Theory:Timeline - Ace

This page lists appearances of the Dorothy "Ace" McShane in the order in which she 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, much like its TV story counterparts that for each novel or audio series their published/numbered order is the order they occur in. This does not apply to short stories which are often ambiguous about their placement. There are also many gaps between stories.

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, such as The Whoniverse, Doctor Who Reviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks databanks, and The Divergent Universe forum. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Additionally there are statements on the back many BBC Past Doctor Adventures novels that state between which TV stories the novel takes place between. These can be used to narrow the field, but should not be viewed as the only placement for these novels.

Joining the Doctor

 * TV: Dragonfire
 * On Iceworld, the Seventh Doctor finds Ace and offers for her to travel with him in the TARDIS, to which she accepts.


 * PROSE: Echo
 * Ace has "only just come on board" the TARDIS, and is exploring her new surroundings.


 * PROSE: Ante Bellum
 * The Doctor does not have much control over events, and his relationship with Ace is more trusting, so this has been placed in their early travels.


 * PROSE: Categorical Imperative
 * The Doctor and Ace go back in time to kill a dictator as a baby, but is unable to go through with it.


 * PROSE: It's Only a Game
 * The Doctor is beginning to act more manipulative. He gives away his white coat, and begins thinking about changing it for a brown one.


 * PROSE: The Grotto
 * PROSE: The Ghost's Story
 * The Doctor plays the spoons, with Master indicating he did this less as he matured, setting this early in his travels with Ace.


 * PROSE: A Yuletide Tail
 * Ace is carrying around the baseball bat that was destroyed in Remembrance of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: The Glass Princess
 * The Doctor gives Clio a Blue Peter badge on Ace's behalf.


 * PROSE: Three Steps to the Left
 * Ace feels the Doctor is showing off with his time travel shenanigans.


 * PROSE: uPVC
 * Ace is familiar with the TARDIS, but is surprised that the Doctor keeps secrets, so this has been placed early in their travels.


 * TV: Remembrance of the Daleks
 * Ace encounters the Daleks for the first time. According to Head Games, this story was the first time she doubted the Doctor's motives.


 * PROSE: A Rose by Any Other Name
 * PROSE: The Ripple Effect
 * Ace learns that the TARDIS is stuck with the police box exterior due to a broken chameleon circuit and begins questioning the Doctor's intentions and motivations.


 * PROSE: Prelude Birthright
 * The Doctor and Ace leave for Terra Alpha, setting this immediately before The Happiness Patrol.


 * TV: The Happiness Patrol
 * Broadcasted out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule.


 * PROSE: Head Games (one scene, not whole story)
 * After The Happiness Patrol, Ace asks the Doctor how he operates, and believes they come to an understanding.


 * PROSE: The Best of Days
 * Set just before The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.


 * TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
 * Ace acquires Flowerchild's earring.


 * PROSE: Evitability
 * Set after The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.


 * TV: Silver Nemesis
 * Ace encounters the Cybermen for the first time. She is wearing Flowerchild's earring. The Doctor spots a chess set in Lady Peinforte's home and realises that Fenric is orchestrating events in his favour.


 * AUDIO: Seven to One
 * PROSE: In the Community
 * The Doctor remains in the TARDIS while Ace visits Judith Winters in 1993, thirty years after Remembrance of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: Christmas Every Day?
 * The Doctor, out gift-shopping for a friend, mentions that Ace likes Charlton Athletic, which he learnt in Silver Nemesis.


 * PROSE: The Time and Tide
 * The Doctor is wearing his off-white jacket.


 * PROSE: One Card for the Curious
 * Set soon after The Time and Tide.


 * COMIC: The Forgotten
 * PROSE: Private Investigations
 * The Doctor is described as wearing a light jacket with a patterned sweater.


 * AUDIO: 1963: The Assassination Games
 * The Doctor recalls his movements in 1963 from Remembrance of the Daleks and an unknown second adventure. At the conclusion, the Doctor changes into his chocolate brown jacket for the first time.


 * AUDIO: The Light at the End
 * The Doctor has not yet told Ace about regeneration, and she doesn't know who the Master is, setting this before Survival.


 * AUDIO: Dark Convoy
 * AUDIO: Shockwave
 * Ace has faced the Daleks and Cybermen. She knows the Doctor can regenerate, so this must be after The Light at the End.


 * COMIC: Train-Flight
 * The Doctor leaves Ace in the Cretaceous period.


 * PROSE: Living in the Past
 * The Doctor retrieves Ace from the Cretaceous period of Earth's pre-history, and the two resume travelling together.


 * AUDIO: The Riparian Ripper
 * PROSE: The Anchorite's Echo
 * TV: Battlefield
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule. Ace meets the Brigadier for the first time in her life, while the Doctor meets him for the first time since his sixth regeneration.


 * PROSE: Instead of You
 * Set after Battlefield.


 * TV: Ghost Light
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders, to accommodate real world timing into the broadcast schedule.


 * PROSE: Fable Fusion
 * Ace is under 18. She is familiar with UNIT and the Brigadier, so this is after Battlefield.


 * TV: The Curse of Fenric
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders. Fenric's master plan reaches its climax, but the Doctor is able to best his foe again. Ace is gifted an authentic cap insignia of the Red Army by Captain Sorin.


 * PROSE: The Hollow Men
 * Back cover places this story between Fenric and Survival, while the Doctor has a "To Do List" reminding him to leave a settee in Perivale, implying this occurs after Survival, but the Sixth Doctor already left it for himself in Nemesis of the Daleks.


 * TV: Survival
 * Broadcast out-of-production-order on John Nathan-Turner's orders. The novelisation details how the Doctor and Ace have returned to Earth for the first time since The Curse of Fenric, which was a week before. Ace encounters for the first time on Cheetah World, and both become infected with the Cheetah virus, though Ace begins to recover by the serial's conclusion.


 * PROSE: Séance, or Smoking is Highly Addictive, Don't Start
 * PROSE: Hymn of the City
 * Set "not so long [after]" The Curse of Fenric.


 * PROSE: The Colony of Lies
 * Ace references Ghost Light.


 * PROSE: One Minute Fourteen Seconds
 * PROSE: Monsters
 * PROSE: Ace of Hearts
 * While Ace is asleep, the Doctor travels back in time to apologise to baby Ace for the events of Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric, and for the pain "yet to come".


 * COMIC: Terror from the Deep
 * PROSE: Anti-Matter with Fries
 * COMIC: Cat and Mouse
 * Ace recognises the Master, so this is after Survival for her. After thwarting the Mater's scheme, Ace is kidnapped Adam Mitchell, leading directly into Endgame.


 * COMIC: Endgame
 * The Doctor rescues Ace from Adam and the Master.


 * PROSE: But Once a Year
 * PROSE: The Devil Like a Bear
 * PROSE: Last Rites
 * AUDIO: Thin Ice
 * This is Ace's first encounter with an Ice Warrior. The Doctor claims to have never delivered a baby before he delivers baby Raine Creevy. The Doctor tries to get Ace accepted into the Time Lord Academy, but she refuses and the Time Lords do not accept her.


 * AUDIO: Crime of the Century
 * Set almost immediately after Thin Ice. Raine Creevy joins the TARDIS crew.


 * AUDIO: Animal
 * Raine's first journey is to Margrave University in 2001, where she discovers that her father has died. Upset by the revelation, Raine decides to stay at Margrave for a short time.


 * PROSE: The Algebra of Ice
 * Set "more than twenty months" before Timewyrm: Revelation.


 * AUDIO: Police and Shreeves
 * AUDIO: The Shadow Trader
 * AUDIO: Crystal Ball
 * AUDIO: Earth Aid
 * It has been some time since the Doctor and Ace last saw Raine, who decides to return to the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: The Girl Who Stole the Stars
 * Raine appears.


 * PROSE: Illegal Alien
 * PROSE: Stop the Pigeon
 * Ace is depicted with the same character traits she showed in Illegal Alien.


 * PROSE: Matrix
 * Ace is 17. The Valeyard uses the Dark Matrix to briefly reawaken the Cheetah virus within her, presumably amplifying her continued difficulties with the virus.


 * PROSE: Storm Harvest
 * Set immediately after Matrix.


 * AUDIO: The Genocide Machine
 * The Doctor and Ace meet Bev Tarrant.


 * PROSE: Prime Time
 * Ace refers to the recent events of Storm Harvest and The Genocide Machine. The Doctor refers to his encounter with the Master in Stop the Pigeon. The Doctor discovers Ace's future dead body, and tries to keep her out of danger, leading into Heritage.


 * PROSE: Heritage
 * Ace hasn't yet worn her special sunglasses from the New Adventures era, placing this before Timewyrm: Genesys at most.


 * PROSE: Loving the Alien
 * Sequel to Illegal Alien. Ace is killed by George Limb, but the Doctor manipulates events so that, when Limb's plans are thwarted by James Dean, the timeline recreates itself with Ace still alive, though slightly altered.


 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys
 * When the Doctor restores the Ace's memories, the first thing that she recalls is the events of Survival, and she still feels some of the after-effects of the Cheetah Virus. She knows about regeneration, and is aware that the Doctor has regenerated six times.


 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus
 * Set immediately after Timewyrm: Genesys.
 * PROSE: Endgame (cameo)
 * The amnesiac Eighth Doctor observes the Seventh Doctor and Ace visiting the Festival of Britain during Timewyrm: Exodus.


 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse
 * Ace sees an animal in the TARDIS, foreshadowing Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.


 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation
 * The Doctor and Ace have "only just left Kirith", placing this immediately after Timewyrm: Apocalypse.


 * PROSE: The Algebra of Ice: Epilogue
 * Visiting Ethan Amberglass whilst in hospital, the Doctor mentions the recent events of Timewyrm: Revelation.


 * PROSE: Teenage Kicks
 * COMIC: Fellow Travellers
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Untitled
 * COMIC: Distractions / The Mark of Mandragora
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor mentions that he's recently been unable to take the TARDIS away from Earth. He has also been redecorating the TARDIS and has discarded his question mark pullover.


 * COMIC: Under Pressure
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Party Animals
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor finally reaches Maruthea, just as his predecessor is leaving.


 * COMIC: The Chameleon Factor
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The Doctor locates his old signet ring in the TARDIS control console and decides to resume wearing it.


 * COMIC: Seaside Rendezvous
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: The Good Soldier
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. The TARDIS' chameleon circuit is inexplicably working, and has changed the TARDIS's form into a Cadillac.


 * PROSE: Atom Bomb Blues
 * COMIC: A Glitch in Time
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Evening's Empire
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Untitled
 * The Doctor is wearing his dark brown jacket underneath his duffle-coat, and Ace looks older than her television counterpart.


 * COMIC: The Grief
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures. When listing the worst creatures she can imagine, Ace mentions the Daleks, the Timewyrm and the Cybermen.


 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
 * The Doctor hasn't been to Alaska, and Ace has learnt how to swear in eleven alien languages. The Doctor and Ace decide they should go their separate ways at the end.

Reunited with the Doctor again

 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead
 * The Doctor and Ace reunite in Turkey.
 * COMIC: Ravens
 * Set during Cat's Cradle: Warhead, according to Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
 * Ace can still feel the biological effects of being on the Cheetah planet. The TARDIS gets infected by demonic protoplasm.


 * PROSE: Sunday Afternoon, AD 848,988
 * Ace has already been traveling with the Doctor for several years.


 * PROSE: Closing the Account
 * COMIC: Metamorphosis
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Memorial
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Nightshade
 * The Doctor essentially kidnaps Ace when she tries to leave. This seems odd considering Love and War, where he lets her go (and is revealed to have wanted her to), but months do pass between them.


 * COMIC: Cat Litter
 * An opening annotation places this story directly after the consecutive events of Memorial and Nightshade, which is supported by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Meridians
 * PROSE: Relative Dementias
 * Ace refers to her escape from the underwater spaceship in Battlefield, and meeting her grandmother during The Curse of Fenric. She is still under the legal drinking age. Miss Gallowglass gives a cryptic warning to the Doctor and Ace about the upcoming events of Independence Day.


 * AUDIO: Washington Burns
 * PROSE: Cathedral Heart
 * The Doctor is making a cube in his lab that Ace must not know about, setting this shortly before Love and War.


 * PROSE: Independence Day
 * Ace has more experienced and confident, and knows more about future technology than she used too, placing this shortly before Love and War.


 * PROSE: Love and War
 * The Doctor is acquainted with Abslom Daak, placing this after Nemesis of the Daleks. Ace claims that the events of Nightshade occurred some months ago.

New Ace

 * PROSE: Deceit
 * Three years after leaving the Doctor on Heaven, Ace decides to return to the TARDIS, but no longer trusts the Doctor. The TARDIS is cured of the protoplasm infection from Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark.


 * PROSE: Lucifer Rising
 * PROSE: Cold War
 * Ace more curt and aggressive, setting this not long after her return in Deceit.


 * COMIC: Final Genesis
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: White Darkness
 * The Doctor and an Old One are in an antagonistic relationship, setting this before their truce in Signs and Wonders. The Doctor begins wearing a cream linen suit and fedora.


 * PROSE: Shadowmind
 * Ace still keeps track of her age. The Doctor decides he needs a holiday, leading into Birthright and Iceberg.


 * PROSE: Birthright
 * The Doctor gives Bernice the keys to the TARDIS, and leaves her in control, having arranged for it to crash in Victorian London, leading directly into Iceberg.


 * PROSE: Iceberg
 * This novel takes place at the same time as Birthright, with the events of both novels occurring concurrently for the Doctor, Ace and Benny.


 * PROSE: Birthright
 * This novel runs parallel with the events of Iceberg, with the Doctor being absent for the majority of Birthright. The Doctor's deceptions cost him Benny's trust.


 * PROSE: Parasite
 * The Doctor watches Sonia Bannen being killed in a food riot.


 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * COMIC: Cuckoo
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.

Alternate universe cycle

 * PROSE: Blood Heat
 * A few months have passed since Deceit, but the events of Birthright are recent. The TARDIS falls through a puncture in the Time Vortex, and the Doctor later realises that someone is toying with time. The Doctor acquires a new sonic screwdriver from the possessions of his deceased alternate third incarnation, and also takes that Doctor's TARDIS after his is lost in a tar pit.


 * PROSE: The Dimension Riders
 * Ace still does not trust the Doctor, nor does the TARDIS from the alternate world. The Doctor discovers that the one who created the Silurian Earth has successfully altered the flow of time in the real universe.


 * PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird
 * The Doctor fixes the chameleon circuit in his new TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Conundrum
 * Benny decides to stay with the Doctor after struggling with her inability to trust him. The Doctor learns history is going to change again, and he sets out to find the cause, leading into No Future.


 * PROSE: No Future
 * The Doctor discovers that the Monk has been corrupting the timeline as a revenge stunt, but is able to defeat his enemy and regain Ace's trust. He also smashes the chameleon circuit of his TARDIS with a hammer, destroying it. The Doctor thinks he killed the Master in Survival, despite having spoken of him in the present tense during Deceit.

Amicable travels

 * PROSE: Tragedy Day
 * The Doctor has had experience with delivering babies.


 * PROSE: Question Mark Pyjamas
 * Ace refers to the TARDIS team's recent encounter with the Monk in No Future.


 * COMIC: Uninvited Guest
 * Placement established by Interweaving with the New Adventures.


 * PROSE: Legacy
 * The TARDIS has been to Olleril recently, setting this shortly after Tragedy Day. As far as Ace knows, this is the first time she has seen an Ice Warrior, though she did encounter them in Thin Ice. Benny, who has never been on Mars before this point in her life, takes a temporary leave of absence from the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Citadel of Dreams
 * Though the book's blurb would place this immediately after Survival, the Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit from White Darkness, and Ace is depicted with the confidence and general demeanour she had in the Virgin New Adventures. With Benny absent, this must take place during her brief leave-of-absence.


 * PROSE: Theatre of War
 * Benny returns to the TARDIS after her temporary leave of absence that started in Legacy.


 * PROSE: All-Consuming Fire
 * AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge
 * The Big Finish website places this audio between All-Consuming Fire and Blood Harvest.


 * COMIC: The Last Word
 * The Doctor is wearing his white suit from White Darkness, though the TARDIS console room is the one from before Final Genesis.


 * PROSE: Virgin Lands
 * AUDIO: The Dark Flame
 * The Big Finish website places this audio after The Shadow of the Scourge.


 * PROSE: The Last Emperor
 * The Doctor sends Ace and Benny on a mission to Antarctica.


 * PROSE: Blood Harvest
 * The Doctor, Benny and Ace end up in E-space, where they find Romana and return her to Gallifrey, where she opts to remain.


 * PROSE: Strange England
 * Some time has passed since Blood Harvest, with Ace getting trigger-happy due to the lack of dangerous adventures.


 * PROSE: First Frontier
 * The Doctor and Ace encounter for the first time since Survival. Ace fatally shoots the Master, but he is able to regenerate into . Ace considers leaving the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: St Anthony's Fire
 * Ace has her head shaved clean.


 * PROSE: Falls the Shadow
 * Ace's hair is till re-growing.


 * PROSE: Parasite
 * It has been at least a full year since No Future. Ace is still thinking about when she'll leave the Doctor.


 * PROSE: Warlock
 * The Doctor, Ace and Benny have been at Smithwood Manor for almost a year.


 * PROSE: Set Piece
 * Ace is 26-years-old. After an ordeal with the Robot Ants, Ace leaves the TARDIS crew to become Time's Vigilante.

Old friends reunited

 * PROSE: Set Piece: Epilogue
 * The Doctor catches up with an older Ace following the defeat of the Voltranons.


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow
 * AUDIO: The Revolution
 * The Doctor finds Benny. He has left Ace on Gallifrey (in the Academy) in his future, at a point after Romana opens the Academy to aliens. Ace's life on Gallifrey can be blamed for the anomalies in her aging or sterility, like with Leela and Chris Cwej. The Doctor is wearing his cream linen suit on the cover, but dialogue describes him in his question mark pullover.


 * AUDIO: Good Night, Sweet Ladies
 * AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro
 * AUDIO: The Pyramid of Sutekh
 * AUDIO: The Vaults of Osiris
 * Ace had a TARDIS driving lesson on Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: The Eye of Horus
 * AUDIO: The Tears of Isis
 * Ace eventually returns to Gallifrey and becomes part of the CIA, as seen in AUDIO: Enemy Lines.


 * AUDIO: The Prisoner's Dilemma
 * Ace refers to Happy Endings, but she is travelling with the Doctor without Benny. She loses her memory, which the Doctor does his best to restore.


 * AUDIO: Critical Mass
 * The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver.


 * AUDIO: The Fearmonger
 * Ace obtains a CD Walkman from Paul Tanner. Authorial intent is that this is set between Nightshade and Love and War.


 * AUDIO: Dust Breeding
 * The Doctor and Ace bump into Bev Tarrant again, after meeting her in The Genocide Machine, and she leaves with them in the TARDIS after they defeat the Master.
 * Bev travels with the Doctor and Ace for some time, before eventually being left in the 26th century. (AUDIO: The Judas Gift)


 * AUDIO: Colditz
 * At Colditz Castle the Doctor and Ace meet the Nazi version of Elizabeth Klein. Ace decides to be called "McShane" from this story on.


 * PROSE: Relativity
 * Set after Colditz.


 * AUDIO: The Rapture
 * McShane references the recent events of Colditz and Dust Breeding.

Hex joins

 * AUDIO: The Harvest
 * McShane tells Hex that she has been travelling with the Doctor "for a surprisingly long time." The Doctor has a sonic screwdriver, and is convinced by McShane to let Hex join them in the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: These Things Take Time
 * Hex has only just joined the TARDIS crew, and visits his first alien world.
 * PROSE: The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac
 * Set during These Things Take Time for the Seventh Doctor.


 * AUDIO: Dreamtime
 * Hex sees aliens and spaceships for the first time.


 * AUDIO: Afterlife (Hex's letter)
 * The Doctor battles the Cragvar.


 * PROSE: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
 * Set before LIVE 34, as Ace is still going by her surname.


 * AUDIO: LIVE 34
 * McShane decides that "Ace" is her true name, and resumes using it. Reporter Ryan Wareing estimates Ace's age to be in her mid-to-late twenties. Ace refers to her brother from The Rapture.


 * PROSE: Presence
 * AUDIO: Night Thoughts
 * AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard
 * AUDIO: Thicker Than Water
 * The Doctor has dropped Ace and Hex off in 1966 Monte Carlo with instructions to steal the Veiled Leopard, (AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard) while he visits Evelyn Smythe.
 * AUDIO: The Settling
 * This is Hex's first visit to Earth's past. The TARDIS interior has been redecorated to as it will be in Doctor Who.


 * AUDIO: No Man's Land
 * Ace and Hex mention the recent events of The Settling.


 * AUDIO: Nocturne
 * PROSE: The Report
 * AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor
 * PROSE: Natalie's Diary
 * Set a few months after The Harvest. Hex mentions killing a man during The Settling.


 * AUDIO: The Dark Husband
 * AUDIO: False Gods
 * AUDIO: Order of Simplicity
 * AUDIO: Casualties of War
 * AUDIO: The Word Lord

Battling the Elder Gods

 * AUDIO: The Magic Mousetrap
 * The Doctor sees a chess set in the sanatorium, and realises Fenric is preparing his return.


 * AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks
 * Ace has significant military and tactical knowledge, implying a post-Deceit setting. This is Hex's first encounter with the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari
 * Hex is still reeling from the events that he witnessed on Bliss with the Daleks. The exterior shell of the TARDIS is shattered after the HADS are activated, and its colouration is stuck as white.


 * AUDIO: Project: Destiny
 * Follows directly on from The Angel of Scutari. Hex leaves the TARDIS crew after discovering that the Doctor had previously been witness to his mother's death.


 * AUDIO: A Death in the Family
 * Ace is incapable of flying the TARDIS. Hex rejoins the TARDIS at Evelyn Smythe's prompting, before Evelyn passes away.


 * AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge
 * The Doctor goes to Alaska, so this is after Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.


 * AUDIO: Robophobia
 * The Doctor is testing is black TARDIS. He seems to be evaluating Liv as a potential companion. Black and White says that he left Ace and Hex after Alaska.


 * AUDIO: The Doomsday Quatrain
 * AUDIO: House of Blue Fire
 * The Doctor is joined in the Black TARDIS by Sally Morgan after she helps him defeat the Mi'en Kalarash.


 * AUDIO: Project: Nirvana
 * After a battle against the Kai'lizakia, Forge operative Lysandra Aristedes joined the Doctor and Sally in the Black TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: Protect and Survive
 * AUDIO: Black and White
 * The TARDIS is restored to its prime condition, and the Black TARDIS is destroyed.


 * AUDIO: Gods and Monsters
 * Hex enters the Time Vortex to defeat Fenric, apparently killing himself in the process.


 * AUDIO: Afterlife
 * Ace no longer knows her age, so this is after Set Piece, where she knew for a fact she was 26. Sally and Lysandra leave.


 * AUDIO: Revenge of the Swarm
 * AUDIO: Mask of Tragedy
 * The Doctor had decided to take Ace and Hector to Greece to relax after the events of Revenge of the Swarm. After their vacation, Hector asks the Doctor to return him home, leading into Signs and Wonders.


 * AUDIO: Signs and Wonders
 * Hector leaves the TARDIS and settles down with Sally to raise a family. Ace's glimpses herself wearing a high collar, riding a motorbike in Paris in the 19th century, and being surrounded by the Lobri in her future. The TARDIS control room is temporarily changed to a white configuration after To'Koth uses it to return to the home dimension of the Elder Gods.

After Hex

 * AUDIO: You Are the Doctor
 * The Doctor begins teaching Ace how to fly the TARDIS, as he promised to do in Signs and Wonders, also placing this after Deceit.


 * AUDIO: Come Die With Me
 * AUDIO: The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel
 * AUDIO: Dead to the World
 * Ace refers to Hex having left.


 * AUDIO: A Life of Crime
 * The TARDIS finds who it's been looking for; Mel, who rejoins the TARDIS crew.


 * AUDIO: Fiesta of the Damned
 * The TARDIS interior has its Victorian parlour design.


 * AUDIO: Maker of Demons
 * AUDIO: The High Price of Parking
 * AUDIO: The Blood Furnace
 * AUDIO: The Silurian Candidate
 * COMIC: Ground Zero
 * The Doctor is wearing his Doctor Who outfit, and traveling with Ace, who wears her TV outfit. The TARDIS has its white interior, so presumably reverted at some point. Ace is killed and the TARDIS is damaged, implying that it is about to change to the Doctor is using the Victorian parlour interior seen in Doctor Who.