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: The Sixth Doctor's onscreen timeline is quite jumbled because of the events of Trial of a Time Lord and taking printed material as canon he was also nearing the end of this regeneration when he dies when the Rani captures the Tardis. | : The Sixth Doctor's onscreen timeline is quite jumbled because of the events of Trial of a Time Lord and taking printed material as canon he was also nearing the end of this regeneration when he dies when the Rani captures the Tardis. | ||
: The Seventh Doctor is established as being 953 in Time and the Rani meaning that about 200 years have passed since the Key to Time adventures. Going solely by onscreen material then most of this time is probably the Fourth Doctor but going by printed material as well then a decent chunk is probably the Sixth Doctor as well | : The Seventh Doctor is established as being 953 in Time and the Rani meaning that about 200 years have passed since the Key to Time adventures. Going solely by onscreen material then most of this time is probably the Fourth Doctor, but going by printed material as well then a decent chunk is probably the Sixth Doctor as well, especially since the Doctor described himself as 813 not long after his fourth regeneration. | ||
: It is difficult to tell because it has never been established onscreen how long a Time Lords' regeneration lasts without outside interference. The Doctor's original body lasts about 450 years but assuming the first century of that is childhood/adolesence(pretty much established on-screen) that still doesn't give much information on how long a regeneration can last). Taking the movie as canon(and a number of the books) the Seventh Doctor is nearing the end of his regeneration when he is killed in San Francisco adding possibly a couple hundred more years onto the Doctor's Life. | |||
: Going solely off printed material the Eighth Doctor lives for at least 100 years before the Time War occurs. | : Going solely off printed material the Eighth Doctor lives for at least 100 years before the Time War occurs. | ||
