Theory:Timeline - Victoria Waterfield

This page lists appearances of Victoria Waterfield in the order in which she 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. 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, such as DocOhoReviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Database, the Big Finish forums, The Whoniverse and the Divergent Universe forums. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Travelling with the Doctor

 * TV: The Evil of the Daleks
 * After her father dies protecting him from the Daleks, the Doctor takes on the orphaned Victoria as a companion.


 * TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen
 * Victoria is introduced to the TARDIS, setting this immediately after The Evil of the Daleks. The Doctor tells her that he is "around 450-years-old" in Earth terms.


 * AUDIO: Return to Telos
 * Set in an aborted timeline during The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 1, when Jamie and Hayden entered the weapons testing room.


 * PROSE: The Age of Ambition
 * Victoria has not fully accepted her new life aboard the TARDIS. She recalls visiting Telos, setting this shortly after The Tomb of the Cybermen.


 * AUDIO: The Great Space Elevator
 * While authorial intent places this between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep, Victoria is still very new to seeing other time periods. The Doctor also gives Victoria a brief talk regarding the extraordinary nature of her new life as a time traveller, echoing the conversation that they had in The Tomb of the Cybermen.


 * AUDIO: The Way Forwards
 * Victoria has only been travelling with the Doctor for a short time, setting this shortly after The Tomb of the Cybermen.


 * PROSE: Dr. Second
 * The Doctor has not encountered a Yeti before, setting this before The Abominable Snowmen.


 * PROSE: The Lost
 * Jamie tells Victoria he has not yet learned to write.


 * AUDIO: The Story of Extinction
 * Victoria is teaching Jamie to read, starting with letters.


 * PROSE: Lords of the Galaxy


 * PROSE: Follow the Phantoms


 * PROSE: Mastermind of Space


 * PROSE: The Celestial Toyshop


 * PROSE: Valley of Dragons


 * PROSE: Planet from Nowhere


 * COMIC: Atoms Infinite


 * PROSE: Happy as Queeg


 * PROSE: World of Ice


 * PROSE: The Microtron Men


 * PROSE: Death to Mufl


 * COMIC: Freedom by Fire


 * PROSE: Heart of TARDIS
 * The Doctor still feels "new" to his body. Jamie has learned to write in English, albeit not very well.


 * TV: The Abominable Snowmen
 * The Doctor meets Professor Edward Travers and faces the Great Intelligence for the first time at a Tibetan monastery.


 * TV: The Ice Warriors
 * Jamie initially thinks that the TARDIS has only landed further up the Tibetan mountain, setting this immediately after The Abominable Snowmen.


 * AUDIO: The Black Hole
 * The TARDIS console room is still a mess from the previous landing in The Ice Warriors. Meeting another Time Lord called Pavo, the Doctor and Jamie are asked to visit Joinson Dastari, while Victoria decides to remain with Pavo to study graphology. After "a couple of weeks" of adventures, the Doctor and Jamie return for Victoria, and learn that "Pavo" was in disguise. After assisting the real Pavo in foiling the Monk's plan, the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria have their memories of the events erased.


 * PROSE: Dreams of Empire
 * : Set between The Ice Warriors and Enemy of the World, according to the back cover. The Doctor uses his new sonic screwdriver, which he had previously resolved to create in The Murder Game.


 * PROSE: The Last Emperor


 * PROSE: Combat Rock
 * The Doctor refers to the tropical beach as "a welcome change", setting this before The Enemy of the World.


 * PROSE: Face-Painter


 * PROSE: The Farmer's Story


 * PROSE: Saint Nicholas's Bones


 * PROSE: On a Pedestal
 * Set between The Ice Warriors and The Enemy of the World, according to the author's notes.


 * AUDIO: The Elysian Blade
 * Victoria sees an hallucination of her deceased father for the first time, setting this before Father Figure.


 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse
 * The TARDIS arrives on an Australian beach, leading directly into The Enemy of the World.


 * TV: The Enemy of the World


 * TV: The Web of Fear
 * Set immediately after The Enemy of the World. The Doctor has his first formal encounter with Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.


 * PROSE: The Ambush!
 * Set during The Web of Fear: Episode 2. Depicts the moment the Doctor was introduced to Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart.


 * PROSE: Downtime
 * Continues on from the ending of The Web of Fear: Episode 6.


 * PROSE: Father Figure
 * Set shortly after The Web of Fear, with London still recovering from the Yeti invasion.


 * COMIC: Bringer of Darkness
 * Victoria welcomes a peaceful change from "the horrors of the London Underground", referring to The Web of Fear.


 * AUDIO: The Emperor of Eternity
 * Set between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep. Upon learning that they are near Tibet, Jamie wonders if the TARDIS crew will encounter more of the Yeti from The Abominable Snowman.


 * PROSE: The Cutty Wren
 * The Doctor is testing his new sonic screwdriver, setting this just before Fury from the Deep.


 * AUDIO: Dumb Waiter
 * Set on Earth, shortly before Fury of the Deep.


 * PROSE: Screamager
 * After seeing far too much death in her travels, Victoria privately decides that she will leave the TARDIS soon.


 * PROSE: Twilight of the Gods
 * Victoria has been on the TARDIS for several months now, and starts thinking about leaving.


 * PROSE: The Dark Path
 * Immediately after Twilight of the Gods, the Doctor reunites with an old Time Lord friend, who succumbs to his inner darkness and becomes . Victoria decides that she shall leave the TARDIS at their next stop on Earth. Any story set on Earth where Victoria is considering leaving must take place before this story.


 * AUDIO: Year of the Drex Olympics
 * The Doctor learns Venusian aikido on Venus.


 * PROSE: The Astronomer's Apprentice
 * Set shortly before Fury from the Deep.


 * TV: Fury from the Deep
 * Having found a surrogate family, Victoria parts with the Doctor and Jamie.

After the Doctor

 * AUDIO: The Story of Extinction
 * An older Victoria recounts a past adventure with the Doctor and Jamie. She is visited by the Seventh Doctor, but doesn't recognise him, setting this before Prelude Birthright.


 * PROSE: Prelude Birthright
 * The Seventh Doctor picks up Victoria and takes her to 1868 to sign papers dealing with her father's estate.


 * HOMEVID: Downtime
 * An older Victoria is manipulated by the Great Intelligence, meeting Sarah Jane Smith.


 * AUDIO: Power Play
 * Now over 60 years old, Victoria meets the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown.

Unplaced

 * COMIC: A Stitch in Time


 * COMIC: The Choice