Theory:Timeline - Sixth Doctor

This page lists appearances of the Sixth Doctor in the order in which he experienced them. This timeline is based on observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events in each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed, much like their TV story counterparts, that each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. There are also many gaps between stories.

The layout of this timeline is based in part on the observations on Doctor Who Reference Guide and Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Series basics
The Sixth Doctor's stories can be sorted roughly by which companions he travels with and also the medium in which the companions first appeared together.

TV created

 * Peri Brown
 * Melanie Bush

Comics created

 * Frobisher

Novels created

 * Grant Markham

Audio created

 * Evelyn Smythe
 * Flip Jackson

Timeline

 * TV: The Caves of Androzani
 * TV: The Twin Dilemma
 * TV: Attack of the Cybermen
 * PROSE: Trapped!
 * PROSE: See No Evil
 * TV: Vengeance on Varos
 * PROSE: Telling Tales
 * The Doctor has just left Varos.


 * PROSE: Moon Graffiti
 * PROSE: Grave Matter
 * PROSE: Synthespians™
 * PROSE: Burning Heart
 * TV: The Mark of the Rani
 * PROSE: Players
 * TV: The Two Doctors
 * TV: Timelash
 * AUDIO: Year of the Pig
 * AUDIO: Davros
 * AUDIO: Cryptobiosis
 * TV: Revelation of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair / PROSE: The Nightmare Fair
 * PROSE: The Ruins of Heaven
 * PROSE: A Star is Reborn
 * PROSE: The Ultimate Evil
 * AUDIO: Mission to Magnus / PROSE: Mission to Magnus
 * AUDIO: The Reaping
 * AUDIO: Leviathan
 * AUDIO: The Hollows of Time
 * AUDIO: Paradise 5
 * AUDIO: Point of Entry
 * AUDIO: The Song of Megaptera
 * AUDIO: The Macros
 * AUDIO: The Guardians of Prophecy
 * AUDIO: Power Play
 * AUDIO: The First Sontarans
 * PROSE: State of Change
 * AUDIO: Slipback
 * AUDIO: Recorded Time
 * AUDIO: Paradoxicide
 * AUDIO: A Most Excellent Match
 * AUDIO: Question Marks
 * PROSE: CHAOS
 * COMIC: The Shape Shifter
 * COMIC: Voyager
 * COMIC: Polly the Glot
 * COMIC: Once Upon a Time Lord
 * COMIC: War-Game
 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * COMIC: Funhouse
 * COMIC: Kane's Story/Abel's Story/The Warrior's Story/Frobisher's Story
 * COMIC: Exodus/Revelation/Genesis
 * COMIC: Nature of the Beast
 * COMIC: Time Bomb
 * COMIC: Salad Daze
 * COMIC: Changes
 * COMIC: Profits of Doom
 * COMIC: The Gift
 * COMIC: The World Shapers
 * COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks/Up Above the Gods
 * TV: The Mysterious Planet (flashback)
 * PROSE: Categorical Imperative
 * TV: Mindwarp (flashback)
 * TV: The Mysterious Planet
 * TV: Mindwarp
 * TV: Terror of the Vervoids
 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * TV: The Ultimate Foe
 * PROSE: Time of Your Life
 * Time of Your Life is set after The Ultimate Foe


 * PROSE: Killing Ground
 * PROSE: The Spindle of Necessity
 * AUDIO: The Wormery
 * Set shortly, but not immediately after the Doctor's trial.


 * PROSE: Death Sentences
 * AUDIO: Excelis Rising
 * PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness
 * PROSE: Incongruous Details
 * PROSE: Defining Patterns
 * AUDIO: The Maltese Penguin
 * AUDIO: The Holy Terror
 * PROSE: Curtain Call
 * PROSE: Mission: Impractical
 * PROSE: The Last Emperor
 * COMIC: The Age of Chaos
 * AUDIO: The Ratings War
 * AUDIO: Her Final Flight
 * AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox
 * AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy
 * AUDIO: The Sirens of Time
 * AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
 * AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
 * AUDIO: Bloodtide
 * AUDIO: Project: Twilight
 * AUDIO: The Sandman
 * AUDIO: Jubilee
 * AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pirates
 * WC: Real Time
 * AUDIO: Project Lazarus
 * AUDIO: Arrangements for War
 * AUDIO: Medicinal Purposes
 * AUDIO: Pier Pressure
 * AUDIO: The Nowhere Place
 * AUDIO: 100 BC
 * AUDIO: My Own Private Wolfgang
 * AUDIO: Bedtime Story
 * AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor
 * AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight
 * AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
 * AUDIO: The Feast of Axos
 * AUDIO: Industrial Evolution
 * AUDIO: Thicker Than Water (Flashback)
 * PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass
 * AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors
 * PROSE: She Won't Be Home
 * AUDIO: I.D.
 * AUDIO: Urgent Calls
 * PROSE: Gone Fishing
 * PROSE: Walkin' City Blues
 * PROSE: The Earwig Archipelago
 * PROSE: Certificate of Destruction
 * AUDIO: The Curse of Davros
 * AUDIO: ''The Fourth Wall
 * AUDIO: Wirrn Isle
 * AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure
 * PROSE: Face Value
 * AUDIO: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure
 * AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was (cameo)
 * AUDIO: The Condemned
 * AUDIO: The Doomwood Curse
 * AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: Return of the Krotons
 * AUDIO: The Raincloud Man
 * AUDIO: Patient Zero
 * AUDIO: Paper Cuts
 * AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet
 * AUDIO: City of Spires
 * AUDIO: Night's Black Agents
 * AUDIO: The Wreck of the Titan
 * AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen
 * AUDIO: The Four Doctors
 * AUDIO: Chronoclasm
 * AUDIO: Jago in Love
 * AUDIO: Beautiful Things
 * AUDIO: The Lonely Clock
 * AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers
 * AUDIO: Voyage to Venus
 * AUDIO: Voyage to the New World
 * AUDIO: The Acheron Pulse
 * PROSE: Business Unusual
 * The Doctor meets Mel for the "first" time in this story


 * AUDIO: The Seeds of War
 * AUDIO: Spaceport Fear
 * AUDIO: The Wishing Beast
 * AUDIO: The Vanity Box
 * Mel is enjoying herself


 * PROSE: Dr Cadabra
 * PROSE: Millennial Rites
 * AUDIO: The Juggernauts
 * Mel goes through a traumatic experience, leading up to Quantum


 * PROSE: The Quantum Archangel
 * The Quantum Archangel may take place after Terror of the Vervoids


 * AUDIO: The One Doctor
 * TV: Terror of the Vervoids (flash-forward)
 * PROSE: The Best Joke I Ever Told
 * PROSE: Fegovy
 * AUDIO: Catch-1782
 * AUDIO: Thicker Than Water
 * PROSE: Instruments of Darkness
 * There is confusion over these 2 accounts because they both feature Me's first meeting with Evlyn.


 * PROSE: Spiral Scratch
 * Spiral Scratch is set just before Time and the Rani


 * TV: Time and the Rani

Unplaced

 * GAME: Doctor Who and the Warlord
 * GAME: Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror
 * GAME: Destiny of the Doctors
 * PROSE: Palace of the Red Sun
 * PROSE: Blue Box
 * PROSE: Shell Shock
 * PROSE: Battle Planet
 * PROSE: Day of the Dragon
 * PROSE: The Real Hereward
 * PROSE: The Deadly Weed
 * PROSE: Vorton's Revenge
 * PROSE: The Time Savers
 * PROSE: The Mystery of the Rings
 * PROSE: The Fellowship of Quan
 * PROSE: Time Wake
 * PROSE: Interface
 * PROSE: Beauty and the Beast
 * PROSE: Retribution
 * PROSE: Davarrk's Experiment
 * PROSE: The Radio Waves
 * PROSE: Power to the People
 * PROSE: Hall of Mirrors
 * PROSE: A Wee Deoch an ...?
 * PROSE: The Deal
 * PROSE: A Tourist Invasion
 * PROSE: The More Things Change
 * PROSE: Work is Hell
 * PROSE: The Golden Door
 * PROSE: Timeshare
 * PROSE: Wish You Were Here
 * PROSE: Turnabout is Fair Play
 * PROSE: Gone Too Soon
 * PROSE: Five Card Draw
 * PROSE: The Stabber
 * PROSE: Whiskey and Water
 * PROSE: The Death of Me
 * PROSE: Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing
 * PROSE: The Glass Princess
 * PROSE: House
 * PROSE: Mortlake
 * PROSE: The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up
 * PROSE: Mortal Thoughts
 * PROSE: The Reproductive Cycle
 * PROSE: The Inquisitor's Story
 * PROSE: The Diplomat's Story
 * PROSE: Outsourcing
 * PROSE: Water's Edge
 * PROSE: Christmas Special
 * PROSE: Sold Out
 * PROSE: Jupiter
 * PROSE: Home Fires
 * PROSE: Christmas on the Moon
 * PROSE: Old Boys
 * PROSE: The Eighth Wonder of the World
 * PROSE: Strange Attractor
 * PROSE: Gold and Black Ooze
 * PROSE: The Eyes Have It
 * PROSE: There's Something About Mary
 * PROSE: The Crackers
 * PROSE: The Stars Our Contamination
 * PROSE: Loose Change
 * PROSE: The Book of My Life
 * PROSE: Change Management
 * PROSE: The Final Star
 * PROSE: Taking the Cure
 * PROSE: £436
 * PROSE: Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes
 * PROSE: Exclave
 * PROSE: The Christmas Party
 * PROSE: Revellers of Doom
 * PROSE: Priceless Junk
 * PROSE: Pass It On
 * PROSE: Trial by Fire
 * PROSE: Mardi Gras Massacre
 * AUDIO: Vigil
 * AUDIO: The Wings of a Butterfly
 * AUDIO: The Doctor's Coat
 * AUDIO: Seven to One
 * AUDIO: Murmurs of Earth
 * AUDIO: To Cut a Blade of Grass
 * AUDIO: Whispers of Terror
 * AUDIO: ...ish
 * AUDIO: A Town Called Fortune
 * COMIC: Death to the Doctor! (flashback)
 * COMIC: The Forgotten (flashback)
 * COMIC: The Time Machination