Theory:Timeline - Sixth Doctor

This page lists appearances of the Sixth Doctor 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. 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. 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. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Series basics
The Sixth Doctor's stories can be sorted roughly by which companions he travels with and also the medium in which the companions first appeared together.

TV created

 * Peri Brown
 * Melanie Bush

Comics created

 * Frobisher

Novels created

 * Grant Markham

Audio created

 * Evelyn Smythe
 * Flip Jackson

Timeline

 * DW: The Caves of Androzani
 * DW: The Twin Dilemma
 * DW: Attack of the Cybermen
 * DW: Vengeance on Varos
 * DW: The Mark of the Rani
 * DW: The Two Doctors
 * DW: Timelash
 * DW: Revelation of the Daleks
 * DW: The Mysterious Planet (flashback)
 * DW: Mindwarp (flashback)
 * DW: The Mysterious Planet
 * DW: Mindwarp
 * DW: Terror of the Vervoids
 * DW: The Ultimate Foe
 * MA: Time of Your Life
 * Time of Your Life is set after The Ultimate Foe


 * MA: Killing Ground
 * PDA: Business Unusual
 * The Doctor meets Mel for the "first" time in this story


 * DW: Terror of the Vervoids (flash-forward)
 * PDA: Spiral Scratch
 * Spiral Scratch is set just before Time and the Rani


 * DW: Time and the Rani

Unplaced

 * VG: Doctor Who and the Warlord
 * VG: Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror
 * VG: Destiny of the Doctors
 * MA: State of Change
 * MA: Millennial Rites
 * MA: Burning Heart
 * EDA: The Eight Doctors
 * PDA: Mission: Impractical
 * PDA: Players
 * PDA: Grave Matter
 * PDA: The Quantum Archangel
 * PDA: The Shadow in the Glass
 * PDA: Instruments of Darkness
 * PDA: Palace of the Red Sun
 * PDA: Blue Box
 * PDA: Synthespians™
 * TN: Shell Shock
 * DWAN: Battle Planet
 * DWAN: Day of the Dragon
 * DWAN: The Real Hereward
 * DWAN: The Deadly Weed
 * DWAN: Vorton's Revenge
 * DWAN: The Time Savers
 * DWAN: The Mystery of the Rings
 * DWAN: The Fellowship of Quan
 * DWAN: Time Wake
 * DWAN: Interface
 * DWAN: Beauty and the Beast
 * DWAN: Retribution
 * DWAN: Davarrk's Experiment
 * DWAN: The Radio Waves
 * DWM: Power to the People
 * DWM: Hall of Mirrors
 * BE: A Wee Deoch an ...?
 * BE: The Deal
 * BE: A Tourist Invasion
 * DWY: The More Things Change
 * DWY: Work is Hell
 * VD: The Golden Door
 * VD: Timeshare
 * VD: Fegovy
 * ST: Wish You Were Here
 * ST: Moon Graffiti
 * ST: Turnabout is Fair Play
 * ST: Gone Too Soon
 * ST: Face Value
 * ST: Five Card Draw
 * ST: The Stabber
 * ST: Whiskey and Water
 * ST: The Death of Me
 * ST: Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing
 * ST: The Glass Princess
 * ST: House
 * ST: The Ruins of Heaven
 * ST: CHAOS
 * ST: Mortlake
 * ST: The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up
 * ST: Mortal Thoughts
 * ST: A Star is Reborn
 * ST: The Reproductive Cycle
 * ST: The Inquisitor's Story
 * ST: The Diplomat's Story
 * ST: Categorical Imperative
 * ST: Trapped!
 * ST: Outsourcing
 * ST: The Last Emperor
 * ST: Water's Edge
 * ST: Christmas Special
 * ST: Telling Tales
 * ST: Sold Out
 * ST: The Terror of the Darkness
 * ST: Jupiter
 * ST: Home Fires
 * ST: Christmas on the Moon
 * ST: She Won't Be Home
 * ST: Curtain Call
 * ST: Incongruous Details
 * ST: Old Boys
 * ST: Gone Fishing
 * ST: Walkin' City Blues
 * ST: The Earwig Archipelago
 * ST: Certificate of Destruction
 * ST: The Best Joke I Ever Told
 * ST: The Eighth Wonder of the World
 * ST: Strange Attractor
 * ST: Gold and Black Ooze
 * ST: The Eyes Have It
 * ST: There's Something About Mary
 * ST: The Crackers
 * ST: Dr Cadabra
 * ST: The Stars Our Contamination
 * ST: Loose Change
 * ST: The Book of My Life
 * ST: Defining Patterns
 * ST: The Spindle of Necessity
 * ST: See No Evil
 * ST: Change Management
 * ST: The Final Star
 * ST: Taking the Cure
 * ST: £436
 * ST: Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes
 * ST: Exclave
 * ST: The Christmas Party
 * ST: Revellers of Doom
 * ST: Priceless Junk
 * ST: Pass It On
 * ST: Trial by Fire
 * ST: Death Sentences
 * ST: Mardi Gras Massacre
 * FYF: Doctor Who and the Rebel's Gamble
 * FYF: Search for the Doctor
 * FYF: Crisis in Space
 * FYF: Garden of Evil
 * FYF: Mission to Venus
 * FYF: Invasion of the Ormazoids
 * FYF: Race Against Time
 * TME: The Ultimate Evil
 * BBCR: Slipback
 * Vigil
 * ST: The Wings of a Butterfly
 * ST: The Doctor's Coat
 * ST: Murmurs of Earth
 * ST: To Cut a Blade of Grass
 * BFA: The Sirens of Time
 * BFA: Whispers of Terror
 * BFA: The Marian Conspiracy
 * BFA: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
 * BFA: The Apocalypse Element
 * BFA: The Holy Terror
 * BFA: Bloodtide
 * BFA: Project: Twilight
 * BFA: The One Doctor
 * BFA: The Ratings War
 * BFA: ...ish
 * BFA: The Sandman
 * BFA: The Maltese Penguin
 * BFA: Jubilee
 * BFA: Doctor Who and the Pirates
 * BFA: Project Lazarus
 * BFA: Davros
 * BFA: Cryptobiosis
 * BFA: The Wormery
 * BFA: Arrangements for War
 * BFA: Medicinal Purposes
 * BFA: The Juggernauts
 * BFA: Catch-1782
 * BFA: Thicker Than Water
 * BFA: Pier Pressure
 * BFA: The Nowhere Place
 * BFA: The Reaping
 * BFA: Year of the Pig
 * BFA: Her Final Flight
 * BFA: I.D.
 * BFA: Urgent Calls
 * BFA: The Wishing Beast
 * BFA: The Vanity Box
 * BFA: 100 BC
 * BFA: My Own Private Wolfgang
 * BFA: Bedtime Story
 * BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor
 * BFA: The Girl Who Never Was (cameo)
 * BFA: The Condemned
 * BFA: Assassin in the Limelight
 * BFA: The Doomwood Curse
 * BFA: Brotherhood of the Daleks
 * BFA: Return of the Krotons
 * BFA: The Raincloud Man
 * BFA: Patient Zero
 * BFA: Paper Cuts
 * BFA: Blue Forgotten Planet
 * BFA: City of Spires
 * BFA: The Wreck of the Titan
 * BFA: Legend of the Cybermen
 * BFA: The Four Doctors
 * BFA: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
 * BFA: The Feast of Axos
 * BFA: Industrial Evolution
 * BFA: Recorded Time
 * BFA: Paradoxicide
 * BFA: A Most Excellent Match
 * BFA: Question Marks
 * BFA: The Curse of Davros
 * BFA: ''The Fourth Wall
 * BFA: Wirrn Isle
 * BFA: The Nightmare Fair / TME: The Nightmare Fair
 * BFA: Mission to Magnus / TME: Mission to Magnus
 * BFA: Leviathan
 * BFA: The Hollows of Time
 * BFA: Paradise 5
 * BFA: Point of Entry
 * BFA: The Song of Megaptera
 * BFA: The Macros
 * BFA: The Guardians of Prophecy
 * BFA: Power Play
 * BFA: The First Sontarans
 * BFA: Excelis Rising
 * BFA: The Ultimate Adventure
 * CC: Night's Black Agents
 * CC: A Town Called Fortune
 * CC: Peri and the Piscon Paradox
 * CC: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure
 * JAL: Chronoclasm
 * JAL: Jago in Love
 * JAL: Beautiful Things
 * JAL: The Lonely Clock
 * JAL: The Hourglass Killers
 * WC: Real Time
 * DWM: The Shape Shifter
 * DWM: Voyager
 * DWM: Polly the Glot
 * DWM: Once Upon a Time Lord
 * DWM: War-Game
 * DWM: Funhouse
 * DWM: Kane's Story/Abel's Story/The Warrior's Story/Frobisher's Story
 * DWM: Exodus/Revelation/Genesis
 * DWM: Nature of the Beast
 * DWM: Time Bomb
 * DWM: Salad Daze
 * DWM: Changes
 * DWM: Profits of Doom
 * DWM: The Gift
 * DWM: The World Shapers
 * DWM: Emperor of the Daleks
 * DWM: Time & Time Again
 * DWM: Up Above the Gods
 * DWM: Death to the Doctor! (flashback)
 * GN: The Age of Chaos
 * IDW: The Forgotten (flashback)
 * IDW: The Time Machination