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This page lists appearances of the Thirteenth Doctor in the order in which she 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, their 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, and Clive Banks databanks. 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]]

Any story where the Doctor travels with Graham, Ryan and Yaz must be placed before TV: Revolution of the Daleks, therefore any story in which the Doctor appears to only be travelling with Yaz, with no mention of Ryan or Graham also being present, must be placed after TV: Revolution of the Daleks.

In TV: Spyfall, it is established that Graham had thought the Doctor's comments on previously being a man were jokes she was making. Thus, any Multi-Doctor event Graham is present for must come after Spyfall.

After being asked to refer to him as such in TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth and TV: The Ghost Monument, Ryan is able to bring himself to call Graham his granddad in TV: It Takes You Away. Thus, any story where Ryan identifies Graham as his grandfather must take place after It Takes You Away, and stories that do not feature Ryan identifying Graham by his name or title can take place at any point. However, entries such as TV: Spyfall and COMIC: The Power of the Mobox show that Ryan does call Graham both by name and by "granddad" interchangeably.

When Team TARDIS take one of their breaks from their travels in TV: Can You Hear Me?, the Doctor is shown preparing to skip ahead to their next meeting rather than simply travelling alone for a while, with the implication she does this the majority of the time, as she acts unaccustomed to not having a companion with her.

Any adventures with the Doctor and Yaz as a duo, with no indication of Graham, Ryan or Dan being around, should be placed between Revolution of the Daleks and The Halloween Apocolypse.

Timeline[[edit source]]

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As actualised potential[[edit source]]

(CONTEXT)
The Twelfth Doctor is fatally injured by a Mondasian Cyberman on a Mondasian colony ship, but refuses to regenerate. (TV: The Doctor Falls)
The Thirteenth Doctor, wearing an outfit that consists of a dark hoodie under a frock coat, walks through a forest toward her TARDIS, though it has the exterior last used by her tenth incarnation. Later releases imply that she is still only a conception instead of a reality at this point, implying a setting between The Doctor Falls and Twice Upon a Time, when the Twelfth Doctor was denying his regeneration.
(POSTCARD)
An ailing Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart receives a postcard depicting the Doctor with her hoodie and frock coat. (PROSE: When Times Change...)
(POSTCARD)
The "Katy Manning" Iris and her companion, Andrew, receive a postcard depicting the Thirteenth Doctor, still in the hoodie and frock coat, informing Iris that she has recently regenerated. (NOTCOVERED: A Lady Doctor?)
(POSTCARD)
V. M. McCrimmon and Grandfather Halfling receive a postcard from the Doctor in the City of the Saved. The postcard once again depicts the Doctor wearing her hoodie and frock coat, and it is revealed that the other postcards sent to Iris and Lethbridge-Stewart were sent by the Thirteenth Doctor's actualised potential before she become a certainty instead of a possibility. (PROSE: Postscript)
A distorted apparition of the Doctor momentarily interacts with Ryan, Yaz and Graham as they go about their ordinary lives.

Becoming a reality[[edit source]]

The Doctor regenerates from her previous incarnation after he comes to accept the need to continue living. However, she is almost immediately flung out the TARDIS when it begins catching fire from damage caused by the regeneration.
Set during Twice Upon a Time, both during and immediately after the Twelfth Doctor's regeneration.
Interlinked between Twice Upon a Time and The Woman Who Fell To Earth, with the Doctor still falling towards Sheffield.
Set half-an-hour after Twice Upon a Time. The Doctor lands in Sheffield during September 2018, and is assisted by Ryan Sinclair, Yaz Khan and Graham and Grace O'Brien in facing Tzim-Sha of the Stenza as she recovers from her regeneration. When she realises she lost the Twelfth Doctor's sonic screwdriver in her fall, the Doctor builds her own sonic screwdriver to help her track Tzim-Sha and his Gathering coil as they hunt crane operator Karl Wright. The Doctor is able to force Tzim-Sha to teleport away, but Grace is killed destroying the Gathering coil. Staying to attend her funeral, the Doctor acquires a new outfit in a charity shop, and then uses the left over Stenza tech to locate her TARDIS. Teleporting away, the Doctor accidentally brings Graham, Yaz and Ryan with her, leading directly into The Ghost Monument.
Rescued by Angstrom and Epzo during the Rally of the Twelve Galaxies, the Doctor, Graham, Yaz and Ryan find the TARDIS on Desolation and begin their return journey to Sheffield.
Set during The Ghost Monument, with the Doctor thinking about the uncertainty of her future while standing on a rock overlooking an ocean.
The Doctor writes about the events of The Woman Who Fell to Earth in her diary, implicitly setting this shortly after her return to the TARDIS in The Ghost Monument.

Returning to Sheffield[[edit source]]

The TARDIS arrives on an alien planet, and the Doctor steps out to take a look.
The Doctor meets Rosa Parks during her fourteenth attempt to return Graham, Yaz and Ryan to Sheffield, and they learn the mechanisms of history while preventing Krasko from altering the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Yaz learns that the Doctor used to be a man, and the Doctor recounts her eleventh incarnation's meeting with Amelia Earhart to her. Yaz notes that the Doctor is secretive about her past.
When the TARDIS returns to Sheffield, the Doctor meets Yaz's family and alludes to her recent regeneration, noting that she is "still figuring [herself] out". Collecting a package for Yaz's dad while Yaz goes to see her mother and Graham returns to his house, the Doctor and Ryan discover a giant spider at the same time as Graham, and they learn that Sheffield is being besieged by mutated spider that originate from the local Robertson Luxury Hotel, where they find Yaz and her mother being interrogated by hotel owner Jack Robertson. After the Doctor lures the spiders into the hotel panic room to expire, and Robertson kills the mother spider, Graham, Yaz and Ryan all choose to officially join the Doctor as her companions, calling themselves Team TARDIS.

Early travels as Team TARDIS[[edit source]]

Set immediately after Arachnids in the UK. Graham, Ryan and Yaz accuse the Doctor of name-dropping "all the time". Since calling Elvis's phone during their visit to 1950s Alabama, the TARDIS has picked up on damage to the web of time and the Doctor is keen to investigate, suggesting a setting shortly after Rosa.
The Doctor alludes to the recent events of The Ghost Monument while facing a Pting on the Tsuranga in the 67th century.[quote 1] Ryan opens up to Yaz about how his father and him drifted apart after the death of his mother.
Team TARDIS attend the coronation of Elizabeth II, and then thwart Colby's assassination plot against the Doctor. The Doctor's recent regeneration is alluded to.
The Doctor tells her companions about the TARDIS' telepathic capabilities when they go to the Partition of India to see Yaz's grandmother, Umbreen, when she was younger, and learn that she had married Prem Barsar amongst the violence of the Partition. The Doctor meets the Thijarians for the first time, and mistakenly believes they are causing trouble in the area, until she learns they have come to bear witness and mourn the deaths in the Partition, including Prem's. After the Doctor officiates Umbreen and Prem's wedding, Umbreen is forced to flee Pakistan for Sheffield when Prem's brother betrays them to a mob, and Prem is killed buying her time to escape, with Team TARDIS unable to interfere less they disrupt Yaz's timeline.
Yaz recalls the events of Demons of the Punjab.
Graham implies that a month has passed since The Woman Who Fell to Earth,[quote 2] with the novelisation confirming that "weeks" have indeed passed since The Woman Who Fell to Earth. The Doctor is still figuring out the new TARDIS controls,[quote 3] and leads Team TARDIS undercover at the Kerb!am warehouse on Kandoka's moon when she receives a cry for help in an old Fez package, and stops Charlie Duffy enacting a plot to murder Kerb!am customers with deadly bubble wrap.
Set immediately after Kerblam!, at least according to the novelisation. Team TARDIS are trying to get to the coronation of Elizabeth I, but end up in 17th century Lancashire instead, where they face the Morax with James I. The Doctor is put on witch trial, but escapes using a technique she learnt during a "wet weekend" with Harry Houdini.
Set immediately after The Witchfinders.
The Doctor visits Houdini after reminiscing about their "wet weekend", setting this after The Witchfinders.
Ryan says he "[doesn't] want to visit another big warehouse", suggesting the events of Kerblam! are still fresh in his mind.
While he remembers the Doctor telling him that he is one of the strongest people she knew, seemingly in reference to a conversation they had in The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos, Graham is struggling to connect with Ryan in the wake of Grace's death, setting this before It Takes You Away. Graham admits he feels like an outsider in Team TARDIS, and wants to know more about the Doctor.

Team TARDIS becomes a family[[edit source]]

Ryan almost calls Graham his granddad, but stops himself, setting this shortly before It Takes You Away.
When an encounter with the Solitract in Norway helps Graham come to better terms with Grace's death, Ryan calls him "granddad" for the first time after they both open up about their shared grief.
Ryan calls Graham his granddad, setting this after It Takes You Away.
Ryan calls Graham his granddad, setting this after It Takes You Away, and Graham refers to the events of Combat Magicks.
Team TARDIS meet Pythagoras and discover that the Doctor's sunglasses did not belong to him, prompting the Doctor to search for Audrey Hepburn, leading directly into Mission of the KaaDok.
Graham recalls meeting Elvis Presley in That's All Right, Mama.
The Encyclopedia Gallifreya identifies a threat from Tzim-Sha's alliance with the Ux, setting this immediately before The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos.
Team TARDIS face Tzim-Sha for the first time since The Woman Who Fell to Earth, with Graham considering executing him until he and Ryan decide to imprison him in a stasis chamber instead. Ryan tells Graham he loves him for the first time, and reinforces that he thinks of him as his grandfather.

Investigating the Catastrophia[[edit source]]

Team TARDIS meet robot reporter Sandola Dell and face Berakka Dogbolter while coordinating disaster relief on Gatan.
Team TARDIS encounter the Herald, learn about the Children of Chaos, and discover an entrance to the Catastrophia during a trip to 1608 Bohemia. Graham recalls Team TARDIS meeting "big names in history", and how most of those encounters involved "something dodgy".
On Acantha, Team TARDIS encounter Mother G for the first time. Ryan refers to Graham as his granddad, setting this after It Takes You Away.
Berakka Dogbolter skews the events of The Warmonger and The Power of the Mobox to present the Doctor as a villain in retaliation for her defeat on Gatan "several weeks prior". Team TARDIS discover another entrance to the Catastrophia and encounter the Children of Chaos again. The Herald is revealed to be the Doctor from a future where her mind was warped by the Catastrophia, though she manages to avoid this future after a visit to the Catastrophia. Graham, Yaz and Ryan have been travelling with the Doctor for "months", implying a setting after Kerblam!.

Holiday travels[[edit source]]

The Doctor spends some time alone at a cabin during Christmas.
The Doctor helps Santa Claus deliver Christmas presents in the TARDIS after his sleigh breaks down. She appears to be travelling alone.
While celebrating various New Year's Day events in history, Team TARDIS fights a reconnaissance scout Dalek on 1 January 2019 with Lin and Mitch, which is the Thirteenth Doctor's first encounter with a Dalek since her regeneration, and the first encounter with them for Ryan, Graham and Yaz. During the conflict, Ryan's dad, Aaron, re-enters Ryan's life with the promise of being a better father, and is introduced to Yaz and the Doctor. After they defeat the "Reconnaissance Dalek", Ryan and Aaron reconnect, but Aaron declines an invitation to join Team TARDIS, instead opting for Ryan to contact him upon his return to Earth. When Yaz asks where Team TARDIS is going next, the Doctor says she "was thinking everywhere."

Going everywhere[[edit source]]

Set between Resolution and A New Beginning, with Ryan and Yaz learning about the Time Agency for the first time and the present year being 2019.
The Doctor alludes to her recent regeneration, and Yaz, Ryan and Graham are still learning about the Doctor and how she operates. Yaz feels ill-equipped to handle situations on her own, and is surprised when the Doctor asks her to take over a situation without her. Graham indicates that the Doctor has been acting as a guide for them, across several adventures, but notes that "it still ain't easy", and he is also still getting used to the TARDIS's dimensional transcendentalism. Team TARDIS meet Irene Schulz and Leon Perkins while freeing them from the Hoarder with the aid of the Time Agency.
Yaz is celebrating her birthday, setting this between A New Beginning, where her age is given as 19 in her character biography, and The Secret in Vault 13, where she is 20. However, Yaz is still referred to as 19-years-old in her Titan Comics bio due to Titan Comics' method of reusing the same bio for every issue. Yaz is also advertised as being 19-years-old in the Series 11 promotional material, implying a setting after Resolution as well.
The Doctor tells her companions about the TARDIS's chameleon circuit. Yaz is 20-years-old. Team TARDIS have been travelling with the Doctor for months, but, during a home visit, they arrive several weeks after they left in Arachnids in the UK due to the Doctor getting the chronology wrong. Despite the events of Spyfall, the Doctor talks about the Time Lords and Gallifrey openly with her companions.
Follows on directly from The Secret in Vault 13. Yaz's time with the Doctor is described as being "a brief spell" at this point, but she knows about the Time Lords in great detail and also knows about regeneration, but hasn't met another incarnation of the Doctor yet. Ryan recalls encountering a Dalek, setting this after Resolution, and Yaz has yet to encounter another TARDIS, setting this before Old Friends.
Set after Resolution, as the present year is 2019, with the Doctor worrying of the Woolly Rebellion implying a setting shortly after It Takes You Away. According to the Doctor, either one week or ten weeks have passed since A New Beginning, and Team TARDIS learn that Schulz and Perkins have joined the Time Agency.

Solo endeavours[[edit source]]

Set between Resolution and Spyfall,[1] with the TARDIS console room still having its Series 11 design. After the First infects the universe with a Reality virus, the Doctor sends Graham, Yaz and Ryan on a special mission while she concocts a plan to stop the virus. She recruits the help of an unnamed human whom she sends to various locations to collect Zeiton-7. Along the way, her new companion recruits Emer, the AI life support system of the SS Lucia Minor. The Doctor and her two new companions are able to defeat the First by assembling an old Time Lord piece of technology that traps the First in a time loop and sends her back to the dawn of time. Following their success, the Doctor transfers Emer into a synthetic body and drops her off somewhere to live a full life, but her other companion is sent back to where they started and is forced to repeat events all over again to maintain the loop until the Doctor can come up with a more permanent solution.
(SEGMENT)
The Doctor gives a bandolier to Cass Fermazzi during the Time War. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)
The Doctor sends out a distress call that is answered by a group of students on Earth, and she enlists them to help save the Earth from a rogue planet from another dimension that is blocking out all the light from the sun. She appears to be travelling alone.
The TARDIS console room has its Series 11 design. The Doctor picks up an unidentified individual as a temporary companion while returning a runaway teenage Engarian called Volta to his home planet. After returning Volta home, the Doctor offers her new companion another trip in the TARDIS.
Set before A Dalek Awakens.
The Doctor dons a new coat while working undercover as an assassin, though it is unconfirmed if she actually killed anyone.
(SEGMENT)
Travelling alone, the Doctor encounters the Moment in Henry VIII's third favourite garden. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)
The Doctor is travelling with an unnamed companion when the TARDIS is pulled off course by an energy field and arrives on the planet Bayla.

Further travels with Team TARDIS[[edit source]]

Having dropped off Graham, Yaz and Ryan, the Doctor intends to make a trip to the Silfrax Galaxy. However, unbeknownst to her, a schoolgirl named Lizzie stows away aboard the TARDIS and accidentally changes their course to the Brouhaha-Nine-Nine-Five galaxy when she touchs the controls. The Doctor and Lizzie travel to several more destinations before they are able to get the TARDIS repaired on the planet Plorp. The Doctor then returns Lizzie home shortly after they left and she passes by Graham, Yaz and Ryan as they return to the TARDIS and reunite with the Doctor. The TARDIS has the interior design from Series 11, setting this before Spyfall.
The present day is October 2019, setting this after Time Lapse. The Doctor drops Team TARDIS back in Sheffield to give them a few days to visit their families. However, one day into their break, Graham summons the Doctor back to Sheffield, leading directly into Ghost Town.
(REFERENCE)
Team TARDIS meet an alien called Friffle, who tells them of how his people were kidnapped by Mr. Henderson to work in his grotto with a memory wiping device keeping them at bay. With the help of Baxter the elf, they infiltrate the grotto and attempt to rescue the workers, but they fail and get their memories erased. Meet the Fam! is planted into their heads as a false memory. (COMIC: Holiday Special)
The Doctor has not seen Missy since The Doctor Falls, setting this before The Liar, the Glitch and the War Zone. The Doctor meets the Sixth Corsair out-of-sequence with their timeline, and they face the Hoarder together.
Set "a few time-jumps" after Meet the Fam!. The events of Old Friends are implied to be recent, and Graham and Ryan have a Christmas dinner to attend, suggesting it is Christmastime in the present day. Team TARDIS realise that the events of Meet the Fam! were the product of a false memory, placed into their heads by Mr. Henderson after their first attempt to free Friffle's people.

Alone time[[edit source]]

Graham, Yaz and Ryan have been sent home to protect them while the TARDIS is in Artron II Recharge Mode, setting this before Spyfall according to Can You Hear Me?. The Doctor is feeling lonely due to their absence, but her spirits are replenished after watching a recording left for her by Susan, and she plans to FaceTime her friends.
While running minor maintenance on the TARDIS, the Doctor answers a summons from the Shadow Proclamation. Although she claims to be busy, the Shadow Architect realises that she is really looking for a distraction from her maintenance work. The Doctor laments that one day she will tell Team TARDIS about her past, setting this before Spyfall. The Doctor takes Mae away with her in the TARDIS to seek out more remnant members of Faction Paradox.
Travelling on her own, the Doctor serves as a museum curator in Venice, and rescues Antonia when Missy abandons her in the 14th century. She leaves the museum immediately afterwards.
During Christmas 1966, the Doctor appears in Dublin to help Patricia Kiernan understand her encounter with the Judoon. She is travelling alone.


Posing as "the Midwife", the Doctor is present at the birth of Lucy Wilson on 2 June 2005.
(REFERENCE)
The Doctor visits Leadworth in February 2020, where she advises a man to stock up on hand wash. (PROSE: Alabama’s Blue Box)
The TARDIS still has its Series 11 interior design. When the CyberReaper steals the reality virus for it's own gain, it alters the timeline and breaks the time loop created during The Edge of Time. During another loop of defeating the First, the Doctor is alerted to the CyberReaper's use of the virus. Instead of restarting the time loop again, she sends Emer and her unnamed companion to investigate further. The Tenth Doctor arrives to aid the group and successfully defeats the CyberReaper by rejecting an alternative history where he settled down with Madame de Pompadour. With the reality virus destroyed once and for all, the Doctor sends Emer to travel with her tenth incarnation, and then drops her other companion off back home.
The Doctor is travelling alone due to the Fam being away on "other missions", and her urgency to get back to them has left her too impatient for niceties with other people.

Foiling the Kasaavin invasion[[edit source]]

The present day is now early 2020, as Graham has been in remission from his cancer for four years and 1834 is described as being "one-hundred-and-eight-six years back". Yaz is still a probationary officer. Graham learns that the Doctor really did used to be a man, having previously thought she was joking when mentioning it, setting this before any of the Thirteenth Doctor's Multi-Doctor events where Graham is present. The TARDIS console room has been slightly redecorated, and the Doctor encounters the Master in a body she doesn't recognise, with him plotting with the Kasaavin and Daniel Barton to turn humanity into "hard drives" for the Kasaavin as they enter N-Space from their universe. After foiling the Kasaavin invasion with help from Ada Lovelace and Noor Inayat Khan, the Doctor watches the Kasaavin drag the Master into their dimension, trapping him. However, after she returns Ada and Noor home with their memories of the adventure removed, the Doctor learns that the Master ravaged Gallifrey after discovering information about the Timeless Child.
Set during Spyfall: Part Two, when the Master and the Doctor are sharing their psychic link.
Set towards the end of Spyfall: Part Two, after the Doctor drops off Ada and before she sees the devastation of Gallifrey. She writes in her diary about defeating the Master and the Kasaavin.

Grieving for Gallifrey[[edit source]]

(EPILOGUE)
After travelling to five different planets in a sombre mood over the course of a few days with Team TARDIS due to seeing the ravaged Gallifrey, the Doctor opens up to them about her past for the first time. (TV: Spyfall)
The Doctor is noted to have been in a bad mood as of late, suggesting a setting shortly after Spyfall.[quote 4] While the Doctor removes the tentacle of a deep-space squid from her TARDIS, Graham shows that he has collected enough Bandohzi Herald coupon for a holiday to Tranquility Spa, which Team TARDIS learns is on an Earth devastated by global disasters in a timeline where it became overrun by Dregs and designated as orphan planet 55. After they manage to escape back to the TARDIS, the Doctor reassures her companions that the future they just saw can be averted.
The Doctor thinks that the TARDIS' navigation system is still rebooting after a tussle with a "psycho-squid", possibly setting this shortly after Orphan 55, though the Doctor is in a far jollier mood.
Team TARDIS appear to visit Hong Kong for the first time, suggesting a setting prior to Praxeus.

Dealing with a paradox[[edit source]]

During a trip to 1903 New York, Team TARDIS is helped in repelling an attack from the Skithra by Nikola Tesla, Dorothy Skerrit and Thomas Edison, with a blast of electricity aimed at the Throne Ship of the Skithra from the Wardenclyffe Power Plant Prototype forcing them to retreat. While she is otherwise her usual self, the Doctor becomes uncharacteristically aggressive when the topic of dead planets is brought up by the Queen of the Skithra, implying she is still recovering from seeing the devastated Gallifrey during Spyfall.
Although the TARDIS console room has its Series 11 design, Graham, Yaz and Ryan are all fully aware that the Doctor used to be a man, setting this after Spyfall. After an adventure with her tenth incarnation and Martha Jones, the Doctor agrees to drop Ryan, Yaz, and Graham home in 2020 for a visit, only to find London in ruin, leading directly into Alternating Current.
The events of Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror are revisited. The Thirteenth and Tenth Doctors manage to undo the timeline paradox created by the events of A Little Help from My Friends. Immediately after the Tenth Doctor departs, the Thirteenth Doctor senses that he needs her help again, and she leaves Team TARDIS behind in 2020 for "more than a minute, [or] maybe two", to go and help him, leading directly into Defender of the Daleks.
The Doctor aids her tenth incarnation in escaping from the Daleks' Restoration Empire.
The Thirteenth Doctor unites with her other incarnations to help a group of people seal the Time Fracture.
(EPILOGUE)
The Doctor returns to pick up Team TARDIS from 2020, only to find the Sixth Corsair is with them. (COMIC: Alternating Current)

Identity crisis[[edit source]]

Graham, Yaz and Ryan encounter the Judoon for the first time and learn about the Cybermen. They also briefly meet Captain Jack Harkness, who passes on a message to "beware the Lone Cyberman". The Doctor has not heard from the Master since Spyfall, and encounters an alleged past incarnation of herself who had been living under a Chameleon Arch in Gloucester, causing her to begin questioning how well she knows herself. Having noticed an increase in her moodier behaviour since Spyfall, Graham, Yaz and Ryan proclaim that they will always be by the Doctor's side no matter what comes her way, lifting her spirits. The TARDIS picks up on multiple alerts across three Earth continents and Team TARDIS go to investigate them, leading directly into Praxeus.
Shortly after the events of Praxeus, the Doctor writes in her diary about the events of Fugitive of the Judoon.
The Doctor is processing being "more than [she] knew about", setting this shortly after Fugitive of the Judoon. Ryan implies that the present day is 2020. Team TARDIS spend three weeks sheltered on the planet Calapia in isolation. Yaz comments that the isolation appears to have given the Doctor a rest from recent troubles, as she dwells on some of her past actions, such as one involving "a girl in a mirror".
The Doctor faces the Cybermen by herself at the 2020 BBC Showcase. She laments the absence of Team TARDIS, implying that she has only just dropped them off.
The Doctor recalls reflecting while in isolation, setting this shortly after The Shadow Passes. She releases Daughter of Mine from her imprisonment in the mirrors.
The Doctor gets caught in a time eddy for four days. She texts the two Osgoods to pass the time. She makes no reference to having traveling companions with her.
The Doctor appears to be travelling alone. Her profile picture recalls the events of Message from the Doctor.
(REFERENCE)
The Thirteenth Doctor asks the Seventh Corsair to steal the Hand of Omega and deliver it to the First Doctor. (PROSE: One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes)
Set after Fugitive of the Judoon, with the Doctor returning to check up on Gloucester.[2]
The Doctor visits Susan on 22nd century Earth, setting this after Press Play.
(SEGMENT)
A year after their last meeting, the Doctor encounters the Moment in the banana groves on Villengard. Their conversation renews the Doctor's spirits on the importance on being "the Doctor". (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)
The Doctor "drop(s) everything" to travel to Scratchman's dimension and aid her fourth incarnation,[quote 5] and they talk about the importance of being the Doctor, suggesting a setting after The Day of the Doctor.[quote 6] She also alludes to having friends waiting for her.[quote 7]

Final travels with Team TARDIS[[edit source]]

The Doctor is reunited with Ace during January 2020. Team TARDIS is fully aware that the Doctor used to be a man, setting this after Spyfall. Ace tells Yaz about the Cybermen, suggesting a post-Fugitive of the Judoon setting.
The Doctor recalls her encounter with the Master during Spyfall. Team TARDIS encounter Cybermen for the first time, but are already familiar with them due to the Doctor having told them about them, setting this after Fugitive of the Judoon.

The truth of the Timeless Child[[edit source]]

Several months have passed on Earth since Spyfall, and Yaz references the events of Spyfall, Fugitive of the Judoon and Praxeus as her travels in the time she's been away from Sheffield, suggesting this is her first trip home since Spyfall.[quote 8] The Doctor is unaccustomed to traveling alone.[quote 9] Following the defeat of Zellin and Rakaya, the Doctor decides to take Team TARDIS to see the origins of Frankenstein, while Ryan and Yaz begin to wonder how much longer they will remain with the Doctor.
Team TARDIS arrive at 1816 Villa Diodati, where they find the Lone Cyberman searching for the Cyberium inside Percy Shelley. The Doctor is forced to surrender the Cyberium to save Shelley, and then decides to follow the Cyberman into the future, leading into Ascension of the Cybermen.
During an alternative timeline created by corruption during the Time War. The War Doctor brings himself forward in time to the moment in which the Thirteenth Doctor has absorbed the Cyberium. With her help the War Doctor is able to undo the corruption and restore the original course of events, averting this meeting.
Set immediately after The Haunting of Villa Diodati. While Ryan is writing in his diary, the Doctor is tracking down the Lone Cyberman.
Team TARDIS follow the Lone Cyberman into the far future, but get separated, with the Doctor and Ryan making it to Ko Sharmus and the planet of the Boundary first. At the Boundary, the Doctor sees a gateway to Gallifrey and is met by the Master, leading directly into The Timeless Children.
The Doctor is told the truth of the Timeless Child by the Master, and unlocks old memories from before her first incarnation when the Master traps her in the Matrix so he can kill the Lone Cybermen and convert the deceased Time Lords into CyberMasters unopposed. Once she escapes from the Matrix, the Doctor sends Team TARDIS back to Earth during March 2020 to ensure their safety, and then she and Ko Sharmus destroy all organic life on Gallifrey with the Lone Cyberman's Death particle. As she escapes Gallifrey, the Doctor is ambushed by the Judoon in her TARDIS and sent to the Judoon prison for the Fugitive Doctor's actions against Pol-Kon-Don in Fugitive of the Judoon.

Imprisoned by the Judoon[[edit source]]

Using her psychic paper, the Doctor keeps a diary during her imprisonment.
The Doctor is writing in her diary about the recent events of Ascension of the Cybermen and The Timeless Children while imprisoned.

Reunions and farewells[[edit source]]

After "a few decades", the Doctor is liberated from the Judoon prison by Jack Harkness, and reunites with Team TARDIS in January 2021. After they stop Jack Robertson's Defence Drone Daleks from successfully invading Earth by summoning Death Squad Daleks to destroy them, and then banishing the Death Squad Daleks into the Void, Jack decides to visit Gwen Cooper, while Ryan and Graham choose to stay on Earth, leaving the Doctor and Yaz to travel on alone together. The Doctor notes that, despite having years in prison to cope, she is still upset by the events of The Timeless Children.[quote 10]
Set during Revolution of the Daleks, with the Doctor adding to her diary via her psychic paper in real-time as she is being broken out of the Judoon prison by Jack.
(FRAMING DEVICE)
Following Graham and Ryan's departure from the TARDIS, the Doctor compiles several pages of her prison diary, along with some secret intelligence reports, in order to aid anyone who might end up at the facility in the future. (PROSE: The Doctor's Prison Diary) She publishes a further book about her life and adventures in the hope that it would help someone to save Earth if she is ever trapped somewhere for a prolonged period again. (PROSE: Doctor Who The Official Annual 2021)
The Doctor joins everybody at Doctor Who in wishing their audience "love and luck" for 2021, setting this shortly after Revolution of the Daleks.

Lone travels with Yaz[[edit source]]

The Doctor and Yaz rescue Larry Nightingale from a Weeping Angel and then take him from 2021 to the 1920s to reunite with his wife.
While the non-narrative sections suggest that the Doctor is travelling with multiple companions, the narrative features only Yaz travelling with her.
Yaz works as a police officer on Bonfire Night, suggesting a contemporary setting of November 2021.
While visiting Darillium by herself, the Doctor sends a postcard addressed to Yaz in Sheffield.
Although Yaz is depicted as being unaware of regeneration or the Doctor's past incarnations, she is the only one travelling with the Doctor, with no mention of Ryan, Graham or Dan, setting this between Revolution of the Daleks and The Halloween Apocalypse.

Time apart from Yaz[[edit source]]

(REFERENCE)
Visiting the "hanging gardens", the Doctor tells Yaz to meet her by a waterfall while she goes to get them Kronkburgers, (WC: A Message from Yaz) while she actually goes looking for clues on an impeding crisis. (NOTVALID: Have You Seen The Aliens Terms and Conditions)
The Doctor's mind is connected to River Song's after River uses the Eye of Horus, and she helps free her from the Ruby's hold. No mention is made of her traveling with a companion.
(REFERENCE)
The Doctor visits the British countryside during the 1860s at the same time an anachronistic rocket is present. (PROSE: La Boîte Bleue) She later loses her sonic screwdriver (NOTVALID: Unknown object—RHCTDM-OEI-OLOAW/0209) and her earring. (NOTVALID: An almost complete mystery)
The Doctor writes a series of Google Maps reviews under the pseudonym "John Smith". Though the incarnation is unconfirmed, they recall the events of The Haunting of Villa Diodati and mention the recent events of Unknown object—RHCTDM-OEI-OLOAW/0209, confirming them as the Thirteenth Doctor.
The Doctor appears to be travelling alone and poses as Ace's chemistry teacher. She recalls the events of At Childhood's End and wipes Ace's memory of the adventure.
Having gotten "side-tracked", the Doctor replies to Yaz's message from A Message from Yaz, promising that she will return in five minutes after outmanoeuvring a war fleet, until a nearby explosion causes her to add another minute.

The Flux event[[edit source]]

While on the trail of Karvanista to learn more about the Division, the Doctor and Yaz arrive in 2021 Liverpool after the Lupar kidnaps Dan Lewis. After a brief run-in with Claire Brown, who says they will meet again, the Doctor and Yaz rescue Dan from Karvanista, only to learn that he and the rest of the Lupari are in fact making arrangements to protect humanity from the Flux; a cataclysmic structure ripping through and the destroying the universe, which also causes a series of corruptions in the TARDIS control room. Yaz claims she has left the police force,[quote 11] and has learnt how to co-pilot the TARDIS, though she hasn't heard the Cloister Bell before. After a failed attempt to destroy it with vortex energy, the Flux engulfs the TARDIS, leading directly into War of the Sontarans.
The TARDIS is able to narrowly escape the Flux by landing in the Crimean War, but the mix of the vortex energy in the Flux causes Yaz and Dan to be teleported away to the Temple of Atropos and 2021 Liverpool, respectively, leaving the Doctor to team up with Mary Seacole to stop the Sontarans from using the chaos of the Flux to infiltrate Earth's history, with help from Dan and Karvanista in the 21st centaury. Once the Sontarans are dealt with, the Doctor invites Dan to join her in retrieving Yaz while the Lupari keep Earth shielded, only to find Yaz and Inston-Vee Vinder being threatened by Swarm and Azure on the planet Time, leading directly into Once, Upon Time. Yaz introduces herself as an active police officer to Vinder, implying that she may not have left the police force after all,[quote 12] and the TARDIS' corruption continues to worsen.
In order to save Yaz and Vinder from Swarm and Azure, the Doctor throws herself and Dan into the time storm with them and they all end up scattered along their time streams. The Doctor finds herself reliving the Siege of Atropos as the Fugitive Doctor, and learns that Swarm and Azure are Ravagers when she is pulled out of her time stream by a mysterious woman. The Doctor is able to repair the Ravagers' damage to the temple and they leave after revealing they have Dan's friend, Diane, imprisoned in a Passenger form. Although she offers him a place in the TARDIS, Vinder elects to go looking for his wife, Bel, instead.
The Doctor, Yaz and Dan send out a hidden message.
The Doctor sends out a warning about the Flux, while Yaz and Dan help her pilot her TARDIS. Yaz and Dan are wearing their clothes from the first three chapters of Flux, and the Doctor mentions the Ravagers by name, setting this after Once, Upon Time. In the theatrically released version, however, the Doctor is alone in the TARDIS.
(EPILOGUE)
With Dan and Yaz having changed into new clothes, a Weeping Angel uses Yaz's phone to hijack the TARDIS. (TV: Once, Upon Time)
Before the Doctor is able to expel it, the Weeping Angel is able to land the TARDIS in 1967 Medderton, where the Doctor finds Claire, who has been trapped in the 1960s by the Weeping Angel, in the company of Professor Eustacius Jericho. After Yaz and Dan are taken by other Weeping Angels hunting the "Rogue Angel", it offers to tell the Doctor about the Division to bargain her aid, only to turn on her and hand her over to the Extraction Squad after Jericho is left stranded in 1901 with Yaz and Dan, leading directly into Survivors of the Flux.
The Weeping Angels transport the Doctor to the the Division ship outpost outside of the universe, between Universe One and Universe Two, where she finds the mysterious woman from Once, Upon Time, who reveals that she is Tecteun, and the current leader of the Division. As she and the Doctor discuss their history, Tecteun also reveals that she manufactured the Flux to destroy Universe One in a plot to kill the Doctor, but offers to spare her and the Earth if she rejoins the Division, while also offering her the Chameleon Arch containing her stolen memories. However, before the Doctor can reply, the Ravager forcibly enter the outpost and kill Tecteun, leading directly into The Vanquishers.
As the Doctor tries to escape the outpost using a conversion plate, interference from Swarm splits her three ways; one remains trapped on the outpost with the Ravagers, a second reunites with Yaz, Dan and Jericho in the Williamson Tunnels and a third manifests next to Karvanista and Bel while they are fighting the Sontarans. After retrieving Claire from the 1960s and saving Diane and Vinder from the Passenger, the Doctor unites her allies to hijack the Sontarans' plans to minimise the Flux by feeding the Dalek Empire and Cyber-Fleet to it, causing the Sontarans to fall in with them with Jericho when he can't escape in time, and then disperses the Flux completely by trapping in the Passenger. With their plans for the Flux rendered useless, Swarm and Azure are devoured by the embodiment of Time, who warns the Doctor of her impending regeneration. With everyone parting ways, the Doctor and Yaz invite Dan onboard the TARDIS, just as the Doctor hides the Chameleon Arch containing her stolen memories in the TARDIS for another day.

Search for the Flor de la Mar[[edit source]]

Set one week after The Vanquishers from Dan's perspective, with the Doctor finally managing to repair the Flux's corruption to the TARDIS. Dan encounters the Daleks for the first time, and realises that Yaz has romantic feelings for the Doctor, but is unable to get the Doctor to clarify her own feelings on the matter. After escaping a squad of Dalek Executioners with a time loop, the Doctor decides to investigate the lost treasure of the Flor de la Mar.
With the Doctor still searching for the lost treasure of the Flor de la Mar, the TARDIS is knocked "four centuries off [course]", landing at a village in 1807 China that is being attacked by Sea Devils. The TARDIS team learn that the Flor de la Mar was stolen by the Sea Devils, and team up with Madam Ching to stop them flooding the Earth. Yaz hears about River Song for the first time, and she and the Doctor discuss their feelings, deciding to maintain their platonic friendship, as the Doctor makes a wish that her adventures "[could] go on forever." Dan gets back in contact with Diane for the first time since The Vanquishers, which feels like a long time ago for him.[quote 13]

Wishing for forever[[edit source]]

The Doctor, Yaz and Dan attend a pantomime production of Cinderella, where they encounter a Genie.
Dan wonders if a Genie could open a portal for him, suggesting a setting shortly after It's Behind You!.
The Doctor takes Yaz and Dan to a beach, suggesting a setting after Legend of the Sea Devils. A pair of psychic spectacles foreshadows the Doctor, Yaz and Dan encountering a giant wasp in the future.
Set directly after Fear of the Future, with Yaz recalling their trip to the beach, and, upon arriving at their next destination, the TARDIS team encounter giant wasps. The TARDIS interior is not damaged, setting this after Eve of the Daleks. Dan has his own TARDIS key.
The Doctor and Yaz are traveling with Dan, with no indication of the Flux, setting this at least after The Vanquishers. Dan learns about the Master for the first time, and also visits Mars and encounters the Ice Warriors for the first time.

Infected with a psychic virus[[edit source]]

(REFERENCE)
The Doctor takes her friends, presumably Yaz and Dan, on a trip to the Unmarked Purlieus, and inadvertently brings a psychic virus back with her that slowly removes everyone who's ever come into contact with her from reality, starting with her current travelling companions. (AUDIO: Salvation)
The Doctor sends out a message to the people of Earth, warning them of the psychic virus.
The Doctor seeks out the help of three podcasters, named Cleo Proctor, Abby McPhail and Shawna Thompson, when her friends and allies on Earth are being redacted from reality in the year 2022.
The Doctor makes contact with Cleo and tries to tell her to find Madame Vastra. She is aware that UNIT is operational, suggesting a setting after The Vanquishers.
The Doctor makes contact with Cleo again in order to inform her not to touch the ghosts being created by the redactions.
The Doctor is able to reverse the redaction with the help of Cleo, and then makes plans to reunite with her friends and clean up the mess the redaction has caused on other worlds.

Final adventures[[edit source]]

The Doctor is currently travelling with Yaz and Dan, and recalls the events of Legend of the Sea Devils. She believes that she will soon discover the truth about her past involvement with the Division, but worries that it will result in the end of her, so she compiles a series of notes to help her next incarnation through their post-regeneration trauma.
On the way to dropping off Dan for a date with Diane, the TARDIS answers a distress call from a Toraji Transport Network bullet train being robbed by the CyberMasters, and Dan decides to stay in Liverpool after a brush with death on the train, just as the Doctor is contacted by a Dalek warning her of a Dalek plot and the TARDIS alerts her to the CyberMasters' Cyber-conversion planet being powered by a captive Qurunx in 1916. Despite the events of At Childhood's End, the Doctor encounters Ace for the first time in her current incarnation, and is also reunited with Tegan Jovanka, when Kate summons her and Yaz to UNIT to deal with the Master, who the Doctor encounters for the first time since The Timeless Children. However, it soon proves to a trap conducted by the Master with the Daleks and CyberMasters, and the Doctor undergoes a forced regeneration that is hijacked by the Master. While she dithers at the Edge of Existence in her mind, the Holo-Doctor she left behind organises her friends, with help from Graham and Vinder, into undoing the Master's plan and degenerate him back into the Doctor. However, as she frees the Qurunx, the Master is able to force it into striking the Doctor, triggering her regeneration. After saying her goodbyes to Yaz and leaving her on 2022 Earth, the Doctor regenerates into her next incarnation on a cliffside.
Set during The Power of the Doctor, with the Doctor reflects on her life as she prepares to regenerate.
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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. ↑ DOCTOR: "I appreciate how much you've looked after us, but my ship is very valuable. It's also my home, our home, and I'm worried about leaving it here on a junk planet where people come and scavenge. I might never see it again, and I've only just got it back."
  2. ↑ GRAHAM: "Reminds me of you when you were younger. When I say "younger", I mean "last month"."
  3. ↑ DOCTOR: "Can't get the hang of these new systems."
  4. ↑ YAZ: "Might get you out of your mardy mood."
    DOCTOR: "My mood's fine!"
  5. ↑ "Well..." She considered. "It'd be far easier than imagining that I'd drop everything and hurl myself into a parallel dimension just to be kind. That'd be ridiculous."
  6. ↑ "The secret to being me is that I've never ran away. I've never been afraid. I can't afford to be, that's what being the Doctor is all about. Don't you think?" "Isn't it just."
  7. ↑ "Well then... I should probably find my friends." "Oh, I know the feeling," the woman said. She looked back over her shoulder.
  8. ↑ SONYA: "So, can you say where you've been, where they sent you?"
    YAZ: "Madagascar. California. Hong Kong. Gloucester."
  9. ↑ DOCTOR: "Oh! Who am I supposed to share all the interesting stuff with?"
  10. ↑ DOCTOR: "Mostly... angry. While I was locked away, all I kept thinking was, if I'm not who I thought I was, then who am I?"
  11. ↑ YAZ: "I'm Yaz. Yasmin Khan. Formerly PC Yasmin Khan of Hallamshire Police."
  12. ↑ YAZ: "Oh, well, if we're going formal, Serving Officer Khan, Hallamshire Police, Earth Division, at yours."
  13. ↑ DAN: "Di? It's me. Long time, no speak. Well, it feels like a long time for me anyway."


Footnotes[[edit source]]

  1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/doctorwho/comments/dwqv6p/comment/f7kuaa6
  2. ↑ It is deliberately left ambiguous as to whether the incarnation in this story is the Thirteenth Doctor or the Fugitive Doctor.
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