Theory:Timeline - Seventh Doctor

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, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks databanks and the Big Finnish 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 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, and should be viewed as the only placing for these novels.

Limiting factors
Limiting factors for the Seventh Doctor's timeline placement are based on which companions he is travelling with at the time. However there are also several instances when the Doctor travels alone, these can often be placed in the latter part of his regeneration as they represent a more sombre character for the Doctor.

Any stories featuring Melanie Bush must take place between TV: Time and the Rani and Dragonfire.

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

Any stories where he travels with Bernice Summerfield must take place between PROSE: Love and War and Happy Endings. However, she has several appearances where they are not travelling together.

Any stories where Ace and Benny's relationship is non-antagonistic must take place after PROSE: No Future.

Any story featuring Roz Forrester must take place between PROSE: Original Sin and So Vile a Sin. Any story featuring Chris Cwej must take place between PROSE: Original Sin and Lungbarrow.

Any story featuring Hex must take place between AUDIO: The Harvest and Signs and Wonders.

Any story where the Doctor wheres his lighter jacket must take place before AUDIO:  The Assassination Games.

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 starts of with the Doctor traveling with Frobisher, who acts like Peri Brown has just departed, before he himself leaves the series. The early comics also portrays the Doctor as he acted in Time and the Rani, until Nemesis of the Daleks sees him acts as he had in the more developed television series.

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.

The Virgin New Adventures have Ace shred off her teenage self to mature and harden 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 returns from fighting the Daleks with Spacefleet, and then leaving again to become Time's Vigilante.

A version of Ace with battle experience and some knowledge of futuristic technology also informs Enemy of the Daleks, and for many listeners it appears that in order to accommodate such dramatic changes in Ace's character, her time with the Doctor and Hex must therefore fall after her time with the Doctor and Bernice.

The biggest complication surrounding Ace is her traveling with the aged Doctor depicted in Doctor Who as a teenager, and then getting killed-off in Ground Zero, an act that has been left unresolved by any expanded media of the Whoniverse.

Travels with Mel

 * AUDIO: The Brink of Death
 * The Seventh Doctor's persona begins to emerge as his previous incarnation regenerates.


 * TV: Time and the Rani
 * The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation, and is immediately thrown into a confrontation with the Rani on Lakertya.


 * PROSE: The Useful Pile
 * Set immediately after Time and the Rani, with the Doctor bemoaning the loss of his scarf and umbrella on Lakertya, and still adjusting to his new body.


 * AUDIO: Unregenerate!
 * The Doctor is still recovering from the effects of his recent regeneration, and still has a large amount of the lindos hormone in his system.


 * PROSE: Daisy Chain
 * The Doctor brings a new hat stand back into the TARDIS console room. He acts much like his immediate predecessor, suggesting he is still recovering from the regeneration.


 * COMIC: Plastic Millenium
 * Mel is wearing the same clothes she wore in Paradise Towers.


 * PROSE: 24 Crawford Street
 * Mel is wearing the same clothes she wore in Paradise Towers.


 * TV: Paradise Towers
 * PROSE: Special Weapons
 * Pex's sacrifice from Paradise Towers is still on Mel's mind.


 * PROSE: The Invertebrates of Doom
 * AUDIO: We Are The Daleks
 * AUDIO: The Warehouse
 * The Doctor's umbrella is damaged, with him suggesting it time he acquired a new one.


 * AUDIO: Terror of the Sontarans
 * AUDIO: Flip-Flop
 * The audio's blurb sets this between Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen, and the Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after The Warehouse. The two-disc audio details what happens when the Doctor is coerced into changing the past, but offers no conclusion about which of the versions is the "correct" one.


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


 * PROSE: Driftwood
 * Set after Delta and the Bannermen.


 * AUDIO: Red
 * The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after Delta and the Bannermen, and gets a proverb wrong, setting this before Bang-Bang-a-Boom!


 * PROSE: Pulling Strings
 * The Doctor is carrying his red question mark umbrella, setting this after Delta and the Bannermen.


 * PROSE: Uranus
 * The Doctor still acts light heartedly, but Mel is starting to feel jaded by him.


 * AUDIO: Bang-Bang-a-Boom!
 * The Doctor promises to stop mangling proverbs, setting this after Delta and the Bannerman.


 * AUDIO: The Fires of Vulcan
 * The Doctor acts more brooding, something Mel claims to have never seen in him before.


 * PROSE: Have You Tried Turning It Off and Then Back On Again?
 * PROSE: Just War
 * The Doctor and Melanie meet Emil Hartung. The Doctor realises he will have to leave Mel soon, lest her morals compromise his agendas.


 * 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. Mel decides to leave the Doctor to travel with Glitz. The Doctor offers Ace the chance to see the wonders of time and space in the TARDIS, and she accepts.


 * TV: The Name of the Doctor
 * Set during Dragonfire: Episode 1.

Early travels with Ace

 * PROSE: Echo
 * Ace has "only just come on board" the TARDIS, and is exploring her new surroundings.


 * PROSE: Ante Bellum
 * The Doctor does not exhale much control over events, and his relationship with Ace is more trusting, placing this somewhere within their travels.


 * PROSE: Categorical Imperative
 * The Doctor and Ace go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby. However, the Doctor is unable to go through with the act and leaves.


 * PROSE: It's Only a Game
 * The Doctor, who is beginning to lean towards his scheming ways, gives his white coat to Rebeekan, and begins thinking about changing it for a brown one.


 * PROSE: The Ghost's Story
 * The Doctor plays the spoons, with Master indicating he did this less as he matured, setting this early in his travels with Ace.


 * PROSE: A Yuletide Tail
 * Ace is carrying around the baseball bat that was destroyed in Remembrance of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: The Glass Princess
 * The Doctor gives Clio a Blue Peter badge on Ace's behalf.


 * PROSE: Three Steps to the Left
 * Ace feels the Doctor is showing off with his time travel shenanigans.


 * PROSE: uPVC
 * Ace is familiar with the TARDIS, but is surprised that the Doctor keeps secrets, setting this early in their travels.


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


 * PROSE: A Rose by Any Other Name
 * PROSE: The Best of Days
 * Set just before The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.


 * 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. Ace acquires Flowerchild's earring, setting any stories where she wears it on her jacket after this one.


 * PROSE: Evitability
 * Set after The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.


 * AUDIO: Seven to One
 * PROSE: In the Community
 * The Doctor remains in the TARDIS while Ace visits Judith Winters in 1993, thirty years after Remembrance of the Daleks.


 * 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 and her rucksack is destroyed, setting any stories that features it before this one. The Doctor spots a chess set in Lady Peinforte's home and realises that Fenric is orchestrating events in his favour.


 * PROSE: The Time and Tide
 * The Doctor is wearing his off-white jacket.


 * PROSE: One Card for the Curious
 * Set soon after The Time and Tide.


 * PROSE: Christmas Every Day?
 * The Doctor, out gift shopping for a friend, mentions that Ace likes Charlton Athletic, which he learnt in Silver Nemesis.


 * COMIC: The Forgotten: Survival
 * PROSE: The Ripple Effect
 * Ace learns that the TARDIS is stuck with the police box exterior due to a broken chameleon circuit and begins questioning the Doctor's intentions and motivations.


 * PROSE: Prelude Birthright
 * The Doctor and Ace leave for Terra Alpha, setting this immediately before The Happiness Patrol.


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


 * PROSE: Head Games
 * After The Happiness Patrol, Ace asks the Doctor how he operates, and believes she comes to an understanding.


 * PROSE: Private Investigations
 * The Doctor is described as wearing a light jacket with a patterned sweater.


 * AUDIO: 1963: The Assassination Games
 * The Doctor recalls his movements in 1963 from Remembrance of the Daleks and an unknown second adventure. At the conclusion, the Doctor changes into his chocolate brown jacket for the first time.


 * AUDIO: The Light at the End
 * The Doctor has not yet told Ace about regeneration, and she doesn't know who the Master is, setting this before Survival.


 * AUDIO: Dark Convoy
 * AUDIO: Shockwave
 * Ace has faced the Daleks and Cybermen. She knows the Doctor can regenerate, setting this after The Light at the End.

Ercildoune

 * After leaving Ace in the Cretaceous period, (COMIC: Train-Flight) the Doctor takes up residence at Ercildoune in Scotland in the 13th century, using it as a base from which to set out on various travels. (PROSE: Birthright)


 * COMIC: A Cold Day in Hell!
 * The Doctor is travelling with Frobisher, but the Whifferdill decides to leave the Doctor's company as he feels he isn't needed as much without Peri. After one last adventure, Frobisher stays on A-Lux in the 41st century, while the Doctor departs with a female Dreilyn named Olla.


 * COMIC: Redemption!
 * Olla is handed over to Skaroux, whom she stole money from, leaving the Doctor alone again.


 * COMIC: The Crossroads of Time
 * After colliding with him in the Time Vortex, the Doctor uses a TCE to shrink Death's Head to human size.


 * COMIC: Claws of the Klathi!
 * AUDIO: Last of the Titans
 * The Doctor is taking a holiday while travelling alone, and is more morose and less all-knowing than he appeared in his later travels.


 * COMIC: Culture Shock!
 * Feeling old and useless, the Doctor considers returning the Gallifrey for good. After saving the Culture, the Doctor feels a renewed sense of purpose and leaves looking another adventure.


 * COMIC: Keepsake
 * COMIC: Planet of the Dead
 * PROSE: Scream of the Silent
 * PROSE: Birthright
 * The Doctor visits Victorian London, and saves Barbara Wright's grandfather, Ernie Wright, from being arrested for a murder he did not commit.


 * TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * Due to a "glitch" caused by the TARDISes surrounding each other, the Doctor briefly ages to his Doctor Who appearance.


 * AUDIO: The Defectors
 * COMIC: Echoes of the Mogor!
 * The Doctor begins trying to get to Maruthea for Bonjaxx's birthday.


 * COMIC: Time and Tide
 * COMIC: Follow That TARDIS!
 * COMIC: Invaders from Gantac!
 * COMIC: Time Bomb!
 * The Doctor and Death's Head cross paths again, and come to an uneasy truce.


 * PROSE: The Infinity Season
 * The Doctor is still attempting to attend Bonjaxx's birthday on Marathea.


 * COMIC: Nemesis of the Daleks
 * While still searching for Banjaxx's party, the Doctor meets Abslom Daak, a professional Dalek killer. The Doctor believes Davros to be the Dalek Emperor, setting this after Remembrance of the Daleks.


 * COMIC: Once in a Lifetime
 * COMIC: Hunger from the Ends of Time!
 * COMIC: War World
 * COMIC: Technical Hitch
 * The Doctor has begun wearing a dark brown variant of his jacket.


 * COMIC: A Switch in Time
 * COMIC: The Sentinel
 * COMIC: Who's That Girl!
 * The Doctor is acting as a representative for the Time Lords.


 * COMIC: The Enlightenment of Ly-Chee the Wise
 * COMIC: Slimmer
 * COMIC: Nineveh
 * COMIC: Stairway to Heaven
 * The Doctor is no longer trying to get to Maruthea, and is wearing his dark jacket.


 * PROSE: Echoes of Future Past
 * The Doctor is depicted with his brown coat. He gives his past incarnation the Hand of Omega, setting this some point after he sent it off to Gallifrey in Remembrance of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: Birthright
 * The Doctor leaves Ercildoune for the last time, shortly before the Charl Queen arrives looking for the TARDIS.

Growing darker

 * AUDIO: The Four Doctors
 * The Seventh Doctor is depicted in his chocolate brown jacket, and looking relatively youthful to boot.


 * COMIC: Train-Flight
 * COMIC: Doctor Conkerer!
 * The Doctor writes in his diary about having just defeated the Kalik in Train-Flight. Having felt distracted lately, the Doctor decides he needs to find a way to concentrate, presumably leading into his retrieval of Ace.


 * PROSE: Living in the Past
 * The Doctor retrieves Ace from the Cretaceous period of Earth's pre-history, and the two resume traveling together.


 * AUDIO: The Riparian Ripper
 * PROSE: The Anchorite's Echo
 * TV: The Curse of Fenric
 * Broadcasted 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.


 * PROSE: Séance
 * PROSE: Hymn of the City
 * Set "not so long [after]" The Curse of Fenric.


 * TV: Battlefield
 * Broadcasted 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.


 * PROSE: Instead of You
 * Set after Battlefield.


 * TV: Survival
 * Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. A week has passed since The Curse of Fenric. 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.


 * PROSE: Fable Fusion
 * Ace is under 18-years-of-age and is familiar with UNIT and the Brigadier, setting this after Battlefield.


 * PROSE: The Hollow Men
 * The Doctor notes that he should leave his past self a settee to land on in Perivale, setting this after Survival.


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

Work to do

 * PROSE: The Colony of Lies
 * Ace mentions the events of Ghost Light.


 * PROSE: One Minute Fourteen Seconds
 * PROSE: Monsters
 * 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".


 * COMIC: Terror from the Deep
 * PROSE: Anti-Matter with Fries
 * COMIC: Prisoners of Time
 * Ace recognises the Master, setting this after Survival.


 * PROSE: But Once a Year
 * PROSE: The Devil Like a Bear
 * PROSE: Last Rites
 * 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 when offered.


 * 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.


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


 * AUDIO: Police and Shreeves
 * AUDIO: The Shadow Trader
 * AUDIO: Crystal Ball
 * AUDIO: Earth Aid
 * It has been some time since the Doctor and Ace last saw Raine, who decides to return to the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: The Girl Who Stole the Stars
 * PROSE: Illegal Alien
 * PROSE: Stop the Pigeon
 * Set near Illegal Alien.


 * PROSE: Matrix
 * Ace is seventeen-years-old, and 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 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
 * Ace has yet to wear the sunglasses with the in-built vision enhancements from the New Adventures era.


 * PROSE: Loving the Alien
 * Sequel to Illegal Alien. 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.

Trouble with the Timewyrm

 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys
 * When the Doctor restores the Ace's memories, the first thing that she recalls is the events of Survival, and she still feels some of the after-effects of the Cheetah Virus. She also knows about regeneration, and is aware that the Doctor has regenerated six times.


 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus
 * Set immediately after Timewyrm: Genesys.


 * PROSE: Endgame
 * The amnesic Eighth Doctor observes the Seventh Doctor and Ace visiting the Festival of Britain during Timewyrm: Exodus.


 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse
 * Ace sees an animal in the TARDIS, foreshadowing Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.


 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation
 * The Doctor and Ace have "only just left Kirith", placing this shortly after Timewyrm: Apocalypse.


 * PROSE: The Algebra of Ice
 * Visiting Ethan Amberglass whilst in hospital, the Doctor mentions the recent events of Timewyrm: Revelation.

The best of friends

 * PROSE: Prelude Birthright 
 * While he makes various preparations in London, the Doctor leaves Ace in the Great Rift Valley.


 * PROSE: Teenage Kicks
 * COMIC: Fellow Travellers
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Untitled
 * COMIC: Distractions / The Mark of Mandragora
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor mentions that he's recently been unable to take the TARDIS away from Earth. He has also been redecorating the TARDIS and discarded his question mark pullover.


 * COMIC: Under Pressure
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Party Animals
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor finally reaches Maruthea, just as his preceding incarnation is leaving.


 * COMIC: The Chameleon Factor
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor locates his old signet ring in the TARDIS control console and decides to resume wearing it.


 * COMIC: Seaside Rendezvous
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: The Good Soldier
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The TARDIS' chameleon circuit is inexplicably working, and has changed the TARDIS's form into a Cadillac.


 * PROSE: Atom Bomb Blues
 * COMIC: A Glitch in Time
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Evening's Empire
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Untitled
 * The Doctor is wearing his dark brown jacket underneath his duffle-coat, and Ace looks older than her television counterpart.


 * COMIC: The Grief
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. When listing the worst creatures she can imagine, Ace mentions the Daleks, the Timewyrm and the Cybermen.


 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
 * The Doctor hasn't been to Alaska, and Ace has learnt how to swear in eleven alien languages. The Doctor and Ace decide they should go their separate ways at the end.

Time alone

 * COMIC: A Religious Experience
 * The Doctor is wearing his dark jacket, and appears to be traveling alone.


 * COMIC: Memorial
 * The Doctor carries a Telphin life-seed to Earth.


 * GAME: Destiny of the Doctors
 * The Doctor has Excalibur in his TARDIS, placing this after Battlefield.


 * PROSE: Birthright
 * The Doctor visits the court of Elizabeth I, and persuades the Queen to send John Dee on a fool's errand.


 * PROSE: There's Something About Mary
 * PROSE: Front Line
 * PROSE: Separation

Beginnings as Time's champion

 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead
 * The Doctor and Ace reunite in Turkey.


 * COMIC: Ravens
 * Set during Cat's Cradle: Warhead, according to Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
 * Ace can still feel the biological effects of being on the Cheetah planet. The TARDIS gets infected by demonic protoplasm.


 * PROSE: Sunday Afternoon, 848,988 AD
 * Ace has already been traveling with the Doctor for several years.


 * PROSE: Closing the Account
 * COMIC: Metamorphosis
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Memorial
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Nightshade
 * COMIC: Cat Litter
 * An opening annotation places this story directly after the consecutive events of Memorial and Nightshade, which is supported by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Meridians
 * PROSE: Relative Dementias
 * Ace refers to her escape from the underwater spaceship in Battlefield, and meeting her grandmother during The Curse of Fenric. She is still under the legal drinking age. Miss Gallowglass gives a cryptic warning to the Doctor and Ace about the upcoming events of Independence Day.


 * AUDIO: Washington Burns
 * PROSE: Cathedral Heart
 * The Doctor is making a cube in his lab that Ace must not know about, setting this shortly before Love and War.


 * PROSE: Independence Day
 * Ace has more experienced and confident, and knows more about future technology than she used too, placing this shortly before Love and War.


 * PROSE: Love and War
 * The Doctor is acquainted with Abslom Daak, placing this after Nemesis of the Daleks, and Ace claims that the events of Nightshade occured some months ago.
 * After saving Heaven, the weary Doctor travels alone in the Time Vortex for a long time, visited some worlds and drifting past others in the process.


 * PROSE: A Time & a Place
 * The Doctor is travelling alone without a companion and is trying to atone for his past mistakes.


 * PROSE: The Gallery
 * The Doctor is alone, wearing his dark jacket and in an introspective mood.


 * PROSE: Affirmative
 * The Doctor appears to be alone, and in need of reassurance that some of his plans have worked out as he intended.


 * PROSE: Nobody's Gift
 * PROSE: Love and War: Epilogue
 * Returning to the 26th century, Ace leaves the Doctor after realising that his manipulations resulted in the death of Jan Rydd, a man she had fallen in love with. Bernice Summerfield agrees to travel with the Doctor in her place, but only after he promises not to play games with her life.


 * PROSE: An Unfulfilled Dream
 * The Doctor mentions that his companion is having a hangover after a night testing drinks from the TARDIS food replicator, suggesting that he is referring to Benny.


 * PROSE: Transit
 * COMIC: Pureblood
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor says that Benny has just joined his company.


 * COMIC: Younger and Wiser
 * The Doctor is alone with Bernice and wears his light jacket, placing this shortly after Pureblood.


 * COMIC: Flashback
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: The Highest Science
 * PROSE: Playback
 * As the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS, he calls out to Benny.


 * PROSE: The Pit
 * The Doctor inexplicably has a sonic screwdriver.


 * PROSE: Continuity Errors
 * PROSE: How You Get There

Ace returns

 * PROSE: Deceit
 * Three years after leaving the Doctor on Heaven, Ace decides to return to the TARDIS, but no longer trusts the Doctor. The TARDIS is cured of the protoplasm infection from Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark.


 * PROSE: Lucifer Rising
 * PROSE: Cold War
 * Ace more curt and aggressive, setting this not long after her return in Deceit.


 * COMIC: Final Genesis
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: White Darkness
 * The Doctor and an Old One are in an antagonistic relationship, setting this before their truce in Signs and Wonders. The Doctor begins wearing a cream linen suit and fedora.


 * PROSE: Shadowmind
 * Ace still keeps track of her age. The Doctor decides he needs a holiday, leading into Birthright and Iceberg.


 * PROSE: Birthright
 * The Doctor gives Bernice the keys to the TARDIS, and leaves her in control, having arranged for it to crash in Victorian London, leading directly into Iceberg.


 * PROSE: Iceberg
 * This novel takes place at the same time as Birthright, with the events of both novels occurring concurrently for the Doctor, Ace and Benny.


 * PROSE: Parasite
 * The Doctor watches Sonia Bannen being killed in a food riot.


 * PROSE: Birthright
 * This novel runs parallel with the events of Iceberg, with the Doctor being absent for the majority of Birthright. The Doctor's deceptions cost him Benny's trust.


 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Cuckoo
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

Struggling with alternate timelines

 * PROSE: Blood Heat
 * A few months have passed since Deceit, but the events of Birthright are recent. The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the Time Vortex, and the Doctor later realises that someone is toying with time. The Doctor acquires a new sonic screwdriver from the possessions of his deceased alternate third incarnation, and also takes that Doctor's TARDIS after his is lost in a tar pit.


 * PROSE: The Dimension Riders
 * Ace still does not trust the Doctor, nor does the TARDIS from the alternate world. The Doctor discovers that the one who created the Silurian Earth has successfully altered the flow of time in the real universe.


 * PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird
 * The Doctor fixes the chameleon circuit in his new TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Conundrum
 * Benny decides to stay with the Doctor after struggling with her inability to trust him. The Doctor learns history is going to change again, and he sets out to find the cause, leading into No Future.


 * PROSE: No Future
 * The Doctor discovers that the Monk has been corrupting the timeline as a revenge stunt, but is able to defeat his enemy and regain Ace's trust. He also smashes the chameleon circuit of his TARDIS with a hammer, destroying it. The Doctor thinks he killed the Master in Survival, despite having spoken of him in the present tense during Deceit.

Amicable travels

 * PROSE: Tragedy Day
 * The Doctor has had experience with delivering babies.


 * PROSE: Question Mark Pyjamas
 * Ace refers to the TARDIS team's recent encounter with the Monk in No Future.


 * COMIC: Uninvited Guest
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Legacy
 * The TARDIS has been to Olleril recently, setting this shortly after Tragedy Day. As far as Ace knows, this is the first time she has seen an Ice Warrior, though she did encounter them in Thin Ice. Benny, who has never been on Mars before this point in her life, takes a temporary leave of absence from the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Citadel of Dreams
 * Ace is wielding the metallic baseball bat that was destroyed in Remembrance of the Daleks, though her confidence and general demeanour suggest that this story takes place during the early New Adventures. The Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit, and, with Benny absent, this must take place during her brief leave-of-absence.


 * PROSE: Theatre of War
 * Benny returns to the TARDIS after her temporary leave of absence that started in Legacy.


 * PROSE: All-Consuming Fire
 * AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge
 * The Big Finnish website places this audio between All-Consuming Fire and Blood Harvest.


 * COMIC: The Last Word
 * The Doctor is wearing his white suit from White Darkness, though the TARDIS console room is the one from before Final Genesis.


 * PROSE: Virgin Lands
 * AUDIO: The Dark Flame
 * The Big Finish website places this audio after The Shadow of the Scourge.


 * PROSE: The Last Emperor
 * The Doctor sends Ace and Benny on a mission to Antarctica.


 * PROSE: Blood Harvest
 * The Doctor, Benny and Ace end up in E-space, where they find Romana and return her to Gallifrey, where she opts to remain.


 * PROSE: Strange England
 * Some time has passed since Blood Harvest, with Ace getting trigger-happy due to the lack of dangerous adventures.


 * PROSE: First Frontier
 * The Doctor and Ace encounter for the first time since Survival. Ace fatally shoots the Master, but he is able to regenerate into . Ace considers leaving the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: St Anthony's Fire
 * Ace has her head shaved clean.


 * PROSE: Falls the Shadow
 * Ace's hair is till re-growing.


 * PROSE: Parasite
 * It has been at least a full year since No Future. Ace is still thinking about when she'll leave the Doctor.


 * PROSE: Warlock
 * The Doctor, Ace and Benny have been at Smithwood Manor for almost a year.


 * PROSE: Set Piece
 * Ace is 26-years-old. After an ordeal with the Robot Ants, Ace leaves the TARDIS crew to become Time's Vigilante.

Alone with Benny

 * AUDIO: Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code
 * Ace has only just left the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Infinite Requiem
 * Set Piece was the Doctor's last previous adventure.


 * PROSE: Sanctuary
 * The TARDIS has only just left Gadrell Major, setting this immediately after Infinite Requiem.


 * PROSE: Human Nature
 * The Doctor changes himself into a human to understand Benny's grief over the death of Guy de Carnac, which happened in Sanctuary. After he resumes his Time Lord identity, he is given a cat named Wolsey as a pet.


 * PROSE: The Also People
 * The Doctor rescues Kadiatu from a slave ship.


 * PROSE: Of the Mermaid and Jupiter
 * PROSE: The Trials of Tara
 * PROSE: Larkspur

Chris and Roz

 * PROSE: Original Sin
 * The Doctor and Benny are joined by Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej, who wish to escape the corruption and manipulation rife on Earth in their time.


 * PROSE: Sky Pirates!
 * Three-odd subjective years have passed since Love and War.


 * PROSE: Zamper
 * Set immediately after Sky Pirates!


 * PROSE: Utopia
 * The dark-attitude Doctor is wearing his white linen suit, with his mission being to talk a man with good intentions into killing himself because of foreknowledge of a possible future.


 * PROSE: Toy Soldiers
 * PROSE: Head Games
 * Ending leads directly into The Also People.


 * PROSE: The Also People
 * PROSE: Too Rich for My Blood
 * PROSE: Shakedown
 * PROSE: Just War
 * Ending leads directly into Warchild.


 * PROSE: Warchild
 * PROSE: Sleepy
 * PROSE: Death and Diplomacy
 * Set immediately after Sleepy. Jason Kane proposes to Benny, and she accepts, leading into Happy Endings.


 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Benny leaves the Doctor's company after her wedding to Jason Kane. The Doctor retrieves his original TARDIS from the Charrl after it was lost to him during Blood Heat.


 * PROSE: GodEngine
 * PROSE: The Nuclear Option
 * PROSE: Anteus
 * PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet
 * PROSE: Return of the Living Dad
 * PROSE: Cold Fusion
 * PROSE: The Death of Art
 * Chris unsuccessfully pretends to be the Fifth Doctor, setting this story after Cold Fusion.


 * PROSE: Damaged Goods
 * PROSE: So Vile a Sin
 * Set immediately after Damaged Goods. Roz dies leading her sister's forces into battle against the army of Emperor Walid as part of Leabie's revolution. The Doctor suffers a one sided heart attack at her funeral, and has a vision of Death tormenting him about his coming demise. The Doctor begins wearing the clothes from Doctor Who.

Champion's end

 * PROSE: Bad Therapy
 * Little time has passed since So Vile a Sin.


 * 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 the events. The Doctor knows that his regeneration grows nearer. 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: Never Seen Cairo
 * The Doctor obliquely claims to have lost someone in a war, and to have kept someone else in it for too long. He is most likely referring to Roz and Chris, respectively.


 * AUDIO: The Story of Extinction
 * The Doctor has an encounter with Victoria Waterfield.


 * PROSE: Death Sentences
 * The Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit, setting this near Bullet Time.


 * PROSE: Spookasem
 * The Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit, setting this near Bullet Time.


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow
 * The Doctor returns to the House of Lungbarrow. 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, and is also given a new sonic screwdriver by Romana. Many stories, such as Notre Dame du Temps, are unambiguously establish that the Doctor does not promptly head for Skaro.
 * Many stories, such as Notre Dame du Temps and The Eleven, unambiguously establish that the Doctor does not immediately head for Skaro.

Moving on

 * PROSE: Notre Dame du Temps
 * The Doctor has redecorated the TARDIS interior after his trip to Gallifrey in Lungbarrow, and is wearing his VNA suit and fedora.


 * PROSE: Log 384
 * The Doctor is wearing his VNA fedora.


 * AUDIO: The Death Collectors
 * The Doctor says that he personal friends with Death.


 * AUDIO: Spider's Shadow
 * Set after The Death Collectors.


 * PROSE: Perfect Present
 * The Doctor saves Montague Manor, at the coat of a servant's life.


 * PROSE: Not in My Back Yard
 * The Doctor sets up a plan that involves using his eighth incarnation.


 * AUDIO: The Shadow Heart
 * PROSE: Omegamorphosis
 * The Doctor is wearing his clothes from Lungbarrow, and is using the sonic screwdriver he acquired in that story.


 * PROSE: Last Christmas
 * The Doctor is wearing his linen suit, with a Santa Claus hat for the festive season.

Old friends reunited

 * PROSE: Set Piece
 * The Doctor catches up with an older Ace following the defeat of the Voltranons.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns
 * The Doctor is trying to find Benny.


 * AUDIO: The Revolution
 * The Doctor finds Benny. He has left Ace on Gallifrey in his future, at a point after Romana opens the Academy to aliens. Ace's life on Gallifrey can be blamed for the anomalies in her aging or sterility, such as with Leela and Chris Cwej. 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
 * AUDIO: The Prisoner's Dilemma
 * Ace refers to Happy Endings, but she is travelling with the Doctor without Benny. She loses her memory, which the Doctor does his best to restore.


 * AUDIO: Critical Mass
 * The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver.


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


 * 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.


 * PROSE: Relativity
 * Set after Colditz.


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

Hex joins

 * AUDIO: The Harvest
 * McShane tells Hex that she has been travelling with the Doctor "for a surprisingly long time." The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver, and is convinced by McShane to let Hex join them in the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: These Things Take Time
 * Hex has only just joined the TARDIS crew, and visits his first alien world.


 * PROSE: The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac
 * Set during These Things Take Time for the Seventh Doctor.


 * AUDIO: Dreamtime
 * Hex sees aliens and spaceships for the first time.


 * AUDIO: Afterlife (Hex's letter)
 * The Doctor battles the Cragvar.


 * PROSE: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
 * Set before LIVE 34, as Ace is still going by her surname.


 * AUDIO: LIVE 34
 * McShane decides that "Ace" is her true name, and resumes using it. Reporter Ryan Wareing estimates Ace's age to be in her mid-to-late twenties.


 * PROSE: Presence
 * AUDIO: Thicker Than Water
 * The Doctor has dropped Ace and Hex off in 1966 Monte Carlo with instructions to steal the Veiled Leopard, (AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard) while he visits Evelyn Smythe.


 * AUDIO: Night Thoughts
 * AUDIO: The Settling
 * This is Hex's first visit to Earth's past. The TARDIS interior has been redecorated to as it will be in Doctor Who.


 * AUDIO: No Man's Land
 * Ace and Hex mention the recent events of The Settling.


 * AUDIO: Nocturne
 * PROSE: The Report
 * AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor
 * PROSE: Natalie's Diary
 * Set a few months after The Harvest, with Hex mentioning how he killed a man during The Settling.


 * AUDIO: The Dark Husband
 * AUDIO: False Gods
 * AUDIO: Order of Simplicity
 * AUDIO: Casualties of War
 * AUDIO: The Word Lord

Battling the Elder Gods

 * AUDIO: The Magic Mousetrap
 * The Doctor sees a chess set in the sanatorium, and realises Fenric is preparing his return.


 * AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks
 * Ace has significant military and tactical knowledge, implying a post-Deceit setting. Hex has his first encounter with the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari
 * Hex is still reeling from the events that he witnessed on Bliss with the Daleks. The exterior shell of the TARDIS is shattered after the HADS are activated, and its colouration is stuck as white.


 * AUDIO: Project Destiny
 * Follows directly on from The Angel of Scutari. Hex leaves the TARDIS crew after discovering that the Doctor had previously been witness to his mother's death.


 * AUDIO: A Death in the Family
 * Ace is incapable of flying the TARDIS. Hex rejoins the TARDIS at Evelyn Smythe's prompting, before Evelyn passes away.


 * AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge
 * The Doctor goes to Alaska, setting this after Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.
 * After their adventure in Alaska, the Doctor leaves Ace and Hex for a time and begins travelling in a Black TARDIS. (AUDIO: Black and White)


 * AUDIO: Robophobia
 * The Doctor meets Liv Chenka while testing his new black TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: The Doomsday Quatrain
 * AUDIO: House of Blue Fire
 * The Doctor is joined in the Black TARDIS by Sally Morgan after she helps him defeat the Mi'en Kalarash.


 * AUDIO: Project Nirvana
 * After a battle against the Kai'lizakia, Forge operative Lysandra Aristedes joins the Doctor and Sally in the Black TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: Protect and Survive
 * AUDIO: Black and White
 * The TARDIS is restored to its prime condition, and the Black TARDIS is destroyed.


 * AUDIO: Gods and Monsters
 * Hex enters the Time Vortex to defeat Fenric, apparently killing himself in the process.

The new Hex

 * AUDIO: Afterlife
 * Ace no longer knows her age, setting this after Set Piece, where she knew for a fact she was 26. The Doctor has posited Lysandra to fight in a war in her native time, and Sally also leaves the TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: Revenge of the Swarm
 * AUDIO: Mask of Tragedy
 * The Doctor had decided to take Ace and Hector to Greece to relax after the events of Revenge of the Swarm. After their vacation, Hector asks the Doctor to return him home, leading into Signs and Wonders.


 * AUDIO: Signs and Wonders
 * Hector leaves the TARDIS and settles down with Sally to raise a family. Ace's glimpses herself wearing a high collar, riding a motorbike in Paris in the 19th century, and being surrounded by the Lobri in her future.

After Hex

 * AUDIO: You Are the Doctor
 * The Doctor begins teaching Ace how to fly the TARDIS, setting this after Deceit.


 * AUDIO: Come Die With Me
 * AUDIO: The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel
 * AUDIO: Dead to the World
 * Ace refers to Hex having left.


 * AUDIO: A Life of Crime
 * The TARDIS finds who it's been looking for; Mel, who rejoins the TARDIS crew.


 * AUDIO: The Pyramid of Sutekh
 * AUDIO: The Vaults of Osiris
 * Ace has had a TARDIS driving lesson.


 * AUDIO: The Eye of Horus
 * AUDIO: The Tears of Isis
 * Ace eventually returns to Gallifrey, as seen in UNIT: Dominion and Intervention Earth.

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 aging; his hair is depicted as tufts growing out of the side of his head.

Unfinished business

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


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


 * PROSE: Dream a Little Dream for Me
 * 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.


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


 * AUDIO: Project: Lazarus
 * Set after Excelis Decays, with the Doctor depicted as elderly looking, and 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 is using the alias "Vaughn Sutton", setting this after Excelis Decays. He also makes vague references to Benny, Chris and Roz, setting this after Original Sin as well. The Doctor has just "burned back into existence", setting this immediately after A Death in the Family.


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


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


 * AUDIO: The Sirens of Time
 * According to the guidance provided, this is set between Master and Valhalla.


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


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


 * AUDIO: Keepsake
 * Set after Kingdom of Silver.


 * PROSE: The Shopping Trolleys of Doom
 * Set after Kingdom of Silver.


 * PROSE: Running on Empty
 * Set after Kingdom of Silver.


 * PROSE: Stolen Days
 * Set after Kingdom of Silver.


 * AUDIO: Frozen Time
 * The Doctor is depicted with the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who, and is comatosed in a frozen block of ice for "millions of years".


 * PROSE: Inmate 280
 * The Doctor has stopped believing in the efficacy of imprisonment, setting this late in his life.


 * AUDIO: The Wormery
 * PROSE: Policy to Invade
 * The Doctor is using the console room he had in Doctor Who.


 * AUDIO: UNIT: Dominion
 * Raine Creevy is travelling with an older Doctor, and Ace is on Gallifrey. The TARDIS interior is described as the one from the television era.


 * PROSE: Reunion
 * The Doctor has the aged appearance he had in Doctor Who.


 * PROSE: Christmas in Toronto

Search for the Persuasion machine

 * AUDIO: Persuasion
 * Set after UNIT: Dominion. The Doctor is nearing the end of his current life and has been trying to eradicate evil because he feels his next incarnation won't be strong enough for the task.


 * AUDIO: Starlight Robbery
 * AUDIO: Daleks Among Us

Nearing the end

 * AUDIO: The Two Masters
 * The Doctor is using the TARDIS interior from Doctor Who, and recognises from UNIT: Dominion.


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


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


 * PROSE: Peaceable Kingdom
 * PROSE: The Celestial Harmony Engine
 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * After having a "mid-life crisis" whilst dealing with his approaching death, the Doctor is inspired to enjoy the time he has left after being rescued from an Eight Leg by his successor.


 * 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.


 * PROSE: The Hunting of the Slook
 * The Doctor is using the console room he had in Doctor Who.


 * 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
 * Having visibly aged from years of his Machiavellian schemes, the Doctor is shot in a San Francisco gang shootout while transporting the Master's remains from Skaro to Gallifrey. Taken to Walker General Hospital, 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.

Placement unknown

 * COMIC: Ground Zero
 * The Doctor is older looking, and his TARDIS is damaged, implying that it is about to change to the 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.