Theory:Timeline - Steven Taylor

This page lists appearances of Steven Taylor 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, 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 Finnish 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.

With the Doctor and Vicki

 * TV: The Chase
 * Steven Taylor is saved from the Mechanoids by the First Doctor. Ian Chesterton and Barbara use a Dalek time machine to return to their home time period, and the Doctor and Vicki Pallister find Steven in the TARDIS immediately afterwards.


 * TV: The Time Meddler
 * The Doctor invites Steven aboard the TARDIS, and battles with for the first time.


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


 * AUDIO: The Suffering
 * Steven mutters that his last meal was in 1066, setting this directly after The Time Meddler.


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


 * 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.


 * 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. (Source)


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


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


 * 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: The Founding Fathers


 * 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.


 * PROSE: The Empire of Glass


 * PROSE: Corridors of Power


 * PROSE: The Schoolboy's Story


 * AUDIO: Etheria


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


 * AUDIO: The Suffering
 * Vicki prepares to give Steven a haircut, setting up the opening scene for "Galaxy 4".


 * TV: Galaxy 4


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


 * PROSE: Snowman in Manhattan


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


 * PROSE: The Power Supply


 * PROSE: The Long Step Backward


 * TV: The Myth Makers
 * Vicki 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.


 * PROSE: Scribbles in Chalk
 * Takes place directly between The Myth Makers and The Daleks Master Plan.

Fighting the Daleks

 * TV: The Daleks' Master Plan (The Nightmare Begins–The Feast of Steven)
 * Katarina loses her life in a hostage situation, and Sara Kingdom joins the TARDIS crew in her place.


 * AUDIO: The Anachronauts
 * The Doctor, Steven and Sara celebrate Christmas together in the TARDIS' control room after visiting Liverpool on 25 December 1965. Sara has not yet been told about interfering with history, setting before The Little Drummer Boy.


 * PROSE: Katarina in the Underworld
 * After Katrina's death, the sleeping Doctor is summoned by Persephone to help Katrina in the afterlife.


 * PROSE: The Little Drummer Boy
 * Robert grabs the taranium that the Doctor stole in The Daleks' Master Plan: Day of Armageddon.


 * AUDIO: The Drowned World


 * AUDIO: The Guardian of the Solar System
 * Sara recalls Robert dying in her arms during The Little Drummer Boy.


 * AUDIO: Home Truths
 * Although this is the first story that was told to Robert, it is the last of the adventures that the Home Truths recalls from Sarah's life, setting it after the previous two stories in the trilogy.


 * AUDIO: Men of War


 * AUDIO: An Ordinary Life
 * After their ordinary life is over, the Doctor decides to return to Kembel, leading the TARDIS crew back into the events of The Daleks' Master Plan.


 * AUDIO: The Sontarans
 * The Doctor battles the Sontarans for the first time, and learns about their war with the Rutan Host. Another time machine begins pursuing the TARDIS, leading directly into Volcano.


 * TV: The Daleks' Master Plan (Volcano–Destruction of Time)
 * Sara dies as a result of the Time Destructor.


 * PROSE: Ash
 * The Doctor and Steven are recovering from Sara and Katarina's deaths.

Oliver Harper

 * AUDIO: The Perpetual Bond
 * The Doctor returns to I.M. Foreman's junkyard for the first time since departing in An Unearthly Child. Steven recalls the recent deaths of Katarina, Bret Vyon, and Sara Kingdom from The Daleks' Master Plan.


 * AUDIO: The Cold Equations
 * This is Oliver's first trip in the TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: The First Wave
 * Oliver sacrifices his life to save the Doctor and Steven from the Vardans.

Alone with the Doctor

 * PROSE: Roses
 * Steven is resting in the TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: Helmstone
 * Steven thinks of Sara, as well as Ian and Barbara, suggesting that this takes place not long after The Daleks' Master Plan.


 * PROSE: Making History


 * PROSE: Waiting for Jeremy
 * Steven mentions the Omwanadar, setting this after Making History.


 * PROSE: Greenaway
 * The Doctor and Steven stop an alien invader on a nearby beach with the help of Greenaway, who loses his legs and part of his skull and ends up in a coma.


 * PROSE: Do You Smell Carrots?


 * PROSE: White on White


 * AUDIO: O Tannenbaum

Joined by Dodo

 * TV: The Massacre
 * After storming out of the TARDIS due to an argument with the Doctor, Steven returns immediately after Dodo Chaplet walks into the TARDIS, joining the two in their travels.


 * PROSE: Salvation
 * Set immediately after The Massacre, as Dodo is on her first trip in the TARDIS.


 * TV: The Ark
 * Ending leads directly into The Celestial Toymaker.


 * TV: The Celestial Toymaker
 * Ending leads directly into The Gunfighters.


 * TV: The Gunfighters


 * AUDIO: Mother Russia
 * Steven voices his surprise that the Doctor wants another holiday so soon after The Gunfighters.


 * PROSE: Murder in the Dark
 * References are made to The Ark, The Celestial Toymaker and The Gunfighters.


 * PROSE: The Dream
 * The Doctor is travelling with Steven and Dodo, but became separated from them while on Vortis.


 * AUDIO: This Sporting Life


 * COMIC: Death to the Doctor!


 * PROSE: The Golden Door


 * AUDIO: Tales from the Vault
 * The Doctor investigates a crashed spaceship during the Boer War.


 * AUDIO: Return of the Rocket Men
 * Steven mentions when the crew where living in Russia, setting this after Mother Russia.


 * PROSE: 64 Carlysle Street
 * Steven mentions Tombstone, setting this after The Gunfighters.


 * PROSE: Bunker Soldiers


 * AUDIO: The War to End All Wars
 * Steven decides that the next place the TARDIS lands is where he wants to make a lasting impression.


 * TV: The Savages
 * Steven leaves to mediate a peace between the Elders and the Savages.

After the Doctor

 * AUDIO: The Five Companions
 * An older Steven reunites with Ian among other companions meeting the Fifth Doctor.


 * AUDIO: The War To End All Wars
 * AUDIO: The Founding Fathers
 * AUDIO: The Locked Room
 * Steven is almost 100 years old.

Unplaced

 * COMIC: The Choice
 * COMIC: Endgame