Theory:Timeline - Jamie McCrimmon

This page lists appearances of Jamie McCrimmon 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. 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.

Travels alongside Ben and Polly

 * TV: The Highlanders
 * Jamie meets the Second Doctor, with Ben Jackson and Polly Wright, joining them aboard the Doctor's TARDIS.


 * TV: The Underwater Menace
 * Set immediately after The Highlanders, with Jamie marvelling at the sight of the TARDIS interior.


 * TV: The Moonbase
 * Set immediately after The Underwater Menace. Ending leads directly into The Macra Terror.


 * COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen Prologue: The Second Doctor
 * In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Doctor is partially converted into a Cyberman during The Moonbase.


 * TV: The Macra Terror


 * PROSE: Something at the Door
 * Ben and Polly are showing Jamie around the inside of the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: The Slave War


 * AUDIO: Resistance
 * Set between The Macra Terror and The Faceless Ones. The Doctor has only recently regenerated.


 * AUDIO: The Mouthless Dead


 * AUDIO: The Three Companions: Polly's Story


 * AUDIO: The Forbidden Time


 * AUDIO: The Selachian Gambit
 * Jamie and Ben refer to the events of Resistance.


 * AUDIO: House of Cards
 * Jamie refers to the events of the The Selachian Gambit.


 * AUDIO: The Yes Men
 * The Doctor is trying to return Polly and Ben to 1966, setting this shortly before The Faceless Ones.


 * AUDIO: The Forsaken


 * AUDIO: The Night Witches
 * The last time the Doctor attempted to teach his companions how to fly the TARDIS, they landed in New Houston, setting this after The Yes Men.


 * AUDIO: The Outliers


 * AUDIO: The Morton Legacy
 * Despite the events of The Feast, Ben and Polly claim this is their first visit to London in their past, suggesting this takes place before The Roundheads.


 * COMIC: Card Conundrum


 * PROSE: The Roundheads
 * Jamie has started to consider the TARDIS to be home, setting this late in his early travels.


 * TV: The Faceless Ones
 * Having landed on the day they left, Ben and Polly decide to remain behind at Gatwick Airport. Ending leads directly into The Evil of the Daleks.

With Victoria

 * TV: The Evil of the Daleks
 * After her father dies protecting him from the Daleks, the Doctor takes on the orphaned Victoria Waterfield 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 Way Forwards
 * Victoria has only been travelling with the Doctor for a short time, setting this early on in her travels. However she also displays some understanding of more complex concepts such as cause and effect.


 * 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: Heart of TARDIS
 * Set between Tomb of the Cybermen and The Abominable Snowmen, according to the back cover. The Doctor still feels "new" to his body. Jamie has learned to write in English, albeit not very well.


 * TV: The Abominable Snowmen
 * Jamie is still concerned about the Cyber-tombs setting this shortly after Tomb of the Cybermen. 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. The Doctor is given a Stattenheim remote control.


 * The Doctor and Jamie almost visit the Space Station Camera, but leave immediately upon seeing the Sontarans attacking. (AUDIO: The Black Hole)


 * PROSE: The Time Eater
 * Jamie gets his first look at the Stattenheim remote control, setting this before The Two Doctors. Since Jamie's not described as an adult, and considering the The Two Doctors follows directly on from World Game, with no plausible gap in between, this must occur during The Black Hole.


 * PROSE: Independence Day
 * The Doctor and Jamie leave a reminder for the Seventh Doctor. The Doctor has dark hair, and notes that Jamie has recieved an education during their travels together.


 * The Doctor and Jamie visit the City of Owls and help out the people of Mackenzie. (AUDIO: The Black Hole)


 * AUDIO: The Black Hole
 * 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: Lords of the Galaxy


 * PROSE: Follow the Phantoms


 * PROSE: Mastermind of Space


 * COMIC: Freedom by Fire


 * 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


 * 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: 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: The Last Emperor


 * 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 Great Space Elevator
 * Set 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 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
 * Set between The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep, according to the back cover. Victoria has been on the TARDIS for a few 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.

Interim

 * The Doctor and Jamie part ways in 1967. (COMIC: Invasion of the Quarks)


 * COMIC: Invasion of the Quarks
 * After traveling with John and Gillian, the Doctor reunites with Jamie.

Jamie is still affected by Victoria's departure, setting this shortly after Fury of the Deep.
 * AUDIO: The Last Day at Work


 * AUDIO: The Last Day at Work
 * Jamie is still affected by Victoria's departure, setting this shortly after Fury of the Deep.


 * PROSE: Twin Piques


 * PROSE: The Nameless City


 * COMIC: The Killer Wasps


 * COMIC: Ice Cap Terror
 * The Doctor addresses the whole world on television, leading him to be "known on the Earth", as would be referenced in The War Games.


 * PROSE: The Revolutionaries


 * COMIC: Jungle of Doom


 * COMIC: Father Time


 * AUDIO: Seven to One

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 * PROSE: ''[[One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (short story)|One Step Forward, Two Steps


 * COMIC: Martha the Mechanical Housemaid


 * COMIC: Where's the Doctor?
 * The Doctor and Jamie attend the coronation of Elizabeth II.

With Zoe

 * TV: The Wheel in Space
 * Zoe Heriot hides aboard the TARDIS when it departs the Space Station W3 and joins the Doctor and Jamie in their travels.


 * TV: The Evil of the Daleks: Repeat
 * Set immediately after The Wheel in Space. The Doctor recounts the events of The Evil of the Daleks to Zoe.


 * AUDIO: Fear of the Daleks
 * Set immediately after the The Evil of the Daleks repeat.


 * TV: The Dominators
 * The Doctor is still tired from projecting mental images, setting this shortly after Evil of the Daleks: Repeat. Ending leads directly into The Mind Robber.


 * TV: The Mind Robber


 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * Set during The Mind Robber.


 * PROSE: Future Imperfect
 * The TARDIS is still rebuilding itself, setting this immediately after The Mind Robber. The Doctor returns to the Land of Fiction, only to be recruited into the events of The Three Doctors. The transition into his future appears to affect his memory, as he recognises Sergeant Benton from The Invasion, despite that event being in his near future.


 * TV: The Three Doctors


 * TV: The Invasion
 * Set immediately after the TARDIS finishes rebuilding itself after The Mind Robber. The Doctor is reunited with the newly promoted Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and introduced to the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. He also meets Corporal Benton for the first time. Only a few weeks have passed since The Web of Fear for Jamie.


 * AUDIO: The Wreck of the World
 * The TARDIS is being repaired after being damaged by its escape from the Land of Fiction.


 * AUDIO: The Isos Network
 * Set a few days after The Invasion, with the TARDIS following a Cyber-ship that escaped destruction.


 * PROSE: Briefly Noted
 * Set sometime after The Three Doctors, with the Doctor replacing his destroyed recorder.


 * AUDIO: Prison in Space
 * Zoe refers to the recent events of The Dominators. Jamie has been travelling with the Doctor for "years now." Zoe's assimilation into the World Federation of Women may account for her sudden wardrobe change in The Krotons.


 * PROSE: Foreign Devils
 * Zoe is more "accustomed to breathing the canned atmosphere of the Space Wheel", setting this shortly after she stowed aboard the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Undercurrents
 * Zoe experiences uncertainty for the first time in her life, and Jamie notes that it has not been long since she joined the crew of the TARDIS, setting this near the start of her travels.


 * AUDIO: Shadow of Death
 * Zoe has only just recently joined the TARDIS crew, while Jamie estimates that he has been travelling with the Doctor for "two or three" years. The Doctor explains to Zoe what the Hostile Action Displacement System is, setting this before The Krotons.


 * AUDIO: Little Doctors
 * Zoe as only recently joined the TARDIS crew, and has yet to see the TARDIS make a successful landing.


 * COMIC: The Forgotten
 * Zoe and Jamie are wearing their clothes from The Wheel in Space.


 * PROSE: Mercury
 * Zoe is in her clothes from The Wheel in Space, and Jamie worries if the TARDIS is low on mercury again.


 * AUDIO: The Rosemariners


 * AUDIO: The Queen of Time


 * PROSE: Outstanding Balance
 * Zoe is wearing her silver cat suit.


 * TV: The Krotons


 * COMIC: Land of the Blind
 * Jamie and Zoe are wearing their outfits from The Krotons.


 * PROSE: The Avant Guardian
 * The Doctor is repairing the HADS, setting this shortly after The Krotons.


 * AUDIO: The Horror of Hy-Brasil
 * Jamie recalls the events of The Dominators.


 * PROSE: Visiting Hours
 * Set between The Krotons and The Seeds of Death. Zoe is mentioned as having been separated from the Doctor and Jamie.


 * PROSE: Please Shut the Gate
 * Jamie mentions the Ice Warriors, and Zoe doesn't react to it, setting this before she encounters them in The Seeds of Death.


 * AUDIO: The Memory Cheats
 * Set between The Krotons and The Seeds of Death. Jamie plays football for the first time in his life.


 * PROSE: Mirth, or Walking Spirits


 * PROSE: Homework


 * TV: The Seeds of Death


 * PROSE: The Room with All the Doors
 * Before he was in the Multivarium, the Doctor was fighting the Ice Warriors on the Moon with Jamie and Zoe, setting this during The Seeds of Death.


 * AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution
 * Jamie believes the TARDIS hasn't left London due to it landing during the rain, setting this immediately after The Seeds of Death.


 * PROSE: Lepidoptery for Beginners
 * The TARDIS crew have recently encountered Slaar, setting this shortly after The Seeds of Death.


 * The Doctor investigates some mysterious robberies. (AUDIO: Tales from the Vault)


 * PROSE:  Prelude First Frontier 
 * Zoe is mentioned to have stayed behind in the TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: The Light at the End


 * PROSE: The Final Sanction
 * Set between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates, according to the back cover.


 * AUDIO: Echoes of Grey
 * Last of the Cybermen sets Echoes of Grey between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates''.


 * AUDIO: The Uncertainty Principle
 * Zoe recalls meeting the Krotons, setting this after The Krotons.


 * AUDIO: The Apocalypse Mirror
 * Last of the Cybermen sets The Apocalypse Mirror between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates and after Echoes of Grey''.


 * AUDIO: The Dying Light
 * Jamie mentions witnessing a volcanic eruption on Dulkis, setting this after The Dominators. According to VOR 53, this takes place immediately before The War Games.  However Last of the Cybermen sets The Dying Light prior to The Space Pirates.


 * AUDIO: The Integral
 * Zoe has been travelling with the Doctor and Jamie for a few weeks.


 * PROSE: The Wheel of Ice
 * Last of the Cybermen sets The Wheel of Ice immediately before The Space Pirates.


 * TV: The Space Pirates


 * PROSE: The Menagerie
 * The TARDIS crew have just left the LIZ 79, setting this immediately after The Space Pirates.


 * AUDIO: Last of the Cybermen
 * The Doctor is switched with his sixth incarnation by . This adventure explicitly takes place a few weeks after The Invasion, and a few days after The Space Pirates.


 * PROSE: The Colony of Lies
 * The Doctor is aware of the recently established UNIT, setting this after The Invasion. However, Zoe claims that she has never met the Daleks, suggesting a pre-Fear of the Daleks setting.


 * PROSE: The Indestructible Man
 * Zoe notes that she has only been travelling with the Doctor for a short time. Jamie and Zoe spend six months separated from the Doctor.


 * AUDIO: The Iron Maid


 * PROSE: That Which Went Away


 * PROSE: Goodwill Toward Men
 * Jamie alludes to the events of The Mind Robber.


 * PROSE: The Scruffy Piper
 * The Doctor is traveling with Jamie and Zoe, but makes them stay in the TARDIS upon seeing the armed guards.


 * AUDIO: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish


 * PROSE: A Comedy of Terrors


 * PROSE: The Anti-Hero


 * PROSE: Vortex of Fear
 * The events of The Seeds of Death are mentioned.


 * PROSE: The Dragons of Kekokro


 * PROSE: The Singing Crystals


 * COMIC: The Vampire Plants


 * PROSE: The Mystery of the Marie Celeste


 * PROSE: Grip of Ice


 * PROSE: Man Friday


 * PROSE: Slave of Shran


 * COMIC: Robot King


 * PROSE: Run the Gauntlet


 * PROSE: A Thousand & One Doors


 * PROSE: uPVC
 * Conversation about the vortex suggests that this is set after Vortex of Fear.


 * PROSE: The True Tragedy of Macbeth


 * AUDIO: A Stain of Red in the Sand


 * PROSE: One Small Step...
 * The Doctor has faced the Krotons, setting this after The Krotons.


 * AUDIO: The Jigsaw War


 * AUDIO: The Five Dimensional Man


 * PROSE: Constant Companion


 * AUDIO: Lords of the Red Planet
 * Zoe has met the Ice Warriors, setting this after The Seeds of Death.


 * PROSE: Aliens and Predators
 * Zoe recalls the events of The Invasion.


 * COMIC: Bazaar Adventures
 * Zoe mentions the T-Mat from The Seeds of Death. She and Jamie are kidnapped Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame.


 * COMIC: Endgame
 * The Doctor joins with his other incarnations to rescue Jamie and Zoe from Adam and, and assists the other Doctors in saving their companions as well.


 * PROSE: Favourite Star
 * The Doctor does some exploring on his own while Jamie and Zoe are taking in the sights.


 * AUDIO: The Way of the Empty Hand
 * Set long after Year of the Drex Olympics, with the Venusian aikido skills the Doctor practiced having gone "rusty". Zoe recalls facing Cybermen, Ice Warriors and the Quarks.


 * AUDIO: Second Chances
 * Zoe has encountered the Ice Warriors, setting this after The Seeds of Death.


 * AUDIO: The British Invasion


 * AUDIO: The Tactics of Defeat
 * Zoe mentions the Brigadier, setting this after The Invasion.


 * PROSE: Fallen Angel
 * Foreshadows The War Games.


 * AUDIO: The Edge
 * Jamie tells Provost Curtis that he has encountered Ice Warriors, Robot Yeti, and space pirates.

The war games

 * TV: The War Games (Episode 1–Episode 9)
 * Needing their help to stop the War Lords, the Doctor surrenders his location to the Time Lords.


 * PROSE: War Crimes
 * The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are attempting to flee from the Time Lords.


 * PROSE: The Thousand Years of Christmas
 * The Doctor is fleeing from the Time Lords.


 * TV: The War Games (Episode 10)
 * After Jamie and Zoe are returned home with their memories of him wiped, the Doctor stands trial before the Time Lords. His sentence is an exile to Earth in the 20th century and an enforced regeneration.

Recruited by the CIA

 * PROSE: World Game
 * Follows directly from The War Games, with the Doctor's sentence revoked on the condition that he works as a "hired gun" for the Celestial Intervention Agency. Ending leads into The Two Doctors, with a grey-haired Doctor and an older Jamie going to meet Joinson Dastari at the Space Station Camera.


 * TV: The Two Doctors


 * PROSE: Across Silent Seas
 * Jamie is wearing his clothes from The Two Doctors.


 * AUDIO: Helicon Prime
 * Jamie still believes Victoria to be away on her graphology studies, as he said in The Two Doctors, but the Doctor is using his sonic screwdriver, which he didn't use until Victoria left in Fury from the Deep, thus placing this story in Season 6B.


 * PROSE: All of Beyond
 * Set shortly after Helicon Prime.


 * AUDIO: The Old Rogue
 * The Doctor and Jamie imprison Arkinen on Earth in the hope that he can be rehabilitated. The Fourth Doctor later recalls this incident, thus placing this story in Season 6B.


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


 * PROSE: The Christmas Presence
 * The Doctor has complete control of the TARDIS, placing this in Season 6B.


 * PROSE: That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World Whilst Looking for a Dress
 * The Doctor and Jamie are explicitly working for the Doctor's people.


 * After these adventures, Jamie is returned to his own time by the CIA, and the Doctor continues his adventures alone. (AUDIO: Helicon Prime)

After the Doctor

 * AUDIO: Helicon Prime
 * Jamie briefly remembers his travels with the Doctor, for long enough to recount the story of his trip to Helicon Prime.


 * AUDIO: Companion Piece
 * Jamie is kidnapped by The Nine. He believes he has only met the Doctor once, setting this after his mindwipe in The War Games.


 * COMIC: The World Shapers
 * Reuniting with the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown, a much older Jamie gives his life to stop the Cybermen.