Theory:Timeline - Bernice Summerfield

This page lists the appearances of Bernice Summerfield in the order in which she experienced them

While most of Bernice Summerfield's experiences are relatively linear and comparable to story order there are several stories, notably in Big Finish Productions' stories and latterly some of their audio stories that take place at varrying points throughout Bernice's life.

Limiting factors
Bernice first meets the Seventh Doctor and Ace in PROSE: Love and War, she concludes regular TARDIS travel with him in Happy Endings though she does meet the Doctor in other stories after this.

The Eighth Doctor drops Bernice off on Dellah at the end of The Dying Days.

Series basics
Bernice Summerfield's stories can be broadly divided up by publisher and who (if anyone) she shared the story with.


 * Virgin New Adventures, the series she debuted into alongside the Seventh Doctor and Ace in Love and War.
 * DWM comics, these were published at the same time as the novels and feature the Seventh Doctor, Bernice and Ace based on their appearances within the books.


 * Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures, the series of books that continued after Virgin lost the Doctor Who licence, these stories featured Bernice Summerfield in the main character role and continued her adventures after she was dropped off on Dellah by the Eighth Doctor in The Dying Days.
 * Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series, these prose stories and audio stories feature Bernice Summerfield after her solo Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures.

Timeline

 * PROSE: Biology Lesson on Mal Oreille
 * Bernice is seven years old.


 * PROSE: The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam
 * Bernice is eight years old.


 * PROSE: The Tunnels to Heaven
 * Bernices is thirteen years old.


 * PROSE: Genius Loci
 * PROSE: The Ship of Painted Shadows
 * Preceding stories set in 2562.


 * PROSE: Prime Five
 * Bernice is twenty-three years old.


 * PROSE: Postcards from the Edge of Reason
 * Bernice is working as a journalist.


 * PROSE: The Badblood Diaries
 * Bernice is still working as a journalist, story set in 2565.


 * PROSE: Possum Kingdom (2565 portion)
 * PROSE: Thirty Love
 * PROSE: Love and War
 * PROSE: Transit
 * PROSE: The Highest Science
 * PROSE: The Pit
 * COMIC: Pureblood
 * COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks
 * Both comics feature only the Seventh Doctor and Bernice. Must take place before Deceit.


 * PROSE: Deceit
 * PROSE: Lucifer Rising
 * PROSE: White Darkness
 * PROSE: Shadowmind
 * PROSE: Birthright
 * PROSE: Blood Heat
 * PROSE: The Dimension Riders
 * PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird
 * PROSE: Conundrum
 * PROSE: No Future
 * PROSE: Tragedy Day
 * PROSE: Legacy
 * PROSE: Theatre of War
 * PROSE: All-Consuming Fire
 * AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge
 * AUDIO: The Dark Flame
 * The Big Finish pages for The Shadow of the Scourge and The Dark Flame places them after All-Consuming Fire and before Blood Harvest.


 * PROSE: Blood Harvest
 * PROSE: Strange England
 * PROSE: First Frontier
 * PROSE: St Anthony's Fire
 * PROSE: Falls the Shadow
 * PROSE: Parasite
 * PROSE: Warlock
 * PROSE: Set Piece
 * PROSE: Infinite Requiem
 * PROSE: Sanctuary
 * PROSE: Human Nature
 * PROSE: Original Sin
 * PROSE: Sky Pirates!
 * PROSE: Zamper
 * PROSE: Toy Soldiers
 * PROSE: Head Games
 * PROSE: The Also People
 * PROSE: Shakedown
 * PROSE: Just War
 * PROSE: Warchild
 * PROSE: Sleepy
 * PROSE: Death and Diplomacy
 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Bernice and Jason's wedding.


 * PROSE: Possum Kingdom (2579 portion)
 * PROSE: Return of the Living Dad
 * PROSE: So Vile a Sin
 * PROSE: Eternity Weeps
 * Bernice and Jason divorce.


 * PROSE: The Dying Days
 * Bernice is dropped on Dellah by the Eighth Doctor


 * PROSE: Oh No It Isn't!
 * PROSE: Dragons' Wrath
 * AUDIO: Disassembled
 * Set during the events of Dragon's Wrath.


 * PROSE: Beyond the Sun
 * PROSE: Ship of Fools
 * PROSE: Down
 * PROSE: Deadfall
 * PROSE: Ghost Devices
 * PROSE: Mean Streets
 * PROSE: Tempest
 * PROSE: Walking to Babylon
 * PROSE: Oblivion
 * PROSE: The Medusa Effect
 * PROSE: Dry Pilgrimage
 * PROSE: The Sword of Forever
 * PROSE: Another Girl, Another Planet
 * PROSE: Beige Planet Mars
 * PROSE: Where Angels Fear
 * PROSE: The Mary-Sue Extrusion
 * PROSE: Tears of the Oracle
 * PROSE: Return to the Fractured Planet
 * PROSE: The Joy Device
 * PROSE: Twilight of the Gods
 * PROSE: The Doomsday Manuscript


 * AUDIO: The Secret of Cassandra


 * PROSE: The Gods of the Underworld
 * PROSE: The Squire's Crystal


 * AUDIO: The Stone's Lament
 * AUDIO: The Extinction Event


 * PROSE: The Infernal Nexus


 * AUDIO: The Skymines of Karthos


 * PROSE: The Glass Prison


 * AUDIO: The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy
 * AUDIO: The Green-Eyed Monsters
 * AUDIO: The Plague Herds of Excelis
 * AUDIO: The Dance of the Dead
 * AUDIO: The Mirror Effect
 * AUDIO: The Bellotron Incident
 * AUDIO: The Draconian Rage
 * AUDIO: The Poison Seas
 * AUDIO: Death and the Daleks
 * PROSE: ...Be Forgot
 * Set shortly after Death and the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: The Grel Escape
 * AUDIO: The Bone of Contention
 * AUDIO: The Relics of Jegg-Sau
 * AUDIO: The Masquerade of Death
 * AUDIO: The Heart's Desire
 * AUDIO: The Kingdom of the Blind
 * AUDIO: The Lost Museum
 * AUDIO: The Goddess Quandary
 * AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus
 * AUDIO: The Tartarus Gate
 * AUDIO: Timeless Passages
 * AUDIO: The Worst Thing in the World
 * AUDIO: Summer of Love
 * AUDIO: The Oracle of Delphi
 * AUDIO: The Empire State
 * AUDIO: The Tub Full of Cats
 * AUDIO: The Judas Gift
 * AUDIO: Freedom of Information
 * AUDIO: The End of the World
 * AUDIO: The Final Amendment
 * AUDIO: The Wake
 * AUDIO: Beyond the Sea
 * AUDIO: The Adolescence of Time
 * AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel
 * AUDIO: The Diet of Worms
 * AUDIO: Glory Days
 * AUDIO: Absence
 * AUDIO: Venus Mantrap
 * AUDIO: Secret Origins
 * WC: Dead and Buried
 * Leads into Resurrecting the Past.


 * AUDIO: Resurrecting the Past
 * AUDIO: Escaping the Future
 * AUDIO: Year Zero
 * AUDIO: Dead Man's Switch
 * AUDIO: The Kraken's Lament
 * AUDIO: The Temple of Questions
 * AUDIO: Private Enemy No. 1
 * AUDIO: Judgement Day
 * AUDIO: Brand Management
 * AUDIO: Bad Habits
 * AUDIO: Paradise Frost
 * AUDIO: Vesuvius Falling
 * AUDIO: Shades of Gray
 * AUDIO: Everybody Loves Irving
 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns
 * AUDIO: A Handful of Dust
 * AUDIO: HMS Surprise
 * AUDIO: The Curse of Fenman
 * AUDIO: Big Dig
 * AUDIO: The Revenant's Carnival
 * AUDIO: The Brimstone Kid
 * AUDIO: The Winning Side
 * AUDIO: In Living Memory
 * AUDIO: The Revolution
 * AUDIO: Good Night, Sweet Ladies
 * AUDIO: Random Ghosts
 * AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro
 * PROSE: Big Bang Generation
 * Bernice says that she last met the Doctor in his seventh incarnation on Skaro.


 * AUDIO: The Pyramid of Sutekh
 * WC: Transmission from Mars


 * AUDIO: The Vaults of Osiris
 * AUDIO: The Eye of Horus
 * AUDIO: The Tears of Isis


 * PROSE: Predating Predators
 * Bernice is an old woman.

Unplaced

 * PROSE: The Big Hunt
 * PROSE: The Tree of Life
 * PROSE: The Two Jasons
 * PROSE: The Weather on Versimmon


 * PROSE: The Trials of Tara
 * PROSE: Question Mark Pyjamas
 * PROSE: Continuity Errors
 * PROSE: The Judgement of Solomon


 * PROSE: Virgin Lands
 * PROSE: Cold War
 * PROSE: Of the Mermaid and Jupiter
 * PROSE: Too Rich for My Blood
 * PROSE: How You Get There


 * PROSE: A Question of Identity
 * PROSE: Steal from the World
 * PROSE: The Light that Never Dies
 * PROSE: Heart of Glass
 * PROSE: The Monster and the Archaeologists
 * PROSE: Step Back in Time
 * PROSE: Christmas Spirit
 * PROSE: The Door into Bedlam
 * PROSE: The Least Important Man
 * PROSE: Digging up the Past
 * PROSE: The Shape of the Hole
 * PROSE: Kill the Mouse!
 * PROSE: Solar Max and the Seven-Handed Snake-Mother
 * PROSE: A Mutual Friend
 * PROSE: Alien Planets and You
 * PROSE: Something Broken
 * PROSE: The Collection
 * PROSE: Setting Stone
 * PROSE: Time's Team
 * PROSE: Beedlemania
 * PROSE: The All-Seeing Eye
 * PROSE: And Then Again
 * PROSE: Cuckoo
 * PROSE: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
 * PROSE: Squadborronfell
 * PROSE: Taken by the Muses
 * PROSE: The Spartacus Syndrome
 * PROSE: Might
 * PROSE: Paydirt
 * PROSE: Dear Friend
 * PROSE: The Fall
 * PROSE: Careless Talk
 * PROSE: The Birthday Party
 * PROSE: Five Dimensional Thinking
 * PROSE: Meanwhile, in a Small Room, a Small Boy...
 * PROSE: The Price of Everything
 * PROSE: Hit
 * PROSE: The Garden of Whispers
 * PROSE: The Crystal Flower
 * PROSE: Midrash
 * PROSE: Fear of Corners
 * PROSE: The Traitors
 * PROSE: Paths Not Taken
 * PROSE: Every Picture Tells a Story
 * PROSE: Fluid Prejudice
 * PROSE: Suffer the Children
 * PROSE: Drinking with the Enemy
 * PROSE: Passing Storms
 * PROSE: Speaking Out
 * PROSE: The Peter Principle
 * PROSE: A Bell Ringing in an Empty Sky
 * PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 1
 * PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 2
 * PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 3
 * PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 4
 * PROSE: Misplaced Spring
 * PROSE: Welcome to the Machine
 * PROSE: Final Draft
 * PROSE: Against Gardens
 * PROSE: A Summer Affair
 * PROSE: Denial
 * PROSE: Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants
 * PROSE: The Blame of the Nose
 * PROSE: Reparation
 * PROSE: Nothing Up My Sleeve
 * PROSE: Buried Alive
 * PROSE: There Never Need Be Longing In Your Eyes
 * PROSE: Mentioning the War
 * PROSE: Fragments
 * PROSE: Inappropriate Laughter
 * PROSE: Siege Mentality
 * PROSE: Dead Mice
 * PROSE: Acts of Senseless Devotion
 * PROSE: Walking Backwards for Christmas
 * PROSE: Match of the Deity
 * PROSE: Night of the Living Martian
 * PROSE: TheGodGene
 * PROSE: A Murderous Desire
 * PROSE: Back and There Again
 * PROSE: One of My Turns
 * PROSE: The Ice Garden
 * PROSE: Family Man
 * PROSE: After Life
 * PROSE: Work in Progress
 * PROSE: The Tears of Laughter
 * PROSE: Perspectives: Tribal Reservations
 * PROSE: Outside the Wall
 * PROSE: Key
 * PROSE: The Inconstant Gallery
 * PROSE: Perspectives: Quire as Folk
 * PROSE: Cabinets of Curiosities
 * PROSE: Anightintheninthage
 * PROSE: Grey's Anatomy
 * PROSE: The Tree that Was
 * PROSE: Perspectives: Forging a Bond
 * PROSE: The Two-Level Effect
 * PROSE: Let There Be Stars
 * PROSE: Sleeptalking
 * PROSE: Perspectives: Intermissions
 * PROSE: False Security
 * PROSE: The Painting on the Stair
 * PROSE: The Cost for a Collection
 * PROSE: Lock
 * PROSE: Perspectives: The Injured Party
 * PROSE: Mother's Ruin
 * PROSE: Future Relations
 * PROSE: Mother's Ruin
 * PROSE: Future Relations
 * PROSE: Benny and Louise
 * PROSE: Prime Five
 * PROSE: Home
 * PROSE: The Slight Façade
 * PROSE: Bernice Summerfield and the Library of Books
 * PROSE: Postcards from the Edge of Reason
 * PROSE: Blood on the Tracks
 * PROSE: Thirty Love
 * PROSE: A Game of Soldiers
 * PROSE: Cooker Island
 * PROSE: A Gallery of Pigeons
 * PROSE: The Firing Squad
 * PROSE: You Shouldn't Have
 * PROSE: The Illuminated Man
 * PROSE: Redacted
 * PROSE: The Song of Old Man Bunyip
 * PROSE: Turn the Light On


 * PROSE: Zardox Break
 * PROSE: The Purpura Pawn
 * PROSE:  On Trial
 * PROSE: The Serpent's Tooth
 * PROSE: Hiding Places
 * PROSE: Jason and the Pirates
 * PROSE: The Ship of Painted Shadows
 * PROSE: Cheating the Reaper
 * PROSE:  The Soul's Prism
 * PROSE: All Mimsy Were the Borogroves
 * PROSE: The Loyal Left Hand
 * PROSE: Nursery Politics
 * PROSE: The Badblood Diaries
 * PROSE: Possum Kingdom
 * PROSE: Predating the Predators


 * AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor
 * AUDIO: Benny's Story
 * AUDIO: Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code


 * AUDIO: Oh No It Isn't!
 * AUDIO: Beyond the Sun
 * AUDIO: Walking to Babylon
 * AUDIO: Birthright
 * AUDIO: Just War
 * AUDIO: Dragons' Wrath


 * AUDIO: Silver Lining
 * AUDIO: Buried Treasures


 * COMIC: Final Genesis
 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * COMIC: Cuckoo
 * COMIC: The Last Word


 * COMIC: Flashback
 * COMIC: Younger and Wiser