Theory:Timeline - Ninth Doctor

This page lists appearances of the Ninth 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 that for each novel, comic or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

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, and the Big Finish forums. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Limiting factors
Any story featuring Callen Lennox and Doyle must take place between AUDIO: Red Darkness and AUDIO: The Green Gift.

Any story featuring Rose Tyler must be after TV: The End of the World, while stories featuring Captain Jack Harkness must be after TV: The Doctor Dances.

Likewise, any story featuring Adam Mitchell must take place between TV: Dalek and TV: The Long Game, and any story with Tara Mishra traveling alongside Rose and Jack must come after COMIC: Official Secrets, while any story with Tara that Jack is not present for must take place between COMIC: Slaver's Song and COMIC: Secret Agent Man.

Born from the Eighth Doctor

 * Previous page: Eighth Doctor


 * PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War
 * The newly regenerated Doctor takes in his first moments of life after regenerating from his eighth incarnation at the conclusion of the Last Great Time War.


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * Wearing an Edwardian outfit, the Doctor grapples with being the last of the Time Lords while wandering a building development on Totter's Lane, where he is watched by Steven Hudson. He later tries to trade his Edwardian gear for a pair of jeans and trainers with H.J. Hardeman at an Oxfam in Sheffield. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)


 * PROSE: Now or Thereabouts
 * After sometime lodging at the Eighth Doctor's Camden flat with his eighth incarnation and "Reg" during 1969, the Ninth Doctor is evicted and given a lift to Earl's Court by Little Sister Ceol of Faction Paradox.


 * NOTVALID: With All Awry
 * Set during Now or Thereabouts. While leaving the Camden flat, the Doctor takes Fitz Kreiner's leather jacket and TARDIS key, and departs back to reality in the TARDIS from Earl's Court.

Born from the War Doctor

 * Previous page: War Doctor


 * ( SEGMENT )
 * The Doctor regenerates from his war incarnation at the conclusion of the Last Great Time War. According to the novelisation, he smashes every mirror in the TARDIS afterwards, vowing never to look at his new face. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)

Skulking in the shadows

 * ( REFERENCE )
 * The Doctor spends a week admitted inside a psychiatric institution during the summer of 1962, disappearing with the psychiatric ward's head, Sirius Drake, after a "mysterious fire" destroys Drake's private quarters. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)


 * AUDIO: The Oncoming Storm
 * The Doctor is hunting down a relic from the Time War to prevent a species from inadvertently wiping themselves out. While he is protecting those standing near him, the Doctor is more reclusive and neutral to the wider battle around him, and has some lingering fury on matters of the Time War. He notes that he is "getting old".


 * NOTVALID: The Daft Dimension 507
 * The Doctor attends a Christmas gathering with his other incarnations, though appears to be in a foul mood.


 * AUDIO: Human Conflict
 * Authorial intent states that the Doctor is still "fresh from the Time War", setting this shortly after The Day of the Doctor. Indeed, the Doctor is noted to be weary from "his own people's conflict".


 * ( FLASHBACK )
 * Still hiding from the pain of the Time War, the Doctor saves a robot clown and, after a week of trying to repair it, sets it loose in the TARDIS corridors. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)


 * COMIC: The Promise
 * Having still only just regenerated, the Doctor is still trying to forget his war incarnation, but has a much jollier mood to him, setting this sometime after The Day of the Doctor.


 * NOTVALID: The Daft Dimension 550
 * The Doctor is imprisoned at the Maximum security facility with his other incarnations.

Healing from the Time War

 * AUDIO: The Bleeding Heart
 * The Doctor is searching for somewhere to relax and forget the regret he feels for his role in the Time War. He is even still using the War Doctor's sonic screwdriver, but dismantles it to seal the rift at the heart of Galen. The Doctor believes he is still being punished for his role in the Time War, "even after all [this] time", implying that some time has passed since The Day of the Doctor. The Doctor offers the psychic Adriana Jarsdel a chance to travel in the TARDIS, but she sacrifices herself to free the Compassionate when she sees the presence of "someone else" in the Doctor's future.


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * The Doctor is present at the assassination of John F. Kennedy. (TV: Rose)


 * NOTVALID: Blue Peter special (2005)
 * Travelling alone, the Doctor finds a compost bin made from a Dalek casing in the Blue Peter garden after having "searched for [it] across time and space", and destroys it with a Blue Peter badge.


 * PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow
 * The Doctor attends the Brigadier's funeral.


 * NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 433
 * The Doctor salutes the Brigadier with his other incarnations.


 * AUDIO: Her Own Bootstraps
 * The Doctor tries to dispose of a Time War artifact at 1883 Krakatoa, but becomes trapped in a time loop with Dr. Althea Bryce.


 * AUDIO: Death Will Not Part Us
 * Cleaning up damage from the Time War, the Doctor restores Gernica to existence.

Embracing a second chance

 * AUDIO: Battle Scars
 * While still plagued by the Time War, the Doctor has his blue-emitter sonic screwdriver, setting this after The Bleeding Heart. He becomes a guest of the Daniels family after crash landing in their back garden. Though he still feels hardened by the Time War, meeting Connie Daniels helps the Doctor to feel like himself for the "first time in ages", presumably since The Night of the Doctor. The Doctor is convinced by Connie to make the most of his second chance following the Time War, and he likes her use of the word "fantastic".


 * PROSE: A Day to Yourselves
 * The Doctor recalls the recent events of The Day of the Doctor, and is trying to find an adventure, implying a setting immediately after Battle Scars. The TARDIS' mirrors are still destroyed, due to the TARDIS respecting the Doctor's wish to not see his face, setting this before Rose. The Doctor misses having a companion, and still feels lost with Gallifrey gone, but finds a postcard with an image of Earth on it and is inspired to visit the planet.


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * The Doctor visits Chepstow Castle, does contract work for Helva Soprano's firm of architects using designs with dimensional transcendentalism, and talks about Halley's Comet at the London Planetarium during the 1980s. He later talks with various Buddhist monks in Tibet, attends the Royal Wedding, and poses as a photo-journalist in the North East during the mid-1990s. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)


 * NOTVALID: Master of Time


 * AUDIO: I Was Churchill's Double


 * WC: Doctors Assemble!


 * NOTVALID: The Daft Dimension 559
 * The Doctor has Christmas dinner with his other incarnations. He is wearing a Christmas hat, implying that he is in a cheerier mood than in The Daft Dimension 507.


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * The Doctor attends a party with River Song. (AUDIO: A Brave New World)


 * NOTVALID: Time Fracture
 * The Ninth Doctor unites with his other incarnations to help a group of people seal the Time Fracture.


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * The Doctor has a statue made of him in 2500BC Egypt, and argues with his seventh incarnation at a university campus. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)


 * PROSE: Doctor Jones
 * The Doctor meets a teenage Martha Jones while dealing with a Time Termite invasion. However, he is forced to wipe both of their memories to stop the Time Termites from returning.

Investigating time eddies

 * AUDIO: Sphere of Freedom
 * Set before Rose. The Doctor investigates a series of time eddies appearing across history, and enlists Sphere of Freedom galley chef Nova to help him find who's responsible for them. However, Nova is taken by a time eddy, just before the Doctor discovers Audrey Mohinson is behind the rouge time eddies. He attempts to escape, but Audrey uses a time eddy to send him to a neutron star, leading directly into Cataclysm.


 * AUDIO: Cataclysm
 * The Doctor is able to pilot the TARDIS away from the neutron star, and tracks down Nova through the time eddy. When they go to confront Audrey, the Doctor accidentally crosses his own time stream, unleashing the Ravagers from the neutron star. Travelling to the past to stop Audrey, the Doctor and Nova only manage to provoke Audrey, leading directly into Food Fight.


 * AUDIO: Food Fight
 * The Doctor travels down his own time stream to prevent himself from crossing his time stream in regards to his confrontation with Audrey, allowing him to help her peacefully return the Ravagers to their neutron star. With the timelines reset, the Doctor offers Nova a trip through time and space, which, despite her not properly remembering him, she accepts. According to the Doctor, the Time Lords are "long dead", setting this a long time after The Day of the Doctor.

Drawn to Scotland

 * AUDIO: Girl, Deconstructed
 * The Doctor lands in Scotland. He is reluctant to hug a stranger, setting this long before The Long Game.


 * AUDIO: Fright Motif
 * Artie Berger senses a lingering grief within the Doctor, and the Doctor himself claims that he is "still trying to remind [him]self" of who he is.


 * AUDIO: Planet of the End
 * Although he claims to currently be a solo traveller, the Doctor does invite Fred aboard the TARDIS, though she turns him down in favour of her other duties. The Doctor spends ninety years immobilised as a statue.


 * WC: The Ninth Doctor vs the Cybermen


 * AUDIO: The Hunting Season
 * The Doctor was aiming for 1925 when he ended up arriving at Duberry Hall in 1936. He rides a horse for the first time in his ninth incarnation.


 * AUDIO: The Curse of Lady Macbeth
 * The Doctor notes that he is in Scotland "again", suggesting a setting shortly after Girl, Deconstructed.


 * AUDIO: Monsters in Metropolis
 * The Doctor finally arrives in 1925 to visit the set of Metropolis, where he sees a Cyberman being used as the Machine Man. The Doctor recalls having a tough time getting to 1925, alluding to the events of The Hunting Season and The Curse of Lady Macbeth.


 * AUDIO: Fond Farewell
 * After fixing a glitch at Fond Farewell, the Doctor decides to visit Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, leading directly into Way of the Burryman.


 * AUDIO: Way of the Burryman
 * The Doctor reunites with the Brigadier for the first time since the Time War, and also meets Sam Bishop. He encounters the scouting partner of the Cyberman from Monsters in Metropolis, who unleashes a Cyber-Army onto Scotland from the River Forth bridge, leading directly into The Forth Generation. The Doctor wonders if his trips to Scotland in Girl, Deconstructed and The Curse of Lady Macbeth were due to the presence of the Cyberman.


 * AUDIO: The Forth Generation
 * While the Doctor still wishes to travel alone, and claims to enjoy the solitude, the Brigadier convinces him to look for a new companion.

Making new friends

 * AUDIO: Station to Station


 * AUDIO: The False Dimitry


 * AUDIO: Break the Ice
 * Set before Auld Lang Syne. The Doctor intends to take Dr. Lenni Fisk and her son to meet "the real Santa" after their adventure together above Venus.


 * AUDIO: Salvation Nine


 * AUDIO: Last of the Zetacene


 * AUDIO: Auld Lang Syne
 * The Doctor recalls spending "a wild Christmas" on Venus and Lapland recently, referring to the events of Break the Ice. He invites Mandy Litherland to travel with him, but she declines.


 * AUDIO: The Seas of Titan
 * The Doctor mentions that Titan "isn't half as cold as where [he] was recently", alluding to the events of Break the Ice.


 * AUDIO: Lay Down Your Arms


 * AUDIO: Flatpack
 * The Doctor is reunited with Liv Chenka and Tania Bell. Liv advises the Doctor to consider finding a new travelling companion.


 * AUDIO: The Colour of Terror
 * The Doctor encounters the Vermine for the first time.


 * AUDIO: The Blooming Menace

Finding Callen a home

 * AUDIO: Red Darkness
 * The Doctor defeats an alliance between the Vashta Nerada and the Vermine, setting this after The Colour of Terror. He invites Callen Lennox and Doyle aboard the TARDIS until he can find them a new home.


 * AUDIO: The Green Gift
 * After defeating giant maggots on The Greenwood, the Doctor finds Callen and Doyle a new home on New Earth.

Travelling in hope

 * WC: Hall of Monsters
 * The Doctor takes a visit to the Space Museum on Xeros, where he admires the Hall of Monsters. He alludes the events of The Colour of Terror, The Blooming Menace and Red Darkness.


 * AUDIO: Northern Lights


 * AUDIO: The Beautiful Game


 * AUDIO: Below There


 * AUDIO: The Butler Did It


 * AUDIO: Run

A busy few weeks

 * ( SEGMENTS )
 * While "in command" as "a man who knows himself, (DWM 485) the Doctor still isn't familiar with his new body when he saves Rose Tyler from Autons at Henrik's, seemingly catching his first glimpse of his face in Rose's mirror when he goes to the Powell Estate to retrieve an Auton's arm. (TV: Rose)


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * Still bearing the cuts from his fight with the Auton arm at the Powell Estate, the Doctor fights a pterodactyl. (PROSE: Rose)


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * The Doctor receives Sally Sparrow's Christmas homework after swordfighting with Sontarans. (PROSE: What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow)


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * The Doctor visits the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 during the American Civil War, and finds himself wearing a Union Army captain's uniform and Confederate colonel's uniform while standing next to an "slightly out of place" converted field hospital, and injuring his arm. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)


 * ( REFERENCE )
 * The Doctor delivers letters for Peri Brown and Erimem from his fifth incarnation to Clarrie. (AUDIO: The Kingmaker)


 * PROSE: What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow
 * Trapped in 1985, the Doctor uses Sally's homework to retrieve his TARDIS.


 * PROSE: The Albino's Dancer
 * The Doctor tends to Honoré Lechasseur's injuries.


 * PROSE: The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill


 * PROSE: Double Falsehood


 * NOTVALID: Doctor Who Comes to MINECRAFT!


 * PROSE: The Hungry Night


 * PROSE: Little Rose Riding Hood


 * PROSE: The Patchwork Pierrot

Welcoming Rose aboard

 * TV: Rose
 * Weeks after first meeting her, at least according to the novelisation, the Doctor is reunited with Rose Tyler when he thwarts the Nestene Consciousness's invasion attempt on 5 March 2005. He offers Rose a place in the TARDIS, but she declines.


 * PROSE: The Beast of Babylon
 * Immediately after being rejected by Rose in Rose, the TARDIS alerts the Doctor to the threat of the Starman. Ali convinces him to go back for Rose, leading directly into the final scene of Rose.


 * ( EPILOGUE )
 * The Doctor returns to the moment he left Rose, in order to inform her that the TARDIS also travels in time. Rose then says goodbye to her boyfriend, Mickey Smith, and joins the Doctor inside the TARDIS. (TV: Rose)


 * NOTVALID: The Trip of a Lifetime
 * The Doctor informs a new companion, presumably Rose, of the dangers and joys that come with traveling in the TARDIS.

Early adventures with Rose

 * TV: The End of the World
 * Rose takes her first trip in time, going into the future, where she witnesses the Earth come to a natural end in 5.5/Apple/26 aboard Platform One, while the Doctor stops Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17 from murdering the other spectators for financial gain. Rose learns about the TARDIS translation circuits translating alien languages for her. After the ordeal, the Doctor opens up to Rose about the outcome of the Time War as they go for chips.


 * TV: The Unquiet Dead
 * Rose is taking her first trip into the past, meeting Charles Dickens on Christmas Eve 1869 in Cardiff. The Doctor's battle with the Gelth, specifically their destruction by Gwyneth, causes severe damage to a time rift in the Cardiff area. According to the Doctor, Rose is 19-years-old.


 * PROSE: Rose sighting confirmed
 * The Doctor and Rose are photographed while they walk around 1869 Cardiff during The Unquiet Dead.


 * PROSE: Mickey's Blog
 * Alternative account of Rose sighting confirmed.


 * COMIC: The Forgotten: Revelation
 * Following the pattern of The End of the World and The Unquiet Dead, the Doctor takes Rose to the 1914 Christmas truce to show her more of Earth's history, instead of taking her back to the Powell Estate, implying a setting prior to Aliens of London, with Rose also still uncomfortable with the idea of the Doctor being an alien.

Return to the Powell Estate

 * TV: Aliens of London
 * Set "a few days" after Rose. Due to a miscalculation in the TARDIS coordinates, the Doctor returns Rose to the Powell Estate on March 2006, a full year after she left. Rose's mother, Jackie, discovers that Rose has been travelling with the Doctor. The Doctor claims to be 900-years-old, setting this roughly one-hundred-years after The Day of the Doctor. The Doctor and Rose are taken to 10 Downing Street when an alien spacecraft crashes into the River Thames, and discover that aliens have infiltrated the Houses of Parliament, leading directly into World War Three.


 * TV: World War Three
 * The Doctor is formally introduced to the Slitheen family by the one posing as Margaret Blaine, and to Harriet Jones by Rose, following brief encounters during Aliens of London. After he helps them  destroy Downing Street to stop the Slitheen instigating World War III, the Doctor invites Mickey onboard the TARDIS, but he declines.


 * GAME: Legacy
 * Set during World War Three, with the Doctor being caught in a paradox caused by the Sontarans altering history while dealing with the Slitheen. He unites with his other incarnations to resolve the problem.


 * COMIC: A Stitch in Time
 * Set during World War Three, while the Doctor, Rose and Harriet are being chased by Slitheen.

Continued adventures with Rose

 * ( REFERENCE )
 * The Doctor and Rose trap something in a Megalithic tomb in Newgrange, and serve as best man and witness to Charlie Pocket's Las Vegas wedding in 1992. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)


 * PROSE: The Clockwise Man
 * The Doctor and Rose spend a few days in 1924 London to visit the British Empire Exhibition, setting this after Aliens of London. Rose is still thinking of Gwyneth, implying a setting shortly after The Unquiet Dead.


 * PROSE: The Monsters Inside
 * Rose visits her first alien planet when the TARDIS arrives on Justicia. She and the Doctor both recall the events of World War Three, and encounter the Slitheen family again.


 * PROSE: Doctor vs Doctor


 * PROSE: The Masks of Makassar
 * The Doctor's dreamscape for Rose includes the Powell Estate and Jackie, setting this after World War Three. The Doctor and Rose visit an alien planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside.


 * COMIC: Mr Nobody


 * PROSE: Pitter-patter
 * The Doctor and Rose visit another planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside.


 * NOTVALID: Doctor What 7
 * The Doctor has a curry night with Rose, Mickey, an Auton and the burping wheelie bin from Rose.


 * AUDIO: The Window on the Moor
 * Rose is used to being trapped in alien prisons, suggesting a setting after The Monsters Inside, where she was imprisoned on Justicia.


 * PROSE: Rose and the Snow Window
 * Rose recalls the events of The Unquiet Dead, considers that it wouldn't matter if she changed history to save one man, setting this before Father's Day. Rose has yet to visit anywhere in time and space where people weren't suffering, and claims that she will "never get tired of the TARDIS translation circuits", implying that she has already had several adventures in which they came into use, further supported when she realises for the first time how much her travels with the Doctor have changed her.


 * AUDIO: The Ashes of Eternity
 * Set between World War Three and Dalek. (DWM 569) Rose knows little about the Doctor and has yet to talk to him about the Time War in any depth.

Temporary association with Adam

 * TV: Dalek
 * Inside the Vault of Henry van Statten in 2012 Utah, the Doctor encounters a Dalek for the first time since The Day of the Doctor. On Rose's suggestion, the Doctor lets Adam Mitchell enter the TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: The Other Side
 * Follows directly on from Dalek, with the Doctor trying to return Adam home. However, after Adam proves his worth against the Bygone Horde, the Doctor decides to keep him around. The Doctor decides to take Adam to the far future, leading into The Long Game.


 * TV: The Long Game
 * Adam takes his first trip into the future, going to the year 200,000, where he tries to filch information, causing the Doctor to return him to 2012 in disgrace when he refuses to take responsibility for his actions. Finding the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire has been replaced by a series of news outlets, the Doctor theorises that someone is using Satellite Five to play a long game on the human race by providing a ninety year setback to their development, though he feels it will snap back after he destroys the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe.

Further adventures with Rose

 * ( EPILOGUE )
 * Shortly after expelling Adam from the TARDIS, the Doctor reunites with Althea Bryce the day after he stole the atmosphere destroyer from her. (AUDIO: Her Own Bootstraps)


 * GAME: Robot Rose
 * The Robot Rose recalls a series of past adventures up to The Long Game, suggesting a setting shortly afterwards.


 * TV: Father's Day
 * The Doctor takes Rose to 1987 to be with her father, Pete Tyler, as he dies, but she tries to change history by saving him, resulting in a brief falling out between them. They make up when Pete ensures his demise to set history back on track and expel the Reapers back into the Time Vortex.


 * COMIC: Four Doctors
 * The Doctor is entertaining Rose in a café, most likely setting this after her emotional ordeal in Father's Day.


 * AUDIO: The Lichyrwick Abomination
 * Although he is depicted as travelling alone, the Doctor alludes to having a friend, presumably Rose, that he needs to pick up from the Spice Girls world tour of 1998 when he leaves Lichyrwick. He most likely left Rose there as a treat following her emotional ordeal in Father's Day.


 * COMIC: The Love Invasion
 * Rose points out the frequency at which aliens seem to invade Earth, implying a setting after World War Three, and has been traveling with the Doctor long enough to notice her habit of reaching for light switches in times prior to electricity.


 * COMIC: Art Attack
 * The Doctor and Rose visit an alien planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside.


 * COMIC: The Cruel Sea
 * The Doctor and Rose visit Mars in the 22nd century, which Rose claims is the first time she's visited a different planet in the Solar system.


 * COMIC: A Groatsworth of Wit
 * The Doctor alludes to the "big row" he and Rose had in Father's Day.


 * NOTVALID: Doctor Whoah! 415
 * The Doctor and Rose visit an alien planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside.


 * COMIC: Death to the Doctor!
 * The Doctor and Rose visit the Powell Estate, setting this after World War Three.


 * ( FLASHBACK )
 * After the Doctor properly explains the Laws of Time to her, Rose purchases a Stranglers album her mother had always wanted from 1977 Piccadilly Circus and sneaks it into young Jackie's room, slightly altering history, but with no lasting effects. (PROSE: The Red Bicycle)


 * COMIC: Mystery Date
 * Adam returns for revenge on the Doctor by kidnapping Rose, leading directly into Endgame. The Doctor and Rose visit an alien planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside.


 * COMIC: Endgame
 * The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue Rose from Adam and, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well.

The Kotturuh crisis

 * COMIC: Monstrous Beauty
 * The Doctor and Rose visit an alien planetoid in the Dark Times, setting this after The Monsters Inside. Rose is turned into a Vampire. The Doctor is able to create an antidote, and leaves her on an isolated jungle moon to recover with Centia.


 * PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead: Chapter Sixteen
 * Accompanied by vampires on a coffin ship, the Ninth Doctor teams up with the Eighth Doctor in order to stop the Tenth Doctor's alterations to history in the Dark Times.


 * PROSE: All Flesh is Grass (Chapters 1-3)
 * Immediately after The Knight, The Fool and The Dead, the three Doctors engage in the Battle of Mordeela.


 * COMIC: Tales of the Dark Times: Episode 4
 * Set during All Flesh is Grass, after the Battle of Mordeela. The Doctor is travelling with the Vampires.


 * PROSE: All Flesh is Grass: Chapter 4
 * The Daleks attack the coffin ship, but the Doctor is able to escape the attack with his eighth incarnation.


 * COMIC: Tales of the Dark Times: Episode 5
 * The Eighth and Ninth Doctors are searching for the "Time Lord Victorious" together.


 * PROSE: All Flesh is Grass (Chapters 4-16)
 * Several weeks after the Battle of Mordeela, the Ninth Doctor and his eighth incarnation track down the Tenth Doctor, and then have to pull their resources to protect Gallifrey and the Space Lords from the Dalek Time Squad. After a successful Defence of Gallifrey, the Vampires settle on Birinji and the Doctor parts company with them.


 * ( EPILOGUE )
 * The Doctor, battered and bruised, returns to collect Rose from the moon he left her on after she has recovered from her vampirism. (COMIC: Monstrous Beauty)


 * PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead: Second Interlude
 * Set immediately after Monstrous Beauty, with Rose still recovering from her ordeal with the Great Vampires. To cheer her up, the Doctor tells her the story of the tailor's son and Death, as told to him by Barbara Wright during his first incarnation. The Doctor and Rose have a conversation about death being fixed, setting this after Father's Day.

More adventures with Rose

 * PROSE: Winner Takes All
 * Jackie knows about Rose travelling with the Doctor, setting this after World War Three. Rose hasn't had a need for money in "months", suggesting that is how long she has been travelling with the Doctor.


 * TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * The Doctor is currently travelling with Rose. (DWM 475) He helps in the saving of Gallifrey on the last day of the Time War, and, in the novelisation, has a tea party with his other incarnations in the Under Gallery as a celebration.


 * PROSE: The Red Bicycle
 * A few weeks after Rose's gifting of the Stranglers album to young Jackie, the Doctor slips away from Rose at the Zaggit Zagoo bar bar and travels back to the Powell Estate in 1998 to experiment with changing history for himself. As a Christmas present, he leaves Rose the red bicycle that she always wanted, but could never get due to Jackie being unable to afford one, with the Doctor coming to appreciate how difficult it was for Jackie to raise Rose as a single-mother after the events of Father's Day.


 * AUDIO: Retail Therapy
 * After visiting the Moons of Fordice, the Doctor and Rose return to the Powell Estate to visit Jackie. The Doctor jokingly compares Jackie to a Dalek, suggesting a setting after Dalek, and they still have an antagonistic relationship, though they soften towards each other after they foil Tycho Fairbank's Glubby Glubs plot.


 * COMIC: Where's the Doctor?
 * The Doctor and Rose attend the coronation of Elizabeth II.


 * PROSE: Extraction Point
 * The Doctor runs into Doom of the Lesser Order of Oberon when he responds to an alert about a Kraal simulation. Doom later contacts him while he is checking up on Satellite Five following the events of The Long Game to request they meet, and he takes Doom to a London café in June 2006, roughly three months after the events of World War Three. He recalls his visit to Justicia as being his last encounter with a Slitheen, setting this between The Monster's Inside and Doctormania, and remains in London when he and Doom parts ways.

Joined by Jack

 * TV: The Empty Child
 * In pursuit of a Chula ambulance, the Doctor and Rose arrive in 1941 London during the Blitz. Rose indicates that she hasn't been on Earth for at least five days, and is rethinking her relationship with Mickey. While the Doctor investigates a strange child, Rose meets rogue Time Agent Jack Harkness when he saves her from a barrage balloon. The Doctor learns from Nancy and Dr. Constantine that a plague has been turning people "empty" with gas masks fused to their faces. The Doctor meets up with Rose and Jack at Albion Hospital, where the "Gas Mask Zombies" begin to swarm them, leading directly into The Doctor Dances.


 * POEM: The Companion's Lament
 * Set during The Empty Child, just after the Doctor realises Rose has wondered off.


 * TV: The Doctor Dances
 * The Doctor scolds the "Gas Mask Zombies" back to their beds, and deduces that the Chula ambulance Jack had dumped on London had used their nanogenes to revive a deceased child, and then used his dead body as a template for what humans should be, starting the "Empty Child" plague. As Jack takes away a bomb before it can destroy the ambulance and spread the nanogenes further, the Doctor cures the Empty Child by bringing his mother, Nancy, to him and showing the nanogenes the "parent DNA", restoring him and the other "Gas Mask Zombies" to normal. The Doctor then saves Jack from his doomed ship and he joins the TARDIS team. The Doctor apparently dances for the first time in his ninth incarnation.


 * NOTVALID: Moments in Time 464
 * Set during The Doctor Dances.

A TARDIS trio

 * PROSE: The Deviant Strain
 * The Doctor is abrasive towards Jack, setting this early in their travels together.


 * PROSE: Only Human
 * Jack visits 21st century London for the first time, and the Doctor is still abrasive towards him.


 * NOTVALID: TARDIS Teaser


 * PROSE: Dr. Ninth
 * The Doctor is traveling with Jack, setting this after The Doctor Dances, and the pair combat an Auton attack in the 21st century, setting this after Only Human as well. Controversially, the Doctor and Rose appear to meet each other in this story, with the book ending with Rose being brought aboard the TARDIS with the astonished reaction to the size inside, but this can be seen as taking place before she met the Doctor in Rose from her perspective.

Memory fiasco

 * COMIC: Weapons of Past Destruction
 * Jack tells the Unon that he has only just met the Doctor and Rose, setting this shortly after The Doctor Dances. The Doctor places his mind up for auction on Fluren's World.


 * COMIC: Hacked
 * Set soon after Weapons of Past Destruction, according to the introduction of Doctormania.


 * COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen
 * The Doctor and Rose bring Jack to the 21st century, setting this after Only Human.


 * COMIC: Doctormania
 * According to the introduction, some time has passed since Weapons of Past Destruction, and the Doctor refers to the events of Hacked. After dealing with Slist Fayflut Marteveerthon Slitheen's impersonation of him, the Doctor is called to 2016 San Francisco by an older Mickey, leading directly into The Transformed.


 * COMIC: The Transformed
 * The Doctor helps Mickey deal with a gargoyle mutation caused by a wormhole, but one gargoyle that Rose befriended goes through the wormhole, leading into Official Secrets.


 * COMIC: Official Secrets
 * Jack finds a picture of himself dressed as a 17th century priest among the UNIT files. Tara Mishra stows away in the TARDIS, becoming a member of the TARDIS crew.


 * COMIC: Slaver's Song
 * Set immediately after Official Secrets, with the TARDIS crew investigating the painting found in the UNIT files, and taking Tara on her first trip. Rose is annoyed by Tara's presence, being jealous of her comradery with the Doctor. After finding out someone he had assassinated may still be alive, Jack takes his leave of the TARDIS team.


 * ( NOTE )
 * The Doctor learns of the Sin-Eaters and frames himself for Tara's alleged murder to go undercover at the Hesguard Institute. (COMIC: Sin-Eaters) He is quickly arrested by the Judoon. (COMIC: Slaver's Song)


 * COMIC: Sin-Eaters
 * Tara is still a new addition to the TARDIS crew, and Rose is still hurt by Jack's recent departure.


 * PROSE: The Slist Show Christmas Special!
 * Jack's absence places this between Slaver's Song and Secret Agent Man. Rose is less hostile towards Tara, but she is still considered a recent addition to the team.


 * COMIC: Secret Agent Man
 * The Doctor, Rose and Tara use Memgram to track down Jack. Ending leads directly into The Bidding War.


 * COMIC: The Bidding War
 * While connected to the Memgram, Rose has a vision of her cyber-conversion from Supremacy of the Cybermen. After defeating the Cybermen, Jack rejoins the TARDIS and Tara decides to remain on Nomicae to help nurse those injured in the attack.


 * COMIC: The Lost Dimension
 * The Doctor takes Rose to be healed from the events of The Bidding Wars, while Jack picks up Tara from Monicae. The Doctor and Rose meet Vastra and Jenny Flint, while Jack and Tara end up on Skaro after the Doctor and his other incarnations end the threat of the Type 1 TARDIS.

Final adventures

 * AUDIO: R&J
 * Prior to the events of Boom Town, the Doctor, Jack and Rose eat Kronkburgers together, and Jack saves the Doctor from an assassination attempt by River Song.


 * TV: Boom Town
 * Jack meets Mickey for the first time when the TARDIS lands at Cardiff Bay to siphon energy of the Cardiff rift in September 2006. The Doctor realises that the words "Bad Wolf" have been following him since The End of the World for the first time. After a fight with Mickey that ends with them officially breaking up, Rose learns that the heart of the TARDIS can be used to fulfill desires. While arresting the Margaret Blaine Slitheen, and leaning her name is really Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, the Doctor's TARDIS severely damages the Cardiff rift. With Blon regressed back into an egg by the heart of the TARDIS, the Doctor intends to take her to a hatchery on Raxacoricofallapatorius.


 * NOTVALID: The Legend of the Big Bad Wolf
 * The Doctor has just dropped Blon's egg off on Raxacoricofallapatorius, setting this immediately after Boom Town.


 * PROSE: The Stealers of Dreams
 * Jackie mentions the events of Boom Town.


 * AUDIO: Night of the Whisper
 * Rose has visited Woman Wept and Raxacoricofallapatorius, setting this after Boom Town. The TARDIS crew spend a month on 23rd century New Vegas investigating the Whisper.


 * COMIC: Return of the Volsci
 * Set immediately prior to Bad Wolf, with the TARDIS crew visiting Kyoto in 1336 Japan.

Last stand on Satellite Five

 * TV: Bad Wolf
 * Being abducted from the TARDIS after he "just escaped" 1336 Kyoto, the Doctor finds himself in the Big Brother House, where he escapes with Lynda Moss and learns that he is back on Satellite Five. Jack is able to find the Doctor, but they are unable to save Rose from apparently being disintegrated on The Weakest Link. After the Doctor launches a successful coupe, Jack discovers the disintegrator is actually a teleport for the Daleks, having survived the Time War and been the ones responsible for the Jagrafess's actions in The Long Game. The Doctor vows to rescue Rose as the Daleks begin their attack on Satellite Five, leading directly into The Parting of the Ways.


 * TV: The Parting of the Ways
 * Finding that the Dalek Emperor from the Time War has resurrected the Daleks by converting the human race, the Doctor sends Rose home to protect her from a delta wave he intends to use to kill both the humans and Daleks. Jack, Lynda and everyone else on Satellite Five are killed by the Daleks. Before the Doctor can be killed, Rose, having used the heart of the TARDIS to absorb the Time Vortex, returns and destroys the Dalek fleet, and restores Jack to life. To save Rose from the power of the vortex, the Doctor absorbs the energy, causing cellular damage to his body, forcing him to regenerate into his next incarnation.


 * NOTVALID: The Last Secret of the Emperor
 * Set concurrently with The Parting of the Ways, showing the Doctor's confrontations with the Dalek Emperor from the Emperor's perspective.


 * NOTVALID: While He Worked
 * Set during The Parting of the Ways, after the Doctor tells Jack the delta wave will kill both humans and Daleks alike.


 * NOTVALID: The Face from the Future
 * Set during The Parting of the Ways, when the Doctor threatens to activate the Delta wave generator. He decides not to do so after a mental conversation with the Moment.


 * POEM: Shortness of Breath
 * Set shortly before the Doctor's regeneration in The Parting of the Ways, as he looks back on his life.


 * Next page: Tenth Doctor

Currently unplaced

 * These entries are placed here due to being part of ongoing storylines that have yet to offer sufficient enough evidence to be placed in a specific part of this Doctor's timeline, unless further evidence arises in the stories to come.

Awaiting placement

 * These entries are placed here until a suitable position in the timeline can be determined based on the available evidence.


 * AUDIO: Identity Check
 * During a visit to an alien planet, setting this after The Monsters Inside, Rose is briefly stunted when she and and the Doctor travel forwards in time to the funeral of someone they just met, suggesting that she is still adjusting to time travel, which would set this early in her travels.