Theory:Timeline - Tegan Jovanka

This page lists appearances of Tegan Jovanka 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. It is assumed, much like their TV story counterparts, that each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in.

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 Databank, the Big Finish forum, The Whoniverse and The Divergent Universe forum. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Joining the Doctor

 * TV: Logopolis
 * Tegan joins the Doctor's TARDIS as a stowaway shortly before the Fourth Doctor regenerates to his next incarnation.


 * TV: Castrovalva
 * Set immediately after Logopolis, with the Doctor's regeneration still settling.


 * PROSE: The Comet's Tail
 * Set during Castrovalva: Part 1, when the Doctor is resting in the Zero Room before the Master interferes with the TARDIS navigational systems.


 * AUDIO: Psychodrome
 * Set immediately after Castrovalva.


 * PROSE: Cold Fusion
 * The Doctor is still recovering from his recent regeneration.


 * AUDIO: The Ingenious Gentleman Adric of Alzarius
 * The Doctor still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.


 * PROSE: First Born
 * The Doctor still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.


 * PROSE: Resonance
 * The Doctor still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.


 * COMIC: On the Planet Isopterus
 * Tegan is not concerned using the Doctor's dream-manipulating machine, setting this before Kinda.


 * COMIC: In Their Nature
 * Adric, Nyssa and Tegan are kidnapped Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame.


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

Attempts to return to Heathrow

 * TV: Four to Doomsday
 * The Doctor begins trying to get the TARDIS to Heathrow Airport to return Tegan to her job as an air hostess. Nyssa collapses after a showdown with Monarch, leading directly into Kinda.


 * TV: Kinda
 * Set directly after Four to Doomsday, with Nyssa recuperating from her dizzy spell in the TARDIS throughout the crew's stay on Deva Loka.


 * AUDIO: Sock Pig
 * The Doctor is out for a night stroll on his own, and he still has his sonic screwdriver, setting this before The Visitation.


 * TV: The Visitation
 * Set immediately after Kinda, with the Doctor reprimanding Adric for his actions, and Tegan still haunted by her possession. The Doctor's sonic screwdriver is destroyed by the Terileptil leader.


 * PROSE: The Immortals
 * The Doctor has recently regenerated, and Tegan is still upset about his failure to return her to Heathrow.


 * PROSE: Divided Loyalties
 * The Doctor has recently met the Terileptils from The Visitation.


 * AUDIO: The Star Men


 * AUDIO: The Contingency Club


 * AUDIO: Zaltys
 * Tegan has given up on the Doctor's ability to get her back to Heathrow, and she and Adric believe the Master is dead, setting this before Smoke and Mirrors.


 * AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors
 * The Doctor has recently lost his sonic screwdriver, setting this after The Visitation. Houdini is the first historical figure that Tegan has met since beginning her travels with the Doctor, and this is the Doctor's first encounter with the Master since Castrovalva.


 * PROSE: The Key of Vaga


 * PROSE: Planet of Fear


 * TV: Black Orchid


 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * Set during Black Orchid: Part 1.


 * AUDIO: Iterations of I
 * The Doctor has started reading the Black Orchid book he received in Black Orchid.


 * PROSE: In the TARDIS: Christmas Day


 * PROSE: The Constant Doctor


 * AUDIO: The Darkening Eye
 * The Dar Traders predict that Adric's death is coming soon, setting this shortly before Earthshock.


 * AUDIO: The Toy
 * Nyssa refers to the events of Kinda.


 * PROSE: Hearts of Stone
 * Set immediately before Earthshock, with the Doctor and Adric upset with each other, and the gestalt mourns the upcoming loss of Adric.


 * TV: Earthshock
 * While stopping the Cybermen from destroying the Earth, Adric dies in a spaceship explosion.


 * TV: Time-Flight
 * Set immediately after Earthshock, with the TARDIS crew grieving for Adric, and Tegan failing to convince the Doctor to change history and save him. While trying to go to the Great Exhibition, the TARDIS lands at Heathrow Airport, where, after a battle with the Master, Tegan is left behind by the Doctor and Nyssa.

Reunited with the Doctor

 * TV: Arc of Infinity
 * During a scuffle with Omega, the Doctor and Nyssa are reunited with Tegan, who rejoins them in the TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: The Waters of Amsterdam
 * Set directly between Arc of Infinity and Omega.


 * AUDIO: The Waters of Amsterdam: Epilogue
 * The Doctor returns to Amsterdam for Nyssa and Tegan thirty seconds after he left, saying that he had to run a "quick errand" for the Time Lords, as depicted in Omega.


 * AUDIO: The Elite
 * The Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa have just left Amsterdam.


 * PROSE: Fear of the Dark
 * Tegan is having dreams of snakes, setting this before Snakedance. The opening scene places these events the day after Tegan re-joined the TARDIS crew in Arc of Infinity.


 * The Doctor Who Annual 1983 stories features the Doctor traveling with Nyssa and Tegan without Adric, but with Tegan still dressed as an air stewardess. Presumably, as hinted in The Elite, she is wearing her old suit due to her inability to find other clothes.


 * PROSE: Danger Down Below


 * PROSE: The God Machine


 * PROSE: The Armageddon Chrysalis


 * PROSE: The Haven


 * PROSE: The Penalty


 * PROSE: Night Flight to Nowhere
 * Tegan returns to Heathrow Airport to meet a friend, suggesting that she has been back with the Doctor for a while.


 * AUDIO: Hexagora


 * AUDIO: The Children of Seth


 * PROSE: The Sands of Time
 * Tegan mentions being in Amsterdam, setting this after Arc of Infinity. Preventing Adric's death is still being discussed by Tegan and the Doctor.


 * PROSE: Zeta Major
 * This novel's blurb places it between Arc of Infinity and Snakedance. Both Nyssa and Tegan are still thinking about Adric's death.


 * PROSE: Lackaday Express
 * The Doctor and Tegan are having an old argument about Adric's death and the Doctor's refusal to go back in time and save him.


 * PROSE: Wake
 * The crew of the TARDIS go to the Necropolitan to properly mourn the death of Adric.


 * AUDIO: Aquitaine


 * PROSE: Soul Mate
 * Tegan is sceptical that a dream could manifest itself physically, setting this before Snakedance.


 * PROSE: No Exit


 * AUDIO: The Lions of Trafalgar
 * The last time Tegan saw the Doctor climbed something of great height was in Logopolis.


 * PROSE: Men of the Earth
 * Tegan sets the TARDIS on cause to Manussa, leading directly into Snakedance.


 * TV: Snakedance
 * Tegan has only recently re-joined the TARDIS team.


 * PROSE: Goth Opera
 * Tegan is still recovering from her possession by the Mara, setting this immediately after Snakedance. The Doctor has not seen the Master, at least the Master concurrent with his time stream, since Time-Flight.


 * COMIC: Blood Invocation


 * PROSE: Goths and Robbers


 * AUDIO: The Peterloo Massacre
 * Tegan and Nyssa visit Manchester, setting this after Goth Opera.


 * AUDIO: The King of the Dead


 * TV: Mawdryn Undead
 * Tegan is still worried about the Mara returning, setting this not long after Mawdryn Undead. Under orders from the Black Guardian, Turlough joins the Doctor in his travels so he may kill him for the Black Guardian.


 * AUDIO: Gardens of the Dead
 * Turlough has only just joined the TARDIS crew, setting this immediately after Mawdryn Undead.


 * AUDIO: The Monkey House


 * TV: Terminus
 * Nyssa decides to stay on Terminus to help treat the Lazar victims.


 * TV: Enlightenment
 * Turlough, with the Doctor's encouragement, defies the Black Guardian and is able to escape his agreement with him.


 * AUDIO: Freakshow
 * Set just after Enlightenment.


 * PROSE: Gudok
 * Tegan still doesn't trust Turlough, even believing him capable of murder.


 * PROSE: Falling from Xi'an
 * Turlough still fears that the Black Guardian will punish him for siding with the Doctor, setting this soon after Enlightenment.

Nyssa returns

 * AUDIO: Cobwebs
 * Set two days after Nyssa initially left the TARDIS in Terminus.


 * AUDIO: The Whispering Forest
 * Ending leads directly into The Cradle of the Snake.


 * AUDIO: The Cradle of the Snake


 * AUDIO: Heroes of Sontar
 * Tegan mentions the Mara being purged from her system, setting this not long after The Cradle of the Snake.


 * AUDIO: Kiss of Death


 * AUDIO: Rat Trap


 * AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger
 * Nyssa's appearance is reverted to that of her younger self at the time that she left the TARDIS crew.


 * AUDIO: The Jupiter Conjunction
 * The Doctor refers to Nyssa's recent rejuvenation from The Emerald Tiger.


 * AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane


 * AUDIO: Eldrad Must Die!


 * AUDIO: The Lady of Mercia
 * Turlough refers to Dr. Sa Yy Findecker from The Butcher of Brisbane.


 * AUDIO: Prisoners of Fate


 * AUDIO: Mistfall
 * Drawn off-course, the TARDIS passes through a CVE into E-Space, trapping the Doctor and his companions there.


 * AUDIO: Equilibrium


 * AUDIO: The Entropy Plague
 * As she is dying from Entropy, Nyssa chooses to stay in E-Space to power a portal back to N-Space for the TARDIS.

Joined by Kamelion

 * TV: The King's Demons
 * The Doctor takes Kamelion with him in the TARDIS after liberating him from the Master.


 * PROSE: The Bird of Fire
 * The Doctor is trying to reach the Eye of Orion, setting this shortly before The Five Doctors.


 * PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus
 * The TARDIS is heavily damaged, leading to the new console in The Five Doctors.


 * TV: The Five Doctors
 * The Doctor brings Tegan and Turlough to the Eye of Orion, as he had promised to do at the conclusion of The King's Demons. The TARDIS has a brand new console.


 * AUDIO: The Five Companions
 * Set during The Five Doctors, after the Fifth Doctor used the Master's transmat recall device to escape the Cybermen.


 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * Set just after The Five Doctors.


 * PROSE: Sontar's Little Helpers
 * The TARDIS console has recently been rebuilt, setting this shortly after The Five Doctors.


 * PROSE: Qualia


 * PROSE: The Velvet Dark
 * Tegan hasn't seen the Master since The Five Doctors.


 * PROSE: Mark of the Medusa


 * AUDIO: The Sirens of Time
 * According to the guidance provided, this is set between The Five Doctors and Warriors of the Deep. The Doctor is in his first outfit, and Tegan and Turlough are trapped in the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: The Oxaqua Incident


 * PROSE: Winter on Mesique


 * PROSE: Class 4 Renegade


 * PROSE: The Nemertines


 * AUDIO: Ringpullworld
 * Set several weeks after The Five Doctors


 * COMIC: The Lunar Strangers
 * The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit, and Turlough is well adjusted to life in the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Birth of a Renegade
 * The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit.

Final adventures

 * TV: Warriors of the Deep
 * After his clothes are ruined in a pool of water, the Doctor switches to a new jumper, coat and trousers design off-screen. All stories depicting the Doctor in his new outfit must take place after this story.


 * PROSE: Deep Blue
 * The Doctor is depicted in his first outfit, though the story is explicitly set immediately after Warriors of the Deep.


 * TV: The Awakening


 * PROSE: The King of Terror
 * There are references to the Malus from The Awakening, which occurred a months before this story. The Doctor explains that it took him that long to return Will Chandler back to 1643 after the events of The Awakening.


 * PROSE: Graham Dilley Saves the World
 * The Doctor attends the third test at Headingley in 1981 with Tegan and Turlough.


 * PROSE: Lant Land


 * PROSE: Last Minute Shopping
 * The cloister bell starts ringing, leading into The Assassin's Story.


 * PROSE: The Assassin's Story
 * The Web of Time is threatened when Margaret Thatcher is assassinated during her first year as Prime Minister, explaining why the TARDIS cloister bell was ringing in Last Minute Shopping.


 * PROSE: Rome


 * PROSE: The Fall of the Druids


 * COMIC: The Forgotten
 * The Doctor is depicted in his second outfit.


 * TV: Frontios


 * PROSE: Life After Queth
 * The Doctor and Tegan are trying to take the Gravis to Kolkokron, setting this before the epilogue of Frontios.


 * PROSE: Keeping It Real
 * Set immediately after Life after Queth.


 * PROSE: Perfect Day


 * AUDIO: Excelis Dawns


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


 * PROSE: The Creation of Camelot


 * AUDIO: Time in Office
 * The Doctor and Tegan were on their way back to Frontios when they were summoned to Gallifrey.


 * TV: Frontios: Epilogue
 * The Doctor and Tegan return to Frontios for Turlough, and get caught in a time corridor upon leaving with him, leading directly into Resurrection of the Daleks.


 * TV: Resurrection of the Daleks
 * Tired of all the death and violence she has witnessed, Tegan decides to remain on Earth, causing the Doctor to rethink his lifestyle.

After the Doctor

 * PROSE: Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat
 * Tegan is briefly visited by the Doctor in 1987 to allay her fears about the Mara.


 * AUDIO: The Gathering
 * An older Tegan is reunited with the Doctor in 2006.