Clara is still travelling with the Doctor after assuming they hadn't been speaking since the Orient Express. Once the crisis resolves itself, Danny tells Clara to go home and "think about it" before telling him the truth.
(FLASHBACK)
The Doctor and Clara foil a plot by Zorgo the Terrible to atomise the Third Moon of Amaron. (COMIC: Zorgo the Terrible)
After travelling alone for a while, the Doctor learns that Danny was killed in a hit and run when Clara called him to explain everything to do with her travels. Deciding to help Clara find closure, the Doctor takes her to the 3W Institute and learns that the Master, now in a female body and calling herself "Missy", is preparing to invade London with her "Cyberdears", leading directly into Death in Heaven.
Missy, who is revealed to be the one who gave Clara the Doctor's phone number, is captured by UNIT as the Cybermen take flight, and the Doctor is made "President of Earth" in the face of the Cybermen rising from the graves. Missy kills the Zygon Osgood, while Danny, having fought off the cyber-conversion, sacrifices himself to stop the Cybermen, and Missy is apparently killed by a cyber-resurrected Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart after giving the Doctor the coordinates to Gallifrey. Not finding Gallifrey, the Doctor lies about it to Clara, and the two part ways again, though with the Doctor assured that, rather than being "a good man", he is "an idiot" that goes around helping others.

Dreaming of Santa[[edit source]]

The Doctor is alone and has a 'sadness in his eyes' and is still grumpy. His reference to being able to have Christmas any time he wants implies a setting just prior to Last Christmas.
(NOTE)
While on a rocky planet, the Doctor is attacked by a Dream crab and sent into a dream state. (TV: Last Christmas)
(POST-CREDITS SCENE)
With Clara still on his mind, the Doctor is apparently visited in his TARDIS by Santa Claus. (TV: Death in Heaven)
The Doctor collects Clara during her own encounter with Santa, and realises that the two are being attacked by Dream crabs when the TARDIS takes them to a base at the North Pole being manned by Shona McCullough, Ashley Carter, Rona Bellows and Albert Smithe. With prompting from Santa, the Doctor realises that he, Clara and the base crew are all in a shared dream being created by the Dream crabs to keep them docile as their brains are eaten, but everyone except Albert are able to escape the dream by riding Santa's sleigh beyond the illusion. Encouraged by a dream of her growing old alone, Clara returns to the TARDIS after she and the Doctor tell each other the truth about Gallifrey and Danny being lost to them.
Set during the events of Last Christmas.

Second chance with Clara[[edit source]]

The Doctor throws Clara a surprise birthday party with duplicates of herself, including the elderly Clara from Last Christmas. As Clara was born in November, it is likely the Doctor is celebrating the birthday he missed between Death in Heaven and Last Christmas. The year is 2015.
The Doctor and Clara steal the portrait of Lady Josephine, which takes on a life of her own due to animae particles. The Doctor takes the painting, calling herself Josie Day, to his old cottage to meet the Eighth Doctor.
The Doctor secretly checks in on his eighth incarnation and Josie with Clara. The Doctor has shorter hair and is hiding his softer side from Clara behind a grumpy demeanour, setting this before The Hyperion Empire.
Though she is absent, the Doctor is currently traveling with Clara. He attends a conference for Doctor Who fans to save them from the Foretold with his green-emitter sonic screwdriver and answer their questions.
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The Doctor is picking Clara up from her flat.
Devika mentions the events of Kill the Moon.
Clara mentions the events of In the Forest of the Night.
The Doctor is alone.
The Doctor is alone.
The Doctor is picking Clara up from Coal Hill School.
The Doctor is alone.
The Doctor is picking Clara up from Coal Hill School.
The Doctor and Clara are summoned by Diana Winter for a second time, forty years after their previous meeting from her perspective. Clara recalls Danny's death, setting this after Last Christmas.
The Doctor is now wearing his clothes from Last Christmas.
The Doctor is depicted with the clothes he wore in Last Christmas.
Travelling alone in the clothes he wore in Last Christmas, the Doctor reunites with Bernice Summerfield.
The Doctor recalls the events of Royal Blood, and is depicted with the clothes he wore in Last Christmas.
Set between Last Christmas and The Magician's Apprentice, according to the release information.
(FLASHBACK)
During their twenty-sixth encounter with Zorgo the Terrible, the Doctor and Clara are almost trapped in a time eddy between dimensions by his robots, but they manage to foil Zorgo's plans yet again. (COMIC: Zorgo the Terrible)
The Doctor was travelling alone when he ran into Hitch. Clara is travelling with the Doctor after Danny's death, setting this after Last Christmas.
The Doctor and Clara encounter Zorgo the Terrible for the twenty-seventh time, although the Doctor either can't remember him or is feigning ignorance. They are separated from the TARDIS, but steal Zorgo's time dragon and use it to escape, leading directly into Super Gran.
Zorgo's time dragon takes the Doctor and Clara to the Doctor's old friend Gertie, and she and her grandson, Charlie Baker, take a brief trip to Mars in the TARDIS.
The Doctor is travelling alone, and is described as having a "thunderclap" of grey hair. Though he displays a hostile attitude, he still attempts to save Perinne from his fate.
The Doctor picks up Clara from Coal Hill School. He is still using his green-emitter sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Magician's Apprentice.
The Doctor and Clara are summoned by Harrison Winter to the 25th century using the Gallifreyan calling card.
The Doctor is wearing his clothes from Last Christmas, and wields his green-emitter sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Magician's Apprentice.

Misadventures in the Lego universe[[edit source]]

(CONTEXT)
Like many others in the multiverse, the Doctor is transported into the Lego universe after receiving a portal kit in N-Space. (NOTCOVERED: Doc Brown Returns in Lego Dimensions) While an avatar of Clara is present, (NOTVALID: LEGO Dimensions) the Doctor is otherwise depicted as traveling alone. (NOTVALID: The Dalek Extermination of Earth)
The Doctor visits Vorton, and cycles through his previous incarnations.
The Doctor discovers a Dalek invasion of Earth being led by Davros.
The Doctor rescues Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle from the Daleks after answering their distress call, and then travels back into their timeline to save them from the vortex and give them his number, causing a bootstrap paradox. He then aids them in defeating Lord Vortech. While his avatar is wearing his Series 8 outfit, the Doctor has his Series 9 personality and is using his green-emitter sonic screwdriver, implying a setting shortly before The Magician's Apprentice.

Hiding from Davros[[edit source]]

(FLASHBACK)
Travelling alone, the Doctor lands on Skaro during the Thousand Year War, and sees a boy that needs saving from Handmines. However, when he learns the boy is Davros, the Doctor leaves him to die, deeply traumatising him when the adult Davros sends Colony Sarff to find him, though he manages to lose Sarff on Karn with help from Ohila. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)
Set during The Magician's Apprentice, just after Sarff had left Karn. The Doctor gives Ohila a confession dial to send to Missy as he prepares to face his end, leading into The Doctor's Meditation.
The Doctor spends three weeks hiding in a castle in 1138 Essex.
The Doctor is wearing his clothes from The Magician's Apprentice, and reflecting on his past, hinting at a setting during The Doctor's Meditation.
The Doctor is found by Clara, Missy and Colony Sarff and taken to see Davros in the Dalek City on Skaro, where he sees the Daleks exterminate Missy and Clara, leading directly into The Witch's Familiar.
The Doctor is convinced that Davros is dying and donates some regeneration energy to allow him to live long enough to see the sunrise, only for Sarff to ensure him and instead siphon off enough regeneration energy to complete rejuvenate Davros and try to create the Hybrid of Gallifreyan myth by bestowing regeneration powers into the Daleks. However, the Doctor is saved by Missy and the decaying Daleks left in the sewers of the city rise up to take revenge on Davros for abandoning them. The Doctor then saves Clara from the Dalek casing Missy place her in as Missy flees. Escaping the Dalek City with Clara as it collapses, the Doctor goes to save the young Davros to make him learn mercy. Because he left it behind whilst abandoning the young Davros, the Doctor has replaced his sonic screwdriver with sonic sunglasses.
The Doctor, who appears to still be in the Dalek City on Skaro, sends out an Easter message.

Further adventures with Clara[[edit source]]

The Doctor and Clara are called by Kate to investigate a museum break-in, where they find a calling card left by Missy, setting this between The Witch's Familiar and Face the Raven.
(YOUNGER COUNTERPART)
When the TARDIS makes an emergency landing in the Nevada Desert, the Doctor decides to remain inside while Clara wanders off. (GAME: Lost in Time)
Encountering ghosts on an underwater mining facility in 2119, the Doctor decides to go back to before the land was flooded in 1980 to find the source of the paranormal activity, leading directly into Before the Flood.
The Doctor defeats the Fisher King in 1980, and makes arrangements for the ghosts in 2119 to be dealt with by UNIT.
Set during Under the Lake and After the Flood.

Events on Karaoke[[edit source]]

Ending leads directly into The Meddling of Clara's Song.
Ending leads directly into The Abominable Showmen.
As The Magician's Apprentice made it clear Clara had not seen Missy since the events of Death in Heaven, The Abominable Showmen has to be set after the events of The Witch's Familiar. Ending leads directly into The Five Masters.
Ending leads directly into One! Two! Three! Four! To Doomsday.
Follows on from One! Two! Three! Four! To Doomsday.

Travels with Arix[[edit source]]

Prior to this story, Clara has only travelled alone with the Doctor, not sharing her travels with a second companion. After they help Vastra defeat a vampire in Soho, the Doctor accidentally introduces Clara to his other companion, Arix. The Doctor spends a significant period of time travelling with Arix while only a week passes for Clara, and it is revealed that the Doctor sometimes goes months without seeing Clara because he doesn't want their time together to pass by too quickly. He is using his sonic sunglasses, setting this after The Magician's Apprentice.

Haunted by hybrids[[edit source]]

After saving the Velosians, the Doctor and Clara are captured by Vikings in the 9th century when the Doctor steps out the TARDIS to brush a Love Sprite from the Spider Mines off his shoe. Taken to the Vikings' village, the Doctor tries to talk his way out until the Mire arrive to abduct the Viking warriors, and accidently take Clara and a girl named Ashildr with them. When they return, Clara tells the Doctor that Ashildr declared war on the Mire in vengeance for killing the warriors, and the Doctor tries to train the villages for the fight. Realising it is a lost course, the Doctor instead uses electric eels and a Mire helmet to have Ashildr conjure a sea monster image into the Mire's mind while he films the reaction, and convinces them to leave by threatening to upload the embarrassing video to Galactic Hub. Despite the victory, Ashildr is quickly revealed to have died of heart failure from overexpose to the helmet. However, the Doctor uses Mire technology to revive her, consequently rendering her immortal and unable to age as a Mire-Human hybrid.
The Doctor is alone.
The Doctor is alone.
Travelling alone, the Doctor finds Ashildr in 1651 London as "Lady Me" and, after facing the Leonians together, the two come to an understanding; the Doctor won't take her with him because he needs mortal companions to remind him of the sanctity of life and Ashildr will "keep an eye on" the planet in the Doctor's absence. When the Doctor picks Clara up from 2015, he sees Ashildr in the background of a photo Clara shows him.
The Doctor is alone and using his sonic sunglasses.
The Doctor is travelling alone when he receives an alert from Osgood about a rebel cell of Zygons threatening the treaty. While he leaves Kate and Clara to secure England, the Doctor travels to Turmezistan to rescue Osgood, whom has been identifying as both Human and Zygon since the death of the other Osgood, with the Doctor cryptically likening her to a hybrid. As he makes his return to England, the Doctor's plane is shot down by the Zygon rebel leader, Bonnie, who had been masquerading as Clara.
Following on from The Zygon Invasion, the Doctor and Osgood escape the plane before it explodes when Clara manages to delay Bonnie long enough using their telepathic link, and also uses the link to warn the Doctor that Bonnie is after the Osgood Box. Making his way to the Black Archive, the Doctor finds Kate and Bonnie preparing to activate both Osgood Boxes, but is able to talk them both down, and Bonnie decides to take the deceased Osgood's place to ensure the treaty endures.
The Doctor and Clara meet Jess Collins at the Highgate Cemetery in 1972 when they stop Gabriel Rosewood from unleashing the Corvids on London. The Doctor says he will dedicate a guitar solo to Clara, suggesting a setting after The Magician's Apprentice, where Clara was confused to see the Doctor with a guitar.
The Doctor and Clara face the Sandmen, hybrids of organic matter and sleep dust, on the Le Verrier space station in the 38th century.
The Doctor asks the readers of Doctor Who Adventures what they thought of his recent adventures that involved Ashildr and the Zygons, setting this after The Zygon Inversion. He complains about getting all kinds of nuisance calls to the TARDIS, suggesting a lead-in to Time and PR in Space.
The Doctor uses his sonic sunglasses and is now wearing his Season 9 clothes.
The Doctor reminisces on some of the women who have been a part of his recent life, including Ashildr.
The Doctor uses the alias "Dr. Basil Disco", setting this after The Zygon Inversion. He is travelling alone.
Set after The Zygon Inversion, with the Doctor once again using the aliases "Dr. Disco". He is travelling alone, and still using the cue cards from Under the Lake.
The Doctor is traveling alone, wearing a dark coat and using the sonic sunglasses, with a vision of his future showing him using a sonic screwdriver once again, setting this between The Witch's Familiar and Clara Oswald and the School of Death.
The Doctor comes to pick Clara up from her flat. The Doctor reclaims the spare sonic screwdriver he gave Clara in The Fractures, and resumes using it regularly. It is September 2015 in Clara's time. The presence of two Osgoods sets this after The Zygon Inversion. The Doctor and Clara face Human-Sea Devil hybrids.
Snapshots detailing the events of Clara Oswald and the School of Death can be seen when the Doctor becomes trapped in a comic by the Boneless, implying it was his most recent adventure.
The Doctor hugs Clara like he did in The Girl Who Died, and uses his green-emitter sonic screwdriver, setting this after Clara Oswald and the School of Death.
The Doctor is travelling alone and using his green-emitter sonic screwdriver, setting this between Clara Oswald and the School of Death and Hell Bent.
The Doctor was travelling alone when Clara phoned him. It is Halloween Night in Clara's time, and she organises a school fayre to raise money for an IT suite she plans to have tributed to Danny. However, Miss Chief causes trouble by summoning Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins to the school and also taking him and Clara back to the 17th century, where Clara is nearly tried as a witch. After she and the Doctor manage to manoeuvre events in their favour, the school fayre becomes a success.
It has been months since the Doctor and Clara were last summoned by a member of the Winter family. Clara briefly speculates if Missy could be behind the Gallifreyan calling card, suggesting a setting after The Magician's Apprentice, but the Doctor is using his green-emitter sonic screwdriver, which would set this after Clara Oswald and the School of Death. The Doctor and Clara discover the origins of the calling card when they are summoned by Julius Winter when he time travels to the time of Joan of Arc.
The Doctor uses his green-emitter sonic screwdriver.
The Doctor is alone, and uses a sonic screwdriver while visiting the year 2015.
The Doctor is alone and has a friendly demeanour. He hasn't found Gallifrey yet and is using a sonic screwdriver, suggesting a setting between Clara Oswald and the School of Death and Hell Bent.
The Doctor is travelling alone, but uses his sonic sunglasses and repeatedly refers to his teacher friend, referencing Clara, setting this between The Witch's Familiar and Face the Raven.
The Doctor sends Clara a postcard from Akhaten, where he just got caught up in the singing, suggesting a setting during his more light-hearted attitude of Series 9.

Festive adventures[[edit source]]

The Doctor recounts some of his past Christmas adventures, with Last Christmas being cited as the most recent. His recount of The Snowmen includes Clara Oswin Oswald, setting this before Hell Bent.
The Doctor is alone, as Clara is attending an end-of-term Christmas party, setting this after Witch Hunt, and is illustrated using his green-emitter sonic screwdriver.
The Doctor enlists the help of an individual so he can stop a planned Christmas invasion by the Zygons.
The Doctor is travelling alone.
It's the New Year, and the Doctor has recently broken his New Year's resolution to stop looking for trouble, apparently with the events of Big in Japan.

Final adventures with Clara[[edit source]]

The Doctor is using his blue-emitter sonic screwdriver.
(EPILOGUE)
A few months after Halloween, Clara opens an IT suite in Danny's memory, telling the Doctor that doing so has given her closure over his death. (COMIC: Witch Hunt)

Losing Clara[[edit source]]

After escaping a marriage to a sentient plant in the "second most beautiful garden in all of time and space", the Doctor and Clara are summoned by Rigsy when he finds a Chronolock marked on his neck and no memories of the previous day. Following the available clues, the Doctor, Clara and Rigsy end up at a hidden refuge camp for aliens in London being run by Ashildr, who reveals she gave Rigsy the Chronolock as per his sentence for killing a resident, and that a Quantum Shade will kill him shortly. When proving Rigsy's innocence exposes Ashildr as the guilty party in the faked murder to get a teleport bracelet on the Doctor for a mysterious third party, Clara reveals she took the Chronolock off Risgy to throw Ashildr off, only for Ashildr to reveal she can now not remove it, and Clara is killed by Quantum Shade. After telling Ashildr to let Rigsy leave with Clara's body, and beware his revenge, the Doctor is teleported to an unknown location, leading directly into Heaven Sent.
Set during the first few years of the Doctor's time in the confession dial. Also features events concurrent to Heaven Sent.
After spending four-billion-years trapped in a cycle of death inside his confession dial as the Veil tries to get him to confess what he knows about the Hybrid, the Doctor returns to Gallifrey, leading directly into Hell Bent.
The Doctor dethrones Rassilon as President of the High Council and uses his presidential powers to save Clara from the Quantum Shade by using an extraction chamber to take her out of her timeline the second before her death. However, rather than have her help him discover the identity of the Hybrid like he said, the Doctor instead shoots the Eleventh General to allow him and Clara to escape to the Cloisters, where the Doctor tells Clara about the events of Heaven Sent. Despite Ohila and the Twelfth General trying to stop them, the Doctor and Clara manage to steal a TARDIS and flee to the end of the universe, where the Doctor finds Ashildr in a reality bubble. Bringing Ashildr into the TARDIS, the Doctor is forced to lose his memories of Clara when he realises how far went to get her back, believing they had become the Hybrid. Now unable to remember anything about Clara, though still retaining his memories of their adventures together, the Doctor has to travel alone after Clara and Ashildr return him to his TARDIS, which gifts him with a new, blue-emitter sonic screwdriver.
An individual is asked to give the Doctor a hand in dealing with his enemies. All games involved appear to suggest a setting during Heaven Sent and Hell Bent.

Moving on[[edit source]]

Despite the events of The Day at the Doctors, the Doctor is using his blue-tipped sonic screwdriver for the first time, and alludes to the recent events of Hell Bent.[quote 1] He no longer feels the need to use his cue cards to form an emotional connection, and reciprocates Ross McNamara's hug when he realises no one is watching him.
The Doctor is alone and using his blue-emitter sonic screwdriver, setting this after Hell Bent
Sequel to Hell Bent, with the recap synopsis calling the events of Heaven Sent as still being recent.
The recent events of Hell Bent are alluded to, and the Doctor is wearing his clothes from The Magician's Apprentice.
The Doctor has recently lost a companion, implying a setting shortly after Hell Bent.

Reunited with Gabby Gonzalez[[edit source]]

The Doctor has long hair and is wearing his clothes from Last Christmas. He warns his tenth incarnation about anomalies in time.
Guided by the Moment, the Doctor rescues Gabby Gonzalez from the Time Vortex. The Moment claims that the Doctor has "had a bad time recently", suggesting a setting not long after Hell Bent. The Doctor is still claiming not to be a hugger, despite accepting them, setting this before The Stockbridge Showdown.
Set concurrently with The Good Companion, expanding on the conversation that the Doctor and Gabby had immediately after he rescued her.

Travelling alone[[edit source]]

Wearing his clothes from The Doctor's Meditation, the Doctor celebrates Christmas with Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Dot Branning, John Luther, Mary Berry, Graham Norton, Will.i.am, Tess Daly, Claudia Winkleman and Sprout Boy.
The Doctor is alone, using his blue-emitter sonic screwdriver, and now identifies himself as a hugger, setting this after The Good Companion. Deciding to finally take down Josiah W. Dogbolter, the Doctor has Frobisher infiltrate Dogbolter's inner circle by posing as Chiyoko, while Majenta Pryce and Destrii initiate a hostile takeover of Dogbolter's company. The Doctor then travels to Stockbridge to draw Dogbolter out with Maxwell Edison and Izzy Sinclair's help, and has Sharon Allen broadcast his confession to murder on the Galactic Broadcasting Corporation. With his legal team compromised and crimes exposed, Dogbolter is arrested, and the Doctor and his friends head to Cornucopia to celebrate Max's 60th birthday.
When the Eleventh Doctor mentions Clara, the Twelfth Doctor repeats her name with a hint of unfamiliarity, suggesting a setting between Hell Bent and The Pestilent Heart.

Accompanied by Hattie[[edit source]]

The Doctor decides to give Hattie Munroe a brief trip in the TARDIS.
(REFERENCES)
The Doctor shows Hattie the TARDIS library, only for her to be attacked by the 1986 Bash Street Kids Annual. (PROSE: The Shining Man) They also share an adventure involving Sea Moths. (COMIC: Ghost Stories)
After investigating a haunted house, the Doctor returns Hattie to the Twist.

Living with the Collins family[[edit source]]

The Doctor visits 1972 Brixton to see a musical festival, similar to his reasoning for visiting the Twist in The Twist, implying that the two adventures happen close to each other. When the TARDIS picks up a signal, the Doctor bumps into Jess Collins again, six months after The Highgate Horror from her perspective. When questioned by Jess about their encounter in The Highgate Horror, the Doctor has no idea who Clara is, despite recognising her name in Hell Bent. Jess joins him in tracing the signal to the London Underground, where her father, Lloyd, his infection with a mutated Bubonic plague when the corpse of a Hakuai attacks the Doctor. As Lloyd mutates into a Hakuai, and spreads the infection to London, the Doctor has Jess and her mother, Devina, keep Lloyd's attention while he uses the TARDIS' telepathic circuits to broadcast a counteragent to the plague, curing the victims, but overloading the TARDIS until it retreats into itself, stranding the Doctor. Two days afterwards, Devina invites the Doctor to stay with her family, and the Doctor, while meeting Jess's brother Maxwell, reluctantly agrees.
The Doctor is settling in with the Collins family, setting this shortly after The Pestilent Heart. After spending four days getting acquainted with Lloyd, Devina and Maxwell, the Doctor's sonic screwdriver finally runs out of power, and he decides to show Jess history with artwork, implicitly leading into Bloodsport.
During a visit to the National Gallery, the Doctor, Jess and Maxell get swept up in an attack by the Kolothos Hunt, with Detective Chief Inspector Jack Hayes helping them see the Kolothosans sent back to Kolothos.
The Doctor is celebrating Christmas with the Collins family and their neighbours.
During a chess match with Gabriel Gayle, the Doctor senses his TARDIS is almost repaired, but is then called away by Hayles to deal with giant glass mosquitos. When they return to the Collins' house, they find it abandoned, the TARDIS stolen and Gabriel's corpse shrunk by a Tissue Compression Eliminator, just as they are taken to the Master, who kills Hayle and reveals he has sent the Collins family to a time locked dimension to find Kiadine and take the temporal powers she wields from splitting the chronon. However, with the combined artron energy absorbed by the Collins family's overexposure to his healing TARDIS, the Doctor is able to best the Master and send him fleeing. Two weeks later, the Doctor leaves the Collins family in his repaired TARDIS after Gabriel's funeral, believing he has outstayed his welcome due to the damage caused by the Master. The Doctor claims to be "four-billion-years-old", suggesting a setting not long after Heaven Sent, and before the Doctor resumes saying he is "two-thousand-years-old".

A return to travelling[[edit source]]

The Doctor is travelling alone and recalls the events of The Witch's Familiar. The Doctor learns that Coal Hill School is undergoing construction to be rebuilt as the Coal Hill Academy, setting this before For Tonight We Might Die.
The Doctor is now wearing his original attire.
The Doctor recounts the events of The Spice Route.
The Doctor uses his blue-emitter sonic screwdriver.
The Doctor cites the events of Ghosts of the Seas as a "recent" adventure.
The Doctor recounts the events of Shock Horror.
The Doctor recounts the events of Sky Manor.
The Doctor poses for the cover of Issue 500 of Doctor Who Adventures.
The Doctor has just experienced the events of Petals. The Doctor mentions the release of DWM 500, setting these two stories after Who News: Happy 500th Birthday.
The Doctor gets involved in thwarting a plan by Missy to cause chaos throughout the timestream.
The Doctor recounts the events of Gallery.
The Doctor cites the events of Pirates of Vourakis as a "recent" adventure.
The Doctor is using his blue-emitter sonic screwdriver in conjunction with his sonic sunglasses.
(FLASHBACK)
The Doctor saves the prince of Rhodia and his Quill servant from the Shadow Kin, and leaves them on Earth in September 2016. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
(SEGMENT)
After saving his planet from a robot invasion, the Doctor promises to protect Kiron should he ever need to call for his help again. (COMIC: The Promise)
(SEGMENT)
The Doctor rescues Kiron from a Howler. (COMIC: The Promise)
The Doctor learns Kiron has become a tyrant and revokes his protection.
The Doctor is contacted by "Miss Quill" to save Coal Hill Academy in October 2016 from the Shadow Kin, during which he gives Ram Singh a new leg and is drawn to the list of missing Coal Hill staff and students, seemingly recognising Clara's name.
While traveling alone, the Doctor receives a call from Eddie Redmayne, asking him if he has seen Pudsey.
The Doctor meets Julie d'Aubigny in 1695 Paris, and she shows interest in joining him in the TARDIS.
Though obscured, Clara appears when the Mindmorphs attack the Doctor's brain, setting this after The Pestilent Heart.
(EPILOGUE)
The Doctor poses for the The Hay Wain painting, knowing that Jess will notice his sudden appearance in the artwork. (COMIC: Doorway to Hell)
The Doctor reunites with Hattie for a one-off adventure.
Due to being released ahead of schedule, the individual comic, published as an "interlude" story, was said to be the Doctor's last adventure before Beneath the Waves, and included a tagline of being the Doctor's last solo adventure. When reprinted for the graphic novel, it was moved to after Beneath the Waves, with the tagline cut. For the purposes of this timeline theory, it will be placed in its intended placement of after Beneath the Waves.

Returning Jata home[[edit source]]

After rescuing him from enslavement, the Doctor decides to take the Osumaran Jata back to Osumare using the TARDIS.
The Doctor has just experienced the events of From the Horse's Mouth.
The Doctor knows he was friends with a school teacher from the 21st century, indicating that this is set after For Tonight We Might Die.
The Doctor recounts the events of Fear Buds.
The Doctor learns that Jata can fly with the aid of retractable wings.
(NOTE)
Jata would eventually stop travelling with the Doctor, though under unknown circumstances.

Investigating Madenia's book[[edit source]]

The Doctor encounters a rogue Weeping Angel in Rickman, and defeats it with the help of siblings Alex and Brandon Yow. He decides to go to the the 16th century to investigate a book written about the Angels in Old High Gallifreyan, and allows Alex and Brandon to accompany him.
Following directly on from The Lost Angel, Alex and Brandon explore the TARDIS while the Doctor tries to pin-point when in the 16th century the book was written. After stopping the Phage from escaping the TARDIS, the Doctor sets coordinates for London 1558, leading directly into The Lost Magic.
After investigating in 1558 leads him to John Dee, the Doctor sets the TARDIS coordinates for Karn to meet up with Ohila and the Sisterhood of Karn, leading directly into The Lost Flame.
The Doctor, Alex and Brandon discover that a member of the Sisterhood, Medinia, had taught Dee how to control Weeping Angels and other secrets beyond his time. Alex decides to travel the universe helping the sick with Medinia, while the Doctor takes Brandon home.

Solo adventures[[edit source]]

(FLASHBACKS)
The Doctor meets Grant Gordon in New York City during the 1990s, and Grant accidentally swallows the Hazandra gemstone, granting him superpowers. The Doctor continues to check in on Grant throughout his childhood and teenage years, making note of his attraction to Lucy Fletcher. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio)
The Doctor writes a letter for the last issue of Doctor Who Adventures. Despite him writing further letters for the magazine from as late as the end of his time at St. Luke's University, he cites the events of A Cold Snap as being a "recent" adventure.
The Doctor is travelling alone, and invites Amber Lewis aboard the TARDIS.
The Doctor asks Tommy to travel with him, but is turned down.
The Doctor is using his blue-emitter sonic screwdriver, setting this after Hell Bent
The Doctor takes Osgood on her first trip in the TARDIS, setting this after The Zygon Inversion. He has both his sonic sunglasses and a sonic screwdriver.
The Twelfth Doctor unites with his other incarnations to help a group of people seal the Time Fracture.

Night on Darillium[[edit source]]

The Doctor is reunited with River Song on Mendorax Dellora when her assistant, Nardole, mistakes him for a different doctor called in to operate on King Hydroflax and extract the Halassi Androvar diamond from his head, with River planning to steal the diamond afterwards. With River not recognising his latest incarnation, the Doctor joins her as she escapes with Hydroflax's detached head to the Harmony and Redemption cruise ship to sell the diamond to the Harmony Shoal, though with Nardole left behind. However, Hydroflax's body assimilates Nardole in order to to follow them to the cruise ship and his Harmomy Shaol subjects betray River, though she had anticipated the act and planned to do the deal on the day the Harmony and Redemption was destroyed by a meteor storm. As he reveals who he wis to River, the Doctor manages to overpower Hydroflax's body during the meteor storm, just as the Harmony and Redemption crashes on Darillium, with River and the Doctor surviving in the TARDIS. Remembering what River had told the Tenth Doctor in the Library, the Doctor gives the Halassi Androvar to a passerby and instructs them to build a restaurant, then uses the TARDIS to get a window seat booking. As he and River share their final goodbye at the Singing Towers of Darillium, the Doctor gives her her own sonic screwdriver. He then promises to spend one Darillium night on the planet with her, which is the equivalent of twenty-four years in Earth time.
(SEGMENT)
The Doctor and River stop members of the Slitheen family from stealing crystals from the Singing Towers. (NOTCOVERED: A Night on Darillium)
The Doctor and River have been on Darillium for twelve years, which is 9:34pm on Darillium time. They decide to start rebuilding Nardole.
(SEGMENT)
River saves the life of the Revered 34th King of Sypraxium III when he is poisoned during one of her dinner dates with the Doctor. (NOTCOVERED: A Night on Darillium)
Implicitly set between The Husbands of River Song and the Extremis flashbacks.
The Doctor returns to River on Darillium after dealing with a crisis as the dawn breaks.
As the morning comes, the Doctor and River depart from Darillium separately after a final, though brief, goodbye.
The Doctor tells the readers of Doctor Who Adventures to get ready to see his reunion with River Song, indicating a setting after The Husbands of River Song.

Travels with Nardole[[edit source]]

(FLASHBACKS)
Nardole follows the Doctor from Darillium under instruction from River. The Doctor swears an oath to guard Missy for a thousand years while she is in a vault. (TV: Extremis)
The Doctor is still haunted by saying goodbye to River, setting this shortly after he left Darillium. He meets Grant again, who has become known to New York City as a superhero called "the Ghost". Nardole now travels with the Doctor to help him overcome the grief of his final parting from River Song, implying that the two have not yet settled at St Luke's University and Nardole has not promised to keep the Doctor earthbound. Grant helps the Doctor and Nardole prevent an invasion by the Harmony Shoal, and the Doctor helps Grant start a relationship with Lucy, which causes Grant to decide to retire being a fulltime superhero.
The Doctor promises the readers of Doctor Who Adventures that this year's Christmas Special will be "bigger and better than anything you've ever seen", suggesting he's lived through the events of The Return of Doctor Mysterio.
The Doctor is travelling with Nardole, and refers to the events of The Return of Doctor Mysterio.
After the TARDIS is damaged by a supernova engineered by the Daleks, the Doctor contacts Earth through a UNIT communications line and enlists help to fix the TARDIS and stop the supernova using a micro:bit. He claims that he needs to pick up Nardole, suggesting a setting between The Return of Doctor Mysterio and The Pilot.
The Daleks once again attempt to attack Earth, though this time with a new reality bomb. However, the Doctor is able to contact Earth once again, and receives help hacking into the Dalek mothership, where he discovers the reality bomb, leading directly into Dalek Hack.
The Doctor guides the micro:bit users through the process of hacking the Dalek ship, and they successfully defuse the reality bomb and defeat the Daleks.
The Doctor and Nardole are travelling with no mention of the Vault, suggesting a setting before they settled at St Luke's University.

Settling at St Luke's University[[edit source]]

(CONTEXT)
Through unknown circumstances, the Doctor and Nardole take Missy and the Vault to St Luke's University (TV: The Pilot) in the 1940s, (AUDIO: Regeneration Impossible) possibly 1947. (NOTCOVERED: Visitors to the Vault) The Doctor gets employed as a teacher to explain his presence. (TV: The Pilot)
Set at St Luke's University during Autumn 1994. The Doctor takes colonial history professor Irene Hyde on a trip to the past to investigate a mysterious frozen head. At the conclusion of their adventure, the Doctor offers Irene the opportunity for further trips in the TARDIS in the future. Upon their return to the university, Nardole is displeased that the Doctor has been missing.
The Doctor received James Stevens's call while at St Luke's University.[5] The year is 1996.
(FLASHBACK)
In 1997, the Doctor and Nardole are killed when a Dalek flying saucer crashes into St Luke's University, but their deaths are averted when the saucer is diverted from crashing by Bill Potts and a future Twelfth Doctor. (AUDIO: Emancipation of the Daleks)
Sequel to The Return of Doctor Mysterio. The Doctor has set up the Vault by this point, but is helping the Ghost fight Missy alone, indicating a setting prior to The Pilot.
The Doctor and Nardole are keeping Missy locked in the Vault. Missy alludes to the events of The Return of Doctor Mysterio.
The Doctor acquires an old photo of Susan for his office.
Sequel to The Return of Doctor Mysterio.
The Doctor knows that Bill is sneaking into his lectures, and learns that she is the canteen dinner lady, setting this before Regeneration Impossible.
The Doctor mentions that Nardole has taken the TARDIS on a trip from 2017 to 1974, suggesting a setting after The Lie of the Land, when Nardole began getting more lax at guarding the Vault.
Despite the Doctor giving the time he travelled from as July 2017, he is aware of Bill sneaking into his lectures, setting this shortly before The Pilot, where he started tutoring Bill before Christmas 2016. His misremembering can be attributed to the stress of constantly undergoing false regenerations.

Hijacked by Keira[[edit source]]

The Doctor is hijacked from St Luke's University and forced to take his TARDIS to Calandra by Time Agent Keira Sanstrom, after Nardole is disassembled by her. The TARDIS becomes trapped in a time fissure between Earth and Calandra, so the Doctor tries to escape back to Bristol.
Set directly after Flight to Calandra. The Doctor and Keira clear up the damage to the timeline that Keira caused escaping from Calandra.
Set directly after Split Second. The Doctor returns Keira to the Time Agency and then returns to St Luke's University, where he presumably rebuilds Nardole, perhaps explaining why he was falling apart at the start of The Pilot.
The Doctor begins recounting the events of Timejacked.

Meeting Bill Potts[[edit source]]

Set immediately before The Pilot, with the Doctor asking Nardole to bring Bill to his office.
Set concurrently with Quantum Physics Lecture, showing Bill's perspective.
(SEGMENT)
Sometime before December 2016, the Doctor becomes a personal tutor to St Luke's University dinner lady Bill Potts after he notices her sneaking into his lectures and intrigues him by smiling at uncertainty instead of being upset by her own ignorance. (TV: The Pilot)
Set during the beginning of The Pilot, showing the Doctor's first official meeting with Bill from Bill's perspective.
(SEGMENT)
During Christmastime, Bill gives the Doctor a rug as a Christmas present, and he returns to gesture by going back in time to take photographs of her mother prior to her death after Bill laments not having any pictures of her late mother. (TV: The Pilot)
Set during The Pilot, when the Doctor goes back in time to take a photo of Bill Potts's mother.
In early 2017, the Doctor is forced to reveal the TARDIS to Bill to save her after her crush, Heather, is taken over by a sentient oil puddle. She also sees him and Nardole examining the Vault. The Doctor is able to convince Heather to leave without Bill when she is slowed down long enough to talk in the Dalek-Movellan War. Despite initially wanting to wipe her mind, the Doctor instead invites Bill to join him aboard the TARDIS.
Set during The Pilot, when the Doctor and Bill are manoeuvring through the Dalek-Movellan War.
Set during The Pilot, expanding on the Doctor's explanation of the Daleks to Bill.

Early adventures with Bill[[edit source]]

Follows on directly from The Pilot, with Nardole advising against the Doctor travelling with Bill when he should be guarding the Vault. Escaping Nardole, the Doctor and Bill face Emojibots at Gliese 581d, and engineer a peace agreement between humanity and the Vardy. As they make to return to St Luke's University, the TARDIS instead lands on a frozen river, leading directly into Thin Ice.
Finding themselves on the River Thames during the 1814 Frost fair, the Doctor and Bill free a trapped sea serpent from Lord Peregrine Sutcliffe's clutches. Bill learns the basics of time travel, and that the Doctor has killed in the past. Upon returning to St Luke's University, the Doctor tricks Nardole into letting him and Bill travel together, though Nardole remains adamant that he at least will still keep Missy locked in the Vault.
The Doctor has taken Bill on as his companion, and Nardole is still disgruntled, implying a setting shortly after Thin Ice.
Bill mentions the recent events of Smile and Thin Ice.
Bill mentions the events of Diamond Dogs. The Doctor and Bill have only just started travelling together and Bill doesn't know Nardole very well, setting this shortly after Thin Ice.

Threats from the Dreamspace[[edit source]]

The Doctor and Bill visit Saturn's moon, Titan, in outer space, where the Doctor is reunited with Rudy Zoom for the first time since The Eye of Torment, and Bill visits the Dreamspace for the first time. Bill implies that she has only just started travelling with the Doctor when she only lists the events of Smile and Thin Ice as her traveling experiences. After banishing Sythorr back to the Dreamspace with the aid of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's astral form, the Doctor is warned that "the unknown soldier... is stirring."
En route to 76th century New Asgard, the Doctor and Bill insdtead arrive in 1880 Indian Territory, where they stop Totika from freeing the Stikini from the Red Skies of the Dreamspace with the help of Bass Reeves, Joey Two Trees and Zeke Tolbert. As they return to the TARDIS, they find that it has been graffitied and go looking for answers.
Following on from The Parliament of Fear, the Doctor and Bill head to the Renath Archive on Cornucopia, where they save Matildus Galathea from Sashana, and realise the graffiti on the TARDIS is a coded message, with the Doctor deciding to consult Alan Turing, leading directly into The Phantom Piper. Bill has photograph of her visiting many cultures with the Doctor, showing that they have had multiple journeys together.
Visiting Athenia to get advice from Turing's Galatean duplicate, the Doctor and Bill find out about the hostilities between the humans and Galateans that Chiyoko is dealing with. When Turing decodes the vandalism with Block Transfer Computation, the Phantom Piper is able to escape the Dreamspace. After defeating the Piper, the Doctor is confronted by Fey Truscott-Sade, who warns him to "gather his forces" for "the Absence".
Following directly on from The Phantom Piper, the Doctor and Bill follow Fey's trail from Athenia into an entropy bubble. The Doctor claims Bill "doesn't know him well", implying this is still set early in their travels. Escaping the entropy bubble with the aid of Jodafra and Gol Clutha before an attack by the Clockwise Men that kills Jodafra and Gol, the Doctor takes Bill to Cornucopia to recruit Annabel Lake for information on Fey's British Intelligence file, such as her last living relative being Alexander Truscott, and then uses the information to enter the Dreamspace through Peter Pan, where he learns Fey is hallucinating a master called "the Absence" directing her revenge plan. Contacting the General to bring Reeves and Totika to 2018 London, the Doctor, Bill and Annabel confront Truscott, who reveals himself as the mastermind behind Fey and the Clockwise Men, just as Shayde is reformed to open a gateway between London and the Dreamspace. Confronting Fey, the Doctor and Totika convince Fey of the Absence's nonexistence and her mind shatters, forcing Shayde to sacrifice himself to ensure her survival. With the Dreamscape isolated again and Truscott arrested, the Doctor and Bill leave the amnestic Fey with MI6.

Continued adventures with Bill[[edit source]]

The Doctor helps Bill move into 11 Cardinal Road amid Freshers' Week, implying that a new school year has begun at St Luke's University, which would set this during September 2017 at the earliest. However, the Doctor's suspicions are peaked about the house and he decides to stay the night when the Landlord peaks his interests further, meeting Bill's friends; Shireen, Felicity, Paul and Harry. As he investigates, the Doctor learns that the Dryaids are keeping the Landlord's mother alive by eating the residence every twenty years, and convinces her to bring it to an end. As the Dryaids consume the Landlord and his mother, 11 Cardinal Road collapses, but the Doctor, Bill and her friends are able to escape. Bill learns that the Doctor is a Time Lord and hears the term "regeneration" for the first time, but the Doctor does not explain it to her.
Bill has only just started travelling with the Doctor. He mentions regeneration in front of her, setting this after Knock Knock, but it is left ambiguous if she actually knows what it is.
Nardole refuses to let the Doctor and Bill leave in the TARDIS, setting this before Oxygen.
The Doctor and Bill return to St Luke's University from a space related adventure, and learn that Nardole and Harry fended off the 47th Marauding Horde of Ongatatis 5 in their absence.
The Doctor and Bill attend the coronation of Elizabeth II.
Months have passed since The Pilot, specifically when Bill followed the Doctor and Nardole to the Vault before Christmas 2016. However, she is still unaware that Missy is in the Vault, setting this before Extremis. Contradicting the events of Harvest of the Daleks, Bill encounters Daleks for the first time since The Pilot.

Going blind[[edit source]]

According to Nardole, the Doctor has not been in outer space for a long time. Deciding to answer a distress call from the space station Chasm Forge with Bill and Nardole, the Doctor is rendered permanently blind when Bill's spacesuit malfunctions in the vacuum and he gives her his helmet. He is still able to save two members of the crew, and lies to Bill that he was able to restore his sight with the advance medicine in the TARDIS, but tell Nardole the truth.
While sitting outside the Vault, the Doctor receives an e-mail from a virtual copy of himself, warning him of an upcoming invasion by the Monks. Bill has moved back in with her foster mother.
After he thwarts the Monks attempt to enslave the world by saving it from a virus, the Doctor finds himself trapped with the virus, and only escapes when Bill negotiates with the Monks to restore his sight, saving the Doctor at the cost of the Earth.
Set six months after The Pyramid at the End of the World. The Doctor and Nardole, having been forced to act as figureheads in he Monks' propaganda, decide to bring Bill into the fold of their resistance plan, though they force her to reveal she isn't under the Monks' mind control by infuriating her into shootiing the Doctor with blanks, forcing him to fake a regeneration, of which she does not question, implying that she knows about regeneration. Going back to St. Luke's with a platoon of soldiers deprogramed by the Doctor, Bill is introduced to Missy inside the Vault, who reveals that, as the lynchpin who promised the Earth to the Monks, Bill would need to die to oust them from the planet. Coming up with a different plan, the Doctor team infiltrates the Monks' base and Bill is able to force them off the planet by replacing the Giant Monk's propaganda with her love for her late mother. As they retreat, however, the Monks are able to erase themselves from the memory of humanity, restoring the status quo. As the Doctor updates Missy in the Vault, she admits for the first time that she has begun regretting her past killings.

Working for the Time Agency[[edit source]]

The Doctor is feeling wistful after his recent lies to Bill following his blindness and the events of The Lie of the Land. He puts himself through simulated adventures, feeling his time at St Luke's has made his approach sloppy. He is reunited with Keira Sanstrom when he is conscripted into the time agency to investigate a crime lord called the Quartermaster. The Doctor breaks free of the time agency and returns to his TARDIS with Keira, Ending leads directly into Never the End.
The Doctor and Keira face the Discordia at the Basilica of Mariazell, and help a time agent trapped in a time loop. They meet artist Christoph Haizmann who has been given psychic abilities by the Discordia allowing him to see into the Doctor's mind. He reveals that the Doctor has been allowing Missy out of the vault. The Doctor and Keira return to the time agency to warn them of the Discordia threat, only to find that it has already been infiltrated and Keira is one of them, leading directly into You Only Die Twice.
The Doctor attempts to stop the Discordia from taking over the universe with the aid of the fake Keira, however it becomes apparent that she was the real Keira overall acting as a double agent to aid the Doctor. The new Time Marshall refers to the recent Monk invasion in The Lie of the Land. After turning on the Time Agency, the Doctor invites Keira to come to Bristol and stay with him, Bill and Nardole, however she decides to take the fight back to the Time Agency on her own.

Travels with Bill and Nardole[[edit source]]

Taking Bill and Nardole on a day trip to NASA, the Doctor finds the words "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN" written on the surface of Mars, and heads to 1881 Mars to find out why. After the TARDIS leaves with Nardole, the Doctor introduces Bill to the Ice Warriors, and sets up their relationship with Alpha Centauri. When Nardole returns, he reveals it was Missy who flew the TARDIS for him.
Nardole is joining the Doctor and Bill on an adventure, and the Doctor has his eyesight, setting this after The Lie of the Land. The Doctor gives Bill her own TARDIS key.
Nardole is joining the Doctor and Bill on an adventure, and the Doctor has his eyesight, setting this after The Lie of the Land.
Bill has a TARDIS key, setting this after Plague City.
Bill recognises the Ice Warriors from the events of Empress of Mars.
Set between The Wolves of Winter and The Great Shopping Bill, according to the latter story's recap page, though the story is explicitly set in 2017. Bill is properly informed about regeneration and meets Kate for the first time.
Set between Empress of Mars and The Eaters of Light, with Nardole insisting that Missy can't be allowed inside the TARDIS again, while the Doctor doesn't believe she is ready to travel with him yet.
Nardole recalls the events of The Great Shopping Bill, which he implies was the last trip he took in the TARDIS. The Doctor has given Missy emergency access to the TARDIS controls, and is considering allowing her to accompany him, Bill and Nardole on adventures in the future, setting this before The Eaters of Light.
Set after A Confusion of Angels, though Nardole continues to disapprove of the Doctor and Bill leaving the Vault unguarded. The Doctor briefly uses a blue variation of the Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver.
The Doctor has allowed Missy out of the Vault, but only into the TARDIS, setting this after Empress of Mars. He is running repairs on the TARDIS, but is reluctant to let Missy help, suggesting a setting prior to The Eaters of Light. Missy tries to convince the Doctor to allow her to accompany him on a trip in the TARDIS and, although he is reluctant, he is forced to when the TARDIS is pulled into the Chaos Cascade. When the Doctor drops Missy off on Earth to locate a piece of the Triskelia, Tania Bell mistakes her for the Doctor, which Missy goes along with and ends up enjoying it, setting this before The Master Plan. Once the adventure ends, the Doctor acknowledges that Missy had numerous opportunities to betray him and elected not to and decides to continue monitoring her progress, even though he is still unsure as to whether he can trust her or not, though Missy privately decides to see her redemption through.

Final adventures[[edit source]]

Nardole still protests that the Doctor is travelling when he should be guarding the Vault. After finding out that the Ninth Legion's disappearance was caused by the light-eating locusts unleaded by the Picts, the Doctor reveals to Bill and Nardole that he has allowed Missy certain freedoms in the TARDIS since Empress of Mars to further her rehabilitation. Bill realises that the TARDIS has been translating different languages for her.
Set shortly before World Enough and Time. Bill encounters the Daleks for the first time since The Pilot, setting this before The Dalek Invasion of Time.
The Doctor is travelling with Bill, who reflects on his character, implying that they have been travelling together for some time. The Doctor is chased by a Dalek, that Bill presumably sees as well, which would set this after Harvest of the Daleks.
Nardole comes with Bill when she is picked up from St Luke's University, and the Doctor has his eyesight, setting this after The Lie of the Land.
Though he doubts she is ready for it yet, the Doctor reluctantly allows Missy to accompany him, Bill and Nardole on a trip in the TARDIS, and his suspicions are confirmed after she kills several people on the trip. Missy recalls having learned about crying, setting this after The Eaters of Light.
Bill recalls the events of Empress of Mars.
Set after The Pilot, with the Doctor already having met Bill. As he reflects on his life, the Doctor ponders what it means to be "a good man", with his main conclusion being that it means to be kind, implying a setting shortly prior to The Doctor Falls.
The Doctor tells the readers of Doctor Who Adventures that they will soon be able to catch up with his latest adventures on the television, promising "amazing thrills, spills and mishaps", suggesting he has already lived through the majority of Series 10.
Before going to give a lecture, the Doctor writes a letter to the readers of Doctor Who Adventures, who have just recently watched The Pilot and Smile. He alludes to his further adventures in Series 10, indicating a setting late into his travels with Bill.
The Doctor sends Missy on a mission to obtain the key to the Key to Time, which she does successfully using his TARDIS. Missy suggests to the Doctor that she would "make a fabulous Doctor Who", foreshadowing World Enough and Time.
The events of The Master Plan are referenced, and Missy is still masquerading as the Doctor. After she sees off Doom, Missy asks the Doctor who they are saving next, implicitly leading into World Enough and Time.

Last stand on the Mondasian colony ship[[edit source]]

Deciding to give Missy a test to see her progress, the Doctor, Bill and Nardole take Missy to a colony ship escaping a black hole, where Bill is shot by Jorj in a panic and taken by the Mondasians to be converted into one of the first Cybermen by the Saxon Master, who seduces Missy into joining him, leading directly into The Doctor Falls.
During an alternative timeline created by corruption during the Time War. The War Doctor gets a glimpse of a future in Missy instead bluffs, pretending to be human, and is killed by Jorj.
Set during World Enough and Time, before the Doctor knocks out Jorj.
Set during World Enough and Time, when the Doctor, Nardole and Missy are taking the lift to Floor 1056.
While escaping the Cybermen with the Master and Missy, the Doctor is fatally electrocuted by a CyberMondan and saved by Bill, who has managed to retain her humanity. Two weeks after Nardole is able to rescue them, the Doctor, holding off his regeneration, tries to help Bill come to terms with being a Cyberman on Floor 0507, but matters become complicated when Missy accidently alerts the Cybermen on Floor 1056 of their location. As Nardole leads the colonist on the ship to Floor 0502, the Doctor and Bill stay behind to face the Cybermen as Missy and the Master flee. After falling in battle, the Doctor is taken back to his TARDIS by Bill and Heather, whom was able to extract Bill from her Cyber-body by turning her into sentient oil. After Bill and Heather leave to see the universe, the Doctor awakens, but still refuses to regenerate, and exits the TARDIS with the intent of dying where they have landed.
Set during The Doctor Falls, with the Doctor coming across Simon the Shy Cyberman while exploring the forests of Floor 0507. His hand is noticeably unbandaged and it is the daytime, implying a placement prior to his meeting with Bill in the barn.

Grappling with death[[edit source]]

(SEGMENTS)
The Doctor exits the TARDIS in a snowy landscape as he begins to regenerate, (TV: World Enough and Time) but is able to cancel the regeneration energy, halting the regeneration process, and then finds himself face to face with his first incarnation. (TV: The Doctor Falls)
Immediately following The Doctor Falls, the Twelfth Doctor and the First Doctor see time freeze around them as World War I Captain Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart escapes the glass avatar of Helen Clay, who aims to return him to hid death now that the Testimony Foundation has harvested his memories. When the Doctors stand to protect the Captain, a glass avatar of Bill emerges and joins with the Doctors and the Captain as they head to Villengard so that the Twelfth Doctor can learn more about the Testimony Foundation from Rusty and the Dalek Pathweb. When he learns they are a benevolent organisation, the Doctor offers to return the Captain to 1914 Ypres, and then adjusts events so that he is saved by the Christmas Armistice. As the First Doctor leaves to face his own regeneration, the Twelfth Doctor is comforted by glass avatars of Bill, Nardole and Clara and is convinced to regenerate into his next incarnation, which he does in his TARDIS after giving a final speech.
The Doctor's coat is worn and singed when he visits Gladys Presley, setting this during Twice Upon a Time, mostly likely between the Doctor leaving Villengard and arriving at Ypres.
The Doctor thinks of his past companions, including Clara, setting this shortly before he regenerates in Twice Upon a Time.
Set during the Doctor's regeneration in Twice Upon a Time.
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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.
The Doctor takes Bill to visit Gallifrey, while Nardole stays behind to guard the Vault at St Luke's University. They meet K9, who recruits them to help with collecting vortex energy. The Doctor leaves Bill on Gallifrey and travels to Atlantis, where he is reunited with Clara Oswald and the two set up a waypoint at the Pandorica. Meanwhile, K9 collects Nardole to help Bill on Gallifrey.
The Doctor is evading his enemies on the night before Christmas with River Song.
The Doctor enlists an individual's help when the universe falls under threat once again.

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. ↑ "Recently I've... Well, I've tried to be someone else but..." He shrugs. "Someone made me realise I don't need to be someone else. I'm an old man, messing about in Time and Space. And that's good."


Footnotes[[edit source]]

  1. ↑ BFX: The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles
  2. ↑ https://twitter.com/BenTedds42/status/1249354639197249541?s=20
  3. ↑ (BFX: War Wounds)
  4. ↑ Commentary from The Eye of Torment (graphic novel)
  5. ↑ https://mobile.twitter.com/davidbishop/status/1323285344788353025
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