Theory:Timeline - Sixth Doctor

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

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

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

TV created

 * Peri Brown
 * Melanie Bush

Comics created

 * Frobisher

Novels created

 * Grant Markham

Audio created

 * Evelyn Smythe
 * Flip Jackson
 * Charley Pollard
 * Constance Clarke

Dark beginnings

 * TV: The Caves of Androzani / PROSE: The Caves of Androzani
 * The Doctor regenerates from his previous incarnation.


 * TV: The Twin Dilemma / PROSE: The Twin Dilemma
 * PROSE: Trapped!
 * TV: Attack of the Cybermen / PROSE: Attack of the Cybermen
 * TV: Vengeance on Varos / PROSE: Vengeance on Varos
 * PROSE: Telling Tales
 * The Doctor has just left Varos.


 * PROSE: Grave Matter
 * After Varos


 * PROSE: Synthespians™
 * PROSE: Burning Heart
 * TV: The Mark of the Rani / PROSE: The Mark of the Rani
 * COMIC: The Forgotten (flashback)
 * PROSE: Players
 * TV: The Two Doctors / PROSE: The Two Doctors
 * AUDIO: Seven to One
 * PROSE: Blue Box
 * The Doctor is a vegatarian


 * TV: Timelash / PROSE: Timelash

Mellowing out

 * AUDIO: Davros
 * PROSE: Potential Energy
 * Peri mentions that she has recently been to Karfel.


 * AUDIO: Cryptobiosis
 * TV: Revelation of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair / PROSE: The Nightmare Fair
 * PROSE: The Ruins of Heaven
 * The Doctor's watch, which was broken in Revelation, is repaired.


 * PROSE: The Ultimate Evil
 * AUDIO: Mission to Magnus / PROSE: Mission to Magnus
 * AUDIO: Leviathan
 * AUDIO: The Hollows of Time
 * AUDIO: Paradise 5
 * AUDIO: Point of Entry
 * AUDIO: The Song of Megaptera
 * AUDIO: The Macros
 * AUDIO: The Guardians of Prophecy
 * AUDIO: Power Play
 * AUDIO: The First Sontarans
 * PROSE: State of Change
 * AUDIO: The Reaping
 * AUDIO: Slipback / PROSE: Slipback
 * AUDIO: Whispers of Terror
 * AUDIO: ...ish
 * AUDIO: Recorded Time
 * AUDIO: Paradoxicide
 * AUDIO: A Most Excellent Match
 * AUDIO: Question Marks
 * AUDIO:  1963: The Space Race
 * PROSE: CHAOS
 * Peri decides to take a break from traveling and stays in New York.

Travelling alone

 * PROSE: Whiskey and Water
 * AUDIO: The Sandman (flashback)
 * PROSE: The Death of Me
 * The Doctor is traveling alone and has not yet worn his blue coat.

Adventures that were wiped from history

 * PROSE: DS Al Fine
 * PROSE: Gone Fishing
 * PROSE: Walkin' City Blues
 * PROSE: Certificate of Destruction
 * PROSE: The Earwig Archipelago

Meeting Frobisher

 * COMIC: The Shape Shifter
 * COMIC: Voyager
 * COMIC: Polly the Glot
 * COMIC: Once Upon a Time Lord
 * COMIC: War-Game
 * COMIC: Funhouse

The return of Peri

 * COMIC: Kane's Story / Abel's Story / The Warrior's Story / Frobisher's Story
 * When the Doctor and Frobisher visit New York Peri rejoins them.


 * COMIC: Prisoners of Time
 * COMIC: Exodus / Revelation / Genesis!
 * COMIC: Nature of the Beast
 * COMIC: Time Bomb
 * COMIC: Salad Daze
 * COMIC: Changes
 * COMIC: Profits of Doom
 * COMIC: The Gift
 * COMIC: The World Shapers
 * AUDIO: Trouble in Paradise
 * AUDIO: Year of the Pig
 * AUDIO: Breaking Bubbles
 * AUDIO: Of Chaos Time The
 * AUDIO: An Eye For Murder
 * AUDIO: The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time
 * COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! (part 1)
 * COMIC: Up Above the Gods
 * TV: The Mysterious Planet / PROSE: The Mysterious Planet (flashback)
 * TV: Mindwarp / PROSE: Mindwarp (flashback)

On trial

 * TV: The Mysterious Planet / PROSE: The Mysterious Planet
 * TV: Mindwarp / PROSE: Mindwarp
 * TV: Terror of the Vervoids / PROSE: Terror of the Vervoids
 * TV: The Ultimate Foe / PROSE: The Ultimate Foe
 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * Takes place during The Ultimate Foe

Post-trial

 * AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors(Young Doctor)
 * The Doctor returns Melanie Bush to Pease Pottage.


 * AUDIO: The Wormery
 * Set shortly, but not immediately after the Doctor's trial.


 * COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! (part 6)
 * The Doctor is alone, but has recently saved Davros.


 * PROSE: Time of Your Life
 * Time of Your Life is set after The Ultimate Foe


 * PROSE: Killing Ground

Travelling with a historian

 * AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy
 * AUDIO: The Sirens of Time
 * AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
 * AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
 * AUDIO: Bloodtide
 * AUDIO: Project: Twilight
 * AUDIO: The Sandman
 * AUDIO: Jubilee
 * AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
 * The Doctor uses his multicolour coat to stun a Terravore.


 * AUDIO: The Feast of Axos
 * AUDIO: Industrial Evolution
 * AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pirates
 * WC: Real Time
 * The Doctor changes into his blue coat. All stories featuring Evelyn with the Doctor wearing his coat take place after this.


 * AUDIO: Project: Lazarus
 * Evelyn becomes distressed at all the recent deaths of innocents during their adventures leading directly into Arrangements for War.


 * AUDIO: Arrangements for War
 * Doctor Who and the Pirates and Project: Lazarus have both occurred recently and are responsible for Evelyn becoming distressed.


 * PROSE: The Diplomat's Story
 * AUDIO: Medicinal Purposes
 * AUDIO: Pier Pressure
 * AUDIO: The Nowhere Place
 * AUDIO: 100 BC
 * AUDIO: My Own Private Wolfgang
 * AUDIO: Bedtime Story
 * AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor
 * AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight
 * AUDIO: Thicker Than Water (flashback)

Old acquaintances

 * AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors (Older Doctor)
 * AUDIO: Urgent Calls
 * AUDIO: Her Final Flight
 * The Doctor is unaware of the details of Peri's fate.


 * AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox
 * The Doctor discovers that multiple versions of Peri Brown exist.


 * AUDIO: The Doctor's Coat
 * The Doctor contemplates visiting a version of Peri Brown who rules Krontep, but decides she is too busy. The Doctor loses one of his three blue coats, possibly leading to him wearing them less.


 * PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass
 * AUDIO: Excelis Rising
 * PROSE: Academic Notes
 * AUDIO: The Wings of a Butterfly
 * AUDIO: The Ratings War
 * PROSE: The Inquisitor's Story
 * AUDIO: The Acheron Pulse
 * AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard
 * AUDIO: The Maltese Penguin(cameo)
 * The Doctor offers to take Frobisher with him in the TARDIS.


 * GAME: Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror
 * AUDIO: The Maltese Penguin
 * Inbetween appearances in The Maltese Penguin the doctor "saves the universe".


 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * COMIC: Death to the Doctor! (flashback)
 * AUDIO: The Holy Terror
 * PROSE: Mission: Impractical
 * Occurs during later travels as the Doctor knows Glitz


 * COMIC: The Age of Chaos
 * The Doctor and Fobisher visit a version of Peri who has lived a long life as Queen of Krontep.

New friends

 * PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness
 * PROSE: Incongruous Details
 * PROSE: Defining Patterns
 * AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure
 * PROSE: Face Value
 * AUDIO: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure

The companion from the future

 * AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was (cameo)
 * AUDIO: The Condemned
 * AUDIO: The Doomwood Curse
 * AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: The Red House
 * The Valeyard begins his masterplan.


 * AUDIO: Return of the Krotons
 * AUDIO: The Raincloud Man
 * AUDIO: Patient Zero
 * AUDIO: Paper Cuts
 * AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet

Reunited with Jago and Litefoot

 * AUDIO: Chronoclasm
 * The Doctor visits the victorian era and reunites with Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot under the alias of Claudius Dark.


 * AUDIO: Jago in Love
 * AUDIO: Beautiful Things
 * AUDIO: The Lonely Clock
 * AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers
 * The Doctor reveals his true identity and take Jago and Litefoot with him in the TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: Voyage to Venus
 * AUDIO: Voyage to the New World
 * The Doctor leaves George Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago in 1960s Earth.

The Land of Fiction

 * AUDIO: City of Spires
 * AUDIO: Night's Black Agents
 * AUDIO: The Wreck of the Titan
 * AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen

Travelling with Flip Jackson

 * AUDIO: The Curse of Davros
 * AUDIO: The Fourth Wall
 * AUDIO: Wirrn Isle
 * AUDIO: Stage Fright
 * The Valeyard is amassing power for his masterplan.


 * AUDIO: Antidote to Oblivion
 * AUDIO: The Brood of Erys
 * AUDIO: Scavenger

Reunited with Peri

 * AUDIO: The Widow's Assassin
 * AUDIO: Masters of Earth
 * AUDIO: The Rani Elite
 * The Doctor has already traveled with Flip Jackson.

Constance Clarke

 * AUDIO: Criss-Cross
 * AUDIO: The End of the Line
 * AUDIO: Planet of the Rani
 * The Doctor's second encounter with this incarnation of The Rani.


 * AUDIO: Shield of the Jötunn

Preparing for the end

 * AUDIO: The Four Doctors
 * PROSE: Water's Edge
 * The Doctor loses another blue coat during the Tangiwai Disaster.


 * AUDIO: Second Sight
 * The Sixth Doctor has previously met Leela.

History takes its course

 * PROSE: Business Unusual
 * The Doctor meets Mel for the "first" time in this story


 * PROSE: Millennial Rites
 * The Doctor and Mel haven't encountered the Vervoids yet.

Mel and the Doctor are aiming for New Year's Eve
 * PROSE: Dr Cadabra
 * PROSE: The Quantum Archangel
 * The Quantum Archangel may take place after Terror of the Vervoids


 * TV: Terror of the Vervoids / PROSE: Terror of the Vervoids (flash-forward)
 * PROSE: Instruments of Darkness
 * AUDIO: The One Doctor
 * AUDIO: The Juggernauts
 * PROSE: The Best Joke I Ever Told
 * Mel knows the Daleks


 * AUDIO: Catch-1782
 * AUDIO: Thicker Than Water
 * AUDIO: The Wishing Beast
 * AUDIO: The Vanity Box
 * Mel is enjoying herself


 * AUDIO: Spaceport Fear
 * AUDIO: The Seeds of War
 * PROSE: Spiral Scratch
 * The Doctor regenerates, leading into Time and the Rani.


 * AUDIO: The Brink of Death
 * A Time Lord from the future (the Valeyard) intervenes in the Doctor's life before Spiral Scratch. This causes the Doctor to interfere in his own past, getting himself killed early and leading into Time and the Rani.


 * TV: Time and the Rani / PROSE: Time and the Rani
 * The Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation.

Unplaced

 * GAME: Doctor Who and the Warlord
 * GAME: Destiny of the Doctors
 * PROSE: The Spindle of Necessity
 * The Doctor has a goatee in this story implying he's been traveling alone for a long time.


 * PROSE: Palace of the Red Sun
 * PROSE: Shell Shock
 * PROSE: Battle Planet
 * PROSE: Day of the Dragon
 * PROSE: The Real Hereward
 * PROSE: The Deadly Weed
 * PROSE: Vorton's Revenge
 * PROSE: The Time Savers
 * PROSE: The Mystery of the Rings
 * PROSE: The Fellowship of Quan
 * PROSE: Time Wake
 * PROSE: Interface
 * PROSE: Beauty and the Beast
 * PROSE: Retribution
 * PROSE: Davarrk's Experiment
 * PROSE: The Radio Waves
 * PROSE: Power to the People
 * PROSE: Hall of Mirrors
 * PROSE: A Wee Deoch an ...?
 * PROSE: The Deal
 * PROSE: A Tourist Invasion
 * PROSE: The More Things Change
 * PROSE: Work is Hell
 * PROSE: The Golden Door
 * PROSE: Timeshare
 * PROSE: Fegovy
 * PROSE: Wish You Were Here
 * PROSE: Moon Graffiti
 * PROSE: Turnabout is Fair Play
 * PROSE: Gone Too Soon
 * PROSE: Five Card Draw
 * PROSE: The Stabber
 * PROSE: Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing
 * PROSE: The Glass Princess
 * PROSE: House
 * PROSE: Mortlake
 * PROSE: The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up
 * PROSE: Mortal Thoughts
 * PROSE: A Star is Reborn
 * PROSE: The Reproductive Cycle
 * PROSE: Categorical Imperative
 * PROSE: Outsourcing
 * PROSE: The Last Emperor
 * PROSE: Christmas Special
 * PROSE: Sold Out
 * PROSE: Jupiter
 * PROSE: Home Fires
 * PROSE: Christmas on the Moon
 * PROSE: She Won't Be Home
 * PROSE: Curtain Call
 * PROSE: Old Boys
 * PROSE: The Eighth Wonder of the World
 * PROSE: Strange Attractor
 * PROSE: Gold and Black Ooze
 * PROSE: The Eyes Have It
 * PROSE: There's Something About Mary
 * PROSE: The Crackers
 * PROSE: The Stars Our Contamination
 * PROSE: Loose Change
 * PROSE: The Book of My Life
 * PROSE: See No Evil
 * PROSE: Change Management
 * PROSE: The Final Star
 * PROSE: Taking the Cure
 * PROSE: £436
 * PROSE: Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes
 * PROSE: Exclave
 * PROSE: The Christmas Party
 * PROSE: Revellers of Doom
 * PROSE: Priceless Junk
 * PROSE: Pass It On
 * PROSE: Trial by Fire
 * PROSE: Death Sentences
 * PROSE: Mardi Gras Massacre
 * AUDIO: Vigil
 * AUDIO: Seven to One
 * AUDIO: Murmurs of Earth
 * AUDIO: To Cut a Blade of Grass
 * AUDIO: A Town Called Fortune
 * COMIC: The Time Machination
 * TV: ''The Day of the Doctor