Theory:Timeline - Eighth Doctor

This page lists appearances of the Eighth 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 for simplicity that each story in any given series takes place after one another in publication order, but there are gaps.

The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who Reference Guide and Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's Ahistory and other sources that allow us to make observations.

The Eighth Doctor's timeline presents certain issues to construct a concise timeline as there are only a few "gaps" between stories in which to insert certain series of adventures which occur. Also due to certain events, such as the (first) destruction of Gallifrey in The Ancestor Cell certain story series must take place at certain points.

Gallifrey
Anything involving Gallifrey must take place either pre-The Ancestor Cell, additionally anything involving Roman II, must take place before The Shadows of Avalon.

Or, anything involving Gallifrey must take place after The Gallifrey Chronicles.

As these three stories impose events on the narrative that make stories involving Gallifrey unlikely.

Romana is seen in her third incarnation in The Shadows of Avalon and Gallifrey is destroyed in The Ancestor Cell.

From The Burning to The Gallifrey Chronicles the Doctor operates with less than his full memory, he regains it in The Ancestor Cell and it is suggested he intends to restore Gallifrey.

Series basics
The Eighth Doctor's adventures can very roughly be sorted into series based on medium / series
 * The BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures Sam/Sam and Fitz/Fitz and Compassion/Fitz and Anji/Fitz, Anji Trix/Fitz and Trix
 * The Radio Times comics
 * DWM comic stories
 * Big Finish audio stories Charlie/Lucie/Mary
 * Short Trips
 * Anything else

Timeline

 * DW: Doctor Who
 * EDA: The Eight Doctors
 * ''The Eight Doctors continues directly on from the TVM, with the Doctor referencing events that happened and there is narrative flow between these two stories linking them together.


 * ST: Bounty
 * At the end of this story the Doctor drops Sam off at a Greenpeace rally. According to Vampire Science he has adventures for 3 years.


 * ST: One Fateful Knight
 * ST: From Little Acorns
 * ST: Model Train Set
 * ST: The Glass Princess
 * ST: Greenaway
 * ST: Totem
 * ST: Second Contact
 * ST: DS Al Fine
 * ST: Transmission Ends
 * NA: The Dying Days
 * BFA: Benny's Story


 * Given that the BFA stories featuring the Doctor travelling with Charlie Pollard involve meeting Romana II when she is president it is likely these stories take place before The Shadows of Avalon when she has regenerated.


 * BFA: Terror Firma (flashback)
 * ST: The Long Midwinter
 * ST: Dear John
 * BFA: Mary's Story (Present Doctor)
 * BFA: The Silver Turk
 * BFA: The Witch from the Well
 * BFA: Army of Death
 * BFA: Terror Firma (flashback)
 * WC/BFA: Shada
 * ST: The Time Lord's Story
 * ST: The Juror's Story
 * ST: Seven Deadly Sins
 * BFA: Storm Warning
 * BFA: Sword of Orion
 * ST: Repercussions...
 * ST: Best Seller
 * ST: Letting Go
 * BFA: The Stones of Venice
 * BFA: Minuet in Hell
 * ST: A Good Life
 * ST: Categorical Imperative
 * ST: Venus
 * ST: Be Good for Goodness's Sake
 * ST: You Had Me at Verify User Name and Password
 * ST: They Fell
 * ST: Faithful Friends: Part 3
 * ST: Doctor Who and the Adaptation of Death
 * ST: Second Chances
 * BFA: Invaders from Mars
 * BFA: The Chimes of Midnight
 * ST: War in a Time of Peace
 * BFA: Living Legend
 * BFA: Seasons of Fear
 * ST: Lady of the Snows
 * BFA: Embrace the Darkness
 * CC: Solitaire
 * ST: The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac
 * BFA: The Time of the Daleks
 * ST: Apocrypha Bipedium
 * BFA: Neverland
 * BFA: Zagreus
 * BFA: Scherzo
 * BFA: The Creed of the Kromon
 * BFA: The Natural History of Fear
 * BFA: The Twilight Kingdom
 * BFA: Faith Stealer
 * BFA: The Last
 * BFA: Caerdroia
 * BFA: The Next Life
 * BFA: Terror Firma
 * ST: Before Midnight
 * ST: Round Trip: After Midnight
 * BFA: Scaredy Cat
 * BFA: Other Lives
 * BFA: Time Works
 * BFA: Something Inside
 * BFA: Memory Lane
 * BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor (cameo)
 * ST: Salva Mea
 * BFA: Absolution
 * BFA: The Girl Who Never Was


 * Adventures with Lucie Miller are placed after The Gallifrey Chronicles as there are no direct references to Romana being president.


 * ST: Thinking Warrior
 * ST: The Ethereal
 * ST: ...Be Forgot
 * ST: Running Out of Time
 * ST: The Wickerwork Man


 * RT: Dreadnought
 * RT: Descendance
 * RT: Ascendance
 * RT: Perceptions
 * RT: Coda
 * The Radio Times stories must take place before Placebo Effect as that novel is a sequel to these stories.


 * TN: Rip Tide
 * TN: Eye of the Tyger


 * EDA: Vampire Science
 * EDA: The Bodysnatchers
 * The final chapter of The Bodysnatchers see the Doctor returning to see Litefoot, this is an older Doctor who changes the subject when Sam Jones is mentioned.


 * EDA: Genocide
 * At the end of this novel the Doctor, having been tortured departs to get a new coat from New Sydney.


 * ST: Dead Time
 * EDA: War of the Daleks


 * EDA: Alien Bodies
 * Alien Bodies features a chapter with the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith.
 * Alien Bodies is the first novel to feature the Second War in Heaven affecting the "past".


 * EDA: Kursaal
 * EDA: Option Lock
 * ST: The People's Temple
 * ST: The Queen of Eros
 * EDA: Longest Day
 * Sam Jones departs the Doctor here and the Doctor spends the next 3 novels searching for her, though as evidenced by Legacy of the Daleks gets distracted.


 * EDA: Legacy of the Daleks
 * EDA: Dreamstone Moon
 * EDA: Seeing I
 * EDA: Placebo Effect
 * EDA: Vanderdeken's Children
 * EDA: The Scarlet Empress
 * EDA: The Janus Conjunction
 * The Doctor spends an amount of time in a temporal orbit constructing a cure for Sam's radiation poisoning.


 * EDA: Beltempest
 * EDA: The Face-Eater
 * ST: Femme Fatale
 * EDA: The Taint
 * EDA: Demontage
 * EDA: Revolution Man
 * EDA: Dominion


 * EDA: Unnatural History
 * As this story opens the Doctor has been stuck on Earth for several months.


 * EDA: Autumn Mist


 * EDA: Interference - Book One
 * EDA: Interference - Book Two
 * The Doctor visits IM Foreman alone framing this story.


 * EDA: The Blue Angel
 * Compassion has been on Earth for some time, the Doctor having placed her there.


 * FP: Toy Story


 * EDA: The Taking of Planet 5
 * EDA: Frontier Worlds
 * EDA: Parallel 59


 * ST: Growing Higher


 * EDA: The Shadows of Avalon
 * The Doctor's TARDIS is 'destroyed' here, prompting the creation of Compassion as a TARDIS.


 * From The Fall of Yquatine to The Ancestor Cell the Doctor and Fitz are travelling within Compassion.


 * EDA: The Fall of Yquatine
 * EDA: Coldheart
 * EDA: The Space Age
 * EDA: The Banquo Legacy
 * EDA: The Ancestor Cell


 * The Doctor is amnesiac on Earth.


 * EDA: The Burning
 * ST: Evergreen
 * EDA: Casualties of War
 * PDA: Wolfsbane
 * EDA: The Turing Test
 * EDA: Endgame
 * ST: Mordieu
 * EDA: Father Time
 * This period of stories is a period of time the Doctor spends without his memory trapped on Earth.


 * Fitz rejoins the Doctor.


 * EDA: Escape Velocity
 * EDA: EarthWorld
 * PDA: Fear Itself
 * EDA: Vanishing Point
 * EDA: Eater of Wasps
 * EDA: The Year of Intelligent Tigers
 * EDA: The Slow Empire
 * EDA: Dark Progeny
 * EDA: The City of the Dead
 * BFA: Fitz's Story
 * EDA: Grimm Reality
 * EDA: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
 * EDA: Mad Dogs and Englishmen
 * EDA: Hope
 * EDA: Anachrophobia
 * EDA: Trading Futures
 * EDA: The Book of the Still
 * EDA: The Crooked World


 * TN: Fallen Gods
 * The Doctor refers to having a single heartbeat and an "angel full of compassion" that saved him once. Placing Fallen Gods after The Blue Angel and after The Adventuress of Henrietta Street where Sabbath removed the Doctor's second heart.


 * EDA: History 101
 * EDA: Camera Obscura
 * ST: Notre Dame du Temps
 * EDA: Time Zero
 * EDA: The Infinity Race
 * EDA: The Domino Effect
 * EDA: Reckless Engineering
 * EDA: The Last Resort
 * EDA: Timeless
 * EDA: Emotional Chemistry
 * EDA: Sometime Never...
 * EDA: Halflife
 * EDA: The Tomorrow Windows
 * EDA: The Sleep of Reason
 * EDA: The Deadstone Memorial
 * EDA: To the Slaughter
 * EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles
 * The Doctor regains his memories from before The Burning of Gallifrey and the events prior to its destruction.


 * Given the representation of Gallifrey described in previous stories the DWM comic stories likely take place following The Gallifrey Chronicles.


 * DWM: End Game
 * DWM: The Keep
 * DWM: A Life of Matter and Death
 * DWM: Fire and Brimstone
 * DWM: By Hook or By Crook
 * DWM: Tooth and Claw
 * DWM: The Final Chapter
 * DWM: Wormwood
 * ST: Syntax
 * DWM: Happy Deathday
 * DWM: The Fallen
 * DWM: The Road to Hell
 * DWM: TV Action!
 * DWM: The Company of Thieves
 * DWM: The Glorious Dead
 * ST: Illumination
 * DWM: The Autonomy Bug
 * DWM: Death to the Doctor! (flashback)
 * BFA: Izzy's Story
 * DWM: Ophidius
 * DWM: Beautiful Freak
 * DWM: The Way of All Flesh
 * DWM: Children of the Revolution
 * DWM: Uroboros
 * DWM: Oblivion
 * DWM: Where Nobody Knows Your Name
 * DWM: Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game
 * DWM: The Power of Thoueris!
 * DWM: The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack
 * DWM: The Land of Happy Endings
 * DWM: Bad Blood
 * DWM: Sins of the Fathers
 * DWM: The Flood


 * Given that none of the adventures with Lucie Miller make reference to Romana being president, placing these adventures following The Gallifrey Chronicles seems to make more sense, given there is an active Time Lord society which is not bogged down by the Second War in Heaven.


 * BFA/BBCR: Blood of the Daleks
 * BFA/BBCR: Horror of Glam Rock
 * BFA/BBCR: Immortal Beloved
 * BFA/BBCR: Phobos
 * BFA/BBCR: No More Lies
 * BFA/BBCR: Human Resources
 * ST: Remain in Light
 * ST: Decorative Purposes
 * BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor (cameo)
 * BFA: Dead London
 * BFA: Max Warp
 * BFA: Brave New Town
 * ST: The Great Escapes [companion only; Doctor does not appear]
 * ST: All the Fun of the Fair
 * BFA: The Skull of Sobek
 * BFA: Grand Theft Cosmos
 * BFA: The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
 * BFA: Sisters of the Flame / The Vengeance of Morbius
 * BFA: Orbis
 * BFA: Hothouse
 * BFA: The Beast of Orlok
 * BFA: Wirrn Dawn
 * BFA: The Scapegoat
 * BFA: The Cannibalists
 * BFA: The Eight Truths / Worldwide Web
 * BFA: Death in Blackpool
 * BFA: An Earthly Child
 * BFA: Situation Vacant
 * BFA: Nevermore
 * BFA: The Book of Kells
 * BFA: Deimos /The Resurrection of Mars
 * BFA: Relative Dimensions 
 * BFA: Prisoner of the Sun
 * BFA: Lucie Miller
 * BFA: To the Death


 * IDW: The Forgotten (flashback)

Unplaced

 * ST: Quantum Heresy
 * ST: The Sorrows of Vienna
 * BFA: The Four Doctors
 * ST: Forgotten


 * ST: Gazing Void
 * ST: Reversal of Fortune
 * ST: Far from Home
 * ST: Jonah
 * ST: Phoenix
 * ST: For the Man Who Has Everything
 * ST: Epilogue
 * ST: Lonely
 * ST: Nettles
 * ST: Suns and Mothers
 * ST: Not in My Back Yard
 * BFA: Mary's Story (Future Doctor)
 * ST: The End
 * ST: Museum Peace
 * ST: Osskah