Theory:Timeline - Tenth Doctor

This page lists appearances of the Tenth 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, audio or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

Fan sources like the Doctor Who Reference Guide should not be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Limiting factors
Though multiple stories that predate TV: Journey's End, in particular DWBIT comic stories, feature the Doctor travelling alone, TV: Smith and Jones and TV: Partners in Crime have the Doctor state or strongly imply that it hasn't been long since Rose Tyler and Martha Jones have departed (respectively in TV: Doomsday and TV: Last of the Time Lords).

Any story with Rose Tyler travelling must be after TV: The Christmas Invasion and before TV: Army of Ghosts. Any story with Martha Jones travelling must be after TV: Smith and Jones and before TV: Utopia. Any story with Donna Noble must be after TV: Partners in Crime and before TV: Turn Left.

Series basics
There are two notable divisions in the varying Tenth Doctor media, those where he is almost constantly travelling with a companion and those, set after his hearts were broken by all his losses in TV: Journey's End, where he spends most of the time travelling alone.

The era while he constantly travels with someone can be further divided into adventures with original to television companions:
 * Rose Tyler
 * Rose and Mickey Smith
 * Rose (again)
 * Martha Jones
 * Donna Noble

There are also the original to comics companions:
 * Heather McCrimmon
 * Heather and Wolfgang Ryter
 * Matthew Finnegan and Emily Winter
 * Majenta Pryce
 * Gabby Gonzalez

His adventures with Matthew and Emily are said to take place towards the end of his time alone.

Post-regeneration

 * TV: The Parting of the Ways
 * The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation.


 * TV: Children in Need Special
 * TV: The Christmas Invasion
 * Children in Need Special and The Christmas Invasion both involve the Doctor in the early stages after his regeneration.

The Platform One mystery

 * COMIC: Growing Terror / Hyperstar Rising / Death Race Five Billion / The Macrobe Menace / The Hunt of Doom / Reunion of Fear

New adventures with Rose

 * PROSE: I am a Dalek
 * The Doctor and Rose unsuccessfully attempt to visit the Moon.


 * PROSE: Untitled
 * This is Rose's first trip to the Moon.


 * COMIC: The Betrothal of Sontar
 * COMIC: The Lodger
 * The Doctor and Rose return to the Powell Estate


 * TV: New Earth
 * The Doctor and Rose leave the Powell Estate.


 * COMIC: Which Switch?
 * COMIC: Mirror Image
 * COMIC: Under the Volcano
 * COMIC: The Germ War
 * COMIC: Warfreekz
 * TV: Tooth and Claw
 * The Doctor and Rose fight off the Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform.


 * PROSE: The Stone Rose
 * PROSE: The Feast of the Drowned
 * PROSE: The Resurrection Casket
 * COMIC: F.A.Q.
 * COMIC: The Futurists
 * COMIC: Interstellar Overdrive
 * COMIC: Opera of Doom!

Mickey tags along

 * TV: School Reunion
 * PROSE: A Dog's Life
 * Rose mentions meeting a werewolf to Sarah Jane in School Reunion, clearly placing it after Tooth and Claw. Rose also works for a couple of days as a dinner lady at Deffry Vale High School. The final scene of A Dog's Life takes place during the scene where the Doctor awakens K9 Mark III in School Reunion. At the end of School Reunion, Mickey joins the TARDIS crew.


 * TV: The Girl in the Fireplace
 * Mickey's first trip in the TARDIS.


 * COMIC: The Green-Eyed Monster
 * Mickey is still travelling in the TARDIS.


 * TV: Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel
 * Mickey stays behind in a parallel universe with the walls closed behind him.

Final adventures with Rose

 * TV: The Idiot's Lantern
 * TV: The Impossible Planet
 * Rose mentions being a dinner lady but Mickey isn't present, placing this after School Reunion, The Girl in the Fireplace, Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel.


 * TV The Satan Pit
 * Second part to The Impossible Planet. Rose's "death" is foreshadowed by the Beast, implying not much time passes between this story and Army of Ghosts.


 * PROSE: The Nightmare of Black Island
 * PROSE: The Art of Destruction
 * PROSE: The Price of Paradise
 * TV: Love & Monsters (Elton meeting Rose)
 * Rose is still stopping off to see her mother, but is no longer with Mickey, placing this after The Age of Steel.


 * TV: Fear Her
 * TV: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday
 * Rose and Jackie are trapped on the parallel Earth. Donna Noble appears in the TARDIS.

Grieving for Rose

 * TV: The Runaway Bride
 * The Doctor is returning Donna to Earth after Donna was pulled into the TARDIS by mistake.


 * COMIC: A Rose by Any Other Name
 * The Doctor stops traveling for awhile as he mourns over the loss of Rose.


 * COMIC: The Warkeeper's Crown

Meeting Martha

 * TV: Smith and Jones
 * TV: The Shakespeare Code
 * TV: Gridlock
 * The events of Smith and Jones through Gridlock flow into one another. Martha's intended "single trip" in the TARDIS during The Shakespeare Code is postponed to an uncertain length between Gridlock and The Lazarus Experiment.


 * TV: Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks
 * TV: The Lazarus Experiment
 * Martha officially joins the TARDIS full-time.

The new companion

 * PROSE: Made of Steel
 * The events of the book must take place after The Lazarus Experiment as Martha says something about facing mad scientists again. Martha is forced to wait outside the TARDIS in the Doctor's absence, placing this story before 42, when Martha receives a key to the TARDIS.


 * COMIC: The Woman Who Sold the World
 * PROSE: 42 Prologue
 * TV: 42
 * Immediately follows 42 Prologue.


 * TV: The Infinite Quest
 * Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia places this story between 42 and Human Nature.


 * COMIC: Bus Stop
 * TV: Human Nature / The Family of Blood
 * COMIC: The First
 * TV: Blink (The Doctor and Sally in 2008)
 * Sally gives the Doctor the transcript his future self has already read to her.


 * COMIC: Death to the Doctor!
 * TV: Blink (The Doctor and Billy in 1969)
 * COMIC: Universal Monsters

The return of the Master

 * TV: Utopia / The Sound of Drums
 * TV: Last of the Time Lords
 * Martha leaves the TARDIS to take care of her family and to move on from her feelings towards the Doctor. A replica of the Titanic hits the hull of the TARDIS.

Travelling alone

 * TV: Time Crash
 * Time Crash occurs during the final scene of Last of the Time Lords and ends on the same cliffhanger.


 * TV: Voyage of the Damned
 * Continues the cliffhanger that occurs in both Last of the Time Lords and Time Crash.


 * COMIC: Hotel Historia

Early exploits with Donna

 * TV: Partners in Crime
 * Martha is mentioned as "the last time" the Doctor has travelled with someone.


 * TV: The Fires of Pompeii
 * TV: Planet of the Ood
 * Donna's first trip to an alien planet.


 * PROSE: Ghosts of India
 * Donna has seen ood, but has only recently met the Doctor.


 * TV: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky
 * Sylvia and Wilf find out about the Doctor, and the Doctor and Donna meet UNIT. Martha is accidentally taken aboard the TARDIS.


 * TV: The Doctor's Daughter
 * Immediately after The Poison Sky, the TARDIS is suddenly pulled towards Jenny. Martha returns home at the end of this story.

Having a fun time

 * PROSE: Beautiful Chaos
 * Martha and UNIT are mentioned, placing it after The Doctor's Daughter.


 * TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp

Last exploits with Donna

 * TV: Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead
 * PROSE: Appendix - The Last Will
 * TV: Midnight
 * The Doctor and Donna travel to Midnight.


 * TV: Turn Left
 * Rose warns the Doctor and Donna about the end of the universe.


 * TV: The Stolen Earth
 * Continues where Turn Left leaves off. Wilf tells Rose that Donna was last heard calling from on the planet Midnight, implying that this story takes place not long after Midnight. The Doctor meets Luke Smith over the Sub-Wave.


 * TV: Journey's End
 * The Doctor begins travelling on his own full-time after Journey's End.

The lonely go

 * COMIC: The Forgotten
 * Set directly after Journey's End.


 * TV: The Next Doctor

The end is nearing

 * TV: Planet of the Dead
 * Carmen prophesies the Doctor's death.


 * PROSE: The Eyeless
 * PROSE: Judgement of the Judoon
 * PROSE: The Slitheen Excursion
 * PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks
 * PROSE: The Taking of Chelsea 426
 * PROSE: Autonomy
 * PROSE: The Krillitane Storm
 * TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith/PROSE: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
 * PROSE: The Bog Warrior
 * The Doctor realizes how much he misses traveling with a companion.

No song should end too soon

 * COMIC: Revolutions of Terror
 * Gabby Gonzalez begins traveling with the Doctor. The Doctor has been traveling alone for a while before this story.


 * COMIC: The Arts in Space
 * COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons
 * COMIC: Laundro-Room Of Doom
 * COMIC: Echo
 * COMIC: The Fountains of Forever / Spiral Staircase / Sins of the Father
 * COMIC: Four Doctors
 * COMIC: The Singer Not the Song
 * COMIC: Medicine Man

Meddling with time

 * COMIC: Silver Scream
 * COMIC: Fugitive
 * COMIC: Tesseract
 * COMIC: Don't Step on the Grass
 * COMIC: Old Friend
 * COMIC: Final Sacrifice
 * The end of this story leads into The Waters of Mars.


 * TV: The Waters of Mars

Final adventures

 * TV: Dreamland
 * TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * COMIC: Ground Control
 * COMIC: The Big, Blue Box
 * COMIC: To Sleep, Perchance to Scream
 * PROSE: The Doctor on My Shoulder
 * At the end of the story, the Doctor decides that after all of his adventuring, his time is up.


 * TV: The End of Time
 * COMIC: Lucky Heather
 * Set during the final scenes of The End of Time.
 * The Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation.

Unplaced

 * TV: Music of the Spheres
 * COMIC: Agent Provocateur
 * Set after The Lazarus Experiment, but before Utopia.


 * PROSE: Sting of the Zygons
 * PROSE: The Last Dodo
 * PROSE: Wooden Heart
 * PROSE: Forever Autumn
 * PROSE: Sick Building
 * PROSE: Wetworld
 * PROSE: Wishing Well
 * PROSE: The Pirate Loop
 * PROSE: Peacemaker
 * PROSE: Martha in the Mirror
 * PROSE: Snowglobe 7
 * PROSE: The Many Hands
 * PROSE: The Doctor Trap
 * PROSE: Shining Darkness


 * PROSE: The Weeping
 * PROSE: Breathing Space
 * PROSE: The Frozen Wastes
 * PROSE: Star-Crossed
 * PROSE: Revenge of the Judoon
 * PROSE: The Sontaran Games
 * PROSE: Code of the Krillitanes
 * PROSE: The Dust of Ages
 * PROSE: The Graves of Mordane
 * PROSE: The Colour of Darkness
 * PROSE: The Depths of Despair
 * PROSE: The Vampire of Paris
 * PROSE: The Game of Death
 * PROSE: The Planet of Oblivion
 * PROSE: The Pictures of Emptiness
 * PROSE: The Art of War
 * PROSE: The End of Time


 * PROSE: Cuckoo-Spit
 * PROSE: The Cat Came Back
 * PROSE: Once Upon a Time
 * PROSE: Gravestone House
 * PROSE: No One Died
 * PROSE: Corner of the Eye
 * PROSE: Cats and Dogs
 * PROSE: The Body Bank
 * PROSE: The Box Under the Tree
 * PROSE: Zombie Motel
 * PROSE: The Iron Circle
 * PROSE: Kiss of Life
 * PROSE: Deep Water
 * PROSE: Hello Children, Everywhere
 * PROSE: Grand Theft Planet
 * PROSE: Cold
 * PROSE: Bing Bong
 * PROSE: Island of the Sirens
 * PROSE: Hold Your Horses
 * PROSE: The Puplet
 * PROSE: Total Eclipse of the Heart
 * PROSE: The End of the Rainbow
 * PROSE: Scared Stiff
 * PROSE: Bennelong Point
 * PROSE: The Shape on the Chair
 * PROSE: Knock Knock!
 * PROSE: The Haldenmor Fugue
 * PROSE: Once Upon a Time
 * PROSE: Most Beautiful Music
 * PROSE: The Hero Factor
 * PROSE: Number 1, Gallows Gate Road
 * PROSE: The Frozen
 * PROSE: Blue Moon
 * PROSE: The Lonely Computer
 * PROSE: The Advent of Fear
 * PROSE: Deep and Dreamless Sleep
 * PROSE: The Hopes and Fears of All the Years


 * AUDIO: Pest Control
 * AUDIO: The Forever Trap
 * AUDIO: The Nemonite Invasion
 * AUDIO: The Rising Night
 * AUDIO: The Day of the Troll
 * AUDIO: The Last Voyage
 * AUDIO: Dead Air


 * COMIC: The Widow's Curse
 * COMIC: Thinktwice
 * COMIC: The Time of My Life
 * COMIC: The Stockbridge Child
 * COMIC: Mortal Beloved
 * COMIC: The Age of Ice
 * COMIC: The Deep Hereafter
 * COMIC: Onomatopoeia
 * COMIC: Ghosts of the Northern Line
 * COMIC: The Crimson Hand


 * COMIC: A Delicate Operation
 * COMIC: Blood and Tears
 * COMIC: Fried Death
 * COMIC: Bizarre Zero
 * COMIC: Save the Humans
 * COMIC: Bat Attack! / The Battle of Reading Gaol
 * COMIC: Triskaidekaphobia
 * COMIC: Smart Bombs
 * COMIC: Pinball Wizard
 * COMIC: Gangster's Paradise / Heads You Lose
 * COMIC: A Date to Remember / Snow Fakes
 * COMIC: The Hunters / Cliffhanger
 * COMIC: 13 O'Clock
 * COMIC: Green Fingers
 * COMIC: The Snag Finders
 * COMIC: The Skrawn Inheritance
 * COMIC: The Green, the Bad and the Ugly
 * COMIC: Minus Seven Wonders
 * COMIC: The Last Soldier
 * COMIC: Signs of Life
 * COMIC: Shipwreck
 * COMIC: Cold War
 * COMIC: Waste Not
 * COMIC: A Klytode Christmas
 * COMIC: The Monster Upstairs
 * COMIC: Hot Metal
 * COMIC: The Halls of Sacrifice
 * COMIC: The Old Kings of Skarab
 * COMIC: Reign of the Stone Monkey
 * COMIC: Every Dog Has Its Day
 * COMIC: The Poison Planet
 * COMIC: Sea-Rah
 * COMIC: The Great Mordillo
 * COMIC: Nightmare on the Boulevard
 * COMIC: Windswept
 * COMIC: The Continuity Cap
 * COMIC: Wormhole
 * COMIC: The Black Hole Gang
 * COMIC: CitiZen's Arrest
 * COMIC: The Lavender Hill Blob
 * COMIC: Shark Bait
 * COMIC: Attack of the Mange Mites
 * COMIC: By Order of the Bonemenders
 * COMIC: The Alice in Wonderland Circuit
 * COMIC: Washed Away!
 * COMIC: Titanoleum Tourists
 * COMIC: The Man in the Moon
 * COMIC: Time Flies
 * COMIC: The Giant's Ring
 * COMIC: Frosty the Snowdemon
 * COMIC: The Chromosome Connection
 * COMIC: The Aquarius Condition
 * COMIC: Glum Culture
 * COMIC: The Great Rain Robbery
 * COMIC: The Parrian Proposal
 * COMIC: Hitching Point
 * COMIC: Store Wars
 * COMIC: The Submariners
 * COMIC: The Greed of the Gavulav
 * COMIC: The Secret Army
 * COMIC: The Silver Bullet
 * COMIC: The Invisibles
 * COMIC: Good Old Days
 * COMIC: The Abomination Game
 * COMIC: T.R.O.L.
 * COMIC: Cyclops
 * COMIC: The Crystal Palace
 * COMIC: The Spirit of Ashgar
 * COMIC: Monster Idol
 * COMIC: The Slakken Cat
 * COMIC: Code Freeze
 * COMIC: Hear No Evil
 * COMIC: Terror in the TARDIS
 * COMIC: The Ball and Chain Gang
 * COMIC: The Memory Collective
 * COMIC: The Blue Star Bomb
 * COMIC: Flight of the Giurgeax
 * COMIC: Starstruck
 * COMIC: The Genius Trap
 * COMIC: The Rising Tide
 * COMIC: Sweet Dreams
 * COMIC: Copycat
 * COMIC: Shadow of the Vaipid
 * COMIC: Snakes Alive!
 * COMIC: The Sparkling Planet
 * COMIC: The Curse of Vladula
 * COMIC: Photo Finish
 * COMIC: Brain Train
 * COMIC: Foot Soldiers
 * COMIC: Bad Wolfies
 * COMIC: City of Light
 * COMIC: The Guardian of Murcher
 * COMIC: Night of the Burnt Toast
 * COMIC: The Ghost Factory
 * COMIC: Skydive!
 * COMIC: Highway Robbery
 * COMIC: Doomsilk
 * COMIC: One Careful Owner
 * COMIC: The Garden Rebellion
 * COMIC: The Goats of Christmas Past
 * COMIC: A Merry Little Christmas
 * COMIC: We Will Rock You
 * COMIC: The Highest Stake
 * COMIC: Hook, Line and Sinker
 * COMIC: The Unwelcome Visitors
 * COMIC: Junk Food
 * COMIC: Dead-line
 * COMIC: Arctic Eclipse
 * COMIC: Return of the Klytode
 * COMIC: Creature Feature
 * COMIC: Mudshock
 * COMIC: Project UFO
 * COMIC: Borrowed Time
 * COMIC: The Glutonoid Menace
 * COMIC: The Power of the Cybermen / Drones of Doom / Enemy Mine / Time of the Cybermen
 * COMIC: Beneath the Skin / The Sky Below / Beyond the Sea / Lonely Planet
 * COMIC: Plague Panic
 * COMIC: Exhausting Evil
 * COMIC: Wrath of the Warrior / The Screaming Prison / Force and Fury / Warrior's Revenge
 * COMIC: Head Start / Jewel of the Vile / Lock, Stocks and Barrel / End Game
 * COMIC: The Millennium Blag / Second Wave / Operation Lock-up / Crime After Crime
 * PROSE: Blue Moon
 * COMIC: House Pests
 * COMIC: Minor Trouble / Inhuman Sacrifice / Crimes and Punishment
 * COMIC: The Diamonds of Sartor / Quarsian Mission / Android of Death
 * COMIC: Blooms of Doom!
 * COMIC: Dusty Death / Cold Assassin / Designs of the Dust / A Suitable Showdown
 * COMIC: The Creative Spark
 * COMIC: Any Old Iron / Merchant of Menace
 * COMIC: The Black Sea / Sting of the Serpent / Attack of the Rats / The Zantraan Invasion
 * COMIC: Pawns of the Zenith / Swarm of the Zenith / Prey of the Zenith / Lair of the Zenith
 * COMIC: The Time Stealer / School of the Dead / Ghosts from the Past / The Battle for Time
 * COMIC: Carnage Zoo / Flight and Fury / The Living Ghosts / Extermination of the Daleks
 * COMIC: Da Vinci's Robots / Metal Mania
 * COMIC: About Last Night / Dark Side of the Moon
 * COMIC: The Day the Earth Was Sold / The King of Earth
 * COMIC: The Guardians of Terror / The Rebirth of Corah
 * COMIC: The House at the End of the World / The End
 * COMIC: The Whispering Gallery
 * COMIC: The Time Machination
 * COMIC: Autopia
 * COMIC: Room with a Deja View
 * COMIC: Cold Blooded War!
 * COMIC: Black Death White Life
 * COMIC: Mirror Image
 * COMIC: Down the Rabbit Hole
 * COMIC: Myth Maker
 * COMIC: The Planet That Wept
 * COMIC: Swarm Enemies
 * COMIC: The Greatest Mall in the Universe
 * COMIC: The Time Sickness
 * COMIC: Death Disco
 * COMIC: The Vortex Code
 * COMIC: Health & Safety
 * COMIC: Opera of Doom!
 * COMIC: Sunscreen
 * COMIC: The Immortal Emperor
 * COMIC: Space Vikings!
 * COMIC: In-Flight Entertainment
 * COMIC: Mind Shadows
 * COMIC: Destiny's Door
 * COMIC: Fuel
 * COMIC: The Beast Is Back In Town
 * COMIC: Mad Martha
 * COMIC: Escape to Penhaxico
 * COMIC: Just Another Thursday
 * COMIC: Who Ate All The Biscuits?
 * COMIC: The Baktek Illusion
 * COMIC: Prisoners of Time


 * AUDIO: ''Death's Deal