Theory:Timeline - Bernice Summerfield

This page lists the appearances of Bernice Summerfield in the order in which she experienced them.

Limiting factors
Bernice first meets the Seventh Doctor and Ace in PROSE: Love and War. She concludes regular TARDIS travel with him in Happy Endings though she does meet the Doctor in other stories after this.

The Eighth Doctor drops Bernice off on Dellah a generation after her home time period at the end of The Dying Days.

Series basics
Bernice Summerfield's stories can be broadly divided up by publisher and who (if anyone) she shared the story with.


 * Virgin New Adventures
 * DWM comics. These were published at the same time as the novels and feature the Seventh Doctor, Bernice and Ace based on their appearances within the books.


 * Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures, the series of books that continued after Virgin lost the Doctor Who licence, these stories featured Bernice Summerfield in the main character role and continued her adventures after she was dropped off on Dellah by the Eighth Doctor in The Dying Days.
 * Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series. these prose stories and audio stories feature Bernice Summerfield after her solo Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures.

Early Life

 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: Biology Lesson on Mal Oreille
 * Benny is seven. Her father is still around.


 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam
 * Benny is eight. Her mother has just died. Her father disappeared less than six months ago.


 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: The Tunnels to Heaven
 * Benny is thirteen.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: Walking Backwards for Christmas
 * I love Benny as a girl. Fifteen years old and her feelings still show on her face although like every other teenaged girl she believes herself to be utterly inscrutable.


 * PROSE: Old Friends: The Soul's Prism (2556 flashback)
 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: Benny and Louise
 * Two years ago Benny jumped the troopship bound for Capella, sonic trowel in one hand and a bucketful of dreams in the other.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: Walking Backwards for Christmas
 * I love Bernice as a young archaeologist, the verve, the energy, the manic need to live up to her fake credentials.


 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: Charged
 * Benny plans to investigate some ruins.


 * PROSE: Secret Histories: A Game of Soldiers
 * Benny hasn't been to Earth. She is drafted, as is everyone on this planet between the ages of 18 and 23.


 * PROSE: Genius Loci
 * 2562. Benny turns 22.


 * PROSE: Old Friends: The Ship of Painted Shadows
 * Benny has just left Jaiwan.


 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: Steal from the World (past segments)
 * Walking to Babylon places this in 2563.


 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: Prime Five
 * Benny's 23 and it's been almost exactly a year since she left Jaiwan.


 * PROSE: Terra Incognita (extract in Missing Adventures)
 * Set on Earth.


 * PROSE: The Vampire Curse: The Badblood Diaries
 * 2565.


 * PROSE: The Vampire Curse: Possum Kingdom (2565 segment)
 * Set on Earth.


 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: Home
 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: The Slight Façade
 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: Bernice Summerfield and the Library of Books
 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: Postcards from the Edge of Reason
 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: Blood on the Tracks
 * PROSE: Secret Histories: Cooker Island
 * This story is probably not even true.


 * PROSE: Missing Adventures: Thirty Love

Doctor Who

 * PROSE: Love and War
 * PROSE: Transit
 * PROSE: The Highest Science
 * PROSE: The Pit
 * COMIC: Pureblood
 * COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!
 * Both comics feature only the Seventh Doctor and Bernice. Must take place before Deceit.


 * PROSE: Deceit
 * PROSE: Lucifer Rising
 * PROSE: White Darkness
 * PROSE: Shadowmind
 * PROSE: Birthright
 * PROSE: Blood Heat
 * PROSE: The Dimension Riders
 * PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird
 * PROSE: Conundrum
 * PROSE: No Future
 * PROSE: Tragedy Day
 * PROSE: Legacy
 * PROSE: Theatre of War / AUDIO: Theatre of War
 * PROSE: All-Consuming Fire / AUDIO: All-Consuming Fire
 * AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge
 * AUDIO: The Dark Flame
 * The Big Finish pages for The Shadow of the Scourge and The Dark Flame places them after All-Consuming Fire and before Blood Harvest.


 * PROSE: Virgin Lands
 * Publication order for NA-era Big Finish Benny/Ace stories.


 * PROSE: Cold War
 * Publication order for NA-era Big Finish Benny/Ace stories.


 * PROSE: Blood Harvest
 * PROSE: Strange England
 * PROSE: First Frontier
 * PROSE: St Anthony's Fire
 * PROSE: Falls the Shadow
 * PROSE: Parasite
 * PROSE: Warlock
 * PROSE: Set Piece
 * PROSE: Infinite Requiem
 * PROSE: Sanctuary
 * PROSE: Human Nature
 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: And Then Again
 * Proper Benny is travelling with the Doctor.


 * PROSE: Short Trips: Past Tense: Of the Mermaid and Jupiter
 * Benny and the Doctor are travelling together without any other companions. Benny has travelled with Ace.


 * PROSE: Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code
 * Benny and the Doctor are travelling together without any other companions. Benny has travelled with Ace.


 * PROSE: Original Sin
 * PROSE: Sky Pirates!
 * PROSE: Zamper
 * PROSE: Toy Soldiers
 * PROSE: Head Games
 * PROSE: The Also People
 * PROSE: Shakedown
 * PROSE: Just War
 * PROSE: Warchild
 * PROSE: Sleepy
 * PROSE: Death and Diplomacy
 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Bernice and Jason's wedding.


 * PROSE: Return of the Living Dad
 * PROSE: The Judgement of Solomon
 * Benny has time travelled, but it's not explained how. She is still married.


 * PROSE: The Vampire Curse: Possum Kingdom (2579 and Yesterways segments)
 * Benny appears with the Doctor. He sends her on a "mission" and is going to take her to her home time after this adventure.


 * PROSE: So Vile a Sin
 * PROSE: Eternity Weeps
 * Bernice and Jason divorce.


 * PROSE: The Dying Days
 * Bernice is dropped on Dellah by the Eighth Doctor

Solo

 * PROSE: Oh No It Isn't! / AUDIO: Oh No It Isn't!
 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Quantum flashback)
 * Benny is working at St. Oscar's.


 * PROSE: Dragons' Wrath / AUDIO: Dragons' Wrath
 * AUDIO: Disassembled
 * Set during the events of Dragon's Wrath.


 * PROSE: Beyond the Sun / AUDIO: Beyond the Sun
 * PROSE: Ship of Fools
 * AUDIO: Buried Treasures: Making Myths
 * Benny works at St Oscar's.


 * AUDIO: Buried Treasures: Closure
 * Benny works at St Oscar's.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: The Spartacus Syndrome
 * Benny is living on Dellah. She pretends to be Menlove Stokes. She is working for Brax.


 * PROSE: Down
 * PROSE: Deadfall
 * PROSE: Ghost Devices
 * PROSE: Mean Streets
 * PROSE: Tempest
 * PROSE: Walking to Babylon / AUDIO: Walking to Babylon
 * AUDIO: Birthright
 * AUDIO: Just War
 * PROSE: Oblivion
 * PROSE: The Medusa Effect
 * PROSE: Dry Pilgrimage
 * PROSE: The Sword of Forever
 * PROSE: Another Girl, Another Planet
 * PROSE: Beige Planet Mars
 * PROSE: Where Angels Fear
 * PROSE: The Mary-Sue Extrusion
 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: Appendix
 * Extract from Practical Guide to Archaeology / A Brief History of Time (Working Title).


 * PROSE: Tears of the Oracle
 * PROSE: Return to the Fractured Planet
 * PROSE: The Joy Device
 * PROSE: Twilight of the Gods
 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Braxiatel recruitment flashback)
 * Brax has only recently "collected" Benny. They've gone back to medieval Blackpool.

Series 2

 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: A Question of Identity
 * Benny has very recently moved to the Collection, and is deluding herself that she's a serious academic.


 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: The Light that Never Dies
 * The Collection is still just starting, and is very disorganised.


 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: Christmas Spirit
 * It's Christmas.


 * PROSE: The Doomsday Manuscript
 * Brax gets Benny a new Joseph (recreated from the android in The Dark Flame). The Collection celebrates the new millennium.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Early Collection flashback)
 * During Benny's "initial employment" at the Collection. She has Joseph.


 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: Steal from the World (present segments)
 * Benny has Joseph. The Collection is apparently going well enough that she can take a personal expedition.


 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: Heart of Glass
 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: The Monster and the Archaeologists
 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: Step Back in Time
 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: The Door into Bedlam
 * Benny used to think she'd be able to find Jason, but had more recently lost hope, so this is probably after The Doomsday Manuscript.


 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: The Least Important Man
 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries: Digging up the Past
 * PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries
 * Set after the other stories in the anthology. Benny refers to the upcoming publication of "Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript," so the events of The Doomsday Manuscript have already happened.


 * AUDIO: The Secret of Cassandra
 * PROSE: The Gods of the Underworld
 * PROSE: The Squire's Crystal
 * AUDIO: The Stone's Lament
 * AUDIO: The Extinction Event
 * PROSE: The Infernal Nexus
 * Benny finds out she's pregnant.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Dear Friend
 * Benny wrote this letter to the Doctor shortly after she discovered she was pregnant with Peter. She hasn't seen him in a while, so Benny's Story is later. She remembers both versions of Just War.


 * AUDIO: The Skymines of Karthos
 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Cuckoo
 * Benny is pregnant with Peter.


 * PROSE: The Glass Prison
 * Publication order for "present" Bernice Summerfield stories from Big Finish.

Series 3

 * AUDIO: The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy
 * AUDIO: The Green-Eyed Monsters
 * AUDIO: The Plague Herds of Excelis
 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Iris flashback)
 * Set after Benny and Iris's adventure.


 * AUDIO: The Dance of the Dead
 * Publication order for "present" Bernice Summerfield stories from Big Finish. Follows The Plague Herds of Excelis.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Kill the Mouse!
 * Connected to Heart of Glass. Benny is working for Brax on the collection.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Solar Max and the Seven-Handed Snake-Mother
 * Benny goes on an archaeological expedition.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: A Mutual Friend
 * Benny convinced Jason to use their time rings to go to 21st century Earth. She's working for Brax.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Alien Planets and You
 * Contains a description of people like Braxiatel. Jason is Benny's ex.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Something Broken
 * There's a reference to Dellah. She's friends with Brax. Joseph is around, and if he's v1 he apparently hasn't been revealed to be a spy or anything like that.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: The Collection
 * Seems to be release order. Takes place over three months and one week.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Setting Stone
 * Release order. Adrian and Joseph appear.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Time's Team
 * Benny is working for Braxiatel.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Beedlemania
 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: The All-Seeing Eye
 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
 * It's been a year since The Skymines of Karthos. Cuckoo is referenced.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Squadborronfell
 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Taken by the Muses
 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Might
 * Contemporary. If Keith can be trusted, and especially considering The Shape of the Hole, he's still a possibility at this point. Probably not after The Mirror Effect, though.


 * AUDIO: Benny's Story
 * Peter has been born. Benny meets the Eighth Doctor for the second time, so before ...Be Forgot - even though her introductory narration is after the Occupation.


 * AUDIO: The Mirror Effect
 * Brax first shows signs of evilness, keeping Jason from questioning his motives.

Series 4

 * AUDIO: The Bellotron Incident
 * AUDIO: The Draconian Rage
 * Jason has nearly recovered since The Mirror Effect.


 * AUDIO: The Poison Seas
 * Leads into Life During Wartime.


 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: The Fall
 * PROSE: Something Changed: Walking Backwards for Christmas
 * I love Bernice as a mother, she's so reluctant and confused. It makes the rest of us feel so much better.


 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Careless Talk
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: The Birthday Party
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Five Dimensional Thinking
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Meanwhile, in a Small Room, a Small Boy...
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Lockdown Conversations: 1
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: The Price of Everything
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Hit
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: The Garden of Whispers
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Lockdown Conversations: 2
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: The Crystal Flower
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Midrash
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Fear of Corners
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: The Traitors
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Paths Not Taken
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Every Picture Tells a Story
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Fluid Prejudice
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Suffer the Children
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Drinking with the Enemy
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Lockdown Conversations: 3
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Passing Storms
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Speaking Out
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: The Peter Principle
 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: A Bell Ringing in an Empty Sky
 * The recreated Benny in this story is from when the Axis were still in power.


 * PROSE: Life During Wartime: Lockdown Conversations: 4
 * AUDIO: Death and the Daleks
 * Follows Lockdown Conversations: 4. Benny thinks that the Daleks' intervention to boost the Axis may have destroyed the future with Keith and Rebecca. If that's true though, that future should be impossible as far back as The Doomsday Manuscript. Benny gets back with Jason partly in out of hope for that future. Hass is mentioned as the new gardener.

Series 5

 * PROSE: The Big Hunt
 * Benny is taking a break from rebuilding the Collection post-Axis.


 * PROSE: ...Be Forgot
 * Christmas [2603]. The Collection has nearly been rebuilt.


 * AUDIO: The Grel Escape
 * The occupation was recent.


 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: Misplaced Spring
 * April 2604. The Collection has been [mostly] rebuilt and is now accepting students.


 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: Welcome to the Machine
 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: Final Draft
 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: Against Gardens
 * Hass arrived at the collection a year ago.


 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: A Summer Affair
 * It's summer and has been a year since the occupation.


 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: Denial
 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants
 * October 2604.


 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: The Blame of the Nose
 * November 2604.


 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: Reparation
 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: Nothing Up My Sleeve
 * December 2604 - nearly Christmas.


 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: Buried Alive
 * There Never Need Be Longing in Your Eyes says that this is a few days after Peter's fourth birthday.


 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: There Never Need Be Longing in Your Eyes
 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: Mentioning the War
 * It's been nearly two years since the occupation ended.


 * PROSE: A Life Worth Living: Fragments
 * The Collection is in ruins by 3610, which raises some questions about Theatre of War. Extrapolating from the story, someday Peter will die and Benny will kill Brax.


 * AUDIO: The Bone of Contention
 * AUDIO: The Relics of Jegg-Sau
 * AUDIO: Silver Lining


 * PROSE: A Life in Pieces: Zardox Break
 * PROSE: A Life in Pieces: The Purpura Pawn
 * PROSE: A Life in Pieces: On Trial
 * Jason's trial starts on November 12, 2605.


 * AUDIO: The Heart's Desire
 * 24th of December[, 2605].


 * AUDIO: The Masquerade of Death

Series 6

 * PROSE: Secret Histories: You Shouldn't Have
 * Benny is on a trip with Adrian, having left Peter with Jason. Placed where Clarissa can complain about it.


 * PROSE: Secret Histories: Turn the Light On
 * Benny is on a job for Brax, after the Axis Occupation, and has left Peter at home.


 * PROSE: The Tree of Life
 * Beginning of 2606. Peter is supposedly two, but that doesn't make sense. Blame Brax or Mark Michalowski.


 * AUDIO: The Kingdom of the Blind


 * AUDIO: The Goddess Quandary
 * Benny visits Etheria. She worries what Ms Jones will say about leaving Peter so long.


 * PROSE: Parallel Lives
 * Dust jacket says that Peter is almost five.
 * PROSE: Parallel Lives (I)
 * Peter is nearly six. The Occupation ended nearly two years ago - Liberation Day is coming.
 * PROSE: The Serpent's Tooth
 * PROSE: Parallel Lives (II)
 * Before Ms Jones ran off, Benny had just returned from Etheria.
 * PROSE: Hiding Places
 * Bev and Adrian are now almost a couple.
 * PROSE: Parallel Lives (III)
 * PROSE: Jason and the Pirates/Jason and the Bandits or O, Jason, Where Art Thou?
 * PROSE: Parallel Lives (IV)

Chapter One

 * PROSE: Something Changed: Inappropriate Laughter

Chapters Two

 * PROSE: Something Changed: Siege Mentality
 * Follows Inappropriate Laughter. Brax is in contact with the other hims/bits of him. He wants to destroy reality - it isn't the right one. Jess Carter kills herself. Nryn is killed.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: Dead Mice
 * Benny is aware of the search for the "right" timeline. This one seems relatively idyllic initially, except for the Wolsey/Doggles discrepancy. Jess Carter kills herself. Doctor Wt'hlm is first seen.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: Acts of Senseless Devotion
 * Follows Inappropriate Laughter. Brax cares more about his reflection than Peter's imminent death. Doctor Wt'hlm appears.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: Walking Backwards for Christmas
 * Benny manages to unplug the history machine before anything really bad happens, though she and Bev receive flashbacks of her life. Bev is now more understanding of Benny.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: Match of the Deity
 * Jason is killed by the explosion of the history machine. Doggles becomes Benny's "ill-advised lover" as Wolsey described in Dead Mice. Doggles says the history machine compelled him to use it.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: Night of the Living Martian
 * The explosion of the history machine killed Benny.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: The God Gene
 * The explosion killed Jason. Bev and Benny are comrades in arms.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: Writing in Green
 * Jason's face is scarred by the explosion in both timelines. In the first, he and Benny have a daughter named Acacia. Hass is still a Martian.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: Showing Initiative
 * Jason's face is scarred from the explosion. Benny is dead. Brax apparently was trying to use a world-destroying statue.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: A Murderous Desire
 * The history machine worked, but it wasn't supposed to. Benny previously only suspected that Bev and Adrian were "doing the dirty." Nryn is alive. Benny glimpses becomes aware of the changing and tries to kill Doggles. Brax "needed" Hass.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: Back and There Again
 * Jason remembers dying in the explosion. Benny is with Doggles - they got together in Match of the Deity - except they didn't.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: One of My Turns
 * Everything's getting really trippy and only Benny notices. Jess Carter is outgoing, and Bev is nice to Benny. A Brax explains the reality bomb plan.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: The Ice Garden
 * Hass is a Yesodi now. Benny is a brainwashed Fifth Axis agent. Brax improvises a bomb to destroy reality.


 * PROSE: Something Changed: Family Man
 * A human Brax destroys reality. In the stable area created by the destroyed universes, Brax kills Doggles.

Chapter Three

 * PROSE: Something Changed: After Life
 * A new version of Inappropriate Laughter. Hass is a Yesodi. Nryn, Jess, and Wolsey are still dead. Only Brax remembers everything. Doggle's experiment is cancelled. Benny heads off to investigate the Head of Jedawa, leading into The Lost Museum. The entire Collection is now officially in/part of Brax's timeship.


 * AUDIO: The Lost Museum
 * January 2606 according to the summary from Big Finish. Jason tells Benny that Bev and Adrian really are an item. Benny loses an arm.


 * AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus
 * Benny's arm is still new.

Series 7

 * AUDIO: Death and the Daleks (narration)
 * Benny is giving a talk about the Axis.


 * AUDIO: The Goddess Quandary
 * It is Liberation Day, and Parasiel is confronting Benny about her talk.


 * AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus
 * Benny finally tells Parasiel the truth about what happened with Brax.


 * AUDIO: The Tartarus Gate
 * PROSE: Collected Works: Work in Progress
 * PROSE: Collected Works: The Tears of Laughter
 * PROSE: Collected Works: Perspectives: Tribal Reservations
 * PROSE: Collected Works: Outside the Wall
 * PROSE: Collected Works: Key
 * Benny tells Peter that she's going to be away more often now.


 * AUDIO: Timeless Passages
 * Benny is away from the Collection on a job for Bev.


 * PROSE: Collected Works: The Inconstant Gallery
 * PROSE: Collected Works: Perspectives: Quire as Folk
 * PROSE: Collected Works: Cabinets of Curiosities
 * It's January.


 * PROSE: Collected Works: Anightintheninthage
 * Benny goes to Columbanus.


 * PROSE: Collected Works: Grey's Anatomy
 * Benny is absent from the Collection.


 * PROSE: Collected Works: The Tree that Was
 * Benny is visiting Columbanus. It has been three years since the Axis.


 * PROSE: Collected Works: Perspectives: Forging a Bond
 * PROSE: Collected Works: The Two-Level Effect
 * Jason sends Peter to see Hass, which for Peter leads into Let There Be Stars. His interference with the shape of the Collection results in gravity waves, seen in the contemporaneous Sleeptalking.


 * PROSE: Collected Works: Let There Be Stars
 * PROSE: Collected Works: Sleeptalking
 * PROSE: Collected Works: Perspectives: Intermissions
 * Some of Benny's diary entries - 23 April 2607 and 2, 13, and 27 May.


 * PROSE: Collected Works: False Security
 * Three weeks since the Blackbrane reception, which was 27 May.


 * AUDIO: The Worst Thing in the World
 * AUDIO: Summer of Love
 * Summer, obviously.


 * PROSE: Collected Works: The Painting on the Stair
 * PROSE: Collected Works: The Cost for a Collection
 * It's July.


 * PROSE: Collected Works: Lock
 * PROSE: Collected Works:  The Injured Party
 * PROSE: Collected Works: Mother's Ruin
 * It's been a few weeks since Summer of Love.


 * PROSE: Collected Works: Future Relations
 * It's September. Benny is preparing to time travel.


 * PROSE: Old Friends: Cheating the Reaper
 * Benny and Jason are supposed to be going to Ancient Greece. Blurb says late 2607.


 * PROSE: Old Friends: The Soul's Prism
 * AUDIO: The Oracle of Delphi
 * Benny and Jason go to Ancient Greece.


 * AUDIO: The Empire State

Series 8

 * AUDIO: The Tub Full of Cats
 * Maggie says it's 2607.


 * AUDIO: The Judas Gift
 * Ends October 24, 2607.


 * AUDIO: Freedom of Information
 * PROSE: Nobody's Children: All Mimsy Were the Borogroves
 * The Mimsphere has been destroyed.


 * PROSE: Nobody's Children: The Loyal Left Hand
 * PROSE: Nobody's Children: Nursery Politics
 * Ends 5 August 2608. Benny gets a mysterious summons to Bedrock XII, leading into The Final Amendment.


 * AUDIO: The End of the World
 * Peter is eight.


 * PROSE: The Two Jasons
 * Refers to the genocide of the Mim. By the time Other Jason and Mira reach the Collection, Proper Jason and Benny are gone. Contemporaneous with The End of the World and The Final Amendment.


 * AUDIO: The Final Amendment

Old Timeline

 * PROSE: The Two Jasons (epilogue)
 * Over 15 years since the main narrative/The End of the World/The Final Amendment. The clone Benny is still alive and President. "What's left of" the real Benny has been found.

New Timeline

 * AUDIO: The Wake

Series 9

 * PROSE: The Vampire Curse: Predating the Predators
 * 2609. Benny is freelancing and has left Peter with a friend.


 * AUDIO: Beyond the Sea
 * It's been a few months since Benny left the Collection.


 * AUDIO: The Adolescence of Time
 * AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel
 * PROSE: Secret Histories: The Song of Old Man Bunyip
 * Benny is on a solo time ring trip.


 * PROSE: Secret Histories: Redacted
 * Benny is freelancing and seems unentangled.


 * AUDIO: The Diet of Worms

Series 10

 * AUDIO: Glory Days
 * AUDIO: Absence
 * AUDIO: Venus Mantrap
 * About a year after The Final Amendment. President Clone Benny is killed by Frost, whose existence is due to Brax altering the timeline.


 * AUDIO: Secret Origins
 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Bev flashback)
 * "Shortly after an incident in Buenos Aires."


 * PROSE: Secret Histories: A Gallery of Pigeons / The Firing Squad / The Illuminated Man
 * Take place synchronously for Benny, Adrian, and Peter, respectively. After Buenos Aires. They've come from 2609.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Peter/Adrian flashback)
 * Adrian is around. Peter is seeing a psychologist about Jason.


 * PROSE: Secret Histories (framing narrative)
 * PROSE: Making a Collection
 * 2609 on the Braxiatel Collection.

Series 11

 * WC: Dead and Buried
 * AUDIO: Resurrecting the Past
 * PROSE: Present Danger: Prelude
 * PROSE: Present Danger: Winging It
 * PROSE: Present Danger: Don't Do Something, Just Sit There
 * PROSE: Present Danger: Six Impossible Things
 * PROSE: Present Danger: Interlude
 * PROSE: Present Danger: The War of Art
 * PROSE: Present Danger: The Better Part of Valour
 * PROSE: Present Danger: Digital Dreams
 * PROSE: Present Danger: Interlude
 * PROSE: Present Danger: The Empire Variations
 * PROSE: Present Danger: Past Caring
 * PROSE: Present Danger: The Propaganda War
 * PROSE: Present Danger: In the Ledgers of Madness
 * PROSE: Present Danger: Interlude
 * PROSE: Present Danger: Excalibur of Mars
 * PROSE: Present Danger: The End Times
 * PROSE: Present Danger: Epilogue
 * AUDIO: Escaping the Future
 * AUDIO: Year Zero
 * Year 54.


 * AUDIO: Dead Man's Switch

Epoch

 * AUDIO: Epoch: The Kraken's Lament
 * Year 57.


 * AUDIO: Epoch: The Temple of Questions
 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Atlantis flashback)
 * Benny, Leo, and Ruth are together.


 * AUDIO: Epoch: Private Enemy No. 1
 * AUDIO: Epoch: Judgement Day
 * Benny wakes up in 2616.

Road Trip

 * AUDIO: Road Trip: Brand Management
 * AUDIO: Road Trip: Bad Habits
 * PROSE: The Weather on Versimmon
 * AUDIO: Road Trip: Paradise Frost
 * It's taken Benny and Ruth six months to get to Legion. So it's 2616 or 2617 now.

Legion

 * AUDIO: Legion: Vesuvius Falling
 * It's been four years since Peter was abandoned by Benny. Even if it's 2616, they were last together in 2612. The discrepancy could be down to the post-Deindum redraft of history.


 * PROSE: The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis
 * AUDIO: Legion: Shades of Gray
 * The first flashback sequence is about a year after November 2616, so it is late 2617 now.


 * AUDIO: Legion: Everybody Loves Irving
 * Peter says he's 18.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (Jack flashback)
 * Benny and Jack are spending Irving's money. Two weeks before the framing narrative.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (framing narrative)

New Frontiers

 * AUDIO: New Frontiers: A Handful of Dust
 * Legion's Advent is a Christmas-equivalent, but there's no reason to think the dates match Christmas on Earth and the Collection.


 * PROSE: Filthy Lucre
 * AUDIO: New Frontiers: HMS Surprise
 * AUDIO: New Frontiers: The Curse of Fenman

Missing Persons

 * AUDIO: Missing Persons: Big Dig
 * AUDIO: Missing Persons: The Revenant's Carnival
 * AUDIO: Missing Persons: The Brimstone Kid
 * AUDIO: Missing Persons: The Winning Side
 * Features other Benny from Epoch: Judgement Day.


 * AUDIO: Missing Persons: In Living Memory
 * PROSE: Adorable Illusion
 * Scott Handcock says this is set after Missing Persons.

The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield

 * AUDIO: The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: The Revolution
 * Benny says that she has a little boy now.


 * AUDIO: The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: Good Night, Sweet Ladies
 * AUDIO: The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: Random Ghosts
 * AUDIO: The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: The Lights of Skaro
 * PROSE: Big Bang Generation
 * Benny says that she last met the Doctor in his seventh incarnation on Skaro. Peter is still single.

The Triumph of Sutekh

 * AUDIO: The Triumph of Sutekh: The Pyramid of Sutekh
 * Benny is on her way to Peter's wedding.
 * WC: Transmission from Mars


 * AUDIO: The Triumph of Sutekh: The Vaults of Osiris
 * AUDIO: The Triumph of Sutekh: The Eye of Horus
 * AUDIO: The Triumph of Sutekh: The Tears of Isis

The Unbound Universe

 * AUDIO: The Unbound Universe: The Library in the Body
 * Benny is giving a lecture at the beginning of the story.


 * AUDIO: The Unbound Universe: Planet X
 * Benny refers to her friends and family.


 * AUDIO: The Unbound Universe: The Very Dark Thing
 * AUDIO: The Unbound Universe: The Emporium at the End
 * Benny doesn't comment on her history with the Master, because she never discovers the Manager's identity.

Later Life

 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Paydirt
 * The Professor has white hair. She's 2000 years ahead of her own time.

Keith/Rebecca Timelines

 * PROSE: Return of the Living Dad
 * PROSE: Collected Works: Key
 * Keith is a child.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: The Shape of the Hole
 * This Benny has divorced Jason, doesn't work for Brax, and has Peter, Keith and Rebecca.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (recording of Jason and associated flashbacks)
 * Braxiatel is "that camp guy in the white suit," and says "At last, my dastardly planning and plotting shall bear fruit." Keith is an adult and Rebecca is in school.


 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: Might
 * Assuming Keith is real, he's an adult.

Bernard Summerfield Timeline

 * PROSE: A Life of Surprises: And Then Again
 * Benny Summerfield is a Bernard. Not a Springmoore though, so not the one from In Living Memory.

Unplaced

 * PROSE: The Panda Book of Horror: The Niceness
 * Benny knows Iris, so after The Plague Herds of Excelis.


 * AUDIO: Many Happy Returns (introductory scene)
 * Obviously Jason's alive, but the whole thing's super metafictional.


 * AUDIO: The Lady from Callisto Rhys
 * AUDIO: The Phantom Wreck


 * PROSE: The Trials of Tara
 * PROSE: Question Mark Pyjamas
 * PROSE: Continuity Errors


 * PROSE: Too Rich for My Blood
 * PROSE: How You Get There


 * AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor


 * COMIC: Final Genesis
 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * COMIC: Cuckoo
 * COMIC: The Last Word


 * COMIC: Flashback
 * COMIC: Younger and Wiser