Theory:Timeline - Vicki Pallister

This page lists appearances of Vicki Pallister 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, much like its TV story counterparts that for each novel, comic story and audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. This does not apply to short stories which are often ambiguous about their placement. There are also many gaps between stories.

The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who Reference Guide and Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as information in Lance Parkin's AHistory which allow us to make observations on placement of stories, such as Doctor Who Reviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Databank, the Big Finish forums, The Whoniverse and the Divergent Universe forums. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Additionally there are statements on the back of Virgin Missing Adventures and BBC Past Doctor Adventures novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, and should be viewed as the only placing for these novels.

Adventures with Barbara and Ian

 * TV: The Rescue
 * The Doctor is still adjusting to Susan's absences, absentmindedly calling out to her when the TARDIS arrives on Dido, where he rescues a young girl named Vicki from the clutches of Koquillion. In agreement with Ian and Barbara, the Doctor invites Vicki to join them aboard the TARDIS. After leaving Dido, the TARDIS materialises on a cliff and topples over the edge.


 * PROSE: Romans Cutaway
 * Set immediately after The Rescue, with the TARDIS crew recovering from the fall and realising they have arrived in Italy in 64 AD. They agree to look after the villa of Flavius Giscard after its caretaker, Lucius, is killed by a lion, setting the scene for The Romans.


 * PROSE: Byzantium!
 * In an alternative account, also set directly after The Rescue, the TARDIS instead materialises in Thrace, near the city of Byzantium on 14 March 64. The Doctor left Gallifrey sixty years ago, while Barbara and Ian have been travelling with the Doctor for "a year or more". Vicki is fourteen-years-old. After the TARDIS crew are separated for over two weeks, they discover that the TARDIS has been taken to Rome by Germanicus Vinicius and set off to retrieve it, again setting the scene for The Romans.


 * TV: The Romans
 * Having stayed at the villa for nearly a month, the TARDIS crew eventually find themselves in the city of Rome, before returning to the villa and departing in the TARDIS. The Doctor accidentally inspires Nero to burn down Rome.


 * PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger
 * The Doctor is trying to make the shortest journey possible away from Rome, setting this directly after dematerialising at the end of The Romans. They instead arrive in Guangzhou in 1865. The TARDIS crew change into casual gear, despite the epilogue of The Romans showing them still wearing their Roman regalia immediately before the events of The Web Planet. Ian and Barbara have been traveling in the TARDIS for two years, and Barbara proposes that she and Ian should marry each other if they ever return home.


 * AUDIO: Starborn
 * In an alternative account, also set immediately after leaving Rome, Vicki is about to tell Barbara about her experiences in Rome when they land in London in the early 20th century, They then visit an unnamed planet in the distant past, not getting out of their Roman clothing throughout the adventure.


 * ( EPILOGUE )
 * Vicki recounts her experiences in Rome to Ian and Barbara, who decide to change out of their Roman clothes. Meanwhile, the TARDIS is pulled towards a planet by an unknown force. (TV: The Romans)


 * TV: The Web Planet
 * Following directly on from the last scene of The Romans, the TARDIS is forced to land on Vortis by the Animus. The Doctor is aware of Vortis, but his comments leave it vague as to whether or not he has visited the planet before. He has at least heard of the Menoptera, and claims to have little to no understanding of the Zarbi to Ian.


 * AUDIO: The Dark Planet
 * Set between The Web Planet and The Crusade, according to the production codes. Looking at the scanner shortly after arriving on Noumeia, Barbara notes that they've arrived on "another desert", suggesting a setting directly after The Web Planet.


 * AUDIO: The Fifth Traveller
 * The TARDIS crew encounter Jospa, who in inserts himself into the memories of their past trips; Barbara recalls him being with them at Vortis, Rome, and "everywhere", while Ian also remembers him being in Byzantium and China. The fact that they don't mention any adventures after Vortis suggests a setting shortly after The Web Planet.


 * PROSE: White Man's Burden: Part Two
 * The TARDIS lands in Natal in 1877, but the Doctor contracts a fever. While he recovers, Barbara and Ian journey to Pretoria for a few days.


 * AUDIO: 1963
 * The TARDIS finally arrives in London on 23 November 1963, but the crew find time to be frozen. The Doctor discovers it is because of a fault with the TARDIS, which is only fixed upon their departure.


 * AUDIO: The Rocket Men
 * Set between The Web Planet and The Crusade, according to a continuity note on the Big Finish website.


 * COMIC: Unnatural Selection
 * Sequel story to The Web Planet. After helping Thomas Huxley fight off the Animus and the Zarbi, Ian, Barbara and Vicki are kidnapped by Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame.


 * COMIC: The Choice
 * Barbara, Ian and Vicki have been captured by Adam Mitchell and.


 * COMIC: Endgame
 * Ian, Barbara and Vicki are rescued from Adam and the Master.


 * TV: The Crusade
 * The TARDIS crew visit the Holy Land in the 1190s, where Ian is knighted as "Sir Ian of Jaffa" by King Richard I of England. Barbara recalls the recent events of The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Romans and The Web Planet. The Doctor has Vicki pretend to be a boy named "Victor". As they slip away from Jaffa, the TARDIS stops working, leading directly into The Space Museum.


 * TV: The Space Museum
 * After the TARDIS crew escape a time track and help the Xerons to defeat the Moroks on Xeros, the Doctor acquires a Time-Space Visualiser from the Space Museum. Vicki has not yet encountered a Dalek, but knows of them from history books. Unbeknownst to the Doctor, the TARDIS is observed departing Xeros by Pursuer-Daleks, who make plans to begin chasing them, setting up the events of The Chase.


 * PROSE: The Plotters
 * The TARDIS crew become embroiled in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Vicki is once again dressed up as a boy by the Doctor, setting this after The Crusade.


 * AUDIO: The Sleeping City
 * Ian recalls the events of The Crusade.


 * AUDIO: The Unwinding World
 * The TARDIS crew spend three months in a human colony. Barbara hides between "archival building stacks" Q and R, which were the production codes of The Space Museum and The Chase, respectively, suggesting an in-joke to the placement of this story.


 * PROSE: All I Want for Christmas
 * Barbara and Ian recall the events of The Romans, and wonder if they will find their way home soon, suggesting an intended setting shortly before The Chase by the author.


 * AUDIO: Daybreak
 * Despite the events of Room for Improvement, the Doctor claims that their visit to 23rd century Unitaria is the furthest Ian and Barbara have visited Earth in the future. Vicki recalls the events of The Space Museum.


 * AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale
 * The TARDIS crew spend several weeks in 1400 England. After returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor decides to begin working on the Time-Space Visualiser, setting this shortly before Every Day.


 * PROSE: Every Day
 * The Doctor has been working on the Time-Space Visualiser for hours, setting this between The The Doctor's Tale and The Chase.


 * TV: The Chase
 * The Doctor is able to get the Time-Space Visualiser working. The TARDIS crew visits Aridius, only to find that they are being chased by the Daleks in their time machine as revenge for their past defeats. Whilst evading the Daleks, the TARDIS crew visits the Empire State Building in 1966, the Mary Celeste in 1872 and the Festival of Ghana, before finally confronting them on Mechanus, where they free spaceship pilot Steven Taylor from the Mechanoids. After the Daleks are defeated, Ian and Barbara use the Dalek time machine to finally return to 1960s, after two years of travel with the Doctor.

Joined by Steven

 * TV: The Time Meddler
 * Set immediately after The Chase, with the Doctor and Vicki finding Steven in the TARDIS shortly after saying goodbye to Ian and Barbara. The Doctor invites Steven to remain aboard, and the trio battles with the First Monk for the first time in 1066 Northumbria.


 * COMIC: Are You Listening?
 * Vicki and Steven are still wearing their outfits from The Time Meddler.


 * AUDIO: The Suffering
 * Steven mutters that his last meal was in 1066, and is still getting used to time travel etiquette, setting this shortly after The Time Meddler.


 * AUDIO: Frostfire
 * Vicki mentions that Steven has only recently joined the TARDIS crew.


 * AUDIO:  The Secret History
 * The Doctor is switched with his fifth incarnation by . Steven has not yet been given a TARDIS key, setting this before The Empire of Glass.


 * AUDIO: Upstairs
 * The Doctor mentions that everywhere the TARDIS arrives can't be a fun fair, alluding to the events of Frostfire.


 * AUDIO: The Bounty of Ceres
 * The Doctor is experimenting with the component he stole from the Monk's TARDIS in The Time Meddler.


 * PROSE: The Empire of Glass
 * Set immediately after The Three Doctors, with the Doctor being returned from the Omega crisis with his memory of the events wiped. Vicki recalls the recent events of The Time Meddler.


 * AUDIO: The Dalek Occupation of Winter
 * Steven has only recently started traveling with the Doctor and Vicki, setting this shortly after The Time Meddler.


 * AUDIO: An Ideal World
 * Authorial intent places this directly after The Dalek Occupation of Winter.


 * AUDIO: Entanglement
 * Authorial intent places this directly after An Ideal World.


 * AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201
 * Authorial intent places this directly after Entanglement.


 * AUDIO: The Ravelli Conspiracy


 * AUDIO: Fields of Terror
 * Time briefly becomes distorted.


 * AUDIO: The Light at the End
 * The Doctor, Steven and Vicki briefly encounter an apparition of a Charley Pollard from an alternate timeline.


 * AUDIO: Etheria


 * PROSE: Corridors of Power


 * PROSE: The Schoolboy's Story


 * AUDIO: Across the Darkened City
 * Time briefly becomes distorted.


 * PROSE: The Long Step Backward


 * PROSE: Snowman in Manhattan


 * PROSE: Mars
 * Vicki thinks to herself that she's not a child anymore.


 * PROSE: The Power Supply


 * AUDIO: The Founding Fathers


 * TV: Galaxy 4
 * Vicki injures her ankle, leading directly into The Myth Makers.


 * PROSE: Planet of the Bunnoids
 * The Doctor tells the brain-creature that Vicki and Steven have faced Daleks, Vikings and Chumblies.


 * TV: The Myth Makers
 * Vicki is still recovering from her ankle injury, setting this shortly after Galaxy 4. She leaves the TARDIS to stay in Ancient Greece with Troilus, and the Doctor and Steven are joined by Katarina. Ending leads directly into The Daleks' Master Plan.

After the Doctor

 * PROSE: Apocrypha Bipedium
 * Vicki and Troilus have fled the fall of Troy together and are planning to settle down. Vicki is still getting used to living in the ancient past, setting this shortly after The Myth Makers. She encounters the Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard and Wilf. Vicki plans to move with Troilus to England. However these events took place during the Anti-time crisis, so they may have been reversed later.


 * AUDIO: Frostfire
 * Set in 1164 BC Carthage. Vicki's travels with the Doctor were "so long ago".


 * WC: The Storyteller
 * Vicki tells stories of her travels with the Doctor to her granddaughter Sophia while out walking.


 * TV: Tales of the TARDIS: The Time Meddler
 * Vicki is reunited with Steven inside a memory TARDIS and they recall the events of The Time Meddler. Vicki has settled down as a farmer with Troilus and has children and grandchildren. She laments having never seen the Doctor again after The Myth Makers, leading to her and Steven using the power of the memory TARDIS to summon the First Doctor.