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This page lists appearances of the Seventh 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, much like its TV story counterparts that for each novel or 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 Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as The Whoniverse, Doctor Who Reviews, Doc Oho's Book Reviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks databanks, Whopix, the Big Finish forums and The Divergent Universe forum. 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 many BBC Past Doctor Adventures novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, but should not be viewed as the only placement for these novels.

Organisational aids
The Doctor's timeline is organised by companion, TARDIS, outfit, and personality. However, few indicators are absolute. His companions often leave and rejoin him, he switches TARDISes and TARDIS interiors multiple times, he sometimes explicitly wears the "wrong" outfit for a period, and his personality can be difficult to pin down. He's also seen removing his more "useless" memories in PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys, explaining errors in continuity he makes.

Stories where the Doctor travels alone are most often organised by personality: if he is more lighthearted, they can be placed early in his life or immediately before the end, while stories where he is more sombre are usually placed close to, but not immediately before, his death.

The Doctor switches from usually wearing his lighter jacket to usually wearing the darker one in AUDIO: 1963: The Assassination Games. His white linen suit is introduced in PROSE: White Darkness, though he might have worn it before. Stories where he wears his tweed jacket should be placed after PROSE: So Vile a Sin.

Stories where the Doctor travels in his alternate self's TARDIS take place after PROSE: Blood Heat and before PROSE: Happy Endings, but often which TARDIS he is using goes unmentioned, and what companions he is with are a more useful indicator. Stories where he travels in his black TARDIS take place after AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge and before AUDIO: Gods and Monsters. Stories where the TARDIS is white take place after AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari and before AUDIO: Gods and Monsters

Companions
Any stories where the Doctor is travelling with just Melanie Bush must take place between Time and the Rani and Dragonfire, while any story with her and Ace must follow A Life of Crime.

Any stories involving a younger Ace must take place from Dragonfire to Love and War, while any story where Ace has combat-training must take place after Deceit.

Any stories where he travels with Bernice Summerfield must take place between Love and War and Deceit, or between Set Piece and Happy Endings. Any stories where Ace and Benny's relationship is non-antagonistic must take place after No Future.

Any story with Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej as companions must take place between Original Sin and So Vile a Sin. Any story featuring just Chris as a companion must take place before Lungbarrow.

Any story where the Doctor and Ace travel with Hex must take place between The Harvest and Signs and Wonders.

Complications
The Doctor edits his more "useless" memories in Timewyrm: Genesys, which can explain anything he's forgotten from previous incarnations and adventures.

The Doctor Who Magazine comics start off with the Doctor travelling with Frobisher, who acts like Peri Brown has just departed, before he himself leaves the series. The early comics also portray the Doctor as he acted in Time and the Rani, until Nemesis of the Daleks sees him act as the manipulator he had become in the latter part of his television tenure.

Ace
Ace loses some of her memories in Timewyrm: Genesys and The Prisoner's Dilemma, which can explain anything she's forgotten from her previous travels.

Throughout their travels together, Ace continued to mature and come to terms with her past and how she coped with it. The early audios that have her and the Doctor traveling with Raine Creevy generally follow the characteristics established by the television series; an immature rebel who enjoys explosives and is often in the dark about the Doctor's plans.

In Virgin New Adventures, Ace undergoes major character development after a fallout with the Doctor. It is this version of Ace that develops with the Doctor and Bernice Summerfield in the VNA series, after returning from fighting the Daleks with Spacefleet; She often identifies herself as a soldier, and is abrasive toward the Doctor and Benny, at least until No Future, where the three resolve their differences. Ace then becomes less prone to using explosives, more dedicated to TARDIS-life, and more accepting of the Doctor's manipulative nature, until she leaves again to become Time's Vigilante.

David Bishop, when writing Enemy of the Daleks, based Ace on the combat-trained "New Ace" from the New Adventures; this potentially indicates that the audio is set after Deceit.

The biggest complication surrounding Ace is her death in Ground Zero, in which she is shown travelling with the Doctor as he is seen in Doctor Who.

TARDIS interior
Following on from The Chameleon Factor, the TARDIS is changed to a beige design and retains it for most of the Doctor's continued travels.

At some point before The Armageddon Gambit, the Seventh Doctor gained another control room, with the time rotor connected to the ceiling instead of the floor.

The Seventh Doctor had a transitional version of his Victorian parlour control room by Human Nature, as shown in the ebook art. Alternatively, in Lungbarrow the TARDIS changes into a Victorian parlour design to resemble the Doctor's family estate in the House of Lungbarrow, and retains the look into Doctor Who.

However, in The Settling, the TARDIS is redecorated by the Doctor, Ace and Hex to the Victorian parlour design seen in Doctor Who, though it reverts to the old design from Black and White to  Gods and Monsters, and is changed back again in Signs and Wonders. Also, Excelis Decays claims that the Doctor apparently built the Victorian parlour design himself.

Travels with Mel

 * TV: Time and the Rani
 * Immediately after regenerating from his previous incarnation, the Doctor is thrown into a confrontation with the Rani on Lakertya. He claims to be 953-years-old.


 * TV: Paradise Towers


 * TV: Delta and the Bannermen
 * The Doctor has replaced his whangee handled umbrella with one with a large red question mark designed handle.

Early travels with Ace

 * TV: Dragonfire
 * On Iceworld, the Doctor and Mel bump into Sabalom Glitz again, and also meet a time-displaced 16-year-old girl named Ace. While Mel leaves to travel with Glitz, the Doctor offers to let Ace travel with him in the TARDIS, and she accepts.


 * TV: Remembrance of the Daleks
 * Ace encounters the Daleks for the first time. According to Head Games, this was the first time she doubted the Doctor's motives.


 * TV: The Happiness Patrol
 * Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule.


 * TV: Silver Nemesis
 * Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Doctor Who. Ace encounters the Cybermen for the first time. The Doctor spots a chess set in Lady Peinforte's home and realises that Fenric is orchestrating events in his favour.


 * TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
 * Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, due to a delay brought about by the 1988 Olympics, explained how Ace was wearing Flowerchild's earring in Silver Nemesis, despite acquiring it during this serial.

Growing darker

 * TV: Battlefield
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. Ace meets the Brigadier for the first time in her life, while the Doctor meets him for the first time since his sixth regeneration.


 * TV: Ghost Light
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule.


 * TV: The Curse of Fenric
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, as the episode's theme fitted well with the Halloween broadcast slot. Fenric's master plan reaches its climax, but the Doctor is able to best his foe again. Ace is gifted an authentic cap insignia of the Red Army by Captain Sorin.


 * TV: Survival
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. The novelisation details how the Doctor and Ace have returned to Earth for the first time since The Curse of Fenric, which was a week before. Ace encounters for the first time on Cheetah World, and both become infected with the Cheetah virus, though Ace begins to recover by the serial's conclusion.


 * AUDIO: Thin Ice
 * This is Ace's first encounter with an Ice Warrior. The Doctor claims to have never delivered a baby before he delivers baby Raine Creevy. The Doctor tries to get Ace accepted into the Time Lord Academy, but she turns down the offer and is rejected by the Time Lords.


 * AUDIO: Crime of the Century
 * Set almost immediately after Thin Ice. After defeating the Metatraxi, the Doctor offers Raine Creevy the chance to travel in the TARDIS, which she accepts.


 * AUDIO: Animal
 * Raine's first journey is to Margrave University in 2001, where, she discovers that her father has died. Upset by the revelation, Raine decides to stay at Margrave for a short time.


 * AUDIO: Earth Aid
 * It has been some time since the Doctor and Ace last saw Raine, who decides to return to the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Stop the Pigeon
 * Ace is depicted with the same character traits she showed in Illegal Alien.


 * PROSE: Ace of Hearts
 * While Ace is asleep, the Doctor travels back in time to apologise to baby Ace for the events of Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric, and for the pain "yet to come".


 * PROSE: Illegal Alien


 * PROSE: Matrix
 * The Doctor and Ace have just left the Blitz, placing this immediately after Illegal Alien. Ace is 17-years-old. The Valeyard uses the Dark Matrix to briefly reawaken the Cheetah virus within her, presumably amplifying her continued difficulties with the virus.


 * PROSE: Storm Harvest
 * Set immediately after Matrix.


 * AUDIO: The Fearmonger
 * Ace obtains a CD Walkman from Paul Tanner.


 * AUDIO: The Genocide Machine
 * The Doctor and Ace meet Bev Tarrant.


 * PROSE: Prime Time
 * Ace refers to the recent events of Storm Harvest and The Genocide Machine. The Doctor refers to his encounter with the Master from Stop the Pigeon. The Doctor discovers Ace's future dead body, and tries to keep her out of danger, leading into Heritage.


 * PROSE: Heritage
 * It has been months since Ace went anywhere interesting and the Doctor is still paranoid about Ace's potential death. Ace hasn't yet worn her special sunglasses from the New Adventures era, setting this before Timewyrm: Genesys.


 * PROSE: Loving the Alien
 * Sequel to Illegal Alien. Set several weeks after Heritage, with the Doctor still recovering from Mel’s death. Ace is killed by George Limb, but the Doctor manipulates events so that, when Limb's plans are thwarted by James Dean, the timeline recreates itself with Ace still alive, though slightly altered.


 * PROSE: Independence Day
 * Ace has more experienced and confident, and knows more about future technology than she used too.


 * PROSE: The Algebra of Ice
 * Set "more than twenty months" before Timewyrm: Revelation.


 * PROSE: Atom Bomb Blues


 * AUDIO: Dust Breeding
 * The Doctor and Ace bump into Bev Tarrant again, after meeting her in The Genocide Machine, and she leaves with them in the TARDIS after they defeat the Master.


 * Bev travels with the Doctor and Ace for some time, before eventually being left in the 26th century. (AUDIO: The Judas Gift)


 * AUDIO: Colditz
 * At Colditz Castle during the Second World War, the Doctor and Ace are confronted by Elizabeth Klein, a scientist from an alternate timeline, who escapes her defeat as an anomaly. Ace decides to be called "McShane" from this story on, and still has the CD Walkman from The Fearmonger.


 * AUDIO: The Rapture
 * McShane references the recent events of Colditz and Dust Breeding.

Champion's end

 * PROSE: Bad Therapy
 * Set several weeks after So Vile a Sin, but nothing much has happened in the interim.


 * PROSE: Culture War


 * PROSE: The Southwell Park Mermaid
 * The Doctor and Chris have recovered from the shock of Roz' death.


 * PROSE: No Room


 * PROSE: Eternity Weeps


 * PROSE: The Room With No Doors
 * Set shortly after Eternity Weeps, with Chris still traumatised by Liz's death. The Doctor knows that "Time won't have her Champion for much longer." He thinks of his next of kin and family, leading into Lungbarrow.


 * The Doctor leaves Chris behind to take Penelope Gate and Joel Mintz back to their proper homes, and spends some time traveling on his own for a while afterwards.


 * PROSE: Bullet Time
 * Set during The Room With No Doors, when the Doctor leaves Chris and travels on his own.


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow
 * The Doctor returns to the House of Lungbarrow on Gallifrey, and also sees Ace there. Chris decides to travel alone using a Time ring given to him by Romana. The Doctor is sent on a mission by the Time Lords to pick up 's remains on Skaro, and is also given a new sonic screwdriver by Romana.


 * Many stories, such as Notre Dame du Temps and The Eleven, unambiguously establish that the Doctor did not immediately head for Skaro.

Old friends reunited

 * AUDIO: The Revolution
 * The Doctor finds Benny, and asks her to help him find Ace, who had left on Gallifrey, setting this after Lungbarrow. The Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit on the cover, but dialogue describes him in his question mark pullover.


 * AUDIO: Good Night, Sweet Ladies


 * AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro
 * Ace asks the Doctor if she can stay with him until she is ready to return to Gallifrey, and the Doctor convinces Benny to join them for a while.


 * AUDIO: The Prisoner’s Dilemma
 * The Doctor, Benny and Ace investigate a stolen Time Ring at the Trib Museum. They then monitor the thieves, Harmonious 14 Zink and his wife, 1V Magda.


 * At some point around this time, Benny leaves the TARDIS again.


 * AUDIO: The Vaults of Osiris
 * The Doctor and Ace attempt to steal the Eye of Horus from a museum in Nazi Germany, but the Doctor is transported to Egypt.


 * AUDIO: The Eye of Horus


 * AUDIO: The Tears of Isis
 * The Doctor is pulled into a time loop with Sutekh.


 * AUDIO: The Pyramid of Sutekh
 * The Doctor is disintegrated, leading Benny to believe he has died.


 * AUDIO: The Tears of Isis
 * Isis retrieves the Doctor from the time loop, causing the effect that made it appear as though he had died in The Pyramid of Sutekh.


 * The Doctor sends Ace on a mission to stop Zink and Magda discovering the secrets of a Cult before its time. She follows them to Erratoon.


 * AUDIO: The Prisoner's Dilemma
 * While on Erratoon, Ace's mind is completely wiped. She is rescued by the Doctor and he tells her that he can restore her memories. However, she does not entirely believe him and is unsure if she should trust him. Ace refers to Happy Endings and Nightshade, and vaguely remembers Benny, placing this explicitly after Set Piece. After her memory is restored, Ace worries that whole chunks of her life might be missing and she would never know.

Klein's revenge

 * AUDIO: A Thousand Tiny Wings
 * The Doctor is wearing his linen suit and is wistful about travelling alone. After reencountering Elizabeth Klein, the Doctor insists on her accompanying him on his travels so that he can keep an eye on her, knowing she will continue to pose a threat to history.


 * AUDIO: Klein's Story
 * Set immediately after A Thousand Tiny Wings. The Doctor is using the TARDIS interior from Doctor Who.


 * AUDIO: Survival of the Fittest
 * After travelling together for a while, Klein takes her chance of revenge on the Doctor by stealing his TARDIS and abandoning him on the planet of the Vrill.


 * AUDIO: The Architects of History
 * After Klein is erased from history by the Time Lords, the Doctor visits UNIT to find a different version of Klein now working there. The Doctor is beginning to show signs of ageing; his hair is depicted as tufts growing out of the side of his head.

Unfinished business

 * AUDIO: Return of the Daleks
 * The Doctor spends a couple of decades in the Daleks' prison, presumably leaving him with his aged appearance from Doctor Who, and setting all stories with the older-looking Doctor after this one.


 * COMIC: Ground Zero
 * The Doctor is older looking and traveling with a teenaged Ace. Ace is killed and the TARDIS's white interior is damaged, with the intent being that it is about to change into the Victorian parlour interior seen in Doctor Who. Any placement for this story will be contentious because of Ace's apparent death, though it is revealed in Sometime Never... that the Council of Eight were attempting to eliminate the Doctor's past companions, but they were thwarted by the Eighth Doctor, resulting in the restoration of multiple timelines and free will to the Universe.


 * AUDIO: Last of the Titans
 * The Doctor is alone and refers to his "younger days." He is sadder than in earlier stories, setting this before his renewed sense of happiness in The Eight Doctors.


 * AUDIO: Excelis Decays
 * The TARDIS interior has been changed recently, and the Doctor is portrayed with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who.


 * AUDIO: Project: Lazarus
 * Set after Excelis Decays, with the Doctor presented as older looking. He briefly considers returning to Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: A Death in the Family
 * The Doctor traps Nobody No-One inside his head, but, after his younger self is killed, he "burns out of existence" when time catches up to him.


 * AUDIO: Master
 * The Doctor uses the alias "Vaughn Sutton", setting this after Excelis Decays. He also makes vague references to Benny, Chris and Roz, placing this after Original Sin as well. The Doctor has just "burned back into existence", setting this immediately after A Death in the Family.


 * AUDIO: The Wormery
 * The Doctor sombrely reflects on himself cleaning up after his younger self.


 * PROSE: Monitor
 * The Doctor is serving on a medical ship, saving lives, in order to atone for his recent actions, which is possibly a reference to Love and War, or Master. Given the amount of time the Doctor has spent on the ship, the latter seems the most plausible.


 * PROSE: Inmate 280
 * The Doctor has stopped believing in the efficacy of imprisonment, setting this late in his life. He also starts a prison riot without thinking about the resulting injuries that will be caused because of it.


 * PROSE: The Tramp's Story
 * The Doctor thinks back to his recent failures in Excelis Decays, Project: Lazarus and Master.


 * PROSE: Perfect Present
 * The Doctor has had many solo adventures by this point.


 * PROSE: Testament
 * The Doctor refers to the events of Log 384 as happening a long time ago.


 * PROSE: The Hunting of the Slook
 * The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room. The grey men begin tracking the Doctor in time, and finally locate him during his eighth incarnation, suggesting that this takes near the end of his seventh incarnation.


 * AUDIO: Valhalla
 * The Doctor is portrayed with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who.


 * AUDIO: Frozen Time
 * The Doctor is portrayed with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who.


 * PROSE: Peaceable Kingdom


 * PROSE: Clean-up on Aisle Two
 * The Doctor has abandoned his manipulative ways, and helps someone else realises how such ways only results in everyone leaving him when it matters.


 * AUDIO: Kingdom of Silver
 * The Doctor is portrayed with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who.


 * AUDIO: Keepsake
 * Set after Kingdom of Silver.


 * PROSE: Policy to Invade
 * The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room.


 * PROSE: The Shopping Trolleys of Doom


 * PROSE: Running on Empty


 * PROSE: Stolen Days


 * PROSE: Christmas in Toronto


 * PROSE: The Celestial Harmony Engine


 * PROSE: Twilight's End
 * The Doctor and Nimrod refer to the events of Project: Lazarus.


 * AUDIO: Dominion
 * Raine Creevy is travelling with an older Doctor, and Ace is on Gallifrey. The TARDIS is using its Victorian parlour console room.

Search for the Persuasion machine

 * AUDIO: Persuasion
 * Set after Dominion, with the TARDIS control room having the Victorian parlour console room design from Doctor Who. The Doctor is nearing the end of his current life, and has been trying to eradicate evil before his end.


 * AUDIO: Starlight Robbery


 * AUDIO: Daleks Among Us

Nearing the end

 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * After having a "mid-life crisis" whilst dealing with his loneliness and approaching death, the Doctor is inspired to enjoy the time he has left after being rescued from an Eight Leg by his successor, who warns him that the events of Doctor Who will happen "soon". He then makes plans to reconfigure the TARDIS interior into "something more gothic". He isn’t depicted wearing a brown sports jacket, checked trousers and his question-mark pullover.


 * PROSE: Companion Piece
 * The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room, and has a premonition of his upcoming death, though he doesn't recognise it as such.


 * AUDIO: The Two Masters
 * The Doctor is using the Victorian parlour console room, and recognises from Dominion.


 * COMIC: The Lost Dimension
 * The Doctor is illustrated with the aged appearance and clothing he had in Doctor Who, and is using the Victorian parlour console room.


 * AUDIO: The Eleven
 * After managing to capture the Eleven, the Doctor is cryptically informed of a task he has to complete for the High Council. This is presumably the task he was given in Lungbarrow, to retrieve 's remains from Skaro, setting this immediately prior to Doctor Who.


 * TV: Doctor Who
 * Transporting the Master's remains from Skaro to Gallifrey, the Doctor is shot in a San Francisco gang shootout. Taken to Walker General Hospital by Chang Lee, the Doctor dies when Dr. Grace Holloway's exploratory surgery damages his circulatory system. Despite the anaesthesia halting the process, the Doctor is able to regenerate into his next incarnation several hours later.